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Monday 4pm hour 05/11/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: All right, back to it. 406 News Radio 570. Monday,
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  Speaker 1: May 11th. Ron Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am. 60 degrees right now. So let me go
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  Speaker 1: back up to. So you're dying. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Give me a year or two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. When they were down there with the lever, remember,
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  Speaker 3: with the radiation and all that.
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  Speaker 1: What stage cancer do you have?
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  Speaker 3: I have lung cancer.
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  Speaker 1: Just pause for a second. Where did this start, with
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  Speaker 1: lung cancer or liver cancer?
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  Speaker 3: Liver.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so in your liver, it spread to your lungs?
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  Speaker 3: No. They don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Where's your cancer at? Just your liver?
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  Speaker 3: No, now I got it on my lungs. My left lung.
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  Speaker 1: All right. But, I mean, do you continue to smoke?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, might as well now.
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  Speaker 1: And both marijuana.
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  Speaker 3: And taxes for the state highway would throw for their
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  Speaker 3: pension fund.
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  Speaker 1: Just sit tight. You're still smoking dope and cigarettes, correct?
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  Speaker 3: Correct. Not too much dopamine lately. I mean, my lungs
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  Speaker 3: can't handle it.
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  Speaker 1: All right. But you've smoked. So you're telling me the
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  Speaker 1: cancer started in your liver, not in your lung?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it started in the liver.
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  Speaker 1: At what stage are you?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I never asked them, and I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to know. I walked away from Meadville. When I started
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  Speaker 3: getting really sick and that, and I just, I walked away.
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  Speaker 3: They kept calling me and everything. I just walked away.
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  Speaker 3: Because when I die, I don't really want to be
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  Speaker 3: sick like that. I don't know if I'd rather be
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  Speaker 3: sick another way, but, you know, I'm going to, no.
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  Speaker 3: They're not giving my body any more of that poison.
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  Speaker 1: What were they doing to you?
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean? They were giving me Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get radiation or just chemo?
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  Speaker 3: I had three sessions. I had three sessions of chemo
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  Speaker 3: and one radiation. The radiation was on the liver.
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  Speaker 1: And was it, it made you sick?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Yeah. In the worst way. I haven't had
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  Speaker 3: chemo in probably three, about four weeks. And I'm still sick.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No. So you just stopped going?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: But you still don't feel good?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I don't feel bad. In the morning, I
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  Speaker 3: usually don't feel good. But the rest of the afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: it's been too bad. I haven't been doing nothing. You
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  Speaker 3: can't go nowhere. Trump's got the gas prices so high.
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  Speaker 3: He ought to just keep pounding them people. Pound them.
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  Speaker 3: Pound them right into the ground. What the hell are
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  Speaker 3: we waiting for?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it seems like he's done a lot of that,
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  Speaker 1: and it hasn't really worked out. And if you do
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  Speaker 1: more of it, I don't know. Time will tell. We
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  Speaker 1: shall see. So how long do you think you have?
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  Speaker 3: Me? I don't know. Hopefully a year. or well, to
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  Speaker 3: tell you the truth, I always wanted to be, I
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  Speaker 3: always want, if I make it to 69, I'll be lucky.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be real lucky. Well, I found a nice place
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  Speaker 3: to stay up here in, uh, in Jefferson, Ohio. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: part of Ashtonville County. Might as well stay up here
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  Speaker 3: where I got the stuff at from, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever go back and talk to your doctor
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  Speaker 1: to say, where does it go from here if I
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  Speaker 1: stop everything?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: No more. Next call will be hospice. I'll call hospice.
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  Speaker 3: I was supposed to call in the day, and I forgot.
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  Speaker 3: I ended up holding on line with you for an
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  Speaker 3: hour or so.
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  Speaker 1: When you call me, it's like calling hospice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And that little pill is called a nitro.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's like calling hospice. You know what they say?
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  Speaker 1: They treat you real good if it wasn't for the
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  Speaker 1: reason you were there. Well, geez. Well, keep me in
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  Speaker 1: the loop. Keep me informed.
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  Speaker 3: I will.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man.
