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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Tuesday, 09/29/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Howdy ho, NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It's Tuesday. What a gorgeous day. Incidentally, it is outside.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is just perfect today. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing, but I hope you get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to get outside and enjoy some of it. Days are
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  Speaker 2: getting shorter, that's for sure. It's dark much earlier, which
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  Speaker 2: you would expect this time of the year. But if
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  Speaker 2: you get a chance to get outside and enjoy this
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  Speaker 2: great weather, you should do so. We're almost at the
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  Speaker 2: end of September already, if you can imagine that. So
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  Speaker 2: it won't be too long before the leaves start to
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  Speaker 2: change more and by about the end of October, right?
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  Speaker 2: So another decent month we can all hope for here. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: good afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 5: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: So, I don't know, do you believe the polls or not?
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  Speaker 2: Do you? I mean, if you believe them, Amy Acton
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  Speaker 2: seems to be doing pretty good as far as her
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  Speaker 2: lead for governor in the state of Ohio over Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's five or six points, seems like Amy Acton, well,
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  Speaker 2: we can say this much. According to the polls, Amy
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  Speaker 2: Acton is the frontrunner over the Republican. Now, keep this
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  Speaker 2: in mind for just a second. Supposedly, they say this
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  Speaker 2: is a red state. this is a red state or
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  Speaker 2: so they say. And isn't it interesting that the polling
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  Speaker 2: says Amy Acton is the front runner in a race
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  Speaker 2: for governor in this so-called red state that she's leading it.
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  Speaker 2: And what's interesting about it is Amy Acton. She refuses
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  Speaker 2: to debate Ramaswamy. I mean, there's, There's some criticisms you
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  Speaker 2: can have of Amy Acton. As I said numerous times,
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  Speaker 2: she quit when she was the state's doctor during COVID.
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  Speaker 2: She couldn't take it, whether it's a criticism or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: She quit. She left. She hightailed it out of there.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when she was the doctor during COVID. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I would say being governor is going to be under
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  Speaker 2: a lot bigger microscope, a lot more criticism. Will you
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  Speaker 2: be able to take that criticism and take that pressure?
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  Speaker 2: Because you did leave during a critical time in the
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  Speaker 2: state of Ohio your position. I mean, that's one criticism.
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  Speaker 2: Second criticism I would say is, I don't get this.
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  Speaker 2: You won't debate your Republican opponents? And I would say
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  Speaker 2: the same thing if Ramaswamy wouldn't debate Amy Acton. For
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  Speaker 2: the voters of the community, don't you think it'd be
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  Speaker 2: a good thing to do a debate?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, both of you want to be governor. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy says he's open to the debate, that he'd love
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  Speaker 2: to debate Amy Acton, but apparently she's not. Now, what's
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  Speaker 2: up with that? I mean, those are two pretty big negatives.
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  Speaker 2: Won't debate her opponent. And I tailed it out when
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  Speaker 2: she was doctor of the state. Those are two pretty
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  Speaker 2: big negatives, I think. But despite those two negatives, the
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  Speaker 2: polling says she is the frontrunner. By a pretty substantial lead,
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  Speaker 2: Amy Acton, which is interesting in this so-called red state,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? So what else does the polls tell us?
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  Speaker 2: The polls also tell us that Sherrod Brown is leading
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  Speaker 2: the Senate race in this so-called red state. Sherrod Brown
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  Speaker 2: is leading this Senate race over John Husted. Now, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute. I thought Ohio was a red state. I
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  Speaker 2: thought we were a conservative state. Republicans are in charge
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  Speaker 2: of everything. And that's true. But all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, things seem to be changing, don't they?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like I say, if you believe the polls,
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  Speaker 2: let's just accept it for now and say, okay, might
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  Speaker 2: be true. Might be true. Now, let's just say if
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  Speaker 2: that's true, if it's true in the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 2: that Amy Acton is a frontrunner for governor and Sherrod
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  Speaker 2: Brown is leading by even more over John Husted, both
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  Speaker 2: of them are Democrats over Husted, the Republican, Ramaswamy, the Republican,
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  Speaker 2: why do you suspect that is? Let's just accept that
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  Speaker 2: that would be accurate. Why do you think you have
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  Speaker 2: two Democrats for these top two offices in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Ohio leading and winning? in those races. Comment, please.
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  Speaker 4: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: 330-729-9977. Of course, you got people in the power structure
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  Speaker 2: now saying we should take the state tax off of
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  Speaker 2: your gasoline and diesel fuel to try to ease the
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  Speaker 2: burden for a little bit. We shall see if that happens.
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  Speaker 2: What do they say the state taxes? It's like 30
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  Speaker 2: cents or 39 cents. I'll have to check on that
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  Speaker 2: per gallon that they want to take off for a
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  Speaker 2: period of time because gas prices are so high seems
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  Speaker 2: like a good idea doesn't it yes no how do
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  Speaker 2: you replace that money well I guess you don't I
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  Speaker 2: guess you don't you just take a hit so your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts welcome here this afternoon you're on the air hello
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  Speaker 2: are you there maybe not you're on the air.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Verb, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm well.
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  Speaker 8: Well, here's my overview of this madness. First of all,
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  Speaker 8: Amy Atkins, after watching her performance when she was in
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  Speaker 8: her last state position, she was absolutely horrendous. Anybody that
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  Speaker 8: can vote for her, I'm having a serious problem with.
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  Speaker 7: She was.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely terrible as a, in her last position. And, and
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  Speaker 8: that's being kind to the young lady. But the bottom
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  Speaker 8: line is that Sherrod Brown lost the last time he
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  Speaker 8: ran in the state of Ohio. These are the same
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  Speaker 8: voters that were around when Sherrod lost before. He was
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  Speaker 8: absolutely horrendous as a Senator.
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  Speaker 7: Bad, terrible.
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  Speaker 8: And if you don't remember his performance, shame on you.
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  Speaker 8: If you're willing to put him back in office after
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  Speaker 8: his last performance, shame on you. You have no idea
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  Speaker 8: what's going on politically in your state. Sherrod Brown, terrible.
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  Speaker 8: Amy Atkins, terrible. Now, here's the problem. Ramaswamy is losing
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  Speaker 8: not because he's not qualified, not because he's not the
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  Speaker 8: better candidate, not because he's the smartest candidate, but because
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  Speaker 8: of his last name. People apparently don't like Vivek, and
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  Speaker 8: they don't want to vote for him because he's not
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  Speaker 8: an American, you know. I've had this conversation with several people,
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  Speaker 8: and some of them that I have discussed this with
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  Speaker 8: shocked me that.
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  Speaker 9: They were that smart.
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  Speaker 8: Narrow-minded. And Atkins, this is an anti-Trump vote, if you
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  Speaker 8: want to know the truth, anti-Republican vote. Now, you've been
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  Speaker 8: around long enough and I've been around long enough to
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  Speaker 8: know that you only get what you pay for. The Democrats,
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  Speaker 8: when in office run, were absolutely horrendous, horrendous Taxes are
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  Speaker 8: off the scale. Anytime a Democrat gets into public office,
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  Speaker 8: the first thing they want to do is raise your
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  Speaker 8: taxes and give money to people that don't work. Sorry,
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  Speaker 8: that doesn't work. It's never worked, and it never will work.
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  Speaker 7: So.
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  Speaker 8: Those of you that don't like Donald Trump because you
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  Speaker 8: feel that he is overbearing, kind of a bully, just
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  Speaker 8: remember one thing.
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  Speaker 9: You have to.
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  Speaker 8: Look at, and the thing that bothers me is that
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  Speaker 8: the people that call this show, not all of them certainly,
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  Speaker 8: because you don't paint with a broad brush, but the
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  Speaker 8: bottom line is they never listen to anything or anyone
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  Speaker 8: beside the Democrat talking points. And this is how we're
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  Speaker 8: getting to where we're at. And Ramaswamy is the wrong
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  Speaker 8: color and the wrong last name for many people in
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  Speaker 8: this state to vote for. And I'm ashamed to say it,
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  Speaker 8: but it's clearly evident to me that that's true. So
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  Speaker 8: you may end up getting the worst of both sides
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  Speaker 8: of the aisle. Amy Atkins, who's an absolutely a terrible candidate.
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  Speaker 8: And then of course, The proven product, Sherrod Brown, who
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  Speaker 8: was around since Moby Dick was a minnow, this guy
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  Speaker 8: didn't do anything when he was there. How many years
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  Speaker 8: was he in office, Ron?
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  Speaker 10: Do you know the number?
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  Speaker 2: It seems like forever to me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, exactly.
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  Speaker 8: He was a parasite on humanity. Took some money and
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  Speaker 8: ran and, of course, voted solid Democrat, whether it was
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  Speaker 8: the right thing to do or not. Voted solid Democrat.
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  Speaker 8: things turned around in this state when it went back
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  Speaker 8: to being a Republican state. Now, you may not, and
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  Speaker 8: this is a vote, by the way, not against either
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  Speaker 8: of these two candidates, but against Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 7: The media, shame on them.
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  Speaker 8: The media has managed to crash Donald Trump to the
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  Speaker 8: point where he's got a lot of weak-minded people believing them. Now,
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  Speaker 8: let me explain something to you, listening audience of Ron Verb.
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  Speaker 8: Let me tell you tomorrow's news today. The same thing
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  Speaker 8: happened back in 31, 29, 30, 31 in a place
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  Speaker 8: called Germany. I happened to work there for two years.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to tell you, folks, it's easy to brainwash
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  Speaker 8: a people And you are being brainwashed because you don't
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  Speaker 8: do your homework.
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  Speaker 4: You don't really.
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  Speaker 8: Look at how the economy and many aspects of the
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  Speaker 8: economy are solid as a rock. Gas is a little high.
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  Speaker 8: I bought gas yesterday, four bucks a gallon.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, Ron?
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  Speaker 8: Didn't hurt me a bit. I bought gas at four
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  Speaker 8: bucks a gallon because that's what gas costs now. There
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  Speaker 8: is no free lunch, listening audience of Ron Verb. No
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  Speaker 8: free lunch. If we've got a free lunch, Democratic America,
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  Speaker 8: it's because we have to work at it. And we
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  Speaker 8: all have to work at it. We all have to
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  Speaker 8: sacrifice to make it better. But one of the things
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  Speaker 8: we all have to start doing, Ron, is educating ourselves,
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  Speaker 8: understanding what is going on in your country. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: you and I, back when Sherrod Brown lost, and I
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  Speaker 8: remember the conversation as if it were today.
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  Speaker 7: The guy did nothing. From the last 10.
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  Speaker 8: Years he was in office, but milk the cow. He
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  Speaker 8: voted with the Democrats 99% of the time, voted for
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  Speaker 8: boondoggles that would make the Soviet Union and Red China smile.
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  Speaker 8: And people just kind of sit back.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, well, you know, no, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Working at democracy is not, it's messy folks. It's really messy. And,
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  Speaker 8: but you've got to get down in there, get dirty
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  Speaker 8: and get the job done.
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  Speaker 7: And you have to be willing.
