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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Thursday - 08/27/26 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: On News Radio 570, WKBN.
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Speaker 2: Well, good afternoon.
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Speaker 1: It's 305.
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Speaker 2: What a glorious day it is out there, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: It's 83 degrees, 305 on a Thursday afternoon. YSU football
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Speaker 3: tonight starts at 5 o'clock, so there won't be a
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Speaker 3: legal show on the air tonight or money talks with
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Speaker 3: John Arnold. We'll have the first YSU football game. Looking
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Speaker 3: forward to that. Bob Hannon calls a great game. It'll
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Speaker 3: be on here at 5. We conversate between 3 and
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Speaker 3: 5 on NewsRadio 570. And there's a number of things
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Speaker 3: that I really want to talk about. There's two things
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Speaker 3: in particular that I put out there. One of them, well,
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Speaker 3: here's the first one. You just heard it. Meta, some
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Speaker 3: people would say Facebook. Meta has agreed to an $ 18
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Speaker 3: billion multi-state settlement agreement. to resolve a massive federal lawsuit
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Speaker 3: alleging that Facebook and Instagram were intentionally designed to be
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Speaker 3: addictive and harmful to the mental health of teenagers. Did
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Speaker 3: you hear what I just said? So Meta paid $ 18
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Speaker 3: billion to a multi-state settlement. to resolve a massive federal
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Speaker 3: lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram were intentionally designed to
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Speaker 3: be addictive and harmful to the mental health of teenagers.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you what's addictive. Doritos.
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Speaker 3: Doritos are addictive. They're very addictive. My wife bought a
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Speaker 3: bag of these Doritos. And there is no way you
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Speaker 3: can just have like 10 of them. They taste so good.
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Speaker 3: And it wasn't the traditional ones. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: it was the Cool Ranch or what ones, but they
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Speaker 3: were just outstanding. And, you know, you'd take a handful
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Speaker 3: out of the bag, you'd put it, and you'd eat that.
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Speaker 3: And as soon as one, you got done with one,
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Speaker 3: and that flavor went away, you put another one in.
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Speaker 2: It was just spectacular.
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Speaker 3: It was heavenly. It's very addictive. Now, do you think
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Speaker 3: I got a lawsuit against Doritos? Do you think I
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Speaker 3: got a lawsuit against Doritos? Because I'm sure they designed
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Speaker 3: them so they tasted really good when you put it
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Speaker 3: in your mouth. It tastes so good and it lasts
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Speaker 3: a short period of time and then you got to
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Speaker 3: put another chip in.
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Speaker 2: Do you think I got an $ 18.
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Speaker 3: Billion lawsuit that we should go after Doritos for making
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Speaker 3: such a great product that you just want to eat
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Speaker 3: more of? Because I use that to make the comparison
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Speaker 3: with Facebook. This is ridiculous to say that you've got
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Speaker 3: to pay an $ 18 billion multi-state settlement because you designed
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Speaker 3: Facebook and Instagram to be addictive and harmful to the
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Speaker 3: mental health of teenagers. Can you imagine that? Let me
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Speaker 3: read you some of the stories about it. Social media
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Speaker 3: giant Meta has agreed to an $ 18 billion settlement with
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Speaker 3: the United States and territories to resolve claims that Facebook
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Speaker 3: and Instagram harmed children. A California judge approved the settlement,
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Speaker 3: which Meta must pay to 48 states plus the District
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Speaker 3: of Columbia and and three U.S. territories, making the company's
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Speaker 3: largest payments over child safety litigation to date. Meta will
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Speaker 3: also implement a host of changes aimed at better protecting
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Speaker 3: kids online, which the states had demanded, including default daily
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Speaker 3: time limits and nighttime blocks. This is a major moment
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Speaker 3: to clean up an industry that has been hurting our kids.
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Speaker 3: Meta has denied any wrongdoing as part of the settlement
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Speaker 3: and said on Wednesday that the payments it agreed to
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Speaker 3: will be distributed in annual installments over a 10-year period.
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Speaker 3: This California judge approved the settlement, writing that it reflects
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Speaker 3: a fair, reasonable, Comprehensive and good faith approach not only
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Speaker 3: to provide monetary relief but importantly to change conduct in
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Speaker 3: a way that attempts to meaningfully address the negative impact
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Speaker 3: of social media platforms at issue.
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Speaker 2: While a settlement.
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Speaker 3: Includes almost the entire U.S., the initial lawsuit was filed
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Speaker 3: in 2023 by 29 states accusing the company of numerous
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Speaker 3: violations of federal.
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Speaker 2: And state child privacy laws.
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Speaker 3: One of the states that was not part of the
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Speaker 3: settlements was New Mexico. Last month, a federal judge there
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Speaker 3: handed down a historic ruling against Meta, finding it to
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Speaker 3: be a public nuisance on par with air pollution and
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Speaker 3: ordering it to pay combined fines of $ 1 billion. As
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Speaker 3: a jury trial kicked off last week in Oakland, California,
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Speaker 3: federal courts, state lawmakers argued the tech company knew that
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Speaker 3: millions of 11- and 12-year-old users were were on Instagram
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Speaker 3: and Facebook over the years, yet did little to keep
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Speaker 3: them off the platforms. Well, why would you? So you
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Speaker 3: have 11- and 12-year-olds that are on these platforms. Isn't
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Speaker 3: that the job of the parent? Isn't that the job
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Speaker 3: of the parent to parent their children? That's what I'm
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Speaker 3: asking you. Not to say, oh, you're to blame, Facebook.