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  Speaker 3: Have a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Godspeed. News Radio 570 WKBN, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate. I hate to hear news like that. I
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  Speaker 2: hate to see somebody know they're going to die and
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with that. They're all going to die eventually,
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: And also to say, listen, I'm not going to continue
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  Speaker 1: on with these treatments. They're making me so sick it's
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  Speaker 1: not worth it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I think your wife probably sees that, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, she does.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the cures or the treatments were way worse than
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  Speaker 2: the disease, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, unfortunately, she does see it. I mean, sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you see somebody like Ben, if you saw that
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  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes interview a couple weeks ago with Ben Sass,
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  Speaker 2: he's dying of pancreatic cancer, and they're using that new drug. Somehow,
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  Speaker 2: I think it does something with the tumor to get
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  Speaker 2: it to stop replicating as quickly. But if you looked
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  Speaker 2: at his face, it looked like somebody took a blowtorch
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  Speaker 2: to his face. But if it gives you more months
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  Speaker 2: and he's got young kids, I guess that's what you
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  Speaker 2: have to do.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, I'm really intrigued by the– there's two
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  Speaker 1: drugs that– oddly enough, one of them is ivermectin. And
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  Speaker 1: what's the other one? It starts with an M, Membrosol
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  Speaker 1: or something like that that some people are trying that
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  Speaker 1: seems to have an effect on cancer. Have you seen that?
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  Speaker 2: No. We do almost, you know, retail and pharmacy, we
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  Speaker 2: don't do any cancer. That's all handled by most of
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  Speaker 2: the cancer doctors handle list. If we see really nothing,
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  Speaker 2: if we see anything, it's palliative care, you know, pain pills,
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  Speaker 2: things like that to help treat pain. But as far
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  Speaker 2: as chemo, retail pharmacy doesn't deal with that at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's ivermectin and mendazole. They're both anti-parasitic medications that
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  Speaker 1: when combined significantly increase efficiency against soil transmitted, blah, blah, blah,
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  Speaker 1: goes on for this. But it has to do with
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  Speaker 1: parasitic infections. And there are people that are actually, they're
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  Speaker 1: exploring the oncology potentials of those two. Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm very intrigued by it because they're both
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  Speaker 1: relatively inexpensive drugs. exploring the oncology potential of menbendazole and ivermectin,
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  Speaker 1: what compounding pharmacists should know. Interest in repurposing these anti-parasitic
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  Speaker 1: agents for oncology systems stems from both urgency and practicality.
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  Speaker 1: Drug development is notoriously so inexpensive, especially in oncology, so
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  Speaker 1: repurposing already approved medications is a logical pursuit. Menbendazole in
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  Speaker 1: particular is has emerged as a compelling candidate due to
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  Speaker 1: its low toxicity profile and its potential to disrupt cancer
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  Speaker 1: cell mitosis via microtubular inhibition. Similar ivermectin has shown promising
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  Speaker 1: in anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties in preclinical models. Both with
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  Speaker 1: the promise comes the responsibility of So that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: interested in. That's what I'm reading about. Because both of
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  Speaker 1: those are relatively inexpensive. With some of it, some of
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  Speaker 1: the research looked promising to me.
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  Speaker 2: You think they're listing Keytruda then?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. You don't have the
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  Speaker 1: side effects. Yeah, definitely less.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask your wife what Keytruda costs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. That's ridiculous. I mean, it's something that they're
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  Speaker 1: looking on. Then I'd be reading cases where people would
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  Speaker 1: have tumors disappear and some really incredible, what do you say, reversals.
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  Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. So I just think it's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's something worth reading about if you're in
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  Speaker 1: that boat. That's all I can say.
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  Speaker 2: My bigger takeaway from that is enjoy life because all
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  Speaker 2: of us, our days are numbered. We just don't know when.
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  Speaker 2: That gentleman has a better idea, but I could get
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  Speaker 2: hit by a bus and be done tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That's like I told everyone when I started at 3 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: It's a true story. A guy told me he had
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  Speaker 1: heard me talk in the past about carrying baby aspirin
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  Speaker 1: with me all the time. Because my wife says, here
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's in my pocket as we speak. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the baby aspirin, the chewable ones, in case you have
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  Speaker 1: chest pain, chew it and put it under your tongue.
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  Speaker 1: And that buys you time to get to the emergency room.
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  Speaker 1: And he had a heart problem and he did that.
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  Speaker 1: And he said it saved his life, really. So think
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I take a baby aspirin every day
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  Speaker 2: just as a preventative. That's not a family history of
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  Speaker 2: heart disease.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a preventative. My wife insists that I carry
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  Speaker 1: it with me because if you're having chest pain, start
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  Speaker 1: chewing it immediately. And if you don't have it on you,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to work. Usually when the ambulance gets there,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the first things they do.
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  Speaker 2: If you take one every day and thin your blood out,
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  Speaker 2: it could potentially prevent the heart attack from occurring, if
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  Speaker 2: that makes any sense. Right. There's a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who take them every day, but you're using it in
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  Speaker 2: an acute sense. If you're feeling chest pain, you think
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  Speaker 2: you're having a heart attack, chew up a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: aspirin because it might save your life.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and it does for a lot of people, and basically...
