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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Tuesday - 08/18/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN. And from
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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN, Ron Verb, welcome one and all.
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  Speaker 1: It's already Tuesday afternoon. It's August 18th. It's a gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: day out there. It's 83 degrees on this Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: From News Radio 570 WKBN, I'll get to you. Our
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  Speaker 1: phone calls momentarily, callers on the line stand by as
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  Speaker 1: they like to say, how about this controversy, frankly, all
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  Speaker 1: over the country and even in our neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 1: Can I tell you one thing that I'm not staying
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  Speaker 1: up at night worried about? Attention, attention, boys and girls.
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  Speaker 1: There's one thing at night I can assure each and
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  Speaker 1: every one of you that I am not staying up
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  Speaker 1: at night tossing and turning, worrying about being the least
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  Speaker 1: bit concerned about. You want to take a guess? When
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  Speaker 1: I hear people expressing any type of concern about it
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  Speaker 1: or comments about it, I just shake my head and say,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be kidding me. Because in general, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a critic of them. I support them. I think
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  Speaker 1: they actually do a good thing. So I'm not up
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  Speaker 1: at night tossing and turning. all when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: flock cameras this controversy I honestly think we are at
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  Speaker 1: a point where people are just paranoid absolutely paranoid I
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  Speaker 1: mean okay so here's the benefit of these flock cameras
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  Speaker 1: and let's make it clear they basically help law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: find criminals.
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  Speaker 2: Period.
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  Speaker 3: End of story.
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  Speaker 1: And they have been successful at doing so. For you
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  Speaker 1: to think for one minute that the cops give a
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  Speaker 1: damn about every individual and what you're up to is
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous or that they have the time. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: really think we are getting to the point where people
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  Speaker 1: are just some people, I should say, are just so
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  Speaker 1: damn paranoid. Hey, listen, everybody's got cameras who doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a ring doorbell these days. I mean, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: where you go. You see cameras everywhere, and justifiably so.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have the dash cam in their
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  Speaker 1: own car. It used to be only the cops had
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  Speaker 1: the dash cam. So, you know, if a state patrolman
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  Speaker 1: pulls you over, guess what? He's got a camera hanging
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  Speaker 1: right there recording the whole thing. Which really, in the
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  Speaker 1: long run, benefits, I think, the cops more than it
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  Speaker 1: does the criminal to a certain extent. Because there it is.
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  Speaker 1: This is the happening. So we got the video from
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  Speaker 1: the cop. We got everybody with ring doorbells. If you
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  Speaker 1: go into any store, they got security because there's so
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  Speaker 1: damn many shoplifters anymore. But this idea that people are just,
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  Speaker 1: and the word is paranoid, that they're making a big
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  Speaker 1: deal or paranoid over flock cameras.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think the system's that interested in you. And what
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  Speaker 1: you're up to. Can anything get abused? Well, absolutely. Things
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  Speaker 1: can get abused. And there's ramifications for it. If you
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  Speaker 1: abuse the leads computer, if you would abuse the flat cameras,
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  Speaker 1: if you abuse your role as far as medical privacy
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  Speaker 1: that people are entitled to or their banking privacy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's certain rules that come with certain jobs. And if
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  Speaker 1: you break them, you get fired. There's ramifications to it.
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  Speaker 1: Like to think everybody's noble and an honest person. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they're not. But for the most part, they are. But
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  Speaker 1: to make a big stink over flock cameras is beyond me.
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  Speaker 1: If that helps law enforcement catch criminals that are fleeing
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  Speaker 1: so we know where they are, That, to me, is
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. People that are just making a big
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  Speaker 1: deal out of flat cameras are just paranoid nuts to me,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. 309 in the afternoon. Speaking of nuts,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Amen, brother. You don't do anything wrong, then why not?
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  Speaker 3: It isn't even that. It's just the purpose of them.
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  Speaker 1: People today think that the government's got all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: time that they're going to watch everybody and what they're
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  Speaker 1: up to.
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  Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: So when I read some of these idiotic comments, because
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be putting flock cameras in Austintown Township,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing. They have them in Niles.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a bad thing at all. It
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  Speaker 1: aids law enforcement. Catch criminals. That is a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: You missed one good, very good, good point. I did? Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 4: you did.
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  Speaker 3: I dropped the ball?