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Speaker 3: Although the trial had only gone on for five days,
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Speaker 3: state lawyers relied heavily on information found in millions of
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Speaker 3: internal meta documents provided in a case that included internal research,
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Speaker 3: employee emails, chat logs, and went all the way up
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Speaker 3: to the chief executive, Zuckerberg. One piece of the internal
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Speaker 3: research on Instagram stated, teens have an addictive narrative about us. Still,
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Speaker 3: Meta targeted young users. The trial did not go well
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Speaker 3: for Meta. I mean, are you listening to what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. So they put a product out there that,
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Speaker 3: for whatever reason, a lot of people live their life
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Speaker 3: on Facebook or on Instagram.
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Speaker 2: Are you sitting down? I do not.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's really weird. I'm just going
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Speaker 3: to tell you, I think it's weird how addictive some
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Speaker 3: people are to this stuff. But that's not the fault
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Speaker 3: of Facebook or Instagram. That's the fault of themselves. That's
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Speaker 3: the fault of the people that are posting the stuff
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Speaker 3: that they want to post all the time.
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Speaker 2: I see it.
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Speaker 3: It's very addictive to some adults. They think they got
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Speaker 3: to be on there all the damn time, post everything.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's really nonsense. The only addictive thing about
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Speaker 3: it is if you make it addictive. I mean, this
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Speaker 3: is just crazy to me when I'm reading this. Oh, man,
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Speaker 3: it's addictive to children. Well, as a parent, why don't
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Speaker 3: you tell your kids to get off of it? Don't
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Speaker 3: you have any control over your family and your kids,
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Speaker 3: their cell phone, their computer use?
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Speaker 2: Of an 11-year-old?
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Speaker 3: Well, you made a product that kids want to use
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Speaker 3: and want to be on. It's like a social community.
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Speaker 3: Shame on you.
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Speaker 2: Comments, please.
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Speaker 3: I think it's just ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous. That's
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Speaker 3: why I use the Doritos thing. Do I have a
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Speaker 3: claim against Doritos? Because it can be addictive. But at
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Speaker 3: some point, you just roll a bag up, put it
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Speaker 3: back in the cupboard, and forget about it.
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Speaker 2: It's called willpower. It's willpower. I'm just asking you about it. Comments, 330-729-9977.
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Speaker 3: 330-729-9977.
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Speaker 2: Comments, please. 330-729-9977.
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Speaker 3: The other topic, I'm just going to pause for a
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Speaker 3: second on that. We shall see.
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Speaker 2: You're on air.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ron, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 4: On Facebook and Meta, everyone's addicted to some degree, especially adults,
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Speaker 4: not just juveniles and young kids. They're addicted not just
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Speaker 4: to Facebook, to Twitter or X or streaming on their
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Speaker 4: smartphones and getting all their news from smartphones. But if
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Speaker 4: I was a parent with a young child under 10
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Speaker 4: years old, they would not have a smart phone. I
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Speaker 4: would give them a flip-top phone if they needed a phone,
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Speaker 4: but not a smartphone until a certain age because of
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Speaker 4: all the bad sites you can go to. But if
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Speaker 4: you look at Meta, it didn't affect the stock at all.
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Speaker 4: And Piper Sandler came out today with a note saying
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Speaker 4: that teen safety product changes and the impact of the
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Speaker 4: settlement is a negligible revenue impact on the stock. It
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Speaker 4: only affects 0.5% of the user base or those teenagers
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Speaker 4: and children.
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Speaker 3: I still go back to say, how is that? They
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Speaker 3: just put a product out there, Facebook and Instagram, Well,
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Speaker 3: if kids decide they're going to use it and the
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Speaker 3: parents don't have a problem with it, how is it
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Speaker 3: the fault of the company? I don't understand why any
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Speaker 3: settlement should be reached at all. I mean, should we
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Speaker 3: reach a settlement for how many adults seem to be
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Speaker 3: addicted to it and putting every facet of their life
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Speaker 3: on there for whatever reason? It's just bizarre to me,
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Speaker 3: but for whatever reason?
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Speaker 4: You can't go after these companies. You're right, and you
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Speaker 4: had a good– Analogy with the Doritos and potato chips.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they're way more addictive. I try to buy
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Speaker 4: low salt. I go, well, I'm going to buy something good.
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Speaker 4: I'll buy a bag of the low salt, 50% less salt.
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Speaker 4: And the bag is gone in a day. And I've
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Speaker 4: shot myself in the foot.
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Speaker 3: Well, at what point do you take responsibility for your
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Speaker 3: own issues or do you parent your kids?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think my wife– if.
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Speaker 3: This was around and our kids were 11 years old,
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Speaker 3: of course, I don't think it was around at the time. But–
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Speaker 3: let's say it was around, she would deal with it
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Speaker 3: herself as far as what cell phone you would have
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Speaker 3: and what you would put on there and that kind
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Speaker 3: of stuff.
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Speaker 2: It's called parenting.
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Speaker 3: She wouldn't be blaming Facebook or Instagram that she'd be saying,
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Speaker 3: this is the way it's going to be in our house.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't understand this at all.
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Speaker 3: I mean, how long before adults blame everybody for, I
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Speaker 3: could go and drink three Dr.
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Speaker 2: Peppers today. I love it. Or a Coke.
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Speaker 3: But one day, I just said, I'm done with it.
