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Tuesday 5pm hour 06/23/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: KBN.
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  Speaker 2: All right. News Radio 570, WKBN 506. Do you remember
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  Speaker 2: years ago, and I think that was a guy's name,
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  Speaker 2: John Salitas, if I'm not mistaken. He was like the
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  Speaker 2: ombudsman for people that had issues with nursing homes. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he worked for the state or
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  Speaker 2: the county back then. I can't remember who employed him.
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  Speaker 3: I do know that there is supposed to be one
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  Speaker 3: for the state, but I don't. I truly believe we
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  Speaker 3: need somebody on a local level to help our loved
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  Speaker 3: ones more. I absolutely believe that.
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  Speaker 2: As far as what, like inspections or somebody that people
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  Speaker 2: can call to go, a family could call out of
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  Speaker 2: concern to have them go look into something or something?
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  Speaker 1: Both.
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  Speaker 4: I think both.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think we need accountability and we need someone that
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  Speaker 3: families can reach out to and feel comfortable to be
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  Speaker 3: able to talk to them and tell them their concerns
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  Speaker 3: and get help for their loved ones, advocate for them.
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  Speaker 3: Just like advocating for our people for the property taxes,
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  Speaker 3: working with the other commissioners and working with our state
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  Speaker 3: legislators to be able to find some relief for people.
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  Speaker 2: I see in Trumbull County they're talking about dealing with
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  Speaker 2: that this week and voting on both of those issues.
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  Speaker 2: I believe in Trumbull County this week the commissioners there
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  Speaker 2: are going to do that, and I'll be happy to
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  Speaker 2: see that happen. Did you happen to see, it was
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  Speaker 2: in the paper, there was a woman that had She
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  Speaker 2: had some type of an operation or whatever, and then
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  Speaker 2: she had to go into rehab. She was 60 years old, Christine,
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  Speaker 2: and she was sent to a nursing home for rehab. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so she wasn't elderly or anything like that. And they
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  Speaker 2: had her on like the opioids for pain. I forget
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  Speaker 2: what the procedure was that she had done, but they
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  Speaker 2: had her on opioids for pain. And they said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be cognizant that that can cause her to be constipated
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  Speaker 2: and everything. And they did not monitor her and she
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  Speaker 2: did not have a bowel movement for weeks and ultimately
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  Speaker 2: died as a result of that. And out of total
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  Speaker 2: neglect that nobody was paying attention. Hey, this woman hasn't
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  Speaker 2: had a bowel movement for several weeks because of the
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  Speaker 2: opioids that she was on for pain and as a
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  Speaker 2: result of this procedure, which she should have recovered from
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  Speaker 2: and been perfectly healthy. I mean, there's a shining example
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  Speaker 2: of a staff not doing its job, right?
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  Speaker 3: That happened to a gentleman I read about in the past,
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  Speaker 3: I think, six months. That happened in a group home.
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  Speaker 3: There was only like two people in that home. Same thing.
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  Speaker 3: He hadn't had any bowel movements, and he had passed.
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  Speaker 2: Away because of it as well. Yeah. I mean, it's sad.
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  Speaker 2: And all the money that you pay these organizations or
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  Speaker 2: these homes or whatever, it's not unusual to pay $ 8, 000, $ 9, 000,
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  Speaker 2: $ 10, 000 a month, and they don't hire enough people. They
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  Speaker 2: don't pay them enough. I mean, the people that actually
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  Speaker 2: administer the care are understaffed and underpaid. Would you agree?
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  Speaker 3: I do agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, it's just it's really sad. It's
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  Speaker 2: really sad. All right, Christine. Well, best of luck to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good talking with you. Go champion. Get us some tax relief.
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  Speaker 2: Go get them.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. You have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Christine Oliver. News Radio 570. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, interesting that you were just talking to Christine. about
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  Speaker 4: the nursing home. I broke my leg in November and
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  Speaker 4: ended up in a, but I thought it was going
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  Speaker 4: to be a rehab and it ended up being that way. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: more like a nursing home. And quite frankly, I was
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  Speaker 4: probably one of the few people who was cognizant as
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  Speaker 4: to what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they, they drug so many people up in, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I am shocked, uh, You're bringing up an excellent point
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  Speaker 2: because as I've said in the past, my mother had
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  Speaker 2: a stroke and you go around and she needed skilled
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  Speaker 2: nursing care. And we would go, not my brothers would go,
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  Speaker 2: if I would go when I could to visit her
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  Speaker 2: every day or every other day to keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: on what was on the treatments. And I remember the
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  Speaker 2: administrator there said, everybody who's here and nobody wants to
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  Speaker 2: be here of everybody who's here, unfortunately. They have to
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  Speaker 2: be here. And my mother was cognizant of everything. She said,
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  Speaker 2: this is no way to live. And you would see people,
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  Speaker 2: they would just be, it was like they were drugged.
