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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Monday, 07/27/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: On a good-looking Monday afternoon, News Radio 570, WQEN and
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  Speaker 2: Ron Verp. It's 87 degrees, a little bit on the
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  Speaker 2: hot and humid side today, but we'll make the best
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  Speaker 2: of it. Welcome. It's Monday, July 27th. We'll be with
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  Speaker 2: you until we solve the world's problems, as we always do.
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  Speaker 2: Top secret number, 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 3: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: Programming notes. Ah, yes, programming notes. I'm going to take
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  Speaker 2: Friday off. Actually, I'm going to take Friday and Monday off.
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  Speaker 2: All right? I'm going to have a long weekend. How
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  Speaker 2: about that? So we'll be with you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: and Thursday this week. Friday, we're going to take a
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  Speaker 2: day off. And Monday, we're going to take a day off.
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll be back on Tuesday. Just a programming
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  Speaker 2: notes on 570. So keep that in mind. And we start.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to our phone lines. And I'm always curious
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  Speaker 2: what seems to be. Race it up the flagpole. See
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  Speaker 2: if anyone salutes. Rich, hello.
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  Speaker 4: Ron, good afternoon, sir. How was your weekend?
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  Speaker 2: It was great. Too short, as they like to say.
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  Speaker 2: They just seem to go by so fast. They really do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, unfortunately. Life goes by too fast, if you think
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 2: My wife and I went out to dinner Saturday night
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  Speaker 2: with some friends, and it was just a wonderful time.
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  Speaker 2: It was absolutely a wonderful time. We had just a
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  Speaker 2: terrific meal and a terrific time. So that makes life
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  Speaker 2: worth living, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Amen. We had most of the family over yesterday, had dinner,
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  Speaker 4: did a little swimming. It was a great, great day.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Thank God you're alive and healthy. That's all that matters.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy life.
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  Speaker 4: We take it for granted because you just never know
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  Speaker 4: when the guy upstairs is going to pull your number.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Incidentally, it has nothing to do with anything other
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  Speaker 2: than I just tell you. Folks, I've gone through all
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  Speaker 2: my life without taking many prescriptions at all. I take
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  Speaker 2: Singular for asthma and allergies and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great drug. I don't know. It's generic for Singular.
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  Speaker 2: And I just recently went on the lowest dose possible
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  Speaker 2: of Crestor, folks. It looks like a dot. The pill
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  Speaker 2: is so small. Just to bring everything in line. And
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  Speaker 2: it works phenomenal. I mean, the pill is so tiny, Mr. Pharmacist.
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  Speaker 2: It's unreal. I mean, it's... But it works wonders. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's the lowest possible dose. And I was telling Rich,
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  Speaker 2: the pharmacist, I just started taking– now, this is it.
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  Speaker 2: As you get older, you start taking more stuff. What? Metformin.
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  Speaker 2: After I talk with Rich and everything like that. And
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  Speaker 2: it actually has a lot of positive things about it.
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  Speaker 2: So I started taking my Metformin, Rich, after I talked
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  Speaker 2: to you. After I talked to you, not after I
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  Speaker 2: talked to my doctor and everything. I talked to Rich,
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  Speaker 2: the pharmacist, and said, okay, that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're being proactive, which is what you should be. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: most people are. Most people wait until they have the
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  Speaker 4: heart attack or their diabetes is out of control, their
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  Speaker 4: A1C is 8, 9, 10 or higher when it should
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  Speaker 4: be under 6. And if you're proactive and you start
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  Speaker 4: taking stuff, we can put off, we can modify disease states.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot we can do. compared to when our
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  Speaker 4: parents were our age.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I found interesting, and true or false,
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  Speaker 2: metformin was actually used for something else before they used
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  Speaker 2: it for lowering your A1C, if you will. And mine
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  Speaker 2: is just slightly elevated. But it was actually used for malaria.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that? I was unaware of that. They
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  Speaker 2: used it for malaria.
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  Speaker 4: I actually did not. Glucophage was the brand name of that.
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  Speaker 4: And that came out, I graduated in 91 from pharmacy school.
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  Speaker 4: That probably came out around 94, 95 in this country.
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  Speaker 4: It was probably out before that. But it was just old,
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  Speaker 4: it was just new enough that we never studied it
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  Speaker 4: when I was in pharmacy school.
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  Speaker 2: Metformin?
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  Speaker 4: It's a unique drug. It's the only drug of its kind.
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  Speaker 4: It has no competition. There's nothing else like metformin. It
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  Speaker 4: lowers insulin resistance. It's a great drug. and it pushes
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  Speaker 4: back if you're pre-diabetic. For anybody out there that has
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  Speaker 4: pre-diabetes or metabolic syndrome, you should probably be on Metformin
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  Speaker 4: 500 once or twice a day to start just because
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  Speaker 4: it will push back the onset of diabetes. It'll push
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  Speaker 4: back the progression of the metabolic syndrome. It's a great drug.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of great drugs out there, and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of them now are generic and they're cheap.
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  Speaker 2: It is really something how inexpensive... They are. Like, Crestor
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  Speaker 2: used to be really expensive.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, when it was brand, yeah. Yeah, once it goes generic.
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  Speaker 4: But you could probably buy a whole year's supply. If
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  Speaker 4: you had your doctor rate you for, say, 350 or
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  Speaker 4: 400 tablets of Crestor, 10 milligrams, whatever you're on, 5 milligram,
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  Speaker 4: 10 milligram, and you brought it in and we put
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  Speaker 4: it on GoodRx, you're probably looking at, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: 40 bucks for the whole year.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that amazing?
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  Speaker 4: 50 at the most. Yeah, same thing. Metformin's the same way.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many. Anything that's generic, typically. or I'd say 98%
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  Speaker 4: of what's out there generic is very inexpensive.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, though, there's something that's worked for allergies,
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  Speaker 2: if you've ever had allergies, pollen or whatever the case is,
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  Speaker 2: or cat fur and that kind of stuff. And that's
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  Speaker 2: how I got on monoglucose or whatever. Yeah, singular is
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  Speaker 2: basically it's. And I have two cats. I remember going
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  Speaker 2: to the Northside Hospital. I got this test, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I was allergic to cat dander and cat stuff
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  Speaker 2: and this kind of stuff. You know, they do those tests.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of cool, actually. But so then I got
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  Speaker 2: on singular. This is several years ago. And boy, it's
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  Speaker 2: it was it's done wonders. And it's it seemed to
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  Speaker 2: take care of any type of allergies you might have
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  Speaker 2: as far as. Pollen and that kind of stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: no side effects on that at all. But I've been
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  Speaker 2: on that for a while. And then I just recently
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  Speaker 2: went on that. I mean, you know how tiny that
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  Speaker 2: pill is.
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  Speaker 4: It's Crestor. It's like a pinprick.
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  Speaker 2: It's like five milligrams. It's the lowest dose. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's five milligrams. But it's absolutely amazing what that does
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  Speaker 2: as far as your numbers are concerned. I mean, with
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  Speaker 2: that tiny, tiny, tiny bit of... of a pill.
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  Speaker 4: It's the most, out of all the statins that are
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  Speaker 4: out there, and there's probably a dozen of them if
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  Speaker 4: we added them all up, it's the most potent. On
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  Speaker 4: a milligram per milligram basis, you get the best cholesterol
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  Speaker 4: lowering with Crestor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I stopped, folks, I stopped drinking pop
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  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff, sugar and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. And my sugar was just slightly out. I'm
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  Speaker 2: right at the, I'm on the borderline, to quote Madonna,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the borderline. And they said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it just ticked up slightly. It's, you know, still below six,
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  Speaker 2: but it should be maybe a little bit lower than
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. And so they put me on
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  Speaker 2: the lowest dose of metformin. And before I took it,
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  Speaker 2: a true story, who did I call and who did
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  Speaker 2: I ask about? This guy right here who explained it
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  Speaker 2: all to me. And then I looked. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of positive things that it does outside of what it's
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  Speaker 2: prescribed for. I mean, it's really something. So I just
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  Speaker 2: thought I'd let you know. I listen to you. I
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  Speaker 2: listen to you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's nice somebody does.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people do. But that's enough. That's about
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  Speaker 2: all I should take because I'm healthy for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: I'm honestly blessed at this point that I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to take a bunch of prescription stuff. But this stuff
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  Speaker 2: is more preventative, I would say, than anything.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah. And like I said, you've got the beginning
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  Speaker 4: stages of what they refer to as metabolic syndrome. Which
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  Speaker 4: probably 70-80% of Americans do. It's just part of getting
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  Speaker 4: old and having the diet and the habits that we
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  Speaker 4: have in this country. It just develops. And if you
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  Speaker 4: don't treat it, and if you're not proactive with it,
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  Speaker 4: it will eventually, over time, become diabetes. Type 2 diabetes.
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  Speaker 2: How does that GoodRx card even work that you were
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  Speaker 2: talking about? So many people say, well, if you put
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  Speaker 2: it on GoodRx or whatever, the price comes down. Why
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  Speaker 2: is that? I mean, it's not a prescription card.
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  Speaker 4: You know how when you go to the doctor, let's
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  Speaker 4: say you have an office visit, and you get the statement,
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  Speaker 4: the explanation of benefits from your benefit provider, and the
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  Speaker 4: doctor billed $ 120 or $ 150 for the offices, and it
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  Speaker 4: says your cost is $ 65, and then they deduct your
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  Speaker 4: co-pay or whatever. If it's a preventative, it might be free.
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  Speaker 4: So it's the same thing with us. To maximize what
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  Speaker 4: we're getting on insurance, because insurance, almost nobody today doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have some type of insurance. When I first started, I
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  Speaker 4: worked for FarmWorks. That was my first job. And they
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  Speaker 4: catered at that time. Eighty percent of the people were
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  Speaker 4: paying cash. They had no insurance that picked up their
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  Speaker 4: prescriptions other than they could turn, and once you hit
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  Speaker 4: your deductible, your 80-20 deductible, you could turn in your
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  Speaker 4: prescription expenses and your insurance would reimburse you. 80% of
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  Speaker 4: the cost. But only 20% had a copay card where
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  Speaker 4: you came in and paid $ 5 or $ 10 or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: So now it's the complete opposite. It's 95% of the
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  Speaker 4: people have some type of a copay prescription card. And
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  Speaker 4: so all the chains, everybody else, it's just like the
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  Speaker 4: healthcare industry, they charge an astronomical rack rate price for
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  Speaker 4: because they know they're only going to get reimbursed if
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  Speaker 4: the insurance wants to. So you're trying to do it
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  Speaker 4: to maximize your reimbursement. What GoodRx is basically doing is saying,
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  Speaker 4: you as a consumer who is paying cash and not
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  Speaker 4: using an insurance, we will give it to you for
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  Speaker 4: the same rate that we would buy it for Blue
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  Speaker 4: Cross Blue Shield or whoever, Anthem or whoever. So you're
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  Speaker 4: getting the insurance company's price is basically what it comes
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  Speaker 4: down to.
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  Speaker 2: And anybody can get a good RX card for free, right?
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  Speaker 4: Just go right online. Go to goodRX.com. You can put
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  Speaker 4: in your drug, your strength, the quantity you want. And
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  Speaker 4: I would tell people, if you're buying something on a
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  Speaker 4: good RX card, and you go to goodrx.com, you look
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  Speaker 4: at the quantity. At the very last one, there's something
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  Speaker 4: called custom quantity. You can put in whatever quantity you
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  Speaker 4: want if you click that. So I always do year supplies,
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  Speaker 4: and you will save a lot more if you buy
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  Speaker 4: a year at a time. Let's say you buy 90
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  Speaker 4: days or 100 days worth of Resuvastatin 5 that you're on.
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  Speaker 4: It might come up $ 12 or $ 15. But if you
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  Speaker 4: put in 400 tablets, it might only come up $ 35.
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  Speaker 4: And it's just so I'm on a lot of medicine, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 4: I ate myself into diabetes. But now you're skinny. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I worked hard at it. I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 4: it took me a long time to get to diabetes.
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  Speaker 4: I earned every bit of it. But, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I got on the GLP. I've been on four or
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  Speaker 4: five of the different GLPs since they came out. I'm
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  Speaker 4: on Mungero now. And they're phenomenal drugs. They are absolutely phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: One in ten people in this country, I just saw
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  Speaker 4: a stat, is now taking a GLP. And we should
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  Speaker 4: probably get it up to four or five people out
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  Speaker 4: of every ten in this country because it will change
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  Speaker 4: disease states. You will see people get healthier. You're going
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  Speaker 4: to see people that nobody in this country, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going to say nobody, probably 95% of the people in
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  Speaker 4: this country that are fat or overweight Don't want to be.
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  Speaker 4: They would love to be skinnier, but just metabolically and
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  Speaker 4: with our diet and everything with our culture, it's very difficult.
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  Speaker 4: And I struggled with it since I was a young
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  Speaker 4: kid in elementary school. I started ballooning up after first grade.
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  Speaker 4: And nobody wants to. With the GLPs, it's almost impossible
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  Speaker 4: to be heavy after you start taking one. I think
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  Speaker 4: I've lost, my height I think was up to about 285.
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  Speaker 4: I'm down to around 215 now. And my numbers, my
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  Speaker 4: A1C is under six, my cholesterol, all of it. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the numbers are phenomenal. They're great drugs. I wish, they're
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  Speaker 4: stupid expensive, although Trump Rx and a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: stuff he's doing is bringing the cost down substantially over
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  Speaker 4: what it was because before that, If you wanted to
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  Speaker 4: buy them, even on a good or X card, because
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  Speaker 4: there's no generic, you were looking at $ 1, 300, $ 1, 400. Now
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  Speaker 4: with these new programs, these new bridge programs that the
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  Speaker 4: seniors are getting, because it's typically not, if you're not diabetic,
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  Speaker 4: they don't cover it for weight loss. But they've got
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  Speaker 4: that bridge program where I think you start out at
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  Speaker 4: around $ 150 a month, and the longer you stay on it,
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  Speaker 4: it progresses up, it might go up to $ 250 or
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  Speaker 4: $ 300 a month, which is still a decent amount of money.
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  Speaker 4: But if you're getting yourself healthier and your health's getting better,
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  Speaker 4: your weight is coming down, you're getting your diabetes under control,
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  Speaker 4: you're probably going to live longer, you're going to have
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  Speaker 4: a better quality of life. There's a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: out there now that the orthopedes are worried because if
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  Speaker 4: you start getting people in their 30s and 40s to
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  Speaker 4: lose all the weight, by the time they hit their
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  Speaker 4: late 50s and 60s, they're not going to need nearly
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  Speaker 4: as many hip replacements and knee replacements.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a lot of long-term benefits to that class
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  Speaker 4: of drugs. But same thing with the cholesterol drugs. When
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  Speaker 4: they first came out, they were really expensive. Now they're cheap.
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  Speaker 4: They do a good job at arresting cardiac block, you know,
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  Speaker 4: development cardiac blockage development and things like that. They're not 100%,
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  Speaker 4: but it's been one of the only things we have
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  Speaker 4: that works really well. And they're cheap. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you can tolerate it, why not give yourself that advantage?
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  Speaker 2: I was reading where they said how expensive these– what
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  Speaker 2: the shots are that people are taking for– people who
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  Speaker 2: have type 2 diabetes, it's necessary for them. Then people
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  Speaker 2: started taking them because they were overweight. But they're saying
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  Speaker 2: it's expensive and– If Medicare would cover it, it could
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  Speaker 2: be the end of Medicare. But the price is coming down.