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Speaker 3: I very occasionally have a Coke because it's loaded with sugar.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it tastes great, right? It tastes great and everything,
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Speaker 3: but you've got to avoid it. There's nothing good about it,
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Speaker 3: those sugary drinks. Right.
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Speaker 4: If you look back before the smartphones and Meta and Facebook,
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Speaker 4: what the parents usually used as a babysitting device was
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Speaker 4: the television. They would sit their kids in front of
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Speaker 4: the TV, turn it on, and problem solved. Now if
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Speaker 4: you go out, especially if you go to the stores
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Speaker 4: or supermarkets, you see toddlers with devices that are scrolling
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Speaker 4: and tablets and phones. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's just a,
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Speaker 4: you know, you're not going to change. The parents don't
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Speaker 4: have time. And if it keeps the kid quiet and
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Speaker 4: out of their hair, that's what they're going to do.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's lack of discipline.
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Speaker 3: I mean, my wife would comment on it when you
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Speaker 3: see kids that are totally out of control in a
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Speaker 3: store or in a restaurant saying, where are the parents?
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Speaker 3: You know, where are the parents? What are they doing?
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Speaker 3: I mean, so it is just as strange as time. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: what else is on your mind?
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Speaker 4: Oh, the big news was last night's earnings report from NVIDIA.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw that.
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Speaker 2: I did not.
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Speaker 4: It validates the AI trade that were in the very,
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Speaker 4: very early innings of AI. and everybody's, you're going to
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Speaker 4: make a lot of money. NVIDIA had blowout. Of course,
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Speaker 4: they always have blowout numbers, but they had blowout numbers,
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Speaker 4: and they were up 8% today, 16.4 points. And it
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Speaker 4: just validates the AI. AI is, you're unstoppable. The data
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Speaker 4: centers are unstoppable.
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Speaker 2: But here's my problem with it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there is something that does bother me about it,
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Speaker 3: and I think people are making legitimate points. I don't
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Speaker 3: want to, listen, I shouldn't be, my electric shouldn't be,
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Speaker 3: I shouldn't be subsidizing AI because of their electric demands.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the people that are saying, wait a minute here,
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Speaker 3: this problem it creates with the cost of electricity or
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Speaker 3: with the potential problem with water and the cost of
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Speaker 3: that are serious problems that a community needs to look
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Speaker 3: at before we start hosing all of its citizens here
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Speaker 3: with the utilities that aren't affordable, which has happened in
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Speaker 3: some areas of the country, which is happening here with
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Speaker 3: our electricity, in part because of AI.
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Speaker 2: Agree?
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Speaker 4: Yes, oh, definitely. And that's what I fault Trump for.
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Speaker 4: And Trump is very good at breaking his promises. If
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Speaker 4: you look at his speeches, he was going to lower
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Speaker 4: our electric and gas bills. Not gas for your car,
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Speaker 4: but for your home. It's drill, baby, drill.
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Speaker 5: And.
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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, he's good at distracting people, like we saw today
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Speaker 4: with the Lake America. He'll take your eye off the
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Speaker 4: ball and distract you to get away from.
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Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this, though.
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Speaker 3: How stupid is this? Listen, I don't care if you're
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Speaker 3: for Trump or against Trump. This is ridiculous. Oh, we
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Speaker 3: want to change it from Lake Ontario to Lake America?
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Speaker 3: I mean, now this is just ridiculous. It's just like
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Speaker 3: I thought it was stupid to go from the Department
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Speaker 3: of Defense to the Department of War. I mean, there
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Speaker 3: is an oddity about the guy with this renaming stuff.
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Speaker 3: I was against it when Joe Biden wanted to rename
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Speaker 3: Fort Hood. Don't misunderstand me. I was against the Democrats
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Speaker 3: when they wanted to erase our history, taking down statues
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Speaker 3: and renaming places because it didn't fit their agenda. Fort
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Speaker 3: Hood being one of them. I was totally opposed to
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Speaker 3: their agenda and I was opposed to them doing that.
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Speaker 3: I was glad when Trump put it back to how
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Speaker 3: it's always been known. But he is really off his
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Speaker 3: rocker to say, oh, it's going to be the Department
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Speaker 3: of War, not the Department of Defense. It's going to
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Speaker 3: be Lake America, not Lake Ontario. I mean, I think
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Speaker 3: that's weird.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's Trump being Trump, and that's what he does.
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Speaker 4: But unfortunately, we're stuck with him. But getting back to
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Speaker 4: the AI trade real quick, I recently had an AI–
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Speaker 4: assisted surgery uh over a month.
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Speaker 3: Ago stand by for one minute sure i'll come back
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Speaker 3: to you and take more of your calls it's already
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Speaker 3: 3 22 on a thursday afternoon ron verb from the
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Speaker 3: and so you had ai assisted surgery Yes.
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Speaker 4: I did. It was the newest technology. It's been out
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Speaker 4: for about four years, the procedure, but they've recently enhanced
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Speaker 4: it with AI matched up with an ultrasound to give
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Speaker 4: you a precise mapping of the surgery. And I heard
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Speaker 4: on your radio today they did that with a brain
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Speaker 4: tumor using AI. It was very successful. So AI, it's
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Speaker 4: going to have tremendous benefits.
