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Thursday 3pm hour 04/30/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Welcome one and all. It's Thursday, April 30th, 2026. It's
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  Speaker 1: 49 degrees. How about that rain we had yesterday? Some
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  Speaker 1: more heavy rain. I mean, everything is just so saturated
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  Speaker 1: out there in my neck of the woods, to say
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  Speaker 1: the least. I mean, it's just saturated out there, and
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  Speaker 1: then there's more rain in the forecast. Plenty of April showers.
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  Speaker 1: We should be... Just having a wonderful May flowers, if
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  Speaker 1: you go with the old cliche. But, I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: have just had an excessive amount of rain. Sump pumps
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  Speaker 1: are working hard. Hard to get anything done, to say
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  Speaker 1: the least. And it's... It can be frustrating. Anyway, good afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: one and all. It's chilly, isn't it? Can I bellyache
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about the temperature? Is it possible that
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  Speaker 1: I can? Well, I've got your ear. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: time for me to bellyache maybe a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: this temperature that we've been having. What happens to springtime?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just gone. So you say to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what are we at, 49 degrees? It's just been some
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  Speaker 1: days you have Decent temperatures and some days you're back
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  Speaker 1: to sweatshirts and winter vests and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So let me review the, as we end up April,
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  Speaker 1: let me review the weather for the month of April.
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  Speaker 1: It's rained way too much, way, way too much. It's
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  Speaker 1: rained way too much. And the temperature fluctuation is bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be decent one day and almost spring-like.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next day, you're digging out your sweatshirt
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  Speaker 1: and your winter vest and that kind of stuff because
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  Speaker 1: it's just so cold outside. That has been the month
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  Speaker 1: of April. So let's hope for... What better conditions in May?
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  Speaker 1: Although one of the weather guys was saying they think
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  Speaker 1: it'll be cooler in May as well. So there you
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  Speaker 1: have it. Belly aching is officially out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: How about... Do you think the people... Here's a question
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  Speaker 1: for you. Do you think the people in Poland feel
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  Speaker 1: betrayed by their own library system? Attention, folks in Poland.
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  Speaker 2: So..
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  Speaker 1: It seemed to me, just from my catbird seat here,
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  Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong, the vast majority of
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  Speaker 1: people in Poland wanted to save their library. They like
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  Speaker 1: where it's at. They like everything about it. Yes, it's sinking.
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  Speaker 1: But the citizens of Poland seem to say, we'd rather
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  Speaker 1: invest money in fixing it than ripping down this beautiful
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  Speaker 1: facility and building a new one. Now, that seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be what I heard overwhelmingly. So if you're listening today
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  Speaker 1: in Poland, don't let the cat get your tongue. Pick
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  Speaker 1: up the phone, give me a call. I'll give you
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  Speaker 1: the number out momentarily. It seemed to me that seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be the consensus, the majority of opinion in Poland
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  Speaker 1: was we want to save our library. And let's see,
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  Speaker 1: last time they had a meeting, they didn't vote. I
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  Speaker 1: think they were like afraid to vote. They didn't vote.
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  Speaker 1: So all the people that made those arguments and spoke
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  Speaker 1: about this were totally ignored. The wishes of the community seemed,
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  Speaker 1: from my perspective, like they were totally ignored. So you
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  Speaker 1: have this library board. They sit down. They say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to build a new one. End of story.
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  Speaker 1: See you later. Have a good day. Bye, everybody. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting here asking if that upsets the citizens of Poland.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as a citizen of Poland, do you feel
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  Speaker 1: that you are being ignored and your library system betrayed you?
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  Speaker 1: And believe me when I tell you, the library system
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  Speaker 1: has more money than they know what to do with.
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  Speaker 1: They are that flush with money. I've told you that
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  Speaker 1: time and time again. I do not, I, Ron Verb, admit,
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  Speaker 1: I do not vote for the renewal of the library levy.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't because I know their finances, they just are
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  Speaker 1: collecting way more money than they need. It's out of control.
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  Speaker 1: It's totally out of control. So I don't continue to say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for that and continue to give
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  Speaker 1: them all this money that is more than they need.
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  Speaker 1: And their biggest problem is figuring out how to spend it.
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  Speaker 1: That's their biggest problem. So consequently... I guess, what, they're
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  Speaker 1: building a new library in Struthers. Now they're going to
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  Speaker 1: build another new one in Poland. But they got all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of money to do this stuff. Like I say,
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  Speaker 1: their biggest problem is how do we spend all this
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  Speaker 1: money every year that we're taking from the taxpayer? But
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  Speaker 1: it is interesting that the citizens of Poland were ignored.
