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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Tuesday - 07/21/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Well, Heidi Ho,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully all systems are go here. 3.06 in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on this Tuesday, July 21st. And it's comfortable
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  Speaker 1: outside today.
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  Speaker 2: Cloudy.
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  Speaker 3: We've had some rain over at my place this morning
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  Speaker 3: in my neck of the woods here. 75 degrees. Nice
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  Speaker 3: to be with you here on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. If
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  Speaker 3: you missed yesterday's program, you missed.
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  Speaker 2: A good one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when we were talking about Poland Library, lots
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  Speaker 3: to talk about with that particular situation.
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  Speaker 2: And plenty to.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about when it comes to the situation with Iran.
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  Speaker 3: It is just a mess. And we'll get into that
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  Speaker 3: on part of the broadcast here today, because I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to tell you, it is, as I said, it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter whether you're a Trumpster or not. You're not here
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  Speaker 3: to say that it's OK to disagree with somebody that
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  Speaker 3: you voted for. As I said to you before, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that I've necessarily agreed with anyone 100 percent
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  Speaker 3: of the time.
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  Speaker 2: Including Trump.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 3: This situation in Iran is a mess. It's an absolute mess.
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  Speaker 3: And he started it. It's an absolute mess. And he
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  Speaker 3: started this mess. And I'm going to tell you, I'm
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  Speaker 3: concerned as time goes on where this is heading. As
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  Speaker 3: far as all of us economically speaking and the price
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  Speaker 3: of a barrel of oil. And what you're going to
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  Speaker 3: pay at the gasoline pump. And so we shall see
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  Speaker 3: as time goes on where this heads.
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  Speaker 2: But... It's not looking.
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  Speaker 3: Good right now, and it could head in a direction economically,
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  Speaker 3: I'm speaking, where it's going to be very painful for
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  Speaker 3: all of us here in this country and, frankly, in
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  Speaker 3: the world. We'll talk about that coming up, so stay tuned.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to miss that. But first, some callers' participation.
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  Speaker 3: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Got a copy on you. I think you're wrong about this.
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  Speaker 6: in some respects, though.
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  Speaker 2: You think I'm wrong about what?
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  Speaker 6: Well, like, the libraries were... A lot of these buildings
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  Speaker 6: were publicly funded, number one. So they weren't using tax dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Service.
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  Speaker 3: Your phone's breaking up a little bit. Turn around or
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  Speaker 3: something or go walk outside so that I can hear
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  Speaker 3: you loud and clear.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I said the library... buildings were privately funded, like
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  Speaker 6: the main library. That wasn't tax dollars. That was a
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  Speaker 6: privately funded building.
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  Speaker 2: In downtown Youngstown?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't, that wasn't tax dollars. So people aren't, they
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  Speaker 6: don't know it. They don't know the whole story about
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  Speaker 6: the library. All right, so.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking the original structure, or are you talking the
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  Speaker 3: $ 25 million that they put in renovations?
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  Speaker 6: The $ 25 million. The $ 25 million was privately funded.
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  Speaker 2: By who?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I just know for a fact it
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  Speaker 6: was not publicly funded.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then tell me by who funded it.
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  Speaker 6: I bet I don't know. I don't know the specifics
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  Speaker 6: of it, but I know that was it. I would
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  Speaker 6: rather give to the library than give to Israel or
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  Speaker 6: give to this stupid war. At least they provide the
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  Speaker 6: service to the local community.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is where I totally disagree with you.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I don't know that that statement you
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  Speaker 3: made is accurate at all, but I will definitely.
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  Speaker 6: Check on that. It is accurate.
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  Speaker 4: Check on that.
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  Speaker 2: It's accurate. I don't know that that's accurate.
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  Speaker 3: You'd have more credibility if I asked you who supplied
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  Speaker 3: the $ 25 million, $ 26 million, and you could give me
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  Speaker 3: a name. I'm not a genius. Right, but you're making
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  Speaker 3: a statement. You want me to believe that somebody donated.
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  Speaker 2: That amount of money.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you can look it up.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you can look it up.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: You're making a statement. I don't believe that's accurate, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll go..
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  Speaker 6: That is accurate. That's an accurate statement.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's yet to be proven. Let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 3: But needless to say, when it comes to the library,
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  Speaker 3: here's the issue, which you don't understand. This is taxpayer money.
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  Speaker 3: Contrary to what you say, we are paying a property
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  Speaker 3: tax levy in addition to state money, which is going
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  Speaker 3: to the library. I don't know where you think all
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  Speaker 3: this private money is coming from. This is where the
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  Speaker 3: money is coming from, from your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 2: One of the big issues... No, it's not fine. One
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  Speaker 2: of the big issues is..
