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The Ron Verb Show - 5pm Hour Thursday, 07/30/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: are you there? Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, I am here.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You're always dependable. You're always there in our
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody else joining you at the big table tonight?
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  Speaker 4: There is. Take any guesses?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to go with my dear friend, James Melfi.
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  Speaker 5: What's up, Ron?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to tell you this much. Folks, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you, but maybe the best legally speaking
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  Speaker 1: TV segment that I've ever watched over these many years
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  Speaker 1: just recently took place with Attorney Melfi on there, the
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  Speaker 1: young viral Attorney Melfi who brought the donuts.
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  Speaker 6: I did bring the donuts, and if you want to laugh,
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  Speaker 6: I called my dad to see Because he was on
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  Speaker 6: the news plenty of times. And he's like, hey, that's
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  Speaker 6: not bad for your first time. I said, so what
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  Speaker 6: you're telling me is you're qualifying it because it was.
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  Speaker 5: The first time, right? So it's not bad. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you're right. And then I hung up on him.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't know how David does that every Friday.
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  Speaker 6: Because I slept with one eye open because I was
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  Speaker 6: convinced that I was going to sleep through it.
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  Speaker 5: I was convinced. I was convinced.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean? And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You're afraid to fall asleep because you'll sleep right through it.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. Dave seems to go without sleep.
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  Speaker 1: He's like Trump. He's one of these guys that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sleep a lot. I get that impression. Do you get
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  Speaker 1: that impression?
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  Speaker 6: I get that impression, and that's a pretty common thing
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  Speaker 6: in our place anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I did a trial with Dave. He literally... We'll be
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  Speaker 4: texting ideas to, like, Frank and I at, like, 1
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  Speaker 4: in the morning. So, no, this man does not sleep.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it. But, you know, tell your
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  Speaker 1: father that I thought you did a really fine job,
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  Speaker 1: all right? Just pass that along to him.
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  Speaker 5: I think I can do that, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because your father and I are the same age.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that?
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  Speaker 5: He's going to be the big 7-0. No, he's not.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's not. No, he's going to be 69 next year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure of that.
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  Speaker 5: You sure?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows your dad better?
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  Speaker 3: Ron.
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  Speaker 5: My dad's in better shape than I am right now.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give him that.
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  Speaker 1: You should check with your father. You text your father.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he's going to turn 69, not 70. He'll
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  Speaker 1: probably text me in a few. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: out on a limb for that because I believe that
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  Speaker 1: him and I might be born the same year. We
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  Speaker 1: shall see. You get to the bottom of it, Melfi.
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  Speaker 1: We want answers.
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  Speaker 5: It's 69. I already got the text.
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  Speaker 1: See, there you go. There you go. I knew him
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  Speaker 1: and I were born in the same year, and time
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  Speaker 1: is moving fast for both of us, but you did
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  Speaker 1: a fine job on there. You really did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Your dad was a master at it, though, so listen
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  Speaker 1: to his advice. Take his advice. He always handled himself
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  Speaker 1: well and came across well. You're blessed with good genes,
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  Speaker 1: my son, good genes.
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  Speaker 5: He did okay, and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the first thing I walked in, Steve goes, I
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  Speaker 6: remember reading your dad in front of your house, in
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  Speaker 6: front of a tree.
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  Speaker 5: And you were there. And I'm like, I don't remember that,
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  Speaker 5: but that was a long time ago. He just sent
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  Speaker 5: me a text. It wasn't very nice. I won't read it.
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  Speaker 5: I won't divulge that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, no, those are the ones we want
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  Speaker 1: to divulge.
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  Speaker 4: There was a choice word used in there to describe
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  Speaker 4: Attorney Melfi.
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  Speaker 5: That's all right. Who broads the shoulders that bears the cross, right?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean a choice word to describe Attorney Melfi?
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  Speaker 5: A donkey.
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  Speaker 1: Who would say such a thing? Who would say such
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  Speaker 1: a thing?
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  Speaker 5: He called me a donkey.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe me. All right, so here we go. With
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  Speaker 1: our attorneys tonight, welcome to The Legal Show, and you're
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  Speaker 1: on the air. Hello there.
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  Speaker 7: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, do you have a legal question?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do, and I was surprised I get to
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  Speaker 3: be first. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Mine is about an estate problem that my brother passed
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  Speaker 3: away two years ago, and I'm an executor, and we've
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  Speaker 3: dissolved all the other assets except the house. And my
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  Speaker 3: problem is the next-door neighbor has interfered with all the
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  Speaker 3: sales of the realtor showing the house by videotaping anybody
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  Speaker 3: that they're showing it. She videotapes the people, their children,
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  Speaker 3: their license plates, and their vehicles. And she does it, like,
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  Speaker 3: from the street, or she has her car parked along
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  Speaker 3: the side of the house, and she'll do it from
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  Speaker 3: the car. And this intimidates people. Anybody possible buying it?
