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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Friday - 07/24/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Hey, good afternoon. It's
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  Speaker 1: finally Friday, and we couldn't be happier. 306 in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: It's comfortable outside. Nice day, 82 degrees, and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: with you until 6 tonight. Our top secret number, as always,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like to conversate here this afternoon, 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get you through to us on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: Another day that I look at the finances of things
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  Speaker 1: and you just kind of shake your heads to a
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  Speaker 1: certain extent. As I've said to you, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a little more time today, this situation in Iran is
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  Speaker 1: just a mess. It's an absolute mess. And put me
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  Speaker 1: down as one of those people who just, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't see it getting better. As I've said to you
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  Speaker 1: numerous times and I say to you again, I think
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  Speaker 1: that this was probably a gigantic mistake from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: A big mistake from the very beginning. And I think
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  Speaker 1: there are serious consequences that as this goes on. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong and hopefully that's not the case. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: concerned that I'm genuinely concerned with where oil prices go,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices go. And how do you get out of
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  Speaker 1: this situation? How do you get out of this situation?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got to remember before any of this
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  Speaker 1: took place, we didn't have any of these problems with
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  Speaker 1: the straight. The straight was open. There wasn't any of
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  Speaker 1: these issues at all. Take a look. Just take a look.
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  Speaker 1: Oil prices were down. Gas was around, what, 250, 260
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  Speaker 1: a gallon. Inflation seemed to be coming down. All of
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  Speaker 1: those gains that Trump managed to achieve vanished in the
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  Speaker 1: blink of an eye as a result of this. And
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  Speaker 1: now you take a look, yes, back to $ 4 or $ 3. 89,
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  Speaker 1: depending on where you are, a gallon in my neck
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  Speaker 1: of the woods. And so we're right back to bombing again,
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  Speaker 1: which is just, I just, we shall see if it
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  Speaker 1: changes things. If it changes things, we shall see. What's
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  Speaker 1: your insight? What's your input? What's your thoughts? You got any?
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  Speaker 1: 330-729-9977 will get you through to us. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: genuinely would tell you straightforward, I'm not optimistic. I hope
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but I'm not optimistic. And I just, we
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  Speaker 1: shall see. I mean, I definitely hope I'm wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely not optimistic on this. How about you? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I just look around and I see a stock market
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  Speaker 1: that's up and down. I mean, down big time. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a volatile stock market these days. I see oil
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  Speaker 1: prices that are up. I read a story yesterday where
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  Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines was actually taking oil from or taking jet
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  Speaker 1: fuel from I think, from the East Coast and trucking
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  Speaker 1: it to the West Coast. I mean, there's major problems
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  Speaker 1: out there as far as the oil supply is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: as far as fuel is concerned. See, you might not
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  Speaker 1: be aware of it, but we've been tapping into the
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  Speaker 1: strategic oil reserves. We've been tapping into all these reserves.
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  Speaker 1: China's cut their consumption. China's going into their reserves. We've
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  Speaker 1: been going into them here in our country. They're at
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  Speaker 1: the lowest level since, I think, 1985. So we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of been supplementing, if you will, gas prices with the
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  Speaker 1: Strategic Oil Reserve. Well, now you're getting fairly low with
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  Speaker 1: the Strategic Oil Reserve. So now what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: So now what do you do? I just thought it
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  Speaker 1: was interesting yesterday when I was just talking about jet fuel.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem that they were having on the West Coast,
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  Speaker 1: so they were shipping some, as I said, Southwest from
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast to the West Coast. Hmm. So they
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  Speaker 1: say S & P 500 turns red, meaning it's down again,
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  Speaker 1: as a result of Iran. And mounting chip stock losses.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just looking at this stuff. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: anything positive. I wish I could. I just don't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see anything positive. This is a mess. You
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  Speaker 1: can't sit back. I mean, you got to Trump. This
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  Speaker 1: was his decision. He owns it. He made this decision.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a broken record. Like I said to you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he thought this would be over much sooner
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  Speaker 1: than Maybe he was deceived, whether that was by Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: or his real intelligence. I'm sure he thought this would
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  Speaker 1: be over much sooner than it is, but it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: And it continues to go on, continues to affect inflation,
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  Speaker 1: stock markets, energy prices, with no end in sight. With
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  Speaker 1: no end in sight. So we shall see. We shall see. 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see. I think I'm going to start here.