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Speaker 3: Wow. I mean, there's pluses and minuses. But initially, and
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Speaker 3: like I say, it's going to happen whether we support
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Speaker 3: it or not. But it's almost as though people have
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Speaker 3: no say-so in it. Well, you're just– it's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: It's a race against China. You're just going to have
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Speaker 3: to accept it if it puts a lot of– you
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Speaker 3: educated people out of work or whatever. That's just the
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Speaker 3: way it is. You better just come to accept it,
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Speaker 3: and you also better accept– I mean, you have people
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Speaker 3: that are talking, well, AI could wipe out so many jobs,
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Speaker 3: that's why they're talking about basic income and this kind
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Speaker 3: of stuff. I don't know that I buy that scenario, incidentally.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know that AI's... I just don't
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Speaker 3: know that I'm buying it. I do say, okay, if
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Speaker 3: AI comes, they do zero tax breaks to make sure
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Speaker 3: they pay their property tax and all the other taxes
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Speaker 3: to offset your property taxes.
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Speaker 6: But.
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Speaker 3: The people that are concerned about the power usage and
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Speaker 3: the cost of their electric and water and what it
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Speaker 3: does to the water are bringing up legitimate concerns.
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Speaker 2: Would you not agree? I mean, legitimate concerns.
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Speaker 4: Definitely. But here's the thing. No matter who, even if
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Speaker 4: Sherrod Brown says he's against data centers and he knocks
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Speaker 4: Houston in his commercials, I can guarantee you the Uniparty,
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Speaker 4: the Democrats and the Republicans, no matter who you vote for,
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Speaker 4: are going to be for data centers. I mean, there's
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Speaker 4: no way we're going to stop them. But the good
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Speaker 4: news is you have people like Musk that has solutions
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Speaker 4: to the problems of energy consumption and water use. So
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Speaker 4: that's just a near-term problem. It'll be solved within, I say,
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Speaker 4: within two years.
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Speaker 2: But I go back to say, right now.
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Speaker 3: And listen, I explain to everybody on a regular basis, Obama,
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Speaker 3: Clinton and Kerry, all these people at the Green Energy Deal,
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Speaker 3: the war on coal is one of the main reasons
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Speaker 3: why your electric rates have gone up. I pass this
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Speaker 3: along to all of you again.
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Speaker 2: Obama regulated.
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Speaker 3: Power plants out of existence, including a Samus plant here.
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Speaker 3: So they wanted to get rid of these plants. It
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Speaker 3: didn't matter. So they would regulate them out of existence.
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Speaker 3: And the Samus plant was up to date with scrubbers
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Speaker 3: and everything like that. And then they required that they
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Speaker 3: be destroyed so they couldn't be turned back on.
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Speaker 2: This is Obama. This is the Democrats.
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Speaker 3: Biden, Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, all of these people
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Speaker 3: insisted that That this happened. They regulated them out of business.
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Speaker 3: They insisted that they be torn down with nothing to
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Speaker 3: replace what the energy that they created. With zero to
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Speaker 3: replace the void that it would create. So they created
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Speaker 3: the shortage. There was no reason for that Samus plant
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Speaker 3: to ever be torn down. It was a crime. And
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Speaker 3: not just there, but other plants that have been torn down.
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Speaker 3: It is an absolute crime. So that is one of
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Speaker 3: the reasons why your electric rates have gone up, supply
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Speaker 3: and demand, because of those idiot policies.
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Speaker 2: And secondly, AI centers.
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Speaker 3: So you've got this AI technology, which is sucking it
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Speaker 3: up even more, and they're causing your electric bill to
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Speaker 3: go up. Well, are we going to reach a point
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Speaker 3: where people aren't going to be able to afford the electric–
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Speaker 3: bill for their home? I mean, utilities have to be
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Speaker 3: affordable and relatively inexpensive for us to enjoy our life.
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Speaker 2: They are going in the opposite direction.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 4: Real quick, Avon on the lake, I had relatives up there.
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Speaker 4: They had one of the largest coal-burning power plants. I
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Speaker 4: would go up there. You wouldn't know it was there.
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Speaker 4: There was no smoke. There was no noise. It was
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Speaker 4: very clean. You know, the Democrats had it demolished, and
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Speaker 4: I can't believe DeWine let that go through. And it's decommissioned.
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Speaker 4: You could never start it back up again, I mean,
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Speaker 4: from scratch.
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Speaker 2: It's insane.
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Speaker 3: It is. Good hearing your voice. I appreciate it. All right,
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Speaker 3: thank you. News Radio 570 WKBN. And, Ron Ferb, it's
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Speaker 3: important as Americans that you understand why your electric bill
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Speaker 3: has gone up. And that is one of the key
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Speaker 3: reasons why. Democrats brought that on with the Green New
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Speaker 3: Deal by shutting down coal plants and regulating them out
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Speaker 3: of business and then insisting they be destroyed. Can you
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Speaker 3: imagine if they would have done that to Three Mile Island?
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Speaker 3: Because they're turning Three Mile Island back on because they
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Speaker 1: On NewsRadio 570, WKBN. I mean, it.
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Speaker 2: Is just ridiculous, this whole, well, let's rename Lake Ontario,
23:36
Speaker 2: Lake America. I mean, unbelievable. You're on the air.
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Speaker 9: Hey there, good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, sir.
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Speaker 9: I kind of agree with you, but on the other hand, why,
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Speaker 9: if they're going to monitor certain things, they should be
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Speaker 9: monitoring that. But you're right about the parents. They should
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Speaker 9: have control of what's going on. They should take the
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Speaker 9: time to sit down and go through their kids' phones,
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Speaker 9: find out who they're contacting or who they're being involved with.
