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The Ron Verb Show - 4pm Hour - #w, 07/17/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: On News Radio 570, WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: 4.06 in the afternoon. We're on Verb News Radio 570, WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: It's 83 degrees. It's Friday, July 17th. Nice to be
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 3: 330-729-9977. 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll get you through to us on News Radio 570, WKBN.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just, listen, everyone's entitled to thoughts and
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  Speaker 3: an opinion. I just think that as this goes on,
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  Speaker 3: it's not getting better. It's getting worse in Iran. The
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  Speaker 3: whole thing is getting worse. And I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: they have, I mean, a mistake from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 3: So you just continue on and say, well, You know,
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  Speaker 3: the strait was open before he ever engaged in this
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  Speaker 3: at all. None of these problems existed before Trump went
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  Speaker 3: into this action. And now you have problems as far
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  Speaker 3: as energy is concerned, oil is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: You have other products.
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  Speaker 3: You hear a lot about fertilizer and how it's not
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  Speaker 3: just the cost of it going up 40 or 50 percent,
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  Speaker 3: but it's the availability of it. which is vital, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: to food production in many parts of not just this country,
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  Speaker 3: but in Africa and many parts of the world, which
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  Speaker 3: can lead to people that are not anywhere close to
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  Speaker 3: Iran having a problem as far as starvation is concerned.
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  Speaker 3: You have other chemical problems that are hard to get
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  Speaker 3: as a result of this mess. And so... I just
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  Speaker 3: don't see it getting better. And what's the answer? Well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll bomb them some more. Well, what do we do
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  Speaker 3: this time? Well, we'll bomb the bridges. We'll bomb the
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  Speaker 3: desalinization plants. We'll do all this kind of stuff. That'll
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  Speaker 3: bring them to their knees. Well, I thought all the
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  Speaker 3: other stuff had brought up to their knees, according to Trump.
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  Speaker 3: They want to negotiate settlements. I heard that time and
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  Speaker 3: time again. And nothing really came about it. He kept
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  Speaker 3: telling me, oh, we brought them to their knees. They
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  Speaker 3: want to settle. They want to settle. And then this
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  Speaker 3: 60-day ceasefire until we got them now. And that didn't
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  Speaker 3: seem to pan out. So we'll make some– I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is a country of 93 million people the size
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  Speaker 3: of Western Europe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to think of how big a people, how
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  Speaker 3: many people and how big this country is. And what
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  Speaker 3: I find interesting just from callers in general is people
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  Speaker 3: seem to think that they should think like us and
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  Speaker 3: should want what we want. And I'll argue until I'm
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  Speaker 3: blue in the face. It's a whole different culture. It's
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  Speaker 3: a whole different view. This idea that are there some
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  Speaker 3: people who probably want to overthrow the government?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure, just as there probably are in this country.
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  Speaker 3: But when you see all these people who show up
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  Speaker 3: at the Supreme Leader's funeral the other day or whatever
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  Speaker 3: they held, it didn't seem like there was a shortage
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  Speaker 3: of people that were supporting what the Supreme Leader stood for.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's their culture. It's their religion. It's their philosophies,
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  Speaker 3: which are hugely different than ours. So it's somewhat arrogant
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  Speaker 3: for me to think that they want what I want
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  Speaker 3: or they should think like I think. They think like
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  Speaker 3: they think, and they think I should be thinking like
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  Speaker 3: they do. But I am convinced in my mind Trump
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  Speaker 3: thought this thing would be much easier than it is,
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  Speaker 3: would be over much sooner than it is. He might
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  Speaker 3: have been convinced of that from Netanyahu and Israel that
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be over in no time. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to bring him to their knees. And it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: And it hasn't happened. And I just see it going
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  Speaker 3: on and on and on. So these things can escalate.
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  Speaker 3: But one thing is for certain it can escalate is
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  Speaker 3: inflation and the price of everything. Which can have a
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  Speaker 3: dramatic effect on everybody as far as the cost of energy,
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  Speaker 3: as far as the cost of food, necessities.
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  Speaker 2: In this country.
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  Speaker 3: And then, well, we'll see where it goes as time
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  Speaker 3: goes on.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope.
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  Speaker 3: It goes better than it is. But I just don't
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  Speaker 3: see a strategery out. And it's a whole different culture.
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  Speaker 3: It's a whole different mentality to me. And it's... Are
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  Speaker 3: you prepared to go on with this six months from now,
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  Speaker 3: eight months from now?
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  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's going on there, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Ron?
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  Speaker 2: You are. Your calls and your comments, I'm all ears.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead. It's Apache Junction calling you. And I just
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  Speaker 4: want to say, twice, once this morning, I was heading
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  Speaker 4: out to Boardwood up Market Street and went by that
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  Speaker 4: Community Park or Market Street at Market in Indianola.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: There's no... Do my business around lunchtime, finish up at 1,
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  Speaker 4: come right back down market, just want to take a look.
