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Friday 4pm hour 05/29/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: And so welcome for a six in the afternoon, 79 degrees.
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  Speaker 1: It's a gorgeous Friday afternoon here on news radio, five
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  Speaker 1: 70 WKVN. There are times I'll tell you something. I
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  Speaker 1: sit here and some of the callers, I think to myself, God,
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to have them in, in political offices locally
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  Speaker 1: and how much better I think the community would be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just, and give them a chance to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You hear me brag all the time about Rich, a pharmacist.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, I'd vote for him for any office
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  Speaker 1: he would run for. I'd love to see Rich, a
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  Speaker 1: pharmacist as, Mahoning County is a Mahoning County commissioner. I
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  Speaker 1: would really enjoy seeing the boss lady as a Mahoning
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  Speaker 1: County commissioner. I'm just thinking these are, to me, these
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  Speaker 1: are people that are pretty sharp and could make a
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  Speaker 1: difference in the community's best interest and in a taxpayer's
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  Speaker 1: best interest. It would almost be the best of both
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  Speaker 1: worlds to a large extent. I mean, I could live
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  Speaker 1: with Richard pharmacist and, I could live with the boss
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  Speaker 1: lady and Ted the conservative. How about if those three
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  Speaker 1: were all your Mahoning County commissioners? Honestly, I think they
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  Speaker 1: would do an outstanding job. And how about G2 as governor? No, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done with that. NewsRadio 570, WQN, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: I'd jump off a bridge.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'd push you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Then it would make my decision a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: I would catch you. You know that. I would be
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  Speaker 1: there to catch you. And keep in mind, J.J., J.J.,
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  Speaker 1: the liberal folks, keep in mind when there would be
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  Speaker 1: one set of footprints in the sand, it's because I
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  Speaker 1: would be carrying you. Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's because you murdered me. You have to carry
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  Speaker 2: me in that mind. Anyway, I'm wondering, I'm listening to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, about what the 60-day crap is. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're good if you know that when we leave this,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be worse than we had before. You
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  Speaker 2: know that we had... We had people going in on
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  Speaker 2: a daily basis or weekly basis to monitor their enriched
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  Speaker 2: uranium and plutonium and making sure that they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the centrifuges to do their work. And we kept their money. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: I told you we took it as sanctions. And now
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand it because we didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: pay a toll. And now we're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: wind up doing it.
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  Speaker 1: It's all a rouge.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there's no, there's no bombing going on other
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  Speaker 2: than you hear it every now and then. And what
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  Speaker 2: happened to the Israelis? The Israelis were there in the beginning, boy,
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  Speaker 2: they're bombing. After that, that colonel went down and we
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  Speaker 2: went to go find them. Remember you were talking about
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  Speaker 2: how wonderful job that those, those military people did to
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  Speaker 2: find him up on that Ridge.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: They really had no, they made no effort.
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  Speaker 3: None.
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  Speaker 2: So now where are they now? Where are they now?
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  Speaker 2: I don't hear about, which is named, I don't hear
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  Speaker 2: about anything about him. It's interesting that they, it's now
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  Speaker 2: our war. We were worried about, they were going to
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  Speaker 2: bomb them first. And then they were going to come
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  Speaker 2: after us. That was one of the reasons, right, Ron?
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  Speaker 2: Remember they said that they were going to go after
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  Speaker 2: the Israelis.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, JJ.
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  Speaker 2: We had to be preemptive.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to get a big argument from me,
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  Speaker 1: as most of you know that have listened. Listen. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we dropped the bunker buster and that took
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  Speaker 1: care of business. And I was just reading the other
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  Speaker 1: day where they said, well, to get all of this
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  Speaker 1: dust and that kind of stuff, it's way down buried
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  Speaker 1: deep because of the bunker buster. So it's not an issue.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I've said it before. I'll say it
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  Speaker 1: to you again. This is a mess. This is an
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  Speaker 1: absolute mess. It's my that Trump got into this because
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  Speaker 1: of Israel and Netanyahu. I don't know why he did
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  Speaker 1: a 180. I don't know why the guy that says
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  Speaker 1: I'm against regime changes and forever wars in the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East reversed his position on Epstein and reversed his position
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  Speaker 1: on this situation. I'm bewildered by it. But I think
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  Speaker 1: that Israel talked him into this and it is a mess.
