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Thursday 3pm hour 06/25/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, 3.07 in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. And
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  Speaker 1: Ron Furb on this Thursday, June 25th, 2026. And chilly
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  Speaker 1: out there, I guess you would say, for this time
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  Speaker 1: of the year, 68 degrees. Be with you until the
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  Speaker 1: legal show today at 5. And John Arnold's and Money
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  Speaker 1: keep that in mind. Going to be taking off Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And Monday and Tuesday. All right. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take a couple days off Friday and Monday and Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: coming up and then back on Wednesday. News Radio 570 WQEN.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see here. A number of people waiting. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: It's the one and only Dave Thomas, who's got just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of time, he said to me. Ron,
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  Speaker 1: I got a little bit of time, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to update your listeners on what's going on. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Thomas, then I got a little bit of time
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  Speaker 1: for you. What is the latest with this crazy governor
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  Speaker 1: of ours, please?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so the good that happened last night and this
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  Speaker 3: past week, the good is that he signed the budget
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  Speaker 3: kind of update bill that was 479. That delivered $ 350
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  Speaker 3: million to seniors on Homestead and did the sales tax holiday.
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  Speaker 3: He signed that, no vetoes in that bill.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so what's the bad? Okay, I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the bad, last night, I'm actually in D.C. right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I only have a little bit of time
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  Speaker 3: doing a conference on taxation, how to lower taxes. There
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  Speaker 3: was a text sent to me by a reporter at
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  Speaker 3: about 10.30 last night with, did you see he vetoed
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  Speaker 3: your bill? So he vetoed two bills last night. One
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  Speaker 3: of them was mine on renters and giving consumer protections
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  Speaker 3: for renters and that are in your larger complexes. That
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  Speaker 3: was House Bill 173. He vetoed that bill. Then he
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  Speaker 3: vetoed another bill, and this is the one dealing with
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  Speaker 3: photo ID and verification that we talked about that we
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  Speaker 3: passed two weeks ago, House Bill 472, that requires mail-in
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  Speaker 3: ballots to have photo identification as part of kind of
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  Speaker 3: the checklist. and process when you mail in your absentee ballot.
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  Speaker 3: He vetoed that last night as well.
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  Speaker 1: What's the thinking there?
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  Speaker 3: So his thinking, it was a very almost flippant kind
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  Speaker 3: of veto message. And his thinking was essentially showing photo ID,
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  Speaker 3: making a copy or doing an online database with mail-in
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  Speaker 3: ballots is not necessary because we have a great system
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  Speaker 3: in Ohio and that will just cause more people not
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  Speaker 3: to vote. Um, and, uh, obviously I always tell folks, 80%
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  Speaker 3: of Ohioans believe you should show a photo ID when
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  Speaker 3: you vote. Um, that's just common sense across the board.
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  Speaker 3: There's a loophole though, with that, when you do a
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  Speaker 3: mail-in ballot, no one really knows who's actually on the
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  Speaker 3: other side of that ballot. And so having part of
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  Speaker 3: that process be, you know, you submitting your photo ID
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  Speaker 3: when you send in your ballot is another security point
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  Speaker 3: to make sure you are who you say you are
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  Speaker 3: when you're voting and he vetoed that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah i think with mail-in ballots they supposedly do a
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  Speaker 1: signature match or signature check and that's about it isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah there's there's censure and then you're supposed to either
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  Speaker 3: give the last four of your social or your driver's
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  Speaker 3: license number but um there you know there still is
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  Speaker 3: a decent amount of opportunity with mail-in balloting for folks
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  Speaker 3: to either take that information or for someone in one
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  Speaker 3: household to actually do all the ballots together. So we
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  Speaker 3: talked about the constitutional amendment that will be on the
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  Speaker 3: ballot this November. That constitutional amendment is still moving forward
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  Speaker 3: because the governor didn't have to sign it. Only the
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  Speaker 3: legislature could put an amendment on the ballot. So folks
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  Speaker 3: will still see a question on the ballot this November asking,
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  Speaker 3: do you wish to require photo verification for voting in Ohio?
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  Speaker 3: And if it's yes, then I would put in the constitution.