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  Speaker 1: Like I say, I got it in my pocket now,
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  Speaker 1: and she makes me carry it with me. Not that
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  Speaker 1: I have any heart issues, but you never know as
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  Speaker 1: you get older. And when the ambulance comes, it's usually
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  Speaker 1: one of the first things they give you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. But anyway, one of the reasons I called
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  Speaker 2: was I was listening to your Friday podcast today when
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  Speaker 2: you had G2, and you had Tex Fisher called in.
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  Speaker 2: And I've actually sort of reformed my thing. feelings or
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  Speaker 2: views on text. Because when he really first got elected,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know, I wasn't real impressed.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he's really starting to mature into an
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  Speaker 2: effective lawmaker for our area.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that was a very good interview.
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  Speaker 2: You said you were probably going to have him on
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  Speaker 2: more often.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you do. Because I think he's turning into
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  Speaker 2: one of the more effective representatives for all of us
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  Speaker 2: in this area. And I like what he's doing. He
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  Speaker 2: seems to support Dave Thomas a lot. Those two seem
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  Speaker 2: to be working together well. Um, which sort of dovetails
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  Speaker 2: into my other point I'd like to make is if,
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  Speaker 2: what would you rather, if you had to choose between
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  Speaker 2: the two, would you take $ 5 gas prices from now
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  Speaker 2: until the next five years? Or, uh, and if you
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  Speaker 2: could get the pay that, but in, in compensation for that,
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  Speaker 2: they would cut your property taxes in half. Because I
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  Speaker 2: would take... Well, you might not.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't take... On a hypothetical proposal, neither one of
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  Speaker 1: those would be acceptable to say which one... It's one
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  Speaker 1: or the other. I think your gasoline prices, not just
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  Speaker 1: for my own purposes, but for inflation in general and diesel,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is what our economy is based on,
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  Speaker 1: is oil. And we are a petroleum-based economy, and it
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  Speaker 1: affects everything.
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  Speaker 2: So..
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's plastic roofing or what you
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  Speaker 1: put in your car, what somebody puts in a farm
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  Speaker 1: tractor or their truck. So you cannot have sky-high energy
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  Speaker 1: prices without having sky-high inflation. We're a petroleum-based economy. So
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't have much to do with– they're two separate issues. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I am just, I'm genuinely troubled. Listen, how
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  Speaker 1: do I say this? I honest to God believe we
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  Speaker 1: got into this situation, in my humble opinion, because of Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that Israel coordinated all of this and talked
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  Speaker 1: Trump into doing this. It goes against a lot of
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  Speaker 1: where Trump was. Maybe he, I don't know, right decision,
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  Speaker 1: wrong decision. Only time will tell. But needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: that's why we're in this mess that we're in. I
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  Speaker 1: can only imagine where the economy would be if we've
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  Speaker 1: never did any of this as far as gas prices
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  Speaker 1: and the American agenda and inflation. I think we'd be
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  Speaker 1: in a much better place. So by doing this and
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  Speaker 1: making this decision, I don't believe the majority of American
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  Speaker 1: people support it at all. I think it would be
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  Speaker 1: detrimental in the midterms if it continues like this. And
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  Speaker 1: I think when we're talking $ 5 gas or these betting
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  Speaker 1: markets at $ 5. 60 a gallon, I think that is devastation
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  Speaker 1: to inflation and the economy if that happens. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting tired of a deal's imminent, a deal's imminent. If
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  Speaker 1: Iran is so up against the ropes, well, they're not
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  Speaker 1: willing to make a deal at this point. So if
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  Speaker 1: you bomb them more, we'd bomb the living hell out
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  Speaker 1: of them at this point in time, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem like they want to make a deal yet. So
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  Speaker 1: if we bomb them more, is that going to bring
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  Speaker 1: them closer to a deal? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to deal. The only thing
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  Speaker 2: I think you can do is make it so uncomfortable
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  Speaker 2: that hopefully the Iranian people overthrow the government. The people
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  Speaker 2: that are in charge, the people that hold the cards
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  Speaker 2: and the guns and the power, aren't going to deal.
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  Speaker 2: You're just not dealing with people that think like we do.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's a different philosophy. Right, it's a totally different culture.
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  Speaker 1: And they're dug in. I mean, they are surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: mountains and a real hot desert. So it's not like
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  Speaker 1: it's an easy place to deal with from a strategery,
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  Speaker 1: to quote George Bush, standpoint. And they might feel that
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  Speaker 1: they can just wait all of this out. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of time. And maybe that's their philosophy. I
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  Speaker 1: got to believe that they're up against the ropes economically.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe as a culture, they don't care about that.
