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The Ron Verb Show - 4pm Hour - Monday, 08/17/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: On News Radio 570, WKBN. Welcome, 405.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday afternoon, August 17th, 79 degrees. From the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of Mahoning, we are until 6 o'clock tonight. Rockport Wealth
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  Speaker 2: Truth and Investing Program on News Radio 570, WKBN. So
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  Speaker 2: keep that in mind. You bring up an excellent point.
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  Speaker 2: Jake's on the end of the line. He's talking about
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  Speaker 2: the tariffs and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Tariffs are to say, hey, American companies can't compete with
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  Speaker 2: these slave wage nations that don't have Social Security, that
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  Speaker 2: don't have OSHA, that don't have overtime and 40-hour work weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have any of that stuff. So they have
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  Speaker 2: childhood labor, dirt floors, and all this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And we're supposed to be able to compete against them?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we can't.
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  Speaker 4: So..
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  Speaker 2: Unless you have tariffs, you'll concede all of your, not
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  Speaker 2: just manufacturing jobs, but we're starting to see that happen
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  Speaker 2: with what they call the intellectual jobs with India. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of that work is now done in India that
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  Speaker 2: used to be done here.
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  Speaker 3: Paralegals, radiologists, right?
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  Speaker 2: All kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily the doctor, but at least the radiology technician. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because you can do it over the internet.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so..
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  Speaker 2: You sit back and say, how do you compete with
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  Speaker 2: the guy making $ 5, 000 a year in India with a
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  Speaker 2: great education that can do your job for pennies on
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  Speaker 2: the dollar? what are we supposed to do with everybody?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, where do we start saying, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: it should be America first. We should be worrying about
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  Speaker 2: America first. We shouldn't let all these other countries basically
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  Speaker 2: rape this place and put all of our people out
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  Speaker 2: of work. Because if we continue on this course, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to need that basic, what do they call it?
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  Speaker 2: The basic income where they just give everybody a check.
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  Speaker 2: Because I always say the best social program is a
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  Speaker 2: good job.
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  Speaker 1: Well, guess what? We're making it harder for people to
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  Speaker 1: get a good job.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the socialists, and I believe most of them are
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  Speaker 3: Marxists the way they talk, and the blending of them
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  Speaker 3: with the Islamists is terrible. The guy earlier brought up
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  Speaker 3: the jackball who won the primary in Michigan. So you're
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  Speaker 3: okay with that? You know, and Ron said this, and
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  Speaker 3: I was yelling on the radio the other day. He said,
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  Speaker 3: I hope the Republicans win in the midterms, right? And
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  Speaker 3: I'll say something that I've said to children that might
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  Speaker 3: have the same last name as me. Hope in one
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  Speaker 3: hand and poop in the other, and tell me which
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  Speaker 3: one fills up first. Because you've got to take action.
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  Speaker 3: Ron's been around the Bible. Faith without works is dead.
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  Speaker 3: You got to do something about it. I'm not asking
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  Speaker 3: Ron to be a cheerleader. I'm saying everybody got to
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  Speaker 3: do their part and get this done because This could
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  Speaker 3: be a big turning point. These people, listen to them.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to what they're saying. You know, it was defund
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  Speaker 3: the police, and we kind of brushed that off and
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  Speaker 3: let it go. We're back, and it's defund the police,
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  Speaker 3: defund the military, defund all law enforcement, the prisons. What
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  Speaker 3: are you insane people going to do? Oh, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have Sharia law everywhere, and then it'll be okay,
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Because look, Islam is taking over the country. Right. And
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  Speaker 3: people are okay with it. There's Hassan Haiker and all
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  Speaker 3: the things that they've said, all the dirty, rotten, nasty
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  Speaker 3: things that they've said. And they want to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have to stop them.
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  Speaker 2: These idiots that are going for it. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: do you want me to do about it? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: It's insane, and we've got to keep pointing out, we
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  Speaker 3: already did this before. We already played this game. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't work. It only works for the people at the top.
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  Speaker 3: You start getting it with a vote that you gave,
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  Speaker 3: and in the end, they give you a bullet.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching on one of the channels, they were
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  Speaker 2: playing a clip with one of those Democrat socialists that
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  Speaker 2: was exactly as you describe, against the cops, against prisons.
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  Speaker 2: So they want to get rid of the prisons, get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the cops. So they asked the Democrat socialist,
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  Speaker 2: this is in the United States of America, well, what
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  Speaker 2: happens if Somebody gets raped. You're a woman, and if
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  Speaker 2: you're raped, what do you do? Who do you call
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get rid of the police? And
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  Speaker 2: how do you punish the person who did it? And
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  Speaker 2: I was watching this clip that they were running on
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  Speaker 2: one of the news channels.
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  Speaker 1: And she was.