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  Speaker 1: You're on here. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, a couple things.
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  Speaker 3: I wish you'd be more positive. Iran has called for
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  Speaker 3: the destruction of the United States and Israel. They get
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. What do you think would happen if
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  Speaker 3: they dropped that in New York City?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's even a possibility. I mean, let
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  Speaker 1: me put it this way to you. Listen, I don't
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  Speaker 1: buy into any of this stuff. It's okay if you
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  Speaker 1: want to. I think the bunker buster actually did its job.
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't sitting up at night concerned about Iran
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  Speaker 1: and a nuclear weapon with the United States, nor do
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  Speaker 1: I think that they would use it on the United States.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a foolish presumption to make
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  Speaker 1: with the United States. We would destroy them, and they
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  Speaker 1: know it.
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  Speaker 3: If I went and bought a gun and openly said
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  Speaker 3: I was going to come assassinate you, wouldn't that be
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  Speaker 3: your obligation to come after me? You can't have another
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  Speaker 3: country calling for the destruction of us and our ally
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  Speaker 3: over there and not do nothing about it. He just
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  Speaker 3: had the balls to stand up and do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going? How's it going?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's not going like they want, but it'll come
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  Speaker 3: out good in the end, you'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really? How far is Iran from the United States?
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about from a military strategy, as Bush would say, standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: How easy is this going to be? Let me back
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  Speaker 1: up some more.
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  Speaker 3: How successful have we been in the Middle East? Well,
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  Speaker 3: they've got the Abraham Accords. They've got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East countries.
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  Speaker 1: How successful have the wars been in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 1: And how successful have we been with the wars and
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  Speaker 1: regime change in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you tell me.
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  Speaker 1: It's a disaster. I think I think we look at Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all you got to do is look at
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  Speaker 1: all of them. I think they've been dismal failures for
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  Speaker 1: seeing change and what we've done. And now let's take Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. We gave it back and they got it
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  Speaker 1: better than they had it originally. And they kept all
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  Speaker 1: of our equipments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, was that worth it? Yeah. Well, was that we're
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  Speaker 1: dying for? Well, you know, I'm asking you because you're
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  Speaker 1: the guy saying, let's, you know, he's got the balls
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  Speaker 1: to do it. So all those kids that died over
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  Speaker 1: there or lost arms and legs, what was the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of it?
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  Speaker 3: No, that's no good. I'm just saying, I'm just saying
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  Speaker 3: they openly call for our destruction.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what they say. I really don't care
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  Speaker 1: what they talk. I don't believe that's a possibility at all.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not believe that the United States... If they're
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  Speaker 1: developing one, I think that the bunker buster was effective.
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  Speaker 1: But by the way..
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  Speaker 3: Well, what you think, but what information do you have
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  Speaker 3: more than, you know, Trump saying that apparently that didn't
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  Speaker 3: get it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, wait a minute. He told me it did.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they thought it did, but apparently it didn't. That's
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  Speaker 3: why they had to go back in.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Well, how do I know? How do you know that's true?
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  Speaker 3: Apparently, you've got inside information. You're thinking it got it.
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  Speaker 1: He told me it got it. It's all buried deep
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  Speaker 1: down in the mountain. I mean, do you think North
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  Speaker 1: Korea should have a nuclear weapon? No, no. Well, they do.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to do about that?
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  Speaker 3: You're just hurting us. You're hurting the upcoming election with
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  Speaker 3: your attitude towards that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think I'm going to tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: Trump is hurting the upcoming election. And you want to
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  Speaker 1: know why? Because the majority of people in the country
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  Speaker 1: don't support this. And if you get high oil prices,
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  Speaker 1: high gas prices and high inflation, it is the economy.
