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Monday 5pm hour 06/01/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: You were talking about Epstein.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's all disappointing. I guess
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: it's just I don't think we're going to get the
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: perfect answer because... Just because there's a photo, she did release,
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi released three and a half million pages. And
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  Speaker 2: they messed that up, right? There were names that could
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: have redacted and accidentally got through. Do you know how
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: many pieces of paper or how much information that is
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: to siphon through? I think they over-promised and under-delivered. And
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: that is annoying and makes me angry. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: want them all prosecuted. I want them strung up in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the town square. But This is, I think,
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: a lot more difficult than people think. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: obvious one that, you know, people.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about, what's his name, Prince Andrew?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you hear about the obvious ones that we know,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean, there's many others, and I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 2: representatives and senators' names that are in that list, too.
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  Speaker 2: But if somebody, you know, if somebody came out and
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  Speaker 2: these women came out and made a statement to the public,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty hard to hide from that.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have cooperation from the victim as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they.
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  Speaker 2: Are not fully. I don't think they'll fully get the
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  Speaker 2: cooperation from the victim. Because they're afraid to come forward?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just saying it's not as simple,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think, as what everybody's saying. It annoys me
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  Speaker 2: just as bad as it annoys everybody else. But when
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  Speaker 2: you look at the scope of things, nobody else did
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  Speaker 2: anything about it. And I know the two wrongs don't
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  Speaker 2: make a right. I guess what I'm saying is, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is a complicated issue. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me just say this. Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: the victims deserve justice?
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  Speaker 2: A thousand percent.
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  Speaker 1: Bring them up in the street.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they'll ever see justice?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Why? And so would you conclude that there's a two-tier
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  Speaker 1: system here? that Epstein was with the intelligence community and
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  Speaker 1: they were doing this type of behavior to try to
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  Speaker 1: get something on these people to be able to have
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  Speaker 1: control over them. Would that be a concern of yours?
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  Speaker 3: Definitely a concern. I think it's definitely a concern.
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  Speaker 1: So would you be concerned who might have those videotapes
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  Speaker 1: or who might have those files and potentially still be
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  Speaker 1: using it over these people, whether they're in politics or financial..
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh, I think that's about half the stuff in Washington happened.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think all of that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's, hey, come to the party, and oh, look,
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  Speaker 2: here's a hooker. And then there's a guy videotaping him,
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  Speaker 2: and he doesn't know that the guy is standing there.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's like, oh, how are you going to
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  Speaker 2: vote tomorrow?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to vote against it. All of these
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  Speaker 2: guys are so dumb, and they're walking into traps.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but I'm just saying... This is the scenario, I think,
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  Speaker 1: in the Epstein situation. And I would question, based on
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  Speaker 1: what Pam Bondi said, who has all of these files?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that those files existed when she got there. Perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they were sitting around a long time. Who
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  Speaker 1: knows who has them?
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  Speaker 2: What happened to them? Who were they manipulating as well?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Who has them? Where are they? And who's using them?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that would be the questions that I would have,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't believe for a minute that Epstein committed suicide.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe for a minute that it was all...
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  Speaker 1: I think that there was a lot... It was so well-known,
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  Speaker 1: Lolita Express, Epstein, a pedophile island, and all this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. I mean, before he was... brought to justice
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  Speaker 1: a second time, that information was out there. And these
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  Speaker 1: people want to act like, oh, gee, I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Like Hillary Clinton, when she said, boy, I hardly knew Epstein. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then tell me what's Maxwell doing at your daughter's wedding? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Clintons are the best at playing dumb. Hey,
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: who were you in the hot tub with? Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're just, of course, none of these people
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  Speaker 1: are going to admit they did any of this. I
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  Speaker 1: get it.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're never going to.
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  Speaker 1: They're never going to. I mean, he lied, obviously, with
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  Speaker 1: Monica Lewinsky and all of them. I don't know. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if Trump was involved in it or not.
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  Speaker 1: If Trump was involved in it, then he should be
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  Speaker 1: held accountable, too.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter to me if these are
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  Speaker 1: Republicans or Democrats, but it's like an elitist attitude. We
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  Speaker 1: can do whatever we want to do with whomever we
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  Speaker 1: want to do, and there'll be no ramifications to it.
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  Speaker 1: And that is coming very much true because nothing's legally
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  Speaker 1: going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: And you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them will get financial settlements on a civil lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: But what about a lawsuit outside of that instead of
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  Speaker 1: a settlement in that case? Where's the justice that we deserve?
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly true.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it?
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  Speaker 3: I get all that, and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Care what party you are. If you participated, if you
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  Speaker 2: were involved in that, you need strung up in the
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  Speaker 2: public square.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think it would be really cheap.
