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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Tuesday, 08/18/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: And from News Radio 570 WKBN, Ron Verb, welcome one
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  Speaker 2: and all. It's already Tuesday afternoon. It's August 18th. It's
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  Speaker 2: a gorgeous day out there. It's 83 degrees on this
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday afternoon. From News Radio 570 WKBN, I'll get to you.
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  Speaker 2: Our phone calls momentarily, callers on the line stand by
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  Speaker 2: as they like to say, how about this controversy, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: all over the country and even in our neck of
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  Speaker 2: the woods. Can I tell you one thing that I'm
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  Speaker 2: not staying up at night worried about? Attention, attention, boys
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  Speaker 2: and girls. There's one thing at night I can assure
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  Speaker 2: each and every one of you that I am not
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  Speaker 2: staying up at night tossing and turning, worrying about being
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  Speaker 2: the least bit concerned about. You want to take a guess?
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  Speaker 2: When I hear people expressing any type of concern about
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  Speaker 2: it or comments about it, I just shake my head
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  Speaker 2: and say, you've got to be kidding me. Because in general,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a critic of them. I support them. I
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  Speaker 2: think they actually do a good thing. So I'm not
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  Speaker 2: up at night tossing and turning. all when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to flock cameras this controversy I honestly think we are
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  Speaker 2: at a point where people are just paranoid absolutely paranoid
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  Speaker 2: I mean okay so here's the benefit of these flock
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  Speaker 2: cameras and let's make it clear they basically help law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement find criminals.
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  Speaker 3: Period.
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  Speaker 4: End of story.
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  Speaker 2: And they have been successful at doing so. For you
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  Speaker 2: to think for one minute that the cops give a
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  Speaker 2: damn about every individual and what you're up to is
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous or that they have the time. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: really think we are getting to the point where people
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  Speaker 2: are just some people, I should say, are just so
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  Speaker 2: damn paranoid. Hey, listen, everybody's got cameras who doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: a ring doorbell these days. I mean, I don't care
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  Speaker 2: where you go. You see cameras everywhere, and justifiably so.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people have the dash cam in their
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  Speaker 2: own car. It used to be only the cops had
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  Speaker 2: the dash cam. So, you know, if a state patrolman
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  Speaker 2: pulls you over, guess what? He's got a camera hanging
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  Speaker 2: right there recording the whole thing. Which really, in the
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  Speaker 2: long run, benefits, I think, the cops more than it
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  Speaker 2: does the criminal to a certain extent. Because there it is.
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  Speaker 2: This is the happening. So we got the video from
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  Speaker 2: the cop. We got everybody with ring doorbells. If you
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  Speaker 2: go into any store, they got security because there's so
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  Speaker 2: damn many shoplifters anymore. But this idea that people are just,
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  Speaker 2: and the word is paranoid, that they're making a big
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  Speaker 2: deal or paranoid over flock cameras.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think the system's that interested in you. And what
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  Speaker 2: you're up to. Can anything get abused? Well, absolutely. Things
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  Speaker 2: can get abused. And there's ramifications for it. If you
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  Speaker 2: abuse the leads computer, if you would abuse the flat cameras,
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  Speaker 2: if you abuse your role as far as medical privacy
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  Speaker 2: that people are entitled to or their banking privacy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's certain rules that come with certain jobs. And if
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  Speaker 2: you break them, you get fired. There's ramifications to it.
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  Speaker 2: Like to think everybody's noble and an honest person. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they're not. But for the most part, they are. But
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  Speaker 2: to make a big stink over flock cameras is beyond me.
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  Speaker 2: If that helps law enforcement catch criminals that are fleeing
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  Speaker 2: so we know where they are, That, to me, is
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. People that are just making a big
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  Speaker 2: deal out of flat cameras are just paranoid nuts to me,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion. 309 in the afternoon. Speaking of nuts,
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  Speaker 2: you're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Amen, brother. You don't do anything wrong, then why not?
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  Speaker 2: It isn't even that.
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  Speaker 4: It's just the purpose of them.
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  Speaker 2: People today think that the government's got all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: time that they're going to watch everybody and what they're
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  Speaker 2: up to.
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  Speaker 4: This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: So when I read some of these idiotic comments, because
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be putting flock cameras in Austintown Township,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good thing. They have them in Niles.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's a bad thing at all. It
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  Speaker 2: aids law enforcement. Catch criminals. That is a good thing.
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  Speaker 5: You missed one good, very good, good point.
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  Speaker 6: I did?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, you did.
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  Speaker 4: I dropped the ball?
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  Speaker 5: No, you didn't drop the ball. You missed the one
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  Speaker 5: game point. That adds it all up as far as
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  Speaker 5: I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 4: What is that?
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  Speaker 5: Driving down the road. I'm driving down the road. I
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  Speaker 5: turn out, and I turn out in front of you,
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  Speaker 5: and you hit me. You screamed that I ran a
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  Speaker 5: red light. I screamed I didn't. The flock camera tells
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  Speaker 5: you everything. Everything.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that. I mean, the flock camera
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  Speaker 2: is there for law enforcement and to aid them in
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  Speaker 2: getting criminals off the street or people that are fleeing
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  Speaker 2: from the police and where they are. And they could
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  Speaker 2: be fleeing after they just murdered somebody, robbed a bank.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen them used numerous times. And to say, we've
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  Speaker 2: got to shut all these down is, I think, detrimental
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  Speaker 2: to law enforcement.
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  Speaker 4: I want these people caught. I genuinely do.
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  Speaker 5: What about the ones where they go ahead and they
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  Speaker 5: got them up, clicked? catching people that are speeding.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a money draw. But here's a couple,
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  Speaker 2: that's an interesting thing. It's a double-sided issue. Because to
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  Speaker 2: a certain extent, when people would call a legal show
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  Speaker 2: and we'd talk about it, as I would say, as
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  Speaker 2: long as you don't lease your car, if you don't
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  Speaker 2: lease your car and you get a camera ticket in Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: in our community, and you don't pay it, nothing's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen to you. You follow me? Nothing's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen to you at all. They're going to send you
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  Speaker 2: a thing saying, we're going to charge you more. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to turn you over to a collection agency. All
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  Speaker 2: of that's irrelevant. It means nothing, period. Absolutely nothing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you get a ticket from a cop, that's a
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  Speaker 2: different story. But as far as these camera tickets are concerned,
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  Speaker 2: many people say, and justly so, I think they're a
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  Speaker 2: money grab for the local community. However, let me put
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  Speaker 2: this out there. Guess what? You have people who would
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  Speaker 2: call a legal show, they would have 10 of these
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  Speaker 2: tickets from these cameras. Well, at what point do you
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  Speaker 2: realize you're speeding and you should probably slow down?
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  Speaker 4: There's that side of it, too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's the side of it to say this
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  Speaker 2: is a school zone and you're going 45 miles an hour.
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  Speaker 4: We can't have a cop everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a side that says they're very effective to
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  Speaker 2: get people to slow down when they learn where they
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  Speaker 2: are as opposed to speed. So they are effective on that.
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  Speaker 2: So they do work. But on the other hand, we
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  Speaker 2: know the original intent is to put them out there
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  Speaker 2: to raise revenue. And I don't think we should use
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  Speaker 2: the powers of law enforcement as a cash cow to
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  Speaker 2: supplement a community. So it's a two-sided sword. Flock cameras
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  Speaker 2: are not about that. Flock cameras are about you robbed
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  Speaker 2: a bank and you're speeding away, and it can help
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  Speaker 2: identify your car and where you are so you can
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  Speaker 2: be captured.
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  Speaker 7: You're right.
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  Speaker 5: You're absolutely right. I mean, they have it in Canada.
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  Speaker 5: They got them in Europe, all over Europe. And they
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  Speaker 5: have them in Russia. But that's not why I called.
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  Speaker 5: But I agree with you. I don't worry about it
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  Speaker 5: because I'm not going to rob a bank. I ain't
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  Speaker 5: going to rob you.
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  Speaker 4: It's not even that. I just think people think that..
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  Speaker 2: The government has all this time to watch everybody, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's absolute nonsense. That is not the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of these cameras and the paranoia that some people have.
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  Speaker 2: How many times have we seen ring cameras, as I
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  Speaker 2: say everybody has, that have aided in identifying somebody stealing
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  Speaker 2: in a neighborhood or breaking into cars? Because there's so
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  Speaker 2: many ring cameras out there that we can get a
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  Speaker 2: good idea of what the person looks like or what
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  Speaker 2: they were driving. They're very beneficial to a neighborhood and
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  Speaker 2: to the police as well.
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  Speaker 5: I understand that. That's not why I called.
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  Speaker 2: You seem like you would be a criminal trying to
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  Speaker 2: get away to me. The more I talk to you,
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  Speaker 2: I sense that deep criminal element. Have you recently robbed
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  Speaker 2: a bank?
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  Speaker 5: No. Oh, wait a minute. No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead. Why did you call?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I called today because I'd like to know who's
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  Speaker 5: running the Pentagon. We've got a bunch of people in
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  Speaker 5: there that are all ass-kissers, sorry to say. Yes. You've
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  Speaker 5: got a knucklehead who probably watched in his youth the
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  Speaker 5: power of Grayskull. And these people that are being hurt, well,
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  Speaker 5: they bombed Iran, they bombed Iran, or however you say that.
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  Speaker 5: And that was a supply depot, a major supply depot.
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  Speaker 5: So now we can't get the stuff out there for
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  Speaker 5: our people. And we don't even know how many people
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  Speaker 5: were hurt in that bombing because the president don't want
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  Speaker 5: you to know. The other thing, too, is Medicare Part D.
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  Speaker 5: He eliminated. Why did he eliminate? Why did the president
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  Speaker 5: eliminate Part D? There was no reason for that.
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  Speaker 2: I can answer your question on Part D.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I can answer that 100%.
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  Speaker 2: 100%. Medicare Part D, just so people know, that's the
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  Speaker 2: prescription drug elements of Medicare, okay? What's it's not eliminated
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  Speaker 2: at all. They had an additional supplements, just like with Obamacare.
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  Speaker 2: They had a temporary additional supplements that was there for
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  Speaker 2: a temporary period of time, just like they did for Obamacare.
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  Speaker 2: It was for five years during a COVID time. Then
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  Speaker 2: it was to end. It was never to be permanent.
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  Speaker 2: It was just temporary. Part D isn't going anywhere. They're
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  Speaker 2: just ending the additional supplements that was there on a
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  Speaker 2: temporary basis.
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  Speaker 4: Part D will still exist.
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  Speaker 5: What additional supplements are there that they're getting rid of?
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  Speaker 2: The supplement that might have offset some of the cost
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  Speaker 2: that was being picked up, like on Obamacare, but this
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  Speaker 2: is being done for Part D. Same thing, temporary timeframe.
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  Speaker 2: on on part d so part d will still be
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  Speaker 2: there it just isn't going to have that temporary supplements
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  Speaker 2: as a money that was put forth uh to cover
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  Speaker 2: your costs so he's not eliminating that it's just going
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  Speaker 2: back to how uh it used to be with the
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  Speaker 2: exception there won't be the three thousand dollar donut hole
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  Speaker 2: so i'm There's not much you can bellyache about when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to Medicare. In general, like I say, when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to Medicare, in my opinion, I can only
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  Speaker 2: give you my opinion. Everybody has to make their own decision.
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  Speaker 2: I think when you turn 65, you should be on
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  Speaker 2: standard Medicare. Let me tell people about Medicare. Tell me
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  Speaker 2: if you agree or disagree. Are you okay? I just
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure I don't need to Heimlich you
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  Speaker 2: or anything, do I? Standard Medicare... as opposed to Medicare Advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Standard Medicare, there are no HMOs, there's no PPOs. If
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  Speaker 2: you're on standard Medicare at 65, regular Medicare, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to get pre-approval or any of that stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: if you're here or in Florida or in Arizona, You're
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  Speaker 2: not outside your network or your territory on standard Medicare.
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  Speaker 4: You don't get this on Medicare Advantage.
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  Speaker 2: So standard Medicare, you can go anywhere in the country
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  Speaker 2: that accepts Medicare, which is just about everywhere. And there
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  Speaker 2: are no prerequisites that you got to get some approval
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  Speaker 2: and all this kind of stuff. It's a great standard.
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  Speaker 2: Medicare is, in my opinion, the best way to go.
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  Speaker 2: And you should then get a supplement. Plan G, which
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  Speaker 2: costs you, which who knows what that individual could cost
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  Speaker 2: you anywhere from $ 140 to a couple hundred bucks a month.
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  Speaker 2: That covers all the deductible. So the most maximum out-of-pocket
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  Speaker 2: you'll have a year would be about $ 275 plus your
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  Speaker 2: monthly cost for the Plan G and for your Medicare.
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  Speaker 2: From my standpoint, I would never have a Medicare Advantage plan.
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  Speaker 4: That's just me. I would never have it.
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  Speaker 5: I understand that. I can appreciate that. But what I
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  Speaker 5: don't appreciate, in fact, is that every year my costs
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  Speaker 5: go up with Medicare.
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  Speaker 2: But you've got to admit, old-timer, it's still pretty inexpensive.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like $ 202 that comes out of your
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  Speaker 2: Social Security check for Part B. like $ 202, that's not
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  Speaker 2: very much money a month. And then if you go to,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a supplement, like plan, there's plan N
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  Speaker 2: and plan G, let's say you have a supplement of
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  Speaker 2: plan G, that would come out of your checking account.