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  Speaker 4: And what do I see? Nothing. Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this is our ARP dollars that were spent in
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  Speaker 3: Youngstown on this park. And you're saying we spent all
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  Speaker 3: this money, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 3: of money.
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  Speaker 2: And for what is what you're saying? What a waste.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing. Number two, after Vietnam, the U.S. should have just realized,
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  Speaker 4: first of all, it didn't have to do Vietnam because
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  Speaker 4: Ho Chi Minh said he liked the United States. If
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  Speaker 4: you ever wrote his book, read his book, and he said, look,
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  Speaker 4: this is a civil war. It's not an American war.
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  Speaker 4: Let us fight. Ho Chi Minh said, I want to
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  Speaker 4: unify the country. Then he said, I like the Americans.
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  Speaker 4: I fought with them in World War II against Japanese.
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  Speaker 4: I want them to come in, turn Vietnam into like
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  Speaker 4: the Philippines. But McNamara and all them guys were nothing
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  Speaker 4: but a bunch of war hawks. So what happened? 250,000
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  Speaker 4: servicemen get killed or whatever, maimed and all that. And
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  Speaker 4: it was just simple, two plus two. After Vietnam, the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: should have just pulled away from the Middle East, all
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  Speaker 4: these just, you know, third world nations. and just tightened
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  Speaker 4: up the borders, lessened the immigration. I mean, Ron, it's
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  Speaker 4: just asinine. And I mean, Jim Traffick had the best
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  Speaker 4: ideas to keep the country healthy, but every time you
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  Speaker 4: look around, the United States is sticking their nose in somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: When Iran started coming apart, they should have been pulling
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  Speaker 4: the United States citizens out. The moment the Shah left
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  Speaker 4: and the country was going haywire, You could see the
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  Speaker 4: people who were Muslim-ness get the Americans out right then
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  Speaker 4: and there. No, they don't do it. What happens, what
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  Speaker 4: was it, one year, two years almost, of yellow ribbons
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  Speaker 4: being tied over there and sharing PA or whatever? And
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  Speaker 4: it's like, we just don't need to be a part
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  Speaker 4: of the world other than our allies. I don't agree
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  Speaker 4: with what Trump did.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 4: When the Iranians did what they did in 79 and
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  Speaker 4: Reagan was coming in, They should have did something then.
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  Speaker 4: They should have punched him in the eye then. But
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  Speaker 4: you wait 40 years. It's a little bit too late now.
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  Speaker 4: So they should have just took their money that they
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  Speaker 4: just held on to and just said, well, you know what?
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  Speaker 4: You took our property, which is considered U.S. territory. Just
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  Speaker 4: take all their billions and, you know, let life go on.
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  Speaker 4: Have a trident submarine off their shores and just let
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  Speaker 4: them know you shoot off one nuke, a ram won't
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  Speaker 4: exist anymore. And that's what President Trump did to Korea,
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  Speaker 4: North Korea. He told them, yeah, you shoot off one
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  Speaker 4: nuke this way and you're gone. You don't see North
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  Speaker 4: Korea acting all stupid anymore. You know, I mean, they
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  Speaker 4: might be developing nukes because everybody's going to want to nuke.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why, but I just feel like, especially
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  Speaker 4: when I see these fuel prices, it wasn't worth it.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't worth it. I told them, go ahead and
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  Speaker 4: make as many bombs as you want. I hope they
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  Speaker 4: blow up in your freaking faces. I wouldn't have never
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  Speaker 4: been doing business with none of them. Because what upsets
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  Speaker 4: me is you have, and you've heard this, you have
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  Speaker 4: all these immigrants who come to the country, the United States,
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  Speaker 4: and they're getting Social Security, and they don't even pay
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  Speaker 4: into the system.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how that's possible.
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  Speaker 3: I hear people say that, and I would like to
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  Speaker 3: see that because I don't understand even how that's remotely possible.
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  Speaker 3: The only way you can get Social Security, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: not talking Social Security disability, I'm talking pure Social Security,
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  Speaker 3: is it's solely based on if you work, have enough
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  Speaker 3: quarters in, and what you paid into it. That's the
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  Speaker 3: only way, other than if you were married to somebody
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  Speaker 3: who did that, as far as a spouse is concerned.
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  Speaker 3: Outside of that, I don't know of how anybody's getting
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  Speaker 3: Social Security who hasn't paid into it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, for years we heard how Social Security
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  Speaker 4: is going to be broke. And all this. and that.
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  Speaker 2: It's in bad financial shape. I mean, I don't deny that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, both Medicare and Social Security have major financial problems.