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  Speaker 2: Sitting there with this bewildered look like, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to say. And then her answer was, I don't
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  Speaker 2: like to deal with hypotheticals. And the reporter said, this
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  Speaker 2: isn't a hypothetical. This happens every day in this community,
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  Speaker 2: in whatever this big city is. So, I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: were basically trying to say, you know, you guys got
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  Speaker 2: to wake up, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's insane.
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with a word that you're saying. If
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  Speaker 2: you think for a minute, even with some of the
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  Speaker 2: things I disagree with Trump on, that I would vote
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  Speaker 2: for Sherrod Brown, that I would vote for any of
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  Speaker 2: these Democrats, That want to go back to this nonsense?
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  Speaker 2: I deciphered that's what you were saying. You think I
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  Speaker 2: would want to vote for any of these people that say, well,
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  Speaker 2: the answer is let's get rid of the cops.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is let's get rid of prisons.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I listen to them talk and they sound
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  Speaker 2: like a bunch of damn lunatics to me. And you'd
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  Speaker 2: have a society of nothing but chaos. You wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: able to walk on the street. It wouldn't be safe.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to vote for the people that had open
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  Speaker 2: borders that let millions of people come into this country
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  Speaker 2: illegally that we know nothing about.
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  Speaker 1: You think I'm going to vote for that? You think
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for.
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  Speaker 2: A socialist agenda that says men can have babies, can't
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  Speaker 2: define a woman? You think I'm going to vote for that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the craziness. But the problem is, it seems
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  Speaker 2: to me. you see some areas where people seem to
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  Speaker 2: be doing that, including in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: They say Sherrod Brown is way ahead of Houston.
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  Speaker 2: And okay, let's say that that's the case in what
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  Speaker 2: we consider to be a red state.
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  Speaker 1: Sherrod Brown backed everything Biden was doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah, again, I think it comes down to education, right? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you brought up the perfect example from that news clip
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  Speaker 3: that we've all seen. Hey, what are you going to
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  Speaker 3: do if this happens? Well, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that'll happen. They ran the Nazi tattoo guy running
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  Speaker 3: one off in the porta potty. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: How many people even?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how this even works.
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  Speaker 1: Look at how long they called Trump a Nazi.
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  Speaker 2: But here was a guy with the Nazi tattoo and
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  Speaker 2: everything that for the Democrats they were defending and supporting
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  Speaker 2: until they turned on him at.
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  Speaker 1: The very end.
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  Speaker 2: But they were supporting that kind of guy. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you, look at these crazy candidates that they want
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  Speaker 2: to run. Do you think for a minute that's AOC
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  Speaker 2: has the intellectual capabilities to be president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Anything at all.
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  Speaker 3: According to my religion, I'm not supposed to humiliate people.
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  Speaker 3: I do sometimes. I'm not supposed to.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just really, really easy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you look at her, though?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you look at her as like, this woman's really,
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  Speaker 2: really smart on everything, and she would make a great president. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I can look at Ron DeSantis, and I can say,
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  Speaker 2: this guy would make a great president. He's got a
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  Speaker 2: great track record. He's a very smart guy. He'd make
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  Speaker 2: an excellent president. But I sure don't look at AOC
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  Speaker 2: that way. Then I can look at Gavin Newsom and say, OK,
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  Speaker 2: this guy's been a disaster in California as governor.
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  Speaker 1: Look at gas prices. Look at inflation.
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  Speaker 2: Look at all the problems out there, all the failed
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  Speaker 2: stuff and corruption going on out there.
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  Speaker 1: So who are the Democrats talking?
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, a true failure in California as a governor.
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  Speaker 2: And AOC, who's just might be one of the just
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  Speaker 2: dumbest people out there. as potential presidential candidates? That's what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying?
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  Speaker 3: And that's why we have to keep doing that thing
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  Speaker 3: of pointing the truth out to them. Okay, okay, I
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  Speaker 3: get it. You say you're a socialist. Super, super, super.
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  Speaker 3: What's that mean? What are we going to do? Is
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  Speaker 3: that what you're saying? You're going to do all this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to get rid of everything that keeps our
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  Speaker 3: country moving and try to do this. It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 3: And just, you know, not yelling, not name-calling. This doesn't work.
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  Speaker 3: Show me where it's ever worked. See, the capitalism has worked.
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  Speaker 3: It's worked here, and it's worked in other places. The
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  Speaker 3: socialism never works. It never ends well. The same guy
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  Speaker 3: invented communism, right? And that doesn't work. Only for everybody's
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  Speaker 3: friends in China. Really? Thanks for the China virus, guys.
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  Speaker 3: This is what happens. This is what they do. And
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  Speaker 3: they don't care. They're at the top. Nothing affects them.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about destroying the earth. They have acres upon acres
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  Speaker 3: every year that turns to desert. Because, like the old
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  Speaker 3: communists said in Russia... We are at war with nature. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of at war with nature, but that means
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  Speaker 3: I mow the lawn. You're destroying everything and making it concrete.