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  Speaker 3: This is our second realtor, and the only thing that
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  Speaker 3: has happened so far is a trespassing where she was arrested.
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  Speaker 3: We had it sold on April 2nd, and the buyer
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  Speaker 3: sent out a surveyor for the bank, and she argued
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  Speaker 3: with them, and she called the police, and they arrested
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  Speaker 3: her because on other times of being called out there,
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  Speaker 3: the police said not to... be on the property.
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  Speaker 6: Caller, did you call in about a month or two
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  Speaker 6: ago about this?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I did, but it was at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the show, but the problem's still ongoing.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Did you make another police report?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there is another police report on the day that
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  Speaker 3: she called that, and we've gone to where they extend it,
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  Speaker 3: and it hasn't... She got a lawyer now, and so
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  Speaker 3: they asked for extensions. I've gone to court three times
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  Speaker 3: in Camel Court, and so far the judge has just
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  Speaker 3: postponed it, or what do you call it?
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  Speaker 5: Reset it. There's a pretrial.
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  Speaker 3: Now, on September 4th, there is supposed to be a trial,
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  Speaker 3: and also she's on probation for doing this to the
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  Speaker 3: other neighbor on the other side of her home. And
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  Speaker 3: she was arrested for that, and she's been on probation
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  Speaker 3: for that. But they don't seem to do anything except probation.
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  Speaker 6: She probably has a bond. Yeah, it's a misdemeanor, and
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  Speaker 6: she probably has a bond. But I will tell you this,
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  Speaker 6: you have to keep on showing up to court.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people just stop showing up because a
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  Speaker 4: court process takes a really long time sometimes, and it's frustrating,
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  Speaker 4: and it gets reset multiple, multiple times, and people just
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  Speaker 4: get irritated and want to be done with it. But
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  Speaker 4: if you want something to be done, Attorney Melfi's right.
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  Speaker 4: Show up, keep showing up, keep fighting the good fight.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, now I had my real leader show up a
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  Speaker 3: couple times for this, and all they did was give
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  Speaker 3: it another date, another time.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the realtor, they had.
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  Speaker 3: Feedback on what people had said when they, why they
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to purchase this house.
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  Speaker 5: It's like our house is blackballed.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that they know about her causing trouble on
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  Speaker 3: the other side because that neighbor has the same troubles.
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  Speaker 3: They can't rent either. They can't sell.
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  Speaker 1: This is a tough position to be in. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when you've got basically somebody that's got to be a real..
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Donkey.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: You have to keep showing up to court and let
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  Speaker 5: the process play out.
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  Speaker 3: But what can you do about a harassing person about that?
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  Speaker 5: Did you ever file a civil protection order?
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  Speaker 3: I went down to see the prosecutor on Tuesday, and
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  Speaker 3: she mentioned doing that, but she had nobody in mind.
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  Speaker 3: At one point she did kill all the grass and
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  Speaker 3: shrubs on the side by her house and saying it
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  Speaker 3: was her property. And then I paid... to have a surveyor.
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  Speaker 3: It took me two surveyors. The first one she argued
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  Speaker 3: with and he ended up hanging up on me and
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't do it. Then I had another person that surveyed
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  Speaker 3: it and she definitely was on our property and she
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  Speaker 3: put up this snow fence and stuff and no trespassing,
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  Speaker 3: but it was on my brother's property.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you get the protection?
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  Speaker 5: Is it the clerk of courts you get the forms?
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  Speaker 4: Because it's not DV. Yeah, you don't have DV. So
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  Speaker 4: in order to have a civil protection order for DV,
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  Speaker 4: you have to be in fear of imminent bodily harm.
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  Speaker 4: I would say this is more..
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  Speaker 5: It's civil, but there's stalking.
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  Speaker 4: It's technically not stalking either. I would argue that it's
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  Speaker 4: more of a nuisance, more than stalking.
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  Speaker 5: It's harassment, but you could get a protective order, I believe.
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  Speaker 5: There is a civil. Do you live in Mahoning or
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  Speaker 5: Trumbull County?
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  Speaker 3: I'm in Trumbull County, but this house is Mahoning County.
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  Speaker 4: It's a separate process. So if it's DV, you go
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  Speaker 4: down in the basement. If it's civil, I believe it's
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  Speaker 4: the second floor.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's in the clerk's office.