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  Speaker 3: And that gives us the ability to essentially make more
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  Speaker 3: kind of rules and requirements around photo verification, such as
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  Speaker 3: mail-in balloting. So people are still for the constitutional amendment,
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  Speaker 3: but as of right now, the governor's veto over the
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  Speaker 3: mail-in ballot aspect means that mail-in balloting would not be
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  Speaker 3: subject to the photo verification.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but just to clarify, and I'm glad you reminded me,
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  Speaker 1: it clarified it in my mind. If in Ohio you
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  Speaker 1: request a mail-in ballot on your application for it, you
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  Speaker 1: have to what, as you said, give the last four
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  Speaker 1: of your Social Security or your driver's license number. And
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  Speaker 1: you have to send that as well. Supposedly, they do
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  Speaker 1: a signature check, and they have that information, which seems
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  Speaker 1: still pretty solid. I mean, it seems like it's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good effort to prevent any fraud. But like you said,
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  Speaker 1: this would be an additional step just to lock it down,
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  Speaker 1: another good step. I don't understand why he didn't– why
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  Speaker 1: he vetoed that, but there's a lot of stuff he's
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  Speaker 1: doing lately that I just don't understand. So, the legislature
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  Speaker 1: put a constitutional amendment on. When will I be voting
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  Speaker 1: on this? In November?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: This November, November 3rd, every Ohioan will see. I don't
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  Speaker 3: remember what issue number it'll be because we've changed. Do
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  Speaker 3: you remember that one year where there was several constitutional
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  Speaker 3: issues in the primary and in general? People got confused
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  Speaker 3: over what issue was issue one. Now, every constitutional issue
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  Speaker 3: will be its own number. So we'll never have another
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  Speaker 3: issue one or issue two. I think this will be
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  Speaker 3: issue three.
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  Speaker 1: Which will ask me to vote on whether or not I,
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  Speaker 1: basically it asks me, do I think you should have
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  Speaker 1: to have a photo ID when you vote? Now, here's
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  Speaker 1: my confusion with that. When I go to vote now,
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  Speaker 1: I have to produce a photo ID.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: And what the concern is, so there's a woman named
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  Speaker 3: Allison Russo. She is the former minority leader in the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio House, and she is running for Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 3: She does not believe in photo ID. She voted no
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  Speaker 3: on this constitutional amendment. Should she win Secretary of State's office,
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  Speaker 3: there is enough flexibility within the Secretary of State's office
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  Speaker 3: for her not to require or enforce that provision. Should
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  Speaker 3: Amy Acton become governor after November, There's enough flexibility with
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  Speaker 3: the administration and the governor's office for some of these
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  Speaker 3: provisions not to be enforced. So we're essentially belt and
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  Speaker 3: suspending Ohio's law with a photo ID for voting that
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  Speaker 3: regardless of who comes in the legislature or secretary of state,
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  Speaker 3: this is the law in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you want to lock it down, basically, which
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with. Because basically you're saying, Ohio, I
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  Speaker 1: think we're kind of respected by other states how we
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  Speaker 1: do our elections here. Why, of course, I can't explain
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  Speaker 1: to liberals why we would ever want to change that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got a pretty decent reputation for not
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  Speaker 1: having a lot of voter fraud because of showing an ID.
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  Speaker 1: And the process that we have, why somebody would want
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  Speaker 1: to be Secretary of State and take that away... is
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  Speaker 1: bizarre to me. It's just bizarre. So I'll make sure
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  Speaker 1: don't vote for the Democrat running for Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first thing people got to remember because your
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  Speaker 1: elections won't be as secure. Because if you get fraud in,
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  Speaker 1: it waters down the value of your vote, your individual votes.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. But there are at least 10 races every year.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we had one in Mahoning Valley this
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  Speaker 3: past year where the election was either a tie or
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  Speaker 3: it was decided by one vote. So I always tell folks,
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  Speaker 3: Every vote, especially at the local level, matters. And when
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  Speaker 3: we had that constitutional question come up and we voted
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  Speaker 3: on it, every single Democrat in the House and in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate voted against that constitutional amendment. So that clearly
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  Speaker 3: shows a delineation, a line in the sand, between what
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat priority is when it comes to elections. And
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  Speaker 3: Ohio is the gold standard.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I think this is kind of another way that
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  Speaker 3: we're You know, the SAVE Act is a big deal
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  Speaker 3: happening right now at the federal level. Do they pass it?
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  Speaker 3: Don't they? This is kind of another, I think, push
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  Speaker 3: from the states to say, you know, we're doing this right.
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  Speaker 3: Here's how we're doing it, federal government. You know, here's more.
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  Speaker 3: kind of ammunition for you.
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  Speaker 1: But you have Democrats that are saying, as well-respected as
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  Speaker 1: our standard is, and you're right, it is a gold standard.
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  Speaker 1: I think Florida kind of copied us. But with that
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  Speaker 1: being said, you've got Democrats that want to destroy it,
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  Speaker 1: want to take away the confidence I have as a
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  Speaker 1: voter in Ohio that the system is legit. It's bewildering.