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  Speaker 2: They were just like kind of totally out of reality
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  Speaker 2: and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And lined up in the hallway.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: In their wheelchairs.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And like they were stoned out of it. You
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  Speaker 2: are spot on. It was shocking to me when I
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  Speaker 2: would go and look at this thinking, What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Just drug these people up so they're not, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to do anything with them, but just roll them
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  Speaker 2: out in the hallway and talk at the nursing station
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  Speaker 2: or what?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's pretty much it. And you can never, you
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  Speaker 4: have to really get into the rhythm of what people,
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  Speaker 4: when they come on, when they come off. There's certain
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  Speaker 4: times you can't, you don't have, you know, when it's mealtime,
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  Speaker 4: morning and lunchtime, don't even press. the button like you
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  Speaker 4: need help or you need that because they're not going
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  Speaker 4: to come because it's breakfast or it's mealtime or it's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so you really have to learn their rhythm.
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  Speaker 4: One of the most interesting things is I had one
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  Speaker 4: operation on my leg and then I had to go
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  Speaker 4: back two weeks later and have a second one and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they have the transport that's supposed to come
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  Speaker 4: in and everything and I'm was told what time I'm
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  Speaker 4: ready to go. My therapy people, you know, were sitting there,
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  Speaker 4: and then they walked in and said, oh, you missed
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  Speaker 4: your transport. And I said, how could I do that? Well,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't answer the door in the back, and they
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  Speaker 4: didn't answer the phone. You see, they were getting ready
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  Speaker 4: to leave or change shifts. And it breaks my heart
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  Speaker 4: to think of other people, and I said, well, what
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  Speaker 4: are we going to do about that? And she's like, well,
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  Speaker 4: you'll just have to reschedule. I said, yeah, that ain't happening.
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  Speaker 4: I said, we have a hospital operating room waiting for us,
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  Speaker 4: the surgeon, the anesthesiologist. Maybe you can take... I'm going.
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting there. But if I were older, I would
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  Speaker 4: just have had to wait and maybe wait another week
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  Speaker 4: or two pushing back the healing process. The food, awful.
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  Speaker 1: Horrible.
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  Speaker 4: Everything is processed.
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  Speaker 2: Everything.
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  Speaker 4: You can't get any fresh food at almost at all.
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  Speaker 4: And these people aren't... You're not going to get better
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  Speaker 4: because the diet is bad. But the interesting thing is
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  Speaker 4: they had a guy from Ohio, an inspector, and he
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  Speaker 4: ended up coming in. They found out that he was coming.
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  Speaker 6: They..
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  Speaker 4: You know, you go for therapy, came back, your whole
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  Speaker 4: room is different. It's cleaned. Things are gone. I lost
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  Speaker 4: my deodorant, my toothpaste, my whatever. They just cleared off everything.
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  Speaker 4: And there were some of the other older people lost
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  Speaker 4: the blanket. They lost their, because they were making it
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  Speaker 4: nice for the inspector, but people lost their favorite mug.
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  Speaker 4: They lost all of their stuff. and it was really
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  Speaker 4: an eye-opening experience that just broke my heart, and you're right.
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  Speaker 4: It's not cheap, and they get a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: part-time people who don't do this. They just do it
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  Speaker 4: for money, and I guess they came on during COVID
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  Speaker 4: because the money was really good, but they really don't
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  Speaker 4: have a heart. It's just They just go through the motions.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be the first one to say, and I would
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  Speaker 2: hope you would agree, listen, when you get into these
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  Speaker 2: facilities like you're talking about and you experienced it firsthand,
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  Speaker 2: the people that actually do your care, they're understaffed and
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  Speaker 2: they're underpaid, and it's a very difficult job. They're understaffed, underpaid.
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  Speaker 2: They've got too many patients that are very demanding, and
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  Speaker 2: it's an emotional draining job for someone to do. And
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  Speaker 2: you need more people and better pay for the amount
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  Speaker 2: that you're paying per month in these facilities. Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: It was, you know, and it's just what, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: some of them did the best they could. And you
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  Speaker 4: knew that this was in their heart. And there was
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  Speaker 4: an awful lot of them. And they're usually the people
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  Speaker 4: that are there, like, overnight. Or whatever. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it could be worse. It could be worse. But it
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  Speaker 4: was pretty bad. And, yeah, that's why I called it
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  Speaker 4: the facility and not, like, rehab. And the moment that
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  Speaker 4: you get there, they talk about, well, you've got to
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  Speaker 4: get ready to go home.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to get ready to go. home, which, of course, but.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't walk. I couldn't put any weight at all.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I broke my leg November 13th, and I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't cleared to put any weight on it until mid-March.