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  Speaker 1: And he will lose.
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  Speaker 3: When the fuel prices were high during the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 2: Where was the outcry?
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  Speaker 1: There was plenty of outcry. Incidentally, plenty of outcry from
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  Speaker 1: the conservatives about how high they were and how low
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  Speaker 1: they were under the Trump administration. There was plenty of
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  Speaker 1: outcry over it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so, you know, it's a typical cheerleader. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hurt this. You're going to hurt that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm supposed to sit here and no matter what
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  Speaker 1: Trump decides to do, I'm supposed to say I'm with
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  Speaker 1: it 100%. I'm not to disagree with any decision he
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  Speaker 1: makes or anything he does. Even though I voted for him,
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  Speaker 1: and I certainly wouldn't vote for Harris, but I can
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  Speaker 1: sit here and look at this and say, this is
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  Speaker 1: a disaster. And this isn't going how he thought it
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  Speaker 1: would go. And I would say to this caller, just
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  Speaker 1: imagine if he hadn't gotten involved in this in the
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  Speaker 1: first place, where do you think things would have been economically?
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  Speaker 1: When we saw oil prices coming down, gas prices coming down,
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  Speaker 1: inflation being reduced. All the reasons why he was elected.
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  Speaker 1: When we saw that happening. All of that's now been erased.
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  Speaker 1: How's that a good thing? And I wasn't contrary to
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  Speaker 1: that caller. I'd be curious if that caller was up
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  Speaker 1: at night before they made all of this stink about it.
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  Speaker 1: Was he up at night scared that Iran was going
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  Speaker 1: to come get him with a nuclear weapon? Because I
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  Speaker 1: am not. Not with American intelligence. Not with the nuclear
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  Speaker 1: weapons we have. I'm not even remotely concerned about it. Now, terrorism,
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole different story. That's a whole different problem.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to call you every dirty bird word that
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  Speaker 2: I can think of, and I'm going to threaten to
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  Speaker 2: kill you. So now, what does that leave out? What
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  Speaker 2: does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. The talk is the talk, but they're
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  Speaker 2: not going to be able to make it walk. They
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  Speaker 2: may have the stuff to do it with, but they
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  Speaker 2: don't believe that they're just going to get up and
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  Speaker 2: walk away.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently..
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  Speaker 2: They're going to get annihilated.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently..
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  Speaker 5: They want North Korea.
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  Speaker 2: North Korea is the same way. But what is the
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  Speaker 2: big rush with Iran wanting a nuclear bomb? Because the
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  Speaker 2: state of Israel has one. So now they want one.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing happened with India and Pakistan.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, you're sitting here, you've got these people
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  Speaker 2: running around here who say that Trump is doing the
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  Speaker 2: right thing. And I'm sorry, but he's not. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: agreeance with you. He had no plan. He just thought
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  Speaker 2: the American could not be touched or hit, and they're
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  Speaker 2: getting hit. And the worst part about it is we
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  Speaker 2: have American young people who are dying because our heads, Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: did not set it up to protect them the best
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  Speaker 2: he could. He didn't do nothing. He left them out
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  Speaker 2: there with big old zero marks on them to get
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  Speaker 2: shot at.
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  Speaker 3: Well..
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  Speaker 1: Our casualties have been relatively few, I mean, in all reality.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the big picture of this, and
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  Speaker 1: I go back to say it. Trump thought he could
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  Speaker 1: go in and do this and be over relatively quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was sold that bill of goods by
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu and Israel. We're going to go in. They want
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  Speaker 1: regime change. You're going to bring them to their knees
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  Speaker 1: right away. This will be over in a month. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, they gave you every indication that
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  Speaker 1: that was the case, did they not? And then Trump
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  Speaker 1: kept saying, oh, we got them where we need them.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to sign a– they want to make a deal.
