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Friday 3pm hour 05/01/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you, just what we need, right? More rain.
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  Speaker 2: It has just been, I mean, this morning it was okay.
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  Speaker 2: Around 8, 9 o'clock this morning is in my neck
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  Speaker 2: of the woods, as.
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  Speaker 1: You well know.
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  Speaker 2: And then around 10 o'clock it started raining. And it
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: continued to rain. And at times pretty heavy in my
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  Speaker 2: neck of the woods today. And I'm thinking to myself,
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: everything is so saturated today. I mean, what an unusual
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: April that we've had. I know April showers, Ron, bring
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  Speaker 2: many flowers. But what an unusual April we had with
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  Speaker 2: the amount of rain that we've experienced here. Just the
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  Speaker 2: amount of rain that we experienced here is really, for April,
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  Speaker 2: just off the charts. So everything is so soggy when
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  Speaker 2: you walk on your yard and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then today, I mean, it's not even close to
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  Speaker 2: even remotely drying out. And then today, You're getting this
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  Speaker 2: rain again today, which is just making it damn near
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  Speaker 2: impossible to cut your grass. It's just ridiculous, but it
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  Speaker 2: is what it is. And chilly for this time of
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  Speaker 2: the year. I feel like bellyaching about the weather. In chilly,
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  Speaker 2: it's 45 degrees. It feels cold outside. It's rainy, it's damp,
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  Speaker 2: it's 45, and it's cold outside. That's what we are
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  Speaker 2: experiencing today. But have you noticed we've had that on
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  Speaker 2: and off? We might have a sunny day and nice
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  Speaker 2: temperatures one day. Next thing you know, it's cold again.
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  Speaker 2: It has been an unusual April, rain-wise, temperature-wise, and May's
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  Speaker 2: off to a wet start as well. With that being said,
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  Speaker 2: with saying all of that, sunshine to you no matter
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  Speaker 2: what the weather, gang. Ron Verb from the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 2: Mahoning on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be with you here this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: 330-729-9977. We should be with you until 7 o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the good news. Full show for you today,
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  Speaker 2: and you're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Ron? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 1: I am well, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, beautiful global warming day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just been a bizarre April and May.
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  Speaker 4: We get these once in a while. I mean, look
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  Speaker 4: at the winter. The last couple winters, not this one,
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  Speaker 4: but the last couple, you know, were fairly warm. It
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  Speaker 4: almost seemed like, you know, we were in the Carolinas
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  Speaker 4: instead of Ohio, and then we got this one. So
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  Speaker 4: I guess we're paying the price, you know, things cycle.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I was just looking.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter sent me a picture from when she was
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  Speaker 2: at a job site in Orlando yesterday. She's in the
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  Speaker 2: construction industry, folks. She's at a job site in Orlando.
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  Speaker 2: And it's sunshine, blue skies, and just all smiles. So
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  Speaker 2: there you have it.
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  Speaker 4: They've been really dry. Everything's catching on fire in the south.
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  Speaker 4: They've got all kinds of fires going on down there,
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  Speaker 4: so it's kind of interesting. Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Voted today, so got that taken care of. My wife
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  Speaker 4: and I were off, so we went down to Oak
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  Speaker 4: Hill Renaissance Place. and took care of that.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you survived. We have to wreck the place immediately.
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  Speaker 4: I don't really need to wreck it immediately. It seems
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  Speaker 4: like that front part where you actually walk in and vote,
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  Speaker 4: that office building at the front, if you could somehow
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  Speaker 4: keep that and detach it from the rest of the hospital,
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  Speaker 4: if you go back farther where you get the auto
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  Speaker 4: titles or the Board of Elections offices and stuff are,
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  Speaker 4: it's a disaster back there. I think the rest of
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  Speaker 4: it is a crap hole. But then we were driving
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  Speaker 4: back because you can't get on 680. There's no easy
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  Speaker 4: way to get out of there. So I went across
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  Speaker 4: the south side of downtown. And I noticed that the
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  Speaker 4: old medical arts building, which is directly across the street
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  Speaker 4: from the courthouse, the whole thing says it's for lease.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought, instead of building, you know, if they
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  Speaker 4: wanted to put county offices, why wouldn't you buy that building?
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  Speaker 4: and put it across the street from the courthouse so
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  Speaker 4: that it was centralized. You know, so the county government
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  Speaker 4: is all in one place instead of sticking it all
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  Speaker 4: the way on the other side of downtown. I just
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  Speaker 4: don't think a lot of thought has gone into any
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  Speaker 4: of that, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: If the building's released, it could probably be rehabbed.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that, but when I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to Gino last week, Commissioner Gino, it seems like it's
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  Speaker 2: a done deal to me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've talked to him about it, too, and he
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  Speaker 4: says the same thing. And I told him I can never,
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  Speaker 4: ever support what they're doing on that. I think that's
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  Speaker 4: a disaster. I think it's going to be a colossal
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  Speaker 4: boondoggle and waste of money.
