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The Ron Verb Show - 4pm Hour - #w, 07/13/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Back to it. NewsRadio 570. Welcome. 406 here on a
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  Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. July 13th already. Almost the middle of July.
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  Speaker 1: It's hot. It's humid. It's 88 degrees. Ron Verb from
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Mahoning. And you're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: JJ the Liberal.
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  Speaker 3: How are you today?
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  Speaker 1: Say again.
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  Speaker 3: How are you today?
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  Speaker 1: I am well, sir. Thank you for asking. It's Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Monday. How was your weekend?
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was. I mean, it's hard to have a
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  Speaker 1: bad weekend. I mean, it's the weekends.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, eh. True.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You sound tired. You sound frustrated. You sound on edge,
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  Speaker 1: like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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  Speaker 3: No, no. I'm just waiting at the... I had to
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  Speaker 3: just check in at the doctor's office because I'm getting...
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting my head checked. Oh, good. I was thinking,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my kidneys and everything. I just get my
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  Speaker 3: head checked. So I'm just waiting for..
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see. Because they say liberalism is a mental disease. Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Savage used to say that. Do you want to know
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  Speaker 1: if you got it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know I have it. How severe? I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know if my insurance would cover, you know, insanity.
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  Speaker 3: So I had to do some inquests on it. So
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  Speaker 3: they'll cover a little bit of it. The electroshock, they
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  Speaker 3: will only cover like 10% of it or 15% of it.
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  Speaker 1: So the lobotomy, you don't know if it's covered and
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  Speaker 1: the electric shock portions of it will be covered.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the electric shock, they'll cover... I actually think they'll cover...
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  Speaker 3: I have to pay 20% or 20% of the electric shock.
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  Speaker 3: If I get a lobotomy, I really won't know. So basically,
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  Speaker 3: I won't know with the price because I won't be...
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  Speaker 3: I'll be kind of disconnected from my... from my common
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  Speaker 3: sense part of my brain, which is already on its
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  Speaker 3: last legs right now. But, yeah, I'm just waiting in
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  Speaker 3: the waiting room, and I'm looking around, and there's one
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  Speaker 3: guy over there that's drooling, and another person over there
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  Speaker 3: is talking to themselves. So I thought that... So I thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'll just kind of blend in here, you know.
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  Speaker 3: That was one of the first things they asked me.
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  Speaker 3: They said, do you have your insurance card? And I said,
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  Speaker 3: here's my insurance card. And then they wanted to see
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  Speaker 3: my driver's license. And then they asked me if I
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  Speaker 3: was a Democrat. And, you know, I kind of, I
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  Speaker 3: was a little hee-hawing around about it. But I said, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they said, well, you know, that might, the adjustment
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  Speaker 3: might take longer.
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  Speaker 1: Just might take longer being a Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: Being a Democrat, there's a certain, they have a certain
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  Speaker 3: policy that, you know, that they say that I'm a Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: They put you in like, they consider you on the dole,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so they kind of have to work with me.
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  Speaker 3: But they all kind of gave me like a little
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  Speaker 3: dirty look, you know, that's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that was why? Because you mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: one guy was drooling. The other guy was talking to himself.
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  Speaker 1: I heard while you were sitting there, you pooped your pants.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't poop my pants. No, that's not me. No,
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  Speaker 3: there's a couple of men. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: insulting this guy over here because now he's looking like
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  Speaker 3: he might want to hurt me. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: just watch what I.
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  Speaker 1: Say right now.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got a drooler. We've got a– when he's
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  Speaker 3: talking to himself. And this other one, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if he's putting his hands on his pants or not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not too sure. So I've got to watch myself
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  Speaker 3: around here, though. But I kind of blend right in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think so. Ted, the conservatives should be happy
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  Speaker 1: to know that you're actually at the mental institution getting
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  Speaker 1: examined as we speak. Now, when all of this electric
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  Speaker 1: shock therapy is done, do they anticipate that you will
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  Speaker 1: be supporting the Republican Party then at that point in time?
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  Speaker 3: Well, basically, once I get the electroshock, it's part of the,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the symptoms of after the electroshock is I
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  Speaker 3: become more of a Trumpster and I'll be voting Republican
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  Speaker 3: from this point on. And if I don't, if I don't,
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  Speaker 3: then I think it kind of gives me, I think
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  Speaker 3: I actually, if I vote, if I pull it or
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  Speaker 3: I start to write in a Democrat vote, Then I
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  Speaker 3: think I actually pee myself. I'm not too sure. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's part of the aftershock thing there. So it
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  Speaker 3: basically gives me an opportunity to make sure that I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to do the wrong thing. But I told him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as long as I don't poop myself, peeing myself,
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  Speaker 3: that's not a problem. But the pooping, I would prefer
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  Speaker 3: them not to do it. Because I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be doing that right in the middle of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: voting right there. That would be kind of mean, sad enough. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's a contingency little plan there that they have in
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  Speaker 3: place there that if I go to Mark B. anywhere,
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  Speaker 3: then I automatically turn to Twitch and I pee myself.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that'll work for me right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure Ted's going to be very proud
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  Speaker 1: of the new J.J., the conservative.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that has kind of a nice ring to it,
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  Speaker 3: I think. But you'll have to give me something, because
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  Speaker 3: he's technically conservative. I can't be J.J. the conservative.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 3: J.J.
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  Speaker 1: The right-winger or something. Now, when people look at you,
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  Speaker 1: will you have almost just a blank stare as you
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  Speaker 1: look forward after all of this therapy?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've always had a blank stare. I've always had
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  Speaker 3: a kind of a distant, you know, I kind of don't,
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  Speaker 3: my eyes are kind of not really focusing on who's
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  Speaker 3: talking to me. But this one will be, I don't
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  Speaker 3: be able to see the tail bit. I think part
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  Speaker 3: of drooling is part of it that I have to consider.
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  Speaker 3: I think that guy that was drooling over here that's
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  Speaker 3: next to me, I think he's already gone through a
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  Speaker 3: couple sessions of electroshock. So I have that to look
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  Speaker 3: forward to. I don't know if my wife's going to
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  Speaker 3: like it too much because she's a She doesn't like
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  Speaker 3: me in the first place right now. So you have
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  Speaker 3: to worry about that. So, but other than that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I thought you guys would get out, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: guys would be very, very happy with that. That I
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  Speaker 3: kind of just said, you know, I might as well
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  Speaker 3: get everything checked to get my heart checked, get my
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  Speaker 3: kidneys checked. And now I'll get the noggin check. And so,
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  Speaker 3: so hopefully it'll work out and, So, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: knew that I was going to go Republican as if
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  Speaker 3: actually I had to have something physically done to me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that that will change my. So you guys
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  Speaker 3: have to look forward to that. I'm a changed man.
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  Speaker 1: I can hardly wait for the outcome. I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: So am I. I don't know if I'll be losing
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  Speaker 3: any hair or anything like a chemo, which that's really
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  Speaker 3: not really all that funny. But I do know that
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  Speaker 3: my wife, she was emphasizing.
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  Speaker 1: That she would like me.
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  Speaker 3: To do that. Either that or divorce.
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  Speaker 1: After the therapy, instead of J.J. the liberal, you might
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  Speaker 1: be J.J. the Trumpster.
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  Speaker 3: You never know. Actually, I'm starting to become very fond
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  Speaker 3: of the color red. So, you know, actually, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was wondering why I put on some red underwear today.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's kind of leaning. Now I'll
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  Speaker 3: be driving around. I have to purchase a new car
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  Speaker 3: and get a red car. And, you know, so it's
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  Speaker 3: a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me know tomorrow, please, on how it's working
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  Speaker 1: for you, okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if I can still speak English, I'll be more
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  Speaker 3: than happy to give you a call and let you
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  Speaker 3: know how it worked. But other than that, I just
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  Speaker 3: got to watch afterwards that I don't say anything or
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  Speaker 3: do anything on the left part of the leftist.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Because then I don't want to be peeing myself right
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  Speaker 3: in public. So I got to keep an eye on that.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, I thought you'd get a..
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Have a good therapy.
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  Speaker 3: It's worked. All that effort worked, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: J.J.
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  Speaker 1: The liberal at therapy where he's getting some extensive reprogramming.