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  Speaker 1: They want to make a deal. Did you hear him
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  Speaker 1: say that week after week after week on how they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make a deal? But they never made a deal.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, then we got the memorandum of understanding,
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  Speaker 1: and that didn't work out. So now we're right back
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  Speaker 1: to bombing them again. thinking, okay, now this time, and
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  Speaker 1: let's be realistic, we bombed the living hell out of
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  Speaker 1: them all along. Now this time when we do it,
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  Speaker 1: this time it's going to work.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope to God you're right.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's what he says. I hope he's right as well.
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  Speaker 2: But you have to kind of watch yourself, because pretty
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  Speaker 2: soon you're going to be threatened with anti-Semitism because of
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  Speaker 2: what you're saying about Netanyahu. And the thing of it is,
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  Speaker 2: is that's not true. I know that's not true about you.
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  Speaker 2: You just picked him out saying what he did and
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  Speaker 2: led Trump into this.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct.
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  Speaker 2: That one Jewish person.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm just trying to say that's where that's
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  Speaker 1: why I believe Trump reversed himself and why he went
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  Speaker 1: into he didn't want like the Middle East. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: want regime change and he didn't want these endless wars. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what? He now started one. And all these people
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  Speaker 1: who act like it's easy. I mean, Iran's what, 6,000
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  Speaker 1: miles away from us? I mean, it's a huge distance
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  Speaker 1: away from, strategically away from the United States of America. Strategically,
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  Speaker 1: look how far away it is. You think it's an
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  Speaker 1: imminent threat to the United States?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know something? Everybody in the back of their mind,
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  Speaker 2: including yours, including mine, and anybody that's got any brains
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  Speaker 2: at all, remember 9-11 and how that played out. And
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  Speaker 2: everybody's concern about that is what could happen. But if
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  Speaker 2: that's the case, America's going to come back together, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to go after the people and the country
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  Speaker 2: that did it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, 9-11 is a whole different story as far as
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  Speaker 1: we knew those people were in this country. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it really was an intelligence failure in America not to
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  Speaker 1: have those people apprehended. Would you not agree? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I say 9-11 could have been prevented. Stand by for
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  Speaker 1: a minute. I'll come right back to you in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on. I'll get right back to him in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Hey, Ron from WKBN. And from NewsRadio
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. What's up? As I said, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a mistake from the very beginning, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: if you keep doing the same thing and expecting different results,
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  Speaker 1: would they say that's insanity, right? I mean, we've been
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  Speaker 1: bombing all along, and we just continue to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and we expect different results. Well, I hope it happens,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not optimistic.
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  Speaker 2: What bothers me is there's no clear plan. No clear
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  Speaker 2: plan of what we're going to do and how we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do it and how we're going to accomplish it.
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  Speaker 2: But if I may switch the subject to a couple
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  Speaker 2: more things. On your show, you have a few people
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  Speaker 2: who call up and say that Trump has business sense. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we're Americans. We're free to say what we think and
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  Speaker 2: what we feel. I would request strongly that these people
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  Speaker 2: honestly look at Trump's business ventures and to see how
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  Speaker 2: many failed. Take a look at Trump's past and how
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  Speaker 2: many people he left hanging on his business ventures. And
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  Speaker 2: then if you honestly look at that and then still
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  Speaker 2: have the complete 100% or even 50% feeling that he
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  Speaker 2: was a good businessman, okay, fine, I'll accept that because
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  Speaker 2: we're Americans. But I can't see it. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: see anybody else. I cannot understand why these people... And
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  Speaker 2: these people are not uneducated because they can talk plain
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  Speaker 2: and they can use three-syllable words. So it's telling me
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  Speaker 2: that somewhere down the line, in my belief, in my
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  Speaker 2: belief alone, that they weren't really paying attention. That's my feeling.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Duly noted, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 2: And Vic Cerami, I'm sorry, I don't mean to mess
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  Speaker 2: up his name. I'm not doing that on purpose. If
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  Speaker 2: I had it right in front of me, I'd be
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  Speaker 2: able to say it right. Vivek, well, whatever. You know
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  Speaker 2: where he was the 4th of July?
