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Friday 5pm hour 05/29/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: All right, let me go back to it. Frank, let
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  Speaker 1: me just go back and say, we're starting to get
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: in a pattern here. And it's a pattern of you
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  Speaker 1: want to call the next day, talk about this guy's
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: call yesterday or whatever. I've moved on from that.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not here. to say, oh, I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this or that. What do you have to say
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  Speaker 1: about things that are going on in your opinion? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not here to say this is what J.J. said or
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  Speaker 1: this is what Rich said. I mean, we're getting into
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  Speaker 1: this every day.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron, the pattern is you've been allowing him You
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  Speaker 3: can call me an anti-Semite cheerleader.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm starting. Week after week.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: As I've said a million times, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say it to you again.
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  Speaker 3: Why can he do it, not me?
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to prevent all of this. But instead, you
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  Speaker 1: are making it impossible for me to do that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I am not getting involved in this.
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  Speaker 3: Let me say this. He calls the war an Iran.
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  Speaker 1: I am not going down this road with him or
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  Speaker 1: with you. I've said it to them, and I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: it to you. All right? This is it. I've made
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  Speaker 1: it clear to Ted the Conservative. I made it clear
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  Speaker 1: to Rich, and I'm making it clear to you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sick and damn tired of this pettiness. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what else to say about it. Let me tell.
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  Speaker 3: You this about surveys. They show the younger generation is
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  Speaker 3: fed up with people engaging in name-calling because they are
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  Speaker 3: insecure about it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but here we go. We're going to go right
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  Speaker 1: back to it. Do you have something to add outside
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  Speaker 1: of you want to talk about Rich or JJ or whoever?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm talking about surveys about how the younger generation feels.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay? And listen to this survey. Younger generation,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Ron, The younger generation, 75% of the young generation,
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  Speaker 3: is the dumbest in history, and 25% is the smartest
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  Speaker 3: and best informed in history. They're fed up with the
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  Speaker 3: baby boomer generation. You know, they understand that their legitimate
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  Speaker 3: critiques are hitting home. And the only defense against them
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  Speaker 3: is to indulge in name-calling.
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  Speaker 4: They are fed.
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  Speaker 1: Up with the name-calling. I don't think they should be
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  Speaker 1: fed up with the baby boom generation. The country that
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  Speaker 1: we are leaving, the younger generation, is the fault of
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  Speaker 1: the baby boom generation, of which I am a part of.
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  Speaker 1: If they're upset because they're looking at a $ 40 trillion
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  Speaker 1: debt because we can't control spending, if they're upset because
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  Speaker 1: taxes continue to go up and wasteful spending continues to happen,
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  Speaker 1: they have a right to be upset about all of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. As they see their lifestyle decline from what
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  Speaker 1: it used to be in America as a result of
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  Speaker 1: the baby boom generation, they have every right to be pissed.
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  Speaker 3: Well... Long-term bond yields, which mature in 2 to 30 years,
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  Speaker 3: have increased 250% to the highest level in 20 years, Ron,
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  Speaker 3: increasing systemic risk for investors. Now, I've been warning for
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  Speaker 3: a long time that interest expense on the national debt
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  Speaker 3: will become the largest item of expenditure in the federal budget.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's the second largest now. So you cannot grow
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  Speaker 1: the debt and deficit. I talk about this quite often
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  Speaker 1: because when you're spending, your largest expenditure is solely paying
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  Speaker 1: the interest on the debt. You're not lowering it. You're
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  Speaker 1: just paying the interest on it. It's wasted tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: You're not buying a missile. You're not feeding a hungry kid.
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  Speaker 1: You're just paying the interest on it. That's the problem
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  Speaker 1: of having a big debt and deficit. But it's like
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats and politicians saying, simply don't seem to
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  Speaker 1: care as they run this tab up.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Alex said the other day that interest rates going
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  Speaker 3: up would break the back of inflation. But, Ron, that's
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  Speaker 3: not true. The way Volcker solved the problem, he didn't
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  Speaker 3: raise interest rates. He allowed the free market to determine
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  Speaker 3: what the interest rate would be. But that was the effect.
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  Speaker 3: The way he caused inflation to come down... Alec, was
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  Speaker 3: he reduced the money supply.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's not necessarily true.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, I think there's two things. When they up
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  Speaker 3: the interest rates, why do they do that? If they
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  Speaker 3: feel there's inflation and they up an interest rate..