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  Speaker 3: Why isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: Because you get a service from the library. You get books,
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  Speaker 6: you get CDs, you get movies.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not finished my thought yet because you won't let me. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're not understanding what the point is. The
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  Speaker 3: citizens of Poland are not being listened to. It's their community.
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  Speaker 3: It's their library. They are the taxpayers here in Mahoning County.
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  Speaker 3: They are paying the taxes for this on our property.
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  Speaker 3: And through the state, they have this big reserve of
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  Speaker 3: money that they have drawing interest on it. So they're
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  Speaker 3: getting more money than they're actually needed at the library.
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  Speaker 3: They should be answering to the citizens that are paying
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  Speaker 3: the taxes. And they are not. I have never seen
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  Speaker 3: an organization so arrogant. as I am this particular organization.
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  Speaker 3: And make no mistake about it, I will not, I
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  Speaker 3: haven't voted for a library levy because I know they
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  Speaker 3: have more money than they know what to do with.
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  Speaker 3: And you can take a look at it at the
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  Speaker 3: personnel that they're hiring and how many they're hiring, the
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  Speaker 3: lack of maintenance that they've done, and how they've treated
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  Speaker 3: people in the community in which that branch is located.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, they love the community, love the library. The community
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  Speaker 6: loves the library. That building isn't safe. That's why they
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  Speaker 6: can't fix it. It's not safe. The guy who was
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  Speaker 6: on your show, he's not an engineer. He's an architect.
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  Speaker 6: He doesn't know about structural engineering.
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  Speaker 2: Are you an engineer?
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 2: Are you an engineer? I know enough.
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  Speaker 5: It's not safe.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm asking you. That's why they're not doing this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 6: They don't want to jeopardize people.
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  Speaker 2: Just sit tight.
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  Speaker 6: With this building.
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  Speaker 2: Just sit tight. Tell me what the problem is with
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  Speaker 2: the building.
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  Speaker 6: It was built on bad. That's bad property there. That guy,
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  Speaker 6: they should never have built that library in that spot.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say it was built on bad property?
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  Speaker 6: Because the structure isn't good.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what is happening? Explain to me.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to explain to me, since this architect
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  Speaker 3: who designed it, and if you listen..
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  Speaker 6: Well, but he's not an engineer. He's an architect.
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  Speaker 2: You don't understand.
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  Speaker 6: And this was 25 years ago he did this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but do you understand?
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  Speaker 6: This guy is fighting a battle from 25 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand that he wasn't the only one involved
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  Speaker 3: in it? Did you listen to his statements that he made?
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  Speaker 6: Well, he said other architects, he was saying. And this
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  Speaker 6: is over 20 years ago. This isn't current day. Now,
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  Speaker 6: has he looked at the building? Has he looked at
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  Speaker 6: the structure of this guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Now, here's where you're inaccurate. Why? I said, does.
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  Speaker 6: This guy know about the structure.
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  Speaker 2: Of the building?
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  Speaker 3: What is the building built on? What's the foundation of
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  Speaker 3: the building? What rock is it built on?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know that was there somebody also involved in
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  Speaker 3: it from YSU that is involved in making sure that
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  Speaker 3: the stone material was pure and met specifications?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it could be solid material, but.
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  Speaker 3: If the property itself isn't good. No, if the building's
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  Speaker 3: built on bedrock. The slag had to meet standards that
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  Speaker 3: was under there. It is not slag from the steel mills.
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  Speaker 6: So why are they doing away with this library?
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  Speaker 2: It's foolish for them to do away with it altogether.
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  Speaker 6: Why? Answer me this question. Do you know why they're
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  Speaker 6: wanting to move this library?
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  Speaker 2: It's beyond me why anyone would want to move this particular.
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  Speaker 6: You can't answer me that question.
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  Speaker 2: I'm more than happy to answer it. You're talking about
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  Speaker 2: the library.
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  Speaker 6: You can't answer me why they.
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  Speaker 3: Want to move the library. Here's the first problem. You're
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  Speaker 3: asking me a question. I'm trying to answer it. Do
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  Speaker 3: you want me to answer it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to answer.
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  Speaker 6: You can answer me.