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  Speaker 8: To do more than list. How can anyone, how can
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  Speaker 8: anyone listen to Amy Atkins and think she isn't, she
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  Speaker 8: isn't a female version of our past president. You know,
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  Speaker 8: the guy that was there before Donald J. Trump, him,
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  Speaker 8: Joseph Robinette Biden. He he she's Joseph Robinette Biden in
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  Speaker 8: a dress.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: I hate to sound like a male chauvinist pig today.
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  Speaker 8: But the bottom line is America's got to get its
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  Speaker 8: head out of its collective butt and start paying attention
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  Speaker 8: to really what's going on in this country and voting
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  Speaker 8: against Donald Trump is voting against. Voting for Amy Atkins
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  Speaker 8: and Sherrod Brown because you don't like Donald Trump's haircut
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  Speaker 8: is insanity. And you must look at what the man
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  Speaker 8: has done overall since he's been in public office and
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  Speaker 8: in industry, by the way, Ron. Do I sound like
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to have a stroke any second, Ron?
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  Speaker 2: I think you're on the verge of it. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: was just getting heart monitors available, just in case you did.
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  Speaker 2: I was getting some baby aspirin and everything, making sure
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  Speaker 2: I had it standing by. But needless to say, after
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  Speaker 2: I listened to all of that, it doesn't– still, you
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  Speaker 2: look at Amy Acton. Sherrod Brown's way ahead over John Husted.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's way ahead. Amy Acton's got, what, five,
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  Speaker 2: six-point lead? She's got a pretty significant lead.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. How?
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  Speaker 4: How is that possible?
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  Speaker 2: Supposedly a red state, they say. It's supposedly a red state.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. We will find out from others. I
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  Speaker 2: think you made it. Thank you, Bob. Appreciate your insight,
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  Speaker 2: as always. NewsRadio 570 WQEN, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 10: Hey there, this is Pete. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good, go ahead.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, this is going to be tough. It's going to
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  Speaker 10: make a tough decision. But every time I see Vic Suwami,
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  Speaker 10: Vic Suwami talk, People will ask him questions. He'll come
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  Speaker 10: out point blank. The question will be, what are you
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  Speaker 10: going to do to help bring lower prices down and
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  Speaker 10: the economy to get it straightened back out? He said, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 10: that's a great question. But then he changed the subject
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  Speaker 10: to law enforcement. He didn't have an answer. He's done
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  Speaker 10: that I don't know how many times. Now, you turn
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  Speaker 10: around and you take a look at Amy Atkins. Her
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  Speaker 10: life was threatened, and her family was threatened. In any way,
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  Speaker 10: she could see her way out of making sure that
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  Speaker 10: everybody was going to be okay. But take a look
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  Speaker 10: at her life, her past life. I think she knows
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  Speaker 10: more about living on the edge than.
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  Speaker 7: Swami does.
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  Speaker 10: Hell, Swami made millions of dollars off the federal government
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  Speaker 10: when he started making all these medical products that never
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  Speaker 10: evolved into anything. Anything. But he's made a ton of money.
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  Speaker 10: Them people there, what you're looking at is Trump. I
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  Speaker 10: made a ton of money, so I know how to
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  Speaker 10: do it. Well, yeah, okay. You know, as a Republican,
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  Speaker 10: that I don't like Trump, period. And when anybody starts
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  Speaker 10: talking in circles like that, I don't understand it. But
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  Speaker 10: you take a look at.
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  Speaker 10: The other ones that are Republicans that are running, okay?
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  Speaker 10: Why did they all bend the knee when Trump wanted
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  Speaker 10: to do the stuff that he did? Why are we
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  Speaker 10: still got the Epstein files and we're not doing anything
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  Speaker 10: about it? Because the conservative Republicans, the rhinos in my
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  Speaker 10: Republican Party, aren't pushing it. And every one of them guys,
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  Speaker 10: those conservative Republicans, may have said, and I have not
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  Speaker 10: heard him say it, yeah, we should go after and
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  Speaker 10: find out what happened on that. That's my key issue.
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  Speaker 10: And everybody is complaining about the high prices. Well, people,
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  Speaker 10: let's back up in history. For some silly reason, what
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  Speaker 10: happened on the tariffs? That's when the prices jumped. And
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  Speaker 10: the gas just added to it. But the prices really
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  Speaker 10: jumped here in the United States when he decided he
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  Speaker 10: had to have tariffs on everybody. You put a tariff
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  Speaker 10: up to protect your companies here in your country. So
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  Speaker 10: that's why there's tariffs. I mean, even if we made
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  Speaker 10: hula hoops and we're sending it out, some countries might
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  Speaker 10: have companies that make hula hoops, so they put a
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  Speaker 10: tariff on. How much is that tariff?
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  Speaker 12: No one knows.
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  Speaker 10: He just said, well, they're doing a tariff. They've got
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  Speaker 10: to make it equal. Oh, that don't work. They cannot
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  Speaker 10: protect their companies. companies, so that their people can work,
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  Speaker 10: so that they can pay taxes to make their country.
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  Speaker 7: Go again.
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  Speaker 10: And here we are doing the same thing. China's laughing
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  Speaker 10: at us. China's sitting back saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, Trump, tariff, tariff, tariff.
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  Speaker 10: When we get done, we will be the economic head,
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  Speaker 10: and we will take it away from you. Because you
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  Speaker 10: want to put tariffs on. And that's exactly what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by for one minute. I'll come right back with
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  Speaker 2: you after this.
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  Speaker 12: IHOP Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Rowe here with another WKBN. And we're on 324
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  Speaker 2: in the afternoon. So that's why you say Sherrod Brown
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  Speaker 2: and Amy Acton are ahead in the polls, right?
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: But, you know, are we the– do we believe in
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  Speaker 10: second chances for people?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that depends. It depends on the circumstances that are done. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's odd if you were the state's doctor
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  Speaker 2: during COVID and you can't take the heat and you quit. Well,
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  Speaker 2: do you think there's going to be less heat as
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  Speaker 2: governor of the state? There's going to be more. There's
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  Speaker 2: going to be more criticism, more scrutiny, more heat, and
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't take it as the state's doctor. So second chances, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not stupid. I'm saying you left. And now should
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  Speaker 2: it bother me that she doesn't want to debate Vivek? Well,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute. What's that all about? Why don't you
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  Speaker 2: want to debate the opponents? And I'd have the same
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  Speaker 2: thing if Vivek didn't want to debate her. I mean, granted,
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  Speaker 2: she's the frontrunner, but it's still a pretty close race.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think for the citizens of Ohio you should
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  Speaker 2: debate each other so that we can watch it and
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  Speaker 2: help have a better informed decision? But she refuses to
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  Speaker 2: do that. So I don't know. Those are some things
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  Speaker 2: that I find deeply troubling and deeply disturbing to me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just where I'm at on it. And
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  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown. Sherrod Brown backed every lunatic thing that Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden stood for. So if you're asking me, do I
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: want to go back to what are your pronouns? How
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  Speaker 2: do you identify? Do I want to go back to
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  Speaker 2: ripping statues down and whitewashing history? We got to take
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  Speaker 2: these statues down. We can't call it Fort Hood anymore.
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  Speaker 2: If you're white, you're evil and white privilege. We got
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  Speaker 2: to make sure we hire people based on their sexuality
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  Speaker 2: or their skin color, not on their merit. The weird
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  Speaker 2: sexual agenda that they had, the weird energy agenda they had.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I want to go back to any
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  Speaker 2: of that? Because that's what you get with Sherrod Brown,
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  Speaker 2: a party that hates fossil fuels. I watched him for
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  Speaker 2: 30 years. I mean, Sherrod Brown? I mean, and I
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  Speaker 2: can honestly say to you, from my perspective, I can't
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  Speaker 2: enthusiastically vote for John Husted. I genuinely cannot. There's nothing
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  Speaker 2: about him that excites me to vote for him. But
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  Speaker 2: he is the lesser of two evils to me over
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown. I mean, so I can say that, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I can say the same thing about Vivek. I can say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, and then I'll move along.
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  Speaker 10: All right. The gentleman before you.
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  Speaker 13: And you.
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  Speaker 4: Neither.
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  Speaker 10: One of you are stupid. You have the passion and
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: in your beliefs of what you think should be done.
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: You're not stupid for standing up for what you feel.
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: Don't ever say that again about yourself. I don't think
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: you're stupid. And the gentleman before, I don't think he's stupid.
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: He has his reasons for it. He gave a bunch
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: of them. But God bless him, he's willing to stand.
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  Speaker 9: Up and say it.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 10: And a lot of people are going to sit back
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: and not say nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: Take a look at the taxes. Our electricity is going up.
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  Speaker 11: Who did that?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't agree with that. I can answer that,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: but you're not going to like what you hear. As
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I said a million times, the Democrats had the war
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: on coal. That was Kerry, Obama, Clinton, Biden. They were
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the ones that not only regulated our coal plants in
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: this state out of business, they insisted that they be
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: torn down so that they couldn't be turned back on.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: like we're turning back on Three Mile Island. That was
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: very much the Democrats in their green energy deal that
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: wanted to wipe out coal. That was their motivation in
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: doing that. Now, that's a part of why your electric
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: bill has gone up, and also the demand, because of
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: AI centers, the demand for electrons has gone up tremendously.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: So that also contributes to why your electric bill has
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: gone up. So I gave you two reasons, but... One
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: solely rests on the Democrats' thoughts when it comes to energy.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: The second one, I think the second one rests on
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: just not the demand for electricity. It's just going through
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the roof. And I agree with Dave Thomas, the Republican,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: who says if you're going to build an AI center,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: you've got to show us how you can produce your
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: own electricity and not stick it on a consumer. But
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I like your passion, too, and I appreciate your call.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And you have a wonderful day.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: And you too, sir.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got passion. 329. And there's nothing wrong
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: with that. 76 degrees. Because you know what that last
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: caller could say to me when I hung up on
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: him just now? You know what he could say to me?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: But my candidates are leading in the polls. And you
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: know what I would say back to him? Well, you're
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: right about that. I mean, so he's got a pretty
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: good argument to say, but my candidates are leading. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: pretty substantially for Sherrod Brown. And it's even a pretty
• 22:20
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• 22:24
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  Speaker 2: Back to it, NewsRadio 570 WKBN, and Ron Verb, you're
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 9: Ron, good afternoon. How are you, sir?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I am well, Richard. Your thoughts?
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: That's good.
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  Speaker 4: Gorgeous.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: Oh, my God, what a gorgeous day.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It's perfect.
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: Anybody that complains about living in Ohio, and I know
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: the winters might be a little rough, and sometimes you
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: get a little too many clouds and rain, but... You
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: get days like this. I don't think they get a
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: day like this in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you can say what you want to say, but
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: actually living here is not a bad place to live.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a bad place to live. We
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: have decent weather. I like cloudy days, and I like
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: days like today. So we had our share of rain,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: but it kept things green and all that kind of stuff.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: It hasn't been. It's a good place to be, let
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: me put it that way.