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  Speaker 4: But let's say that costs you $ 200 or $ 150, $ 200,
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  Speaker 4: $ 250 a month.
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  Speaker 2: So let's say a month you might be paying for
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  Speaker 2: yourself $ 450. Let's just say a month. But you wouldn't have,
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  Speaker 2: once you pay the yearly deductible for Medicare, which is $ 275,
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't have any other additional charges the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the year.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so if you go just on a Medicare plan alone,
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  Speaker 5: without any additional supplement, how many days can you spend
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  Speaker 5: in a hospital before they say Medicare is not going
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  Speaker 5: to pay for it anymore?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you should always have a supplement because otherwise it's 80-20.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, you're on the hook for the other 20%.
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  Speaker 2: So what I'm saying to you is if you're on
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  Speaker 2: standard Medicare, which is you're paying like $ 202 a month.
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  Speaker 2: For part B, you have A and B, hospital and
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  Speaker 2: your doctor. That covers 80% of the cost. You want
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  Speaker 2: to have a supplement that covers the other 20%. Do
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  Speaker 2: not go without the supplements. You can get a Plan N,
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  Speaker 2: which has minimal deductibles, or a Plan G, which has
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  Speaker 2: no deductibles. But you must have a supplement. Get a supplement.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if you're confused on it
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  Speaker 2: and you have questions, I talked to these guys from
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  Speaker 2: Yost Insurance.
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  Speaker 4: All they do is Medicare.
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  Speaker 2: They don't do anything else but Medicare planning. Call them
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  Speaker 2: and they can assist you on it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, okay then, but still going back to what I
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  Speaker 5: was upset about is who is actually running the Pentagon?
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  Speaker 5: Are they all just in there doing whatever the president wants?
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  Speaker 4: Well, see, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you when I watch the cabinet meetings
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  Speaker 2: and I'm glad he has cabinet meetings and I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: that they're something that I can watch. Remember, Biden didn't
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  Speaker 2: have one for a year. I'm glad he has cabinet meetings.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad I can watch him. But are all cabinet
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  Speaker 2: meetings like this where it's just a bunch of ass kissers?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President, you're the greatest in the world and all this
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. It annoys me some of the ass
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  Speaker 2: kissing I see in these cabinet meetings. And if that's
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  Speaker 2: what you're talking about, I agree with that criticism.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I haven't seen too many of them here lately
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  Speaker 5: ever since he got criticized for all the ass-kissing. That
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  Speaker 5: kind of backed them off. They're not on TV very much,
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  Speaker 5: neither on Fox or CNN.
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  Speaker 2: They might not put him on now because of the war. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I'm the first one to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a mess. He has an absolute mess going on.
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  Speaker 2: He did it to himself, though, don't you think? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I do. This idea, like when I was listening to
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  Speaker 2: Clay and Buck today, and these guys want to act like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: people have pretty well gotten used to the 450-a-gallon gas
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  Speaker 2: or 440-a-gallon gas. When I hear, you want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about ass kissers, when I hear Clay and Buck act
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  Speaker 2: like it's no big deal, these gas prices, stand by
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  Speaker 2: for me. I want to come back to you when
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  Speaker 2: I get to more calls. In a minute, I'm all
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  Speaker 2: choked up.
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  Speaker 9: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Well, I've told you many times
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  Speaker 2: not all. We're back to it. NewsRadio 570 WKBN. You
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  Speaker 2: all right?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I've got to give you the Heimlich.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you do. Maybe you do.
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  Speaker 5: But you better call somebody because it's going to take
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  Speaker 5: me a while to get there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then it's over for me.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a good long life.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, it's a mess that he created.
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  Speaker 2: And good luck, man.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I can say.
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  Speaker 2: Clay and Buck, though, when they're on there with this
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  Speaker 2: nonsense and they're talking about gas prices, it's like you
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  Speaker 2: guys aren't even in the real world. I'm the first guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bellyache about them. It's ridiculous what it costs to
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  Speaker 2: fill up your truck or your car. Trump got us
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  Speaker 2: into this mess, and I don't see any easy way
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  Speaker 2: out of this mess. And you hear Clay and Buck talking, well,
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  Speaker 2: if this goes on for another six months to a year,
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  Speaker 2: they want it to sound like the American public is
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  Speaker 2: for it. I don't think the American public is for it,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think the American public is sitting back thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is no big deal, paying $ 4. 30 a gallon for gas.
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  Speaker 2: We've factored it into our budget. I was listening to them,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, what a crock of crap they were spewing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you've got to figure the amount of money they make.
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  Speaker 5: They're high rollers more than you and me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but even if you're a high roller, you don't
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  Speaker 2: like to spend it on paying more for something than
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: you should be.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: When they first came on, I was listening to them.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: They're whistleblowers. They're not whistleblowers.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: They're cheerleaders trying to– they are doing the same thing
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: once again that they did when Biden was president. The
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Democrats kept talking. We don't understand why people aren't happy
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: with Joe and love the economy. Remember when he was there?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: They were bewildered that people weren't just embracing everything. They
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: were totally out of touch with the inflation and prices.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: And they just didn't understand why that was the case.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: And now you see the Republicans doing the same damn thing,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: being so out of touch politically. They want to, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: some of these commentators, they want to act like, oh,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: this is no big deal. Inflation isn't that big a deal.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: It's only 3.4% on top of all the other inflation.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: Oh, gas.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: People have gotten used to gas at 4, 4.20, 4.30
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: a gallon. You know, at one point it was this price. Well,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I don't care. you know, guess what? It's way too expensive.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: It was about $ 2. 50 a gallon before he started this war.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Period. That's all that matters to me.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Well, that ain't all that matters to me. A lot
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: of things matter to me are the price of food
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: and everything else that's going up. And these people here
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: and medical costs aren't even trying to come down. They
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: don't care. But yet at the end of the year,
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: like I've mentioned many a time, and I feel like
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: I'm saying an old record, they make millions, hundreds of
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: millions of profit. And how is that helping me? It
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: ain't helping me at all. It's just making them look rich.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: That's a big problem. We've always had a fight with
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: big business because they dictate the prices because they think
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: they can. Yeah.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you fix the problem as far
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: as medical costs. You know, my wife tries explaining that
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to me on a regular basis on why some of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: this stuff costs so much. And as she says, listen,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: when you go to the hospital, it's there 24 hours
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: a day, seven days a week. the doctors, the nurses,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and all the people that you don't see, the lab
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that's behind the scenes, the pharmacy that's behind the scenes,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the maintenance people that are there 24 hours a day.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: There's a huge expense in running a hospital, and that's
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: why it costs so much when you go there. They've
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: got to be open whether they're busy or not, right?
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know. They went ahead and shut down how
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: many hospitals and doctor's offices and stuff like that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: That's one of the biggest, I'll say it again, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: think one of the biggest problems of this community was
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the closure of Northside Hospital. I think that that was
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: one of the worst things that could have happened here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: It's not going to quit until, it's just not going
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: to quit. I would propose a gouging tax, a gouging tax.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: In other words, you're making all this money and you're
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: not doing us any of that much good. Maybe you
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: should pay a little more on the taxes.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I tell you what, everyone's paying enough on that. Easy
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: with the taxes. Maybe we take a look at spending
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: instead of saying we should take more of somebody's money.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Enough of that already, my friend.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I understand that. I understand where you're coming from. But
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: what bothers me is we need that money. And that's
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: exactly what our government's saying. We need that money.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what, as soon as the government
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: stops wasting so much of it on a federal level
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: or in a state level, as soon as they stop
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: wasting so much of it, for the most part on
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: a local level, it's probably pretty efficiently run for the.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Most part on a local level.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think you've run into a lot of the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: waste as far as your local township or your local
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: small governments. Now, you might be more critical of the
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: county and the states and the federal governments. All right, Tiger,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: thank you for your call. Appreciate it. Have a good day.
• 22:26
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• 22:31
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• 22:32
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• 22:36
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• 22:43
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• 22:45
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• 24:29
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• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Ah, some people love them, and many people hate them.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: It's Fort Lauderdale, Frank.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Ron, there's also reports that sailors are jumping overboard.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I was reading that, some. Not a ton, just what
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: they say is a few.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Well, the Trump administration and admirals are saying that they
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: just fell overboard accidentally. Now, deployment on ships have been
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: over 260 days now, and Trump says that's not nearly
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: long enough.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand that comment when he made it. I mean,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that's a long time to be out to sea without
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: going to ports.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: It sure is. The longest ship deployment was the USS
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Essex in World War II of 79 days. Now, Ron,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: we spend $ 1. 5 trillion on the military, but the Republicans
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: can't feed our soldiers and sailors. Sailors are telling family
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: members they never get fresh food. except meat because it's frozen,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: but even sometimes meat gets to their ships rotten. And
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Admiral Keene says basically the troops and the media are lying,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: that the troops actually feel good about being deployed halfway
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: across the world. And Republican Congressman Pat Fallon of Texas
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: said he's not concerned that sailors are becoming demoralized and desperate.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: And I saw a picture where sailors are etching and
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: dust aboard their ships. Be a good goy and do
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: what Israel tells you to do.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Listen, enough of that already.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Let's just deal with the reality of the Abraham Lincoln
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: and the conditions that are on the ship. Trump's comments
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: were asinine to me. Secondly, there's a lot of apparently
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: from what you read or what you hear, mechanical issues
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: on the ship that need to be addressed and fixed.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And there are some food issues. And all of that
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: needs to be resolved. Thus, they're taking it out of
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: service or taking it out and bringing it to George Washington.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: That probably should have been done way before it got
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: to this point.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Period.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: End of story.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Well, toilets are clogged and filled with human feces.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Right, but you hear what I'm saying? It should have
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: been done much sooner. I don't know why it wasn't,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: why it got to this level, and what the thinking is.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, it doesn't make any sense.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Well, Ron, women sailors have run out of feminine hygiene
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: products and begging family members to send them some.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how you're going to get it
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: in the mail out 6,000 miles away. It would take
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: forever for it to get there. I mean, it's just,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: there's nothing more I can say about it other than
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: that ship was out too long. And I don't understand
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: why people can't admit when they made an error in
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: judgment or mistake and said, and fix it. I mean,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: the ship was out too long. There's too many issues
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: on the ship, apparently. And there's issues as far as
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: supplies are concerned. So why can't you just say, as
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: they're doing, it should have never gone this long without
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: it being replaced by by the George Washington and bring
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: the Abraham Lincoln back. I mean, I don't know what
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to say other than that. That's from what I read.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: What more can I say?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Well, you have a caller that keeps saying, oh, in Vietnam,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: 58,000 soldiers were killed.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Well, there were boots on the ground.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: The comparison to Vietnam is fair enough to say when
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: people compare it to Vietnam, they're talking about getting involved
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: in these conflicts that don't have public support and can
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: escalate and drag us into something. This could be compared
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: to that, but we don't have the casualties. Some people say, well,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: we don't have 58,000 dead. Well, we don't have boots
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: on the ground, thank God, in that situation. If we do,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: you'll have casualties, and they could be significant. Well, maybe we.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Might, though, because right now the Trump administration is sending
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: over 150 medics who have arrived at the Landstuhl Medical
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Center in Germany in recent days. The hospital is the
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: primary location for treating troops injured in the Middle East.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Well, we shall see.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: I think it will be..
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Listen, as I said, I think Trump has got himself
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: into a major issue and mistake here, and it has
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: not gone how he thought it would go. I don't
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: know that there's what they call an exit ramp to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: get off out of this situation and if you think
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the answer is to put you have to look at
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: how far that is from the United States how it's
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: surrounded by mountains and this idea that that would be
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: an easy thing to take on I think is equally
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: as foolish I can't imagine that that he would even
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: remotely be considering that because I just I I don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: see the American public in support of any of this.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Well, also I wanted to mention that 6% Treasury yields
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: are the biggest risk facing stocks right now, and the
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: global bond market continues to sell off. And also, NASDAQ
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: is leading U.S. stocks lower in the final hour of
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: trading because the chip sector is selling off. And stocks
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: are at risk of a third day of losses.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Well, like it says here, S & P 500 falls
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: hurt by elevated global bond yields and oil prices. And
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's significant downturns. Everyone's 401k today or IRA,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: whether you're close to retirement or retired, has lost significant money.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: And we don't know. Sometimes people got to remember something.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Stocks can go down and stay down. You can have
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: a down market. Sometimes it can go down and it
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: can take years to recover. We're under this mentality that
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: it'd go down and be back up next week. And
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: in many cases, that's been the case. But sometimes you
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: can get into situations where it goes down and it
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: stays down. And that's not good if you're close to
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: retirement or you're in retirement or you have to take
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: a required minimum distribution for those particular situations. But explain
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: to our people. So they say, The market's down because
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: of oil prices. Obviously, we know what that means, the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: cost of a barrel of oil. But when you say
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: elevated global bond yields, what does that mean?
