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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Tuesday, 07/21/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Well, Heidi Ho,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully all systems are go here. 3.06 in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on this Tuesday, July 21st. And it's comfortable
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  Speaker 1: outside today.
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  Speaker 2: Cloudy.
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  Speaker 3: We've had some rain over at my place this morning
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  Speaker 3: in my neck of the woods here. 75 degrees. Nice
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  Speaker 3: to be with you here on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. If
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  Speaker 3: you missed yesterday's program, you missed a good one. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when we were talking about Poland Library, lots to talk
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  Speaker 3: about with that particular situation. And plenty to talk about
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to the situation with Iran. It is
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  Speaker 3: just a.
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  Speaker 4: Mess.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll get into that on part of the broadcast
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  Speaker 3: here today, because I'm going to tell you, it is,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, it doesn't matter whether you're a Trumpster
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  Speaker 3: or not. You're not here to say that it's OK
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  Speaker 3: to disagree with somebody that you voted for. As I
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  Speaker 3: said to you before, I don't know that I've necessarily
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  Speaker 3: agreed with anyone 100 percent of the time. Including Trump.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it again. This situation in Iran is a mess.
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  Speaker 3: It's an absolute mess. And he started it. It's an
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  Speaker 3: absolute mess. And he started this mess. And I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to tell you, I'm concerned as time goes on where
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  Speaker 3: this is heading. As far as all of us economically
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  Speaker 3: speaking and the price of a barrel of oil. And
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  Speaker 3: what you're going to pay at the gasoline pump. And
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  Speaker 3: so we shall see as time goes on where this heads.
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  Speaker 6: But..
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  Speaker 3: It's not looking good right now, and it could head
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  Speaker 3: in a direction economically, I'm speaking, where it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be very painful for all of us here in this
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  Speaker 3: country and, frankly, in the world. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 3: coming up, so stay tuned. You don't want to miss that.
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  Speaker 3: But first, some callers' participation. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, Ron.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Got a copy on you. I think you're wrong about this.
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  Speaker 10: in some respects, though.
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  Speaker 3: You think I'm wrong about what?
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  Speaker 10: Well, like, the libraries were... A lot of these buildings
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  Speaker 10: were publicly funded, number one. So they weren't using tax dollars.
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  Speaker 7: Service.
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  Speaker 3: Your phone's breaking up a little bit. Turn around or
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  Speaker 3: something or go walk outside so that I can hear
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  Speaker 3: you loud and clear.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I said the library... buildings were privately funded, like
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  Speaker 10: the main library. That wasn't tax dollars. That was a
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  Speaker 10: privately funded building.
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  Speaker 3: In downtown Youngstown?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: It wasn't, that wasn't tax dollars. So people aren't, they
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  Speaker 10: don't know it. They don't know the whole story about
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  Speaker 10: the library. All right, so.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking the original structure, or are you talking the
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  Speaker 3: $ 25 million that they put in renovations?
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  Speaker 10: The $ 25 million. The $ 25 million was privately funded.
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  Speaker 3: By who?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. I just know for a fact it
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  Speaker 10: was not publicly funded.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then tell me by who funded it.
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  Speaker 2: I bet I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know the specifics of it, but I know
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  Speaker 10: that was it. I would rather give to the library
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  Speaker 10: than give to Israel or give to this stupid war.
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  Speaker 10: At least they provide the service to the local community.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is where I totally disagree with you. First
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  Speaker 3: of all, I don't know that that statement you made
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  Speaker 3: is accurate at all, but I will definitely.
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  Speaker 12: Check on that.
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  Speaker 10: It is accurate.
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  Speaker 3: Check on that. It's accurate. I don't know that that's accurate.
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  Speaker 3: You'd have more credibility if I asked you who supplied
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  Speaker 3: the $ 25 million, $ 26 million, and you could give me
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  Speaker 3: a name. I'm not a genius. Right, but you're making
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  Speaker 3: a statement. You want me to believe that somebody donated.
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  Speaker 2: That amount of money.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you can look it up.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, you can look it up.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: You're making a statement. I don't believe that's accurate, but
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  Speaker 3: we'll go..
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  Speaker 10: That is accurate. That's an accurate statement.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, it's yet to be proven. Let's put
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  Speaker 3: it that way. But needless to say, when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the library, here's the issue, which you don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: This is taxpayer money. Contrary to what you say, we
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  Speaker 3: are paying a property tax levy in addition to state money,
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  Speaker 3: which is going to the library. I don't know where
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  Speaker 3: you think all this private money is coming from. This
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  Speaker 3: is where the money is coming from, from your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 3: One of the big issues... No, it's not fine. One
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  Speaker 3: of the big issues is... Why isn't it?
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  Speaker 10: Because you get a service from the library. You get books,
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  Speaker 10: you get CDs, you get movies.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not finished my thought yet because you won't let me. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're not understanding what the point is. The
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  Speaker 3: citizens of Poland are not being listened to. It's their community.
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  Speaker 3: It's their library. They are the taxpayers here in Mahoning County.
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  Speaker 3: They are paying the taxes for this on our property.
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  Speaker 3: And through the state, they have this big reserve of
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  Speaker 3: money that they have drawing interest on it. So they're
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  Speaker 3: getting more money than they're actually needed at the library.
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  Speaker 3: They should be answering to the citizens that are paying
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  Speaker 3: the taxes. And they are not. I have never seen
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  Speaker 3: an organization so arrogant. as I am this particular organization.
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  Speaker 3: And make no mistake about it, I will not, I
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  Speaker 3: haven't voted for a library levy because I know they
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  Speaker 3: have more money than they know what to do with.
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  Speaker 3: And you can take a look at it at the
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  Speaker 3: personnel that they're hiring and how many they're hiring, the
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  Speaker 3: lack of maintenance that they've done, and how they've treated
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  Speaker 3: people in the community in which that branch is located.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, they love the community, love the library. The community
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  Speaker 10: loves the library. That building isn't safe. That's why they
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  Speaker 10: can't fix it. It's not safe.
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  Speaker 7: The guy who was on.
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  Speaker 10: Your show, he's not an engineer. He's an architect. He
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  Speaker 10: doesn't know about structural engineering.
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  Speaker 3: Are you an engineer?
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  Speaker 10: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 3: Are you an engineer? I know enough.
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  Speaker 12: It's not safe.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm asking you. That's why they're not doing this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 10: They don't want to jeopardize people.
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  Speaker 3: Just sit tight.
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  Speaker 9: With this building.
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  Speaker 3: Just sit tight. Tell me what the problem is with
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  Speaker 3: the building.
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  Speaker 10: It was built on bad. That's bad property there. That guy,
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  Speaker 10: they should never have built that library in that spot.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you say it was built on bad property?
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  Speaker 10: Because the structure isn't good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what is happening? Explain to me. I want you
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  Speaker 3: to explain to me, since this architect who designed it,
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  Speaker 3: and if you listen..
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  Speaker 7: Well, but he's not an engineer.
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  Speaker 10: He's an architect.
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  Speaker 3: You don't understand.
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  Speaker 10: And this was 25 years ago he did this.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but do you understand?
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  Speaker 10: This guy is fighting a battle from 25 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand that he wasn't the only one involved
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  Speaker 3: in it? Did you listen to his statements that he made?
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  Speaker 10: Well, he said other architects, he was saying. And this
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  Speaker 10: is over 20 years ago. This isn't current day. Now,
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  Speaker 10: has he looked at the building? Has he looked at
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  Speaker 10: the structure of this guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Now, here's where you're inaccurate. Why? I said, does.
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  Speaker 10: This guy know about the structure.
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  Speaker 3: Of the building? What is the building built on? What's
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  Speaker 3: the foundation of the building? What rock is it built on?
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  Speaker 14: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know. Do you know that was there somebody
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  Speaker 3: also involved in it from YSU that is involved in
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  Speaker 3: making sure that the stone material was pure and met specifications?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know that?
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  Speaker 10: Well, it could be solid material, but.
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  Speaker 3: If the property itself isn't good. No, if the building's
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  Speaker 3: built on bedrock. The slag had to meet standards that
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  Speaker 3: was under there. It is not slag from the steel mills.
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  Speaker 10: So why are they doing away with this library?
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  Speaker 3: It's foolish for them to do away with it altogether.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 10: Answer me this question. Do you know why they're wanting
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  Speaker 10: to move this library?
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  Speaker 3: It's beyond me why anyone would want to move this particular.
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  Speaker 10: You can't answer me that question.
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  Speaker 3: I'm more than happy to answer it. You're talking about
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  Speaker 3: the library.
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  Speaker 10: You can't answer me why they.
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  Speaker 3: Want to move the library. Here's the first problem. You're
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  Speaker 3: asking me a question. I'm trying to answer it. Do
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  Speaker 3: you want me to answer it? I'm going to answer.
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  Speaker 10: You can answer me.
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  Speaker 3: OK, the first question I'm saying to you is it
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be moved in the first place. That is my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: That's the architect's opinion. And when you talk about an architect,
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  Speaker 3: there were other people involved in building this facility. So
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  Speaker 3: we know it's built on bedrock. So we know that
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  Speaker 3: the gravel that was used was washed and met a
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  Speaker 3: standard by the company that provided it. by them that
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  Speaker 3: provided it. It was not from the steel mill. So
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  Speaker 3: let's start with it. This building didn't have any issues
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  Speaker 3: as far as the back section raising up a little
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  Speaker 3: bit because of a wall that was built incorrectly back there,
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  Speaker 3: which the architect had nothing to do with, which created
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  Speaker 3: hydrostatic pressure under that portion, that very small portion of
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  Speaker 3: that building in the back. Not the whole building, just
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  Speaker 3: a very small portion in the back. Now, according to
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  Speaker 3: the architect, there's two options that you can do. You
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  Speaker 3: can modify that diversion wall and or you can take
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  Speaker 3: it out and you can expand where the river does
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  Speaker 3: the bend. But none of these problems existed for 20-something
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  Speaker 3: years as far as the foundation or any movement in
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  Speaker 3: that building at all till that wall was built. So
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  Speaker 3: use your power of being cognizant. Would you think that
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  Speaker 3: might be a cause and effect? Everything was fine until
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  Speaker 3: that one wall that they put there was built. And
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, you have a problem in
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  Speaker 3: the far back corner of the building where which has
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  Speaker 3: shifted a little bit because of slag that apparently was
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  Speaker 3: left there from the original structure. the original building that
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  Speaker 3: was there, and the original parking lot that was there
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  Speaker 3: when they thought they had it all out. But it's
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  Speaker 3: not a reason to abandon the entire facility. Now, my
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  Speaker 3: question to you, I'm not an architect.
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  Speaker 15: He is.
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  Speaker 3: He's certainly more educated at building than I am. I
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  Speaker 3: have an understanding of it. But in addition to that,
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  Speaker 3: he mentioned the other people, if you listen specifically, of
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  Speaker 3: the specialty trades that were involved in this project and
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  Speaker 3: in the foundation and how it was all approved by them.
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  Speaker 3: One of the guys highly respected from YSU that looked
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  Speaker 3: at all that. Should we disregard all of them? Should
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  Speaker 3: we say, well, you're just an architect? Okay, but that's
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  Speaker 3: certainly more credentialed than you or me. Should we say
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  Speaker 3: that the guy that was the engineer from YSU that
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  Speaker 3: specialized in the slag and making sure that this was
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  Speaker 3: done properly, do you think he knows more than you
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  Speaker 3: and I do? Because he mentioned all these people by name.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I had him on. So how can you
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  Speaker 3: sit there and act like he doesn't know what he knows,
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  Speaker 3: but you seem to know more than he knows?
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  Speaker 10: At least he answered my question, so I'll give you
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  Speaker 10: credit for that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the bottom line is this is taxpayer money.
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  Speaker 3: Taxpayers have a right to say, and incidentally, there's many
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  Speaker 3: other reasons if you would listen to the program on
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  Speaker 3: why the building was located there and what it does
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  Speaker 3: for the community and the walking distance from the elementary schools.
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  Speaker 3: If you listen to his explanation of why it was
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  Speaker 3: put there. and how much of the stuff was actually
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  Speaker 3: donated to the facility, you'll sit back and say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. But if you would listen, and
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  Speaker 3: you can go back and listen to it.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, say you're right about this. Okay, whatever. But why
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  Speaker 10: are you after the whole library? Because you never liked
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  Speaker 10: the library. This is just a new battle you're picking.
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  Speaker 3: Why am I after it? Well, I'm going to show you, Shani.
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  Speaker 10: You never like the library.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you exactly if you want me
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  Speaker 3: to answer why am I after the library, as you say,
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  Speaker 3: because I believe the library, for a number of reasons,
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  Speaker 3: is collecting more tax dollars than it knows how to use.
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  Speaker 3: It's overtaxing our citizens of this community. You can see
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  Speaker 3: that in the reserves that they have. So they're taxing
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  Speaker 3: you more money than they should be. Secondly, clearly the
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  Speaker 3: lack of response and straightforwardness, to the community in this
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  Speaker 3: particular situation from the head of the library is troubling
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  Speaker 3: that the taxpayers are so being disrespected and treated poorly.
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  Speaker 3: I have zero respect for a government that says, shut up,
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  Speaker 3: pay your taxes, we're going to do what we want
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  Speaker 3: to do, and you don't have a say-so. I don't
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  Speaker 3: agree with that. I will never agree with that. and
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  Speaker 3: you can hang up. That's what the issue is. I
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  Speaker 3: will sit here and I will tell you that unlike
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  Speaker 3: the first caller or others, I listened to the architect.
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  Speaker 3: He's a lot more qualified than I am on it.
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  Speaker 3: Way more qualified than I am. And if you would
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  Speaker 3: have paid attention to what he was saying, You would
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  Speaker 3: have heard him talk about everyone else that was involved
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  Speaker 3: in building that facility. And it checks and balances that
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  Speaker 3: happens in that facility. And then you should perhaps ask yourself, well,
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  Speaker 3: why didn't these problems exist 10 years into it? Why
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  Speaker 3: did these problems suddenly exist, what, 25 years into it?
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  Speaker 3: When this wall was put up to divert Yellow Creek?
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  Speaker 3: And prior to that, there wasn't an issue with the floor,
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  Speaker 3: the hydrostatic pressure in the back small portion of that building.
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  Speaker 3: The library isn't sinking. It's built on bedrock. The slag
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  Speaker 3: was certified, I guess is a term you would use.
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  Speaker 3: Reviewed by, his name escapes me, the guy from YSU.