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  Speaker 4: So all winter long, I took care of my... and
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  Speaker 4: Walmart delivery.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, you saw it firsthand, so I would
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  Speaker 2: ask you this question. And you're talking about rehabbing from
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  Speaker 2: a broken leg. So I would say to you, in
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  Speaker 2: all seriousness, do you get, are you fearful as you
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  Speaker 2: grow older of ending up in a facility like you're
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  Speaker 2: describing because you have a stroke? Because you have some
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  Speaker 2: type of problem which requires you to have that type
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  Speaker 2: of care. And what you saw firsthand, it's a frightening thought.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, thank God you only were there for a
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  Speaker 2: broken leg and that you're healthy again. But it is
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  Speaker 2: a frightening thought. I often tell people that are old
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  Speaker 2: enough to remember, I remember Dick Clark, when he was
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  Speaker 2: being interviewed by Larry King, Larry King said, what do
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  Speaker 2: you fear most as you get older, Dick? And he said,
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  Speaker 2: having a stroke. And do you remember when you would
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  Speaker 2: see Dick Clark on the New Year's Eve show? He
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  Speaker 2: could is having difficulty talking because he had a stroke.
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  Speaker 2: The thing he feared the most happened to him, and
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  Speaker 2: it can happen to anybody, and you can end up
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  Speaker 2: in one of these facilities for any number of ailments
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  Speaker 2: that you might have permanently. I mean, that is your life,
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  Speaker 2: and can you imagine that?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: For me, too, my mother had a stroke. She had
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  Speaker 4: a little mini brain bleed, so she kind of had
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  Speaker 4: a little mini stroke, and then he ended up actually
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  Speaker 4: having a stroke. And, of course, you never know what
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  Speaker 4: you're going to get. But this was about 13 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: She's passed away now. But anyhow, I think it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: as bad. I mean, I think she was in some
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  Speaker 4: better places than I was. I think that sometimes the
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  Speaker 4: quality of them have, gone down.
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  Speaker 2: I suspect they're having the same problems that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of employers are having, finding people to show up and
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  Speaker 2: do the work. As I say, it is a difficult job,
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  Speaker 2: an emotionally draining job, and grossly underpaid for what these
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  Speaker 2: workers do in these nursing care facilities. The owners make
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  Speaker 2: a fortune. I mean, there are people that are, the
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  Speaker 2: companies that own them and all that, they're living a
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  Speaker 2: grand lifestyle, but the care that the that the patient
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  Speaker 2: gets is just god-awful in too many cases.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and this one was pretty full. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it was pretty popular because it does in-house dialysis. So
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  Speaker 4: it was one of those that if that's something that
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  Speaker 4: you needed.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's where you got to go. That's where you
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  Speaker 2: got to go. It's just part of the thing that
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people fear and justify. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: as you grow older and if you stay healthy, count
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  Speaker 2: your blessings every single day. Hope that when it's your time,
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  Speaker 2: you have a heart attack and go quickly and you
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  Speaker 2: don't linger in some nursing home or something along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: Life is very precious on it. Life is so fragile.
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  Speaker 2: It's so precious that when you get a day like today,
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  Speaker 2: you should enjoy 72 degrees. It's a beautiful day here
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio. You should enjoy every minute of this. And
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  Speaker 2: when people get wound up and when I see people
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  Speaker 2: get pissed about just some of the smallest things, I
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  Speaker 2: think to myself, man, your priorities are really messed up.
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  Speaker 2: In all seriousness, I thank God every day I wake
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  Speaker 2: up and that I'm healthy. And it's hard to have
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  Speaker 2: a bad day when you wake up and you're healthy.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a bad day. And, you know, any minor issue,
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  Speaker 2: you can always overcome it. A major issue is when
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  Speaker 2: they look at you and tell you you got stage
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  Speaker 2: four cancer. A major issue is when you have a stroke.
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  Speaker 2: These are major life-changing issues. If you don't have that,
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  Speaker 2: thank God for, no matter what age you are, because
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  Speaker 2: it can change in the blink of an eye.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, exactly. And I'm 70 years old, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm pretty functional, normal. And I was doing too much
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  Speaker 4: at once, and I fell down the cellar steps, and
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  Speaker 4: I fractured right under my knee, my right tibia. and
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  Speaker 4: landed at the heap on the bottom of the steps.
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  Speaker 1: I live alone.
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  Speaker 4: I had to call the... Unfortunately, I had my phone
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  Speaker 4: on me. Always keep your phone on you, people. And
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  Speaker 4: I was able to, yes, and they had the ambulance come.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll tell you, it was a real turning point
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  Speaker 4: in my life. I I really tried to figure things out,
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  Speaker 4: slow down, figure out what's important and what isn't important.
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  Speaker 4: I spent the whole winter in the house for four
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  Speaker 4: months just going out twice for doctor's appointments. And you
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of time to think and think about
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  Speaker 4: what was important. And, yeah, you know, I used to
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  Speaker 4: teach aerobics classes for 35 years. Yeah, maybe that's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be happening now. Maybe this, that. But I
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  Speaker 4: have a good friend whose son... struggling with alcoholism.