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  Speaker 3: But instead of giving billions to all these foreign countries,
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  Speaker 3: I would like to see some billions go into helping
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  Speaker 3: the programs that benefit our senior citizens.
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  Speaker 4: I totally agree with that. Like I said, conference gate
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  Speaker 4: Iran's money. Give it to us, the American people, for
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  Speaker 4: all these morons that have stolen from the government. Give
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  Speaker 4: to us. And like I said, tighten up all the
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  Speaker 4: laws and regulations. I support 100% what ICE is doing.
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  Speaker 3: Let me give you a headline from CNBC. Economic outlook
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  Speaker 3: is worsening and Trump is getting blamed, CNBC survey finds.
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  Speaker 3: There's a shocker. It doesn't surprise me at all. The
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  Speaker 3: economic outlook is worsening and Trump is being blamed. Well,
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  Speaker 3: of course he is because it's worsening because of the
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  Speaker 3: situation in Iran. And he brought on that situation.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I don't think he should have done it.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I don't think he should have either. And the
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  Speaker 3: answer is, well, we're going to stay the course. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so what's the answer if this next round of bombing
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  Speaker 3: doesn't bring him to their knees?
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  Speaker 2: Then what are you going to do? Then what's after that?
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  Speaker 4: I can't even afford to take my RV across country
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  Speaker 4: like I used to. I thought paying $ 2 a gallon
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  Speaker 4: was bad. Now it's $ 3 or $ 4. I had a
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  Speaker 4: heart attack when I got to California. It's $ 5 and
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  Speaker 4: whatever back in November.
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  Speaker 6: Now..
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  Speaker 4: I'm fortunate if I can go to Florida this winter
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  Speaker 4: and be down there with, what's his name? Frank.
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  Speaker 2: Fort Lauderdale, Frank and you in Florida together, chasing women.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? You need to give me that lady's
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  Speaker 4: phone number so I can give it to him and
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  Speaker 4: make her talk his ears off. Because I'll tell you what, man.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what's up with that guy. But anyways,
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: about Sugar Creek guy, or is it Rock Creek?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Rock Creek.
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  Speaker 4: You know where he's been at? He's been calling some
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  Speaker 4: radio station over in Akron. I hear him when he
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  Speaker 4: calls over there. They've had to hang up on him
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  Speaker 4: a couple times because he got too long-winded. And then
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  Speaker 4: he calls the car guys up on Saturday. And you
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  Speaker 4: can just hear the air get sucked out of the
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  Speaker 4: room when he calls up. He's a nice guy. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't know. But like I said before, No,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he should have done what he did
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  Speaker 4: with bombing them. You know, just left them alone and
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  Speaker 4: just tightened up all our regulations here. Because everything was
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  Speaker 4: going great before the bombing. Really, fuel was coming down.
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  Speaker 4: I was hitting it for $ 2.
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  Speaker 3: 99.
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  Speaker 4: And, yeah, really, it seemed like things were just going
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  Speaker 4: back to normal. It was really good and great.
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  Speaker 2: But it screwed it up. Yep, you got it. You
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  Speaker 2: got it.
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  Speaker 4: All right, brother.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks. Appreciate it. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Well, to make a positive thing... The Guardians start tonight,
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  Speaker 5: and I have a prediction, I think, July. Well, we've
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  Speaker 5: got August and September. I think they'll win that division
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  Speaker 5: and get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: As I said to you before, a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: they did really well the first half of the year,
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  Speaker 3: then they tanked the second half of the year.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're right. I hope you're right.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, yep, and I'm still waiting about LeBron. I wonder
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  Speaker 5: if he's going to come here. I mean, to Cleveland,
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  Speaker 5: you know?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you thought the Browns were going to have
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  Speaker 3: a good year, too. I remember that prediction. Well, maybe
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  Speaker 3: I should just disregard these predictions, because you've been wrong
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  Speaker 3: more than you've been right lately, and it's very deeply
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  Speaker 3: disturbing to me. Well, you know, I've got to go
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  Speaker 3: on a roll again, right? You've lost your mojo. It's vanished.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well.
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  Speaker 2: Go get it back. Go get it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to get it back, I promise.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Dick from Dayton, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a repeat of 1945 all over again.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll elaborate on that. There's basically three things that
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  Speaker 1: we can do. Number one, load up the B-52 bombers
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  Speaker 1: from that bigger base in Italy and carpet bomb Tehran. Two,
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to happen. Number two, sending boots on
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  Speaker 1: the ground is not going to happen. Or number three,
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  Speaker 1: just leave, and that's not going to happen. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like the old saying, history repeats itself. And in
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  Speaker 1: a way, it's the same thing, but on a smaller scale.
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  Speaker 4: Your thoughts, Ron?