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  Speaker 4: No, you didn't drop the ball. You missed the one
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  Speaker 4: game point. That adds it all up as far as
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  Speaker 4: I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 4: Driving down the road. I'm driving down the road. I
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  Speaker 4: turn out, and I turn out in front of you,
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  Speaker 4: and you hit me. You screamed that I ran a
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  Speaker 4: red light. I screamed I didn't. The flock camera tells
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  Speaker 4: you everything. Everything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I mean, the flock camera
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  Speaker 1: is there for law enforcement and to aid them in
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  Speaker 1: getting criminals off the street or people that are fleeing
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  Speaker 1: from the police and where they are. And they could
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  Speaker 1: be fleeing after they just murdered somebody, robbed a bank.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen them used numerous times. And to say, we've
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  Speaker 1: got to shut all these down is, I think, detrimental
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  Speaker 1: to law enforcement.
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  Speaker 3: I want these people caught. I genuinely do.
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  Speaker 4: What about the ones where they go ahead and they
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  Speaker 4: got them up, clicked? catching people that are speeding.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's a money draw. But here's a couple,
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  Speaker 1: that's an interesting thing. It's a double-sided issue. Because to
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  Speaker 1: a certain extent, when people would call a legal show
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  Speaker 1: and we'd talk about it, as I would say, as
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  Speaker 1: long as you don't lease your car, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: lease your car and you get a camera ticket in Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: in our community, and you don't pay it, nothing's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen to you. You follow me? Nothing's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen to you at all. They're going to send you
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  Speaker 1: a thing saying, we're going to charge you more. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to turn you over to a collection agency. All
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  Speaker 1: of that's irrelevant. It means nothing, period. Absolutely nothing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you get a ticket from a cop, that's a
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  Speaker 1: different story. But as far as these camera tickets are concerned,
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  Speaker 1: many people say, and justly so, I think they're a
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  Speaker 1: money grab for the local community. However, let me put
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  Speaker 1: this out there. Guess what? You have people who would
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  Speaker 1: call a legal show, they would have 10 of these
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  Speaker 1: tickets from these cameras. Well, at what point do you
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  Speaker 1: realize you're speeding and you should probably slow down?
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  Speaker 3: There's that side of it, too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's the side of it to say this
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  Speaker 1: is a school zone and you're going 45 miles an hour.
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  Speaker 3: We can't have a cop everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a side that says they're very effective to
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  Speaker 1: get people to slow down when they learn where they
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  Speaker 1: are as opposed to speed. So they are effective on that.
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  Speaker 1: So they do work. But on the other hand, we
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  Speaker 1: know the original intent is to put them out there
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  Speaker 1: to raise revenue. And I don't think we should use
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  Speaker 1: the powers of law enforcement as a cash cow to
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  Speaker 1: supplement a community. So it's a two-sided sword. Flock cameras
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  Speaker 1: are not about that. Flock cameras are about you robbed
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  Speaker 1: a bank and you're speeding away, and it can help
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  Speaker 1: identify your car and where you are so you can
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  Speaker 1: be captured.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 4: You're absolutely right. I mean, they have it in Canada.
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  Speaker 4: They got them in Europe, all over Europe. And they
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  Speaker 4: have them in Russia. But that's not why I called.
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  Speaker 4: But I agree with you. I don't worry about it
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  Speaker 4: because I'm not going to rob a bank. I ain't
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  Speaker 4: going to rob you.
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  Speaker 3: It's not even that. I just think people think that..
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  Speaker 1: The government has all this time to watch everybody, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's absolute nonsense. That is not the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of these cameras and the paranoia that some people have.
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  Speaker 1: How many times have we seen ring cameras, as I
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  Speaker 1: say everybody has, that have aided in identifying somebody stealing
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  Speaker 1: in a neighborhood or breaking into cars? Because there's so
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  Speaker 1: many ring cameras out there that we can get a
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  Speaker 1: good idea of what the person looks like or what
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  Speaker 1: they were driving. They're very beneficial to a neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: to the police as well.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that. That's not why I called.
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  Speaker 1: You seem like you would be a criminal trying to
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  Speaker 1: get away to me. The more I talk to you,
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  Speaker 1: I sense that deep criminal element. Have you recently robbed
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  Speaker 1: a bank?