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I don't understand. If you have a job,
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: and the biggest issue for this area has always been,
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: can you find a good job after the mills went out?
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: I was about 10, 11 years old when that happened,
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: and it became very challenging for a lot of people,
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: and I think that's why so many people relocated and
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: moved out of the area. They didn't have a choice.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you still have people that live here that
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: do work in Akron and Cleveland and other places and
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: have good jobs that work here. There's still people working remotely.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and I mean, generally, most of the schools are decent.
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: I mean, some are better than others, but with the
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: exception of probably Camel and Youngstown City, most of the
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: other schools are giving a decent education to kids. The
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: cost of living is still relatively inexpensive. Housing is still
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: relatively inexpensive. It's gone up like everything else, but compared
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: to a lot of the other areas of the country,
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: it's still not a bad place to live. So anyway,
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: whenever we have days like this, that's what it always
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: reminds me of, you know, all the The people moan
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: and groan about this area with the weather, but it's really,
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: I think on par, not that bad.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: It's very tolerable.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I would agree. I would agree.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: But anyway, I got a question for you. Let's say
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: you go out tonight and your engine blows up in
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: your car, and you go down to wherever it is, Columbia, Buick, Hawk,
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: or wherever you go to buy a car. Do you
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: expect to pay more or less for the vehicle than
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: you paid, say, five or ten years ago?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I would expect I would pay more, but I would
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: be shocked if it's substantially more. You haven't priced cars
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: lately then. Well, here's the rub. It depends what you buy.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: If you go down, I would go obviously to Stadium GM,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: but if you go down, I would be more inclined
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: to buy a Trax because it's an affordable vehicle. So
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: it's a vehicle for $ 30, 000 or less in that ballpark.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: You can get a loaded one. And it's a pretty
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: nice vehicle versus $ 50, 000 or.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: $ 60, 000.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I think that's insane for a vehicle.
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: Oh, I mean, in $ 60, 000 anymore, you're not even getting
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: a whole lot for $ 60, 000. I mean, there's a lot
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: of vehicles that are in this. You look at trucks.
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: Look at your– average truck today has got to be–
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: got to probably start at $ 45, 000 or $ 50, 000. And well-equipped
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: with nice options, it doesn't take much to get into
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: the $ 70, 000.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: $ 80, 000, $ 90, 000 range.
• 27:05
  Speaker 16: It's crazy.
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: Well, my point on that is– and we could go
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: down a list of other things that you would go
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: out to buy, and you would– you just go out
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: and you expect you're going to pay somewhat more. Right,
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: but it's still– Everybody wants gasoline to be $ 2 a gallon.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: When realistically, if adjusted for inflation, and I sent you
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: the article from the Wall Street Journal this morning, gasoline
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: right now under Trump's second term, and even under his
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: first term, adjusted for inflation is less than what it
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: was under Obama, and it's less than it was under Biden.
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: But people want to price gasoline without taking inflation into consideration.
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: Like it's just always supposed to stay at $ 2 or
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: $ 3 a gallon. And I can remember in 2008, right
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: before the crash in 2008, if you remember, oil went
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: through the roof then. And I believe even then it
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: was about $ 4 a gallon. Now, that was crazy, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: that was 2008. That's almost, what, 20, 18 years ago.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: And we're still barely there today. And what else can
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: you go out and buy and expect to pay less?
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: This whole affordability, the first caller, or no, the second caller,
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: I think, said he was talking about bringing the prices down.
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: You're not going to bring prices down. Prices generally do
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: not come down. It's supply, demand, and inflation. Those are
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: the two things that determine prices. And inflation, even if
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: it's 2.5% a year, compound that over a 10- or
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: 15-year period. It adds up to be a substantial increase
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: because it's 2.5% this year, but next year is going
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: to be 2.5% more on top of what the increased
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: price was. It's sort of like bank interest. The higher
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: your balance gets, the more interest you make. Well, the
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: higher the price goes, the more inflation is going to
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: increase it the next time.
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  Speaker 2: It compounds.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't like paying it. I mean, right now,
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: I've been doing some errands this weekend, taking furniture around,
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: doing a deck and things like that. I'm driving an
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: old beater truck that gets about 15 to 17 miles
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: to a gallon. So, yeah, I just blew about $ 90
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: this weekend filling this stupid thing up. But relative to
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: the rest of the things that we buy, I mean,
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: if you really want to complain, look at the price
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: of beef. And that's not going to come down anytime soon.
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: And furthermore, how would the government even get the price
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: of beef down? Are you going to import thousands of
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: herds of cattle? Because I think it takes about two
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: or three years to get cattle to build up a herd,
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: and that's assuming you don't slaughter. If you don't slaughter,
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: what happens to the price today? It goes up even
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: higher because there's less product on the market, supply and demand.
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: Less supply, the demand stays constant, price goes up. This
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: is just simple microeconomics. If you went to college, took
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: your freshman year in college. It's not hard, but anybody
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: that thinks prices are going to come down and is
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: voting or considering a politician who promises that, you need
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: to look at what your rationale is.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: It's not going to happen. I think prices are going
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: to come down. I would counter that. That's it. As
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: perhaps I said to you in the past, I see
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: real estate prices coming down in Florida, for example, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: in other places. But I just point out to Florida
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: because I was reading that article where basically the prices
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: were soaring there. And you have prices that are coming down.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: You have more homes on the markets, on the market
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: for longer periods of time, so the price of a
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: house is coming down. Not just there, but in other
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: parts of the country as well. I haven't checked Ohio lately,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: but yeah, prices do.
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: I'll give you an Ohio example. The house across the
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: street from me sold about seven or eight years ago
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: for $ 350, 000. It was just listed last week. I think
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: $ 660 or $ 680, I can't remember, but it was upper $ 600s.
• 31:06
  Speaker 9: It sold in two days, so I'm assuming they got
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: probably close to their asking price. But basically, it didn't
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: quite double, but it went up from $ 350, $ 380 to, say, $ 650,
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: $ 680 in about an eight-year period. I don't see that
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: coming down.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm saying that housing prices are coming down. Rents
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: have come down because, as G2 said, by getting all
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: the people out of the country that didn't belong here
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: in the first place. So if you see housing prices
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: come down, because they do come down, and if you
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: see with– what's the point of raising interest rates? I'll
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: give you a counter to everything you said. Why do
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: they raise interest rates? So that you can't afford stuff,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: that you stop creating a demand. You stop buying stuff.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: So if it's 7%, less people are more prone to
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: buy a house because of the interest rate. Less people
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: are prone to build a house. So if you slow
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: down building, what happens to the price of building materials?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: They come down because the demand isn't there. I mean,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: as long as you've been around, you shouldn't have.
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: To raise interest rates.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: That is correct. But they are. No, they're raising interest rates.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: If you would lower the interest rate, let's say back
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: to 2% or 3%, I think housing would boom again
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: because of the low interest rates. But keep in mind,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: we just upped interest rates a quarter percent. Housing was
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: slowing as interest rates, the home loans had gone up
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: even at 6%. It was slowing. So the reality is
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: housing prices are coming down. You don't think that if
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Trump solves this situation in Iran that gas prices will
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: come down? I bet they will.
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: And they will. But why were they low before the war?
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: Why were they as low as they were?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Because of his energy policy, supply and demand.
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: Because we pumped up a huge supply. And as supply
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: goes up, price goes down.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: But you're the one saying to me prices never come down.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Egg prices are down because the bird flu is behind us.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Housing prices can come down.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: They're back to where they were. They haven't really come down.
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: Because of a shock to the system, they're back to
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: where they were, maybe even a little higher.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: But what I'm saying to you is, if he solves
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: this situation, if this situation gets solved in Iran, and
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: some of the situation that's going on in Ukraine, I'm
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: telling you that I think regular gas and diesel prices
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: will come down. So when you say prices never come down,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I totally disagree with that. It will come down. It
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: is supply and demand. They're raising interest rates because they
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: say spending is still too good, too brisk. Remember, I'm
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the guy that said to you, I don't think raising
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: interest rates is going to make a difference because the
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: reason prices are going up is because of the energy situation.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: That's why prices are going up, the cost of energy.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: But I just don't agree with you. I think prices
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: do come down based on supply and demands, period.
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: But the chance that they're going to come down to
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: where they were before?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Before the war, I was paying $ 2. 50, $ 2. 75 for a
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: gallon of gas in this community before the war.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: And you may see that on gas. But the chance
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: that all the other prices that have increased... Because the
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: one thing we all forget is why did all this
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: inflation occur? Because when– and it's pox on both their houses.
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: The Republicans spent way too much money. Trump spent a
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: ton of money, put trillions of dollars on COVID. Biden
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: came in and spent trillions of dollars on the Green
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: New Deal so that we could give upper-income people $ 7, 500
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: to buy EVs.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you why the price has increased. Because your
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: insurance company says, hey, it costs more to replace your house.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Because your car company, your car insurance says it costs
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: more to fix your car. or to replace your car,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: because they're the victims of inflation, too. If you can
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: bring all of this down, you've lived, well, I don't know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: but I've lived through this before under Jimmy Carter. You know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I think it was Volcker under Reagan. Well, he created
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: somewhat of a recession that was going on with interest rates.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: And as a result of it, there's nothing good about it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: People lost their jobs. People couldn't afford stuff, and prices
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: came down.
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: Look at what happened to housing prices in the 70s.
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: They went up, and then they stayed where they were at.
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: They didn't really come down. Even this area, when we
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: went through the steel mill closings, that was the only
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: thing that really brought it down, but made it stay
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: where it was at. You really didn't see price increases
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: in housing in this area for almost 30 years because
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: there just wasn't any demand. We lost so much population,
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: there was no demand. And in the cities where housing
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: was affordable, look at what we wrecked, 4,000 or 5,000
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: houses in the city that people just abandoned. You know,
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: we've never replaced that. I mean, think of what it
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: would take just to replace what was knocked down in
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: the city over the last 20 or 30 years. I mean,
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: that's the only way you're going to do it. And
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: with the cost of materials, you're just, in general, once
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: the price of something goes up, there's not that much
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: elasticity in price for it to come back down. Oil
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: being one of the exceptions. Foods sometimes can be an
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: exception if you have a bumper crop or a bumper year.
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: But generally, it increases as well. But people expect that
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: all of a sudden, somebody's going to get elected and
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: wave a magic wand and bring prices down. It's not
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: going to work that way. I don't think you'll ever find...
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: If you called Dane Davis up and asked him that question,
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: I think he would agree that you're not going to
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: see prices come down substantially, whether it's Democrats or Republicans
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: elected in November. So if that's the reason people are voting, don't.
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: Look at why you should vote for the candidate. And
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: the thing that I would say, if you want to
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: look at where electricity is most expensive, another Wall Street
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: Journal article today, almost exclusively in Democrat areas. Housing is
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: more expensive. Energy is more expensive. And why is that?
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: Because they regulate and tax everything to death. And so
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: they make it so expensive to build a house with
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: land restrictions and building code restrictions and things like that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: You look at, where is it the most expensive places
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: to live?
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: It's on the coasts.