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  Speaker 1: What's the purpose of upping the interest rate? It makes
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  Speaker 1: you stop buying, right? All of a sudden you decide
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  Speaker 1: you can't buy a car because the payments are too high.
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  Speaker 1: You can't buy a house because the payments are too high.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to put it on your credit card.
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  Speaker 1: So it smothers demand. So if demand is down, then
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  Speaker 1: inflation should come down. That's why they raise, theoretically, that's
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  Speaker 1: why they raise interest rates to try to control inflation.
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  Speaker 1: Or so they say. So that's how they theoretically do it.
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  Speaker 3: What about Trump's tax deduction gimmick for purchases of new
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  Speaker 3: cars made in America, which encourage people to go further
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  Speaker 3: in debt for a consumption item, not an investment?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because you.
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  Speaker 1: Need a car. Because you need a car. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to get around. So if you can buy a car
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  Speaker 1: and you get a benefit if it's an American car,
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  Speaker 1: because it supports American manufacturing, and you can write off
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  Speaker 1: the interest, there are some things that taxes encourage you
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  Speaker 1: to do. 30% of car.
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  Speaker 3: Trade-ins... were from people incentivized by his gimmicks were under water,
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  Speaker 3: meaning the value they received for trading in their car
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  Speaker 3: was less than the amount they owned on the car loan.
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  Speaker 3: In the Washington Post..
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's their decision to make.
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  Speaker 3: This is why so many Americans are just renting their cars.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if they want to lease them... Listen, I can't
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  Speaker 1: be held accountable for everybody's bad personal decisions. All right?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps they should be buying a used car. You merely
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  Speaker 1: asked me a question about controlling inflation. That's the mentality
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  Speaker 1: between why they raise interest rates. Now, I can make
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  Speaker 1: a counterargument saying, okay, given the current economic environment with
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  Speaker 1: high inflation that is here as a result of the war,
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  Speaker 1: do I think it's a good idea to raise interest rates? No,
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  Speaker 1: I do not. I absolutely do not. They should stay
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  Speaker 1: where they are or even go a little bit lower
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to housing.
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  Speaker 3: That's why it was a shame that Margie Taylor Greene
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  Speaker 3: and Massey got targeted because they believed in small government.
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  Speaker 3: Big government creates these problems. You know, for example, if
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  Speaker 3: you have a huge medical bill, you can no longer
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  Speaker 3: have that debt discharged in bankruptcy thanks to the Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden cabal. Now, Americans are at risk for being a
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  Speaker 3: debt serf.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Wait a minute. I'm not so sure.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to look into that. I know that under
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  Speaker 1: George Bush, you couldn't discharge student loan debt, that that
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  Speaker 1: was not something that you could declare bankruptcy on. Last
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  Speaker 1: time I checked, the number one reason why people do
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  Speaker 1: declare bankruptcy is medical debt.
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  Speaker 3: But Trump can repeal all these bad lies, but he
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  Speaker 3: refuses to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think Trump's a little busy right now,
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  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I see you. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Ronald.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I call to offer my sympathy. Some days are like this.
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  Speaker 5: I can't help but listen. Two callers ago and wondered
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  Speaker 5: if that one guy thinks real estate taxes dictate home prices.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if he's the son of the professor.
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  Speaker 1: It was the most bizarre economic philosophy that I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you can't start, I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: party you're with, if you can't start with a basic
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  Speaker 1: premise that it's your money, the citizens' money to begin with,
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  Speaker 1: now government is taking from them. The question is, is
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  Speaker 1: government taking too much? And the answer is yes.
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  Speaker 5: Not according to him. You know, every time... I hear
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  Speaker 5: a conversation like that, and as soon as I hear
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  Speaker 5: them start talking about taking other people's money, the red
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  Speaker 5: light goes on. I mean, it's interesting, but in all sincerity,
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  Speaker 5: I'm wondering, in this profession, did they warn you when
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  Speaker 5: you accepted the job that Mike drives you to drink?
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  Speaker 1: My daddy said, son, you're going to drive me to drink,
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  Speaker 1: and if you don't stop driving that hot Rod Lincoln.
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  Speaker 5: I figured you needed a laugh. I was going to
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  Speaker 5: try to give you.
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  Speaker 1: A mental break. Life can be sometimes challenging. Some days
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  Speaker 1: are challenging. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, let me.