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  Speaker 2: I think that you gave a pretty good analysis.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you've given really good analysis.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to add to that. I think
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  Speaker 2: those are probably your three options. That's about it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I think that those are your three options right there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you ask me, is it worse since
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  Speaker 3: he did this?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The straight, we didn't have these problems until he engaged
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  Speaker 3: in this.
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  Speaker 2: Do I think it was necessary? No, I do not.
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  Speaker 2: Do I think it's an ongoing mistake? Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Do I think they have a strategy or a plan? No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: So do I think that these things can escalate even bigger?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 3: Do I think it can really devastate the economy, which
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  Speaker 3: is very fragile right now?
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely do. I absolutely do. Back with more in
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  Speaker 2: a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Heidi Hill, Ron Verb, NewsRadio 570. WKBN. And so I
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  Speaker 3: think that's an interesting headline. Economic outlook is worsening and
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  Speaker 3: Trump is getting blamed. That doesn't surprise me at all.
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  Speaker 3: S & P 500 falls 1%. Heads for losing week
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  Speaker 3: led by chip makers. Netflix plunges. Oil tankers face worst-case
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  Speaker 3: scenario in Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks, maritime.
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  Speaker 2: Risk CEO says.
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  Speaker 3: So you got oil tankers afraid to make a move?
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, what other headlines?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we shall see. I mean, market down big time
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  Speaker 3: today again. Bad day for your 401k or your retirements.
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  Speaker 3: Dow down 400, S & P down 76, NASDAQ down 361.
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  Speaker 2: Big down day. Another big down day. And there you go.
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  Speaker 2: You're on here.
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  Speaker 7: Is this Ron Hurd?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Is this J.J. the Trumpster?
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: You've had your mental health... I know you're going in
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  Speaker 3: for therapy, and some people thought I should refer to you.
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  Speaker 2: Now as J.J. the Trumpster.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think that... My wife told me that I
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  Speaker 7: used to call you a long time ago. I don't
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  Speaker 7: remember anything, but I remember very vague things. But I
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  Speaker 7: don't know. I think you're being very unfair to Trump
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  Speaker 7: right now. And I, you know. Why am I peeing myself?
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  Speaker 7: What the hell?
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  Speaker 2: The therapy must have worked, folks. J.J.
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  Speaker 3: Was receiving therapy for his liberal views to make him
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  Speaker 3: into a Trumpster supporter. And listen, so you're asking me
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  Speaker 3: why am I being so tough on Trump today?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're being quite unfair to him. This
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  Speaker 7: seems very abnormal for me to say this. I don't
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  Speaker 7: know why. Part of me says that I shouldn't be...
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  Speaker 7: supporting him i don't know why but the other day
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: i don't know what is what's going on i don't
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: remember the last four days so i.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Don't know what's well you were obviously in therapy uh
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: And nobody told me about it yeah.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: And obviously you were getting evaluated in some medical attention
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: for your liberalism as a mental disease, as Dr.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Savage used to say.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: And I know.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: You obviously got treatment for it. So now you are
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: an all new person. Do you feel good about yourself?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: No, really?
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: Bill, this is very abnormal for me to say this.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you sound much happier. J.J. the Trumpster seems
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: like a happier person than J.J.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: The liberal.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: You sound peppy. You're laughing.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: You sound like you're enjoying life all of a sudden.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You're not as angry.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: I'm laughing, but it doesn't feel right.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: How are you doing today, buddy?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I'm doing okay. Thank you.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: I know you've been... You're, you know, I have to,
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: I don't, I don't envy you at all. You know, you're.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Nor do I envy me at all either.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: You're just, you're, it's, you know, it's, as I said, you're,
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: you're struggling between, you know, and you always said that
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: you continue to support him because that's, and again, I..
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't blindly, though. Hey, JJ, I don't blindly
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: support anybody. I mean, when people are saying, well, let's
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: finish Shajab. Well, what does that mean? Does it mean
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: we murder most of the population of Iran? Is that
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: what finish Shajab means? Do we not think if we
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: do something like that, that they won't fight back with
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: everything they got against us and against anybody who's aligned
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: with us?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Do we not think that that..
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: Closing the borders, which, you know, I told you many
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: times that I didn't want people in here that shouldn't
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: be in here. That would be foolish of me. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: didn't want them in here and hurting our..
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Well, see, you weren't a cheerleader for the far left
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: because you didn't like the open borders.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: No, because the far left is quite crazy. I remember
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: there was a story, I don't think I ever told you,
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: but briefly, there was a... During, I think, the uh..
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Uh..
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Indeed you know that bill king's rallies uh... and it
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: was a a woman that was uh... she was there
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: and she was uh... you know supporting the rallies and
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: what not in she was taking a break to go
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: have some lunch and she was sitting at a uh...