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: And in the big cities, what do all three of
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: those have in common? They're all run by Democrats. There
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: isn't a Democrat community in this country that I would
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: want to live in. Maybe except for where the uber-rich live,
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: like in the Hamptons or something like that. But I
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: can't afford that, and nobody else can either. But for
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: an average community, you want to live in New York City?
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: It's a crap hole. L.A., Every time you go out,
• 37:54
  Speaker 9: there's homeless in the parking lots. You're being accosted walking
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: down the street by some druggy homeless person that's all
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: junked up on drugs, defecating in the street. That's what
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: you get when you elect Democrats. All these people that
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: think Amy Acton is the answer, look at what happened,
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: what Tim Walz did in Minnesota. That's exactly what you
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: will see if Amy Acton gets elected in November. She's
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: a village idiot. She couldn't take the heat during COVID,
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: so she got out of the kitchen. She's going to
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: be elected for governor for four years? What's going to
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: happen if we have an economic downturn and the state
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: economy really goes bad? We enter a depression or a
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: severe recession. Is she just going to quit then and
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: let the lieutenant governor take over? People really need to
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: think their decision out. Do I like Vivek and Houston?
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: Would they be my preferred candidates?
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: No.
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: But if you look at what the Democrat Party has become,
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: it's not the Democrat Party that you and I grew
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: up in, that we were raised in and used to
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: vote Democrat in back in the 70s and 80s. That
• 38:58
  Speaker 9: party is gone. It's the party of communists and socialists
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: and the woke ideology that they're pushing. So if you
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: like that, vote Democrat in November. If you have any
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: type of sanity and you think that that's all a
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: bunch of nonsense, you better plug your nose and pull
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: the R lever because you don't really have a choice.
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: The other choice is insanity. Because I can't think of
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: a Democrat run area in this country that I would
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: want to live in.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Can you?
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: No.
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: No.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Although I would say this area is probably still 50-50.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Used to be a strong Democrat area, but it's 50-50.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: We got rid of him.
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: Unfortunately, we still have that idiot Chacon who doesn't have
• 39:45
  Speaker 9: common sense enough to step down from the position that
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: he has. Doesn't have the intelligence to run. But let's
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: go back 15, 20 years. Remember Philomena? Remember Chance?
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Remember the mob?
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: Who was on the take from the mob? It wasn't
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: Republican politicians. It was the Democrats that ran this area
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: and did all that. It took decades to root out
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: all that corruption and get rid of it. This area
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: is probably the best run it's been in my lifetime,
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: and I'll be 59 next month. And I don't think
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: it's ever run better than it is now. Now, is
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: there room for improvement?
• 40:16
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: I mean, like I've said, I would love to see
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: us have more than three county commissioners to make decisions
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: because we have three numbnuts that are making dumb decisions.
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: $ 60 million on a new building is asinine. We'd be
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: much better if we had a council of 15 or
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: 20 people that come together and at least you have
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: a chance then to get more intelligent people on a
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: county council than just having three people that basically are
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: like a triumvirate of dictators that can do whatever they
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: want and they're still going to get reelected. But this
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: area in general is wanting better than it ever has.
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: Why?
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: It's basically been taken over by conservative Democrats and by Republicans.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: I would say if you said anything changed it, it
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: was probably Trump more than anything. Wouldn't you agree?
• 41:11
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: All right. And it's how Trump changed the Republican Party.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: All right, Rich.
• 41:15
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  Speaker 17: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Ron. Hey, Ron. You know, can I have an
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  Speaker 7: Can I? I've been waiting all day just to talk
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's have an honest discussion.
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell you what, Ron. I... I'm in my 30s,
• 42:20
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• 42:22
  Speaker 7: years ago.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Where'd you go?
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: I live in a big city now, but I don't
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: want to say which one just because of the world today.
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: You've got to be careful. But anyway, it's a big city,
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: and let's just say it's warm. And I'm by the
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: beach here right now.
• 42:42
  Speaker 12: I still tune in and listen.
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: I still tune in and listen to you.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want better weather. Okay, I got you. Go ahead.
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: But, you know, you say rent's gone down and all this. Now,
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you where I'm at. I'm in Florida. But
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: let me just say this. Rent has gone up here
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: like you wouldn't believe. You know, I'm a modest young man.
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: I live in a one-bedroom apartment, and I'm paying a
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: little over $ 2, 000 right now just because I don't want
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: to live in an area that's completely crime-ridden. And, you know,
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: we have a Republican governor down here, DeSantis, but I'll
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: tell you what, man, I still see the LGBTQ propaganda
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: quite a bit down here. So despite us having these
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: Republican leaders, we're still losing this culture war. In many ways, every–
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: and I don't want to get too far off subject here,
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: but every movie, video game I digest in this world
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: is littered with just your typical LGBTQ characters. I mean,
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: if I had a little son today, I'd be afraid
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: to even put him in front of some of these
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: movie shows and games. You know, just for example, the
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: new X-Men Wolverine game, there's a homosexual romance option in that.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's just so even with Trump being president,
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: we're still being littered with this on all sides, all sides, everywhere.
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: And I know that's the private sector.
• 44:13
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• 44:15
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• 44:17
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• 44:20
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• 44:22
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  Speaker 2: All right, so you moved on. Why did you leave
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: this area?
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: Well, I appreciate you having me on today, Ron. Thank
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: you for the time. You know, really, just economic reasons.
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: You know, my... parents divorced and, you know, just things
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: kind of went their own way. And I, you know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 7: and I needed to grow and I just felt like
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: I wasn't growing there.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: And how old were you when you left?
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: Well, what was I in my, my mid twenties, around 26, 20,
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: maybe 20, yep. Late 26, almost 27. And, and I'll
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: tell you what, Ron, I, it, I've made it here.
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: But it is a reality check coming from, you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: Youngstown to a big city, whether it be Los Angeles,
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: New York City, Miami, Fort Lauderdale. But I will say
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: I am in a larger metropolitan area, and it's a
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: rat race. And I'm fortunate enough to have a decent job.
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: and I'm single and I don't have any children, so
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: I'm able to do my thing. But I know it
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: is a pipe dream if I actually wanted to try
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: and start a family, get married, have kids. It would
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: create just– it just sounds like a pipe dream to
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: me at this rate.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: How old are you now?
• 49:13
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm 35 right now.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, now listen to me. Listen to me on a
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: couple of things. and then I want to hear what
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: you have to say. Probably the most important thing you'll
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: ever do in your life. One of the most important
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: things is if you can find a girl that loves
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: you and you love her and you ask her to
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: marry you, as I say, the biggest compliment any man
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: can get is when his girl says she'll marry him.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, there is no compliments bigger than that one.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: That is the biggest compliment you'll ever have. And there's
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: nothing more rewarding in life than having children. And what
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: I'm saying to you first and foremost is don't let
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: that pass you by because it's one of the best
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: parts of life. Don't let that pass you by. With
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: that being said, I don't know that anybody says, oh,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: this is the right time. Everything's in line or I
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: got the right job or I make enough money. You
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: just adapt and and adjust to it. You just adapt
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: and adjust to it because if your parents thought like
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: you did, they probably would have never had you. And
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, so you're a worrier about all this kind
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: of stuff. Now, wait a second. Wait a second. I'm
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: not done with you. Now you're talking about Florida. And
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I can tell you, and I've spent my, I spend
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: my sure time there, but my daughter lives there and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: they moved there. When they graduated college, I'm going to
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: say about five or so girls in their sorority all
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: moved to Florida, all moved to Orlando. None of them
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: have returned here. None of them. I don't blame them.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: You can't blame them. And guess what? They all have
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: good jobs. They all make a good living. Groceries are
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: the same price there as they are here. Gasoline is
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: the same price there as it is here. Housing prices
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: are coming down. I mean, you can get a decent
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: house just like here. It's going to cost you $ 300
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: or $ 350 this day and age. And it's probably going
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: to be about the same in Florida, probably the $ 350
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: or above. But there's affordable houses in nice communities that
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: are relatively new. The expenses are pretty much the same
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: as they are here. And they're all making it. Now,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying if you're in Miami, that's a different story,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: depending if you go to some high-rise in Miami. But
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: I can also tell you that there's plenty of people
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: that are renting for less than what you're paying, that
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: the rents have come down. So it depends where you are. But,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like you're saying– To a certain extent,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I'd never be right to get married. I'd never be
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: able to afford kids. I'll never make enough money. Well,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: you're going to go through life with a lot of
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: regrets because you're a never guy.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: I see my friends with kids, and that's going to
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: take away my time playing video games. There you go.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's priorities.
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: Let me just say this, Ron.
• 52:23
  Speaker 9: It is very hard.
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: Young men today are actually protesting the idea of dating
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: and marriage, the institution of marriage in itself. Well, I
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: don't know about that.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I've gone to plenty of weddings of younger people. I mean,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: that are getting married. I think you just got some
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: psychological problems. You need a good shrink.
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: You need a psychiatrist, maybe a whole college. Have you
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: seen how women dress at the gym these days? That's
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: not exactly marriage material, Ron. Have you seen the leggings
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: these women wear? There's nothing left in the imagination, my friend.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I tell you. And how often do you go to
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: the gym, that being the case, every other day or
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: every day?
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: I work out at home because I don't want to see.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see that.
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: It's very obscene.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: You can't go and you can't take it in. So
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: do you think you have homosexual tendencies?
• 53:15
  Speaker 12: Come on.
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: Listen, I don't want to take up too much. I
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: know you've got other callers.
• 53:19
  Speaker 9: Let me just say this.
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: I'm a Republican, and I am a right-winger, but I
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: just find it futile to go out, stand in line,
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: and vote because everything that the Democrats are for, I
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: think the Republicans are only pretending to be against.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: But you're a guy that can't take a look at
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: women in yoga pants. I mean, this is coming from
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: a guy who can't go to the gym and look
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: at a woman in yoga pants. You've got some serious problems.
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: If your woman respects you, she's not going to dress
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: like that in public, my friend.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Should they put on like they do in the Middle
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: East where only their eyes show? Is that what you're
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: looking for?
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: That's one thing Christians and Muslims, I think we could
• 53:57
  Speaker 7: get along with. Yes, I do appreciate how the Arabs
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: have their women dressed. It's quite modest, and it reminds
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: me how.
• 54:03
  Speaker 12: My grandma used to dress.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Now, when you go out in Florida, are you wearing
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: shorts and T-shirts? I mean, how do you know the
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: women aren't looking at that man-like body of yours as
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: you go out scantily clad?
• 54:20
  Speaker 7: Here's what gets me, Ron. I see homeless people everywhere
• 54:24
  Speaker 7: down here in Florida, white Americans, too, not just Hispanic
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: and third world people. There are there are struggling white
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: Americans in this country. Our governors too busy signing anti
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: free speech bills for Israel.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: You got the best government. You get the best governor
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: in the world. All right. Well, I hope you get
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: a psychiatrist because you really do need one. I tell you,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: he's really got some issues. You're on the air.