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  Speaker 1: They know that if they wait, that we'll go away
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  Speaker 1: and people aren't going to tolerate this in America. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Give me your insight into all of this. I'll sit
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  Speaker 1: back and listen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the point I was trying to make when I
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  Speaker 2: said the property tax thing was, well, gas prices are
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  Speaker 2: high now. It's a supply and demand issue. Eventually, they
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  Speaker 2: will come back down just like they always do because
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  Speaker 2: there's plenty of supply out there. You just got to
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  Speaker 2: get it to market once this whole situation resolves itself. Taxes, however,
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  Speaker 2: never seem to go down. The government just constantly keeps
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  Speaker 2: picking into our pocket and picking into our pocket. and
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  Speaker 2: taking more and more of what we go to work
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  Speaker 2: and earn every day. You know, you're looking, I think
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  Speaker 2: they were talking on the podcast last Friday, G2, and
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  Speaker 2: Tex are talking about the smallies down in Columbus and
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  Speaker 2: how much graft and fraud has been committed there and
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  Speaker 2: how many billions of our dollars has been wasted.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like DeWine didn't give a damn, and
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  Speaker 1: DeWine didn't give a damn about it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you talk about a disappointing governor. I mean, all
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  Speaker 2: the people that love DeWine, he has been probably, I
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  Speaker 2: take Ted Strickland over him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, could he be any worse?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, realistically, like I was just listening to the news. When,
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  Speaker 2: who was it, I think, was it Faber that resigned? No,
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  Speaker 2: Dave Yost resigned, right? Yeah. The logical thing, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a Republican, would be you appoint the guy who's going
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  Speaker 2: to run in November to that position. Did he do it?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: No. I mean, you had Amy Acton, who worked for Obama.
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  Speaker 2: It was an Obama proponent. And you make her the
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  Speaker 2: medical director and then elevate her to that position so
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  Speaker 2: that now she's running for governor and has a decent
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  Speaker 2: chance of beating Ramaswamy, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: But I keep going back. I keep reminding everybody, she
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  Speaker 1: quit as a state doctor. She could not take the
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  Speaker 1: heat and the criticism and quit and left. Well, don't
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  Speaker 1: forget that when you say, oh, she needs to be governor.
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  Speaker 2: Really? Oh, I'll vote for Vivek every day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just like when we have the commissioner's race,
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  Speaker 2: you have to vote Christine Oliver, because can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: how bad it's going to be if we get McNally
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  Speaker 2: in there?
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  Speaker 1: Right, but I mean, it's... It's ridiculous. I agree with
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  Speaker 1: you as far as that appointment is concerned. But what
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  Speaker 1: troubles me most is what Tex Fisher was talking and
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  Speaker 1: Dave Thomas. We have Minnesota-like fraud going on here in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: And as I asked him, where was our checks and
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  Speaker 1: balances to make sure that this wasn't happening? Where was
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  Speaker 1: our internal... How disappointing is this that billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: were swindled here in the state of Ohio? And it's
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  Speaker 1: like no one seems to care as far as DeWine
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  Speaker 1: is concerned. I mean, I just shake my head when
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  Speaker 1: I listen to all of this stuff. A friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine once said, it's so discouraging you don't even want
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  Speaker 1: to pay your taxes because they take your money and
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  Speaker 1: they just piss it away with people that have stolen
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  Speaker 1: millions and billions of dollars. And then they act as
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  Speaker 1: though they're not that concerned to go after them and
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  Speaker 1: put anybody in jail because you're never going to get
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  Speaker 1: the money back. And DeWine's a shining example of that.