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  Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Hold that thought for a second. I'll
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  Speaker 2: come back, finish up my conversation with her, take more
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  Speaker 2: of your calls. Interesting woman straight ahead right here. I
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  Speaker 2: just want to go back to this woman because you
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  Speaker 2: said something. There's nothing good about being, for lack of
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  Speaker 2: a better term, trapped in your house for four months
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  Speaker 2: during winter. That's just got to drive you out of
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  Speaker 2: your gourd to a large extent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I..
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  Speaker 4: I took one little project at a time. I rearranged
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  Speaker 4: and organized the bookcase. I would take a drawer and
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  Speaker 4: organize that. I would just, you know, do one little thing.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the important part. I read it online and
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  Speaker 4: it was true. Have one significant 10-minute phone call every day.
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  Speaker 4: And even if it's a friend, a neighbor checks up
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  Speaker 4: on you, even if you have to call... One 10-minute
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  Speaker 4: significant phone call makes a huge difference. Even when my
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  Speaker 4: ex called, I said, guess what? You're my one 10-minute
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  Speaker 4: phone call today. Because, yeah, you could go days. And
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  Speaker 4: I had a great, I won't say I had a
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  Speaker 4: great therapist who came to the house. And that certainly
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  Speaker 4: helped a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is a game changer. Like I just
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  Speaker 2: mentioned to people in the past, I have two older
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  Speaker 2: brothers now. both of them live in Florida, and they
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  Speaker 2: would say constantly, you know, they're older than me. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: my one brother would now be, they've been there for years.
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  Speaker 2: My one brother would be 78. My other brother would
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  Speaker 2: be 71. But they, you know, obviously we grew up
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio, and they moved to Florida, and they moved
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  Speaker 2: there because of year-round sunshine, and they'd They got away
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  Speaker 2: from winter, you know, not when they were 30 years old,
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  Speaker 2: later in life, but still young enough, and they got
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  Speaker 2: away from winter. And you stay more active. Like they say,
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  Speaker 2: you walk more, you have the sunshine more, you live
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  Speaker 2: life more. And they swear you live longer as a
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  Speaker 2: result of not being cooped up in your house during
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  Speaker 2: wintertime or putting up with the snow and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. And, uh, they, they, they, they swear by it.
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  Speaker 2: And I know when I go down and visit my
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  Speaker 2: daughter and, uh, probably one of the best times of
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  Speaker 2: my life was my daughter's wedding. And, uh, to go
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  Speaker 2: down to Florida with my, uh, me and my wife
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  Speaker 2: and my son. And it was one of the best
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  Speaker 2: times of my life ever. It was one of the best,
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  Speaker 2: most enjoyable times that I, that I enjoyed in my
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  Speaker 2: entire life was just that, uh, that wedding and that
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  Speaker 2: my brother was there.
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  Speaker 4: And, uh, my son.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And it was just, it was just a relaxing,
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  Speaker 2: wonderful time. And I, and I tell you, I would
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  Speaker 2: do it again tomorrow because it was, it was just,
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  Speaker 2: it was such a joy. And, you know, I understood
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  Speaker 2: when I was there, why, why my brothers are there. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm, I'm happy that my daughter's down there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's hot as hell right now, but needless
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  Speaker 2: to say, she loves it. And I think I told
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  Speaker 2: you before many of the, Girls she went to college
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  Speaker 2: with when she got out of YSU and many of
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  Speaker 2: her colleagues, they say a handful of them all moved
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  Speaker 2: to Florida. None of them have come back. They all
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  Speaker 2: got good jobs and they all love it. And they
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  Speaker 2: just love the lifestyle and the atmosphere and all that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: So it's an important thing.