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  Speaker 1: And I would like to hear from some of them. Attention,
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  Speaker 1: citizens of Poland, I'd like to hear from some of
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  Speaker 1: you today about it. Because... That was just my consensus
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  Speaker 1: of it. All right, gas prices. Gas prices. Five bucks
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  Speaker 1: a gallon. Yes, I see some stations there like at 470.
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  Speaker 1: It can get confusing because some of the signs that
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  Speaker 1: are posted aren't what the average person pays for 87 octane.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be a member of whatever the Advantage
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  Speaker 1: Club or whatever it is to get the price that's
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  Speaker 1: posted there. But I thought, well, is a $ 5 gas
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  Speaker 1: station a freak in our area or is it common?
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  Speaker 1: So when I'm driving, I see Speedway's at $ 5. I
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  Speaker 1: see Shell's at $ 5. So I see most of them
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  Speaker 1: as I'm coming down here is at $ 5 a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, well, you just got to bear
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  Speaker 1: with it for a little bit. Just got to hang
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  Speaker 1: in there. And we shall see what's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: is what I like to define. Because, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: shocking to fill up your vehicle. It's just shocking to
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  Speaker 1: fill up your vehicle. And then take a look at
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  Speaker 1: what the price of diesel is as a result of it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all those people that say to me, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just give it some time, would be the first
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  Speaker 1: one bitching if it was Biden as president. So, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's give it some time. How much time? Comments, please.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see.
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  Speaker 2: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 1: 330-729-9977 is my top secret unlisted number if you want
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  Speaker 1: to get on the air. 330-729-9977. We'll get you through.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing today? I'm well. Thank you for calling.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the weather, springtime in Ohio, right? It's just.
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  Speaker 4: Seen it like that for years off and on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've been around a long time, too, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't recall it being as much rain as we've... It's
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  Speaker 1: not a typical springtime with this amount of rain, in
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  Speaker 1: my memory.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but we were so dry in the fall, so
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of a good thing, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Especially what we didn't get. But I wanted to bring up,
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  Speaker 4: there was a news article in a local paper that Latonia,
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  Speaker 4: they're wanting to do a tax increase by half percent
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  Speaker 4: down there. And the article was in there that the
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  Speaker 4: town was like, well, we kind of need it and
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  Speaker 4: that because if we don't get it, we might have
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  Speaker 4: to do some layoffs. But at the same time, that
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  Speaker 4: half percent increase, the mayor's telling people, I'll take away
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  Speaker 4: the 11% that you paid a village, just pay the
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  Speaker 4: half percent, but you end up actually paying $ 50 more
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  Speaker 4: and than you did on the 11%.
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  Speaker 1: What is this, an income tax?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an income tax.
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  Speaker 1: In Latonia, because I confess I'm not familiar with it.
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  Speaker 1: So they want to put a new income tax on?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, by a half percent they want to raise the
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  Speaker 4: income tax, but to 2%. And then the mayor's telling people,
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  Speaker 4: and he's going to retirees and go... Well, I'm taking
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  Speaker 4: away the 11% of your property tax that the Village
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  Speaker 4: Connect collects, and you won't have to pay for it anyways.
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  Speaker 4: But when the working class looks at the half percent increase,
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  Speaker 4: all right, that half percent increase is actually the average
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  Speaker 4: person would pay $ 50 more than the 11%. So he's
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  Speaker 4: not really taking it away, dividing his community between retirees
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  Speaker 4: and and the working class.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And then they're turning around, they spend $ 258, 000 on a
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  Speaker 4: bathroom for the splash pad, and they had to take
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  Speaker 4: out a $ 150, 000 loan to cover the rest. Then they
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  Speaker 4: want to build a dog park on railroad property and
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  Speaker 4: pay rent every year on that property, plus the maintenance
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  Speaker 4: and to maintain it, let alone to build it. They
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  Speaker 4: have a park on top of the hill that they
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  Speaker 4: could go and look at using part of it and
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  Speaker 4: not have to pay any rent yearly for a dog park.