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  Speaker 2: He reminds me of your old school, like George Bush,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Mitt Romney, Republican. He doesn't want to go in there.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to rock the boat. He doesn't want
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to change anything. The status quo is okay.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But it's not okay. Stand by back in a minute.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Hang on. Road and Struthers. News Radio 570.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: WKVN.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: 70. WKVN. All right, let me go back with Richard Pharmacist.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, the bottom line is, listen, do I think–
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: just going back before I get back to the state
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of Ohio. Do I think the military's done a great
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: job in Iran?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: And bombing them? Yes. And are they paying a serious
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: price economically? Absolutely. And so do I sit back and say, well,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: why aren't they reaching an agreement? Why aren't they– Why
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: isn't this deal eminent, as they say? And why? Well,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I thought we had their back. to the wall, and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I think we do financially and in many ways. But
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: yet they won't agree to some of the stuff that
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: we're saying is a must, I guess. So– what's the strategy? Well,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: we might have to go back to bombing more. Well,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: what makes you think bombing more is going to change anything?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: You bombed them enough. They're dug into the mountains and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. And it's like this, I'll
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: just say from a standpoint, this can't go on. As
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I've said publicly to you before, I think Trump misread this.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I thought he thought it would be over much sooner
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: than it is.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: It's not.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And this can't go on for six months. And people
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: aren't going to– the surveys show the majority of people
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: do not support this. And they're not going to support
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: $ 5 gas for a long period of time or even
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: higher gas. I mean, that's just the bottom line. And
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: it's not one of the biggest causes of concern for
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the American people on their radar screen that they were
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: up at night worrying about Iran and their nuclear weapon.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: They're worried about paying their mortgage. and inflation and keeping
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: their job with AI. That's what they're worried about. Comment, please.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you. I mean, like I've said,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I think long-term, if you're looking five, ten years out
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: from here, we are able to defeat Iran and get
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: their nuclear program, get the dust to the toxic. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: think long-term, it's going to look good. In the short-term,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: it sucks because we're having to live with the pains
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: and the prices that it's causing. You know, I don't
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: disagree with anything you said. I kind of disagree with
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you that it can't last six months. I think it
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: could definitely last six months. It could last longer than
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: six months.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Right, and I know what I'm saying is that would
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: be a disaster for Trump's presidency.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it will. I won't argue that. You know, it'll
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: be all impeachment all the time, all over again.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: It was the last time.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: People will say, no.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: It'll be ridiculous.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: People will say, we voted for you for affordability and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: energy and secure the borders and getting these people out.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And now you've side-railed everything over to this situation in Iran.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Make no mistake, there's still a lot of people who
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: voted for Trump that are genuinely pissed off about how
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: he has handled the Epstein situation. That has not gone away.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And then you're upsetting a lot of other people with
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: ignoring the America First agenda, and that's not going to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: go away. So all I'm saying is he really needs
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to resolve this quickly and try to bring prices back
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: down to salvage his presidency.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I just don't see a quick resolution to it. You know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I could be wrong. You could see it totally collapse.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: You could see the government over there collapse.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I would love to see it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: And the people sue for peace. I just don't think
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that's likely. And what you're saying, in our country, if
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the populace gets mad, we can change the government. Just remember,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: we may vote Democrats out, and we can get change
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: that way. In authoritarian regimes, you look at Iran, China,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: North Korea.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: They've got all the guns. They've got all the guns.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: The authorities don't care because they don't have to be
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: responsible to the people.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: No, you can go out and protest. They'll just shoot
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you between the eyes, and the protests end real quick
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: after that because you don't have a weapon.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what Iran did back in January. That's what
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: they killed, estimates between 10,000 and 40,000 people.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Because people don't have any arms to defend themselves. So
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: what's the talk now? Well, we, the United States, have
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to arm all these people in Iran so that they
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: can stand up To to the government. Well, that's probably
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: easier said than done, too. So we we shall see
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: as time goes on. Now, going back to the state.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, DeWine is such a disappointment to me as
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a governor. You make perfect sense why he didn't appoint the.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the guy that's running to be the Attorney General in
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that position. Doesn't make a lick of sense. But when
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you hear Tex Fisher and these guys talk about how,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: where's the fire in the belly about all of this fraud?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Where was our checks and balances in the state of
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Ohio to see if this stuff is being legitimately done?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: All these people that you're paying, all these offices that
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you have, why weren't they looking into where this money
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: was going and if it was legitimate or not, when
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: we're talking billions of dollars of wasteful, fraudful spending in Ohio.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And that's a fair question to ask. Where was the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: auditor during all of this? Why wasn't he involved? How
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: did this go on?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: You probably don't remember, but when I first started calling you,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: one of the things that I really started calling you
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: about was how much money is wasted on Medicaid in
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: And the numbers are huge.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: And the number of people that are on Medicaid. in
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio. It's astronomical.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I believe it's close to half.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of people. I mean, it depends
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: on where you're at. It's a lot less in suburban America.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: You get into the cities and you're at 70%, 80% probably.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: When they're talking 50%, the people are talking the state
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: population here. They're talking half your state budget, $ 45 billion
