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The entire broadcast from Friday 05/01/26 · Ron Verb

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you, just what we need, right? More rain.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: It has just been, I mean, this morning it was okay.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Around 8, 9 o'clock this morning is in my neck
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: of the woods, as.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: You well know.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: And then around 10 o'clock it started raining. And it
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: continued to rain. And at times pretty heavy in my
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: neck of the woods today. And I'm thinking to myself,
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: everything is so saturated today. I mean, what an unusual
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: April that we've had. I know April showers, Ron, bring
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: many flowers. But what an unusual April we had with
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: the amount of rain that we've experienced here. Just the
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: amount of rain that we experienced here is really, for April,
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: just off the charts. So everything is so soggy when
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: you walk on your yard and all that kind of stuff.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: And then today, I mean, it's not even close to
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: even remotely drying out. And then today, You're getting this
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: rain again today, which is just making it damn near
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: impossible to cut your grass. It's just ridiculous, but it
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: is what it is. And chilly for this time of
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: the year. I feel like bellyaching about the weather. In chilly,
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: it's 45 degrees. It feels cold outside. It's rainy, it's damp,
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: it's 45, and it's cold outside. That's what we are
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: experiencing today. But have you noticed we've had that on
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: and off? We might have a sunny day and nice
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: temperatures one day. Next thing you know, it's cold again.
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: It has been an unusual April, rain-wise, temperature-wise, and May's
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: off to a wet start as well. With that being said,
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: with saying all of that, sunshine to you no matter
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: what the weather, gang. Ron Verb from the Kingdom of
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Mahoning on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Good to be with you here this afternoon. 330-729-9977.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: We should be with you until 7 o'clock tonight. So
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: that's the good news. Full show for you today, and
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: you're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Ron?
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 2:00
  Speaker 5: How are you, sir?
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: I am well, thank you.
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: Ah, beautiful global warming day.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just been a bizarre April and May.
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: We get these once in a while. I mean, look
• 2:13
  Speaker 5: at the winter. The last couple winters, not this one,
• 2:15
  Speaker 5: but the last couple, you know, were fairly warm. It
• 2:18
  Speaker 5: almost seemed like, you know, we were in the Carolinas
• 2:21
  Speaker 5: instead of Ohio, and then we got this one. So
• 2:23
  Speaker 5: I guess we're paying the price, you know, things cycle.
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: I was just looking.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: My daughter sent me a picture from when she was
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: at a job site in Orlando yesterday. She's in the
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: construction industry, folks. She's at a job site in Orlando.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: And it's sunshine, blue skies, and just all smiles. So
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: there you have it.
• 2:45
  Speaker 5: They've been really dry. Everything's catching on fire in the south.
• 2:48
  Speaker 5: They've got all kinds of fires going on down there,
• 2:50
  Speaker 5: so it's kind of interesting.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. Anyway, what's on your mind?
• 2:55
  Speaker 5: Voted today, so got that taken care of. My wife
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: and I were off, so we went down to Oak
• 3:00
  Speaker 5: Hill Renaissance Place. and took care of that.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: I hope you survived. We have to wreck the place immediately.
• 3:09
  Speaker 5: I don't really need to wreck it immediately. It seems
• 3:11
  Speaker 5: like that front part where you actually walk in and vote,
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: that office building at the front, if you could somehow
• 3:18
  Speaker 5: keep that and detach it from the rest of the hospital,
• 3:21
  Speaker 5: if you go back farther where you get the auto
• 3:23
  Speaker 5: titles or the Board of Elections offices and stuff are,
• 3:26
  Speaker 5: it's a disaster back there. I think the rest of
• 3:28
  Speaker 5: it is a crap hole. But then we were driving
• 3:33
  Speaker 5: back because you can't get on 680. There's no easy
• 3:35
  Speaker 5: way to get out of there. So I went across
• 3:37
  Speaker 5: the south side of downtown. And I noticed that the
• 3:41
  Speaker 5: old medical arts building, which is directly across the street
• 3:46
  Speaker 5: from the courthouse, the whole thing says it's for lease.
• 3:50
  Speaker 5: And I thought, instead of building, you know, if they
• 3:53
  Speaker 5: wanted to put county offices, why wouldn't you buy that building?
• 3:57
  Speaker 5: and put it across the street from the courthouse so
• 3:59
  Speaker 5: that it was centralized. You know, so the county government
• 4:02
  Speaker 5: is all in one place instead of sticking it all
• 4:03
  Speaker 5: the way on the other side of downtown. I just
• 4:06
  Speaker 5: don't think a lot of thought has gone into any
• 4:08
  Speaker 5: of that, to be honest with you.
• 4:10
  Speaker 4: If the building's released, it could probably be rehabbed.
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that, but when I was talking
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: to Gino last week, Commissioner Gino, it seems like it's
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: a done deal to me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I've talked to him about it, too, and he
• 4:23
  Speaker 5: says the same thing. And I told him I can never,
• 4:25
  Speaker 5: ever support what they're doing on that. I think that's
• 4:29
  Speaker 5: a disaster. I think it's going to be a colossal
• 4:31
  Speaker 5: boondoggle and waste of money.
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  Speaker 2: And I think zero public input on this at all.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: Zero public input from the people who are going to
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: get stuck with the bill, the $ 60 million plus bill
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: that will come as a result of this. And whatever
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: they're telling you the number is, it will be higher
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: than that number.
• 4:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, at $ 60 million? I mean, look at what the
• 4:52
  Speaker 5: cost of construction is today. I was talking to a realtor.
• 4:55
  Speaker 5: One of my old technicians is a realtor. We were
• 4:57
  Speaker 5: talking about something. I said, if you were to build new,
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: what are you giving as a base cost? She said
• 5:03
  Speaker 5: $ 320 a square foot. She said, if you want something nice.
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: She said, you want granite countertops and the nicer things.
• 5:11
  Speaker 5: She said, you're looking at $ 320 a square foot and up.
• 5:14
  Speaker 5: So imagine what it is commercial. I can't even imagine
• 5:17
  Speaker 5: when you get into some of that stuff what.
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  Speaker 4: You're looking at.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine 320 a square foot when you're
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: talking residential construction.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, that is just insane. I thought 200 a
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  Speaker 1: square foot was high.
• 5:30
  Speaker 5: We blew past that about three years ago, I think.
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  Speaker 5: And then, I mean, because if you're a builder, I mean,
• 5:37
  Speaker 5: there's the cost of materials, but then just try and
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: find people that are qualified to do the work anymore.
• 5:43
  Speaker 5: That's the biggest issue. I know houses where they, you
• 5:46
  Speaker 5: know how when you buy, if you go up to
• 5:48
  Speaker 5: like Baird Brothers, they have the poplar, and it's pre-primed
• 5:51
  Speaker 5: where it's already painted white, so you don't have to
• 5:53
  Speaker 5: prime it. There's houses where they're putting that in, and
• 5:56
  Speaker 5: that's the finish. It's pre-primed, and that's it. They don't
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  Speaker 5: put another coat of paint on top of it.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, construction costs are out of control.
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's going to be we're going to be
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: in the United States where people well, we're already there
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: to a large extent where people can't afford to live
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: the lifestyle that the people before them have lived, that
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: the American dream of homeownership and affordability of homeownership. Listen,
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: I'm the first guy to say things are just out
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: of control economically in this country. I understand why there
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: is a pissed off younger generation and they have every
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: right to be based on what they're looking at, the
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: costs they're looking at, and the country we're giving them.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: Much different than the one that I got as a
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: young generation.
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  Speaker 5: My kids, especially my two younger ones, the two that
• 6:54
  Speaker 5: are engineers, are just really angry when they look around
• 6:58
  Speaker 5: at the country and what's going on and what they're
• 7:00
  Speaker 5: inheriting and the costs that they're inheriting.
• 7:03
  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 5: I read a Wall Street Journal article the other day.
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  Speaker 5: What percentage of student loans right now are actually being
• 7:12
  Speaker 5: paid on time, or just even being paid, not even
• 7:15
  Speaker 5: on time, but just being paid on a regular basis?
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  Speaker 5: What percent of 100%, what percent are people actually making payments?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say 20%. Not quite that bad, 30%.
• 7:25
  Speaker 5: So 70% of the people that signed on the dotted
• 7:27
  Speaker 5: line took the money. went to college, got a degree,
• 7:36
  Speaker 5: and God knows what, are just not paying the bill.
• 7:39
  Speaker 5: And what's the number one reason they're not doing that?
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  Speaker 1: They don't have the money?
• 7:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, they were told they don't have to. So
• 7:49
  Speaker 5: Joe told them, you know, you're never going to have
• 7:51
  Speaker 5: to repay this. We're going to forgive it all. And
• 7:53
  Speaker 5: then they put in all those stupid abatement programs that
• 7:55
  Speaker 5: the court struck down, and Trump is now trying to
• 7:59
  Speaker 5: unravel it and get these people back, you know, on
• 8:04
  Speaker 5: time payments, but it's going to take a little bit
• 8:07
  Speaker 5: of time. In the meantime, they're just not doing it.
• 8:10
  Speaker 5: And that came off, what my understanding in reading the
• 8:12
  Speaker 5: article was then, that kind of came off your credit
• 8:14
  Speaker 5: report as an outstanding debt. So then a lot of
• 8:18
  Speaker 5: these people went out and bought cars and houses. Well,
• 8:20
  Speaker 5: now if these student loans come back on, then they
• 8:22
  Speaker 5: have to actually pay what they took, you know, what
• 8:25
  Speaker 5: they signed for. a lot of these people aren't going
• 8:27
  Speaker 5: to be able to afford it. So you may see
• 8:30
  Speaker 5: an increase in home foreclosures and car foreclosures if they're
• 8:35
  Speaker 5: actually forced to.
• 8:35
  Speaker 4: Have to go back and pay. I think it's that
• 8:37
  Speaker 4: there's $ 1. 8 trillion out in student loans now.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm one of those guys, folks, and I'll tell you,
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: just if you remember when student loans came about, I
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: believe it was George Bush, he made it so that
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: you couldn't declare bankruptcy on a student loan. Because people
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: would do that. They'd borrow the money, go to school,
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: declare bankruptcy, and then they would never pay it. Well,
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: the laws were changed, I think, under Bush, which said
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: you couldn't declare bankruptcy. In other words, it was a debt.
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: It's a debt that you're going to have to pay.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: It doesn't go away. And I thought to myself, well,
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: wait a minute. If you know, I don't care if
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: you're 18, 19 years old, you know you're borrowing this money.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: and you're going to have to pay it back. If
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: you don't understand that by the time you're 18, 19,
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: 20 years old, then there's something wrong. This idea when
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: Biden came along to say, oh, let's forgive student debt,
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: sent the wrong signal altogether as far as I'm concerned. However,
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: I will say when I take a look at my
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: country and I take a look at all the spending
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: that's going on that is going to other countries and
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: just the wasteful spending that is going on, That isn't
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: benefiting my fellow Americans. It frustrates me because I would
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: rather I would rather given a choice ease the pain
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: for my fellow citizens than all of this billions of
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: dollars that we continue to give away to all these
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: foreign countries. and all the nonsense that continues to go,
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: the nonsense spending that's going on. I can appreciate the
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: fact that we're spending more money than ever on the military,
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: but we are ignoring a lot of problems in our
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: country that also take money to deal with, whether that's
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: the solvency of Social Security, Medicare, and many other issues
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: that are important issues for our fellow citizens. We spend
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: billions and billions of dollars on illegals. We spend all
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: this money.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: That was stolen by the fake hospice places and the
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: leering centers and this kind of stuff. It's hard for
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: me to justify with all that waste, with all that nonsense.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: trying to tell some kid, okay, now you've got to
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: pay $ 30, 000 back. Given a choice, I'd rather waive that
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: American kid's debt and go after all the people that
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: stole all his tax money, including many of the politicians.
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, I will argue that with you.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, if I just go on one, we are
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: just crapping on our fellow citizens. We are crapping on
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: the American people. And I just think there's something terribly
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: wrong with that.
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: I think the biggest issue you have is there are
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: fewer and fewer people in the population who are working
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: to foot the bill. For every one person like me
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: and you who goes to work every day, pays our taxes,
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: contributes to our community, what have you, There's a whole
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: bunch of people that are just sucking the system dry.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Right, but there's still plenty of people working every day.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, you see them. I don't care where you go.
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: If you go to McDonald's, you go to Kohl's or
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: go to a store, there's still employees there, and there's
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: people stocking the shelves at Giant Eagle or Meijer, wherever
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: you go. There's plenty of people working. I mean, so
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: there's still people that are contributing on a daily basis
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: in our society.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: It's fascinating.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: I got mixed thoughts about all of this. Inflation is
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: a huge problem. We're making homes so that they're not
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: affordable to the average person. And when you're talking these
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: building costs, they're outrageous. And so we're going to have
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: plenty of people that will, as they once said, will
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: own nothing and will be happy is what the big
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: agenda was supposed to be. And that's going to be
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: achieved through inflation and the cost of things.
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully. I don't know. There's a lot of big problems,
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: and there's not a lot of easy answers.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a lot of bigger problems coming,
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: and I genuinely think AI is a huge problem that's
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: coming that will put many people out of work, particularly
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: white-collar workers. Many of them will lose their jobs within
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: the next three years. As I was saying, I was
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: reading the other day, 50% they're thinking of people in
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: white-collar jobs could lose their jobs up to 50%. So
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: we're not talking small numbers. Just, what was it, Meta,
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Facebook the other day got rid of 9,000 people, 9,000 jobs,
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: replaced by AI. This is just the beginning.
• 13:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's what I know.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: If you talk to younger people, even kids that are indecent,
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: that went into good fields, where you typically would think
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: they're more recession-proof, safer, healthcare, engineering, your STEM fields, things
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: like that, a lot of them are worried.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think you have much to worry about if
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: you're a nurse. I don't think you have much to
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: worry about if you're in the construction field. I mean,
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: if you know how to do something, physically do something,
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: I think you're probably in a better place than a
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: computer programmer, a lot of computer people, or people with
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: these white-collar jobs. I think they're going to find out
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: they're going to be the first ones eliminated with AI.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: And we're looking at thousands of jobs being lost as
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: a result of AI.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: It's just the beginning.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, even in the trades, though, if you look
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: at some of this humanoid robot stuff that they're doing,
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: China had, I don't know if you saw that marathon
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: where the robot actually ran the marathon and won. No
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: human competitor could keep up with it.
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you're not going to send a robot out to
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: fix a plumbing issue in your house. I mean, the
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: odds of that are slim and none versus replacing a
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: lot of people in white-collar jobs.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that seems to be where it's happening. Oh, absolutely.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: White-collar is going to be where it gets hit first.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: But, I mean, 10 years down the road with what's
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: going on with this artificial intelligence and with humanoid robotic technology,
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: it would not surprise me to see even manual tasks
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: like plumbing is probably a little more in electrical, but bricklaying, carpentry,
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: there's going to be things that you're going to see
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: robots come in. There's actually a factory in South Carolina
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: that I was reading an article on that is using
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: a humanoid robot. And I think it was something with
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: a CNC machine where you just, you know, you put
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: a part in, you align it correctly, you put the
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: shield down, press a button, it finishes, you take the
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: part out, and then you keep doing that. It's a
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: repetitive task. They're already starting to train robots to do that.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: So I think Ford up in Cleveland.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: So does it make sense?
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Does it make sense to say, OK, let's let all
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: these people into our country when we have to be
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: concerned about having enough employment for the people that are
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: already here? I mean, if it was up to me,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: we would stop all immigration, legal and illegal immigration. would
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: be stopped immediately.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Trump has lost it.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: I don't see why we're letting anybody in.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Trump has lost his focus. I mean, you don't see
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of the deportation taking place. You don't see
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of the standby. Back with a few more
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: comments from Rich, and then more of your calls right
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: after this. All right, Rich, so make your point.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, one of the reasons I called was because
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: yesterday when I was at work, I got a couple
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: of texts from people saying that Frank thought I was
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: completely off base the other night when I was talking
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: about how I think we should just, you know, at
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: least temporarily stop exporting oil.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: Out of the country. And he said that apparently I
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: know more than oil executives and things like that. Well,
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: it wasn't my idea. And I did the research on it,
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: and here's what it was. There was a 40-year ban
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: on exporting U.S. crude oil.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: That happened when the Congress passed. It was called the
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Energy Policy.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: And Conservation Act of 1975. And what that was, it
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: was a restriction in exporting crude oil. Now, you could
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: still export gasoline and finish products, But that was in
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: effect from 75 until Paul Ryan and Obama got together
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: and repealed it. Ryan and the Republicans did it. They
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: supported the Green New Deal stuff that Obama wanted, and
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Obama said, okay, you can sell oil out of the
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: country then if you do that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I remember when that took place. I was opposed to
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: it when they were doing it. I was completely.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Opposed to it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: So Frank's wrong. I mean, it's not my idea.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: The government actually did it and stopped oil from being exported.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: So if we did it then, we could do it again.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Or even if it was just temporary until this thing
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: settles over. So we put more supply in this country
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: and bring prices down. You look at NVIDIA. NVIDIA is
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: not allowed to export its best chips to China.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: There's all kinds of export restrictions we've done over the years.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: So there's no reason we couldn't do that, and I
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: would be fully in favor of that.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I was opposed to it whenever they started it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't understand why we're worried about selling oil
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: to the rest of the world when our prices are
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: going sky high here. That doesn't make any sense to me.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: And, I mean, generally I'm a market-based person, but you've
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: got to look out for your country first and the
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: rest of the world second. Amen. Thank you, Rich. The
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: only other thing I wanted to tell you was, and
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: you're probably not going to like this, but when I
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: voted today, the most important race that I think I
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: voted in was county commissioner.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: You think that was the most important one? I don't know.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of important ones.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Well, but the other ones, most of them are pretty
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: much foregone conclusions.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know that any of them are that. It's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a primary. What bothers me is they're talking about just
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: low voter turnouts. I really don't care how you vote, folks,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: but you should get out and vote instead of saying
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: we're going to have a 25% turnout. Then your voice
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: really isn't heard. And I think you should go out
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and take a stand on whatever turns. races out there,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: but I think a lot of these judicial races are
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: very important in our community that are here. I think
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: there are some people that are way more..
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: When I work, I go back and listen to your podcast.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: I try to listen to as many of the podcasts
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: as I can on the iHeart app. And the other day,
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Boss Lady was on, and she's not a fan of
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Christine Oliver, and I think Boss Lady's kind of an
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: insider a little bit in the Republican Party, so that
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: got me interested in And then a couple people told me,
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: I didn't realize that Christine's on her fourth marriage.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if that's true or not, but
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: what's that got to do with anything?
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: From what I've been told, it's true. Well, I mean,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I think it comes down to judgment. And like I've
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: told you, there's a lot of these people that like
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: to be in the courts. Well, Boss Lady said something
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: about her having some legal issues or something.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, anyway..