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron, back to how are we losing being a
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: red state to these Democrats. The one entity that never
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: gets their fair share of the blame is the Ohio
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: Republican Central Committee. That when we go back in time,
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: because so much of this comes from DeWine. DeWine was
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: the one that put John Husted out there after J.D.
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: Vance got called up to VP.
• 55:14
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: And John Husted was a damaged candidate.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 55:17
  Speaker 12: Mike DeWine lost his.
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: Senate seat to Sherrod Brown, and it seems like Sherrod
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: Brown just trolls around behind Mike DeWine waiting for him
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: to fail epically. There would have never been a Amy
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: Acton had there never been Mike DeWine as a governor.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: And there was the Ohio Republican Central Committee gave DeWine
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: after the lockdown, after Acton, after he said that he
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: wanted to keep his emergency powers and it had to
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: be vetoed by the House and the Senate. that they
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: had full-throated support, gave him all the money, all the
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: influence that the Republican Party could throw at a candidate
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: simply because he was a sitting governor. Instead of going
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: out and finding somebody better, which you could throw a
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: dart at a phone book, to pick a name randomly,
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: you could find somebody better than Mike DeWine to represent
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: Republicans and conservatives in this state. But they stuck to
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: their guns and did what they always did, and they
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: deserve— this falls.
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: At their feet— If we get Sherrod Brown back and.
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: We get Amy Acton, we can link it to Mike DeWine,
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: but let's take one step further. And it's the Central Committee.
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: And when you think about what's the purpose of Ohio
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: Central Committee, Ohio Republican Central Committee, they want to be
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: the shepherds because we're all the sheep. They want to
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: influence us because we can't be left alone to make
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: our own decisions and And if they were to dissolve
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: and go away, I think we would have better leadership
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: than what they.
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: Put in front of us.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: And it has been a failed organization. We had eight
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: years of Kasich, eight years of DeWine, 16 years of rhinos.
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: And that tells me that most of the people that
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: are the power brokers, the kingmakers on the Ohio Republican
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: Central Committee are rhinos themselves because that must be what
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: they love. Because that's who they keep feeding up to us.
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: And we have to keep going back to the polls,
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: holding our nose and voting for the lesser of two
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: evils year after year after year after year.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: So let's make sure that we.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: Stand up and remember all of the shadow men and women.
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: Like Jimmy Haslam, by the way. He's on Ohio Republican
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: Central Committee. He donated a million dollars to the Ohio
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: Central Republican Central Committee. And in return, he got $ 600
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: million from our unclaimed funds for his failing Cleveland Browns
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: to build a new stadium. And that's the sort of
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: thing that goes on with this Ohio Republican Central Committee.
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: So let's not forget them. And I put all the
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: blame in them. I think Ramaswamy wasn't the best candidate.
• 58:02
  Speaker 16: I think he had some problems.
• 58:04
  Speaker 9: I think he still has some problems.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: And Houston was badly damaged. But, you know, we didn't
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: get to vote on that. That was DeWine's choice.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm listening to your dissertation, and so far
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: I'm just finding myself agreeing with it. Because I could
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: say to you, just as I'm listening to you, as
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: I've said, I will vote for John Huston because there's
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: no way I could vote for Sherrod Brown because he's
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: just he is a progressive and he supported everything that
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: Biden was doing. And I don't listen. I'm a broken record.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go back to what are your pronouns.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go back to we got to
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: rename Fort Hood. I don't want to go back to
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: ribbon-down statues. I don't want to go back to transgenders
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: in school. I don't want to go back to any
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: of the wild sexual stuff that they're talking about or
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: their energy policy or they're just the nonsense. I mean,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: because when Bill Maher says the problem with the Democrats
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: are they're crazy, he's 100% correct. I cannot vote for that.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: So I will vote for John Husted. There's nothing about
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: him that excites me at all. It's just that he's
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: a Republican and the philosophy of the party is better
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: than the other parties. So I will vote for John Husted.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: But you make a good point. I kind of enthusiastically
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: voted for Bernie Marino. There was some excitement about it.
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, outsider, business guy. I haven't agreed with his cozying
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: up to Elizabeth Warren yet. But all in all, I
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: think he's got conservative principles, but it was somebody new.
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: But this is the problem, is that we don't have
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: anybody new, and we didn't even get the choice. And
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: it's just kind of like, you know, DeWine was a retread.
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: When he failed from Senate and then decided to run
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: as governor, he wasn't in that office for 15 minutes
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: during his first term whenever he said we need to
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: raise the gas tax 10 cents a gallon. Back before
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: all of this was happening, he has been a Democrat
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: in Republican clothing for a.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 12: Long, long, long, long time.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Well, you take a look at his stand on the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Somalians or the Haitians that are in our states and
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: what he has to say about that.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: He is continuing to support Amy Acton as if he
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: is trying to get the Democrat to win.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: I think if I could peek in, merely my cynical mind,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: I'd be curious who DeWine actually does vote for.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, I think there's no doubt about it. I think
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 5: he's going to vote for Amy Acton. And Amy Acton
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: was a known Obama campaign organizer. Why in the world
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: would a Republican governor bring her in to his team
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: and be the health director for the state of Ohio?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: Did he miss that on her resume? I don't think so.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: I think he'd like that on her resume. And so
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: there's so many questions with this guy that we, we,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: we think the Ohio Republican central could just think about
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: the term central committee that just smacks of communism in
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: and of itself. And that they have all the power. They,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: they gather all the money. They send out, they send
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: out all the fundraisers for us. And we're supposed to
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: think that we're supporting, supporting a conservative organization.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 12: We are not.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: That is the head of the snake that put Kasich
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: and DeWine in office for 16 years. And those are
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: the people that I would love to shine light on
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: and say.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: Who the hell are these people?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: Because this is statistically off the chart significant that we
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: would have 16 years of rhinos. And then we have
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: Matt Huffman and we have Rob McCauley. And I think
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: that's the other thing that Vivek heard himself. He went
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: with a swamp monster with Rob McCauley. You can't say
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: that you're an outsider and then go with one of
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: the deep swamp inside rhino Republican Central Committee picks to
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: be your running mate. What that means is when Vivek
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: moves up, because he wants to run for president, then
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: we'll be right back where we are with another Rob
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: McCauley who's going to be a future John Kasich and
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: a future Mike DeWine. Because he's part of the apparatus
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: that is the Ohio Republican Central Committee. So I would
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: love to have some of these people come out of
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: the shadows and start answering some questions about why in
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: God's name do we have such crappy candidates?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 16: Generation after generation after generation.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: And we get nothing done. It was amazing that it
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: was Amy Acton that first said, let's lower the gas tax.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: And then you had Ramaswamy, Rob McCauley and Matt Huffman
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: running for a camera, running from the microphone to do
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: damage control when they could have.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: Done that months ago.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: They should have done it months ago. Four billion dollars
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: in a rainy day fund, which means four billion dollars
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: of revenue that's over their budget. And DeWine is saying
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: that he can't give us that gas tax relief. He
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: said it's going to cost six hundred million dollars. That, ironically,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: is the same amount that he gave Jimmy Haslam and
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 5: the Browns, a private organization, to build their new stadium.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 5: But see, Jimmy Haslam gave them a million dollars. We're
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 5: just mud people out here that don't deserve a damn thing.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 9: So that's the way that the Republican Party in.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: The state of Ohio, and that's why we'll never be
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: a Florida, we'll never be a Tennessee or a Texas,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: because they would never get a Ron DeSantis. They would
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: never let him anywhere nearer. the governor's mansion if he
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: had to go through the screening of our Ohio Republican
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: Central Committee. And that would be a good question. Why
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: in the hell didn't they go recruit him like an
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: NFL quarterback and tell DeSantis, hey, we know your term
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: limit is down there. Why don't you come up here?
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: At this point, I think we ought to just dissolve
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: the state of Ohio and see if we can just
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: call ourselves Florida North and whatever comes out of Tallahassee,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: we agree with.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 16: Because if we were corporate America, that's exactly what.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 9: We would do.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: Appreciate your insight. Thank you for your call. I enjoyed it.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: I'll be back. It's time to take care of your health.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 12: That guy was interesting. 423 in the afternoon.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: You're on the air. Come back to your phone. You've
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: got to pay attention. Let me do this. I'm going
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: to just clear all of that. There we go. You've
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: got to pay attention because we try to move along
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: as quick as we can. I realize some of you
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: get frustrated because you have to wait a period of time.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: I get it. But there are times I try to
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: move as quickly as I can.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: 330-729-9977.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: We'll get you through to us.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 7: 330-729-9977.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: So they say the latest polling says what Sherrod Brown
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: has a pretty considerable lead. as far as becoming the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: next senator from the state of Ohio. And Amy Atkin
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: is leading Ramaswamy in the governor's race. And that's what
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: we talk about because, quite frankly, let's be realistic. I
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: thought this was a red state. And yet for the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: two top positions, senator and governor, they are saying in
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: a current polling that the Democrats are leading the pack.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Is that because of Trump? Is that because of– The
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: dislike for Trump with this economy going on?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 7: No?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You're on the air.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: I just got a new agenda.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: What was that called?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: The Ohio Republican Committee? We're going to need to dissolve that?
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: That's what he wants to do. He says he's tired
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: of them putting rhinos in there.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't realize there was a committee like that
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: in our state constitution and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: So when you start finding where the problem is, it's
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: time to root it out. And if that's the problem,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going to investigate it.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 7: I'll look.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: I'll do some online research.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: You'll be like Geraldo Rivera. Well, listen, that's where the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: problem is, in his opinion. Right. Keep in mind, I
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: would say this about Mike DeWine. Mike DeWine was elected, what, senator, governor,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: attorney general?
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 22: No.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, the citizens of Ohio have voted Mike DeWine
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: in all those offices. He didn't just take him over
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: by hostile arms. I mean, people in Ohio voted Mike DeWine. Well,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: he was what? Attorney General. Wasn't he? He was Attorney General.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: He was governor, was senator. And I can't think of
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: there was something else that he was. But I mean,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: he's been voted in all those office. It seems to
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: me the people of Ohio.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Always holding our nose to vote, isn't it? Isn't it
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: always holding our nose?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just my impression was over the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: years that obviously with that many offices, the people of
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Ohio like Mike DeWine and maybe because they thought he
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: was wasn't an extremist either way, more of a moderate.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm speculating, but how else do you think
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: you got that?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: There's a different problem in the Ohio Republican Party. The
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: different problem is they're not trying to move things in
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: the direction of communism, I don't think, or evilism or
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: anything like that. I think they still like the gun
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: laws and stuff like that.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 17: But I think the.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: Big problem in the Ohio Congress is corruption. I think
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: the John Huston thing is kind of a little picture
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: of what goes on in the rest of the Ohio Congress.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: And why they're there.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: I don't feel good about it at all. I'm like
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: you guys, and I keep hearing people say, I'm not
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: going to vote for a single Democrat who wants child
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: gendering and communism. I'm not going to do that at all.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: But I tell you what I am going to do,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: and I hope the rest of the public does it too.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: Once we get these guys in office, and when we
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: start moving in the direction of the Republican Party, I
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: want to do something to root out the corruption that's
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: in our state, and then in our fed. You know,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: what's happening with the Somalis? What's happening with all that crap?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: You know, that stuff needs to be handled, and people
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: need to be held accountable, which is another issue. Why
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: can't we get people to be held accountable? That killed me.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: So I've got a new agenda. I'm retiring in one year. Really?