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: goes to Medicaid.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And stop and think about that. So when you look
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: at your income taxes withheld out of your check, you
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: figure half of that is being spent by the state
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: of Ohio providing free care to the less fortunate.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And how much of that is being ripped off and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: stolen by, obviously, billions of dollars in the state of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Ohio now? And I'm sure that there's significant fraud in
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Medicare as well with providers stealing a lot of that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: kind of money. But let's get the crack down. Let's
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: see some people go to jail, for God's sakes, for
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: stealing billions of dollars.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Well, and that was my point earlier. As bad as
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: it is right now having to pay the increased gas costs,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: what the government is picking our pocket for on a
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: daily basis, to me, is far worse. But we don't
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: really see that. It's almost like an invisible cost that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: we all pay that isn't on our radar. Every day
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: you drive past a gas station, you see the immediate
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: cost that's on your radar.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Well, you're attacked on every front. Do you blame the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: guy that said to me, I don't even want to
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: pay my... taxes, file his tax return April 15th, because
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: when I see all the fraud that took place that
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk was talking about, then I see all the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: fraud in Minnesota, then I hear about all the fraud
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: in Ohio, and I'm looking at all my hard-earned money
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that's taken away from me, and I look at how
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: government's just pissing it away. How discouraging is that to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: me as a taxpayer? How do I argue with that guy?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Because I can't. I understand.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: You can't.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, it's frustrating. Every April 15th when we
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: write those checks out and you take a look at
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: what your total tax bill is, it's a lot of money.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: It's a lot more money than what you're spending on gas.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And that was my only point. As bad as gas is,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: it's not nearly as bad as the government picking your
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: pocket every day. And like you always say, it's not
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: just income tax. It's income tax, property tax, sales tax,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: license fees for your license plates, driver. Think of all
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the things that you pay. And you're probably approaching 50%
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: of what you pay goes to the government in one
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: way or another.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Right. Because you have many of these entities, they're not
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: really private sector businesses. They are on paper, but they
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: get the bulk of their business from collecting Medicaid. All
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: these people that are into rehabilitating people that are hooked
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: on drugs, that's all paid for by Medicaid. So how
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: many of those people are actually going and being paid
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: for private sector insurance or from the family? Very few
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: compared to the Medicaid picking it all up. So, hey,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out and you go right back
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: on drugs, what difference does it make? They basically view
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you as a customer and they made their money and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: maybe you'll be repeat business. It is so– we can't
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: afford this at $ 400 a day.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: No.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: No, it's ridiculous. But, you know, you look at when
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: they were putting all the illegal immigrants that they were
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: putting up in those hotels in New York at $ 400
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: a night. Right. You know, it's crazy. It's crazy. So
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: while we get upset about the gas prices, I don't
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: like paying them any more than anybody else. You know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you have to look at the bigger picture. Well, it's
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: easy to focus day to day on the gas tax,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: but we would be much better served if we could
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: get more responsible people to run for office and make
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: better decisions. You just like I look at the county
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: with the money they're wasting on that Eastern Gateway project,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: 60 million dollars or whatever. And then I was just
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: driving downtown the other day, and you look across from
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the courthouse, which is beautiful, and they've done a nice
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: job revitalizing a lot of downtown, and you've got the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: old abandoned MedArt building there that's just a sore thumb
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: sticking out right in the middle of everything. And I'm thinking,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: why aren't they looking at the first thing I would do,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: wreck the MedArt building and put a new building there
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: that's right across from the courthouse? And I bet it
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: wouldn't cost $ 4 million to wreck that building like it's
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: going to cost to wreck Eastern Gateway. And I just
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: don't understand that. Like you said, there's never been any
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: public hearings held on this. There's never been any accountability
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: of the people that are going to have to pay
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: that $ 60 million bond that they take out. When it's
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: all said and done, it'll be $ 80 or $ 90 when
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: it's all said and done.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: They don't even ask you. They don't even care what
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: your thoughts are. It's like, so you're going to take
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Moaning County and you're going to put it in debt
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: for 60 million dollars and we don't even consult you
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: we all think this is a great idea and it's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a lousy idea but we don't even consult anybody but
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: yet you're going to be on the hook for for
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the bonds that we're going to put you in debt
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: for this is insanity Absolute insanity. That's what they're worried about.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I go back to say this. They're worried about that,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: but they can't give taxpayers some of their money back.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the problem right there. And I hope
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Christine Oliver gets elected and changes that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even mind. They could have the money I
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: pay now, just spend it better.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: $ 1.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: 4 million on an electric bus for WRTA.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Stuff like that. You know, it's just ridiculous. Yep.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: All right, Rich. Thank you. Always good to hear from you. Rich,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the pharmacist, you're on the air.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron, what's up?
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Bubba Ganoush. Comment, please.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Well, I tell you, depressing beginning of the show, wasn't it?
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Wasn't that depressing, the beginning of the show?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Nothing is depressing. It's informative.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: It sounded like a bit of underachiever's talk. But I
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: was concerned that Frank Poronaga had a heart attack last night.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: He talked a little bit about it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Listen, I mean, if you could actually get... There are
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: things to be concerned about. I mean, from an economic standpoint,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: believe me, when we're talking about... When we're talking about...