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  Speaker 4: Probably stuck here for a while, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: But think about it. I mean, you know, in the wintertime,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you go down and rent a place for three
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: or four months, and I think it will change your attitude.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: The sunshine and I would go more to central Florida,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: get away from the coast, and I think you will
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: thoroughly enjoy it. enjoy your life as you get older.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I think you will enjoy it. You'll find out why
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: there's so many older people that go down there. But
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: my brothers swear by it. And they say that's why
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you'll see a lot of older, healthier people in Florida,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: because they're doing stuff. They're not trapped in their house
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: in wintertime. And there's some truth to that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I helped my daughter with a garage sale this weekend.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: It's like a little family event. Of course, we had
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: gorgeous weather. She lives in Pennsylvania and we all just
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: kind of sat around in lawn chairs and her dad
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: was there and one of her good friends when she
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: was a kid that I know. And I mean, just
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: sitting out in the sun, you know, just hanging out
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: with people. It was It was pretty fantastic.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: The simplest things in life that don't cost very much
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: money are some of the most enjoyable things in life.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: And whether that's enjoying a beautiful day, taking a walk,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: having a great lunch, some of the things in life,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: they're not very expensive, but they make for some of
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: life's most special moments. Like I said, to be at
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: my daughter's wedding with my family was just a wonderful
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: time for not just then, but the days after that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: It was absolutely wonderful. It's the things that you come
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: to appreciate as you get older, those special moments. Hey,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I hope I was your significant 10-minute phone call today.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: You certainly were.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Stay in.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: You have a wonderful day.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it. A lot of words of
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: wisdom out there from some of these folks today. It's
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: an enjoyable Tuesday afternoon. We're here until 7 tonight. 7 o'clock,
• 21:26
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• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Guardians take on the Chicago White Sox. Callers online, stand by.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Back with you right after this. News Radio 570 WKVN.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Back to it. What an enjoyable Tuesday afternoon. News Radio
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: 570 WKVN. Ron Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Beautiful day.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: 71 degrees on a June 23rd. We're here tonight until
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock. And just talking about a number of different things.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Which makes it enjoyable for a change. You're on the air.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Hey, Ron.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Does Diamond Dave still call?
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: I haven't listened for quite a while.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, he does. Are you talking Bubba Ganoush?
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Okay, new name.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: His brother died, didn't they?
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: They were in the bar downtown, Youngstown, didn't they?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. His mother did, but I don't know
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: if he passed or not.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I think his brother died, but I was just curious
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: if he was still peddling cocaine on the side.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, he's not. Hello, you're on the air. Good Lord. Hello.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Hi. Hi.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: I'm calling from League City, Texas, and I've got to
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: tell you something. I listen to your radio periodically, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: you have a commercial about Avalon.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Can I give him a plug?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: The pizza.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: I was just up there last week. Well, my brother
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: and I were celebrating our 80th birthday.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: 80 years old. Really?
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: 80 years old. Yeah. Well, we'll be 80 years old
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: in December. And I told him, he says, you want
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: to have a birthday party? I says, yeah, we'll do that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: He said, well, I don't want to go up there
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: in December. It's too cold. I says, well, I don't either.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Cause I live in Texas and he lives in Florida.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: But anyways, uh, They wanted to go out for pizza,
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: and my one brother said, well, Avalon's good. I said, yeah,
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: Ron Verber always talks about it. I'm going to tell
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: you something. That was the best pizza I've had in
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: a long, long time. We had the eight-inch pizza, the
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Briar Hill, the egg, and the margarita. You can't go
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: wrong if you walk into that place and order a pizza. Fantastic.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Really? Really. So you enjoyed it. See, I'm glad that
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: you finally got to experience it. You thought I would
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: steer you wrong on something like that? Absolutely not. Avalon downtown,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I'll give you the history. I was turned on to
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the Avalon pizza back when it was on Belmont Avenue
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: in Youngstown. And so we would do a remote broadcast.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: We started doing a remote broadcast back then. We would
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: do them on location at Avalon. And I was paired
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: up with Casey Malone at the time. And Casey Malone
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: introduced me to the Avalon pizza because when we went
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: out to do the remote, she said, you got to
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: try this pizza. And she knew Al and she knew
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the guy that made him back there. And once I
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: had it, I said, that is unbelievable. It's focaccia crust.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: And I said, never had a pizza like that anywhere
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: ever before, ever before. And then I was hooked on
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the pizza. Then I think Al sold the place or
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: it closed down, and then the people that have Avalon
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: downtown bought a location there and brought the pizza back.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you what, you can't go wrong. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: would tell everybody in Youngstown, that's a great place. Of course,
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: that's my opinion. That's for what it's worth, the apartment.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I really loved it. Well, you're 80 years old. You
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: should probably know what's good by now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: I would think so.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I would certainly hope so. Go ahead.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: I was just listening to that one lady talk about
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: nursing homes, and I got to say this. A friend
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: of mine just passed away in a nursing home, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: they had him drugged. He was 90 years old. But
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: they had him drugged up because they say he's a
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: little combative. I'm going combative. I said, the guy can't
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: get out of his recliner. He watches TV all day.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: He can't walk. They have to take him from the bed,
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: put him in the recliner, from the recliner into the bed.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: But one thing I learned a long time ago, when
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: you go into a hospital, or you go into a
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: nursing home, please have somebody as an advocate for you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: A relative, a friend, somebody who can watch what they're
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: doing and can ask questions. My mother wound up in one,
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to mention the hospital, she wound up
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: in one of the hospitals in Warren. And my sister's
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: a nurse. And they were giving her this bottle, you
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: know how they do, they put the bottle on the
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: stand and all that. And, uh, there's intravenous and my
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: sister said, wait a minute, whoa, whoa, what is that stuff?