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  Speaker 1: Put it this way. I mean, when when we talk
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  Speaker 1: about things i can't sit here and tell you what
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen with the war in iran i
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  Speaker 1: hope trump is right i hope it works out but
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  Speaker 1: i i'm not thinking that at the present time and
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  Speaker 1: i'm not pleased with this now 60 day ceasefire and
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  Speaker 1: how long is this going to drag on? And how
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  Speaker 1: long are you supposed to put up with, with.
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  Speaker 5: The, uh, you know, one thing I've come to, uh,
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  Speaker 5: believe when listening to your program is a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people will complain just to complain. There's nothing else. Instead of,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I would look at the glass half full
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  Speaker 5: and I think most people look at the glass half
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  Speaker 5: empty every day. They wake up, and they try to
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  Speaker 5: decide what they can complain about today. You know, we're,
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  Speaker 5: so some of your worst first callers today griping about,
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  Speaker 5: we're there. We are in Iran. You can complain all
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  Speaker 5: you want about it. It's not changing anything. You know, uh,
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  Speaker 5: you could, I mean, put some of your energy into
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  Speaker 5: positive things. Look at the good things that are happening
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  Speaker 5: in the world or your life. I guess I'm just
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  Speaker 5: surprised that, It's almost like sometimes I wonder if I'm
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  Speaker 5: listening to Dr. Phil when I put the Ron Verp
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  Speaker 5: show on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I do give advice to the love, Lorne, if
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  Speaker 1: you need any.
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  Speaker 5: I know. I mean, when you start talking about carrying
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  Speaker 5: JJ in the sand, I was a little bit taken back.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know where that was going. Only one set
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  Speaker 5: of footprints in the sand.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I was carrying JJ.
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  Speaker 5: Poor JJ. He stresses out too much. He needs to
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  Speaker 5: smoke a little more weed, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's... He's uptight. There are days he is, days
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  Speaker 1: he isn't.
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  Speaker 5: And he better loosen that belt before he has permanent damage.
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  Speaker 1: That guy's so skinny, a good strong wind will blow
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  Speaker 1: him away.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I hope I brought a laugh to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's Ted the Conservative trying to save the day. All right, Ted,
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  Speaker 1: have a great weekend. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Verb, Billy Goat here.
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  Speaker 1: The man who used to have a Billy Goat beard. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: when I ran into this guy and I looked at
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  Speaker 1: his mug, and that's exactly, I said, what are you
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  Speaker 1: doing here? What are you doing here with that billy
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  Speaker 1: goat beard? And he looked at me and he smiled
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you got to get rid of that thing.
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  Speaker 1: That thing looks ridiculous. And you were right. And I was,
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  Speaker 1: and he, right, he took it off. You know, young guy,
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  Speaker 1: good bone structure and everything. You took that off, and
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  Speaker 1: you're a better looking guy as a result of it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if the mirror says that. The mirror
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  Speaker 2: tends to kind of crack and all that. But I
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  Speaker 2: had to call and check in. I hadn't caught, well,
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  Speaker 2: I called in yesterday, but I was never going to
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  Speaker 2: get on because you had the two shows. But I've
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  Speaker 2: really been listening, kind of just been busy working. I
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  Speaker 2: got my garden in. But since last Friday, my life
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  Speaker 2: kind of got flipped around, and I'm kind of a
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  Speaker 2: little held.
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  Speaker 1: Up at the moment. Well, how is that?
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  Speaker 2: So I got hurt at work, Ron, and I have
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  Speaker 2: an ingroinal hernia.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, that sounds painful. I don't even know what that is,
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  Speaker 1: but I know this much. I sure as heck don't
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  Speaker 1: want one.
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  Speaker 2: So it's right in the groin, and it's right above
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  Speaker 2: the male private part.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my Lord. I actually went to, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: I went to, well, I went and seen my doctor
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  Speaker 2: because I had to get answers, of course, because it was,
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  Speaker 2: the bulge was a quarter size of a softball and
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  Speaker 2: it was painful as all get out. Thankfully, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: had it come forth only but twice. So went and
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  Speaker 2: seen my doctor. He goes, you know, he does his
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  Speaker 2: normal routine. And he says, you've got an ingrown hernia,
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  Speaker 2: which is in the groin.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, stop for a minute. I'm trying to picture this.