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  Speaker 2: But they also said there's the other side of it,
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  Speaker 2: that if more people got on them like you did,
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  Speaker 2: it might save Medicare because a lot of the procedures
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  Speaker 2: that people need wouldn't be necessary because their numbers would
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  Speaker 2: be in line. They would be healthier as they got older.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my one neighbor, I was talking to him, and
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  Speaker 4: he's an engineer, and he said he read an article
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  Speaker 4: that the airlines are actually– finding out that the average
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  Speaker 4: weight of their loads now has decreased because so many
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  Speaker 4: people have lost weight. The average weight of a passenger
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  Speaker 4: has gone down the last couple of years. So they're
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  Speaker 4: burning less fuel and things like that. And that's just
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  Speaker 4: an economic advantage. The health advantages to them are tremendous.
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  Speaker 4: For Pete, for the right person, if you're Tall and skinny,
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  Speaker 4: you don't need to be on a GLP. Right. But
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  Speaker 4: if your body mass index, your BMI, is over 30, 32,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to get tremendous health benefits from getting on
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  Speaker 4: one and dropping the weight and getting yourself in shape,
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  Speaker 4: especially if you start to exercise and combine it with
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  Speaker 4: exercise and modify your diet a little bit. It's almost
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  Speaker 4: hard not to modify your diet because you just don't
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  Speaker 4: want to eat. I took my shot, I think, it's
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  Speaker 4: once a week. I think I took mine Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think before 1 or 2 o'clock today I
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  Speaker 4: even ate anything. Really? Some water or stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: You're just not hungry. I never eat because I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 4: I only eat because maybe I want to eat.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Stand by.
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  Speaker 4: Hang on.
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  Speaker 2: Back with Rich, a pharmacist. Some of your calls ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Ron Verp, NewsRadio 570 WQEN.
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  Speaker 7: Transform your bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Weather and talk station 570 WKBN. All right, back to Rich,
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  Speaker 1: the pharmacist.
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  Speaker 2: So you think a lot of people are on these,
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  Speaker 2: what Trump calls them, the fat shot.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if you're taking it for weight loss,
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  Speaker 4: that's what it is. I mean, you're using it to
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  Speaker 4: reduce the amount of body fat. So that's not a
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  Speaker 4: bad thing to call it. Like I said, how many
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  Speaker 4: people you know that are overweight do you think are
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  Speaker 4: happy that they're overweight?
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  Speaker 2: Not a one.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: It's just very difficult. If it was easy, everybody would
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  Speaker 4: be skinny. It's hard. It's really hard because I tried
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  Speaker 4: it most of my life. And you yo-yo up. Because
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  Speaker 4: it's the lifestyle change you have to make. The GLP
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  Speaker 4: makes the lifestyle change for you because you just can't eat.
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  Speaker 4: And if you do, if you start to eat, within
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  Speaker 4: a couple bites, you fill up. And the only bad
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  Speaker 4: thing is, is I love food. I mean, don't get
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  Speaker 4: me wrong. I love food. And you just can't enjoy
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  Speaker 4: it as much because you just can't consume nearly as
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  Speaker 4: much as you used to. And a lot of times
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  Speaker 4: you look like, you know, this time of year, there
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  Speaker 4: is nothing better to me than a good steak on
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  Speaker 4: the grill and some fresh corn on the cob. There's
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  Speaker 4: a little Mennonite farm, Catalpa Grove Farms out in Columbiana,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: phenomenal corn. It's like eating candy. I used to be
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: able to eat probably four or five, six years of corn.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: If I get one or two and maybe half a
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: steak now, I'm done. And I love it. I love it,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: but it's just, there's not that enjoyment of having this
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: fulfilling big meal anymore because you're done halfway through, not
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: even halfway through it, a third of the way through it.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: But on the other hand, you're not, you know, I'm
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: not 60 pounds heavier than I used to be.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: So you lost weight and all your numbers got in line.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: And that's the whole thing. With type 2 diabetes, it's
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: almost exclusively weight-driven. If you drop the weight, I think
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Drew Carey, if you remember, Drew Carey probably, what, 10,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: 15 years ago was diagnosed. Dropped all the weight and
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: he got his diabetes in control.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: And that's something.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I would tell people, look into it if you can
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: afford it. it's definitely worth giving it a shot because
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: if you can tolerate and you're successful with it, it's
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: going to improve your quality of life.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: It'll prevent long-term problems that you're going to have.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Huge, yeah. You're not going to see the Medicare savings
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: in five years, but 10 to 15 years down the road,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: you could see substantial decreases in the cost of providing.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: You're not going to be doing the hip replacements, the
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: knee replacements. A lot of, you know, the treating the diabetes,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: the dialysis, get rid of the diet. Just the amount
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: that we spend on dialysis in this country is astronomical,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: and it's terrible. I mean, if you're not able to
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: go through dialysis, it's a horrible, horrible way to live
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: your life. You prevent that, and you're saving billions and
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: billions of dollars. So there's a lot of benefits to them.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: And you think a lot of people are on it already?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: The latest I saw, I think it was on CNBC
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: last week, they said the estimate is 1 in 10
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Americans are taking a GLP right now. I can tell
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: you what we sell every day. I mean, we're going
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: to probably have to buy a bigger refrigerator. We've got
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: a big full-size refrigerator. We're probably going to need another
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: one because we run out of room to put the things.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Isn't that something? And so the price is coming down
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: as time goes on, right? So it'll get less expensive.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I think Ozempic, I think, goes
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: generic in a year or two at the most. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: it's a great drug. I mean, are there newer ones coming?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I just read this morning the next one that Lilly
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: comes out. Ozempic works on GLP. Munger works on GLP
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: plus another site that it blocks, and the new one's
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: going to work on GLP, that site, and glucagon. And
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: they're seeing, I think, within, I forget how many months
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: it was, but I want to say like 10 or
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: 15 months, you're seeing a 20% weight loss. So if
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: you've got somebody that's 250 pounds, that's 50 pounds. If
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: you go from 250 to 200, you're going to have
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: a much healthier life.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: You're going to breathe easier, less pressure on your legs
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: You're not going to get as windy. going up the steps.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, your quality of life, I can just tell you,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: because my quality of life today is way better than
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: it was six, seven years ago when I first started
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: taking a GLP. It's just tremendously better. You feel better.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I feel probably as good now as I did when
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I was in my 20s and 30s. I mean, a
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: little wear and tear because I'm going to be 59
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: years old. So, I mean, there's some things bending down, obviously,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: than it used to be, and getting up is even harder.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: But compared to what I would be, even what I
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: was just five, six years ago, it's made a tremendous difference.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Just what they want, people living longer.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Well, what they're going to do is make you work
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: longer now. That's how, you know, unless they fix Social Security,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: none of us are going to be able to afford
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: to retire.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with this inflation. It's crazy. So, now what's on
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: your minds?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Well, if I could give kudos, you know, I think
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: we focus so much on the negative. And, like, today
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I had one of the best, just a fantastic customer
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: service experience. And you forget about all the neat little
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: places in town that you can go to We have
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: a tendency to focus on the big boxes. You go
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: to Walmart or you go to Target or you go
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: to Home Depot and Lowe's. But I've been cutting a
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: lot of wood. So my neighbor had a big branch
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: go down. I like to cut wood, split wood, burn wood.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I love a fire in the winter. So I stack
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: it up. I've cut probably about two and a half cords,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: cut and split and stack two and a half cords
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: of wood.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute, because I've got to break from
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: my headlines. But before I do, remember this. Just remember this.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Nothing attracts ticks more than a wood pile. Just keep
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that in mind as I'm talking, all right?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Then we'll come back, and I want to hear the
• 21:28
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• 21:51
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• 21:57
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• 22:01
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• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Back to it, 335 on a good-looking Monday afternoon, July 27th,
• 22:49
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• 22:53
  Speaker 2: All I'm saying is be careful when you stack that
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: wood up because ticks are attracted to wood piles. Now,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: my wife, are you ready for this, Rich? Here's the advice.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: She says a walk in the woods will attract more
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: ticks than a wood pile. I learned that in my
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: tick class. She actually took a class. She's taking classes,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: and one of them was all about ticks. She said,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I always heard a walk in the woods was worse,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: and it is. So there you go.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: The other thing I would tell people is if you
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: come inside and you find out a tick has bit
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: into your skin, after you remove it, call your doctor
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: because I think you only need two or three days'
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: worth of treatment with doxycycline. as a preventative, and you
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: won't get Lyme disease. It'll kill the organism that causes
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Lyme disease. So if you get bit by a tick,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: call your doctor. Tell them to put you on doxycycline.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: We'll give you two, three days, and you'll never get
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Lyme disease.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, so wait a second here. So you wanted to
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: give a compliment.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Anyway, so I cut the first cord I split by
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: hand with a wood mall. I was a little tired,
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: so I went up to my mother-in-law's, got my father-in-law's
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: old wood splitter, brought it home. And I'm cycling this thing,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: and the splitter will go forward but not back. And
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I look, and the control mechanism, there's a bolt that
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: fell out. So I pull the other bolt out, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at it. It's a hexagonal turn-in machine screw
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: or something. I'm thinking, like, what size is it, whatever.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: So I run up right here in North Lima. You've
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: got Krauss True Value Hardware. John Krause's place. And I
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: walk in with this bowl. I said, John, I know
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: you probably don't have any.
• 24:38
  Speaker 12: Hold on.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Takes me right back, finds the size. There's a little
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: measuring thing, finds the size, goes to a bin. This
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: is it right here. I think it was like 94
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: cents later, I walked out of the store, fixed my machine.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking, what are the odds you could go into
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Home Depot or Lowe's or a lot of these places?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: I used to live in Howland. There's a little store
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: in the corner of Old 82 and 46, Andrew's Shopping Center.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Another fantastic little place. You know, Kraus, they have the
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Lionel trains. They're probably the best Lionel train collection in
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: the United States, if you want to collect Lionel trains.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Just all these neat little businesses where you're going to
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: go in, you're going to get good customer service. You're
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: going to probably find stuff that you can't find other places,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: unique little items that you need. And that's the thing
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: that I think, unfortunately, is starting to die in our community.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: It's the little mom and pop shops that used to
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: be around that just, you know, the kids don't want
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: to take them over in a lot of cases or
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: the owners die and go away. You'll see bakeries. How
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: many times you read an article in The Vindicator where somebody,
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: 50 years in business and they shut down because nobody
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: wants to take the business over?
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I was sinking handyman hardware in my neck of the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: woods in Austin.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Handyman's another great store. They used to be one up
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: in Niles that I'd go to when I was over
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: in my in-laws and we needed stuff. So, you know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: before you just go rushing into the boxes, try some
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: of the little local guys. Price-wise, they're usually competitive. Oh, yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: You know, 5% or 10%, 15% more. But, you know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: it would have cost me more in gas when I
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: paid for the bolt to run up to Home Depot.
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: And, you know, you walk in and the owner's right there.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: He takes care of you. They just provide great service.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: And if I could encourage people, patronize local businesses, locally
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: owned businesses, if you can. Or at least give them
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: a shot. You know, most of the time you're going to,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: have an experience that's better than what you're going to
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: find at all the big box stores.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Now, I leave you with this because this was emailed
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: to me. And I'm just reading it. This is a
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: special meeting agenda, July 28th. That's tomorrow, incidentally. This is
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: for Poland Township. Okay?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:46
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: It's Poland Township. And it says here, let's see, approve,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you know, call to order, pledge of allegiance, roll call,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: approve previous minutes. Line item number five, township resolution, if needed.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Resolution 26-23, a resolution determining to proceed with the submission
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: to the electors of the question of levying a tax
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: in excess of the 10 mil limitation.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so they want to collect their inside millage.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Township resolution, resolution 2620, a resolution determining to proceed with
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: the submission to the electors of the question of levying
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: a tax in excess of the 10 mil limitation. What
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: does that mean?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I think what they're trying to do is, my take
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: on that is, well, in excess of the 10 mil limitation.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: So 10 mils is the inside millage amount, correct?
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: That's what they're guaranteed to get is 10 mils. So
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: they want to put on an additional levy, it sounds like,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: or a renewal that's in excess of the 10 mils.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what that means.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: It's either that or they don't want to give up.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Like I said. All of these entities, all these government
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: entities right now can say they do not want to
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: take the increase they're going to get from the inside millage.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: They can say, nope, we choose not to have that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: And tell Ralph Meacham, take it off their tax bills.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Don't assess the increase on the inside millage.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: This is on the current reappraisals. On the current reappraisals, basically,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: you're saying that's the... the part that will go up
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: without you voting on it, each entity has the ability
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to say, we're not going to take it, to give
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: the taxpayers some relief, whether that's Austintown Township, Boardman Township,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: whoever's ever in that pool.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because that first 10 mils, if your house went up,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: let's say your house went up 20%, that first 10
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: mils isn't exempt. So you're going to see the amount
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: you pay on that first 10 mils of your property valuation.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: which is about half, because I think my millage is
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: around 20, I think, or ballpark. But anyway, that first
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: 10 mills is going to get assessed, is going to
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: be taxed higher. You're going to get assessed on the
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: new value on that first 10 mills. The political subdivisions,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: school districts, townships, villages, cities, county, can all say, let
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the taxpayer keep it. They can tell Ralph, don't assess
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: these people that increase. I think Dave Thomas may have
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: gotten that put in. And like I said, I went
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: a week and a half ago to the South Range
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: board meeting, and I told them that, and they said, yes,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: we are looking at whether we can afford to not
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: take that increase. We are definitely going to look into that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: They didn't say they were promising not to, but they
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: were at least going to look into it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I'll be curious how many people actually exercise that option.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: It's the right thing to do, but it's definitely the
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: right thing to do.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Here's the problem. If nobody goes and asks them to
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: do it, they're probably not going to do it. But
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: if five people show up at that polling trustees meeting
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: tomorrow or village, whatever it was, and say, we don't
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: want our taxes to increase, we're expecting you not to
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: increase the millage, not to take the increase on the
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: first 10 mills. If people start showing up and demanding
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: that and saying, you know, if you do, I'm going
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: to support whoever's running against you in the next election.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Because God forbid a lot of these public elected officials
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: could not keep that job, that elected position, and suck
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: at the public trowel.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I've got to play a clip. I think I sent
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: it to you the other day. Ron DeSantis eliminating property taxes.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: It's a short clip. Let me see if I can
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: bring this up.
• 30:38
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Rich. And then I take more calls. News Radio 570.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Listen to this. This is from Graham Bensinger's show, I guess. Listen,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: this is a clip from Ron DeSantis, if I can bring..
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: What are you looking to do with property taxes?
• 30:57
  Speaker 16: Well, we're looking to give people relief from the high
• 31:01
  Speaker 16: cost of living. I mean, we've had a major inflationary
• 31:05
  Speaker 16: period in American history, one of the most inflationary. Groceries,
• 31:09
  Speaker 16: all these things. Who knows what's going to happen with oil?
• 31:12
  Speaker 16: The one thing we control is tax. And so in Florida,
• 31:17
  Speaker 16: local governments get property tax. We don't get it at
• 31:19
  Speaker 16: the state. We've got a plush rainy day fund. We've
• 31:22
  Speaker 16: paid down half our debt since I've been governor. I've
• 31:24
  Speaker 16: got all this great stuff.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: We're doing great.