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: And she looked it up on the chart. She goes,
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: that's the wrong stuff. So I'm thinking, oh my goodness,
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: you know, and they did the same thing with my
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: friend down here. Not the same thing, but they, you
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: have to do, you have to have an advocate, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: guess is what I'm talking about. Have somebody that you
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: can trust, could ask some questions and see what's going on.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Because I went there, he died about three weeks ago and, um,
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: He was a mess, but he's a heck of a
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: nice fellow, but that doesn't count for anything. Just have
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: an advocate.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Yeah, you do in many cases.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I think you're– believe me, even when you're in a hospital,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you know, I guess I'm blessed because I'm married to
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: a registered nurse who's smart. And you need somebody that
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: knows what's going on and can advocate for you because
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: in many cases– you don't get very good care.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: True story. True story.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's something you got to consider. As you say,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: when you get there, there are people in nursing homes,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: like she was talking about that would be there and
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: they would never have any visitors at all.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: I mean, they're there.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: They would be in this nursing home. Their kids lived
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: out of town and it's like their mother and father
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: were just forgotten. They were just there and no one
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: would ever visit them. It was very, it was very sad.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: When my mother wound up in a nursing home, I
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: felt very sorry for those people. You could put your
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: hand in front of their face. They had no idea
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: who was there or what was going on.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Because they were just doped up or what?
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: I think they were all doped up.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Jesus.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a mess. You're paying $ 6, 000, $ 7, 000 a month.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or more.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And they don't have very good, and they don't have
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: very good care at all.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: No, no, it's a shame. I think it says, I
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: asked the good, as the owner, I get, I tell
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: my twin brother, I says, Hey, you ever get the
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: feeling that you're just a number when you walk in?
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: He goes, yeah, one time I said, I know these
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: doctors see a lot of people, but you know, I
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: kind of get the impression, you know, as old as
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: I am, maybe I'm not, they figure, well, he's on
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: his way out. I do have a lot of health issues, but, uh,
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: Nothing yet that I can't handle, but hey, it's the
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: way it is.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: It's life.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: It is. And you hope that it continues to go
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: well for you, my friend.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Right? Yes. Yeah, exactly.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: That's what matters most. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: for your call. NewsRadio 570. Words of wisdom by a
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: lot of folks today. 541 is talking about pizza and
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. I see where Pizza Huts, it's
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: a 68-year-old chain that has long struggled with growing competition
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and outdated restaurants, will be sold for $ 2. 7 billion by
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the parent company Yum Brands. Yum Brands said Tuesday that
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: the private equity firm... So there, that says it all, folks.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Just listen to what I said. So you got Pizza
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Huts that's going to be bought by a private equity firm.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Does a private equity firm ever make anything better? I
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: ask you that. When a private equity firm buys something,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: do they ever make it better? Or do they just
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: make it more expensive? They're going to buy Pizza Hut,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: excluding the mainland China business, for $ 1. 5 billion. In China,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Pizza Hut will be purchased by Yum China Holdings. For
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: $ 1. 2 billion, the company said, China is Pizza Hut's second
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: largest market outside the U.S. Yum! Brands, which also owns
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: KFC and Taco Bell, began to explore its options for
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Pizza Hut in November. Last year, Yum! Brands' global sales
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: rose 5%, but Pizza Hut's sales fell 2%. In February, Yum!
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Brands announced plans to close 250 companies U.S. Pizza Hut locations.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Pizza Hut had 19,974 restaurants worldwide at the end of
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: last year. Pizza Hut has long been the weak link
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: in Yum's portfolio. Neil Sanders, Managing Director of Global Data,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: wrote Tuesday, Despite efforts to revitalize the brand and shut
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: underperforming locations, it has become increasingly clear that pushing the
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: division back into growth will require a level of investment
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: and patients that Yum is just not prepared to commit to.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: The chain has been pinched in recent years by the
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: growth of DoorDash, Uber, Eats, and other restaurant delivery companies,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: which marketed across to a slew of cuisines besides pizza.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: U.S.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Pizza sales have slowed considerably since the pandemic, growing less
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: than 1% in 2024 and falling less than 1% in 2025.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: But Pizza Hut's performance was worse than average, with U.S.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: sales down 8.2% last year. By selling Pizza Hut, Yum!
