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Tuesday 3pm hour 05/19/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Well, here we go. Welcome, boys and girls. 3.06 in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon. Ron Ferb, News Radio 570 WKBN, by the way. It's,
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  Speaker 1: what is it, 85 degrees. Not a bad day. In
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  Speaker 1: my neck of the woods, we had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of rain this morning, but all in all, not too shabby.
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  Speaker 1: A little humid out there. Is it too soon to
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  Speaker 1: complain about the heat and humidity? Probably so, right? But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's Tuesday, May 19th, 85 degrees with you till 6
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  Speaker 1: o'clock tonight. Then the Guardians pregame here on NewsRadio 570.
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  Speaker 1: Today will be an interesting day. Tonight should be an
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  Speaker 1: interesting night. This Thomas Massey race in Kentucky, which is
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  Speaker 1: really strange. I mean, it's really strange how Trump has
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  Speaker 1: turned on a lot of his best supporters who supported
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  Speaker 1: him over the years and And he's really just kind
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  Speaker 1: of turned on him. I guess if you don't agree
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  Speaker 1: with Trump 100 percent of the time, then you're no good.
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  Speaker 1: But so there is this is going to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the most, if not the most expensive congressional race ever,
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  Speaker 1: with all kinds of money being poured in from. outside
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  Speaker 1: the district by special interest groups. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: say from that AIPAC or whatever the Israeli lobbyist group is,
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  Speaker 1: and those folks are really pinpointing Massey. He's against all
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  Speaker 1: foreign aid. Massey is against all foreign aid. He says,
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  Speaker 1: we're a country that's $ 40 trillion in debt, and we
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to be given foreign aid to anybody, which incidentally,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. The billions we give to Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: the billions we give to Israel or any other country,
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  Speaker 1: we simply can't afford it as a country being $ 40
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  Speaker 1: trillion in debts. And we continue to hand out all
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  Speaker 1: this money, oblivious to our own lot in life, our
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  Speaker 1: own debts and deficits. So when I hear Massey talk
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  Speaker 1: about the fact he's against all foreign aid, I am too.
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  Speaker 1: Because America first, this is where I live. I'm about America.
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  Speaker 1: Not about giving all these other countries all this money
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  Speaker 1: while we go further in debt and ultimately jeopardize our
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  Speaker 1: own financial future when it comes to Social Security, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Medicare, when it comes to many of
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  Speaker 1: the programs that are here that benefit our fellow Americans.
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  Speaker 1: And so I agree with those people that are opposed
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  Speaker 1: to that type of situation. So we will talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping for a G2 appearance today, early, to get
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  Speaker 1: his take. I think it'll be too soon. What'll be
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  Speaker 1: interesting will be a conversation with G2 tomorrow on the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of this Massey thing. So we shall see what
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  Speaker 1: happens here. You're on the air. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good afternoon, sir. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: It's Rich, the pharmacist. Well, I gotta be pretty good
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  Speaker 1: if I'm starting a Tuesday off with you.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't go that far, but we've been talking
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  Speaker 2: a lot about the economy. Yeah, I'm fighting what's going around.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody I know has had it so far. My wife
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  Speaker 2: had it, my son-in-law had it, my granddaughter had it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just going around.
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  Speaker 1: What is it, a cold or allergies?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a cold. It's just a good old-fashioned summer cold,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of runniness and congestion. It's probably
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  Speaker 2: COVID-19 or a strain of it, Rich. It's no longer COVID.
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  Speaker 2: It's coldvid. That's basically what it's turned into is a cold.
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  Speaker 2: But everybody's still running in to get their vaccination.
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  Speaker 1: It can be deadly to the elderly, so I'll keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll keep an eye on you. You've got a
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  Speaker 2: couple more years on you.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So what's on your minds?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've been talking a lot about the economy, so
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  Speaker 2: I kind of just, if I could, want to change
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  Speaker 2: the subject to something that, because I was reading some
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  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal articles lately and other articles, I think CNBC,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody right now, it's college graduation season, and kids
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  Speaker 2: are getting accepted for next year. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I think is just so overrated is there's
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  Speaker 2: so much focus on these kids getting into their dream schools.
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  Speaker 2: You'll see all these articles, and I mean, mountains, their
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  Speaker 2: parents would spend mountains of money to try to get
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  Speaker 2: their kid into an Ivy League school or a public
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  Speaker 2: Ivy someplace, you know, like I think Miami of Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: they consider a public Ivy or University of Virginia, Duke, Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 2: And I've always wondered, to see what your opinion is,
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  Speaker 2: some of the listeners are, do you really think it
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  Speaker 2: makes a whole heck of a lot of difference? Because
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  Speaker 2: I think with certain exceptions, I don't think it makes
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  Speaker 2: a darn bit of difference for the most part where
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  Speaker 2: you go to school, especially if you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: a degree where you're going to just go out and
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  Speaker 2: work a normal job. If you're going to be an engineer,
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  Speaker 2: a pharmacist, even doctors, lawyers, well, no, lawyers, Ivy League
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  Speaker 2: opens up doors for you that otherwise aren't open. But
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  Speaker 2: I've never really looked at it. I can honestly say
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever looked at the credentials of
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  Speaker 2: any of the doctors that have treated me. I've never said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: can I see your diploma? What school did you go to?
