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The Ron Verb Show - 5pm Hour Monday, 07/27/26 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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Speaker 2: Howdy ho, 506, I should say, in the afternoon. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to Monday, July 27th, 86 degrees. Ron Verb with you
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Speaker 2: until 6 tonight. A taste of Hannity from 6 to 6.30,
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Speaker 2: then Guardians baseball. The pregame takes over on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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Speaker 2: On this Monday, a few calls. You're on the air.
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Speaker 3: Well..
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Speaker 4: The Guardians did pretty good the first half.
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Speaker 5: And I think the second half, I.
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Speaker 6: Think if we win, I'd say I'd.
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Speaker 2: Like to see them win at least 86 games.
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Speaker 3: How's it been going lately?
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Speaker 6: Not good.
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Speaker 3: They've lost five in a row.
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Speaker 6: That's not a good thing, is it?
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Speaker 2: I know you're optimistic, Dick, from Dayton, but sometimes there's
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Speaker 2: not a lot to be optimistic about.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's been dismal.
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Speaker 2: It's been dismal lately, but it seems to me they
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Speaker 2: always do decent in the first half, and then they always,
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Speaker 2: this is almost like a, I'm hoping it isn't a
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Speaker 2: repeat to where the second after the All-Star break, it's
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Speaker 2: down here.
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Speaker 6: You know, the thing of it is, too, you know,
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Speaker 6: I think a lot of this, too, I think.
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Speaker 7: Everybody was shocked about LeBron.
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Speaker 6: Didn't you think so?
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Speaker 2: Well, I was hanging on your every word. I was
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Speaker 2: thinking he was coming back to the Cavs, and that
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Speaker 2: wasn't the case.
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Speaker 7: I know.
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Speaker 2: So once again, I was led astray by my official
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Speaker 2: sports prognosticator, Dick from Dayton.
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Speaker 6: Well, we've got to look for the Guardians now, right?
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Speaker 3: I guess so. Okay.
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Speaker 6: Have a good day.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. You're on the air.
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Speaker 6: Ron.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Okay. I got my opinion on the war with Iran.
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Speaker 7: Iran won't quit until they want blood. And I think
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Speaker 7: they're getting a little bit of sympathy from some of
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Speaker 7: our politicians and our news people over here as to
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Speaker 7: supporting them. If we would gang up on them, this
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Speaker 7: war would have been over a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 3: How sad. What does that mean? Gang up on them.
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Speaker 7: Show them that they have no support, even in their
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Speaker 7: own region.
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Speaker 1: Well, I..
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Speaker 3: I think that..
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Speaker 7: We're getting some sympathy from the people, like the news
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Speaker 7: people over here.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's... Listen, news people aren't cheerleaders. I
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Speaker 2: don't think that that makes much sense at all, with
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Speaker 2: all due respect.
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Speaker 7: They listen to our news.
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Speaker 3: I don't care what they listen to. I don't think
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Speaker 3: it's an easy mission.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that they've been greatly underestimated. It
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Speaker 2: is a country of 93 million people. I mean, and it's...
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Speaker 2: had some good scientists, good programs. I mean, sometimes maybe
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Speaker 2: we've got to take a look at our own strategy
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Speaker 2: and say, was this a smart move and was this.
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Speaker 3: A good move?
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Speaker 2: We haven't done very good in the Middle East in general.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps we should learn from that.
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Speaker 7: They have their own way of thinking over there.
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Speaker 3: Yes, they do.
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Speaker 7: And you can't change somebody's way of thinking. That's why
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Speaker 7: you can't mix some cultures together. That's like when you
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Speaker 7: come over here.
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Speaker 3: They think differently than we do.
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Speaker 7: They brought in 10 million people over here a few
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Speaker 7: years ago. And they should have taken care of 10
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Speaker 7: million American citizens that needed help. The Democrats and those
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Speaker 7: protesters are out there protesting everything but crime and drugs.
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Speaker 7: They're protesting issues, like one or two issues. They're not
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Speaker 7: supporting the country like they should.
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Speaker 3: Well, we've got our share of wackos, that's for sure.
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Speaker 7: I'm living on Social Security from 12 years ago with
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Speaker 7: nowadays prices.
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Speaker 3: Well, how much do you get a month in Social Security?
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Speaker 5: $ 2, 500. I don't have any stocks or bonds or anything.
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Speaker 5: I'm eating good, though, but it's tough. When they raise
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Speaker 5: the taxes 26% and give you 2% back, I mean,
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Speaker 5: it just doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 3: Well, you're often forgotten.
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Speaker 2: A guy like you is forgotten with these inflation numbers,
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Speaker 2: which are double-digit and huge. I mean, whether it's your
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Speaker 2: electric costs have doubled, your gasoline is $ 4 a gallon,
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Speaker 2: your food prices have gone up because of the cost
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Speaker 2: of diesel transportation and everything, and your income can't keep
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Speaker 2: pace with it.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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Speaker 2: I fully understand that. And then your property taxes keep
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Speaker 2: going up. I get what you're saying.
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Speaker 7: I was ticked about him supporting 10 million people. Do
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Speaker 7: you realize the money they.
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Speaker 3: Spend supporting 10 million people?
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Speaker 7: And you wouldn't even need ICE if you wouldn't have
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Speaker 7: 10 million people come in. They wouldn't need ICE.
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Speaker 2: You better answer the phone. It could be your daughter calling.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks. You're on the air.
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Speaker 6: Good evening, Ron. How are you?
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Speaker 2: Here he is, folks. The one and only G2. Well,
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Speaker 2: I tell you, did you hear that last guy?
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Speaker 6: I did. I didn't fully understand the idea of who
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Speaker 6: we would be going after or ran with, like who
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Speaker 6: we were going to gang up with. But, you know,
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Speaker 6: if you look at where we are now in this situation,
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Speaker 6: and you asked a moment ago, you know, how do
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Speaker 6: we get out of this? So there are clearly two choices. One,
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Speaker 6: we simply withdraw. We take whatever the consequences of withdrawing are.
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Speaker 3: Do you think we still have that banner, Bush printed up,
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Speaker 3: mission accomplished, and we get it back out?