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  Speaker 4: The second floor clerk's office, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I would call the Mahoning County clerk of courts. Yep.
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  Speaker 6: And say, hey, I want to fill out the forms
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  Speaker 6: for a protective order. It's not a domestic wherein the
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  Speaker 6: courthouse has the forms. And you can go down and
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  Speaker 6: fill them out yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Now, is there a cost so I know that,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, they don't take checks?
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  Speaker 4: No, there's no cost associated with that, ma'am. Just make
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  Speaker 4: sure that you list every incident in your petition.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: She will be serving.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have all these police records and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take all these police times. Bring the police reports.
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  Speaker 6: You write a detailed narrative, and they'll set it for,
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  Speaker 6: and you can check ex parte and then full hearing.
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  Speaker 5: So an ex parte hearing means?
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  Speaker 4: A one-party hearing.
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  Speaker 5: A one-party hearing, exactly.
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  Speaker 6: And you'll go in front of a magistrate and tell
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  Speaker 6: them about the circumstances and what's going on, and they
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  Speaker 6: could either grant it or deny it or set it
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  Speaker 6: for a full hearing. But eventually there will be a
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  Speaker 6: full hearing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, full hearing.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I would do tomorrow. Well, I have to.
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  Speaker 3: Have my realtor bring the– I know they don't like
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  Speaker 3: to show up for court because they don't want to
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  Speaker 3: waste their time, but they do have feedback from when
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  Speaker 3: they showed the house.
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  Speaker 4: Not for the ex parte order, but you can always
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  Speaker 4: subpoena them for the final. So they'll set a final
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  Speaker 4: hearing within 10 days usually so the other party has
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  Speaker 4: a right to be heard. For the civil, not for DV,
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  Speaker 4: for the civil. Now, what am I asking for?
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  Speaker 3: Am I asking for the civil protection or what's the DV?
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  Speaker 5: Civil protection order, not domestic violence. Correct.
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  Speaker 4: It's technically called a civil stalking order in Mahoning County.
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  Speaker 4: So you're going to go to the second floor or
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  Speaker 4: call the clerk, of course, ask for the paperwork for
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  Speaker 4: a civil stalking order. They also, I believe, have it online.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure you get the ex parte hearing. explain to
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  Speaker 4: the judge exactly what's going on and why you feel
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  Speaker 4: as though you need this order. Then a hearing will
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  Speaker 4: be set for 10 days and she'll be served and
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  Speaker 4: then she'll have the opportunity to be heard as well.
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  Speaker 4: That's when you really bring in the evidence because that
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  Speaker 4: is an evidentiary hearing where you present your evidence, you
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  Speaker 4: present witnesses, if you have them you can subpoena them
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  Speaker 4: and then the defendant will have the opportunity to do
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  Speaker 4: so as well.
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  Speaker 3: Now all this will take place in Mahoning County at
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  Speaker 3: the big courthouse.
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  Speaker 5: Big courthouse downtown. Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. I wish you the best of luck.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, thank you so much. I tried to scribble, though,
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  Speaker 3: and write this down real quickly so I did the
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  Speaker 3: right thing. I'll call the clerk of courts and see.
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  Speaker 3: And it's called an exporte hearing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a.
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  Speaker 4: Civil stalking protection order.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, not DV.
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  Speaker 6: Make sure you tell them this is not a domestic
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  Speaker 6: violence case. Civil stalking.
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  Speaker 4: Protection order. Protection order. And the forms are either on,
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  Speaker 4: I think, I believe they're online. You can actually fill
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  Speaker 4: them out. But make sure you ask for an ex
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  Speaker 4: parte hearing.
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  Speaker 3: How do you spell ex parte? How do you spell that?
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  Speaker 9: It's Latin.
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  Speaker 4: E-X-P-A-R-T-E. It just means one party. Everything's Latin in the
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  Speaker 4: legal world.
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  Speaker 3: And would that be on the form that I fill out?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: There will be a little checkbox. I wish you the
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  Speaker 4: best of luck. And if you need to call us,
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  Speaker 4: you can ask for me, and I can re-over the
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  Speaker 4: process with you, okay?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And what's the phone number there that I can ask
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  Speaker 3: for you again?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thanks. You're on air. Hello. Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: I have a quick one-second criminal question.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You sound like a criminal to me.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I get that a lot. So one of them
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  Speaker 9: would be, when is a good time not to waive
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  Speaker 9: your rights? Because you go to court the next morning.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not in that situation, but if I ever am, because,
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  Speaker 9: you know, I'm older and can't defend myself and a
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  Speaker 9: Second Amendment person, and I don't want to be in
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  Speaker 9: trouble because I did something I shouldn't have done, you know? Sorry,
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  Speaker 9: what's your question?