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  Speaker 4: No. Oh, wait a minute. No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead. Why did you call?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I called today because I'd like to know who's
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  Speaker 4: running the Pentagon. We've got a bunch of people in
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  Speaker 4: there that are all ass-kissers, sorry to say. Yes. You've
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  Speaker 4: got a knucklehead who probably watched in his youth the
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  Speaker 4: power of Grayskull. And these people that are being hurt, well,
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  Speaker 4: they bombed Iran, they bombed Iran, or however you say that.
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  Speaker 4: And that was a supply depot, a major supply depot.
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  Speaker 4: So now we can't get the stuff out there for
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  Speaker 4: our people. And we don't even know how many people
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  Speaker 4: were hurt in that bombing because the president don't want
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  Speaker 4: you to know. The other thing, too, is Medicare Part D.
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  Speaker 4: He eliminated. Why did he eliminate? Why did the president
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  Speaker 4: eliminate Part D? There was no reason for that.
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  Speaker 1: I can answer your question on Part D.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I can answer that 100%.
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  Speaker 1: 100%. Medicare Part D, just so people know, that's the
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  Speaker 1: prescription drug elements of Medicare, okay? What's it's not eliminated
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  Speaker 1: at all. They had an additional supplements, just like with Obamacare.
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  Speaker 1: They had a temporary additional supplements that was there for
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  Speaker 1: a temporary period of time, just like they did for Obamacare.
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  Speaker 1: It was for five years during a COVID time. Then
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  Speaker 1: it was to end. It was never to be permanent.
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  Speaker 1: It was just temporary. Part D isn't going anywhere. They're
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  Speaker 1: just ending the additional supplements that was there on a
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  Speaker 1: temporary basis.
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  Speaker 3: Part D will still exist.
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  Speaker 4: What additional supplements are there that they're getting rid of?
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  Speaker 1: The supplement that might have offset some of the cost
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  Speaker 1: that was being picked up, like on Obamacare, but this
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  Speaker 1: is being done for Part D. Same thing, temporary timeframe.
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  Speaker 1: on on part d so part d will still be
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  Speaker 1: there it just isn't going to have that temporary supplements
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  Speaker 1: as a money that was put forth uh to cover
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  Speaker 1: your costs so he's not eliminating that it's just going
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  Speaker 1: back to how uh it used to be with the
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  Speaker 1: exception there won't be the three thousand dollar donut hole
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  Speaker 1: so i'm There's not much you can bellyache about when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Medicare. In general, like I say, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Medicare, in my opinion, I can only
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  Speaker 1: give you my opinion. Everybody has to make their own decision.
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  Speaker 1: I think when you turn 65, you should be on
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  Speaker 1: standard Medicare. Let me tell people about Medicare. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: if you agree or disagree. Are you okay? I just
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure I don't need to Heimlich you
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  Speaker 1: or anything, do I? Standard Medicare... as opposed to Medicare Advantage.
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  Speaker 1: Standard Medicare, there are no HMOs, there's no PPOs. If
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  Speaker 1: you're on standard Medicare at 65, regular Medicare, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to get pre-approval or any of that stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're here or in Florida or in Arizona, You're
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  Speaker 1: not outside your network or your territory on standard Medicare.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get this on Medicare Advantage.
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  Speaker 1: So standard Medicare, you can go anywhere in the country
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  Speaker 1: that accepts Medicare, which is just about everywhere. And there
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  Speaker 1: are no prerequisites that you got to get some approval
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  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. It's a great standard.
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  Speaker 1: Medicare is, in my opinion, the best way to go.
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  Speaker 1: And you should then get a supplement. Plan G, which
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  Speaker 1: costs you, which who knows what that individual could cost
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  Speaker 1: you anywhere from $ 140 to a couple hundred bucks a month.
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  Speaker 1: That covers all the deductible. So the most maximum out-of-pocket
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  Speaker 1: you'll have a year would be about $ 275 plus your
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  Speaker 1: monthly cost for the Plan G and for your Medicare.
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  Speaker 1: From my standpoint, I would never have a Medicare Advantage plan.
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  Speaker 3: That's just me. I would never have it.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that. I can appreciate that. But what I
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  Speaker 4: don't appreciate, in fact, is that every year my costs
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  Speaker 4: go up with Medicare.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got to admit, old-timer, it's still pretty inexpensive.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like $ 202 that comes out of your
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  Speaker 1: Social Security check for Part B. like $ 202, that's not
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  Speaker 1: very much money a month. And then if you go to,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a supplement, like plan, there's plan N
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  Speaker 1: and plan G, let's say you have a supplement of
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  Speaker 1: plan G, that would come out of your checking account.