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  Speaker 1: No, I do not.
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  Speaker 2: He was in France.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, if he's so hot on America, why
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  Speaker 2: wasn't he here trying to boast up his... vote here
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  Speaker 2: in the state of Ohio. Why is he going to...
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  Speaker 2: He's talking about abolishing Medicaid here in the state of
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  Speaker 2: Ohio because he said there's so much fraud and voter problems. Well,
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  Speaker 2: guess what? When Trump said that, our representatives here in
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  Speaker 2: the state, LaRusso, come out and said, that's a lie.
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  Speaker 2: This is not happening. But yes, we do have some
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  Speaker 2: sort of fraud in the Medicaid system, and we're getting
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  Speaker 2: into that. But the fact that a matter here for
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  Speaker 2: Trump to come out and say the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 2: is a mess.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's a mess. Really, I think
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  Speaker 1: how we do our elections in Ohio is pretty secure
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  Speaker 1: as far as we don't just mail out absentee ballots
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  Speaker 1: to everybody. You have to show an ID to go vote.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, actually, Ohio is one of the premier systems
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to voting. and how our system is done,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: copied by Florida, incidentally. So I think we've got a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: lot to be proud of in how we do it
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: here in Ohio. Is there the possibility that there's always
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a small amount of fraud? Absolutely. But I don't think
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: there's any massive aspect of fraud. However, when it comes
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to Medicaid, I think that there's a lot of fraud
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: involved in that. And you've got to sit back and say, well,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Where was Mike DeWine? And he is
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a Republican and surrounded by the auditor and all the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: executives that were Republican. This fraud that was taking place
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on Medicaid in the state of Ohio happened under Republican watch.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying so. So let's take a look at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: all of that. And it seems to me, as I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: sit here right now, Mike DeWine doesn't seem that fired
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: up to go after this fraud of billions of dollars.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that because a lot of the
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: fraud that's being caught, a lot of the fraud that's
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: been seen and gone after are from the state of
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Ohio's group. The state of Ohio is doing it. It
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: only was brought up because of things that are happening
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: in the whole country.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, but it needs to be looked at. And we
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: have the same problem with the Somalians here in Ohio
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that they do in Minnesota. And so who dropped the ball?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Who wasn't investigating it? Who let it happen? You'll never
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: get the money back.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: You'll never get the money back. That's what I've been
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: saying for quite a few years. Quite a few years about,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: go ahead, make your government less..
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Right. All I'm trying to say is it doesn't matter
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: if it's Republicans or Democrats, Minnesota or Ohio. The people
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that should have been looking and verifying this stuff and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: doing some follow up obviously weren't doing it in either
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: one of the states. I got to pause for the headlines.