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Well, that means that people are selling off bonds all
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: over the world. It doesn't say why, but people are
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: obviously selling bonds which are considered safe investments, probably in
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: order to make ends meet, because all over the world,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: oil prices are high, not just in the United States,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: but they can't afford to fill up their car with gas.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: So if they're lucky enough to own bonds, they're probably
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: selling them, just like people in our country are withdrawing
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: from their 401ks and IRAs before age 59 and a
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: half to make ends meet. I mean, it's not just
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: the United States. This war is a global disaster. And, Ron,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you what, 6% Treasury yields, it's not just
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: them going up, but here's the latest prediction. Mortgage rates
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: are expected to go higher. And that's bad for people
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: with adjustable rate mortgages.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: That's just bad for the economy in general. It's just
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: bad for it. He's got us in a mess here. Yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, we very easily can have a serious economic downturn.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: As a result of this.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Ron, we're in a scenario where it
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: looks like interest rates will continue going higher. People are
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: going to have to pay higher. more when they borrow
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: money in the stock market may be crashing at the
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: same time.
• 33:34
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: There's nothing good economically going on today. That's for certain.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: And he owns it.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, we can't sit around. He made that decision.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: He owns all of this. And he better figure out
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: where he's going.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: And cheerleaders like Clay and Buck who want to act
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: like these high people have adjusted to these high gasoline prices.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: They are so lost. It's unbelievable to me.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Ron, we're going into six months into this war now.
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: With Bowen in sight.
• 34:04
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I told you yesterday, we're now spending..
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: $ 2.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Billion a day on this war.
• 34:11
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: You know how much we're adding to the national debt?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's growing.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: We're now at $ 40 trillion.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: We're at $ 40 trillion, and that doesn't count off-budget debt.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: And you know how much?
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: You know, Trump, now.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: The latest I've read, he's now grifted $ 6. 5 billion from
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: the taxpayer. He's just like the Biden administration. 262 Democrats
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: weren't even running the country while Biden was president. They
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: spent the entire four years stealing money and grifting from
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: the American taxpayer.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Well, what people don't understand, I mean, in all seriousness,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: cut to the chase.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Alec brought up a great thing on how basically how
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: we bailed out Japan because if we didn't, we felt
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: they thought interest rates would soar and that wouldn't be
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: a good thing for the United States. So in essence,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: we bailed out Japan because we didn't want Japan cashing
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: in their T-bills.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't want Japan..
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: One of the reasons why they bought so many treasuries,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: because they were yielding higher after adjusting for the difference
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: between the yen and the U.S.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Dollar.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: It is a mess. I'll leave you with that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: But let me say one last thing. One of the
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: reasons why Japan wants to sell so many treasuries, Alec
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: was a little incorrect. They don't import all of their oil.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: They import 90% of their oil, and with high oil prices,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: they're going to need to sell U.S. Treasuries in order
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: to buy oil.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Frank. Appreciate it.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: You're on the air.
• 36:19
  Speaker 14: Yeah, hi.
• 36:21
  Speaker 18: I'm on the road, so I hope you can hear me.
• 36:25
  Speaker 18: It's always interesting, and I learn some things when Frank calls,
• 36:30
  Speaker 18: but yesterday, I I just want to point out something
• 36:35
  Speaker 18: that really kind of irked me. At one point he
• 36:39
  Speaker 18: said that the Democratic Socialists, that the Republicans were responsible
• 36:46
  Speaker 18: for the Democratic Socialists coming into play. And I don't
• 36:52
  Speaker 18: know where in the world he gets that, but he
• 36:56
  Speaker 18: takes every opportunity to blame Republicans for for things that
• 37:03
  Speaker 18: are not what we're doing.
• 37:08
  Speaker 19: And Democratic Socialists, as.
• 37:11
  Speaker 18: Much as we own the war, they own the Socialists.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I think the point that he was trying to make
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: is you have a lot of people that are unfortunately
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: going in that direction because they feel capitalism has failed them.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: I'm talking younger people where we can point fingers and
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: call them names. But I agree with the people that
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: say you better figure out why so many people are
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: going down this road. They're going down that road because
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: they're looking around saying, well, I got a good job,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: but I can't afford to buy a house. My rent's
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: out of sight. Everything's so damn expensive. I did everything right.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: And and they don't see the opportunities that we had
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: when I was a younger person. And that is you
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: better start understanding the perspective from a young person standpoint
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: as why they're looking at a country with trillions of
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: dollars in debt. They're looking at Social Security in major problems,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Medicare in major problems. You got every price going through
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: the roof, inflated housing, inflated rents, groceries, automobiles. So you say, well,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: I'm making a decent buck, but I'm not able to
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: enjoy the American dream. Maybe that's what we better start
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: paying better attention to as opposed to pointing fingers at
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: them and name-calling them. And I think that was Frank's
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: argument was, by making the economy worse like it is
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: right now, that has a tendency to drive people to say,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of this. I'm going to look at this
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: site over here where this guy's saying, hey, your medical
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: costs are out of control. Hey, your energy costs are
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: out of control, whether it's electric or gasoline. Look how
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: high food is. And you're lucky you can afford your
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: rent or, God forbid, if you could buy a home.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people can relate to that. And
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: we better figure out how to fix that. as opposed
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: to saying there's something wrong with them.
• 39:10
  Speaker 18: Well, here's the thing. The Democrats and the teachers and
• 39:17
  Speaker 18: the educational system and the college system have indoctrinated so
• 39:21
  Speaker 18: many of these young people that they don't know history.
• 39:25
  Speaker 18: They don't know what the outcome is. They lack... as
• 39:30
  Speaker 18: much as you say, oh, they want this and they
• 39:32
  Speaker 18: want that, but they lack the same kind of work ethic.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with that. Some of them do, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: some of them don't. Hey, guess what? When I was
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: growing up, there were plenty of people who lacked a
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: work ethic, too. I don't know about you, but there
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: were successes and failures in my generation. I mean, this
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: idea that, you know, I have children that you're talking about.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: None of them lack a work ethic. They all work
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: their asses off. That's a parenting thing. Well, no, but
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: when I look around at all their friends, they're all
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: working their asses off, too. I mean, this idea.
• 40:08
  Speaker 19: That we're... May I ask how old they are?
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, they're in their latter 20s or early 30s.
• 40:17
  Speaker 18: Well, you know, I don't.
• 40:19
  Speaker 19: Know how many..
• 40:20
  Speaker 18: I don't even think people our generation... And, you know,
• 40:24
  Speaker 18: I think I got my first house maybe I was 30.
• 40:28
  Speaker 18: I mean, and it was small, and it was a fixer-upper. And,
• 40:34
  Speaker 18: you know, so really... The latter, you know, the latter 20,
• 40:41
  Speaker 18: early 30s is an appropriate time to start working and
• 40:46
  Speaker 18: working extra jobs and not spending the money on other things.
• 40:52
  Speaker 18: I mean, let's, you know, and thank goodness we didn't
• 40:56
  Speaker 18: have cable, $ 200 cable bills. And we, you know, we
• 41:01
  Speaker 18: didn't have expensive cell phone bills. We didn't have– there
• 41:06
  Speaker 18: are certain bills that they have now.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Were there poor people? Were there poor people at that time?
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, based on what you're saying, was anybody poor?
• 41:15
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: I was poor.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know.
• 41:18
  Speaker 18: I can say that I was poor.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know. I'm listening to you, and it's like, well,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: stand by. Just stand by. I'll come back to her
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: in a minute. NewsRadio 570. Nobody can hear me again.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Ron Verp, 352 in the afternoon.
• 41:29
  Speaker 13: Stay tuned.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I tell you, I hope Alec calls and talks today.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: A lot of what you're saying, listen, as I've said
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: numerous times, every generation has its pluses and minuses. I mean,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the greatest generation had World War II, and you were
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: lucky if you lived and you were able to come home.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: My older brother's generation and the baby boomers generation of
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: which I'm a part of had Vietnam and the draft
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: and those issues. Young people today, it's a volunteer army.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: They don't have to worry about that as much as
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: they did at that particular time, but that could change.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: But the reality is that it is becoming more difficult
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: for people to achieve the American dream than it was
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: for my generation. And I can look at my own
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: family and, and their associates. And I can see that
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: that is the case because of how expensive everything is.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: And I mean, everything has gotten so damn expensive to,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: to maintain a home and to fix things and prices
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: are out of control.
• 42:48
  Speaker 18: Here's, here's, here's the other, here's how I feel about that.
• 42:52
  Speaker 18: And I understand that they don't, the American dream, and
• 42:57
  Speaker 18: it's harder for them.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: But guess what?
• 43:01
  Speaker 18: It's a lot harder for folks like me who are
• 43:04
  Speaker 18: on a fixed income, and everything keeps going up. But
• 43:11
  Speaker 18: at 71, your potential earning days, yes, you can get
• 43:17
  Speaker 18: a part-time job or whatever, but you're not going to
• 43:21
  Speaker 18: make that kind of money. And everything gets more expensive,
• 43:25
  Speaker 18: as you said, with taxes, gasoline, all those expenses. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 18: so to blame on the people who now are on
• 43:36
  Speaker 18: fixed income or watching their savings as they're getting older
• 43:42
  Speaker 18: get chipped away, chipped away, chipped away, we have the
• 43:46
  Speaker 18: same struggles.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: We have the same struggles. I don't deny that, but...
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: I don't deny that at all. But what are you
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: doing about it is what.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: I would say.
• 43:56
  Speaker 18: But I don't want to be a socialist. And I
• 43:59
  Speaker 18: don't think.
• 44:00
  Speaker 19: Being a socialist is a good idea.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: I think it's a terrible idea.
• 44:04
  Speaker 18: And we really need to stress that. And I don't
• 44:07
  Speaker 18: really think that if you ask any Republican, they will
• 44:11
  Speaker 18: say absolutely not. So I think that..
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I would ask you this question.
• 44:21
  Speaker 18: They almost had a socialist. They let a socialist run
• 44:26
  Speaker 18: as their presidential candidate.
• 44:28
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  Speaker 2: All righty, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Just some thoughts about that
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: last caller and what she was saying. And maybe, Alec,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I'll talk a little bit about it from a young
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: person's perspective. Listen, folks, I've said it to you numerous times,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: and I would say it to all of you again.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: I don't wish anything but the very best for all
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: of you from a standpoint of good health and happiness
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: and some of the joys of life. But it is
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: becoming more and more difficult for everybody involved. I understand
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: her dilemma just as I understand young people's dilemma.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: And it's very frustrating from my perspective. You sit here
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: and you can really just get frustrated by it all.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: And when I look around, all of us deserve better
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: than what we're getting. And it's kind of a longer dissertation.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: As I've said to you before, listen, there's always going
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: to be success and failure. There's always going to be people.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: Who do better than you.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not a believer in socialism at all. And I
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: don't think that's the answer. I'll be the first guy
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: to say to you, a lot of people, whether it
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: was my generation or other generations or future generations, Many
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: people need a good kick in the ass to get motivated.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: So I don't deny what she says. I mean, many
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: people do need a kick in the ass. Some people
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: are just lazy. It's easier to drop out of high
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: school than it is to finish it. It's easier to
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: never attend college than to attend it. It's easier to
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: never learn a skill or a trade than to go
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: learn one. There are just some people who seem to
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: always want to take the easy way out of life.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I've watched it happen all of my life. They would
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: always say, oh, this is too hard, or they would
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: take the easy way. They didn't put any effort forth.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: And then for some reason, they would want to blame
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: everyone else for their lot in life. And it had
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: nothing to do with their sexuality or their color or
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: any other nonsense. It really had to do, as Michael
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Jackson would say, with the man in the mirror. They
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: could look there and they are to blame. for their
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: lot in life, but they never wanted to accept it.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: It was easier to blame everybody else or the government
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: or everything, but themselves. And that was the case for
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: as long as I can remember. I've told you, how
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: many times have I talked to you when I was
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: going to college? I'd look around at my high school
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: class and there were kids that became doctors.
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: They gave up their 20s. I watched it happen.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, when they went to college and then to
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: medical school and.
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: Then to residency, they gave up 10 years of their life.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: And it was hard. It wasn't easy. It was hard.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: So when they got out and they started making decent
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: money or a bunch of money, they earned it. They
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: made a huge sacrifice to get there. I never said,
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: by God, we should tax the living hell out of
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: them and give more money to the people who didn't
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: put that effort forth. I never thought that. I always
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: looked at how the sacrifice that they made to learn that.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: And then as I've gone through life, as I think
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: many of you, I think there's a lot of stuff
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: that is difficult in life. You think it's easy to
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: be a good car mechanic? With all the certifications and
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: the know-how you need to know. And fixing anything is
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: never an easy thing to do. I don't care what
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: it is. If you're fixing tractors, you're fixing cars. You're
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: fixing anything, machinery.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: It's difficult. And it requires a great deal of skill, patience,
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: and education.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: It isn't easy. It just isn't. So it doesn't matter
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: to me. I've seen it all my life. What's What
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: people did, whether they got a college education or went
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: beyond that, or they learned a skill or a trade,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: or they opened a business, I would see people succeed
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: and fail. And unless they inherited a bunch of money,
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: it was never easy. And I never thought, well, we
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: should tax the living hell out of them because they succeeded.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: I thought that was the point of how the country
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be. I thought that was the reward
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: for doing everything that you were doing. I didn't think
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: it was, now we're going to tax the living hell
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: out of you for doing that. The wrong incentive, we're
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: going to punish you through taxes and give it to
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: this person over here who didn't put any of that
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: effort forth.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: That just never made sense to me.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: And it seems to be the mentality of some people
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: that seem jealous of that or whatever.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: Whatever.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: All my life there would be people who did better
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: than me and there would be people who didn't do
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: as good as me. That's just the reality of the economics.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: But I sit here and I'm deeply concerned about people
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: of all ages. I understand what she's saying. I understand
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: the dilemmas of young people today that are finding it
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: more difficult to achieve the American dream because how expensive
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: everything has gone. If I backed up the clock to
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: before COVID, we weren't much thinking about inflation because it
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: wasn't noticeable.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: It was about 1% or 1.5%. You didn't even notice it.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: So it wasn't paying much attention.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: A lot of people that retired probably couldn't even anticipate
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: the type of inflation that we've experienced over the last
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: several years.