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  Speaker 3: But let's say that costs you $ 200 or $ 150, $ 200,
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  Speaker 3: $ 250 a month.
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  Speaker 1: So let's say a month you might be paying for
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  Speaker 1: yourself $ 450. Let's just say a month. But you wouldn't have,
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  Speaker 1: once you pay the yearly deductible for Medicare, which is $ 275,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have any other additional charges the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the year.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so if you go just on a Medicare plan alone,
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  Speaker 4: without any additional supplement, how many days can you spend
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  Speaker 4: in a hospital before they say Medicare is not going
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  Speaker 4: to pay for it anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you should always have a supplement because otherwise it's 80-20.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, you're on the hook for the other 20%.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying to you is if you're on
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  Speaker 1: standard Medicare, which is you're paying like $ 202 a month.
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  Speaker 1: For part B, you have A and B, hospital and
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  Speaker 1: your doctor. That covers 80% of the cost. You want
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  Speaker 1: to have a supplement that covers the other 20%. Do
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  Speaker 1: not go without the supplements. You can get a Plan N,
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  Speaker 1: which has minimal deductibles, or a Plan G, which has
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  Speaker 1: no deductibles. But you must have a supplement. Get a supplement.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, if you're confused on it
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  Speaker 1: and you have questions, I talked to these guys from
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  Speaker 1: Yost Insurance.
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  Speaker 3: All they do is Medicare.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do anything else but Medicare planning. Call them
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  Speaker 1: and they can assist you on it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay then, but still going back to what I
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  Speaker 4: was upset about is who is actually running the Pentagon?
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  Speaker 4: Are they all just in there doing whatever the president wants?
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  Speaker 3: Well, see, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you when I watch the cabinet meetings
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad he has cabinet meetings and I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: that they're something that I can watch. Remember, Biden didn't
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  Speaker 1: have one for a year. I'm glad he has cabinet meetings.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I can watch him. But are all cabinet
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  Speaker 1: meetings like this where it's just a bunch of ass kissers?
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: President, you're the greatest in the world and all this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It annoys me some of the ass
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  Speaker 1: kissing I see in these cabinet meetings. And if that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're talking about, I agree with that criticism.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I haven't seen too many of them here lately
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  Speaker 4: ever since he got criticized for all the ass-kissing. That
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  Speaker 4: kind of backed them off. They're not on TV very much,
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  Speaker 4: neither on Fox or CNN.
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  Speaker 1: They might not put him on now because of the war. But,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I'm the first one to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a mess. He has an absolute mess going on.
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  Speaker 1: He did it to himself, though, don't you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: This idea, like when I was listening to Clay and
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  Speaker 1: Buck today, and these guys want to act like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: people have pretty well gotten used to the 450-a-gallon gas
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  Speaker 1: or 440-a-gallon gas. When I hear, you want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about ass kissers, when I hear Clay and Buck act
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  Speaker 1: like it's no big deal, these gas prices, stand by
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  Speaker 1: for me. I want to come back to you when
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  Speaker 1: I get to more calls. In a minute, I'm all
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  Speaker 1: choked up. I am. I'll be right back. Well, I've
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  Speaker 1: told you many times not all. We're back to it.
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  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 3: You all right?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I've got to give you the Heimlich.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe you do. Maybe you do.
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  Speaker 4: But you better call somebody because it's going to take
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  Speaker 4: me a while to get there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then it's over for me. That's all right. It's
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  Speaker 3: been a good long life. All right. So anyway, it's
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  Speaker 3: a mess that he created. And good luck, man. That's
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  Speaker 3: all I can say.
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  Speaker 1: Clay and Buck, though, when they're on there with this
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  Speaker 1: nonsense and they're talking about gas prices, it's like you
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  Speaker 1: guys aren't even in the real world. I'm the first guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bellyache about them. It's ridiculous what it costs to
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  Speaker 1: fill up your truck or your car. Trump got us
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  Speaker 1: into this mess, and I don't see any easy way
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  Speaker 1: out of this mess. And you hear Clay and Buck talking, well,
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  Speaker 1: if this goes on for another six months to a year,
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  Speaker 1: they want it to sound like the American public is
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  Speaker 1: for it. I don't think the American public is for it,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think the American public is sitting back thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is no big deal, paying $ 4. 30 a gallon for gas.