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Speaker 6: Oh, we could get that out. But here's the thing.
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Speaker 6: Trump would do it in gold letters.
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Speaker 3: Oh, we can't use the same banner?
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Speaker 6: No, he'd need a new one. It'd have to have
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Speaker 6: maybe some neon, a little gold. It'd have to be
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Speaker 6: a bigger, bolder, brighter banner.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: What's that going to cost?
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Speaker 2: What are you looking at, neon or LEDs?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm thinking you go back to old-school neon. Big transformer,
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Speaker 6: lots of gas tubes. Yeah, you've got to make it retro.
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Speaker 3: Fireworks?
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Speaker 6: Possibly some fireworks, but you don't want to have those
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Speaker 6: mistaken for artillery shells launched if you're withdrawing.
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Speaker 2: All right, so let's go back. G2' s on the end
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Speaker 2: of the line. All right, so you declare victory and leave.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead. What are the options?
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Speaker 6: Well, I guess there is an option that is idiocy,
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Speaker 6: which would be a ground invasion. Israel pushed for that
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Speaker 6: really hard. They didn't get it. I don't think they're
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Speaker 6: going to get it. I think that's basically off the table.
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Speaker 6: I just don't think that's going to happen. So, you know,
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Speaker 6: I don't think, no matter what they threaten Trump with,
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Speaker 6: I don't think he's going to do that. So if
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Speaker 6: you then say, what's the third option? The third option
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Speaker 6: is to drive on through the storm, right? It's to
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Speaker 6: continue on. But there are some things that make sense
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Speaker 6: and some things that don't. One thing that is absolutely
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Speaker 6: essential in any plan that includes us continuing in this
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Speaker 6: endeavor is that we isolate that country entirely, that their
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Speaker 6: economic machine be completely isolated. So blockading not just the Strait,
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Speaker 6: but their ports south of the Strait, which we blew
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Speaker 6: up a couple of weeks ago right never when there
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Speaker 6: was an attack on a port south that wasn't an
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Speaker 6: oil and gas terminal that was really a cargo terminal
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Speaker 6: but it's been basically destroyed in their control systems have
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Speaker 6: been taken offline in in any event there's a blockade
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Speaker 6: it could stop anything from coming going nothing should be
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Speaker 6: allowed to come and go into that poor or into
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Speaker 6: the straight if kuwait can't ship through the straight neither
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Speaker 6: can iran but then on the back side the country
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Speaker 6: by turkmenistan and pakistan and uh... afghanistan There are rail
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Speaker 6: lines and roadways over there. Some of those have been hit.
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Speaker 6: But those have to be severed because whatever they're importing
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Speaker 6: and exporting, they're bringing some of it through there. And
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Speaker 6: that has to be stopped. So every rail line has
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Speaker 6: to be destroyed. Every bridge has to be destroyed. I mean,
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Speaker 6: if this is war and we're fighting it, well, then
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Speaker 6: let's fight it. And then if you look at, you know,
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Speaker 6: the Caspian Sea, you have to make sure there are
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Speaker 6: no functioning ports anywhere in Iran or near Iran that
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Speaker 6: they can get access to. You have to make sure
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Speaker 6: they're not... bring anything down east of the caspian sea
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Speaker 6: right through that channel so so basically you've got a
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Speaker 6: country that's experiencing horrible economic conditions hyperinflation they're having trouble
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Speaker 6: with supplying food and and other things unrest is growing
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Speaker 6: now i don't think there's going to be some kind
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Speaker 6: of a revolution i know everybody wants that the iranians
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Speaker 6: to rise up well forget about it's not going to
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Speaker 6: happen but you have a nation that is tremendously stressed
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Speaker 6: right now. Now, the silliness is when people say Iran's
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Speaker 6: getting stronger every day. You notice how nobody can explain
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Speaker 6: how being bombed, losing 20,000 targets, having your infrastructure destroyed,
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Speaker 6: losing your ability to use your air force, your ability
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Speaker 6: to operate on the water, your ports, your oil and
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Speaker 6: gas exports, losing your ability to trade freely, somehow that
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Speaker 6: makes them stronger. It's preposterous, really. It's a silly point.
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Speaker 6: But you'll see experts that make it over and over
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Speaker 6: again all day long. So if we're not going to withdraw,
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Speaker 6: then we have to go all in. Continuing to try
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Speaker 6: to degrade the Iranian IRGC assets, of course, is an
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Speaker 6: important plan, an important part of it all. But that's
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Speaker 6: not all of it. It's got to be that all
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Speaker 6: the logistics that supply goods and materiel to that country
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Speaker 6: have to be severed. And then, of course, continuing to
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Speaker 6: take out strategic military targets, but they've hit 20,000 of
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Speaker 6: those by now, I assume. I don't know the actual number.
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Speaker 6: I haven't looked at the actual number. yet but they've
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Speaker 6: had you know the last before they MOU was signed
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Speaker 6: they were at about 13,000 attacks by the United States
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Speaker 6: 3,000 by Israel I thought it was interesting that the
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Speaker 6: Israeli finance minister said the other day that Israel shouldn't
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Speaker 6: bother getting any more deeply involved in this just let
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Speaker 6: the United States fight their war for them that's just
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Speaker 6: smart Now, it's not smart if you're on the other
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Speaker 6: side of that trade where you're fighting their war for them,
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Speaker 6: but that's water over the dam or under the bridge
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Speaker 6: or past the mill wheel. We are where we are.