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  Speaker 2: And I think zero public input on this at all.
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  Speaker 2: Zero public input from the people who are going to
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  Speaker 2: get stuck with the bill, the $ 60 million plus bill
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  Speaker 2: that will come as a result of this. And whatever
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  Speaker 2: they're telling you the number is, it will be higher
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  Speaker 2: than that number.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, at $ 60 million? I mean, look at what the
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  Speaker 4: cost of construction is today. I was talking to a realtor.
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  Speaker 4: One of my old technicians is a realtor. We were
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  Speaker 4: talking about something. I said, if you were to build new,
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  Speaker 4: what are you giving as a base cost? She said
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  Speaker 4: $ 320 a square foot. She said, if you want something nice.
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  Speaker 4: She said, you want granite countertops and the nicer things.
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  Speaker 4: She said, you're looking at $ 320 a square foot and up.
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  Speaker 4: So imagine what it is commercial. I can't even imagine
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  Speaker 4: when you get into some of that stuff what.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine 320 a square foot when you're
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  Speaker 2: talking residential construction.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that is just insane.
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  Speaker 2: I thought 200 a square foot was high.
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  Speaker 4: We blew past that about three years ago, I think.
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  Speaker 4: And then, I mean, because if you're a builder, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's the cost of materials, but then just try and
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  Speaker 4: find people that are qualified to do the work anymore.
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  Speaker 4: That's the biggest issue. I know houses where they, you
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  Speaker 4: know how when you buy, if you go up to
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  Speaker 4: like Baird Brothers, they have the poplar, and it's pre-primed
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  Speaker 4: where it's already painted white, so you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: prime it. There's houses where they're putting that in, and
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  Speaker 4: that's the finish. It's pre-primed, and that's it. They don't
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  Speaker 4: put another coat of paint on top of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, construction costs are out of control.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's going to be we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the United States where people well, we're already there
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  Speaker 2: to a large extent where people can't afford to live
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  Speaker 2: the lifestyle that the people before them have lived, that
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  Speaker 2: the American dream of homeownership and affordability of homeownership. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the first guy to say things are just out
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  Speaker 2: of control economically in this country. I understand why there
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  Speaker 2: is a pissed off younger generation and they have every
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  Speaker 2: right to be based on what they're looking at, the
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  Speaker 2: costs they're looking at, and the country we're giving them.
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  Speaker 2: Much different than the one that I got as a
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  Speaker 2: young generation.
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  Speaker 4: My kids, especially my two younger ones, the two that
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  Speaker 4: are engineers, are just really angry when they look around
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  Speaker 4: at the country and what's going on and what they're
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  Speaker 4: inheriting and the costs that they're inheriting.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Right.
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  Speaker 4: I read a Wall Street Journal article the other day.
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  Speaker 4: What percentage of student loans right now are actually being
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  Speaker 4: paid on time, or just even being paid, not even
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  Speaker 4: on time, but just being paid on a regular basis?
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  Speaker 4: What percent of 100%, what percent are people actually making payments?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say 20%. Not quite that bad, 30%.
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  Speaker 4: So 70% of the people that signed on the dotted
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  Speaker 4: line took the money. went to college, got a degree,
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  Speaker 4: and God knows what, are just not paying the bill.
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  Speaker 4: And what's the number one reason they're not doing that?
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  Speaker 1: They don't have the money?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, they were told they don't have to. So
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  Speaker 4: Joe told them, you know, you're never going to have
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  Speaker 4: to repay this. We're going to forgive it all. And
• 7:53
  Speaker 4: then they put in all those stupid abatement programs that
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  Speaker 4: the court struck down, and Trump is now trying to
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  Speaker 4: unravel it and get these people back, you know, on
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  Speaker 4: time payments, but it's going to take a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of time. In the meantime, they're just not doing it.
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  Speaker 4: And that came off, what my understanding in reading the
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  Speaker 4: article was then, that kind of came off your credit
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  Speaker 4: report as an outstanding debt. So then a lot of
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  Speaker 4: these people went out and bought cars and houses. Well,
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  Speaker 4: now if these student loans come back on, then they
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  Speaker 4: have to actually pay what they took, you know, what
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  Speaker 4: they signed for. a lot of these people aren't going
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  Speaker 4: to be able to afford it. So you may see
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  Speaker 4: an increase in home foreclosures and car foreclosures if they're
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  Speaker 4: actually forced to.
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  Speaker 3: Have to go back and pay. I think it's that
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  Speaker 3: there's $ 1. 8 trillion out in student loans now.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm one of those guys, folks, and I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: just if you remember when student loans came about, I
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  Speaker 2: believe it was George Bush, he made it so that
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't declare bankruptcy on a student loan. Because people
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  Speaker 2: would do that. They'd borrow the money, go to school,
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  Speaker 2: declare bankruptcy, and then they would never pay it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the laws were changed, I think, under Bush, which said
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't declare bankruptcy. In other words, it was a debt.