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: like a little cafe outside and she was sitting there
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: by herself eating and it was a bunch of young
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: people going by and they were all high strung and
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: they were you know trump this trump that and and
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: they were looking at her and they were kind of uh...
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: being you know that they were asking her to kind
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: of get um... All right.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Back with Gigi in
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a minute.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Let's start here.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: So good morning and welcome.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: We are now underway.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: We're following the events of the day.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: What we're just now hearing about. This is new information.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Throughout the day. Good day.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: This is where it stands now.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: Pick up the conversation.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: We'll talk about what's happening.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Anytime.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: The deal we reached with Iran.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: The devil's in the details.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Bringing the price of gasoline down.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Maintain the Fed funds rate. Tying Pfizer to the safe.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: NATO has been a paper tiger.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: For the very latest.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: We'll see how that all plays out.
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: The CDC is advising that nobody eat shredded iceberg lettuce
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: from Taco Bell locations in Ohio. CDC says more than
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: 1,600 people who have become sick with cyclosporiasis ate lettuce
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: from Taco Bell locations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: West Virginia before they got sick. CDC says it's continuing
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: to investigate other outbreaks and illnesses of cyclosporiasis nationally that
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: are not related to the outbreak stemming from Taco Bell.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: Air quality advisory continues for the entire state of Ohio
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: because of the smoke from Canadian wildfires. Pollution levels could
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: range from unhealthy to hazardous, with several Ohio communities reporting
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: extremely high readings earlier today.
• 22:59
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  Speaker 2: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: All right, back.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: To it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: So it's a mess, JJ. It really is a mess.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, I just think that economically speaking,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not optimistic.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not optimistic at all.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Never mind. Even if there was a Democrat that's in
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: power right now, I'm not enthusiastic about that either. And
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: just a quick story that there was a woman that
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: was at the New Queens rally. She was sitting down
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: by herself eating. A bunch of people were going by,
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: and they were all animated and everything about getting rid
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: of Trump. And they were kind of going and trying
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: to get her out. animated also, and she was kind
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: of waved them off like, I'm just eating my lunch,
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: you know? And they went over, and they started to
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: attack her, not physically, but, you know, calling her names
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: and everything that you're not in. And it was like
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: the woman was just trying to eat her lunch, even
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: though she was supporting the whole thing about, against Trump.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: But even the left can be, is crazy. And it
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: just kind of showed a an example of how both
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: sides on extremes are, we don't need it. You know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: we don't need the extremes on the right or the left.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: And that just reminds me of who you are, that
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: you're trying to find that balance between it all. And again,
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: I have to give you some kudos there and some, Captain,
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: that you're trying to to keep everybody grounded and yet
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: support your candidate, and that's difficult to do. And I
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: have to admire you. You and I don't agree on
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: a lot of things, but we do agree on this,
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: that neither one of us are cheerleaders for this kind
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: of stuff. And, you know, you have to– even the
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: people that I'm closest to, Ron, I don't agree with.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: And I think that for us to not do that–
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: You're either there's something wrong with you or you're trying
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: to get something from somebody. You know, so I, again,
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: I just wanted to chime in and let you know that. And,
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: you know, that's why I feel very fondly of you
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: is that even though we disagree, I have to give
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: you credit for things that you stand for your opinions.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: And that's a good thing.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And I do you as well. You have a wonderful weekend.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: You hear me, my friends? You too.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: It's JJ Newsradio 570 WKBN. I'd take more calls momentarily.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I was just reading a story from CNBC. When a
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: man in a black Air Jordan t-shirt walked up to
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: a self-checkout kiosk at a Louisiana Lowe's last spring, he
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: looked like any other customer. Over the course of about
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: seven minutes, he methodically rang up different gift cards for
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: $ 95 each, using his phone to tap to pay for
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: each card as a red-vested associate circled nearby, surveillance video showed.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Unknown to the employee, the man was part of a
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: sprawling Chinese crime ring using stolen credit cards to buy
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: gift cards while a Southeast Asian scam compound coached him
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: through each transaction through the wireless headphones in his ears,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: police say. We know that there are hundreds of individuals
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: at any one time doing this across the country, said
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Adam Parkes, an assistant special agent in charge with U.S.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Homeland Security Investigations, who investigated the case. Even though you
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: think that's $ 95 every.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Transaction, that adds up to a lot of money.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: After the man left the hardware store, he purchased more
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: gift cards with stolen credit card information at another retailer,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: only to return to the original Lowe's the same day
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to repeat the act. He was not arrested and is
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: still a suspect. Lowe's didn't respond to repeated requests for
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: comments for CNBC. While credit card theft and fraud isn't new,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: with the proliferation of tap-to-pay and growing use of retail apps,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: these digital thefts are shaping the next wave of organized