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  Speaker 3: OK, the first question I'm saying to you is it
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be moved in the first place. That is my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: That's the architect's opinion. And when you talk about an architect,
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  Speaker 3: there were other people involved in building this facility. So
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  Speaker 3: we know it's built on bedrock. So we know that
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  Speaker 3: the gravel that was used was washed and met a
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  Speaker 3: standard by the company that provided it. by them that
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  Speaker 3: provided it. It was not from the steel mill. So
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  Speaker 3: let's start with it. This building didn't have any issues
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  Speaker 3: as far as the back section raising up a little
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  Speaker 3: bit because of a wall that was built incorrectly back there,
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  Speaker 3: which the architect had nothing to do with, which created
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  Speaker 3: hydrostatic pressure under that portion, that very small portion of
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  Speaker 3: that building in the back. Not the whole building, just
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  Speaker 3: a very small portion in the back. Now, according to
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  Speaker 3: the architect, there's two options that you can do. You
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  Speaker 3: can modify that diversion wall and or you can take
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  Speaker 3: it out and you can expand where the river does
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  Speaker 3: the bend. But none of these problems existed for 20-something
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  Speaker 3: years as far as the foundation or any movement in
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  Speaker 3: that building at all till that wall was built. So
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  Speaker 3: use your power of being cognizant. Would you think that
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  Speaker 3: might be a cause and effect? Everything was fine until
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  Speaker 3: that one wall that they put there was built. And
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, you have a problem in
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  Speaker 3: the far back corner of the building where which has
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  Speaker 3: shifted a little bit because of slag that apparently was
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  Speaker 3: left there from the original structure. the original building that
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  Speaker 3: was there, and the original parking lot that was there
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  Speaker 3: when they thought they had it all out. But it's
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  Speaker 3: not a reason to abandon the entire facility. Now, my
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  Speaker 3: question to you, I'm not an architect.
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  Speaker 4: He is.
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  Speaker 3: He's certainly more educated at building than I am. I
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  Speaker 3: have an understanding of it. But in addition to that,
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  Speaker 3: he mentioned the other people, if you listen specifically, of
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  Speaker 3: the specialty trades that were involved in this project and
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  Speaker 3: in the foundation and how it was all approved by them.
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  Speaker 3: One of the guys highly respected from YSU that looked
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  Speaker 3: at all that. Should we disregard all of them? Should
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  Speaker 3: we say, well, you're just an architect? Okay, but that's
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  Speaker 3: certainly more credentialed than you or me. Should we say
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  Speaker 3: that the guy that was the engineer from YSU that
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  Speaker 3: specialized in the slag and making sure that this was
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  Speaker 3: done properly, do you think he knows more than you
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  Speaker 3: and I do? Because he mentioned all these people by name.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I had him on. So how can you
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  Speaker 3: sit there and act like he doesn't know what he knows,
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  Speaker 3: but you seem to know more than he knows?
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  Speaker 6: At least he answered my question, so I'll give you
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  Speaker 6: credit for that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the bottom line is this is taxpayer money.
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  Speaker 3: Taxpayers have a right to say, and incidentally, there's many
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  Speaker 3: other reasons if you would listen to the program on
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  Speaker 3: why the building was located there and what it does
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  Speaker 3: for the community and the walking distance from the elementary schools.
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  Speaker 3: If you listen to his explanation of why it was
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  Speaker 3: put there. and how much of the stuff was actually
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  Speaker 3: donated to the facility, you'll sit back and say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. But if you would listen, and
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  Speaker 3: you can go back and listen to it.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, say you're right about this. Okay, whatever. But why
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  Speaker 6: are you after the whole library? Because you never liked
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  Speaker 6: the library. This is just a new battle you're picking.
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  Speaker 2: Why am I after it? Well, I'm going to show you, Shani.
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  Speaker 6: You never like the library.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you exactly if you want me
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  Speaker 3: to answer why am I after the library, as you say,
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  Speaker 3: because I believe the library, for a number of reasons,
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  Speaker 3: is collecting more tax dollars than it knows how to use.
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  Speaker 3: It's overtaxing our citizens of this community. You can see
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  Speaker 3: that in the reserves that they have. So they're taxing
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  Speaker 3: you more money than they should be. Secondly, clearly the
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  Speaker 3: lack of response and straightforwardness, to the community in this
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  Speaker 3: particular situation from the head of the library is troubling
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  Speaker 3: that the taxpayers are so being disrespected and treated poorly.
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  Speaker 3: I have zero respect for a government that says, shut up,
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  Speaker 3: pay your taxes, we're going to do what we want
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  Speaker 3: to do, and you don't have a say-so. I don't
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  Speaker 3: agree with that. I will never agree with that. and
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  Speaker 3: you can hang up. That's what the issue is. I
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  Speaker 3: will sit here and I will tell you that unlike
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  Speaker 3: the first caller or others, I listened to the architect.