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  Speaker 3: I tell everyone, be a poll worker. Volunteer. You get
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  Speaker 3: paid like $ 125, 000. but volunteer as a poll worker, you
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  Speaker 3: get to literally see the process. And if anyone has
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  Speaker 3: doubts about how secure the election is or you'll be
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  Speaker 3: able to see kind of just like with the mail-in side,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's some potential here. But actual, you know,
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  Speaker 3: physical voting, the number of just checkpoints and certainty that
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  Speaker 3: we have in Ohio, and we're that way in Florida
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  Speaker 3: is that way because of what happened back in 2000
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  Speaker 3: and 2004. We've been through really bad cycles. and we've
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  Speaker 3: corrected because of it. So this is just another way
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  Speaker 3: to make sure we're going to stay safe.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. And, uh, so I can't explain to wine folks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't explain why it does it.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't he, uh, the other day I was reading where he, uh,
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  Speaker 1: what do you say, did away with a guy's death penalty,
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  Speaker 1: who broke into a home, if I remember correctly, and
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  Speaker 1: help me out here, maybe you would know more. He
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  Speaker 1: broke into somebody's home and was doing a robbery, and
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  Speaker 1: he lit him on fire. He killed the people. Does
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  Speaker 1: that sound right to you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a handful. We've not actually, and this is
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  Speaker 3: another great example of the legislature has rules, has a
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  Speaker 3: lot of land, because you, the people, have voted for us.
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  Speaker 3: We create the rules. The administration is supposed to carry
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  Speaker 3: it out. And regardless of what you think about the
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  Speaker 3: death penalty, that's the law of the land, and this
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  Speaker 3: administration has not carried out once the law of the
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  Speaker 3: land while the governor's been in office. And that's a
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  Speaker 3: great example of one that, yeah, it's just crazy the
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  Speaker 3: situation that happened. There's a lot of others on death
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  Speaker 3: row as well where he has either now pardoned one
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  Speaker 3: this past week or has just not done the sentence.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's, so folks, this is what troubles me
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  Speaker 1: with DeWine. I mean, the jury has spoken. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the judicial system has said, okay, here's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And he decides, and we have the death penalty in Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and he decides, okay, we're not going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: To this particular person who I read this, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: by my memory, and you'll correct me. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: broke into someone's home. The person that he killed, he
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  Speaker 1: lit him on fire. Is that accurate? Does that sound right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds about right. I didn't read the whole
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  Speaker 3: kind of background on it, but yeah, there was a
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  Speaker 3: crazy episode calling them.
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  Speaker 1: It was a horrific murder, a horrific murder. And DeWine,
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  Speaker 1: instead of letting this guy, the jury sentenced him to death,
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  Speaker 1: instead of that happening, he, I don't know what you,
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  Speaker 1: he pardoned him, doesn't pardon him. You don't get out
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  Speaker 1: of jail, but he waives the death penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I remind folks, this is a taste. If people
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  Speaker 3: think there's not that big of a difference between Vivek
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  Speaker 3: and Amy Acton, everything I've talked with you today already
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  Speaker 3: is just a taste of what we can experience under
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  Speaker 3: Amy Acton. And we haven't even dived in. The governor
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  Speaker 3: has not signed yet the Medicaid reform bill for the
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  Speaker 3: fraud that occurred. We're still waiting on that. But that's
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  Speaker 3: just another kind of aspect of what could we expect
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  Speaker 3: under an Amy Acton governorship.
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  Speaker 1: It would be absolute insanity. Absolute, total and complete insanity. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And anything else going on? Because I know our time
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  Speaker 1: is limited.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted to update you on that veto. The other veto
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  Speaker 3: that he made of my submetering bill, which we're going
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  Speaker 3: to still fight for. Renters are being gouged on their
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  Speaker 3: electricity just recently. even worse actually than homeowners. So trying
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  Speaker 3: to make that more of a portable practice.
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  Speaker 1: You said renters are being gouged more on electricity than homeowners.
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  Speaker 1: How's that?
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  Speaker 3: So if you're a renter in a complex, oftentimes the
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  Speaker 3: property is doing something called sub metering, which is when
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  Speaker 3: there's one meter and the landlord or the property manager
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  Speaker 3: then sells that electricity to all the renters, the tenants. And, um,
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  Speaker 3: There's no limits. There's no caps. There's no actual regulation
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  Speaker 3: over that industry right now. It's just done property by property.