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Speaker 6: How do we get out of it? And I think
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Speaker 6: those are your three choices. If we try to do
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Speaker 6: something in the lines of a land invasion, this is
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Speaker 6: going to be cataclysmic. We will lose Massive numbers of people,
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Speaker 6: and we know we're really near trying to be prepared
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Speaker 6: to do that. We'd have to be building bases and
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Speaker 6: moving huge numbers of soldiers in there, support staff in there,
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Speaker 6: logistics hubs in there. We'd have to build out infrastructure
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Speaker 6: that would be significant. Just think about the hospitals. Afghanistan
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Speaker 6: and Iraq, this isn't uniform everywhere, but one of the
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Speaker 6: guys that was responsible for running a significant region of
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Speaker 6: Afghanistan's health care system for the troops run talk about
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Speaker 6: the mash type units right he said that every soldier
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Speaker 6: on the battlefield it was when it was no more
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Speaker 6: than seventeen minutes from a surgeon's knife that's pretty incredible
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Speaker 6: in order to achieve that kind of infrastructure in the
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Speaker 6: country of that this country decide to be we would
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Speaker 6: have to build out a huge manager selected set aside
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Speaker 6: any kind of ground invasion your options are withdraw and
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Speaker 6: take the consequences or finish the job but focus primarily
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Speaker 6: on the economic attack because you're not going to bomb
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Speaker 6: enough of the country to get them into submission purely
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Speaker 6: through kinetic warfare that's kind of where we are and
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Speaker 6: it seems to me that Trump is at that crossroads
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Speaker 6: we're not going to back out he's got to keep
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Speaker 6: going for whatever reasons I don't know if Israel would
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Speaker 6: allow him to back out I don't know what they
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Speaker 6: would do to retaliate against him and his family if
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Speaker 6: he did but uh... but he's he's walked into this
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Speaker 6: thing you gotta finish it and the impact on the
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Speaker 6: midterms now is cast now when we talked about inflation
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Speaker 6: last week what's happening now is that everybody contributing all
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Speaker 6: of the policies of the democrat administration of four years
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Speaker 6: to donald trump eighteen months and it's war which is
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Speaker 6: of course preposterous when i looked at inflation the other
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Speaker 6: day i didn't look today but the other friday was
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Speaker 6: two point one one inflation numbers are very good They
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Speaker 6: have been very good. He got it down to just
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Speaker 6: a little above 1%, like a 1 point, I don't know,
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Speaker 6: 3 or something. I can't remember now. So his inflation
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Speaker 6: numbers have been very attractive. The problem is that with
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Speaker 6: the inception of this war, of course, the strait got
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Speaker 6: closed and immediately we saw gas prices go up. And
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Speaker 6: then you've got infrastructure inside Russia being destroyed. So the
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Speaker 6: price of diesel is going up as they've stopped exporting diesel.
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Speaker 6: They've stopped exporting gasoline and jet fuel. You've got California
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Speaker 6: destroying huge amounts of refining capacity inside the united states
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Speaker 6: creating a national security issue now you got southwest airlines
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Speaker 6: shipping jet fuel from the gulf coast over to california
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Speaker 6: because there are no more refineries over there and they're
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Speaker 6: wholly dependent upon imports now even our military has a
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Speaker 6: problem sourcing jet fuel now because of the policies of
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Speaker 6: the democrat administration that's destroying california so so you've got
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Speaker 6: this this problem with gas it's being exacerbated but nobody
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Speaker 6: knows about california nobody knows about the loss of Russian
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Speaker 6: infrastructure and exports. All they know about is the Strait
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Speaker 6: of Hormuz, and that's, of course, all that the propagandists
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Speaker 6: are talking about. So there's no question that Trump launching
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Speaker 6: this war has caused a serious problem in disrupting 20%, 21%
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Speaker 6: of the oil and some LNG and other things that
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Speaker 6: flow around the world. That's a huge, huge impact. Some
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Speaker 6: of that has been mitigated through increased production and changed
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Speaker 6: supply chains. But he created a real monster here with this,
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Speaker 6: and now people are heaping everything on it. We talked
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Speaker 6: about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Friday, and of course
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Speaker 6: the Democrats withdrew more than three times the amount of
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Speaker 6: oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve that Trump has in
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Speaker 6: a war. The reason they call it strategic is because
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Speaker 6: it's supposed to be there in the event there's a
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Speaker 6: disruption in supply. But under the Biden administration, they drew
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Speaker 6: down 244 million barrels of crude from there to offset
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Speaker 6: their destructive energy policies. Trump's drawn down 68 million barrels.
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Speaker 6: So they're more than three times what he's drawn down.
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Speaker 6: And yet, they're blaming the run out of oil on Trump. Well,
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Speaker 6: you know, look, he knew that the oil was drawn
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Speaker 6: down by Democrats before he ever started the war. So
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Speaker 6: I suppose in that way, he deserves the criticism. I
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Speaker 6: do think he believed he was going to get through
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Speaker 6: this very quickly because I think he was duped into it,
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Speaker 6: as you said, as we talked about at length in
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Speaker 6: February and March. So, you know, it's a tough situation.
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Speaker 6: We've got to come through it. I do find it
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Speaker 6: interesting that people are paying so much attention now because
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Speaker 6: there's a direct economic impact to them in the form
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Speaker 6: of gas prices where, you know, we were at war
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Speaker 6: for 20 years and nobody cared because they didn't pay
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Speaker 6: for it. They put it on the national debt. They
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Speaker 6: didn't write a check. And our casualty numbers were so
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Speaker 6: incredibly low over 20 years' time.
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Speaker 3: Hold that thought.
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Speaker 6: No one knows someone who died.
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Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Back with G2 in a minute. NewsRadio
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Speaker 2: 570 to ODKVN. I heart radio. NewsRadio 570, WKVN. Ron Verb, 525,
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Speaker 2: NewsRadio 570 to ODKVN. With G2, I think you left
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Speaker 2: a couple of options out when you're talking about how
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Speaker 2: you could maybe, what your options are in ending this situation.
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Speaker 2: And I think one of them is rather obvious and
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Speaker 2: you might have overlooked. I suggest sending to the people
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Speaker 2: of Iran, and you say, you know, groceries and they're
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Speaker 2: hungry and there's issues over there, that we gather all
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Speaker 2: the lettuce that we can gather from Taco Bell in
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Speaker 2: these places. And, you know, the exploding diarrhea lettuce that
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Speaker 2: you've been reading about?
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Speaker 6: Yes, it'd be a tactic that would be worthy of..
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 6: Of execution.
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Speaker 2: It's almost like a chemical warfare, but it's not. You
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Speaker 2: send out all the tainted lettuce.
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Speaker 3: Over to Iran.
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Speaker 2: They eat it, and they all are ready. I think
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Speaker 2: they'd give it immediately because of explosive diarrhea. What are
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Speaker 2: your thoughts?