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: After I found out about the four marriages, boss lady
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: was saying something about legal issues. Dragish, I know she
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: likes dragish. I just don't think he's. I think it's
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: either between Shepas and Oliver. So I pulled the lever
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: for Bruce because I think, well, I know you're not
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: a fan of him. Christine, just I don't know. There's
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: something about her.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: The Sky. News Radio 570 WKVN. go back to it
• 19:50
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• 19:54
  Speaker 9: Ron i think the most important thing going on right
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: now is the supreme court decision that was two days
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: ago have you talked about it at all yet which
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: decision the louisiana verse clay for the congressional redistricting i
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: can't be based on race any longer.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with the decision but i have not talked.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: About it yeah i i mean we can now finally
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: draw if you see all the gerrymandered congressional districts all
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: over the country it's nothing new but now you cannot
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: basic congressional district where the minority in the majority so
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: louisiana is already going to be redistricting now There's quite
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: a few more states that are coming down the pipe.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: It's not going to be by the midterms, but, you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: by 2028. And finally, we can maybe get some fair
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: voting where you live, not, you know, 100 miles away
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: where your congressional member is. I think it's really important
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: because it's going to definitely help the Republicans, which obviously
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: is going to have some more sanity voting. Look what
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: they did in Virginia when they redistricted everything. Virginia is
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: going to be blue forever. Texas, they're redistricting. They're going
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: to be red forever. Florida retaliated.
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: They're redistricting.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: I don't think you're going to have a vote there
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: if you're a Democrat. And this is just going to
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: keep going now that this decision has been made. We're
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: going to have a whole bunch of perpetually red states
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: and a whole bunch of perpetually blue states. depending on
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: how state legislation changes in some of the other states,
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: they can potentially redistrict. So it's a big win for
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: individual rights as far as your voting goes, so that
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: way you're just not clogged in with a gerrymandered district.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: So that is a very.
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: Big thing that I don't think people really realize, because
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: at the end of the day, look, if you don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: have a House majority in Congress, you can't do much
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: even if you're president. You know, look, we have a full,
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: we have a Republican.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: President, Senate, and Congress.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: We can't even pass anything through the Senate to make
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: sure that you're a U.S. citizen to vote. I mean,
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: it's crazy. It's ridiculous. You and Rich were talking about
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: the pissed off younger generation. Well, I'm not 20 years
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: old anymore. But, you know, when you have to talk
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: about that, I'm saying, yeah, you know, everything you're talking about,
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: the homestead exemption tax for, you know, seniors.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: I love our seniors.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: You know, God bless them.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: They've worked.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: They earn what they've been given. But where's the relief
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: for anybody 20 or 40 anymore? Now, you know, these
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: are the people that are supposed to be having kids,
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: who are supposed to be buying homes, the future of
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: our country. We're celebrating 250 years this year. I hope
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: our country continues for another 250 years. But all we
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: do is we just keep pandering to the generation that
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: keeps giving, giving, giving, giving.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Everybody says, oh, this.
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: Younger generation, they don't want to work, they don't want
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: to do anything, because there's no consequences. If you look
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: in the mirror at the parents that raise them half
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: the time, there's the problem. If you get a kid
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: that works, it's probably because their parents raised them, right?
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: It helps to have two parents in the home.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: But at the end of the day, it's how you're
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: raised and what your ethics are. And again, I'll go
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: back to it a million times. There's no consequences in
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: our country for just about anything. So I don't know
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: when all this is going to change. But where's the politician?
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: Where's the person who's going to say, you know what?
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: I'm going to help the 20 to 40-year-olds. They're never
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: going to do that because the 20 and 40-year-olds don't
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: go out and vote as much.
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: As the 60-year-olds.
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: And I might take some heat for this. But if
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: you're 65 years old, you got to buy a house
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: in the 70s, in the 80s. And I'll be the
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: first one to say, oh, when I bought a house
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: when the interest.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Rates were 16%.
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: Well, you've been able to refinance that for the last
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: 30 years, all the way down to 2% in COVID. Well,
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: inflation's killing me. Well, if you own assets, if you
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: were able to buy stocks and property and houses all
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: that time, inflation's actually helped you. Your house is worth
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: four times as much. What if you're 20 years old
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: and you go to buy a house right now? Has
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: inflation helped them?
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: No.
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: What if you go to get a job right now
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: in a field where you can't even get.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: One because AI is knocking you out of the ballpark?
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: You can't get one. Or you can go be a plumber. Okay,
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: that's great. How many plumbers do we need? Do we
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: have enough space for everybody to be a plumber?
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I don't think so.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: So I don't know what's going to happen in the future,
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: but I want to see somebody say, hey, this is
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: what we're going to do for the young people. Maybe
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: if you actually tell the future generation what we're going
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: to do to help them, maybe they'd be the ones
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: who go out there and vote. Everything changes every day.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: What we were talking about last week, everybody forgets on
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: the next week. We were supposed to audit Fort Knox.
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: That never happened. Russia, Ukraine, an old story. What happened
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: in Iran earlier this month is already old news. It's
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: almost 4 o'clock here. It's on a Friday. I fully
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: expect Trump to post something tonight, very inflammatory, and then
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: take it back over the weekend and die things down
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: once the market closes and right before it opens back up.
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: I have no clue what's.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Going to happen.
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: I don't want gas at $ 5 a gallon. I was
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: the first one complaining about it when Joe Biden was there.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: But we got.
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: Nothing for it when Joe Biden was president.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: I got nothing.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: I don't know if we're going to get anything out
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: of this. I don't know how long this is going.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: To go on.
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: Is Trump going to lose the midterms? Are they going
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: to impeach him? I have no clue.
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: What's the endgame to this?
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: I could be completely wrong. Next month, we can have
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: a deal. Trump is in... is a force that we've
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: never seen before, and Iran's been around for thousands of years.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: The Persians have been there. They will blast through whatever.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: I don't think they care about their people. They're probably
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: not going to get rid of their nukes. If they
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: know one thing, North Korea, you don't get rid of
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: your nukes because, look, nobody messes with them. Ukraine, they
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: got rid of their nukes. Look what's happening to them.
• 25:16
  Speaker 12: So I know what.
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: It's all nuclear dust. If it's dust, why are we
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: going after it? Do we need to go after it?
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: I just want to know more why we're doing it,
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: what we're there for. Is it 12 days until their
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: oil runs out? Is it 20 days until their oil
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: runs out? I have no clue. And this is the
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: thing that frustrates me. You can't plan for anything in
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: the future. How does somebody 20 years old plan for...
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: getting in the stock market? How do they build their future? Say, oh,
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: you buy the S & P 500 and hold on
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: to it forever. Well, what if it's forever, gas goes
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: up $ 8 a gallon, and then the whole entire economy
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: actually collapses? What if what John Earl was talking about yesterday,
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: the three or four stocks that just go up forever
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: keep going to pull the whole market?
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: I have no clue.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: It's hard to plan now moving forward. Nobody pays attention
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: to things and keeps up on them for more than
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: a week. Everything changes week to week.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: That it does. That it does. And it's there's continued
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: uncertainty every day here.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Iran wants to make a deal. Iran wants to make
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: a deal. I've been hearing this for how long now?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And I don't see any deal.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Do you?
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: Iran wants to make a deal. Well, you want to
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: make a deal buying a house. Interest rates aren't going down.
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: They keep going up. We're getting a new Federal Reserve
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: chairman soon. He says, you know, he's dovish. He's getting
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: lower interest rates.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Probably not.
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: They should probably go up. What's that going to do
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: to the economy?
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: I have no idea.
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: The 10-year Treasury rate's floating on 4.5%. And if you
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: look back any time, that gets even close to 4.5%,
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: which we're at 4.4% right now. Trump does something with
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: the economy, and I don't know what's going to happen next,
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: but the stock market, look, it keeps going up.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: And guess what?
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: The next day, it can crater back down, up on
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: an escalator, down on an elevator. And it's just hard
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: to plan to do these things. What if you're 20
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: years old again?
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: You're like, well, wait a second.
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: Do I invest for when I'm 65, or do I
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: try to buy a house, which costs four times as
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: much as it did six years ago?
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: Hmm.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: Should I invest or Hmm, should I live for today?
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: It's a hard decision. Should I have kids?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Can I have one?
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: Can I have two? Can I have three? What do
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: we get?
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's what I want to hear more than anything.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: Any local politician, do something for this community, for this area,
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: for the younger generation. We're going to have jobs from
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: the AI data center that's over in Lordstown.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: Well, look at OpenAI.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: Sam Altman, he's getting sued from Elon Musk because he
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: had a nonprofit company that he turned into a for-profit company,
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: and they're bleeding money like crazy. Do we have enough
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: energy even to power the thing? Is it going to
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: make our electric grids go up through the roof? Add
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: that to what's going on around with the blockade with
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: Middle East in general in oil? I mean, there's so
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: many questions to things that it's hard to pay attention
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: for the normal person who goes to work every day,
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: comes home, wants to eat dinner, spend some time with
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: their family. It's crazy. It's all over the place. And
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: it's really hard.
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: To make a decision.
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: I hear people all the time calling, and I find
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: myself saying, I agree with that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: I agree with that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: Well, you know what? He's right, too.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: She's got a good point.
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: And it's all over the place, because it's hard to
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: really get a base on anything anymore, because there's so
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: much news that constantly changes.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Agreed.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Alec. Appreciate it. NewsRadio 570. Don't you come in.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Ronald.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Ted the C.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you, I was really surprised to hear
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Richard's comments about that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Rich is on a roll. I'm more interested in your comments.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: That was shocking. It just caught me off guard to
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: hear that. And if he's still listening, I would say
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: that I believe Christine Oliver is the candidate supported by
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: the Republican Party. But, you know, when I hear people
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: attacking their opponent instead of telling me why I should
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: vote for them, that raises a big red flag. We
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: ran out of time yesterday, and I wanted to share
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: something with you ironically about it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Incidentally, I agree with that opening philosophy of yours. Instead
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: of attacking the opponent, why should I vote for you?
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, let's be very honest. Shepis nor Dragas have
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: given us a reason to vote for them. Shepis has
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: not made a position on taxes. The only thing I
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: really have heard him say is that he wants to
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: fight for townships if he's elected commissioner. So, in other words,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: he's not concerned about the cities in the county, just
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: the townships. And we all know what Dragas did.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, those are, those are like generic,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: those are, those are generic comments. Listen, in Dragas's defense,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I will hand it to him. He supports both..
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to back... But just hang on a second.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Just bear with me a second.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, the reality is..
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Right, as I've said numerous times, if you're... And it's
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a primary. If you're running in the Republican primary, and Republicans,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: conservative Republicans, believe in lower taxes and smaller governments. That's
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the conservative philosophy. Lower taxes, smaller governments. So the most
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: important issue, I believe I'm saying to all of you listening,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the most important issue is what is your philosophy when
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: it comes to how do you view the taxpayer? How
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: do you view the taxpayer? Do you say government first,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: taxpayer second? Because that's the wrong formula. So The most
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: important issues are, do you support doubling the homestead exemption
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: for our poorest senior citizens?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: No ifs, ands, buts, howevers, or anything else. Pure and simple.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Do you support doubling the homestead exemption for our senior
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: citizens in Mahoning County?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yes or no.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Do you support doubling the owner occupancy credits for people
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that are.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Own and live in their homes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You follow me? This doesn't apply to landlords. It doesn't
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: apply to Walmart. It doesn't apply to Home Depot or
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: commercial businesses. It applies to citizens. So do you support
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: those two issues? Dave Thomas gave commissioners the ability to
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: give a small portion of this outlandish increase the taxpayers
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: are paying back to the payers.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So talk is cheap, deeds are precious.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: So if you're not willing to make a commitment on
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: that with no ifs, ands, buts, or however, then I
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: think you're saying you're out of touch with what's happening
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: to the taxpayer. So all I can say is I
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: know Dragish has taken that stand.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Whether you like him, dislike him, he has taken that stand.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Whether you like or dislike Christine Oliver, she has taken
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: that stand. I can't say that about Shepis because he
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: has not taken that stand.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: So I will say this, at least drag has educated himself.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, correct. So, so he got on.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: The race and when he called you, he didn't even
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: know what the issues were. So at least you, you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: at least you opened his eyes to that. And then
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: he figured that would be something he would run on.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Well, perhaps it enlightened him enough to say, I believe
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: in that. And I support that. So all I'm saying
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: to you is, Listen, that is the single most important issue.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll say this. Let's talk about Christine Oliver. I
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: want to share something with you.
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: You're talking about tax and Dave Thomas. Well, who is
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Dave Thomas endorsed?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Christine Oliver, you told me.
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: So, you know, no need to debate the tax issues.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: There's three people running. You're a big supporter of Dave
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Thomas and all he's done. You have him on your program.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: He supported Christine Oliver. So I would end that discussion
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: there with taxes. You know, and I'll go back to
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: what I said before. When I hear people attacking their opponents,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: instead of telling me why I should vote for them,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: that raises a flag. And, you know, all we hear
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: from one camp is attacks on the others, but never
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: telling us what they're going to do. They always say, well,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: what's the plan? What's the plan? Well, what's your plan?
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: What's your plan?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Generic lines that really mean nothing to me.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: I think you and I are on the same page.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I'm running errands the other day. I'm running out of
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: my house and I'm running late. I have a bad
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: habit of doing that. I can be ready two hours
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: early to leave, but then get distracted and run out
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: the door 15 minutes later than I should have. So
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: the other day, I'm running out my door, and there's
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: some lady out there knocking on doors, going door to door.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: And guess who it was? Christine Oliver. She was at
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Ted the Conservative's house.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: In your neighborhood?
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: In my neighborhood.
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: And I thought, wow.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: I felt so bad. I introduced myself to her. I
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: apologized that I didn't have time to talk, and I
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: had to run. But I thought, wow. I have not
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: seen a politician at the county level go door-to-door in decades.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know who the last one was, to be
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: honest with you. And I listened to people who hide
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: behind these fake social media accounts, who lack the courage
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: to step into the arena, like I was thinking about.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: And I said, here's a lady who is being attacked
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: every day because... They don't have plans for themselves, so
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: they attack her. They can't tell us what they're going
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: to do, so they attack her. And you know what
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: it made me think of? I'm not sure if you're
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: aware of a speech Theodore Roosevelt gave many, many years ago,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: over 100 years ago. It was called The Citizenship of
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: the Republic. A part of that speech is etched in history.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: And I was reminded of it yesterday. And I'm going
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: to say, I'm going to read it to you real quick.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: It says, it's not the critic who counts. not the
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: man who points out how strong man stumbles, but where
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: the doer of deeds could have done them better. The
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: and again, because there's no effort without error and shortcoming.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: But who does actually strive to do the deeds? Who
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: knows great enthusiasm, the great devotions, who spends himself in
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: of triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: his place shall never be with those cold and timid
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: souls who never knew victory or defeat. So we got
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: someone who has put her name in the race.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: All right, stand by for one second. I'll let you
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: finish your thoughts after the break. And more of your
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: calls straight ahead. Ron, Verb 352 from the Kingdom of Mahoney.
• 36:01
  Speaker 14: Hi.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. With Ron Furbar. All right, Ted, your thoughts.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I'll just kind of wrap it up here.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: I admire Christine Oliver's courage, and I respect her. I
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: respect anyone, especially a woman, who's willing to stand on
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: her own two feet and be attacked every day by
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: her opponents because they can't run on their own two feet,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: so they've got to try to cut her legs off,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: you know? And I thought we had moved past those
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: days of politics. I thought we were getting more quality people.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: But it seems like maybe we're going in the opposite direction.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: I think many people fear strong women. They're intimidated by them.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Or deep down inside, they hate them because they aren't them.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I don't speculate on any of that. I just go
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: back to say, listen, what's your philosophy? Do you put
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the taxpayer first or do you put government taking your
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: money and spending it first? What is your basic philosophy?
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Who do you put first? And Christine Oliver puts the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: taxpayer first on both of the issues that a commissioner
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: has the ability to give relief to you as a
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: property taxpayer. She supports him. She believes in him. Dragish
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: supports him and believes in him. So that's what matters
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: You know what else, too?
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: She doesn't pretend to be a police officer or the
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: corrections officer. She's out there raising money for people, trying
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: to help people. You know, I just don't understand the
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: personal attacks. Run on your own record and tell us
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: why you're the better candidate.
• 37:34
  Speaker 15: Amen.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Amen, brother.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Appreciate that. NewsRadio 570. You're on the air.
• 37:39
  Speaker 16: Yes, how are you doing, Ron? Your callers are very amusing.
• 37:43
  Speaker 16: Before I get to my points, I was going to
• 37:46
  Speaker 16: say you sounded just like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the comments
• 37:50
  Speaker 16: you were making on her Wednesday interview with Tucker about
• 37:54
  Speaker 16: AI and jobs.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you better worry about it.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I was reading it. having a text discussion with someone
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: this morning about it. What's going to be happening with
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: AI is a serious problem.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Stand by.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Let me do my headlines. I'll come right back to you, okay?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Intelligent caller on the line. I want to hear what
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: he has to say. And more of your calls.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Be patient.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Long segment coming up. Ron Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Good to be with you.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: From ABC News.
• 38:25
  Speaker 14: I'm Brian Clark, conflicting messages about conflict from President Trump,
• 38:29
  Speaker 14: telling reporters that since he's unsatisfied with Iran's latest proposal,
• 38:34
  Speaker 14: he's considering renewing military options.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: Do we want to go and just blast the hell
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: out of them and finish them forever, or do we
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: want to try and.
• 38:42
  Speaker 16: Make a deal?
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: Let me go to the options.
• 38:44
  Speaker 16: Do you want to go blast the hell out of
• 38:45
  Speaker 16: them and finish them forever? I prefer not.
• 38:47
  Speaker 14: But the White House says the war is over, at
• 38:50
  Speaker 14: least legally speaking. ABC's Stephen Portnoy says that relates to
• 38:55
  Speaker 14: the 1973 War Powers Resolution.
• 38:56
  Speaker 17: This formal 60-day notification to Congress is in keeping with
• 39:00
  Speaker 17: the War Powers Resolution. Citing the ongoing ceasefire, the letter
• 39:04
  Speaker 17: from the President says hostilities with Iran have, quote, terminated.
• 39:07
  Speaker 17: That language comes right out of the law, which says
• 39:09
  Speaker 17: the President must terminate any use of the military after
• 39:12
  Speaker 17: 60 days of a conflict unless Congress votes to authorize force.
• 39:17
  Speaker 17: Despite the letter, which carries his signature, President Trump tells
• 39:20
  Speaker 17: reporters he believes the 1973 law is unconstitutional and he
• 39:24
  Speaker 17: won't ask Congress to authorize the war.
• 39:25
  Speaker 14: The president also said he's still considering bailing out Spirit Airlines.
• 39:30
  Speaker 14: but the Wall Street Journal reports the struggling carrier is
• 39:33
  Speaker 14: preparing to cease operations. An 18-year-old's now in custody one
• 39:37
  Speaker 14: day after authorities say he walked into a bank in Berea, Kentucky,
• 39:40
  Speaker 14: shot and killed two employees, searched for cash, then fled,
• 39:44
  Speaker 14: leading police on a high-speed chase.
• 39:46
  Speaker 18: We were able to go from a violent offense occurring
• 39:49
  Speaker 18: to a charge within 24 hours. And that's what is
• 39:53
  Speaker 18: really testament to these law enforcement officers that are here today.
• 39:56
  Speaker 14: That's Jason Parman with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
• 39:59
  Speaker 14: Eastern District of Kentucky. 18-year-old Braylon Weaver was linked to
• 40:02
  Speaker 14: a silver BMW. Investigators say they traced the car to
• 40:05
  Speaker 14: a Facebook account that was under Weaver's name. Governors are
• 40:10
  Speaker 14: considering what to do about their congressional maps after Wednesday's
• 40:13
  Speaker 14: Supreme Court decision. Georgia's governor says there will not be
• 40:16
  Speaker 14: a redistricting prior to November's midterms. You're listening to ABC News.