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  Speaker 1: So he might, instead of J.J. the liberal, he might
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  Speaker 1: end up being J.J. the Trumpster. That is really something.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 6: How you doing, Ron?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 6: You'll either end up like John Fetterman or Jack Nicholson
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  Speaker 6: in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that a great movie with Jack Nicholson?
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  Speaker 6: He ended up as a vegetable in the end, but
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  Speaker 6: it was a great movie. And then Fetterman was cured.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they turned him around, but... Evidently, the marijuana's
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  Speaker 6: not working, I guess, huh, for J.J.? I know.
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  Speaker 1: That was one of his best bits I think he's
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  Speaker 1: ever done. But anyway, go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was going to say, you're cutting your hours
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  Speaker 6: to three hours?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, not every night, because I got Rockport Wealth
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  Speaker 1: on Mondays, and on Thursdays I got the John Arnold
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  Speaker 1: Show until 7.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, with the two shows. That's what Dan Ryan, he
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  Speaker 6: was three hours. Rivers was three hours.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And you're doing the big shows. And then when you
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  Speaker 6: do decide to retire, you can become a translator. For
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  Speaker 6: YSU and all of the public schools, you can translate
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  Speaker 6: cursive writing for the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, is that it?
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  Speaker 6: So they can understand, you know, it's a foreign language
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  Speaker 6: right now, anyone under 20 years old.
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  Speaker 1: That they don't know how to cursive write.
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  Speaker 6: They don't know how to read cursive writing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's almost a sin, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: It takes them hours to decipher a letter or anything written,
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  Speaker 6: which is a sin. That's our school system, though.
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  Speaker 3: That's where we're at.
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  Speaker 6: And getting back to, just want to clarify, we've won
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  Speaker 6: the war over in the Iran war. Trump said we
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  Speaker 6: sunk their navy, defeated the army, and a year ago
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  Speaker 6: when we sent the stealth bombers over, we completely eliminated
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  Speaker 6: their nuclear threat, which confused me as to why we
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  Speaker 6: went to war to removed the nuclear threat when we
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  Speaker 6: got rid of it last year. But, yeah, Trump, I
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  Speaker 6: took some flack at a family get-together. Some out-of-town people
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  Speaker 6: can pick up your radio station, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 6: and they were criticizing me for knocking Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, I don't get people with that because when
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  Speaker 1: we say how could Democrats support Joe Biden when he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any press conferences, he didn't have cabinet meetings,
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  Speaker 1: he clearly wasn't functioning. So are people saying that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you should support Trump no matter what he does, what
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  Speaker 1: decision he makes, you should check your brain at the door?
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you you shouldn't do that with
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  Speaker 1: any politician. I don't care if they're a Republican, Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they're president or local. You should
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  Speaker 1: never stop thinking. I know a few people I agree
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  Speaker 1: with 100%, and anybody who gives you a hard time
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  Speaker 1: on it is foolish. I'll be the first guy to
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  Speaker 1: sit here and say, Trump got us into this mess,
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  Speaker 1: and look how long it's going on, and right now
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  Speaker 1: the exit ramp doesn't seem to exist. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: right back to $ 4 gas. Inflation is going to come back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's your assessment?
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you run down the list, starting with COVID,
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  Speaker 6: we never got the true story on COVID, where it originated,
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  Speaker 6: how many people it killed, how many people the vaccine injured.
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  Speaker 6: That never came out because that was Trump's program, Operation
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  Speaker 6: Warp Speed. That's one of his achievements as far as
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  Speaker 6: he's concerned, which I'm very disappointed that they're still pushing
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  Speaker 6: this mRNA technology and vaccines and vaccines. It doesn't make
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  Speaker 6: any sense. And then he's never taken care of the
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  Speaker 6: election fraud problem. And then we're coming up on the
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  Speaker 6: midterms again. And then the no wars, that's what he
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  Speaker 6: ran on. And what did he do? He did a 180,
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  Speaker 6: like you said. He did a 180 on Epstein and
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  Speaker 6: the wars. And then to top it all off, inflation.
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  Speaker 6: That's his biggest crime, what's going on in the country
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  Speaker 6: because of... The cost of inflation, what it's costing these
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  Speaker 6: young families and trying to buy homes and trying to
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  Speaker 6: raise a family and survive. I watched two guys over
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  Speaker 6: the weekend. I don't know if you watch Face the
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  Speaker 6: Nation beat the press on Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: I do not watch it, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: They had Rahm Emanuel on, you know, the ex-mayor from Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And he was Obama's chief of staff. I mean, the guy...
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  Speaker 6: was amazing. He sounded like JFK, a moderate Democrat. He
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  Speaker 6: made a lot of sense, and he agreed with J.D.
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  Speaker 6: Vance on a lot of things. And one of his
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  Speaker 6: big points was, with this war, you can't kill your
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  Speaker 6: way out of this war. And that's the Jewish philosophy.
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  Speaker 6: Kill as many people as you can, and that's not
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  Speaker 6: going to work. You see what happened in Gaza and
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  Speaker 6: what's going on in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: But..
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  Speaker 6: I my assessment we've lost the war in Iran will
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  Speaker 6: never beat them it's going to be another Vietnam I
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  Speaker 6: don't know how he's ever going to get out if
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  Speaker 6: you know the geography of Iran it's extremely mountainous in
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  Speaker 6: the cities you're going to you're going to have to
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  Speaker 6: multiple nukes to win that war you're going to have
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  Speaker 6: to kill and level the whole country which we would
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  Speaker 6: never do so we're at a I don't know not
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  Speaker 6: not looking good And then the other show, I think
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  Speaker 6: it was Face the Nation, they had Ro Khanna, the
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  Speaker 6: congressman from California. He was in the West Bank interviewing Palestinians,
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  Speaker 6: and he was harassed by the Israeli settlers, and the
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  Speaker 6: IDF detained him for over 90 minutes. He told them
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  Speaker 6: he was a congressman from America, and they knew he
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  Speaker 6: was coming, and they still... had the arrogance to mistreat him.
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  Speaker 6: I don't agree with a lot of his philosophy, but
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  Speaker 6: you don't treat a congressman that way, especially since we're
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  Speaker 6: paying for your military, your war, your economy. That was
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  Speaker 6: bad on the Israelis' part, but that's another story.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a mess. It is a mess that
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  Speaker 1: he created. And I don't know that there's an easy
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  Speaker 1: way out of it, do you?
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  Speaker 6: No, there isn't. And the sad thing is a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people, a lot of companies, try to base their
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  Speaker 6: planning on, you know, is the war over? Is it
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  Speaker 6: not over? We signed an agreement. And you look at
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  Speaker 6: the market, you've got to take that into consideration when
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  Speaker 6: you make your strategic moves. You know, what's tomorrow? What's
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  Speaker 6: tomorrow going to be? Is it oil going back to
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  Speaker 6: $ 120 or $ 150? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Stand by. Stand by. Hang on. I'll come back to him.
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  Speaker 1: More calls straight ahead. Ron Verb, NewsRadio 570 WKBN from
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Mahoning here tonight until 6, then Rockport Wealth.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: Back to you on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Welcome. 406 here
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday afternoon, July 13th already. Almost the middle
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  Speaker 1: of July. It's hot. It's humid. It's 88 degrees. Ron
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  Speaker 1: Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning, and you're on the air. Hi, Ron. J.J.
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  Speaker 1: the Liberal.
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  Speaker 3: How are you today?
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  Speaker 1: Say again?
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  Speaker 3: How are you today?
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  Speaker 1: I am well, sir. Thank you for asking. It's Monday.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Monday. How was your weekend? Good?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was. I mean, it's hard to have a
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  Speaker 1: bad weekend. I mean, it's the weekends.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hey.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You sound tired. You sound frustrated. You sound on edge,
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  Speaker 1: like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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  Speaker 3: No, no. I'm just waiting at the... I had to
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  Speaker 3: just check in at the doctor's office because... I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: my head checked. Oh, good. I was thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 3: my kidneys and everything. I just get my head checked.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just waiting for..
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see. Because they say liberalism is a mental disease. Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Savage used to say that. Do you want to know
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  Speaker 1: if you got it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know I have it.