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Speaker 6: Explosive diarrhea would definitely bring an army to its knees.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, if you're dug deep into the mountains,
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Speaker 2: as they say they are, that would certainly bring you
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Speaker 2: out of the.
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Speaker 3: Mountain for some fresh air, don't you think?
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Speaker 6: That's where you start to suffer cave stench, and cave
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Speaker 6: stench is bad.
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Speaker 2: Now there's a second option that I think you also overlooked.
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Speaker 2: We could also send over some of these fiber crews
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Speaker 2: that we've had working in our area for the longest
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Speaker 2: time that have been hitting these gas lines and power
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Speaker 2: lines and stuff as they're running the fiber cables. We
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Speaker 2: send them over there and say, hey, we're here to
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Speaker 2: put in new fiber for faster Internet. And I think
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Speaker 2: we know the effect that they could have on Iran
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Speaker 2: by doing that underground drilling and the explosions that we're
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Speaker 2: having locally.
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Speaker 3: What do you think?
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Speaker 6: I think they'd bring the entire civilian infrastructure to a halt.
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Speaker 2: I'm just giving you two other options, all right? Comedy
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Speaker 2: portion done. You take it away now.
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Speaker 3: I'm done.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I mean, this is a very, very
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Speaker 6: difficult thing, and it is, of course, fracturing the Trump coalition.
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Speaker 6: If you look at the discussions we had about a
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Speaker 6: year ago when Epstein became a hoax and Trump cut
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Speaker 6: the deal that I believe he cut with the country
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Speaker 6: I think he cut it with to make the Epstein
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Speaker 6: thing go away, uh... you know he came out that
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Speaker 6: it's a hoax why are we still talk about this
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Speaker 6: and that was the first fracture in the trump coalition
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Speaker 6: i mean that the first fracture really was in the
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Speaker 6: first hundred days the republicans in congress refused to implement
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Speaker 6: the policies and the program we sent to that sent
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Speaker 6: them there to do so really the first fractures on
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Speaker 6: on soon and and spender johnson and so so those
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Speaker 6: guys you know started giving everybody uh... uneasy feelings and
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Speaker 6: then trump did the epstein thing and i really fractured
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Speaker 6: the coalition And this Iran war has really put the
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Speaker 6: coalition into crash out. And so we are in a
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Speaker 6: situation where you've got both parties in real trouble. Somebody
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Speaker 6: mentioned earlier that the Democrats are tight on money. I'll
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Speaker 6: tell you how bad it is. We talked about this
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Speaker 6: this morning with some folks. Their net working capital position
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Speaker 6: for the Democrat National Committee is a negative $ 5 million.
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Speaker 6: They have– call it– I think they have– uh... take
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Speaker 6: sixteen million cash in twenty million debt or a camera
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Speaker 6: the exact numbers but i was astonished to find out
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Speaker 6: they have a negative working capital number they have more
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Speaker 6: debt short-term debt than they have cash on hand of
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Speaker 6: course they have you know uh... headquarters at the mortgage
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Speaker 6: but that's that's it that's only one piece of the
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Speaker 6: democrat pie remember that the that the billionaires fund a
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Speaker 6: vast array of nonprofits and businesses that are charged with
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Speaker 6: engaging Democrat volunteers and Democrat voters. This organization, I call
19:35
Speaker 6: it the Hydra, and it's got a lot of heads.
19:38
Speaker 6: It's more than six. But it's, again, voter engagement, data analysis,
19:41
Speaker 6: volunteer engagement. It's messaging, huge amounts of messaging in media platforms, podcasts.
19:46
Speaker 6: It's a massive machine. That is usually consuming about $ 2
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Speaker 6: billion a year. They use that machine to keep everybody going.
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Speaker 6: They start the day after elections on the next cycle.
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Speaker 6: They don't waste a minute because they have this massive
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Speaker 6: paid organization to do it. Now, the cutoff of USAID
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Speaker 6: that the woman mentioned earlier is and the cut off
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Speaker 6: of all these grants that were going out you may
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Speaker 6: remember that lee zelden stopped twenty billion dollars that had
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Speaker 6: been sequestered in in this bank i think was jp
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Speaker 6: morgan or something might have been i think it was
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Speaker 6: chase i think it was jp morgan that that was
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Speaker 6: sequestered in a bank so that the trump administration wouldn't
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Speaker 6: find it and it could be stolen after the election
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Speaker 6: and lee zelden pulled that back but the massive amount
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Speaker 6: of money that has been pushed out through these ngos uh...
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Speaker 6: i think the woman mentioned sam bankman freed we remember
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Speaker 6: that we were sending money to uh... to ukraine and
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Speaker 6: the length he was given at the same bankman freed
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Speaker 6: who was donating it back to both republican and democrat
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22:12
Speaker 2: to Monday. It's 85 degrees, and you were saying, G2?
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Speaker 6: Well, I was saying, if you look at the Democrats'
22:20
Speaker 6: side of this political spectrum, you'll see now, as we
22:23
Speaker 6: talked about just before the break, the DNC is short
22:25
Speaker 6: on money. But there are hundreds of organizations around the
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Speaker 6: DNC that support it, PACs and NGOs. you know, nonprofits
22:34
Speaker 6: and for-profit companies that do data voter engagement, volunteer engagement,
22:38
Speaker 6: and so on, and fund campaigns. So if you look
22:43
Speaker 6: right now at the DSA, the Democrat Socialist America, this
22:46
Speaker 6: thing that this Mamdani is pushing, they're in the midst
22:50
Speaker 6: of opening 20 offices across the country. If you look
22:53
Speaker 6: at their funding, they say, well, the DSA is funded
22:56
Speaker 6: by dues, member dues, something like $ 5 to $ 15 a month,
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Speaker 6: $ 20 a month. and that that's what's driving this growth. Now,
23:03
Speaker 6: here's the thing. We really don't know who's paying those dues.