• 40:23
  Speaker 14: 406 News Radio 570 WKBN and Ron Furb. Till 7 tonight.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Hello there. Go ahead, please.
• 40:28
  Speaker 16: Yes, I was talking before I get to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• 40:30
  Speaker 16: I want to, you know, election day is next week.
• 40:34
  Speaker 16: I never vote early because I'm still doing research.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 40:39
  Speaker 16: Research all of the new levies that they're putting on.
• 40:42
  Speaker 16: People seem to complain about real estate taxes all the time.
• 40:46
  Speaker 16: But whenever they put a new 2.5 mil levy on,
• 40:50
  Speaker 16: it's yes, right across the board for everybody. It dumbfounds me.
• 40:55
  Speaker 16: But I'm in Trumbull County.
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: I'm in Liberty.
• 40:58
  Speaker 16: I called Dave Joyce's office today in Washington and one
• 41:02
  Speaker 16: of the local offices trying to get some information. And
• 41:06
  Speaker 16: the staff, it couldn't be politer. They were very nice
• 41:09
  Speaker 16: young ladies. But as soon as you started asking questions
• 41:13
  Speaker 16: about policy and what David Joyce has done, they just,
• 41:19
  Speaker 16: you know, refer you to the campaign. They can't answer
• 41:22
  Speaker 16: those questions. The questions I had with Joyce were if
• 41:27
  Speaker 16: he took money from AIPAC and if he voted with
• 41:32
  Speaker 16: the Democrats on the transgender issue. issues that I know
• 41:36
  Speaker 16: we did, but they wouldn't answer the questions. I talked
• 41:41
  Speaker 16: to two different people, so I think I'm going to
• 41:44
  Speaker 16: probably go with Nikki Frenchco for my congressperson.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: How long has Dave Joyce been there? Has he been
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: in Congress?
• 41:55
  Speaker 16: No, Dave Joyce has been there a long time. He's
• 41:57
  Speaker 16: a career congressman. He's only been my congressman since they
• 42:01
  Speaker 16: redistricted the area here. And they cut down into this
• 42:07
  Speaker 16: little sliver of Trumbull County.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I think he's been in Congress like 30 years. I've
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: got to double-check myself.
• 42:16
  Speaker 16: He's a big... He takes a lot of money from AIPAC.
• 42:20
  Speaker 16: And that's one of the things that Marjorie Taylor Greene
• 42:22
  Speaker 16: talked about. She said, we're $ 39 trillion in debt. We
• 42:26
  Speaker 16: can't afford all of the foreign policy, foreign aid that
• 42:33
  Speaker 16: we're giving... And the Congress people that she knows are
• 42:36
  Speaker 16: all putting the domestic needs of you and me on
• 42:39
  Speaker 16: the back burner, and they're putting foreign policy and foreign
• 42:43
  Speaker 16: aid first. And then she went in to go with
• 42:46
  Speaker 16: issues like immigration, seem to be going on the back burner,
• 42:51
  Speaker 16: job displacement from AI, which is a very big problem,
• 42:55
  Speaker 16: she said.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: You see, Dave Joyce was first elected in November 2012,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: so it's been.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: 12, 13, 14 years. 13 years?
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Right, so he's been there a while.
• 43:09
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I think just on the... And then she brought
• 43:13
  Speaker 16: up the AIPAC issue again. I'm not anti-Semitic. The one
• 43:17
  Speaker 16: guy's caller the other day said that one... I was anti-Semitic.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I get tired of the attacks for people on that.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: When people are talking about AIPAC, they're talking about a
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: lobbyist group which has a great deal of influence and
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: buys a lot of influence with politicians. And to be
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: critical of it doesn't make you anti-Semitic or anything. It
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: makes you a concerned American saying, just like you should
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: be about any lobbyist group that buys influence. You should
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: be concerned about all of them. and there shouldn't be
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: a taboo to speak out against one with some label
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: that you're anti-Semitic.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's many people who think AIPAC has too
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: much power. You're speaking out against the.
• 43:56
  Speaker 16: Country, you're speaking out against the lobbying group, not a
• 43:59
  Speaker 16: person individually or a religious group.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 44:04
  Speaker 16: The only person that is not taking money right now
• 44:08
  Speaker 16: in the Republican Party in Congress is Tom Massey from Kentucky.
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: The other..
• 44:14
  Speaker 16: The other ones were Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's gone, and Gates,
• 44:17
  Speaker 16: who's gone. And so I looked up. I said, I
• 44:20
  Speaker 16: can't believe that every Republican is taking money from that
• 44:23
  Speaker 16: lobby except one. And there's a– you can track it.
• 44:27
  Speaker 16: It's called Track AIPAC, and it gives you the breakdown
• 44:31
  Speaker 16: of every dollar amount that the Congress people get. And
• 44:36
  Speaker 16: I was surprised to see Mike Rooley– got $ 38, 547 from AIPAC.
• 44:46
  Speaker 16: But the big players in Ohio are like Jim Jordan.
• 44:50
  Speaker 16: He got $ 243, 000. Mike Turner, $ 228, 000. They're on the big committees,
• 44:57
  Speaker 16: the Intelligence Committee and Judicial. But it really disappointed me
• 45:03
  Speaker 16: that all of our Republicans are not listening to the
• 45:08
  Speaker 16: people and they're listening to our lobbying group And it's
• 45:12
  Speaker 16: just not APAC. It's other lobbying groups, pharmaceuticals and everything.
• 45:16
  Speaker 16: They take money from everybody.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Right, but I mean, it's why... I think it's why
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: people voted for Trump. People say, OK, when are when
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: am I going to get the attention? And when when
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: will it be America first? And that's why people voted
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: for Trump. But it seems like Trump somewhere along the
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: way has a little bit, in my opinion, lost his
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: way that that he needs to refocus on America first affordability,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: inflation or. energy prices, and deporting all these people that
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: have come here illegally. You're not hearing much anymore these
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: days about ICE, about people being rounded up and showing
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: the door out of this country who came here illegally.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: It seems like that's kind of vanished to a large extent. Listen,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: get back on the America First agenda. That's why you
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: were elected. And if you don't, I think you'll pay
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: a dear price in the midterms, which is shocking to
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: me because As bad as Trump can be on this
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: affordability issue at this time, he's way better than any
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Democrat choice.
• 46:20
  Speaker 16: Oh, for sure. Could you see Kamala right now?
• 46:23
  Speaker 9: No.
• 46:23
  Speaker 16: What shape we'd be in if she was president?
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Listen, I don't know how you could vote for any
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Democrat because you go right back to the crazy agenda.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Men can have babies and tampons in men's bathrooms and
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: transgenderism and all this craziness. That's where the Democrat Party is,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: the far-left Democrat Party, and higher taxes. And remember, we're
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: only going to tax the rich. But when they get
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: in power, they raise property taxes in Virginia. They raise
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: them in New York. So it's not just the rich.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: They tax the productive and want to hand it out
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: to illegals and everybody else. So the alternative, there isn't
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: an alternative. Trump and the Republicans are still the best
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: at this. I just want Trump to refocus back on affordability,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: and I want him to focus on getting people out
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: of the country that are here illegally.
• 47:13
  Speaker 16: Yes, and I go back to saying that I was
• 47:17
  Speaker 16: disappointed that he took information from Israel as a government
• 47:22
  Speaker 16: on the war. I think it was a big mistake.
• 47:25
  Speaker 16: And what he's doing now, he's pushing the timeline out.
• 47:28
  Speaker 16: He just today said they're going to reconsider bombing Israel.
• 47:31
  Speaker 16: and moving the timeline out, I go back too much.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Well, see, I don't understand that because here's the mixed signals.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: They keep telling me Iran wants to make a deal,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Iran wants to make a deal, Iran wants to make
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: a deal. Well, then if they want to make a
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: deal and you keep telling me that, why you got
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: to go back to doing more bombing and pushing the
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: timeline out?
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: So what's fact and what's fiction?
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Is Iran willing to make a deal, or is Iran saying, no,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: we're not interested in doing any of this stuff?
• 48:02
  Speaker 16: Well, therein lies the problem. We got bad intelligence, and
• 48:06
  Speaker 16: we were told, Israel said, take out all of their leaders.
• 48:11
  Speaker 16: Take out all of the top people. Well, now we
• 48:14
  Speaker 16: have no one to negotiate with. So that's making it
• 48:17
  Speaker 16: more difficult to carry on negotiations.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: I would like to see it come to a conclusion.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: a successful conclusion because you're in it this deep. I mean,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: there's no point in debating whether or not we should
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: have been there in the first place or how this
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: got started. The reality is it's here now. So how
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: do we solve this problem and reach a conclusion to
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: where things can get back to normal and we can
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: focus on $ 5 gallon gas is ridiculous. But it's not
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: just us. I mean, you're going to have major problems
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: as far as fertilizer is concerned.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: You're going to have A lot of people don't, I think,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: pay attention. You're going to have.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Large sections of the world that are going to have
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: serious problems with food and starvation.
• 49:03
  Speaker 16: With famine in Africa, yeah.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: You are going to have serious problems in other countries
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: because of this effort that, like you said, starvation is
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. And the fertilizer issue, I was just reading,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I think it was on CNBC or one of the sources,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: where recycled plastics are back in fashion because of the
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: problems in the Middle East. I don't know what we
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: get through the strait or whatever is going on, but
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: there's issues with plastic and the cost of petroleum and
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: all of that kind of jazz. So everything's a mess.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Let me put it this way. Everything is a mess
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: right now. It is just a mess.
• 49:44
  Speaker 16: Except the market. The market is so resilient. It amazes
• 49:47
  Speaker 16: me every day. I said, it can't get any better
• 49:50
  Speaker 16: with this bad news. I said, it's taken all of
• 49:53
  Speaker 16: the bad news and it hit new record highs. And
• 49:56
  Speaker 16: if you look at Apple this morning, it's a big
• 49:59
  Speaker 16: pop-up on their earnings. One of the MAG-7 stocks I
• 50:04
  Speaker 16: sold out of the money calls on that big information
• 50:08
  Speaker 16: but I was thinking that young fellow that called you
• 50:11
  Speaker 16: what do I do how do I get in the
• 50:13
  Speaker 16: market I'm in my twenties I was just gonna tell
• 50:16
  Speaker 16: him you want to get in the market you always
• 50:18
  Speaker 16: want to be in the market and you know for
• 50:21
  Speaker 16: the long term and just hang it you know go
• 50:23
  Speaker 16: through the ups and downs and you'll come out okay
• 50:27
  Speaker 16: and then the other caller that mentioned the one politician
• 50:30
  Speaker 16: that was married four times I thought that was.
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: Funny Okay, but..
• 50:36
  Speaker 16: Mickey Rooney was married eight times. Johnny Carson was married
• 50:39
  Speaker 16: four times. They were both nice people. So, you know,
• 50:42
  Speaker 16: it doesn't... Your marital status has nothing to do with
• 50:45
  Speaker 16: if you're going to be a good politician.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just reading here the headlines on CNBC. Oil
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: prices fall after Iran sends updated peace proposal to mediators
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: in Pakistan. So I hope that that is accurate, and
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I hope that that is something that we'll be able
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: to find agreeable to.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: And then the next headline, U.S. oil prices will exceed.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Iran wartime high to above 125 a barrel as conflict
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: drags on, this Kalishi trader says. So, I mean, these
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: are the two headlines, one right after the other. I mean,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: you are correct. S & P closes at new records, Tasha,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: in May as oil prices cool and Apple rises. Jobs
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: and earnings will dominate the first full week of May.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: And then, like it says, it says oil prices fall
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: after Ron sends updated peace proposal to mediators in Pakistan.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: I hope you got to concede one thing. The people
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: that are calling the shots know way more than we do.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: And hopefully they are close to reaching some type of
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: an agreement that's acceptable to Trump and acceptable to Iran.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: And we can get back to working on affordability and
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: get back to $ 2. 50 a gallon, right?
• 52:09
  Speaker 16: Yeah, that would be nice. That would be nice.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. You're on here.
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: Hi, Ron. Yes.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 52:21
  Speaker 12: It's, you know, when he just talked today, he said that,
• 52:24
  Speaker 12: talking to the reporter, he said, should we bomb them
• 52:26
  Speaker 12: or should I wait? I mean, this is..
• 52:32
  Speaker 19: He thinks he's playing games.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I think he's not playing games.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: I think he's negotiating in public.
• 52:39
  Speaker 12: What is the whole thing when everybody says he's waiting
• 52:41
  Speaker 12: to make a deal? What deal is it? Well, I
• 52:44
  Speaker 12: don't know.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: I'm reading a headline here today. Oil prices fall after
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Iran sends updated peace proposal to mediator in Pakistan. So
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: maybe by saying, do we start the bombing up again,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: it gets Iran to say, okay, let's put another proposal
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: on the table and start the talks again.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe it moves the process along.
• 53:03
  Speaker 12: What is the war about then, Ron? Again, I asked
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: you that question yesterday. If it's the regime change or
• 53:11
  Speaker 12: is it, and Hedstead said to Congress that we're winning
• 53:16
  Speaker 12: the war, and they've been decimated, but they still have the,
• 53:20
  Speaker 12: what word.
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: Did he use?
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: The dust. The dust.
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: And it gets upsetting because, you know, so they want
• 53:53
  Speaker 12: 47 virgins when they die.
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: You know, come on.
• 53:56
  Speaker 12: I mean, it's, you know, and Richard's become quite radical.
• 54:00
  Speaker 12: He really has. He's been talking and talking about today
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: people not wanting to, people are bums. Like they've said
• 54:08
  Speaker 12: that me and Emmanuel and that we don't want to
• 54:09
  Speaker 12: hand up. We want to hand out. I don't want
• 54:11
  Speaker 12: to freaking hand up. I don't understand. I don't understand it.
• 54:15
  Speaker 12: And I guarantee you that he paid for his kid's education.
• 54:19
  Speaker 12: People that are in debt to student loans are paid
• 54:22
  Speaker 12: for themselves.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Well, what's wrong with that?
• 54:24
  Speaker 12: I mean, if you're... I'm not saying there's anything wrong,
• 54:26
  Speaker 12: but he has no position to tell somebody when his
• 54:29
  Speaker 12: own kids did maybe pay for it. I don't know
• 54:31
  Speaker 12: for sure, so I'm not going to make an accusation.
• 54:33
  Speaker 12: And Biden didn't want people to just get rid of
• 54:39
  Speaker 12: their loans. They wanted to be able to stop the
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: interest on them so that they could get..
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Well, now tap the brakes, sir. Tap the brakes.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Remember, Biden was forgiving student debt, totally wiping it off
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: the books.
• 54:51
  Speaker 12: But we know that that wasn't going to be the case.
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: We knew that he wasn't going to be able to
• 54:54
  Speaker 12: do that. Nobody even wanted to give it a second
• 54:58
  Speaker 12: thought because we were giving something to somebody. But then
• 55:01
  Speaker 12: you guys say, well, we can't have these young people
• 55:04
  Speaker 12: like Alec called in and said he can't maybe get
• 55:06
  Speaker 12: a home because of certain things. I mean, you know,
• 55:10
  Speaker 12: you can't say that we want to help people and
• 55:11
  Speaker 12: bore poor the young people and then we don't want
• 55:13
  Speaker 12: to give them an opportunity. You know what I mean?
• 55:16
  Speaker 12: Most people that have student loans are people between 34
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: and 45 or 50 years old. And those people are professionals.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: They're doctors.
• 55:24
  Speaker 12: They're nurses. People in the medical field, engineering field. And
• 55:28
  Speaker 12: they can't get ahead. They're not even able to pay
• 55:31
  Speaker 12: the interest on their loans. And those loan companies took
• 55:35
  Speaker 12: advantage of those people when they were 18 years old.
• 55:38
  Speaker 12: And I'm not saying that you've got to..
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: 425 in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570, Dodie KVN. Ron Furb
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: from the Kingdom of Mahoning, you're on the air.
• 55:47
  Speaker 15: Boy, there's a big bunch of topics out there today,
• 55:50
  Speaker 15: isn't there?
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, there is.
• 55:52
  Speaker 15: Am I, oh my. Well, I hate to... I'm going
• 55:54
  Speaker 15: to do this. I don't, Trump is not going to
• 55:58
  Speaker 15: win at this thing with Iran. Already Iran is the
• 56:02
  Speaker 15: proxy for Russia and China. And all we've got to
• 56:05
  Speaker 15: say is, look at what he did to us. He
• 56:07
  Speaker 15: put tariffs on, he took them off. Put them on,
• 56:10
  Speaker 15: took them off. Put them on, took them off. And
• 56:12
  Speaker 15: the people that, and when you say lesser government, the
• 56:17
  Speaker 15: thing that bothers me is now they're catching some of
• 56:20
  Speaker 15: the people that did huge amounts of fraud because there
• 56:23
  Speaker 15: wasn't enough people out there to check it. Trump had
• 56:27
  Speaker 15: no idea what he's going to do here with Iran.
• 56:29
  Speaker 15: And I can't say that I believe him because he doesn't.
• 56:34
  Speaker 15: He says he's got a plan, but he never really
• 56:37
  Speaker 15: tells you about it because he doesn't want to tell
• 56:39
  Speaker 15: them about it or he doesn't have any. And Iran's
• 56:43
  Speaker 15: not going to deal with the United States.
• 56:45
  Speaker 16: They hated us for how long?
• 56:48
  Speaker 15: This was a mess. This is a total mess. And
• 56:52
  Speaker 15: now the whole world's paying for it. Gas in England,
• 56:55
  Speaker 15: $ 9 an hour, $ 9 a gallon.
• 56:58
  Speaker 16: And we're paying, what, almost $ 5?
• 57:00
  Speaker 15: All because of this nonsense, because he thought he was
• 57:04
  Speaker 15: going to go in and bully his way through because
• 57:07
  Speaker 15: he did it in Venezuela. I just, he's got this
• 57:12
  Speaker 15: all messed up. If you take a look at it,
• 57:14
  Speaker 15: he graduated, his dad gave him a million dollars. He
• 57:17
  Speaker 15: messed that up. His dad had to come in and
• 57:20
  Speaker 15: bail him out of a problem. And then he started
• 57:23
  Speaker 15: filing for bankruptcies on other properties and stuff. It's just,
• 57:28
  Speaker 15: it makes no sense. And the Bitcoin thing, up and down,
• 57:31
  Speaker 15: now it's there, now it's in the negative, now it's
• 57:34
  Speaker 15: in the positive. I don't see anything happening. And his
• 57:38
  Speaker 15: son-in-law going over trying to broker a deal with these people.
• 57:42
  Speaker 15: They're not going to broker a deal with a Jew.
• 57:45
  Speaker 15: They hate Jews. But six months later, you hear about
• 57:52
  Speaker 15: where he managed to get, Jared managed to get a
• 57:55
  Speaker 15: whole big $ 20, $ 10 million or $ 30 million loan from
• 58:00
  Speaker 15: other countries. So is he over there talking money, or
• 58:05
  Speaker 15: is he over there trying.
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: To do something?
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: At any point, do you sit back and say, okay,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: let's just forget why it started or whether it should
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: have or not, because you've got to deal with the
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: reality that it's here. But do you ever sit back
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: and say to yourself, okay, it seems militarily that they've
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: accomplished a lot. Our military has been very dominant as
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: far as the skies and the seas and the bombing
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: campaign and the lack of artillery that's being fired back.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: So when you say that seems pretty successful, the blockade
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: seems to be working pretty good, and it's putting a
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: stranglehold on Iran.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: They're not sitting in a great position right now.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: They're in serious issues as far as their economy is
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: concerned and supplies.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Stand by.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: I'm going to come right back to you. I've got
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: to do my headlines, and we'll continue our conversation.