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  Speaker 3: To handle that situation because I think you'd have.
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  Speaker 2: Enough people in the public to be willing to take
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  Speaker 2: care of it for you.
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  Speaker 1: People are mad.
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  Speaker 5: They're disgusted.
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  Speaker 1: But don't you agree that we have... double standard injustice,
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  Speaker 1: that basically these people are going to get away with it.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, when Trump said, oh, you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: that old story, it was like, what the hell? You
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: reversed yourself. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: That was extremely annoying.
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  Speaker 2: I was very.
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  Speaker 3: Upset over that because he downplayed it, but he definitely,
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  Speaker 3: definitely made it.
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  Speaker 2: A talking point for his campaign.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Right, and G2 said to me the day after that
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: happened on the air, he said to me he lost
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of supporters because of that. Because that's one
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: of the key things that people voted for him for
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  Speaker 1: was the deep state, and now he's becoming a part
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to know.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got to think about the judges, right,
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: that are involved that would be prosecuting these cases. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how much?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that alone bothers me. Like I said to you before,
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  Speaker 1: don't you think I should be able to go into
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  Speaker 1: a judge, front of a judge? It shouldn't matter if
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: you're a Democrat or Republican. I always grew up thinking
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  Speaker 1: a judge is a judge. He's going to hear the
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: facts and make a decision based on it. Now I'm
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: at a point where everything's political and it's like you
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: look at what happened with Trump because, oh, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to run for prosecutor. I'm going to get Trump and
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: these Democrat judges that want to get Trump. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: isn't justice. That's just a political witch hunt. They're destroying
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  Speaker 1: the judicial system. We're going to put the best and
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  Speaker 1: brightest brains on a Supreme Court to make these decisions.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: And then you look at who Biden appointed and she's
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  Speaker 1: just a dangling. I mean, so you're just it's becoming
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: pop pop. politics and you're losing faith in so many
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  Speaker 1: of these systems that it's just ridiculous. You're not seeing
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  Speaker 1: justice for the victims of Epstein. You're seeing politics on
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  Speaker 1: a Supreme Court. You're seeing politics on federal courts. You're
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  Speaker 1: seeing a lot of ridiculous stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you don't want people to feel like you might
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  Speaker 3: as well not even vote because it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it does matter. There's a big difference between Vivek
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: and Amy Acton. I mean, there's still a big difference. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you do want to vote. It does make a difference.
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  Speaker 1: And even the parts I'm critical of Trump with, I
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  Speaker 1: would vote for him over Biden again tomorrow. I'd vote
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  Speaker 1: for him over Kamala Harris again tomorrow. I would vote
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  Speaker 1: for him over Gavin Newsom again tomorrow. I would vote
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  Speaker 1: for J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance.
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  Speaker 1: I would vote for— I think Ron DeSantis is outstanding. I
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  Speaker 1: wish he could be governor of Florida forever. I would
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  Speaker 1: vote for DeSantis. I'd vote for— J.D. Vance. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people I think have potential.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's where it goes back to. You
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  Speaker 2: are voting for the worst of the candidates. And so
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  Speaker 2: when you look at Trump, no matter his flaws, the
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  Speaker 2: other option... You couldn't stand her worse.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I agree with a lot of what..
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  Speaker 3: All of it with that. And that was my point.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with a lot of what the Republicans do
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  Speaker 1: outside of that.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But I also, at the same time, get upset with
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans. They're like status quo. It's like, get off
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  Speaker 1: your butt and put this stuff in the law, these
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: executive orders. It's like, you know, if he gets out
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: and a Democrat takes over, they're going to reverse all
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: this stuff, for crying out loud.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is going to get reversed.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not happy with the... I'm not happy with
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  Speaker 2: the Senate at all.
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  Speaker 1: All right. My therapy session is done. Thank you, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Bye-bye.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know how I could go on. Boss lady
• 8:57
  Speaker 6: ain't happy. What are we going to do, Ronnie?
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Listen here, troublemaker. I was this close to a nervous breakdown.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm better. Yeah, I knew that.
• 9:09
  Speaker 6: Hey, she made some good points. Did I make any?
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: She made some. Did I make any?
• 9:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're going to go over that. We're going to
• 9:18
  Speaker 6: have a report. Don't you worry. But, yeah, like if
• 9:23
  Speaker 6: you've got a.
• 9:23
  Speaker 5: Good mechanic, you know, you go to him to fix
• 9:28
  Speaker 5: your car, but you're not going to have him cook
• 9:31
  Speaker 5: you a meal, you know. Some people are good at
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: solving problems. political problems and government stuff, but, you know,
• 9:41
  Speaker 5: other things go on, too. And as far as Epstein,
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  Speaker 5: I think you said he didn't commit suicide?