• 31:27
  Speaker 16: Local governments, when I became governor, were taking in $ 32 billion.
• 31:31
  Speaker 16: Now they're taking in $ 60 billion. So their revenue has
• 31:34
  Speaker 16: almost doubled in seven years.
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 31:36
  Speaker 16: Because they're assessing the values higher, and the values have
• 31:39
  Speaker 16: gone up. And so we're saying, okay, if you're a
• 31:43
  Speaker 16: Florida resident and you're homesteading your property, that's your primary
• 31:47
  Speaker 16: homesteaded residence. We think that should be excluded. Now, that's
• 31:51
  Speaker 16: about 30% of the overall property tax revenue if you
• 31:55
  Speaker 16: just did it on day one. So it's got to
• 31:57
  Speaker 16: go on the ballot in November of 2026. And it'd
• 32:01
  Speaker 16: be something that would be phased in most likely. But
• 32:04
  Speaker 16: we could get to a point very quickly in Florida
• 32:07
  Speaker 16: where 90 some percent are not paying anything. And eventually
• 32:12
  Speaker 16: we'd phase in the elimination. So it can be done.
• 32:15
  Speaker 16: And if we don't do anything, they're going to have 84.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Billion in revenue in 2031.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: So that's.
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: 12, 13 years to go from 32 to 84. So
• 32:23
  Speaker 16: when people will say, you can't do it, you're not
• 32:26
  Speaker 16: going to have any services, just ask them, did we
• 32:29
  Speaker 16: not have schools and police in 2019 when they were
• 32:32
  Speaker 16: taken in 32 billion?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Of course we did.
• 32:34
  Speaker 16: Now, give them inflation, give them population growth, give them
• 32:37
  Speaker 16: a couple percent just for kicks on a Saturday night.
• 32:41
  Speaker 16: That takes you to about 46 or 47 billion. It
• 32:43
  Speaker 16: doesn't take you to 60. So how would you want
• 32:46
  Speaker 16: to do that? Maintain the growth of these governments or
• 32:49
  Speaker 16: give Floridians, really historic property tax relief.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: There you go. There's the philosophy that you don't see
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: and you don't hear in Mahoning County. There is Ron
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: DeSantis in Florida talking about property taxes. It's a philosophy
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: that you don't hear from elected officials in Mahoning County,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and it is what our problem is. When you're taking
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: a look at local property taxes, what were you taking
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: in a few years ago. And what are you taking
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: in now? The amount of money has changed dramatically in
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: this community. And as that money continues to increase, we
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: continue to grow governments as, as opposed to saying, do
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: you really need that much? You can't function on slight
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: increases from where you were 10 years ago. When you
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: listen to Ron DeSantis, that guy is just absolutely visionary.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: So in November on the ballots, uh, As a Florida resident,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: you can be homestead exempted. I mean, just think about that.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Do you hear that philosophy from anyone in Mahoning County?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Do you hear it from your Mahoning County commissioners? Do
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: you hear it from your trustees? Do you hear anyone
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: like you hear DeSantis, whose prime focus is on the
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: numbers and the taxpayer? As he said, the only thing
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: we in government can do to assist the individual is
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: would deal with taxes and lowering taxes for people. And
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: we still have more money coming in, but we're not
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: taking this gross amount of money from them. What an
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: outstanding governor that guy is and would make a terrific president.
• 34:32
  Speaker 15: Why?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: You know, there's things about Ron DeSantis. He's a lawyer.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And he reads books. before he makes a decision, he reads.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: He's a lawyer and he reads. He educates himself so
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: he knows what he's talking about. He doesn't accept what
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: he's told. He actually reads. And you could see that
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: when it came to COVID and what was going on
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: with the COVID situation, why Florida stayed open. And when
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: you hear him talk about what a refreshing outlook it
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: is when he's just talking about where they're going. Ron Furb,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: News Radio 570 WKBN, and you're on the air.
• 35:11
  Speaker 17: Yeah, so the Poland Township meeting agenda, I don't know
• 35:15
  Speaker 17: what conclusion to draw from it other than it sounds
• 35:18
  Speaker 17: like they are broke. Why do you need to go
• 35:21
  Speaker 17: in excess of a limitation on a levy?
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Now, according to Rich, that might be the inside millage.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I don't know. Let's see. Well,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: let's see.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Who would know?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Eric Ungaro would know. So Eric Ungaro, Poland Township trustee,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: should call the program and explain that. Let's see. Well,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: let's see. There's Eric Ungaro, Frank Domain, he's vice chairman,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: and Edward Kempers, trustee.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Any of those people? I mean, they're there with Poland Township.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Perhaps they should call and explain this to the residents
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: of Poland Township. So this is a special meeting on
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: the 28th. And it's a fair question to say, what
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: does that mean? Resolution 2623, a resolution determining to proceed
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: with the submission to the electors of the question of
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: levying a tax in excess of the 10 mil limitation.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. but they can explain it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 17: Yeah, Thursday they had some kind of emergency meeting, but
• 36:32
  Speaker 17: I didn't go to that, and I don't even know
• 36:34
  Speaker 17: if the audio is out there or the video or anything.
• 36:38
  Speaker 17: So that's what makes me think it's.
• 36:39
  Speaker 18: A bigger problem.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Eric Anguero always seemed to be very Pat Anguero-like, his father.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, Pat Anguero was an outstanding great mayor, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I think Eric Anguero has some similar qualities to his dad.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Perhaps he'll call and explain what that is about.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be good.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: So any of you out there that know Eric Angaro,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: tell him to call the program and explain this and
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: give him the phone number. And perhaps we'll find out,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: as opposed to speculate. How's the signature drive going these
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: days to get rid of property taxes?
• 37:13
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's going good.
• 37:14
  Speaker 17: I've already printed out 500 petitions for the Canfield Fair
• 37:16
  Speaker 17: and everything. I went and bought a lot of pens today,
• 37:20
  Speaker 17: you know, for the event, so getting all my volunteers
• 37:23
  Speaker 17: in order. So, yeah, we're ready to collect at the
• 37:26
  Speaker 17: Canfield Fair and the other pop-ups that we do. And
• 37:30
  Speaker 17: we have a new signing station in Lisbon, Frontiers Unlimited,
• 37:35
  Speaker 17: so for people who are out in Lisbon. So, yeah,
• 37:37
  Speaker 17: it's going good.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Do you think they'll make the amount of signatures they
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: need by the deadline?
• 37:43
  Speaker 17: I would think we could. I mean, we just need
• 37:45
  Speaker 17: to double what we have, you know, so I think
• 37:47
  Speaker 17: we could.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Because you want a pad, and there's a substantial pad,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: so that if ones are..
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want to just have, here's the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: bottom line, you want to go substantially above that to
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: make sure that you have the pad there that's needed
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: to have some breathing room, I guess is what I'm saying.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:06
  Speaker 17: I think Brian Massey would feel comfortable submitting $ 600, 000. But
• 38:10
  Speaker 17: less than that, I don't know. But we'll see. We
• 38:13
  Speaker 17: got to do it.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 38:14
  Speaker 17: So anybody out there that wants to help can just
• 38:16
  Speaker 17: go to our website, axohtax.com, and download it and get 10,
• 38:21
  Speaker 17: 20 signatures for us.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Even Brian Massey knows that you're doing the best job around.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, you are really doing the best job of
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: gathering these signatures. And here's the bottom line. You can see...
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Did you hear that DeSantis clip I played? The difference,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the mentality of DeSantis, who's embracing getting rid of property
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: taxes in Florida, versus the mentality around here on what
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: you hear from all of these people here who don't
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: even want to double the homestead exemption for our poorest
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: senior citizens. It's unreal. So as they continue to get
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: all these increases, substantial increases, they seem to be able
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: to find a way to spend it all. Well, yeah.
• 39:04
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I don't know. But, I mean, they did the
• 39:06
  Speaker 17: owner occupancy. I think Lombiana, Trumbull, and Mahoning all did
• 39:10
  Speaker 17: the owner occupancy. I think Erie County was the only
• 39:13
  Speaker 17: county that did both.
• 39:14
  Speaker 19: So, I don't know.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I thought Lake County did both.
• 39:18
  Speaker 17: No, Lake County only did one. They voted against Commissioner No.
• 39:23
  Speaker 17: They wouldn't do both.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 39:25
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I got to get him back on. I just got
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: to make a point to call him.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: Have him back on.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Keep up the fight. She's doing great work. News Radio 570.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's somebody who just spends a lot of
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: time championing this cause. You can't help but sit back
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: and admire her in all she does. Denise, you're doing
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: a great job. Gather no signatures. Hey, it's Ron Verb
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Stay tuned.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Your one-stop radio 570 WKBN.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: 354, it's 85 degrees, Monday, July 27th. News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: And you're on the air.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron, when G2 said that inflation was up only 2.21%,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: my girlfriend had just walked in the door, heard what
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: he said, and she said... That guy on the talk
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: show you listen to needs to start going to the
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: grocery store.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I tried telling him that. Listen, it was exciting.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I just disagreed with what G2 was saying because he's
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: doing the same thing that the Democrats did when Biden
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: was in office. Would you agree when we had all
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: this inflation and they were trying to act like it
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: was not as bad as it actually is? And they
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: were trying to statistically try to tell you how good
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: it is and we don't realize why you don't feel
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: it's so great anymore. You remember those days. Well, he
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: was trying to do the same thing that the Democrats
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: were doing. And it's just nonsense. Well, you know, Ron,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: gas is only four dollars a gallon. It's off. It's
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: high of five something. Well, I don't care. It's still
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: higher than it was a 250 a gallon before the
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: war started. I'm with you 100 percent on that. I mean,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: that was not registering with me at all from a
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: standpoint of of as a consumer. It was I'm with
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: you and I'm with your girl. I guess I'm not
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: with you, Frank. I'm with your girlfriend.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: I got enough girlfriends, so I got a couple to spare.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: You want one?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: No. I got a wife. That's all I need.
• 41:32
  Speaker 20: Okay.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Hey, I don't know where G2 gets his numbers from,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation was
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: actually down 0.4% for June, seasonally adjusted. but it's still
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: up 3.5% for the past 12 months. And also, we
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: both know government understates the rate of inflation, so the
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: true inflation rate could be double, 3.5%. Now, as far
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: as the stock market, another down day. Here's the headline
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: financial news on one website. Dow up S & P
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: 500 and NASDAQ lag in final hour at start of
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: big week for Decker earnings and waiting on the Fed's
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: interest rate policy. And another one says stock market only
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: briefly rallies on Iran war pause. It used to skyrocket
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: when there was any hope of the war ending. The market,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: I think, is realizing this is all bull crap. Let
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: me quote you from George Orwell, 1984. He said, wars
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: are not meant to be won. They're meant to be continuous. So,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: you know, all these multi-billionaires can make even more money
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: on funding both sides of the war.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: And if I said to you, I'm not optimistic when
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: it comes to This entire situation when it comes to
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: the economy. I mean, this whole time we've been tapping
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: into the strategic oil reserves, as China has done. China's
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: cut back consumption. China's cut into theirs, which is larger
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: than ours. So we've done all of this to try
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: to keep the price of oil and gasoline down. But
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: guess what? We're running out of that option because we're
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: depleting all the reserves. So all of these oil experts
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: that everybody was poo-pooing are saying, hey, you've got a
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: serious problem coming here in August, end of July, August,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: because you're not going to be able to tap into
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: this stuff very much longer. Stand by, Frank. All right,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: hang on. Back with Fort Lauderdale, Frank. Other callers in line,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: stand by. Ron Verb, NewsRadio 570, WKBN. Hey, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. Following two weeks of
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, both have agreed
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: to pause airstrikes. The White House says to give diplomacy
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: a chance. Here's ABC's Karen Travers.
• 44:21
  Speaker 21: The president also spoke to Axios this morning, and he
• 44:24
  Speaker 21: said that he would consider going back to what he called, quote,
• 44:28
  Speaker 21: very strong military action.
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: If talks between the U.S.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: And Iran were to fail.
• 44:34
  Speaker 21: And he also said he's not really willing to give
• 44:35
  Speaker 21: diplomacy all that much time. He was pushed on how
• 44:39
  Speaker 21: long he is willing to give the diplomatic talks at
• 44:42
  Speaker 21: this point. And he said either it goes fast or
• 44:45
  Speaker 21: not at all.
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: Sources tell ABC News one big reason for the pause
• 44:49
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• 44:53
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• 44:58
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• 45:01
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• 45:10
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• 45:12
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• 45:16
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• 45:19
  Speaker 7: Police say it appears two suspects were involved in this dispute.
• 45:23
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• 45:25
  Speaker 22: A bullet landed into the tree that was right next
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• 45:29
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• 45:32
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• 45:33
  Speaker 22: It was very scary and like after the whole thing
• 45:36
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• 45:38
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• 45:41
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• 45:45
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  Speaker 7: Brian Coburger in new court documents says he plans to
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  Speaker 7: He pleaded guilty to killing four University of Idaho students.
• 47:20
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  Speaker 2: Have you had enough time to decide whether or not
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  Speaker 2: Are you pleading guilty freely and voluntarily?
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: Coburger is currently serving four life sentences and now blames
• 47:32
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  Speaker 7: legal analyst Brian Buckmeyer says he'll have an uphill battle.
• 47:39
  Speaker 25: If you take a plea and you haven't been sentenced
• 47:41
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• 47:47
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• 47:51
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• 47:58
  Speaker 25: that they know they're taking a plea voluntarily, and that
• 48:01
  Speaker 25: they're knowledgeable in the conditions of that plea. And so
• 48:04
  Speaker 25: this would be an uphill battle for anyone.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: But when you talk about trying to take back.
• 48:08
  Speaker 25: A plea after a year, it adds even more layers
• 48:11
  Speaker 25: to the difficulty of what Brian Kohlberg is attempting to do.
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: A nonpartisan think tank survey shows it's becoming harder for
• 48:16
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• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Make ends meet.
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: Putting food on the table is taking money out of
• 48:19
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• 48:20
  Speaker 26: A new survey says nearly one in five American adults
• 48:23
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• 48:25
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  Speaker 1: On News Radio 570, WKBN.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Back to it, 4.06 in the afternoon. Your fearless leader,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Ron Verb, 86 degrees on this Monday, July 27th. Fort Lauderdale, Frank, hello,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: is out there. Did you hear the news report that
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: just ran at 4 o'clock?
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: About what? About..
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: People are taking out of their savings because of inflation
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: for groceries and payday loans and this kind of stuff.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: So this idea that, I mean, I am not optimistic.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Some of these guys that I study, and I'll pick
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: your brain for a change. Some of these guys that
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: I study, some of these oil analysts are saying that,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: like I mentioned to you, we're depleting our reserves. We've
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: been tapping into our strategic oil reserves, 172 million barrels.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: to keep prices low. China's been doing it. China has
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: a bigger reserve than we do. But that option is
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: going away because we've been doing it so much and
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: so long. So they're saying once we're through our reserves
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: or hit this point, which they predict is in August,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: you could see some significant increases if this war is
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: still going on as far as oil prices are concerned
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: and diesel and gasoline.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what I want to say? When G2 said, oh,
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: if Biden had not depleted the reserves by 224 billion barrels,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: we'd still have plenty. But you know what, Ron? I
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: don't give a damn. This war has gone on for
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: five months. Let's say we had another 224 billion in
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That would mean the war could
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: go another seven months. before we hit tank bottom, and
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: that prices would go up. G2, what Trump should have done,
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: is not depleted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at all. He
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: should have let the American people know what the true
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: costs of this war, and not release the oil so
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: oil prices and gas prices would stay down.