23:07
Speaker 6: Is that really individual grassroots citizens, or is there a
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Speaker 6: fund that buys 1,000 subscriptions, 1,000 memberships? We really don't
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Speaker 6: know that. If you remember the Act Blue thing where
23:20
Speaker 6: they would say it was individual donations, then we'd find
23:22
Speaker 6: out some retired person with no assets donated $ 150, 000 in
23:26
Speaker 6: one election cycle. They're very good at moving money around
23:30
Speaker 6: like that. So it could be that you've got that happening.
23:33
Speaker 6: But I'm sure, certain, that some of the 30s are
23:35
Speaker 6: out there funding this DSA thing. Now, here's the other part, though.
23:40
Speaker 6: Those candidates are raising money separately. And if you look
23:44
Speaker 6: at who's funding the DSA candidates, it's billionaires. Now, you've
23:49
Speaker 6: got to ask yourself, why would billionaires fund politicians that
23:52
Speaker 6: say we're going to get the billionaires? And, of course,
23:55
Speaker 6: you know the answer. The answer is that none of
23:58
Speaker 6: these socialists actually have some sort of socialist, you know,
24:01
Speaker 6: utopian mind, what they're going to implement is tyranny. What
24:05
Speaker 6: they're going to implement is everything they implement every time
24:08
Speaker 6: they do. It is still hard to imagine how these
24:12
Speaker 6: people that support the socialist movement think somehow it's going
24:14
Speaker 6: to be better this time. So that's how this is working, right?
24:20
Speaker 6: The billionaires are funding it. The message sounds great. People
24:22
Speaker 6: are going for it. And you said earlier we ought
24:25
Speaker 6: not be blaming the voter for supporting this lunacy. And
24:29
Speaker 6: in a certain way, I agree with you. Because if
24:32
Speaker 6: you go back to the New York election when Mamdani
24:35
Speaker 6: was running, his opponents were Governor Cuomo, the guy that
24:39
Speaker 6: killed everybody's grandmother and locked down their cities, destroyed their businesses,
24:43
Speaker 6: hurt their kids. It's him, the guy that was on
24:46
Speaker 6: videos doing press conferences in tight T-shirts with nipple studs.
24:50
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's what you'd call him, but
24:52
Speaker 6: he had, like, nails in his... It's bizarre. You could
24:54
Speaker 6: see him through his shirt. And the other candidate... with
24:58
Speaker 6: curtis lee what who may be a great guy i
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Speaker 6: don't know but let's face it curtis lee was more
25:03
Speaker 6: of a cartoon character than a serious politician in terms
25:06
Speaker 6: of running new york city so the billionaires that run
25:09
Speaker 6: new york city chose not to put in a candidate
25:13
Speaker 6: to fight mom donnie they put in these two other
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Speaker 6: guys that had no chance of winning and mom donnie's
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Speaker 6: pitch was the most america first pitch you could have
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Speaker 6: you're in distress you have problems i'm going to help
25:26
Speaker 6: you and and so Like you, I don't entirely blame
25:30
Speaker 6: the voters, although I do find it quite silly that
25:33
Speaker 6: they're turning to socialists, not realizing, either because they're ignorant
25:37
Speaker 6: of history or because they're just duped, not realizing what
25:41
Speaker 6: lies at the end of the path Mamdani is leading
25:44
Speaker 6: them down, which is inevitably tyranny, fear, and crisis, right? Shortages, food, shortages, hunger,
25:53
Speaker 6: you know, dictatorship. I mean, that's where this goes. It
25:56
Speaker 6: goes to tyranny every time. So it's a fascinating landscape,
25:59
Speaker 6: and I think it's hard to predict exactly what's going
26:01
Speaker 6: to happen in the midterms. But I'm a little bit
26:03
Speaker 6: stunned at how confident some of the Republicans are, because
26:07
Speaker 6: I don't see it in their voter base. I don't
26:09
Speaker 6: hear it in their voter base. And I think some
26:11
Speaker 6: of them are simply ignoring what's actually going on.
26:16
Speaker 3: Interesting, because..
26:20
Speaker 2: Make no mistake, I mean, do you think that whether I, well,
26:25
Speaker 2: with my disagreement with Trump when it comes to this
26:28
Speaker 2: situation in Iran, do you think for one single minute
26:31
Speaker 2: I would vote for Sherrod Brown?
26:33
Speaker 6: Nope.
26:34
Speaker 2: Right.
26:34
Speaker 6: No, I think you, you know, we got years to
26:36
Speaker 6: study him.
26:37
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a joke to me. He's been there forever.
26:41
Speaker 2: He supported all the lunacy that Biden supported. I mean,
26:44
Speaker 2: you know, men can have babies and tampons. All of
26:47
Speaker 2: this craziness, the open border. He was right there at
26:50
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's side. He is a flaming liberal. So this idea,
26:55
Speaker 2: you know, when it comes to midterms, when it comes
26:57
Speaker 2: to me, do you think I could vote for even
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Speaker 2: like I said to a guy earlier, my disagreement with
27:03
Speaker 2: with Trump? Does that mean if I could do it
27:06
Speaker 2: over again, I'd vote for Kamala Harris? Absolutely not.
27:09
Speaker 1: No.
27:09
Speaker 3: Does it mean I would vote for Sherrod Brown? Absolutely not.
27:12
Speaker 2: The Democrats aren't even an option for me because they've
27:15
Speaker 2: gone to this Democrat socialism or they're just lunatics when
27:19
Speaker 2: it comes to the social issues and their economic issues
27:22
Speaker 2: created a lot of this inflation.
27:24
Speaker 3: So there's absolutely no way I can support him.
27:27
Speaker 2: Now, I do agree with Frank, who made an interesting point, though,
27:30
Speaker 2: and it is fair criticism. I do think we have
27:32
Speaker 2: a problem with Democrats and Republicans both because they take
27:36
Speaker 2: all of this lobbyist money and they forget to represent
27:39
Speaker 2: the people. And they're representing special interests. And in too
27:41
Speaker 2: many cases, that's true. This Safe Voting Act should be done.
27:45
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm disappointed in the Republican Party. And if
27:48
Speaker 2: they do lose some midterms, they have nobody to blame
27:50
Speaker 2: but themselves. They should have codified all this stuff that
27:53
Speaker 2: Trump did by executive order, and they haven't done it.