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: this situation in Iran and the price of a barrel
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of oil and the economy, there's just cause for concern.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: In addition to, as I say, the pending changes that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: are going to happen within the next three years that
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: have already started with AI eliminating jobs. There's some serious
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: things ahead and be it be know what's going on.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. You better be aware.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: I am aware.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think you are.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we are. Yeah, I am.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: No, I don't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Think you are. What you see is death, destruction, war.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: The guy you voted for is a bum.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't. No, I didn't say it. Because, see,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: you put the words in my mouth. If you ask
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: me today, would I vote for Kamala Harris?
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: No.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Would I vote for Sherrod Brown? No. So even though
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I disagree with Trump maybe on this situation in Iran,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: he knows more than I do. He could be right
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: on this.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: How about Amy Atkins?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I'll never vote for her. So as disappointed as I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: am in a current situation in Iran, I'm not a
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: ding-a-ling like some people will be and say, well, I'm
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: going to go vote for the other party. The other
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: party's a disaster. I don't want to vote for people
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: who put tampons in the men's room. Under no circumstances
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: would I vote for any Democrat. Period. And as bad
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: as the situation is in Iran with Trump, I'm still
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: better off with him as president as I would have
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: been with Kamala Harris.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: I tell you, Ron DeSantis is doing a great job
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: in Florida, isn't he?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: The saddest thing about Florida and Ron DeSantis is he's
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: term-limited out. If it was up to me, I would
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: say Ron DeSantis should be governor forever. What a great
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: job that man is doing in Florida. What a great
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: governor he is. That's one of the problems of term-limits.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: It has good points and bad points, but one of
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the bad points is you've got a guy like that
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: who everybody would vote for to give him another term
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: because he's just terrific at his job.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: You might like Tim Ryan.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: You want me to come right through this phone line
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and clobber you right on the head?
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Tim Ryan. There you go, term limits.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Tim Ryan was voted out of office. Tim Ryan was
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a guy that became a politician and out of touch
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: with his constituents and should have lost and been voted
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: out of office years ago.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: In his first term, he sold out.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Tim Ryan, look at the difference between Traffickin and Tim Ryan.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Tim Ryan tried to act like he could be Traffickin-like,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: but he became nothing more than just a politician. And
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: did it work out for him personally? Hell yeah. He
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: sold his home here, moved down to Columbus. He's a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: consultant making a ton of money. Yeah, it worked out
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: great for him. But I also made the prediction. I
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: said to you, Tim Ryan, when they were trying to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: recruit him to run for governor, I said, that's a
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: big mistake. And I said at that time, Amy Acton
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: will be a more formidable candidate than Tim Ryan ever
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: would be. And she's turned into exactly that. Doesn't mean
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I like her. Doesn't mean I'd vote for her. But
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I could see that she would be an effective candidate.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And if you believe polling and they say it's neck
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and neck, well, there you go.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: You believe who? Who says it's neck and neck?
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: The polling says it's neck and neck.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. That's why I don't like polling.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, for fake, I've got a historical win in
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the Republican Party here in Ohio.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, is that a shocker to anybody
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: that she won her primary and he won his? That
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: means absolutely nothing. It means absolutely nothing.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Nothing. Hey, by the way.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: The Guardians got a hit. They have basically loaded three guys.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, yeah.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, I was just sick to my stomach. They
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: couldn't bring anybody in.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Right. I mean, it's... So what are you thinking? They
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: just got to get the bats?
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: It's just like if you ever ran a team, you'll
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: know people go in slumps.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: You know, Boca's sick, and, you know, the leadership is...
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: dry right now, so.
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  Speaker 3: It's, uh..
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's depressing.
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  Speaker 4: We'll win tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not losing game.
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  Speaker 4: After game after game. We only lost one out of four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we gotta win more than we're winning.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be listening. I'll be listening tonight, and
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  Speaker 1: then the Cavaliers, well, they offer Ray a hope.
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  Speaker 4: How about the Cavs? What's going on with them?
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  Speaker 1: They're doing well. Just give me a quick ball game,
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  Speaker 1: and then I gotta go.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Base is loaded. Two outs.
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  Speaker 3: There he is.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it's like talking with Tom Hamilton. Back in
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  Speaker 1: a minute.
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  Speaker 2: The year.
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  Speaker 1: Youngstown's news, weather, and talk station. 570 WKBN. 4.55 in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon. Ron Verb from the kingdom of Mahoning. I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am. News Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Hello. Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Emanuel.
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  Speaker 7: When you get home, tell the boss I said happy
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  Speaker 7: belated Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I will.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I listen to you, the pharmacists, Rich, the pharmacists, Ted,
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  Speaker 7: the conservative.