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  Speaker 4: So it sounds to me it's more like a tax
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  Speaker 4: and spend issue with the village. But they want to
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  Speaker 4: put it on the backs of the working class that
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  Speaker 4: are struggling. And I don't think that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it sounds to me like you're on the fence
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  Speaker 1: that you don't know how you're going to vote. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. It sounds to me like you just haven't
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  Speaker 1: made up your mind, and you just haven't done enough research. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I would think, based on what you said, that
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  Speaker 1: many of your constituents might agree with you on that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hefty increase, so you're saying you're already paying, what,
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  Speaker 1: a 1.5% income tax?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it would take it to 2%. Yeah. And what's
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  Speaker 4: that going to do for growth for the villages? And that's...
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  Speaker 4: one of my other points. Is it really going to
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  Speaker 4: encourage people to move there or business?
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  Speaker 1: You remember this. They're not going to be happy until
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  Speaker 1: they have all of your money. Just remember that, all right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's the other thing. They want the tax increase,
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  Speaker 4: but they want to put all the money into the
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  Speaker 4: general fund under control of the council and the mayor. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's really kind of a weird situation, but
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  Speaker 4: it's not. How do you divide your community between retirees
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  Speaker 4: and the working class? And you tell one group, just
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  Speaker 4: pay more. But you're kind of, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I get you.
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  Speaker 4: You need things for your village.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: But you're saying, do we really need to... some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that they want to spend it on. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll put it out there and see what people say.
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  Speaker 4: One last thing, and it's a small village. They're paying
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  Speaker 4: two administrators right now. But thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan, today at Mobile Gas Station, the price was $ 4. 79
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  Speaker 3: a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: In Fort Lauderdale?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for cash customers only.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, fine. $ 4. 80 if you paid cash.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you're at basically $ 5 a gallon down there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are, but gas prices have come down a bit,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm guessing because all the snowbirds have gone home
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  Speaker 3: and less demand for gas. Now, I'm calling to repute
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  Speaker 3: everything Rich said yesterday. But first, I want to commend
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  Speaker 3: the boss lady. for knowing more about Lexner than I do.
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  Speaker 3: Lex Rexner.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't the boss lady. That was Denise.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Denise?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We should be listening to her, not she, too. She's
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  Speaker 3: far more informed on who's pulling the strings on Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump and members of Congress. And she's a very intelligent woman.
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  Speaker 3: I give her a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 1: Are you talking about the person who was... Called about,
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  Speaker 1: is it called APAC or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: I believe that was the one, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that was a, I think that
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  Speaker 1: was a different guy. That wasn't a woman, that was
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  Speaker 1: a guy that called me. Very smart.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, this was a woman.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I had a guy that called me yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: was talking about the Tucker Carlson interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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  Speaker 1: And he was basically talking about... I think it's called AIPAC.
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  Speaker 1: It's the lobbyist arm for Israel and how influential they
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  Speaker 1: are as far as people that are in the Senate
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  Speaker 1: and Congress and how that if you don't go along
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  Speaker 1: with them, they kind of target you. There was a
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  Speaker 1: caller that was talking about that yesterday and the influence
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  Speaker 1: they have. And he was talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene's
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  Speaker 1: interview with Tucker Carlson.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this is the woman that follows Whitney Webb like
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that was Denise, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Rich, the pharmacist, thinks that gas prices will decrease
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  Speaker 3: substantially if Washington passes a law outlawing the exportation of oil. But, Ron,
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  Speaker 3: then the drug cartels will bribe government officials to let
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  Speaker 3: them steal oil and sell it at substantial profits on
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  Speaker 3: the dark market. You know, in the War of 1812,
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  Speaker 3: the majority of Americans opposed the conquest of Canada, which
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  Speaker 3: was not a threat. And some Americans turned to smuggling food, clothing, guns,
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  Speaker 3: and ammunition to the British Army, despite the fact that
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  Speaker 3: it was a capital crime. And Rich thinks the problem
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  Speaker 3: is that we don't have enough laws and bureaucratic regulations.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we have high gas prices. And he thinks
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  Speaker 3: free market capitalism is the problem. He doesn't think executives
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  Speaker 3: at oil companies should decide how much oil should be
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  Speaker 3: exported and how much should be refined for domestic demand.
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  Speaker 3: He thinks people like Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer should
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  Speaker 3: be making these decisions. And you know what, Rich? How
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  Speaker 3: about this? How about making it illegal for for Americans
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  Speaker 3: to travel or vacation overseas. Just think of all that
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  Speaker 3: money that Americans would spend here at home. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: many drugs are illegal, but does that stop the flow
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  Speaker 3: of drugs? Now, Rich, Iran's strategy, Ron, is to cripple
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  Speaker 3: us economically, and it is working. High gas prices are
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  Speaker 3: one piece of evidence, and rising unemployment is another. and
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  Speaker 3: the national debt is now $ 40 trillion. You know, Ron,
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  Speaker 3: your Chinese government bond is only paying 1.7%.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. Frank from Fort Lauderdale. And more
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  Speaker 1: calls straight ahead.