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got these kids that just spend thousands
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  Speaker 2: and thousands of dollars at schools, these little Division III schools,
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  Speaker 2: because they want to continue their high school athletic career.
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  Speaker 2: They were maybe a decent football, baseball, basketball, whatever athlete
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  Speaker 2: in college. They're obviously not Division I or Division II.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to YSU. They're not going to Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: They're not getting any athletic scholarships like that. But then
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  Speaker 2: you'll have signing ceremonies. WKBN is always having signing ceremonies
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  Speaker 2: for kids that are going to Mount Union to play
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  Speaker 2: soccer or going to some school I've never heard of,
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  Speaker 2: some tiny little school somewhere that I've never heard of,
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  Speaker 2: to continue their high school athletic career. And the only
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  Speaker 2: thing that I think of is very few of these
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  Speaker 2: kids are going there and getting a free ride, if any.
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  Speaker 2: Because for the most part, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these Division III schools don't pay full rides. They might
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  Speaker 2: give you a couple scholars, which you otherwise wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: gotten in that. But mom and dad are probably still
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  Speaker 2: on the hook every year. Or you are, because most
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  Speaker 2: of these kids sign student loans and take out the
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  Speaker 2: debt that Joe Biden told them they'll never have to
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  Speaker 2: pay off. But they borrow, in many instances, $ 40, 000, $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 2: a year to go to a Division III college and
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  Speaker 2: continue their athletic career. where they could have gone to YSU,
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  Speaker 2: probably had decent grades anyway, because most kids do today.
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  Speaker 2: You have decent ACT and decent grades, you're probably going
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  Speaker 2: to YSU for $ 6, 000, $ 7, 000 at the most, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times less. And it just seems to me such
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  Speaker 2: a waste of time and effort that these people are
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  Speaker 2: putting in on this stuff. It just dawned on me
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  Speaker 2: this morning, and I thought, well, rather than sit here
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  Speaker 2: and talk about Iran and inflation and everything else, it
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  Speaker 2: would just be another topic I want to get off
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  Speaker 2: my chest, because it's just something that I think people were,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many parents, I think, that focus on this
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  Speaker 2: or kids that focus on this. And I just think
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  Speaker 2: it's ridiculous most of the time. So I just want
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  Speaker 2: to see what you thought of that.
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  Speaker 1: I find myself in agreement with you. I think it
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  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. How about that? We're not even going to
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  Speaker 1: disagree on that. I never, and a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: when these kids go to some of these schools and
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  Speaker 1: they get a scholarship, there's still huge expenses, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: that the parents have to pay. room and board, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. So I think it's ridiculous. I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: So far, we're in agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was just a topic I figured I'd
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  Speaker 2: throw out there today just to see if other people
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  Speaker 2: agree with us, disagree with us. Yeah, Dan Ryan used
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  Speaker 2: to say, well, run up the flagpole and see if
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  Speaker 2: anybody salutes.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. So let's see if anybody salutes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you think we're going to end up
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  Speaker 2: doing in Iran? Because today was supposed to be bomber day,
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  Speaker 2: and then he pulled back on it. And I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen anything in the news today that says they've made
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  Speaker 2: an agreement.
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  Speaker 1: I don't... What do I think is going to happen?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're in somewhat of a quagmire.
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  Speaker 1: So do I.
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  Speaker 2: I just..
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know where I stand. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it was a good idea from the very beginning. I
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  Speaker 1: make it public. I just say it again. I think
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  Speaker 1: Trump was duped into this as a result of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's– there's a couple of things that I
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  Speaker 1: would say to you that I say to everybody that
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  Speaker 1: really has bothered me about Trump lately. And that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean you hate him or you're going to vote against
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  Speaker 1: him or you'd vote for a Democrat. What bothers me
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  Speaker 1: about Trump is his reversal once again on the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 1: I found it very odd and very strange. I still do.
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  Speaker 1: particularly because he campaigned on it. Then it was like,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden it was like, oh, you're still
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  Speaker 1: talking about that? And I found that interesting, his reversal
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  Speaker 1: on Epstein. I also find it interesting, his against regime
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  Speaker 1: change and never-ending battles in the Middle East, getting involved
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  Speaker 1: in this particular situation. And so the third thing I
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  Speaker 1: find disturbing is how he's turning on many of his
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  Speaker 1: supporters who helped him get elected but don't agree with
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  Speaker 1: them on everything, and all of a sudden they're like
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  Speaker 1: poison to him. And he's very mean, bitter, and insulting him.