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Speaker 9: That's all part of parenting. And I agree with you,
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Speaker 9: but if you're going to take abuse of it, when
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Speaker 9: somebody's kids... I don't... If they were my kids nowadays,
24:27
Speaker 9: if I had kids, I wouldn't let them have a
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Speaker 9: smartphone until they were 13 years old. Because they don't
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Speaker 9: have the measurable amount of understanding what the world is
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Speaker 9: really about. And some of these kids... And I've seen it,
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Speaker 9: because I've read it, how nasty they can be to
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Speaker 9: each other. And that sort of stuff should be shot
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Speaker 9: right then and there. But then again now, with the
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Speaker 9: sciences of today, you could take those algorithms and figure
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Speaker 9: out which person or kids are doing this to each other.
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Speaker 3: But it's ridiculous to even give $ 18 billion if you're
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Speaker 3: Facebook or Instagram that organization because, oh, 11- and 12-year-old
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Speaker 3: kids are addicted to your platforms. Well, that's a parenting issue.
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Speaker 3: I go back to say it. It is not something.
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Speaker 2: That you sue.
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Speaker 3: Do we sue cartoon makers because young kids, when I
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Speaker 3: was growing up, wanted to sit in front of the
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Speaker 3: TV and watch cartoons all day long? Should we sue
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Speaker 3: the cartoon maker or the TV station? Where do you
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Speaker 3: want to go with this? As I say, do we
25:36
Speaker 3: sue Doritos? Because you can't eat just 10 of them.
25:38
Speaker 3: You've got to have more of them because they're so
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Speaker 3: damn good. Where do you want to go with this
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Speaker 3: kind of stuff? And what about adults? There's plenty of
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Speaker 3: adults that seem to me that are addicted to Facebook.
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Speaker 2: Well, is that my problem? Is that the fault of Facebook?
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Speaker 3: That people want to post everything about their life or
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Speaker 3: live their life on it or somehow always looking at it?
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Speaker 2: That's your problem.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you're right about that. I mean, I've met many
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Speaker 9: adults who's looking at this thing and saying, this is
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Speaker 9: what's going on. Well, where's the proof? There is no
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Speaker 9: proof of some of the junk they're reading on there.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 9: And it just amazes me, as far as this AI thing...
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Speaker 9: That gentleman had an operation, and it went through because
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Speaker 9: of AI. My wife, 20 years ago, went through that,
26:33
Speaker 9: and that was partly AI that did it. The doctor
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Speaker 9: put it in there, watched it, and told the machine
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Speaker 9: what to do, and the machine did the job because
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Speaker 9: it had enough intelligence to know where it was supposed
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Speaker 9: to go and what to do with it. And it
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Speaker 9: amazed my wife. My wife couldn't believe it, but her
26:56
Speaker 9: recovery time was half. Right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's been a lot of great technology. I mean,
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Speaker 3: everything's got its good and bad sides. So you've got
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Speaker 3: to weigh. There's a good outweigh the bad. And in
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Speaker 3: a lot of cases, that's yes. I mean, the Internet
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Speaker 3: has been a wonderful thing. It's changed a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 3: Made life easier to research stuff, made life easier to
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Speaker 3: order stuff, all of that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Now, there are those.
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Speaker 3: People that use the Internet for kiddie porn or child porn,
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Speaker 3: and they get in trouble for it. So all the
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Speaker 3: bad and evil part of the Internet is there, too.
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Speaker 2: Okay. It depends. If you want to partake in it,
27:39
Speaker 2: you can get in trouble on the World Wide Web.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, with anything. But here, let's just jump to these–
27:48
Speaker 9: Plants that they're trying to put up. When you go
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Speaker 9: to wash your car, do you believe that the water
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Speaker 9: you're getting on your car is as clean as it
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Speaker 9: comes out of your faucet?
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 9: Most of them stations that you go to get your
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Speaker 9: car down has a filtering system. And it takes out
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Speaker 9: almost all the dirt so that it is almost clean.
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Speaker 9: Not clean enough to drink. But clean. Why can't these
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Speaker 9: things that they're building, why do they have to take
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Speaker 9: the water out and dump it? What's in that water?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, but that's when people are asking. At
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Speaker 3: some point, you've got to flush that system. And what
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Speaker 3: are the chemicals? What's in the water? Those are fair
28:36
Speaker 3: questions to ask from an environmental standpoint to get answers
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Speaker 3: to that. How much water does it use? And what
28:45
Speaker 3: chemicals do you use to clean that system? What effect
28:48
Speaker 3: does it have on the water? But it's also fair
28:51
Speaker 3: for people to say, well, I'm not subsidizing you guys
28:56
Speaker 3: with my electric costs because you guys want to suck
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Speaker 3: up all the power and make it too damn expensive
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Speaker 3: for me to run my air conditioning.
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Speaker 2: I think there's a legitimate complaint there.
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Speaker 9: To make the point that I'm trying to get at here,
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Speaker 9: it's the same thing you're saying. But what do they
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Speaker 9: use the water for? To cool the plant down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, cooling.
29:17
Speaker 9: All right, for cooling. So how in the world can
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Speaker 9: you dirty water if you're just using it to clean?
29:26
Speaker 3: Well, I don't have the answer to it. I mean,
29:29
Speaker 3: just research needs to be done. So people have a
29:33
Speaker 3: right to say, I like where they want to go
29:39
Speaker 3: when they want to say, you want to build an
29:40
Speaker 3: AI center, you have to supply the power to that
29:43
Speaker 3: AI center so it doesn't go on the grid and
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Speaker 3: you're not bidding for the electrons and causing everybody's price
29:51
Speaker 3: to go up. There should be a number of requirements.