27:56
Speaker 2: They had the majority. They should have been a lot
27:58
Speaker 2: more proactive than they are. The SAVE Act should be done.
28:01
Speaker 2: I don't understand the foot dragon by all the Republicans
28:06
Speaker 2: to support the Trump agenda.
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Speaker 6: Well, they don't support it. It's not their agenda. It's
28:11
Speaker 6: not their donors' agenda. It's not the countries that sponsor
28:14
Speaker 6: them as agenda.
28:14
Speaker 2: So their career politicians... And you can't tell a lot
28:18
Speaker 2: of difference between them and the Democrats.
28:21
Speaker 6: No, no. I mean, they give different speeches. But in
28:24
Speaker 6: the end, look at this. If you look at who
28:28
Speaker 6: really has representation in Congress right now, obviously India does.
28:32
Speaker 6: The H-1Bs, they're less under Trump. But the H-1Bs should
28:35
Speaker 6: have been done away with. You know, this is a
28:37
Speaker 6: three-year temporary visa, but nobody goes home. And there's no
28:41
Speaker 6: action taken to amend the law to make sure they
28:43
Speaker 6: go home. India has representation in Congress. The multinationals obviously
28:48
Speaker 6: have representation in Congress. You can't even get the MAHA
28:52
Speaker 6: agenda moving, even though we know that everything in the center,
28:55
Speaker 6: most everything in the center of the grocery store is
28:58
Speaker 6: poisonous and we're getting drugs injected into our kids that
29:01
Speaker 6: are causing problems. None of that gets off the ground
29:04
Speaker 6: because the billions and trillions that flow through pharma and
29:08
Speaker 6: through big food and big ag. So they all have representation, right?
29:13
Speaker 6: The The globalists have all the representation they need. Israel
29:17
Speaker 6: has massive representation. The Islamists have representation. You know, you
29:22
Speaker 6: watched Israel go after Massey, but they don't go after
29:25
Speaker 6: Ilhan Omar with that kind of investment. They spent $ 97
29:29
Speaker 6: per Republican-registered voter in Massey's district. Israel and their allies
29:33
Speaker 6: to take him out. You think they're doing that with
29:35
Speaker 6: Ilhan Omar, Tlaib, and AOC? No, they're not doing it there.
29:39
Speaker 6: They got rid of the guy that has the best
29:41
Speaker 6: voting record in Congress who voted with Republicans more than
29:44
Speaker 6: anyone else, or nearly anyone else. Marjorie Taylor Greene was
29:47
Speaker 6: up there and a couple others. But, you know, that's
29:50
Speaker 6: who they went after. They have tremendous representation in Congress.
29:54
Speaker 6: You know, you've got all these different groups that are
29:57
Speaker 6: getting representation. Who's missing in that list? Oh, that would
30:00
Speaker 6: be us. So the American agenda is stalled because Republicans
30:04
Speaker 6: in Congress refuse to advance it. If they lose in
30:07
Speaker 6: the midterms, they don't care. So this is tragic. But
30:13
Speaker 6: that Trump agenda, that America First agenda, simply is not
30:16
Speaker 6: the Republican Party's agenda, and that's why they've fought us
30:19
Speaker 6: every step of the way.
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Speaker 2: I mean, in many ways, the Republicans have been a
30:24
Speaker 2: huge disappointment. I mean, I hate to say this, but
30:29
Speaker 2: if they do lose the midterms, they brought it on themselves.
30:34
Speaker 3: They don't care. But here's the problem. I do. Because
30:39
Speaker 3: it just means two years of nothing.
30:41
Speaker 2: It means two years of impeachment, two years of everything
30:44
Speaker 2: being stalled, two years of the lunacy back.
30:47
Speaker 3: And that's what it represents. So I do resent it.
30:54
Speaker 2: And I go back to say what you incidentally said initially,
30:58
Speaker 2: if I'm quoting you correctly, that you would have preferred
31:01
Speaker 2: that the Iran war never took place in the very
31:03
Speaker 2: beginning because you thought it was more important to bring
31:07
Speaker 2: inflation down, do the American agenda, and win the midterms,
31:11
Speaker 2: which has more of an effect on my life than
31:16
Speaker 2: the Iran situation.
31:18
Speaker 6: Well, and save the country would be nice, right?
31:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
31:21
Speaker 3: For a change.
31:23
Speaker 6: If the Republicans were to come out with a big,
31:24
Speaker 6: expensive bill and said, hey, look, we want to get
31:26
Speaker 6: these elements of policy through, but we're going to hold
31:29
Speaker 6: spending flat, no increase, it would have been a major
31:32
Speaker 6: victory for the American people. But they couldn't do that,
31:35
Speaker 6: so they had to increase spending by $ 5 trillion over
31:37
Speaker 6: 10 years. You know, they just can't stop. They can't
31:41
Speaker 6: help themselves. It is a body beyond recovery. I don't know.
31:45
Speaker 6: You know, a patriot called me a couple of, about
31:47
Speaker 6: a week ago and said, hey, I've been thinking about it,
31:49
Speaker 6: and this person actually thinks, doesn't just repeat what they
31:51
Speaker 6: hear on CNN, and said, I don't think we're voting
31:54
Speaker 6: our way out of this, are we? You know, and
31:57
Speaker 6: that's where a lot of people are getting. So you've
31:59
Speaker 6: really got three doors, right? You've got vote Republican, or
32:02
Speaker 6: whatever clown is in that role. Vote Democrat. or don't
32:06
Speaker 6: vote and that's where you're going to find some problems
32:08
Speaker 6: i think both the democrat party and the republican party
32:11
Speaker 6: are going to face the no vote problem now i
32:14
Speaker 6: could be wrong turnout will be very very high among
32:16
Speaker 6: that thirty percent of group right these people are lunatics
32:20
Speaker 6: they are very distressed that the i've been being pushed
32:23
Speaker 6: in universities that third-grade teachers can't chase kids around the
32:26
Speaker 6: classroom screaming let me tell you about my sexual journey
32:29
Speaker 6: you know that these people are are unhinged lunatics and
32:32
Speaker 6: they will turn out no question You've got the brand-loyal Republicans,
32:36
Speaker 6: turn out without question, the evangelicals that support Israel, they're coming, right?