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  Speaker 4: Waive your rights? What do you mean by that, sir?
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  Speaker 5: I have no idea what you just said.
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  Speaker 9: Because you get an option to waive your rights to
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  Speaker 9: a speedy trial and a criminal trial, right? That's the
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  Speaker 9: first thing they ask you if you want to waive
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  Speaker 9: your rights.
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  Speaker 4: Waive your right to a speedy trial. So everybody has
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  Speaker 4: a right to have a trial quickly.
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  Speaker 6: Meaning the state has to bring you to trial within
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  Speaker 6: a certain amount of time depending on the.
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  Speaker 5: Severity of the charge.
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  Speaker 4: Correct. But if there's discovery or things that are outstanding,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people waive that right so that way
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  Speaker 4: they can fully... do the investigation from start to finish,
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  Speaker 4: and that gives their attorney the opportunity to review everything
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  Speaker 4: and prepare for trial. Some cases, it is beneficial to
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  Speaker 4: waive your right. In other cases, if you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: get something done quickly or you need something done for
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  Speaker 4: your job, it's not beneficial. So it really just depends
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  Speaker 4: on the case.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I was just curious. The other one real quick,
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  Speaker 9: and again, it doesn't really pertain to me, but we
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  Speaker 9: all go to lunch with friends sometimes. So say I
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  Speaker 9: have two or three drinks, I'm on my way home,
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  Speaker 9: I get stopped. Should I take the breathalyzer or should
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  Speaker 9: I just... Because I'm going to fail at three drinks.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we all are. So should I do that
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  Speaker 9: or should I just let them prove it?
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Did you say drinks or drinks? Because I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 4: I heard three drinks.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you, caller, are you going to pass
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  Speaker 5: it now?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah, no, I'm good. I'm at work right now.
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: I don't even really drink, like, a couple times a year.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: You guys are hard on me.
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: And I didn't do anything. I had a couple quick questions.
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: I'm not a criminal, but I'm not drunk.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Here's my advice on this.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, you do sound like a criminal drunk to me, caller.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying from my head.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: Here's my advice to you is, Like David always says,
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: if you ever get pulled over, you've had a few drinks,
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: you be very polite. You comply with the officer if
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: he says, sir, get out of the car. However, you
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: do not need to admit to drinking. You can refuse
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: the roadside field sobriety test.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: And guess what?
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: There's about 100% chance you'll get arrested anyway if you
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: perform them, if you don't. And don't take the breathalyzer.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: But also maybe not have three drinks on your lunch break.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Isn't that an automatic suspension, though, if you don't take
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the breathalyzer?
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: It's an automatic one-year suspension, but that's an administrative license suspension.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: Once you get a lawyer, there are procedures in place
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: that that one-year suspension can be stayed and you can
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: get privileges within two weeks.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Like driving privileges to and from work, to the grocery store,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: things like that.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: Okay, well, I'm sorry not to commit any crimes or
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: get drunk, but I was just curious because I hear
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: people asking those questions, and I wasn't going to know.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: That's all.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: It sounds to me like you're really asking from a
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: personal level. Do you frequently have heavy drinking at lunchtime?
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Ron's asking for a friend.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Just for your friend, please tell him on his.
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: Lunch break, don't have a beer.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: And then drive and return to work.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: That's what I ask.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: But tell your friend we said hi, okay?
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Thanks.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Maybe I want to hang out with this friend.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Not during lunch.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Maybe not during lunch.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Maybe you need to drive him.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: That takes you back to your college, your Smelfie, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think you want to go through those again.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: We both went to the same college. We really did
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: have a good time.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: I'd cut my pinky off to do six months.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Would you really?
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I'd probably cut off the tip.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't mean to go back to it?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: For six months?
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. Miami is so fun, Ron. Me and Jimmy,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: we should take Ron to Green Beer Day. We're going
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: to take you to Green Beer Day.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: It's just going to happen. Ron, you ever start drinking
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: beers at 1 o'clock in the morning?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: One o'clock in the morning.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Until one o'clock the next day.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, come on.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: No.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Listen here.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: That's absolutely not. All right. You're on the air with
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: these troublemakers. Hello.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: How can we help you?
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: Hello, troublemakers. I have a question on if your neighbor's
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: tree is hanging over on your property, can And I
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: know the gold standard would be to send a certified letter,
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: but in being cordial with the neighbor, if I haven't
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: in a text message to them all of my concerns,
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: does that suffice that if something would fall down and
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: damage something on my property, I could present that and
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: their insurance would cover it?
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: No.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: It's not.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: No.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Sufficient. I would say you could produce it as evidence,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: but it's not like cold ironclad.