29:56
Speaker 3: No tax abatements at all on an AI center. Number two,
29:59
Speaker 3: you must be self-sufficient when it comes to providing the
30:03
Speaker 3: power that is necessary, and you have to meet these
30:05
Speaker 3: standards when it comes to the water. If you can
30:08
Speaker 3: do all of that, then that's all well and good.
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Speaker 9: Why in the world can't they jack up their rates
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Speaker 9: if they're sucking so much power?
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Speaker 3: Right, make them pay for it instead of, as I said,
30:21
Speaker 3: there's a number of reasons why your electric bill has
30:23
Speaker 3: gone up.
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Speaker 2: I talked about destroying the coal plants.
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Speaker 3: But supply and demand, AI, is another reason why it
30:29
Speaker 3: is going up and will continue to go up.
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Speaker 9: I looked on the phone one day playing around. How
30:36
Speaker 9: many AI stations are in the United States?
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Speaker 2: Well, they're all over.
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Speaker 9: I mean, in one state, there's over 206 alone.
30:44
Speaker 2: There's a ton of them in Ohio already. A ton
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Speaker 2: of them.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right. What do we need so many of
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Speaker 9: them for? Who are they writing down and keeping information on?
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Speaker 3: I just don't think that you should have to subsidize
30:59
Speaker 3: these companies that are putting up these AI centers with
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Speaker 3: the cost of your electric.
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Speaker 2: All right, old-timer, good hearing you. Appreciate it. All right,
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Speaker 2: you're on the air. hi ron jj the trumpster.
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Speaker 5: How are you today.
31:16
Speaker 3: I am good now i won't say i'm just going
31:20
Speaker 3: to talk in general for a second uh the one
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Speaker 3: email you sent i thought you made some really good
31:24
Speaker 3: points and i've been reflecting on it i've been reflecting
31:28
Speaker 3: on the one oh the long one no the uh.
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Speaker 5: I just thought of one that you said about taking
31:36
Speaker 5: ownership or whatever.
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Speaker 2: The one that you wrote about.
31:41
Speaker 2: Let me paraphrase.
31:42
Speaker 3: The one that you're saying on how people are making
31:45
Speaker 3: such a big damn deal out of this John York thing.
31:48
Speaker 3: I mean, to be more specific on it, I mean,
31:51
Speaker 3: this guy didn't commit murder. He didn't hold up a
31:54
Speaker 3: bank or anything. For the love of God.
31:56
Speaker 5: I just thought it was maybe in bad taste. After
31:59
Speaker 5: I thought about it, it was maybe in a little
32:01
Speaker 5: bit of bad taste, but... You know, if I was
32:04
Speaker 5: in that position, you know, everything's kind of fair game,
32:08
Speaker 5: but I looked, you know, 20-20 hindsight vision, I maybe
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Speaker 5: shouldn't have. So I wanted to at least acknowledge it
32:14
Speaker 5: to you.
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Speaker 2: But that made me think about it.
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Speaker 3: And that made me think, and I thought the following, folks,
32:21
Speaker 3: you know, this is, it's to the point of ridiculousness.
32:25
Speaker 3: In my opinion, with the coverage of this John York
32:32
Speaker 3: deal with the 49ers guy getting caught with the sting
32:38
Speaker 3: operation on prostitution, I just think it's absolutely ridiculous the
32:43
Speaker 3: amount of coverage that this is getting. I look at
32:47
Speaker 3: this and really it's your email that made me think
32:50
Speaker 3: about it. And I thought to myself, okay, this guy
32:52
Speaker 3: did something really stupid. I mean, it's really stupid. There's
32:57
Speaker 3: many people that think this should be legalized anyway. Hell,
33:00
Speaker 3: we legalized recreational marijuana. Nothing good comes from that. And
33:06
Speaker 3: out in Nevada, you can have marijuana. You can have prostitution.
33:11
Speaker 3: It's legal out there. And we know prostitution goes on
33:14
Speaker 3: around here and everywhere where people are buying sex. But
33:22
Speaker 3: this guy did something dumb.
33:24
Speaker 2: And it's like.
33:27
Speaker 2: Oh, here's some video.
33:30
Speaker 5: I have a wife. I'm not into hookers, so.
33:34
Speaker 2: I'd rather deal with the woman that wants me.
33:35
Speaker 5: Not because I'm paying her. I just think that it
33:37
Speaker 5: was unfair for him to make fun of his situation, but...
33:47
Speaker 5: You know, you don't know. I mean, when you get divorced,
33:49
Speaker 5: you know, I was listening to you guys talk about
33:51
Speaker 5: it with the boss radio of how attractive she was.
33:54
Speaker 5: Whoever had the divorce maybe is hurt. You feel lonely.
33:57
Speaker 5: You feel that you're getting a human touch or contact.
34:01
Speaker 5: You know, again, hindsight, I apologize to him for maybe
34:06
Speaker 5: kind of being sensitive.
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Speaker 3: But nonetheless, you made a good point.
34:13
Speaker 2: And here's a good point. Folks, listen.
34:18
Speaker 3: I just look at this situation and it's like, okay,
34:22
Speaker 3: this guy did something stupid and it's embarrassing and I
34:25
Speaker 3: hope he learned from it.