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  Speaker 1: Those three aspects of him lately, I don't much care for.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I voted for the guy every time
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  Speaker 2: he's run for anything. But he's not without his flaws.
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  Speaker 2: He's probably one of the biggest narcissists I've ever seen
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  Speaker 2: elected to office. And that's saying something, because politicians tend
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  Speaker 2: to be extremely narcissistic. And he does have a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a vindictive streak in him.
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  Speaker 1: But why would you be vindictive against people that don't
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  Speaker 1: agree with everything you do? I don't care if it's
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson or it's Massey or it's Bobart or some
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  Speaker 1: of these people. They don't agree with his reversals on Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: They don't agree with his situation with the war in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East. But if they agree with him on, what, 85%
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  Speaker 1: of the rest of the stuff he does, why do
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  Speaker 1: you say that there bad news? I mean, why do
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  Speaker 1: you insult Tucker Carlson? He's low IQ. Was he low
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  Speaker 1: IQ when he was on stage campaigning for you and
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  Speaker 1: you had him there? I mean, you get what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it's like, it's just a trait
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  Speaker 1: I don't really much care for. And I sit back
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  Speaker 1: and say, gee, it seems to me affordability, the issue
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  Speaker 1: is back and back strong. And it also seems to
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  Speaker 1: me that getting people out of this country who came
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  Speaker 1: here illegally certainly has disappeared off the radar screen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, unfortunately, there's nobody to negotiate with over there.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest issue we have. We killed
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  Speaker 2: all the leadership pretty much in the first minute of
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  Speaker 2: the war. And now the people, the diplomat people... don't
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  Speaker 2: have the power that the people holding the guns have,
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  Speaker 2: and the people holding the guns aren't going to capitulate.
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  Speaker 2: So you're kind of in a quagmire. And I am starting,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, while I do think, you know, and I've
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  Speaker 2: said this all along, while I think in the long
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  Speaker 2: run this is going to end up being the right
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  Speaker 2: move to do, I do think it's going to have
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  Speaker 2: some consequences, especially in this November's election, because I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I look at the stock market and how well the
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  Speaker 2: stock market's doing, and I just don't understand it. So
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  Speaker 2: I would love to have somebody that's a financial person
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  Speaker 2: explain to me why the market is doing as well
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  Speaker 2: as it is, considering where we're at in the economy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would say this to you. As I would say,
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  Speaker 1: the market did really well under Biden. But I've always
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  Speaker 1: said there's a disconnect between Main Street and Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: There genuinely is. You cut 10,000 jobs, put a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people out of work, the stock of the company
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  Speaker 1: goes up because you did cost reduction. You follow me?
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  Speaker 1: So there is that disconnect.
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  Speaker 2: So..
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  Speaker 1: Where am I as far as... I just think there's
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  Speaker 1: some of the stuff. I don't think there's a good
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  Speaker 1: way out of this situation. I said again, I think
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  Speaker 1: he underestimated them. And as far as I think the
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  Speaker 1: administration thought this would be over relatively quick, they kind
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  Speaker 1: of said that. And it's not over relatively quick. And
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't appear that it's going to be over anytime soon,
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  Speaker 1: that they're dug in and they're not going to agree
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of the stuff that Trump insists they
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  Speaker 1: agree to.
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  Speaker 4: So..
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  Speaker 1: Does this just, as you say, quagmire, just continue to
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  Speaker 1: go on like this? I agree with you. I'm worried
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  Speaker 1: about the American economy. I'm worried about this country. And
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  Speaker 1: it seems like he's taken his eye off the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see more people that came here illegally
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  Speaker 1: out of the country. And I want to see the
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  Speaker 1: affordability issue addressed in the country. And I was never
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  Speaker 1: up at night worried about Iran before this happens. And
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  Speaker 1: it might end up being worse because really they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the straight, they're kind of calling, saying we
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  Speaker 1: got more power here with it than we've used in
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  Speaker 1: the past and we might start using that more often
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  Speaker 1: based on the geography where they're located. So did he
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  Speaker 1: create a monster by doing this? I just put it
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  Speaker 1: out there. I mean, do you think it's okay if
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  Speaker 1: this goes on another six months?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, but don't you find, aren't you a little
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  Speaker 2: bit mystified as to why the rest of the world hasn't,
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  Speaker 2: because as much as it's hurting us with the price
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  Speaker 2: of oil, it's destroying the rest of the world. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to really bother the Chinese because they import the
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  Speaker 2: vast majority of the oil from that area and Europe.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to, I think it's affecting us
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  Speaker 1: not just in gas prices, but also with oil. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's affecting our economy. And I think as
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  Speaker 1: time goes on, it can make it even worse. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm concerned about. Listen, I live in the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. I'm worried about what's going on
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  Speaker 1: here right now. I believe in America first. I was
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  Speaker 1: not up at night worried about Iran at all. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we dropped the bunker buster. I thought that took care
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  Speaker 1: of everything. I thought whatever was left was buried in
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. Nothing to worry about. Mission accomplished. See you later.