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  Speaker 3: It's highly respected. I had another engineer that called me
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  Speaker 3: yesterday who said he took his classes and the guy
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  Speaker 3: was brilliant. when it comes to the ground structure, when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to what the ground is made of. So
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  Speaker 3: maybe you should start listening to them. Maybe you should say, well,
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  Speaker 3: this architect knows what he's talking about. And when he
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  Speaker 3: talks about the history of it, because he was there
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  Speaker 3: when it was being built. None of these other people
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  Speaker 3: that are at the library, the head of the library,
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  Speaker 3: Or frankly, people making these decisions have a clue, really,
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  Speaker 3: of what they're deciding and what they're doing. They don't
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  Speaker 3: have the knowledge and they don't have the background. And
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  Speaker 3: they have the arrogance not to listen to the people
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  Speaker 3: who do. So if you've got this beautiful building, and
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  Speaker 3: it is beautiful, which got great accolades... from architects and
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  Speaker 3: magazines when it was done. It's been a solid building
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  Speaker 3: for 20 plus years that clearly when you look at
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  Speaker 3: the pictures was not maintained on the outside. Simple, basic
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  Speaker 3: maintenance that you would do on your home. And you
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  Speaker 3: say to yourself, why did that one back section raise? Well,
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  Speaker 3: what interesting timing when that wall was put up that
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  Speaker 3: that happens. Those are the facts. Ron Furb checking in
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  Speaker 3: with Bob Dieter. Dieter, he..
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  Speaker 2: WKBN.
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  Speaker 3: Back to it. NewsRadio 570. WKBN and Ron Furb. 324
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  Speaker 3: in the afternoon. What was it, a week ago and
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  Speaker 3: then yesterday when we had on Bob Mastroianno from the
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  Speaker 3: architect who built, was the architect for the Poland Library
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  Speaker 3: when it was built? He was there. He knows what
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  Speaker 3: went on. He knows the history of it. He knows
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  Speaker 3: who was involved in it. He knows when the back
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  Speaker 3: portion of the building started to shift slightly and when
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  Speaker 3: it started to shift. So it would seem he's the
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  Speaker 3: most knowledgeable person about it, in addition to naming the
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  Speaker 3: people that were there to assist him during that time
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  Speaker 3: as far as the bottom structure, as far as the
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  Speaker 3: slag and where it came from and the verification of
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  Speaker 3: being washed slag, not from the steel mills. And the
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  Speaker 3: people that are arguing against him were not there. So
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  Speaker 3: they want to, what, insult him? Well, he's just an architect? Well,
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty impressive. But when he sits down and he
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  Speaker 3: sits on a forum that we have for two and
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  Speaker 3: a half to three hours to say, and here's the guy,
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  Speaker 3: here's who brought the slag, here's what the quality of
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  Speaker 3: it was, and here's the guy from YSU that's talked about,
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  Speaker 3: was basically overseeing to make sure that it was the
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  Speaker 3: right material. Do any of these new hires, does the
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  Speaker 3: woman that came from Phoenix know any of this stuff? Well,
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  Speaker 3: she wasn't here. Do any of these overpriced people, overpaid people,
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  Speaker 3: I should say, that are now on the library payroll
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  Speaker 3: to insulate her from lousy decisions know any of this stuff?
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  Speaker 3: So I'm here to say, as I'll say again, Bob Mastriani,
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  Speaker 3: he is a good, decent man. He is a good man.
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  Speaker 3: And he cares about Poland, he cares about that facility,
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  Speaker 3: and he knows what he's talking about. And when he
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  Speaker 3: was on the program, not a single person from the
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  Speaker 3: library system called when he was on our airwaves for
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  Speaker 3: three hours. So they want to challenge what he has
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  Speaker 3: to say the next day in a paper, but that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't cut it with me. When he's sitting here for
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  Speaker 3: three hours on the program, where were they then? Where
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: were they yesterday? If they think they know more than
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: he does, if they think they have better insight than
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: he does, about building, about who was involved in it,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: about how it was built, and when the problem emerged,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: and the fact that it can be fixed. And if
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: you can save a beautiful facility like that, I mean,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: what's the point of having any of these beautiful old buildings?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And I guess we should tear them all down. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: this building is, what, 25 years old? But it's spectacular.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: So what should we do? Just say, well, to hell
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: with it. Let's dump it and sell it to somebody
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: and let's go build a new one that will cost
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: a lot more, won't be nearly as spectacular, won't have
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: the square footage. Even in speculation, when they said, what
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: would that building cost to build today? And he said,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: probably $ 20 million. Isn't that worth preserving? Isn't that worth saving?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, and this idea, well, if we build a
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: new library, guess what? Then we don't have all these
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: maintenance costs. Well, I guess that's true because everything's new.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: But I'm here to say that if you take the
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: existing library and you put a new heating and cooling system,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: you restart the clock on all of that. I'm not
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: saying mechanicals don't have a life expectancy, but if you
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: replace them with new stuff, then the clock starts all
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: over again, just as you would be buying new stuff
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: for a new facility. My problem with this entire library
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: operation is they are simply ignoring what the people who
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: live in that community want, overwhelmingly. And they're ignoring and
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: treating the taxpayers like crap. So when I say to you,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: would I vote for a library levy? Absolutely not. They're
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: getting more tax dollars in than they should be getting
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: in the first place. They have too many people that
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: are on the payroll now. And they're not receptive to
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the taxpayers of the community. So it is my money.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: And I have every right to vote against it and say,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I want to keep my money. I don't really approve
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: of the way you're running your operation. Last time I checked,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: that's America.
• 21:09
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• 21:10
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• 21:11
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• 21:15
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• 21:20
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• 21:21
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• 21:22
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• 21:24
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• 21:25
  Speaker 15: The deal we reached with Iran.
• 21:26
  Speaker 17: The devil's in the details. Bringing the price of gasoline down.
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: Maintain the Fed funds rate.
• 21:31
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• 21:32
  Speaker 18: NATO has been a paper tiger.
• 21:34
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, I caught part of your show yesterday, and I
• 22:58
  Speaker 18: was wondering what structural engineer put the wall up and
• 23:02
  Speaker 18: who initiated that they even build that wall. I don't
• 23:05
  Speaker 18: know if they answered that, but everyone's talking about structural engineers,
• 23:09
  Speaker 18: and I was just curious, you know, who did that?
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: No, he did not. Bob did not have anything to
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: do with that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 18: I know, I know, and they should be looking into
• 23:18
  Speaker 18: who did, I think. Yeah, I think that the library lady,
• 23:22
  Speaker 18: I think she's just a globalist. I attended the town
• 23:25
  Speaker 18: hall meeting, I don't know if it was last summer,
• 23:27
  Speaker 18: about the cement versus the brick. They took all the
• 23:31
  Speaker 18: brick out. They didn't want brick. They wanted cement. They
• 23:33
  Speaker 18: wanted to color it. It was this long meeting.
• 23:35
  Speaker 14: She talked in circles.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 23:38
  Speaker 18: Mastriana talked, and he gave her three good options to
• 23:41
  Speaker 18: incorporate the brick back into it. I don't think she
• 23:44
  Speaker 18: ever got back to him, but he was very kind
• 23:46
  Speaker 18: to her, and she's just one of those Klaus Schwab
• 23:49
  Speaker 18: sit-down-and-shut-up crowd people.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 23:52
  Speaker 18: They put the LEDs in the library that kind of
• 23:55
  Speaker 18: give you a headache, so they changed the lighting. They
• 23:58
  Speaker 18: took down all the bus because, of course, those are
• 24:00
  Speaker 18: white men, and you can't have them. We have to
• 24:02
  Speaker 18: erase our history. I think this is what it's about.
• 24:05
  Speaker 18: You know, it's a historical-looking building. It's attached to an
• 24:08
  Speaker 18: actual building from, what, 1840 or something, and they just
• 24:12
  Speaker 18: want to get rid of it. You know, they just
• 24:14
  Speaker 18: want to erase our history. So speaking of incompetent government,
• 24:17
  Speaker 18: I go to the treasurer's office page today to see
• 24:20
  Speaker 18: when the taxes are due. And what they have out
• 24:23
  Speaker 18: there is the due date for the first half tax,
• 24:26
  Speaker 18: which was March 6th. So I call them, and they
• 24:29
  Speaker 18: tell me, well, it was going to be March 7th,
• 24:31
  Speaker 18: but now they don't know when it's going to be
• 24:33
  Speaker 18: because they don't have the tax bills out yet. So,
• 24:37
  Speaker 18: I mean, are you kidding me? And then the same
• 24:39
  Speaker 18: website tells you it is the taxpayer's responsibility to secure
• 24:43
  Speaker 18: a tax bill. Failure to receive a tax bill will
• 24:46
  Speaker 18: not void the 10% penalty for late payment. So out
• 24:49
  Speaker 18: of all of my eight counties, Mahoning County is the
• 24:52
  Speaker 18: one that doesn't yet have a firm tax date. It's
• 24:54
  Speaker 18: going to be sometime after August 7th, I could tell everybody.
• 24:58
  Speaker 18: Pretty much all the counties have moved their dates out.
• 25:01
  Speaker 18: Columbiana taxes aren't due until August 21st. Trumbles aren't due
• 25:05
  Speaker 18: until August 31st. So just to let people know, Stark,
• 25:09
  Speaker 18: they moved their date out. Those aren't due until August 21st.
• 25:12
  Speaker 18: So I don't know. I guess they just get to
• 25:15
  Speaker 18: move things around. But then when they're due, you better
• 25:18
  Speaker 18: pay them.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Listen, I think everybody's in for a rude awakening on
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: any number of things. Like I said, I feel sorry
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: for the citizens of Canfield because they're looking at a
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: 5.9 mil school levy that's going to be on the ballot.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: They're also looking at a pretty significant but almost 3
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: mil MRDD levy. So if one or both of those pass,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: in addition to the increase you're going to get from
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: the re-evaluations– It is going to be astronomical burden put
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: on citizens of Canfield to tolerate that burden. And I
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: say it again and again and again. This is ridiculous.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: You are pricing people out of their homes, not just
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: senior citizens. You're making it difficult for young people to
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: buy homes because of the burden, the huge burden of
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: the property taxes monthly. You're making it difficult for senior citizens.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And quite frankly, you're also making it difficult for everybody
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: in between because the evaluations are– well, the initial evaluations
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: were double-digit increases, right? And I don't know anyone's income
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: that could keep up with that. Now, because of Dave Thomas,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: the next, the increase from the reevaluations will be less
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: because it's tied to the rate of inflation, but it's
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: still going to be an increase that you didn't vote for.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: And then they're slapping on two levies. So this idea
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: that you can't be priced out of your house is ridiculous.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what's going on. And the communities have the
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: ability to, to decline the increase.
• 26:55
  Speaker 14: And they better.
• 26:56
  Speaker 18: They better vote all these levies down, every single one.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: They have the ability to decline the increase, and they should.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: But I won't hold my breath for that to happen.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: What is happening to our citizens and the burden of
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: property taxes is deeply disturbing and troubling. It's like when
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: you go back to the library. The library, as they say,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: why do these people have $ 40, $ 50 million in a
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: bank account? That's your tax dollars. That's your money. That
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: they're collecting interest on. Well, then you're overtaxing the citizen.
• 27:28
  Speaker 18: In other words, stop taking it. You know, everybody thinks
• 27:32
  Speaker 18: they need this levy. Well, they already have a continuous.
• 27:34
  Speaker 18: Don't they already have like a forever levy for that already?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Listen, it's another high levy where they want an astronomical
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: amount of money.
• 27:43
  Speaker 14: And there's 2,000 families.
• 27:44
  Speaker 18: So where is all that going? I don't understand.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 18: You really have to question these things and don't just
• 27:51
  Speaker 18: get pulled in, oh, it's for the children or it's
• 27:53
  Speaker 18: just for that. No, this is a cash grab. I'm sorry.
• 27:57
  Speaker 18: I think you better vote everything down. You better sign
• 28:00
  Speaker 18: the petition. You better go to our website. Circulate among
• 28:03
  Speaker 18: your friends and family, www.axohtax.com, because it's never going to end.
• 28:10
  Speaker 18: And the government, I mean, they just do what they want.
• 28:12
  Speaker 18: Like I said, you go to the treasurer's website, you
• 28:15
  Speaker 18: expect to see at least August 7th.
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: Okay?
• 28:18
  Speaker 18: We don't even see that. We see March 6th. We're
• 28:20
  Speaker 18: way past that. They can't even do that right.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate you. You're on air.
• 28:25
  Speaker 12: Hey, Ron.
• 28:28
  Speaker 21: That was a very good show you had yesterday. And
• 28:32
  Speaker 21: I am an engineer, by the way. And the gentleman
• 28:36
  Speaker 21: made total sense. So you're standing for the right. Just
• 28:40
  Speaker 21: let you know.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you this, and I'll say it
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: time and time again. That man sitting here is a good,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: decent human being. He's a good man. And any of
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: those people that are attacking that man, it's despicable to
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: do such a thing when you meet somebody like that
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: and you can hear him on a forum explain– He
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: was there when it was being built. He had all
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: these other experts that were there. He knows the history
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: of it. He knows when the problem started and it
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: wasn't an ongoing problem. And he knows that this facility
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: can be saved. You've got a bunch of people who
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: have none of those credentials that have an agenda.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Have an opinion.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:23
  Speaker 21: And opinions are just like what?
• 29:25
  Speaker 22: Noses.
• 29:25
  Speaker 21: Everybody got one. So the facts, you know. The facts
• 29:30
  Speaker 21: are that you're standing by them and, you know, so
• 29:32
  Speaker 21: don't get shaken.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Listen, I stand by them 100%. It's a beautiful facility
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: in that community. and the community i think overwhelmingly wants
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: that facility and it's very savable um right and i
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: think and i and i think if that is if
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: that happens i think that community will be grateful for
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: many decades to come uh Because it's a crown jewel
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: of that community. It's really a great crown jewel of it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Right. Okay.
• 30:03
  Speaker 21: Well, I just wanted to share that. Don't worry about Iran.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I'll get into that later. I'll get into that later. Thanks.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's coming. I want to get into that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: But government should be responsive to people. This entire library
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: operation says, give us your tax dollars, sit down and
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: shut up. And I'll be more than happy to have
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the head of the library on with Bob at the
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: same time sitting right on the program. I make a
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: public invitation to her. She can come on down. She
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: can bring her staff members down with her and she
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: can come on down and he'll sit here. And then
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: they can have a discussion that the public can hear
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: and on the decisions, how it was built, the decisions
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: that were made, and for them to justify their decisions
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: in a civil fashion. So if they're interested in that,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: they know how to get a hold of me. All
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: they have to do is email me. I know Bob
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: would be more than happy to come and spend another
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: two or three hours with me. And I invite them
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: to come on. If they think they have such a righteous,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: strong case, then you come on and talk to the
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: public here and talk to Bob here and make your case.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: If you care. If you respect the public and the taxpayer,
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: then you'll take me up on that offer. And if
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: you don't. That says everything. We, the taxpayers, need to know.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: It is your money that is taken from you. Never forget,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: it starts, it is your money. It's the fruits of
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: your labor. How much of your money is taken from you?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Far too much anymore. It's becoming more and more difficult
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: for people just to survive. But certainly the government entities
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: should be responsive to the citizens who are paying the money.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: But it seems they come in last too many times.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Give us your money. You get the crumbs. Sit down
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: and shut up. And that's not how this is supposed
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: to work. You're on the air.