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  Speaker 2: It's a debt that you're going to have to pay.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't go away. And I thought to myself, well,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute. If you know, I don't care if
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  Speaker 2: you're 18, 19 years old, you know you're borrowing this money.
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to have to pay it back. If
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  Speaker 2: you don't understand that by the time you're 18, 19,
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  Speaker 2: 20 years old, then there's something wrong. This idea when
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  Speaker 2: Biden came along to say, oh, let's forgive student debt,
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  Speaker 2: sent the wrong signal altogether as far as I'm concerned. However,
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  Speaker 2: I will say when I take a look at my
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  Speaker 2: country and I take a look at all the spending
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  Speaker 2: that's going on that is going to other countries and
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: just the wasteful spending that is going on, That isn't
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  Speaker 2: benefiting my fellow Americans. It frustrates me because I would
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  Speaker 2: rather I would rather given a choice ease the pain
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  Speaker 2: for my fellow citizens than all of this billions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars that we continue to give away to all these
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  Speaker 2: foreign countries. and all the nonsense that continues to go,
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: the nonsense spending that's going on. I can appreciate the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we're spending more money than ever on the military,
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: but we are ignoring a lot of problems in our
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  Speaker 2: country that also take money to deal with, whether that's
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: the solvency of Social Security, Medicare, and many other issues
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  Speaker 2: that are important issues for our fellow citizens. We spend
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: billions and billions of dollars on illegals. We spend all
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  Speaker 2: this money that was stolen by the fake hospice places
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  Speaker 2: and the leering centers and this kind of stuff. It's
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  Speaker 2: hard for me to justify with all that waste, with
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  Speaker 2: all that nonsense. trying to tell some kid, okay, now
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  Speaker 2: you've got to pay $ 30, 000 back. Given a choice, I'd
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  Speaker 2: rather waive that American kid's debt and go after all
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: the people that stole all his tax money, including many
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  Speaker 2: of the politicians.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I will argue that with you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if I just go on one, we are
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  Speaker 2: just crapping on our fellow citizens. We are crapping on
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  Speaker 2: the American people. And I just think there's something terribly
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  Speaker 2: wrong with that.
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  Speaker 3: I think the biggest issue you have is there are
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  Speaker 3: fewer and fewer people in the population who are working
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  Speaker 3: to foot the bill. For every one person like me
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  Speaker 3: and you who goes to work every day, pays our taxes,
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  Speaker 3: contributes to our community, what have you, There's a whole
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  Speaker 3: bunch of people that are just sucking the system dry.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but there's still plenty of people working every day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you see them. I don't care where you go.
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  Speaker 2: If you go to McDonald's, you go to Kohl's or
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: go to a store, there's still employees there, and there's
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: people stocking the shelves at Giant Eagle or Meijer, wherever
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: you go. There's plenty of people working. I mean, so
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  Speaker 2: there's still people that are contributing on a daily basis
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  Speaker 2: in our society.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: I got mixed thoughts about all of this. Inflation is
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  Speaker 2: a huge problem. We're making homes so that they're not
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  Speaker 2: affordable to the average person. And when you're talking these
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  Speaker 2: building costs, they're outrageous. And so we're going to have
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: plenty of people that will, as they once said, will
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  Speaker 2: own nothing and will be happy is what the big
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: agenda was supposed to be. And that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: achieved through inflation and the cost of things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully. I don't know. There's a lot of big problems,
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  Speaker 4: and there's not a lot of easy answers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a lot of bigger problems coming,
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  Speaker 2: and I genuinely think AI is a huge problem that's
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  Speaker 2: coming that will put many people out of work, particularly
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: white-collar workers. Many of them will lose their jobs within
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: the next three years. As I was saying, I was
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  Speaker 2: reading the other day, 50% they're thinking of people in
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: white-collar jobs could lose their jobs up to 50%. So
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: we're not talking small numbers. Just, what was it, Meta,
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  Speaker 2: Facebook the other day got rid of 9,000 people, 9,000 jobs,
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  Speaker 2: replaced by AI. This is just the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's what I know.
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  Speaker 3: If you talk to younger people, even kids that are indecent,
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  Speaker 3: that went into good fields, where you typically would think
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  Speaker 3: they're more recession-proof, safer, healthcare, engineering, your STEM fields, things
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  Speaker 3: like that, a lot of them are worried. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you.