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: To where we are today.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: You couldn't even imagine it if they retired. That we
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: would be saying the cost of your electricity is going
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: to double.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: Gasoline is going to be $ 4.
• 54:35
  Speaker 9: 30 a gallon.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Groceries are going to skyrocket, that everything would go, property
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: taxes are going to skyrocket. It would be hard for
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: that person that retired before COVID or anybody that retired
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: since then to say, to look at these escalating prices
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: and say how they weren't affected by it. You couldn't,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: you couldn't, the best planner couldn't plan for this. But
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: it doesn't just affect the person that's close to retirement
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: or retired. It affects everybody in between. Everybody's affected by this.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: And I sit here and I get genuinely pissed. On
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: behalf of all of you, I am sitting in a
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: great country, but I have politicians that are so corrupted
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: by lobbyists and by special interests that That they don't
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: give a damn if the debt of your country is
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: $ 40 trillion or $ 100 trillion. I don't think they care.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Why do I say that? Because they're not doing anything
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: about it at all.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: I've watched this.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: During my tenure go from billions to trillions. And what's
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: after trillions? Because we're heading in that direction. And for
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: as long as I can remember... in doing a talk
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: program well over 40 years, a lot of the stuff
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: that I was talking about then I'm still talking about today.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: I never understood how could you be a country that's
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: got a huge debt and deficit and you're giving billions
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: of dollars away to these other countries?
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: The answer is.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: You can't afford it, but we did it anyway, year
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: after year after year. But wait a minute, we're in debt.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: We're borrowing money. How can we be giving money to
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: all these other countries? It never made sense to me.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Didn't make sense to me then. Doesn't make sense to
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: me now. But it's as though these people in charge
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: could care less. They never thought that way. Or they
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: would make some other additional government program. There was just,
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: over my lifetime, I've never really seen any fiscal responsibility
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: come from the federal government. Listen, I don't care whether
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: you're a Democrat or Republican. As I said to you
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: numerous times, as an American, I applauded Elon Musk. When
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Trump said to you, we're going to doge us, you
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: needed a guy that was rich enough that he couldn't
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: be influenced by any of these politicians. You needed a
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: guy that understood technology, that was rich enough that could
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: go through this system, this massive government spending, and look
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: at all the fraud and waste and abuse that's been
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: going on for as long as I've been alive. And
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: I'm offended by it. I'm offended by the fact that
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: they take the fruits of my labor. They take it
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: away from me in taxes and they piss it away.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: And when they started the Doge thing and we're looking
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: at what people are in Social Security are 120 years old.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Why are we giving money to these countries for all
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: this weird sexual agenda crap that's just become so prevalent today?
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: We're broke as a country.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: We're broke. We can't afford to be doing this stuff.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: And as Musk was exposing.
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: It, what did I see?
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: I saw mainstream media that had such an agenda that
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: they didn't even report on a lot of it. They
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: didn't even put it out there for the public to know.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: The liberal media was so corrupt, they didn't want you
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: figuring you should just stay dumb and stupid about it.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: We don't want to inform you about it. But it
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: was there if you looked for it or you read
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: about it. I don't know, as an American, how you
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: couldn't be offended by, let me get this straight. These
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: people that have political connections would start these NGOs, non-government organizations.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: We would funnel taxpayer money to them. They would, the
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: Stacey Abrams. and others, they would hire their crony friends.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: Everybody got a big salary. Make campaign contributions right back
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: to the party that gave you the money. And then
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: spend some of this money for some of this stupid
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: crap that has But that makes no sense to anybody.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: Well, I wanted it all exposed.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: They were talking $ 2 trillion in.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: Waste a year.
• 59:41
  Speaker 10: $ 2 trillion.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: And all Americans, I thought, should embrace this to say,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: let's stop this. Let me keep my money. Instead of
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: wasting this, I don't want to spend my money sending
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: all of this money over to Vietnam for transgenderism or
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: to Egypt or Israel or anybody else. We're broke as
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: a country. I really wanted to say, stop it. Let's
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: get out of debt. Let's lower taxes. Let's do these things.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Fiscal responsibility. But with all due respect, the Democrat Party
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: wanted to end it immediately. They attacked Musk personally, Hitler, Nazi.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: They attacked his customers' cars by keying them. They firebombed
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: his dealerships. They did everything to derail that effort and
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: to force him to have to leave to go pay
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: attention to his business. And they were happy about it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: And as I said to you then, it will never
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: be addressed now. Somebody of that caliber and that knowledge
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: and that technology, it will never be addressed. So it
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: will just continue on. And I sit back and say,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: how is it right for us to be $ 40 trillion
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: in debt? We're spending money today that my adult children
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: will be on the hook for or their children will
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: be on the hook for, for spending today for people
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: that aren't even born yet. How is that morally right?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: And the answer isn't raising taxes. The answer is cutting spending,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: cutting all this bull crap waste out that's been going
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: on for as long as I can remember that was
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: starting to be exposed but was derailed when it was exposed.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Because I'm not opposed to my taxes going to assist
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: the American people because there genuinely are poor people. I
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: don't know what you're supposed to do with somebody when
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: they get old and we take all their assets and
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: they're in a nursing home. And most of those people
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: end up on Medicaid. Not Medicare or Medicaid because they
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: don't have anything. So they go on the dole of
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: the taxpayer and that's fine. I get it. Well, I
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: would rather do that, and I think we can afford
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: to do that, than give billions and billions and billions
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: and billions of dollars away in foreign aid over the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: years or all the money that is wasted in the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: military budget. As I said to you, I'm not a
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: cheerleader for Trump or the Republicans or the Democrats. So
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: the bulk of our spending, the military went from $ 900
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: billion to $ 1.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 9: 5 trillion.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: The bulk of our discretionary spending money went right to
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: the military. They haven't been able to complete an audit
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: of the military for as long as I can remember
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: of where the money's going and how it's being spent.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: We've always heard over the years of the $ 800 toilet
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: seat and a $ 400 hammer and all this other nonsense.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: It seemed to me the military was doing pretty good
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: on $ 900 billion. Do they need to go to one
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: and a half trillion? Are any discretionary tax dollars coming
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: in went to the military? What about bolstering Social Security up,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: which is in a tough financial situation in seven years?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Could we not say let's bolster that up and not
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: change the retirement age to 70 so that people as
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: they get older can retire and have a supplement and
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: enjoy the declining years of their life? Can we not
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: acknowledge that anybody is one serious illness away from bankruptcy?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: Or being in a nursing home, there are serious problems
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: that are out there with the American people. On one hand,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: like I say, I want to give everybody a kick
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: in the ass and say you're in a great country.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: Get off your ass and get to work and make
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: something of your life. Don't blame me for your problems.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: Don't make your problems my problems or your lack of effort.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: But on the other hand, I'm here to acknowledge there
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: can be some circumstances in life that are beyond your control.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Your health turning south, the expenses involved in that, bankrupting
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: you out of that. So I'm not opposed to my
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: tax dollars being there to be used for a fire
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: department to put your house out if it's burning down,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: for a cop to show up if you've got a
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: domestic dispute or somebody's robbing a bank, for a jail
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: for violent criminals to go to, for an army to
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: protect us. But it's gotten so far out of control,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: these people just don't give a damn. All of our leaders.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: I'll be right back.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: But my point of this is over the years, I've
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: watched all these administrations, all these presidents, whether Democrat or Republican,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: they didn't really seem to give a damn about spending
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: the money that they didn't have and causing a debt
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: and deficit.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: They just simply didn't care.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: And this idea of pork being out there, it was
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: like it just kept growing and growing and continues to grow.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: And we continue to have this huge debt and deficit,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: which we strap future generations with. It is a damn
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: shame that our second biggest expense is just the interest.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: On our debt.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: We're not lowering the amount we owe. We're just paying
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: interest on it. The only thing that costs us more
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: than that is Social Security. Well, if interest rates go
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: up and we continue to go further in the hole,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: it will be our number one expense. Well, at what
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: point do you lower the $ 40 trillion mark or stop
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: increasing it and lower it down and say, we can't
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: afford to do any of this stuff anymore? We simply
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: can't afford it because economically, we're going to destroy this country.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: And it's well on its way. And it will affect
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 4: all of us.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: I don't give a damn if you're Republican or Democrat
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: or what you're invested in.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: And it will be life-changing.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: But the reality was, as I was saying yesterday, we
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: never hold anybody accountable for anything. I always hear the
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: political talk, we're going to get to the bottom of it.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: No one ever goes to jail. Nobody ever pays a price.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: What about the politics of the Russian hoax for three years?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: Anybody go to jail? Anybody held accountable? What about Fauci
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: and funding this COVID crap in China and the lies
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: that he told? Anybody held accountable? Anybody going to jail?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: Other than the talk of it and the pounding of
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: the table, nothing ever happens. What about the Epstein files?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: What about all of that craziness? Anybody go to jail? Nope.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: Do I think anybody will?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: Nope. So I look around and it's just political bull crap.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: We don't hold people accountable. They don't go to jail.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: They get away with it. It has a big effect
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: on our whole country. double standard of justice when it
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: comes to the Epstein situation, political bull crap of holding
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: anybody accountable that puts this country through hell for three years,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: trying to act like Russia influenced our election because they
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: hate Trump. And this is what I look when I
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: look around. So it doesn't matter Republican or Democrat. They
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: just don't, go after the people who should be going after,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: and I don't care if they're Democrat or Republican, and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: should go to jail with Epstein, with COVID. But think
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: how COVID changed everything for the worse. It was Fauci
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: and the funding and any people dying alone without their
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: family members around, lives that could have been saved with
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: ivermectin and hydrochloroquine. Was anybody held accountable for this?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 17: No.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: We were funding it. We were lied to. What's worse
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: than something like that? I can't think of much. But
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: we need to make sure he got a pardon. And
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: all of this diary comes out, his phone messages, and
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: basically he was spinning it and lying.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: But think about that.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: So people would die alone in a hospital without their
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: loved one there to hold their hand or in a
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: nursing home? Or we could have maybe saved them with
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: ivermectin or something, but there was some type of agenda
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: going on here. How evil is that? And no one's
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: held accountable for it. And look what it did, how
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: it changed this country economically. Because from that and then
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: from giving people all of this money These government programs
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: have just started printing more money and handing it out.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: And Joe Biden and Trump and Biden and the Democrats
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: and Republicans and the government creating all of this inflation
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: by their monetary policies, which I never thought I'd see
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: in my lifetime. The old cartoon of where you got
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: bread is coming true. Because everything is so damn expensive,
• 1:09:47
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• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: Medical care, the cost per mile to fix a road.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: We're all suffering from these damn policies, and no one's
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: held accountable.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 10: Have you heard the news? The last chance for Iran.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Many countries wanted to give this a last chance. This
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: is the last chance. Rubio on that last chance.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 10: There's been progress made in those talks, but not finality yet.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 10: We're hoping that will happen very shortly. There's good news.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: There are ships moving through the straits. There's oil moving
• 1:10:31
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• 1:10:35
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• 1:10:37
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• 1:10:52
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• 1:10:56
  Speaker 11: 63-year-old John Stalkup is accused of sending inappropriate messages to
• 1:11:01
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• 1:11:05
  Speaker 11: There are unconfirmed reports of Haitian nationals being detained in Springfield.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 11: Immigrant advocate Carl Ruby says he knows of 15 to
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 11: 20 people who have been taken into custody since temporary
• 1:11:15
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• 1:11:18
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• 1:11:22
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• 1:11:25
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• 1:11:29
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• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: you get what I'm saying right before I take calls.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, at some point you've got to sit around
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: and say, we've been failed by politicians, Republicans, and Democrats,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: presidents past and present. And it just keeps going on.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: No one's held accountable. Debt keeps going up. Interest rate
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: will be our number one expense before too long. Keep
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: giving money away to all of this craziness. Look at
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: the billions of dollars spent on all these people that
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Biden led into this country illegally instead of taking maybe
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: some of that money and dealing with the people that
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: are already here that are in need. These policies just
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: don't make sense. And yet they continue to go on
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: and on and on. I wish I could tell you
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: that I'm optimistic that they'll be dealt with or they'll
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: be changed. They certainly won't be in my lifetime. But
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: I think there's something terribly wrong of strapping future generations
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: with these huge amount of debt for money that's being
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: spent today so foolishly. When is there going to be
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: any type of accountability? And my point of all this,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: when a woman was talking about her generation or any generation,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: I think all generations are suffering as a result of
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: this ridiculous inflation. I don't care if you're retired, you
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: couldn't anticipate this, or you were close to retirement, you
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: couldn't anticipate this. And as a young person, I think
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: it makes life more difficult, no matter what age category
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: you're in, period. I listen, like I said, to Clay
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: and Buck, they're so out of touch with reality that
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: They're so skewed by politics and this team mentality, they
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: forget to realize the consequences to these economic decisions and
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: the effect that they have on people. And I don't
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: care how cocky you get, life can change in the
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: blink of an eye for anybody. I've said it before,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I've said it again, each and every one of you,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: you're one major illness away from bankruptcy. I mean, it
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: can bankrupt you in the blink of an eye. We
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: have plenty of people that simply by getting sick and
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: have to go to skilled nursing care because of a
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: stroke or getting sick, they lose all their assets and
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: they end up on Medicaid. Not Medicare, Medicaid. Because they
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: don't have anything left. Well, what are we to do?