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: No.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, typically if a tree falls and the tree is
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: on your neighbor's property but falls on yours and damages you.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Your property, you are responsible. Your homeowners will pay. However,
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: unless the.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Homeowner has noticed by some arborist that this tree is
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: going to fall, then, you know.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: Well, it's got some dead limbs from the storms, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: one of the dead limbs is hanging directly over where
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: we park our cars.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: So what I do, because I'm a nice neighbor and
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I live in the middle of the woods, if it
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: is a branch from my tree and it's on my
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: neighbor's property, obviously I walk my butt across the lot
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: and I go get those tree branches, but everybody's not
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: so nice. If it's a really big branch and you
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: can't carry it yourself, I mean, you can always be,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, first start and ask.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: You can't cut down your neighbor's tree.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Bad idea.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Well, you can't cut it, but if it's like, you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: you can just say, hey, is there any way you
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: can remove this? I can't get into my driveway.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: But best thing would be to send a certified letter.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to be more.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Send them a certified letter. And, Ron, you may or
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: may not know this. If you cut down somebody's tree wrongfully.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: and say that tree was worth $ 5, 000, it's triple damages.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: It's not a good time, so don't cut down their tree.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: But if it lands on your property, they should remove it,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: but they probably won't. You are liable. I'm just a
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: nice neighbor.
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Good luck. Thank you. You know what I mean? And
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: never damage the family tree is what I say when
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it comes to trees. When it comes to the family tree,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: above all else, Tali, you should know how old your
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: father's turning on his birthday today. And not be close,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: but be right on the money. Would you not agree, Tally?
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: I just think that's just very good for families.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I remember the caller from two months ago.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I just don't want to know my dad is old.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: He's going to turn 70. I mean, he's not going
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to turn 70. He's going to turn 69. Why are
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you rushing him along?
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: I don't want to know.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be hilarious, Ron, if Jimmy and his wife
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: would have thrown his father a 70th birthday party? And
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: he's like, I'm not even 70. That would have been
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: so funny. We should do that for Dave.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Throw him one of those. And did you and take
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: my advice. You want to. Yeah, throw it at, I
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever been to this place called Leo's.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I think she'd love going there, Jim.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: I think she would love it, and I actually ate
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Leo's last night.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: It was wonderful.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. But, you know, I don't think she gets
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: there very often. She'd probably like you to take her
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: out once in a while to go to Leo's, right?
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, she doesn't get out very often at all.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: She's home rearing the children, and, yeah, when she gets out,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: that's where she loves to go.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. All right. See, I'm almost like psychic here, Jimmy.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I know this kind of stuff, so you can't. Keep
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it from me. You're on the air. Hello.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Hi.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I got a copy.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: How can we help you?
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: Okay. Well, we had an experience the other night. My
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: grandson's in from Georgia, and he wanted to treat me
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: to going to see the Pirates game. And he did
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: all the arranging of everything, and we got an Uber. Now,
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: I've never driven in an Uber before. And anyway, neither
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: has he. So long story short, we basically, and I
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: am not kidding here, took our life into our own hands.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Now hang on a second here. I've got to pause
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: for my headlines. I want you to hang on because
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I want to hear this story, okay? Can you hang on?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I've got to get the headlines out of the way.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: This should be interesting. She almost took her life in
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: her own hands. I can hardly wait. First the headlines,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: then we're back with The Legal Show, courtesy of Beatrice Kopp.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. More to come in just a minute.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: All righty, we are back with our attorneys tonight. NewsRadio
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. This is The Legal Show brought to you
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: by Beatrice Kopp and Attorney James Melfi. And Tally joins us,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: as always. And let's go back to this caller. So
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you called an Uber, I think you said, right, ma'am?
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, tell the story to our attorneys now.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: Okay. First of all, it was supposed to come like
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: 20 after 4. The game was like 640. And, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: they kept on saying, you know, we'll be there. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: they changed the time like three times on us. They
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: got there about, she, the woman, got there about quarter
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: to 5. They give you, this is my first experience.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: So my grandson gave her the code word. And anyway,
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: so we're on our way there. something has to be
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: done with the way they do these Ubers because she
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: was on her phone. She got three or four personal
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: calls while driving.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: We got lost.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: She didn't know where the stadium was. She went off
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: the road about three or four times, you know, when you,
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: that makes the noise when your car is going off,
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: you know, it makes those, the sound that happens three
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: or four times in a row. And she said it
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: was because the semis on the left of her were
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: too close. Um, I asked her in the car, you know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: how long she's been doing this, just making small talk.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: And I thought she said two years, but my grandson said, no,
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: she said two weeks. Um, anyway, it was very scary. She,
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: we didn't know how to get there. We should have
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: researched ourselves. I'm, you know, like I said, first experience
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: lesson learned, but, um, She had to hurry up and
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: swerve into the other lane to get off the exit
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: on the left side. She almost hit a barrier. I mean,
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: like there was like a barrier where you make your
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: left turn and then you go right. She almost hit that.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: My grandson and I was behind her on the driver's side.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: My grandson was on the passenger side in the back seat,
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: and he could see more than I could see. She
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: needed a break. Service light was on.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Low gas.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: She ran out. She was running along.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Ma'am, did you rate her on the Uber app? Did
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: you give her a one star?