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 9:50
  Speaker 6: He's with Michael Jackson. They're down at the island somewhere.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this much. In all reality, I never
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: bought any of that crap about Michael Jackson.
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: At all.
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  Speaker 1: I think to this day, I think that was all
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: a bunch of damn nonsense. But I believe everything when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Epstein. I'm just the opposite.
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  Speaker 5: But look how they came after Kavanaugh. You know, like
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  Speaker 5: some lady that didn't even know him. And 20 years later,
• 10:23
  Speaker 5: they came after Trump in the dressing room. Do you
• 10:27
  Speaker 5: really think Trump would would be stupid enough to do
• 10:31
  Speaker 5: that or even just put himself in any position where
• 10:36
  Speaker 5: he would be, you know, going to the island and
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  Speaker 5: doing anything bad?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think that it's ridiculous. I don't think Trump
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: did that bit in the dressing room. I said a
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  Speaker 1: million times. She wants to claim that he sexually assaulted
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: her in a department store dressing room, and she never
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: called the cops. She never screamed. She never come running
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: out of there. I think it's total, absolute BS. I
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: think it's complete nonsense. And how she won that, it
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: was just, he said, she said, I think it was
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: absolute insanity.
• 11:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 11:13
  Speaker 6: And even like the whole Epstein thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like in your case, have you ever had
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: another man accuse you of any type of sexual activity
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: in your case?
• 11:27
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not attracted to men as you are, Ron.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: It was a trick question.
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: Don't make me bring out that porn account of yours. Hey,
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: I found out why the gas prices are so high, though.
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: The oil and that. Yes.
• 11:49
  Speaker 5: I was listening to the radio, and I don't really
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: go along with this guy's view, but Apparently, it's because
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: of the Zionist Jews.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: I get so tired of him and that stuff. That's
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: why I said enough of it already. Enough of it already.
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: Jesus.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, but the boss lady, I think I told you before,
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: there should be... Like, just back in the old days,
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: the stockades in the public square, where people are humiliated,
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: not just online, but they're sitting there in a stockade
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: with their arms up, and people are throwing tomatoes at them.
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: If they broke the law, if you thought about breaking
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: the law, and that was the punishment, do you think
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: you would think twice instead of, you know, just getting, like,
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: bail and going free?
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: You're talking about, you mean public humiliation, kind of like
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: what I go through every day.
• 12:50
  Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely.
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: But, no, like a stockade. You know, do you think
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: people would commit crimes if they knew they were going
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: to be in, you know, like in the mall maybe
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: would be the, you know, public square now?
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: I don't think people will commit crimes. If you look
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: down the road and there's some state troopers sitting there,
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: are you going to speed?
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  Speaker 5: It depends how fast my car is.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, but the answer is no, because you don't want
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: to get a ticket. So, I mean, I think police
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: and punishment are deterrents. And like when you look at...
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: When they said, oh, we're not going to do much
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: if it's under $ 1, 000 and people shoplift. Well, what did
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: that do? That increased shoplifting. Or you got these stores
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: that didn't chase shoplifters out the door when they're carrying
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: a DeWalt saw and this kind of stuff.
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: And now the stores in that neighborhood are closing and
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: people are complaining. So Mondami is going to give them
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: free groceries.
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: It's just an upside-down world.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: How about what Ted the Conservative said the other day
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: when he was standing at a checkout and he said
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  Speaker 1: he was watching with his own eyes as a woman
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: scanned every other item and was basically stealing. And you're saying, well,
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: there should be people watching these video cameras as she's
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: doing it. That's one of the problems with self-checkouts is
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: you got people trying to just take advantage of it.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: And that's wrong.
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: Now that you said that, I saw a thing online
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: about how if you do the self-checkout and you don't
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: check your receipt, some lady went to, I think it
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: was Target, it could be any store, and she paid
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: for all her stuff. And it turns out that the
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: people that had the checkout right before had it set
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: up so she would pay.
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  Speaker 6: For like half of their stuff. You know, it just
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: went on her charge card. They figured it out. So
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: you got to, if you go to the cell checkout,
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: you got to check your receipt.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Is there anything else?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'd like to talk about AI.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Stand by. I want to hear it. I'll be back.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: All right. The unknown caller wants to talk about AI. Hello.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The whole thing with the AI, you know, obviously they
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: need a lot of electricity, but they, the fact that
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: they need a lot of water, why can't they make,
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: you know, they're heating up the water to cool the
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: AI thing down. Why can't they heat it up a
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: little bit more to drive electric turbines and create their
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: own electricity? It just seems like it would work, but
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: I'm no scientist. Have you any thoughts, Ron?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: My initial thought is you are no scientist.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: Well, that's what everybody says. They usually call me doctor.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, they usually call me Einstein at home.