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: Hey, Ron, good afternoon, buddy.
• 32:53
  Speaker 23: Yes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 14: I caught the end of your show yesterday with the architect.
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: And for your first caller saying he's an architect, not
• 33:01
  Speaker 14: an engineer, as far as engineering is concerned, the architect
• 33:04
  Speaker 14: is the pinnacle of engineering. They have a whole team
• 33:08
  Speaker 14: about permits, professional engineers, and everything before the prints are
• 33:13
  Speaker 14: stamped and even released to build a building. Okay, so
• 33:18
  Speaker 14: that's his ignorance. But I wanted to ask the gentleman, Bob,
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: that you had on yesterday, who the hydrologist was, and
• 33:27
  Speaker 14: who's the professional engineer that stamped it for that wall.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: He had nothing to do with that wall. Bob had
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: nothing to do with that wall.
• 33:37
  Speaker 14: I know he didn't, but the people that had it done,
• 33:41
  Speaker 14: who was the qualified professional engineer that stamped it, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 14: did they have a hydrologist? Because I can walk out
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: of my property being on Yellow Creek in 100 yards.
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: Okay, so..
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: Did they do this whole survey all the way to
• 33:57
  Speaker 14: the source, plus the drainage, plus the extra water, plus
• 34:00
  Speaker 14: all the other problems, all right, and do that before
• 34:04
  Speaker 14: they built that wall? Who approved that, and who stamped
• 34:07
  Speaker 14: those prints to do that? I worked construction for 35 years,
• 34:11
  Speaker 14: heavy construction. What they have to know, what an architect
• 34:15
  Speaker 14: and his team with the structural engineers, the piping guys,
• 34:18
  Speaker 14: the compaction into the ground, the piling that goes in
• 34:22
  Speaker 14: and everything, Those guys have to do all that and
• 34:25
  Speaker 14: have that approved the building code before that building even starts.
• 34:30
  Speaker 14: So all these people mopping off about it, since I
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: live within walking distance of the place, what's epitome to
• 34:37
  Speaker 14: me is exactly what you said.
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: Eat it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 14: And I'm going, they got millions and millions of dollars
• 34:44
  Speaker 14: in the bank due to fricking maintenance.
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 34:47
  Speaker 14: You got people going, donate to fix and save our library.
• 34:50
  Speaker 14: And you got 40, 50 million in the bank. What
• 34:54
  Speaker 14: if you didn't take your money and save it aside
• 34:57
  Speaker 14: for emergencies on your house and your property? Who's responsible
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: for that?
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: If you take a look at the pictures that I've seen,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: it's obvious that routine maintenance hasn't been done because what
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: you see is some of the woodwork on the outside
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: deteriorating because it wasn't maintained. It wouldn't be any different
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: than if you did the same thing at your house
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: after 20-something years. So the reality is anything outside... needs maintenance.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: And don't tell me how great a job you've done
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: at maintenance when my eyes, you know, don't believe your eyes,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: believe what we're telling you. No, I'll believe my eyes
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: on what I'm seeing and how you didn't do a
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: good job on the maintenance, which doesn't surprise me at
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: all when it comes to government in general. But the
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: maintenance should have been done and the repairs should have
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: been made. Now, these are minor repairs, if you will,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: on the outside as far as the wood and painting
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: and that kind of stuff. But that's the maintenance that
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: needs to be done on the outside. You know, this
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: idea that if you build a new building, well, now
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: you don't have all the maintenance costs. That's because it's
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: a brand new building that you just spent $ 9 million on. Well,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: guess what? If you put $ 7 million and do the
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: maintenance on this building, you're not going to have to
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: worry about much there either. I mean, based on their attitude,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: my house, which was built in 1996, instead of me
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: replacing the furnace or doing routine maintenance on it, I
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: should just rip it down and build a new one.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: That's their thinking. Now, how does that make a lick
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: of sense anywhere? Because that's basically what they're saying. Oh,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: it's just much more— it' s better and economically better to go
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: build a new building than put any money into the
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: existing one.
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: Really?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, it makes absolutely no sense at all.
• 36:41
  Speaker 14: Ron, you're preaching to the choir here, buddy. It's like this. Okay,
• 36:46
  Speaker 14: I live here. Okay, you're a radio station. You're only— Heck,
• 36:49
  Speaker 14: you could drive there in five minutes. You know that.
• 36:51
  Speaker 14: So anyhow, I live here. But here's the thing. You
• 36:53
  Speaker 14: go through the neighborhoods around here, and I'm in the
• 36:56
  Speaker 14: township right outside of the village. And you go around here.
• 37:00
  Speaker 14: There's signs. There was signs. Save a debt. Donate to
• 37:03
  Speaker 14: the library. So why are you sitting on $ 40 or
• 37:05
  Speaker 14: $ 50 million coming after for donations to pay for something
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: that's your fault?
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know enough about that to even speak about it.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: But the reality is any building needs maintenance on the outside,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and it should be done on a regular basis. Instead
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: of hiring so many people that push paper and really
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: don't do anything, maybe you need to hire more craftsmen
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: to do the maintenance on these facilities as opposed to
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: all these people that are trying to insulate the head
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: honcho of the library from the public.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 14: Well, my question to the art detective, if you get along,
• 37:43
  Speaker 14: even if you remember, I'm an old retired pipe fitter,
• 37:46
  Speaker 14: and I'm going to tell you right now, I know
• 37:48
  Speaker 14: before that building was done, and I've been on a
• 37:50
  Speaker 14: lot of big, huge construction sites, that professional engineers have
• 37:54
  Speaker 14: to stamp that.
• 37:55
  Speaker 12: And approve that stuff.
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: Well, he talked.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Yesterday about that. I would like to know.
• 38:00
  Speaker 14: If they got a hydrologist and a professional engineer to
• 38:03
  Speaker 14: do what they did to cause that. The last time
• 38:05
  Speaker 14: I was in that building was this past winter. And
• 38:08
  Speaker 14: they had parts of it blocked off saying it was dangerous.
• 38:11
  Speaker 14: And I'm going, I'm trying to look for it. I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 14: looking at the ground. I'm looking for crap.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
• 38:16
  Speaker 14: I'm looking for all kinds of stuff.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Right. It's ridiculous. As he said, it's in the far
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: back in a storage room where he says it looks
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: like it's about a moved about an inch to maybe
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: two inches from a hydraulic pressure from the water underneath. Easy, easy,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: easy problem to fix.
• 38:36
  Speaker 14: And the problem lies on Yellow Creek itself because they
• 38:39
  Speaker 14: don't do the maintenance, the dredging, or clear all the
• 38:41
  Speaker 14: trees and snags out of it. And the erosion back
• 38:44
  Speaker 14: in the park is even worse. And the Donfeld trees
• 38:47
  Speaker 14: that clog the creek, and it gets backwater buildup and
• 38:50
  Speaker 14: everything else like that because I see it.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: I live there. But living there then, you know what
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: a jewel this facility is. He built a beautiful thing.
• 38:59
  Speaker 14: It's absolutely a jewel. But you know what? They want
• 39:03
  Speaker 14: to sit on their money and not give it and
• 39:05
  Speaker 14: have somebody else pay for it.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about that. I appreciate it. Thank you.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: News Radio 570, Dodie Kimmy, and you're on the air.
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Burb, how are you, sir? Long time, no talk.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Well, it's good to hear your voice. I thought you
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: were dead. I hadn't heard from you for so long.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Well, that rumor's been flying around. I took the 85 mark,
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: but I'm still kicking and still doing exactly what I
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: did 20 years ago. So the good Lord has blessed
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: me in that regard. I'd like to ask the people
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: in Poland... who seemed to have a problem with fixing
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: that library. The last time they were in.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Europe, went to the... Stand by, stand by. Stand by, Bob,
• 39:48
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• 39:50
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• 39:56
  Speaker 1: News, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN. All right, Bob,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I thought you were making a great point. You were
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: talking about some historic buildings.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Well, right. I mean, these very people that are trying
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: to protect their checkbooks to save their money so that
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: they can go to Rome or Paris or Berlin or
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: you name any capital in Europe and they'll be there
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: and you'd ask them, oh, were you at Matt Ludwig's
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: castle down in Bavaria? Oh, yes, we were at his
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: castle and his father's castle. And oh, yes, but they
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: won't spend a few bucks to keep probably... one of
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: the most beautiful buildings we have in this area in
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: a small community. That library is absolutely gorgeous. And if
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: they don't like it, move it to Hubbard. We'll take it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: The bottom line is that communities, those edifices that they
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: build in those communities reflect the community's education, Their.
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: Their their background, their.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Love of history. That's what they do.
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: Maybe we ought to.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Go to Washington or Virginia, I should say, and tear
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: down Washington's house.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: And what the hell?
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: It's a lot older than that library. And if you're
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: how much money do they have in the bank? Give
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: me that number again, please.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Zamory and Bob were saying they thought it's around 40
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: something million, close to 50 million.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Well, hell, they could write a check on the interest
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: and they wouldn't notice it. I mean, there's something else
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: going on here. And every time I hear this, the
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: policeman in me says, yeah, somebody's got something going here
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: where somebody else is going to be making a fast buck.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: And because when you have that kind of money and
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: you have a building as beautiful as that library is
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: in Poland, shame on those people for even considering tearing
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: it down. Okay, the building has a small problem. Fix it.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: Fix it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: You want to tear down.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: The Sistine Chapel because a brick fell off the wall?
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: What kind of logic are these people displaying to the
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: average person in their community? If I lived in Poland,
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: I'd be screaming at every meeting. I don't understand the
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: logic of these people. And again, I would like to
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: be at a meeting where somebody stands up and starts
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: screaming and yelling and carrying on about this. And I'd
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: raise my hand and say, I'd like to ask you
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: a question. When was the last time you were in Europe?
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: And they'd probably look at me like a chicken watching
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: a card trick. The bottom line is that we are
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: dealing with people that have some other interests. You understand
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying?
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: Yes, I do.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: There's something else going on here, Ron.
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: Besides this few dollars they have to spend to.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Fix this building. Thank you, Bob. Thank you.
• 42:55
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• 42:58
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• 43:06
  Speaker 4: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. On Capitol Hill, the
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: top Pentagon officials are testifying, asking lawmakers for an additional
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: nearly $ 70 billion in supplemental funding for the war in Iran.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: along with $ 10 million more for U.S.
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• 43:21
  Speaker 4: ABC's Jay O'Brien has details.
• 43:23
  Speaker 24: What they're essentially saying is that the war in Iran
• 43:26
  Speaker 24: has cost a certain figure of taxpayer dollars, and so
• 43:30
  Speaker 24: they need a chunk of this $ 87- plus billion package, it's
• 43:34
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• 43:39
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• 43:43
  Speaker 24: in Iran.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: General Dan Cain, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: testifying and offered condolences for four American service members who
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: have died in recent days from Iranian strikes in the
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Middle East, confirming a fourth fatality and says the Pentagon
• 43:58
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• 44:02
  Speaker 4: following the death of Senator Lindsey Graham. His funeral plans
• 44:06
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• 44:06
  Speaker 25: Lindsey Graham's remains will be brought to the Capitol building
• 44:09
  Speaker 25: on Tuesday for a ceremony under the Capitol Rotunda, followed
• 44:12
  Speaker 25: by a funeral at the National Cathedral. where President Trump
• 44:15
  Speaker 25: is expected to pay tribute to the longtime South Carolina senator.
• 44:18
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• 44:21
  Speaker 25: on Wednesday for a funeral service and private burial. Peter Haralambous,
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• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Trump administration announcing another round of tariffs for 60 countries.
• 44:29
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• 44:33
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• 44:37
  Speaker 8: In all fairness to them, they need us to survive.
• 44:40
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• 44:45
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• 44:50
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• 44:52
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  Speaker 4: France announcing it's moving to limit how young people use
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• 46:12
  Speaker 4: Union to pass a bill like this, though Australia adopted
• 46:15
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• 46:18
  Speaker 27: French Parliament has adopted a measure that would ban children
• 46:21
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• 46:25
  Speaker 27: Macron says he wants the new law to take effect
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• 46:33
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• 46:36
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• 46:40
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• 46:43
  Speaker 27: Mike Dabosky, ABC News.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: A battle pitting homeland security against the Catholic Church is
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: brewing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's ABC's Jim Ryan.
• 46:52
  Speaker 28: In an attempt to extend the existing border wall, the
• 46:54
  Speaker 28: Trump administration plans to use eminent domain to seize about
• 46:58
  Speaker 28: 14 acres around Mount Cristo Rey, a religious site that
• 47:01
  Speaker 28: draws about 40,000 pilgrims a year.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: My team and I are looking at every way possible
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: to stop it.
• 47:07
  Speaker 28: El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar has filed legislation to stop
• 47:11
  Speaker 28: the seizure of the property.
• 47:12
  Speaker 24: That doesn't mean that we don't believe there should be
• 47:15
  Speaker 24: border security.
• 47:16
  Speaker 28: DHS says it has no plans to restrict access to
• 47:19
  Speaker 28: Mount Cristo Rey from the U.S.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Side of the border.
• 47:22
  Speaker 28: Jim Ryan, ABC News.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: No one drew the winning numbers in last night's Powerball drawing.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Tomorrow's jackpot now worth an estimated $ 567 million, but tonight's
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• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: All righty, 406 here on a Tuesday afternoon, 77 degrees.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: It's comfortable out there. July 21st already, gang. Ron Verb
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: from the Kingdom of Mahoning, and you're on the air.
• 47:52
  Speaker 10: Ron, I like your library guy yesterday.
• 47:55
  Speaker 14: I've been going there for, you know, taking school classes
• 47:59
  Speaker 14: and stuff, but it was very, very good, Ron.
• 48:02
  Speaker 12: Great show.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Thank you, Dick, from Dayton, checking in. Appreciate it.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: All right, buddy. You're on the air.
• 48:10
  Speaker 29: Hey, Ron, if I owned a big, beautiful building, would
• 48:15
  Speaker 29: I have the right to tear it down?
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: If you owned a big– well, it depends. You know,
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: you go in some of these communities, and if you
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: buy some of the historic houses that are there, there's
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: all kinds of regulations on what you can and can't do.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's really something like– there's these historic sections
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: that you can go through. There's a historic section I
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: went through in Salem. It's just spectacular, these old houses. And,
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: of course, you've got a lot of that in the
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: city of Canfield, too. that's spectacular. It is a lot
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: of our history. What's on your mind, old-timer?
• 48:55
  Speaker 29: Well, I also wanted to mention your news just said
• 49:01
  Speaker 29: that Trump administration is planning on tearing down a pilgrimage
• 49:08
  Speaker 29: site to build a border wall. I would think that
• 49:11
  Speaker 29: government is more likely to tear down the Sistine Chapel
• 49:17
  Speaker 29: than a private organization like the Vatican, wouldn't you?