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: The cost of medical care is so ridiculous. The cost
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: of Nursing homes is ridiculous. The cost to fix a
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: mile of roadway with the cost of oil and asphalt
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: is out of control. This huge inflation has affected everything.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: What it costs your.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: Community to buy a fire truck or a new police
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: car or to supply benefits to their employees or for
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: your own company to survive with inflation paying off. these
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: ridiculous electric bills and everything else that's going on. You're
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: on here.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 22: I'm calling about just what was going on about our military,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 22: and especially our sailors out there. I'm hearing a lot
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 22: of stuff, a lot of propaganda about If you hadn't
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 22: served on a ship, you have no reason to say
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 22: what the conditions are aboard those ships.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Well, it's the people that are serving on a ship
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: that are saying those conditions.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 22: Have you known the people? I'm a retired Navy.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: Can you read? Have you read the stories?
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 7: I've read it.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 22: And I know aboard ship, people are constantly... griping about something.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 22: So these ships today are a lot better than the
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 22: ships I served on. I served on some World War
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 22: II destroyers during my lifetime. We didn't have air conditioning.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 22: We didn't have these things. But all you guys are
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 22: doing is giving comfort to the enemy. By saying our
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 22: sailors are jumping overboard, they're not getting the right food,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 22: they're not getting all of this.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Don't you think we should address those problems? I'm not
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: saying it. They're saying it.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 22: On a ship. I'm saying you're making problems that possibly
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 22: are not there. And you're giving comfort to the enemy.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: I'm saying to you, the people on the ship are
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: saying this. Are you listening?
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 10: I'm listening and I'm listening to.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 22: The propaganda that you're being fed.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 4: From the people on this ship.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: Then why don't you tell me, with this propaganda being fed,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: why are they taking the Abraham Lincoln out of service,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: taking it back to port after 256 days, and sending
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: out the George Washington? Tell me why that is.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 22: The only reason they're taking it out is it should
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 22: come back to port for maintenance. You don't know a
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 22: damn thing about maintenance.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what?
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 22: You don't know the work cycle on a ship.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: You know what? Are you reading anything?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 22: You should pray at night.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 22: For all those kids over there.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: You are absolutely ignorant to what is going on in
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: these stories. This isn't my opinion. This is what is
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: coming out on the conditions on the ship. From food...
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: to breakdowns, to toiletry, to the people that are on
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: the ship.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: For Christ's sake. See you.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 10: Hello.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: You're on the air. You want to speak or not?
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 22: Ronnie.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 23: Hey, where do I even start with this?
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 23: You mentioned nursing homes, for one thing. And I just
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 23: want to give you a heads up. Nurse Bertha said
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 23: that they're thinking about increasing your sedative tonight because you're
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 23: a little bit wound up.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 7: So just settle down.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I am a little bit wound up.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 10: Where were we?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 7: Where were we? Where are we now, Ron?
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You get a guy.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: You get this guy like this last guy that calls.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: It's like, are you reading anything? I mean, he's acting
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: like I pull this stuff out of my ass as
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: opposed to.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: Do you see?
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: Why do you think they're taking that ship out of service?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: The question should be, why was it in service so
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: long if it's got all these breakdowns and we've got
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: a problem with food and this kind of stuff? Isn't
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: that a fair question to ask? But he wants to say, well,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: you know what? When I was there, by God, I
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: didn't even want to hear it.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 23: Well, I mean, honestly, I believe it was, maybe it
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 23: was Frank that said that the longest time a ship
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 23: was in service was 79 days.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 7: And that was in World War II.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 23: But, I mean, you've got to admit that technology is
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 23: way better now. We've got refrigerators, better, you know, stockades
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 23: of food for the ships. I'm sure they could be–
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 23: they're probably made that the folks on board could be
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 23: on board for.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 6: Like, at least a half a year.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 23: But that would be stressful on the mind, which is
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 23: something we've got to take care of. But– the woman
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 23: that called in, um, she was talking about how, um,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 23: the young people, they don't really get it. Like I
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 23: heard a report the other day that 70% of college educated, um,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 23: people between like, I don't know, 25 and 35 or whatever,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 23: they believe that communism could work.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 23: And, and then I want to read you something.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 23: This is from, uh, Nikita Khrushchev, all right, he said,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 23: we will take America without firing a shot.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 7: We will bury you.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 23: We can't expect the American people to jump from capitalism
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 23: to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 23: giving them small doses of socialism until they awaken one
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 23: day and to find that they have communism.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 7: We do not have.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 23: To invade the United States. We will destroy you from within.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 23: This is a quote attributed to the late Soviet premier,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 23: Nikita Khrushchev. And honestly, I'm sure that they had agents
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 23: in the last 50 years.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 7: Or whatever getting into our..
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 23: Education process, especially the colleges, the colleges that teach the
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 23: grade school teachers to be teachers, you.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 7: Know what I mean?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 23: It's just like a little bit at a time, they're
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 23: filtering all this stuff in, and can you believe 70%
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 23: of college, if you could believe the polls, but 70%
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 23: of people that went to college within the last, I
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 23: don't know, I can't remember when, the amount of years,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 23: but they think that communism is a good thing. I
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 23: think that's what that woman was trying to get across,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 23: is that they've been indoctrinated. Our younger children have been indoctrinated.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 23: Don't get me started on the fact that they're being
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 23: influenced by computers and their phone 24 hours a day.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 7: What do you think, Ronnie?
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: I think some people are probably very much fall into
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: that category that you mentioned. That's what I think. I mean,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: communism doesn't work. Socialism doesn't work.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 23: Also, you mentioned that we're broke. Pretty much, I think
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 23: the rest of the world is broke, too. I mean,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 23: you're seeing financial disaster in Japan. China, I don't know
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 23: what they're doing there. They got the slaves to feed
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 23: their economy, but they're losing people because they had the
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 23: one-child policy and they only have males now. So, I mean,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 23: that's kind of a problem. I think the whole world
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 23: is in financial distress at this point. So buy up
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 23: your gold, Ron, or you know what? I'll come help
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 23: you dig it up out of your backyard. But I
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 23: get a 5% profit on that, though. want to let
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 23: you know.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: All right i'm on i'm on my way yeah.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 24: Hey you started out with a flock cameras though yes
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 24: and um i i believe that they do good i
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 24: like you said the ring cameras have helped solve crimes.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 23: Um i got cameras outside my house you know i.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: Just listen i just think The people that are making
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: a big deal out of flock cameras, we just got them.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: They announced they were going to put them in Austintown Township.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: I'm not the least bit worried about it. I'm not
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: paranoid about it. The police aren't interested in where I'm
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: going or what I'm doing. They're interested in some guy
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: that robbed a bank or somebody that just grabbed a kid.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: And it's a great tool for..
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: Law enforcement to be able to find that vehicle and
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: save that child or to find that criminal or to
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: find a stolen car or to deal with that kind
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: of stuff. They have them in Niles. They kind of
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: have them in Austintown.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: It's a tool. It's not something to fear. I don't
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: fear it at all.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are more paranoid than
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: they need to be thinking that the government's that interested
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: in them.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: It really isn't.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 23: I've seen on YouTube that People go into a gun store,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 23: and in the parking lot, there's like three of them
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 23: going on, which could work both ways. You know, if
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 23: somebody's trying to rob a gun store, obviously, you know.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Well, if you go into any store, if you go
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: into a supermarket or whatever, obviously there are tons of cameras. Well,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: why are there tons of cameras? Because they're keeping an
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: eye on you because so many people are trying to
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: steal stuff. So you're on camera when you're in the store,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: the grocery store. You're on camera when you're in a
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: parking lot. Most people have ring cameras that are going on.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: And so police use flock cameras that we've seen the
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: effectiveness in Niles and stuff when you got stolen cars
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: or something going on along those lines, which can help
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: say this is where that car is right now. It's
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: just running the license plate of the vehicle. No different
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: if the cop's running it on his computer sitting behind
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: yet a traffic light.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 23: As I understand it, they could actually, if the car
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 23: has like a dent in it or something, they could
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 23: still use that for further identification besides the license plate.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: Well, listen.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 4: Well, what if this is abused? Anybody can abuse anything.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: The Leeds computer and people have done that, and they've
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: been prosecuted as a result of it. And if people
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: in the police department abuse the flock camera and are caught,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: and some have, and they too lose their job and
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: are prosecuted, as it should be the case. Because it's
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: there for law enforcement purposes. I think it's an effective
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: tool to keep your community safe. I'm not paranoid about
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: it at all. I really don't give a damn if
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: I drive in Austintown and a flock camera takes a
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: picture of my vehicle and license plate. I don't think
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: the cops are going and sitting around at night going, hey,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: where do you think Ron went? He went to Wendy's
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: and then after Wendy's, he went down to, let's see,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: where'd he go after that? He went from Wendy's and
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: he went down to his house and he stayed there
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: the rest of the night.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, meeting adjourned. I don't think they care.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 23: Here's a scenario for you. Okay, Ron Verb driving down
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 23: the road with the unknown caller in the front seat,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 23: passenger seat, with a bag over his head. Clock camera
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 23: takes a picture.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 23: What do you think is going to happen.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 7: There, right?
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to care. They're going to
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: say that's Ron Verb with the unknown caller going down
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: the street. He's probably taking him to some fleabag hotel
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: where he's shacked up.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: Because he's homeless, right?
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely correct.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 23: One more quick point about Rich mentioned it the other day,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 23: and you kind of brought it up today with Frank
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 23: and the Zionist Jews. But me and the boys kind
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 23: of made a game of it. Every time that Frank
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 23: mentioned Zionist Jews, then we would have to take a shot.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 23: That's why I couldn't call in yesterday, Ron. I was
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 23: like half in the bag.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, good.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll try to get him to say it again
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: so the drinking can continue.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: Hey, I got to go.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 8: Did he say he had to go? That's about time.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 8: My ear was getting sore. But I want to talk
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 8: about the Zionists, but I want to talk about our
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: culture today. And I blame it all on our education
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 8: system for the last 50 years. Thank you, Teachers Union.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 8: These kids are trained and indoctrinated. I swear to God,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 8: they have to be. And the Chinese have figured out
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 8: how to get in the back door to destroy our culture.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 8: I'm sure of it. We've got to watch these Chinese. But,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 8: you know, the university, Penn State University, They're selling cocaine.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 8: They've got a market on the campus of Penn State University.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: Wasn't that fraternities or something?
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 19: I don't know.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 8: They're bringing it in from the East Coast.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 4: So you can't even get the story straight of who's
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: selling it.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 8: Well, they're getting it from the big cities. on the
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 8: East Coast.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you have the story all screwed up.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 8: These students are selling cocaine, $ 20, 000 a trip. And then
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 8: they multiply that. They're capitalists. They're bad capitalists. I'm a
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 8: good capitalist. I like to make production, produce something.
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  Speaker 17: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 25: It's good to talk with you. I hope you'll hear
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 25: me out. I'm a former sailor. I served in the
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 25: Navy for four years, did two MEG cruises, one aircraft carrier.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 25: I was on the USS Nimitz, and our second cruise.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: Now, we spent..
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 25: Over 90 days at sea during the Beirut issue.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 8: And it.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 25: Was one of those things. You just get used to
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 25: the operational tempo. We always got resupplied.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 17: With fresh food.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 25: About every two weeks, we would come along another ship,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 25: and they would resupply us with food. It was never
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 25: that bad. The only time it really got bad was
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 25: when we were going across the Atlantic, coming home, and
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 25: they wanted to use up all the food they had.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 25: So that was the only time it was bad. We
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 25: did have sailors go in the water. It was accidental, though.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 25: But we always picked them up. There was never anybody lost.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 25: I'm wondering now, the question I have is, you know,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 25: you have these complaints, but you you're always going to
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 25: have complaints from people in the military. You know, people
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 25: that get on the ship, they join the Navy and
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 25: don't expect what happens when you go to sea. And
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 25: so I'm wondering now if the generation now just isn't
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 25: up to that like we were. We just accepted it
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 25: as fact.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: We joined the military. But why is it always, well,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: it's that generation, right? They're not as tough as we were. Well,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: they volunteered, but it says here, the U.S. Abraham Lincoln
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: faced a high-profile crisis during an extended deployment in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East, surpassing 260 consecutive days at sea without.
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  Speaker 4: A port call.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: The record-stretching tour for its 5,000 sailors and Marines resulted
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: in severe strain, poor living conditions, and morale issues. Sanitation
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: and infrastructure.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 25: That's a long time to be at sea. That's a
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 25: really long time.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's 6,000 miles away from the United States. So
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: should I ignore what they're saying on board as far
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: as problems as far as food is concerned?