• 58:59
  Speaker 20: News Radio 570 WKVN. 435, Deuce Radio 570, WKBN Chile
• 59:04
  Speaker 20: on this May 1st, 44 degrees. So I'd go back
• 59:09
  Speaker 20: and ask you the question. I mean, I listened to
• 59:11
  Speaker 20: what you were saying about all of this. And it
• 59:14
  Speaker 20: pretty much is a waste of time to debate whether
• 59:16
  Speaker 20: or not we should have got into it in the
• 59:17
  Speaker 20: first place or not. The reality is we're in it.
• 59:20
  Speaker 20: And would you not say just based as an American,
• 59:24
  Speaker 20: as you sit back and watch, It seems our military
• 59:28
  Speaker 20: has done a pretty impressive job as far as the
• 59:30
  Speaker 20: bombing campaign and the lack of military fight, I guess,
• 59:39
  Speaker 20: that you see from Iran right now, that they've done
• 59:42
  Speaker 20: a pretty good job as far as that is concerned.
• 59:45
  Speaker 20: And the blockade seems to be pretty effective, too. I mean,
• 59:49
  Speaker 20: you almost, in your comments, give me the impression you
• 59:52
  Speaker 20: think Iran is winning.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Well, they are not. They're devastated.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: As far as their country is concerned, as far as
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: their military is concerned, and their economy is devastated.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: They're in a terrible place.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: And that's why they say as this goes on, as
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: blockade goes on, it can bring an agreement that's favorable
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: to them and to the United States. I mean, there's
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: a headline I was reading earlier today, oil prices fall
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: after Iran sends updated peace proposal to mediators in Pakistan.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: So just maybe there is a possibility it's working.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: Comment?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 15: I can't see that because every time they turn around
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 15: and say, we're going to do this, they settle down.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 15: The United States ain't going to bomb them no more.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 15: But you're fighting against a country that hates America for everything.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 15: But then on top of that, they're the 11th strongest military,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 15: the 11th strongest military in the world. So we throw bombs,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 15: they're going to start throwing stuff back at us. other
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 15: countries uh... in the middle east and over over a
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 15: nuclear bomb why does israel need a nuclear bomb why
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 15: did china need a nuclear bomb china got one then
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 15: pakistan got one we took the bob the bombs come
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 15: out of the ukraine and now russia's energy of bombing
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 15: hell everything if they had a nuclear bomb do you
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 15: think russia would try to do anything they wouldn't so.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: You know so in essence your argument Just so I
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: understand your argument, you're saying, who are we as the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: United States to tell another country like Iran whether or
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: not they can have a nuclear weapon or not?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: Is that an accurate statement?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 15: Seems like everybody wants one. They're just using it for
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 15: a deterrent matter, hopefully, compared to God or any God.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 15: They're using it for a deterrent because you figure India
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 15: and then that impacts. They were fighting. They're still fighting.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: All right, so I'm just trying to get a read
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: on your thinking. You're, in essence, saying, who are we
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: to tell them they're a different country, whether or not
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: they can have a nuclear weapon? And then you're saying
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: that you think that this thing is going to just
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: drag on, in your opinion?
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 15: I believe, yes, it's going to drag on until finally
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 15: Trump's not in there, or Trump's just going to give up.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 15: He's going to say, we won, we didn't win anything.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 15: We didn't win a thing except loss of American soldiers,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 15: and we're in Saudi Arabia or Iraq.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Well, we didn't lose very many soldiers, but, I mean,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: from a military standpoint, it's done well. You just don't
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: think that it's going to work out in the long run.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 21: I mean..
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 15: No, not what they're lying or praying or thinking of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 15: the world, period. They don't care.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 15: So that's... But he should have never stepped in there
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 15: and done that. It's just like it makes no sense.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 15: All these people, what are we fighting over? We're not
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 15: fighting over the people that are starving. We're not fighting
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 15: over the people that need medical attention. What we're fighting
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 15: over is a nuclear bomb. And think of it. If
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 15: one shoots off a nuclear bomb, how many other countries
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 15: are going to start shooting theirs off? Now we've got
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 15: a mess on our hands. And then when Russia goes, oh,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 15: I'm talking nuclear, he's just rattling his sword like the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 15: Pillsbury Doughboy in North Korea.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: All right, so in your opinion, the whole thing was
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: a mistake from the very beginning.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 15: He should have thought about it or got the correct
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 15: people instead of the yes people, because what it all fails,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 15: Trump can't take the, he can't take the rap. Oh, no,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 15: it wasn't my fault. People told me the wrong thing.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 15: And that's his, that's his state. What did you think
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 15: about this, Mr. Trump, when somebody said something? Oh, I
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 15: don't even know what you're talking about. And here he's supposed.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 8: To be what?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 15: The CEO? The boss hog? I voted for him the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 15: first time, and I got halfway through his first. And
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 15: I said, what in the world did I take on
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 15: this guy? All of a sudden, the debt in the
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 15: United States escalates, and it continuously does. It's hurting everybody.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 15: I mean, he's going after things that are going to
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 15: help people that need food, medical attention. We're closing down
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 15: these nonprofit hospitals and doctor's offices throughout the United States.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 15: All over the place because he keeps pulling the money
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 15: off for people that need it. So luckily you and
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 15: I and a lot of us don't. But what about
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 15: the ones that can't? And when I ask my grandkids
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 15: about who did you vote for, you know what the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 15: first answer comes out of all of their mouths?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: They're all crooked.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 15: They don't care about me. They could care less about me.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 15: They only care about how they can make money.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: There you have it. All right. I appreciate your thoughts today.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. News Radio 570. Don't kill me. And you're
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: on the air.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 16: I don't.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: I just.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 22: Hello.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 22: Um, We're calling about a rally tomorrow for Hannah. It's
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 22: my friend's son that passed away. She's on her way
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 22: over here.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: Can you hold.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 23: On a second?
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: You're calling about a rally?
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 22: Yeah, we're calling about a rally for my friend's son, Hannah.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 22: And it's going to be 12 to 4 tomorrow.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 19: Hello, Mr.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: Romberg.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: I'm Carolyn Morgan.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 24: I am Hannah Sassi's mother. He fell and died in
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 24: hospital care in St. Elizabeth, downtown Youngstown, Mercy Health Hospital.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 24: He was told to get up and practice walking if
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 24: he wanted to go home, even though he was on
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 24: massive blood thinners and didn't have the strength to do so.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 24: They left him filthy dirty. They left buckets of defecation
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 24: and urine on his tray table for days at a time.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 24: He was thirsty and wanted to come home, but they
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 24: wouldn't let him because they entered our son at 26
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 24: years old into a trial test study experiment for remdesivir.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Ohio got 100.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 10: Vials of it.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Now pause for a second. When did this happen? Well,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: he fell on October 17th of 2021. He fell.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 19: How old was he when he fell?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: 26 years old.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 22: He had just turned 26.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: And how did he fall?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 24: They left him sitting at the edge of the bed
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 24: on the 17th of October.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Why was he in the hospital?
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 24: I'm sorry?
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: You're not answering my questions. I don't know anything about
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: what you're talking about. Why was your son in the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: hospital in the first place?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 24: My son went to the hospital because he had a
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 24: little bit of upper respiratory, a little short of breathing.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 24: He wanted to get checked out. He didn't know what
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 24: it was or if it was serious. It could have
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 24: been bronchitis. It could have been anything.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: All right, so he went to the hospital.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 19: He tested non-detected for COVID.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: So he tested for COVID.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 23: Sorry, go ahead.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Just answer my questions, please. So you're saying he tested
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: positive for COVID, correct?
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Negative.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 8: Negative.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 19: Non-detected.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: All right. Then why do they give him remdesivir?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 24: Because on the paper of his medical records, it says
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 24: that the result was edited, now detected after they removed
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 24: two nurses from his care.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: So based on what you're saying, instead of talking to me,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: if you feel that you've received an injustice or improper care,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: why don't you hire a lawyer?
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 24: Well, we did, and that's why we are having this rally.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: Well, don't you think instead of having a rally, you
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: should hire a malpractice attorney if you feel that your
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: son got malpractice or was a victim of malpractice?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 19: Oh, absolutely, and I just told that to you.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: Did you get an attorney?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 24: Yes, we did, and the attorney filed the case in
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 24: downtown Mahoning County.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: So what do you want?
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: Then why are you calling me? Isn't this a matter
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: for the courts to decide whether or not?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 24: Well, why we're calling you is because we're having a
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 24: rally in front of the hospital down there. Saturday and Sunday,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 24: May 2nd, May 3rd, from noon to 4. And many
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 24: people told me to call you so that you can
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 24: put the word out there or people can hear about this.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 24: Because it's not only my son that fell and died
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 24: in the hospital. This happened a week and a half
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 24: ago to another person's loved one. They don't put the
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 24: guardrail up. The other person fell out of bed and
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 24: broke their neck and died and was left to die
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 24: on the floor. The same as my son, they did
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 24: not lay him back down and put the guardrail up.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 24: They left him sitting at the edge of the bed
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 24: and told him he would have to practice walking if
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 24: he wanted to get home. He tried to do as
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 24: they told him to do. He took a few steps
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 24: after he got up and he literally fell. timbered over,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 24: cracked his head on the floor, suffered a subdural hematoma.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 24: The hospital records are faked. They have been adulterated. We
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 24: have proof of that. For example, they said that they
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 24: resuscitated him after seven minutes, which is a lie, because deeper.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: In the records, the doctor stated that it was 14 minutes.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: You understand, I'm not a judge here to hear your case.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: I Okay, but you're going on with this. And I'm
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: hearing your side of it. I'm not hearing the other side.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: And their defense of it.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing. There's nothing. Why don't you promote that?
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: That's the only.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Hospital we have in this area. Trumbull is closed.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 24: Northside is closed.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Well, you are doing.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 8: Hillside Rehabilitation is closed.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: You want to just. And people are falling and dying
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: in St.
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  Speaker 24: Elizabeth Mercy Health.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: All right. In your opinion. All right. So the reality.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 24: That is my opinion and I have the proof.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, then... So if you want.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 24: To cover for them, too, that's on you.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: But at least the people should know. I know, I'm just...
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Will you be quiet for a minute and actually listen?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 24: Why don't you stop being rude?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: I very much..
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: All right, I don't want to hear anymore. You're on
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: the air.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, hello?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 6: Yes, hi.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 11: I want to talk about local politics.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 11: Change always starts local, right? Through the local politics. Um...
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 11: we have some republicans that were hired locally they said
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 11: they were going to change things uh... some of them
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 11: actually went down the mar-a-lago with trump okay uh... trump
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 11: had to be up in this area since he was
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 11: elected uh... i don't see any change happening all i
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 11: see is a.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: Uh..
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 11: Sixty million dollars being agreed upon to fix some government
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 11: buildings And this is a very poor community.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 11: I mean, I am Republican, but I don't see the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 11: local Republican politicians doing anything.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: You don't see them doing anything as far as..
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 11: A sparkles out of clothes because they couldn't get any business,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 11: you know, they need to get involved in things like that.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 11: I mean, they have talking points just like the Democrats.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 11: They're all in it together, in my opinion. Once they
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 11: get into office, they can't do anything, it seems like.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 8: It's just..
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 11: They're just chasing their tails constantly. We have a governor
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 11: who I think is more of a Democrat than a Republican.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 11: And all he cares about are the AI centers going
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 11: into these local communities.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's a joke.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: All right. So what's your solution?
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 11: The solution is we need to be honest about who
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 11: we're electing. I mean, they say they're going to change things,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 11: but all they say is, I can't do anything about that.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 11: We already agreed.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: Upon this money.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're elected to.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 11: Fight these people, so this money isn't agreed upon.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: So you think on a local level, the Republicans go along.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: You can't tell a difference, basically, you're saying on a
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: local level, between a Republican that's elected and a Democrat, correct?
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 11: No, most of the Republicans are... old democrats that had
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 11: to become republicans to get elected okay okay i mean
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 11: these people would have been democrats twenty years ago but
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 11: now that uh... public opinion it's switched make they're kind
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 11: of forced to go that way but they still do
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 11: the same thing they want your tax dollars all we
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 11: need your tax we still need this money we still
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 11: need this money for what to include build uh... to
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 11: build more government buildings. What does that do for the people?
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 9: It doesn't do anything.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 11: It's just a, it's, it's a joke.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: All right. So they don't fix the roads.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 6: They don't do anything.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're all over the map on this kind
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: of stuff. Basically, if I had to sum up what
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: you're saying to me is you, you can't, you're looking
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: for a more aggressive Republican that, that you can tell
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: a difference between their philosophy and the Democrat.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Is that an accurate statement?
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: I just think once they get in there, they find
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: out it's a battle.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: So you're saying where's the fight in local Republicans to
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: actually change things? You're not seeing it. The second thing
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: you brought up is Western Reserve Road, and that's a
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: major project out there. I don't think politicians can do
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: much about it. If you actually looked at what was
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: taking place at Western Reserve Road— As far as the
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: tear out and putting in the storm drains and they
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: had to move the telephone poles. They're putting in all
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: new infrastructure under the roadway in addition to the roadway.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: It is not a project that happens in the blink
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: of an eye. It takes, I don't know what politicians
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: can do. It simply takes a long time to fix
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: a road that was damaged. in that condition and bring
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: it up to a better standard.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: What do you want them to do?
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  Speaker 11: I agree, but they're supposed to improve infrastructure to bring
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 11: in business. It seems like when they do these projects,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 11: they lose business.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: Well, these projects take time. I mean, when I hear
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: people complain about it, it's unfortunate. I mean, if you
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: like those particular businesses, they were still available. The road
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: wasn't closed. You just had to, you could still go there.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: But keep in mind, I don't know if that's why
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: Sparkle closed down. I don't know if that, I'm sure
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: it was a factor in it, but also Myers came
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of competition.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 20: 570 WKBN.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Ron Furr, back to it. News Radio 570 WKBN. Okay,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: onward we go. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Ron, I was listening to you on the caller before, JJ.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: You guys brought up the name of APEC.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 6: And it's kind of funny because I live here in
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 6: north at Tabula, and there's a company called APEC circling
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: around here to get land for windmills. And they're trying
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 6: to acquire property to bring these windmills in, and you
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 6: guys were saying that they were more of a lobbyist group?
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: He was talking about a lobbyist group for Israel, not
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: for windmills.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, because I was doing research on it and
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 6: trying to get all my facts together, I guess. Why?
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Where do they want to put windmills in Ashtabula?
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: They're going to a lot of the local farmers and stuff,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: and they're trying to acquire around 12,000 acres of property.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 6: And from what I just heard is that they pretty
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: much got it, and they're going to be setting up
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 6: an office in Jefferson.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: 12,000 acres?
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and they've just about got it through the local.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of acreage.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, from what I understand, it's going to be an
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: actual wind farm, and they're going to put them all
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: together and stuff. You know, the reason this all happened
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 6: is because the, Senator in 2017 changed the setback laws
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 6: from 1,300 feet from a roadway and power lines and stuff,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 6: and now they've changed them to..
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised anybody could buy that much acreage that it
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: would even be available. I mean, it seems like it
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: would be a huge expense.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: They're not buying it.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 6: They're leasing it.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, I see.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 6: It's on a lease.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: I got you.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 6: And going through our local township and stuff, and the
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 6: zoning guy, I talked to him, and they were trying
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 6: to put... zoning restrictions on to stop them. But now
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 6: come to find out that they're going to the state.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: Stand by for a minute. Stand by for one minute.
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  Speaker 14: From ABC News, I'm Brian Clark. What does the future
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 14: hold for Spirit Airlines? The Wall Street Journal reports that
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 14: the airline is preparing to cease operations on Saturday. That
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 14: would be disappointing for travelers like Marcus Stringer.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Spirit always been the best. I always fly Spirit. I
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: don't think nothing else is better than Spirit.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 14: President Trump told reporters at the White House he was
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 14: still considering a government bailout. Purdue Pharma has dissolved. The
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 14: maker of OxyContin has ceased operations today as part of
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 14: a $ 7. 4 billion settlement and bankruptcy plan. The Sackler family,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 14: which owned Purdue, will pay $ 1. 5 billion today and make
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 14: more payments over the next three years. No members of
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 14: the family have faced any criminal charges for Purdue's role
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 14: in the opioid epidemic, which is blamed for over 900,000 deaths.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 14: President Trump's on the road for the first time since
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 14: authorities say a 31-year-old man tried to harm him at
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 14: the White House Correspondents' Dinner last weekend.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: He's in Florida. So they want me to be in
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: a secure place. I said, what's more secure than the villages?
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 14: Getting a warm welcome and speaking before the crowd at
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 14: the age-restricted community. As he left the White House, he
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 14: said that military strikes on Iran could continue.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 25: So they want to make a deal, but I'm not
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 25: satisfied with it, so we'll see what happens. Iran wants
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 25: to make a deal because they have no military left, essentially,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 25: and they want to make a deal, but I'm not
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 25: satisfied with it.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 14: But the military operation, according to the White House, has
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 14: been terminated in a letter to Congress on day 60
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 14: of the conflict, and that's the point where, by law,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 14: the president's required to seek congressional approval for using more
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 14: military force. He called that law unconstitutional. The organization in
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 14: charge of the Oscars is addressing AI and its new rules,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 14: saying that humans have to be at the center of
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 14: the creative process, but AI neither helps nor harms the
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 14: chances of a nomination.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: You're listening to ABC News.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: All right, so this guy's telling me that in Ashtabula
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: they're leasing all the sacreds to put up windmills.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: Is that accurate?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: And you know that's what's going on currently?
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what's going on currently now. And that's the
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 6: buzz with the farm community is that they're going around
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 6: trying to lease property on these farms with the bigger
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 6: acreages and stuff. And I was just doing some research
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 6: on the company and about the windmills and stuff. And
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 6: I talked to my local zoning guy, you know, to
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 6: see if we could put some zoning restrictions on them.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: And they're trying to keep up with it. And then
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 6: I'm doing more research to come to find out that
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 6: the state can override the zoning and the townships. But
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 6: this Ohio Revised Code... 519 and 303. Are people opposed
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 6: to it? Right now, it's kind of a mixed bag.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: I'm just kind of starting off. I was just talking
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: to a guy a little bit ago, and he said, no,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 6: not all the farmers are signing on and not a
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: lot of the residents know what's coming. And right now,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: it's kind of back and forth. You know, my thing
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: is that, you know, really, you know, what's coming because...
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 6: It just seems like this company just got a grant
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 6: for $ 2. 7 billion.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: From the government. There you go. Government money.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 6: In Texas, Ohio, and Illinois. So, you know, and with
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 6: them changing the setback law and then being able.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 8: To use this 519.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 6: The revised code, they kind of got some teeth. You
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: know what I mean, Ron?