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  Speaker 1: And really, I'm trying to picture this. Are you telling me?
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're looking at the male anatomy. Are you
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  Speaker 1: saying it's right above your junk?
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  Speaker 2: Ron, it is off-center of my junk. But yes, it
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  Speaker 2: is right above, next to my junk.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. And the hernia is bulging out. Well, see,
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  Speaker 1: here lies a problem. Do you remember, did you lift
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  Speaker 1: something too heavy?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I was actually getting to that. So my
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  Speaker 2: line of work is kind of jack-of-all-trades, master or none.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of my line of work, I have to
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  Speaker 2: do a little extra straining to do things. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I might have also caused it myself, though, too, Ron,
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  Speaker 2: because I made a raised-bed vegetable garden. And where I
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  Speaker 2: live in my little 520-some-square-foot house with less than an
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  Speaker 2: acre of ground out in the village of Grafton, I
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: had to fence it off so I'd keep the wildlife
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  Speaker 2: out of it. So I had to post hole dig
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  Speaker 2: about 11 holes and use a post hole digger. So
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  Speaker 2: between that and probably some of the stuff I've done...
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  Speaker 2: And maybe, I don't know, like the doctor said and
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  Speaker 2: the surgeon said, they don't give you no warning. They
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  Speaker 2: just erupt. When the tissue and the muscle gets weak,
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  Speaker 2: it just comes. You get no warning.
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  Speaker 1: So when are you going to get an operation on this?
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  Speaker 2: I went and seen the surgeon today. He went through everything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, standby, standby, standby. I want to hear more about this.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely, as strange as it seems, I need to
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  Speaker 1: know more. All right, so... I'm taking all of this in.
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  Speaker 1: So you went to see the surgeon because you have
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  Speaker 1: a hernia. What is it called again?
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  Speaker 2: Ingrainal hernia.
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  Speaker 1: Now, every guy out there, imagine you're at your doctor
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  Speaker 1: and you get this diagnosis. It just sounds painful. Doc,
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  Speaker 1: you play the part of the doctor. I'll be the patient.
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  Speaker 1: You just got done examining me and you say to me,
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  Speaker 1: I have what?
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  Speaker 2: An ingrainal hernia.
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  Speaker 1: Ingroinal hernia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's... Yep, yep. I have it written right out
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  Speaker 2: here by the surgeon's nurse himself. I-N-G-U-I-N-A-L is how it
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  Speaker 2: is spelled. So I assume that is... Or maybe that's
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  Speaker 2: an R. It's kind of chicken scratch. But I assume
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  Speaker 2: that it's ingroinal. I assume that's probably what it is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so... So you will have an operation on this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So it happened Friday before Memorial Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful. What a great Memorial Day weekend you had.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ron, believe it or not, man, it didn't bother
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  Speaker 2: me all weekend. It did not bother me all weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It bothered me Friday. It happened about between 2 and 2.30.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, okay, maybe I strained a groin muscle.
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  Speaker 1: So you looked down and you got this bulge coming out, correct?
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah. So what happened was I was out at
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  Speaker 2: the back dumpster dumping trash into the dumpster. And I
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: stepped off the tow motor to go do what I
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: had to do off the tow motor. And I get
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  Speaker 2: a pain down there, Ron, that sends Billy Goat to
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  Speaker 2: his knees and and I break out in a cold sweat.
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  Speaker 2: So I take the tow motor back inside. I go
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  Speaker 2: to the bathroom. I do what I had to do,
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  Speaker 2: and I see this bulge.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I went and told my shop foreman, and the
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  Speaker 2: first thing he goes is, dude, he says, you probably
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  Speaker 2: got a hernia. And so I went through the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you wouldn't want to go, like, to the
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  Speaker 1: emergency room.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was told don't even bother going to the
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  Speaker 2: emergency room unless you're dying because they're only going to
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  Speaker 2: send you to your doctor. You'll sit there for an hour.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't wasting my time at the emergency room. No.
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  Speaker 2: I learned that from multiple people. If you're dying and
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  Speaker 2: on death's doorstep, sure, they'll take care of you. But
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  Speaker 2: somebody like me, I would have sat there an hour.
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  Speaker 1: But what if it would have gotten worse? What if
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  Speaker 1: you were in excruciating pain and it got worse?