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Well, she was rated five stars, but then she'd only
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: been doing this. She said she did Uber Eats, and
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: now she's doing Uber Fares. Had never been to this
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: Pittsburgh Pirate Stadium. She took like probably 30 to 40 minutes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: Out of the way.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: We had a backtrack. We got there a third inning.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: I mean, it was very scary. She almost wrecked a
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: couple of times.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You know what Tali's asking you is rate her and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: give her a bad review.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Yes, there's going to be more. There has to be
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: more protection because God forbid.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Well, notify Uber, right, Tali?
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: We did. We did.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: My grandson got on there.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: He called.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: It's very, very hard to get through these people. He
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: started talking about the experience, and they basically shut him off.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: They hung up on him.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: So I'm going to assume it is your last Uber ride.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: I'm also going to tell you the law is in
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: favor of Uber and not the passenger. Correct. All Uber
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: drivers are independent contractors, so you can't get to Uber
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: if an Uber driver causes an accident. and saying that
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: they're working on behalf of the company. They're classified as
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: independent contractors. The other problem you have, and I run
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: into this frequently, is a lot of Uber drivers do
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: not have business coverage on their vehicle. So if you're using,
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: like typical Uber drivers, a personal vehicle to handle Uber rides,
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: there's a business exception to it. And if you're driving
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: for Uber, their insurance won't cover it. So what I'm
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: going to tell you is, and personally, I've been in
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: a lot of Ubers, and I get a little car
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: sick in the small cars.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: I only get the premium.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: What are they called?
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: I either do the XL or the black anymore. Because
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: those are better drivers, and they have insurance.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: It'll stay on there. They're more expensive, but honestly, it's
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: worth it for your state of mind and your safety.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: How did you get back? Just out of curiosity.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Well, another guy picked us up. He was wonderful. I mean,
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: he had the phone, you know, where you're looking at it.
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: He wasn't holding it in his hand. He was constantly
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: typing in things on the computer part of her dashboard.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: I mean, he was wonderful. I mean, it was a
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: little scary because he went the back roads. He went
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: through the turnpike tolls. He was complaining because now he
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: has to pay tolls. I mean, it was a nightmare.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: I'm just glad we were praising God left and right
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: that we got home, that we got there safely. I
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: am not exaggerating. Her car was dirty. I mean, that's
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: beside the point.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something as you go on.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I do disagree with her on one thing. Usually when
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: you notify them of the car, they are done with
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that person for driving with them. I mean, I've never
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: heard of an experience like this. I know people that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: have done that, and they discontinue using that particular person.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: And I have a serious question.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: Are we sure David wasn't in a disguise and was
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: the first Uber driver to tell me the thing is beeping?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: That was my thoughts. Okay, dear. Good luck to you.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, she can just leave a bad review, right?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: If you have a bad review, get your money back.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: And do your research for the next one. Make sure
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: that you have a good driver, one that has insurance
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: and one that's rated and been doing it for a while.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: That's why you have to pay the extra few bucks
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: and you get the..
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: XL.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: The XL. Mm-hmm.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: So keep it all in mind. That's what you got
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to do. All right, so legal questions. Pick up the phone.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Give us a call. I had the same thought you did.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Was Dave Beatrice driving? Because it sounds like his car
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: was a mess, and he was going fast, and he
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: was on the phone, and he was running out of gas.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: That sounds like gas, riding on the rumble strip.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: He would be the worst Uber driver of all time.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: I literally pull in to go into work, and I
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: see his car door wide open. It's beeping, and his
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: cell phone's in there. But David is not anywhere.
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: To be seen.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: You missed it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: Frank, I was coming back with Frank from somewhere, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: we parked in David's spot, but we parked crooked.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: And we pushed it up against the front door. I
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: thought David was going to have a meltdown.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he was panicking.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Ron, what do you think about Frank parking in his spot?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Parking in Dave's spot?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you something. I don't have a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: problem with it because, you know, Frank, a.k.a. the young
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra, but in this case, I mean, Frank's on
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: a winning streak, and I think Frank should have a
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: premier parking spot because of how good he's doing.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's like stealing somebody's lunch out of their hand.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: The guy's been parking there for 20 years, and Frank
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: just says, I'm parking here now.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: What are you going to do.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: About it? Frank's a man. You know what I mean?