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Brands can focus more on its brands with stronger sales.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I guess that would be KFC and Taco Bell. So
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: there you go. Pizza Hut being bought out in America
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: by a private equity firm. Here's my prediction. They'll start
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: charging you more in... What do private equity firms usually do?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: We'll see. I mean, a lot of times you get worried,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: will they skimp on the ingredients or change the ingredients
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: and then raise the price? Because it's all about money
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: in many cases. It's all about how can we squeeze
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: more money out of everybody? And that's unfortunate. Pizza Hut's
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: decent pizza, but we've got so much great local pizza
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: around here. Why would you want Pizza Hut's? Although they
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: got a great buffet, an all-you-can-eat buffet. I mentioned and
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: warned earlier the two county commissioners pushing to place on
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: this week's agenda a resolution to provide a 2.5% tax
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: credit to owner-occupant homeowners to provide tax relief. There's concern
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: from the residents, school superintendents, and trustees that Rick Hernandez,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Trumbull County Commissioner, said the schools may not like this
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: and the trustees may not like this, but they are
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a small chunk of what the homestead would have been.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Tony Bernard, the other commissioner, said the board was waiting
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: to make a decision until they saw if the group
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: was seeking to get the property tax referendum on a
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: November ballot was successful. It did not collect enough signatures,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: and so it's got to wait until 2027. We need
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: to give the residents of Trumbull County tax relief. Tony
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Bernard said, especially in August, we're going to have reappraisals.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Our senior citizens and veterans all need a tax break.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Isn't that the truth? I mean, isn't that a statement
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: that's 100% true? So it looks like Trumbull County is
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: going to be doing something when it comes to giving
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you some property tax relief, which is kind of cool.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier about Schwebel's closing. I didn't focus enough
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: on it today. I mean, it would be nice to
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: hear from people who work there or people who can
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: offer some insight. And, of course, you know, you get
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the insight where they say they just didn't, the equipment
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: was old. It's just hard to imagine something around for
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: 120 years not being around anymore. And let's see. They
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: said the company's... They can't even find a buyer for it, basically.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: They couldn't find a path forward. So what do they
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: say in this article? I thought it was interesting. They said,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: we worked with our advisors for several months to identify
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: a buyer investment source. However, despite significant efforts to adopt
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: to changing market conditions and secure additional investments, the company
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: was unable to establish a path forward. What do they
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: say here? Schwebel said it has faced significant operational and
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: financial constraints for many years. The company said these challenges
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: include aging manufacturing facilities and equipment, costly labor contracts and
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: pension obligations and consumer trends and Depressing demand for traditional
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: bakery and bread products. So they're trying to say, okay,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: we've got aging facilities, aging equipment, bad labor contracts, and
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: pension obligations. We can't stay in business after 120 years.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That's kind of sad, isn't it? You're on the air.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Hello, Ron. How are you?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I am well. Thank you for asking.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Good. You're talking about nursing homes. Unless... And I know one,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: my mother-in-law was in there. She died in 2020. Unless
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: you go in there every day, these people don't get
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: any help. You have to have an advocate. My wife
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: went in there every day. That's the only way she
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: got good help, or good health. Good service, I should say.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And don't you think it's terrible? We're making millionaires out
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: of these owners of these places.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And yet you're driving... you're driving the people, the patients
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: into bankruptcy because of all of the high cost of
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: this stuff. As much as $ 10, 000 a month. That's pretty
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: average standard anymore.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Isn't that something?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's right to... I know a few
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: people who are owners of these places, and they're all millionaires.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: And yet, You make paupers out of the patients.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I said that earlier. It seems to
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: me they don't have enough staff to begin with, and
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: they're grossly underpaid, and it's an emotionally draining job.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, it is. It's terrible. I wouldn't want the job.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: They don't pay them enough. Oh, and talk about Schwebel's.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting story about Schwebel's. The lady who was
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: one of the founders of Schwebel's was a lady by
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the name of Dora Schwebel. And she actually taught Rose
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Kravitz how to make bagels. That's how Kravitz Deli got
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: in the business.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I had no idea. It's really sad, though, that it's
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: not going to be around.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Well, that factory, the bakery on Midlothian Boulevard... It was
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: built in 1951. You've got to keep up with this stuff.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: It was built in.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: What, 1961?
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: 1951. Oh, 51?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Well, so you have to keep up with the... I mean,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that's 75 years old already.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm sure that they've repaired the building over
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the years, wouldn't you think?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I would hope that they would keep up with all
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: of the ovens and all the equipment. But who knows?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they wanted to tap it dry
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: like they did with the steel mills. You remember, you know,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: although you weren't around when the mills were here, but
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: they drained the steel mills and they shut them all down.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there was another case where they didn't update
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: them as time went on, but, I mean, wouldn't that
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: be a management problem? I mean, shouldn't, over the years,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Schwebel's have said, oh, we better update our equipment or
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: update our facility?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's sad to a lot of people around
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  Speaker 2: here because it's a large part of everybody's life as
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  Speaker 2: far as their bread is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: And they also have a bakery in Columbus, Ohio. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: In Licking County, which is a little east of Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think it was the shocking story
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  Speaker 2: of last week, quite frankly, that Schwebel's was closing. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anybody ever anticipated it.
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  Speaker 1: Almost as bad as Black Monday back in the 70s.
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  Speaker 1: When Sheet and Tube shut down.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's just an iconic brand.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: It's not that bad, but it is an iconic.