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  Speaker 3: He's a lot more qualified than I am on it.
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  Speaker 3: Way more qualified than I am. And if you would
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  Speaker 3: have paid attention to what he was saying, You would
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  Speaker 3: have heard him talk about everyone else that was involved
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  Speaker 3: in building that facility. And it checks and balances that
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  Speaker 3: happens in that facility. And then you should perhaps ask yourself, well,
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  Speaker 3: why didn't these problems exist 10 years into it? Why
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  Speaker 3: did these problems suddenly exist, what, 25 years into it?
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  Speaker 3: When this wall was put up to divert Yellow Creek?
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  Speaker 3: And prior to that, there wasn't an issue with the floor,
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  Speaker 3: the hydrostatic pressure in the back small portion of that building.
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  Speaker 3: The library isn't sinking. It's built on bedrock. The slag
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  Speaker 3: was certified, I guess is a term you would use.
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  Speaker 3: Reviewed by, his name escapes me, the guy from YSU.
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  Speaker 2: It's highly respected.
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  Speaker 3: I had another engineer that called me yesterday who said
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  Speaker 3: he took his classes and the guy was brilliant. when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to the ground structure, when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: what the ground is made of. So maybe you should
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  Speaker 3: start listening to them. Maybe you should say, well, this
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  Speaker 3: architect knows what he's talking about. And when he talks
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  Speaker 3: about the history of it, because he was there when
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  Speaker 3: it was being built. None of these other people that
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  Speaker 3: are at the library, the head of the library, Or frankly,
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  Speaker 3: people making these decisions have a clue, really, of what
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  Speaker 3: they're deciding and what they're doing. They don't have the
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  Speaker 3: knowledge and they don't have the background. And they have
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  Speaker 3: the arrogance not to listen to the people who do.
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  Speaker 3: So if you've got this beautiful building, and it is beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: which got great accolades... from architects and magazines when it
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  Speaker 3: was done. It's been a solid building for 20 plus
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  Speaker 3: years that clearly when you look at the pictures was
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  Speaker 3: not maintained on the outside. Simple, basic maintenance that you
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  Speaker 3: would do on your home. And you say to yourself,
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  Speaker 3: why did that one back section raise? Well, what interesting
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  Speaker 3: timing when that wall was put up that that happens.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the facts. Ron Furb checking in with Bob Dieter. Dieter, he... WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Back to it. NewsRadio 570. WKBN and Ron Furb. 324
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  Speaker 2: in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: What was it, a week ago and then yesterday when
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  Speaker 3: we had on Bob Mastroianno from the architect who built,
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  Speaker 3: was the architect for the Poland Library when it was built?
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  Speaker 3: He was there. He knows what went on. He knows
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  Speaker 3: the history of it. He knows who was involved in it.
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  Speaker 3: He knows when the back portion of the building started
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  Speaker 3: to shift slightly and when it started to shift. So
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  Speaker 3: it would seem he's the most knowledgeable person about it,
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  Speaker 3: in addition to naming the people that were there to
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  Speaker 3: assist him during that time as far as the bottom structure,
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  Speaker 3: as far as the slag and where it came from
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  Speaker 3: and the verification of being washed slag, not from the
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  Speaker 3: steel mills. And the people that are arguing against him
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  Speaker 3: were not there. So they want to, what, insult him? Well,
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  Speaker 3: he's just an architect? Well, that's pretty impressive. But when
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  Speaker 3: he sits down and he sits on a forum that
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  Speaker 3: we have for two and a half to three hours
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  Speaker 3: to say, and here's the guy, here's who brought the slag,
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  Speaker 3: here's what the quality of it was, and here's the
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  Speaker 3: guy from YSU that's talked about, was basically overseeing to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that it was the right material. Do any
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  Speaker 3: of these new hires, does the woman that came from
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  Speaker 3: Phoenix know any of this stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she wasn't here.
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  Speaker 3: Do any of these overpriced people, overpaid people, I should say,
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  Speaker 3: that are now on the library payroll to insulate her
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  Speaker 3: from lousy decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Know any of this stuff?
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  Speaker 3: So I'm here to say, as I'll say again, Bob Mastriani,
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  Speaker 3: he is a good, decent man. He is a good man.