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  Speaker 2: Well, then, okay, I wouldn't have had no choice. Then
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  Speaker 2: I would have went.
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  Speaker 1: So you go to your doctor and they say, here's
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  Speaker 1: a surgeon. We're going to cut you open. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to put some mesh around this, right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay. Now, hold your horse. You're getting a little over-exaggerated.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting a little crazy. This is what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. They're going to bring you
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  Speaker 1: into the operating room. They're going to have a team
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  Speaker 1: of surgeons there. and they're going to rip you open
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  Speaker 1: and put like an onion sack in there and stitch
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  Speaker 1: you up.
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  Speaker 2: It's all laposcopic. They make three small incisions through your stomach,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and they go down, and they do it all that way.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And the doctor is a five-star, has a great history
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: with the Cleveland Clinic.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Keep me posted. I wish you the best of luck.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Will do.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Call now. News Radio 570 WKVN. Welcome to News Radio
• 19:22
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• 19:26
  Speaker 1: May 29th. We're with 78 degrees right now in this
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: great community. And the Guardians take to the airwaves tonight
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: at 6.30 is the pregame. About 7.05, first pitch in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that ballpark. Guardians baseball tonight. News Radio 570 WKBN. So,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: keep that in mind. You're on the air. Hello.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I want you to know that I just gave up
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: 45 minutes of beautiful sunlight that I could have been
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: outside doing something productive. But I stayed here just to
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: talk to you.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: What would you have been doing?
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: I have a yard that needs attended to.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Really? I mean, would you go out and speak to
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the gardener? I'm sure you have a staff at that mansion.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that you probably go out and instruct the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: lawn crew as to what they need to be doing.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you heard me or not. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: said I would be out there doing... yard work that
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: needs to be done in my yard.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I must, I must say something.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: When winter goes into spring and Sunday, you know, my
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: habits change. I don't always have the luxury of standing
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: by a phone waiting for you to come along.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I understand that. I'm appreciative that you did because I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: must confess, I have, I've wondered about you. I've, Haven't
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: heard from you for a long time. And I thought, gee,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I wonder what Fifth Avenue is up to these days.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: And I, like I said, summertime and spring, your habits change. And,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: you know, you do different things at different times. You're
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: the one that's kind of disappeared, don't you think? I mean,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: you've had all these baseball games on. And they pay
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: you for 20 hours a week? I hope they're not
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: paying you.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes your fearless leader needs a little rest
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: from the grueling pressure that I'm under on him. minute-by-minute
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: basis here on the broadcast.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: About 10 hours a week with all the ball games.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Don't you love... Listen, baseball was made for radio. Baseball
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: was made for radio. I confess to everybody, I thoroughly
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: enjoy listening to Tom Hamilton, and sometimes I need a
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: little bit of a breather. You might find that hard
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to believe, but occasionally I do.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: I find that hard to believe because sometimes you have
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: certain guests on there that are that take over the airwaves,
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: and you sit there and, well, I'm not going to
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: get into all that because..
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: But here you are, though. Here you are, though, coming
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: out of the woodwork, and it's like such a pleasure
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to hear your voice, that you gave up being out
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: in your yard and doing whatever old people do this..
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: No, I'm still as active as possible. I really am.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Do you mow your own grass?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I trim, I mow.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: That's amazing to me. Do you tend to your own
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: mulch beds, pull weeds and Make sure the flowers are watered?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Make sure everything is tip-top shape. I like a nice yard. Well,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: you know, you've been doing that a lot of years.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Do you get along with your neighbors? Do you say,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: good afternoon?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I've got a few neighbors on either side that I'm
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: ticked off at because they don't take care of their
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: yards the way... I want them to.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Doesn't that drive you crazy?
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: That drives me nuts, believe me, when I tell you.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to be nice about it, but if we
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: were off the air, you'd hear a different conversation from me.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you keep your yard manicured, and they
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: don't cut the grass, or they got junk in their yard.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: And you look out thinking, for the love of God,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: where's your dignity? Where's your pride?