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  Speaker 2: Have much to worry about if you're a nurse. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think you have much to worry about if you're
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: in the construction field. I mean, if you know how
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: to do something, physically do something, I think you're probably
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: in a better place than a computer programmer, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of computer people, or people with these white-collar jobs. I
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: think they're going to find out they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: the first ones eliminated with AI. And we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: thousands of jobs being lost as a result of AI.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, even in the trades, though, if you look
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  Speaker 4: at some of this humanoid robot stuff that they're doing,
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  Speaker 4: China had, I don't know if you saw that marathon
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  Speaker 4: where the robot actually ran the marathon and won. No
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  Speaker 4: human competitor could keep up with it.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're not going to send a robot out to
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  Speaker 2: fix a plumbing issue in your house. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: odds of that are slim and none versus replacing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people in white-collar jobs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that seems to be where it's happening. Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: White-collar is going to be where it gets hit first.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: But, I mean, 10 years down the road with what's
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  Speaker 3: going on with this artificial intelligence and with humanoid robotic technology,
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  Speaker 3: it would not surprise me to see even manual tasks
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  Speaker 3: like plumbing is probably a little more in electrical, but bricklaying, carpentry,
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be things that you're going to see
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  Speaker 3: robots come in. There's actually a factory in South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: that I was reading an article on that is using
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: a humanoid robot. And I think it was something with
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: a CNC machine where you just, you know, you put
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: a part in, you align it correctly, you put the
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: shield down, press a button, it finishes, you take the
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: part out, and then you keep doing that. It's a
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: repetitive task. They're already starting to train robots to do that.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: So I think Ford up in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: So does it make sense?
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  Speaker 2: Does it make sense to say, OK, let's let all
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  Speaker 2: these people into our country when we have to be
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: concerned about having enough employment for the people that are
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: already here? I mean, if it was up to me,
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  Speaker 2: we would stop all immigration, legal and illegal immigration. would
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  Speaker 2: be stopped immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Trump has lost it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see why we're letting anybody in.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has lost his focus. I mean, you don't see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the deportation taking place. You don't see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the standby. Back with a few more
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  Speaker 2: comments from Rich, and then more of your calls right
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  Speaker 2: after this. All right, Rich, so make your point.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, one of the reasons I called was because
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: yesterday when I was at work, I got a couple
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: of texts from people saying that Frank thought I was
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: completely off base the other night when I was talking
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: about how I think we should just, you know, at
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: least temporarily stop exporting oil.
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  Speaker 4: Out of the country. And he said that apparently I
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  Speaker 4: know more than oil executives and things like that. Well,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't my idea. And I did the research on it,
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  Speaker 4: and here's what it was. There was a 40-year ban
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  Speaker 4: on exporting U.S. crude oil.
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  Speaker 3: That happened when the Congress passed. It was called the
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  Speaker 3: Energy Policy.
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  Speaker 4: And Conservation Act of 1975. And what that was, it
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  Speaker 4: was a restriction in exporting crude oil. Now, you could
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: still export gasoline and finish products, But that was in
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  Speaker 4: effect from 75 until Paul Ryan and Obama got together
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  Speaker 4: and repealed it. Ryan and the Republicans did it. They
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: supported the Green New Deal stuff that Obama wanted, and
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Obama said, okay, you can sell oil out of the
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: country then if you do that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I remember when that took place. I was opposed to
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: it when they were doing it. I was completely.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Opposed to it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: So Frank's wrong. I mean, it's not my idea.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: The government actually did it and stopped oil from being exported.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: So if we did it then, we could do it again.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Or even if it was just temporary until this thing
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: settles over. So we put more supply in this country
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: and bring prices down. You look at NVIDIA. NVIDIA is
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: not allowed to export its best chips to China.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: There's all kinds of export restrictions we've done over the years.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: So there's no reason we couldn't do that, and I
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: would be fully in favor of that.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I was opposed to it whenever they started it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't understand why we're worried about selling oil
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: to the rest of the world when our prices are
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: going sky high here. That doesn't make any sense to me.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: And, I mean, generally I'm a market-based person, but you've
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: got to look out for your country first and the
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: rest of the world second. Amen. Thank you, Rich. The
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: only other thing I wanted to tell you was, and
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: you're probably not going to like this, but when I
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: voted today, the most important race that I think I
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: voted in was county commissioner.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: You think that was the most important one? I don't know.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of important ones.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Well, but the other ones, most of them are pretty
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: much foregone conclusions.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know that any of them are that. It's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a primary. What bothers me is they're talking about just
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: low voter turnouts. I really don't care how you vote, folks,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: but you should get out and vote instead of saying
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: we're going to have a 25% turnout. Then your voice
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: really isn't heard. And I think you should go out
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and take a stand on whatever turns. races out there,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: but I think a lot of these judicial races are
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: very important in our community that are here. I think
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: there are some people that are way more..
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: When I work, I go back and listen to your podcast.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I try to listen to as many of the podcasts
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: as I can on the iHeart app. And the other day,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Boss Lady was on, and she's not a fan of
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Christine Oliver, and I think Boss Lady's kind of an
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: insider a little bit in the Republican Party, so that
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: got me interested in And then a couple people told me,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize that Christine's on her fourth marriage.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if that's true or not, but
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: what's that got to do with anything?