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, not at all.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 25: I really think that some of those complaints are somewhat unfounded.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 25: I don't believe everything I read in the news. That's
• 1:31:34
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• 1:31:38
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts, caller.
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  Speaker 25: Yeah, that's one of those things none of us really know.
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  Speaker 25: We're not out on that ship, and so we don't know.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 25: But the ship coming back now, I'm sure it's time.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 25: We were out for seven-month cruises, and we had to
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 25: come back. And it's basically the ship's systems are wearing
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 25: out and need repaired and need maintenance and things like that,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 25: maintenance that you can't do at sea.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 25: It is, I'm sure it's probably time for that ship
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 25: to head back to the States and get its maintenance.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 25: And one last thing, my wife and I, we were
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 25: just down in Georgia. We just got home. We filled
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 25: up down there. The last time I filled up before
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 25: we left, I paid $ 3. 65 a gallon for gas. And
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 25: it's just crazy. You get up here and it's $ 4. 40
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 25: or so.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 4: Did you put any spare in the trunk?
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 9: No.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 17: Oh, I wish I could.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 25: Believe me. The further north we went, the more expensive
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 25: it got.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: What were you doing in Georgia?
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 25: We had to go to my wife's family reunion.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: How was that?
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 15: It was nice.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 25: It was really nice. All their family was very welcoming
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 25: to me, and she hadn't been to one in quite
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 25: a number of years, so it was great for her.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: Well, that's terrific.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: Did you enjoy Georgia? It's a beautiful state.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 25: It was beautiful down there. We had a nice time.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 25: The only thing was it was hot. It was in
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 25: the 90s every day, and the humidity was up there, too.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 25: And there was no air movement. There was no breeze
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 25: or anything like that.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 5: So it was hot.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: Well, welcome home. I'm glad you're back, and I'm glad
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: you had a good time. And most importantly, that your
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: wife had a good time connecting with her family.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 4: Welcome home.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 17: Great.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 4: Thank you. G2 coming up. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: Hey, Ron.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: How you doing?
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 6: Hey, this is Joe from Camp Bill. Hey, I was
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 6: just calling to comment on the material condition of these
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 6: ships and the complaints these young sailors are having.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 6: I haven't seen any recent news. The one picture that
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 6: I did see was a block wall, concrete wall. So
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 6: I knew that picture didn't come from the ship. I
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 6: retired from 22 years in the Navy, and I served
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 6: on many carriers. I can't believe what they're saying. Some
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 6: of those pictures of the food, the Navy serves four
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 6: meals a day, and the last one is around midnight.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 6: And it's usually leftovers. It's for late night. It's more
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 6: like a snack or something you'd get late night at
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 6: a buffet somewhere. It's not the best. They don't prepare
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 6: all brand-new fresh food for the last meal of the night.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 6: And it could be substandard. But we don't know what
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 6: these kids put on their plate for them photos. They
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 6: just could have put two tortillas in a scoop of
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 6: rice because they're picky eaters. I've met a lot of those.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 6: So I don't give it a lot of credibility. The
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 6: mold in the bathrooms, there's no meat. service on the
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 6: ship each division that lives in that space is in
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 6: charge of maintaining it and if there's not being the
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 6: proper inspections and cleaning done then you know it's on
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 6: them but i've seen moldy uh you know moldy bathrooms
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 6: in port because they're not being cleaned properly So I just,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: you know, but the off-tempo 250 days at sea, that's
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 6: a long time. So that can wear on your nerves and,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 6: you know, you want to get off, things like that.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 6: But they have parties on the ship. They'll have like
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 6: a barbecue up on the flight deck every 30 days.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 7: You get a couple beers.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 6: You know, they have ice cream machines. They have movie theater, gym,
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 6: you know, internet. And so these guys set up networks
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 6: and play games. There's lots for them to do. Go
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 6: to college while you're at sea. They have night classes.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 6: So it's not as terrible as what I think a
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 6: lot of these news and the sites I've read on Facebook,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 6: it's mostly moms complaining. So they're hearing what the kids
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 6: are telling them. And more than likely, it's a small amount,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 6: and it's the kids that have to have the crust
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 6: taken off their peanut butter sandwiches.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about you, but I don't know
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: how much time you spend at sea. You know, I
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: once spent seven days at sea on a Royal Caribbean ship,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: and it was just excruciating. I mean, the sunburn I
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: came back with, and I actually gained a little weight.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait to get back in port.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 6: Right. Now, if their optumbo is really high, they're flying
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 6: in place all the time, that means the whole air wing,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 6: which is about half the ship or more, All the
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 6: guys that maintain the planes, that direct them out on
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 6: the flight line, that refuel them, that arm them. Because
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 6: every time it comes in, they have to take all
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 6: the weapons off, all the missiles and bombs. You know,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 6: they don't leave them loaded up all the time. So
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 6: they're constantly doing that kind of thing. So those guys
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 6: are busy. If they're flying, and I've been out when
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 6: we were out in the Mediterranean and in the doing
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 6: flight ops almost 24 hours a day. Not quite, but
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 6: we would do like maybe 15.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 19: 18 hours a day.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 4: Well, here's what it says, though, good buddy.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: Lengthy operations without maintenance stops cause broken toilets, malfunctioning showers,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: and unsanitary conditions. Supply and food constraints. Reports indicate shortage
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: of fresh food, general supplies, and water. Communication problems as well.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 4: Hey, 260 days, maybe that's.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 18: A little long.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe they should have sent the George Washington out a
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: little bit sooner. Maybe that's what we should be questioning,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: why that wouldn't happen.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 19: Yeah, why not?
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 6: But I'm just saying, the bad reports, there are replenishment
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 6: ships with supply ships to bring them fuel, jet fuel,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 6: diesel fuel. They don't need to bring nuclear because they're
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 6: all nuclear-powered. But they bring over all the fresh foods.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 6: When we would go to port somewhere, which these guys didn't,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 6: There would be contracted companies on the pier with fresh fruit.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: Right, but were you out to sea 260 days?
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 6: No, the longest I did was maybe 180.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: Right, so it's a whole different scenario.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but all this, they have repair shops for cleaning
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 6: the toilets, fixing things. There may have been some parts
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 6: and things they didn't have on hand to fix every toilet,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 6: every shower. But the material condition of the ship, I'm sure,
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 6: is pretty good because they have inspections by the XO
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 6: every single day. He has a different division, a different area.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 7: He inspects.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 6: And if things are broke, he wants to know why
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 6: and why they're not fixed. And they follow up on
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 6: that daily to keep that mushy sound.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: You're not buying it, in other words. You're not buying
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: what they're selling.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 19: Not completely.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 6: Now, I know we didn't have computers. We didn't set
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 6: up networks and game and play all these games. We
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 6: watched Adult Flex sometimes, or we played board games, or
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 6: we watched old movies or cards.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 5: That's what we did.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You mean you were watching porn?
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 10: No.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 6: No, they were just, you know.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 4: You can tell me.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 6: No, we didn't do that.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 7: We weren't allowed.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 6: The division officer wouldn't let us.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: Just checking.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 6: We watched movies, and we had a basketball court. We
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 6: played sports on board.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 7: We worked out.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure they'll separate fact from fiction when it
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: gets to port.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: I've got to get G2 on.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: G2, hello.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 7: Good evening, Ron. How are you today?
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 28: Good.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 4: What do you make of this? Interesting calls about the
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: Abraham Lincoln.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, very interesting. I love hearing people that have been
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 7: aboard vessels come in and comment about this. I haven't
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 7: been following this story because the truth is I don't
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 7: think any of the media has really got good intentions.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 7: They're either trying to create one narrative or another. So,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 7: you know, I actually reached out to an admiral and
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 7: asked him what's going on, but I haven't followed up
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 7: with him yet. So I'll try to get some insights there. But,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 7: you know, this is just– impossible for us to properly
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 7: analyze from here. If we're hearing these reports through places
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 7: like the New York times and Fox news, you just can't,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 7: you can't hear it. You can't get accurate information. So
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 7: I have no doubt that being at sea that long
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 7: is challenging really hard, but I really can't see into
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 7: the conditions on that ship and have much of an
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 7: opinion on how the, the sailors are doing. I mean,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 7: you know, I don't think we have a Navy that
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 7: hates its sailors, and I think they have virtually unlimited
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 7: resources because, you know, we spend a trillion dollars a
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 7: year on military. If there's not enough money in there
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 7: to ship a toilet to the Persian Gulf, then, you know,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 7: I mean, we know we're in trouble anyway. Look, we've
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 7: shot 1,000 Tomahawk missiles at, say, 2.25 million apiece. The
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 7: enemy is shooting at us $ 20, 000 drones. And we're saying, well,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 7: it's going to take us five years to replenish our
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 7: missile and our weapons cash. And these guys are like
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 7: making drones. We're like, well, gee, we don't know how
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 7: to do that. I mean, it's ridiculous, the situation that
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 7: we've been put in in some ways. But particularly into
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 7: the conditions on the ship, I just don't know what's
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 7: going on.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: Well, like I said to somebody, you know, I've been
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: at sea numerous times. Once, five days on a Carnival
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: cruise line, and it was hell, G2. It was absolute hell.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 7: I did several hours on a canoe in a rainstorm
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 7: once on a lake.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 5: Harrowing.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 5: Harrowing at harrowing times.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just I mean, the seas were not
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: so calm that day. And I didn't have my sea
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: legs quite on me during that during my tenure. And
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: then I strolled up to around a smokestack on a
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: carnival cruise line as I was walking up. And there
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: were women up there sunbathing with their tops off.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 7: That must have been traumatizing.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: It was very traumatizing. Apparently, that's where they go because
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: they're from other countries where this is a perfectly normal thing.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: But it was shocking to me, G2, shocking.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 7: Well, I bet it was. And, you know, what's also
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 7: shocking is when somebody stumbles out of a casino and
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 7: pukes on your shoes. That's terrible.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 7: As I understand it, that's happened on some of these
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 7: cruise lines, too.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: My time at sea. I wanted to share it with you.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 2: Let's take some calls and then we'll let you talk
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: with Ron Furman.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 4: G2, you're on the air.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 7: How are you guys doing?
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 9: Oh, geez.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: Sorry, G2.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 4: It's Emmanuel.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 29: Well, you know, I have a couple things that I
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 29: wanted to talk to you about. But since you got
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 29: G2 there, you know, I don't have much time.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: No, no, you can talk. Feel free to talk. We
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: want to hear what you have to say. I'm sure
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: it could be relevant.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 29: Well, first of all, this is not why I wanted
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 29: to call you. But, you know, G2, you can check
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 29: this out, right? You know, because I've checked into it. Now,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 29: Sitcom has said that there was a destroyer that went
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 29: four days without power and water. Sitcom has said that.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 29: And also, too, the reason about the supply problem is
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 29: the Iranians, when they're bombing those bases, they were bombing
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 29: the supply. So one caller or somebody said, or you
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 29: might have said that, They would get resupplied from the ports. Well,
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 29: you can't do that over there because, you know, they'll
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 29: blow you up. But there's two questions I want to
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 29: ask you. The first question, this is to you.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 10: G2, right?
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 29: Explain to me, in your opinion, what is the difference
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 29: between socialism and fascism?
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 7: Well, the spelling, largely, because the truth be told, neither
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 7: of those really get implemented in any way that matches
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 7: all this theoretical nonsense that's chatted about on college campuses.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 7: What they all turn out to be is simply a totalitarianistic, top-down,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 7: centrally controlled government and economy that's designed more like feudalism,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 7: where There's a population of people who are like royalty.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 7: There's a population who are somewhat like aristocracy. Then you
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 7: have the professional slash merchant. class that keeps the machines running.
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 7: And then everybody else is a disposable peasant. And that's
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 7: kind of how it works. Like, the Soviet Union wasn't communist.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 7: If it was communist, every apartment would have been the
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 7: same size. They weren't. Everybody would have gone to the
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 7: same vacation spots. They didn't. Right? They would have had
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 7: the same cars.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 7: Wasn't the case. Some people were driving in luxury cars,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 7: some people were driving in Volgas, and some people were
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 7: driving shoes because they didn't have a car. So it
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 7: was not a communist society. And if you spoke out
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 7: against it, of course, you went into the basement of
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 7: Lubyanka prison and they took off your fingernails. So it
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 7: was very much totalitarian, not some to-each, from-each nonsense, some
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 7: theoretical garbage bandied about by these You know, lunatics at Harvard. So,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 7: you know, socialism, what is it? Well, Maduro comes in,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 7: or rather Chavez comes in and promises the people of
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 7: Venezuela that the government's going to start taking care of them. Well,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 7: it certainly did. It created a network of gangs. that
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 7: abused and beat these people, that anybody that stepped out
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 7: of line was attacked by these gangs. Amongst the gangs,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 7: there was a hierarchy. The closer your relationship to the government,
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 7: the better weapons you had. The government didn't oppress anybody.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 7: They simply used the gangs. And what did it do?
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 7: It made everybody equally poor, except a small group of
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 7: very privileged people that were close to power, and then
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 7: the ring of people around them that kept the machine working.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 7: It's the same everywhere. If you want to get into
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 7: the socialism and fascism thing.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 19: Yeah, go ahead.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 29: You just described Mussolini, and he was a fascist.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 7: Call it what you wish. I just described Mussolini, Pol Pot,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 7: and Mao.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 29: Okay. And the last one, I'm going to let you
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 29: go because you know this is me. I've got to
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 29: go ahead and bring it like I always do, right?