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  Speaker 6: But, I mean, if they're heating up the water anyhow.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the answer. It takes
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of power. So they're talking about small nukes
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: or they're talking about their separate type gas-fired plants. I
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: don't know. Enough about how hot the water is or
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: any of the stuff that you're proposing on Known Caller.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: You're beyond my capabilities.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I look to you for guidance, as all your callers do.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I know you do. I mean, I'm your fearless leader.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I understand. As we rule over the kingdom of Mahoning.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: My review?
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: My review for tonight's talking points?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Ron, I don't know, maybe a 4 or 5. He
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: couldn't answer my questions.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: And the unknown caller gets a 10 once again, as always.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: I got to go. I know.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: He always has to go. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon, sir.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: It's Rich, the pharmacist.
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: Hi.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: I think Iran is a quagmire, and it's becoming more
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: quagmire-ish as it goes along. Explain, please. We're not going
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: to extricate ourselves. Well, now you've got, I think the
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: president of Iran, I just read, resigned because he wasn't
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: being involved in the discussions with the Revolutionary Guard. That's
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: who's calling the shots.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Well, who's the president of Iran? I don't even know.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: The president of Iran, basically you've got the military that,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: is calling all the shots and you got the people
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: that are trying to run the government the president of
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: iran was in the one of the people is trying
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: to run the government and the problem is that you
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: you know the the military people were looking don't want
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: to make any concessions all they think they're winning this
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: war hysterical but uh... so the uh... so he we
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: just resigned because he was involved in decision-making that's the
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: problem i think i was trying to negotiate with people
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: that are trying to run a government Because you're not
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: going to negotiate with the people running the military. They'll
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: go down in flames. They'll turn to the kamikaze type stuff,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: you know. It's like going back to Japan and Germany.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: You were never going to negotiate with Nazis and with
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the militarists in Japan to end the war. They just
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: weren't going to do it. And these people aren't going
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: to end the war. Maybe if you bomb them back
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: to the Stone Age. I don't know. I don't see
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: an easy way to get out of this at this point.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I just don't. And Trump keeps saying they're going to
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: make a deal. They're not going to make any deal.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Well, he's been saying that for how long now? And
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: what's the definition of insanity? They say doing the same
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: thing again, expecting different results. Well, we already bombed a
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: living hell out of them. Not the bunker buster, which
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: seemed to me the bunker buster is effective. But then
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we bombed a living hell out of them again. And, okay,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: what makes you think if you do it another time
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: it's going to change anything?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: You've taken out a lot of their military capacity. You've
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: taken out a lot of their military production. But you
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: haven't hit things that would hurt the people. If you remember,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I think it was– I think Kuwait and actually Israel
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: started hitting the energy infrastructure. Iran, if you took out
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: a couple of dams and a couple of– refineries, they
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: have to import gasoline. They don't have enough domestic production
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: for gas.
• 19:22
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• 19:25
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• 19:27
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• 19:31
  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570. WKV. All right. Let's go back to Rich,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the pharmacist.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Are you there?
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: No, that's me.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Are you there?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Ron, you got me.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: No, I just don't think there's an easy way out.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I think you could go back and try and start
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: hitting things that would really put a hurt on the people,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: hoping that they would then uprise and overthrow the government.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: But the government has the rifles, and the people don't.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: And what makes you think the majority would want to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: do that?
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, they do. There's not a doubt in my mind
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: that the majority of these people would love to get
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: rid of these religious nutjobs that are running the country.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Most of the.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Polling has shown that for years.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. I really don't. I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: If you start researching it, you will. The average Iranian
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: has been decimated by this government. They're in the poorhouse.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you think we have inflation, it's in
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: the thousands of a percent over there. I mean, those
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: people have lost everything the last 20 or 30 years.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: So the average Iranian would love to see this all
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: come to an end and go back to being normal again.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I go back to my initial thing
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that I once said to you. I don't assume they
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: think like you think. It's a whole different world, part
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: of the world. It's a whole different culture. It's a
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: whole different religion. It's a whole different mentality. And I
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: just think that, too, I think we like to think
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that they think like we do. Well, I'm sure there's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a portion of people that probably think like that. But
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: what is that percentage? I don't know. Could it be
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: 10 percent? Could it be 50 percent? Could it be
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: 20 percent?