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  Speaker 3: That's not good for the earth. But they keep going
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  Speaker 3: and keep doing the same thing, and it kind of
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  Speaker 3: is failed for the people. But, again, the people at
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  Speaker 3: the top are the only ones that win. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have to point the things out. In my lifetime
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  Speaker 3: and Ron's lifetime, the communists shot the Pope. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What more do you want? And they keep doing it.
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  Speaker 3: What did they do in Venezuela? It was a thriving
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  Speaker 3: metropolis that was nice and wonderful. Then they took over.
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  Speaker 3: It's done. They're telling you, hey, breed rabbits because they
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  Speaker 3: breed real fast and you'll be able to eat again.
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  Speaker 1: It's a perfect example.
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  Speaker 2: Look at Venezuela, how it was, and then when it
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  Speaker 2: went socialist, how it ended up being for people.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent example.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Jake.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, man.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. News Radio 570. I mean, it is troubling.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you've got to set aside Republican and Democrat and
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  Speaker 2: just think as an American with some degree of common sense.
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  Speaker 2: Just some common sense and think as an American. And
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  Speaker 2: And can we get beyond Democrat and Republican? Can we
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  Speaker 2: sit down and say, OK, we probably as a country
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  Speaker 2: with the standards that we have can't compete with all
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  Speaker 2: of these other countries that don't have those standards that
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  Speaker 2: want to ship these products into here. And potentially they
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  Speaker 2: will put all of our manufacturers out of business so
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  Speaker 2: we won't have jobs for people. As I've said to
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  Speaker 2: you a million times, the best social program is a
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  Speaker 2: good job. So if we don't have jobs for people
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  Speaker 2: to go to because we can't compete with these foreign
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  Speaker 2: companies because they don't have the standards and regulations that
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  Speaker 2: we have in this country.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a good idea?
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  Speaker 2: For example, and I point this out and we shall
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  Speaker 2: see how this goes. Trump says we were all bitching
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  Speaker 2: during COVID how we don't make antibiotics and aspirin in
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  Speaker 2: this country anymore. How do we ever let that get
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  Speaker 2: away and go over to China? And now China's threatening
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  Speaker 2: to cut it off during COVID to us. So now
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  Speaker 2: Trump wants that to end, and he wants that manufacturing
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  Speaker 2: of our antibiotics and aspirin to come back to the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America. However, that might mean you might
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  Speaker 2: have to pay more for your generic medication. So as
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  Speaker 2: a consumer, you might have to pay more for a
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  Speaker 2: generic prescription for it to be made here, manufactured in America,
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  Speaker 2: because it will cost more.
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  Speaker 1: Than in China.
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  Speaker 2: But you won't ever have to worry about China threatening
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  Speaker 2: to cut you off ever again. There isn't anything I
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  Speaker 2: trust about China. You know as well as I do,
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  Speaker 2: China says they've infiltrated our electric grid, they've infiltrated our
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  Speaker 2: water supply, they've got all of this stuff already sitting
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  Speaker 2: there planted. It's not me saying it was a former
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  Speaker 2: FBI director said it's not a case of if, it's
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  Speaker 2: a case of when. So we know they're up to
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  Speaker 2: no good, China, as far as what they can do
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  Speaker 2: and how they can affect whether it's your electric grid
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  Speaker 2: or your water grid. So remember during COVID, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: they threatened to cut off all your antibiotics. So where
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  Speaker 2: do you fall on this? All of a sudden, Trump
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  Speaker 2: says we've got to bring it back to the United States.
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  Speaker 2: We should never be in that position again. They bring
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  Speaker 2: it back to the United States, and you might have
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  Speaker 2: to pay more for your generic medication. Now are you
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  Speaker 2: going to bellyache and bitch? Well, I used to pay $ 2,
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  Speaker 2: and now I'm paying $ 6. I'm sure you'll hear that.
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  Speaker 2: because it will cost more to make it here. But
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  Speaker 2: then again, it's not being made in China. It creates
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  Speaker 2: jobs here, and you don't have to kowtow to them.
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  Speaker 2: So it seems like a good thing to me, and
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather pay more to be in that position. But
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  Speaker 2: I can assure you there will be many senior citizens
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  Speaker 2: that will bellyache about that. Well, the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: we talk about when it comes to medication, you can
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  Speaker 2: say about any product that's made. Should we concede everything?
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  Speaker 2: We can go on.
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  Speaker 1: You see it now.