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  Speaker 3: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. 570-WKBN. All right, let me cut
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  Speaker 1: to the chase with Fort Lauderdale. Frank, as I bring
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  Speaker 1: up my CNBC ticker here, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Everything way up today, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 869 to Dow. S & P' s up 80. NASDAQ's
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  Speaker 1: up 250. The Russell's up 55. It says Dow rallies
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  Speaker 1: 700 points. S & P 500 hits new high. A
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  Speaker 1: strong alphabet. Caterpillar earnings overshadow probably the controversy in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East. So what do you make of that as
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: far as the earnings and the stocks going up today?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I want to explain to Rich that investment markets
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  Speaker 3: are forward-looking, not backwards-looking. When I do stock analysis, if
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  Speaker 3: I see an historical P multiple, I ignore it. I
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  Speaker 3: only use four P multiples. Now, Ron, the stock market
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  Speaker 3: is highly overvalued. That's because all the inflation trumps money
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  Speaker 3: creation spree goes into the stock market, the bond market,
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  Speaker 3: and the money markets. If Trump stopped cranking up digital
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  Speaker 3: money creation, the markets would be much lower and reflect
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  Speaker 3: more reasonable valuations. And the feds..
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. It says Google Cloud growth tops Microsoft
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  Speaker 1: and Amazon as all three beat estimates on AI demand.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, economically, I mean... I read some of this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff and make no mistake about it, about it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and I see the stock market going up,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't have $ 5 a gallon gas and the
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  Speaker 1: inflation that comes from it and the cost of everything
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  Speaker 1: going up and tell everybody everything is great. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it just, it just doesn't, it doesn't add
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  Speaker 1: up to me. I mean, I would be a hypocrite.
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  Speaker 1: I was I was bitching during that going on during Biden,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm supposed to ignore it during Trump because Trump
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  Speaker 1: is the president. Well, I can't do that. I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to say, OK, this is only temporary. Remember in Biden,
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  Speaker 1: they said it was transitory. Now they're saying, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is all temporary till we can get through this situation
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  Speaker 1: in Iran. OK, define temporary to me. When do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's going to be? Is that going to be
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  Speaker 1: a week from now, a month from now, two months
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  Speaker 1: from now? What is temporary? Because at $ 5 a gallon,
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  Speaker 1: you are really hurting everyone who's listening out there. And
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  Speaker 1: inflation will rear back. It'll be unbelievable what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen with inflation and with the economy. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: my take, even as I look at an up market today.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at a market that's good for
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  Speaker 1: your 401k and all that kind of jazz. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: wrong with that. By the way, did you hear where
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  Speaker 1: they say AI could take away 50% of the white-collar jobs, Frank?
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen that? They say AI, within three years,
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  Speaker 1: could take away 50% of white-collar jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you better send your kids to homeschool your kids
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  Speaker 3: to learn how to do complicated math because only people
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  Speaker 3: with high school levels will have jobs and everybody else won't.
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  Speaker 3: like McDonald workers will be replaced by robots.
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  Speaker 1: I think you better train them to be plumbers and
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  Speaker 1: carpenters and drywall people, people that actually do something for
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  Speaker 1: a living because they're not talking about blue-collar workers, although
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll be affected by automation. But can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine 50% of white-collar workers in a short period of time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking far out there, losing their jobs with
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  Speaker 1: AI at the same time that we're letting all these
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  Speaker 1: people into our country? It makes zero sense to.