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  Speaker 1: But now all of a sudden we're back and we
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  Speaker 1: bombed the hell out of them again. Well, okay. So
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  Speaker 1: you say we've taken out all this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not coming to the negotiating table or surrendering
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is that you want them to do.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been how long since that's happened. So you
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  Speaker 1: keep saying, well, what are we going to do? You're
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  Speaker 1: going to bomb them some more? Well, what makes you
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  Speaker 1: think that's going to work if you do it again?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that would be my question to anybody involved.
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  Speaker 1: At what point do you say, okay, these people are
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  Speaker 1: dug in. They're not going to agree to what you
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  Speaker 1: want them to agree to. It doesn't surprise me. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I wish we'd get the hell out of the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: That's my thought. And I think he's hurt himself politically.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to worry because he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: run for re-election, but he's hurt the Democrat Party. I'm
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  Speaker 1: afraid that he can potentially lose the midterms. I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand it. As frustrated as I can get with Trump,
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  Speaker 1: I voted for him as well three times. I would
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  Speaker 1: never vote for Sherrod Brown or a Democrat. But I
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  Speaker 1: think there are plenty of other people that say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: It's economy stupid, and they will vote for whoever the
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  Speaker 1: opposition party is when they look around and see their
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle declining, just as they did when Biden was president.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think if you look out, what even
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  Speaker 2: worries me even more is we're pushing to the point
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  Speaker 2: where we're getting close to two years until 2028 when
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  Speaker 2: we pick a new guy. And if the economy goes
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  Speaker 2: south and the Democrats capture both houses and the presidency,
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  Speaker 2: I think they will do things that people have never
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  Speaker 2: really thought were possible. I think they will get rid
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  Speaker 2: of the filibuster. I think they will start to pack
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, look at adding states, D.C., Puerto Rico,
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  Speaker 2: things like that, and abuse their power. And that worries me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you fault the Republican Party for not acting, taking
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  Speaker 1: all these executive orders and making them into law? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I find a lot of the Republicans being in charge
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  Speaker 1: being pretty mediocre that they haven't... taken the agenda and
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  Speaker 1: made it more than executive orders. And I fault them
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  Speaker 1: for that. I leave you with that. I got to pause.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Rich.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: All right, more calls ahead. News Radio 570 WKBN and
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  Speaker 1: Howdy ho, 324 here on a Tuesday afternoon. It's 86 degrees.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Ferb, and you're on the air. Hello there.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? I'm well.
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  Speaker 1: J.J.
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  Speaker 3: The liberal.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, did you happen to see him talking to the
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  Speaker 4: press today?
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  Speaker 1: I did not.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to, in between one of your commercials, just
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  Speaker 4: Google it real quick. As he's speaking and saying, once again, how...
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: It's not he doesn't care about the gas prices and
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: how it's affecting us normal Americans. And that he just
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: doesn't want Iran to have a nuclear war, a weapon.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: While in the background, you can hear a sawing going
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: off and trucks going around. And he's building a $ 1
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: billion ballroom, which he claims is going to be donations. Now,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: my question to you is this. I have my house.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: I say I want to move in another two years.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: I want to live in it two years. And I say, well,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: my house is worth $ 100, 000. Then I go, you know what,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: this summer I'm going to put an in-ground pool. So
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: that in-ground pool goes in, it's $ 10, 000. So I use
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: it for about a year, a year and a half.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: And then when I go to sell it, I only
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: sell my house still for the $ 100, 000. I'm not going
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: to add the $ 10, 000 that I spent out of my
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: pocket to a pool that I only use for a
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: year and a half. Now, why would anybody do that?