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  Speaker 1: We've factored it into our budget. I was listening to them,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, what a crock of crap they were spewing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you've got to figure the amount of money they make.
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  Speaker 4: They're high rollers more than you and me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but even if you're a high roller, you don't
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  Speaker 3: like to spend it on paying more for something than
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  Speaker 3: you should be.
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  Speaker 4: When they first came on, I was listening to them.
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  Speaker 3: They're whistleblowers. They're not whistleblowers.
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  Speaker 1: They're cheerleaders trying to– they are doing the same thing
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: once again that they did when Biden was president. The
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Democrats kept talking. We don't understand why people aren't happy
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: with Joe and love the economy. Remember when he was there?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: They were bewildered that people weren't just embracing everything. They
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: were totally out of touch with the inflation and prices.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And they just didn't understand why that was the case.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: And now you see the Republicans doing the same damn thing,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: being so out of touch politically. They want to, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: some of these commentators, they want to act like, oh,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: this is no big deal. Inflation isn't that big a deal.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: It's only 3.4% on top of all the other inflation.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, gas.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: People have gotten used to gas at 4, 4.20, 4.30
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: a gallon. You know, at one point it was this price. Well,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I don't care. you know, guess what? It's way too expensive.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: It was about $ 2. 50 a gallon before he started this war.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Period. That's all that matters to me.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Well, that ain't all that matters to me. A lot
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: of things matter to me are the price of food
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: and everything else that's going up. And these people here
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: and medical costs aren't even trying to come down. They
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: don't care. But yet at the end of the year,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: like I've mentioned many a time, and I feel like
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I'm saying an old record, they make millions, hundreds of
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: millions of profit. And how is that helping me? It
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: ain't helping me at all. It's just making them look rich.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: That's a big problem. We've always had a fight with
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: big business because they dictate the prices because they think
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: they can. Yeah.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you fix the problem as far
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: as medical costs. You know, my wife tries explaining that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: to me on a regular basis on why some of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: this stuff costs so much. And as she says, listen,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: when you go to the hospital, it's there 24 hours
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a day, seven days a week. the doctors, the nurses,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and all the people that you don't see, the lab
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that's behind the scenes, the pharmacy that's behind the scenes,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the maintenance people that are there 24 hours a day.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: There's a huge expense in running a hospital, and that's
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: why it costs so much when you go there. They've
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: got to be open whether they're busy or not, right?
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know. They went ahead and shut down how
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: many hospitals and doctor's offices and stuff like that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: That's one of the biggest, I'll say it again, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: think one of the biggest problems of this community was
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the closure of Northside Hospital.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I think that that was one of the worst things
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: that could have happened here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: It's not going to quit until, it's just not going
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to quit. I would propose a gouging tax, a gouging tax.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: In other words, you're making all this money and you're
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: not doing us any of that much good. Maybe you
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: should pay a little more on the taxes.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I tell you what, everyone's paying enough on that. Easy
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: with the taxes.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe we take a look at spending instead of saying
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: we should take more of somebody's money. Enough of that already,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: my friend.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I understand that. I understand where you're coming from. But
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: what bothers me is we need that money. And that's
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: exactly what our government's saying. We need that money.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, as soon as the government
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: stops wasting so much of it on a federal level
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: or in a state level, as soon as they stop
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: wasting so much of it, for the most part on
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a local level, it's probably pretty efficiently run for the.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Most part on a local level.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think you've run into a lot of the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: waste as far as your local township or your local
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: small governments. Now, you might be more critical of the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: county and the states and the federal governments. All right, Tiger,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: thank you for your call. Appreciate it. Have a good day.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Hey, Ron.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: It's the controversial Frank from Fort Lauderdale.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Yesterday, you read a report that U.S. sailors are committing suicide.