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  Speaker 2: Washers, dryers, refrigerators, all made in foreign countries where they
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  Speaker 2: don't have the regulations or anything along those lines that
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  Speaker 2: we have here. They can make them a lot less expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Bring them over here and put every American manufacturer out
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  Speaker 2: of business. We can do that. They can do that
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  Speaker 2: in cars. They can do that in appliances. And it
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  Speaker 2: gets so we're not making anything. We're importing everything. But
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  Speaker 2: what do our people do? Where do we have the
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  Speaker 2: jobs for everybody? So you can have a marketplace where
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  Speaker 2: you can buy stuff that's A lot cheaper because it's
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  Speaker 2: coming in from these slave wage nations, but you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to have a job to be able to buy it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the whole goal behind these tariffs, to level the
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  Speaker 2: playing field. Why is it so bad? And the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are opposed to Trump, who just wants to have a
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  Speaker 2: mere effect. You're charging this much for American products coming
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  Speaker 2: into your marketplace. We're going to do the same thing
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  Speaker 2: for your products coming here. Well, that's just a level
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  Speaker 2: playing field. We're not restricting your products from coming here.
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  Speaker 2: We're just leveling the playing field. you can still choose
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  Speaker 2: to buy that particular product if you wish, if you
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  Speaker 2: think it's better. But we're not going to let those
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  Speaker 2: countries put us out of business. That just makes sense
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  Speaker 2: to me as an American. They say, okay, as an American,
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense to me. As an American, I want
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  Speaker 2: to drill on federal lands, the oil companies. I want
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  Speaker 2: to drill offshore. I want to get energy as cheap
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  Speaker 2: as is possible. That should be our goal because we
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  Speaker 2: all need it. And we need electric rates. As I've
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  Speaker 2: said a million times, they've doubled now. The cost of electricity,
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  Speaker 2: and it will go up even more.
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  Speaker 1: Gasoline, oil.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get energy costs down. So it remains affordable.
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  Speaker 2: It's a key to our... And Trump is going in
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  Speaker 2: that direction with the exception.
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  Speaker 3: Of the war.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hi again. This is Dan Rivers, and I was
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  Speaker 1: just thinking you have a question. 570 WKBN. And Ron,
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  Speaker 1: Verb 425 here on a Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Rockport Wealth Truth and Investing Program tonight from 6 to
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  Speaker 2: 7 on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Welcome to Monday. 81 degrees
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  Speaker 2: from the Kingdom of Mahoning.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: They'll definitely want their medications cheaper. I can tell you that.
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  Speaker 5: And maybe it will take a crisis of China telling us, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we will cut off your medications to actually fix something,
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  Speaker 5: but we probably won't. If we have Chinese cars in
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  Speaker 5: this country right now, there would be no American-manufactured vehicles.
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  Speaker 5: They would totally wipe out the whole entire industry.
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  Speaker 1: If we had Chinese vehicles come here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, these different companies like BYD, if you could buy
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  Speaker 5: a car for $ 8, 000 here, are you going to instead say, no,
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  Speaker 5: I want to buy American and get one for $ 45, 000?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so, even if they are less quality.
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  Speaker 2: Who was telling me? Was it Richard Pharmacist or something?
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  Speaker 2: He was talking about some of these Chinese cars. He
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  Speaker 2: said if they ever brought them over here, the quality
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  Speaker 2: is pretty good, that the price point would be devastating
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  Speaker 2: to the auto industry.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you're talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it would be horrible, even if the quality is
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  Speaker 5: not quite as good. Even if you bought a $ 10, 000
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  Speaker 5: Chinese vehicle and it lasted four years, you'd still be
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  Speaker 5: the difference, what, a 16-year vehicle for $ 40, 000? You still
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  Speaker 5: might be ahead if you put the maintenance into it. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they're going to eventually eat our lunch because they don't
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  Speaker 5: have the same standard of living that we do here.
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  Speaker 5: And I think, unfortunately, we're in for a rude awakening
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  Speaker 5: in our country where our standard of living is going
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  Speaker 5: to precipitously drop if we don't fix things and fix
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: them fast. I think we're a week away. If we
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: don't hit $ 40 trillion in debt this week, we're going
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: to hit it next week. And this is where I've
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: mentioned it before many times with interest rates, everything. Everything
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: comes back to money. Our whole money system is broken.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: It was just 55 years, actually, August 15th, just a
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: couple days ago, where we came off the gold standard.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: And money is not the same. All problems come back
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: to the money is broken. And this is where I've
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: talked about before this whole thing. You can look at
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: the tweet today from the Treasury Secretary today, Besant. What
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: he put out, nobody's talking about it, but we need
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: to completely digitize our whole entire stock market, the whole
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: entire government. We need to put everything on a blockchain.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: And this is where I've talked about before. Stablecoins are
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: going to be the new patchwork for our whole entire
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: country so we can offshore our debt onto other countries.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: And allow our.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: National debt to go to $ 50 trillion, $ 60 trillion, $ 70 trillion,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: and try to just kick the can further down the road.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: And isn't that what we're doing?