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  Speaker 1: It is an absolute mess.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're silent. They're invisible, the Israelis. You don't hear anything.
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  Speaker 1: I think they have a great, great presence right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're not invisible. They have such influence into what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying to you, I hope I'm wrong. As
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  Speaker 1: an American, like I said to you, I didn't support
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, but I wish Joe Biden would have been
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  Speaker 1: the best president ever because that would benefit me and
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  Speaker 1: my country. You follow me?
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping you would say that because that's what I say.
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  Speaker 2: All right, but so— If you remember, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: if they have a D or an R in front
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  Speaker 2: of their name.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so whether you like Trump or not, you better
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  Speaker 1: hope he's a good president because that's what's best for
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  Speaker 1: the country. But in this particular situation, and I upset
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  Speaker 1: some of the— mega cult, and it is a cult,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm saying that I think he got involved in
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  Speaker 1: this because of Israel and Netanyahu. I think that this
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  Speaker 1: was a mistake, in my opinion. And now I always acknowledge,
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  Speaker 1: I always give the acknowledgement, they know more of what's
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  Speaker 1: going on than I do. So I'm giving you it
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  Speaker 1: from afar. I think it's a mistake. And I sit
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  Speaker 1: back and I wonder, where do you think this economy
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  Speaker 1: would have been if we never would have got involved
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  Speaker 1: in this? Gas was at $ 2. 50 a gallon. Inflation was
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  Speaker 1: coming down. The market was doing good. Stock market and
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  Speaker 1: employment was doing good. Everything was going in the right
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  Speaker 1: direction because you have really some brilliant business minds running
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  Speaker 1: the economy. All of that got reversed overnight. All of
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  Speaker 1: that got reversed because of this one decision.
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  Speaker 4: So..
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  Speaker 1: You have some of these great financial minds saying that
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  Speaker 1: you could see 6% inflation in the second quarter. 6% inflation.
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  Speaker 1: On top of what you already have, which is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: We're in trouble, Ron. They're struggling, man.
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  Speaker 2: We're barely making it ourselves. We're better off than a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people. We're worse off than a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: I've tightened my belt so much that my colonel and
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  Speaker 2: my two sergeants are swelling up. My belt's so tight.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, you know, you got to, it's, I'm surprised
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  Speaker 2: I don't get you. I don't sound like Tigger. I
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  Speaker 2: sound like Michael Jackson. It bothers me because I sit
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  Speaker 2: here and I listen to those commercials and I'm walking
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  Speaker 2: around in the garage and playing, doing some playing today.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going, you know, we're going to wind up
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  Speaker 2: being worse off. Even after it's all said and done,
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  Speaker 2: and I told you before, what is the end game?
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  Speaker 2: If you're saying that you don't want them to have
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon, what do they need to do to
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  Speaker 2: prove to us that they're not going to? Or we're
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  Speaker 2: just going to be in this for continuous, or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand where it's got to be. There's got
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  Speaker 2: to be an end game to that. You're going to say,
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  Speaker 2: if you do these things, then we will no longer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this. Back up on me.
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  Speaker 1: What if they say to you, wait a minute, you
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  Speaker 1: don't run our country. We're a country of 93 million people,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to have a nuclear weapon like North
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  Speaker 1: Korea has. And we're going to have one like Israel
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  Speaker 1: has to protect us from being attacked as well. And
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  Speaker 1: so who are you to tell us that we can't
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  Speaker 1: have that? So we're going to remember one thing to run.
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  Speaker 2: And I have to say this because I am not,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in God, but I'm not a religious person,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't. Rich always said that they, they want,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're going to have their 42 virgins or
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  Speaker 2: 47 virgins, whatever it is. And that religion and the
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  Speaker 2: Christian religion is, There's something bad. The coming of Jesus
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  Speaker 2: has to come again. That has to be the end
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  Speaker 2: of the world that way. They don't have in the
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  Speaker 2: Quran of anything that they are going to try to cause.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't read the Quran. All I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying to you is, outside of all of this, I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it again. I don't understand their culture or their
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  Speaker 1: view of life or their way of life. I can't
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  Speaker 1: assume they think like I do, because they do not.
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  Speaker 1: It's a much different culture, different history. different part of
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  Speaker 1: the world. So as Kennedy once said, to understand the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: you better try to figure out why they think like
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  Speaker 1: they think. So I don't think that... Listen, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: once and once again..