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Exactly. I mean, I'm not asking for, you know, I'll
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: just clean it up.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: You want me to come over and rough them up
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I would love that. I'll tell you what, I even
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: went to the mayor and said something. I'm not going
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: to say what city or whatever, but I went, because
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: it's getting to be a situation.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you something. If we would spin the clock
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: back to the good old days, and I don't know
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: where you are, but if you were in Youngstown when
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: McKelvey was mayor, you would go to him and George
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: McKelvey would take care of it in the blink of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: an eye. I'm telling you right now, McKelvey would. If
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you were in Youngstown and you have that problem, McKelvey
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: would have dealt with it. Those were the good old days,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a true public servant.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I hear you. I hear you loud and clear.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: McKelvey would have knocked on your neighbor's door and said, Hey,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: it's me, Mayor George McKelvey. Clean up this mess before
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I send the city down here.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: And I'm not being picky. I'm just... I don't understand it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, both sides, they're very capable of doing it,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: but they don't.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: There used to be a woman that called me years ago.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Josephine Hewlett was her name. I'll never forget her. African-American woman,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: lived in Youngstown, and she was fearless. She would tell these...
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: The young people in her neighborhood, spin that cap around,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: wear it the right way, pull those pants up. She
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: would say it doesn't take money to have pride. You
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: don't need money to go get a bucket of paint
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and paint your house and scrape it and take care
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of it and make your yard presentable and and clean
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: up after yourself. I mean, when you listen to her talk,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: she made such sense because she didn't buy any of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the excuses. Oh, I'm poor. I can't afford to do it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Her answer is get off your lazy ass, put some
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: effort forth and take pride in your home.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't want to make enemies. That's what I'm...
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: So I keep my mouth shut. I mean, they live
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: right next door, for God's sakes.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but what do they do? Have junk in the yard?
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Debris from the... There's a lot of trees back here,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: and there's a lot of... They don't do... One doesn't
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: eat up the leaves. They'll leave them there for two,
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: three years at a time. Oh, I don't... And the
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: other one... The stuff that falls down, branches and this
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: and that, they just pile it up in the backyard.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: They cut trees down. They let the logs stay back
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: there and all that stuff.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Now, has the neighborhood gone to hell over the years?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, was it a good neighborhood back in the day?
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: It's a decent neighborhood. It really is. It's just that
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I just happen to be in between two of the
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: people that are not taking care of their yards the
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: way everybody else is in the neighborhood. So anyway.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Those pigs drive you crazy. There's always one or two
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: of them in every neighborhood.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Well, I got them beside of me. But anyway, we're talking.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: There's so much that I want to talk to you about.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: You were talking about, well, can I talk to you?
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: There was an article in the paper. You said you
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: read the newspaper, which I do also. Daily, I buy
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: my newspaper. There's an article in here from 2024. It
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: has to do with property taxes, and you've been talking
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: about that a lot lately.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. 2024, it's 2026. That's two years ago.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: That's good math. I like that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're just now getting around to reading an
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: article in a newspaper from two years ago?
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: It's irrelevant to what you're talking about.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: What, did you cut it out?
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I'm not... legislators over a couple of decades, now we're
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: talking about Ohio taxes, the property taxes.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Ohio legislators over a couple of decades have engaged in
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: tax shifting, which is shifting taxes away from the state.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: and onto local homeowners and communities.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: It is forcing communities and local homeowners to pay more
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: than their fair share to keep police, fire, and safety
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: personnel on the street.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, true. All true.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: We can absolutely lower our property taxes, reduce essential services,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: reduce costs, and still support essential services if we ensure
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: that the state pays its fair share and returns our
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: tax dollars to our local communities.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: And that is what is not going on down there.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, 100% true.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: The state has shifted funding away from our local communities
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: to benefit private schools. I want to say that again.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Over the past decade, the state has shifted funding away
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: from our local communities to benefit private schools. This year
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: it cost us a billion dollars. That was in 24.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: It has led to public schools having to make up
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the difference, or they have to do more with less.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: It means going to voters to ask for more money.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: And it's led to Ohioans having to vote more on
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: school levies than any other state over the last 20 years.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Yes. Another example of tax shifting has been cuts to
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: local government funds from the state.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Local governments having to get by with about $ 1 billion
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: less than they got in 2011.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: All true. All true.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: It has led to more levies throughout the state for police, fire,
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: and other safety services.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Absolutely true.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: In most states, businesses pay more property taxes and homeowners
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: pay less. Now, Ohio homeowners and farmers are paying two-thirds
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: of the total property tax.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Who said all that?