• 22:43
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• 22:47
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• 22:58
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• 23:01
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• 23:06
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• 23:09
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• 23:14
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• 23:17
  Speaker 5: knows of 15 to 20 people who have been taken
• 23:20
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• 23:24
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• 23:31
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• 23:34
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• 23:39
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• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Ron Verb.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: On News Radio 570, WKBN. Ah, some people love them,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and many people hate them. It's Fort Lauderdale, Frank.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Ron, there's also reports that sailors are jumping overboard.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I was reading that, some. Not a ton, just what
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: they say is a few.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Well, the Trump administration and admirals are saying that they
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: just fell overboard accidentally. Now, deployment on ships have been
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: over 260 days now, and Trump says that's not nearly
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: long enough.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't understand that comment when he made it. I mean,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that's a long time to be out to sea without
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: going to ports.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: It sure is. The longest ship deployment was the USS
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Essex in World War II of 79 days. Now, Ron,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: we spend $ 1. 5 trillion on the military, but the Republicans
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: can't feed our soldiers and sailors. Sailors are telling family
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: members they never get fresh food. except meat because it's frozen,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: but even sometimes meat gets to their ships rotten. And
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Admiral Keene says basically the troops and the media are lying,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: that the troops actually feel good about being deployed halfway
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: across the world. And Republican Congressman Pat Fallon of Texas
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: said he's not concerned that sailors are becoming demoralized and desperate.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: And I saw a picture where sailors are etching and
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: dust aboard their ships. Be a good goy and do
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: what Israel tells you to do.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Listen, enough of that already.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Let's just deal with the reality of the Abraham Lincoln
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and the conditions that are on the ship. Trump's comments
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: were asinine to me. Secondly, there's a lot of apparently
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: from what you read or what you hear, mechanical issues
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: on the ship that need to be addressed and fixed.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And there are some food issues. And all of that
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: needs to be resolved. Thus, they're taking it out of
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: service or taking it out and bringing it to George Washington.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: That probably should have been done way before it got
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to this point.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Period. End of story.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Well, toilets are clogged and filled with human feces.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Right, but you hear what I'm saying? It should have
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: been done much sooner. I don't know why it wasn't,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: why it got to this level, and what the thinking is.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't make any sense.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Well, Ron, women sailors have run out of feminine hygiene
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: products and begging family members to send them some.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how you're going to get it
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: in the mail out 6,000 miles away.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: It would take forever for it to get there. I mean,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it's just, there's nothing more I can say about it
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: other than that ship was out too long. And I
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: don't understand why people can't admit when they made an
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: error in judgment or mistake and said, and fix it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, the ship was out too long. There's too
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: many issues on the ship, apparently. And there's issues as
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: far as supplies are concerned. So why can't you just say,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: as they're doing, it should have never gone this long
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: without it being replaced by by the George Washington and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: bring the Abraham Lincoln back. I mean, I don't know
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: what to say other than that. That's from what I read.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: What more can I say?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you have a caller that keeps saying, oh, in Vietnam,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: 58,000 soldiers were killed.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Well, there were boots on the ground.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: The comparison to Vietnam is fair enough to say when
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: people compare it to Vietnam, they're talking about getting involved
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in these conflicts that don't have public support and can
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: escalate and drag us into something. This could be compared
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to that, but we don't have the casualties. Some people say, well,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: we don't have 58,000 dead. Well, we don't have boots
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: on the ground, thank God, in that situation. If we do,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you'll have casualties, and they could be significant.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe we.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Might, though, because right now the Trump administration is sending
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: over 150 medics who have arrived at the Landstuhl Medical
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Center in Germany in recent days. The hospital is the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: primary location for treating troops injured in the Middle East.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Well, we shall see. I think it will be..
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Listen, as I said, I think Trump has got himself
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: into a major issue and mistake here, and it has
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: not gone how he thought it would go. I don't
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: know that there's what they call an exit ramp to
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: get off out of this situation and if you think
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the answer is to put you have to look at
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: how far that is from the United States how it's
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: surrounded by mountains and this idea that that would be
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: an easy thing to take on I think is equally
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: as foolish I can't imagine that that he would even
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: remotely be considering that because I just I I don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: see the American public in support of any of this.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Well, also I wanted to mention that 6% Treasury yields
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: are the biggest risk facing stocks right now, and the