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  Speaker 2: And we just kill them all. If we don't do that,
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  Speaker 2: then they're going to hold a vengeance against us, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to come back later on, and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to bomb us later on. So I'm saying basically we
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  Speaker 2: caused our own demise.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't go for that either.
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  Speaker 2: I know you don't. I'm not going to say anything
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  Speaker 2: about that. It just bothers me that when you're saying
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  Speaker 2: things like that, that doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: Settle down and enjoy your weekend.
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Listen, I know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you can either agree or disagree. I can only give
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  Speaker 1: you my initial thoughts on all of this. And I
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  Speaker 1: look at this situation, folks, and I think it is
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  Speaker 1: genuinely a mess. And I wish we would have never
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  Speaker 1: gotten involved in this from the very beginning. So I
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  Speaker 1: thought when we dropped the bunker buster, that was the
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  Speaker 1: end of it. but apparently for whatever, and it seemed
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  Speaker 1: very effective. And even now I'm reading, well, you can't
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  Speaker 1: get all of this. that they want because it's buried
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  Speaker 1: so deep in a mountain, it'd be dangerous. But apparently,
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  Speaker 1: as I say, in my view, Trump gave in, did
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  Speaker 1: a 180 on his own position with Netanyahu and Israel
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  Speaker 1: and was influenced by them to get involved in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: And I sincerely believe that the administration thought this would
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  Speaker 1: be over much sooner than it is, and it's not.
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  Speaker 1: And it just continues to go on. I just ask
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  Speaker 1: all of you, listen, I believe in America first. I
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  Speaker 1: believe in America first. I believe that's what's most important
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  Speaker 1: to me. I believe... I agree with Thomas Massey. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in foreign aid. I don't believe a country
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  Speaker 1: that's $ 40 trillion in debt and growing should be giving
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars to anybody. I don't care if it's Israel, Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: or anybody else, because we're broke. I think we better
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  Speaker 1: concentrate on our own country first and our own people first.
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  Speaker 1: As I've said to you before, there are big financial
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  Speaker 1: problems with Social Security, big financial problems with Medicare and Medicaid.
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  Speaker 1: These are programs that affect the American people. We can't
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  Speaker 1: afford to be giving billions of dollars. Massey, I totally
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  Speaker 1: agree with that. And I don't want to get tangled
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  Speaker 1: up in these foreign situations that we've been tied up
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  Speaker 1: for for years. We haven't done very good in any
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  Speaker 1: of them since Vietnam. You can even make the argument
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  Speaker 1: if you go back to Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan. I've said
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  Speaker 1: this to you before and I'll say it to you again.
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  Speaker 1: What did all of those young men die for in Afghanistan?
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  Speaker 1: Were the ones that lost arms and legs or burnt
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  Speaker 1: that survived? What was the point of it? When it
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  Speaker 1: was all said and done, we left. The country went
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  Speaker 1: back to the terrorists in better shape than when we
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  Speaker 1: took it with all the equipment left behind. So what
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  Speaker 1: was the point of all that sacrifice? The heartache with
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  Speaker 1: parents who lost sons and daughters or whose lives were
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  Speaker 1: forever changed. What was the point of it? I'm not...
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of Victoria Nuland. I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: fan of the regime changes. I think what most of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff we did in the Middle East has been
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  Speaker 1: a failure. It's so far from our country to begin with. Logistically,
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  Speaker 1: it's a nightmare.
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  Speaker 4: And..
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  Speaker 1: As a Trump voter, and I think he's done more
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  Speaker 1: right than wrong, I still say... Why did he reverse himself?
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  Speaker 1: Most of you, none of you were staying up at
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  Speaker 1: night worrying about the nuclear threat from Iran until you
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  Speaker 1: were kind of sold it by the neocons. I was
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  Speaker 1: not worried about it, and I'm not worried about it today.