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Well, my problem with the Trump administration right now isn't
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: any of this other nonsense. My problem is what you're
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: seeing take place in Iran right now, which I think
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: is just, it's been a nightmare. I think you and
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: I are in agreement. It's been a nightmare since day one.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: It's been a mistake since day one. And it's not
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: getting better. It's getting worse. And I'm deeply concerned again,
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: as I would say to you, about what is going
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: to happen here to energy prices.
• 49:50
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: The price of a barrel of oil, gasoline prices, a
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: lot of what you've been saying, a lot of people
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: were boo-hooing you, but the strategic oil reserve is getting depleted.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Our strategic oil reserve is being tapped into, and it
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: is down to levels not seen, I think, since 85,
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. They've done the same thing in China. Well,
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: we're running out of all of this spare oil, if
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: you will. Now, what do you do when you can't
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: tap into that anymore? And you have this situation that
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: isn't any closer to being settled than it was months
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: ago in Iran. And I'm sincere to say I'm concerned
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: about the price of a barrel of oil, gasoline cost,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: and quite frankly, a recession or worse.
• 50:43
  Speaker 29: Well, you guys are lucky. You're only paying $ 4 a
• 50:47
  Speaker 29: gallon for gas.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 50:50
  Speaker 29: I filled up yesterday. I paid $ 4. 99 for gas.
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: For 87?
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: $ 4.
• 50:53
  Speaker 29: 99 for gas. It's costing us.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Almost $ 100 to fill up.
• 50:57
  Speaker 29: Our gas tank down here. Yeah, but are you putting
• 51:01
  Speaker 29: in premium or are you putting in the low 87?
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: 87.
• 51:02
  Speaker 12: 87.
• 51:03
  Speaker 29: You're able to put 87 in that Ferrari you're driving? Yeah,
• 51:18
  Speaker 29: that eight-cylinder Ferrari. Oh, by the way, I've got bad
• 51:26
  Speaker 29: news and good news for the options guy. He told
• 51:31
  Speaker 29: me to buy SpaceX calls, remember?
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: I don't want to get into all that. That's over
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: most people's heads.
• 51:38
  Speaker 29: I just wanted to say that he changed his story.
• 51:41
  Speaker 29: He said he didn't buy the options. He bought SpaceX stock.
• 51:49
  Speaker 29: What did he say he was doing? Oh, he's hedging
• 51:52
  Speaker 29: his bets. Now, I don't know whether to believe him.
• 51:55
  Speaker 29: I think he's so embarrassed that SpaceX is down so
• 51:59
  Speaker 29: low that he changed his story to make it look
• 52:02
  Speaker 29: like he's not losing as much money.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: You're talking over people's heads with this. I'd like to
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: get into that stuff because the vast majority of our
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: listeners don't do that sophisticated stuff. By the way, Dow
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: gains nearly 400 points. S & P 500 snaps three-day
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: losing run as chip stocks rise.
• 52:22
  Speaker 15: Well, now..
• 52:24
  Speaker 29: Now here's the good news for options guy. Elon Musk
• 52:28
  Speaker 29: just donated $ 5 million to Vivek Ramaswamy's Super PAC to
• 52:34
  Speaker 29: make sure data centers in Ohio continue to be built
• 52:38
  Speaker 29: and to make sure the spy cameras keep going up
• 52:41
  Speaker 29: to spy on you guys. And Ramaswamy is supporting high
• 52:46
  Speaker 29: school kids in Chillicothe building war drones to kill more people.
• 52:52
  Speaker 29: And Ramaswami just reported that his PAC raised $ 12. 24 million
• 52:57
  Speaker 29: for the second quarter of the year, with virtually all
• 53:01
  Speaker 29: of it from multi-billionaires Elon Musk and Ratmir Dimeshev and
• 53:07
  Speaker 29: Bill Ackman and Ross Stevens. They each contributed $ 1 million each.
• 53:13
  Speaker 29: And Stevens also gave $ 5 million to Ramaswami's PAC when
• 53:17
  Speaker 29: it was founded last year.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: Did you give a million? I mean, you're talking about
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: all these rich guys. Did you throw in any?
• 53:25
  Speaker 29: No, I don't own a house in Ohio. But if
• 53:28
  Speaker 29: I did, yeah, if I wanted a data center not
• 53:32
  Speaker 29: to be built next to my house, I probably would
• 53:35
  Speaker 29: have gave a million to move it someplace else. Well,
• 53:40
  Speaker 29: you know, Swami will face Dr. Amy Acton, former head
• 53:44
  Speaker 29: of the Ohio Department of Health, who shut down Ohio
• 53:48
  Speaker 29: during COVID. Now, where's all the political ads for Amy Acton?
• 53:53
  Speaker 29: Looks like the fix is in. Looks like Ramaswamy is
• 53:57
  Speaker 29: going to be your next governor.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I can tell you don't live here because there's ads
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: that are out there. There's not a bunch of them
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: just yet for both of these candidates. So there's ads
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: that are running.
• 54:10
  Speaker 29: Not like Ramaswamy's ads.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's way too soon.
• 54:16
  Speaker 29: He's got 12.4%. million this quarter alone to run ads.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I certainly hope he spends some here.
• 54:24
  Speaker 29: Now, did you talk about on July 18th that humans
• 54:31
  Speaker 29: first organized a nationwide protest against status centers? And Ron,
• 54:38
  Speaker 29: the resistance crosses all political boundaries. And a major reason
• 54:42
  Speaker 29: is because it raises the cost of living.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: I got to tell you something, Frank. I think some
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: of these people are making some really good points about
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: these data centers. Because if you take a look, all
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: I can tell you is what's happening up here. I
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: don't know about where you are. But they say we're
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: the sweet spot because we have the right weather. Even
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: though I'm told you have some in Florida, but Florida's
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: not a good spot for them because the weather's too
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: hot and the cooling's a big problem and the aquifer,
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: the water isn't. It is an issue. So you got
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: water issues there. You got cooling issues there. But Ohio
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: is a sweet spot because we got the better weather
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: for these data centers. But people are raising legitimate concerns
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: over the water usage, even if it's a closed system,
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: because even in a closed system, you have to maintain
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: the system or wash the system out and what chemicals
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: are used. being used in that water. And, and, and
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: we don't know enough about that, but the demand that
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: they're putting on the, as far as electricity and increasing
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: what it costs for you to power your house is ridiculous.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: So maybe some of these people are right to say,
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: we need to put a moratorium on this till we
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: know more about the water usage, what chemicals are used
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: and what state the water will be in. In addition to,
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: the power consumption. Maybe that's not a bad idea.
• 56:09
  Speaker 29: We're lucky because the main issue with us and data
• 56:13
  Speaker 29: centers is not enough water. But right now, data centers
• 56:19
  Speaker 29: are not using up a tremendous amount of water compared to, say,
• 56:24
  Speaker 29: like utility companies. But as soon as they spread all
• 56:28
  Speaker 29: over the country, they'll start competing with, you know, and
• 56:33
  Speaker 29: just like you said, Your electric bills are going up.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: They've already doubled.
• 56:40
  Speaker 29: They've already doubled. And the data centers, they're not just
• 56:45
  Speaker 29: causing large increases in utility bills and draining communities of
• 56:50
  Speaker 29: precious water resources. Studies are showing that they're draining communities
• 56:55
  Speaker 29: or they're causing mental distress from the constant noise they emit.
• 57:02
  Speaker 29: For now, they bring in tax revenue. and also create
• 57:05
  Speaker 29: a small number of jobs. But the government ignores the
• 57:09
  Speaker 29: will of the people because, Ron, data centers are expected
• 57:14
  Speaker 29: to give our military bosses in Israel a competitive edge
• 57:18
  Speaker 29: in the arms race against the rest of the world,
• 57:22
  Speaker 29: and because it increases the power of the surveillance state
• 57:25
  Speaker 29: to spy on patriotic Americans. Ron, I've read a report
• 57:31
  Speaker 29: that says The U.S. government is encouraging the expansion of
• 57:37
  Speaker 29: AI data centers more than any other country by far.
• 57:42
  Speaker 29: We currently have 4,000 of them. Now, you know, you
• 57:48
  Speaker 29: were also saying about the stock market. Well, yesterday, the
• 57:53
  Speaker 29: market was relatively unchanged because, as you say, Wall Street
• 57:59
  Speaker 29: dislikes uncertainty. Well, Wall Street is slightly optimistic that Trump
• 58:05
  Speaker 29: is going to sign another memorandum of understanding with Iran.
• 58:10
  Speaker 29: But at the same time, interest rate analysts believe that
• 58:13
  Speaker 29: Kevin Warsh, the Fed chairman, may raise interest rates again
• 58:18
  Speaker 29: as early as next month. So one positive piece of
• 58:23
  Speaker 29: news offsets the negative, and the market was relatively unchanged
• 58:30
  Speaker 29: very little trading, because they're adopting a wait-and-see attitude.
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: Well, they should. Listen, I go back to what I said.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to get trapped into any of this stuff.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: This has been a disaster since the very beginning, and
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: Trump owns this. He made the decision, whether he was
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: convinced by Netanyahu or whatever the case might be, he
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: made the decision for whatever reason, and it's created a mess,
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: and it's gone on longer than I thought he ever
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: dreamed it would go on, and it's Right at this
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: point in time, there's no end in sight. And what
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: I'm reading is there's genuine concerns, once again, as our
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: reserves of oil are being depleted. and where we're heading
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: here if this continues to go on as far as
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: a price of oil and gasoline and the inflation that
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: could come from that and the effects that could come
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: from that, from fertilizer to all the other chemicals that
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: are affected by it.
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: I mean..
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: It could lead to serious economic downturn in this country.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Serious one.
• 59:33
  Speaker 29: Well, that's a good point. And last week, did you know, Ron,
• 59:37
  Speaker 29: that oil prices, I think it was West Texas Intermediate,
• 59:44
  Speaker 29: was down to $ 71 a barrel. And the price of
• 59:46
  Speaker 29: oil before the Iran war was $ 67 a barrel. So
• 59:49
  Speaker 29: Wall Street was betting... that this war was going to
• 59:58
  Speaker 29: end soon. But guess what? Today, oil and natural gas
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 29: prices are way up again. And I mean, the volatility
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 29: in the stock market since this war began is nothing
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 29: like I've seen in a long time. That shows, you know,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 29: I want to tell your audience that when you tell
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 29: them that the stock market doesn't like uncertainty, that's a
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 29: great example. of all this volatility that we're seeing in
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 29: the stock market. You know, people are withdrawing 401ks in
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 29: record numbers to make ends meet. Now, what's going to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 29: happen when they retire? Social Security will be bankrupt, or
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 29: you'll just get like two-thirds of the Social Security check
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 29: that they promised you. Your 401k will be depleted. People
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 29: are even withdrawing money from their Roth IRAs, their traditional,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 29: their rollovers, to make ends meet as well. They've got
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 29: to put a stop. to this on ending money printing.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 29: They've got to end this war, and they've got to
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 29: go back to financial responsibility. But, Ron, I don't care
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 29: who wins the midterms, November 3rd. I just don't see
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 29: the Republican Congress doing it. I don't see the Democrat.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 29: You know, Mike Johnson wants $ 360 billion more to fight communism.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 7: He said.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 29: Now, Ron, I don't know about you, but I don't
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 29: think anybody in South Florida is worried about the Cuban
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 29: government landing in Fort Lauderdale and invading the United States.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 14: Do you?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: All right, buddy. Thank you. Appreciate it. You're on the air.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 12: That was painful, Ron. You should have saved us sooner. Hey,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 12: I just drove by the library, and one of your
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 12: previous callers hit the nail on the head. when he
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 12: said what I told you a week ago, something smells.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 12: There's not a structural issue with that building. It was
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 12: fine for decades until some genius decided to put a
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 12: wall because there was a water issue, which created the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 12: problem they have. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 12: look at the pictures and realize that there's been purposeful
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 12: neglect done to that building. It's not falling down. It's
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 12: not falling apart. I just drove by it, Ron, and
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 12: even looked at it closer, and the entire building has
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 12: not been maintained. I'm not sure how you describe some
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 12: of the architectural designs on that building, but you should
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 12: ride by it one day before you go in the office.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 12: It's been neglected.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 10: You buy a.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 12: House and do nothing for 30 years, you know what
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 12: you're going to have. I know what you're going to have.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 12: This is a common-sense issue. And these people, they had
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 12: a money problem. See, when you have so much public money..
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: Stand by, Ted. Stand by, Ted.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 12: Hang on.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Back with Ted the Conservative. And more Good Afternoon 422
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: on a Tuesday in Ron Verb. Well, listen to this.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Back with Ted the Conservative.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: So, basically, from your observations, routine maintenance was ignored at Poland.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 12: You know, and I could say in the 22 years
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 12: I lived there, I can honestly say I've never seen
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 12: anyone paint in that building. But let me get to this, too,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 12: because I think what you have is twofold. You've got
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 12: a woman that came here from Arizona who just does
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 12: not like the architectural design in here. She'd rather things
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 12: look like they do in Arizona, I guess, more contemporary.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 12: This is a choice that's being made for personal preference,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 12: number one. Number two, they have an unlimited source of
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 12: of revenue that they apparently can't spend. I listened this
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 12: morning to a program, and you had this arrogant SOB
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 12: on who was connected to Sherrod Brown. It sounded like
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 12: he was running a political campaign, not representing the library.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 12: We have more people employed there than are needed. What's
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 12: the purpose of the library, number one? They're beyond the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 12: purpose of the library from charging stations to they've got
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 12: these programs where you could, if you need a tool,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 12: you can rent a tool for a day. You could
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 12: take out a tool for a day. You could take
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 12: a laptop out for a day. You can use a
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 12: Wi-Fi hotspot.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 7: For a day.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 12: That's not the job of the library. I'm telling you, Ron,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 12: there's something going on. And if those Save Our Library
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 12: people were smart, and I think they are, they need
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 12: to look past the emotion side of it. Because too
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 12: often when you have situations like this, everybody reacts with emotion.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: I don't think any of these people are reacting with emotion.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 12: I do think there's a lot of emotion involved.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: I totally disagree with that.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 12: You've got to get to, okay, what do we need
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 12: to do to stop things in its tracks? They've got
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 12: to have an attorney that's involved with them. They need
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 12: someone to work for them pro bono, file an injunction
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 12: to put a stop immediately to any library actions. until
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 12: there's complete public disclosure from maintenance records to finance records. Heck,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 12: go into employee records. The guy says one of the
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 12: reasons he claims they're spending so much on wages today
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 12: is because the price of insurance went up. Are you
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 12: kidding me? Does this guy think people are dumb? He
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 12: sounds like he works for Sherrod Brown. That's the ignorance
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 12: I heard this morning. And people should be pissed off.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 12: to be honest with you. It's not as simple as
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 12: your previous caller said. He called and said, don't they
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 12: own the building? You can do whatever you want when
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 12: you own the building. It's not their building.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 18: It's the library.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 12: It's the Mahoney County Library. And everyone that's on that
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 12: board that voted against moving this library, I want to
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: commend them. I don't know names of any of the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 12: board members. But at least you have some people that
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 12: listen to the constituents. But you have a majority who apparently...