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: retail crime and earning Chinese gangs as much as $ 1
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: billion annually. Unlike typical retail theft operations where criminals clear
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: out shelves in big box stores and resell merchandise piece
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: by piece on online marketplaces, the crimes can be carried
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: out right under the store employee's nose or from a
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: computer anywhere in the world. It's a very low risk
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: for the bad actors, said Scott Glenn, vice president of
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: asset protection at the Home Depot. It's not the same
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: thing as walking into Home Depot, filling up a cart
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: full of power tools and then walking out. It's just
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: not as visible. It's not as obvious to what's happening
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: out there, so it's become a more preferred method over
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: the last several years. Fraudsters have selected retailers as their
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: targets because their platforms carry sensitive information such as store
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: credit cards and personal data, but they do not have
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: the same level of security as banks, according to industry experts.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: There's no firm data on how much retailers are losing
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: from digital forms of retail crime. But CNBC found about
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: a dozen criminal cases across the country affecting a wide
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: variety of retailers that police said involve a combination of
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: organized groups and low-level fraudsters. The cases are complex and
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: often hard for local authorities to handle, said the Knox
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee, who said he's been investigating
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: a fraud ring with ties to Chinese organized crime. Unless
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the theft hits a certain dollar threshold, rises to the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: level of a federal crime, it's kind of like they
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: get away with it. Tap-to-pay fraud, which involves a fraudster
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: adding a stolen credit card to their digital wallets and
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: using it to buy gift cards or merchandise. often starts
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: with a familiar text message and can end with an
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: unwitting customer identifying up for sale on platforms such as Telegram.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Well, let me read that again.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Often starts with a familiar text message and can end
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: up with an unwitting customer's identity up for sale on
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: platforms such as Telegram. Fraudsters send out mass text messages
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: warning about unpaid tolls. I've gotten those. Expiring car registration
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: or pending arrests that are designed to scare customers. and
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: consumers into providing their credit card information, email credentials, or
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: other sensitive data. AI has only made the schemes easier
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: as crime groups can scale the scams more quickly and
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: make the messages appear more legitimate.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I don't go along with any of them.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Once a fraudster has a person's email, password, and credit card,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: they can load that card into a device that they control,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: said Jeff Otto, the chief marketing officer of Riskified, a
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: tech company that works with retailers including Foot Locker, Peloton,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and BJ's Wholesale Club to fight fraud. When the bank
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: reaches out to say, hey, Is that you loading a card,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: they've already got access to the victim's email and can
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: often click it for a one-time passcode before consumers notice.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Low-level opportunists engage in tap-to-play schemes, can operate independently using
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: a practice to either buy merchandise or purchase gift cards
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: and resell them at a discount for cash. But on
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Chinese organized crime level, the practice involves an entire criminal network,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Park said. In order to get profits back to China,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: crime groups use tap to pay fraud to buy gift cards,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: and then they use those gift cards in purchase of
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: high-value goods that can be resold at a premium in China,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: such as iPhones and American settings. With American settings, Park said,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the practice allows gangs to skirt strict bank laws, both
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: in the U.S. and China, and convert higher amounts of
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: cash in a legitimate economy. At the heart of the
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: strategy are foot soldiers, such as a customer at Lowe's,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: who police say helped carry out the fraud, which in
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the years since the COVID-19 pandemic has ramped up, along
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: with a surge of Chinese nationals at U.S.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Land crossings.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: People looking to enter the country illegally often rely on
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: smugglers and organized crime networks, and then they owe a
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: debt to the crime groups, and they need to repay
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: the debt once they're in the U.S. So they're going
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: to instruct you on how to go into a store,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: convert the stolen credit card information into acquiring goods, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: then now you're going to ship those goods back to China.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: That's where a lot of times we get our arrest reports.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: But it's the lowest level in this organization. Tap-to-pay schemes
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: can also include retail app fraud, which involves stealing someone's credentials,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: logging into their account, and using store credit card information
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: to purchase merchandise or gift cards. So beware of all
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: of this kind of stuff, man. So if you get
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: a text message that you got unpaid tolls on that,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: don't fall for it. CNBC saw that login credentials for
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Walmart's app and website were being sold on various telegram
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: channels for between $ 1. 50 and $ 2. 50 with information about how
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: long the account had been active. They have Yahoo addresses
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: that are 10 years old, Gmails that are 10 years old.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: These are older accounts that often get passed someone of
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: more fraud checks because we tend to trust accounts. that
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: have been with us for a long time.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: So there you go. I mean, it's a lot.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: It goes on, man. So don't be a victim of fraud.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I'm trying news you can use, trying to prevent you
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: from being a victim of fraud.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: Delete and report spam. If you don't know what it is,
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: just delete and report spam on your phone. Immediately, don't
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: even open it.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Exactly, professor. I can call you professor now. Realistically and technically.
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: Yes, it's official. It's actually official.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Excellent. Yes.