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  Speaker 1: If they would pull something with the United States, it
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  Speaker 1: would be wiped out in the blink of an eye.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought the bunker buster solved all this. Then
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  Speaker 1: we did the big bombing campaign. I thought we got
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  Speaker 1: them now. They're on the ropes. They're going to come
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  Speaker 1: back and they're going to reach an agreement. Well, they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't surrender. We want unconditional surrender. We want disagreements. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're going along with none of this stuff. Then a
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  Speaker 1: discussion of, well, we'll bomb them some more. What do
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  Speaker 1: they say? The definition of insanity is doing the same
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  Speaker 1: thing over and over and expecting different outcomes. We'll bomb
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  Speaker 1: them some more and then they'll come to the negotiating table. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what makes you think it's going to work then? As
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  Speaker 1: we deplete all of our missiles and all of our supply.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm supposed to look around and say, Let's pursue
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  Speaker 1: this and stay on this course. And God, I hope
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong. I hope it all works out. But now
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  Speaker 1: we've got a 60-day ceasefire. What's going to happen between
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  Speaker 1: then and now? So it's wrong to look at America first,
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  Speaker 1: to say I'm concerned about the inflation you're paying for
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  Speaker 1: your family and your finances and what energy is costing you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know oil prices have come down. They could go
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  Speaker 1: up tomorrow. Yes, I know the market's up and the
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  Speaker 1: market's down. But consumer confidence isn't good. There's an uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: out there. And there's economic situations that are going on
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  Speaker 1: in this country. And that's what we should be worried about.
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  Speaker 1: So I really sincerely believe he got involved in this mess.
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  Speaker 5: Because of that. 570 WKBN. And Ron Verb, you're on
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  Speaker 5: the air.
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  Speaker 6: Ron Verb, your personal porn account has been hacked. Police
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  Speaker 6: have been notified. But if you get me a gift
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  Speaker 6: card to my local gas station, I might be able
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  Speaker 6: to make this all go away.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let me go get the card right now and
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  Speaker 1: get it your way, because I certainly don't want my
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Pornhub account getting hacked.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Hey, I saw gas for $ 3. 99 a gallon yesterday. I
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  Speaker 6: think it was on Route 14, I guess, Swift Mart
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  Speaker 6: or something. So, I mean, that's kind of good news.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I saw it today at like $ 4.
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  Speaker 2: 40 is..
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  Speaker 1: Where it's at. But listen, I'm going to ask you again,
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  Speaker 1: had we never got involved in this situation in the
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  Speaker 1: first place when we were around 250 a gallon and
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  Speaker 1: the inflation was coming down, where do you think the
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  Speaker 1: economy would be right now? It'd be in a much
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  Speaker 1: better place than it is currently.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: Like JJ was saying that, you know, if we didn't
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  Speaker 6: get involved that, We'd still be in trouble, though. And
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  Speaker 6: that's the way I interpreted it. I might have had
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  Speaker 6: him wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 6: But I was calling about the AI.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 6: So how's this AI working for you when you go to, like,
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  Speaker 6: a fast food place and you've got to go up
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  Speaker 6: to the kiosk to order? and not the whole menu
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  Speaker 6: is on the kiosk. So then if you want something special,
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  Speaker 6: you've got to find somebody in the restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know how to use a kiosk. If you
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  Speaker 1: go to McDonald's and you use it, you can order
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  Speaker 1: it without mustard or onions or whatever. You just got to–
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  Speaker 1: you need– there's artificial intelligence, and then there's UI. That's me, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the unknown caller intelligence. There's UI, and you need to
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  Speaker 1: improve the UI. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, you go to your local home improvement store,
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  Speaker 6: and there's like three people watching you try to check out.
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  Speaker 6: They're laughing at you, and you're trying to check out.
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  Speaker 6: How's that AI working out for you, Ronnie? It's not
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  Speaker 6: working out for me, anyhow.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I just wonder on any of the self-checkouts, I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad there are people that are keeping an eye on them,
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  Speaker 1: but how much stuff is stolen? How much security do
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  Speaker 1: you have to have to make sure people don't scan
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  Speaker 1: every other item or steal stuff when they're doing the self-checkout?
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  Speaker 1: Is it really, really worth it?
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  Speaker 6: You go to Walmart and there's like 17 cameras on
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  Speaker 6: each kiosk there. I mean, you're checking out, and there's
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  Speaker 6: your picture, checking out, and they got, like, cameras all
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  Speaker 6: over this place. You could follow someone through Walmart, like,
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  Speaker 6: the entire way. I don't know about the restrooms. You know,
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  Speaker 6: you might be able to see you go in. But, hey,
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  Speaker 6: Boss Lady made a good point, though, about AI eliminating
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  Speaker 6: government jobs, but what's the chances that's actually going to happen?
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  Speaker 6: Are the Democrats going to let them eliminate government jobs?