• 51:21
  Speaker 15: Now, you know, in.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: The Democrat primary races, It was a clean sweep for
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: every candidate endorsed by Zoran Mamdani, who is now the
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: most popular politician in the Democrat Party. But the biggest
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: reason establishment Democrats lost is because their opponents rejected the pro-Israel,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: pro-Zionist messaging of the establishment.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: Now, for example..
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I wonder if the economic message isn't...
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I just can't see those folks winning anything. You've got
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: to admit, the people that are getting the nod with
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are really, really deeply troubling with their economics.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: And you certainly don't agree with it. I mean, I
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: find it terribly disturbing.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what... The reason why the establishment Democrats
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: lost in their primaries, politicians taking money from corporate PACs,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: from Wall Street, and private equity firms, from crypto, from AI,
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: and from Israel-only lobby money, I think that's the real
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: reason Israel lost big in the Democrat primaries. And not
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: just the Democrat Party, but Ron, all voters except for
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: right-wing Republicans are tired. of big money controlling Washington and
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: state governments.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but when is it going to change? I mean,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: if you're saying that Republicans and Democrats are guilty of
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: taking money for campaign contributions and cutting deals that aren't
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: in your best interest, that's been going on for as
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: long as I can remember.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Well, that's what the big change was. All these establishment Democrats...
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: taking big money from Israel and AIPAC and Wall Street,
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: they lost. What Democrat voters want, Ron, is the same
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: as every American. Affordable housing, affordable rent, affordable food and
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: affordable gas.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: But you're not going to get that through socialism. You're
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: not going to get that through the Mondami agenda. It
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: just doesn't work. It's not going to work. If you
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: think that's the answer, it's only going to be worse.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what, the surveys that I've seen..
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, don't misunderstand me. I do think that's the
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: economic message that is resonating with a lot of people.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you. A lot of people are
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: sick and tired of the special interests getting their ways,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: and Joe Bagadona's being ignored, and a lot of people
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: are concerned with the economics that are going on. So
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: it resonates with a lot of folks in the Democrat primaries.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: But I don't know that that message will win on
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: a national level because it's socialism. It's such a far
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: left turn, and it just doesn't work. It just doesn't work.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: The surveys I've seen, the Democrat voters understand that. They're
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: not pro-socialists. They're a small wing of the party, the
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders and the Elizabeth Warren wing. They know that
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: socialism is bad.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: But those are the people that are winning. Look at
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Mondami and Bernie Sanders and the people that they're backing
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: all stand for that far-left agenda.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: Because these are the only politicians that are addressing the
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: concerns of the American people.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're offering solutions, which is socialism, which doesn't work.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. Listen, I don't disagree that,
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: economically speaking, that... Listen, I'm straightforward with you. Economically speaking,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I think we're in for difficult times ahead.
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: I mean..
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: I think the Democrat voters are telling... People like Mondami,
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: if you get elected and you start implementing socialist programs,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: you are not going to get campaign contributions from us.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: We're going to start voting for somebody else.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: But that's his agenda. And listen, their agenda... is a
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: socialistic agenda, and they're back with the crazy social agenda
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: as well. They're right back with the men can have
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: babies and the transgender, all the nonsense on a social agenda.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: They're right back to that, and they're right back with socialism.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, under no circumstances would you ever be better off.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: It's resonating with some people, but because... And I'm the
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: first to sit here and say to you, I don't
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: think economically things are looking good. I think things will
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: get worse, not better. And I'm straight.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: What do you do if you're a Republican? The Republican
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: establishment agenda is a war agenda.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Well, well. What do you do?
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: What do you do? Well, let me put it this way.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: I will always vote for the agenda that acknowledges men
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: can't have babies. I can't vote for the Democrats based
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: on their social agenda. I can't vote for them based
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: on their socialism agenda. And I also can't vote for
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: the Democrats because they did create much of this inflation
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: before Trump took office. On the other hand... Trump had
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: things going in the right direction until he went into
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: this war. So I can also sit here. Do you
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: know how many people get upset with me because I'm
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: not a Trump cheerleader, that I don't support this war situation,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: and I'm not cheerleading Trump, and they get upset with me? Well,
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: I think this was one of the dumbest damn moves
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: he could have possibly made. Can you imagine how the
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: economy would be, folks, if he never went down this
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: road when gas was $ 2. 50 a gallon, when inflation was
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: coming down? Everything that he accomplished went in reverse because
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: of this war. And it's getting worse. And as this
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: continues to go on and they try to figure out
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: how to get out of this, do you just declare
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: victory and leave or what do you do? Remember, the
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: strait was open and all this stuff. We didn't have
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: these problems prior to this war taking place. And now
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: there appears to be no end in sight, no easy
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: way out of this. And there appears to be nothing
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: but higher prices around the corner. And I think that will, that,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know what, what, it's just.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: This is what I'd like to say to the Trump
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: cheerleaders that are telling us how great the economy is.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: An economist wrote recently, every recovery reaches a point where
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: the official statistics no longer reflect realities. Politicians point to
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: stock market records. Economists celebrate another quarter of GDP growth.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: Then you look at Main Street, where people actually creating
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: jobs are closing their doors. Small business bankruptcies continue to
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: climb at an alarming pace. Total bankruptcy filings reached more
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: than 310,000 for the first half of this year, a 12% increase.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: And consumer bankruptcy filings also continue rising.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: When you look at foreclosures, when you look at defaults
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: on auto loans, I'm with you. I mean, people don't
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: pay attention to this stuff. Defaults on auto loans, foreclosures, bankruptcies,
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: what you're saying, they're all on the uptick. Delinquencies on
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: paying credit card bills. the amount of people that are
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: using credit cards for their bills. You just heard ABC
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: talking about the people that are tapping into their savings
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: for groceries. there aren't any good economic signs that are
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: going on right now at all and it can get
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: a lot worse as far as energy if you don't
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: have cheap energy and it's not just oil frank electricity
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: up here has doubled it the cost of electricity has
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: doubled So you throw that into the mix, natural gas
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: has gone up, you have gasoline gone up. Well, we're
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: more and more getting away from cheap energy that's eating
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: up more of your income. And then with all this
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: other inflation, I can't see anything good going on. I
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: wish I could say, I think things would get better
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: a month from now. And I don't see that as
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: long as this situation goes on.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: Do you?
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: No, and I'm with you, Ron. commercial bankruptcies increased fourteen
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: percent regular chapter eleven bankruptcy surged thirty-seven percent right in
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: one like you said these numbers do not reflect a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: booming economy now they describe an economy where small business
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: owners are struggling to stay alive.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Well, don't you remember with Biden, when they kept saying,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: we don't understand why people aren't happy, that we're telling
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: you the numbers, everything is going great. And they didn't
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: understand how people weren't getting that. And I'm thinking these
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: people are lunatics. I mean, they're so out of touch
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: with reality, they don't see what's going on out here.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Well, Ron, small businesses are the backbone of a healthy economy.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: in the largest job creators. Small businesses employ nearly half
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: the American workforce, and small businesses run on cash flows.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: They can't issue stocks, bonds, or borrow money at reasonable rates,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: but customers are not spending as much, struggling with record
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: credit card debt, like you said, interest rates rising, insurance
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: premiums are doubling, and suppliers are demanding higher prices. And
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: small businesses are the main leaders in technological innovation. Technological
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: innovation is the main driver of productivity.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Well, you take a look at just if you have
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: a household. Take a look at it. Shingles are made
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: from oil. It's an oil-based product. So if you've got
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: to put a new roof on, you think it hasn't
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: gotten more expensive because of oil? Sooner or later, you've
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: got to shingle your house. We talk to Bob Dieter
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: all the time. He tells you about all these price
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: increases happening on furnaces and air conditioners. Well, it's getting
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: to the point where people are taking loans out to
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: replace their furnace or their air conditioner, taking loans out
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: to re-roof their house. I mean, is it just the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: basic maintenance stuff or delaying it altogether? It only gets worse.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: And then you throw in, like you said, insurance and groceries.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: And then if you get gasoline prices or diesel prices
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: ticking up or the fuel for jets ticking up, There's
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: nothing good going on. I mean, there's just nothing good.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: And I'm supposed to sit here and say Trump's got
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: everything under control? Trump's a genius on this stuff? No. No,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: this is a mess right now. I'm not going to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: be like the Democrats and say, oh, things are going great.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: They're not going great. Economically, a lot of stuff is
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: getting worse, not better, because of the decision he made.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: Well, Ron, I'm going to wrap it up by saying...
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: SpaceX's stock falls to a new low. Micron and other
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: chip stocks fall as China steals the spotlight.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 7: Listen to this.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, Frank. Here's what I was expecting
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: you to say.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: I expected you to say, Ron, I'm going to wrap
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: it up by saying this. What's that, Frank? I love you, Ron.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: All right. See you, Frank.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: Bye now.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: Bye, Ron.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, it's J.J. I'm sorry, it's J.J. the Trumpster. Geez,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: his call always comes after I'm being critical of Trump.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Now that he's got that psychological adjustment, he's no longer J.J.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: the liberal, he's J.J. the Trumpster, and I just got
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: done saying some negative things about Trump, and now you're
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: on the line.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: P-R-U-M-P, Trump, Trump, Trump.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: I'm a cheerleader for him now.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: You're on the Trump train?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Trump train, Trump train. No, it's just, I wanted to,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 6: it was kind of curious, I was listening to you
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 6: talk to, I might only take a few moments, because
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: I remember that last Friday, that young lady that calls
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: in all the time was complaining about us all being
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 6: on the phone for too long.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about her.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 17: No, no, no, I wasn't worried about her.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: I thought she was, she's actually very entertaining when she
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: calls in, but I kind of wondered, when she was
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: waiting on the phone for like an hour, I've waited
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: on the phone for an hour now. The thing is,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: when she had the opportunity to talk about anything that
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: she wanted to, she talked about us being on the
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: phone for too long. You get what I mean?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 28: Yeah.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: So I was like, well, tell me what you want
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: to talk about. I want to hear her. But she
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: was just talking about us being on the phone for
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: a while. I just thought it was kind of, you know,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: you kind of step outside of something and look at
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: it and go, you know, but I understand her point,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: and I'm going to try to make it quick. But
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: the thing is, is that I understand I've never been
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: a supporter or a big supporter You know, about the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: transgender and gay and lesbian and this and that. You
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: know how I feel about it. I believe that they
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: have the right to walk down the street and to
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: have their day and so on and so forth.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to... Stand by. Right, stand by. I'm
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: coming back with J.J. the Trumpster. In a minute, News
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Radio 570 WKBN, 422 in the afternoon. All right. Wake up, Ron.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: Pay attention.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: So go ahead, JJ.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: I just..
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: And so I would march for them to have the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: right to be able to speak their minds, but I'm
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: not going to walk down the street holding a flag.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: So that's how I stand with that kind of stuff.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 6: But we're concentrating on things that social agendas, which are
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: very small thing compared to, like you were stating at
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 6: the end there, that cost of living, the food prices
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: and gas and just overall things.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 7: And I..
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: I believe the only way, and now everybody's going to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: get very mad at me, and I don't know why
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: I'm saying this because I'm a Trump supporter. I think
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 6: the only way for us to actually end this war
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: is if Trump no longer is in charge. And only
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: for the simple reason is this, is that I think
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: the damage has been done as far as not just
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: him dealing with Trump, but Trump dealing with them. It's
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: almost like you need a fresh kind of fresh face.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: You know, actually speaking for whether I think like you
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 6: said earlier, I think someone like DeSantis might be a
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: kind of a person that I would look into a
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: little bit more of his policies. I would even think
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 6: about voting for him if he was going to still
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: continue to work toward things that I feel strongly about.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 6: So I naturally don't have to be a Democrat, but
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: I really believe that maybe we need something, a big
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 6: change like that. And again, it's not ousting Trump, so
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 6: to speak, but somebody who can.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: You're talking about you're talking about the next election.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 6: Well, not even just that. Not even just that. He's
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 6: the governor of Florida. But really, like you were even saying,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 6: I've said it to you before also, that to continue
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: to do the same thing time after time and expecting
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: a different outcome is futile. And so I think that
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: maybe we put a different face on the whole, the
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: war itself. and have somebody on their side that thinks
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 6: that they can actually maybe deal with somebody who's not
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 6: going to be on the social media all the time
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 6: and is not going to speak before things are even finalized.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 6: That's the only thing I'm thinking of. The only common
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 6: denominator is Trump.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: Well, here's the shocker, though. Here's the shocker. I hope
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: that I'm wrong and Trump is right. I sincerely hope
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: that he's done this bombing and he's paused it and he's...
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: and there's talks that are going on because they're sick
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: of being bombed or their back is to a corner
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: and they can reach some type of agreement, I hope
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: that happens. I will applaud it if that happens, if
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: he's successful and that is the case. But if that
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: isn't the case... then tell me what's the next move.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, if that doesn't happen, and I hope that happens,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: I hope I'm wrong, and I'd be relieved to see
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: that happen. But if it doesn't, now what do you do?
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Because what's the way out of this mess? Because he
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: started it. People get upset with me, but he's the one,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: based on Netanyahu and Israel, but he's the one that
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: made the decision to engage in this. There wasn't a
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: vote of Congress or anything like that. He took this on. Now,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: how do you get out of this mess? And if
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: you don't get out of it, what do you do
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: when you hit tank bottom? What do you do when
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: oil prices very easily could go or gas could go
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: from $ 4 to $ 5 or more because of the situation
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: we're in? There isn't a way that you don't take
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: 30 million barrels off the market of oil. You got
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: some that you lost with Russia now because of Russia
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: and Ukraine. You got 20 million because of the situation
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: we're in. going on as far as Iran is concerned.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: But even if you say, oh, it's not 30 million,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: let's say it's 25 million or whatever. How do you
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: a day? How do you how do you function when
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: you take that amount of oil out of the system?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: Because I know supply and demand means prices go up
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: because supply, you know, the supply can't keep up with
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: the demand. And that's the reality. And that's where we
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: are right now.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: Right, and then also you have to think about our weaponry.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: We're getting low on our weaponry, and I don't even
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 6: like to hear that because that gives them some ideas. Again,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: I don't know how the truth of that is, but again,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 6: if we're shooting things and doing things that aren't necessary,
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  Speaker 6: then that's kind of scary in itself.
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  Speaker 15: But you're right.
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  Speaker 6: I always say, when is enough enough? What's the exit strategy?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what's the game plan if you bomb them
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  Speaker 2: and now it doesn't work this time? Now you go
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: back to bombing them. OK, listen, I hope it brings
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: the agreement you want. But if it doesn't, what do
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: you do? How do you get out of the mess
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: that you started without destroying the economy, not just of
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: this country, in large parts of the world?
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  Speaker 5: There are things– you can.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Have deep recessions and depressions. You can have stock markets
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: that go down and take years to come back up.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: You can have oil prices that can go up in
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  Speaker 2: the blink of an eye very quickly, 50 cents a
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  Speaker 2: gallon or more, because of demand and lack of oil.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: it's just, there's nothing good about this.