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  Speaker 1: How severe?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know if my insurance would cover insanity, so
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  Speaker 3: I had to do some inquests on it. So they'll
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  Speaker 3: cover a little bit of it. The electroshock, they will
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  Speaker 3: only cover like 10% of it or 15% of it.
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  Speaker 1: So the lobotomy, you don't know if it's covered and
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  Speaker 1: the electric shock portions of it will be covered?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the electric shock, they'll cover– I actually think they'll cover–
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I have to pay 20% or 20% of the electric shock.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: If I get a lobotomy, I really won't know. So
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: basically I won't know with the price because I won't be–
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I'll be kind of disconnected from my– from my common
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: sense part of my brain, which is already on its
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: last legs right now. But, yeah, I'm just sitting there
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: waiting for him, and I'm looking around, and there's one
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: guy over there that's drooling, and another person over there
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: is talking to themselves. So I thought that... So I thought,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: you know, I'll just kind of blend in here, you know.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: That was one.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Of the first things they asked me. They said, do
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: you have your insurance card? And I said, here's my
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: insurance card. And then they no longer see my driver's license.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: And then they asked me if I was a Democrat. And,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: you know, I kind of, I was a little hee-hawing
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: around about it. But I said, yeah. And they said, well,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: you know, that might, the adjustment might take longer.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And Jusma might take longer being a Democrat.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Being a Democrat, there's a certain, they have a certain
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: policy that, you know, that they say that I'm a Democrat.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: They put you in like, they consider you on the dole,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: you know, so they kind of have to work with me.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: But they all kind of gave me like a little
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: dirty look, you know.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Do you think that was why? Because you mentioned that
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: one guy was drooling. the other guy, the other guy
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: was talking to himself. I heard while you were sitting there,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you pooped your pants.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't poop my pants, but no, that's
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: not me. No, but I know there's a, there's a couple,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: you know, a couple of men. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: you know, insulting this guy over here. Cause he, now
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: he's looking like he might want to hurt me. So
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: I'm going to, I'm going to just watch what I
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: say right now. But, uh, So we've got a drooler,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: we've got a– when he's talking to himself. And this
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: other one, I don't know if he's putting his hands
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: on his pants or not. I'm not too sure. So
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I've got to watch myself around here, though. But I
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: kind of blend right in.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I think so. Ted, the conservatives should be happy
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to know that you're actually at the mental institution getting
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: examined as we speak. Now, when all of this electric
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: shock therapy is done, do they anticipate that you'll be
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: supporting the Republican Party then at that point in time?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Well, basically, once I get the electroshock, it's part of the,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: you know, the symptoms of after the electroshock is I
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: become more of a Trumpster and I'll be voting Republican
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: from this point on. And if I don't, if I don't,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: then I think it kind of gives me I think
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I actually if I vote, if I pull it or
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I start to write in a Democrat vote. Then I
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: think I actually pee myself. I'm not too sure. I
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: think that's part of the aftershock thing there. So it
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: basically gives me an opportunity to make sure that I'm
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: not going to do the wrong thing. But I told him,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: you know, as long as I don't poop myself, peeing myself,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: that's not a problem. But if he pooped, then I
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: would prefer them not to do that. Because I don't
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: want to be doing that right in the middle of,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: you know, voting right there. That would be kind of
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: sad enough. But, yeah, that's a contingency, a little plan
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: there that they have in place there that if I
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: go to Mark B. anywhere, then I automatically turn to
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Twitch and I pee myself. So I'm hoping that'll work
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: for me right now.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure Ted's going to be very proud
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of the new J.J., the conservative.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that has kind of a nice ring to it,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, but you'll have to give me
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: something because he's conservative. I can't be J.J. the conservative.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You're right. J.J., the right winger or something. Now, when
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: people look at you, will you have like just like
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: almost like just a blank stare as you look forward
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: after all of this therapy?
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I've always had a blank stare. I've always had
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: kind of a distant, you know, I kind of don't,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: my eyes are kind of not really focusing on who's
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: talking to me. But this one will be, I don't
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: be able to see. I think part of drooling is
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: part of it that I have to consider. I think
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that guy that was drooling over here that's next to me,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I think he's already gone through a couple sessions of electroshock.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: So I have that to look forward to. I don't know.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: if my wife's going to like it too much because
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: she doesn't like me in the first place right now.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: So I have to worry about that. But other than that,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I thought you guys would be very happy with that
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: that I kind of just said, you know, I might
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: as well get everything checked. I get my heart checked,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: get my kidneys checked, and now I'll get the noggin checked.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: So hopefully it'll work out. I knew that I was
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: going to go Republican as if actually I had to
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: have something physically done to me that will change my...
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: So you guys have that to look forward to, that
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I'm a changed man now.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I can hardly wait for the outcome. I'm really excited
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: So am I. I don't know if I'll be losing
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: any hair or anything like a chemo, which that's really
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: not really all that funny. But I do know that
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: my wife, she was emphasizing that she would like.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Me to do that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Either that or divorce. So it's one of the two.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: After the therapy, instead of J.J. the liberal, you might
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: be J.J. the Trumpster.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: You never know. Actually, I'm starting to become very fond
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: of the color red. So, you know, actually, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I was wondering why I put on some red underwear today.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's kind of leaning. Now I'll
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: be driving around. I have to purchase a new car
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: and get a red car. And, you know, so it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: a good thing.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Well, let me know tomorrow, please, on how it's working
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: for you, okay?
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: I mean..
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if I can still speak English, I'll be more
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: than happy to give you a call and let you
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: know how it worked. But other than that, I just
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: got to watch afterwards that I don't say anything or
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: do anything on the left part, leftist. Right. Because then
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be peeing myself right in public.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: So I got to keep an eye on that. But anyway,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I thought you'd get a..
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Have a good therapy.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: All that effort worked, Ron.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: There you go. JJ the liberal at therapy where he's
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: getting some extensive reprogramming. So instead of J.J. the liberal,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: he might end up being J.J. the Trumpster. That is
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: really something. You're on the air.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: How are you doing, Ron? Good. You either end up
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: like John Fetterman or Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: the Cuckoo's Nest.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Wasn't that a great movie with Jack Nicholson?
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: He ended up as a vegetable in the end, but
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: it was a great movie. And then Fetterman was cured.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, they turned him around, but... Evidently, the marijuana's
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: not working, I guess, huh, for J.J.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I know. That was one of his best bits I
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: think he's ever done. But anyway, go ahead.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was going to say, you're cutting your hours
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: to three hours?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, not every night, because I got Rockport Wealth
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: on Mondays, and on Thursdays I got the John Arnold
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Show until 7.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, with the two shows. That's what Dan Ryan, he
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: was three hours. Rivers was three hours.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Right, right.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: And you're doing the big shows. And then when you
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: do decide to retire, you can become a translator. For
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: YSU and all of the public schools, you can translate
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: cursive writing for the kids.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that it?
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: So they can understand, you know, it's a foreign language
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: right now, anyone under 20 years old.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: That they don't know how to cursive write.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: They don't know how to read cursive writing.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's almost a sin, isn't it?
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: It takes them hours to decipher a letter or anything written,
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: which is a sin. That's our school system, though. That's
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: where we're at. And getting back to, I just want
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: to clarify, we've won the war over in the Iran war.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Trump said we sunk their navy, defeated the army. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: a year ago, when we sent the stealth bombers over,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: we completely eliminated their nuclear threat, which confused me as
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: to why we went to war to remove the nuclear
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: threat when we got rid of it last year. But yeah, Trump,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: I took some flack at a family get-together. Some out-of-town
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: people can pick up your radio station, believe it or not,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: and they were criticizing me for knocking Trump And I said,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I just..
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Well, see, I don't get people with that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Because..
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: When we say how could Democrats support Joe Biden when
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: he didn't have any press conferences, he didn't have cabinet meetings,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: he clearly wasn't functioning. So are people saying that, oh,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: you should support Trump no matter what he does, what
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: decision he makes, you should check your brain at the door.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you you shouldn't do that with
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: any politician. I don't care if they're a Republican, Democrat.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I don't care if they're president or local. You should
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: never stop thinking. I know few people I agree with 100%,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and anybody who gives you a hard time on it
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: is foolish. I'll be the first guy to sit here
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and say, Trump got us into this mess, and look
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: how long it's going on, and right now the exit
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: ramp doesn't seem to exist. I mean, we're right back
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to $ 4 gas, inflation is going to come back. I mean,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: what's your assessment?