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  Speaker 6: I find that hard to believe.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of times it's difficult for people to
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  Speaker 1: accept it, but technology does eliminate jobs. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: if people want to let them or not. That's just
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  Speaker 1: the reality. You can't fight it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, G2 had a good, what was it, Wednesday? His
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  Speaker 6: last hit that hour on Wednesday?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I thought that was quite insightful, though, about all the
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  Speaker 6: AI and that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did, too. That and the ticks when he
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: was talking about them.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, the anti-beef ticks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Not going to be able to eat meat?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: My gosh, that would be terrible. I mean, what would
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: you eat? You'd have to turn into a vegan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if they ever come up with a
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  Speaker 1: tick that says I can't eat pizza? That's where I
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  Speaker 1: draw the line.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I got to go.
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  Speaker 5: News Radio 570 WKVABN. All right, back to it. 436
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  Speaker 5: in the afternoon. Nice day. 79 degrees on this Friday,
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: May 29th.
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  Speaker 1: And you're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Ron, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good, good.
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  Speaker 1: Ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I was reading an article earlier today about an
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: executive order that Donald Trump signed earlier this year. Basically,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: what the executive order was, it was pulling out of
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: a 13-country state.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Uh..
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Kind of uh... collaboration where these come where these countries
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  Speaker 3: were trying to starting to impose taxes on like offshore
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  Speaker 3: accounts like uh... you know tax havens like in the
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: cayman islands and things like that you know these countries
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: are really pushing to start the tax uh... the money
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: that gets stored in there and uh... donald trump pulled
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: us out of it and what this article is saying
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: is that just reviewing the companies who are involved in
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: that stuff that they're estimated to save around $ 40 billion
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: this year, just those companies saving their money in those
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: tax savings. That's how much money they're saving in taxes.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Just wanted to know your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't read anything about it, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know enough about it how a legitimate company
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know how legitimate companies do it as far
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: as their accounting is concerned. So you're saying a legitimate
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: company makes this much money in profit and they don't
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  Speaker 1: pay tax on it because they bank in the Cayman Islands?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand from a tax standpoint how
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that's even feasible. I mean, I realized in the past
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it used to be where your corporate headquarters were and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: that loophole was closed. so I don't really know too
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: much about it to comment on it. I would have
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to really study that and ask Andrew Smith or some
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: CPA about it to even look into it. You're talking
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to a guy that's, when you talk a bank account,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I think Huntington or West Banco or whatever, I don't
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: think Cayman Islands.
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  Speaker 3: Do you?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, you've got to have lawyers, access to
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of money to be able to manage that
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm not against anybody that's doing anything
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that's legal. This idea that, oh, this person paid no
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: taxes because they took legitimate deductions, I don't have a
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: problem with that at all. That's what the tax code is.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I'm for everybody. I don't know anybody that doesn't file
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: their taxes that doesn't want to take advantage of any
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: legal tax break that they get. It is your money,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and you want to keep as much of it as
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you can. There's no sin in that.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean, wouldn't you say that that's our
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: money if those companies are, you know, not making a
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: good faith effort in order to pay what they should
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: be paying?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they should be paying, and I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: don't know what the legalities of it is. I mean,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I genuinely plead ignorance on it. I do not know
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: enough about it to even render an opinion on it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard for me to imagine, like, General
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Motors has these accounts in the Cayman Islands. I would
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: highly doubt it. I mean, what companies are they talking about?