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear what you're saying. It doesn't surprise me
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: to hear. It's making more sense the more you talk
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: to me. They got a big chunk of money or
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: a grant, if you will, from the government to put
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff up, and that's why they're proceeding
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure they'll make a boatload of money off
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: of that grant.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: Well, the thing about it is I try to look
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 6: in to see how they're going to transport the power.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 6: And they have to dig right away, and they have
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 6: to put the power lines underground. And what I'm kind
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 6: of interpreting from this, I'm not a lawyer, but it
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 6: looks like it almost sounds like intimate domain, like a right-of-way,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: to people that don't even want anything to do with it.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: About the only thing I see that I found is
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 6: the senators a few years ago put in a, a
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: bill who's called local control SB 52. And it gives
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: the commissioners, uh, the power to come in and kind
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 6: of stop these guys are ready, you know, regulate them
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: or stop them. So, yeah, I don't know. I think that,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 6: I guess with the local residents, thank him. Well, yeah,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 6: the commissioner.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: It'd be interesting once, uh, once they put up the
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: windmills and then that's when people will start paying attention.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: When they start putting those things up and see what happens.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: You would almost think that they would have to put
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 6: that to a vote or something first, wouldn't they?
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: Based on what you said, it doesn't appear to be so, right?
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 19: No.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: This is the first I've heard of it. I haven't
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: read anything about it. I'm sure you're more on top
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: of it than the rest of us because you live
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: there and you can see what's going on.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just trying to look into it now.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, who puts it up? Who maintains it? Who
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: maintains the windmills? It's not like.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: You put them up. The APAC company is going to
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 6: put them up, and there's a sister company called Aries
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 6: Management Corporation. They're out of Virginia.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: And they're supposed to take care of them once they're up.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 6: And our question is, what happens then? If this company
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 6: loses all their money, go under and read a little
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 6: bit more that they have to pay into an escrow
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 6: to the state to take them down, I guess, when
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 6: they're done or if they go bankrupt, I suppose.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: Well, keep me in the loop. I appreciate it. Thank you.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: Appreciate your time. I think this is an interesting email
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: that I received. I noticed this the other day when
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: I was driving gang to the radio station and it's a,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: it's a great email. Have you seen the overgrown grass
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: at the Southern park mall? That's what my emailer says.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: My answer to them is yes, I have. I mean,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: so if you're driving down a two.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: 24 and you go by the Southern park mall and
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: it's clear that..
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, the financial problems, I guess, continue for the
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: mall because it doesn't appear that they have paid the
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: mowing company or they... I don't know what the situation
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: is there, but the grass is all overgrown at the
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: Southern Park Mall. And so they say the potholes are dangerous.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: And all of that is true. I mean, it's really
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: sad because the Southern Park Mall is really in the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: heart of the community.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 26: And..
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: Let me just give you a contrast. Last weekend, I
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: went to the Summit Mall. That's where the Apple store is.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: Many of you probably go to the Summit Mall. But
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: they still have Dillard's and Apple and Eddie Bauer. I
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: think that's closing down. But they have a bunch of
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: stores in the Summit Mall. So when I went to
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: the Summit Mall, the first thing you notice is, They're
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: ripping up all the tile in the entire mall and
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: putting down new tile. I mean, what a massive project
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: this is.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: So, you know, they had half of it done.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: So when you're walking down the hallway, you're looking at
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: a mall that is being reinvested in as far as
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: the flooring is concerned.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: Just all new tile.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: And I must confess, when I was there last time,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: wasn't that long ago, I didn't think the tile was
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: that bad. So you had some broken tiles and stuff
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: that I thought, well, you could fix those. But needless
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: to say, here's the difference. You have the Summit Mall
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: in Akron, Fairlawn, I should say. And they're redoing the
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: entire tile in the mall, throughout the mall. It's got
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: to be a massive.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Expenditure.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: And I mean, they had a lot of it done,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: but it's got to be a massive expense. So they
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: put money into that facility. And then you look at
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: the Southern Park Mall. which is in the heart of Boardman.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: And as my emailer says, the grass is overgrown. The
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: potholes in the parking lot aren't getting addressed. And it's
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: really sad to see it deteriorate like that on the outside. Now,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: sometimes they pay their property taxes and sometimes they pay
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: them late. seems like they were due and then they
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: paid them late. They're significant. I mean, the property taxes
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: are huge and that's probably part of the problem. I mean,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: it's so such a huge burden to pay that amount
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: of property tax, but you look at the facility and
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: you say, is the ownership willing to put any money
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: into fixing the potholes in the parking lot? Is the
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: ownership concerned at all that the grass is getting along? And, uh, and, uh,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: Where's the investments to try to keep the thing operating
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: and going? I mean, it's really something because Boardman is
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: the economic hub of Mahoning County. It is the economic hub.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people go to the mall for
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: any number of reasons, the food court, to walk and exercise.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: on days like today Christmas shop or whatever and it's
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: sad to see it deteriorate like this and is that
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: going to be the future is it just destined to
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: fail you're on the.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 19: Air Ron speaking How are you?
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: You've had some good calls today.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: I've had some good calls, and then there's yours.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 27: And then you've had a couple crazies and a couple
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 27: good ones, but it's pretty good today. That last caller
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 27: who was talking about the need for strong leadership in
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 27: the county, I thought he had some pretty good points.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: I think he's talking in Ashtabula, though.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, okay.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm talking Mahoning County.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: But he still had the same good points.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 19: And one of the points that I.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: Thought he made, and I'm sure everybody and all your
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: listeners know this, right?
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 19: But you know how.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 3: We, you know, quarter percent for the roads, you've.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 19: Got the bus, the WRTA and all.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 6: Of this, right?
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: All of these baked in, they get a percentage of
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: the sales tax. Well, what's very interesting is, is when
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: sales tax runs above projection, all of these departments.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 19: Get by default, more money.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: And it takes a strong commissioner to start.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 19: You know, I'm not saying you say, no, we need roads.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: We need these things.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: But like when.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 19: They're getting money above and beyond.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: In abundance to what they've projected or budgeted, it's not necessary.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 19: Like if you say at the beginning of the year,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 19: I need.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know, we'll just throw $ 10 million.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 3: And everybody says, yep, you get it. Well, if sales
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: tax runs above projection and you're getting a quarter percent
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 3: and that equates to 10 million and all of a
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: sudden now you get 12 million as a commissioner, you
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: should have questions, right?
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 19: Or are you just going to give them the 12
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 19: million even though they didn't need it?
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: No, a mental midget would do that. Like somebody intelligent
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: thinking would start to ask questions. Well, but we set
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: your budget at $ 10 million.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 19: So all these things are important, and that's why you
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 19: need somebody.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: Who's thinking outside of the box and questioning you.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: Right, but here's the problem with some of that. For example,
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: when you talk about the sales tax, the citizens of
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: Mahoning County voted WRTA a forever tax. They passed, not
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: with my vote. I never supported it. I didn't vote
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: for it. I told people it was a bad idea,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: but they didn't listen and they voted for it anyway.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: So they voted a quarter percent sales tax for WRTA forever.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Which is insane because who knows what you're going to
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: have 10 years from now in transportation. So you are correct.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: So they voted this in. The quarter percent generates about
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: $ 9 million a year. But it can generate less and
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: it can generate more. And as prices have gone up,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: guess what else goes up? As you're paying more for stuff,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: the sales tax goes up. So it generates more money.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: And so that's why I say here WRTA has more
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: money than they know what to do with. The biggest
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: problem at WRTA is how do we spend all of
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: this money?
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: Make no mistake. But there's nothing.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything you can do because it
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: was voted on.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: As a sales tax.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: But it would take, it would take, it takes a lot.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 19: It takes a lot.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: But I mean, it was, how dumb are voters to
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: vote for it?
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: Very, very, very dumb.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: To vote for it.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: Very dumb.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: A quarter percent.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: Now you take, I would rather see, I always thought,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: shouldn't we use, if they got more money than they
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: know what to do with, why shouldn't we be having
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: discussions on whether or not they can use some of
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: that money for a countywide ambulance service?
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: Absolutely correct absolutely.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: I mean is it legally possible i can we can
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: we discuss no it's.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: Not you cannot it's not legally possible but that's why
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: honestly i started working on my own suggestions and actually
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: reached out to one of our uh elected officials to
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: meet with me because i have a suggestion.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: What's your suggestion i.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: Want to hear that well These guys are the only
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: ones who can change anything at the Statehouse, and as
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: long as we have the majority, they need to start
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: working on some legislation that allows monies that come in
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: above and beyond projection to be moved and used and
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: reallocated to whatever best suits the taxpayer, rather than getting
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: held hostage in a fund that can only fund something
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: that's already freaking fully funded.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 11: It does..
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 10: I mean..
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 19: Those guys have the power to do that, and they
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 19: have the majority.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: So this money is.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 6: Locked up, and it's insane.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. There's another example.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, just to bounce around on you, you take
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: a look at, for example, the citizens of Poland were
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: totally ignored. It was clear to me from sitting here.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: that the people who live in Poland wanted to fix
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: the existing library. I never got any calls from people saying, no,
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: rip it down, let's build a new one. Everyone seemed
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: to support fixing that one. And boy, were they totally
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: and completely ignored by the library system. And it's totally ignored.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: And hey, guess what?
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: It's a private board.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: It's a private board. They make, I think, almost a
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: couple million dollars a year, this private board. And it's
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: mixed in with taxpayer dollars. It's ludicrous. The whole thing
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 3: is disgusting.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: The citizens were not listened to at all when it came.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, they fake like they listen to them.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to fake like.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: And they don't even vote for this board.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 19: And this board makes.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 3: Over a million dollars. I think it's like, well, I
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: don't know. Somebody gave me the number. I'd have to
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 3: look it up. I don't want to be cited or quoted.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: It's over a million dollars for the handful of them
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: to sit on this private board.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 19: They're not elected.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? They get paid for being on
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: the board?
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, they're getting paid over a million dollars.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 15: These people.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Not each, you're saying.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: No, collectively, I think it's like one and a half
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: million dollars for these people to sit on this board.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: But they're paying themselves that kind of money, and it's
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 3: private money.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: I would like to.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: With public funds. And there's always a cluster.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: I would like to know more about that, though. I
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: would definitely want to verify that.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: I'll find out more information.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 19: I know people who are more versed than I am
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 19: on this.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: But I mean, so when I'm looking at that situation,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: I'm saying the library system basically just crapped on everybody
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: in Poland by saying, to hell with you.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: We heard you.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: We acted like we cared about what you had to say.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: But stand by. But we're going to make you do
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: it our way anyway. Stand by.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 8: Back.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: With the boss lady after this.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 14: Our radio app.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: All right, just bear with me with some time. Because,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm seeing here, like, this is from the
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: Vindicator the other day, Thursday. It says, the debate is
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: over about the Poland Library branch and at least many
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: residents of the community unhappy. A majority of the audience
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: stood up and walked out of the room after the
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: Board of Trustees of the Public Library of Youngstown, Mahoning County,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: voted 9-3 Wednesday evening to relocate their branch. from an
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: existing building on Main Street in Poland. So they didn't
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: listen to these people.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: They didn't listen.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: It's going to cost them more money.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: Just more money.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: And it says, the decision came after more than a
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: year of discussion and debate featuring a massive grassroots campaign
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: led by Save Our Library Committee. The committee gathered more
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: than 4,100 signatures on a petition. So all of that
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: effort and all those people were totally and completely ignored.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: Totally ignored.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 19: Totally and completely.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: And they live there. It's their community. And it's their
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: tax dollars, incidentally.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 19: Honestly, they didn't even.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 3: Care what they had to say. They already made up
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: their decision. They were placating them. They were just placating them,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: letting them go through the whole circus motion and knowing
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: the entire time they were going to.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 6: Move that building.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: This has been an ongoing project for almost two years,
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: so there's been a lot of thought put into this.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of conversation. We've taken all the
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: comments seriously because there's a lot of passion in that room.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 2: They have passion and we have passion. But needless to say,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: We just decided.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 6: And I'll be honest.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, if you're going to move it,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 3: there's so many libraries. I mean, you could throw a
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: stick and hit libraries in the middle of it. You
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: could throw a stick, okay? This is like all above
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 3: and beyond. I'd love to see the usage of how
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: many people even pull a book. I'd like to see
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: the Pullen Library the way that it is. But if
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 3: you're going to just close that building, then what.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 10: Are you doing?
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: You're going to put another. I mean, come on. You've
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: got Struthers now all screaming.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 19: About their library. I mean, you've got one right down
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 19: the road. You've got another one in Boardman. You've got
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 19: libraries everywhere.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 10: Everywhere.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 8: There's a library.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 9: Nobody brings a book.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 3: Nobody brings a book home.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you brought up the point. Here's the reality. I
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: said it a million times. Folks, the sales tax levy
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: for WRTA is. generates their biggest problem is how do
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: we spend all this money it's generating so much money
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: it was a foolish dumb thing to vote on i
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: do not vote in support of the library levy i
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: do not i see that i love my library i
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: do not vote in support of it because i'm here
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: to tell you the library system has more money than
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: it knows what to do with And they, too, their
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: biggest problem is figuring out how to spend all of
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: this money every single year.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: And the people are overburdened.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: And how much do they have set aside? We have
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: these entities now that have huge backers. accounts of your
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: tax dollars.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, they have these huge rainy day funds, yet 90%
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: of the people living in the county don't have $ 1, 000
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 3: in their savings account. But all of these people can
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 3: have millions upon.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 19: Millions upon millions of dollars sitting in their.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: Rainy day fund, and they don't even want to entertain you.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 3: They don't want to answer questions. It's a big joke.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: But is everybody supposed to have a rainy day fund?
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, the state has to have one. Every entity. I mean,
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: what is a rainy day fund?
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: A rainy day fund is more tax dollars coming in
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: than you can spend, and you put them in an account,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: and you make money off of the tax dollars.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 6: On top of it.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 3: And let's be real, anytime you can amass that amount
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: of a rainy day fund for all these entities, the state,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: the schools, the WRTA, all of them, the library, you
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: know what that means? They overtaxed you at some point.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: So believe me, they're probably happy to be able to
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: spend at the high end $ 10 million for this new
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: library in Poland because their biggest problem is how do
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: we spend, once again, all of this money that we
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: have coming in? And stand by. I'm coming back to
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: you in a minute. It's back right after this.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: Stay with us. News Radio 570 WKVN.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 20: I mean, so much of this stuff, Boss Lady, is just..
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: Folks, why, when these places have big savings accounts with
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: all this money, and that's your tax dollars.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: It means they're taking.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: More of your money than they need, and they're making
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: huge return on that money. Well, that money belongs in
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: your pocket, not in their pocket. It belongs in a
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: savings account. Your savings account, not theirs. So the library's
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: got more money than it knows what to do with.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: So there's no big deal of putting up a new
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: $ 10 million building. Their biggest problem is spending all this
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: money all the time. And likewise, WRTA with that forever
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: sales tax, and you bring up an excellent point, it
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: can generate $ 9 million, $ 10 million. As prices go up,
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: sales tax goes up. They get even more money.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: We don't need a church.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: More money and more money.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 3: But we don't have people asking. This is the problem, Ron.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 19: This is our.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: Whole entire problem. Who is asking the right questions? Who's
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: inserting themselves and saying, hey, maybe I need to meet with,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 3: you know, a Tex Fisher, or maybe I need to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 3: meet with a Katrona, or maybe.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 19: I need to, where are, like, I know there's a.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: Lot of great people.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: Where's the public outcry from your public officials?
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: Why aren't they saying, wait a minute here, what's going
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: on here?
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 3: This needs fixed. And that's why I appreciated his comment,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: because he was coming from a place of, we need
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 3: more assertive, more aggressive people who are going to ask
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 3: the right questions, get involved, ask these guys to go meet,
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: have a coffee, sit down, have conversations, bring up ideas,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 3: not always drop problems in their lap. Be participatory. Come
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: up with solutions. Hey, what do you think about the...
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 3: It's nauseating because it's the same old, same old, same old.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: But by the way, there's something I need to ask
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 3: you about. I heard that your boy Ted said that
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: Christine was talking about me today. What did he say?
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 3: I got a text while I was on with you.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: The Ted, the conservatives, uh, No, his.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 3: Name's Ted DeChristine.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: I know he was talking about being.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 3: Passively aggressive and wouldn't say my name, but he was inferring.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: I think he squats to pee, by the way. Do
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: you know that?
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 19: I think he does.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: Now, you shouldn't say those type of nasty things about Ted.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 2: I don't like it when the family starts to insult
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: each other. Now, we were all raised better.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: He won't let it go. He's like a dog with
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: a bone. He's like a little old gossipy woman.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it doesn't. He has every right.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: He has every right to support the candidate that he
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: views as the best choice.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: Why is he talking about me? Why is he still
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: talking about me?
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 19: He's weird.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: No, he's not. Because you talk about him.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 27: He talked about him.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: He says he calls him passively, aggressively and says he doesn't. Oh,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 3: he's over this. He just wants to.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 6: Let it go.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: He's just saying who he likes.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: He keeps calling back in.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, I'll defend Ted the conservative because he has
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: been a good conservative.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: Caller over all these years. No, he doesn't. Don't say
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: nasty things like that.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: Listen, how was Christine in Columbiana County? She was in
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 3: Columbiana County and he met her in the driveway. Why
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: would she be there? Does she know where Mahoning County is?
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 3: She was campaigning in his yard.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think he might have. Some additional places,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, so he was at house number two and she
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: just happened to roll by? I don't know.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: I have absolutely no idea.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: But I know his mother lives in Mahoney County and
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: he's trying to take care of her as well.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: I can only speculate.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 23: He has his family.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 3: I think he got beat up by a guy named
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 3: Donnie in his life or something because he's.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: Going so hard against.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 3: Him and never had a conversation with him.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: He views it differently. He likes Christine Oliver. He likes
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: her stand on those two issues that she supports.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 19: And he has the same one. Donnie has the same one.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 19: And he says, well, what's Donnie's.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 3: Plan to help the taxpayer?
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 23: His plan is real simple.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 3: Stop blowing money. It doesn't take a nuclear scientist's head
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 3: to understand that the way that you cut taxes is
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 3: to cut spending. I mean, it's not a stretch. I mean,
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: Donnie has said that. We haven't seen her plan. But
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 3: he just won't stop.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 23: He'd want to go in every day.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: He likes his candidate. You like yours. Okay, that's America.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 19: I think It is.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to think like you.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 19: Why has he continued to.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: Argue with me?
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: You can't take it that you as a strong, independent
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: woman cannot intimidate a real man like Ted the Conservative.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: That's not a real man.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: That's a real man.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 19: They would never call in and intimidate him.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: You can't intimidate him. You can't get him to cave.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 3: I don't need him to cave. I need him to
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 3: stop a zeep.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: I tell you this.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 6: You know what that means?
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know what that means? I don't
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: want to know. I don't speak Italian. All right? I
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: don't speak it.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 19: Well, he needs to stop the beat.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. So stop saying it.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 19: He's not a bad word, I swear to you.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: All right. But everybody's got to write.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: Listen, I might disagree with what some people say as
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: far as who they want to vote for. But it
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: is America. It is your vote. You can vote for
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: whoever you want. And right.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: And guess what?