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Well, if you run down the list, starting with COVID,
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: we never got the true story on COVID, where it originated,
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: how many people it killed. How many people the vaccine injured?
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: That never came out because that was Trump's program, Operation
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Warp Speed. That's one of his achievements as far as
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: he's concerned, which I'm very disappointed that they're still pushing
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: this mRNA technology and vaccines. And it doesn't make any sense.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: And then he's never taken care of the election fraud problem.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: And then we're coming up on the midterms again. And
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: then the no wars, that's what he ran on, and
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: what did he do? He did a 180, like you said.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: He did a 180 on Epstein and the wars, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: then to top it all off, inflation. That's his biggest crime,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: what's going on in the country because of the cost
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: of inflation, what it's costing these young families and trying
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: to buy homes and trying to raise a family and survive.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: I watched two guys over the weekend. I don't know
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: if you watch... Face the Nation, Meet the Press on
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Sunday morning.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I do not watch it, but go ahead.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: They had Rahm Emanuel on, you know, the ex-mayor from Chicago.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: And he was Obama's chief of staff. I mean, the
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: guy was amazing. He sounded like JFK, a moderate Democrat.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: He made a lot of sense, and he agreed with J.D.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Vance on a lot of things. And one of his
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: big points was, with this war... you can't kill your
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: way out of this war. And that's the Jewish philosophy.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: Kill as many people as you can, and that's not
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: going to work. You see what happened in Gaza and
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: what's going on in Lebanon. But my assessment, we've lost
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: the war in Iran. We'll never beat them. It's going
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: to be another Vietnam. I don't know how he's ever
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: going to get out. If you know the geography of Iran,
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: it's extremely mountainous. in the cities, you're going to have
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: multiple nukes to win that war. You're going to have
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: to kill and level the whole country, which we would
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: never do. So we're at a, I don't know, not
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: looking good. And then the other show, I think it
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: was Face the Nation, they had Ro Khanna, the congressman
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: from California. He was in the West Bank interviewing Palestinians,
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: and he was harassed by the Israeli settlers, and the
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: IDF detained him for over 90 minutes. He told them
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: he was a congressman from America, and they knew he
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: was coming, and they still had the arrogance to mistreat him.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: I don't agree with a lot of his philosophy, but
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: you don't treat a congressman that way, especially since we're
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: paying for your military, your war, your economy. That was
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: bad on the Israelis' part, but that's another story.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a mess. It is a mess that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: he created, And I don't know that there's an easy
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: way out of it. Do you?
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: No, there isn't. And the sad thing is a lot
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: of people, a lot of companies try to base their
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: planning on, you know, is the war over? Is it
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: not over? We signed an agreement. And you look at
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: the market, you've got to take that into consideration when
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: you make your strategic moves. You know, what's tomorrow? What's
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: tomorrow going to be? Is it oil going back to
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: $ 120 or $ 150? I don't know.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Stand by. Stand by. Hang on. I'll come back to him.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: More calls straight ahead. Ron Verb, NewsRadio 570 WKBN from
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Mahoning here tonight until 6, then Rockport Wealth. Ron,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: for checking in with me.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Youngstown's News, Weather, and Talk Station, 570 WKBN.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It's 424 on a Monday afternoon, July 13th. It's 88 degrees.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: It's a hot, humid one out there. And so there
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: is a big mess that is going on now. When
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you think it, you see it happen. The stock market's up.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: The stock market's down. Oil prices are up. Oil prices
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: are down. The ceasefire's on. It's off. I mean, this
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: scenario's been going on for months now. And it continues
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to go on. Where do you see this heading?
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: I see it becoming another Vietnam. I mean, there is
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: no exit strategy. And like I said, I think we've
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: lost the war. I mean, they're holding all the cards.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: They have the straight. There's no way we can open it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: We can't even get our Navy close to it without
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: putting it in harm's way. But that's not what we
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: were told by the Israeli intelligence. But And then, like
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: I said, and you could ask Xi, too, I mean,
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: it comes down to, are we going to nuke them?
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: Or are we going to do what we did in
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: World War II and kill civilian populations to end the war,
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: like we did in Japan? You're going to have to..
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I can't see that happening.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: No, exactly.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: So, in other words, it's going to be like another Vietnam,
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: and it's going to go on for the next who
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: knows how many years.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: But..
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: And then you're getting back to that 10-year-old video that
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: was abducted. What state was that in?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Minnesota.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Minnesota. And I saw that on X. And that's not
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: an isolated incident. If you put every incident that goes
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: on with these illegals that, you know, the people try
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: to protect them and keep them in the country, that
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: will never be on the national news tonight. You know
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: what they're going to show on CBS, NBC? They'll show
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: that out-of-control bison flipping the grandpa up in the air
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: 10 feet. But you'll never see a little girl being
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: abducted on the late-night news.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Listen to this for a minute. Millions of Americans are
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: borrowing money or draining their savings to buy groceries with
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: more than a quarter of working-age adults relying on credit
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: cards to buy groceries. About 20% of working-age adults... tapped
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: long-term savings not intended for everyday expenses to pay for
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: groceries in the last 12 months. Grocery prices have jumped 32%
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: over the past five years, making food affordability a top
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: concern for many Americans. More adults are using credit cards
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: to pay for groceries, but failing to make the minimum
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: payments to avoid interest charges, with the share rising by
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: 1.6 percentage points today. Since 2023, about 12% of low-
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and middle-income adults who use credit cards to pay for
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: groceries missed a minimum payment last year, tripled the rate
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: for higher-income consumers. That's not good.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: No, it's not.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: The working poor are really getting hammered, and the middle-income people.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: It's great if you have money. If you're rich, you
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: can make a lot of money in this environment. If
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: you're a middle-income or a working poor family, you're getting squeezed.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: And if you're a Somalian, Haitian, or Muslim in Minnesota,
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: things are great for you. The U.S. will take care
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: of you. You don't have to worry about groceries, rent,
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: or anything.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you, the gap is inflation
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: has really affected this economy. It's horrible what it's done
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to this economy. And the gap is growing too wide
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: between the haves and the have-nots. between the rich and
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the middle class and the lower classes. The gap is
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: getting too wide. I mean, this needs to be paid
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: attention to. I mean, it just needs to be paid
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: attention to. When you read this kind of stuff, when
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: people are charging groceries and not making at least a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: minimum payment on their credit card.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Do you ever watch the Saturday Night Live skits on Trump?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Not really, no.
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: Well, call them up on YouTube. You don't have to
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: watch it live. You can call them up on YouTube.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: They do Trump, Haysec, all of his cabinet members. And,
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: you know, it's getting to be to the point now
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: where it's actually, yeah, that is happening.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the reality. As much as I can
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: criticize Trump, the Democrats aren't any better. I mean, by
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: any stretch. I mean, I don't want to confuse anybody.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I can criticize Trump on some of the things he did,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: but I'm glad he's president, not Kamala Harris. I'm glad
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: he's president, not Joe Biden. And I certainly wouldn't want
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom as my president. I mean, you've got to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: dial back and remember a lot of this inflation happened
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: as a result of Joe Biden's policies and the Democrat policies. Now,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Trump had it going in the right direction until he
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: got involved with Israel, Netanyahu, and this war. If he
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have fallen for that, for whatever reason he was
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: duped into it, that's how we got in this situation.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Would you give me an IA?
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I don't think it was Joe Biden.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: I think it was the deep state or Obama pulling
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: the strings.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Could be. Appreciate your call. Thank you.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, Ron.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: News, weather, and talk station 570 WKBN.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: It's 424 on a Monday afternoon, July 13th. It's 88 degrees.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: It's a hot, humid one out there. So there is
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: a big mess that is going on now. When you
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: see it happen, the stock market's up, the stock market's down,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: oil prices are up, oil prices are down, the ceasefire's on,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: it's off. I mean, this scenario's been going on for
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: months now, and it continues to go on. Where do
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: you see this heading?