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 7: That's why we like it.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 29: I heard somebody call earlier today. And I'm getting tired
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 29: of hearing this. They're saying, well, they're messing with our culture,
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 29: you know.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 7: We're America.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 29: And I'm sitting there thinking, at what time in the
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 29: history of this country has this country... not been discriminated
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 29: against somebody, whether it was the Native Americans, whether it
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 29: was a doggone Hispanic, whether it was a slave. I mean,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 29: what's up with that culture?
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 7: Your turn. Well, let's take it to a bigger picture, right?
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 7: At what time has any culture not been discriminatory? If
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: you want to see real discrimination, go to China. Go
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 7: to Libya and watch them with their open-air slave markets.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 7: Go into the Middle East and watch them trade children.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 29: I'm going to pay taxes there, okay?
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 7: So go ahead. Well, it's not a tax issue. This
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 7: is a cultural issue. So what you have in the
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 7: United States is the most tolerant, accepting, open society ever.
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  Speaker 7: That's how the Muslims are coming in and basically taking
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  Speaker 7: controlled in large part by Islam, Islamists, right, without them
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  Speaker 7: ever having to fire a shot, because we're just so tolerant,
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  Speaker 7: maybe the closest example of actual fascism is the United
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  Speaker 4: All right, I've got to go.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Appreciate it. G2, stand by.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 17: Good afternoon, Ron and G2. Hello, Ron.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, go ahead, please.
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  Speaker 17: I was calling, Ronald, to give you an eye, Captain,
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  Speaker 17: on one issue, but to question you on another one.
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  Speaker 17: So what would you like me to do first?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I always like to get the compliment out of
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 17: Okay, the compliment is you're spot on every day on
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 17: what you're saying about the economy. Last night I went
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 17: out to get my wife gas in her vehicle. I
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 17: do that for her whenever she needs it.
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  Speaker 4: What a husband.
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  Speaker 2: What a husband.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: How about that? Hey, $ 70 to fill a gas bill. Now,
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 17: you tell me there's not an affordable. Now, you and I, G2,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 17: we're different parts in our lives. It doesn't matter. You're
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 17: telling me there's not an affordability issue in this country.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 17: If you're watching Fox News, you live in an alternative universe.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 4: Well, if you were.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 2: Listening to Clay and Buck today, they're living in an
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: alternative universe. Oh, people have become accustomed to paying for
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: 30 a gallon for gas, and they've just adjusted to it.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 2: I'm listening to these guys talk, thinking these guys are insane.
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  Speaker 17: That's an extra 20 bucks every time I get her gas,
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 17: and she travels. So think about that. Now, think about
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 17: the young kids, the families that are going through this.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 17: You know, they're just starting out their lives. I see
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 17: mothers in the grocery store with three, four, five kids,
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  Speaker 17: and I think, holy cow, I can't imagine what it
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 17: costs to feed those kids.
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  Speaker 2: It is interesting, like when I went to Sam's Club
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  Speaker 2: with my wife the other day. And you've got that
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: app on your phone so you can just check out.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be surprised how quick it adds up to $ 250
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 2: in the blink of an eye. Yeah, four, five, six items, boom. Yeah,
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: but if you're like G2 there in your gunny suit,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 2: you're actually out. You're hunting pheasant, right, G2? You kill
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: what you eat, right?
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 7: That's the cost-effective way, Ron. And if you hunt with
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 7: a knife, then you don't expend ammunition. It's even cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You just slit the throat, right? But it's hard to
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 4: catch the pigeon.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 7: You've got to be stealthy.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 17: He comes out of the shadows like Rambo. He comes
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 17: out of the shadows like Rambo and kills it and
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 17: drags it back into the bunker.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: Either that or a car recently hit it going down
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: the interstate.
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  Speaker 17: Again, I got a question for you guys about this.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 17: I'm going to ask both of you because I think
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 17: I remember you guys and myself all disagreeing on this
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 17: issue many years ago. And I'm not saying nothing about
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 17: Iran and the U.S., whether this is right or wrong.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 17: I agreed with the mission in the beginning, but now
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 17: after watching the execution and the lack of leadership that
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 17: I think I'm seeing from Donald Trump, I think he
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 17: needs to end it quickly. And if that means Call
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 17: the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of America, and come home,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 17: so be it.
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  Speaker 4: G2, comment, please.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 7: Tying the affordability issue, this inflation issue, to the war
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 7: is extremely short-sighted or, I guess, lacks the memory of
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 7: everything we've talked about over the last four or five years.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 7: So you've had... 30% inflation since 2019 to now. Trillions
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 7: and trillions and trillions of dollars printed by the government.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 7: Inflationary regulations put in that were so harsh on the
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 7: energy side that the Democrats had to drain 244 million
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 7: barrels out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try to
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 7: preserve their position heading into the 22 and 24 elections.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 7: It was that bad. So, and of course, that leaves
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 7: us with a Strategic Petroleum Reserve that depleted just when
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 7: we need it. So you've got a lot of issues. Now,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 7: if you look at what Trump's impact on inflation was
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 7: when he came into office, just without having Congress stop
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 7: spending money, without having the Fed quit printing, he drove
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 7: it down to the lowest point I saw was 0.68%,
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 7: which is incredible given the amount of printing going on.
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 7: So he drove it down. Right now it's about 2.3%. Now,
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 7: the problem is, the dramatic impact of people hitting that
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 7: gas pump every day is almost the same as if
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 7: we had, say, a war bill that we paid every
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 7: Friday night for the last 30 years. If we had
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 7: a war bill.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 6: To pay, we.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 7: Would have 20 years of wars, right? So we've got
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 7: to keep this stuff straight. The impact of inflation was
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 7: driven by massive amounts of government spending and theft. $ 40
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 7: trillion gone. No one can tell us where it went.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 7: It was caused by regulatory pressures. Somebody mentioned the HVAC thing.
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 7: I was driving and I was listening the other day.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 7: You know, the fact that you can't, that they have..
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  Speaker 2: All right, back to it with G2 on NewsRadio 570
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  Speaker 2: WKBN and to the conservative. I'll say this, G2. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to lose the arguments with the American public because
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 2: you're at the midterms. Trump's going to own all of
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 2: this stuff.
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  Speaker 7: That's a different issue. That's a different issue.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hang on a second.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 7: Just for this crowd, these aren't normal people, your listeners.
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  Speaker 7: These are really well-informed people. So when you ask about
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 7: the impact on polling and elections, that's a different question.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the reality that you have to deal with
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 2: because that's going to determine where we go.
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  Speaker 17: The reality is..
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  Speaker 7: So you just had a news report that came on
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 7: during the break that said, was it 480 people arrested
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 7: in a fentanyl trafficking ring? We lost 400,000 Americans over
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  Speaker 7: four years because we had a party in control that
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 7: threw down the gates and handed control of the border
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 7: to the cartels. We spent hours talking about it, analyzing it,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 7: breaking down the data.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't want to go back and talk to..
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 7: Now they're actually arresting these people.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 7: And I heard somebody today say their life isn't better
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 7: because Trump's an op... I don't... I'm sorry, Ted, that
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 7: might have been you.
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  Speaker 15: I don't remember.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 7: But I listened to yesterday's show while I was driving today.
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  Speaker 7: But here's... Can you believe that anybody's life isn't better
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 7: when we've stopped 400,000 people a year from dying from
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 7: a poison that was brought here by the Chinese Communist
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 7: Party with the assistance of the Democrat Party and the
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 7: drug cartels? He went right after that. So what I'm
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 7: saying is rather than just complain about everything and pretend
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 7: nothing is happening, we should be breaking this down into
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 7: its components so we could be thinking more clearly and
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 7: not just emotionally.
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  Speaker 17: What I said yesterday was that Trump did not live
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 17: up to any of his campaign statements as far as
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 17: the economy.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think that's emotional.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't hear that statement. I just heard he didn't
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 7: live up to anything. Okay, so I may have misheard.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 7: I may have misheard.
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  Speaker 17: Economically, I said he's not. Yeah, it's no big deal.
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  Speaker 17: I just wanted to reiterate.
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  Speaker 15: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 7: All right, but hold on. But he drove inflation down.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 7: He drove inflation down to 0.68% at one point without
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 7: any help from Congress. In fact, the Congress is fighting him.
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 7: Today we're at 2.30.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: We're at 3.4.
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  Speaker 17: You're looking at core, I'm guessing, when you quote that.
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm looking at all in. I'm looking at 10
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 7: million data points.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 4: Hang on a second, Ted. Hang on a second. Just
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 4: hang on.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 2: G2, if you're going to sit here and try to
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: tell people that after two years, well, you've got to
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 2: think about this and you've got to think about that,
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 2: they're not.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to tell you. With all due respect,
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 4: you're going back to the..
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 7: But you're not hearing me. You're not hearing me.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 4: You're going back to the stuff..
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  Speaker 17: These are the facts.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 7: If you want to talk about the impact on the election,
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 7: that's a separate thing.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: But that's all that matters.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 7: That the facts aren't facts is irrational.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 2: No, that's all that matters is the impact on the
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 2: agenda and the election because he will be wiped out
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 2: if they take control at the midterms.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 7: If you want to understand how you're being manipulated, you
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 7: have to understand both the facts and the zeitgeist.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not being manipulated when I bitch about $ 4.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 4: 30 a gallon gasoline.
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 19: I understand why that's important to you.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 7: You spend a lot of money on gasoline. I don't
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 7: like it.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 2: But you can say we had inflation under Biden.
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 7: To pretend that nothing good has happened or that we
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 7: haven't had an incredibly successful energy policy implemented. That's just silly. Now,
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 7: the impact of this war, taking us up to within
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 7: a dollar of Biden's highest gas price. I know what
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 7: you're saying. It's still, I don't know, 25% less than
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 7: the 2022 peak. But I wasn't happy about that either.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 7: Even though it was maybe a dollar higher, maybe more now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where this comes from either. I wasn't
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 2: paying a lot more.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 7: I don't want to go back there. Now, the fact
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 7: of the matter is, All of the work done to
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 7: offset the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has had
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 7: a massive impact, and the drawdown of these reserves in
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 7: China and Japan and the United States have had a
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 7: massive impact. As those reserves play out, if this strait
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 7: doesn't get opened... and you have to wait for more
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 7: pipelines to get built, we could be looking at $ 5 gas.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 7: We could come back to the price that we had
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 7: under Biden, for God's sake.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 2: I don't remember paying $ 5 under Biden in Ohio.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 7: The amount that Trump has taken from the Petroleum Reserve.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 7: And to pretend it's more doesn't make it right. They
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 7: drew down three times the amount out of our Petroleum
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 7: Reserve to preserve their electoral opportunity. We talked about it
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 7: every day on this program. All right, so now we
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 7: are where we are. You've got a war that I
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 7: don't think should have been started. I understand why it happened.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 7: We had to do what we were told to do.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 7: We were ordered to do it by those who get
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 7: to make orders, who have control of Congress. I understand
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 7: we don't have representation in Congress, but India does. The
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 7: globalists do. The multinationals do. The beef processors do. And
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 7: Israel controls the whole shoot and match, just as, I
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 7: don't know, Barry Goldwater. Go back and look at his
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 7: 1988 statement. So when they say you're going to war,
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 7: we've resisted for four decades. Trump said no in his
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 7: first term. Now they got him to flip the switch.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 7: We're in. So the question is, what do we do
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 7: about it? We could easily be looking at $ 130 a
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 7: barrel oil again, just as we had a few years
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 7: ago before they drained the reserve. We could be looking
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 7: at that. This thing could get really rough. I'm just
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 7: saying we should probably look at it intelligently and not emotionally.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 7: so that we understand what's happening, we understand the fixes.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 7: There were people saying all the oil that didn't ship
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 7: had to be reproduced or sort of replaced in order
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 7: to get the markets back. That's just stupid. They knew
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 7: it was stupid when they said it. It's going to
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 7: take 30 to 45 days after production gets up and running,
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 7: assuming the infrastructure isn't destroyed, to get the market back
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 7: on track, right? That's what it's going to take. Now,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 7: you take this war to the next level, and you
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 7: start taking out water and energy infrastructure, now we're looking
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 7: at a totally different game plan, and we don't know
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 7: if that's going to happen. Israel's pushing for nukes. I understand.
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 7: I don't think they're going to get it. I don't
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 7: think they're going to get ground forces. Despite their incredible leverage,
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 7: I just don't think they have the ability to push Trump,
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 7: whatever they're offering and threatening him with, to get him
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 7: to go to ground forces. He knows that's the end.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 7: He knows what that means. So I think we have
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 7: to wait and see what happens. But to just pretend
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 7: that nothing's been done on the economy is ridiculous. The
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 7: regulatory burden that was removed in one ruling took about
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 7: a $ 1. 2 trillion burden off this economy. That was one
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 7: of the biggest impacts reducing inflation during Trump's second term.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 2: No other president would do that. I want everyone out
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: there to know According to you, they're all thinking emotional
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 2: when they're bitching about gas prices and what they're paying
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 2: for everything else.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 4: That isn't emotional to me.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 2: That is reality.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 7: When they say that this all started on February 28th
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 7: because of the war in Iran, that's simply not true.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 2: It sure made it a lot worse now, didn't it?