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Either they're not paying for it, or you can't tell
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: me that he's investing something, and these people are investing
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: something that a Democrat could possibly have in another year
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: and a half. I just want you guys to just
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: ponder that for a few moments.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you think? I mean, you build a ballroom,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and once you're out, I mean, the future administrations would
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: use it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: No, Ron. Think, why would you do that? Why would
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: I do that? I'm either not planning on leaving the
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: White House or the American people are paying for it,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: not my donors and not me. You guys got to
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: think about that. Just please do me a favor. I'll
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: call you the next couple of days. Think about my
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: question there. Anyway, he's telling us we can't lower gas
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: prices while saying that he has huge, huge boats going
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: to Alaska, to Texas, to Louisiana to be refined. Now,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: we're the only one of the only major countries that
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: refined it. Russia's the other one. We refine all the
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: oil in the world. So if we're getting this oil
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: and refining it, why are the gas prices still high?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: And I just don't understand when you're making a comment
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: like that. There's people like me that go, well, wait
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: a second. He was so excited about it. He was almost,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: you know, had a little weaker, got excited. He was
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: saying that how important it was that he would get
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: all this oil, that it was going to states where
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: they do the refinery, refining of the oil, but the
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: gas prices are going higher. That doesn't make any sense
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: other than if somebody's just ripping you off. Okay, I
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: don't have to be a genius to know that somebody's
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: playing a little game with me. And it just bothers
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: me that he can't do that. He can't even, you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I understand your point about being upset at people that
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: are working age of 25 and they're sitting in their
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: mom's basement smoking out of a bong. Okay, I don't
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: want that. When I was 25, I was working three jobs.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: The thing is, is that I don't want those people
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: getting freebies. So we should be investing more people into
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: making sure that those things get caught. Other than that,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: there are people that genuinely need some things, but he
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: wants to spend $ 1 billion claiming that if these people
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: are donating, why don't they donate it to the people
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: that need it? If I had a couple hundred million
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: that I could throw around, don't you think you would
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: want to go out and help somebody? And I'm asking
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: you these questions because I pace in my garage all
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: the time wondering, am I wrong? Am I wrong to
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: get to it? Am I not thinking correctly that if
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I'm going to, why would I spend the money on
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: a ballroom that I'm only going to use for a
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: year and a half when I know that maybe a
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Democrat's going to come in and use that and they're
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: going to really enjoy it for four years? It doesn't
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: make any sense. And I'm just upset that, you know, again,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Rich is on there talking about how it's a Democrat.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: It's a Democrat. This war is under his watch, not
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: my watch. Okay, we were able to keep Iran under
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: arrest because the money you guys claimed that we gave them,
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Obama gave them, that was money that we grabbed from
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: them for the... What do you call them?
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, God.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: You want to go against the country and you want
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: to keep them there. Oh, God, help Iran. Anyway, that
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: was their money. That was Iran's money. And we took it. Chances.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: We took it as a that they had to meet
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: the requirements by letting us show up any time we
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: wanted to check that they're doing only so much with
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: the uranium. I can't remember the word the dirty winter.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: So we have to give them.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Can I come back and come back to you, please?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: For just a second, yes. All right, hang in. I'll
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be back.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: News Radio 570 WKVN.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Back to it, News Radio 570 WKVN. And Ron, Verb
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: 335 here on a Tuesday afternoon. Nice day, 85 degrees.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: All right, you're pacing back and forth in the garage.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I'm cool now, 15 seconds. The thing is, you guys
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: always say that I hate Trump more than I love America.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Because no matter what he would do, I would still
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: hate him, which I'll claim that I don't hate him.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Second of all, you guys hate Biden just as much
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: as I supposedly hate Trump. So that means you guys
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: have Biden syndrome. You have a Biden syndrome on you guys.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: You guys got to get looked after, man. You got
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: a problem there. And second, the last thing I want
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: to say is the whole idea is for them not
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: to have a nuclear weapon. What needs to happen for
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: us to be convinced that they don't? Do you understand?
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Do they get it? The pinky swear? It's crossed my heart.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: What do they have to do? And we had an
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: agreement already set up. Think about it again. What needs
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: to be the end game for me to be guaranteed
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: and me to feel comfortable that they are not going
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: to have a nuclear weapon or this is going to
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: go on for years? Thank you, my friend. I appreciate
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: you listening.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, JJ. The liberal on fire today.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: News Radio 570. Wait a second here. Let me do this.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: And you're on the air.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Hello, Ron.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Hello, sir.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: A slightly different subject, but you don't get to hear
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: the commercials, but we do. And I noticed there was
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: a commercial for 570 WKBN during the break. And it
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: says it's the Youngstown's only talk radio station. What's 1240?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: You mean as far as the ID? The news talk station.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: What's the other station?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: 1240.
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: What do they do?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Those are sports stations.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: Well, let them do sports and you stick to talk
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: so that I don't have to change the station.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: As soon as the Indians come on.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: And I don't have to find Clay and Buck on
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: another station when... When the Indians are playing in the afternoon.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the rub. All right. I can appreciate your input.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: One thing that you're going to find is we're not
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: going to be able to please everybody. I can tell
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you this. When the Guardians come on, listenership is pretty
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: solid and pretty strong. I mean, I can appreciate the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: fact maybe you don't follow sports. Maybe you don't follow
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the Cavaliers having a great season. Maybe you don't follow
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: baseball or maybe you're not interested in football. But a
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: hell of a lot of people are. And because that's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: what it's all about, we can we've carried.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I understand.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: So we're not another station in the area that covers that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: OK, we don't own that station. We have the rights
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to the Guardians, and we're going to carry the Guardians
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: just as we have the rights to the Browns. That's
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: just a part of it. I can't help it that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you dislike it. Well, then don't listen to it. But
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I can tell you this much. A lot of people
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: tune in for that and not necessarily to the talk show.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people who tune in to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: hear the Guardians that stick around and listen to talk
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: radio or it exposes them to talk radio. It's more
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of a positive than it is a negative.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I can appreciate that, sir.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: I just wanted to express my frustration when I got
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: to find another station to listen to Feinbach or something
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: like that.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: I'd rather stick and listen to 570, but sometimes I can't.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I know, but you can always come back. I appreciate it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: All right. I get it. As I say, you're never
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: going to be able to please everybody on everything. I mean,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: it's just a lot of people just don't understand the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: idiosyncrasies of everything. Like a lot of these network shows
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: are owned by iHeart. I mean, that's their network, premier network.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: So they are a part of the iHeart family, if
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you will. News Radio 570, WKBN. Ron Ferb, you're on
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the air.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Ron.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Well, look at who we have here. It's the boss lady.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: And I listened.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I listened.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: You listened to what?