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: It's hard to say. When you barely have enough money
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: to eat, most people are going to want change. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: that's where they're at over there. The average Iranian is
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: struggling just to survive, just to have enough calories to
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: put in his body so they don't begin starvation. It's bad.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: We don't realize how good we have it until you
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: start looking around.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not comparing it. This is a whole different world.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: If you think that.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I would say 8 out of 10 people would love
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: to just start anew. Get rid of these people and
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: just have a normal government.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, does any of this surprise you that it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a mess? I mean, I don't know how to address
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: this other than to say none of this surprises me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, you've got to lay this right at
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the foot of Trump. And whether he was influenced by
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Netanyahu or Israel, it starts with Trump, and he made
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: this decision. And he was against regime change and getting
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: involved in the Middle East, and it is a true mess.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: And it's an absolute mess. And if you listen to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that Art Berman and that kind of stuff, they're telling
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: you that you will never see it like it used
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to be. And now I'm not an oil expert. These
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: guys are as far as the finances of things. And
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they say what he has done is going to have
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: effects for years and years and years on the entire
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: oil industry and what you pay.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Well, the market always wins in the end when it
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: comes to oil. So if there's money to be made
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: producing oil, the market will win. It may not be
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: the same, but the market will figure it out, and
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: they will get supply to the people at the price
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: that it needs to be sold at. Right now, this
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: is sort of, I think, who was it, Yogi Bear?
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I think he said it's like deja vu all over again.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: It's starting to remind me a lot of 2003 and
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: George Bush. Where winning the war was the easy part.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: We went in and kicked the crap out of the
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Iraqi army. You know, that was easy. It was winning
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: the peace that took them, you know, the next five, six,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: eight years. Until we finally just basically said, kind of
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: got it a little bit under control, turned it over
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: to what an Iraqi puppet government we installed, and then
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: we got the heck out of there. And was it,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: you know, at that point, was it worth all the,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, thousands of lives lost there? This, thankfully, so far,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: has been relatively bloodless. I mean, we think we've lost 14,
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: 15 guys, something like that, which is still tragic. I mean,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: especially if it's your kid, I couldn't imagine. But thus far,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: you know, from a personnel standpoint, it really hasn't been
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: that significant loss-wise. But winning this piece is going to
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: be a lot more difficult, I think. It's a nuclear bomb,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: and as a smaller regional power, it was worth it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: If this drags on two or three.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Years, it's not going to be worth it. Well, we'll see.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I don't think this is worth it at all. I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: really don't. And I hope I'm wrong. I think this
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: is a major mistake. I think we're all going to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: pay dearly for it financially for quite some time. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be anywhere close to what
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: they're saying to you.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: I think gas is headed higher. I think gas after
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: 4th of July is going to be substantially more expensive.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: You're probably looking at $ 6 a gallon.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you think that's going to do to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the economy? As I've said, what do you think is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: going to happen? I don't know. I just, like I said,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I just look at those oil experts. I don't know
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the oil business. They do. They're not running BP. They're
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the analysts from afar. And two of the four that
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I've read, the top four, all say that this was
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a huge mistake, a giant mess, and it's just going
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to create problems for years and decades to come. And basically,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: they're saying things will never go back to how they were.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: If you think they are, then you're fooling yourself and
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you're not going to see $ 90 barrels of oil. And I,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I hope they're wrong, but right now,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you know, they basically say there's an oil shortage going on.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: People are totally oblivious to it. So much oil is
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: off out of the, out of the oil stream and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: it will affect the United States. They, they seem to say,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: people seem to think it's not going to affect us.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And they said, well, you're, You're absolutely wrong. It's going
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to affect you as far as the cost of gas.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: This is simple economics 101. It's supply and demand. We
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: took a lot of supply off the market. One out
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: of every five barrels produced in the world.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Well, you tell the people, though, if they're paying five
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: or six bucks a gallon, and some of these people
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: are saying you could see 6% inflation in the second quarter,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you go convince them how this was worth it. You
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: go against everybody. This was worth it because I wasn't
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: staying up at night worrying about Iran and a nuclear threat.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I think the bunker buster was effective, quite frankly. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: think this was just a, well, I just think this
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: was a mistake. I think he was influenced by the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: wrong people.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Well, one of the reasons I really wanted a call, though,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: was I think I figured out the whole Eastgate, or
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: not Eastgate, Eastern Gateway building issue. Because I went down
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: today at the Eastgate Council of Governments had a big
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: meeting today, and Trevina, the director of the Port Authority,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: was there. And he was the lead presenter, and he
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: was talking about how they got the Eastern, how the
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Port Authority ended up with the Eastern Gateway Building. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: the state gave it to them for a dollar. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: he said, that sounds like a good deal, but it's
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: costing us dearly. They're spending, I think it was either