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  Speaker 3: And so this bill would actually kind of put caps, limits,
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  Speaker 3: regulations around the industry, around submetering, so that renters wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be paying more than what they would be paying if
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  Speaker 3: they were just traditional, normal residents. But right now, we've
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  Speaker 3: seen bills... you know, double, triple what they actually should be.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no actual limit to the property owner doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just a landlord screwing a runner, basically.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, in some cases. Or, you know, there's complaints. There's
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  Speaker 3: no actual place to go for these poor renters to
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  Speaker 3: go to do complaints. They have to hire an attorney.
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  Speaker 3: No explanations on the bills. It's a really kind of...
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  Speaker 3: It makes sense as a practice that we should have it,
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  Speaker 3: but there needs to be a lot of guardrails and
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  Speaker 3: kind of certainty around it. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Stand by. Let me run a few commercials, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: wrap it up with you, okay? Because I know then
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  Speaker 1: you've got to go. Hang on. Back with Dave Thomas
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. Youngstown's News, Weather, and Talk Station, 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: We're on for back to it. It's 325 in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I know we've got only minutes, a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes with you, so go ahead. Take it away, Dave.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're good.
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  Speaker 3: So that bill, we're going to keep pushing and get
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  Speaker 3: renters some help. And then the last thing you probably
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  Speaker 3: have heard, Big case out of Supreme Court ruled that
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  Speaker 3: Trump can, in fact, actually deport and remove all the
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  Speaker 3: Haitians that are in Ohio, for example, on a temporary
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  Speaker 3: protected status. That was a big decision that came out
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  Speaker 3: just yesterday, and probably you remember a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: happening with that two years ago over the Dayton area, Springfield. So,
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court backed up Trump administration, and they can start
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  Speaker 3: doing deportations if there's issues with those folks on the TPS.
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  Speaker 1: Anything happening as far as the fraud investigation of the folks,
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  Speaker 1: the Somalians, stealing money as far as Medicare, Medicaid, and
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  Speaker 1: all that jazz?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a few arrests or a few cases
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  Speaker 3: kind of released almost every week. Different kind of examples
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  Speaker 3: of how they're doing the fraud, largely in either Cincinnati
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  Speaker 3: area or then in Franklin area. a couple of people
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  Speaker 3: in the Cleveland area, too. My understanding is FBI, all
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  Speaker 3: the federal folks are in there. They're diving into some
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  Speaker 3: of the back numbers, and they're going to keep kind
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  Speaker 3: of releasing these different arrests. And some of the money
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  Speaker 3: has been returned, not nearly anything close to what's been lost.
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  Speaker 1: So the cops are actually getting involved, what the feds,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you would say, and arresting people and charging
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  Speaker 1: them for committing this crime? I mean, even though there's
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  Speaker 1: Somalians and all this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A good example of one was kind of a somewhat
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  Speaker 3: fake doctor who was just using socials and using Medicaid
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  Speaker 3: numbers of people in that community, charging and reporting things,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being sold or treatments being done. None of
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  Speaker 3: that happened. A couple million dollars over the past couple
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  Speaker 3: of years. So that person's been arrested.
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  Speaker 1: They arrested that doctor for the fraud.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: The question, though, is, yeah, let's say it's two, two
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  Speaker 3: and a half million, if I remember correctly. How do
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  Speaker 3: you get some of that money back? This person's obviously
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  Speaker 3: going to jail.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is you usually don't. I mean, and if
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  Speaker 1: that's the case, that's fine. I'm just saying that people
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  Speaker 1: that committed a crime, and this is a crime, should
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  Speaker 1: go to jail. That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Deter the activity. And step one. Step one for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So what are you doing in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here for today and tomorrow for a tax conference.
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  Speaker 3: Different kind of ways and means or tax leaders from
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  Speaker 3: across the nation, different states. We're all kind of gathering
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  Speaker 3: to talk about, hey, how do you do taxation on
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  Speaker 3: certain things with this? What are you seeing with this?
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  Speaker 3: And just start it today.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, tell them we got enough taxes. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need any new ways. The answer is to reduce them.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dave Thomas, for making time. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: State Rep. Dave Thomas, NewsRadio 570. WKVN with an update.
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  Speaker 1: Back with your calls. Thanks for being patient on hold.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back to you after the call. NewsRadio 570. WKVN.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Dave Thomas, for updating us. 3.35
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  Speaker 1: As I said, I'm going to take off Friday. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back on Wednesday. NewsRadio 570 WQEN. You're on
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  Speaker 1: the air.
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  Speaker 6: Ronald.
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  Speaker 1: Ted the Conservative.