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  Speaker 3: And he cares about Poland, he cares about that facility,
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  Speaker 3: and he knows what he's talking about. And when he
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  Speaker 3: was on the program, not a single person from the
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  Speaker 3: library system called when he was on our airwaves for
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: three hours. So they want to challenge what he has
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: to say the next day in a paper, but that
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: doesn't cut it with me. When he's sitting here for
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: three hours on the program, where were they then? Where
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: were they yesterday? If they think they know more than
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: he does, if they think they have better insight than
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: he does, about building, about who was involved in it,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: about how it was built, and when the problem emerged,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: and the fact that it can be fixed. And if
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: you can save a beautiful facility like that, I mean,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: what's the point of having any of these beautiful old buildings?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And I guess we should tear them all down. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: this building is, what, 25 years old? But it's spectacular.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: So what should we do? Just say, well, to hell
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: with it. Let's dump it and sell it to somebody
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: and let's go build a new one that will cost
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: a lot more, won't be nearly as spectacular, won't have
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: the square footage. Even in speculation, when they said, what
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: would that building cost to build today? And he said,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: probably $ 20 million. Isn't that worth preserving? Isn't that worth saving?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, and this idea, well, if we build a
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: new library, guess what? Then we don't have all these
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: maintenance costs. Well, I guess that's true because everything's new.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: But I'm here to say that if you take the
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: existing library and you put a new heating and cooling system,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: you restart the clock on all of that. I'm not
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: saying mechanicals don't have a life expectancy, but if you
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: replace them with new stuff, then the clock starts all
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: over again, just as you would be buying new stuff
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: for a new facility. My problem with this entire library
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: operation is they are simply ignoring what the people who
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: live in that community want, overwhelmingly. And they're ignoring and
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: treating the taxpayers like crap. So when I say to you,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: would I vote for a library levy?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: They're getting more tax dollars in than they should be
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: getting in the first place. They have too many people
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: that are on the payroll now. And they're not receptive
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: to the taxpayers of the community. So it is my money.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: And I have every right to vote against it and say,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I want to keep my money. I don't really approve
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: of the way you're running your operation. Last time I checked,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: that's America.
• 21:09
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• 21:11
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• 21:13
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• 21:15
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• 21:16
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• 21:18
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• 21:20
  Speaker 4: This is where it stands now.
• 21:21
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• 21:22
  Speaker 8: We'll talk about what's happening.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Anytime.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: The deal we reached with Iran.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: The devil's in the details. Bringing the price of gasoline down.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Maintain the Fed funds rate.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Tying Pfizer to the Save Act.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: NATO has been a paper tiger.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: For the very latest. We'll see how that all plays out.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I caught part of your show yesterday, and I
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: was wondering what structural engineer put the wall up and
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: who initiated that they even build that wall. I don't
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: know if they answered that, but everyone's talking about structural engineers,
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: and I was just curious, you know, who did that?
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: No, he did not. Bob did not have anything to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: do with that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: I know, I know, and they should be looking into
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: who did, I think. Yeah, I think that the library lady,
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: I think she's just a globalist. I attended the town
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: hall meeting, I don't know if it was last summer,
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: about the cement versus the brick. They took all the
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: brick out. They didn't want brick. They wanted cement. They
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: wanted to color it. It was this long meeting.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: She talked in circles.
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: Mr. Mastriana talked, and he gave her three good options
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: to incorporate the brick back into it. I don't think
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: she ever got back to him, but he was very
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: kind to her, and she's just one of those Klaus
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: Schwab sit-down-and-shut-up crowd people. You know what I mean? They
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: put the LEDs in the library that kind of give
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: you a headache, so they changed the lighting. They took
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: down all the bus because, of course, those are white men,
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: and you can't have them. We have to erase our history.
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: I think this is what it's about. You know, it's
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: a historical-looking building. It's attached to an actual building from, what,
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: 1840 or something, and they just want to get rid
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: of it. You know, they just want to erase our history.
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: So speaking of incompetent government, I go to the treasurer's
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: office page today to see when the taxes are due.
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: And what they have out there is the due date
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: for the first half tax, which was March 6th. So
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: I call them, and they tell me, well, it was
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: going to be March 7th, but now they don't know
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: when it's going to be because they don't have the
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: tax bills out yet. So, I mean, are you kidding me?