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  Speaker 3: Me Plus HB1 visas, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're letting exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: See, he's talking about importing cheap labor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Frank's talking about these visas. We're letting all these
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  Speaker 1: people in with these degrees out of India to cut
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  Speaker 1: the throat of standby. I'm going to talk some more
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  Speaker 1: to Frank here. Actually, we can make some interesting points
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  Speaker 1: if you stay tuned. And cause this is an interesting topic.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear it. We'll be right back
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  Speaker 1: after news radio, five 70 WKV. Welcome boys and girls,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: three 35 news radio, five 70 WKVN. You know, there's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: a Fort Lauderdale, Frank fans and foes. I mean, either
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: love them or you hate them, but, but he's making
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a legitimate point. So you have all of these visas
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  Speaker 1: that they want to let into this country. The people
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  Speaker 1: from india and stuff that are uh what do you
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  Speaker 1: call them uh high highly educated highly skilled in the
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  Speaker 1: computer industry and that kind of stuff they they bring
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  Speaker 1: them in and then they lower the wages for the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: americans that are schooled in that am i so far
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: so good frank they they lower the wages for the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: americans that are skilled in that At a time when
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: we let all of these people, any people into our country,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's legal or illegal immigration, when
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: they're talking about AI eliminating 50% of white-collar jobs. So
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  Speaker 1: you're going to ask yourself, what are we going to
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  Speaker 1: do with all of these people? 50% of white-collar jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Just mull that over for a second. The dramatic change
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  Speaker 1: that they say is coming in a very short period
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  Speaker 1: of time. We're talking from now to three years from now.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to be very quickly here. So these
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: people that are educated and highly skilled, many of them
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  Speaker 1: are going to lose their jobs to AI because they
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: won't be necessary. So now, am I on target, Frank?
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  Speaker 3: 100%, Ron. I read an article about... some of the
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: best certified financial planners in New York City that were
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  Speaker 3: making an average of $ 2 million a year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They got fired by certified financial planners from India willing
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  Speaker 3: to work for $ 500, 000 a year. $ 500, 000, they'd probably be happy.
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  Speaker 5: For $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 1: But there's also conversation on how AI is going to
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  Speaker 1: change that whole industry as well from the... for financial
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  Speaker 1: planners and stuff. AI is..
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  Speaker 3: It's the wrong way to go on that, Ron. They've
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: already tried that, and it continues to fail and fail.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: You need a human being to do financial planning. Maybe
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: that day will come someday, but that's far into the
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: future at this point. But, you know, I wanted to
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: quote you an article. Here's the problem the U.S. faces
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: trying to impose a blockade... If U.S. stops an Iranian
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  Speaker 3: vessel and takes control of it, the U.S. Navy must
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  Speaker 3: assign one ship to accompany it to the location the U.S. controls.
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  Speaker 3: But the U.S. does not have enough Navy ships to
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  Speaker 3: carry out such a mission on a broad scale. All
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  Speaker 3: Iran needs to do is load up 20 tankers and
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  Speaker 3: send them to sea simultaneously. The U.S. may be able
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  Speaker 3: to stop two or three but the rest will penetrate
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  Speaker 3: the blockade and arrive at their destinations.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, just from my catbird seat, it seems to me
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that things are going pretty well. I mean, as far
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: as taking out a lot of the military structures, it
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: seems to me the bombing campaign has gone really well,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and it seems to me the blockade has been going
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  Speaker 1: really well. And it seems to me that Iran has
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  Speaker 1: got some serious issues financially going on there. And, I mean,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: so if you look at the mission, I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you objectively look at the mission, set all your Trump
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  Speaker 1: hatred aside and all that kind of stuff, it's been
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  Speaker 1: executed fairly well so far. I mean, it's– and the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: people that are in the know are saying– It's just
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  Speaker 1: a short, short matter of time that they're finished because
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: they cannot go on like this with this blockade. Now,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: are they right? I hope they are. I hope it's successful.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And I hope things can be rectified. If they're wrong...
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  Speaker 1: then we have to look at what damage it will
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: be to the American economy. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how else to describe it. I don't think things are
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  Speaker 1: going bad. I think what they're executing has gone extremely well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping that these people that know way more than
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I do are smart enough to say this is a strategy,
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  Speaker 1: and it seems to be tightening the noose, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: on them. So... Maybe, just maybe it'll work out.
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  Speaker 3: Have been telling us, oh, the war's going to end
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  Speaker 3: in a couple weeks. We're collapsing the Iranian economy. And
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: then two weeks later, all the Iranian economy's on verge
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: of collapse. You know that the Pakistanians, Pakistan has opened
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  Speaker 3: six corridors with Iran to bypass the U.S. blockade. more
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  Speaker 3: than three thousand containers bound for iran or be intransited
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  Speaker 3: over land now ron i i i don't i'm not
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  Speaker 3: a military expert but it doesn't sound to me that
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  Speaker 3: this war might be over in the near future we
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: may be in a quagmire and i don't think washington
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  Speaker 3: is telling us the truth i don't think anybody really
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  Speaker 3: knows how long this war is going to continue that is.