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: That's what we're doing. But eventually, like you said, a
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: poo-poo is going to hit the fan, and when does
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: it hit it? It's hitting it. It's just at what
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: degree do our standard of living just fall off a cliff?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Well, that's great. Don't you think it's already doing that?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, if our second biggest expense is the interest
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: that's currently on our debt, not to lower the payment,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: just pay the interest, and as interest rates can potentially
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: perk up. What I was hearing was that on Bill
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Cunningham's show last night, he was talking to a guy
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: who said the reason we bailed out Japan was because
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: if they cashed in their... their bonds that they have
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: with the United States, it would be an economic devastation.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: We had no choice but to bail them out. Are
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you familiar with that?
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: That's what I was talking about on Friday. And that's
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: exactly what happened. We sold euros. We didn't even trade it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: We didn't even give them dollars because we didn't want
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: it to look bad. So we traded euros, which is just,
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: you know, three steps around the problem. But their interest
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: rates still went up. So we didn't even fix the problem.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: The issue is if they sell all of our bonds
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: and they dump them onto the market, that's going to
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: lower the price of them, which is going to make
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: the rate go up, which is going to make our
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: interest rates go up. And that's when the poo-poo really
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: starts hitting the fan. I just don't know at what
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: point does our standard of living get better. Worse, quicker.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: We're like a frog slowly boiling in a pot where
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: it's like five years we notice things, we talk about them,
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: but we just go living our lives. Ten years we
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: remember what it used to be like. Thirty years you
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: really talk about the good old days. But eventually it
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: might get to the point where things happen really quickly
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: and really fast. And if our national debt goes from
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: $ 40 trillion to $ 50 trillion real fast, These are numbers
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: that you can't even fathom in your head.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I can't fathom.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: A million, a billion, and a trillion.
• 21:53
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• 21:56
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• 21:58
  Speaker 2: with him. I want to go over this deal in
• 22:01
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so it says here, it's important for people
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: to hear this. It was, I thought, a good discussion
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Bill Cunningham had on last night. The United States and
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Japan conducted a joint currency intervention to buy the plummeting
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Japanese yen, which hit a 40-year low. Well, framed as
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: support for a key ally, the action primarily aimed to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: prevent Japan from selling massive amounts of U.S. Treasury bonds
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: to defend its currency, which would have spiked American borrowing costs.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: So if Japan had acted alone to prop up the yen,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: it would likely have needed to liquidate parts of its
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: massive $ 1.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Trillion holdings of U.S. Treasuries.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Dumping those bonds would... Depressed bond prices and drive U.S.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: interest rates and mortgage rates higher. A rapidly weakening yen
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: threatened broader economic stability across Asian markets. I mean, this
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: is a big deal. You were talking about this Friday,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: but it's a big deal. Most people are unaware of it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Agree?
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's why would you? You know, who normally
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: would be following Japanese interest rate and they're falling yet?
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: I mean..
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: These are things that could collapse the whole entire economy
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: if it goes in the wrong direction, if we don't
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: do things to prop it up. And it's sad because
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: we've screwed things up so bad. Japan screwed things up
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: so bad. Now we need to help them out with
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: our taxpayer-funded dollars or our printed dollars that future generations
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: will have to pay for to help out other countries
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: because if they collapse, they'll screw us even more. But
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: you just hit the nail on the head. If they
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: sell those bonds, and the price of our bonds goes
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: down because they dump them on the market and the
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: rates go up, we're in a big world of hurt.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: So this is where the federal government, you can look
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: at Secretary Scott Besson's post today, this is where stablecoins
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: are going to hit the ground running because they are
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: a buyer of debt. They buy treasuries to back their stablecoin.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: If Japan, the world's largest holder of U.S. treasuries outside
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: the United States, is going to be dumping them. They
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: need to find new buyers so that we can print
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: more money. And the only way to do that and
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: find new buyers is to get them in countries that
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: don't own them already. This is where a stable coin
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: is backed one-to-one by treasuries.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: But I mean, if you look at it, I mean,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the idea of how many of you knew this? I mean,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: something you can learn today. Japan has one trillion plus
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: of U.S.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Treasuries.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: So that's how many treasuries Japan has. And our country
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: was afraid that they would sell a lot of them
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: to stabilize their yen. And if they did that, the
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: interest rates would go up. So we had to bail
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: out Japan. So that didn't happen. What a predicament for
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: a country to be in because we're so far in debt.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: And this is not a Japan-focused thing either. I mean,
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: this is happening all over the world. All these developed nations,
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: their interest rates on their 10-year, 30-year treasury, they're all
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: going through the roof. It's happening everywhere. The poo-poo may
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: be hitting the fan globally. And the thing is, look
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: what we have to do. We're not even trying to
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: save ourselves with this. We've got to bail out other
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: countries to do it now just so that they don't
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: harm us. It's like your neighbor's got a problem. So
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: instead of them fixing it, you have to build a
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: bigger fence just to try to keep them out. So
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: you're spending the money instead of them. It's asinine, and
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: the whole thing is just crazy. But this is what
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: happens when you print money all over the world for
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. And then when the
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: bills start to come in due, you've got to find
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: new ways to try to cover it over or dust
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: it over. The problem is all these nations that can
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: print their own money eventually just depreciates their dollar. So
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: when you're talking about the yen dropping in value, they
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: produce no oil there. They have to buy all their oil.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: And with rising oil prices, you know, it's costing them
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: a lot more to do that there. It's costing everybody
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: all over the world.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it is economically things are a mess. Give
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: me your.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Dissertation as we speak here today on Monday, August 17th.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you look at the situation with Trump
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: and the war in Iran, you think it's a mistake?