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: And then the same website tells you it is the
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: taxpayer's responsibility to secure a tax bill. Failure to receive
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: a tax bill will not void the 10% penalty for
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: late payment. So out of all of my eight counties,
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: Mahoning County is the one that doesn't yet have a
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: firm tax date. It's going to be sometime after August 7th,
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: I could tell everybody. Pretty much all the counties have
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: moved their dates out. Columbiana taxes aren't due until August 21st.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: Trumbles aren't due until August 31st. So just to let
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: people know, Stark, they moved their date out. Those aren't
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: due until August 21st. So I don't know. I guess
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: they just get to move things around. But then when
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: they're due, you better pay them.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Listen, I think everybody's in for a rude awakening on
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: any number of things. Like I said, I feel sorry
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: for the citizens of Canfield because they're looking at a
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: 5.9 mil school levy that's going to be on the ballot.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: They're also looking at a pretty significant but almost 3
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: mil MRDD levy. So if one or both of those pass,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: in addition to the increase you're going to get from
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: the re-evaluations– It is going to be astronomical burden put
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: on citizens of Canfield to tolerate that burden. And I
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: say it again and again and again. This is ridiculous.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: You are pricing people out of their homes, not just
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: senior citizens. You're making it difficult for young people to
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: buy homes because of the burden, the huge burden of
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: the property taxes monthly. You're making it difficult for senior citizens.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And quite frankly, you're also making it difficult for everybody
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: in between because the evaluations are– well, the initial evaluations
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: were double-digit increases, right? And I don't know anyone's income
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: that could keep up with that. Now, because of Dave Thomas,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: the next, the increase from the reevaluations will be less
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: because it's tied to the rate of inflation, but it's
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: still going to be an increase that you didn't vote for.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: And then they're slapping on two levies. So this idea
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: that you can't be priced out of your house is ridiculous.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what's going on. And the communities have the
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: ability to, to decline the increase.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: And they better.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: They better vote all these levies down, every single one.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: They have the.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Ability to decline the increase, and they should. But I
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: won't hold my breath for that to happen. What is
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: happening to our citizens and the burden of property taxes
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: is deeply disturbing and troubling. It's like when you go
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: back to the library. The library, as they say, why
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: do these people have $ 40, $ 50 million in a bank account?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: That's your tax dollars. That's your money. That they're collecting
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: interest on. Well, then you're overtaxing the citizen.
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: In other words, stop taking it. You know, everybody thinks
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: they need this levy. Well, they already have a continuous.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: Don't they already have like a forever levy for that already?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Listen, it's another high levy where they want an astronomical
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: amount of money.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: And there's 2,000 families.
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: So where is all that going? I don't understand.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: You really have to question these things and don't just
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: get pulled in, oh, it's for the children or it's
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: just for that. No, this is a cash grab. I'm sorry.
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: I think you better vote everything down. You better sign
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: the petition. You better go to our website. Circulate among
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: your friends and family, www.axohtax.com, because it's never going to end.
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: And the government, I mean, they just do what they want.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: Like I said, you go to the treasurer's website, you
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: expect to see at least August 7th.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: We don't even see that. We see March 6th. We're
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: way past that. They can't even do that right.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you. You're on air.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: That was a very good show you had yesterday. And
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: I am an engineer, by the way. And the gentleman
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: made total sense. So you're standing for the right. Just
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: let you know.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, I can tell you this, and I'll say
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: it time and time again. That man sitting here is
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: a good, decent human being. He's a good man. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: any of those people that are attacking that man, it's
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: despicable to do such a thing when you meet somebody
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: like that and you can hear him on a forum explain–
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: He was there when it was being built. He had
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: all these other experts that were there. He knows the
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: history of it. He knows when the problem started and
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: it wasn't an ongoing problem. And he knows that this
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: facility can be saved. You've got a bunch of people
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: who have none of those credentials that have an agenda.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Have an opinion.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: And opinions are just like what? Noses. Everybody got one.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: So the facts, you know. The facts are that you're
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: standing by them and, you know, so don't get shaken.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Listen, I stand by them 100%. It's a beautiful facility
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: in that community. and the community i think overwhelmingly wants
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: that facility and it's very savable um right and i
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: think and i and i think if that is if
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: that happens i think that community will be grateful for
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: many decades to come uh Because it's a crown jewel
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: of that community. It's really a great crown jewel of it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: Well, I just wanted to share that. Don't worry about Iran.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I'll get into that later. I'll get into that later. Thanks.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's coming.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I want to get into that. But government should be
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: responsive to people. This entire library operation says, give us
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: your tax dollars, sit down and shut up. And I'll
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: be more than happy to have the head of the
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: library on with Bob at the same time sitting right
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: on the program. I make a public invitation to her.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: She can come on down. She can bring her staff