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  Speaker 1: Bubba Ganoush.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Bubba Ganoush, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think of which, even you went to the
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  Speaker 1: Mediterranean fest and had that god-awful food in honor of
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  Speaker 1: Baba Ghanoush.
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  Speaker 7: Well, see, I understand that half of Lebanon are Muslim people,
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  Speaker 7: so that's because I like their food. But Baba don't
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  Speaker 7: tell you that.
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  Speaker 3: It's the truth.
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  Speaker 7: I bring receipts. Y'all some good guys, but you guys
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  Speaker 7: got some type of syndrome going on. Now, try to
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: follow me, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Try to follow me. All right.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to believe what I say. You guys
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  Speaker 7: never believe what I say, then you find out it's true.
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  Speaker 7: I tell you, I go to minus touch who Trump
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: is trying to sue right now.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Now, it's a fact that MTG said that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 7: told her that he can't release the Epstein files because
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  Speaker 7: it would hurt his friends. Now, Donald Trump is a president,
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  Speaker 7: and he's a Republican, okay? So now you go to
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  Speaker 7: the House. I think the guy's name is Comers or
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: something like that. He's bringing in cabinet members and Republicans,
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: and he's telling them, you don't have to take an
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  Speaker 7: oath like every Democrat had to do. And we're going
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  Speaker 7: to do it in secret. and we're going to do
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  Speaker 7: a transcript, right? So the guy gets in there, and
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  Speaker 7: they say, oh, you set up under oath this about,
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  Speaker 7: you know, you went to Epstein Island. He says, I
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  Speaker 7: don't remember that. Well, listen, the guy's not up under oath.
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: He's not in front of a camera, and that's how
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: they're doing their Epstein investigation. If you're a Democrat, you've
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: got to go up under oath with the risk of perjury.
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  Speaker 3: Now, they're Republicans.
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  Speaker 7: Now, let's go to the state of Ohio. Now, like
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  Speaker 7: you said, you've got this fraud thing going on. That
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: was after the one we thought was the biggest one
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  Speaker 7: with the electric company, right? And come to find out
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  Speaker 7: that these Ohio Republicans have been getting money from the
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  Speaker 7: Epstein class, right? All these people are Republicans. All these people, right,
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  Speaker 7: are just plain breaking the law. Not to mention in
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: Virginia how they voted for redistricting. and the Supreme Court said, no,
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: we don't care how you vote. It's just like in
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Stand by. Stand by. Stand by. Just stand by. Stand by.
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  Speaker 1: Stand by. Back with me. From ABC News.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Lindsay Davis, anchor of Prime, streaming weeknights on ABC
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  Speaker 5: News Live. The fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran
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  Speaker 5: faces new challenges. President Trump says the ceasefire is on
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  Speaker 5: life support after he rejected Iran's response to a U.S.
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  Speaker 5: memo to end the war and set up a 30-day
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: negotiation period. The president says his goals remain the same.
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  Speaker 1: But I have a plan. It's a very simple plan.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why you don't say it like it is.
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  Speaker 1: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 5: ABC's Tom Sufi Berge has more on the sticking points.
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  Speaker 6: The future status of Iran's nuclear program, not just the
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  Speaker 6: stocks of enriched uranium which remain in Iran and are
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: thought to be buried deep underground, but also Iran's ability
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: to enrich uranium going forward. And we've had a statement
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  Speaker 6: from a senior Iranian official today via state media saying
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: enrichment is not negotiable. And what they mean by that
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: is that Iran won't give up its right to enrich
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  Speaker 6: uranium for what it says are civilian purposes.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Gas prices remain at four-year highs. The president says he
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: may implement a temporary federal gas tax holiday to ease
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: the pain at the pump. Efforts to monitor the hantavirus
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: outbreak on board a Dutch cruise ship continue in several countries,
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  Speaker 5: including the U.S., after passengers were evacuated. Seventeen Americans and
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: one British national were flown to medical centers in both
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Nebraska and Georgia. ABC's Steve Osensami is outside Emory University
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  Speaker 5: Hospital in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 8: Two of those patients were flown here to Atlanta yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: Because they are trying to relieve any potential pressure on
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  Speaker 8: the facility in Nebraska. The concern is that if another
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: one of those patients had tested positive in Nebraska, they
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  Speaker 8: would have limited facilities to handle this over there. So
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  Speaker 8: they're sending some of those patients here for relief.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has extended a stay in
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: a Mifepristone case, allowing access to the key abortion drug
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  Speaker 5: for now. The drug has been deemed safe by FDA
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: scientists and available to women for decades by mail and
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  Speaker 5: telehealth visits. You're listening to ABC News.