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I don't know. It depends on what time frame. Depending
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: on your time frame, I don't know. I've always said,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: you know, five years from now, we could be looking
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: back and saying, oh, my gosh, I wish Donald Trump
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: would have done what he said he was going to do.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I have no idea and will never be able to know.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: I'm big on if it's going to happen, you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: nobody fights wars to end them anymore. It's always, you know,
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: 20 years, 50 years, trillions of dollars. I don't know
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: if we're going to start a war. I don't know
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: why you just don't finish it. I've wondered the same
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: thing with Russia-Ukraine. Russia could take out Ukraine from a
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: military standpoint if they wanted to in the first month,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: but they didn't. You know, others will debate that. Look
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: at all the drone usage now back and forth. It's
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: all just, you know, millions of lives being lost all
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: over Ukraine. Look what we're doing in Iran, back and
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: forth and back and forth.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've all.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Known the 47th opening of the Strait of Hormuz. I
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: think a lot of these are just to put out
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: statements to alter the markets. What I'm worried about, though,
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: is that, you know, the stock market, we're all paying
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: attention to the stock market because we all go to
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: work all day, do our jobs and our career. And
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: then we also have to be part-time market analysts, too,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: at the same time. Because you can't make enough money
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: working your life just to save it and live the
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: rest of your life. You've got to hope that your
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: stock market portfolio outbeats the rate of inflation. That's why
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: we pay attention to the stock market. I wish I
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: didn't have to. I wish I could just go to work,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: make money, save it like a squirrel does nuts for
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: the winter, and just live off it the rest of
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: my life. But you can't do that because that's what
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: we live in because the money is so broken and
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: it's such a 30,000-foot view on everything that nobody even
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: realizes why we're even doing what we're doing.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Because inflation has gotten so high and devalued your savings,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: your paycheck, and your dollar, correct? Correct.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: And they say, exactly.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: And they say, oh, CPI came in at 3.1%, better
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: than expected. Give me an absolute break. I think the
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: price of beef is, what, up 600 percent? We could
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: talk about every single thing. Only the things you use
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: every day are up in inflation. All the things that
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: they use to do the numbers are up or down
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: 0.1 percent. I don't know who they're trying to kid
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: or who they're lying to. Yeah, if you look month
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: to month, maybe we're drowning by 30 feet instead of
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: 32 feet. So on paper, that sounds better if you
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: work the numbers. but it's still not helping me out.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: It's not helping any of the listeners out. It's not
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: helping the future generation out. It's just screwing us all over.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: And then I got to go to work longer to
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: try to save more money, to invest it in some
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: company where I don't know the CEO who's going to
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: do something in the future where AI could just take
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: it all out by knocking out the whole entire workforce
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: or one decision by one person in Iran or somebody
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: in the military doing something to shoot oil prices up
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: to $ 8 a gallon. It's just hard to get a
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: fix on where you can play and moving forward it's
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: just really hard.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah i mean it's a mess trump urges americans to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: accept higher gas prices amid war well i don't think
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: people are going to accept that deal.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: They're not.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: And you know what? I've always been a big Trump supporter.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I love America. I want Trump to succeed, just like
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: I wish Joe Biden would have succeeded, because if he succeeds,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: I succeed. I always said Donald Trump's the biggest narcissist
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: of all time. All he wants to do is make
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: America look good, and I'm okay with that. But he
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: said no new wars, we're in a new war. He
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: said gas prices are coming down, they're up. He said
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: that he's going to make America first. I'm not seeing that.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: All the illegals were going.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: To be deported.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: I don't think he's moving fast enough on that. I
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: don't think he's doing enough locally, from the local level,
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: the state level, the federal level, to make a lot
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: of people want to go out there and really vote
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: for Republicans. And unfortunately, a lot of people went out
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: and voted down the ballot for those Republicans, because they
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: went just to vote for Trump during those elections. So
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you're going to get those people
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: out there, especially when you can go to places like
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Minneapolis and Minnesota, and you can go to a voting
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: place and vouch for eight other people that don't even
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: have their ID with them. And who do you think
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: they're going to vote for? They're going to vote for
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: the people who are going to give them more handouts.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: And if you want to get elected, you've got to
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: give more handouts out so that those people keep voting
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: for you. How do you give out more handouts? You've
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: got to have more money. How do you get more money?