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  Speaker 2: We got disconnected yesterday, so I thought I would call back. But, boy,
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  Speaker 2: a lot's on path here with your previous caller. Good
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  Speaker 2: example of what Amy Atkin will do. If you think
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  Speaker 2: that the rhino in office right now is bad, just
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  Speaker 2: think what she will do. And, you know, Rick called
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  Speaker 2: yesterday about the visa program that his kids are stuck on,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't understand it because think about it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are globalists. Republicans... and for america first i think
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  Speaker 2: that's a state simple statement to make so if he's
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  Speaker 2: a little concerned if they're a little concerned about what
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  Speaker 2: the vape might do by allowing some of these visas
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  Speaker 2: to be processed imagine what amy acton will do don't
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  Speaker 2: forget what what the democrats did to the southern border
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  Speaker 2: um and what the governor the rhino in chief has
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  Speaker 2: done with immigration in the state of ohio so you
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  Speaker 2: know i mean you It seems like it's really common sense,
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  Speaker 2: but I guess some people just don't see it that way.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand that one. And then the taxes he
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  Speaker 2: talked about, you know, Trumbull County, they did the right thing.
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  Speaker 2: And in Mahoning County, we've got, we've got a big
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  Speaker 2: race coming up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one candidate, Trumbull County, I don't know, did
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  Speaker 1: Trumbull County approve it? I didn't see that, sir, or not,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I think I saw that, you know, and here we
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  Speaker 2: are in Mahoning County. we got the opportunity to put
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  Speaker 2: someone in office all over that will vote to do that.
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  Speaker 2: The other person will think that the unions that work
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  Speaker 2: for the government and the governmental agencies know better how
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  Speaker 2: to spend your money.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's going to be, that's going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: really interesting. I've told you, I think that's, that's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest election for us in the fall is that commission
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  Speaker 2: is raised. Um, also I think he, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: guys touched on immigration and, the TPS, the big wins
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  Speaker 2: that Trump had in the Supreme Court today. Again, Amy Atkin, Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: they oppose that stuff. So if you, you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: back to the visas, if you think what Vivek is
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  Speaker 2: proposing is bad, what do you think Amy Atkin and the.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats would do? Oh, it would be god-awful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm sure there's just so much
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. Where we left off with the elections,
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  Speaker 2: I'll touch on that real quickly. I told you in
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  Speaker 2: the dead middle of the Iran war..
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  Speaker 1: Well, hang on. Before we go there, a large part
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  Speaker 1: about what we were talking about yesterday, though, had to
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  Speaker 1: do with the difference... We were talking about the socialists
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  Speaker 1: that were winning in New York. I guess it shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be a surprise to anybody because of the makeup of
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  Speaker 1: New York. But the overall discussion was... trying to understand
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the, I don't want to say anger,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to use the word anger that younger
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  Speaker 1: people have over the plight that they're facing and maybe
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  Speaker 1: some of the anger they have against baby boomers with
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  Speaker 1: the economics of things. And maybe what we were looking
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  Speaker 1: for yesterday was to try to say, this is why
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  Speaker 1: so many young people are voting for perhaps these Democrat
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  Speaker 1: socialists Because they're so pissed at, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say capitalism.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think they're voting for him. And I think,
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  Speaker 2: no disrespect to any of your callers, but some of
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  Speaker 2: them have hinted at this. They want a handout, not
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  Speaker 2: a hand up. And, you know, all of us grew
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  Speaker 2: up at a different time. Our parents, our grandparents grew
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  Speaker 2: up in the Depression. Our parents grew up out of that.
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  Speaker 2: We grew up in a time we grew up in.
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  Speaker 2: But to use a sports analogy, we all played the
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  Speaker 2: rules of the game we were dealt with, right? Today,
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  Speaker 2: the world's a different world than it was when you
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  Speaker 2: and I grew up. The employment arena is a lot different.
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  Speaker 2: If you work in technology... You've got a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: If you work in the medical field, if you work
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  Speaker 2: in the trade, if you become a school teacher. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm the first one, and I always say, young
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  Speaker 1: people have a lot of opportunities that are easier than
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  Speaker 1: when I was a young person. Yeah, definitely. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the post office is begging for people. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to get in a post office, it was very difficult.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get on fire department's difficult. You want
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  Speaker 1: to get on police department's difficult. You wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: into trades. It was difficult. You want to get into
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  Speaker 1: general motors. It was difficult. It was difficult getting in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of, a lot of the careers that are
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  Speaker 1: basically begging for people today. So there's, there's the upside
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  Speaker 1: for young people on, on some of these jobs, but
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  Speaker 1: there's also the people that are saying, okay, they're of
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  Speaker 1: concern when, when you have in Vivek's case, in support
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  Speaker 1: of these HB1 visas, saying, oh, we're going to let
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  Speaker 1: all these smart people from India come over here. And
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  Speaker 1: now the people that are the engineers are in that category.