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: I went... I went and listened to the reels, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I pulled up the articles on that. Executive over it. Oh,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: my God.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: Dude, that's insane.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: I know, isn't it? I don't believe them.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: First of all.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: He looks like Beaker from The Muppet Show.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Did you happen to read, don't say it, her nickname
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: for him? Did she get that?
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I know. How did I miss the nickname?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: You'll have to find the nickname. But as I understand it, J.P.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Morgan offered him $ 20 million, and he turned it down.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they're saying, like, if he had with the evidence,
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: and all her co-workers said nothing. Like, she wasn't even
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: at the places where he said she was. I think
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: it's so bizarre. I think he's lying. Really?
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Really.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: He looks like Beaker from The Muppet Show. I couldn't
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: even get past all of it. I kept looking at
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: him and looking at her and looking back and forth
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: and going, what is going on?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: You know, this is odd because I, too, have done this,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: did the same thing and probably had the same thoughts
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: that you're expressing. I thought, what is this? This doesn't
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: seem like it makes sense to me based on what
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, she could have picked a better looking sex slave.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Right, apparently so. But can you believe that? Can you
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: believe it?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: No, I can't. Oh, my gosh. That was crazy.
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a hell of a story involving J.P.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Morgan.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what office that was out of,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: if that was out of New York or where that
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: was out of.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: You know what? I didn't catch that either. I feel
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: like it was New York.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: It had to be one of those big cities. But
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: why would they offer him $ 20 million if they didn't
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think there was smoke in his fire?
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Probably just to make him shut up and go back
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: to the Muppet show.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but $ 20 million is a lot of money. I
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: can't believe the guy turned down $ 20 million if they
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: offered him that. I mean, I don't know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But who knows? Apparently, he saved the text messages and
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. So who knows? I mean, it'd
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: be interesting. If it goes to court, I can hardly
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: wait to tune in and watch.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: That'll be good listening.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, to say the least.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: I got to disagree with the pharmacist.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Why is that?
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: On the D3 athletes.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Really? Explain, please.
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: One, they're more battle-tested than any of the divisions. These
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: kids have a strong focus on academics. I mean, the
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: one-on-one development they get from their coaches. I mean, you
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: can't have a low GPA and compete at that level.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: And you're talking... top athletes in the country. I mean,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: only the top 7% of all athletes make it D3, 2,
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: or 1. And D1 is, you know, less than 1%,
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: So these kids have to carry a full..
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: First of all, to even.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: Get in to the D3 school, you can't be a dummy.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, you have to have a high GPA, high
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: ACT score. So now you have to balance competing at
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: a high level... And many times they're in tournaments wrestling
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: against or playing against D1 or D2 athletes. And you
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: have to get the grades. I would hire a D3
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: athlete all day over a D1 athlete.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: And the reason I say that is I.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Love hiring athletes. Because athletes have grit, determination. They've learned
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: all those life lessons. I mean, companies spend millions trying
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: to coach and teach athletes.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: The skills that these athletes have to have.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: And that's not a soft skill. I mean, it's how
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: they operate every single day. in the workforce.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Companies pay millions to try to teach what these kids.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Already have instilled in them. How to overcome obstacles, how
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: to persevere, show up on time, you do extra. It
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: strong work ethic. Mentally, they're physically, it keeps them physically fit.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: And the networking in a D3 school will outperform a
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: D1 any day. The D3 kids have this network and
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: they are literally, truly brothers. Those coaches go above and beyond.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: They will get them a job, find them a job,
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: help them get a job. They bring in their scholarship.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, they do get some financial gifting. It's nowhere
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: near And it is expensive as heck. But if you're
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: fortunate enough that your kid can compete at that level
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: and you can help pay for some of that, it's
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: well worth it. I mean, I'm telling you, I think
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: their success rate, first of all, their college graduation rate
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: far exceeds a D2 or a D1 athlete. They graduate
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: at a higher rate.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And you think they're a better person when you hire
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: people as you do employees. You look for that and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you think they're a better employee because of that training?