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: McNally.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's true. A lot of that's true. I
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: don't disagree with it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: It is all true. And that is what a lot
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: of people do not get it. They don't understand. The
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: money that has gone down to Columbus, they've held on
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: to it. And as you well know, there's a fund
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: down there that I don't know what it's up to. Yeah,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: there's money. I mean, it's been thrown around $ 2 billion,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: $ 10 billion.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Who knows? I don't know.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: But it's not coming back to the communities. With the
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: private schools, they're taking the money away from the public schools.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: That's why you have them.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Well, the most important part of that is the local
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: government fund that would go back to your local community
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: has been cut tremendously into money. You've got to keep
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: in mind, those tax dollars that the state has, that's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: your money too. The state just isn't sending it back
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to the degree it used to with the local government fund,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and that is wrong, and that has created a lot
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: of the problems and levies to go up. That's 100% true.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And keep in mind, as you're doing this, as we
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: were talking, exposing the other day on a program. Here's
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Governor DeWine giving data centers an exemption on a sales
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: tax for $ 2 billion.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Is that insane or what?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, because they should have paid the $ 2 billion. We
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: could have offset perhaps property taxes or used it to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: give more money back to the local government fund and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: ease the burden. I'm in total agreement with that.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: And let me say something. I don't want your money, Ron.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I don't want your money. But if I don't have
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: enough to pay for my living.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: What.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Is the only thing you can do? In other words,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I don't want big businesses' money. I don't want anybody's money.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: But if all the money is flowing to the top...
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: As you well know, it is. What are people supposed
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: to do?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of thoughts I have on that.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I remind you of the age-old statement that is always true.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: And never forget this. Revolutions are fought on hungry bellies.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And if you create too many hungry bellies.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: That's an issue. So..
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: And you know what? I like my grocery store right.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Where it's at.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I like my bank right where it's at. I don't
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: want a revolution. I don't want that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: No, but I'm just saying that's the old cliche. And
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of truth to that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: It's as new as you can think, too.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Well, there you have it. I mean, there's a lot
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: of truth to that. We got our share of problems in...
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: How much of your money is taken from you? How
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: much is wasted? And how much is... Well, let's just
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: leave it at how much is wasted.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: The party used to be lower taxes.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, less government, lower taxes.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: They are out of control.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Well, certainly DeWine is, when we take a look at
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the fraud in Ohio, which is on the equivalency of Minnesota.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Tampon Tim over there. This is no better here in Ohio,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: where he basically ignored it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Well, can you imagine what's going on at the national level?
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: It's got to be unbelievable.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: They have these jobs for one reason, and that's Democrat
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: and that's Republican, because they make millions of dollars.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: That is correct.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: They make millions of dollars. That's why they have these jobs,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: and that's You have control. Your city has control of
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: the whole deal here.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you take a look at it. A lot of
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: people leave Congress very wealthy.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: They're putting it on their hands.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, they leave Congress very wealthy. They come in and say, Joe,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: bag of donuts. And how do they make millions of
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: dollars all of a sudden? Isn't that interesting?
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they make millions. And the Republicans are doing nothing
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: about it. They're letting this guy run rampant. How about
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: $ 1. 8 billion for the insurrectionists? Have you Republicans lost control
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: of your country?
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Well, like I say, we've got to start for just
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: a second when you talk about that fund. Because, see,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: people bring that up, but you're forgetting what caused that fund.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That fund was a settlement. Why was there a settlement? Well,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: let's review this carefully. Your tax returns are private, not
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to be released. Somebody stole, and ultimately was prosecuted for it,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: stole the tax returns of Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, and conservatives,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and the media... didn't care if they were stolen. They
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: hated Trump so much, even though it was stolen, they
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: published his private tax return. That is against the law.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So Trump, in turn, sued, and this was the settlement
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: that was made because he was harmed as his private
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: information was made public. And just as yours shouldn't be
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: made that way, his shouldn't be made that way, or
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity's shouldn't be made that way. That is why
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: he agreed to that settlement as opposed to taking the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: $ 1. 8 million and putting it in his pocket. They reached
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: a settlement, and he said, okay, let's do this fund.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But don't forget why that settlement is there. What created
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: that settlement?