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: My nose will be to the grindstone.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Well, tell me, how old will you be in one
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: year from now?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: Sixty-two.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: A year and a half.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Sixty-two? All right, here's my question. I always got to
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: ask this when people are going to retire. How are
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: you going to cover your health care?
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: How am I going to cover it? I work in
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: the film industry, and I've got all my hours and
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: everything all squared away.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: So I will be.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Full medical through motion picture, and then when I turn 65,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: I'll be on Medicare.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: Motion picture, uh, secondary backup.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: So, all right. So based, so basically you can recover
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: and your healthcare will be provided for you till you
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: reach full retirement age, correct?
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 7: Yes. All right.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: And do you think you'll have, are you going to
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: take your social security at 62? I don't have to.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: Uh, i can do a medical retirement only if i
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: choose to um but i have rental properties here in
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: uh in the county and other places.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 9: In ohio are you going.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: To evaluate that whether or not i need to take.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 9: My yeah how financial retirement are.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: You healthy in general I am.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: On zero meds. I weigh about 170 pounds, and I'm 5'8.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: I'm at the gym about four days a week. I
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: have a very labor-intensive job in the film industry. I
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: don't do anything glamorous at all. I run power to
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: the set.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: All right. So if you're going to retire and you've
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: got your health care covered, if you take your Social
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Security at 62, I mean, it's– Listen, I'd be the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: first one to tell you I wouldn't take it until
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: I was 65 or 66 if I were you. 8%
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: a year is a significant amount of what you're going
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: to get monthly. I mean, the penalty. So if you
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: wait three years and you'll get 8, 8, 8, 24% more. Right? 24% more.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Why does that matter? Because what comes out of there
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: is the cost for your Medicare. I always tell people
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: the same thing, too. I mean, in my opinion. Hang
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: on a second, all right? I want to come back
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: to you. Just bear with me for a second. I'm
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: going to give him some retirement advice, even though he
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: doesn't want it. Back after this.
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  Speaker 24: Caleb Flynn has been convicted of murdering his wife in
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  Speaker 24: their tip city home back in February. The prosecution said
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 24: Flynn killed her because he wanted to be free to
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 24: marry his mistress. Flynn had claimed an intruder killed her
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 24: while the two slept in different rooms. We are awaiting sentencing.
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  Speaker 24: In other news, an Ohio woman had the wrong leg
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 24: amputated in a surgery gone wrong and is now suing
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 24: several health care providers in Washington County. Sharon Jacks was
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 24: scheduled to have her lower right leg amputated, but got
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 24: out of surgery with her lower left leg gone. She
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 24: still ended up having the correct leg amputated at another time,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 24: so now she's a double amputee. Jacks' lawyer has stated
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 24: there is simply no excuse and that it is a
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 24: complete and total failure by medical professionals when it comes
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 24: to an incorrect amputation.
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  Speaker 2: I always like to stick my nose where it doesn't belong.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm going to go back to this guy.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: So you're going to be, what, 60, you said, when
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: you retire, right?
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 6: No, 62.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, 62. And you can collect from your work your
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: pension or whatever that is, right?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: And I can choose just to do a medical retirement.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: In other words, just get my medical coverage.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but how would you pay your electric bill?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, I have other sources of income.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. So I'm just trying to get the lay of
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: the land. That's all. But I always tell people when
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: they look at– Retiring, and everything's individual. I mean, make
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: no mistake, it's an individual thing for everybody. But a
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: lot of people say, boy, I can't wait until I
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: get 62 to retire. Well, the first big problem people
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: have is what are you going to do to cover
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: health care? You got that covered. Most people don't. You know,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: if you retire before your Medicare age, health care is
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: very expensive to have that monthly obligation. But you get
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: substantially less Social Security. at 62 than you would at
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: 65 or 66 or 67. I mean, it's 8% less
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: a year. So why does that matter? Well, I would
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: tell everybody you're probably best to retire at 66 or 65,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: not before then, because if you take it too soon,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: what comes out of your Social Security check is the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: cost of your Medicare. Your Medicare, which is $ 202 right now.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: That's what comes out. So whatever your Social Security check is,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, take $ 202 out of it. Keep in mind, taxes,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: you've got to pay taxes on it. So anyway, take
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: your 202 out of it. So if you get a
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: $ 2, 000 Social Security check, now you're down $ 1, 800. And, of course,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: there's tax on that. Uh, so it's, it's not a
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of money is what I try to tell people.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: And guess what happens? The cost of Medicare, it goes
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: up every year. So it's 202 this year, next year,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: it'll be even more and it'd be more after that.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: So the more that you get, when you start, when
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: you start taking your, uh, social security, the better off
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: you are because the cost of your Medicare will go up, uh, in,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: in time. And, and in my opinion, and, uh, It's
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: just my opinion. I'm a big proponent that you should
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: always be on standard Medicare when you decide to make
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: that decision, not Medicare Advantage, standard Medicare. Well, Ron, why
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: do you say that? And it can be more costly.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: With standard Medicare, I tell everybody the same thing. You
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: have no HMOs, no PPOs. You don't have to stay
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: in a network at all. You follow me? You don't
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: have to be in a network. You don't have any
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: of that to worry about. So if you go on
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: vacation to Florida... It's not a problem. You don't have
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: to say, well, you've got to stay in our network
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: and you've got to get pre-approvals and all that nonsense.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: None of that happens if you go as standard Medicare,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: not Medicare Advantage. Standard Medicare, you can go anywhere in
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: the country. You don't have to get pre-authorization or any
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: of that nonsense from the insurance company.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: We've got counseling coming in about three months to go
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: over that stuff. But I'm listening.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: And then get what's called a Plan G. All right?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: The Plan G will cost you. I mean, if you
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: get a Plan G, then you pay for that out
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: of your checking account.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: It doesn't come out of your Social Security. That can
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: be anywhere from $ 150 on up a month. But with
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Plan G, listen to me. Once you pay your yearly
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: deductible of like $ 275... Okay, that's your yearly deductible. You
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: follow me? Plan G will pay everything in its entirety.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: That is your total deductible, $ 275. So the only expenses
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: you have on standard Medicare are the monthly cost of
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: 202 and whatever your Plan G cost, whatever that is. Okay,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: follow me? What's the other.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 9: One that everybody gets on that's the secondary one? It's
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 9: not Plan G, but you said don't get on that.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: Medicare Advantage.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 7: Advantage.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: Medicare Advantage isn't Medicare. It's private insurance that Medicare gets
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: some money for. Then you've got to be in PPOs, HMOs.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: You've got to get pre-authorization and all this kind of stuff.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: No, I don't want that.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 21: Right.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: I don't do that.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 11: I have broken parts.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: If you're on standard Medicare, you don't have to go
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: through any of that. And if you get, even if
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: you say, well, Plan G is too expensive, which means
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: you can go with like Plan N. There's Plan G
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: and Plan N for your supplements. You've got to have
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: a supplement if you're on standard Medicare, okay? And so
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: if you go with Plan G or Plan N, Plan
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: N says like you've got to pay $ 50 deductible if
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: you go to the emergency room and $ 25 deductible going
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: to the doctor. Very minimal deductibles. But Plan N is
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: a little cheaper than Plan G. But I'm telling you,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: if you go with regular Medicare, not Medicare Advantage, and
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: a Plan G, you'll pay the monthly cost for your
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: Medicare and your Plan G and a $ 275 deductible for
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: the entire year, and everything else will be covered with
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: absolutely no HMOs, PPOs, or networks to deal with or
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: preauthorization to deal with. That is a difference. And keep
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: it in mind. Keep all of that in mind because
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: this much I tell everybody, as you get older is
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: when you're going to get sick because you're getting closer
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: to the end of the line. And you don't know
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: if that's at 68 or 72 or whatever. But that's
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: when you're more prone to have health issues. And every
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: year those costs go up. You know, the cost of
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Medicare go up and the cost of Plan G go up.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: But if you have other income– If you do what
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you to do, you will have nothing to
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: worry about as far as your health insurance. I think, yeah,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: but Plan G and standard Medicare at 65, not Medicare Advantage.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: And that's going to afford me the ability to get
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: into some school council and start shaking up this Republican
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: committee thing.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I mean, I just talked to a guy
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: today and he was really he gave me the best
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: answer I think I've heard in a long, long time.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: And I said to him, how are you enjoying your retirement?
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: And he said to me, it's like being a kid again.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: And I thought about that, and I thought that was
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: a great answer. Because, you know, I get to enjoy
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: my day, my summers, do whatever I want. And he said, basically,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: he's thoroughly enjoying it. He said, it's like being a
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: kid again. I thought that was a great answer. And
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: I think you'll find that to be the case, too.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: I hope you live a long life and, you know,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: that you enjoy it.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: I'm praying.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: Do you have children?
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 6: I have three daughters.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: I talked to you a couple weeks ago about my
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: daughter thinks the witch that killed her kid thinks her
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: husband did it. I don't know if you remember that conversation.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: I do remember that conversation. And I got to tell you,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: I kind of side with the lone juror that's getting
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: picked on, who's basically said, the lone juror that said, oh, no,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: I think that she's guilty of murder, not murder by
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: reason of insanity. You got to think of the victims,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: these three kids and the horrible death that they faced.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: And I think he thought of that. I think he
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: was the only one who had that on his mind.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: Who's that?
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: That he had the kids on his mind. the soldier
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: had the kids on his mind and not the woman.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 9: Oh, so bad for the kids.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: He felt that they were getting no justice.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: They were getting no justice.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 9: So I'm with you.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: I'm with you a hundred percent on that. It's so often.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, we think about the person that's on trial, right?
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: Because you can see them and that kind of stuff,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: but the victims are dead. They're not there. The prosecution
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: is there to speak for them. And it's like, I
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: don't disagree that to a certain extent you've got to
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: be kind of nuts to do what she did, obviously.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: But that doesn't negate the fact that it seemed awful
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: premeditated to me. You made sure your husband left the
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: house and you did that kind of stuff. And I
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: don't know. Yeah, I agree. It's hard to explain people
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: that do some of these strange things. But I'm really
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: excited about your future. I hope you live a long life.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: And most importantly, you stay healthy. That's the key.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: Stay healthy.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 9: All right, buddy.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: All right, Ron.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, hello.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 9: Oh, you hung up on me.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 9: You know what?
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 16: I just want to call in about that. Remember the van?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Remember what?
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 16: A van. I went on a long trip with an
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 16: old van.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I do remember that, yes.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I was inside. You can't find anybody to work
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 16: on anything now. I mean, I had an engine code
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 16: come up. It had a spider injector, so they over-fueled
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 16: or noted for it. And I was in the middle
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 16: of pulling my intake manifold off And I'm 74, cramped
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 16: in a little space. You can't say, hello, hello.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 9: I couldn't get out fast enough.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: So you were looking for a mechanic, right?