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  Speaker 1: Correct And here's the reality, Jimmy P., that says, Florida
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: boy is getting old. Can we please move on? See,
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  Speaker 1: if people don't agree with you as a Trump cheerleader
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, oh, he's got to go, he's
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: got to go. But instead of listening, because no one
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: can really– I got a lot of this yesterday. It's like, oh,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you can't– there's this contingent of people that if you
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: even bitch the littlest bit about anything Trump does, they
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: are like the Biden supporters. The Biden supporters had blinders on.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter anything that Biden did, how the economy
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: was going, or anything. They supported Biden. Follow me? They
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: supported him 100%. And you have that same thing when
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it comes to Trump. You have people with blinders on.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: No matter what he does, I support him 100%. As
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I've said a million times, I'm not going to sit
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: here as a cheerleader for any one of these people.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I hope he's right. I hope this comes to an end.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: And I hope prices come down. Because what happened to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the America First agenda? What happened to the affordability crisis?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: We have $ 5 a gallon gasoline. We have inflation coming
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: back at a rapid pace. And we have people that
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: are suffering as a result of it. You know, I
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: sit back here for all of the people who hate
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to hear anything bad about Trump. We have our electric
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: prices have doubled. So people are paying more for their electricity.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: People are paying more for their natural gas. People's property
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: taxes have gone up. Their gasoline is $ 5 a gallon.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Their food prices are going to go back up. How
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: long do you expect these people to say, this is
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: all okay. We're going to ride it out for the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: short term. Because what is the short term? Is that
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a month? Is that six months? And how many of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: them can ride it out because you're smothering them economically?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So I say get back to the American first agenda,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: get back to the affordability issue, and start doing that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: as well, and we shall see. I hope that he's
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: done with this Iran thing tomorrow or a week from now,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and it all works out fine. But if this drags
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  Speaker 1: on six months, that's– I mean, we shall see. I mean–
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And you are correct. I mean, I remind everybody, Iran
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: did say that they can destroy our economy, too. And
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you're 100 percent correct. And if you look at where
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: things are going, we're taking some hits as well. So
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: we shall see. All right, Frank. Appreciate it. They love him.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: They hate him. But listen, I'm going to just tell
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you straightforward. I voted for Trump three times and I'll
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: never be a cheerleader. There are things that he does
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that if you don't agree with him, don't become blindsided
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and say, it's only the Republican Party. I can't disagree
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: with anything. Everything he does is terrific. I said this
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: yesterday and I'll say it to you again. I did
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: not support how he treated Tucker Carlson, how he treated
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene. And I don't applaud that at all.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: People that were there for him when he was trying
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to get reelected, on stage, championing him, Marjorie Taylor Greene
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: all along, and simply because they disagreed with him on
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Epstein and releasing those files, which was a legitimate complaint
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that those people have, and many people have. It was
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a gigantic— it was bizarre. When they were talking about the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Epstein situation, releasing the files, then all of a sudden it's, ah,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that again. That's old news. No, we're just talking about it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: You were talking about releasing all the files and all
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the information, and all of a sudden everything changed with you, Donald.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: So because that upsets Marjorie Taylor Greene or that upsets
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, these people, because they say that's not right.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Or because those people also say they don't agree with
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the situation in Iran, they weren't an imminent threat, and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: they think that this was influenced by Israel and that
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: it wasn't in America's best interest. All of a sudden,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you attack those people? The people that helped you get elected,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you say they're low IQ, they're
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: like scum? Marjorie Taylor Greene, who You got on stage
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: with you when you first ran, was one of your
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: earliest supporters. And then when you ran every time and
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden she disagrees with you on Epstein.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: And now you just insult her, call her a traitor
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. That's not a trait
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I find admirable. it's okay in the United States of
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: America to say I like 80% or 90% of what
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: this guy's doing but this stuff bothers me and that's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: what Tucker did that's what Marjorie Taylor Greene did and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: then to attack him like he did I think that's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: bizarre There's nothing about it I like. And I sit
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: there and say, what's going on here? Now, you got
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the other camp that's a bunch of cheerleaders that just
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: are oblivious to everything and whatever it is, everything's okay,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: whatever he does. And sometimes I don't think people really
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: understand what Fort Lauderdale Frank says at times, what he's
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: talking about with the visas that he's talking about, about
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: letting all these people into our country from India that