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty reputable ones. I can't recall off the
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: top of my head, but it was definitely names that
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: you would know, like really big brands, things like that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: It was in the New York Times. I could send
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  Speaker 3: it over to you. I thought that was very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I can just talk to you in general because I
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: just don't know enough about it. If things are legal
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and you can take advantage of them to save money,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that's how the system works. I can't fault you for
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: doing that. I mean, don't you take every deduction you're
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: entitled to when you file your taxes? I don't know
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: anybody that doesn't.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, do you... Yeah, you're right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I don't disagree. I mean, that's why he had to
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: sign the executive order to pull us out of that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: You know, we were in a collaboration that was trying
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: to impose taxes and limit that stuff.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Well, all I can remember being discussed was they wanted
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to have a global tax. And I'm opposed to this
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: global stuff. I'm opposed to the World Trade Organization. I'm
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: opposed to the World Health Organization. And I'd be opposed
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to a global tax. I am not for giving up
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the sovereignty of the United States of America or to
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: start operating our trade policies being determined by the World
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Trade Organization or our health policies by the World Health Organization.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I'm totally opposed to... global taxes in that sense.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: What the way I would push back on that is
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I'm not I don't disagree with you really there but
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: we have corporations that funk you know that exist inside
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the US they're basically bigger than the majority of all
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: other countries in the globe so and the things that
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: they're doing with the money the way they pay taxes
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: the way they run their finances is It's deeply disturbing.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, that's one of the main.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Reasons that our country is suffering.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's– we're suffering because of bad
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: management and spending issues. That's why we're suffering. We're not
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: suffering because of people not paying enough in taxes. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: hear this nonsense.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I just told you that all these companies
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: are starting just this year $ 40 billion.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: But I don't know what the legalities of it are.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Just because you're saying it doesn't mean I should say, oh,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that's terrible. I don't know what they're paying. Listen, here's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: basic economics. Let me lay this on you from a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: basic economic standpoint, which was taught to me many, many,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: many years ago. If General Motors sold everything that they owned,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: every plant, every piece of equipment, everything that they owned,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and had billions of dollars when it was all said
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and done, and put that money in an S &
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: P 500 fund, or put that money in a bank
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: account at 4%, you better hope that they make more
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: money building cars than they do doing that. Because if
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: they don't make more money being in business, what's the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: point of being in business?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hey, Ron, I love that point. I could sit
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: for a long time about that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So any company that wants to take legitimate business deductions
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: or whatever they are that are legal, I can't fault
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: them for that. Most of these companies, you know, when
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you watch that interview with Bezos the other day from
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Amazon and the amount of money he pays in taxes...
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And the amount of jobs he's created, and they want
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to make him out like he's some evil guy. Well,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. I want you to be able to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: keep as much of your money as is possible. I
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: start with a basic premise. It's your money to start with.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I believe government is taking too much of your money
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and pissing way too much of it away on wasteful spending,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: which we are seeing on a state level in Ohio
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and in Minnesota, on a federal level with the government.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: How much of your money, of your hard-earned dollars is
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: taken that is wasted, and I mean wasted away, on
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: special interest in these non-government agencies and for political purposes.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: This is insanity. That's why it's more difficult for people
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to plan for their retirement, to have some of the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: luxuries of life that should come their way from working hard.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think when you talk about taxes, it's a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: spending problem. Good God, we're trillions in debt because we're
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: spending too damn much money.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Well, let me go back to what you kind of
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: said at the beginning there. You said, you know, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I completely agree with that, that if you have a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: company who's just managing money, they're not producing things, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: they are making more money by just managing the money
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: than they would producing things, that's obviously bad. Now, there's
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: a really fascinating book that came out maybe a decade
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: ago called Capital in the 21st Century, written by this
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: guy Thomas Piketty. He's kind of a French economist. But
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: what he basically did is went over the last basically
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: 300 years, bringing as much financial data as he could
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: across the whole globe, you know, Europe, finances, America. You know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: he didn't do too much China and things like that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: But basically what the thrust of his argument, it was
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: like a 900-page book, just graph after graph after graph.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And basically the thrust of his argument was that what
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: we have now, and this is the normal operation of,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: human society, is that the people who have wealth, you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: like it could be the aristocrats 300 years ago, could
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: be the king, could be the business owners now, that
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: if the rate of growth of their financial wealth exceeds
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: the growth of the production capacity of an economy, then
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: you're in trouble. And that's basically— so what happened is, you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: basically because of World War II, things like that, you know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of the big shakeup that happened in the
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: 20th century, the 21st century or whatever, in the 1940s,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: that basically that shook up the whole globe enough that
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: what you had was the financial markets that basically— were
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: equalized in europe they were completely destroyed in russia they
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: were destroyed and so all that wealth that was bottled
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: up in the top and the people who managed, you know,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: like I said, you could view them as like aristocrats.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I would be able to say the people who are
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: managing that money. And what happened in the 1940s, that
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: all got wiped out. And basically, all that money got
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: spread out through the economy. So if you look at,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: you know, the... you know, how equal people were in
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: America in the 1950s and 60s versus now, it was
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: way more equal. You know, the people working at a
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: business were making, you know, maybe three, four, five times
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: less than the CEO. Today, an average worker is making
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: 200 to 300 to 500 times less than a CEO.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: And like I said, that's the normal operation of human civilization, right?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: It's not like we're all just equal. We all get
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: a fair shot at making money. You know, things like that.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: That's not how it works. And I just really think
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: that book, Capital in the 21st Century, basically laid it out.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: It was just... So where do you want me to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: go with that? Do you want me to say..