34:28
Speaker 2: Let me just put it that way. I hope he
34:30
Speaker 2: learned from that situation.
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Speaker 5: Experience right and then when i look at it was
34:35
Speaker 5: not going to write both of you for up to
34:37
Speaker 5: you get it a bit but we are four hundred
34:39
Speaker 5: forty dollars uh... you know again i'm not out there
34:42
Speaker 5: purchasing hookers but you're going to a trailer park that
34:44
Speaker 5: could be a dangerous situation right somebody like.
34:46
Speaker 1: Him so it is and so that you know you've got.
34:49
Speaker 5: Some public you know bigger you know uh... billy joe
34:51
Speaker 5: buchanan bob coming out of the corner with the shotgun
34:53
Speaker 5: and and demanding your your credit card so it could
34:56
Speaker 5: be a right a very dangerous situation so that's where
34:59
Speaker 5: even some ways I think stuff like that and marijuana
35:03
Speaker 5: should be legalized because you take the criminal element out
35:06
Speaker 5: of it. And I'm not suggesting they do everything. When
35:09
Speaker 5: you're looking at crack cocaine and heroin and methamphetamines and
35:12
Speaker 5: stuff like that, those are killers. But in some ways,
35:15
Speaker 5: if you have these certain things that have been going
35:17
Speaker 5: on for many, many, many, many years to legalize it
35:21
Speaker 5: and gain profit from it, then you can also help
35:24
Speaker 5: with that money to help addiction, help unnecessary pregnancies. There's
35:30
Speaker 5: a lot of things, or whatever you can use the
35:31
Speaker 5: money for. So I'm that kind of bleeding heart where
35:34
Speaker 5: I can say I'm not going to condone these type
35:36
Speaker 5: of things if I don't do them, other than the
35:39
Speaker 5: previous thing that I said. But other than that, I
35:42
Speaker 5: just think that, you.
35:43
Speaker 1: Know, to not.
35:44
Speaker 5: To be so tight-butt about everything, it's not going to be...
35:49
Speaker 5: You know, things are changing. But I wanted to just...
35:52
Speaker 5: One thing, I just wanted to take one more minute
35:54
Speaker 5: of your time. When you guys were talking about the
35:56
Speaker 5: Facebook and about the kids, okay? One, I agree with
35:59
Speaker 5: the last caller, too, and you, that it's apparent. It's
36:03
Speaker 5: my job as a parent. And he's eight years old now.
36:06
Speaker 5: And I don't, he doesn't have a phone. He's, if
36:08
Speaker 5: he's on the computer, it's only with certain things we
36:10
Speaker 5: have on the computer for education purposes because of his situation.
36:13
Speaker 5: And even if he wasn't in that situation, I still
36:17
Speaker 5: would monitor it very much. Now, on the other hand,
36:21
Speaker 5: Those companies like Facebook, TikTok, and all these other social media,
36:27
Speaker 5: they cannot take in the benefits of having that, freedoms
36:31
Speaker 5: to do these things and not take any ownership or
36:33
Speaker 5: responsibility for that. Plus, they're minors. If I don't become
36:37
Speaker 5: addicted to something on social media, that's my own fault,
36:39
Speaker 5: and they shouldn't have to take care of me or
36:41
Speaker 5: pay for me. But if you're targeting certain people that are–
36:44
Speaker 5: you know, we talked about it before about the kid
36:46
Speaker 5: who shot that other kid. A little 11-year-old, their minds
36:49
Speaker 5: aren't working properly. So in defense of that, I think
36:53
Speaker 5: that you've got to take– these companies have got to
36:54
Speaker 5: take some type of responsibility or acknowledge responsibility. that there
36:58
Speaker 5: is a problem that could be a possible problem. But
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Speaker 5: I go back to agreeing with you and that of
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Speaker 5: the caller that as a parent, I can't pass my
37:05
Speaker 5: responsibility off to somebody else and then claim when something
37:09
Speaker 5: bad happens, says, well, it's their fault, not mine. That's
37:13
Speaker 5: a weak way of doing it. That is bad parenting,
37:16
Speaker 5: and I don't condone that. So I try to pride
37:18
Speaker 5: myself in the middle there, but the first caller said,
37:21
Speaker 5: The other day he said about John York being his
37:23
Speaker 5: picture on the, you know, being put up and everything
37:25
Speaker 5: on TV and stuff. And, again, it's an embarrassing situation.
37:29
Speaker 5: But he thought that was such a horrible thing. But
37:31
Speaker 5: if that would have been you or me, or not
37:33
Speaker 5: even you because you're known, but somebody like me, my
37:37
Speaker 5: face gets up there, he's going to say he deserved that.
37:40
Speaker 5: I'm not saying just because I'm a Democrat. I'm not
37:42
Speaker 5: saying that. But you can't just because you were in
37:46
Speaker 5: a position of power, you cannot get a free pass.
37:50
Speaker 5: That's what we've done for too long. We've allowed this
37:54
Speaker 5: crap to happen. We've done it with Trump.
37:56
Speaker 4: We did it with Biden.
37:57
Speaker 5: That just because of who they are, that they should
37:59
Speaker 5: get a free pass or we should be easy on them.
38:03
Speaker 5: But because they're who they are, we should be harder
38:05
Speaker 5: on them. You know, I just believe that. If you
38:09
Speaker 5: are going to be influential, you've got to take the
38:12
Speaker 5: good with the bad, or the bad with the good.