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: global bond market continues to sell off. And also, NASDAQ
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: is leading U.S. stocks lower in the final hour of
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: trading because the chip sector is selling off. And stocks
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: are at risk of a third day of losses.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Well, like it says here, S & P 500 falls
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: hurt by elevated global bond yields and oil prices. And
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's significant downturns. Everyone's 401k today or IRA,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: whether you're close to retirement or retired, has lost significant money.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And we don't know. Sometimes people got to remember something.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Stocks can go down and stay down. You can have
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a down market. Sometimes it can go down and it
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: can take years to recover.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: We're under this mentality that it'd go down and be
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: back up next week. And in many cases, that's been
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the case. But sometimes you can get into situations where
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: it goes down and it stays down.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And that's not good if you're close to retirement or
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you're in retirement or you have to take a required
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: minimum distribution for those particular situations. But explain to our people.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: So they say, The market's down because of oil prices. Obviously,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: we know what that means, the cost of a barrel
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of oil. But when you say elevated global bond yields,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: what does that mean?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Well, that means that people are selling off bonds all
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: over the world. It doesn't say why, but people are
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: obviously selling bonds which are considered safe investments, probably in
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: order to make ends meet, because all over the world,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: oil prices are high, not just in the United States,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: but they can't afford to fill up their car with gas.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: So if they're lucky enough to own bonds, they're probably
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: selling them, just like people in our country are withdrawing
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: from their 401ks and IRAs before age 59 and a
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: half to make ends meet. I mean, it's not just
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the United States. This war is a global disaster. And, Ron,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you what, 6% Treasury yields, it's not just
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: them going up, but here's the latest prediction. Mortgage rates
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: are expected to go higher. And that's bad for people
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: with adjustable rate mortgages.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: That's just bad for the economy in general. It's just
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: bad for it. He's got us in a mess here. Yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, we very easily can have a serious economic downturn.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: As a result of this.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Ron, we're in a scenario where it
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: looks like interest rates will continue going higher. People are
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: going to have to pay higher. more when they borrow
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: money in the stock market may be crashing at the
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: same time.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: There's nothing good economically going on today. That's for certain. Nothing.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: And he owns it. I mean, we can't sit around.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: He made that decision. He owns all of this. And
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: he better figure out where he's going.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And cheerleaders like Clay and Buck who want to act
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: like these high people have adjusted to these high gasoline prices.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: They are so lost. It's unbelievable to me.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Ron, we're going into six months into this war now.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: With Bowen in sight.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I told you yesterday, we're now spending..
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: $ 2.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Billion a day on this war.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: You know how much we're adding to the national debt?
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's growing.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: We're now at $ 40 trillion.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: We're at $ 40 trillion, and that doesn't count off-budget debt.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: And you know how much?
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: You know, Trump, now.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: The latest I've read, he's now grifted $ 6. 5 billion from
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: the taxpayer. He's just like the Biden administration. 262 Democrats
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: weren't even running the country while Biden was president. They
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: spent the entire four years stealing money and grifting from
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the American taxpayer.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Well, what people don't understand, I mean, in all seriousness,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: cut to the chase.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Alec brought up a great thing on how basically how
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: we bailed out Japan because if we didn't, we felt
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: they thought interest rates would soar and that wouldn't be
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a good thing for the United States. So in essence,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: we bailed out Japan because we didn't want Japan cashing
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: in their T-bills.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't want Japan..
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons why they bought so many treasuries,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: because they were yielding higher after adjusting for the difference
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: between the yen and the U.S.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Dollar.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: It is a mess. I'll leave you with that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: But let me say one last thing. One of the
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: reasons why Japan wants to sell so many treasuries, Alec
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: was a little incorrect. They don't import all of their oil.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: They import 90% of their oil, and with high oil prices,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: they're going to need to sell U.S. Treasuries in order
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: to buy oil.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Frank. Appreciate it. You're on the air.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, hi.
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: I'm on the road, so I hope you can hear me.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: It's always interesting, and I learn some things when Frank calls,
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: but yesterday, I I just want to point out something
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: that really kind of irked me. At one point he
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: said that the Democratic Socialists, that the Republicans were responsible
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: for the Democratic Socialists coming into play. And I don't
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: know where in the world he gets that, but he
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: takes every opportunity to blame Republicans for for things that
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: are not what we're doing.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: And Democratic Socialists, as.