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: They are. Yep, they are.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: They're always mentally tougher. They always work through tough challenges.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Anybody who's that competitive, I love it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: They're born to win.
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: They want to win.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: They don't like losing. They always are looking for another
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: way to rework the problem. And you can't teach that.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: You got these kids sitting home like slugs. You get
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: somebody who's fit, who cares about themselves, the way they
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: present themselves, has grit. determination, doesn't want to lose. You can't, you, you,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: it pays off. It pays off. They make the best employees.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So I hire them all day long. So let me
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: ask you again with, with your knowledge, how do you
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: think the economy is right now? How do you assess
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the economy?
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I would go back to what your caller said yesterday.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: I think for those that are, that are in the
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: middle upper class, it's going well. I think if you're not,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: it's rough. But I will say that even people that
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: are middle, upper class, I have many colleagues. I have
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: two in particular. One is one of the best employees
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: who's ever worked for me. In fact, I brought him
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: every place I've ever worked. He's brilliant. He's so freaking good.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: If I had a spot, I'd hire him tomorrow. I
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: don't have anywhere to put him. He is still looking
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: for a job. It's been a year, and I don't
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: even know who possibly in the industry that he's.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: In is better than him.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: And he still can't get a job right now.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: What do you attribute that to? Does that make sense
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to you?
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think companies are not investing in initiatives like.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: They were before.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: They're not investing back into the company right now. They're
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: kind of holding tight to make sure that their margins
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: come out okay. They're not spending. A lot of these
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: companies are just sitting tight. They're trying to drive more
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: productivity and less hires to still... A lot of companies
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: are getting smacked with, and I'll say, tariffs and the
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: uncertainty of everything that's going on. So the good companies
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: are going to hold back. The other companies aren't going
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: to pay attention and they're going to hire people and
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: then lay them off or get rid of them. Or
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: you're just going to not replace attrition, right? So a
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: lot of companies that do have the means, they'll just
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: slow play a little bit for a And as people
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: have turned out, they just won't backfill. And you're seeing
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: that happening, too.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: So basically, like they say on Wall Street, uncertainty is
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: not a good thing. You're saying from your level in
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the business world, uncertainty is a bad thing because we
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: don't know where the war is going or energy prices
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  Speaker 1: are going or consumer confidence is going as a result
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  Speaker 1: of any of this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, when you have shareholders, you've got to deliver
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: revenue and margin, both. And if you don't deliver revenue,
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: you better at least deliver margin. And the only way
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: you can do that, if you can't deliver the revenue
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: and you have to deliver the margin, is you have
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: to cut costs because your revenue is not coming in.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: So if you're not cutting costs, your shareholders are going
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: to kill you. So you have to, you have to
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: do that. And when you don't know what the cost
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: is going to be, or the cost is higher and
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: you're selling a product and people aren't buying at the
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: same rate, your revenue is dropping. Well, if your revenue drops,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: you got to got it. You have to deliver the margin.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Margin is King, but, but yeah, I.
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: Mean, it's, it's, it's tough.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: It's tough. It's tough.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm just looking at– when I sit
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: back and when I talk about the economy, I think
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: it's in a terrible spot right now. And I only
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: say this. I can't imagine where it would have been
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: if we would have never got involved in this situation
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: in Iran. I mean, you had oil prices $ 2. 50 a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: gallon and potentially going down. You had inflation going down.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Everything was going in the right direction. Everything. And then
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: as a result of this situation in Iran, everything is
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: reversed and gone in the wrong, in the totally opposite
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: wrong direction. Inflation's back, prices are up, there's the uncertainty
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: of it, and it continues just to drag on and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: on and on. And I don't think anything good is
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: coming from this situation at all. And I'm an American
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: first guy. I'm more concerned about what's happening in my
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: country to everybody's life as far as inflation is concerned.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and potentially what can happen at the midterms as a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: result of this choice in going to Iran. Because if
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: he's not successful in keeping a majority in the midterms,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: then the next two years are going to be just
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: totally meaningless because it's going to be impeachment, it's going
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to be all of this ridiculous stuff that's going to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: come back, and then he's blowing a great opportunity to
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: do great things over those two years that could benefit
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: all of us based on this situation in Iran. A
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: thousand percent.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: I agree a thousand percent.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: He better..
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: I'm praying that he hits it out of the park
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: here soon, very soon, because every company is getting impacted
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: by oil prices and the tariffs. And it's hurting. It's hurting.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: And you mentioned the other day about the job reports.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: I don't even pay attention anymore because they're all garbage.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: They're not accurate.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: When Biden was in, it was all garbage. And one
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: of the things you look at is when they say
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: that the jobs are up and you automatically, well, you
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: definitely want to look at, are they government jobs? Because
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: that's just government expansion and them taking more of our money.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Or are they private sector jobs? Well, they're claiming they're
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: private sector jobs. But I don't buy it anyway just
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: because of what I'm seeing. I'm seeing highly talented people
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: struggling to get $ 60, 000 a year jobs when they're used
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: to making $ 150, 000 a year. And they can't get a
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: $ 60, 000 a year job right now.