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: I see it becoming another Vietnam. I mean, there is
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: no exit strategy, and like I said, I think we've
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: lost the war. I mean, they're holding all the cards.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: They have the straight. There's no way we can open it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: We can't even get our Navy close to it without
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: putting it in harm's way. But that's not what we
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: were told by the Israeli intelligence. And then, like I said,
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: and you could ask Xi, too, I mean, it comes
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: down to are we going to nuke them? Are we
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: going to do what we did in World War II
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: and kill civilian civilians? populations to end the war, like
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: we did in Japan. You're going to have to..
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I can't see that happening.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: No, exactly. So, in other words, it's going to be
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: like another Vietnam, and it's going to go on for
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: the next who knows how many years. And then you're
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: getting back to that 10-year-old video that was abducted. What
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: state was that in?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Minnesota.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: Minnesota. And I saw that on X, and that's not
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: an isolated incident. If you put every incident that goes
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: on with these illegals that, you know, the people try
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: to protect them and keep them in the country. And
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: that will never be on the national news tonight. You
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: know what they're going to show on CBS, NBC? They'll
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: show that out-of-control bison flipping the grandpa up in the
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: air 10 feet. But you'll never see a little girl
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: being abducted on the late-night news.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Listen to this for a minute. Millions of Americans are
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: borrowing money or draining their savings to buy groceries with
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: more than a quarter of working age adults relying on
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: credit card. credit cards to buy groceries. About 20% of
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: working-age adults tapped long-term savings not intended for everyday expenses
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: to pay for groceries in the last 12 months. Grocery
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: prices have jumped 32% over the past five years, making
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: food affordability a top concern for many Americans. More adults
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: are using credit cards to pay for groceries, but failing
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to make the minimum payments to avoid interest charges, with
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the share rising by 1.6 percentage points since 2023. About 12%
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: of low- and middle-income adults who use credit cards to
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: pay for groceries missed a minimum payment last year, tripled
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the rate for higher- income consumers. That's not good.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: No, it's not.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: The working poor are really getting hammered and the middle
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: income people. It's great if you have money. If you're rich,
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: you can make a lot of money in this environment.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: If you're a middle income or a working poor family,
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: you're getting squeezed. And if you're a Somalian, Haitian, or
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: Muslim in Minnesota, things are great for you. The U.S.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: will take care of you. You don't have to worry
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: about groceries, rent, or anything.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you, the gap is inflation
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: has really affected this economy. It's horrible what it's done
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: to this economy. And the gap is growing too wide
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: between the haves and the have-nots, between the rich and
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the middle class and the lower classes. The gap is
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: getting too wide. I mean, this needs to be paid
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: attention to. I mean, it just needs to be. paid
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: attention to when you read this kind of stuff, when
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: people are charging groceries and not making at least a
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: minimum payment on their credit card.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: Do you ever watch the Saturday Night Live skits on Trump?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Not really, no.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: Well, call him up on YouTube. You don't have to
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: watch it live. You can call him up on YouTube.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: They do Trump, Haysec, all of his cabinet members. And,
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: you know, it's getting to be to the point now
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: where it's actually, yeah, that is happening.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the reality. As much as I can
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: criticize Trump, the Democrats aren't any better. I mean, by
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: any stretch. I mean, I don't want to confuse anybody.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I can criticize Trump on some of the things he did,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: but I'm glad he's president and not Kamala Harris. I'm
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: glad he's president, not Joe Biden. And I certainly wouldn't
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: want Gavin Newsom as my president. I mean, you've got
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: to dial back and remember a lot of this inflation
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: happened as a result of Joe Biden's policies and the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Democrat policies. Now, Trump had it going in the right
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: direction until he got involved with Israel, Netanyahu, and this war.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: If he wouldn't have fallen for that, for whatever reason
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: he was duped into it, that's how we got in
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: this situation. I don't think it was Joe Biden.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: I think it was the deep state or Obama pulling
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: the strings.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Could be. Appreciate your call. Thank you.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: Okay, Ron. Let's start here.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: So good morning and welcome.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: We are now underway.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: We are following the events of the day. What we're
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: just now hearing about.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: This is new information.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Throughout the day.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Good day. This is where it stands now.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Pick up the conversation.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: We'll talk about what's happening.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Any time.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: The deal we reached with Iran. The devil's in the details.
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: Bringing the price of gasoline down.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Maintain the Fed funds rate. Tying Pfizer to the save app.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: NATO has been a paper tiger for the very latest.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: We'll see how that all plays out.
• 42:07
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• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Gas prices in Ohio are not going in the right direction.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: A big jump over the past week. AAA says the
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: current average for regular grade is about $ 3.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: 82 a gallon.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: And that's about 23 cents a gallon higher compared to
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: last week. A 17-year-old girl is dead after a shooting
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: at the Weiler Homes housing complex in East Toledo. Happened
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: early this morning. She's identified as Zayona Jackson. No reports
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: of any arrests yet. Police say there was a party
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: outside the Weiler Homes and that the teenage girl was
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: gunned down outside. An Illyria man facing charges that he
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: fired shots in the direction of a police drone. It
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: happened early Friday morning as the device was being used
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: to investigate an alarm. Police tracked down 27-year-old Devon Grant,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: whom they say admitted to the incident.
• 43:03
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• 43:05
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• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Well, it's 435 here on a Monday afternoon, 87 degrees.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: It's a hot human Monday, to say the least. Ron
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Verb with you until the Rockport Wealth Truth in Investing
• 43:22
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• 43:26
  Speaker 1: have in your ear?
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: Well, we should be proud the first half.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: For the Guardians.
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: They're in first place, buddy.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: First half down, another half to go. Another half to go.
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: They don't have to worry like last year. Remember, they
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: came 18 games from 500 down. I'm thinking they can
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: go all the way this year.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I've seen it in the past where in the first
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: half of the year, It's like really outstanding. And then
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: something happens. You've seen it in the past. I mean,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the first half of the year is really good. And
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: then the second half, it just goes right down the crapper.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: I know, but I don't think so. You know, what
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: is your opinion about the sports people? Do you think
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: LeBron would be welcome back to Cleveland?
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: For the Cavaliers.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was last time, was he not? I mean,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: remember when he left?
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I like LeBron.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Remember when he left and everyone was burning his jersey
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: and they were upset about it and everything? And you
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: can't blame him for leaving. I mean, he wanted to
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: get a championship team. And then he came back and
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: everybody loved him again. But I don't think that last
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: time I checked, I didn't think there was a possibility
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: that he was coming back. Wasn't he going somewhere else?
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, have a good day, buddy.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: All right, stick from Dayton. You're on the air.
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: Ron, I'm a total failure when it comes to economics
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: and inflation.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: You're a total failure? What, did you come here for therapy?
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: No, I'm a total failure when it comes to educating
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: you on economics and monetary inflation.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: You, uh..
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Keep saying Biden, the inflation is a legacy of Joe Biden. She, too,
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: thinks that Congress has the power to create money. Ron,
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: how many times have I said that Trump can stop
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: inflation immediately? All he's got to do is tell Kevin Warsh,
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: the chairman of the Federal Reserve, stop creating money immediately.
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: in excess of the economic growth rate, and inflation will
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: go to zero run.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, it will. Tell your audience what I used to
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: do for a living before I retired.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: What you used to do for a living?
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, certified financial planner.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I thought you were a mafia hitman.