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: From what I've been told, it's true. Well, I mean,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I think it comes down to judgment. And like I've
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: told you, there's a lot of these people that like
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: to be in the courts. Well, Boss Lady said something
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: about her having some legal issues or something.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, anyway..
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: After I found out about the four marriages, boss lady
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: was saying something about legal issues. Dragish, I know she
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: likes dragish. I just don't think he's. I think it's
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: either between Shepas and Oliver. So I pulled the lever
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: for Bruce because I think, well, I know you're not
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: a fan of him. Christine, just I don't know. There's
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: something about her.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: The Sky. News Radio 570 WKVN. go back to it
• 19:50
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• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Ron i think the most important thing going on right
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: now is the supreme court decision that was two days
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: ago have you talked about it at all yet which
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: decision the louisiana verse clay for the congressional redistricting i
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: can't be based on race any longer.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with the decision but i have not talked.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: About it yeah i i mean we can now finally
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: draw if you see all the gerrymandered congressional districts all
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: over the country it's nothing new but now you cannot
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: basic congressional district where the minority in the majority so
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: louisiana is already going to be redistricting now There's quite
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: a few more states that are coming down the pipe.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: It's not going to be by the midterms, but, you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: by 2028. And finally, we can maybe get some fair
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: voting where you live, not, you know, 100 miles away
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: where your congressional member is. I think it's really important
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: because it's going to definitely help the Republicans, which obviously
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: is going to have some more sanity voting. Look what
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: they did in Virginia when they redistricted everything. Virginia is
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: going to be blue forever. Texas, they're redistricting. They're going
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: to be red forever. Florida retaliated. They're redistricting. I don't
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: think you're going to have a vote there if you're
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: a Democrat. And this is just going to keep going
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: now that this decision has been made. We're going to
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: have a whole bunch of perpetually red states and a
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: whole bunch of perpetually blue states. depending on how state
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: legislation changes in some of the other states, they can
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: potentially redistrict. So it's a big win for individual rights
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: as far as your voting goes, so that way you're
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: just not clogged in with a gerrymandered district.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: So that is a very.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Big thing that I don't think people really realize, because
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: at the end of the day, look, if you don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: have a House majority in Congress, you can't do much
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: even if you're president. You know, look, we have a full,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: we have a Republican.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: President, Senate, and Congress.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: We can't even pass anything through the Senate to make
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: sure that you're a U.S. citizen to vote. I mean,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: it's crazy. It's ridiculous. You and Rich were talking about
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: the pissed off younger generation. Well, I'm not 20 years
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: old anymore. But, you know, when you have to talk
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: about that, I'm saying, yeah, you know, everything you're talking about,
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: the homestead exemption tax for, you know, seniors. I love
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: our seniors.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: You know, God bless them. They've worked.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: They earn what they've been given. But where's the relief
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: for anybody 20 or 40 anymore? Now, you know, these
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: are the people that are supposed to be having kids,
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: who are supposed to be buying homes, the future of
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: our country. We're celebrating 250 years this year. I hope
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: our country continues for another 250 years. But all we
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: do is we just keep pandering to the generation that
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: keeps giving, giving, giving, giving. Everybody says, oh, this younger generation,
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: they don't want to work, they don't want to do anything,
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: because there's no consequences. If you look in the mirror
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: at the parents that raise them half the time, there's
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: the problem. If you get a kid that works, it's
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: probably because their parents raised them, right? It helps to
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: have two parents in the home.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, it's how you're
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: raised and what your ethics are. And again, I'll go
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: back to it a million times. There's no consequences in
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: our country for just about anything. So I don't know
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: when all this is going to change. But where's the politician?
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Where's the person who's going to say, you know what?
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: I'm going to help the 20 to 40-year-olds. They're never
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: going to do that because the 20 and 40-year-olds don't
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: go out and vote as much as the 60-year-olds. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: I might take some heat for this. But if you're
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: 65 years old, you got to buy a house in
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: the 70s, in the 80s. And I'll be the first
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: one to say, oh, when I bought a house when
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: the interest.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Rates were 16%.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Well, you've been able to refinance that for the last
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: 30 years, all the way down to 2% in COVID. Well,
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: inflation's killing me. Well, if you own assets, if you
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: were able to buy stocks and property and houses all
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: that time, inflation's actually helped you. Your house is worth
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: four times as much. What if you're 20 years old
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: and you go to buy a house right now?
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Has inflation helped them? No.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: What if you go to get a job right now
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: in a field where you can't even get.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: One because AI is knocking you out of the ballpark?
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: You can't get one.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Or you can go be a plumber.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Okay, that's great. How many plumbers do we need? Do
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: we have enough space for everybody to be a plumber?