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  Speaker 6: And I want him to succeed, too, because if I'm
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 6: sitting here saying, well, I don't want him to succeed
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 6: so we can win the election in November, that's foolish.
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  Speaker 6: I would rather have him in for another two and
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: a half, three years and deal with him and myself
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: and have him be successful because him doing those things
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: and we all become successful.
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  Speaker 15: So I can't leave him at the door.
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  Speaker 9: The man police say shot and killed North Royalton Building
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  Speaker 9: Commissioner David Smarek last Friday made his first court appearance today.
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  Speaker 9: 69-year-old Edward Beseda is facing a first-degree felony charge of murder.
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  Speaker 28: The complaint states that on or about July 24, 2026,
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  Speaker 28: within the city of North Royalton, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, you
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  Speaker 28: did purposely cause the death of another.
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  Speaker 9: Parma Municipal Court Judge Deanna O'Donnell set bond at $ 15
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  Speaker 9: million and the case was bound over. to Cuyahoga County
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  Speaker 9: Common Pleas Court. Beseda is accused of shooting Smarek three
• 1:11:04
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  Speaker 9: gun on the counter and walking outside. where he was
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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb. On News Radio 570, WKBN. 434, it's
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: a Monday afternoon, July 27th. It's 86 degrees. Ron Furb
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: on News Radio 570, WKBN. I think, I want to
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: just check something. I think we'll be here tonight until
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: maybe 630. Let me see, boys and girls. Just to
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: play it safe.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Do-do-do-do-do-do. No, I'm going to be here until 6. Until
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: 6 o'clock. All right, on News Radio 570, what do
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  Speaker 2: you call me? You're on the air. Hello there.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, I think the game starts at 6.05.
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  Speaker 4: Or something, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, 6.30 is the pregame.
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  Speaker 4: 6.00, okay.
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  Speaker 13: 7.10.
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  Speaker 19: Hey, listen, Ron, you had to call her a couple.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 19: This is about property tax issue. You had to call
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 19: her a couple months ago. Talking to you, and you
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 19: were all just talking about all taxes, property taxes, and everything.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 19: Real quick, he's saying, you know, how it takes in
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 19: over $ 100 billion and pays off this much. And that
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 19: caught my attention. I said, you know, I'm going to
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 19: find out about that. I really want to find out
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 19: about this because I'm going down one road and looking
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 19: at all these houses. I'm going down, man, there's a
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 19: lot of houses, okay? So what I did, Ron, is I,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 19: with the help of my daughter, went up to every county,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 19: all 88 counties in the state of Ohio. And it
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 19: took a while, but... And what I found out is
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 19: what each county takes in in property tax.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 15: After I found.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 19: That out, then we went and seen how much each county,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 19: that same county, pays out in property tax. Firemen, police, ambulance,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 19: you know, schools and all that. And that gentleman you
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 19: had on a couple months ago, it was said real quick,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 19: and it just caught my attention. And here's what I got,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 19: and he wasn't wrong. The state of Ohio... takes in
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 19: over $ 100 billion in property tax, and they pay out
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 19: a little over $ 20 billion in property tax. Now, you
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 19: can have people call up and say I'm wrong. I mean,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 19: but this is what I got. This is what that
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 19: gentleman called up and said. And it just blew my mind.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense to me. I would question those
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: numbers because– Property taxes, for the most part, property taxes
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: are local. All right. So they go to your school system,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: your police department, your fire department. They stay local. So
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: it's dispersed out to the entities. I mean, I would
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: question that number. Here's the number I would be interested in.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: How much did we take in in property taxes 10
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: years ago? I'm just interested in, let's just say, Mahoning County,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: where I reside. How much did we take in 10
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: years ago in property taxes? How much did we take
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: in seven years ago in property taxes? And then I
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: want to see, once we had that initial big reappraisal spike,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: the year before that, how much did we take in?
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: In property taxes, after that huge spike, the first one,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: how much were we taking in the next year? And
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: then I want to see after this latest reevaluations how
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: much we're going to take in now. Those are the
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: numbers that are going to be interesting because it's like
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: how much did it increase from one year before the reappraisals,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: the first reappraisal to the following year? What was the
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: increase as far as revenue taken in in property taxes?
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: And that might be eye-opening because– That's the number I
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: want to know. And I'm going to find that number out.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 19: You just gave me something else to work on because
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 19: I agree with you. That would be a good finding
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 19: right there.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to actually call Meacham and ask him. I
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: want to know, in Mahoning County, what was that number
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: before the first giant reappraisal? How much were we taking
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: in in property taxes a year? And after the reappraisal,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: how much were we taking in? And then... This next one,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: how much more we'll be taking in? Because I think
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: we're taking in a substantially larger amount of money after
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: that reappraisal.
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  Speaker 15: Without a doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, we're spending it all. All
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: of a sudden. I mean, something about it doesn't make sense.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that fire trucks don't cost more.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: Police cars don't cost more. Benefits and employees don't cost more.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: But outside of that, where's the rest of it going?
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  Speaker 19: Exactly right, Ron. Okay, well, that's why I would like
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 19: you to find out that number.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do that.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 19: We're talking about everything being more expensive, people losing their
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 19: houses and everything, and I agree with that. But when
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 19: you go past the Racino over the weekend, you can't
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 19: find a parking space.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Isn't that something?
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 19: Have a good day.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Isn't that something? I mean, make no mistake.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's plenty of people still out and about
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: all the time. But see, you usually don't see people
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: that are struggling. So it's... I'm just in touch with it.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: There's just no way that you can't be paying twice
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: as much for your electric bill.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: $ 4 for a gallon of gas.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Your insurance has gone up. Your groceries have gone up.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: The necessities of life have gone up. And that you're
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: in a good spot when your wages have not kept
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: pace with that inflation and your savings have declined. I
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: don't care who you are. There's just no way that
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: that's a good economic scenario for the lower middle class,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: the middle middle class, and even the upper middle class.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: It's just not a good scenario. You're on the air.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 29: It's me. So I had a couple of points that
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 29: I wanted to make, and one of the things was
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 29: about Nick Foreman I thought you might find interesting. But
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 29: in the meantime, with listening to everybody else, I would
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 29: love it if you would sometimes ask Frank, because he
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 29: does sound like a very intelligent guy, and also he
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 29: seems to have done pretty well under capitalism.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 29: I would love to know his opinion. of the democratic
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 29: socialism stuff.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: I think his goal today was just to explain it
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: and why people are going in that direction. I will
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: ask him about that. I suspect he's not a fan
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: of it, just based on capitalism. But here's my point
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: with that. I don't think it does any good to say,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: to attack the people that are voting that way. I
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: think you better figure out why they're voting that way.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: And I think many of these younger people feel that
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: the system has... has failed them. And to a certain extent,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: I understand what they're saying. They're saying, hey, wait, we're
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: doing things and we're working, but we can't afford to
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: buy a home or rents are too high. Health care
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: is too high. Automobiles cost too much. I mean, look
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: at the world that they're getting versus the world you
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: had when you were their age. And I understand why
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: they're pissed in their outrage based on this inflation. I
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: get it.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 29: Well, you know, I mean, I get it, too. Interest
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 29: rates were 17%. When we bought our second house, not
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 29: even 6%. We'd have given anything to have 6%. But anyhow.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: But wait a minute. You're talking to Carter years. And
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter. And listen, I was around at that time.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: And you're right. We were happy to get a 6%
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: interest rate. I refinanced to get one. But that changed
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: with Reagan.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 9: And gasoline.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 29: And gasoline where we had to. depending upon whether we
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 29: were out or even, every other day we could get gasoline.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: Well, that's true.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 29: Not just any time we wanted to pull up. I mean,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 29: we've kind of been through. But, you know, I don't
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 29: recall people complaining.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, they were complaining.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 29: I mean, it probably wasn't great, but they collected it.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: No, they were complaining. I remember they were complaining. But
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: here's the rub on that. You would agree, based outside
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: of those Carter years, and Reagan fixed that with a
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: big recession that happened too, but you would agree that
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: for the most part during your lifetime, because I was
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: alive too, You didn't pay much attention to inflation because
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: it wasn't that noticeable. Inflation was usually 1% or 1.5%.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: It wasn't very big. So it wasn't that noticeable until
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: it became that way as a result of COVID and
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: the Biden policies. And now this war with Trump. Now
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: inflation is double digits. And now it's very noticeable because
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: of how much everything is costing. It wasn't that way before...
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: COVID and Biden and Trump.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 28: Right.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 29: Well, here's the thing, though. What I do remember, because
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 29: I was old enough to kind of understand, is when
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 29: they used to calculate inflation, they included food. They included
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 29: everything they don't include anymore.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 29: So they used to include that. So if it was 5%,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 29: it was 5% across the board. Now, then they quit
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 29: including it. So it looked like inflation went down, but
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 29: it really didn't. They just didn't include everything they included before.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 29: So it's been kind of a screwed-up measurement. I mean,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 29: we can see it in the grocery store and everything.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: It's not an accurate measurement is what you're saying. And incidentally,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: you reminded me of something else. It's just like the
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: unemployment statistics. Once you were done collecting unemployment, you vanished.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you were employed. You just were no
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: longer counted. So those numbers were inaccurate, too. They never
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: reflected the reality. And I would always say, how do
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: you fix a problem if you don't really know how
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: serious the problem is because you've cooked the numbers?
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 17: Well, it's like.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 29: The murder rates and the other criminal things that seem
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 29: to go down, but then Chicago doesn't report and California
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 29: doesn't report and they don't report it or they lower
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 29: it down. So, yeah, everybody cooks the books to make
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 29: their rates look better.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: Well, I just..
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 29: And not to go off on that tangent, but Frank
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 29: did say something about he thought that the socialists were
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 29: gaining traction because the traditional Democrats were using money that
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 29: they were getting from donors and the socialists didn't like it.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 29: And let me tell you, I think that's way far
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 29: from the truth because from what I hear, and I've
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 29: heard this for a while, that the traditional Democrat, the
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 29: Democratic Party is broke. I mean, they're broke. They're not getting.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 19: The donors.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 29: They don't want to take a chance because they got
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 29: burned with Kamala. They're not getting the USAID kickbacks that they.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 6: Used to get.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 29: And if you recall, during the last midterms four years ago,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 29: Sam Bankman freed the fraudster who ripped all those people
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 29: off including Tom Brady, he was donating millions to the
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 29: Democratic Party to help all of these people get elected.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 29: So they don't have him, and they don't have USAID,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 29: and they are hurting because they are fighting against..
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: You're talking about campaign contributions, and I agree with everything
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: that you just said. I think Frank was talking about... lobbyist.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: My impression was Frank was talking about Here's what I concluded. No,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: he's talking about lobbyists in general saying that you can't
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: tell much of a difference between Democrats and Republicans because
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: they take all this money from lobbyists and they don't
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: often represent Joe Bag of Donuts. They're representing special interests
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: and a lot of people are getting fed up with that.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: I think that was the gist of what he was saying.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: He was talking about all the lobbyist money that's coming
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: in and they get represented and the people are forgotten.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: And I think that's a legitimate point. Both Republicans and Democrats,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: he's saying.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 29: And they may not be getting the grassroots money because
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 29: there's a lot of their, you know, their donor or,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 29: you know, donate donors, like I said, weren't paying or
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 29: they too have problems.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 29: That all aside, this is going to be interesting to
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 29: you since you just started on Metformin. Okay, my mother
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 29: was in her 80s. Well, she developed probably in her,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 29: I don't know, late 60s or 70s, diabetes. Not a
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 29: big shock because her mom..
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I just want to emphasize something. I don't have
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: diabetes at all. They just want to.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 15: Bring down my number.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 29: No, I'm just saying, but she did. I could tell,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 29: you know, she did, and so her mother did. But
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 29: she used to take metformin. Okay, she was one of
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 29: nine children. And it was very interesting to me because,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 29: as we're talking about and I'm asking, I mean, she
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 29: was always really on top of things. Never signs of
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 29: dementia or anything. And the same with her sister, which
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 29: was two years younger, who was doing the learn the
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 29: computer thing and emails. And she still is very on
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 29: top of things.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 6: She's in her 90s.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 4: Gotcha.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 29: But then she had her oldest sister. who developed dementia
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 29: and went downhill pretty fast. And so I asked her,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 29: I said, was Aunt Helen a diabetic? Okay, because we
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 29: just went straight to that. And she said, no, she
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 29: didn't take anything. And I said, and the other, well,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 29: what about Aunt Annie? Because she developed dementia, went downhill
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 29: pretty fast, died with dementia. And she said, no, she
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 29: wasn't either. I go, well, what about Uncle Johnny who
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 29: lived to be 90?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, he was diabetic.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 29: So he was taking that. I said, what about Uncle Andy? Oh, yeah,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 29: he was diabetic.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 17: Interesting.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 29: All the ones that were diabetic and taking some kind
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 29: of medication for it or on the edge or whatever,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 29: none of them developed dementia. The ones that were taking
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 29: it did.
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  Speaker 17: Isn't that interesting?
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 29: So you've got all of these. So I was on
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 29: this little quest then when I would meet up with
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  Speaker 29: somebody who I would talk to, like, I used to,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 29: in Pennsylvania, I used to live where there were a
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 29: lot of retirement homes and that. And I was always
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 29: getting stuff off shelves for old people. And you get,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 29: they start talking to you and everything. And if they
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 29: were really on top of things and really with it,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 29: I would say, can I ask you a personal question?
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 29: are you a diabetic? And they would say, oh, I'm
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 29: type 2. I started taking meds. I saw people that
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  Speaker 29: I met that I'd known for like 30, 40 years
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 29: who were in their 80s, and they were still on
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 29: top of it. I said, Kenny, are you a diabetic?
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 29: And he goes, oh, type 2. I started taking meds
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 29: about 10 years ago. Everybody that I asked who seemed
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 29: to be an 80-year-old or whatever, on top of their game,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 29: I asked them, and they were all taking some kind
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 29: of medication like that.
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  Speaker 17: So I watched.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 29: I thought, well, that's real interesting because I had a
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 29: mother-in-law who developed dementia, and she, I mean, really severe dementia,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 29: was not diagnosed or given medicine before. Given medicine for others,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 29: but not for diabetes. And she was pretty bad off.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 29: But one day I was watching Dr. Oz, and he
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 29: had a guy on who was doing these studies. And
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 29: what he said on that made so much sense.
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  Speaker 2: Make it quick.
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  Speaker 6: Because, you know, they always..
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  Speaker 15: I'm sorry?
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: You've got to go quick here. I've got 30 seconds
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  Speaker 2: before my break.
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  Speaker 29: They always talk about the plaque in your brain that
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 29: clears out at night.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 29: The same enzyme that clears the plaque helps regulate your
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 29: sugar and your insulin. So if it's busy doing that,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 29: it's not clearing out the plaque. So if you take
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 29: metformin to help keep your insulin and your sugar good,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 29: then it's got the opportunity to clear out the plaque.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 17: You did it.
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  Speaker 29: I'm not a doctor, but I am a thinker.
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  Speaker 15: Yes, good afternoon, Ron.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I was enjoying the show.
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  Speaker 30: I'm calling from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 30: So I just want to let you know real quick.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 30: So I'm a big Trump supporter. During the campaign last
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 30: year or the year before, I would have signs in
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 30: my yard, on my car, about making America affordable again.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 30: And in highly democratic areas, I would be driving through.