38:15
Speaker 5: But I respect you. That other email I sent you,
38:18
Speaker 5: I don't know if you got the other one that
38:19
Speaker 5: was lengthy. I truly mean that.
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Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get that.
38:24
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
38:24
Speaker 5: I know you've got to go.
38:25
Speaker 2: I've got to go. All right, thanks. I mean, News
38:28
Speaker 2: Radio 570 WQN. I mean, the whole York thing with the....
38:37
Speaker 3: There's the comedy aspect to it. But in the whole
38:41
Speaker 3: scope of things, you want to talk about something. There's
38:45
Speaker 3: so many angles to this. I mean, the idea that
38:50
Speaker 3: there's so much to talk about with this. But boy,
38:54
Speaker 3: talk about just, it's a whole other program. It's just
39:00
Speaker 3: a whole other program.
39:02
Speaker 2: With it.
39:03
Speaker 3: But JJ's right. I mean, he should have been smart
39:05
Speaker 3: enough to know. First of all, this idea of paying
39:08
Speaker 3: sex to have sex with a woman who's not interested
39:10
Speaker 3: in having sex with you or doesn't have any feelings
39:12
Speaker 3: or emotion with you, that seems kind of like a turnoff,
39:15
Speaker 3: doesn't it?
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Speaker 2: I mean, it just seems like, what's the point?
39:21
Speaker 3: If there isn't a relationship there or love there or
39:23
Speaker 3: anything along those lines. So the whole idea of going
39:28
Speaker 3: and seeing a prostitute is is kind of strange. It's
39:32
Speaker 3: kind of bizarre behavior. But when he's talking about in
39:37
Speaker 3: that particular situation, if you're going along with that, it's
39:40
Speaker 3: stupid because it's dangerous. Like he said, how do you
39:45
Speaker 3: know they won't hit you over the head or hold
39:46
Speaker 3: you hostage or whatever?
39:47
Speaker 9: Whatever.
39:49
Speaker 2: So it's stupid and dangerous to begin with. If it
39:54
Speaker 2: would have materialized.
39:56
Speaker 3: And stupid because of the cops are usually the ones
39:59
Speaker 3: on the other end who capture you doing this kind
40:02
Speaker 3: of stuff. So who knows why the guy decided that
40:06
Speaker 3: they say he was going through a divorce to do
40:08
Speaker 3: something like that. Well, I certainly hope he learned his
40:11
Speaker 3: lesson and becomes a better person as a result of it.
40:16
Speaker 3: Because I'm sure it It's hurt his wife or ex-wife
40:21
Speaker 3: as well as his family. But life goes on, his
40:27
Speaker 3: son comes up, and.
40:32
Speaker 2: He'll do okay.
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Speaker 3: Stadium GM.
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Speaker 2: Quite frankly, wouldn't go anywhere else. The good folks, Stadium GM,
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Speaker 2: in the hearts of Salem. You're on air.
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Speaker 6: I really disagree with your first caller, Mr. Options, on
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Speaker 6: a couple things. Facebook, though, that whole thing is a debacle.
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Speaker 6: But the whole AI thing... AI is good. It does
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Speaker 6: a lot of stuff. But I'm going to talk about
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Speaker 6: how it's being paid for more than anything. So like Facebook,
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Speaker 6: they're a multi-billion, trillion-dollar company. They don't purchase or put
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Speaker 6: in any money for these data centers. There's no debt
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Speaker 6: on their books. They do this tricky thing where they
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Speaker 6: venture capitalism, take on all the debt, and they repackage
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Speaker 6: all the debt, send it down to the Cayman Islands
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Speaker 6: or the Bahamas, you know, into these banks where you
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Speaker 6: can't follow them. And then the venture capitalists, they own
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Speaker 6: the insurance companies. Well, then they take all the debt
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Speaker 6: and plow it into the insurance company. So if these
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Speaker 6: ever go out or the debt goes bad, AI doesn't
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Speaker 6: really pan out as well as it does from a
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Speaker 6: payment standpoint or an economic standpoint. And I'm not talking
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Speaker 6: about down the road. I'm talking about years from now, whenever.
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Speaker 6: If the insurance company goes out of business, there's a
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Speaker 6: law in the state that if an insurance company goes
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Speaker 6: out of business... The other insurance companies have to make
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Speaker 6: their insurers whole. So they have to pay for all that.
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Speaker 6: And then they're allowed to use the payments towards the
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Speaker 6: defunct insurance company as tax credits. So at the end
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Speaker 6: of the day, if all this blows up, we as
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Speaker 6: taxpayers are.
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Speaker 9: On the hook.
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Speaker 2: If the whole AI thing blows up, you're saying?
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Speaker 6: No, I'm not saying AI will get there. But remember
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Speaker 6: the dot-com bubble?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: It still became enormous.
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Speaker 6: It's just when you talk about AI right now, maybe 10%
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Speaker 6: actually use it. I'm not throwing Boss Lady under the
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Speaker 6: bus here, but I've heard her talk about AI, and
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Speaker 6: she uses that as like a glorified Google search. She's
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Speaker 6: using it not the way AI is intended for. If
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Speaker 6: you're using it to like code your own apps and
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Speaker 6: work as an agent for you, that's a whole different story.
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Speaker 6: But nobody's really doing that.
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Speaker 2: Stand by. Stand by. Stand by.
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Speaker 3: I got a lot to cover with him and pick
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Speaker 3: his brain. And I'll do so after the break at 4.
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Speaker 3: Ron Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 2: Ron Furb checking in with Bob.