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: You print it into oblivion and you screw over the
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: next generation because you won't be in office by the
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: time that those repercussions come to fruition. And that's what's
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: been happening for 50 years. It's getting worse and worse.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: And I just don't know when the poo-poo is going
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: to hit the fan, but there's going to be a
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: lot of things that are happening quicker than we've ever
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: seen before. Because for the last 50 years, we've been
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: going on human time, and now we're seeing a lot
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: of AI move a lot faster, and they move quicker
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: than us, they move better than us, and things are
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: going to happen a lot faster than we can even
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: fathom or keep up with from a legal standpoint, from
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: a constitutional standpoint, and just strange things are going to
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: be happening left and right. And the news media, you
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: can't keep track of anything that happens week to week.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Just focus on the war in Iran. How many times
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: did we hear they have 12 days until their oil
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: wells run out? We're going to go after Karg Island.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: We're going to do this. We're going to do that.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: It's all just fake news to put out there to
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: alter the algorithms and the AI so that they can
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: read the news articles so that the markets don't go
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: into haywire. But going back to everything, Japan, the interest rates, everything.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: The bond market is way bigger than the stock market,
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: and I'm pretty sure they will crash the stock market
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: to save the bond market because when we start getting
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: our interest rates going up, we're paying more on the
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: national debt, and that's where it starts going parabolic from
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: $ 40 trillion to $ 50 trillion to $ 60 trillion to $ 70
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: trillion real quick.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Alec. Appreciate it, buddy. Excellent analysis, really.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: 445, a lot of people don't follow that, but I
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: just think that that's really interesting. Why did we bail
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: out Japan? Well, for it to save our own height.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I just think that's interesting for people to know. Many
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: of you didn't even know it took place. The United
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: States and Japan conducted a joint currency intervention to buy
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the plummeting Japanese yen, which had hit a 40-year low. Well,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: framed as a support for a key ally, the action
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: primarily aimed to prevent Japan from selling massive amounts of
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: the one-plus-trillion-dollar holdings they got in U.S. treasuries to kind
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of help out their yen. They say if they would
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: have sold large portions of those off... It would have
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: spiked Americans' borrowing costs. Interest rates would have gone up
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: for treasuries. Dumping those bonds would depress bond prices and
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: drive U.S. interest rates and mortgages higher, is what I
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: should say.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: So there you go. What a mess. I mean, things
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: are really a mess. I don't see.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: All the Trumpsters supporting this war situation. It's just continuing
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: to be just a mess. And what's his way out
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: of this? And if you declare victory and leave, will
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: it straight open? Will there be tariffs on it? It
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: just seems like anything that's going to happen is going
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: to be worse than what it was before he broke it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: You're on the air.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: It's Ted the Conservative.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Did you follow that Japanese yen thing that Alec was
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: talking about?
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, how about this? The euro is stronger than the dollar.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: $ 1 will buy you $ 1. 16 a euro. One euro will get.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: You $ 0.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: 84 American dollars.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, but isn't it interesting?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I'm just, in reading that, and people don't get it,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: if Japan would have taken a lot of their treasuries
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: out to save their yen and their economy, it would
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: have devastated our interest rates.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: So we were in a catch-22.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Our currency is very weak.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to admit, things are a mess.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: They really are.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: That's why I was calling. Listening to the program, I
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: had to call and give you an iPad. It's a little...
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Crap show. Trump has scrapped the bed. I agreed with
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: the mission to go into Iran. The execution has been
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: a failure. I don't think he could have done this
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: any worse if he tried. He's destroying any chances we
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: have of coming out of this looking respectable, actually. you know,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: it's on, it's off, it's on, it's off. I mean,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: who goes to war? Who gets the troops ready, gets
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: them on that front line, starts their path, and then says, wait,
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: let's put the brakes on. I can't imagine how demoralizing
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: it is for a military. Can you imagine being sent
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: to war? Okay, you get mentally prepared to go to war, right?