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: We live with it with the outcome. There's many, many
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: times that I've won some and I've lost some. And
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: I sit back and wonder, like I say, why would
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: anybody vote for this sales tax for WRTA in the
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: past for on a forever tax? It doesn't make any sense.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: Just like I can honestly sit here and say to you.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: You strong, independent woman that doesn't intimidate me either. Well,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit. But I can say this. I
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: will vote for the renewal of the road tax. I
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: think you'd be foolish. You'd be stupid not to vote
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: to renew road tax. Genetti's quarter percent sales tax, which
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 2: is already there. You don't even notice it. For the roads,
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: it's done a lot of good. In my opinion, it
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: should get a unanimous yes vote because he's done everything
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: he said he would do.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: So I'll vote for that tax. It's already there.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not against giving... him the money that he puts
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 3: aside to budget if.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 19: He says i need 10 million.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 3: Dollars and we look and open up the book and
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: say okay we'll all of the money that comes from
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 3: that we need that but it comes in above projection
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: i disagree that you well.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: You know what i hope his tax comes in above
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: projections because it means he can pave more roads.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: And he can do more things that's what it.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: Means well as long as there's things that need to
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: be done Yes.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 3: But you still have to be able– you still– you
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: can't just give blind checks. Blind checks.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 3: Whatever sales tax comes in at. If it doubles this year,
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: you can double the money. That's insane.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: No, it isn't. You can't manage that way.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: Listen, can you imagine if– let's say instead of generating
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 2: $ 9 million, $ 10 million, then all that money goes to
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: improve your local roads because some goes to townships for
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: their paving work. And the rest goes to the county.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: I've never seen more roads done in Mahoning County in
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: my life. I've never seen more done.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 3: Listen to me. Listen to me.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: What? What? What?
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 3: Listen to me.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 12: What?
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: What?
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 3: Let's say that there is something else that is much
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 3: more pressing.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: There's nothing more important than the roads you drive on
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: and the potholes. There's nothing more important.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 10: There could be.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: No, there isn't. There isn't. What could possibly be more important?
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: We're going to give your boy his quarter percent when
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 3: he sets the budget. But if the budget continues, you
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 3: can't just in perpetuity give blind money out. It has
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: to be.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: It's a five-year.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 19: Everybody should be asking questions.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: And if he's.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: Good, he's going to come with the right answers.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: He's done everything he said he would do with that tax.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: And if it generates more money, I'm proud of that
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: because it means he can do more roads. And when
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: you're driving around in whatever rich car you're in, you
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: won't be hitting the potholes and have to get your..
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: Mercedes tire fixed, okay? Listen.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: I'm just about done.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 3: But you do understand that you have to manage the budget, right?
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 3: You know that. And even though we like him, you
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: like the work that he's doing?
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 26: Yes.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: That's appreciative, but you can't just give blind budgets.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: You can't give blind spending budgets.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 19: No company would do that.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 8: You have to manage it.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 3: Like you would a company.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 2: I wish he had a half a percent because the
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: roads around here are terrible.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 19: Done with you.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: I've had enough of you. Goodbye. You're on the air. Hello, Ron? Yes.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 21: I'm listening to you today, and I'm listening to people,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 21: and I'm still completely confused on this commissioner's race.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know why you're so confused, sir. It's
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: quite simple. It's a primary.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 21: Yeah, but who you pick in the primary, you've got
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 21: to beat the person.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 4: On the other side.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: I was reading Skolnick's column. Actually, you brought up an
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: excellent point. Because here, I was reading Skolnick's column in
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: The Vindicator. This is for today's. Today's Friday, May 1st,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: in case you didn't know. And Skolnick actually made a
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: good point. He said, national politics play a role. Listen
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: to this. I'm going to educate you. First, I've got
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: to get my reading glasses on here. National politics play
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: a role in the change. When Joe Biden... the Democrat
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: president during the 2022 election not having many fans in
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: Trumbull County, and then the return of Republican Donald Trump
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 2: to the 2024 ticket, which helped several county Republican candidates
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: win that year. Like when Trump won, he carried a
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: bunch of Republicans on his coattails, which is absolutely true.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: And with a number.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: Of close races in 2024, there is no doubt that
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: the county Republican candidates won. greatly benefited from having Trump
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: at the top of the ballot. That won't be the
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 2: case this year. With gas prices soaring and dissatisfaction with
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: Trump growing, Democrats have an opportunity to prove they can
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: win again in Trumbull County. So Skolnick's saying if Trump
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: doesn't get his act together, you know, if gas prices
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: stay high and people are upset with the war and everything,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: you can get a lot of people turning out to
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: vote Democrat and then they'll vote for the Democrat candidate
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: just as they did when they were Republicans and they
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: voted for the Republican candidate.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: That's what Skolnick says.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 21: I've been projecting that all year.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: But let me ask you this, though.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: Does anybody in their right mind think the Democrats would
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: do anything better, really, economically or anything?
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 21: But everybody was pissed off at the Democrats, so the
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 21: Republicans showed up in droves and won the agenda. That's
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 21: how we got some of the disasters that are in office.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 21: Look at our clerk of courts.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 5: So..
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 21: They'll show up in droves because they're all pissed off
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 21: at the Republicans right now, so it'll give them the
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 21: edge in the fall. But I go back to my question.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 21: I look at the cards they send me, the TV ads.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 21: One's claim to fame seems to be he owns a
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 21: business and was a prison guard. Another one, I was
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 21: in the Navy. Another one was I'm in charge of
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 21: a city. But none of them seem to have any
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 21: real credentials, and when they get there, all they do is,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 21: Every time something on the agenda comes up, let's spend money. Sure,
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 21: spend more money. Nobody's reduced my tax burden.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: I'm listening to you, and I'm in agreement with you.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: I'm listening to you, and I agree 100%.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 21: I look at some of the other political things, and
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 21: I go, some of them... I liked their message until
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 21: they went negative, and that kills me for a candidate
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 21: when they start picking on the other candidate. Tell me
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 21: what you're going to do, not what you hate about
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 21: the other guy.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: I agree with that as well.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: Although they say negative advertising seems to work, seems to
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 2: be effective. Yeah, but I agree with you. Tell me
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: what you're going to do. Well, I say this. I say,
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: you know, when it comes to Monning County, you've got
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: to support the... If you're a commissioner, you have the power,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: once again, for the homestead exemption for our poorest seniors, income-based,
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: and you also are able to reduce taxes through the
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 2: owner-occupancy credit percentage there. So if you don't support those
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: two things, then I can't vote for you because your
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: emphasis isn't on the burden of the taxpayer. It's on
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: government spending money.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: You're taxing people out of their houses. Exactly.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: You can't say, I mean, Christine Oliver's mailer that came
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 2: yesterday at my house said she supports both of those,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: and the Dragish supports both of those. Unfortunately, Bruce Shepis
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: does not.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: I don't get it.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 21: It's still kind of confusing, and it's like we're trying
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 21: to pick the best.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 4: Of the worst.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: That's pretty much your choice. Yes, I would agree with that.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 6: It's a challenge.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 21: And then I look at the conversations on Polo Library.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 5: The person who.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 21: Decided that in the first place, they put it in
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 21: a hole right next to a river. I mean, realistically,
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 21: you really think that was going to be a good
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 21: idea in the long term? But we also have a
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 21: library on every corner. They're almost like Starbucks or something.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: They're like Dollar Generals.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 21: And people get all their books through electronic means and
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 21: everything else. I mean, how many libraries do you need
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 21: to go get a book from?
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 21: I haven't walked in the door of a library in
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 21: 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: Folks, are you listening to this guy? Because he's making
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of sense to me. I mean, I'm sitting
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: here taking this guy in going, this guy's really smart.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 21: Might be the first one to say that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm agreeing with everything you're saying.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: You have common sense.
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  Speaker 21: And I look at other things we do. When this
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 21: government was set up in this county, Canterville was central.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 4: To the county.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 21: But what we move everything to the northeast side of
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 21: the county, as far away as you can get from Sebring.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 21: Why not have a government center centrally located within the county? Right.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 21: Take over part of the Southern Park Mall parking lot
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 21: and build it there.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's easy to get to.
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  Speaker 21: You don't have to go to the northeast part of
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 21: the county to do it. It just baffles me at times.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, aye aye, Captain. You ought to run.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 2: I'll vote for you because you make more sense than
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 2: any of the rest of them.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 4: Thank you for your time.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you for your call. Now, see, that guy, that
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: guy was pretty sharp. I agreed with everything that guy said.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: You're on the air. Hello?
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 21: Are you there?
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: Caller sounds like you're on his cell phone.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, come in.
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  Speaker 20: Over.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, Ron, just wanted to let you know on the WRTA,
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 21: they are building a Annex edition right.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 4: Now that's going to be about $ 9 million.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, thank God. Aren't you glad about that?
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 2: Their biggest problem now, keep in mind, that's $ 9 million
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 2: plus coming in every year.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Every year.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 2: So how do we spend the $ 9 million the following year?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm serious with all of you. This is
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 2: their biggest problem at WRTA and the library. It's not
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 2: a big deal to spend $ 10 million building another library
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: because they've got a bunch of property tax money coming
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: in the following year.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is just another add-on to the garage down.
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 21: There for $ 9 million.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: Well, thank God. Just what we need. Then we can
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: put some more.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 2: Then we have a place to park more electric buses
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: that fail to work, like that trolley or whatever doesn't
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: work anymore.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 4: Yep, they're going to put a car wash in there
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 4: for it, too, so they can have it back to clean.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: Well, isn't that great? Good God help us. All right, sir.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. You're on the air.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 10: Hey, Ron Burt.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: Speaking.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 10: Hey, I need to ask you and try to convince
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 10: you somehow in some way to apologize to all us
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 10: correction officers across the whole entire United States.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 10: You and the boss lady yesterday made references to that
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 10: correction officers are not law enforcement, that they're possibly glorified
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 10: security guards.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: No, she said that. I didn't say that. Here's what
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you. If you put yourself out there
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: as retired from federal law enforcement, no, you're retired from
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: the corrections.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 2: You're part of the corrections system. You're a corrections officer.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 2: There's a big difference between police officers and You're not
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: an FBI agent. You're not a U.S.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: Marshal.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: And you're not a police officer that's on the road
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: making arrests and putting handcuffs on people.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: Take pride in what you do. Stand by. I want
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: to come back to you. Hang on, okay? Bear with me.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: Let me do my break. I'm going to come back
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: to him. Because when I'm in a joint, that guy
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 2: could have power over me. I'll be right back.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: Let me go back to the caller. He's talking about
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: being a corrections officer. Go ahead.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 19: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 10: I tell you what my experience i was a military
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 10: police officer in the united states army from 2000 to
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 10: whenever 2000 you know and i was a correction officer
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 10: in the kyle hogg county sheriff's department from 2000 to
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 10: 2012 And as you could probably guess or imagine what
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 10: my occupation is right now, for security purposes, I won't
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 10: include that. But you can call me CO because I
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 10: tell you what, CO stands for correction officer, and that's
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 10: the hardest job I ever had in my life. I
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 10: learned the most. I needed to know the most. I
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 10: worked the hardest. And the job I have now as
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 10: a suburban blank is the easiest thing I've ever experienced
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 10: in my life. When I was a correction officer, I
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 10: dealt with the FBI, the DEA, the CIA, SWAT, Sheriff's Department,
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 10: probation officers, bounty hunters, PIs, bailiffs, reporters, people's family, everything.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 10: I watched 96 inmates at one time. I worked on
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 10: an eight-hour shift and got a forced double to work
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 10: 16 hours. Then we went to 12-hour shifts, and I
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 10: got forced to work four more hours, 16 hours. And
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 10: then you'd have, if you're a rookie, you'd have back-to-back
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 10: 16-hour shifts. I did more paperwork as a correction officer
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 10: in one day than I do as a suburban blank
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 10: in a whole entire week. Let me just bring you
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 10: up an example. If you're in suburbia and there's a
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 10: possible rape, you could have a situation where an 18-year-old
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 10: boy might get a little fresh with his 17-year-old daughter
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 10: and the mother wants to charge rape.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 6: When you're in corrections..
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 10: Nobody talks. Nobody tells you anything. But you've got three
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 10: sweaty guys over there that are bloody, and you've got
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 10: one guy that's beaten to all hell, and he's actually
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 10: been raped by those three guys. You have to figure
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 10: it out. As a suburban guy, if you go into
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 10: a bar fight, you've got eight cameras, you've got 43
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 10: cell phones recorded, and you've got about 100 witnesses that
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 10: can tell you what's happened. When you're in a jail,
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 10: not only do you have to watch and protect those
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 10: 96 inmates, You've got to find out somehow, some way,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 10: you've got to investigate the situation, and you've got to
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 10: write serious reports. What I'm basically saying is, as an MP,
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 10: I was the king cop. I was the only officer
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 10: of the law, and I do say that I was
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 10: in law enforcement, that could arrest the president of the
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 10: United States.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 4: I could arrest a general.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 10: These city cops around here today, they can't arrest anybody.
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 10: They think that the toughest part of the thing about
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 10: their job is pulling over an 80-year-old woman that can't
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 10: present her ID.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: Do you really?
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's really sad to hear you say how
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: dangerous it is as a police officer on the road or.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: A state trooper. Stand by. Stand by.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 2: I want to come back to you. I want to
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 2: spend some more time with you. I'll get him to
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 2: stand by. Then I'll take more calls, maybe G2 this
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: hour as well. We're here until 7. Ron Verb, NewsRadio 570.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 14: From ABC News, I'm Brian Clark. Two messages from the
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 14: White House. First, the military action in Iran has been terminated.
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 14: That was in a letter to Congress on the same
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 14: day where the president's required to seek congressional authorization to
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 14: continue military force under a law that he described today
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 14: as unconstitutional. He also said, though, that he's considering a
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 14: new round of military strikes.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 7: On a human basis, I prefer not, but that's the option.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 7: Do we want to go in there heavy and just
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 7: blast them away, or do we want to do something?
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 14: He said he's not satisfied with Iran's latest proposals. He
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 14: told a friendly audience in Florida that even as oil
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 14: prices remain high, the stock market is still in good shape.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: I am surprised. I thought the stock market would go
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: down by 25%.
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 7: I thought that oil prices would be at much higher
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 7: than they are right now.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: They're not nearly as high as I thought. And we're
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: going to look, we're winning so big.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 14: But ABC's Jim Ryan says polling shows that Americans are
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 14: affected financially by the war.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 13: A new ABC News Washington Post Ipsos poll shows Americans
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 13: by and large agree with Brenda, who lives in Texas.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 8: It's a struggle every day for everybody.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: Food is ridiculous.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 13: The survey of 2,560 adults finds that 23% are falling
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 13: behind financially, up from 17% in February.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 14: Another casualty of higher prices could be Spirit Airlines. The
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 14: Wall Street Journal reports the budget carrier is preparing to
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 14: cease operations. Higher fuel costs have added to its pre-existing
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 14: financial woes, and Spirit travelers like Lada Landren.
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 24: Say, It's pretty sad, and I don't want the government
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 24: to take over to build it.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 14: President Trump said he was still considering a government bailout.
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 14: Immediate fallout from the Supreme Court decision to invalidate Louisiana's
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 14: congressional map as two groups have now filed a lawsuit
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 14: over the governor's plans to postpone next month's primary in
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 14: order to redraw the map.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: You're listening to ABC News. WKBN. So you're a corrections officer.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: Are you still currently one?
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 10: No, I spent time at the County Sheriff's Department from
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 10: 2000 to 2012. Now, I've advanced in my career. And again,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 10: I didn't want to say exactly what city I work for.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't have to say. You can remain anonymous.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: But go ahead.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 10: But, Ron, there's big differences of law enforcement. And what
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 10: I'm saying is the conversation you had yesterday with, I believe,
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 10: the boss lady was that you were saying... that correctional
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 10: officers should not be considered law enforcement.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 2: In other words, listen to what I'm saying to you.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 2: Listen to what I'm saying to you. Take pride in
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 2: what you do. When you give a false, I believe,
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 2: a false impression of you're retired from federal law enforcement,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: you want to give the impression you're not the FBI,
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 2: you're not the U.S.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: Marshal.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 2: And even when I was listening to you talk, And
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 2: you're talking about these guys that you were dealing with
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 2: that were.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: In the prison system, correct? I mean, you were mentioning those.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 2: Some cop had to arrest them. But when they arrested them,
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 2: you have them in a controlled environment. They had to
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: deal with them on the street. And they had to
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 2: arrest them. And these stay in age. I don't think
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 2: it's always been dangerous to be a state trooper or
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 2: a police officer. And I get the impression from you
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 2: that I don't know. how you could view it any
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 2: other way. Any state trooper who's out there that stops
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 2: a car doesn't know who's behind the wheel. Do they
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 2: just murder someone? Is there a body in a trunk?
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 2: Is the guy pissed off and going to shoot him?
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 2: It's not a controlled environment, and it's usually one state
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 2: trooper out there on that highway pulling that car over.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 2: It's a very dangerous situation to be in. I'm not
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 2: done with you. Just as any of these cops and boardmen,
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: which is a suburb, have their hands full with everything
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 2: from shoplifters to serious crime and murder that takes place,
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 2: as they do in the city of Youngstown. But when
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 2: you're talking about all these scoundrels that you had in prison,
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 2: those cops arrested those people and they put them in there.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 2: They weren't always just pulling over some 80-year-old lady, as
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 2: you imply. Not that traffic laws don't deserve to be enforced.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 2: If you have an 80-year-old lady that's going the wrong
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 2: way down a road, she should be pulled over. I mean,
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 2: they're also, you know, part of policing is traffic enforcement.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 2: whether you're a state trooper or a local officer. It's
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 2: also all the other crimes that take place and domestics. Well,
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 2: a domestic shouldn't be a big deal, but how many
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 2: officers are killed when they pull up to a domestic?
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 2: For your implication to act like that isn't a dangerous profession.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 2: And probably one of the most dangerous professions where they
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 2: put on a bulletproof vest, where they have the power
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 2: to arrest and be second-guessed if they shoot somebody. You
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 2: can see what has gone on. You can see how
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: many officers have died in the profession last year. And unfortunately,
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 2: it continues to grow. So take pride in what you do,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 2: but don't try to imply that you– don't try to
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 2: mix the– How do I say it? Don't try to
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 2: mix in with everything. If you're a corrections officer, you're
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 2: a corrections officer. That means you work in a jail.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 2: A police officer is out there, and at least the
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 2: police officers in my area, I don't know anything about you,
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 2: have their hands full, usually are understaffed. And they have
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 2: to deal with the unknown and arresting people. And you
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 2: don't know what type of situation they're in. It's a
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 2: much different environment to be in. But all the people
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 2: that you're bitching about were arrested by that cop that
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 2: were put in jail that you say are so dangerous
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff. Well, that cop had to
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 2: deal with them out on the street where they didn't
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 2: give a damn if they killed that cop or not.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 8: Period.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: Period.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 2: But all you think is these cops around here are
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 2: pulling over 80-year-old women. Well, you ought to come to
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 2: any of these suburbs out here.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 10: Is the dispatcher law enforcement? Is the CSI investigators? Are
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 10: the scientists?
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: No, no. They're dispatchers. They're dispatchers. They are dispatchers. They
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: are corrections officers. Take pride in the label that you
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: have and don't imply that it's we're all part of
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: the same team.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: You're not. It's different roles. It's like, well, I can
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 2: say we're all broadcasters. I'm not a journalist. I'm not Dan, rather.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 2: I'm a talk show host.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 10: Everything they say, do I call you a glorified reporter?
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: No, because I'm not a glorified reporter. I'm not a journalist.
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 2: I do a talk show. So in other words, I
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 2: take pride in what I do. It sounds to me
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: like you took pride in what you did, and that's
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 2: what you should brag about. You should brag about whatever
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 2: it was that you did. You worked in Cuyahoga County
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 2: in the jail or whatever as a corrections officer, and
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 2: it was very dangerous, and you take pride in that.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: But don't try to.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 2: Imply to me that you're something else other than not
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 2: that we don't need guys that work in a jail.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: But they don't have the power to arrest. They don't
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: have the power that a cop does.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 10: Do you know what you're saying? A police officer might
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 10: have a situation three, four, five times a day where
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 10: they actually have interpersonal communication skills where they're talking to somebody. Yes,
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 10: it could be a dangerous person. Correction officers are the
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 10: biggest part of the machine of law enforcement.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 21: All right.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, you and I are just going to disagree.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 2: I just think it's dangerous for a police officer.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: It is the unknown.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 2: And you're dealing in a known environment, in a controlled environment.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 2: Police officers are not dealing in a controlled environment.