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• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Kind of stuff. I'm just not optimistic about this entire situation.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And as I've said to you numerous times, I'm not
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: going to sit here and be a Trump cheerleader. No
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: more than I'd be a– you've got to call balls
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and strikes as you see them. And the things that
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: many of you found frustrating when you had Democrats that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: saw nothing wrong or no bad decisions that the Democrats
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: made supported everything. You want to go down that same
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: road and make yourself guilty of the same charge? Oh,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: everything that Trump does is great? Well, I don't think
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that that's the case, nor do I think that that's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a wise way to go. And, you know, I'm just
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: saying he reversed himself on this, and I don't know
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: why he did that. And the bunker buster, and it's
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: buried in a mountain, and I think it probably is,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and it was very successful. I don't know why the reversal.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But I suspect not a single one of you were
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: laying awake at night, unable to sleep, fearful of Iran
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: with a nuclear bomb. I don't think you were fearful
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of that, certainly just based on the distance that we
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: are away from Iran, but knowing full well that they
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: know that we would annihilate them. Now, that might be
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a different story about people in the Middle East. But
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: then again, as the one caller said, well, why is
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it okay for this country to have one and this
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: country to have one and this country not to have one? And,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you know, there's that philosophy that people say, well, who's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the United States to tell a country of 93 million
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: people what they can and can't have? You can't do that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Didn't do it in North Korea or Pakistan or India
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: or some of these other places. Remember, Pakistan was where
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: they were hiding Osama bin Laden. So you can sit
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: back and you can look at it. A lot of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: times I think many of these countries want it because
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: they feel it's a deterrent. And maybe it is. But anyway,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: we are where we are. And I just don't see
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a good way out. I don't see any... I don't
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: see a successful way out. And I said this numerous
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: times to you guys, and I say it again. It's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a whole different part of the world. They don't think
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: like you do. You know, I learned this from our
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: eldest son who tour after tour after tour was in
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the Middle East. Was right there. His mother has a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: picture of him sitting in Saddam Hussein's throne when that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: was dealt with. And boy, he taught us something very valuable.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: He says, people over here just don't understand the culture,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and it's just different. They don't necessarily want to be
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: like you. You think they're longing to be just like you?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: They're not. This has gone on for as long as
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: time has begun. They got a different religion, a different philosophy,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: grew up differently. Everything's different. The Sunnis and the Shiites. Hell,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I remember studying the Sunnis and the Shiites when I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: was in college that long ago. You know, this group
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: likes that group and this group doesn't like that group anyway.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: You say, well, they're going to turn against the Supreme
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Leader and there's going to be an overthrow. Well, I'm
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: sure there's some people who support that. But is it
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the vast majority of people? I don't know. Seems to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: me when you see the huge turnout of the funeral
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of the Supreme Leader, that would give you an indication
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that that might not be the case. You know, you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: can read it many ways. They might be more and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: more united and pissed as countrymen as their country is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: being attacked and their people are being killed. I don't know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Does that win friends and influence people with the United
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: States if they're living in a country and they see
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: their people, their country being destroyed, their people being killed?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Or does that unite the country as a whole against
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the United States? Well, we really don't know that now,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: do we? So you don't see any major uprisings and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: people say, well, you don't see any major uprisings because, well,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: only the government has the guns. And that's probably true, too.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: You start an uprising and they shoot six people in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the head and the uprising is over real fast if
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: you don't have any weapons to counter it. But I
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: don't know if the majority of people are ready to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: overthrow the governments. And you don't know if that's true
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: or false. It just seems when I see all these
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: people showing up for the Supreme Leader's funeral or whatever
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they want to call it, that's a hell of a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: lot of people. So I'm not saying that they're in
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: any good shape at all. I mean, they're getting the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: hell knocked out of them, too. But they might just
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: have a philosophy. We're going to sit and we're going
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to wait this out. And you at some point are
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: going to leave and go home. And you're going to
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: worry about the midterm elections and things can change dramatically
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: once the midterms happen. You know, they're sitting there. Iran's
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sitting there saying, well, we got some weapons here too.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You haven't wiped us out. We can definitely– remember early
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: on when they said we can definitely tank your economy
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: because we can change the oil situation real fast. So,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that we understand. It's clear
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to me they don't want– in many of cases, they
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: view us as infidels, as we're bad news. Not that
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they want to be like us. So we shall see.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: That's why I say it just seems to me that
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: what's the way out now? What's the answer? Well, we're
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: going to bomb them some more. Well, we bombed them
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a lot. Now we're bombing them some more. Now is
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: this going to bring them to their knees and make
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: them surrender and throw up the white flag? And if
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: it doesn't, then what do you do? And where do
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you go? I mean, there's so many things to put forth.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it's a mistake from the very beginning,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: do you just continue on? Or at some point, do