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 12: have become good soldiers for that director and won't stand
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 12: up to her on anything, it sounds like. It almost
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 12: sounds like she's sitting on her throne dictating orders and
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 12: all the little soldiers are doing what she wants. The
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 12: library does not need to be moved. They need to
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 12: fix what they screwed up, that wall, in regards to water,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 12: address the water situation, because as we all learned from
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 12: the calls you've had, the water to that area has
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 12: increased two-fold, if not three-fold. So fix the water issue.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 12: They created that wall. They probably paid the same person
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 12: to fix that wall that's designing their current library.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 12: Why would you go to Cleveland to get services and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 12: not seek the professional local people that we have.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 14: In the area?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 12: There's a lot that smells, Ron. And I'm telling you,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 12: I've been around long enough to know that usually if
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 12: there's smoke, there's fire. And there's smoke coming out of
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 12: those libraries. What I just saw is sad. And it
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 12: pissed me off to see the neglect under that building.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 12: Because I've been riding by it for almost 25 years.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 12: You never really pay attention. You notice it's beautiful. As
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 12: you're driving through the community, whether you start at the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 12: Walgreens and you end up at the high school, there's
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 12: an architectural design in that community and that township that...
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 12: Every building must meet some of the historical standards. She
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 12: doesn't like that. So what is she going to do?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: She's going to go build a.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 12: Contemporary building in the woods somewhere that no one's going
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 12: to see, no one's going to go to. Children aren't
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 12: going to go to it. Middle school kids, elementary school
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 12: kids aren't going to walk to the high school.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Listen, let me address some of what
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: you had to say after my break. Just stand by,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: all right? Sit tight. I'll get back to you. And
• 1:08:06
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• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: Tuesday afternoon. It's a nice-looking day. Had some heavy rain
• 1:08:19
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• 1:08:21
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• 1:08:22
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• 1:08:25
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  Speaker 13: Let's start here.
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  Speaker 8: So good morning and welcome.
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  Speaker 16: We are now underway.
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  Speaker 6: We're following the events of the day. What we're just
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 6: now hearing about.
• 1:08:37
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  Speaker 10: Good day.
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  Speaker 16: This is where it stands now.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Pick up the conversation.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 13: We'll talk about what's happening.
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  Speaker 8: Anytime.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 15: The deal we reached with Iran. Devils in the details.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 17: Bringing the price of gasoline down.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 9: Maintain the Fed funds rate.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 13: Tying Pfizer to the Save Act. NATO has been.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: A paper tiger. For the very latest.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 8: We'll see how that all plays out.
• 1:08:58
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  Speaker 30: Severe weather impacting parts of Ohio this afternoon with tornado
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 30: warnings seen in the southwest and eastern parts of the state.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 19: But they confirm tornado touching down in Claremont County just
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 19: east of Cincinnati. Storms also bringing heavy rain triggering flash
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 19: flood warnings in parts of the Cincinnati area that are
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 19: still cleaning up. from flash flooding this past Friday, when
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  Speaker 19: anywhere from four to six inches of rain fell within
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 19: two hours, flooding stretches of interstate roads requiring water rescues
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 19: while causing flood damage to homes and businesses. A man's
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 19: death Friday just east of Cincinnati blamed on the floodwaters.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 19: Ohio State University assistant professor Luke Perez avoiding jail time
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 19: as court documents show that he pleaded no contest to
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 19: a lesser charge of disorderly conduct Monday and was found guilty.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 19: Perez sentenced to two years of probation in order to
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 19: pay a $ 100 fine with a 30-day jail sentence suspended.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 19: Perez had knocked the victim to the ground inside OSU's
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  Speaker 19: Smith Lab building back in February. I'm Sean Gallagher.
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. Let me just give you some just general
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: reaction to some of the stuff you had to say, Theodore.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 12: I got a couple more thoughts if you want to
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 12: hear those before you react.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 12: Then I'll shut up.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 12: How many school districts do we have facing financial deficits?
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 12: How many teachers unions are struggling to get raises to
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 12: keep up with inflation? Look at our district struggling. Billion
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 12: dollar deficit in Canfield, a couple million bucks. Irregardless of
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 12: your thoughts on the levies in that, building levies, capital buildings,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 12: just look at the levies to educate students and pay
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 12: teachers struggling. They're at deficits everywhere, and they're sitting on
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 12: $ 50 million. Number one. Number two, has anyone looked at
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 12: the employment numbers, the staff numbers of the library before
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 12: this woman came here, and how many positions she's added
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 12: since she got here? Because the amount of money they're
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 12: spending is incomprehensible, and there's no accountability. So you know
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 12: how you get accountability? You hold their feet to the fire.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 12: I would get an injunction to stop them from doing
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 12: anything and get full disclosure. Let's see how many people
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 12: they've added. Let's see how they're spending their money. Let's
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 12: see maintenance records. Let's see all that stuff. I mean,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 12: if you're not upset about this, and like I said,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 12: it doesn't affect me one way or the other. I'm
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 12: not going to that library. But I'll tell you what,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 12: the average guy should be upset, and this should raise
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 12: a flag. I'll shut up and listen now because I
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 12: can keep going.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm sitting here taking it all in. Listen,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: it comes down to here's the bottom line for me.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: First of all, as I said, Bob Mastriana was here
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: yesterday and he was here last week. He is an architect.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: He's certainly a very qualified man. But let me just
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: give you just some things in general, my impressions. I
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: think he's a terrific human being. I think he's a good,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: decent man. Okay, Ted? I think he's a good, decent man.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: I think he loves that community. And I think he's
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: done a lot for that community. He knows his stuff.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: That's my impression. And anybody that tries to muddy up
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: a guy like that, I lose... all respect for immediately.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: Anybody that wants to say negative things or thinks the
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: answer is to muddy up him or his reputation is
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: a despicable human being to me because he is a good,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: decent man and he deserves the respect that he has
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: earned over these years.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 12: That's usually what cowards do.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: When cowards can't win an issue.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 12: Then they resort to that kind of behavior.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm just giving you my impressions of him, okay?
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, and that's my impression of him. I think
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: he genuinely cares about that facility, and he cares about
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: his community.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: And..
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: He was the architect of a beautiful facility, but there
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: was so much more to just the architectural aspect of
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: that building. It's the location as well. I mean, as
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: I talked to him yesterday, location can be important. I mean,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: the thing that makes Canfield a special place, the city
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: of Canfield, is location. The green on the square. You
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: follow me? It's a gathering point. As a matter of fact,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: bear with me for a minute here. I'm going to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: kind of stray off course. But here's what makes these
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: community drawing places. As I was talking to Bob, in
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: the city of Medina, they have the Medina Square, which
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: with the historic buildings all around the square. You follow me?
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: which are maintained with that historic look. They have to
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: stay that way. There's a large hotel chain that's building
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: a hotel up by the historic square in Medina, and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: it has to be built to match the architecture of
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: the square. You follow me? It just can't be built.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: It has to match the architecture of it all because
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: it is something that makes the city of Medina very
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: special in growing up there. It makes it extremely special,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: that square and the park and the gazebo. And it's
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: a gathering spot. It's just like in Canfield with the green.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: It's a gathering spot. Austintown and Boardman don't have that.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, we have parks, but we don't have that.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: It's missing in a community. I think Boardman ultimately has
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: the chance to get that. If the mall does fail,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: if the mall fails, I really believe that the property
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: that the mall's sitting on, a portion of that property
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: should become the Boardman Square area. If the mall fails,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: that should be the central gathering point for Boardman and
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: it should be like a, like, um, the Green and
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: Canfield or the Square and Medina, it can be that
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: for Boardman. Boardman has an opportunity, if that mall fails,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: and I prefer not to see it fail, to turn
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: that into something spectacular for their community long-term, to add
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: something that is needed that isn't there. And I think
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: that that would be a step in the right direction
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: to enhance the community. But he wanted that library there
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: because of the walking distance from the elementary school and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: to create a central focal point for the community because
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: it didn't have a square like that, like Medina, or
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: the green like in Canfield. That's why that location was important,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: or the original location of the library. And I think
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: he accomplished that by putting that facility right where it's located.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: So there's more to it than just a library. It
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: has to do with the location and the history of
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: the location and bringing a community together. I think he
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: achieved that by doing that. Then, of course, he built
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: something truly spectacular to be proud of in that town,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: just like the Walgreens that he was the architect of,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: which is like no other Walgreens to fit the, what
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: do you want to say, the town, if you will.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 12: The aesthetics of the community.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: Exactly. And he did that. This is what makes communities
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: special and different from other communities. So there's more to
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: it than just this building in the library. It should
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: be a community building. It should be a place where
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: people can go like it is with the library. So
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: there's much more to this that I don't believe. that
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: the people that are on this board fully understand. I mean,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: I think that, forget this time limit, I think that
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: if you sit down and have a discussion, these people
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: that are making the decisions and i and i'm deeply
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: disappointed obviously i had bob on now two times and
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: and so as i said during the program any of
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: these people with the library feel free to call the
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: lady that's the head of the library or any of
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: these henchmen that she's hired call they.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 12: They feel you're beneath them wrong people.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: Have been well whatever So, you know, their opinion, I'm
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: telling you, OK, but they can feel free to call
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: and they can actually speak, make their case and listen
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: to what Bob has to say and carry on a conversation.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: Because if you think you're right, then make your case,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: show Bob where he's wrong or listen to what Bob
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: has to say. And maybe you'll find out that you
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: might be wrong. But we know this much. Bob was
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: there when this building was built, when it was designed.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: And he knows more about it than a woman that
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: they brought here from Arizona. He knows more about it
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: than any of these people that have been hired in
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: these positions to work. what insulate her or whatever their criteria.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: I don't even know why you have a problem with
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: the library and you're getting top heavy with all of
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: these people, with all these people in their salaries, you're
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: becoming too administrative heavy. And you, You become more and
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: more out of touch when you have that kind of stuff.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: As I said, instead of the people, why don't you
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: hire people that actually have abilities in maintenance to maintain
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: these buildings and get them on the payroll? Some craftsmen
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: instead of a bunch of people that push paper and
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: really don't have much talent at all. other than trying
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: to push paper and tell the community that they're wrong.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: So I would like to see a discussion between Bob
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: and the woman that runs the library. I'll have it
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: right on the program. We've got hours to do it,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: where they can make the case to each other. And
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: will she do it? Will the people that say the
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: negative things about Bob, will they do it? Because, you know, that's...
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: You want to have a discussion?
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  Speaker 2: You know why, Ron?
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: I don't want to speculate on any of it. No,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not speculating. I don't speculate. I'm just saying, here's
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: my invitation to these people that you really need to
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: sit down and have a discussion with each other because
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: the reality is... You could be right. You could be wrong.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: But you've got to listen to the guy why it's there,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: who built it and how we can fix this problem
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: and keep this great facility, a public library in this
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: in this community, as opposed to saying a bunch of
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: people who are on a board who have no background
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: in this at all. Need to hear the case. They
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: are not contractors. They are not architects. They are not engineers.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: They're not builders. And actually hear from the guy that
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: orchestrated all of this and the associates that he brought
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: in with their specialties on how this was built, how
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: this can be fixed, why this isn't a flaw in construction,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: and then talk about the maintenance that hasn't been done.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: All of these, you know, pencil pushers and paper pushers
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: are insignificant. What you need is craftsmen who can go
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: down and maintain these buildings. That's where your money should
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: be spent on behalf of the taxpayer. I take it
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: one step further. I say to you, I will not
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: vote for a library levy. I don't support the fact
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: that you're overtaxed on it now. I don't support the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: fact that the arrogance that's coming. I think it's very
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: arrogant on how these people are being treated as a taxpayer.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: This matters to me as a taxpayer in my own county.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: I pay these taxes. I pay them from a state level.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: How this man is being treated, how these people are
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: being treated. is the most arrogance, is just such arrogance.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: I cannot and will not support it. I will not
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: vote for a library levy. I will not support it.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: I believe that you need a new administration that is
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: certainly more... Someone who serves the people, not themselves. Exactly.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: This is not a dictatorship. And quite frankly, therein lies
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: the problem. This is not how government is supposed to work.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: You have arrogance coming from all these people. This isn't
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: a game. And I think too many of these people
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: think this is a game. We're going to get our way.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: We're going to show them. We're going to muddy this
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: architect up. This isn't a game. This isn't about that,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: and that's the wrong attitude. I have zero respect for it.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: In my humble opinion, it's only my opinion, I believe
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: I would get rid of all of these people. I
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: believe if it was up to me, I'd get rid
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: of her. I'd send her back in, and I would
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: get rid of all the cronies that were the people
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: that she hired. I would hire people that are more
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: responsive to the public. I would hire people that would
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: maintain these buildings.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 9: And..