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  Speaker 2: Brand, yeah. Back in the.
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  Speaker 1: Time, Swables used to have a clown on there.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend. Today.
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  Speaker 9: Youngstown's news, weather, and talks. 570 WKBN. Laid back Tuesday afternoon, 555.
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  Speaker 9: Ron Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Glad you tuned
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  Speaker 9: in here on June 23rd, 73 degrees. Picture-perfect day here
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  Speaker 9: in our neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Roddy!
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  Speaker 6: Vince!
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  Speaker 5: What a beautiful day, Ronnie. I'll take these days all
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  Speaker 5: the way up until January.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I mean, it is a perfect day. Perfect day.
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  Speaker 4: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Not too cold.
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  Speaker 4: You don't even have to turn the air on.
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  Speaker 5: Nice driving with the windows down a little bit. I
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: put them up in courtesy to your show, Ronnie. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: thank you. There's something in there, my thoughtful saying that
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  Speaker 5: I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: To give to you today.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, your words of wisdom.
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  Speaker 8: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: I agree.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Words of wisdom.
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  Speaker 5: This is like my good friend Gino that was just gone. Yeah, I, too,
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  Speaker 5: thought that, you know, Swables was in trouble for not
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: updating years ago.
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  Speaker 10: And, you know, I don't know if you— I know you've
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: never been there, but at the Swables thrift store right
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: across the street from here, I knew something was wrong
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: when they're— Apple, cherry, whatever pies, the little hostess pies
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: we used to call them, that we used to get
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: for a quarter, that are a buck and a half.
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: Something wasn't right. You know, something wasn't right. I know
• 40:51
  Speaker 10: the cost went up and everything, but not that much.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: They made them tons, but... I think the one guy
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: said there was almost as many people that were retired
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: that was working there. That's not a get-go. You know that, Ron,
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: for being around and hearing all these other tales of
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: woe at Lordstown, Tafford, whatever. You know, they didn't give
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: up the equipment, this and that. No, the equipment was up-to-date.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: It was shipped to Mexico. And that was the Micheladores
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: and the NAFTA. That little guy from Texas was right.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: And they said that NAFTA was going to mean the
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: end of the middle class.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: In your lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: In your lifetime.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: In my lifetime, too. The other thing, too, if Dick
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: from Dayton called in yet, please, Dick, do us a favor.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Don't say anything about the Indians. Please. You know, they're
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: in a little slump. They're going to get out of
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: their time for first place. So, you know, don't say that.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Every team you pull for, Dick, go down the tubes. Okay.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: So Dick, Dick, a word of wise to Dick from Dayton.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Dick, and maybe this is for your friend from Warren, Emmanuel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Stick to stuff that you know. Stick to stuff that
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: you know. Play him the banjo.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be putting the Dick from Dayton jinx on
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: the Guardians.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: You got it.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: Good luck to you, Ronnie.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Enjoy your day. News Radio 570 WKBN. We
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• 42:28
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• 42:32
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• 42:32
  Speaker 2: The Dick from Dayton Jinx. He's worried about it with
• 42:37
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• 42:48
  Speaker 6: From ABC News, I'm Wayne Cabot. A rare rebuke for
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: President Trump from the Republican-controlled Senate, voting for the first
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: time to deny him war powers in Iran. The resolution
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: already cleared the House. The White House says it has
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: no significance because there are no hostilities. Connecticut Senator Richard
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: Blumenthal says the Trump deal is good for Iran, not
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: for U.S. farmers, because Iran can do as it wishes
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: with the frozen assets and not be made to buy
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: American goods.
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: Agricultural products their benefits are up front we are on
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: our back foot we are sacrificing our leverage in these
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: negotiations by giving away a lot of our leverage in
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: the sanctions and the frozen assets that now will be released.
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson says he's out of the Republican Party.
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: Charging in a podcast, the party is not loyal to
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: the United States. The meteoric rise of AI stocks is
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: coming back to earth with investors worried about a growing
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: likelihood of interest rate hikes. Wall Street today, the NASDAQ
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: fell more than 2%. An 18-year-old is being held in
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: the shooting deaths of two people at the Butte County
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: Library in Northern California yesterday. Police Chief Billy Aldridge.
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  Speaker 11: He has no known connections to any of the victims
• 44:03
  Speaker 11: in the library. And based on information revealed during the interviews,
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: our detectives believe the suspect was influenced by the Columbine
• 44:14
  Speaker 11: High School shooting.
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: President Trump today thanked the National Rifle Association for their support,
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: telling a rally in Pennsylvania that he is working on
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: a national right to carry bill. No changing of the
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: guard in London today, no daytime climbs up the Eiffel
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: Tower in France either, under a heat dome giving France
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: its highest recorded average reading ever. Forty people have died
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: just in France on a continent where air conditioning is
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: relatively uncommon. You're listening to ABC News.