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: So I don't know what's going to happen in the future,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: but I want to see somebody say, hey, this is
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: what we're going to do for the young people. Maybe
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: if you actually tell the future generation what we're going
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: to do to help them, maybe they'd be the ones
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: who go out there and vote. Everything changes every day.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: What we were talking about last week, everybody forgets on
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: the next week. We were supposed to audit Fort Knox.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: That never happened. Russia, Ukraine, an old story. What happened
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: in Iran earlier this month is already old news. It's
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: almost 4 o'clock here. It's on a Friday. I fully
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: expect Trump to post something tonight, very inflammatory, and then
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: take it back over the weekend and die things down
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: once the market closes and right before it opens back up.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: I have no clue what's.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Going to happen.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: I don't want gas at $ 5 a gallon. I was
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: the first one complaining about it when Joe Biden was there.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: But we got.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Nothing for it when Joe Biden was president.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I got nothing.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: I don't know if we're going to get anything out
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: of this.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know how long this is going.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: To go on.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Is Trump going to lose the midterms? Are they going
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: to impeach him? I have no clue. What's the endgame
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: to this? I could be completely wrong. Next month, we
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: can have a deal.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Trump is in..
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Is a force that we've never seen before, and Iran's
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: been around for thousands of years. The Persians have been there.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: They will blast through whatever. I don't think they care
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: about their people. They're probably not going to get rid
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: of their nukes. If they know one thing, North Korea,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: you don't get rid of your nukes because, look, nobody
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: messes with them. Ukraine, they got rid of their nukes.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Look what's happening to them. So I know what. It's
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: all nuclear dust. If it's dust, why are we going
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: after it? Do we need to go after it? I
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: just want to know more why we're doing it, what
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: we're there for. Is it 12 days until their oil
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: runs out? Is it 20 days until their oil runs out?
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: I have no clue. And this is the thing that
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: frustrates me. You can't plan for anything in the future.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: How does somebody 20 years old plan for... getting in
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: the stock market? How do they build their future? Say, oh,
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: you buy the S & P 500 and hold on
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: to it forever. Well, what if it's forever, gas goes
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: up $ 8 a gallon, and then the whole entire economy
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: actually collapses? What if what John Earl was talking about yesterday,
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: the three or four stocks that just go up forever
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: keep going to pull the whole market? I have no clue.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: It's hard to plan now moving forward. Nobody pays attention
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: to things and keeps up on them for more than
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: a week. Everything changes week to week.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: That it does. That it does.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: And it's there's continued uncertainty every day here. Iran wants
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: to make a deal. Iran wants to make a deal.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I've been hearing this for how long now? And I
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: don't see any deal.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Do you?
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Iran wants to make a deal. Well, you want to
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: make a deal buying a house. Interest rates aren't going down.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: They keep going up. We're getting a new Federal Reserve
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: chairman soon. He says, you know, he's dovish. He's getting
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: lower interest rates. Probably not. They should probably go up.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: What's that going to do to the economy?
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: The 10-year Treasury rate's floating on 4.5%. And if you
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: look back any time, that gets even close to 4.5%,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: which we're at 4.4% right now. Trump does something with
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: the economy, and I don't know what's going to happen next,
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: but the stock market, look, it keeps going up.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: And guess what?
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: The next day, it can crater back down, up on
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: an escalator, down on an elevator. And it's just hard
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: to plan to do these things. What if you're 20
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: years old again?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: You're like, well, wait a second.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Do I invest for when I'm 65, or do I
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: try to buy a house, which costs four times as
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: much as it did six years ago?
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Should I invest or Hmm, should I live for today?
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: It's a hard decision.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Should I have kids?
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Can I have one?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Can I have two? Can I have three? What do
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: we get? I mean, that's what I want to hear
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: more than anything. Any local politician, do something for this community,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: for this area, for the younger generation. We're going to
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: have jobs from the AI data center that's over in Lordstown. Well,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: look at OpenAI. Sam Altman, he's getting sued from Elon
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Musk because he had a nonprofit company that he turned
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: into a for-profit company, and they're bleeding money like crazy.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Do we have enough energy even to power the thing?
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: Is it going to make our electric grids go up
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: through the roof? Add that to what's going on around
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: with the blockade with Middle East in general in oil?
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's so many questions to things that it's
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: hard to pay attention for the normal person who goes
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: to work every day, comes home, wants to eat dinner,
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: spend some time with their family. It's crazy. It's all
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: over the place. And it's really hard. to make a decision.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: I hear people all the time calling, and I find
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: myself saying, I agree with that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I agree with that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Well, you know what? He's right, too.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: She's got a good point.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: And it's all over the place, because it's hard to
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: really get a base on anything anymore, because there's so
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: much news that constantly changes.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Agreed.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Alec. Appreciate it. NewsRadio 570. Don't you come in.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Ronald.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Ted the C.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you, I was really surprised to hear
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Richard's comments about that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Rich is on a roll. I'm more interested in your comments.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: That was shocking. It just caught me off guard to
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: hear that. And if he's still listening, I would say
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: that I believe Christine Oliver is the candidate supported by
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: the Republican Party. But, you know, when I hear people
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: attacking their opponent instead of telling me why I should
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: vote for them, that raises a big red flag. We
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: ran out of time yesterday, and I wanted to share
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: something with you ironically about it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Incidentally, I agree with that opening philosophy of yours. Instead
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: of attacking the opponent, why should I vote for you?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, let's be very honest. Shepis nor Dragas have
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: given us a reason to vote for them. Shepis has
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: not made a position on taxes. The only thing I
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: really have heard him say is that he wants to
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: fight for townships if he's elected commissioner. So, in other words,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: he's not concerned about the cities in the county, just
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: the townships. And we all know what Dragas did.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, those are, those are like generic,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: those are, those are generic comments. Listen, in Dragas's defense,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I will hand it to him. He supports both..