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 19: No.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 2: No, we went from $ 2. 50 a gallon. We went from $ 2.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 7: 50 a gallon at Shell up the road to $ 4. 30
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 7: a gallon. Yeah, gas is one of the 10 million inputs.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one important one. We are a petroleum-based economy. Your
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 2: defense is.
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 7: To say— If you think that the war in Iran
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 7: caused our inflation that took six years to create, if
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 7: that all happens since February 28th, then you're not thinking rationally.
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 7: You're thinking emotionally.
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 2: I'm saying it certainly added on to it and continues to.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 17: I agree a lot more with G2 than I disagree.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 17: Maybe I should preface my statement. As I said, I
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 17: agree with you, G2, but you know what? The average
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 17: voter doesn't think like us.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 4: Listen to yourselves. Listen to both of you. No, hang
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 4: on a second.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 2: Listen to the two of you talk. Listen to you.
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 7: And here lies the problem. You've got the propaganda machine
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 7: saying Trump caused all these price increases when, in fact,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 7: it's obviously silly to say so.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 2: You both sound like Democrats.
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 7: Main Street just looks at that gas pump and says,
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 7: I hate Trump. They don't remember the price in June
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 7: of 2022. They don't know anything. And then they turn
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 7: on NPR, and NPR tells them, well, the demon god
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 7: once again... did something bad.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 7: And they just fall for it.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 2: This is insanity.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 17: Let me interject this because I do. I agree with
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 17: both of you.
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 7: I do.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 2: Well, let me make something clear to me. I just
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 2: want to make it clear. I don't agree with any
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 2: of this.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 19: These are all facts, Ron.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 2: If you want to talk.
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 7: About the impact on the.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 2: Midterm, that's a different thing.
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 7: There's no question that people are buying into this idea
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 7: that somehow inflation just got invented on February 28th.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: It's gotten worse.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 7: It's childlike, it's idiotic, but that's what they think.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 2: Has it gotten worse?
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 7: Not significantly.
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 17: Only at the fuel pump.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 2: Well, at the grocery store and the fuel pump.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 7: We've got rent going down at Atlanta. You realize, now
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 7: this is not a good fact, okay? If you think
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 7: I'm saying the economy's in great shape, that's not accurate.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 7: I'm just arguing that this emotional diatribe about inflation is wrong.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 2: And I'm arguing that you're making the same argument that
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 2: they made under Biden with the emotional crap and it
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 2: didn't work for them and it's not going to work
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 2: for the Republicans. And you want to say that all
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 2: the people who say it's the economy stupid are voting emotional.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 2: And I'm here to tell you that you are misreading
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 2: people and misreading the economy. You are trying to spin
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: something into something more positive when it's a big negative.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 2: And it is an absolute big negative.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 7: Here's the problem, Ron. I'm not spitting anything. I'm telling
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 7: you that inflation at one point was 9%. Now it's 2.3%.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 7: All right? So if we could just stop whining about this.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 7: The gas price is a huge emotional and real financial problem.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 2: Well, tell me how cheap everything is. Tell all of
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 2: our listeners how lucky they are at the grocery store,
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 2: how lucky they are with their car insurance, and how
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: everything is good.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 7: I never once said that, Ron. That's not at all
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 7: what I'm saying.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: But you're trying to imply under Trump everything's gotten less
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 2: expensive or better. None of this is his fault. The
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 2: war didn't create any problems. If we were an energy-based
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 2: economy under Biden, where you were saying and everyone was
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 2: saying the price of a barrel of oil and gas
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 2: affects everything because it's an oil-based economy, all of a
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 2: sudden now under Trump, that.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 4: Isn't the case.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 7: No, that's not what I'm saying. You're not hearing me.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 7: So this energy component is why we've gone from 0.68
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 7: to 2.30.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 2: I tell you what, we've wasted enough time on this.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take more calls. This is ridiculous. I
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 2: do not agree with this. I want to take more calls.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: You are doing the same thing the Democrats did. I
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 2: said this last time. And you can go ahead and
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 2: do that. You're trying to tell everybody. Yeah, you're trying
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 2: to tell everybody it's emotional. It's better off than you think.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: And it's a disaster.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 25: No.
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 2: The war is a disaster. The economy is a disaster.
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 19: And the stock.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 4: Market is way down.
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 7: What I'm saying is we have to analyze what's driven
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 7: these costs if we want to understand it. And then
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 7: we can look at what the impact on the public is.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 7: The public is just going to say gas is higher.
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 7: I'm angry.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 22: Right.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 7: And I'm either not going to vote, which I think
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 7: is going to be a big problem, or some of
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 7: them might say, I'm going to vote for the socialists,
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 7: which is stupid. But they might do it. And I
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 7: think you'd agree it's stupid. It's emotional. It's dumb. But
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 7: they might do it because the socialists are saying, hey,
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 7: just like Chavez said, I got a better way, baby.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 7: The state's going to take care of you. And we're
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 7: only talking about gas. We're not talking about the fact
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 7: that Lincoln, Atlanta, and Miami are lower.
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 4: I don't live in Atlanta.
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 2: I live in Ohio. And I'm talking about where I
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 2: live and what's going on where I live. All right?
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about what the price of a gallon
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 2: of gas was in California. I'm not going to sit
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 2: here and say, hey, when gas was $ 5. 16 or $ 5
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 2: when Biden was president, I should be rejoicing because it's
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 2: 430 now.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 4: That is a bullcrap argument.
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 7: I'm not saying that either.
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 2: That is stupidity. You want to talk emotional stupidity? That's stupidity.
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 2: Because I'm saying to you, gas was $ 2. 50 a gallon.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 7: And the Democrats drew down the Strategic Patrol Reserve to reserve.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 2: Trump's drawn down the Strategic Oil Reserve, too.
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 7: And we fell for it.
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 2: Trump is drawing it down. He has drawn you down, too.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 7: He's drawn down about one third of what the Democrats
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 7: pulled for no strategic reason at all.
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I tell him in the election.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 4: I tell you what.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: Why is this polling in a crapper? Well, I don't understand.
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 2: Are all of these people out there just so emotional
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 2: that they don't realize how good they got it?
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 7: No, but you're just obsessing on this one fact, okay?
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 2: The economy is not one fact. The economy is what
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 2: affects everybody. You're not talking about the economy.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 7: You're talking about inflation and gas prices.
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 2: You're damn right. That's all you're talking about. And food
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: prices and insurance and car prices and home prices and
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 2: all of it.
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 7: And is it your position that inflation happened since February 28th?
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 2: That's it? No, I'll give you specifically my position. Inflation
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 2: did happen. No, you asked my position. I will give
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 2: you my position.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 4: You want my position?
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 2: Here it is.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 4: Inflation did happen under Joe Biden and went up.
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 2: That's my point. No, I'm not done. But under Trump,
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: when he first started, inflation was coming down. But guess what?
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 2: Because of the war, it's gone right back up. So
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 2: what you're on top of what you already got.
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 4: For God's sakes.
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: They elected him to bring it down. Why was he elected?
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 2: To secure the border and fix the economy. He's not
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: doing that. The inflation he's adding is on top of this.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: That's the problem. Don't you get it? You want to
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 2: try to tell everyone out there.
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 7: You're not hearing me.
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 9: Look.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 19: I'm telling you, if you think I.
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 7: Believe prices have gone.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 19: Down, that we've gone to deflation, we're near deflation.
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 7: But to pretend that this all happened since February 28th
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 7: is simply wrong.
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not pretending that. That's bullcrap words. I am not
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 2: pretending that. I'm saying this guy had it going down,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 2: and this war has brought it back up. We are
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 2: in an oil-based economy, and the economy sucks right now.
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 2: And he owns.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 7: It because, guess what?
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 2: He's been in office for two years, and it's getting worse,
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 2: not better.
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 7: And the one question is, why does the Fed have
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 7: a 2% inflation target, not zero?
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 4: All right, well, we're just going around in circles. You're
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 4: on the air.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 2: Hello, caller. You're on the air.
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 7: Hello. Yeah, you hear me?
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, go ahead, please.
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 7: Hey, this is Eula. I called you around January or something,
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 7: told you I was going to run for governor. So
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 7: I still am. OK, I can get my name on
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 7: the ballot on the right end.
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't care.
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about it.
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 2: You're on here.
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 28: Hello.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, go ahead.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 28: Okay, I'd like to say that Jesse Kelly has it
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 28: from reliable sources that there are 107 million illegal aliens
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 28: in the country. One-third of the population is illegal.
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks.
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 4: You're on the air.
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, hi.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 15: You guys were talking about the Strategic Oil Preserve for
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 15: the last few days. There's one thing you guys haven't
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 15: mentioned or haven't heard. First of all, you're right, there's
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 15: a lot of competition for a lot of oil products
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 15: But the problem with the oil refineries is they're 96%
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 15: or 97% of capacity, which means that they don't have
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 15: any wiggle room to make any products or really to
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 15: adjust their production. Second of all, there's no reasonable protocol
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 15: for replenishing the strategic oil preserves. The Secretary of Energy,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 15: I looked into this. He has to give a request.
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 15: like a requisition to Congress.
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 4: Stand by.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 2: Hold that thought.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 4: Hold that thought.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 2: I'll hook you up with G2. Back with G2 and
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 2: more after this.
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 4: Stay tuned.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 7: Hi there.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 2: This is Dan Rivers. WKBN. All the excitement's here with G2. And, caller,
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 2: we've got to make it quick so I can get
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 2: these calls on.
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 28: Go ahead.
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 4: Quick points.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 15: Okay, so the Secretary of Energy... has to send a requisition,
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 15: a purchase requisition to Congress. I forgot to look up
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 15: to see, you know, what committee it goes to. But
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 15: Congress has to approve the appropriation so that the Secretary
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 15: of Energy can't say, we're down 300 million barrels, and
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 15: this is the plan for it like you would in
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 15: the business, where inventory would tell purchasing what it needs,
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 15: purchasing would order it, and it would come in. We
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 15: made 18 and a half million. 18.5 million barrels of
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 15: oil a day, we could easily purchase 3 or 4
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 15: million barrels a day and replenish the strategic oil preserves.
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 15: That's not being done.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, because they're using the oil reserve to maintain
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 7: market stability. That's why it's being drawn down as it
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 7: was designed to be during a time of war. Whether
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 7: you like the war or not, that's the purpose of
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 7: the reserve. War or significant economic conflict like the energy
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 7: crisis in the 70s, Before Trump began drawing, he added
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 7: 20 million barrels, and then he took it out and
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 7: ended up with a net. I think he did a
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 7: net of 84 last time I checked, something like that.
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 7: I'll look it up. But that's where it is, whereas
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 7: the Democrats just drew it down straight through in order
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 7: to put more supply into the market to drive down prices.
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 7: And it worked. It drove down prices, and it helped
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 7: them a little bit in the election. So what you're
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 7: saying is correct, but when the market changes, when the
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 7: war is resolved, when the United States has the ability
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 7: to begin replenishing the reserve, as long as the infrastructure
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 7: is preserved, meaning I don't think they could take a
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 7: lot more out. I think we're getting kind of to
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 7: tank bottom. But as long as that infrastructure is preserved,
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 7: they can go buy more and refill the preserve. They'll
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 7: do it likely over a long time.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 15: But the Secretary of Energy needs to have the power
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 15: to actually go to oil companies and make the purchase himself.
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 15: He shouldn't have to rely on Congress, because Congress is
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 15: actively fighting Trump, actively fighting this war, and just actively
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 15: fighting Republicans. Even the Republicans themselves don't want to appear
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 15: to be helping Trump.
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 7: This is the whole..
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 15: This is what it's all messed up.
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 7: And that's right.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 9: OK.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 7: And now you're going back to the comments we made
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 7: in January 2025 when they first started saying, hey, maybe
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 7: Congress isn't going to implement the America First agenda. We
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 7: said this is the greatest attack they can make on
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 7: the Republican Party, their own party, on Republican voters, their
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 7: own voters, and on the Democrats and independents who voted
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 7: for the America First agenda because they knew what the
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 7: Democrat Party had done when they put Biden in the
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 7: White House. So we've had this treason being done by
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 7: Congress since January 25, and you're concerned that they might
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 7: block replenishment of the strategic oil reserve? That's a risk,
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 7: I suppose, at the time that it gets there. But
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 7: the truth is, right now, the issue is just solve
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 7: this war, get these markets stabilized, and get it done
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 7: before we see $ 130, $ 140 barrel oil or higher. That's
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 7: the key. One last comment.
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 15: It occurred to me a couple days ago while talking
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 15: to my wife that this might be Trump's attempt to
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 15: smash OPEC.
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 7: OPEC's already really kind of smashed because Saudi stepped away
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 7: and UAE stepped away, and they did that so they
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 7: could increase production. If we could get this straight opened again,
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 7: it would work. And so we have to really consider
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 7: very hard what is the next approach. You know, how
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 7: do we move forward? There's the simply declare victory and
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 7: walk away. I think there's some serious problems with that.
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 7: There is the continue this process the way we are.
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 7: There's some upside and downside to that. You know, Iran
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 7: is under tremendous economic stress right now. That's putting a
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 7: lot of pressure on them.
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 2: We're out of time.
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 4: We're out of time. The Guardians are next.
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 13: G2, thank you.