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Well, what I'm saying is the only way to control
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: that money getting bottled up at the top It's to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: take it from them. You've got to tax it. If
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: they're going to hoard it at the top, not let it...
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people used to say..
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay. The idea that the answer is take it
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: from them. I don't agree with that at all. It's
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: not up to me. I'm not on the board to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: determine what we should pay Mary Barra, the CEO of
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: General Motors. I'm not... on the team that says we're
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: going to pay LeBron James this much money. There's a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: reason why they pay LeBron that much money. They think
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: he's worth it. They think he can make a winning team,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and they think they can get a good return as
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a result of that investment.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: You complain a lot about how the people in your
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: community can't pay their The taxes on their house, why
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: is that?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I can answer that question. Because the taxes have gotten
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: so high. They're not high.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: The houses have increased. They haven't raised taxes in any way.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The property tax burden per month has gone through the roof.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: The problem is how much you're being taxed and how
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: much money is taken. Your attitude is, well, it's because
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: they're not earning enough. No, it's because too much is
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: taken from them.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: There is no way to control housing prices other than taxes.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: You can't do it. Taxes are the thing that control
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: housing prices.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Really? How does taxes control housing prices?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Well, right now, I mean, like you just said... Like,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: the taxes are too high, so people can't really buy houses.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: So that means if you're not going to be buying houses,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: the household price should go down. If you want to sell,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: no one's buying, you've got to lower your price.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: So we would call that the market, would we not?
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: We would say..
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Well, taxes are a part of the market, yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, so if the market says that house price has
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: gone so high that the average person can't afford it...
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And the market has to adjust to be able to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: find buyers as they do in any product. I don't
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: care if you're selling a two by four or you're
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: selling an automobile. If it's priced so people can't buy it,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: usually the price comes down so that people can start
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: to afford it. That isn't a tax issue. That's a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: market driven issue to say, well, we're sitting on all
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: this inventory and we can't move anything. That's called capitalism
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: is what that's called.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is that we, as a society, want
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: to control that. We don't want our homes inflating to
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: these out-of-control prices. Now, how do you control that? Can
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: you put somebody in jail for trying to sell their
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: house for.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: $ 600, 000 when they bought it for $ 300, 000?
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: No, but what you need to do is you need
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: to tax it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: No, you don't. The argument is over you're taxing people
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: on unrealized gains. You're taxing people on what you say
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: you think their house is worth. But let's say if
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: they sell it for more, then you were off. Let's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: say they sell it for less. It's an opinion that
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you think you should tax them on. The argument is
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: people say you should be taxing me on what I
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: bought it for. Because that's what the market price was.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't be taxing me on unrealized gains, nor should
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you be doing that in the stock market. That's where
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the argument's coming in. You want to tax me because
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: you say my house is worth 30% more right now,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: so you want to tax me on that? This is craziness.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, you take a look at it. Your idea
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: of thinking taxes are..
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: What do you think is going to control housing prices?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, you agree that's the fundamental issue, right?
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I think the market controls... housing prices, period. For example,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: You're seeing in some areas where housing prices inflated a
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: great deal. Take Florida, for example. Those prices are coming
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: down pretty dramatically because they went up so high and
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: so many people are priced out of the equation. Now
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the prices are starting to come down substantially. It depends
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: what state you want to go in. Ohio, if you
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: look here, housing prices are somewhat stabilized and even taking
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: up a little bit because it's a cheaper housing market
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: than it is in a lot of the countries. So
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: when you take a look at people leaving New York
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: and going to Miami, what do you think is going
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to happen to real estate prices in New York? You
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: think they're going to go up or come down when
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: people are leaving? What's the market going to do? Those
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: prices are going to come down. And why are people leaving?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Because the taxes are too high. So they leave.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I said. You raise the taxes and
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: the prices come down. That's literally what I said.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, but why do they leave? Because the taxes are
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: too high. So you can't be taxing billionaires.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: You don't want those rich people in your community.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I guess the answer is government needs to take more
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: of everybody's money to this guy.