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I was looking for one, but I'm going to
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 16: tear it down and do it myself. I was a
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 16: mechanic for years, so it ain't no big deal.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: But you are right. I mean, it's very costly anymore
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: these days to get anything fixed. I mean, this idea
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: that car mechanics are cheap is really inaccurate. It's very
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: expensive to get your car serviced by mechanics today. It's
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: a very expensive undertaking.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 16: Replace the injectors on this and intake manifold gaskets, and
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 16: I'm going to do the valve seals. And that's like
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 16: a $ 2, 500 job. And I'm going to do it for
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 16: maybe under $ 1, 000.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: It might be more than $ 2, 500 if you went to
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: a shop. It just might be more than that.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 16: They want $ 2, 500 in a job. But I can do
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 16: it myself for under a grand, I think.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the catch is you know what you're doing.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: But wouldn't you admit to.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 16: I've been a mechanic for 30 years. You know, I
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 16: know mechanics as well as you know Medicare. I wish
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 16: I knew Medicare as good as you did. I wouldn't
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 16: have made the choices I did.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because once you get on Medicare Advantage, it's damn
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: difficult to get back on standard Medicare.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I made that mistake. I went on and I'm
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 16: insulin dependent.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 16: Oh, well, there's nothing I can do now.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 21: No.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Not a lot you can do about it. I mean,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: standard Medicare is a really gold-plated plan. I mean, it's
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: really a great plan.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 9: I wish I had called your show earlier or before
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 9: I retired.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 16: I looked everywhere for good advice. That's what I got.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: Well, live and learn, as they say. But the reality is...
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: You're lucky that you know how to fix what you
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: got so that you can fix it because finding good mechanics,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: it's tough. Fixing anything, though, is a pain in the arse.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: I don't care what it is. Fixing stuff, particularly when
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: you're on a vehicle that's been in salt and snow
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: and has got parts that are rusted on, there's nothing
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: easy about it at all.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 16: This is a Florida van.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 16: There's no salt in this. This thing still has the
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 16: original brake lines on it.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, you're lucky. Well, then you're lucky in that sense.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: What year is this beast? 99.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: So think of this. That's 27 years old.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, can you get the parts?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what?
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 16: That's a nice thing because I had an older van.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 16: It was a high-ish diesel. And, of course, I basically
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 16: worked on diesel trucks. So that's why I got that.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 16: But it got to the point, if you had a breakdown,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 16: you were screwed. I mean, you'd be sitting for a
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 16: month waiting for a part.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 16: And the nice thing about the 5.7 platform with GM,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 16: I could walk around the block and find the starter.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of the best things. They're everywhere.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: Have you seen, though, like when you take a look
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: at the age of GM pickup trucks on the road,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: it's pretty substantial. I mean, obviously they're talking in a
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: whole country, but it's not odd to see 25-, 30-year-old
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: GM pickup trucks still running every day and performing well.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: I got a 2003 2500 6.0.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 16: I've had that since it was new.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 16: But the bad thing is they're having their problems on
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 16: a new vehicle if you don't want a new one.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the problem is.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 16: The old ones like my 6.0, those things, they're like
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 16: four or five hundred thousand mile motors, you know?
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: Is that a Vortec?
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 16: Yeah, almost everything is a Vortec. But they have like
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 16: Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: But it's a good motor. I agree with you. That's
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: a great motor.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 16: In fact, from the 90s up until about 2010, if
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 16: you can find one in good shape, that's the vehicle
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 16: to get.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just, I get what you're saying, though.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: It's just your flexibility on getting stuff done. You know,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: I watch my youngest son who's, you know, obviously in
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: his early 30s. And just the other day, he replaced
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: the blower motor. You know, boom, took him maybe 10 minutes.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: The blender he replaced took him 10 minutes. I mean,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: some of the stuff that he studies and can do
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: just as a shade tree guy doing it's pretty impressive
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: to the old man, you know?
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 9: You know, it's a gift.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 7: Oh, it is.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 16: It really is. Not everybody has it. I've had that gift.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 16: I work on almost, not just cars, almost everything.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: But you know what the secret is? I'm going to
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: give you the secret to it all. Patience. Patience is
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: the key. Because my guy growing up and I mean,
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: you got to be able to walk away from it
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: when you get frustrated. Don't walk away and take a
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: break and then come back to it. Otherwise, you just
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: stay frustrated because it will frustrate.
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  Speaker 16: That was the worst part when I worked on heavy
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 16: trucks is you're stuck there for eight hours.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 16: If you get a problem you can't fix, you're screwed.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You got to be able to walk away and think.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 16: Well, they didn't give you that opportunity. And it's now,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 16: like my van, I get tired of working on it.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 16: I can go in the house and say, I'll piss
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 16: on you.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: Isn't that a great feeling?
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it is.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's... Well, I hope you get it fixed, man.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 16: I think Trump is going to reap... The Republicans are
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 16: going to reap the sows of his.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 16: I mean, he should have never went into Iran. That
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 16: was very, very foolish.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: I'm in total agreement with you, and I criticize him
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: for that. I always got to put a comma there, though.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: I'm in total agreement with you. But the comma is,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know what he knows either. You follow me?
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what information him and Rubio
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: have that I have no idea what it's about. I mean,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: it's just.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 16: What he promised in his platform and what he did.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in total agreement with you. Total agreement with you.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: But I also can see that they know more than
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: I do, and I'm sure there's a lot of stuff
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: they're not telling me.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 16: Well, I think it's going to ultimately— and, you know, I'm
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 16: not a Democrat because— You know, the thing I hold
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 16: against the Democrat and the Republicans to both parties, the
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 16: Democrats are the first thing they want to do. Well,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 16: you can't have a gas stove. You've got to run
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 16: this kind.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 9: Of free on your car.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 16: You've got to run an electric car.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 9: And I'm tired of that.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 12: Hey, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to go.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Ron. Good show. I have a question. The gentleman
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 6: that calls that doesn't like President Trump, he's always talking
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  Speaker 6: about the Epstein files. I was wondering, were those Epstein
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 6: files discovered during Biden when they had a Democrat majority? Like,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: why weren't those taken care of then?
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a good question, because and even before Biden died,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. You're saying, well, if you could
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: release everything, why didn't Biden release everything?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, ask him the next time he calls, which is
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 6: probably going to be tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: But my comment to you would be it's fair criticism
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  Speaker 2: for all those people, because I do believe that there's
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  Speaker 2: a double system of justice. Like I said before, I
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  Speaker 2: believe Epstein was part of the intelligence community, and I
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: believe they were engaging in recruiting underage girls to have
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: sex with adult men. It's reprehensible what they were doing.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: And quite frankly, nobody's being held accountable for it at all.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to jail, nobody's on trial, and it's a
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: double standard of justice. So the critics of the lack
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: of transparency with Epstein, I think they're 100% accurate. The
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: victims are just ignored, and it's a double standard of justice.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: I think all of the information should have been released,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: no matter who's the president, and the people should go
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: to jail and be held accountable, but they think And
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: it appears to me they are because they're either rich
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: or influential people that are getting away with it. And
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: it sickens me to be blunt with you.
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  Speaker 7: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks. Just ask him that question the next time
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 6: he calls.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: Got you.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: All right. I mean, that's my thought on the Epstein files.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: And I spoke to you the other day about the
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: same thing. I just get frustrated with, here's Fauci. Listen,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: look at how many times he took the 5th. Okay,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: so we had that big hearing. Guess what? Nothing happened.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: It's all showmanship. Okay, nothing happens. No one went to jail.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: No one was held accountable, including any of Fauci's associates
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: that didn't get a pardon from Biden. I mean, so
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: we know this much. We know what they were up
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: to and what they were doing. We're well aware of that.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: But there's never any results of it. The Russian hoax
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: in Trump's first term, we know it was all BS.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: That really bogged the country down for three years. Did
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: anybody go to jail? One person, a minor person in it.
• 1:31:28
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• 1:31:30
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• 1:31:35
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  Speaker 2: 77 degrees. It's a comfortable Tuesday afternoon, September 29th. And
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  Speaker 2: here tonight until 6 o'clock. And you're on the air.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, I wanted to call you back. Kingdom of Mahoning.
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  Speaker 11: Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I got a copy on you.
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  Speaker 6: Over.
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  Speaker 11: All right. Yeah, I was talking to you yesterday, and
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 11: I had to go. I got to go back to
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 11: my house. But kind of following up on the, you know,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 11: there's some polling about, you know, putting a Democratic Socialist
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 11: head-to-head against a MAGA candidate. You know, basically, just to
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 11: say it again, what that poll was saying is that
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 11: across all likely voters, they would most american fifty four
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 11: percent of americans which is a democratic socialist candidate like
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 11: mondami over a uh... you know a maggot candidate like
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 11: paxton or something like that you know that the maggot
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 11: candidates were down to like thirty four percent and uh...
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 11: you know i just kind of wanted to like you
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 11: know when i listen to your program i listen to
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 11: it a couple couple times a week maybe you know
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 11: if i if there's um... you know, when I'm driving
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 11: home from work and things like that. And I just
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 11: don't really hear anybody on your program who's kind of
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 11: like explaining or like elucidating what's going on there, you know,
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 11: where those democratic socialists are coming from.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: Where are they coming from? Well, it's the extreme of
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. I mean, listen, it depends where you are. Obviously,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: if you're in New York or in California, you probably
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: stand a pretty good chance of going in that direction.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: So it very much depends what area you're in.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 11: I guess what I would say is, like, if you
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 11: look back at American history, if you want to look
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 11: at the three most popular presidents, you know, most people
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 11: would say, you know, Washington. They would say Lincoln and
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 11: probably FDR. Basically, all three of those people are within
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 11: the liberal tradition. And, you know, Lincoln was basically a socialist.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 11: FDR was basically a socialist. You know, if you actually
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 11: look at the policies that they pursued and enacted across
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 11: the country that made vast improvements on this country, that's
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 11: because of the ideology that comes from the liberal tradition
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 11: that developed into what we call socialism. And people are like,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 11: I don't know, I mean, most Americans are extremely propagandized.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 11: They don't really know what those terms mean, and that's fine. So,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 11: you know, I don't think it's critical that you use
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 11: that term socialist, but those ideas that what we should
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 11: be doing is trying to improve society for each other
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 11: and for ourselves and for our neighbors. It's a pretty
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 11: foundational ideology to the left.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: I get it, but why do you want to take
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: away personal responsibility? When you say you should improve all this,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: why does that improvement always involve the productive having more
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: taken from them and more taxes taken from them to
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: give to someone else? I mean, where's the incentive?
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 11: I'll give you one example. I'll give you one example.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 11: Let's look at, like, Medicare for All. You know, I mean,
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 11: there's a couple things I could say. No, one, if
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 11: you go to a Medicare for All system, like most
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 11: other countries do across the globe, they're all saving money
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 11: compared to what America spends. You know, okay, you could
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 11: say their outcomes are worse, but if you actually look
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 11: at it, it's mostly not true. But, you know, beyond that,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 11: beyond the money that you could save there, What medical
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 11: insurance is used, it's used as a, what would I say?