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: are highly skilled in these computer areas that cut the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: throat of American kids that are schooled in it, bring
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the wages down in it. But the argument now is
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: with AI taking this stuff over, What are all these
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: people going to do? Why are we letting anybody into
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  Speaker 1: our country? We're going to have a serious problem with
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: jobs for people. And these people are saying this, aren't
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: talking 10 years from now, they're talking from now, the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: next year and year after that, relatively quickly here. So
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: let's take a look at some of this stuff. Listen,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I want Trump to get back to the American first agenda.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Let's deal with affordability. Let's get prices down. Let's get
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: inflation down. Let's get the golden age going. I realize
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you can't put a timeline on the end of this
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: situation in Iran. And once again, it seems everything's going
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: good and I hope that it can conclude quickly. But
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: it takes two to do that. And if Iran rides
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: it out and says, well, we're not doing any of
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: this or we're not going to go along with it.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what, what the situation is there.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: So we shall see. There's many people that don't feel
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: we should have got involved in this at all, that
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: it wasn't our best interest from the, from the very beginning.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: So we shall see. I mean, I hope, but then again,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: they all know more than we do because they're in,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: they're on top of this stuff. You're on here. Good.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. It's JJ, the liberal.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: No, I just, I was just listening to your comments
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: there and, and, uh, I've never been a, uh, you know,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: just likewise, I was never a, uh, a cheerleader for Biden.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: You know, I thought the doors times that he had
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: made some, some positive moves, um, despite, you know, in
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: spite of what you, you know, other people say, but
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: it was also a lot of mistakes you made. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: if you, if you don't call anybody out, on something,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: then that just shows two things. If somebody's always agreeing
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: with you, Ron, either they want something or they're just
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: kissing your rear end. That shows some character to be
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: able to say, no, I don't agree with you. Again,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: that was one thing that I've seen a change in you. Again,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: you were never a cheerleader, but I've noticed that and
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you've You know, again, you're telling some of the people,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: and I don't like these people calling. You know, they
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: always say about they don't like us calling in Frank
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: or me or Emmanuel.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: That's America.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: And jumping all over you. And you handled it quite,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: you know, quite.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Listen, I don't mind at all. I just like to
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: put the parameters out there. It seems things are going well.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: But the reality is you better get focused back on
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: what's going on in this country with our citizens. And
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: economics are a major factor going on right now with
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: every family in this country.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and every time I went to get gas today, and,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: you know, I had to take a loan out. So
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I have to, I owe PNC a handful of money.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I have to make payments every month on that. Anyway,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: people were just, you could just tell in their faces
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: as they were going in, and it was almost like
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: they were handing the money over to the cashier, and
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: they were, you know, holding on to it like a
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: death grip.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, the thing is, think about this. Four gallons is
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: 20 bucks. Yep. Four gallons.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Four gallons isn't too, you know, I mean, I've got
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: a four-door that's, you know, it's 2008, but it's, you know,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: that's 20 bucks. That four gallons isn't, you know, it
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: puts a couple little notches in the tank. That's about it.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: So it's, again, I don't know. I can understand that
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: people are still supporting him.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, all I'm trying to say is at five
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: bucks and diesel at six bucks a gallon, you don't
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: think that's going to raise your trash bill? You don't
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: think it costs a lot more for them to fill
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: up the garbage truck than that comes around your streets
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: once a week and picks up your trash? You think
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: they're just going to absorb that? They're either going to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: put a fuel charge on or they're going to up
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the price because that's just one of many things that
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: is going up. So the reality is you think it's
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: not going to affect your groceries getting delivered? The same
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: arguments I made against Biden with high energy prices from
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the farmer needing diesel to the truck getting your food
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to the store to the garbage truck to you driving around,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the same arguments apply today as they did then. It
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: is inflation driven. We're an oil based economy. And this
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: idea of, well, just hang on a little bit of time. Well,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: what's a little bit of time?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Exactly. A little bit of time could be, it depends
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: on your perception of what a little bit of time is.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: It could be an hour or two, or it could
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: be a month and a half. So again, that's kind
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: of a vague thing. And I don't want to..