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: Much as we own the war, they own the Socialists.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I think the point that he was trying to make
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: is you have a lot of people that are unfortunately
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: going in that direction because they feel capitalism has failed them.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I'm talking younger people where we can point fingers and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: call them names. But I agree with the people that
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: say you better figure out why so many people are
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: going down this road. They're going down that road because
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: they're looking around saying, well, I got a good job,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: but I can't afford to buy a house. My rent's
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: out of sight. Everything's so damn expensive. I did everything right.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: And and they don't see the opportunities that we had
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: when I was a younger person. And that is you
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: better start understanding the perspective from a young person standpoint
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: as why they're looking at a country with trillions of
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: dollars in debt. They're looking at Social Security in major problems,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Medicare in major problems. You got every price going through
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the roof, inflated housing, inflated rents, groceries, automobiles. So you say, well,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I'm making a decent buck, but I'm not able to
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: enjoy the American dream. Maybe that's what we better start
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: paying better attention to as opposed to pointing fingers at
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: them and name-calling them. And I think that was Frank's
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: argument was, by making the economy worse like it is
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: right now, that has a tendency to drive people to say,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of this. I'm going to look at this
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: site over here where this guy's saying, hey, your medical
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: costs are out of control. Hey, your energy costs are
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: out of control, whether it's electric or gasoline.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Look how high food is.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: And you're lucky you can afford your rent or, God forbid,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: if you could buy a home. And a lot of
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: people can relate to that. And we better figure out
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: how to fix that. as opposed to saying there's something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with them.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing. The Democrats and the teachers and
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: the educational system and the college system have indoctrinated so
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  Speaker 7: many of these young people that they don't know history.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: They don't know what the outcome is. They lack... as
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: much as you say, oh, they want this and they
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: want that, but they lack the same kind of work ethic.
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  Speaker 3: I don't agree with that. Some of them do, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: some of them don't. Hey, guess what?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: When I was growing up, there were plenty of people
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: who lacked a work ethic, too. I don't know about you,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: but there were successes and failures in my generation. I mean,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: this idea that, you know, I have children that you're
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: talking about. None of them lack a work ethic. They
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: all work their asses off.
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  Speaker 3: That's a parenting thing.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Well, no, but when I look around at all their friends,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: they're all working their asses off, too. I mean, this idea.
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  Speaker 4: That we're... May I ask how old they are?
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, they're in their latter 20s or early 30s.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, I don't know how many... I don't
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: even think people our generation... And, you know, I think
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: I got my first house maybe I was 30. I mean,
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: and it was small, and it was a fixer-upper. And,
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: you know, so really... The latter, you know, the latter 20,
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: early 30s is an appropriate time to start working and
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: working extra jobs and not spending the money on other things.
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: I mean, let's, you know, and thank goodness we didn't
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: have cable, $ 200 cable bills. And we, you know, we
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: didn't have expensive cell phone bills. We didn't have– there
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: are certain bills that they have now.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Were there poor people? Were there poor people at that time?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, based on what you're saying, was anybody poor?
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was poor.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: I can say that I was poor.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know. I'm listening to you, and it's like, well,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: stand by. Just stand by. I'll come back to her
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. NewsRadio 570. Nobody can hear me again.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Ron Verp, 352 in the afternoon. Stay tuned. I tell you,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I hope Alec calls and talks today. A lot of
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: what you're saying, listen, as I've said numerous times, every
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: generation has its pluses and minuses. I mean, the greatest
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: generation had World War II, and you were lucky if
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you lived and you were able to come home. My
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: older brother's generation and the baby boomers generation of which
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I'm a part of had Vietnam and the draft and
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: those issues. Young people today, it's a volunteer army. They
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that as much as they
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: did at that particular time, but that could change. But
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the reality is that it is becoming more difficult for
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: people to achieve the American dream than it was for
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: my generation. And I can look at my own family and,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and their associates. And I can see that that is
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the case because of how expensive everything is. And I mean,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: everything has gotten so damn expensive to, to maintain a
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: home and to fix things and prices are out of control.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: Here's, here's, here's the other, here's how I feel about that.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: And I understand that they don't, the American dream, and
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: it's harder for them. But guess what? It's a lot
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: harder for folks like me who are on a fixed income,
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: and everything keeps going up. But at 71, your potential
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: earning days, yes, you can get a part-time job or whatever,
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: but you're not going to make that kind of money.
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: And everything gets more expensive, as you said, with taxes, gasoline,
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: all those expenses. And so to blame on the people
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: who now are on fixed income or watching their savings
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: as they're getting older get chipped away, chipped away, chipped away,
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: we have the same struggles.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: We have the same struggles.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I don't deny that, but... I don't deny that at all.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: But what are you doing about it is what.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: I would say.
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  Speaker 7: But I don't want to be a socialist. And I
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: don't think.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Being a socialist is a good idea.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I think it's a terrible idea.
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: And we really need to stress that. And I don't
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: really think that if you ask any Republican, they will
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: say absolutely not. So I think that..
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I would ask you this question.
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: They almost had a socialist. They let a socialist run
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: as their presidential candidate.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back. Stay tuned. Here's a great employment opportunity.