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  Speaker 1: that went to school that said, okay, we did everything right,
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  Speaker 1: now they're concerned about losing their jobs to cheaper labor.
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  Speaker 1: You follow me? In other words, let me put it
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  Speaker 1: this way. People usually aren't concerned about something until it
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  Speaker 1: directly affects them. So a lot of times you get
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  Speaker 1: people at the top, they're kind of arrogant, and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't care if it affected the guy swinging a hammer.
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  Speaker 1: You follow me or the guy in the assembly line
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  Speaker 1: or the person that they would bring in cheaper labor
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  Speaker 1: to replace. It didn't bother them. But when it starts
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  Speaker 1: to affect your job, then it's all different. Then you
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  Speaker 1: start to look at stuff different. I think what Rich
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  Speaker 1: was trying to say, these guys were saying is something's
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  Speaker 1: wrong here when these companies are getting rid of American
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  Speaker 1: workers and their salaries and replacing them with these HB1
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  Speaker 1: visa workers out of India to take their jobs either
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  Speaker 1: here in our country or or ship the work over
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  Speaker 1: to India. And I mean, there's a legitimate, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely agree. It's a legitimate bitch.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a legitimate bitch. I'm just going to,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I would, and I would counter it with this again,
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  Speaker 2: Amy Ashton, globalist rights.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I would, I would, I would counter it with this.
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  Speaker 2: You are, you control your destiny. In other words, If
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  Speaker 2: you're working for a company that wants to bring in
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  Speaker 2: lower salaried employees to benefit their bottom dollar, well, maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's not a company you want to work with. Market
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  Speaker 2: your skills, market your talents, and go work for a
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  Speaker 2: company that will represent you and reward you. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's good and bad in everything. It was Alex yesterday
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  Speaker 2: who said he can't believe how much money he makes today.
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  Speaker 2: He said he never dreamed he'd make.
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  Speaker 1: This much money.
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  Speaker 2: He's crying about the cost of living.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: He can't have it both ways.
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  Speaker 1: We live in a tough love.
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  Speaker 2: It's the world we live in.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm all about the tough love stuff, but I
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  Speaker 1: understand the complaints that are taking place. I do, too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say, listen. I think it's more difficult
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  Speaker 1: for young people to achieve the American dream today than
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  Speaker 1: it was when I was a young person. Make no
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  Speaker 1: mistake about it. I'm not saying that it was easy
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  Speaker 1: when I was young. I mean, you still had to
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  Speaker 1: save money for a down payment on a house, and
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  Speaker 1: you still worried when you signed that 30-year mortgage and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So it wasn't a stress-free,
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  Speaker 1: easy adventure even then. But if young people are saying
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  Speaker 1: it's become more difficult today because of the high inflation,
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  Speaker 1: the overinflated price of homes and the wages, even the
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  Speaker 1: good wages that haven't kept pace with inflation. I was
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  Speaker 1: just looking the other day when we build our house.
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  Speaker 1: I think our lot was like twenty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: for the lot. You follow me? Three quarters of an acre. Today,
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  Speaker 1: they're asking $ 90, 000 for just the lot. You hear me? $ 90, 000.
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  Speaker 1: And that's before you break ground or do any building. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what I'm trying to say and I'm babbling
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  Speaker 1: on here is, as an older person, I understand younger
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  Speaker 1: people because I can say the same thing. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: around and everything is so damn expensive. Everything. Cars, cars. trucks, SUVs,
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  Speaker 1: everything is so damn expensive for all our citizens. And
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  Speaker 1: it makes the lifestyle that they see that the baby
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  Speaker 1: boomers enjoyed more difficult for younger people to ever achieve it,
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  Speaker 1: to be able to buy a home, to have a car,
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  Speaker 1: have a decent lifestyle, the American dream. It's more difficult
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  Speaker 1: than it used to be. Would you agree with that?
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I think many of them are pissed
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  Speaker 1: whether they're engineers or doing anything else.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely agree.
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  Speaker 1: But to be honest, they feel they've been betrayed by
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  Speaker 1: the country and by corporations, by corporations that there's, there's
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  Speaker 1: has to be a commitment from corporations to the country
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  Speaker 1: and to the citizens as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I said this to you before, we didn't get
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  Speaker 2: where we are today because of what happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. When Barack Obama told you he was going to
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  Speaker 2: transform America, he succeeded. You know, when you allow 10
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  Speaker 2: million people in your country to cross the border, and
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  Speaker 2: we don't know who in the heck is here, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think that does to the price of housing?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that does to the job market?