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you say, hey, Israel, we're done. You're on your own.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: But the strait was open before all this happened. Things
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: were taking place. Now you don't just have a problem
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: with oil. You have a problem with fertilizer. And that
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: affects the food supply in this country and in other
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: countries because it becomes so expensive and farmers are not
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: able to afford it and crop yields. There's long-term effects
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to that and other chemicals as well in oil. Like
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I said, the oil prices have been somewhat– Disguised because
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: you're draining your strategic oil reserve. China has done it
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and cut their consumption. We have done it. Well, what
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: happens when we're at these lows? Now what do you
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: do when that's done? You say, okay, now what do
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you do? Now we're at five bucks a gallon or
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: six bucks a gallon or whatever. Now you've got inflation.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Now everything costs more. And I just don't sense that
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that's a good direction to be in right now. And
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: it's still not resolved. So it is genuinely a mess.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Think of, as I say this often, think of how
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: much better this country would have been if he would
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: have never gotten involved in this in the first place.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Because gas was around, what, $ 2. 50 a gallon? Oil prices
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: were coming down, gas prices were down, inflation was coming down.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Everything was going in the right direction. And in the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: blink of an eye, by doing this one move, everything
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: has reversed and been a disaster. And what does inflation
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: do when you have high inflation? It devalues your dollars.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: So those people that are retired and say, well, listen,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I got my half a million or whatever in retirement. Well,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: now it doesn't buy as much as it used to.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Or maybe some of it's in stocks and it's declining
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: because the market goes down. Or it takes more money
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to buy something. It takes $ 50, 000 now to buy that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: vehicle that used to be $ 35, 000. It costs you... $ 250, 000
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: to buy the house that used to be $ 175, 000 or more.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, so when you look around at all this
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: inflation and how it affects everything by sucking up more
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: dollars so that your community says, well, we need to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: tax you more because it costs twice as much for
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: a fire truck. We need to tax you more because
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a police car costs us $ 100, 000 by $ 75, 000 or so
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: by the time you outfit it. We got to tax
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you more because the snowplow truck, you got to order
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: two years in advance. And when you get it, it
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: costs a whole bunch more. You see how it's just
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: sucking up money? So we need to raise taxes so
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: we can provide these services. And then you're paying more
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: for everything else that you look around. Your electricity is doubled.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Your food prices are up. Your insurance is up. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: if oil goes up, 100, 120 a barrel, 130 a barrel,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you got big problems. And diesel can be a big
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: problem because that's how everything's trucked. The farmer's tractor, jet fuel.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: So travel tickets go up, costs more to go on
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a vacation or a business trip. I mean, it just
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: sucks your money. Inflation makes everyone poorer. is what I
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: like to say. Inflation makes all of you poorer. Whether
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you're working or retired, it doesn't matter. Your dollars buy less.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: And if more inflation comes back as a result of this,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: then you become poor on top of it. Inflation's a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: terrible thing. Just some thoughts. So what's the next strategy, Mr. President?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: If the bombing, you know, we're bombing every night. Now,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: if this doesn't work now, what are we going to do? Now,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: where do you go? What's the next plan? And what
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: do we do when you're done tapping the strategic oil reserves?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: What's the plan after that? What's the plan on getting
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the Strait open? and getting ships through it again. Because
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: none of it's working out. And I just say, listen,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: as a guy that voted for Trump, I just say,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I keep looking around. And he kept certainly deceiving me
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: to say the least at all. They want to deal,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: they're on their knees. Week after week, I kept hearing
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: this stuff. And nothing materialized. And we have that memorandum
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: of understanding. And well, that didn't last very long either.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: So now we're right back to this. So We shall see.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, stocks are up, stocks are down,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: dramatic falls. Inflation is up. Gas prices are up. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: just think it's just an absolute disaster. You're on the air.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: That first caller has been calling your show every week
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: for five months now, saying that if Iran threatened to
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: nuke the U.S., wouldn't you invade them, Ron? He needs
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: to enlist in the military and go to the Persian
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Gulf to defend America, but I bet he'll have lame
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: excuses for not serving. And Iran has been two weeks
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: away from acquiring a nuclear weapon for 40 years.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: And Israel is threatening nuclear allies if we stop funding them.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: They told the leaders of Europe that our fighters can
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: reach every capital of Europe. And Chris Hedges, an American Jew,
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: says Israel has repeatedly threatened to use their nuclear arsenal
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: against any country that interferes with their land-grabbing expansion goals. Now,
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: the patriotic Congressman John Duncan says that the great majority
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: of Americans want Washington to stop the war against Iran.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: But he said almost every congressperson just wants more money
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: from the Zionist lobby. Now, today, there's a tremendous market
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: uncertainty concerning inflation, tariffs, and the weakness in AI stocks.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: And there's a process called the Haber-Bosch process that feeds
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: half of the world, and it is going offline because
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: natural gas... The feedstock for nitrogen fertilizer is no longer
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: flowing from its best sources. And diesel shortages also cripple agriculture.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Without diesel, food can't be harvested or transported. And diesel
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: and jet fuel prices have been rising faster than gas. And,
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: you know, Ron, let me see the headline. Okay. Dow
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: was way down, but Dow's in positive territory now. Guess why?