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: $ 20, 000 or $ 25, 000 a month just in utilities on that building.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: So my theory is they got something. They were given
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: something by the state who was probably glad to get
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: rid of it. They took it. Kind of have a
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: little bit of buyer's remorse since they're paying $ 25, 000 a
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: month to run the utilities. And then along comes, you know,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Gino and the county, and they're like, hey, we'll do it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: So I think, you know, they kind of gave it
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: to those suckers to get off their hands so they
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: can wreck it and be rid of it. That's my theory.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: That makes perfect sense to me. I was watching a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: video once of– and it was in– I thought it
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: was in Pittsburgh where there was some of these big
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: office buildings. And they were talking to one of the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: big developers in Pittsburgh, okay, I mean, that has these buildings.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And there was one of the bank buildings down there
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: that was going to be vacant, the whole building. The
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: bank was getting out of it. And they asked him
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: about if they would give you this building, would you
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: take it? And he said, absolutely not. And you thought, well,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: it's a nice-looking building. Why is that? He said, well,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: first of all, if you've got to get tenants in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a building that big, you've got to heat everything. You've
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: got to cool everything. You've got maintenance on it that
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: whole time. And if you're able to get the building rented,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a building that big, he said, in the first place.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And then what was the other reason that he was– Oh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and if you can't do that and you're responsible for
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: taking it down, the cost in that is phenomenal.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think the budget I've heard for tearing down
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: that Eastern Gateway building is around $ 3. 5 million. That's just
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: to tear down a building before you start building the
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: $ 60 million-plus new one.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't know if there's asbestos in that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: or not. I would think based on its age.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: From what I've heard, there's something about pre-stressed concrete beams
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: that if you start to demolish them, they kind of
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: explode outward. And that building supposedly has a lot of
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: pre-stressed concrete in it. And that the beams are actually failing.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: That's why they have to take it down, because the
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: beams have started to sag or fail or whatever.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The sad part about the whole damn thing is that
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the taxpayers, you get on the hook with the cost
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: of this building. And everything goes over what the projections are.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, demolition and the building. These projections are never accurate.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It's always cost more. And you're on the hook for
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: it in the bonds, and you've had absolutely no say-so
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on it. Zero say-so on it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Well, even the people that have say-so, though. WRTA, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: found out, I think they have 47 of the big buses.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: They're going to replace every single one of them with
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: an electric bus. An electric bus costs $ 1. 4 million. A
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: gas bus is about $ 800, 000. Right. And I can.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Tell you why. Once again, they got so much money
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: coming in, they don't know what to do with it
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: every year.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: And everything's a grant. All these buses are federal grants.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: The charging infrastructure, I think they're putting like $ 1. 5 million into, say,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: a They have plugs to plug the buses in.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: If we're bitching about AI and the problem with energy
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and electricity, well, why would you think the answer is
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to get more stuff to plug into the grid? I mean,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: where's the thinking here?
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Well, that's another thing. They got a $ 2 million grant
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: to put solar panels on the roofs down there so
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: they can help charge the buses. But what nobody realizes
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: when you look at all these grants.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: $ 10 million a year in a quarter percent sales tax
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: for WRTA every year. And it could be more than
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: that as prices go up. So they're sitting every year
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: with this money coming in. What do we do with
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: all of this? I mean, seriously, their biggest problem is
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: let's add on to the garage. Let's replace all the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: buses with electric buses, which is stupid. and let's plug
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: them into the grid or use solar panels. You tell me.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: But it's all federal. All of this stuff is done
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: by federal money. The Port Authority just built this thing.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: If you look at it from the air, it looks
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: like a C-130. It's a giant park. I guess they
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: worry about the approaches to the airport, so they have
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: to make sure that there's no trees or anything grow tall.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: So it looks like a field that was farmed. I
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: could be wrong, but it looks like a farmer had
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: a field and something like that. Instead, they get some grant.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: They build a park with walking trails because we need
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: more walking trails in this area. Apparently Mill Creek Park
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: and the state parks aren't enough, so they build this
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: brand-new park. They take the millings because they're spending $ 30 million,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: all grant money except for $ 3 million local, to resurface
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: the runways out at the Youngstown Airport. $ 30 million. Now, granted,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: that's a big economic driver in this area, so I
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: guess maybe it needs to be done. But it's all
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: our money in the end, but nobody seems to look
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: at that. The theory is just it's sort of like
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: hogs at a trough. If I'm there, I'm going to
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: eat as much of the food as I can because
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: if I don't eat it, the next pig will. But
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: nobody looks at basically taking the trough away. And that's
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: the biggest problem we have. Right.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: We piss away so much money. Can you imagine... That's
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: why I say WRTA, all the money that they get
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: should be funding the county ambulance service. It shouldn't be
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: on every township and every community. It should be countywide
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and without charging anybody any extra money coming out of
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that sales tax money. If you had leadership that could say, legally,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: how do we do this and how can we finagle
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: it into this direction? Because this is so disgusting.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: If you go to a meeting like I was at