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: I would go so.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 12: Far as to looking at the people who appointed some
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 12: of these members on this board also. But I'll end
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 12: with this, Ron. I don't want to take up all
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 12: your time. When public officials have the truth on their side,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 12: they will stand on the highest hill in the town.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 7: And repeat those truths.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 12: When a public official doesn't have the truth on his side,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 12: they stay silent.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 31: Right.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, how taxpayers are being treated. I sit here
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: and I often talk about this, how taxpayers are being treated.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: And I would say this. Do you think George McKelvey
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: would run it this way? I mean, as I say
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: a million times on this program, George McKelvey was the
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: mayor of Youngstown. He sat in his studio. He took
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: calls from the people of the community when they had
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: a complaint or something. He didn't tell them they were
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: dumb or stupid or what. He wrote it down on
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: a legal pad. He came over on his phone. He
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: called whatever department it was and told them to take
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: care of it because he said, these are my customers.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: They weren't voters to him. He wasn't an arrogant guy
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: to say, I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: He referred to all of those people as customers. He
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: had a customer mentality. Hey, go fix this pothole. Hey,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: go take care of this. And that type of mentality
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: is needed when it comes time to run the library,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: as opposed to hiring a bunch of people to insulate
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: you from the criticism or to cover your ass. I
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 3: haven't heard from this woman. I make a public invite
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: for her to come on the program. I'll bring Bob
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: back on the program. And make your case to the public.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: It is our money. It is our community. You're new
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: to this community. You're blessed to be here and be
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: getting the paycheck you're getting.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 12: Again, her silence speaks volumes.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: Well, we shall see.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 12: You mentioned the mayor. Sadly, Ron, and I don't know,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 12: you might agree with this, but we... We are running
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 12: out of people of character like Mayor McKelvey.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: And a lot of people want.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 12: To see how they could benefit themselves.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 12: How can this job get me to the next bigger paycheck? Right.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: Exactly right. Did you have any input at all? Once again,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: Mahoning County is going to take out all these bonds
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: to redo this, you know, the Eastern Gateway project. Did you,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: all of you that will be responsible for those bonds
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: and the debt of this community, have any say-so in
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: it whatsoever? Any say so.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 8: Nope. Nope.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 12: So therefore, the cloud will always be there. And that's
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 12: that's the county commissioners have to own that. They have
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 12: no public hearings. You know, when you spend that kind
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 12: of money, whether it's the county building downtown or the
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 12: library here. There needs to be public meetings with public feedback.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 12: There needs to be conversation. You get three minutes to speak,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 12: and we're not going to really respond to you. We're
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 12: just going to stare at the wall behind you.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 12: There needs to be engagement.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 12: And that's where the county commissioners, they may be making
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 12: the right decision, but you and I will never know
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 12: that because there was never an opportunity. There was never
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 12: transparency in the decision-making. I'll leave with that, buddy.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: And I put it out. I was looking at, thank you,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: I was looking at these people that put in applications
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: to replace Santos, the trustee in the town in which
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: I live in, Austintown. And there were 13 people, and
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: I was reading their reasons for why they thought they
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: should have this position. And you know what was missing
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: in every single one of them? None of them mentioned
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 3: a taxpayer. When you're reading their reason for why they
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: think they should get this position. You know, as I
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: go through some of these. You have a woman that's
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: an insurance agent. That's a... Why should she be trustee? Well,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: she's got a successful insurance agency. Manage your business. Okay.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: And talks about, oh, I was on the fire levy committee.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: I was a member of the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: I don't care. You know, I could go through all
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: of these. Carl Clay Ditzler's put his name in. some
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: other guy with a Salvation Army, and I look at
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: all these people, and I'm reading it, and not a
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: one of them talks about property taxes or real estate
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: taxes and the burden on the taxpayer and cutting spending
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: and operating more efficiently. Not a single damn one of
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 3: the 13. One of the most pressing problems in a
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: community is the burden of real estate taxes, and none
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: of them mention it. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 3: Once again, in Mahoning County, you never had a say-so
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  Speaker 3: in this, let's purchase Eastern Gateway building and tear it
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  Speaker 3: down and build right down there. A horrible location and
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  Speaker 3: difficult for people to get to. But you never had
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  Speaker 3: a say-so in it. But you'll get the debt and
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  Speaker 3: and that debt and bonds will still be there that
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have to deal with. Because of a
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  Speaker 3: decision they made that they think is a wise decision.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and we can get into some of the
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  Speaker 3: personnel hirings that they've done down there, which are certainly
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  Speaker 3: politically oriented, that we can get into all of that
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: and say, is this position needed? I mean, it just
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: seems to me that... Government is out of touch with
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: what the situation is here. I'm genuinely concerned with where
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: things are going from a standpoint of your real estate
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: taxes and young people being able to afford to buy
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: a home and old people being able to stay in
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: one and everybody in between. We don't need a bunch
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: of people on the payroll that aren't productive. We should
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: be talking about what we're cutting, how we're becoming more efficient.
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  Speaker 3: How we're making do with what we have in our
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: number one priority should be the taxpayer. And that is
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: not the mentality that's going on now. Too many of
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: these entities are these entities that have millions of dollars
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 3: in surplus money of yours that belongs back to you.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they're just so out of touch
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: because of their salary and benefits that they can't even
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: relate to what people are going through in this community
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: or simply just don't care. But it's a deep, deep
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: problem going on here. And I really got to play
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: that DeSantis thing again. I played it one day, what,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: a couple weeks ago. When you listen to DeSantis talk
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: about how they approach in Florida, once again, they're spending
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: less money this year than they did the year before.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: Not adjusted for inflation, actual dollars. So they're spending less
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: money this year than they did the year before. Less
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: money that year than they did the year before that.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: For four years in a row, no adjustment for inflation.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: They're spending less dollars than they did the year before.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: Because they're operating efficiently. They're saying, is this position needed?
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 3: It's zero-based budgeting. We don't start with what you had.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 3: We start with zero. Is this position needed? Is this
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: person doing something to benefit the taxpayer? Is this project
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: benefiting the taxpayers? But you don't see that here with
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: the arrogance from the library and this polling library. I
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: don't give a damn what the board says. I mean,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: these people need to sit down. and have a public
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: discussion that we will be more than happy to have
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: with the head of the library if she thinks she
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: has a case, and Bob. But we'll see if that happens.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 4: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. Hostilities between the U.S.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: and Iran expanding throughout the Gulf region. President Trump now
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 4: vowing that Iran will pay, he says, for the deaths
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: of three U.S. service members killed by Iranian strikes Friday
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: at a U.S. base in Jordan. ABC's Martha Raddatz is
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 4: in Amman and says Iran continues to launch its own strikes.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 33: There are air raids, but what happens is The soldiers
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 33: and service members run towards a bunker. These are not
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 33: underground hardened bunkers. So there is always a chance of
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 33: more injuries and death. And there were several injured as
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 33: well in this attack on Friday. So that is something
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 33: that I think people really worry about. Some of the
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 33: interceptions didn't work.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: Pentagon officials on Capitol Hill today asking lawmakers to approve
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 4: more than $ 80 billion in supplemental funding for the war.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: Americans are also being asked to pay more at the
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: pump with oil and gas prices on the rise again.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 34: While we're seeing prices rise across the country, certain states
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 34: are feeling it the hardest. Utah, Colorado, Missouri, parts of Texas,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 34: they are seeing the biggest jumps today. And it all
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 34: comes back to the price of oil, which is $ 83
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 34: a barrel and rising oil prices. With that major oil artery,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 34: the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed off.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: ABC's Rebecca Jarvis. Tropical Storm Bertha is churning off Florida's
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: Gulf Coast and moving toward the Gulf States in New
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: Orleans today. Residents spent the day filling sandbags and boarding up.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 4: The storm expected to make landfall in the coming days.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 4: ABC's Ginger Zee says it will likely rake the coast.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 22: It's moving really slowly, so we may see more like
• 1:32:44
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  Speaker 4: A group of two dozen survivors of the late convicted
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 4: sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, along with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: are now urging key Republican senators Tom Tillis and John
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 4: Cornyn not to confirm Ted Blanch, Todd Blanch, for an
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 4: attorney general position.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 25: Tillis last week had required Blanch to meet with Epstein's
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 25: victims to secure his vote to move his nomination forward.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 25: But after that meeting took place, a group of two
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 25: dozen survivors said that Blanch deflected responsibility, interrupted, and gaslit
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 25: the woman. They called the meeting a, quote, box-checking exercise
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 25: arranged only after his confirmation was put at risk. Blanche
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 25: requires the votes of both Tillis and Cornyn for his
• 1:34:45
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• 1:34:48
  Speaker 4: In California, David Burke, the singer known as David, is
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 4: in a Los Angeles courtroom for the start of his
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 4: preliminary hearing in the murder of a 15-year-old after she
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 4: allegedly threatened to expose their alleged sexual relationship. Celeste Rivas
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 4: Hernandez's body was found badly decomposed in the trunk of
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 4: the singer's car last year. David has pleaded not guilty
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: to all charges. ABC's Alex Stone is outside court.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 35: First, they dealt with a couple of things, one being
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 35: whether he was going to be shackled in the courtroom,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 35: and the judge decided that he will be shackled. The
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 35: handcuffs will come off, so at least he can write
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 35: and he can drink water, but otherwise he's going to
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 35: be shackled at the feet and at the waist to
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 35: his chair.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 4: The preliminary hearing could last up to a week. I'm
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 4: Michelle Franzen, ABC News.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: 506, it's 78 degrees, Tuesday, July 21st. Ron Verb from
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 3: the Kingdom of Mahoning, you're on the air. G2, hello.
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  Speaker 7: Good evening, Ron, how are you?
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: I am well, sir. Thank you for calling. Comments, please.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 7: Well, it's kind of a topsy-turvy world. I've got your
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 7: discussion about the library, which is interesting to me because
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 7: it's another microcosm of the bigger problem we have, which
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 7: is that these government-funded entities don't seem to be very
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 7: responsive to the voters and the taxpayers who they should
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 7: be responsive to. And that's kind of part of the
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 7: whole Sovietization of the country. When you think about the
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 7: important things happening in congress right now there there are
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 7: two things are happening right now three i guess one
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 7: is that they just passed with a supermajority this housing
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 7: bill and just like the the infrastructure bill was it
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 7: about infrastructure and the uh... and the inflation reduction act
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 7: accelerated inflation this affordable housing bill just put out giant
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 7: piles of money for all these connected groups like the
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 7: economic development groups and everybody else to just go do
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 7: paid research. It's just money swarming across the country. And
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 7: the end goal is that now the government is going
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 7: to have to have at every level some kind of
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 7: a plan for developing your community. Well, that sounds kind
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 7: of logical until you realize it's really not the government's
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: job to figure out where we build things and how
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 7: we build them.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 10: And what they are.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 7: It's really up to us. And there could be some
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 7: zoning and stuff that we now have to deal with.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 7: But the truth is, the reason one of the, you know,
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 7: the great exchange between Gorbachev and Thatcher, where he said,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 7: how do you decide where everybody lived? And she said, well,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 7: I don't. They figured it out by themselves. And he
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 7: was astonished. He said, that's the number one thing I
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 7: spend time on is figuring out who gets what apartment, right?
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 7: And they all ended up in those Stalin-esque apartments, and
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 7: what are they trying to do to us? They're trying
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 7: to push us into high-density housing. So the outcome of
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 7: this bill is going to be densified suburbs, right, urbanized,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 7: and expansion into rural areas that are going to be
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 7: annexed or are going to be developed. And if somebody
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 7: has an empty lot in a town, the government is
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 7: going to have a plan for that lot, which, again,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 7: is simply not the role of government. and so so
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 7: we're soviet izing right more and more of the government
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 7: has to take control and then you look at the
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 7: save america act which we've talked about now for months.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 7: They aren't passing it. They don't seem to have any
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 7: interest in passing it. Donald Trump did an extraordinary speech
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 7: a week and a half ago, a week ago, about
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 7: the Election fraud. He talked about the Chinese. He didn't
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 7: hit everything because that would take four hours. But he
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 7: hit the Chinese involvement. He hit the manipulation of data.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 7: He hit the risks of the machines. He hit the
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 7: problems with mail-in ballots, one of the greatest vectors of fraud.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 7: But the other great vector of fraud, no ID required
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 7: at the polling place. So anybody can show up and
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 7: vote in anyone else's name. No way to control that.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 7: That may seem strange to Ohioans because you have to
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 7: show an ID in Ohio, but next door in Pennsylvania,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 7: they don't. So the Pennsylvanians could just show up and say, sure,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 7: I'm Don Jacobs, and vote for Don Jacobs, and their
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 7: name might be Betty White. So there's a huge problem
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 7: with election fraud. It is the singular most critical existential
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 7: threat to the country. And even though the president of
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 7: the United States just went through this hour and a half,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 7: you know, dialogue on it, Congress isn't reacting. The media
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 7: is burying it. And I've got people that I know
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 7: that are smart people telling me, oh, it's not really
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 7: an issue. Oh, there were 65 court cases. All the
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 7: lies that media have told have now soaked into many
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 7: of the people that are paying it. So the Save
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 7: America Act, it has... multiple elements with north of seventy
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 7: percent popular among all likely voters not just democrats or
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 7: republicans everybody that can't get past but you know what
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 7: is going through right now they're putting through the national
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 7: defense authorization act and in the senate or in the
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 7: house they just had this come out of committee without
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 7: debate what what do they want to avoid the debate
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 7: on was a section two nineteen changes our relationship with Israel.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 7: So unlike everyone else that we are allied with, Israel
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 7: now will, by legislation, be incorporated into our defense budget
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 7: and will have, by dictate of Congress, not by the
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 7: command structure or in response to threats, it's going to
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 7: be dictated by Congress, the last people you want doing this,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 7: They're going to have an officer that's responsible for making
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 7: sure that this integration happens, and they're going to list
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 7: several areas of integration. So the people that are opposed
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 7: to this say you're merging the Israeli military into the
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 7: United States military, and certainly budget-wise you are. Operationally they say,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 7: but you're not doing that because you're not transferring command
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 7: and control. You realize they couldn't possibly do that, right?
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 7: They couldn't actually say, we're going to let Israel decide
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 7: where our soldiers fight, what ship goes where, what plane
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 7: flies there. They couldn't quite go that far. But there
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 7: is a reason that they're giving Israel this treatment that
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 7: no one else gets. And the reason is to more
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 7: tightly bind our militaries so that these excursions we go
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 7: on happen more easily, and most importantly... so that whatever
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 7: we spend on Israel's military isn't disclosed, because it's all
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 7: now going to be rolled up into the $ 1. 5 trillion
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 7: war budget. $ 1. 5 trillion. So what they're proposing is to increase,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 7: where we're running more than $ 2 trillion deficits, $ 40 trillion
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 7: of debt, they're going to increase our spending on war
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 7: by $ 500 billion a year. to $ 1. 5 trillion, a number
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 7: that's just incalculable. Now, of course, that drives inflation, right,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 7: all this money printing. That has all kinds of other problems.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 7: For example, it's been since September 10 of 2001 we've
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 7: known that the military can't manage money because that was
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 7: the day that they came out and announced the first
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 7: $ 2 trillion that they couldn't account for, $ 2 trillion lost.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 7: Can't account for it. Now we're going to go to
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 7: a trillion and a half dollar a year expenditure, a
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 7: $ 500 billion increase. And we're going to bury Israel in there.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 7: And the argument is, yes, but they're not going to
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 7: get foreign aid anymore. We're only getting $ 3 or $ 4
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 7: billion in foreign aid. We give them money a lot
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 7: of different ways. The foreign aid thing is not the offset.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 7: Now they can get as much money as they can
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 7: get Congress to give them, as they can get earmarked
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 7: in that budget, or as they can get the military
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 7: to give them. And these people have tremendous power, as
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 7: you know. Why are we doing this? Why are we
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 7: effectively merging it? Again, if you want to split hairs
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 7: and say, well, you know, command structure, fine. Use a
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 7: different phrase, but nobody else gets this treatment. So why
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 7: are we doing this? Why didn't Netanyahu call Marlon Stutzman
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 7: and say, hey, why don't you write me up a bill?