• 35:49
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• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Hey, Ron, I called to agree with JJ, but I'll
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: tell you real quick how the Illuminati, like the Rothschilds,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: never pay penny in taxes. They create offshore trusts in
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: tax-friendly countries like the British protectorates, and they don't own
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: any assets. They have no assets in their name. Everything
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: is in the trust. For example, they could start a bank.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Whenever they need money, they borrow money from the bank
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: that they control. The bank charges them interest. They pay
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: the interest, but they're really paying interest to themselves. So,
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's complicated. I think there's only like three
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: businesses in the world that do that because the United
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: States and British rules and regulations are so complex, and
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: they play gotcha sucker. that these three corporations are willing
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: to do it. And that's how it's done, basically.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Sounds like you probably are engaged in that type of activity.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got my billions of dollars in our short trust.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Sure, you probably do.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Now, I want to commend J.J., Because in the Judaic religion,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: they believe when the Messiah comes, Jews will control the
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: world and every Jew will receive 2,000 Gentile slaves. And
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: how can Iran, Russia, and China, and the rest of
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: the world deal with religious fanatics like that? In Israel,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Netanyahu is based to support our extreme right-wing Judaics.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Enough of this. I'm not getting in all of this
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: on a Friday. I mean, I'm concerned about..
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: They believe in the Talmud.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know what Levin and Shapiro believe in. I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: know that I disagree with their views on the war.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I can tell you that much. I mean, when you
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: want to talk politics in the war, I will tell
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: you I disagree with them from where they stand on it.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: In many cases..
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: J.J.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: 's point was that Rich the pharmacist keeps bashing Muslims
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: by talking about 72 virgins. But, you know, Ron, the Muslims..
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Once again, I don't think that that's the situation in Iran.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's about... And both of these arguments
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: are ridiculous, whether they're fact or fiction. Iran's argument is
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: we're 93 billion people, we're our own nation, and the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: United States and Israel aren't going to tell us whether
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: or not we can have a nuclear weapon. Why can
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Israel have one? Why can North Korea have one? That,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I think, is what Iran's argument is at this point
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: in time. I don't think it's about 73 virgins or
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: 40 or whatever. Do you? I think they say we're
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: dug in and we're not going along with this.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Points I'm trying to make, and the 72 virgins is
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: only if you die.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I don't care. I mean, with all respect, I don't
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: care about it. Sometimes you get so in the weeds,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I don't care about that. I care about the big issue.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about... So let me do this.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: I want to get you to stop talking about every
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: individual call from yesterday or something.
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: I'm Mike Dabusky. Still no word on whether President Trump
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: plans to extend the ceasefire with Iran, with both sides
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: still not assigning on to the current short-term peace proposal.
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: A federal judge has ordered that President Trump's name be
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: removed from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., setting a
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: two-week deadline for his name to come off the building.
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: ABC's Catherine Falders reports.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: Not only did the judge rule against the center's renaming,
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: he also said the board has to vote again before
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: the closure can happen because he determined the trustees weren't
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: given enough information in advance.
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: Of their vote to fulfill their obligation, if you will.
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: So it really is a scathing ruling for the Trump administration.
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: And of course, the judge also said that the closure
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: of the Kennedy Center can't move forward as planned.
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: The judge said the authority to rename the Kennedy Center
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: lies with Congress, not the center's board. It comes just
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: hours after a judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: to create a so-called anti-weaponization fund. ABC News legal contributor
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: Kim Whaley.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: This is going to stay with this lower court judge,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: and then when there's a final resolution, only then..
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Will the Trump administration have the ability.
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: To appeal it?
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: That fund was designed to pay those who claim to
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: have been victimized by the government. Health officials are ramping
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: up screening procedures at airports as the Ebola outbreak in
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: Central Africa grows.
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: It's exactly what you might entail. It's a medical history.
• 41:39
  Speaker 9: Where have you been? What have you been exposed to?
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: What were you doing in these countries? And then obviously
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: the physical screening, checking for things like fever and other
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: symptoms associated with the virus. But it shouldn't affect passengers
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: that are coming from other places around the world. We
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: haven't heard of anything like that inside these terminals. But
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: that comes with the caveat that if this continues to
• 41:56
  Speaker 9: expand and more countries are affected and added to that list,
• 41:59
  Speaker 9: then of course more passengers would eventually become affected by
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: all of this.
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  Speaker 8: ABC's Matt Rivers. You're listening to ABC News.