32:40
Speaker 6: The Zionists, they're all coming. But it's that average American,
32:44
Speaker 6: especially the 18 to 39s, who feel so abandoned and
32:48
Speaker 6: with good cause. And there are two sides to this
32:51
Speaker 6: boomer versus millennial or boomer versus zoomer argument. There are
32:54
Speaker 6: two sides to that. But let's not pretend that these
32:57
Speaker 6: kids don't have a valid argument. You know, we weren't
33:00
Speaker 6: facing $ 40 trillion of debt 10 years, 20, 30, 40
33:02
Speaker 6: years ago. We weren't facing the risk of hyperinflation as
33:07
Speaker 6: we do now. It's not here now, but it could come.
33:11
Speaker 6: And we weren't facing H-1B visas replacing everybody. Now we
33:15
Speaker 6: faced offshoring of jobs, and we did nothing about it because, eh,
33:18
Speaker 6: we're all right. So this door number three, no vote,
33:26
Speaker 6: that's the greatest threat in the midterms.
33:29
Speaker 3: Right.
33:29
Speaker 6: Because if Senator Johnson loses, he doesn't care. He gets
33:33
Speaker 6: the same pension now. no matter whether he remains in
33:35
Speaker 6: that role or doesn't.
33:37
Speaker 1: Right.
33:37
Speaker 3: No vote is a vote, actually.
33:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
33:41
Speaker 3: In many ways.
33:42
Speaker 2: And it's sad because, really, the American first agenda, I mean,
33:48
Speaker 2: how can you be opposed to it?
33:49
Speaker 3: America first.
33:50
Speaker 2: If Trump would have stayed the course, I mean, gas
33:52
Speaker 2: prices were low, inflation was coming down. I mean, think
33:56
Speaker 2: of where we would have been right now if we
33:58
Speaker 2: would have never got involved with Iran.
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Speaker 6: Well, not just Iran. That's right. He should have never
34:03
Speaker 6: gotten involved with Iran. And then there's another thing. That
34:05
Speaker 6: housing bill that just went through that nobody knows about.
34:08
Speaker 3: Explain it.
34:09
Speaker 6: They can't pass the Election Security Act or do anything
34:12
Speaker 6: to help the country, but they passed this thing called
34:14
Speaker 6: the Affordable Housing Act. Now, does anybody think that there's
34:17
Speaker 6: a bill in Congress that's going to make housing affordable?
34:19
Speaker 6: Does anybody believe that's possible?
34:21
Speaker 3: Well, we had the Inflation Reduction Act. Didn't that work?
34:24
Speaker 6: Exactly. In the infrastructure bill where they spent no money
34:27
Speaker 6: on infrastructure. So this housing bill goes through... and dump
34:30
Speaker 6: hundreds of billions of dollars into all the consultants that
34:33
Speaker 6: were there under the democrat to design to redesign your
34:37
Speaker 6: community so they get right urbanized it the the suburbs
34:42
Speaker 6: they're gonna try to empty out some of the more
34:43
Speaker 6: rural areas never to take the adjacent rural areas and
34:46
Speaker 6: try to and to fight those they won't actually be
34:48
Speaker 6: urbanized but they'll be at least suburban eyes you know
34:51
Speaker 6: they're gonna develop plans were a municipality will identify all
34:55
Speaker 6: of the empty lots in its border And the government
34:58
Speaker 6: will determine a plan for usage of that land. How
35:01
Speaker 6: is that the role of government? It was, by the way,
35:04
Speaker 6: in the Soviet system. The Republicans and Democrats, the Uniparty,
35:07
Speaker 6: came together. Eighty-five U.S. senators voted for the housing bill. Eighty-five. Now,
35:15
Speaker 6: what else did they get a supermajority on? They got
35:17
Speaker 6: a supermajority in the House on the housing bill. Not
35:20
Speaker 6: the Election Security Act. Nothing that we want. Absolutely refuse
35:25
Speaker 6: to do anything. They're about to go on their month-long recess.
35:28
Speaker 6: They aren't passing through the Senate. Trump's still waiting on
35:31
Speaker 6: confirmation of appointees. They're running sessions in Congress. From gavel
35:39
Speaker 6: to gavel, it's 39 seconds. But it's long enough to
35:42
Speaker 6: guarantee that Trump can't do recess appointments of his nominees.
35:47
Speaker 6: We're two years into this thing. And the Republicans in
35:50
Speaker 6: the Senate are stopping him cold on implementing his plan.
35:54
Speaker 2: And like you say, you can't get the voting in
35:56
Speaker 2: his secure election act. But we also had time to say, hey,
36:00
Speaker 2: we should merge Israel and America with the military.
36:04
Speaker 6: This NDAA taking the spending to $ 1. 1 trillion and then
36:08
Speaker 6: hiding Israel inside that bill. What I mean is, Netanyahu said, hey,
36:15
Speaker 6: I don't want to be taking foreign aid from the
36:18
Speaker 6: United States. anymore. And gullible people said, oh, look at that,
36:21
Speaker 6: they're going to be, you know, like, they're not going to,
36:23
Speaker 6: they're going to shut up the valve. But then everybody
36:26
Speaker 6: else started to look around and go, oh, no, what
36:28
Speaker 6: do they got planned? And here's what he had planned.
36:29
Speaker 6: So he called a congressman in Indiana and said, write
36:32
Speaker 6: an amendment to the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act.
36:36
Speaker 6: And in that, switch us from being recipients of foreign
36:41
Speaker 6: aid to being embedded in your defense budget. So now
36:45
Speaker 6: it's a $ 1. 1 trillion black hole in and Israel is
36:48
Speaker 6: stuck in the middle of it. Now, there's going to
36:50
Speaker 6: be sort of a relationship manager or an Israel czar,
36:54
Speaker 6: somebody who's going to sit inside the Department of Defense
36:57
Speaker 6: or Department of War, and they're going to decide, they're
36:59
Speaker 6: going to make sure, let's say they're going to shepherd
37:01
Speaker 6: projects through and money through to make sure that enough
37:04
Speaker 6: is going to Israel. Now, what's that going to get us?