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 10: You took one sentence that I said, and you completely
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 10: ignored the fact that you said correctional officers were not
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 10: part of law enforcement. They're glorified security guards.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: No, the boss lady said that.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: Once again, get your ears straight. The boss lady said that.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't say that. I say you don't imply that
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 2: if you want to imply in this particular thing that
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 2: you're something that you're not. Stand with what you are.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 2: There's big differences. and implications that are out there. That's
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 2: all I'm saying to you. You can agree or you
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 2: can disagree, but I can't think of a few jobs
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 2: that are more dangerous than being an on-the-road police officer
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 2: in today's environment. And in law enforcement, that's much different
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: than being a corrections officer. That's much different than being
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 2: a dispatcher. A dispatcher is not arresting people and putting
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 2: a vest on and wearing a gun to work.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: I'll leave you with that. NewsRadio 570, Dodie Kimion, G2.
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  Speaker 8: Good evening, Ron.
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 2: I am well, and I'm glad to finally connect with
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 2: you after a week of zero discussion.
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 8: I got to tell you, you miss a couple days,
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 8: it's like you miss a decade. You know, there's so
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 8: much going on, and it's coming so fast. I understand
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 8: why people are having such a hard time absorbing and
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 8: understanding what's happening around them. It's just an awful lot
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 8: to absorb.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: Well, that's where we turn to you to explain.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 8: Well, and I'm happy to add my voice to the conversation.
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  Speaker 15: Good.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 19: As you know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, give me the... Let's start by... I've been hearing
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 2: all the time around... Iran wants a deal. Iran wants
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 2: a deal. I've been hearing this now for two weeks.
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 2: And I'm saying, well, if they want one, how come
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 2: there isn't one? Now, today I read on CNBC, oil
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 2: prices fall after Iran sends updated peace proposal to mediators
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: in Pakistan.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: I hope it's true.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: Give me your assessment of this whole situation in my
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 2: $ 5 gasoline.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 8: Well, I think it's going to take a bit longer
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 8: to settle this. I mean, I know that we're very
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 8: impatient and we want this to go quickly. But the
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 8: truth is, Iran has been looking at nuclear weapons as
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 8: their future leverage and tool of destruction for a long time.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 8: They know that if they get that, the balance of
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 8: power in their minds will shift. Now, I don't think
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 8: it's going to shift that much, because if they even
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 8: indicate that they're thinking about using one of those, if
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 8: they had one, they would be eliminated. And it's not
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 8: just turn it all into glass, you know, hot shot talk.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 8: I mean, if the world believes that they are going
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 8: to launch a nuclear weapon, it will destroy Iran, and
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 8: I mean entirely. And I think that somewhere in there
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 8: they probably know that, but maybe they don't. So they
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 8: want to be admitted to the club of nuclear nations,
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 8: which is far too big a club today. There are
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 8: a lot of countries that we really wish didn't have
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 8: these things. But I just don't see how anyone, and
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 8: I mean China as well, you know, China or any
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 8: other nation dealing with them wants them to have a
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 8: nuclear weapon. China understands the destabilization that could occur if
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 8: a fundamentalist Islamist, you know, had their finger on the trigger.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, we've got enough concern with Pakistan. We never
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 8: know where Pakistan stands. It's just crazy to think that
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 8: we have another one. So they're going to fight hard
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 8: to maintain the ability to develop nuclear weapons, and that's
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 8: a non-starter for the rest of the world. At least
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 8: the rest of the world engaged in this. Probably some
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 8: Marxist countries that would like it, maybe a couple of
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 8: Islamist countries that would like it. But it's going to
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 8: be a non-starter. And the second thing that they want,
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 8: that is the contentious issue, of course, is the straight.
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 8: And I think they're more willing to give up on
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 8: absolute control of the straight, possibly, than of the nuclear weapon, which, again,
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 8: they view as almost part of the jihad, I think.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, I really... They are dedicated to this, even though...
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 8: There's not a lot of evidence that their nuclear program
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 8: has continued. So this is going to be a difficult negotiation.
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 8: The benefit that we have now, as we've talked about before,
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 8: is that they're losing $ 400 million a day in oil revenue,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 8: and they have no way to replace it. Maybe they
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 8: could ship a little bit by truck or rail, but
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 8: you cannot replace, you know, car guys. That's 90% of
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 8: their volume, as everybody now knows. And you just don't
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 8: turn that off and on. They can't just find a
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 8: quick alternative for 90%. Now, the fact that Saudi Arabia
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 8: is shipping 7 million is really, as we said last week,
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 8: is quite remarkable. But I think that Iran has a
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 8: very serious incentive to begin playing ball. And they could
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 8: certainly hold out. But as we said, you know, before...
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 8: Neither side's holding all the cards. Now, I listened to
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 8: a retired four-star general who was the drug czar or
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 8: working on the drug fight in the Clinton administration, which
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 8: is kind of like, you know, working on the drug
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 8: war for Pablo Escobar. You know, whose side are you
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 8: really on? And this guy goes from leftist station to
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 8: leftist station, globalist to globalist, explaining how Iran's holding all
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 8: the cards. Iran hasn't even been damaged. Listen, 13,000, 13,000
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 8: targets have been taken out. Not 1,300, not 12, not 1,000, 13,000.
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 8: They have absolutely zero ability to control the skies over
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 8: their own country. Zero ability. They have been militarily devastated
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 8: in a couple of ways.
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 8: They've lost all air defense. They've lost their ability to
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 8: project power very significantly. So they are... You know, this
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 8: isn't easy for them. Now, where they haven't been degraded much,
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 8: as best we can tell, is their ground forces. They
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 8: still have some missiles, and they still have a couple launchers.
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's clear they can launch a missile down again.
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 8: But you notice how much that fell off when they
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 8: were still actively launching. Now, without this money... And without
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 8: the ability to resupply. So you may remember a couple
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 8: of weeks ago, or a week ago maybe now, it
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 8: seems like forever, they were getting a shipment of materials
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 8: in from China that they could use to make propellant
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 8: for cruise missiles. Well, that load didn't get there. So
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 8: they are losing their ability to resupply unless they can
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 8: bring in materials by rail and truck over land. And
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 8: if that starts to be a significant volume, a couple
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 8: of A-10s take that out. So I don't get this
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 8: idea that Iran is somehow uninjured, full strength, sitting there
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 8: as if ready to lash out at the world and
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 8: conquer everybody. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 8: have used it. If they had the ability to launch
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 8: some more aggressive attacks, they would have done so. And,
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, they're facing what to their regime is an
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 8: existential threat. So I think that neither side holds all
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 8: the cards. They understand our time sensitivity. and they understand
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 8: the lack of, let's say, engagement by the American people.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 8: They know that Joe Mainstreet, this is not his war.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 8: He doesn't care about it. He wasn't afraid of Iran.
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 8: They didn't spend enough time on propaganda to get people
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 8: fired up to where they wanted to go over there
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 8: and kill a bunch of people. They just kind of
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 8: blew it on that side, and that's because of the
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 8: way the war started with Israel saying, we're going in,
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 8: and if you don't come, that's okay, but expect to
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 8: be attacked by Iran. So there just wasn't the normal
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 8: buildup of propaganda that gets you to the seething rage
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 8: and the passion for destruction that is necessary to execute
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 8: a war effectively. So I think Iran has a clear
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 8: image of where we stand. I think Trump has now.
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 8: I don't think he had it from the beginning, but
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 8: I think he's got a clear image of where they stand.
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 8: And now it's a negotiation. At $ 425, $ 450, whatever it is,
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 8: million dollars a day that they're losing, that's going to
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 8: be a two-sided discussion. And I think you'll see their
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 8: attitude change over time. Remember, as I keep saying, tyranny
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 8: is expensive. To get the police to oppress their own people,
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 8: to get the army to turn on its family, to
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 8: turn on its neighbors, to get informants to narc on
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 8: their neighbors, I mean, this is expensive. You have to
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 8: pay people to be traitors. And, you know, as we
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 8: see with the people in Congress, right, the ones who
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 8: refused to pass the Save America Act, you think they're
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 8: doing that for free? Of course not. They're getting paid
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 8: by their masters, whoever those people are, the globalists.
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 8: Mitch McConnell, we know he got a $ 10 million check
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 8: from the Chinese through his father-in-law. You know, there is
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 8: no question that the treason is expensive. And when you're
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 8: losing $ 425, $ 400 million a day, that's a problem. The
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 8: other problem is their leverage is somewhat weaker. UAE is
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 8: shipping more volume through their pipeline that comes out south
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 8: of the strait. And, again, that 7 million barrels a
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 8: day that Saudi is shipping over to the Red Sea
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 8: side is really weakening their position. So I think this
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 8: negotiation is going to take a while. We're going to
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 8: be impatient because we like things to be simple and
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 8: easy and, you know, reported on the news as some
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 8: kind of, I don't know, we like to think we're
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 8: in a video game. It ain't no video game.
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: Stand by.
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 2: Stand by. Back with G2 in a minute. Some thoughts
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 2: about what's going on in the Middle East and more.
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 2: Some of your calls ahead as well. Stay tuned. 570 WKBN.
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're well beyond the debate of whether or
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 2: not we should have been in this war in the
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 2: first place because it's irrelevant at this point in time
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 2: because we're in it. I mean, that's the reality. And
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 2: just to cut to the chase, you would have to
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 2: agree that it's been executed quite well by the military
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 2: at this point in time, and a blockade appears to
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 2: be working.
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: Would you agree with that?
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's been an incredible fight on
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 8: the side of the U.S. military and the Israelis. It's
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 8: remarkable what they've achieved.
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 2: Do you think they have Iran by the you-know-what, that
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 2: we're in a good position, that it's just a matter
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 2: of time before they're going to have to agree to
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 2: something and bring this to a conclusion sooner than later?
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 8: Well, I don't think anybody can say when. It's going
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 8: to take longer than we'd like. It's going to be
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 8: messier than we'd like. But remember, you know, other nations
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 8: are involved. Saudi Arabia is not a friend of Iran.
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 8: They've spent, call it $ 20 billion in just a few
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 8: months on defense. That's as much as they spent, I think,
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 8: in all of 24. They're buying all material from lots
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 8: of sources so they could be ready to fire whatever
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 8: they need to fire. you've got, this is just such
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 8: a dynamic situation. It's going to take some time. It's
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 8: impossible to say when. But the point I was trying
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 8: to make is that there is clear pressure on both sides.
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 8: So the people that are saying, oh, Trump's holding all
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 8: the cards, this is going to be easy. No, that's
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 8: not true. And the people that are saying Iran is
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 8: uninjured and they're powerful, listen, their ground forces are largely unimpacted, right?
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 8: Like the IRGC's ground forces are in very good shape,
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 8: but everything else is decimated. And they may be able
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 8: to dig out some more missiles, but let's not pretend
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 8: that they're somehow going to become a superpower overnight. They
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 8: are not. And so this is a mutually damaging situation.
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 8: We know that the key points are control of the
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 8: straits and whether or not Iran is going to be
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 8: allowed to have a nuclear weapon. And I think the
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 8: answer to that has to be no. I don't think
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 8: anybody that's rational would say the answer to that is
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 8: yes They know that's their biggest card. That's the biggest
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 8: chip they have to play. They're going to play it well.
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 8: It's going to cost a lot to get that resolved. And,
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 8: you know, that's just where we are.
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 3: So.
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 2: How long do you think the American people are going
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 2: to accept $ 5 gallon gasoline or more or higher? And
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 2: it could go down. Like I said, it says oil
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 2: prices fell after Iran sends supposedly an updated peace proposal
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 2: to mediators in Pakistan.
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or false. Could be
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: fake news. Maybe not.
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 2: Then it also says the following headline on CNBC says
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 2: US oil prices will exceed Iran wartime high to above
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 2: 125 as conflict drags on. So which headline am I
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 2: supposed to believe?
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 11: Well, exactly.
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 8: I mean, remember, we've heard $ 200 a barrel, $ 300 a barrel.
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 8: We've heard lots and lots of different stories about where
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 8: oil is going from, and that's because people are manipulating
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 8: the oil market.
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 10: To make money.
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 8: I would love to see the breakdown of every trade
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 8: executed on oil contracts as these numbers move around. Some
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 8: of that is on legitimate assessment of the war, and
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 8: I think some of this is just manipulation. And I
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 8: would suspect that before every announcement or text from Trump,
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 8: you'd see a large amount of volume transacting in advance
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 8: of these messages so that people can make money off
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 8: what he's saying. Because, you know, between Israel, the United States,
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 8: and who knows where else, there are a lot of
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 8: people who know what's going on in this situation. I
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 8: guarantee you people are trading this war and making billions.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 8: So I don't know how long we can hold out.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 8: I can tell you that I spoke to a Trump
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 8: voter today. who owns a small business, very successful small business,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 8: and he's absolutely furious with everything. He looks at everything
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 8: happening in D.C. and says, as I often say, the
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 8: American people have no representation in Congress. It is absolutely true,
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 8: and we can tell that because we don't get the
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 8: Save America Act passed, we can't get a balanced budget.
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 8: Everything that the American people wanted, oh, no, we've got
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 8: a Senate rule, or oh, no, The Democrats have a
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 8: minority on some committee, and the Democrats use the minority
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 8: to stop anything. Well, we gave you the House, the Senate,
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 8: and the White House. Like, hey, well, you know, it's
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 8: not enough. We still have excuses. So the Republicans in
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 8: Congress are worthless in most cases. Not all, but the
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 8: vast majority. Not probably Bernie Marino and not Scott Perry
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 8: and not... You know, like today, Rand Paul introduced a
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 8: bill that was great. There are folks that are doing
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 8: some good things, but collectively the American people do not
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 8: have representation in Congress. It is the people who pay
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 8: them that get representation. And we only pay their salary.
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 8: You know, the $ 2 trillion deficits that pump out that
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 8: are the driver of corruption, that's where they're getting the money.
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 8: That circles back. So I don't think the American people
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 8: have any more patience. They're completely impatient. Remember, let's call it,
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 8: I don't know, you can look this up, but like mid-22, June,
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 8: July 22, gasoline went to $ 5. It's now significantly below that.
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 8: No one cares. They voted for Trump to fix the
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 8: energy market.
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 8: Then it went away. People are furious. This small business owner,
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 8: three-time Trump voter, furious with all of them, no longer
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 8: happy with Trump. hates the Republicans that he voted for
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 8: his whole life.
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: But the Democrats certainly aren't the answer. Hang on. Back
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: with G2 after the headlines. KBN.
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 2: All right, NewsRadio 570, WKBN. So it's a waiting game.
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 2: We shall see what the outcome takes place. Hopefully they
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 2: got a stranglehold on Iran where they'll reach some type
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 2: of agreement relatively fast.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 11: Hopefully.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 8: But we were talking about this. three-time Trump voter earlier
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 8: today who I was speaking with recently, and it's a
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 8: lot of conversations I've had like this in recent weeks.
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 8: And the guy that I'm speaking about was just absolutely
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 8: frustrated with the Republican Party on every point, and now
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 8: he's disappointed with Trump because the price of gas went up.
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 8: He's not tracking the Iran war. He's not a verbalist.
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 8: He doesn't have a level of information your audience does.
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 8: But what he does have is knowledge that every time
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 8: he turns around, the government's hitting him with some silly
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 8: regulation that's costing him money. His fuel prices are going up.
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 8: His cost of doing business is going up. He can't
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 8: always push that along, although he gets a lot of
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 8: it through. But he can't always.
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 4: Push it through.
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 8: Just running his business is becoming more and more complicated.
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 8: And while he lives in a state controlled by leftists,
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 8: He votes Republican, and he can't get help no matter
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 8: what happens. He's looking to Congress to help. They're not.
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 8: And so he's mad at all of them. There's no
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 8: scenario where this guy goes back to voting Democrat, or
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 8: maybe he never did. I suspect he probably never did.
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 8: But there is a scenario where he just simply stops voting.
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 8: And this is a threat that the Republicans at the
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 8: RNC do not understand. The Republicans in most of these
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 8: state committees do not understand. They do not have a monopoly...
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 8: on voters of any kind, and they do not have
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 8: a mechanism to force them to get to the polls. Now,
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 8: with this guy Thune, the traitor in the Senate, and
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 8: Spender Johnson, as these two seem to be preparing to
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 8: hand the Senate and the House over to Democrats, you know,
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 8: this is a problem, and they have to start performing.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 8: On a local level, I heard your earlier caller talking
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 8: about how, I don't know if he was a Democrat
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 8: or Republican, I couldn't tell, but he seems pretty anti-Republican.
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 8: But if he's expressing the same. feelings that this guy
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 8: I was talking about is, it's because he's looking at
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 8: the local level, say at the county, he sees Geno saying, hey, listen,
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 8: when I was on the outside, I wanted to take
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 8: care of the taxpayers. Now I'm on the inside. We
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 8: need more money. We can't cut spending. We have to
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 8: have more and more and more. And that's just simply
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 8: not going to work. He's going to have to either
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 8: switch back to being the Republican conservative cost cutter, the
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 8: MAGA Trump guy, or he's going to do real harm
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 8: to the Republican Party. And that's exactly what you heard
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 8: in that earlier call. So you have it on a
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 8: macro level with Geno. You have it on a macro
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 8: level with Trader Thune and Spender Johnson. These Republicans who
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 8: refuse to perform the job they're hired for are doing
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 8: unestimable damage to the Republican Party. Again, they're not going
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 8: to shift votes to the Democrats. They're just going to
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 8: push voters away. So this is, you know, a real
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 8: crisis because, as you know, the most important existential threats
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 8: to this nation are domestic, and those include, of course,
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 8: election fraud. No longer a question. Everybody accepts it. And
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 8: that's got to get fixed. and corruption within these Republicans and,
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 8: of course, the Democrats who serve masters other than the
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 8: American voter.
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: All right. How do I put it?
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 2: If inflation continues to go up and gas prices continue
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 2: to stay where they are or go up even higher,
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 2: it's bad news for the Republicans, period.
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely. And And if Trump can get the war settled,
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 8: these prices can adjust quickly. Did you see the fracture
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 8: in OPEC?
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 2: I like to remind people, OPEC, though, remember, OPEC was
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 2: formed by, guess who? Henry Kissinger, right? Henry Kissinger was
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 2: the brains behind OPEC, that no-good bum. it's nothing short
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 2: of collusion.
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: Collusion by saying we all get together and determine production
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: and pricing, and finally you got a crack in OPEC
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: with UAE saying, well, we're not going to go along
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: with OPEC and what they say. That's a good thing.
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 8: And you remember back, you know, the stories of the
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 8: 70s where people were in long gas lines. Remember back
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 8: then the United States was sort of phasing out of
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 8: its early oil production. I don't know what production was
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 8: during the the crisis but it wasn't in the old uh...