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: this morning, you will quickly come away with the fact
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: that we do not have a tax revenue problem in
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: this country. We have a spending problem. There's more than
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: enough tax money. If you look at the boondoggle stuff
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: that some of this is wasted on, and it's just
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: ridiculous stuff. Yep. I can't tell you how many bike
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: trails and bike lanes and bike stuff. I mean, we
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: live in Northeast Ohio. Yeah. From November till April, most
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: people are not riding a bike anywhere. Right. And it's
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: not like we live in a dense urban environment like
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: New York City or, you know, the coastal cities where
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: you can ride a bike and get around town. Most
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: of the places around here, if you're riding from your house,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: you want to go shopping in Baltimore or Austin, you're
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: not taking a bike.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Well, why would you take the bus? It's free. We
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: don't even charge anymore. We've got so much money coming in.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Even with that, though, by the time you hop on
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: the bus, you take the bus over there, you do
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: your shopping, come back, your day's shot. You've probably chewed
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: up five or six hours of your day just taking
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: the stupid bus.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Well, they got the loop. But I'm glad you go
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to these meetings because somebody like you goes there and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: you say, this is such bull crap. It's got to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: be so discouraging as a taxpayer.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, not to knock the people that are there.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I think the people that are running the organizations are
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: doing what they think is best and doing well. But
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: there's nobody looking at the overall picture. There's nobody looking
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: at this is all or in the end, it's all
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: of our money that they're spending. Whether it comes from
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: the federal government, the state government, or the local government. Eventually,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: it was money that was taken out of my pocket
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: and your pocket and every other citizen that pays taxes' pocket.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Many of these private sector businesses are not really private
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: sector businesses. They're businesses that are functioning because of government money.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, two weeks ago, the woman was on there
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: talking about all the fraud with the communities as far
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: as what the health care or hospice care and autism
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff that's going on and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: all of money that was just being pilfered out of
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Medicaid and those programs. I mean, it's depressing.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: When I'm walking in, I'm walking past the old, because
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: it's in City Center 1 where Eastgate meets. I'm walking past,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: I park my car, I'm walking past, there's a big
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: for lease sign next to the old, I think it
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: was the IBM building. And I'm thinking, why couldn't county
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: government go in there? It's an empty building. It says
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: for lease on it. Go knock on the door and
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: ask what they're charging.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Everything's got to be downtown. I was trying to figure out,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: what is up with renting the... Did you read that
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: article about the bottom dollar in a board of elections
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and it would only cost us this much to rent? Well,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: why are we renting?
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Well, it's the Dave Beatrice boondoggle. That's what I'd like
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: to refer to that as. Because for some reason, Dave
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: and the Democrats probably don't want to upset the voters
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: in the city of Youngstown, who are mostly Democrats, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: move the Board of Elections out of the city. So
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: they're looking at the bottom dollar. And the Port Authority
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: is going to buy that building, because I guess that's
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: what the Port Authority is. It's into the landlord business.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And the county rents it from them?
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: And then the county will fix it up, and the
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: county will rent it from them.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Well, why doesn't the county just buy it itself?
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Well, probably because they probably don't have the finances, I
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: would assume.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you're stuck paying rent.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Name me an easy way to get to that location.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: It's a horrible idea. The Patriot Building is a far
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: better idea.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Anyplace else is a far better idea. You couldn't be
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: further away from the vast majority of county residents than
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: you are in Fosterville, where that's at. Yep. And it's
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: not a great area to begin with.
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: Nope.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: But, I mean, to take a building that's had vacant for, what, 15,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: 20 years probably needs all new heavy air.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: It's not 15 or 20 years. I don't think it's
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: been that long. But is it a good location? No,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: it really isn't.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: It's terrible.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: It's terrible. But it just seems like nobody cares. Nobody
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: looks at the big picture. I think the Port Authority
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: is doing the Eastern Gateway thing because they just want
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: rid of the building so they don't have to pay
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: $ 25, 000 a month in utilities.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: There you have it.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: That's the take I got from it.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: And Gino and the other two numbnuts were dumb enough
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: to fall for it.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You got it. Back in a minute. Thank you, Rich.
• 37:06
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• 37:25
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• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: You're Matt Lauer.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: Didn't you want to talk to me today?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Sure, I want to talk to you.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: That last call lasted about 40 minutes.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: My God.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: What did you say they called you at home? Einstein.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: Not Igor?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: No, it was Einstein. Whenever I put something together, my
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: wife says, good going, Einstein.
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: And you don't catch on to that humor, do you?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: No, I thought it was a compliment, actually. I was
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit shocked that apparently it isn't. I mean,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I said, well, thanks. I just assumed. But apparently, I see.
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I know, but I mean, maybe you could have clued
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: me in on it earlier before.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: You know, I..