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: Now, you would think if anybody knows... about what causes
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: inflation would be me.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't necessarily agree when you're talking about inflation.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: There's many things that create inflation. There just isn't one
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: thing that creates inflation. Anytime, for example, anytime you have
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: energy prices that go up, that creates inflation. I mean,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: we can talk about any number of things. No, hang on.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: If wages go up, If wages go up, costs have
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: to be passed along. So consequently, as I say, when
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: you have oil prices go up, that creates inflation. When
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: you have, let's say, when people would argue about the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: minimum wage for years, and now a lot of places
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: are paying $ 13, $ 15 an hour because of what they
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: call labor shortages. They have to pay more to get
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: people to show up at a lot of these fast
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: food places. Well, guess what? When they have to pay
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the help more, When you look at the menu, the
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: prices have gone up. I mean, you want to act
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: like one thing creates inflation. It isn't just one thing.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Government policy can create inflation. Obviously, when they printed more money,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: it made the existing supply and demand, it made the
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: existing money worth less supply and demand. What they did
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: was they screwed everybody's savings and paycheck. By that policy.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: So I don't think you need to apologize. I get
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: a total grip on what creates inflation. I've lived it, well,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: as long as you have. I've been through Carter. I've
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: been through stagflation. I've watched this stuff happen. And if
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: you're asking me, does government policy create it? Outside of the,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: you know, the Fed obviously can create it. And they
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: can also fix it in many ways. in many cases.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: But I go back to say this. This mess in
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: the Middle East is creating inflation. If you have $ 4
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: a gallon gas or higher, that cost is passed on.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: When it comes to shipping companies, when it comes to
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: farmers buying diesel, that creates inflation right there. I mean,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know where you want to go with what
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: creates inflation.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: Well, this is why I say I've been a total failure.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: Because number one, I've never said that monetary inflation, which
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: is increasing the money supply in excess of the economic
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: growth rate, is the only thing that causes inflation. If
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: the dollar goes down in value versus other foreign currencies,
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: that causes inflation as well. But higher energy prices does
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: not cause inflation, and it certainly doesn't cause inflation. monetary inflation,
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: higher energy prices, cause recessions, or if they go high enough,
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: even global depressions. What will happen is if energy prices
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: go up and there's no monetary inflation, capital will begin
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: exiting oil and natural gas into lower cost energies like
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: solar so that's what I want the audience to understand
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: and also there's no oil shortages exist There's plenty of oil, Ron.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: There are only planned scarcities engineered for the benefit of
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: the ruling classes. Ron, eight of the biggest banks have
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: made from $ 4 to $ 45 billion in profits. In the
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: first quarter of 2026, oil cartel producers and their privileged
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: traders are making massive profits, including Donald and Barron Trump
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: and their friends and family. You know, I've spent all
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: day today because Trump keeps giving me a gift. Every
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: time he says that, well, the war in the Middle
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: East is going to continue on, what happens to the
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: stock market? It crashed again today. So I've been busy
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: buying gold, silver, oh, and especially nuclear mining companies. They
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: were way down today. And I tell you, I got
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: to thank, as much as I think Donald Trump is
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: one of the most corrupt and worst presidents we've ever had,
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: I'll give him credit for him allowing me to buy
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: stocks and other investments at bargain basement prices. And I
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: tell you, the market closed at 4 today. That's why
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: I called your show. But I still have more orders
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: to put in for tomorrow in case he says, Well,
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: we're going to have another peace deal with Iran. And
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: what will happen? It'll go way up. Ron, you know
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: that every time Trump says that we're going to have
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: peace in the Middle East, what happens? All of a sudden,
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: stop call options. There's a big right before he makes
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: the announcement. There's huge orders. for stocks and stock options
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: and other derivatives because obviously somebody knows at a time
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: he's going to make these uh..
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Uh..
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: Announcements and they're getting filthy rich off of this me
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: and you aren't getting filthy rich well i mean i'm
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: i'm making money because as soon as he makes those
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: announcements i immediately log in to my mutual fund company
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: and start putting orders in left and right for stocks.
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: Or like today, putting in orders. I waited until about 2,
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: 2.30 as everything went way down. That's when I started
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: putting orders in. I can't thank Trump enough for making
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: me some, giving me opportunities to buy stocks at bargain
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: basement prices, which he did again today. And as far,
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: you know, Trump has depleted the strategic petroleum reserve by 40% now.
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: And Exxon Senior Vice President Neil Chapman said, we are
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: approaching on herd of low inventory levels. And once these
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: reserves are gone, we will see prices shoot up. And
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: according to the numbers I've seen, global stockpiles should be
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: exhausted by the end of this month. In storage tanks
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: for oil, diesel, gasoline in Europe, are now at full
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: capacity and can handle no more. Some inventories could be
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: wiped out in weeks, and oil executives have warned just
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: in time for peak summer travel season. And I have
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: absolutely no doubt the White House, from Trump on down,
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: is fully aware of the alarm among oil analysts about
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: the direction of travel for oil prices. And according to
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: Bob McNally, he was an energy advisor to George Bush,
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: and the founder of the Rapid Energy Group, he said
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: the strategic petroleum reserve is down to 349 billion barrels,
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: the lowest last seen since 1983. Now, the exact date
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: reserves start to run dry is difficult to calculate because
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: they cannot be run all the way down. But millions
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: of barrels of oil need to remain in the pipelines
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: and refineries to keep the system from breaking down. And
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: the critical moment could come by the end of this summer. Rodney,
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: I will agree with you 100%. We're in a lot
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: of trouble.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I'll say it again. Listen, I don't care if it
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: offends people or not. You've got to call him as
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: you see him. Trump started a mess with this situation
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: in Iran. And I think he thought... He was sold
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: a bill of goods by Netanyahu. He was sold a
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: bill of goods by Israeli intelligence. He thought he could
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: get in and get out, and it would be over
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: in no time. And he's got every right to be
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: pissed at them. But he ultimately made the final decision.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: And you've heard we're close to a deal. We're close
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to a deal. You've heard that for the longest period
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: of time. And then, of course, we got the 60-day ceasefire,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: and now that's not working out. I mean, it's just
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: like you're right back to the beginning here. You're right
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: back to this. And like you say, the market's down.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Oil prices are going back up. And there's no end
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: in sight. There's absolutely no end in sight. And this
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: idea that if you bomb them some more, that should
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: bring them to their knees. Well, we bombed them a
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: hell of a lot. Like, you know, I heard that. Well,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: their Navy's gone. It's at the bottom of the sea.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: And we own the skies. I mean, I've heard all
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: of this stuff. So now what do you want to do?
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, the war with Iran, I've always said,
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: I believe, is manufactured. I said on day two, you
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: look at the Iranian parliament building, and it looks like
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: an Illuminati period. You know, I think the high-ranking members
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: of the Iranian generals, The top politicians, same with Israel,
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: their top generals, our top generals, they're all in on this.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: They wanted this war. They're getting filthy rich, Ron. I
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: think they're.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: Going to drag this around as long as.
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: Possible and prolong it because they're making tons and tons
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: of money.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, was it Eisenhower that said, beware the industrial complex?
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. There's a lot of people
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: that make a lot of money with these type of conflicts,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: and it's good business for them. I don't care if
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: they're building the bombs or selling you the supplies for
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: those bombs. What do they say? Just about every congressional
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: district out there or every state has some type of
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: military facility in it. So when it comes to producing
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: some of the equipment so that it's a lot of pressure, well,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: you want to protect these jobs, don't you? You can't
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: vote against increasing military spending. Did you see where 80%
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: of our federal discretionary spending, 80% of our federal discretionary
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: spending It goes to the military. We used to spend
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: $ 900 billion on the military. It's now $ 1. 5 trillion. Just
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: think about what I'm saying. You get numbers. So we
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: went from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. spent on the military,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: and they've been unable to account for how that money's
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: been spent for years, right? They've been absolutely unable to
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: show how that money's been spent. When you sit back
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: and you say, well, wait a minute, 80% of our
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: discretionary spending is going there? What about the American people?
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: What about the fact that Social Security is in bad
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: shape and could use a few billion put into that?
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: What about Medicare, which is in bad shape? Now, these
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: are entitlement programs. No, they're earned programs. So what about
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: bolstering programs for our senior citizens and helping out Social
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Security by infusing some money into it instead of 80%
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: of this discretionary money going to the military? What about
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: bolstering Medicare? Hell, you could even make an argument. I mean,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: the military spending is out of control today. This is
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous today.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: I think it was 1965, the first time that Congress
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: authorized auditing the military budget.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: And they can't complete one.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: And Ron Paul says they have never, never passed a budget.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: There's always hundreds of millions, and now hundreds of billions
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: of dollars unaccounted for.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, missing.
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: And you know, according to the Constitution, the Founding Fathers said...
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: If the military can't account for any money they get,
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: then they're not supposed to get any more until they
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: can account for every penny that they have and that
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: they've spent.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: But it's hard for people to understand which to understand,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: that the military has never been able to pass these audits.
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: Period.