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't mess with him.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's how I view things. I mean, Frank
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: is a man. What can I say? I mean, that's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: how I view things. I don't know what else to say.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: I see it the same way you do.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: I did tell Frank he was on my bad list, Ron.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: He sent me to a client in federal prison, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: I was in a dress, and I didn't know you
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: couldn't wear dresses, and I almost had to..
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: You went to the private prison.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Well, I almost had to wear a pair of their pants.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Well, then I explained to you the CoreCivic, and..
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: I just wish somebody would have told me. So I
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: told Frank, I said, you've got to let me know
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: these things before I just show up.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You could have asked me. I've never been to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the prison, but I would say, Tally, you're wearing a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: dress pants, not a dress, to a prison. That kind
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of goes without saying, doesn't it, Jim?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I was in court.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to comment on this.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: You know what?
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 31:59
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• 32:04
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• 32:08
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• 32:10
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• 32:13
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• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Ron, you know I have a valet in my name.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. Okay. I was just checking on you, buddy.
• 32:23
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• 33:37
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• 33:39
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• 33:41
  Speaker 11: Well, to defend Dave Beatrice driving the Uber, he has
• 33:46
  Speaker 11: many dinghies he's got to repair. So he needs the
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: extra money. but the woman, the woman that had the
• 33:54
  Speaker 11: bad Uber drive.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 33:56
  Speaker 11: I have a bad Uber driver in, I think it
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: was Texas one time. He let me sit in the
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: front seat. He was on his phone and I had
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: to warn him that the traffic was completely stopped in
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: front of me. So I think people should be aware of,
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: you know, what they're dealing with with these Uber drivers. And, uh,
• 34:19
  Speaker 11: Tell Dave, you know, show up for the show once
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: in a while.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: It's the summer, and he's happy, and he's on his boat,
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: and the best part is he's.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: Not calling us.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so far, so good.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: I will say I've had some great Uber experiences, maybe
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: like four or five months ago, ordering Uber, and I
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: didn't get a big one.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Ron, you ever see Cheech and Chong?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Yes. Oh, absolutely.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: I get in the backseat of this thing. I'm right
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: in Cheech and Chong. I'm like, just give me the dinner, please.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: That's all you ask, right? Please, please get me there.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Dave is a guy that is doing a million things
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: at once. I mean, that's what his problem is. Wait
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: a second. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Dave's got to learn
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: to focus when he's driving, and he doesn't do that.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And I would say that's probably his biggest problem to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a large extent. But, you know, people love when Dave
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: comes on. He just talks about the life of Dave,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: if you will, and the stuff that he's going through.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It's all self-induced.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: I don't agree.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: I think some of it's just really bad freaking luck.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: You're telling me somebody has that bad of a luck
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: all the time?
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I've known him..
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I think it's a good mix.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I've known him longer than you guys have probably been alive,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I hate to say. And this is his life. This
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: is absolutely how he has been the entire time I've
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: known him. This stuff has happened to him. And frankly,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: he never started revealing it to the public until he
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: started talking about it on a program. And then people
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: started to become more and more fascinated with it. I'd
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: get all types of e-mails saying, about is Dave going
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: to be on and how people loved when Dave was
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: talking about the world of Dave.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: His life is crazy.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: And now he's embraced the video world of it with
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: his Facebook followers that are saying now Dave has taken
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: what he's done on the radio and he's taken it
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: to the video on Facebook. Is it TikTok? I thought
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: it was Facebook.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: He does it all.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: TikTok has perfect for his attention span, 15 seconds.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Right. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. He's telling all of these stories online.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: when he's in Chicago with the young Frank Sinatra, if
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you will. I'm saying, you know, Frank Cassis, I meant
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: to say. And there are adventures that are there. I mean,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: where else can you see a picture? Dave has sent
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: me a video of his car with a flat tire.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, and he's trying to get to court. It's
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: really interesting. All right, back to it with our attorneys.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Hello. Yes, sir.
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: How are you doing?
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: What's your question?
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: My question, or..
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: What I want to understand is the AI.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: How much are our citizens going to be paying for this?
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: How much is what?
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: How much are our.
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: Citizens going to be paying for this? You get to
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: build new communities and stuff.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: The data centers?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: That's not really a legal question, is it? We wouldn't
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: know the answer to that. We don't know. You're on
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the air. Wait a second. You're on the air.