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: And take a look at the airlines and what's happening
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to them. They're canceling flights. You want to buy a ticket,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: stand by. I'll come back to JJ the Liberal in
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: more of your calls. I mean, you've got to deal
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: with reality. NewsRadio 570 WKBN. I'll be right back.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: 570 WKBN.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: All righty. News Radio 570 to ODKBN 356. I think
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: you made your point, didn't you, buddy? Yeah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I just want to make that just give me 15 seconds.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: One thing I wanted to let you guys know is
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: that when anybody calls anybody a name like, you know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: he's a dictator or he's a fascist or whatever it
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: might be, that is not hate speech. Hate speech is
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: in reference to religion, race.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Well, but I don't agree with that. I mean, I'm
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: tired of the Hitlers and the fascists and all this
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. It's not good speech. I understand that.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: People got to understand that one guy called the other
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: day was saying that it's not.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: But anyway, I appreciate again what you're doing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And thanks.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Because it keeps all I'm saying is I keep hearing
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: every day. Iran wants to make a deal. Iran wants
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: to make a deal. Well, where is it? I mean,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I've been hearing this every day. Iran wants to make
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: a deal. Iran wants to make a deal. He's saying
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: it again today. Well, where is the deal, Lynn? You're
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: on the air.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Poland Library. We are just sick about it. Oh, I
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: can't even express it. You would think they knew that
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: there was something wrong with the foundation. Wouldn't you bring
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: in the architect, the engineers, and try to make them
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: fix it right years ago? You know, I'm sorry, we're
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: all just sick about it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Well, and you should be. You were totally ignored. It
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: didn't matter what the community thought or what your opinion was.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: Exactly, exactly. I just, all I wanted to say is
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: I back you. I'm glad you brought the subject up.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Maybe somehow we could, you know how you have an
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: appeal when you have a verdict?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I think it's a, really, I think it's a done deal.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think they give a damn what people say.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Well, I knew it was from the beginning.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: It was from the beginning. And very quickly, you talked
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: about the missing scientists. on the overnight show, Coast to Coast.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: The first two hours, he's going to have an update
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: on them.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, dear. Appreciate it. Ron Furr back with more
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  Speaker 1: of your calls. Long segment ahead. Legal show at 5.
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  Speaker 1: Money Talks with John Arnold at 6.
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  Speaker 6: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. The Senate failing for
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  Speaker 6: a sixth time to pass a war powers resolution limiting
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  Speaker 6: the president's war on Iran. That war now entering its
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  Speaker 6: third month with talks on hold in Iran vowing to
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  Speaker 6: fight back on U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Aggression.
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  Speaker 6: A blockade remains in the Strait of Hormuz leading to
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  Speaker 6: a surge in oil and gas prices. President Trump says
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  Speaker 6: he thinks those higher prices are temporary.
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  Speaker 1: The gas will go down. As soon as the war
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  Speaker 1: is over, it will drop like a rock. There's so
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  Speaker 1: much of it. It's all over the place, sitting all
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  Speaker 1: over the oceans.
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  Speaker 6: Gas buddies Patrick DeHaan says getting that oil to the
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  Speaker 6: pump won't happen as quickly as the price hikes.
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  Speaker 1: We are now up to $ 4. 35 a gallon. That's the
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  Speaker 1: highest level since July of 2022. We're only $ 0. 16 a
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  Speaker 1: gallon away now from that $ 4. 50 a gallon mark.
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  Speaker 2: And prices literally overnight in the Great Lakes up $ 1
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  Speaker 2: a gallon because of refining issues at major refineries there
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  Speaker 2: in that region.
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  Speaker 6: In San Francisco, California's special refinery costs have led to
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  Speaker 6: $ 7 a gallon. The partial government shutdown. set to end
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  Speaker 6: with the President Trump's signature. Hopefully this hour, the House
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  Speaker 6: passing the Senate-approved measure to fund most agencies of DHS.
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  Speaker 6: After Democrats pushed for immigration reform, here's ABC's Jay O'Brien.
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  Speaker 7: The House, by voice vote, passed this Senate legislation ending
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  Speaker 7: the Department of Homeland Security partial government shutdown after 76 days.
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  Speaker 7: There was not a recorded vote. There was no moment
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  Speaker 7: of drama on the House floor. It was just by
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  Speaker 7: the yays and nays, meaning people going yay and people
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  Speaker 7: going nay. That's not how legislation is usually passed, but
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  Speaker 7: it is now advanced. and now it's headed to President
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  Speaker 7: Trump's desk.
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  Speaker 6: President Trump announcing he's nominating Dr. Nicole Safier for Surgeon General,
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  Speaker 6: saying she has the medical credentials to excel in the role.
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  Speaker 6: The president pulled his previous pick, Dr. Casey Means, today,
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  Speaker 6: who did not complete residency, was not board certified, and
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  Speaker 6: did not have an active medical license. You're listening to
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  Speaker 6: ABC News.