• 59:13
  Speaker 7: Period.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: So now we're going from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. 80%
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: of the discretional federal income going to the military, which
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: can't account for for the $ 900 billion and where it's gone.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: And I go back to say, at the same time
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: when we need to figure out how to fix Social Security,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: at the same time when we need to figure out
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: how to fix Medicare, should all this money be going
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: to the military and not using some of it in
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: other arenas that benefit the American people?
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: Ron, I wanted to say something quick about Vietnam.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: I can't. I've got to go. Thank you. Now, Ron Verb.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: On NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Well, it's 435 here on a Monday afternoon, 87 degrees.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: It's a hot, humid Monday, to say the least. Ron
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Verb with you until the Rockport Wealth Truth in Investing
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: program tonight, 6 to 7 here on NewsRadio 570 WKBN,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: and you're on the air.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: Well, we should be proud the first half.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: For the Guardians.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: They're in first place, buddy.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: First half down, another half to go. Another half to go.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: They don't have to worry like last year. Remember, they
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: came 18 games from 500 down. I'm thinking they can
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 7: go all the way this year.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: I've seen it in the past where the first half
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: of the year is really outstanding, and then something happens.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: You've seen it in the past. I mean, the first
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: half of the year is really good, and then the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: second half, it just goes right down the crapper.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: I know, but I don't think so. You know, what
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: is your opinion about the sports people? Do you think
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: LeBron would be welcome back to Cleveland for the Cavaliers?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was last time, was he not? I mean,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: remember when he left?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I like LeBron.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Remember when he left and everyone was burning his jersey
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: and they were upset about it and everything? And you
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: can't blame him for leaving. I mean, he wanted to
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: get a championship team. And then he came back and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: everybody loved him again. But I don't think that... Last
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: time I checked, I didn't think there was a possibility
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: that he was coming back. Wasn't he going somewhere else? Yeah.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Well, have a good day, buddy.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: All right. It's Dick from Dayton. You're on the air.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: Ron, I'm a total failure when it comes to economics
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: and inflation.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: You're a total failure? What, did you come here for therapy?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: No. I'm a total failure when it comes to Educating
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: you on economics and monetary inflation.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: You keep saying, Biden, the inflation is a legacy of
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: Joe Biden. She, too, thinks that Congress has the power
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 5: to create money. Ron, how many times have I said
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: that Trump can stop inflation immediately? All he's got to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: do is tell Kevin Warsh, the chairman of the Federal Reserve,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: stop creating money in excess of the economic growth rate,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: and inflation will go to zero run.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, it will. Tell your audience what I used to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: do for a living before I retired.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: What you used to do for a living?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: You were a certified financial planner.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: I thought you were a mafia hitman.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: Now, you would think if anybody knows about what causes inflation,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: it would be me.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't necessarily agree when you're talking about inflation.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: There's many things that create inflation. There just isn't one
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: thing that creates inflation. Anytime, for example, anytime you have
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: energy prices that go up, that creates inflation. I mean,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: we can talk about any number of things. No, no,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: hang on. If wages go up. If wages go up,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: costs have to be passed along. So consequently, as I say,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: when you have oil prices go up, that creates inflation.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: When you have, let's say, when people would argue about
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: the minimum wage for years, and now a lot of
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: places are paying $ 13, $ 15 an hour because of what
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: they call labor shortages. They have to pay more to
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: get people to show up at a lot of these
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: fast food places. Well, guess what? When they have to
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: pay the help more, When you look at the menu,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: the prices have gone up. I mean, you want to
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: act like one thing creates inflation. It isn't just one thing.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Government policy can create inflation. Obviously, when they printed more money,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: it made the existing supply and demand. Worth less supply
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: and demand. What they did was they screwed everybody's savings
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: and paycheck by that policy. So I don't think you
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: need to apologize. I get a total grip on what
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: creates inflation. I've lived it as long as you have.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: I've been through Carter. I've been through stagflation. I've watched
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: this stuff happen. And if you're asking me, does government
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: policy create it outside of the, you know, the Fed
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: obviously can create it. And they can also fix it
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: in many cases. But I go back to say this.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: This mess in the Middle East is creating inflation. If
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: you have $ 4 a gallon gas or higher, that cost
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: is passed on when it comes to shipping companies, when
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: it comes to farmers buying diesel. that creates inflation right there.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know where you want to go
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: with what creates inflation.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: Well, this is why I say I've been a total failure.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: Because number one, I've never said that monetary inflation, which
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: is increasing the money supply in excess of the economic
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: growth rate, is the only thing that causes inflation. If
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: the dollar goes down in value, versus other foreign currencies,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: that causes inflation as well. But higher energy prices does
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: not cause inflation, and it certainly doesn't cause monetary inflation.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: Higher energy prices cause recessions, or if they go high enough,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: even global depressions. What will happen is if energy prices
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: go up and there's no monetary inflation, capital will begin
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: exiting oil and natural gas into lower-cost energies like solar.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: So that's what I want the audience to understand. And also,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 5: there's no oil shortages exist. There's plenty of oil, Ron.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: There are only planned scarcities engineered for the benefit of
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: the ruling classes. Well, eight of the biggest banks have
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: made from $ 4 to $ 45 billion in profits. In the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: first quarter of 2026, oil cartel producers and their privileged
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: traders are making massive profits, including Donald and Barron Trump
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: and their friends and family. You know, I've spent all
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: day today Because Trump keeps giving me a gift. Every
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: time he says that, well, the war in the Middle
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: East is going to continue on, what happens to the
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: stock market? It crashed again today. So I've been busy
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: buying gold, silver, oh, and especially nuclear mining companies. They
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: were way down today. And I tell you, I got
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 5: to thank As much as I think Donald Trump is
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: one of the most corrupt and worst presidents we've ever had,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: I'll give him credit for him allowing me to buy
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 5: stocks and other investments at bargain basement prices. And I
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: tell you, the market closed at 4 today. That's why
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: I called your show. But I still have more orders
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 5: to put in for tomorrow. In case he says, well,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 5: we're going to have another peace deal with Iran tomorrow.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: And what'll happen? It'll go way up. Ron, you know
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: that every time Trump says that we're going to have
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: peace in the Middle East, what happens? All of a sudden,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: stock call options, there's a big, right before he makes
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: the announcement, there's huge orders for stocks and stock options
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 5: and other derivatives that Because obviously somebody knows ahead of
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 5: time he's going to make these announcements. And they're getting
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 5: filthy rich off of this. Me and you aren't getting
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: filthy rich. Well, I mean, I'm making money because as
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: soon as he makes those announcements, I immediately log in
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: to my mutual fund company and start putting orders in
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: left and right for stocks. Or like today. putting in orders.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: I waited until about 2, 2.30 as everything went way down.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 5: That's when I started putting orders in. I can't thank
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: Trump enough for giving me opportunities to buy stocks at
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 5: bargain basement prices, which he did again today. And as far,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 5: you know, Trump has depleted the strategic petroleum reserve by 40% now.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: And Exxon Senior Vice President Neil Chapman said, we are
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 5: approaching unheard of low inventory levels. And once these reserves
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: are gone, we will see prices shoot up. And according
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: to the numbers I've seen, global stockpiles should be exhausted
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: by the end of this month. And storage tanks for oil, diesel,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: gasoline in Europe are now at full capacity and can
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: handle no more. One, some inventories could be wiped out
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: in weeks, and oil executives have warned just in time
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: for peak summer travel season. And I have absolutely no
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: doubt the White House, from Trump on down, is fully
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: aware of the alarm among oil analysts about the direction
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: of travel for oil prices. And according to Bob McNally,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: he was an energy advisor to George Bush and the
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 5: founder of the Rapid Energy Group. He said the Strategic
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: Petroleum Reserve is down to 349 billion barrels, the lowest
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: last seen since 1983. Now, the exact date reserves start
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: to run dry is difficult to calculate because they cannot
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: be run all the way down. But millions of barrels
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: of oil need to remain in the pipelines and refineries
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: to keep the system from breaking down. in the critical moment,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: could come by the end of this summer. Rodney, I
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: will agree with you 100%. We're in a lot of trouble.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: I'll say it again. Listen, I don't care if it
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: offends people or not. You've got to call him as
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: you see him. Trump started a mess with this situation
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: in Iran. And I think he thought... He was sold
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: a bill of goods by Netanyahu. He was sold a
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: bill of goods by Israeli intelligence. He thought he could
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: get in and get out, and it would be over
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: in no time. And he's got every right to be
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: pissed at them. But he ultimately made the final decision.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: And you've heard we're close to a deal. We're close
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: to a deal. You've heard that for the longest period
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: of time. And then, of course, we got the 60-day ceasefire,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: and now that's not working out. I mean, it's just
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: like you're right back to the beginning here. You're right
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: back to this. And like you say, the market's down.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Oil prices are going back up. And there's no end
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: in sight. There's absolutely no end in sight. And this
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: idea that if you bomb them some more, that should
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: bring them to their knees. Well, we bombed them a
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: hell of a lot. Like, you know, I heard that. Well,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: their Navy's gone. It's at the bottom of the sea.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: And we own the skies. I mean, I've heard all
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: of this stuff. So now what do you want to do?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, the war with Iran, I've always said,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: I believe, is manufactured. I said on day two, you
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: look at the Iranian parliament building, and it looks like
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: an Illuminati period. You know, I think the high-ranking members
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: of the Iranian generals, The top politicians, same with Israel,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: their top generals, our top generals, they're all in on this.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: They wanted this war. They're getting filthy rich, Ron. I
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 5: think they're going.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: To drag this war on as long.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: As possible and prolong it because they're making tons and
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: tons of money.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, was it Eisenhower that said, beware the industrial complex?