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 7: Because I don't want to be exposed to the unpopular
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 7: nature of foreign aid anymore. I want to be baked
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 7: in to the defense bill. And by the way, I'd
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 7: like it to go up by $ 500 billion. Why didn't
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 7: Netanyahu call Stutzman and have him draft that bill or
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 7: that amendment to the NDA? I mean, if it's not
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 7: a merger, then what is the point? So what's going
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 7: to happen tomorrow, apparently, is there's going to be a
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 7: vote unless something gets upturned. There's going to be a
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 7: vote on the $ 1. 5 trillion. So Congress will have voted
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 7: on this Israeli element plus the rest of the $ 1. 5
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 7: trillion bill, at least the House will. They will have
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 7: passed the Soviet Affordable Housing Act, and the SAVE Act
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 7: is still dying on the vine. And just in case
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 7: we're paying attention, they're not talking about aliens again. I mean,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 7: the constant distraction. Every time they whip out the aliens,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 7: we know there's something going on in D.C. we need
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 7: to pay attention to, and they just want to distract
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 7: us with the aliens. So I will tell you, I
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 7: think we're in great distress. But if you look at
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 7: the microcosm of the library... And all these questions that
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 7: are had, it's clear the communications, they have a, remember,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 7: they have an investor's relations guy or person, right? They
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 7: have a stakeholder relations person. I just, I find that
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 7: it's a library for God's sakes. And yet the stakeholders
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 7: have tremendous numbers of questions that can't get answered. And
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 7: their answer is kind of like, hey, you know, how
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 7: dare you ask us? I read the article in the Vindicator.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 7: And then on the other side, you roll all the
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 7: way up to a military with $ 1. 5 trillion spending, and
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 7: it's all black box. There's no way to know. There's
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 7: an intelligence bill coming next that's going to take the
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 7: same approach with Israel. Now, I don't care if you're
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 7: a Zionist Christian or a Zionist Jew or not a Zionist.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 7: I don't care. I don't understand how any of this
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 7: makes sense for a sovereign nation to do. Of course,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 7: in response to this, There's been a lot of talk
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 7: about Zionism, and there's a video floating around of Barry
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 7: Goldwater explaining how he views Congress as occupied territory because
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 7: the Zionists have taken control. That was Barry Goldwater. He's
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 7: been dead a while. So I think, you know, again,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 7: we just simply can't get back to the place where
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 7: the American people are being represented by Congress, where Congress
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 7: is implementing the America First agenda we sent them there
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 7: to implement. and where we're moving the country back onto
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 7: the path of normalcy. Meanwhile, you've got this Democrat Socialists
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 7: of America rising up within the Democrat Party. We're to
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 7: believe that's organic, by the way. I suppose we're supposed
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 7: to think that's just a popular movement. There's no chance
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 7: that's a popular movement. That's a funded mission. That is
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 7: an organized, structured, and funded group that has a mission,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 7: and the mission, of course, is to move us ever
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 7: further down that Soviet path. Now, at a time when
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 7: They basically stripped us of capitalism because the government's dictating everything,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 7: funding everything. You think of people on the dole as
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 7: the people that are getting SNAP benefits and.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 12: Medicaid.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 7: The people on the dole are the people that are
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 7: sitting up in a sports arena, billionaire, that had the
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 7: taxpayers subsidize his store, his arena. The people that are
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 7: on the dole are the people that live on government
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 7: contracts and make $ 2 million a year. or $ 700, 000 a year,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 7: or whatever number, on government contracts because there's no independent market.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 7: The people that are on the government dole are the
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 7: people that use regulatory burdens put on small businesses to
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 7: maintain a vast moat around their company because small businesses
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 7: can't handle the regulatory burden that they lobby for. People
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 7: always say, well, why would that company want to have
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 7: the burden of regulations on their own industry? Well, because
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 7: that keeps anyone else from entering their industry. If you
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 7: don't have an army of attorneys and consultants, you can't
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 7: deal with the regulations. So the conclusion is somehow we
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 7: have to find our way out of this Sovietization path
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 7: and back to a free, prosperous, safe, and secure country
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 7: where freedom isn't just political, it's speech, and it's economic freedom.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 7: And you can't have economic freedom if you've got distorted
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 7: capital markets and you've got distorted regulatory markets and you
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 7: don't have a healthy small business environment. So, you know,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 7: we've got to get something done here. And I just
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 7: don't see any movement in Congress at all.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 13: None.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 12: So I'm troubled.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: What what's your thoughts about the situation in iran.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 7: Well look if you look at the activity over the
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 7: last 24 hours they've been lobbing missiles and drones back
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  Speaker 7: and forth uh the united states and released a the
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 7: pentagon released a video if you haven't seen it you
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 7: should it is uh It is the most stunning battlefield
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 7: video I've ever seen. It's about 12 minutes and 58
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 7: seconds long, something like that. And in that video, you'll
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 7: see rocket launchers being taken out. You'll see individual infantry
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 7: on the ground being taken out. And these things are
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 7: being attacked from like 30,000 feet in some cases by aircraft.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 7: It's incredible, the capabilities. So the United States continues to
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 7: hammer away. Iran continues to respond. The Gulf countries, their
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 7: neighbors are getting, I think, you know, well past the
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 7: point of wanting to be on the sidelines. I think
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 7: you're going to see more pressure there. And that doesn't
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 7: necessarily have to only be kinetic. It could be just,
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  Speaker 7: you know, stopping them from doing things that we wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: be able to know about, you know, like moving cargos
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 7: through rail lines or trucks. You know, their neighbors know everything, right?
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  Speaker 7: So I think this thing is... is far from decided.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 7: Trump is going to have to just smash and break
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 7: everything he can find over there. He's going to have
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 7: to do that until the, specifically targeting the IRGC, until
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  Speaker 7: that IRGC is really on its back. Now, remember, the
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 7: IRGC controls, I think it's like half of the economy,
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 7: let's say, roughly, over there, just the way the People's Republican,
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  Speaker 7: or the People's Revolution, the PRC in China controls uh...
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 7: runs everything that the uh... you know the army in
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 7: china runs every jet just like that these guys are
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  Speaker 7: running uh... a lot of the economy so he's got
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  Speaker 7: to keep this economic pressure on and i know i
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 7: said this before but the folks that say that iran
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 7: is getting stronger every day go figure explain that how
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 7: because they can't ship oil they don't have any revenue
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 7: they can't get free flows of arms into resupply because
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 7: they can't use their space or their or their ocean
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 7: they can use the straight That's making them stronger because
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 7: they have growing unrest in their own cities, because food
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 7: is now tight, because their infrastructure is being degraded. Now
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 7: their IRGC is being degraded. That's what's making them stronger.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 7: Iran isn't getting stronger by the day. So Trump has
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 7: to keep the pressure on now at maximum push until
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 7: he gets them to finally come to some agreements. Now,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: a lot of folks are talking about preparing for a
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 7: ground invasion. I've talked to some people about this who
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 7: have done ground invasions.
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  Speaker 3: Stand by.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 7: All right, stand by.
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  Speaker 3: Back with G2 in a minute. News Radio 570, WDKVN
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 3: and Ron Ferb. 522, we're here tonight until 6. Guardians
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 3: on the air tonight at 6. News Radio 570, WDKVN.
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  Speaker 3: 570 WKBN. All right. I'll tell you something when you're
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: talking about this situation, and I'll just let you respond.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 3: I think that this is a disaster. I'm just going
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 3: to tell you right up front. I mean, this thing
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 3: has just been dragging on and on and on, and
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 3: I don't see any end in sight. I mean, I've
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 3: listened to what you've been talking about. I mean, obviously,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: there's no point in... And talking about it was a
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 3: mistake from day one, whether he got into it because
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 3: of Israel or not in Yahoo. But it was a
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 3: mistake from day one. But I don't see any end
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 3: in sight of this at all. And I just I'm
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 3: here to tell you, as you see. I think major
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 3: problems with our oil supply. And I think this is
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 3: going to create more inflation and higher energy costs. And
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 3: there's no end in sight to this. It's just a mess.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 3: And he can continue to bomb them. And so we'll
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 3: see what happens with that scenario. It didn't work before.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 3: I'm not so sure it's going to work now. And
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 3: I just think that they do have some cards to
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 3: play as far as... as far as waiting it out
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 3: to the midterms, as far as destruction of the oil
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 3: supply in other countries. I don't think anything good is
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 3: going to come from this. I'm sorry. You can go
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 3: bomb and bomb and bomb and bomb and bomb. I
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 3: think when the dust settles, we're going to be paying
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 3: more for a gallon of gasoline, we're going to be
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 3: paying more for oil, and we're going to have horrible
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 3: inflation as a result of this stupid move.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 7: Well, there's no question that the... So we went through
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 7: this with an oil industry expert. And who isn't like
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 7: these emotional guys that hate Trump?
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: I don't necessarily think they're emotional guys who hate Trump.
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 3: I think we have a series..
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 7: I've listened to a bunch of them who are clearly
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 7: on a mission simply to be negative. And their analysis
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 7: is garbage.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot to be negative.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 7: But I'm emotional, so my analysis is garbage. I've heard
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 7: plenty of it.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 4: But..
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  Speaker 7: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: Anything good is going to happen here. I mean, go
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 3: ahead and bomb them some more. Let's see what happens.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 3: What do they say? Insanity is doing the same thing again,
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 3: expecting different results.
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  Speaker 7: When you get down to the finer parts of this
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 7: and you start looking at it, obviously having the straight
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 7: closed is a problem. What I'm never able to understand
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 7: is why it's only a problem for us and not
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 7: for Iran. That part I don't get. Because if they
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 7: can't ship oil... they are denied a critical lifeline of
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 7: revenue that they need to keep this thing together. They
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 7: are not without internal pressure. Remember, long before this happened,
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 7: a year ago, we were talking about how their military
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 7: was predominantly focused on internal suppression rather than outward projections
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 7: of power.
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  Speaker 3: Well, do you see them buckling? I mean, do you
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 3: see them saying, okay, we give up?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know what you expect. I mean, you
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 7: expect them just to come out with a white flag?
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, look, these people are facing increasing pressure in
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 7: their own country. Their IRGC resources have been largely focused internally.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 7: That's why they can throw out missiles now and again.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 7: But really, in terms of a country of that size
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 7: and power being able to project outward, it hasn't been
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 7: very impressive. But they're facing an existential threat. They've lost
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 7: complete control of their airspace.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 3: I'm facing a threat, too.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 7: And they've lost a huge amount of infrastructure.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 3: I'm facing $ 4 a gallon and potentially more than that.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 3: I think you're thinking more than that.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 7: There's no question.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 3: All right. And I don't think that in a war
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 3: that we really didn't have a say-so on, and I
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: don't think the vast majority of people approve of, as
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 3: you get closer to the midterms. I mean, you think
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 3: people are going to sit back and say, let's go
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 3: to $ 5 a gallon again. Let's go to $ 4. 50. because
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 3: of some situation that he created, that Trump created this situation,
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 3: and he created it, and it is a mess, and
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 3: inflation very well can come back, and higher oil prices
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 3: are coming back. You think that's a win?
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  Speaker 7: So let's try to break it down. I understand your argument, right?
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 7: I haven't been happy this war started either. I think
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 7: we spent a lot of time on that. I'm simply
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 7: saying we are where we are. So now the question is,
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 7: what is the best course of action to get out
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 7: of here? What is the best course of action.
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  Speaker 10: To get to a resolution?
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 3: Do you double down on a mistake? Is that the
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 3: best course of action to say, we're going to double
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 3: down on this thing and we don't give a damn
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 3: if we run out of oil or gases goes to
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 3: five bucks a gallon or six bucks or jet fuel
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 3: or diesel? Is that a good direction to go? Because
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 3: that seems to be the direction we're heading.
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  Speaker 7: So There are a whole lot of things here that
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 7: are very, very difficult to perceive.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 3: Well, hang on. Right after the break, you can talk
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 3: about them. I think it's a disaster. We'll be back
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 3: after this.
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  Speaker 15: Let's start here.
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  Speaker 6: We are following the events of the day. What we're
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  Speaker 16: This is where it stands now.
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  Speaker 2: Pick up the conversation.
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  Speaker 13: We'll talk about what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Any time.
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  Speaker 15: The deal we reached with Iran. The devil's in the details.
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  Speaker 17: Bringing the price of gasoline down.
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  Speaker 9: Maintain the Fed funds rate.
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  Speaker 13: Tying Pfizer to the Save Act.
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  Speaker 30: NATO has been a paper tiger for the very latest.
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  Speaker 8: We'll see how that all plays out.
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  Speaker 3: at 535.
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  Speaker 5: I just..
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  Speaker 3: I'm not optimistic on the outcome of this situation, and
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 3: I sure as hell am not optimistic on what's happening
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 3: with the economy. And that's the reality of what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, gas prices are going back up, oil prices.
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  Speaker 3: We shall see as time goes on. Keep bombing them.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just keep on bombing them. We've done a lot
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  Speaker 3: of that. He kept telling us, oh, we got them
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  Speaker 3: on the ropes. They want a deal. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what to believe anymore, but I'm not believing a lot
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 3: of what he's telling me. He being Trump. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's all bull crap. They want a deal. They want
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  Speaker 3: a deal. We did all this bombing. We got them
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  Speaker 3: on the ropes. Well, they didn't throw up the white flag.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't give in. They didn't do anything. Oh, we
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 3: got this memorandum of understanding. Well, that didn't go too
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 3: well either. Well, what makes you think if we do
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  Speaker 3: more that all of a sudden it's going to change that?
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  Speaker 3: We just keep on going. You want to do this
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 3: for a year? How long do you want to do this?
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 7: So with regard to the war, right, that side of it, again,
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  Speaker 7: I understand that we're being told all the time how
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 7: great this is for Iran, how well they're doing, how
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 7: they're kicking our ass. This is not a great time
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 7: for them. They are not prospering. Their infrastructure is being degraded.
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  Speaker 7: This is not.
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  Speaker 3: But I counter that by saying it's not a great
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 3: time for us either.
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  Speaker 7: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just isn't.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, the market's up and crashing and comes down
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 3: one day. Oil prices are down. They're way back up.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, where do you want to go with this?
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, what's the strategy here? What's the plan here?
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, it seems so, I don't know how to
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 3: describe it, just so damn half-assed at this point in time.
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  Speaker 3: To me.
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  Speaker 13: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think it's that. I mean, you know, You
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 7: look at the execution of this. These guys have done
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 7: a fantastic job, and they are extraordinarily effective in using
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 7: the tools they're using. The question is, are those tools enough? Well,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 7: it depends. The most important weapon we're using right now
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 7: is economic pressure. And one of the pressures that they're
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 7: facing that is significant is increasing internal pressure. It is
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 7: absolutely the case that certain elements within Iran would like
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 7: to do a deal, and certain elements within Iran will
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 7: never want to do a deal. But as the pressure grows,
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 7: that's going to change. Now, will that happen in time
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 7: to save the midterms?