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: You have to get in a certain headspace to do
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: something like that. Then all of a sudden, Your leader
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: tells you, hold on, guys, we're pulling back. The boss
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: decided he doesn't want to do anything today. That's not
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: how you fight a war. I think Trump's lack of
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: intelligence has really started to show. He might be a
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: sharp business guy. I think he's more of a shrewd
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: business guy. You know, he's ripped off so many people
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: his entire life. He's bankrupt, you know, paying people pennies
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: on the dollar. I think that makes you intelligent. But
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's a dumb guy either. But as
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I told you before, I've been saying this, and I
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: heard Alex say, you're narcissistic off the charts. And I
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: remember when I first said that, the beating I took.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: And I think I'm coming out right on that. The guy,
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: he's more worried about his name on buildings, his self-retribution,
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: his self-enrichment, than he is about the country. I'm going
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: to label his second term as a failure because with
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: the exception that we've kind of stopped the Democrats from
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: moving their agenda forward, at least. You could talk about
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: the big, beautiful bill. You could talk about the small
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: things he's done through executive order. He's not made my
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: life better. He's not made your life better. He promised
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: on day one he would reduce prices, right? Promised on
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: day one he'd reduce inflation. Promised he'd reduce fuel prices.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: He failed on everything.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Everything.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Now, that doesn't mean I don't still support him. I've
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: earned for the guy, but all my worst nightmares are
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: coming true.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Well, let me put it this way.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I'll continue to.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Support him, but, you know, man, he doesn't look.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Good at all.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: All right, get a little closer to your phone so
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: the audio is just a little bit better. You're disappointed
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: in him, is what you're saying. I mean, it doesn't
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: mean you would vote for Kamala Harris or AOC or
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown or any of those people. Obviously, that goes
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: without saying. But you're disappointed in him. What happened to
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the American first agenda? And you're just disappointed in it.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, he started he started this situation. And it's
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: just did you happen to if any of you have
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: been following this?
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: What's this? The Abraham Lincoln ship that's out there.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Yep, yep, yep.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you read about this, it is..
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: I.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Mean, the food is running out. The ship's been out
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: there for, what, 250 days? The food supply isn't very good.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: It needs a lot of repairs. The water supply is down.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you read about the conditions that these
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: sailors are putting up with after 250 days, it is
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: pretty troubling to... To the point where they even said,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know how many supposedly committed suicide or jumped
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: off the boat. But the reality was they finally at
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: long last said, well, we're going to let that ship
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: return and we're going to send out the George Washington.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: But when you read about the conditions on it, you're
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: thinking to yourself. This is part of the problem. It's
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: so far from anything we have. But why aren't these
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: guys got better groceries there?
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Stand by, Ted. Stand by.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Back with Ted the Conservative, 452. It's already a Monday afternoon.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Ron Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoney.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Your one-stop KBN. Ted the Conservative.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Do you remember..
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Remember when... A flashback.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Do you remember when G2 said, when this was all
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: getting started, he said he was opposed to this war?
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: From the very beginning because.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: It would derail the American agenda and it could affect
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: us on the midterms. And that would be more devastating
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: to the future of our country than this nuclear threat
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: from Iran.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing him.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: When G2 said the nuclear threat to Iran, he didn't
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: really consider it to be a threat because they knew
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: if they tried anything with the United States, we'd annihilate
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: them as far as a nuclear weapon was concerned. That
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: he didn't even consider it to be a serious threat
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: from Iran. And that by doing what he did, the
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: biggest threat will be losing the midterms, derailing the American
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: agenda and the crap and stalling everything or reversing everything.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: as a result of those actions and not accomplishing the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: SAVE Act, not accomplishing the American First Agenda.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I think that's coming true. Do you? I mean, that's
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: what I'm concerned about.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. I agree completely. I think he is
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: just taking the train off the tracks, and I'm not
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: sure how he gets it back on. Just really just
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: so disappointed. I don't think this is what any of
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: us voted for.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: No.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: I just..
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: I agree with everything you said to start the show.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: I just wanted to give you an eye cap. And
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know where we go from here. He's made
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: a mess. Just a mess.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: And I don't know.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: And really, he can't even see it.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's becoming as oblivious to it as Biden
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: was trying to convince everything.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: It's not as bad as you think.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: That argument isn't going to carry any water, just like
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: it didn't for Biden.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: It's not going to work for him either.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: No, and then he wants, you know, now he wants
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: these other countries to jump in and fix the mess. Like,
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: what did he do with South Korea yesterday? Did you
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: see that?
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: No.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: I've got to fine-tune Senate to you. He basically went
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: on to see how we run our military in South Korea,
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: run training missions together down there in that, you know, that,
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: what do you call it, denaturalized zone?
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: Every year our military... Well, this year he says that
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: we shouldn't be doing this because Kim Jong-un is such
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: a good friend and ally. And that he apologized to
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Kim Jong-un for having.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: To do this.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: But because of their relationship, he's going to steal back
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: the military action. He's told Pete Higgs to steal it back.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: And then he made a sarcastic comment. He asked South
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Korea to help us in the Iran conflict. conflict and
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: they said no and i said okay thanks so in
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: other words you won't come bail me out of my
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: mess but we're not going to live up to our
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: obligations and help protect
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: You thank you ted it's the big building