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: And don't open any emails. If you don't know what
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: it is, just delete it. No attachments. You're not going to.
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: If they can't figure out how to get a hold
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: of you in person or something, it's not important in
• 33:57
  Speaker 9: today's world.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I totally agree. I get it all the time. I mean,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I absolutely get it all the time. It's like some
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: of these people buy– the post office doesn't sell stamps
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: at a discount. And, like, you'll see people, oh, I
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: bought a roll of stamps for, like, 50 bucks instead
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: of 100 bucks. Well, it's not legitimate. It's just not
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: the real deal. I mean, there's so many scams out
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: there that people are running. And people fall for it
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: all the time. And they're getting better, they say, with A.I., Oh, boy.
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: You can make a lot of things look official. Yes,
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: it's really scary.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: That's going to be a whole new line.
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: Of work, which is using AI to fight AI.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Well, what they said is the problem with AI is
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: it's going to teach you not to believe what you
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: see because you don't know if what you're seeing is
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: fact or fiction.
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm doing experiments with it. I don't
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: have to say Claude. I don't know about all of them,
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: but Claude is kind of ethical. Like, it won't jump
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: into things that you might think, you know, risque. You
• 35:07
  Speaker 9: probably wouldn't get much luck out of it at all,
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: you know. But it was Sarah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: It's all right.
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: You can hurt my feelings.
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: I was going to go to like Pornhub or something,
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: you know, the classic, but I try to, you.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Got to go to the ones that everybody knows. It
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: has more punch to it. If you do that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: No, I'll stick with that. But yeah, you know, it's,
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: it is, it's, it's scary. It's scary. It started, things
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: are starting to happen. I've always said, like you say,
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: I stuff is like a big retooling. Like I've had
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: to do every three or four years, but it's, maybe
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: the same retooling times five.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: As I do it, I'm.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing. Let me jump around on you.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you, I've been listening to some people with
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: their dissertations on these AI centers, and some of them
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: are really eye-opening when you hear about..
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: All these AI centers.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: And it's like, are we supposed to basically when you're
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: hearing people that are expressing huge concerns over, uh, the
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: amount of water that they use. And even if it's
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: a closed system, at some point you have to rinse
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: that system out. And so what happens to that water
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: and the chemicals that, uh, that are, that are used
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: in it? How do you dispose of it? Uh, the
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: water demands and the power demands are so huge, as
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: we all know for AI, that you are seeing electric
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: rates skyrocket and water rates skyrocket in large areas of
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: this country, including areas where the water comes from aquifers
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: and AI uses so much water that it's really has
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: depleted some people's wells, so they got to drill deeper.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, at some point, I think, Maybe some of
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: these people are right that there needs to be a
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: moratorium and a pause on these AI centers because of
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: what they are doing to our energy consumption and the
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: prices that we all have to pay. Electricity is getting
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: very expensive.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: You know a map I just made, Ron? What's that?
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  Speaker 9: I just sent it to you. I did a data
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  Speaker 9: center directory for Ohio. So all of the different data
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  Speaker 9: centers in Ohio are on a map with pins and...
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  Speaker 9: even the one that's being proposed now in Niles. And
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  Speaker 9: it came out quite interesting. There's actually 125 facilities in
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  Speaker 9: the state of Ohio right now that are either working
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  Speaker 9: or in proposal. And not all of them are these
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  Speaker 9: hyperscale ones. That's what I'm kind of studying, too, the
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  Speaker 9: different types. There's smaller ones that are for universities and
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  Speaker 9: stuff they call those co-locations. And the hyperscale are the
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  Speaker 9: big ones that use all kinds of resources.
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  Speaker 3: I think I talked to you about it before. Where
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  Speaker 3: in the country was it where this data center was
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  Speaker 3: going to basically use all the electricity? And the electric
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: provider said, well, if you were a home, you're on
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  Speaker 3: your own. You've got to go to someone else. We're
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  Speaker 3: not going to be able to provide you with electricity
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  Speaker 3: because we're selling it all to this data center.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, some of the concerns are ….
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  Speaker 3: I can't recall where it was. Some of the concerns
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  Speaker 3: that people are expressing as far as water consumption and
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  Speaker 3: power consumption are legitimate concerns to have, are absolutely legitimate
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  Speaker 3: concerns for a.
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  Speaker 2: Community to have.
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  Speaker 3: Even like with my electric bill, my last electric bill
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  Speaker 3: with air conditioning was like $ 261 at Verb Manor.
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  Speaker 2: That's the highest.