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: That is Donald Trump's vindictiveness.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: No, it isn't. No, it's the vindictiveness of somebody with
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the IRS. No, here's the vindictiveness.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: He should not be president of the United States.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: No, this is ridiculous. The vindictiveness was of the person
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: that stole that information. The vindictiveness.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I have to read up a little bit more.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I want you to go read on that.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: The theory of that someone stole.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Well, that's it. Your tax return information is private. It
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: was stolen. Yes, it is. As a matter of fact,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: you read up on it because the guy was prosecuted
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and sent to prison. But because of the result of
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: his stealing it, because he got a beef.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: With Sean Hannity and what have you.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know off the top of my head. But
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: let me go one step further. I also blame the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: media that published it. Stand by. I'm going to try
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to make sense with Fifth Avenue. It could be difficult.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: So you understand. I mean, I'm just trying to tell
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you that's why that fund was created. It was a settlement. Okay,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: but an injustice was done there.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Well, not necessarily.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: You had plenty of... People your age that were there
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: at a protest, they didn't break any..
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: I don't care who was there. So what you're telling
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: me is that two wrongs are going to make a
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: right here.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: What I'm telling you is the following. What I'm saying
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: is that you had people that were there that didn't
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: break any windows or do anything. And some people, with
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the police standing by, incidentally, let them walk in. They
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: didn't steal anything. They walked in almost as a tourist
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: would be, looked around, and left. and we hunted those
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: people down to destroy their lives, and they didn't do
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: anything wrong, and the police didn't stop them. So as..
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: They broke into a federal building.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: No, they did not. The police were standing there, and
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: they did not break the windows. You and I are
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: going to just go around in circles. There were people
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  Speaker 1: that were done an injustice to. There were people that
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  Speaker 1: were done an injustice to for political purposes that should
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  Speaker 1: be compensated. You fail to realize... They didn't. These are
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  Speaker 1: not the people that are going to do that. All right?
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  Speaker 1: So you want to put everybody in the same ball,
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  Speaker 1: and that's wrong. No, I'm not. I'm interpreting exactly what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: I think we do need it.
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  Speaker 1: I think we do need it.
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  Speaker 4: Well... Wasteful spending. Want to talk about wasteful spending?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Look at all of it that we found.
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  Speaker 4: How about the illegal tariffs that the Supreme Court said
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  Speaker 4: that he was breaking the Constitution?
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  Speaker 1: Is that all you think of as wasteful spending?
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to have you... Talk about the things that
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  Speaker 4: really are matter.
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  Speaker 1: I am. I'm trying to educate you as an American citizen,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I failed. All right. Have a good weekend.
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  Speaker 7: From ABC News. I'm Mike Dabusky. It's unclear whether a
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  Speaker 7: new draft of a potential deal between the U.S. and
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: Iran will be approved, with the two sides still at
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: odds over issues including Iran's nuclear program and a pathway
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump now says
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: he has no interest in renovating the Kennedy Center. after
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: a judge earlier today ordered that he take his name
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: off the building. That ruling came just hours after a
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: different judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department's efforts to create
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: an anti-weaponization fund. The Trump administration said that fund would
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: offer compensation to those who claimed to have been wronged
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  Speaker 7: by the government.
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  Speaker 8: You should note that no payments have gone out from
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  Speaker 8: this fund yet. The fund, as we've reported, is governed
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: by this commission. It will be a five-person commission that
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: the administration has to put together. They have yet to
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: announce the creation of that or yet to announce any commissioners,
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  Speaker 8: if you will. So what this order does is bars
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: the administration from taking any further action in that way.
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  Speaker 7: ABC's Catherine Falders, Louisiana lawmakers have approved a new congressional
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: map which would get rid of one of the state's
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: two majority black districts. It comes after the Supreme Court
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: moved to weaken the Voting Rights Act last month. There
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: are now more than a thousand cases of Ebola in
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has prompted fears in
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  Speaker 7: surrounding countries in the region.
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: A Kenyan court has put a pause on the Trump
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  Speaker 9: administration's plan to open a 50-bed field hospital in the
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: country for Americans exposed to the Ebola virus. The African
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: CDC has suggested Kenya's government was pressured into housing the center.
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  Speaker 9: Some experts also warning that a foreign facility is a
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  Speaker 9: strategic mistake, saying U.S. nationals impacted by the outbreak should
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  Speaker 9: be brought home. Shannon Kingston, ABC News, the State Department.
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  Speaker 7: Meanwhile, airports in New York, Atlanta, Houston, and Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 7: are stepping up health screenings for flights coming to the U.S.
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  Speaker 7: from that region. You're listening to ABC News.