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: So I don't buy those numbers.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: But I would rather have Trump in office than, of course,
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: what our alternative was. But I think we're going to
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: be in trouble. We're going to be in trouble in
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: November if it doesn't turn around. And I'm not saying,
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: and I know we've talked about it, I'm not saying
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: that the VEC won't win the state. I'm wondering, though,
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: but I do think that Ohio is pink. And I
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: think Mahoning County is blue. I think we're going back
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: to blue in this county for a lot of reasons.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: What would those be? I don't know. I think Mahoney
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: County has always been a 50-50. Not always been. It's
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: been a heavily Democrat area. Trump has turned it to
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a more Republican area. But I don't think it's... Stand
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: by for me. It's the boss lady. I want to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: talk more about that with her. Take more of your
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: calls straight ahead. With you tonight till 6, Ron Verb News,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Radio 570, WKVN. Stay close.
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Radio 570, WKVN. All right, where's the boss lady, boss lady?
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: I'm right here.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: No, I would say that we've gone red because of Trump.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: But it's still got a lot of Democrat support. And
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it's basically, if I had to assess Monning County, I
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: would say it's a 50-50 county at present. Would you agree?
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I would.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: I would say, yeah, at best, 50-50. I think they
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: showed us in the primary that they were going to
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: show up. They showed up at higher rates than they
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: have before. You look at our county compared to the
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: other counties in the state, and in our county, every
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: levy passed. That wasn't the sentiment in the state. A
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: lot of them failed, all of those levies. You know,
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: a lot of levies failed.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I go back to say, how many of them were renewals, though?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, renewals, the odds overwhelmingly for passage. New levies,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: not so much.
• 39:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you look at, though, the age declining population,
• 39:07
  Speaker 11: government assistance, and you look at the percentage of jobs
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: in our county that are coming from government.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: So they're either government dependent or they're government dependent one
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: way or the other. They're either on assistance or employment,
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: even if it's through a subcontractor. I think that's hurting us,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: you know, obviously with the levies. I think they were big,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: you know, some of them were big fans of Trump.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: And now you've got the economy that is also struggling.
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: And I don't know.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: They We got to show up in November.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: And I just, I would not be shocked. I would
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: not be shocked if the county is blue and the
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: state squeaks it out.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be shocked at all.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Very interesting. I hope you're wrong on the county.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm dead wrong. And
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: even if we're right, here's the thing.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. I got to pause. I got to go.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll be back. ABC News, I'm Wayne Cabot.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Vice President Vance says a fund to pay aggrieved Americans
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: would be decided case by case. And about those who
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: attacked cops at the Capitol, ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: He did say the administration is not trying to give
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: money to anybody who attacked a police officer. And he
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: said that claims would be evaluated on a case by
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: case basis. He suggested some people who were duly convicted
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: by juries and sentenced by judges... may have been subject
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: to kangaroo courts with judges who mistreated them. Broadly, Vance
• 40:48
  Speaker 10: said the intent is to give money from this $ 1. 8
• 40:51
  Speaker 10: billion settlement fund to those, in his view, were really mistreated.
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: He even said Hunter Biden is welcome to apply.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: ABC's Alex Stone is in San Diego, where three victims
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: of a mosque attack are now identified.
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: One was a manager for 40 years of the bookstore
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: here at the mosque and was a beloved member of
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: the staff inside the mosque. Another was a community member who,
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: according to the Islamic Center of San Diego, played a
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: major role in getting people away from the gunfire and
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: so that they were not hit getting them inside. And
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: then Amin Abdullah, the security guard here, who we understand
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: from the mosque that the shooters actually came in through
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: the main gate here, and then Abdullah fired on them,
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: and there was an exchange of gunfire, and he took
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: them on.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: To Texas, where a senator suffers a setback.
• 41:41
  Speaker 12: President Trump promised months ago to endorse either incumbent Senator
• 41:44
  Speaker 12: John Cornyn or challenger Ken Paxton, adding that he would
• 41:47
  Speaker 12: ask the other to drop out. Well, he's finally made
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: his choice, throwing his support to Paxton. Cornyn says it'll
• 41:53
  Speaker 12: take more than just GOP votes to defeat Democrat James
• 41:56
  Speaker 12: Tallarico in November's general election.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: You need independence and the occasional convert from the other party,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: and Ken Paxton will get none of those.
• 42:05
  Speaker 12: Trump, by the way, has not asked Cornyn to end
• 42:07
  Speaker 12: his re-election campaign yet. Jim Ryan, ABC News, Dallas.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Dow down at the close, 321 points.
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