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  Speaker 30: And now I'm embarrassed that that's not coming true. I mean,
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  Speaker 30: I'm embarrassed to be.
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  Speaker 7: Talking to my neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now hold the phone. We'll tap the brakes because
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: you have nothing to be embarrassed about. And let me
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: tell you why for a second. As critical as I
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: can be a Trump of this particular situation in Iran. OK,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: for one second, I don't think that I would have
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: been better off if I voted for Kamala Harris or
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: if Joe Biden was a candidate. Make no mistake. They
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: would have been a horrible choice. So I'm comfortable with
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: my vote for Trump. I voted for him every time
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: I could. I'm comfortable with my vote for Trump. In general,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: I like a lot of what he's done. This war
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: is a disaster. And it's in my opinion, I mean,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: I could be wrong. but I think he was, as
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: I said, bamboozled into it by Israel and by Netanyahu,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: and I don't know how you get out of this,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: and I think it's going to create some major problems.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: So I think it's a big mistake, a big mistake,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: but those are my choices, and I don't regret the
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: guy that I voted for. So don't apologize to your
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: neighbors about anything. Just say, you know, just stay the..
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: Maybe..
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: Who knows what would happen here? I'm very concerned about
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: the economy, but hopefully I'm wrong and he's right. Hopefully.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 4: Hopefully.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 15: I hope things turn around.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 30: But unfortunately, you know, we talk about Democrats' Medicare fraud
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 30: or Medicare fraud. I'm sorry, but this war is huge fraud.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 30: It's a huge taxpayer fraud on all Americans.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: Well, it's costing us a fortune that we can't really
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: afford right now, and the inflation is just astronomical. But
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: I can't sit here as a Trump voter. I can't
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: be like these people that are cheerleaders. I've got to
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: say I don't agree with– I'm very deeply concerned where
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: things are going. And a lot of people think, oh,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: if you vote for Trump, you should support everything and
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: everything you should do. You should check your brain at
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: the door. I'm not about to do that. I can still–
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't vote for Harris. But I think Trump made
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: a huge mistake here. And I think it was a mistake. Now,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: how do you get out of it? Yeah, me too. Thanks, man. Don't–
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: The alternative, if you think voting for Harris would have
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: been better, it wouldn't have been. That would have been
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: a total disaster. But, I mean, obviously this... I don't know.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: How do you get out of this situation? I mean,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: did he make things better or worse? He made it worse.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: We didn't have these problems in the Strait. The Strait
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: was open. We weren't talking about fees and all this
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: kind of nonsense. Now, how do you solve this problem?
• 1:32:34
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• 1:32:35
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  Speaker 8: weeknights on ABC News Live. After two weeks of renewed
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 8: hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, there is a pause
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 8: in airstrikes. ABC's Rachel Scott has more.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 20: Sources tell me today that President Trump is now holding
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 20: off on a major escalation against Iran to give way
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 20: for diplomacy to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. I'm told
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  Speaker 20: the president was prepared to launch a series of strikes
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 20: on Friday but decided to hold off. Sources also say
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 20: officials discussed the impact a major attack could have President.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 8: Trump claims Iran wants to restart talks. Funeral services for
• 1:33:31
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• 1:33:34
  Speaker 8: Wednesday in Washington, D.C., and also in Graham's home state
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• 1:33:40
  Speaker 8: attend events in D.C. Both will also hold separate meetings
• 1:33:44
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• 1:33:47
  Speaker 8: and police are still searching for a second suspect following
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 8: last night's deadly shooting at a food festival in Seattle.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 8: Three people were killed and four others injured. ABC's Alex
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  Speaker 23: Law enforcement believes that it was gang violence and that
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  Speaker 23: these were two opposing groups that were going after one
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• 1:34:24
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  Speaker 31: We know that he was arrested in Lebanon last year
• 1:34:29
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• 1:34:35
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  Speaker 7: In Massachusetts, the trial of Lindsay Clancy is underway. She's
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 7: the mother accused of killing her three young children. Clancy's
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 7: attorney arguing she suffered from postpartum psychosis at the time
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 7: of the alleged murders and didn't get adequate treatment. ABC
• 1:36:14
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  Speaker 2: I think it.
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  Speaker 25: Gives the defense credibility to not just say, hey, we're
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 25: making up this defense because we think it works and
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 25: makes sense. I think they're backing up that claim with
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 25: evidence prior to the incident, prior to the deaths of
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 25: these children. And they're coming out in front of it
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 25: and saying, here's the evidence that she was suffering from
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 25: a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the evidence.
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  Speaker 25: I think even on top of that, I believe that
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 25: the father of the children, her husband, also has a
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 25: civil lawsuit against the hospital as well.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 7: Severe storms sweeping through the Midwest, including a confirmed tornado
• 1:36:44
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  Speaker 7: volatile storms are combining with extreme heat.
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  Speaker 32: This heat, no joke, triple digit, feel like temperatures through
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 32: the afternoon. Extreme heat warning from 112 in Cedar Rapids,
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  Speaker 32: New Orleans, 107 degrees. The extreme heat extends to.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: The west as well.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 32: I will say out west, we're not even factoring in
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 32: the humidity. This is actual air temperatures, 112 degrees this afternoon.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 32: afternoon in Phoenix, 111 in Vegas, 99 in Salt Lake City. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 32: in the Northeast, things have been pretty quiet, fair, and lovely,
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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Hi-dee-ho for 5.06, I should say, in the afternoon. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to Monday, July 27th, 86 degrees. Ron Verb with you
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: till 6 tonight. A taste of Hannity from 6 to 6.30,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: then Guardians Baseball. The pregame takes over on News Radio
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: 570 WKBN. On this Monday, a few calls. You're on
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: the air.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 9: Well..
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 15: The Guardians did pretty good the first half.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 4: And I think the second half.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 15: I think if we win, I'd say I'd.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: Like to see them win at least 86 games. How's
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: it been going lately?
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 4: Not good.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: They've lost five in a row.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 4: That's not a good thing, is it?
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: I know you're optimistic, Dick, from Dayton, but sometimes there's
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: not a lot to be optimistic about. Oh, it's been dismal.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: It's been dismal lately, but it seems to me they
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: always do decent in the first half, and then they always–
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: this is almost like a– I'm hoping it isn't a repeat.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: to where the second after the All-Star break, it's down here.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 15: You know, the thing of it is, too, you know,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 15: I think a lot of this, too, I.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 18: Think everybody was shocked about LeBron.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 15: Didn't you think so?
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I was hanging on your every word. I was
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: thinking he was coming back to the Cavs, and that
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: wasn't the case.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: So once again, I was led astray by my official
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: sports prognosticator, Dick from Dayton.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 4: Well, we've got to look for the Guardians now, right?
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: I guess so.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 19: Okay.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 15: Have a good day.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You're on the air.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 22: Ron.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 18: I got my opinion on the war with Iran is
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 18: Iran won't quit until they want blood. And I think
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 18: they're getting a little bit of sympathy from some of
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 18: our politicians and our news people over here as to
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 18: supporting them. If we would gang up on them, this
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 18: war would have been over a long time ago.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: How's that? What does that mean? Gang up on them.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 18: Show them that they have no support, even in their
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 18: own region.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 4: Well, I..
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: I think that... We're getting.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 18: Some sympathy from the people, like the news people over here.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's... Listen, news people aren't cheerleaders. I
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: don't think that that makes much sense at all, with
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: all due respect.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 4: They listen to our news.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: I don't care what they listen to. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's an easy mission. I mean, I think that they've
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: been greatly underestimated. It is a country of 93 million people.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, and it's had some good scientists, good programs.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes maybe we've got to take a look
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: at our own strategy and say, was this a smart
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: move and was this a good move? We haven't done
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: very good in the Middle East in general. Perhaps we
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: should learn from that.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 18: They have their own way of thinking over there.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, they do.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 18: And you can't change somebody's way of thinking. That's why
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 18: you can't mix some cultures. That's like when you come
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 18: over here.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: They think differently than we do.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 18: They brought in 10 million people over here a few
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 18: years ago. And they should have taken care of 10
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 18: million American citizens that needed help. The Democrats and those
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 18: protesters are out there protesting everything but crime and drugs.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 18: They're protesting issues, like one or two issues. They're not
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 18: supporting the country like they should.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: Well, we've got our share of wackos, that's for sure.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 18: I'm living on Social Security from 12 years ago with
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 18: nowadays prices.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: Well, how much do you get a month in Social Security?
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 14: $ 2, 500. I don't have any stocks or bonds or anything.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 14: I'm eating good, though, but it's tough. When they raise
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 14: the taxes 26% and give you 2% back, I mean,
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 14: it just doesn't make any sense.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: Well, you're often forgotten. A guy like you is forgotten
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: with these inflation numbers, which are double-digit and huge. I mean,
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: whether it's your electric costs have doubled, your gasoline is
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: $ 4 a gallon, your food prices have gone up because
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: of the cost of diesel transportation and everything, and your
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: income can't keep pace with it. Oh, no. I fully
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: understand that. And then your property taxes keep going up.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: I get what you're saying.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 18: I was ticked about him supporting 10 million people. Do
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 18: you realize the money they.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 4: Spend supporting 10 million people?
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 18: And you wouldn't even need ICE if you had 10
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 18: million people come in. They wouldn't need ICE.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: You better answer the phone. It could be your daughter calling.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks. You're on the air.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 15: Good evening, Ron.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: Here he is, folks. The one and only G2. Well,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: I tell you, did you hear that last guy?
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 15: I didn't fully understand the idea of who we would
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 15: be going after and with, like who we were going
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 15: to gang up with. But, you know, if you look
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 15: at where we are now in this situation, and you
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 15: asked a moment ago, you know, how do we get
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 15: out of this? So there are clearly two choices. One,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 15: we simply withdraw. We take whatever the consequences of withdrawing are.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: Do you think we still have that banner Bush printed up,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: mission accomplished, and we get it back out?
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 15: Oh, we could get that out. But here's the thing.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 15: Trump would do it in gold letters.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, we can't use the same banner?
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 15: No, he'd need a new one. It'd have to have
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 15: maybe some neon, a little gold. It'd have to be
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 15: a bigger, bolder, brighter banner.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: All right. What's that going to cost? What are you
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: looking at, neon or LEDs?
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 15: Oh, I'm thinking you go back to old-school neon. Big transformer,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 15: lots of gas tubes. Yeah, you've got to make it retro.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: Fireworks?
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 15: Possibly some fireworks, but you don't want to have those
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 15: mistaken for artillery shells launched if you're withdrawing.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: Alright, so let's go back. G2' s on the other line. Alright,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: so you declare victory and leave. Go ahead. What are
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: the options?
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 15: Well, I guess there is an option that is idiocy,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 15: which would be a ground invasion. Israel pushed for that
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 15: really hard. They didn't get it. I don't think they're
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 15: going to get it. I think that's basically off the table.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 15: I just don't think that's going to happen. So, you know,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 15: I don't think, no matter what they threaten Trump with,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 15: I don't think he's going to do that.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: So..
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 15: So if you then say, what's the third option? The
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 15: third option is to drive on through the storm, right?
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 15: It's to continue on. But there are some things that
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 15: make sense and some things that don't. One thing that
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 15: is absolutely essential in any plan that includes us continuing
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 15: in this endeavor is that we isolate that country entirely,
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 15: that their economic machine be completely isolated. So blockading not
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 15: just the Strait, but their ports south of the Strait,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 15: which we blew up a couple of weeks ago right
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 15: never when there was an attack on a port south
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 15: that wasn't an oil and gas terminal that was really
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 15: a cargo terminal but it's been basically destroyed in their
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 15: control systems have been taken offline in in any event
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 15: there's a blockade that could stop anything from coming going
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 15: nothing should be allowed to come and go into that
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 15: port or into the straight if kuwait can't ship through
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 15: the straight neither can iran but then on the back
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 15: side of the country by turkmenistan and pakistan and uh...
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 15: afghanistan There are rail lines and roadways over there. Some
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 15: of those have been hit. But those have to be
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 15: severed because whatever they're importing and exporting, they're bringing some
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 15: of it through there. And that has to be stopped.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 15: So every rail line has to be destroyed. Every bridge
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 15: has to be destroyed. I mean, if this is war
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 15: and we're fighting it, well, then let's fight it. And
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 15: then if you look at, you know, the Caspian Sea,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 15: you have to make sure there are no functioning ports
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 15: anywhere in Iran or near Iran that they can get
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 15: access to. You have to make sure they're not... bring
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 15: anything down east of the caspian sea right through that
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 15: channel so so basically you've got a country that's experiencing
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 15: horrible economic conditions hyperinflation they're having trouble with supplying food
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 15: and and other things unrest is growing now i don't
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 15: think there's going to be some kind of a revolution
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 15: i know everybody wants that the iranians to rise up
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 15: well forget about it's not going to happen but you
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 15: have a nation that is tremendously stressed right now. Now,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 15: the silliness is when people say Iran's getting stronger every day.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 15: You notice how nobody can explain how being bombed, losing
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 15: 20,000 targets, having your infrastructure destroyed, losing your ability to
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 15: use your air force, your ability to operate on the water,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 15: your ports, your oil and gas exports, losing your ability
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 15: to trade freely, somehow that makes them stronger. It's preposterous, really.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 15: It's a silly point. But you'll see experts that make
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 15: it over and over again all day long. So if
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 15: we're not going to withdraw, then we have to go
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 15: all in. Continuing to try to degrade the Iranian IRGC assets,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 15: of course, is an important plan, an important part of
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 15: it all. But that's not all of it. It's got
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 15: to be that all the logistics that supply goods and
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 15: material to that country have to be severed. And then,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 15: of course, continuing to take out strategic military targets. But,
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 15: you know, they've hit 20,000 of those by now, I assume.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 15: I don't know the actual number. I haven't looked at
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 15: the actual number yet. But they've had, you know, the last,
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 15: before the MOU was signed, they were at about 13,000
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 15: attacks by the United States, 3,000 by Israel. I thought
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 15: it was interesting that the Israeli finance minister said the
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 15: other day that Israel shouldn't bother getting any more deeply
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 15: involved in this. Just let the United States fight their
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 15: war for them. That's just smart. Now, it's not smart
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 15: if you're on the other side of that trade where
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 15: you're fighting their war for them, but that's water over
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 15: the dam or under the bridge or past the mill wheel.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 15: We are where we are. How do we get out
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 15: of it? And I think those are your three choices.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 15: If we try to do something in the lines of
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 15: a land invasion, this is going to be cataclysmic. We
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 15: will lose... Massive numbers of people, and we're nowhere really
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 15: near trying to be prepared to do that. We'd have
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 15: to be building bases and moving huge numbers of soldiers
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 15: in there, support staff in there, logistics hubs in there.
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 15: We'd have to build out infrastructure that would be significant.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 15: Just think about the hospitals. Afghanistan and Iraq, this isn't
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 15: uniform everywhere, but one of the guys that was responsible
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 15: for running a significant region of Afghanistan's health care system
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 15: for the troops run by about the mash type units
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 15: right he said that every soldier on the battlefield it
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 15: was when it was no more than seventeen minutes from
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 15: a surgeon's knife that's pretty incredible in order to achieve
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 15: that kind of infrastructure in the country of the this
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 15: country this i think we would have to build out
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 15: a huge amount of church so let's just set aside
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 15: any kind of ground invasion your options are withdraw and
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 15: take the consequences or finish the job but focus primarily
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 15: on the economic attack because you're not going to bomb
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 15: enough of the country to get them into submission purely
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 15: through kinetic warfare that's that's kind of where we are
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 15: and and it it's seems to me that trump is
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 15: at that crossroads we're not going to back out you've
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 15: got to keep going whatever reasons i don't know if
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 15: israel would allow him to back out i don't know
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 15: what they would do to retaliate against him and his
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 15: family if he did.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 18: Uh..