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to back... But just hang on a second.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Just bear with me a second.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, the reality is..
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Right, as I've said numerous times, if you're... And it's
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a primary. If you're running in the Republican primary, and Republicans,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: conservative Republicans, believe in lower taxes and smaller governments. That's
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the conservative philosophy. Lower taxes, smaller governments. So the most
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: important issue, I believe I'm saying to all of you listening,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the most important issue is what is your philosophy when
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: it comes to how do you view the taxpayer? How
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: do you view the taxpayer? Do you say government first,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: taxpayer second? Because that's the wrong formula. So The most
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: important issues are, do you support doubling the homestead exemption
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: for our poorest senior citizens?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: No ifs, ands, buts, howevers, or anything else. Pure and simple.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Do you support doubling the homestead exemption for our senior
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: citizens in Mahoning County?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yes or no.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Do you support doubling the owner occupancy credits for people
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that are.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Own and live in their homes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You follow me? This doesn't apply to landlords. It doesn't
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: apply to Walmart. It doesn't apply to Home Depot or
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: commercial businesses. It applies to citizens. So do you support
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: those two issues? Dave Thomas gave commissioners the ability to
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: give a small portion of this outlandish increase the taxpayers
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: are paying back to the payers.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So talk is cheap, deeds are precious.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: So if you're not willing to make a commitment on
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: that with no ifs, ands, buts, or however, then I
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: think you're saying you're out of touch with what's happening
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: to the taxpayer. So all I can say is I
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: know Dragish has taken that stand.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Whether you like him, dislike him, he has taken that stand.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Whether you like or dislike Christine Oliver, she has taken
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: that stand. I can't say that about Shepis because he
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  Speaker 2: has not taken that stand.
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  Speaker 3: So I will say this, at least drag has educated himself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, correct. So, so he got on.
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  Speaker 3: The race and when he called you, he didn't even
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  Speaker 3: know what the issues were. So at least you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: at least you opened his eyes to that. And then
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  Speaker 3: he figured that would be something he would run on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, perhaps it enlightened him enough to say, I believe
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  Speaker 2: in that. And I support that. So all I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: to you is, Listen, that is the single most important issue.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this. Let's talk about Christine Oliver. I
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: want to share something with you.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about tax and Dave Thomas. Well, who is
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  Speaker 3: Dave Thomas endorsed?
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  Speaker 1: Christine Oliver, you told me.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, no need to debate the tax issues.
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  Speaker 3: There's three people running. You're a big supporter of Dave
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  Speaker 3: Thomas and all he's done. You have him on your program.
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  Speaker 3: He supported Christine Oliver. So I would end that discussion
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  Speaker 3: there with taxes. You know, and I'll go back to
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  Speaker 3: what I said before. When I hear people attacking their opponents,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: instead of telling me why I should vote for them,
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  Speaker 3: that raises a flag. And, you know, all we hear
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  Speaker 3: from one camp is attacks on the others, but never
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: telling us what they're going to do. They always say, well,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: what's the plan? What's the plan? Well, what's your plan?
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  Speaker 3: What's your plan?
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Generic lines that really mean nothing to me.
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  Speaker 3: I think you and I are on the same page.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: I'm running errands the other day. I'm running out of
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: my house and I'm running late. I have a bad
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: habit of doing that. I can be ready two hours
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: early to leave, but then get distracted and run out
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the door 15 minutes later than I should have. So
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: the other day, I'm running out my door, and there's
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: some lady out there knocking on doors, going door to door.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: And guess who it was? Christine Oliver. She was at
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  Speaker 3: Ted the Conservative's house.
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  Speaker 1: In your neighborhood?
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  Speaker 3: In my neighborhood. And I thought, wow. I felt so bad.
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  Speaker 3: I introduced myself to her. I apologized that I didn't
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: have time to talk, and I had to run. But
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: I thought, wow. I have not seen a politician at
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  Speaker 3: the county level go door-to-door in decades. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: who the last one was, to be honest with you.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: And I listened to people who hide behind these fake
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: social media accounts, who lack the courage to step into
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: the arena, like I was thinking about. And I said,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: here's a lady who is being attacked every day because...
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: They don't have plans for themselves, so they attack her.