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  Speaker 2: It's not like, well, I'm going to vote for this
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  Speaker 2: candidate today because They said, no, dummy, the dumb mistakes
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  Speaker 2: you've made in the past voting for people are why
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  Speaker 2: you are where you are today. So if you continue
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  Speaker 2: down that road for voting for the candidate who tells
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  Speaker 2: you what you want to hear and makes you feel good,
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  Speaker 2: guess where you're going to be in 10 years. This
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  Speaker 2: is where the common sense comes in, and you've got
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  Speaker 2: to sometimes kick people in the ass and wake them up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's easy to bitch about all this stuff, but how
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  Speaker 2: did we get here? And if you don't know how
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  Speaker 2: you got where you are, you're doomed to continue to
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  Speaker 2: make the same mistakes. You know, it's just like Democrats with,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with Trump. Every day it's another issue. I
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  Speaker 2: can't watch TV anymore. You know, now it's gone from
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  Speaker 2: immigration to ICE to the war, the reflecting pool. Now, today,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a couple days ago, the market was down 2%
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  Speaker 2: and our so-called professional expert said the market was crashing.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw this morning... The Dow was on pace
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  Speaker 2: for a record close. So you got a lot of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uninformed people saying things. and just confusing the
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  Speaker 2: hell out of the world, out of people who don't
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  Speaker 2: know better or don't take the time. You know, just
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  Speaker 2: like today, they hear inflation rose. Well, we were at war.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think we were going to have? You know,
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  Speaker 2: but then I would pull them back. So look what
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  Speaker 2: we did in quarter one this year. The economy grew
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  Speaker 2: to 2.1%. Hey, doing much better than the so-called experts
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  Speaker 2: tell us it's going to do. The same people that
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  Speaker 2: told us gas is going to be $ 200 a barrel.
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  Speaker 2: The same people that told us inflation was going to
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  Speaker 2: get to 6%. You know, sometimes you have to look
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  Speaker 2: at the motives of the people saying that.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, if you're going to try to sell people that
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  Speaker 1: the economy's in a good place right now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: buy it. I simply, I don't buy it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the same statistics that are, I didn't believe a lot
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  Speaker 1: of statistics during Biden, the employment statistics, which were always
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  Speaker 1: changed and altered, and the inflation numbers, which were always
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  Speaker 1: kind of not the true report of inflation. Listen, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care who's president. Inflation's too damn high. The war's
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  Speaker 1: added to inflation. We still are, if this all works out,
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  Speaker 1: you still have major problems that are taking place in
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  Speaker 1: getting some raw materials, and there's still major issues in
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  Speaker 1: the oil industry. We shall see as time goes on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to sit here and justify,
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  Speaker 1: because Trump does it, it's okay. I agree with your
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  Speaker 1: basic premise. I agree with your premise. I would never
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  Speaker 1: vote for Amy Acton. I will vote for Vivek. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's the lesser of two evils. And so I
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  Speaker 1: would vote for him over Amy Acton.
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  Speaker 2: I thought God wasn't a big fan of a great guy,
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  Speaker 2: but I told you Trussell was the guy who could
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  Speaker 2: have walked away with it.
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  Speaker 1: But it would be worse if she's elected. But I
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  Speaker 1: also can sit here and say the gap is getting
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  Speaker 1: too wide between the haves and the have-nots and the
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  Speaker 1: working people. I totally understand that. with what people are
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  Speaker 1: saying that do all the right things and are saying,
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  Speaker 1: you want to bring somebody in to take their job
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  Speaker 1: and pay them a lot less? Is that the direction
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  Speaker 1: you want the country to go? And as I said yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: that's what created unions and why unions came about. And
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  Speaker 1: people need to remember that. That's all I can say.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I got.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I completely agree with you. All right. But,
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is. You know, we are where
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  Speaker 2: we are. We didn't get here by what we did yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think people realize the ramifications of elections.
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  Speaker 2: And it'll go back to why I called you yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: what I wanted to tell you. A month and a
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  Speaker 2: half ago, I told you that the Republicans will maintain
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  Speaker 2: the majority of Congress after the midterms. And people think
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  Speaker 2: I'm nuts when I say that. Well, look what's happening
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  Speaker 2: in the Democrat party. There is such a divide within
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  Speaker 2: that party. as we see the socialists taking over and
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  Speaker 2: removing what you and I wouldn't even call moderates. We'd
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: call them progressives. And when it comes to national elections,
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  Speaker 2: America has spoken time and time again as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want to live in a socialist country. So
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  Speaker 2: I think the Democrats... I mean, I'm just sitting back
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  Speaker 2: and I'm enjoying watching the Democrat Party implode from within.