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: Hello.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, hi.
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: I didn't know it was my turn.
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: I have a boundary issue with my neighbor.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: He said that the boundaries were a certain position, and
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: I was led to believe that when I purchased the land...
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: The real estate agent gave me the footage of my land.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Stand by for one minute. Right, just stand by. I've
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: got to do a one-minute break. I'll come right back
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to you. Back with The Legal Show in 60 seconds.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: All right, back to your question. You've got a property
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: line dispute, ma'am? Wait a second. Are you there? Where
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: did she go? Let me put her, let's see if
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: that was her.
• 38:28
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• 38:31
  Speaker 9: I want to know one question.
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: You turn around there, you click me off.
• 38:37
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• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to find that other woman. All right, I'm going to
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: click you off again. You're on air.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Story of your life, Ron. I know.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I'm always ticking somebody off. But at least when my
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: father was alive, I knew what year he was turning 70.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: I was saying finding the other woman. It's that story
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: of your life.
• 38:55
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• 39:00
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• 39:03
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• 39:06
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• 39:09
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• 39:12
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• 39:13
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• 39:14
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• 39:16
  Speaker 1: me see. You're on the air.
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: All right. 77 will get you through to us as
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: these lines ring. Let me see. You're on the air. Yes.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: All right. This guy in his AI question is going
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to drive me right up the wall. What am I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: supposed to do, Melfi? I'm right on the edge of
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: a nervous breakdown.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: You can listen to my segment on AI, maybe like Monday.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Do what Dave does. Go for a cold plunge.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, that's absolute insanity to do that kind of stuff.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: It's it. He leaves all his curly hairs behind.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: So Frank has taken over Dave's parking spot, and you
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: think Frank is in the wrong?
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: No, I love it. I encourage it because I love
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: the banter.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: So does it say reserve parking for attorney David Beatrice?
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Is it marked?
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: No, we just all kind of have spots that we use.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: It's an understood rule.
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: But I love the conflict. I love the constant conflict
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: between Frank and David.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: And the tension?
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Because I get amusement from it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it entertains the rest of the people in the office.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Right. So, I mean, are you working on the 2027
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Beatrice calendar?
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: His swimsuit calendar?
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: That's what I should do. I should do a swimsuit
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: calendar for him.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when he's up on the yacht, get some pictures
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: of him, yeah.
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: I could.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: We can message Pam and see if she can..
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Assist you think she would be in on the conspiracy
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: that we could do i mean would she go along
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: with it that's the question maybe perhaps for him we
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: just got to send somebody up undercover you know may
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: like when frank's on there or if he invites you
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: know invites you guys from time to time you're just
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: gonna have to go and take some secret pictures of
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: him i'm pretty good at that have you.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Been on the boat totally expected from me so i
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: can't not this year.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting kind of the kind of uh He's
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: kind of distancing himself a little bit, huh? Knowing that
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: these pranks that you're pulling, he's not finding amusing, Melfi?
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: Like, because what am I going to do, sink his
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: boat wrong?
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Like the Lusitania?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, Jim, I think he's doing that pretty good on
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: his own based on what I heard.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: A month ago. He doesn't need my help. He doesn't
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: need my help to do that. Hit an iceberg? I
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: don't know.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know when he hit whatever he hit. And,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: of course, it wasn't his fault. It was the navigational
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: system's fault.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, something else's fault.
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: I will say this. David can't operate anything. There's no
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: mechanical skills, but.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: He knows his boat. He knows his boat, so I
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: will give him credit on that.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I'll hear him in his office just like, screaming and
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: cursing over something with email, and I just peek in,
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: do you need help sending that?
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes it can be frustrating. Things never go as
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you often plan them to go, right?
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: That is true. Yeah, boomers in technology, Ron.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: He did teach me how to use TikTok, though. I
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: give him credit for that.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: He's big on social media. And, I mean, you know,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: people enjoy following the life of Attorney Beatrice, trust me,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: and his trials and tribulations. I mean, whether it's the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: flat tire, whether it's traveling with Frank to Chicago, whether
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: it's just Dave's day-to-day things that happen to him that
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: just don't happen to anybody else.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: Which I told those guys, it's wild that you're flying
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: to Chicago. By the time you get to the airport,
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: go through security, get on the plane, deport.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: You might as well drive.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: Just drive. It's one road the entire way. It's 80.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Would you want to ride that far with Beatrice?
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: If I'm driving, I could do it.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're driving, yeah.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: A wise man once told me, always have your own wheels.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, guys, I'm out of time.
• 42:49
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• 42:53
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• 42:55
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• 42:56
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• 42:57
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