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: members down with her and she can come on down
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: and he'll sit here. And then they can have a
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: discussion that the public can hear and on the decisions,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: how it was built, the decisions that were made, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: for them to justify their decisions in a civil fashion.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: So if they're interested in that, they know how to
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: get a hold of me. All they have to do
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: is email me. I know Bob would be more than
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: happy to come and spend another two or three hours
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: with me. And I invite them to come on. If
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: they think they have such a righteous, strong case, then
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: you come on and talk to the public here and
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: talk to Bob here and make your case.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: If you care.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: If you respect the public and the taxpayer, then you'll
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: take me up on that offer. And if you don't.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: That says everything. We, the taxpayers, need to know. It
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: is your money that is taken from you. Never forget,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: it starts, it is your money. It's the fruits of
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: your labor. How much of your money is taken from you?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Far too much anymore. It's becoming more and more difficult
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: for people just to survive. But certainly the government entities
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: should be responsive to the citizens who are paying the money.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: But it seems they come in last too many times.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Give us your money. You get the crumbs. Sit down
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: and shut up. And that's not how this is supposed
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: to work.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron, good afternoon, buddy.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: I caught the end of your show yesterday with the architect.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: And for your first caller saying he's an architect, not
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: an engineer, as far as engineering is concerned, the architect
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: is the pinnacle of engineering. They have a whole team
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: about permits, professional engineers, and everything before the prints are
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: stamped and even released to build a building. Okay, so
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: that's his ignorance. But I wanted to ask the gentleman, Bob,
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: that you had on yesterday, who the hydrologist was, and
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: who's the professional engineer that stamped it for that wall.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: He had nothing to do with that wall. Bob had
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: nothing to do with that wall.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: I know he didn't, but the people that had it done,
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: who was the qualified professional engineer that stamped it, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: did they have a hydrologist? Because I can walk out
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: of my property being on Yellow Creek in 100 yards.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: Okay, so..
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Did they do this whole survey all the way to
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: the source, plus the drainage, plus the extra water, plus
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: all the other problems, all right, and do that before
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: they built that wall? Who approved that, and who stamped
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: those prints to do that? I worked construction for 35 years,
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: heavy construction. What they have to know, what an architect
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: and his team with the structural engineers, the piping guys,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: the compaction into the ground, the piling that goes in
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: and everything, Those guys have to do all that and
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: have that approved the building code before that building even starts.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: So all these people mopping off about it, since I
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: live within walking distance of the place, what's epitome to
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: me is exactly what you said.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: Eat it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: And I'm going, they got millions and millions of dollars
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: in the bank due to fricking maintenance.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: You got people going, donate to fix and save our library.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: And you got 40, 50 million in the bank. What
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: if you didn't take your money and save it aside
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: for emergencies on your house and your property? Who's responsible
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: for that?
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: If you take a look at the pictures that I've seen,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: it's obvious that routine maintenance hasn't been done because what
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: you see is some of the woodwork on the outside
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: deteriorating because it wasn't maintained. It wouldn't be any different
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: than if you did the same thing at your house
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: after 20-something years. So the reality is anything outside..
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Needs maintenance.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: And don't tell me how great a job you've done
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: at maintenance when my eyes, you know, don't believe your eyes,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: believe what we're telling you. No, I'll believe my eyes
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: on what I'm seeing and how you didn't do a
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: good job on the maintenance, which doesn't surprise me at
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: all when it comes to government in general. But the
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: maintenance should have been done and the repairs should have
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: been made. Now, these are minor repairs, if you will,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: on the outside as far as the wood and painting
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: and that kind of stuff. But that's the maintenance that
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: needs to be done on the outside. You know, this
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: idea that if you build a new building, well, now
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: you don't have all the maintenance costs. That's because it's
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: a brand new building that you just spent $ 9 million on.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Well, guess what?
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: If you put $ 7 million and do the maintenance on
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: this building, you're not going to have to worry about
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: much there either. I mean, based on their attitude, my house,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: which was built in 1996, instead of me replacing the
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: furnace or doing routine maintenance on it, I should just
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: rip it down and build a new one.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: That's their thinking. Now, how does that make a lick
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: of sense anywhere?
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Because that's basically what they're saying.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's just much more— it' s.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Better and economically better to go build a new building
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: than put any money into the existing one.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Really? I mean, it makes absolutely no sense at all.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: Ron, you're preaching to the choir here, buddy. It's like this. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I live here. Okay, you're a radio station. You're only— Heck,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: you could drive there in five minutes. You know that.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: So anyhow, I live here. But here's the thing. You
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: go through the neighborhoods around here, and I'm in the
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: township right outside of the village. And you go around here.