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 10: I don't know.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 7: But we got bigger issues with the midterms before this came.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 7: I don't know if they're bigger issues, but we have
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 7: significant issues with the midterms just in what Johnson and
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 7: Thune are doing. They are significantly harming the Republican Party,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 7: and they will not stop. So by passing things like
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 7: the housing bill but not the bills that the people
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 7: care about, they're not helping. Now you add on top
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 7: of that high gas prices and a war. All right,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 7: we voted for Trump because he promised no wars. We
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 7: did not vote for wars. So, yeah, I don't think
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 7: this was a good idea. I think we established that
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 7: with great clarity. But now we're here. So there are
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 7: two choices. Continue the pressure. Continue the economic pressure. Or
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 7: walk away... And what comes after that is going to
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 7: be ugly because they're going to get whatever path they
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 7: were on before. I do not think they had a
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 7: nuclear weapon before, but they certainly want one, and they
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 7: will be renewing that effort. You've got Israel over there
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 7: who's never going to stop telling us we've got to
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 7: go destroy Iran, and they'll do whatever they have to
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 7: do to make that happen. If they've got to do
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 7: a false flag, they'll false flag it. So you've got
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 7: a problem that whether or not this is the right
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 7: time to handle it, we're now engaged. So it's either
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 7: fight through it or quit. And I just don't see
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 7: how quitting is going to work right now. It's just not. Now,
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 7: in the oil markets, if you look at specifically what's
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 7: going on, yes, they drew down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 7: from the time Biden took office until he left office.
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 7: They drew that thing down hard, far more than it's
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 7: been drawn down as a result of this war. So
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 7: we came into the war, and by the way, you
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 7: and I talked about this and warned about this in 22.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 7: We warned about the fact that they were drawing down
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 7: the Strategic Patrolling Reserve to help them in the midterms,
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 7: and that's not what it was for. It wasn't to
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 7: offset bad energy policy in advance of an election. Well,
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 7: now we're here, and they took far more of the
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 7: Strategic Patrolling Reserve money was drawn down by the Democrats
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 7: protecting themselves in the midterms than by Trump in reaction
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 7: to this war. That said, we're getting to a point
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 7: where we're hitting a level that we can't continue to draw.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 7: There was damage done to the infrastructure for that reserve
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 7: before Trump took office. Well, now you're drawing it down
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 7: to a point where if you keep going, you're going
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 7: to have other problems. So we're running out of our
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 7: ability to draw down. It is not as clear where
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 7: China is. So far, they've had plenty of material to
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 7: dry down. They've been able to buy some. You know,
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 7: they've been making it work. But, yeah, it's absolutely the
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 7: case that we could be looking at much more, at
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 7: big increases in oil prices between now and November. And
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 7: that's going to be a disaster. But the dice cast,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 7: pulling out isn't necessarily the option here. But remember as
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 7: well that with the Saudis, with UAE, we've talked about
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 7: that a lot. With what's happening down in Venezuela, they're
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 7: now up like 700,000 barrels a day. It's a remarkable
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 7: turnaround in Venezuela. You've got Brazil and others pumping out
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 7: more and more. That has taken off some of the
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 7: pressure on the energy markets. But, of course, what's happening
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 7: in Russia is going the other way because the Europeans and,
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 7: to some degree, us continue to feed the war in Ukraine.
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 7: And now they're launching these long-range drones specifically at oil
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 7: and gas infrastructure inside Russia. So if you look at Russia,
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 7: it was an exporter of jet fuel. They've canceled that.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 7: They were exporting gasoline. They stopped that. They were exporting
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 7: diesel fuel. They stopped that. I'd say, I don't know,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 7: between April and July they stopped those, or June maybe
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 7: they stopped all of that.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 4: So..
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 7: They're now conserving their own supplies because these lunatics in
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 7: Europe won't allow this war to end. Remember, Boris Johnson
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 7: went over and stopped it. And that's now beginning to
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 7: affect their ability to refine petroleum inside Russia. Well, we
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 7: were counting on Russia exporting more to keep the markets
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 7: in check. That's a factor no one's counting because it
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 7: doesn't help the narrative against Trump. But that's the reality, right?
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 14: And so..
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 7: So I would really like to see Russia get back
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 7: in shape to repair its refining capacity and then begin
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 7: exporting again.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 10: We really could use that. That would be helpful.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 7: But I guess we've got to keep the coke head
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 7: in Kiev stoused up with cash. So then you look
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 7: at this energy market globally. Yes, we're headed for rougher
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 7: waters until this thing gets solved. But I don't understand
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 7: how people are seeing with such clarity what's happening in
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 7: the country of Iran, because what I'm hearing from people
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 7: that study such things is that this is a country
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 7: under increasing pressure internally because they have a tremendous amount
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 7: of stress. If they aren't paying the IRGC, the IRGC
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 7: isn't necessarily going to do what they want them to do.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 7: They've got to have the cash flow to keep the
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 7: tyranny going. This is a, this is not, this is
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 7: a group that's extremely popular with us with one set
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 7: of Iranian people and not with some others. It's not
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 7: a homogenous singular group. So, so, um, so I think
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 7: the strategy that Trump is, is employing is to continue
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 7: to degrade their infrastructure and their ability to export and import,
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 7: you know, on the rail lines on the backside by
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 7: Turkmenistan and, and, uh, continue to degrade their infrastructure, continue
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 7: now to work down the IRGC. And when you see
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 7: them hitting these military units, obviously our capabilities as a
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 7: nation are just incredible. A trillion dollars does that. But
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 7: they've just got to keep that going, keep the pressure on,
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 7: and then get the rest of the Gulf countries to
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 7: also add their pressure to it, And here's one of
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 7: the things that no one seems to understand, or at
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 7: least isn't giving any recognition of. No one's coming to help.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 7: China isn't rushing in there to help them. The Russians
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 7: aren't rushing in there to help them. They have no
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 7: external forces that are rushing in to help. Which, you know,
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 7: if you think about the Korean War, right? The Korean
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 7: War was over.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 14: The U.S.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 7: And the Allied forces had pushed all the way up
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 7: to the Chinese border almost. And then 900,000 Chinese troops
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 7: came across the border, and all of a sudden we
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 7: had the Chosin Reservoir fight. And so you just don't
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 7: see that here. They just don't have the outside support
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 7: that they need to keep going. Now, I still say
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 7: it would be an absolute disaster to do.
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 10: A ground invasion.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 7: I don't think that our military fails to understand that.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 7: I don't have some unique insight into the fact that this,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 7: both from a terrain standpoint, a population standpoint, a density standpoint,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 7: this is a huge piece of ground that you would
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 7: have to control. I just don't think they're going to
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 7: do that. Now, maybe they try to do something around
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 7: the Strait. I don't know. But we do not have,
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 7: as far as I can tell, the kind of infrastructure
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 7: there from a military standpoint that would support any significant
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 7: ground invasion. That's great news. So I understand your frustrations.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 7: I don't disagree. But, you know, they bombed them enough
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 7: in the first round that they did tremendous damage and
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 7: brought them to the table. Now they're at them a
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 7: second round. It's getting deeper. They've gone past the first-tier targets.
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 7: Now they're in the second-tier targets, then the third-tier targets.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 7: They're working down the list to an ever-deeper penetration into
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 7: that country, and it is going.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 10: To be a problem.
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 7: So let's see if they can get them back to
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 7: the table, and maybe this time some more moderate people win.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 7: And maybe Israel doesn't spend so much time trying to
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 7: disrupt the negotiations. So, you know, I don't think you're wrong.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 7: This is a situation. But, you know, it's gone as
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 7: far as the military exercise being executed. This has been stunning.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 3: Listen, I don't disagree with that. All I'm saying is
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 3: if it's a mistake from the very beginning, which it is,
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 3: and you don't think it's going to inflict economic harm,
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 3: which it already is doing on this country, which could
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 3: get a lot more severe, then I think people are foolish.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 3: I just think they're foolish. It's... The oil situation is
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 3: not in a good situation. The gasoline situation, I don't
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 3: care if it's diesel fuel or gasoline. And inflation. I mean,
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 3: it is just, this very well could be a disaster,
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 3: I think, economically. And if he loses the midterms, he
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 3: has no one to blame but himself. Period. No one
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 3: to blame but himself.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 7: I would expand the group a little further because there
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 7: were trouble for the midterms before this war started. And
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 7: I have been since, I don't know, since around March
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 7: of 2025, I've been putting this on these traitors in
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 7: Congress who refuse to respond.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 3: Well, it's the economy, stupid. And I think it still is.
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 3: And if you've got high inflation, those gas prices determine
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 3: how people vote.
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 7: Let's take some calls.
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 3: You're on the air.
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 8: Hi, Ron.
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 12: How are you doing, Vladimir?
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 5: Listen, have you been to Taco Bell? Have you been
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 5: to Taco Bell recently? Because I think you've got diarrhea
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 5: in the mouth. Everything you say is lies.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 12: You know, the.
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 10: Thing is that..
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 7: All right, hold on, JJ. Take one and say it.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 7: Just give me one and say it. We are becoming weaker.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 7: One point. What do you mean one point?
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 8: Don't tell me what to do.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 5: You come on here all the time and all you
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 5: do is flap your lips and you lie. First of all,
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 5: the 2022 election was not rigged. Everything that he put
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 5: out the other day went against him. China didn't get
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 5: any of that information for 2022 after the election. So
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 5: knock it off. Everything that he missed about it by
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 5: saying that the election had been rigged was only the
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 5: one that he lost. Any moron can understand that. And
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 5: second of all, he got us into a position right
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 5: now that if we walk.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 10: Away, we're in trouble.
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 5: If we stay, we're in trouble. I don't think anybody
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 5: really realizes how bad this is. Because we don't have
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 5: any allies either, Vladimir. They might not have any allies,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 5: but we don't. And I'm telling you, man, when people
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 5: like you continue to talk, I don't listen to Bubba Ganoush.
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 8: I don't listen to you.
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 5: Because at least he's kind of genuine.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 10: In a way.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 14: You're just lying.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 5: Okay? One called you on I don't know how many things,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 5: and you were like me. You sound like me. Enough
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 5: is enough. He needs to be taken out. He needs
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 5: to be taken out of office.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 7: Can you be more specific?
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 14: Can you pick?
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 7: Can you just make a specific point that we can address?
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 7: But can you say something meaningful that we can address,
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 7: like a question or a point?
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 5: Let's just say something that's meaningful instead of it's just
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 5: a bunch of diarrhea coming out of your mouth.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 3: Well, that is going to. It's the lettuce thing.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 3: Thanks, JJ.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 5: It's the lettuce thing.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 3: You're on the air. Hello.
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 11: For one minute. I guess Trump thought that they wouldn't retaliate.
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 11: They've retaliated every time. I said that from the beginning.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 11: I said, they're going to retaliate. You think they're just
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 11: going to sit there and say, okay, just bomb the
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 11: hell out of us. That's okay.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 29: Right or wrong?
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 7: Unbelievable.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 11: And Ron, I want to say this to you. Ten
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 11: days ago, I said, gas prices are out of the world.
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 11: Grocery prices are out of the world. The stock market's taken,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 11: and we're in a war. And you know what you said?
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 11: You know what you said, Ron?
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 3: What did I say?
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 11: You hung up on me. And now today, you're saying
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 11: exactly what I said.
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 3: No, I've been saying it for a while. You're on
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 3: the air. I mean, no offense to you, but I've
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 3: been saying it for a while. You're on the air.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you've been saying it for a while.
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 8: Hello.
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 14: Hello, Ron?
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 29: Yes.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 31: I've got a point to make. You know, we took out, basically,
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 31: they have, Iran has no Air Force, and they have
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 31: no Navy.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 7: Other than maybe a few.
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 3: We know that.
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 31: But here's the thing. And they continue to hit our
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 31: bases and whatever with drones and some ballistic missiles. My
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 31: question is this. If you look at a map of
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 31: the Middle East, is it all possible that they may
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 31: be getting some supplies, help, from Russia to Afghanistan or,
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 31: you know, Pakistan?
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 7: Or to Afghanistan or through the Caspian Sea?
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 21: Yeah, exactly.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 31: I mean, there's a lot of, I mean, you know,
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 31: I mean, unless we have planes up there that are
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 31: basically covering that area. to see if they're getting equipment,
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 31: you know, because they seem not to be grinding out
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 31: of equipment. Well, what do you think?
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 3: All right, quick comment.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 7: All right, so there was a tanker that was pulled
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 7: over the other day that turned out to be full
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 7: of equipment that was being shipped in in a cargo truck,
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 7: in a truck that.
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 3: Was supposed to be weathered. Hold that thought. Hold that
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 3: thought back in a minute. Stay tuned.
• 2:15:08
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• 2:15:27
  Speaker 3: quick answer to that guy's comments.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 7: Well, there's no question that they could be getting some material.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 7: They've got a lot of border area or a lot
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 7: of ground to bring material in. There's no question they can't.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 7: The question is how much, what volume, how sustained can
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 7: it be?
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 3: I've got to take some more calls. Thank you. You're
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 3: on the air.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 29: Hello.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 12: Hello?
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, go ahead. Hey, Ron.
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 5: First time caller.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 15: Hey, I..
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 5: I sit back, you know, I'm a 70-year-old white Republican, okay,
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 5: voted for Trump. I'm telling you, I see things that
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 5: just tell me the Republican Party is cooked. And my
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 5: frame of reference, remember 10 years ago when Bernie ran
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 5: under the Democratic ticket and he was ousted by Hillary?
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 5: At that point, 18 to 29-year-olds, 71% were for Bernie. 50%
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 5: of the 30 to 44-year-olds were for Bernie.
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 3: The years.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 5: Because they weren't included in prosperity. And what has happened
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 5: since then? They're still not included. We have a K-shaped
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 5: economy where the top 20%, the people that can afford
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 5: to invest in hard assets, their value goes up with inflation.
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 5: And the bottom 80 is sitting there worse off than
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 5: they were in 2016. You know, housing prices have doubled
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 5: since then. Mortgage rates have doubled. Inflation rate has gone
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 5: through the roof. There's no out here, you know? I
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 5: think the Republican Party was cooked then. They missed the
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 5: opportunity to say, why do all these people want Bernie,
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 5: and what can we do to get that group under
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 5: our wing?
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 8: They did nothing.
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 5: You know, instead, Trump is on television surrounded by his
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 5: billionaires he made over a couple billion last year with
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 5: a rug pull crypto scheme like they have no clue
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 5: what we go through.
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 3: The rest of us go through i gotta i gotta
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 3: cut you off only because i'm running out of time
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 3: but i agree with your statements i think that you
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 3: are correct. Call me again when I have more time, okay?
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 14: Thanks, sir.
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 3: I think he's identifying a huge problem that's going on
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 3: out there, and it will exacerbate as inflation goes up more.
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 31: Comment?
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 7: Well, we've talked about it at length. We gave the
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 7: Republican Party a path. to long-term victory, and that was
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 7: this American agenda, which would have done everything he's talking about.
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 3: And he got away from it.
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 7: No, they got away from it. Instead, they blocked it
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 7: at every turn.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 10: More tomorrow.