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. There's a lot of people
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: that make a lot of money with these type of conflicts.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: And it's good business for them. I don't care if
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: they're building the bombs or selling you the supplies for
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: those bombs. What do they say? Just about every congressional
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: district out there or every state has some type of
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: military facility in it. So when it comes to producing
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: some of the equipment so that... You know, it's a
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: lot of pressure. Well, you want to protect these jobs,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: don't you? You can't vote against increasing military spending. Did
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: you see where 80% of our federal discretionary spending, 80%
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: of our federal discretionary spending goes to the military? We
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: used to spend $ 900 billion on the military. It's now
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: $ 1. 5 trillion. Just think about what I'm saying. You get numbers.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: So we went from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion spent
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: on the military, and they've been unable to account for
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: how that money's been spent for years, right? They've been
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: absolutely unable to show how that money's been spent. So
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: when you sit back and you say, well, wait a minute, 80%
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: of our discretionary spending is going there? What about the
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: American people? What about the fact that Social Security is
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: in bad shape and could use a few billion put
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: into that? What about Medicare, which is in bad shape? Now,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: these are entitlement programs. No, they're earned programs. So what
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: about bolstering programs for our senior citizens and helping out
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Social Security by infusing some money into it instead of 80%
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: of this discretionary money going to the Military. What about
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: bolstering Medicare? Hell, you could even make an argument. I mean,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: the military spending is out of control today. This is
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 5: I think it was 1965, the first time that Congress
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: authorized auditing the military budget.
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  Speaker 1: And they can't complete one. And Ron Paul says..
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  Speaker 5: They have never, never passed a budget. There's always hundreds
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: of millions and now hundreds of billions of dollars unaccounted for.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, missing.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, according to the Constitution, the Founding Fathers
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: said if the military can't account for any money they get,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 5: then they're not supposed to get any more until they
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 5: can account for every penny that they have and that
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 5: they've spent.
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  Speaker 1: But it's hard for people to understand, which to understand,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: that the military has never been able to pass these audits.
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  Speaker 6: Period.
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  Speaker 1: Period. So now we're going from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. 80%
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: of the discretional federal income going to the military, which
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: can't account for... for the $ 900 billion and where it's gone.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: And I go back to say, at the same time
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: when we need to figure out how to fix Social Security,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: at the same time when we need to figure out
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: how to fix Medicare, should all this money be going
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: to the military and not using some of it in
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: other arenas that benefit the American people? I can't. I've
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: got to go. Thank you.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 4: News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand how that's even acceptable that
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: the military's never been able to account for all of
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: this money. But how you go from $ 900 billion to
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: $ 1. 5 trillion, that you increase military spending. There are other
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: problems that we have in our country. 80% of our
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: discretionary income should not be going to military spending. There
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: are other issues that should be addressed affecting the American
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: people where some of that money should be going. And
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: I say it again. We should be putting some of
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: that money to bolster Social Security, which they're saying is
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: in serious financial condition within seven years. Medicare, which has
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: financial issues. This is about earned benefits for senior citizens. Hell,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: I even understand the argument to be made where people
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: are saying when it comes to Obamacare and how their
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: premium prices have increased tremendously. I understand that. But even
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: they're saying some of this money can't be used to
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: benefit the American people with some of the issues that
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: they're facing as a result of the economic times or
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: the inflation that's going on. that it's all going 80%
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: to the military. It doesn't make a damn bit of
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: sense when you can't account for the money you're getting now.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: And Trump has created a mess here. And I will
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: not be a cheerleader for anybody. He was duped into
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: this by Netanyahu and by Israel. He thought it would
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: be quicker than it is. And it's just dragging on.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: And there truly is no end in sight. And we
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: all have to live with what's going on. Right back
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: to $ 4 gasoline. Right back to inflation coming back up
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: as a result of these decisions. This should have never
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: happened in the first place. I was perfectly satisfied with
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: the bunker buster. and the dust being buried in the mountain.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: To go down the road that he's gone down now,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: and now he's trying to look for an exit ramp,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: and he thought he has one, but guess what? They're
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: never working out. Deal's close. Deal's close. We don't get
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: a deal. And I'm getting a little sick and tired
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: of it. But we all are paying the price for
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: these decisions. And it's a serious price when it comes
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: to inflation and energy. And the depletion of strategic oil
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: reserves ends. Where do we go as this goes on
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: with our oil prices? I mean, some of that stuff...
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: I don't poo-poo all these oil experts, as many have done.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: I do not. This is an ongoing situation. And we'll
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: take more calls coming up. G2 later. Here till 6.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Rockport Wealth Truth Investing, 6 to 7. I mean, I
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: don't understand how that's even acceptable, that the military's never
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: been able to account for all of this money. But
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: how you go from... $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion that
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: you increase military spending, there are other problems that we
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: have in our country. 80% of our discretionary income should
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: not be going to military spending. There are other issues
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: that should be addressed affecting the American people. where some
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: of that money should be going. And I say it again,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: we should be putting some of that money to bolster
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Social Security, which is, they're saying, in serious financial condition
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: within seven years. Medicare, which has financial issues. This is
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: about earned benefits for senior citizens. Hell, I even understand
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: the argument to be made where people are saying when
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: it comes to Obamacare and how their premium prices have
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: increased tremendously. I understand that. But even they're saying some
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: of this money can't be used to benefit the American
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: people with some of the issues that they're facing as
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: a result of the economic times or the inflation that's
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: going on. That it's all going 80% to the military.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make a damn bit of sense when you
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: can't account for the money you're getting now. And Trump
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: has created a mess here. And I will not be
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: a cheerleader for anybody. He was duped into this by
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: Netanyahu and by Israel. He thought it would be quicker
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: than it is. And it's just dragging on. And there
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: truly is no end in sight. And we all have
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: to live with what's going on. Right back to $ 4 gasoline.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: Right back to inflation coming back up as a result
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: of these decisions. This should have never happened in the
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: first place. I was perfectly satisfied with the bunker buster
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: and the dust being buried in the mountain. To go
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: down the road that he's gone down now, and now
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: he's trying to look for an exit ramp, and he
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: thought he has one, but guess what? They're never working out.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Deal's close. Deal's close. We don't get a deal. And
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: I'm getting a little sick and tired of it. But
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: we all are paying the price for these decisions. And
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: it's a serious price when it comes to inflation and energy.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: And the depletion of strategic oil reserves ends. Where do
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: we go as this goes on with our oil prices?
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, some of that stuff... I don't poo-poo all
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: these oil experts, as many have done. I do not.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: This is an ongoing situation. And we'll take more calls
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: coming up. G2 later. Here till 6. Rockport Wealth Truth Investing,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: 6 to 7.