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  Speaker 3: They can't tell us what they're going to do, so
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: they attack her. And you know what it made me
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: think of? I'm not sure if you're aware of a
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: speech Theodore Roosevelt gave many, many years ago, over 100
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  Speaker 3: years ago. It was called The Citizenship of the Republic.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: A part of that speech is etched in history. And
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I was reminded of it yesterday. And I'm going to say,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I'm going to read it to you real quick. It says,
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  Speaker 3: it's not the critic who counts. not the man who
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: points out how strong man stumbles, but where the doer
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: to the man who is actually in the arena, whose
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again and again,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: because there's no effort without error and shortcoming. But who
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: does actually strive to do the deeds? Who knows great enthusiasm,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: who at best knows in the end of triumph of
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: never be with those cold and timid souls who never
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: knew victory or defeat. So we got someone who has
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: put her name in the race.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: All right, stand by for one second. I'll let you
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: finish your thoughts after the break. And more of your
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: calls straight ahead. Ron, Verb 352 from the Kingdom of Mahoney.
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  Speaker 8: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. With Ron Furbar. All right, Ted, your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I'll just kind of wrap it up here.
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  Speaker 3: I admire Christine Oliver's courage, and I respect her. I
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: respect anyone, especially a woman, who's willing to stand on
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: her own two feet and be attacked every day by
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: her opponents because they can't run on their own two feet,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: so they've got to try to cut her legs off,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: you know? And I thought we had moved past those
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: days of politics. I thought we were getting more quality people.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: But it seems like maybe we're going in the opposite direction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I think many people fear strong women. They're intimidated by them.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Or deep down inside, they hate them because they aren't them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't speculate on any of that. I just go
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: back to say, listen, what's your philosophy? Do you put
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the taxpayer first or do you put government taking your
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: money and spending it first? What is your basic philosophy?
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Who do you put first? And Christine Oliver puts the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: taxpayer first on both of the issues that a commissioner
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: has the ability to give relief to you as a
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: property taxpayer. She supports him. She believes in him. Dragish
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  Speaker 2: supports him and believes in him. So that's what matters
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 3: You know what else, too? She doesn't pretend to be
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: a police officer or the corrections officer. She's out there
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: raising money for people, trying to help people. You know,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I just don't understand the personal attacks. Run on your
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: own record and tell us why you're the better candidate. Amen.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Amen, brother.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Appreciate that. NewsRadio 570. You're on the air.
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: Yes, how are you doing, Ron? Your callers are very amusing.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: Before I get to my points, I was going to
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: say you sounded just like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the comments
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: you were making on her Wednesday interview with Tucker about
• 37:54
  Speaker 9: AI and jobs.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you better worry about it.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I was reading it. having a text discussion with someone
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: this morning about it. What's going to be happening with
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: AI is a serious problem.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Stand by.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Let me do my headlines. I'll come right back to you, okay?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Intelligent caller on the line. I want to hear what
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: he has to say. And more of your calls.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Be patient.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Long segment coming up. Ron Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Good to be with you.
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: From ABC News. I'm Brian Clark, conflicting messages about conflict
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: from President Trump, telling reporters that since he's unsatisfied with
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: Iran's latest proposal, he's considering renewing military options.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Do we want to go and just blast the hell
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  Speaker 2: out of them and finish them forever, or do we
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: want to try and.
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: Make a deal? Let me go to the options. Do
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: you want to go blast the hell out of them
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: and finish them forever? I prefer not.
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: But the White House says the war is over, at
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: least legally speaking. ABC's Stephen Portnoy says that relates to
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: the 1973 War Powers Resolution.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: This formal 60-day notification to Congress is in keeping with
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: the War Powers Resolution. Citing the ongoing ceasefire, the letter
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: from the President says hostilities with Iran have, quote, terminated.
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: That language comes right out of the law, which says
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: the President must terminate any use of the military after
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: 60 days of a conflict unless Congress votes to authorize force.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: Despite the letter, which carries his signature, President Trump tells
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: reporters he believes the 1973 law is unconstitutional and he
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: won't ask Congress to authorize the war.
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: The president also said he's still considering bailing out Spirit Airlines.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: but the Wall Street Journal reports the struggling carrier is
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: preparing to cease operations. An 18-year-old's now in custody one
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: day after authorities say he walked into a bank in Berea, Kentucky,
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: shot and killed two employees, searched for cash, then fled,
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: leading police on a high-speed chase.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: We were able to go from a violent offense occurring
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: to a charge within 24 hours. And that's what is
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: really testament to these law enforcement officers that are here today.
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: That's Jason Parman with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: Eastern District of Kentucky. 18-year-old Braylon Weaver was linked to
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: a silver BMW. Investigators say they traced the car to
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: a Facebook account that was under Weaver's name. Governors are
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: considering what to do about their congressional maps after Wednesday's
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: Supreme Court decision. Georgia's governor says there will not be
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: a redistricting prior to November's midterms. You're listening to ABC News.