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 8: you know vertical nine hundred foot well anymore and yet
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 8: they didn't have the directional technology in the fracking so
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 8: the u.s. was in a major player and until two
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 8: thousand fifteen the u.s. could not export oil now opec
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 8: powers dramatically reduced by the absolute amazing increase the production
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 8: in the united states this is a global impact that
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 8: is massive so that's great news And so now these
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 8: OPEC countries are saying, we're all sticking together for this cartel,
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 8: but our power is diminishing. Iran is hurting us. But, gee,
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 8: you know, it's hurting some more than others. Kuwait can't
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 8: get their oil out, but Saudi can. It is interesting
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 8: to watch this cartel break down and have countries saying, listen,
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 8: we're going to pump as much oil as we can pump.
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 8: With the prices that are out in the market today,
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 8: anyone who isn't pumping maximum volume is just silly. And
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 8: these lifestyles of the rich and famous in the Middle East,
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 8: extremely expensive. Look, if you've got a 747 as the
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 8: family car, it takes a few dollars to drive those
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 8: a mile. If you're going to fly into the Cleveland
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 8: Clinic and rent an entire floor and bring, I don't
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 8: know what they bring, 20, 30, 50 people on your
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 8: 747 because somebody needs an appendectomy, And everybody's going to
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 8: get health care at the clinic. You know how they
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 8: back those planes up against the fence between the parking
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 8: deck at the airport? You know where it is. And
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 8: those are all family airplanes. That costs a lot of money.
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 8: So the lifestyle and holding on to these regimes in
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 8: the Middle East, while all of them are being challenged
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 8: by radical Islamist fundamentalists who would very much like to
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 8: get control of those oil fields and that cash flow,
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 8: it's not like this is a super stable situation. Why
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 8: do you think Qatar... Allowed the United States to have
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 8: 10,000 soldiers within their borders. You think it's just because
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 8: they like us? You know, they think, gee, maybe they'll
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 8: cook me a hamburger down again? No, it turns out
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 8: they need our presence to defend their nations because they
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 8: have tons of money, but they don't have the ability
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 8: to defend themselves. Right? And they're destabilized. So, you know,
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 8: they could be destabilized in a short period of time
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 8: if things go sideways. So they need the cash flow.
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 8: So the OPEC breaking up, I think, is a great
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 8: thing for the West. It's a great thing for Europe, which,
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 8: you know, can't seem to help itself. And the U.S.
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 8: pumping the way we are and now having this Venezuelan
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 8: oil come.
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 9: Here, these are great moves. I mean, it's tremendous to
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 9: watch what's happening. You know, the world never fails to react.
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 9: The analysts on TV predicting doom and gloom are always
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 9: doing it in a vacuum as if there are no countermoves.
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 9: There are always countermoves. We just have to hope that
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 9: he gets this resolved. Gas prices fall again. Everybody will
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 9: turn frowns into smiles because our memory is about four
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 9: minutes long. And that Trader Foon and Spender Johnson begin
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 9: to actually serve the American people who hired them to
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 9: do a job and stop serving whoever their real master is.
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: All right. So, Ron Ferbici, too, you're on the air.
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 23: Hi, Ron.
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 11: Hi.
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 23: I was He is so fascinating. I could listen to
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 23: him all night. It's like an educational thing.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, he is.
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 6: That's not why I'm calling him.
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: He's a very knowledgeable man. Yeah, the library. Go ahead.
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 23: Okay, you ready for another take on the library?
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, I am.
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 23: Okay, my dad, who would have been 100 on Thursday,
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 23: his corporate offices were in the old dormitory, which is
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 23: the very first section of the library.
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 26: Okay.
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 23: And people ask me all the time, well, what would
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 23: he think about this? Well, he was a businessman, and
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 23: he was really smart. And the first thing he would
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 23: have done was he would have listened, and he would
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 23: have absolutely agreed with the board.
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 8: Explain.
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 23: Because the old dormitory took some hits in bad.
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 6: Design.
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 26: So..
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 23: He lost a lot of money with historical tax credits
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 23: he could have.
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 21: Gotten.
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: So you think the board made the right decision in
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: moving the library?
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 6: Yes. Actually, and you know what I think?
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: What?
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 23: They have an old century school that's sitting right down
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 23: the street, just sitting there kind of empty. Why don't
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 23: they move the library into Poland Union? I mean, if
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 23: Poland is so up on historical stuff.
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting? Yeah. I'm surprised they're not running you
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 2: out of town. You better not say this opinion out loud.
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 23: Well, actually, my son..
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: I'm just looking. I'm looking out for you.
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 23: Well, it's funny because I think the highest compliment I
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 23: ever got, because I'm from Poland, was, you know, you
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 23: just don't act like you're from Poland. And I took that..
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 23: I'm really probably going to.
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 6: Get in trouble.
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 23: Anyhow, no, I think Paul and Union's just sitting there empty.
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 23: I went there. My dad went there.
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 6: My mom went there.
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: Good God, it's got to be a really old place then.
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 23: Oh, yeah.
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: I'm just teasing.
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for your input. I appreciate that. So, see,
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: there's somebody who says.
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 23: Go ahead.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: No, go ahead.
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 23: The only other thing was they're really high on the
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 23: historical stuff. And yet President McKinley's house isn't there anymore.
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 6: It got ripped down.
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 1: All right, dear. Thank you.
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 23: You're welcome.
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 16: G2, how you doing? Did you watch the interview with
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 16: Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Greene?
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 8: I did not. I saw a clip, a photograph of it,
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 8: but I didn't hear it.
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 16: It's a two-hour total interview. He gives like an hour monologue,
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 16: and then she gives an hour. But it's her experiences
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 16: with the neocons in Congress that are prioritizing foreign policy
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 16: over our domestic needs in this country. And then if
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 16: you didn't watch that one, you probably didn't watch the
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 16: Uncle Buck, Tucker's younger brother, Buckley.
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 8: In fact, I did, although I thought his brother might
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 8: be older than him.
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 16: That's what I thought, but he was younger, and he
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 16: actually worked for Trump as a speechwriter in the first administration.
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 16: He went into how she was betrayed by Trump, Marjorie
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 16: Taylor Greene, and it's a great interview. And another one
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 16: was with the Jeffrey Sachs interview on the war.
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 8: I haven't watched that one because Jeffrey Sachs, I hear
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 8: him say a lot of things that sound right but
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 8: are not necessarily well grounded. He's got an agenda.
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 16: Oh, he definitely has an agenda, but he is a
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 16: good public policy analyst. He's got a good take on things,
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 16: but you've got to know where he's coming from.
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 8: Yes, he does. to have your own filter and use
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 8: a little discernment with that one.
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 16: Real quick, what do you think about our only partner
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 16: in the war, Israel, about how they're conducting itself in Lebanon?
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 16: Are you following that?
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 8: We actually, I mentioned this earlier, Last time I was on, maybe,
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 8: or once. But look, I don't understand why it is
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 8: that if you were a Christian living in Lebanon, you
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 8: could be killed for the crime of living in a
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 8: country that has Hezbollah operators in it. And that a
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 8: 2,000-year-old village could be leveled in the name of destroying Hezbollah.
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 8: I don't understand it. I don't understand why you could
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 8: be slaughtered in the Congo or Nigeria without any concerns
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 8: or repercussions. I don't understand why you could just kill
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 8: whatever Christians you want anywhere you want. And the fact
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 8: that Israel is doing that while we are supporting them. Now,
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 8: you know, this to me is an egregious, egregious act.
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 8: I am offended by it, and I think everyone should be. And,
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 8: you know, they've hidden it. When that first ceasefire came,
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 8: Israel then pretended it didn't apply to Lebanon because they
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 8: hadn't flattened all those Christian villages yet. And as you
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 8: well know, I'm sure because you've been paying attention, everything
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 8: south of the Latani River is basically being pulverized. And
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 8: what are they going to do next? They're going to
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 8: take money from the United States and from groups like
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 8: the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and they're going
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 8: to relocate settlers into that area and call it a
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 8: safety or security zone. Well, no, this isn't like the DMZ.
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 8: They're just resettling that as Israel. And I don't understand
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 8: why the world isn't calling this out and why the administration...
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 8: isn't doing more unless you take into account the concerns
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 8: about the level of influence, AIPAC, which was mentioned earlier
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 8: in the show, I think, Ron, and, you know, Adelson
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 8: and Steve Wynn and all these Israelis have in the
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 8: United States. The fact that we seem to have a
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 8: Congress that is more supportive of Israel than the U.S. So,
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 8: you know, I don't get it. And I think it
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 8: should be halted immediately. And I think the last Christian village...
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 8: that was destroyed, should be the last one ever destroyed.
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 8: And by the way, to extend it one step further,
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 8: the churches in Europe burning, churches in the United States
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 8: occasionally burning, but there's a campaign to burn churches down
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 8: in Europe. And there's no reaction from anyone. I find
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 8: it offensive.
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 16: The Pope did get involved a little bit, but then
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 16: he's sort of gone silent now. But the Israelis just
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 16: demolished a monastery and a nun school in Yaron. in
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 16: lebanon what they're doing they're just bulldozing entire villages churches
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 16: india and summits aries why would you have a building
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 16: cemetery but uh... yes getting back to our republicans there's
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 16: only one that doesn't take a pack money and i
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 16: mentioned that earlier and that's tom massey you could go
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 16: and look up the uh... amounts that they're getting so
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 16: they're working for two masters our congress which is well
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 16: they look at.
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 8: It they haven't made any any bones about it they've
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 8: said they're going to eliminate thomas matty because he wouldn't
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 8: vote for foreign aid for israel now he didn't particularly
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 8: target israel he said i'm not voting for foreign aid
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 8: when we have a two trillion dollar deficit it wasn't
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 8: a new position he's been voting against this kind of
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 8: spending a long time i'd like to see the kind
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 8: of energy being brought to house matty brought against one
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 8: of these radical democrats how about ilhan omar you think
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 8: she's a friend of israel how about she gets the
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 8: same attention You know, now, of course, she's elected through
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 8: election fraud if you go back and analyze it. So,
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 8: you know, maybe they feel like they can't do that
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 8: because then they'd expose themselves for not taking out election fraud.
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's such a mess. But I think if
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 8: you look at what Matt's saying and doing, much of
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 8: what he's saying and doing is logical and it's constitutional.
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 8: I disagree with some of his approaches, some of his actions,
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 8: but it's pretty hard to disagree with him on a
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 8: philosophy basis. And while, you know, normally a libertarian is
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 8: unwilling to fight over anything, they just, like, go ahead
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 8: and you know, destroy us, and we'll stand here and
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 8: say no. He's not that. He's willing to take a fight.
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 8: He's just fighting for things that seem to be aligned
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 8: with the American people's interests. So I don't hate Israel.
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 8: I don't want Israel to be destroyed. I don't run
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 8: around chanting from the river to the sea. But I
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 8: would like to see the 2,000-year-old villages south of the
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 8: Latani River reconstructed at Israel's expense. I'd like to see
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 8: the Christians that were there buried at Israel's expense. And
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 8: I'd like to see a safety guarantee of the Christians
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 8: in Palestine, Gaza, and the West Bank, and Lebanon, and
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 8: throughout Israel, and throughout the Middle East. I'd like to
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 8: see a commitment from Netanyahu that there will be no
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 8: more slaughter of Christians.
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 16: That'll never happen, but I like your take on things.
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 16: I like your take on the war. And if you
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 16: get a spare minute, you can pull up that Tucker
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 16: interview with the CIA, John Kirikou.
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 8: He had been part of it yet all of.
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 16: It that watch you can what i watch the whole
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 16: thing it's an hour and a half you can watch
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 16: it on one point five people speed it up but
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 16: that was a fascinating when i i'd try to watch
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 16: these every week but uh... Yeah, I like your take
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 16: on everything, and thanks for all the good info, G2.
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your call. G2, stand by. NewsRadio 570
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: WKBN 652. Ron Furb, Kingdom of Mahoning.
• 2:43:08
  Speaker 20: Youngstown's news, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN.
• 2:43:14
  Speaker 2: And Ron Furb, 654 NewsRadio 570 WKBN. It's already May 1st. G2,
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 2: after a long absence, I mean, he was deep, deep,
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 2: deep underground for years. what well over a week i
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 2: think was honest oh yeah it's.
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 8: It's been a while and i gotta tell you i've
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 8: had a wonderful time i i uh... i got to
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 8: spend some time with the vietnamese folks came here ninety
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 8: two which is a little later than you know that
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 8: first wave in and hear them talk again about what
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  Speaker 8: america is that and and a listen to them uh..
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  Speaker 6: You know in.
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  Speaker 8: Whispers because they're surrounded by uh... leftist where they live uh...
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  Speaker 8: but but if it's exciting you know to keep the
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  Speaker 8: people who truly understand the country And I got to
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  Speaker 8: spend some time with some ladies from Chicago who are
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  Speaker 8: hardcore patriots, you know, voted for Trump three times. They're
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  Speaker 8: from inner-city Chicago, hardcore fighters, extremely exciting to hear. They've
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  Speaker 8: not lost a bit of vigor, vim or vigor, but
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  Speaker 8: they really think that if the leftists take over again,
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  Speaker 8: if the globalists get control, full control, if Trader Tune
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  Speaker 8: and Spender Johnson give it to the Democrats, they think
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  Speaker 8: that these people are coming for all of us, that
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  Speaker 8: they're going to be out hunting like they did after
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  Speaker 8: January 6th. And it's, it's, so they're a little, you know,
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  Speaker 8: but they, they, they fight on, uh, saw some other
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  Speaker 8: folks that are engaged in hardcore political activism inside urban
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  Speaker 8: markets where Democrats control everything. And there they are boldly
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  Speaker 8: and loudly shouting Trump. It's just exciting. And, um, and so, uh,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I've had some, some fascinating discussions in this last, uh,
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  Speaker 8: you know, a few days and been able to see
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  Speaker 8: some beautiful country. You know, this nation is gorgeous. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: it's beautiful. And if you just take a moment to
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  Speaker 8: appreciate it, you realize that it's worth fighting for. And
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  Speaker 8: that's what we've got to do, because the only force
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  Speaker 8: in the world capable of saving this country is the
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  Speaker 8: American people.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You're on the air with G2.
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  Speaker 8: Hello. Well, I was going to say something, but now
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  Speaker 8: that we only have two minutes left.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God, because if you were going to say something intelligence,
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  Speaker 2: what would we do with the other minute?
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  Speaker 8: Well, the intelligent part is this. I can't say it
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  Speaker 8: any better. Klaus Schwab has the great reset. Well, Donald
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 8: Trump is making his own great reset that's going to
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  Speaker 8: out-reset the Klaus Schwab reset. And that's what's going on.
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  Speaker 8: You have to look at the Iran war from the
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  Speaker 8: top down. You can't look at it from, you know,
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 8: the checkers levels. You have to look at it from
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 8: the Donald Trump chess level. There's three phases in the war.
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  Speaker 8: The first phase has nothing to do with the nuclear war.
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  Speaker 8: That's just because that's the thing that scares people, and
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  Speaker 8: that gives them reason to go into the war. The
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  Speaker 8: whole reason, that's phase one. Notice how he just stopped
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 8: immediately at the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 14: He..
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  Speaker 8: He's got all the ships and everything, blocking everything up.
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  Speaker 8: That's phase two. Phase three is starving all the nations.
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  Speaker 8: That's why King Charles came to America to beg, beg,
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  Speaker 8: to open up everything and let's get our relations back
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 8: because he's starving Great Britain. He's making his own great reset.
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  Speaker 8: He's selling oil. from the United States. And I actually think,
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 8: don't we get royalties off of it called the Great
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  Speaker 8: Sovereign Wealth Fund or something? Don't we get royalties off
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  Speaker 8: of it, G2? But anyhow, I'm going.
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  Speaker 12: To leave you.
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  Speaker 8: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're going to leave me with what?
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  Speaker 8: The Continental Costume Soldiers, the Continental Army uniforms greeting King Charles.
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 8: We don't have time. We'll have to hit this next week.
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 8: But this visit by King Charles was fascinating. And it's
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 8: got nothing to do with pomp and circumstance and everything.
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  Speaker 10: He's begging. He's begging.
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  Speaker 8: That's what they sent him over here for.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it fascinating, G2? Quick answer.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to end with one last thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's no time for it. G2, thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity coming up.
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  Speaker 28: From ABC News, I'm Dave Packer. Breaking this hour, a
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  Speaker 28: federal appeals court has issued a nationwide order effective immediately
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  Speaker 28: barring dispensation of the abortion pill Mifepristone by telehealth providers
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  Speaker 28: and and distribution of the medication by pharmacies and mail,
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  Speaker 28: blocking the Biden administration's easing of access to the pill.
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  Speaker 28: Republicans who had warned that they would force congressional action
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  Speaker 28: on President Trump's Iran war are now letting a key
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  Speaker 28: deadline pass. Congress is required to approve military action within
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  Speaker 28: 60 days or 90 days of extended, but lawmakers have
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  Speaker 28: made no move to enforce it. The White House maintains
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 28: a ceasefire has changed the legal conflict.
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  Speaker 29: President Trump in this letter, as well as his administration officials,
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  Speaker 29: have been arguing that this 60-day clock doesn't apply to them.
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  Speaker 29: The president writing in this letter that, quote, the hostilities
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  Speaker 29: have terminated as part of this broader argument that the
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  Speaker 29: ceasefire that started on April 7th has essentially paused the
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  Speaker 29: clock here.
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  Speaker 28: ABC's Selena Wang, the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 28: keeps pushing the price of oil and gas higher. GasBuddy
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  Speaker 28: says nationally we're averaging $ 4.
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  Speaker 5: 44 a gallon.
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  Speaker 28: This driver in Philly keeping his gas-powered car in the driveway. Unfortunately,
• 2:48:37
  Speaker 28: my wife has an electric car, so we use that
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  Speaker 28: more now than anything. Fuel prices putting the squeeze on airlines.
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  Speaker 28: Spirit could soon be a casualty. Financial collapse could come
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  Speaker 28: any time now, we're hearing. ABC's Andrew Dimberg.
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  Speaker 30: This all comes as the South Florida-based low-budget airline was
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 30: facing potential bankruptcy and was negotiating a $ 500 million government bailout.
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  Speaker 30: This morning, it appeared a rescue deal fell apart, but
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 30: then this afternoon, President Trump saying the White House is
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 30: considering a lifeline.
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  Speaker 1: On the streets of Chicago..
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  Speaker 28: higher wages, better working conditions, and an end to immigration raids.
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  Speaker 28: As FIFA held its annual Congress of the Vancouver Convention
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  Speaker 28: its World Cup preparations, which advocates say includes displacing the homeless.
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  Speaker 28: New York says there are other issues in the city
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  Speaker 28: that need attention over the World Cup. The Army is
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  Speaker 28: proposing a massive three gigawatt data center complex on Fort
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  Speaker 28: Bliss in Texas that could eventually consume more electricity than
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  Speaker 26: For the first time, a driverless commercial truck delivered freight,
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  Speaker 26: completing a 230-mile route from Houston to Dallas on time.
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  Speaker 26: The company, Bot Auto, argues autonomous trucks are the future.
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  Speaker 26: Since there are no drivers, they don't face fatigue or
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  Speaker 26: need brakes, reducing overall costs.
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  Speaker 28: ABC's Andrea Fujii, autonomous trucks are not legal in every
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  Speaker 28: state yet. The Oscars are cracking down on generative artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 28: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences updated its
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  Speaker 28: rules for the 2027 awards, and they stress the importance
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  Speaker 28: of human creative control over movies while not outright banning AI.
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  Speaker 28: The Academy says it also reserves the right to ask
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