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  Speaker 2: And Trump won't be on the ballot any longer. You know, midterms,
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  Speaker 2: you could say there's a Trump factor. His name's not
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot. And what are they going to do
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  Speaker 2: in two years from now when they can't run against Trump?
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: They could still hint his name and throw it out there,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: but guess what? Half of America's okay with it. We'd
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: rather have him than Kamala Harris. So, you know, I
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: always look at the glass half-full, not half-empty. I agree
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  Speaker 2: with everything you said. I don't disagree with you. But
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  Speaker 2: they're not simple solutions. You've got to look at the
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  Speaker 2: big picture, why we got here, the opportunities that are
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  Speaker 2: present today for kids that you and I didn't have. Yes, well,
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  Speaker 2: housing is expensive and the cost of living is expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Kids are making a heck of a lot more money today.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but there's positives and there's negatives. It's not all bad. Right,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll be the first to say... We've got a
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  Speaker 1: serious issue going on with inflation.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's getting too expensive for everyone. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: For everything.
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  Speaker 2: For everyone. For everything and everyone. Doesn't matter your age.
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  Speaker 2: The grocery store register doesn't discriminate based on age. It
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  Speaker 2: charges you and I the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Thank you, Ted. Appreciate it. Ted the Conservative. Back
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Good, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Hey, I stopped at the fireplace about a
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  Speaker 5: week or two ago and had dinner.
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  Speaker 2: It was excellent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy and Karen are wonderful human beings.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I went there. I was trying to go someplace different,
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  Speaker 5: and then you kind of... Bring them up every once.
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  Speaker 2: In a while.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm like, oh, let's go there. And, man, it
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  Speaker 5: was good. It was very good and very reasonably priced, too.
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  Speaker 5: The price was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good people. Locally owned and operated. Very good people.
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  Speaker 5: But I wanted to share an experience I had last night.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to be talking about sexual relations, are you? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me do my headlines and come back to you,
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  Speaker 1: all right? Let me get the news out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear what experience he had last night.
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  Speaker 1: Could be intriguing. Back right after this. Call or stay.
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  Speaker 4: From ABC News, I'm Chuck Sievertson.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Official confirms that Iran attacked a ship in the Strait
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  Speaker 4: of Hormuz with a drone today, the first attack since
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  Speaker 4: Iran and the U.S. signed that initial agreement. ABC's Louis
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  Speaker 4: Martinez covers the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 8: Very tenuous situation because over the 60 days that the
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  Speaker 8: United States and Iran are supposed to be negotiating further
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  Speaker 8: movement towards an eventual full agreement, there's a lot of
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: instability about what could actually happen.
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  Speaker 4: Seven arrests and 18 police reports are cited by the
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: National Park Service, and what it alleges was vandalism that
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: led to damage to the algae-filled and sealer-flaking of the
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  Speaker 4: reflecting pond at the Lincoln Memorial. also alleging graffiti at
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: the Washington Monument and fuel lines cut at the Great
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  Speaker 4: American State Fair. A federal judge has blocked part of
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  Speaker 4: a President Trump executive order that would mandate how states
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: would run their mail-in voting operations.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Peter Harlambous.
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  Speaker 6: This is the third judge in just one week to
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  Speaker 6: block elements of President Trump's attempt to increase federal oversight
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  Speaker 6: over elections. And at this point, both of his executive
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: orders on elections have been blocked by the courts.
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  Speaker 4: Supreme Court says the maker of Roundup weed killer can't
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  Speaker 4: be sued under state law for failing to warn users
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  Speaker 4: about the product's alleged cancer risk because the EPA didn't
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  Speaker 4: require a warning. Supreme Court conservative majorities today rule that
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  Speaker 4: the government can keep asylum seekers from entering the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: and can cancel the temporary protected status granted to Haitians
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  Speaker 4: and Syrians. After deadly earthquakes overnight in Venezuela, at least
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  Speaker 4: 188 people are dead, nearly 1,000 others injured. The airport's damage,
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  Speaker 4: says ABC's Marcus Moore.
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  Speaker 7: We understand that one of the runways was cracked, so
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  Speaker 7: that will undoubtedly affect the emergency response that is really
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  Speaker 7: just now getting underway today. The power is out in
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  Speaker 7: parts of the country and people being evacuated from businesses
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  Speaker 7: and buildings. And so these are, without a doubt, the
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  Speaker 7: most critical hours in the race to save people who
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  Speaker 7: may be trapped in the rubble. R.
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  Speaker 4: Marcus Moore, and you're listening to ABC News.