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 15: But he's he's walked into this thing you gotta finish
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 15: it and the impact on the midterms now is cast
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 15: now when we talked about inflation last week what's happening
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 15: now is that everybody contributing all of the policies of
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 15: the democrat administration of four years to donald trump eighteen
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 15: months and this war which is of course preposterous when
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 15: i looked at inflation the other day i didn't look
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 15: today but the other friday was two point one one
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 15: inflation numbers are very good They have been very good.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 15: He got it down to just a little above 1%,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 15: like a 1.3% or something. I can't remember now. So
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 15: his inflation numbers have been very attractive. The problem is
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 15: that with the inception of this war, of course, the
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 15: strait got closed, and immediately we saw gas prices go up.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 15: And then you've got infrastructure inside Russia being destroyed, so
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 15: the price of diesel is going up as they've stopped
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 15: exporting diesel. They've stopped exporting gasoline and jet fuel. You've
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 15: got California destroying huge amounts of refining capacity inside the
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 15: united states creating a national security issue now you got
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 15: southwest airlines shipping jet fuel from the gulf coast over
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 15: to california because there are no more refineries over there
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 15: and they're wholly dependent upon imports now even our military
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 15: has a problem sourcing jet fuel now because of the
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 15: policies of the democrat administration that's destroying california so so
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 15: you've got this this problem with gas it's being exacerbated
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 15: but nobody knows about california nobody knows about the loss
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 15: of Russian infrastructure and exports. All they know about is
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 15: the Strait of Hormuz, and that's, of course, all that
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 15: the propagandists are talking about. So there's no question that
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 15: Trump launching this war has caused a serious problem in
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 15: disrupting 20%, 21% of the oil and some LNG and
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 15: other things that flow around the world. That's a huge,
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 15: huge impact. Some of that has been mitigated through increased
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 15: production and changed supply chains. But he created a real
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 15: monster here with this, and now people are heaping everything
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 15: on it. We talked about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Friday,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 15: and of course the Democrats withdrew more than three times
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 15: the amount of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve that
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 15: Trump has in a war. The reason they call it
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 15: strategic is because it's supposed to be there in the
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 15: event there's a disruption in supply. But under the Biden administration,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 15: they drew down 244 million barrels of of crude from
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 15: there to offset their destructive energy policies. Trump's drawn down
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 15: 68 million barrels. So they're more than three times what
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 15: he's drawn down. And yet, they're blaming the run out
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 15: of oil on Trump. Well, you know, look, he knew
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 15: that the oil was drawn down by Democrats before he
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 15: ever started the war. So I suppose in that way,
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 15: he deserves the criticism. I do think he believed he
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 15: was going to get through this very quickly because I
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 15: think he was duped into it, as you said, as
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 15: we talked about at length in February and March. So,
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 15: you know, it's a tough situation. We've got to come
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 15: through it. I do find it interesting that people are
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 15: paying so much attention now because there's a direct economic
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 15: impact to them in the form of gas prices where,
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 15: you know, we were at war for 20 years and
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 15: nobody cared because they didn't pay for it. They put
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 15: it on the national debt. They didn't write a check.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 15: And our casualty numbers were so incredibly low over 20 years' time.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: Hold that thought.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 15: No one knows someone who died.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Back with G2 in a minute. NewsRadio 570. WKBN.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 2: I heart radio. NewsRadio 570. WKBN. Ron Verb, 525. NewsRadio 570. WKBN.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 2: With G2, I think you left a couple of options
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: out when you're talking about how you could maybe... what
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: your options are in ending this situation. And I think
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 2: one of them is rather obvious. It might, you might've overlooked.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: I suggest sending to the people of Iran and you say,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: you know, groceries and they're hungry and there's issues over
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: there that we gather all the lettuce that we can
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: gather from Taco Bell in these places. And, uh, you know,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 2: the exploding diarrhea lettuce that, uh, you've been reading about.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 15: That's a, it'd be a tactic that would be worthy of, uh, Right.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 15: It's of execution.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: It's almost like a chemical warfare, but it's not. You
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: send out all the tainted lettuce over to Iran. They
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: eat it and they all are ready. I think they're
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: given immediately because of explosive diarrhea. What are your thoughts?
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 15: Explosive diarrhea would definitely bring an army to its knees.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: And, you know, if you're dug deep into the mountains,
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 2: as they say they are, that would certainly bring you
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: bring you out of the mountain for some fresh air,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: don't you think?
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 15: That's where you start to suffer cave stench, and cave
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 15: stench is bad.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 2: Now, there's a second option that I think you also overlooked.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: We could also send over some of these fiber crews
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 2: that we've had working in our area for the longest
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 2: time that have been hitting these gas lines and power
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: lines and stuff as they're running the fiber cables. We
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: send them over there and say, hey, we're here to
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 2: put in new fiber for faster Internet. And I think
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: we know the effect that they could have on Iran
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 2: by doing that underground drilling and the explosions that we're
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: having locally. What do you think?
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 15: I think they'd bring the entire civilian infrastructure to a halt.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 2: I'm just giving you two other options. All right. Comedy
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: portion done. You take it away now. I'm done.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 15: Well, you know, I mean, this is a very, very
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 15: difficult thing. And it is, of course, fracturing the Trump coalition.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 15: If you look at the discussions we had about a
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 15: year ago when Epstein became a hoax and Trump cut
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 15: the deal that I believe he cut with the country,
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 15: I think he cut it with to make the Epstein
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 15: thing go away. uh... you know he came out that
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 15: it's a hoax why are we still talk about this
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 15: and that was the first fracture in the trump coalition
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 15: i mean that the first fracture really was in the
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 15: first hundred days the republicans in congress refused to implement
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 15: the policies and the program we sent to that sent
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 15: them there to do so really the first fractures on
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 15: on soon and and spender johnson and so so those
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 15: guys you know started giving everybody uh... uneasy feelings and
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 15: then trump did the epstein thing and i really fractured
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 15: the coalition And this Iran war has really put the
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 15: coalition into crash out. And so we are in a
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 15: situation where you've got both parties in real trouble. Somebody
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 15: mentioned earlier that the Democrats are tight on money. I'll
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 15: tell you how bad it is. We talked about this
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 15: this morning with some folks. Their networking capital position for
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 15: the Democrat National Committee is a negative $ 5 million. They have–
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 15: call it– I think they have– uh... take sixteen million
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 15: cash in twenty million debt or a camera the exact
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 15: numbers but i was astonished to find out they have
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 15: a negative working capital number they have more debt short-term
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 15: debt than they have cash on hand of course they
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 15: have you know uh... headquarters at the mortgage but that's
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 15: that's it that only one piece of the democrat pie
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 15: remember that the that the billionaires fund a vast array
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 15: of nonprofits and businesses that are charged with engaging Democrat
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 15: volunteers and Democrat voters. This organization, I call it the Hydra,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 15: and it's got a lot of heads. It's more than six.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 15: But it's, again, voter engagement, data analysis, volunteer engagement. It's messaging,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 15: huge amounts of messaging in media platforms, podcasts. It's a
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 15: massive machine. That is usually consuming about $ 2 billion a year.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 15: They use that machine to keep everybody going. They start
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 15: the day after elections on the next cycle. They don't
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 15: waste a minute because they have this massive paid organization
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 15: to do it. Now, the cutoff of USAID that the
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 15: woman mentioned earlier and the cutoff of all these grants
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 15: that were going out, you may remember that Lee Zeldin
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 15: stopped $ 20 billion that had been sequestered in this bank.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 15: I think it was J.P. Morgan or something. I think
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 15: it was Chase. I think it was Chase Morgan. that
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 15: that was sequestered in a bank so that the trump
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 15: administration wouldn't find it and it could be stolen after
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 15: the election and leave elton pulled that back but the
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 15: massive amount of money that has been pushed out through
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 15: these n g o's uh... i think the woman mentioned
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 15: sandbank manfred we remember that we were sending money to uh...
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 15: to ukraine and the lens he was given at the
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 15: sandbank manfred who was donating it back to both republican
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 15: and democrat lawmakers now that was vastly going to the
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 15: Democrat side, but also... Some of the more treasonous Republicans.
• 1:58:14
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. Back to it, 535. Ron Verp, NewsRadio 570, WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Monday. It's 85 degrees, and you were.
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  Speaker 2: Saying, G2?
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  Speaker 15: Well, I was saying, if you look at the Democrats'
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  Speaker 15: side of this political spectrum, you'll see now, as we
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  Speaker 15: talked about just before the break, the DNC is short
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  Speaker 15: on money. But there are hundreds of organizations around the
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  Speaker 15: DNC that support it, PACs and NGOs. you know, non-profits
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  Speaker 15: and for-profit companies that do data voter engagement, volunteer engagement,
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  Speaker 15: and so on, and fund campaigns. So if you look
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  Speaker 15: right now at the DSA, the Democrat Socialist America, this
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  Speaker 15: thing that this Mamdani is pushing, they're in the midst
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  Speaker 15: of opening 20 offices across the country. If you look
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  Speaker 15: at their funding, they say, well, the DSA is funded
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  Speaker 15: by dues, member dues, something like $ 5 to $ 15 a month,
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  Speaker 15: $ 20 a month. and that that's what's driving this growth. Now,
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  Speaker 15: here's the thing. We really don't know who's paying those dues.
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  Speaker 15: Is that really individual grassroots citizens, or is there a
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  Speaker 15: fund that buys 1,000 subscriptions, 1,000 memberships? We really don't
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  Speaker 15: know that. If you remember the Act Blue thing where
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  Speaker 15: they would say it was individual donations, then we'd find
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  Speaker 15: out some retired person with no assets donated $ 150, 000 in
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  Speaker 15: one election cycle. They're very good at moving money around
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  Speaker 15: like that. So it could be that you've got that happening.
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  Speaker 15: But I'm sure, certain, that some of the 30s are
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  Speaker 15: out there funding this DSA thing. Now, here's the other part, though.
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  Speaker 15: Those candidates are raising money separately. And if you look
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  Speaker 15: at who's funding the DSA candidates, it's billionaires. Now, you've
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  Speaker 15: got to ask yourself, why would billionaires fund politicians that
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  Speaker 15: say we're going to get the billionaires? And, of course,
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  Speaker 15: you know the answer. The answer is that none of
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  Speaker 15: these socialists actually have some sort of socialist, you know,
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  Speaker 15: utopian mind, what they're going to implement is tyranny. What
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  Speaker 15: they're going to implement is everything they implement every time
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  Speaker 15: they do. It is still hard to imagine how these
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  Speaker 15: people that support the socialist movement think somehow it's going
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  Speaker 15: to be better this time. So that's how this is working, right?
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  Speaker 15: The billionaires are funding it. The message sounds great. People
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  Speaker 15: are going for it. And you said earlier we ought
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  Speaker 15: not be blaming the voter for supporting this lunacy. And
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  Speaker 15: in a certain way, I agree with you. Because if
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  Speaker 15: you go back to the New York election when Mamdani
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  Speaker 15: was running, his opponents were Governor Cuomo, the guy that
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  Speaker 15: killed everybody's grandmother and locked down their cities, destroyed their businesses,
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  Speaker 15: hurt their kids. It's him, the guy that was on
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  Speaker 15: videos doing press conferences in tight T-shirts with nipple studs.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know if that's what you'd call him, but
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  Speaker 15: he had, like, nails in his... It's bizarre. You could
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  Speaker 15: see him through his shirt. And the other candidate... with
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  Speaker 15: curtis lee what who may be a great guy i
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  Speaker 15: don't know but let's face it curtis lee was more
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  Speaker 15: of a cartoon character than a serious politician in terms
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  Speaker 15: of running new york city so the billionaires that run
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  Speaker 15: new york city chose not to put in a candidate
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  Speaker 15: to fight mom donnie they put in these two other
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  Speaker 15: guys that had no chance of winning and mom donnie's
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  Speaker 15: pitch was the most america first pitch you could have
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  Speaker 15: you're in distress you have problems i'm going to help
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  Speaker 15: you and and so Like you, I don't entirely blame
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  Speaker 15: the voters, although I do find it quite silly that
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  Speaker 15: they're turning to socialists, not realizing, either because they're ignorant
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  Speaker 15: of history or because they're just duped, not realizing what
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  Speaker 15: lies at the end of the path Mamdani is leading
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  Speaker 15: them down, which is inevitably tyranny, fear, and crisis, right? Shortages, food, shortages, hunger,
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  Speaker 15: you know, dictatorship. I mean, that's where this goes. It
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  Speaker 15: goes to tyranny every time. So it's a fascinating landscape,
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  Speaker 15: and I think it's hard to predict exactly what's going
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  Speaker 15: to happen in the midterms. But I'm a little bit
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  Speaker 15: stunned at how confident some of the Republicans are, because
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  Speaker 15: I don't see it in their voter base. I don't
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  Speaker 15: hear it in their voter base. And I think some
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  Speaker 15: of them are simply ignoring what's actually going on.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, because... Make no mistake, I mean, do you think
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  Speaker 2: that whether I– well, with my disagreement with Trump when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to this situation in Iran, do you think
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  Speaker 2: for one single minute I would vote for Sherrod Brown?
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  Speaker 4: Nope. Right.
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  Speaker 15: No, I think you– you know, we've got years to
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  Speaker 15: study him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean– He's a joke to me. He's been there forever.
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  Speaker 2: He supported all the lunacy that Biden supported. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, men can have babies and tampons. All of
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  Speaker 2: this craziness, the open border. He was right there at
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden's side. He is a flaming liberal. So this idea,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when it comes to midterms, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to me, do you think I could vote for even
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  Speaker 2: like I said to a guy earlier, my disagreement with
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  Speaker 2: with Trump? Does that mean if I could do it
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  Speaker 2: over again, I'd vote for Kamala Harris? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Does that mean I would vote for Sherrod Brown? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats aren't even an option for me because they've
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  Speaker 2: gone to this Democrat socialism or they're just lunatics when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the social issues and their economic issues
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  Speaker 2: created a lot of this inflation. So there's absolutely no
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  Speaker 2: way I can support him. Now, I do agree with Frank,
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  Speaker 2: who made an interesting point, though, and it is fair criticism.
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  Speaker 2: I do think we have a problem with Democrats and
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  Speaker 2: Republicans both because they take all of this lobbyist money
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  Speaker 2: and they forget to represent the people. And they're representing
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  Speaker 2: special interests. And in too many cases, that's true. This
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  Speaker 2: Safe Voting Act should be done. I mean, I'm disappointed
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  Speaker 2: in the Republican Party. And if they do lose the midterms,
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  Speaker 2: they have nobody to blame but themselves. They should have
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  Speaker 2: codified all this stuff that Trump did by executive order,
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  Speaker 2: and they haven't done it. They had the majority. They
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  Speaker 2: should have been a lot more proactive than they are.
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  Speaker 2: The SAVE Act should be done. I don't understand the
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  Speaker 2: foot dragon by all the Republicans to support the Trump agenda.