37:08
Speaker 6: You know, they're going to get access to all of
37:09
Speaker 6: our technology by law. They're going to get access to
37:12
Speaker 6: a bunch of other things that are going to be
37:12
Speaker 6: embedded in our procurement process. They're going to be building
37:14
Speaker 6: plants that we pay for, they'll profit from. This is
37:17
Speaker 6: an incredible win for Israel. How does it serve the
37:21
Speaker 6: American people? Well, it doesn't. And I've heard all the
37:23
Speaker 6: arguments about how it does. It's nonsense. We can buy
37:26
Speaker 6: whatever technology we want from Israel. We can sell them
37:28
Speaker 6: whatever we want. We have partnerships with lots of different countries.
37:32
Speaker 6: But none of them are hidden in this giant black
37:35
Speaker 6: money box. And that's what it is. Remember, the Department
37:38
Speaker 6: of Defense came out on September 10 of 2001 and said,
37:40
Speaker 6: we just lost $ 2 trillion, more than $ 2 trillion. The
37:46
Speaker 6: next day, their accounting department was destroyed, so we never
37:48
Speaker 6: got to the bottom of where that money went. Then
37:50
Speaker 6: they came out again, most recently, at the end of 23,
37:53
Speaker 6: and said, yeah, we lost another $ 2 trillion. Can't find it.
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Speaker 6: And you put Israel's budget in the middle of that
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Speaker 6: black box, where everything's hidden behind firewalls and secrets and classifications.
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Speaker 6: We'll never again know, as the American people, how much
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Speaker 6: money we're shoving over there. And that bill will pass
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Speaker 6: by a supermajority, or at least a significant majority. And
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Speaker 6: the Republicans in Congress refused to allow debate. Thomas Massey
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Speaker 6: tried to bring this to debate, and the Republicans in
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Speaker 6: Congress refused to allow it to happen. Spender Johnson specifically
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Speaker 6: made sure this would never be debated publicly, because they
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Speaker 6: really hope that the normies and the gullibles, that they
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Speaker 6: don't know anything about this. And then if you do have, well,
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Speaker 6: we have a special relationship. Hey, look, we've got a
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Speaker 6: special relationship with a lot of countries. It doesn't mean
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Speaker 6: perfect alignment of interests, and no country should be inside
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Speaker 6: our Department of War like that.
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Speaker 3: It's very troubling. Back with more, and we wrap it
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Speaker 3: up in just a minute. If you run a business
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Speaker 3: and need..
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Speaker 2: Kingdom of Mahoning, it's 85 degrees. Monday already, July 27th, 2026.
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Speaker 2: We have a taste of Sean Hannity. That's going to
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Speaker 2: come up tonight from 6 to 6.30. At 6.30 then,
39:12
Speaker 2: right after the headlines. We'll go to the pregame and
39:19
Speaker 2: then 7.05, 7.10-ish. First pitch, Guardians take on the Reds
39:24
Speaker 2: here at here, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. So keep that in mind.
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Speaker 2: So many things going on covering the world with G2,
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Speaker 2: and only a couple minutes left. We shall see how
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Speaker 2: it all materializes. I mean, these are trying and difficult
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Speaker 2: times on so many fronts, and let's be realistic. Things
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Speaker 2: could go one way or the other, and we hope
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Speaker 2: for a positive outcome, but sometimes it's tough to be optimistic.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's right, and the issues we're talking about aren't
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Speaker 6: simple political issues, like should capital gains be 22% or 28%.
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Speaker 6: We're talking about a series of existential threats that face
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Speaker 6: this nation and its culture, its allies in Europe. We're
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Speaker 6: in a tough situation here, and if you're not viewing
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Speaker 6: this as a war, then you need to reset your view.
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Speaker 6: If you think this is just normal politics, you're dreaming.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this.
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Speaker 2: So, I mean, are you concerned when you hear about
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Speaker 2: Ukraine firing into Russia, you know, firing into Russia, taking
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Speaker 2: out some of their oil facilities within the country of Russia?
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Speaker 2: I mean, this could escalate very, very quickly there, too.
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Speaker 6: Oh, it can. They put tremendous pressure on the energy
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Speaker 6: supplies across Russia. As I said, they stopped exports of
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Speaker 6: gasoline in April. I think it was diesel fuel in April.
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Speaker 6: jet fuel in May, and then in June, July, they
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Speaker 6: stopped exporting diesel. So we are all going to suffer
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Speaker 6: from that. Remember, in the Middle East, they've specifically been
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Speaker 6: careful to minimize the attacks on that kind of infrastructure.
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Speaker 6: But the Ukrainians are going after it hard. They're trying
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Speaker 6: to provoke an escalation of that war, because the globalists
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Speaker 6: either want to bring Russia down or kill every Ukrainian trying.
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Speaker 6: And this is a tragedy. This is a horrible tragedy,
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Speaker 6: which anybody watching Fox News has no understanding of.
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Speaker 2: Right, but I mean, the idea that, I mean, that
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Speaker 2: can really escalate it fast. Like you say, it only
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Speaker 2: makes this energy situation a lot worse because we're taking
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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff off the world markets in addition
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Speaker 2: to what's happening with Iran. I mean, it's just the
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Speaker 2: dumbest damn thing. They're poking the bear, is what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: They are poking the bear, and they better be damn
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Speaker 2: careful about that.
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Speaker 6: The bear has claws, and the bear's not going to
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Speaker 6: surrender to the gender lunatics in Europe. They're not going
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Speaker 6: to surrender to the people who want to grab their
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Speaker 6: children and cut off their genitals. So if you think
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Speaker 6: you're going to beat the bear before its claws come out,
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Speaker 6: you're out of your mind. Now, it's been an expensive
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Speaker 6: war for Russia. They are in a hard way. But
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Speaker 6: these people have fought wars in a way that Americans
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Speaker 6: can't even begin to understand. And the devastation of Ukraine
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Speaker 6: is just a crime.
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Speaker 3: Amen. More tomorrow. Thank you, G2. Appreciate it. Have a
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Speaker 3: good night. Man, I love this place.