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  Speaker 5: There's signs. There was signs. Save a debt. Donate to
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  Speaker 5: the library. So why are you sitting on $ 40 or
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: $ 50 million coming after for donations to pay for something
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  Speaker 5: that's your fault?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know enough about that to even speak about it.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: But the reality is any building needs maintenance on the outside,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and it should be done on a regular basis. Instead
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: of hiring so many people that push paper and really
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: don't do anything, maybe you need to hire more craftsmen
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: to do the maintenance on these facilities as opposed to
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: all these people that are trying to insulate the head
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  Speaker 3: honcho of the library from the public.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, my question to the art detective, if you get along,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: even if you remember, I'm an old retired pipe fitter,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: and I'm going to tell you right now, I know
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: before that building was done, and I've been on a
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: lot of big, huge construction sites, that professional engineers have
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: to stamp that and approve that stuff. Well, he talked.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Yesterday about that. I would like to know.
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  Speaker 5: If they got a hydrologist and a professional engineer to
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: do what they did to cause that. The last time
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: I was in that building was this past winter. And
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: they had parts of it blocked off saying it was dangerous.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: And I'm going, I'm trying to look for it. I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: looking at the ground. I'm looking for crap.
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  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I'm looking for all kinds of stuff.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Right. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: As he said, it's in the far back in a
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: storage room where he says it looks like it's about
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: a moved about an inch to maybe two inches from
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: a hydraulic pressure from the water underneath.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Easy, easy, easy problem to fix.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: And the problem lies on Yellow Creek itself because they
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: don't do the maintenance, the dredging, or clear all the
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: trees and snags out of it. And the erosion back
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: in the park is even worse. And the Donfeld trees
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: that clog the creek, and it gets backwater buildup and
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: everything else like that because I see it.
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  Speaker 2: I live there.
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  Speaker 3: But living there then, you know what a jewel this
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: facility is. He built a beautiful thing.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: It's absolutely a jewel. But you know what? They want
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: to sit on their money and not give it and
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: have somebody else pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about that. I appreciate it. Thank you.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: News Radio 570, Dodie Kimmy, and you're on the air.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Mr. Burb, how are you, sir? Long time, no talk.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Well, it's good to hear your voice. I thought you
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: were dead. I hadn't heard from you for so long.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Well, that rumor's been flying around. I took the 85 mark,
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: but I'm still kicking and still doing exactly what I
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: did 20 years ago. So the good Lord has blessed
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: me in that regard. I'd like to ask the people
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: in Poland... who seemed to have a problem with fixing
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: that library. The last time they were in.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Europe, went to the... Stand by, stand by. Stand by, Bob,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: stand by. I'm going to come back to you in
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: a minute, right after these messages.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I Heart Radio.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: News, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN. All right, Bob,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I thought you were making a great point. You were
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: talking about some historic buildings.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Well, right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, these very people that are trying to protect
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: their checkbooks to save their money so that they can
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: go to Rome or Paris or Berlin or you name
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: any capital in Europe and they'll be there and you'd
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: ask them, oh, were you at Matt Ludwig's castle down
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: in Bavaria? Oh, yes, we were at his castle and
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: his father's castle. And oh, yes, but they won't spend
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: a few bucks to keep probably... one of the most
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: beautiful buildings we have in this area in a small community.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: That library is absolutely gorgeous. And if they don't like it,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: move it to Hubbard. We'll take it. The bottom line
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: is that communities, those edifices that they build in those
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: communities reflect the community's education, Their.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: Their their background, their.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Love of history. That's what they do.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we ought to.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: Go to Washington or Virginia, I should say, and tear
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: down Washington's house.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: And what the hell?
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: It's a lot older than that library. And if you're
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: how much money do they have in the bank? Give
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: me that number again, please.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Zamory and Bob were saying they thought it's around 40
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: something million, close to 50 million.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Well, hell, they could write a check on the interest
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: and they wouldn't notice it. I mean, there's something else
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: going on here. And every time I hear this, the
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: policeman in me says, yeah, somebody's got something going here
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: where somebody else is going to be making a fast buck.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: And because when you have that kind of money and
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: you have a building as beautiful as that library is
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: in Poland, shame on those people for even considering tearing
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: it down. Okay, the building has a small problem. Fix it.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Fix it. You want to tear down the Sistine Chapel
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: because a brick fell off the wall? What kind of
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: logic are these people displaying to the average person in
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: their community? If I lived in Poland, I'd be screaming
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: at every meeting. I don't understand the logic of these people.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: And again, I would like to be at a meeting
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: where somebody stands up and starts screaming and yelling and
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: carrying on about this. And I'd raise my hand and.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: Say, I'd like to ask you a question.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: When was the last time you were in Europe? And
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: they'd probably look at me like a chicken watching a
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: card trick. The bottom line is that we are dealing
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: with people that have some other interest. You understand what
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: I'm saying?
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, I do.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: There's nothing else going on here, Ron, besides the few
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: dollars they have to spend to fix this building.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bob.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you.