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  Speaker 15: Well, they don't support it. It's not their agenda. It's
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  Speaker 15: not their donor agenda. It's not the countries that sponsor
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  Speaker 15: them as agenda.
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  Speaker 2: So they're career politicians, and you can't tell a lot
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  Speaker 2: of difference between them and the Democrats.
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  Speaker 15: No, no. I mean, they give different speeches. But in
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  Speaker 15: the end, look at this. If you look at who
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  Speaker 15: really has representation in Congress right now, obviously India does.
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  Speaker 15: The H-1Bs, they're less under Trump. But the H-1Bs should
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  Speaker 15: have been done away with. You know, this is a
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  Speaker 15: three-year temporary visa, but nobody goes home, and there's no
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  Speaker 15: action taken to amend the law to make sure they
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  Speaker 15: go home. India has representation in Congress. The multinationals obviously
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  Speaker 15: have representation in Congress. You can't even get the Maha
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  Speaker 15: agenda moving, even though we know that everything in the center,
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  Speaker 15: most everything in the center of the grocery store is poisonous,
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  Speaker 15: and we're getting drugs injected into our kids that are
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  Speaker 15: causing problems. None of that gets off the ground because
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  Speaker 15: the billions and trillions that flow through pharma and through
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  Speaker 15: big food and big ag. So they all have representation, right?
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  Speaker 15: The globalists have all the representation. Israel has massive representation.
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  Speaker 15: The Islamists have representation. You know, you watched Israel go
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  Speaker 15: after Massey, but they don't go after Ilhan Omar with
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  Speaker 15: that kind of investment. They spent $ 97 per Republican registered
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  Speaker 15: voter in Massey's district. Israel and their allies to take
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  Speaker 15: him out. You think they're doing that with Ilhan Omar, Tlaib,
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  Speaker 15: and AOC? No, they're not doing it there. They got
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  Speaker 15: rid of the guy that has the best voting record
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  Speaker 15: in Congress who voted with Republicans more than anyone else,
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  Speaker 15: or nearly anyone else. Marjorie Taylor Greene was up there
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  Speaker 15: and a couple others. But, you know, that's who they
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  Speaker 15: went after. They have tremendous representation in Congress. You know,
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  Speaker 15: you've got all these different groups that are getting representation.
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  Speaker 15: Who's missing in that list? Oh, that would be us.
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  Speaker 15: So the American agenda is stalled because Republicans in Congress
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  Speaker 15: refuse to advance it. If they lose in the midterms,
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  Speaker 15: they don't care. So this is tragic. But that Trump agenda,
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  Speaker 15: that America First agenda, simply is not the Republican Party's agenda,
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  Speaker 15: and that's why they've fought us every step of the way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in many ways, the Republicans have been a
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  Speaker 2: huge disappointment. I mean, I hate to say this, but
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  Speaker 2: if they do lose the midterms, they brought it on themselves.
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  Speaker 4: They don't care.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the problem. I do. Because it just means
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  Speaker 2: two years of nothing. It means two years of impeachment,
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  Speaker 2: two years of everything being stalled, two years of the
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  Speaker 2: lunacy back. And that's what it represents. So I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do, too. Resent it. And I go back to
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  Speaker 2: say what you incidentally said initially, if I'm quoting you correctly,
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  Speaker 2: that you would have preferred that the Iran war never
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  Speaker 2: took place in the very beginning. And because you thought
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  Speaker 2: it was more important to bring inflation down, do the
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  Speaker 2: American agenda and win the midterms, which which has more
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  Speaker 2: of an effect on my life than the Iran situation.
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  Speaker 15: Well, and save the country would be nice, right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For a change.
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  Speaker 15: If the Republicans were to come at the big expensive
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  Speaker 15: bill and said, hey, look, we want to get these
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  Speaker 15: elements of policy through, but we're going to hold spending flat,
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  Speaker 15: no increase, it would have been a major victory for
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  Speaker 15: the American people. But they couldn't do that, so they
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  Speaker 15: had to increase spending by $ 5 trillion over 10 years.
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  Speaker 15: You know, they just can't stop. They can't help themselves.
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  Speaker 15: It is a body beyond recovery. I don't know. You know,
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  Speaker 15: a patriot called me a couple of, about a week
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  Speaker 15: ago and said, hey, I've been thinking about it, and
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  Speaker 15: this person actually thinks, doesn't just repeat what they hear
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  Speaker 15: on CNN, and said, I don't think we're voting our
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  Speaker 15: way out of this, are we? You know, and that's
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  Speaker 15: where a lot of people are getting. So you've really
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  Speaker 15: got three doors, right? You've got vote Republican, or whatever
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  Speaker 15: clown is in that role. Vote Democrat.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 15: Or don't vote and that's where you're going to find
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  Speaker 15: some problems i think both the democrat party and the
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  Speaker 15: republican party are going to face the no vote problem
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  Speaker 15: now i could be wrong turnout will be very very
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  Speaker 15: high among that thirty percent of group right these people
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  Speaker 15: are lunatics they are very distressed that the i've been
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 15: being pushed in universities that third-grade teachers can't chase kids
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  Speaker 15: around the classroom screening let me tell you about my
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  Speaker 15: sexual journey you know that these people are are unhinged
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  Speaker 15: lunatics and they will turn out no question You've got
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  Speaker 15: the brand-loyal Republicans, turn out without question, the evangelicals that
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  Speaker 15: support Israel, they're coming, right? The Zionists, they're all coming.
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  Speaker 15: But it's that average American, especially the 18 to 39s,
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  Speaker 15: who feel so abandoned and with good cause. And there
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  Speaker 15: are two sides to this boomer versus millennial or boomer
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  Speaker 15: versus zoomer argument. There are two sides to that. But
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  Speaker 15: let's not pretend that these kids don't have a valid argument.
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  Speaker 15: You know, we weren't facing $ 40 trillion of debt 10 years, 20, 30,
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  Speaker 15: 40 years ago. We weren't facing the risk of hyperinflation
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  Speaker 15: as we do now. It's not here now, but it
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  Speaker 15: could come. And we weren't facing H-1B visas replacing everybody.
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  Speaker 15: Now we faced offshoring of jobs, and we did nothing
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  Speaker 15: about it because, eh, we're all right. So this door
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  Speaker 15: number three, no vote, that's the greatest threat in the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 15: Because if Senator Johnson loses, he doesn't care. He gets
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  Speaker 15: the same pension now. no matter whether he remains in
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  Speaker 15: that role or doesn't.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: No vote is a vote, actually.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: In many ways. And it's sad because, really, the American
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  Speaker 2: first agenda, I mean, how can you be opposed to it?
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  Speaker 2: America first. If Trump would have stayed the course, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: gas prices were low, inflation was coming down. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: think of where we would have been right now if
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  Speaker 2: we would have never got involved with Iran. But not
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  Speaker 2: just Iran.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 15: He should have never gotten involved with Iran. And then
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  Speaker 15: there's another thing, that housing bill that just went through
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  Speaker 15: that nobody knows about.
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  Speaker 2: Explain it.
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  Speaker 15: They can't pass the Election Security Act or do anything
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  Speaker 15: to help the country, but they passed this thing called
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  Speaker 15: the Affordable Housing Act. Now, does anybody think that there's
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  Speaker 15: a bill in Congress that's going to make housing affordable?
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  Speaker 15: Does anybody believe that's possible?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had the Inflation Reduction Act. Didn't that work?
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  Speaker 15: Exactly, in the infrastructure bill where they spent no money
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  Speaker 15: on infrastructure. So this housing bill goes through and dumps
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  Speaker 15: hundreds of millions of dollars into all the consultants that
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  Speaker 15: were there under the Democrats to redesign your community. So
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 15: they're going to try to urbanize the suburbs. They're going
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  Speaker 15: to try to empty out some of the more rural areas,
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  Speaker 15: and they're going to take the adjacent rural areas and
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  Speaker 15: try to densify those. They won't necessarily be urbanized, but
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  Speaker 15: they'll be at least suburbanized. They're going to develop plans
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  Speaker 15: where a municipality will identify all of the empty lots
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  Speaker 15: in its borders, And the government will determine a plan
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  Speaker 15: for usage of that land. How is that the role
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  Speaker 15: of government? It was, by the way, in the Soviet system.
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  Speaker 15: The Republicans and Democrats, the Uniparty, came together. Eighty-five U.S.
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  Speaker 15: senators voted for the housing bill. Eighty-five. Now, what else
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  Speaker 15: did they get a supermajority on? They got a supermajority
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  Speaker 15: in the House on the housing bill. Not the Election
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  Speaker 15: Security Act. Nothing that we want. Absolutely refuse to do anything.
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  Speaker 15: They're about to go on their month-long recess. They aren't
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 15: passing through the Senate. Trump's still waiting on confirmation of appointees.
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 15: They're running sessions in Congress. From gavel to gavel, it's
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 15: 39 seconds. But it's long enough to guarantee that Trump
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  Speaker 15: can't do recess appointments of his nominees. We're two years
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  Speaker 15: into this thing. And the Republicans in the Senate are
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  Speaker 15: stopping him cold on implementing his plan.
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  Speaker 2: And like you say, you can't get the voting in
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  Speaker 2: his secure election act. But we also had time to say, hey,
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 2: we should merge Israel and America with the military.
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  Speaker 15: This NDAA taking the spending to $ 1. 1 trillion and then
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  Speaker 15: hiding Israel inside that bill. What I mean is, Netanyahu said, hey,
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  Speaker 15: I don't want to be taking foreign aid from the
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 15: United States. anymore. And gullible people said, oh, look at that,
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 15: they're going to be, you know, like, they're not going to,
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 15: they're going to shut off the valve. But then everybody
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 15: else started to look around and go, oh, no, what
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 15: do they got planned? And here's what he had planned.
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  Speaker 15: So he called a congressman in Indiana and said, write
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 15: an amendment to the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act.
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 15: And in that, switch us from being recipients of foreign
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  Speaker 15: aid to being embedded in your defense budget. So now
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  Speaker 15: it's a $ 1. 1 trillion black hole in and Israel is
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 15: stuck in the middle of it. Now, there's going to
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  Speaker 15: be sort of a relationship manager or an Israel czar,
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  Speaker 15: somebody who's going to sit inside the Department of Defense
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  Speaker 15: or Department of War, and they're going to decide, they're
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 15: going to make sure, let's say they're going to shepherd
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  Speaker 15: projects through and money through to make sure that enough
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  Speaker 15: is going to Israel. Now, what's that going to get us?
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  Speaker 15: You know, they're going to get access to all of
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  Speaker 15: our technology by law. They're going to get access to
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  Speaker 15: a bunch of other things that are going to be
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  Speaker 15: embedded in our procurement process. They're going to be building
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 15: plants that we pay for, they'll profit from. This is
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  Speaker 15: an incredible win for Israel. How does it serve the
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 15: American people? Well, it doesn't. And I've heard all the
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 15: arguments about how it does. It's nonsense. We can buy
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 15: whatever technology we want from Israel. We can sell them
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  Speaker 15: whatever we want. We have partnerships with lots of different countries.
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  Speaker 15: But none of them are hidden in this giant black
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  Speaker 15: money box. And that's what it is. Remember, the Department
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 15: of Defense came out on September 10 of 2001 and said,
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 15: we just lost $ 2 trillion, more than $ 2 trillion. The
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 15: next day, their accounting department was destroyed, so we never
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 15: got to the bottom of where that money went. Then
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  Speaker 15: they came out again, most recently, at the end of 23.
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  Speaker 15: It said, yeah, we lost another $ 2 trillion. Can't find it.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 15: And you put Israel's budget in the middle of that
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 15: black box, where everything's hidden behind firewalls and secrets and classifications.
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  Speaker 15: We'll never again know, as the American people, how much
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 15: money we're shoving over there. And that bill will pass
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 15: by a supermajority, or at least a significant majority. And
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 15: the Republicans in Congress refused to allow debate. Thomas Massey
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 15: tried to bring this to debate, and the Republicans in
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 15: Congress refused to allow it to happen. Spender Johnson specifically
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  Speaker 15: made sure this would never be debated publicly because they
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 15: really hope that the normies and the gullibles, that they
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 15: don't know anything about this. And then if you do have, well,
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 15: we have a special relationship. Hey, look, we've got a
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 15: special relationship with a lot of countries. It doesn't mean
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 15: perfect alignment of interests, and no country should be inside
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 15: our Department of War like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's very troubling. Back with more, and we wrap it
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• 2:16:25
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• 2:16:28
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• 2:16:33
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• 2:16:36
  Speaker 2: At 6.30 then, right after the headlines. We'll go to
• 2:16:42
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• 2:16:48
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• 2:16:52
  Speaker 2: keep that in mind. So many things going on covering
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 2: the world with G2, and only a couple minutes left.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 2: We shall see how it all materializes. I mean, these are...
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 2: trying in difficult times on so many fronts. And let's
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 2: be realistic, things could go one way or the other.
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 2: And we hope for a positive outcome, but sometimes it's
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 2: tough to be optimistic.
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  Speaker 15: Well, that's right. And the issues we're talking about aren't
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 15: simple political issues. You know, like, should capital gains be 22%
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 15: or 28%? We're talking about a series of existential threats
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 15: that face this nation and its culture, its allies in Europe.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 15: You know, it's We're in a tough situation here. And
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 15: if you're not viewing this as a war, then you
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 15: need to reset your view. If you think this is
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 15: just normal politics, you're dreaming.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, though. I mean, are you
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  Speaker 2: concerned when you hear about Ukraine firing into into russia
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  Speaker 2: uh you know firing into russia taking out some of
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 2: their oil uh facilities within the country of russia i
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 2: mean this could escalate very very quickly there too oh.
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  Speaker 15: Again they put tremendous pressure on the energy supplies across
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  Speaker 15: russia as i said they stopped exports of gasoline in
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 15: april i think it was diesel fuel in uh uh...
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 15: jet fuel in like in like may and then in
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 15: june july date they stopped exporting diesel so we are
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 15: all going to suffer from that remember in the middle
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 15: east they've specifically been careful to minimize the attacks on
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 15: it on that kind of infrastructure but the ukrainians are
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 15: going after it hard they're trying to provoke an escalation
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 15: of that war because the globalists either want to bring
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 15: russia down or kill every ukrainian trying and this is
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 15: this is a tragedy this is a horrible tragedy which
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 15: anybody watching fox news has no understanding of Right, but.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the idea that– I mean that can really
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 2: escalate it fast. Like you say, it only makes this
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: energy situation a lot worse because we're taking a lot
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 2: of stuff off the world market in addition to what's
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 2: happening with Iran. I mean it's just the dumbest damn thing.
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 2: They're poking the bear, is what I'm saying. They are
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 2: poking the bear, and they better be damn careful about that.
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  Speaker 15: The bear has claws, and the bear's not going to
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 15: surrender to the gender lunatics in Europe. They're not going
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 15: to surrender to the people who want to grab their
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 15: children and cut off their genitals. So if you think
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 15: you're going to beat the bear before its claws come out,
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 15: you're out of your mind. Now, it's been an expensive
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 15: war for Russia. They are in a hard way. But
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 15: these people have fought wars in a way that Americans
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 15: can't even begin to understand. And the devastation of Ukraine
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 15: is just a crime.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: More tomorrow.
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you, G2. Appreciate it. Have a good night. Man,
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 2: I love this place.