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  Speaker 3: Electric bill I've ever had. It used to be like
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  Speaker 3: maybe $ 150. So it's gone up substantially. because the cost
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  Speaker 3: of electricity has doubled in our neck of the woods here. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it'll probably go up more as the demand continues to increase. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course, these idiots with Obama and Kerry ripped down
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  Speaker 3: those coal-fired plants and helped to create more of a shortage.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think, Michael, from a consumer standpoint, we are
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  Speaker 3: really screwed now. We have high electric rates, which have
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  Speaker 3: doubled and will go up more. We have property taxes,
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  Speaker 3: which continue to soar. We have gasoline costs, which are
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  Speaker 3: going up. We have the uncertainty of this whole Iran situation.
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  Speaker 3: which affects fertilizer and food prices and so much more.
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  Speaker 3: I can't look around economically and see anything good going
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  Speaker 3: on right now or for the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 2: Can you?
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  Speaker 9: I think it's actually signs that it's bad for humanity
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  Speaker 9: right now. When you think about, in general... They're coming
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: up with an alternative for much labor, right?
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  Speaker 2: Stand by for me.
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  Speaker 3: Stand by. Pick your brain. Let him continue his thought.
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  Speaker 3: Right so 455 news radio 570 wkbn you were saying
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  Speaker 3: ai what bothers you from a what humanitarian standpoint.
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  Speaker 9: Humanity you know like we basically were a society and
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  Speaker 9: through history you know the people work for the man
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  Speaker 9: right the people that got the money they're making that
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  Speaker 9: are doing things and And there were all the way
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  Speaker 9: down to slaves and serfs all over the world before
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  Speaker 9: when people weren't valued, right? So that's like the worst
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  Speaker 9: side of what can happen. And what you're seeing here is, literally,
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  Speaker 9: it sounds like a replacement because, you know, humans don't
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  Speaker 9: want to keep having babies and stuff. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 9: they still want to run the shops.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I go back.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think it's going to be good for humans.
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  Speaker 3: I go back to say this, though, when you say
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, it's really irritating. My son, Clayton Buck,
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  Speaker 3: was saying, well, his generation, they're not having enough children
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  Speaker 3: or more children.
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  Speaker 2: And my son said it. I would counter it to you.
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  Speaker 3: It's because everything is so damn expensive, including having children.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's a legitimate point he's making there.
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  Speaker 3: The arrogance of people really saying productive people who actually
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  Speaker 3: pay for daycare, who foot the bill, the unproductive, they
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: can have plenty of children because they're on the dole.
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  Speaker 3: But the productive people are saying we can't afford more
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  Speaker 3: than one child or two at the most. Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: They no longer let the unproductive people's kids work in
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  Speaker 9: the fields. They give them more stuff, too, now. You know,
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  Speaker 9: they spoil them, too. I mean, I'm not, you know,
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  Speaker 9: I understand, but I'm just saying, the rich people look
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  Speaker 9: at the world differently. They look at it as a
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  Speaker 9: bunch of resources.
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  Speaker 1: They have no.
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  Speaker 9: Emotions when it comes to that. And that's all I'm
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  Speaker 9: saying is I see them gearing up. Just say, oh,
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  Speaker 9: electricity is going to cost you so much, maybe you
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  Speaker 9: just won't need as much electricity in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I would count you with that.
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  Speaker 3: Believe me when I tell you, remember John Kerry said
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  Speaker 3: that we should live more like they do in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, we shouldn't be using air conditioning. He's
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: one of the Green New Deal people, right?
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  Speaker 2: Clinton, Trump.
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  Speaker 3: And Obama and Kerry, of course, they would all have
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  Speaker 3: air conditioning. Make no mistake, they would still use air conditioning.
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  Speaker 3: They're just saying, you shouldn't have air conditioning. You should
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: live like they do in Europe. Now you see with
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: the soccer event, when they come over here, they're saying,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: this is wonderful. Air conditioning is great. It's just hot
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  Speaker 3: as hell. We're in France and the humidity is terrible.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: And you have more deaths as a result of it.
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  Speaker 3: And Kerry thinks we should live like they do. Instead,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: they should live like us.
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  Speaker 9: Well, he's the man, he's rich, and he don't care.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Right, but they're going to get their way if they
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: continue to increase the cost of electricity, where people are
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: going to be so damn afraid to turn it on
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: because it's so expensive they can't afford to turn it on.
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  Speaker 9: Unless these kids get busy and defy economics, it's already
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  Speaker 9: too late.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean by that, then? What does that mean,
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  Speaker 3: if these kids get busy and defy economics?
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  Speaker 4: What..
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  Speaker 2: What's that mean?
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  Speaker 9: Okay, economics is just what you said. I can't afford
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  Speaker 9: to have kids. So I'm not going to do it. Okay,
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  Speaker 9: you're not going.
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  Speaker 7: To have kids.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by. Stand by.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Let me do my break, and I'm going to come
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: back to that. I don't want to get an explanation
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: on that. Ron Verber, we're here tonight until 6. News
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