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: I thought maybe Frankenstein or Igor would have fit, but,
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: you know, with her facetiousness, she's a gem.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Is that what she is, huh? What's on your mind,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: my friends?
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: Okay, I got three things to say today, and I'll
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: let you go. I got about two minutes at the most.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: Guess whose name is coming off of the Kennedy Center?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Trump, and I'm glad it is.
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: Thank God in heaven Jesus saved us. And she blocks
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: payouts from Trump's $ 1. 7 billion allies fund. You know that's
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: been blocked. Our little conversation Friday.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Are you still there?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad that they said, I was never for
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the Kennedy Trump Center fund. His name doesn't belong on there,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad it's coming up.
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: I'm talking about this payout. The $ 1. 7 billion payout has
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: been put on hold by judges. And his tax fiasco
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: that he's trying to create, that's also been put on hold.
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: That was our conversation on Friday, and I said I
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: was going to do a little digging. Well, I did
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: a little digging, and I even had it on your
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: newscast if you were listening to it.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: You're talking about the IRS settlements.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: I'm talking about the settlement to the insurrectionists that wanted
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: their money because they were being weaponized by the government.
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: But guess what? Even your Republican buddies are saying, hold on, buddy.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: We're not going to do that. So those were the
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: three things I wanted to bring up.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I mean... Winning, winning.
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: His tariffs are gone. His name's off the building. This
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: weaponization thing is, I don't think it's going to go through.
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: I hope not. And there we have it.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, we'll see what the outcome is as far
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: as the... funding. Remember, as I explained to you, why
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: that exists. I mean, he was done an injustice by
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: somebody who stole his private information and published it. I
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: saw that. I saw that. I saw that.
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I disagree with it personally. I'm mixed on it.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I totally disagree with it because I think it would
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: be bitching if Biden did that with his family. But
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, I'm saying, look at what they
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: put this man and his family through. They tried debanking
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: him and all this kind of stuff. And he's saying. Oh,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: good God. You know what? I mean, look at what
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: they put them through. As a matter of fact, I
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: would like to talk. You call me tomorrow and I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: want to get you on sooner. And I want to
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: talk to you a longer period of time about that subject.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And then I'm going to ask you a question because
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I was saying to the boss lady, I'm totally opposed
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: to this having this wrestling or fighting thing at the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: White House as well.
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: That is totally ridiculous. Who wants to put on a
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: fight on the front lawn of the White House? Who
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: wants to do that? What kind of an idiot would
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: put that on? I agree a thousand percent. That is
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: the stupidest thing ever.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. All right.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend. I appreciate your call, as always.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I look forward to talking to you tomorrow. Call tomorrow,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and let's talk about that subject. Call earlier in the program,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: because I would like to spend some time with you.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: All right. All right.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: That should be an interesting subject, actually. NewsRadio 570. We're
• 42:07
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• 42:10
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• 42:22
  Speaker 7: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. After Iran state media
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: signal talks were off between the U.S. and Iran due
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: to ongoing Israeli strikes in Lebanon, President Trump says he
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: made separate calls to Israelis Prime Minister and Hezbollah mediators,
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: and both sides have agreed not to attack the other.
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: ABC's Karen Travers says the president indicated talks with Iran
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: are still going and moving rapidly.
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: We haven't heard from the Iranians anything to indicate that
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: things are back on. And really, even the on-off, what
• 42:50
  Speaker 10: is happening, the substance is still very complicated.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: There are still.
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: Significant sticking points that have to be reworked. And the
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: president had sent changes back to Iran that so far
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: they have not addressed or weighed in on.
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: The Justice Department says it will abide by a Virginia
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: judge's ruling that temporarily ordered the $ 1. 8 billion fund to
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: be frozen amid litigation.
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: A social media post from the Justice Department says officials
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: strongly disagree with last week's ruling by a federal judge
• 43:16
  Speaker 9: in Virginia temporarily freezing the fund pending a hearing she
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: set for the end of next week. The department says
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: it will abide by that ruling.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: That, as more.
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: Congressional Republicans express their opposition to the idea of handing
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: out up to $ 1. 8 billion of taxpayer money to those
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: who have been accused of or convicted of crimes.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: ABC's Stephen Portnoy. The state of Florida announcing it's suing
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. The suit claiming the company
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: says the company knowingly released an aggressively marketed Chad GPT
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: to the public, including young users, while concealing serious risks.
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer alleges the company suppressed internal
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: safety warnings and deceived users about the true nature and
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: dangers of the product.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived, and they
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: need to pay for it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: OpenAI tells ABC News it already has safety measures in
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: place to redirect people to mental health resources if it
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: detects them going down a dark path, adding it's committed
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: to getting this right. Health officials are working to trace
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: than 1,000 suspected cases now exist. You're listening to ABC News.