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Because of reports that Pakistan is pushing for new U.S.-Iran talks.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, what in the hell is going on in
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Wall Street? They haven't figured out by now that, you know,
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: what are they doing, manipulating the market? Oh, yeah, Pakistan's
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: pushing for new U.S.-Iran talks. Does that mean Chuck Schumer
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: and Donald Trump and Mike Johnson and Barron Trump all
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: bought stocks right before that announcement? I think that's what's
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: going on. And Trump's targeting..
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Here's a story from yesterday, Frank. Southwest Airlines hired a
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: ship this spring to send jet fuel from Texas to California,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: where prices are much higher and concerns had grown about supply.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: The chief financial officer said it was the first for
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the Dallas airline. It brought like a week's supply to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the West Coast at a time when supply was most constricted,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: when it was most at risk. The ship, which left
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: from Houston and went through the Panama Canal, arrived May
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: 28th in Los Angeles and had about 12.6 million gallons aboard,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Southwest said. For context, Southwest used 564 million gallons of
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: jet fuel in the last quarter. Stand by for a minute.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: This is Bill Wills with Michael Claven, senior of the News,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Weather and Talk Station 570 WKBN. And Ron Verb, it's
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: 3.56 in the afternoon.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Where to begin?
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: It is where to begin. I mean, because, you know,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: you could very easily, as we draw down our strategic
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: oil reserves, I mean, listen, we could only speculate. You
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: could have oil prices easily go to $ 120 a barrel
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: or more. and the effects that come from that. You
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: have bond yields that are at 4.7%, and they're saying
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: if you hit 5%, we can no longer service the debt.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Does that ring a bell with you?
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the financial headlines today was the bond
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: market has been unusually quiet, but a lot of interest
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: rate analysts said this could be the calm before the storm.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: before we see big increases in interest rates. And you're right, Ron,
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: how can we service the debt? Our only choice is
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: going to have to be for the Fed to start
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: buying these bonds when they mature, because nobody else will
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: buy them. And China has told their big banks, don't
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: buy American treasury debt anymore. Start buying gold.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, in all reality, there's an economic mess that
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: is simmering.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Agree?
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, no one can be certain, but
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: oil can very easily and very quickly go to $ 100
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: to $ 120 to $ 150 a barrel. I hope not. I
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong. But if it does, that's economic disaster.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: And I don't think people understand bond yields. If they
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: go to 5%, we can't service the debt.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: Well, the uncertainty isn't just in Wall Street. It's all
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: over the world. Stock markets are volatile all over the world.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: China has the biggest strategic petroleum reserve in the world.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And they're drawing theirs down.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: They're drawing theirs down. And Israel has the largest... China
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: also has, I think, the largest fertilizer strategic reserve. But
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: Israel has the largest... fertilizer strategic reserve in terms of
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: their population's consumption of fertilizer. They've been planning for this
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: war for 10 years now. China saw it coming. Israel
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: knew it was coming because they're the ones that started it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, I'm surprised to see it coming,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why after this. Looking to upgrade
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  Speaker 1: your homes?