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 11: It's like it's something that locks you into your job.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 11: I mean, there's millions of people who hate their job.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 11: They would much rather find a different job, one that
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 11: would even pay less maybe, but they stay there for
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 11: medical insurance. You know, I would much rather those people
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 11: be free to be able to start their own businesses.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 11: Maybe they don't want to work. Maybe they would rather
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 11: get a different job. And instead of using that medical
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 11: insurance against them, which is what it is now, I
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 11: think it is freedom. to give people that opportunity to
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 11: expand their life without that stuff hanging over their head.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: But who pays for it?
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 11: We all do.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: I know, but they say it looks.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 11: Like we all do anyways. I mean, the prices that
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 11: are set by insurance companies, they take the whole risk
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 11: pool of everyone in their pool, and they apply whatever
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 11: statistical mathematics to it, and they determine the price. That's
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 11: exactly what the government would do. And like, so when
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 11: people are like, oh, I'm going to be paying for
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 11: somebody else's insurance, you're already doing that. I mean, you're
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 11: in a risk pool. It's just right now it's run
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 11: by a private company who makes a profit off it.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 11: And instead it could be run by a public company
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 11: who doesn't make a profit off it. You know, I mean,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 11: it's up to you guys, but that seems pretty clear
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 11: to me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that seems clear at all. I mean,
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: first of all, when you're talking, I sit back and
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: I say to myself, gee, I wonder why all these
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: sheiks come to the Cleveland Clinic to get their health
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: care done. I wonder why these people come down from
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: Canada to get their health care done in the United States.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: Because contrary to what you said, I think we have
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: some of the best medical care in the world, particularly
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: where we're located with our local facilities. But in addition
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: to that, you have the Cleveland Clinic, UPMC. And so
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: in a lot of cases, you can get things addressed
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: much quicker and less waiting than they do and put
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: up with in Canada. Now, first and foremost, there's.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 12: A number of things.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 11: And you believe that because we have private insurance?
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. There's a number of things that you've
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: said that are, I think, inaccurate. First of all, when
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: it comes to Medicare, Medicare is something that's earned and
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: you get it 65 after you pay taxes into it
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: and your employer pay taxes in it.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 11: Was it socialists or capitalists who decided to implement that?
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: Can I finish my thought? So contrary to what I
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: just said to you, Medicare financially is busted. Medicare, the
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: future for Medicare is not good, even with people paying
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: in taxes. So for everyone to be on Medicare, they
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: speculate that it's more than $ 2 trillion a year. just
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: for everyone to be on Medicare. Where do you get
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: that $ 2 trillion for? Since our federal, what we take
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: in a year in taxes is $ 4. 5 trillion. So basically,
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: half of the entire budget would go to one item,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: which would be Medicare. Now, so I'm backing up here
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: to say to you, do you believe in personal responsibility?
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: Do you think, you know, because my father, I'm turning
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: into my father saying this to you. Health care isn't
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: a right. Health care is a responsibility. As I was
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: covered by my father when I was a young man
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: and when I became an adult. As it was made
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: clear to me, you either find a job that provides
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: health care benefits or you go out and buy it
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: on your own. Those are your two choices. That's your responsibility.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: Just as paying an electric bill is your responsibility. Just
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: as paying a gas bill is your responsibility. These aren't
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: things that should be given that you have a right to.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: You're in a free country. And if you don't like
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: your job and you think you're tied to it because
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: your health care benefits, you become a prisoner in your
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: own mind. Then go find another job that you like
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: better that also offers you health care benefits. You're not
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: tied to that job. And if you want to start
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: a business, many people do. You can go out and
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: buy health care on your own, but you're going to
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: have to pay for it, whether that's Obamacare or any
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: type of private insurance. So, I mean, those are your options.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: It's called personal responsibility. It's not up to someone else
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: to pay for all of these personal responsibilities that you
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: want them to pay. 50% of the people are paying
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: taxes in this country. The other 50% aren't. So I
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: don't know how you fund all of this giveaway stuff.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: And as much as I praise Social Security, Social Security,
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: as they've told you in seven or eight years, has
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: got some serious issues. Serious issues.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah, because we don't all contribute equally to it. I mean,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 11: that's an easy one. But, you know, talking about Medicare,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, what you're saying is that it's the responsibility
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 11: of mothers and fathers and children to support the elderly.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 11: I mean, I agree with that. I agree that we
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 11: should all contribute to extending the lives of the elderly.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: No, that isn't what I'm saying to you. I just
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: said to you, as you're working, you pay into Medicare
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: during your work life as well as your employer. It
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: is a tax that you pay during your working years
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: that you qualify for Medicare. It is not a gimme program.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: It's one that you pay into, just as you pay
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: into Social Security. And you have to have so many quarters.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: What you pay in determines what you get out. So
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 2: we don't say everybody that gets on Social Security gets
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 2: the same amount. We're socialists. It doesn't matter. Everybody's going
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: to get $ 3, 000. This guy isn't going to get $ 1, 800
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: even though he didn't pay in as much. It doesn't
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 2: work like that. It's how much did you pay in?
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 2: Did you work enough quarters? Here's the amount that you're
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: going to get. From Medicare, you pay in during your
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: working life. These are not entitlement programs. They're earned benefits
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: is what you call them. Well, guess what? Like I
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: said to you, if you hate your job, go find
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: another job with benefits. There's plenty of them out there.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: You're not tied to your employer. Or go buy them
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: on your own. What's the problem?
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 11: So you're saying that when somebody who wants to start
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 11: a business but can't do so because they can't afford
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 11: the insurance premiums, that's a good thing?
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: I'm saying to you then they can't afford to start
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: a business. I don't believe everybody that wants to start
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: a business can afford to start a business. There's expenses
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: involved in starting a business. Liability insurance, buying equipment, learning
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: what you're going to do. If you can't afford any
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: of that stuff, then you can't start a business.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 11: So you don't think there's any way to improve that?
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 11: You don't think there's any way to make things easier
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 11: for people?
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: No, I think it's a responsibility.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 11: I mean, what you say is you want to lower
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 11: people's taxes so they can... spend more money. I mean,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 11: that's what I'm saying. I'm saying let's spend less money
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 11: on health care so we all have more freedom to
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 11: do what we want to do.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: But who's going to pay for your health care?
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 11: We all will.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you're not going to spend less money.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 11: Just like we all do right now.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're not going to spend less money. You're
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: going to tax the living hell out of people to
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: be able to pay for it.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 11: Well, you're already paying for it. It's not like.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: If we switch to a Medicare for all system, it's
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: not like they add money on top. Just like you said,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: your employer pays the bulk of it. It's one of
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: the perks of working. They pay the bulk of it,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: and you might pay a third of it or.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 11: Less than that. And the reason employers like– I mean,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 11: I don't know any employers who like doing it, but
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 11: the reason that system is set up is because that
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 11: locks people into their job. That's just one of the
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 11: tools they use against it.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: Not necessarily. You can go get another job with health
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 2: care benefits. They're not the only employer that offers health
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: care benefits. There's plenty of other people that.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, most places have, like, one or two
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 11: insurers that you could really use in your area. You know,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 11: I mean, every employer picks a different plan. I mean,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 11: that's the other thing. You get subject to whatever, you know,
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 11: some operations manager at your company decides is what plan
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 11: you're going to do.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 11: And they don't pick the plan to benefit the employees.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 11: They pick the cheapest plan they can. and hope that
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 11: their employees don't complain about it.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 2: Well, then go get a job somewhere else. I don't
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: think they all do that. There is a cost to
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: how much it costs per month, and there are budgets
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: involved in companies to deal with it. I mean, so
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: that's the reality. You act like you're trapped. You're a
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: prisoner where you work, and you're not. If you're that
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: disgusted by it, then, as I say, go open your
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: own business and go buy Obamacare. You can go do that.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, I've done that. I used to be on Obamacare.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: When I owned my own company.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 16: There you go.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: And guess what? On Obamacare, they say, here's this plan.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: You can get this plan or this plan or this plan. Well,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: what's the difference? Well, one has a higher deductible than
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: the other one. And, oh, by the way, the cost
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: of them. If you want this one, it's going to
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: cost you more than that one.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 11: It's just like you were talking about with the former
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 11: caller there, like, Now, why would you pick a Medicare
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 11: Advantage plan?
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 11: You want to pick the gold standard.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you why some people do.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 4: Why would we offer.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 11: Less than gold standard plans to people?
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you why. Because some people say, I
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: don't want to pay the high cost of a Plan
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: G out of my Social Security check. Maybe their Social
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: Security check is $ 2, 000 a month, and they'll go on
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: a Medicare Advantage plan because they don't have to have
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: that big amount taken out of their checkbook to pay
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: a Plan G. So there are economic reasons.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 11: This is exactly what I mean. You're forcing people to
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 11: make these decisions about their life. I mean, I 100%
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 11: agree with you. You have to make compromises on how
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 11: much your income is, what you can spend. Obviously, I
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 11: get all that, but what you're negotiating over is your
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 11: access to life-saving care. It's not like, hey, I want
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 11: to spend a TV versus maybe I want new tires
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 11: on my truck. It's Am I going to risk catastrophic
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 11: health care that could ruin my family's financial viability?
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: It depends. There's usually health care, it's called maximum out-of-pocket
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: on deductibles. I mean, there's some pretty standard caveats on
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: most of these plans that you have. I mean, it's just,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: if you want a cheaper monthly premium on Obamacare, then
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: you take more of the risk. But that's going into it.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: You know it going into it. You said you were
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: on it. I mean, that's so you want to spend
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: less monthly? Well, then you take on more of the
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: risk involved, just like in any plan. I mean, these
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: are personal responsibility things. You think everybody should.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 7: Be given it.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 11: The elderly don't have to make those choices.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: Well, they got to make choices. Elderly have a choice.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: You can either have standard Medicare or you can have
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: Medicare Advantage. If you go on standard Medicare, you can
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: have Plan G or Plan N. Even a Plan G
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: high deductible. There are choices that you can make when
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: you go on Medicare that the elderly make. And that's
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: why we have a yearly review period coming up October
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: 15th through December 7th. And you should review it every
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: single year. You should never ignore that. I always tell
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: people I do a program there Sunday morning with the
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: guys at Yost Insurance. They only deal with Medicare. It
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: doesn't cost you to go there. They review it for free, 100% free.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: We'll review what you're doing and what your options are.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: And it's people that are knowledgeable about it.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 11: I mean, I guess to kind of bring it back
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 11: to what I was saying, like, you know, most Americans
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 11: think our health care is way too expensive. It's inefficient.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 11: It doesn't work properly. And so that's why they would
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 11: vote for somebody like a Democratic Socialist who's proposing a
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 11: Medicare-for-all system like Abdullah Saeed. That's what the majority of
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 11: the globe exists on. And all those people prefer it.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 11: And when you compare what they have against what Americans have...
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 11: Almost everyone would choose what they have.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with that at all.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 11: But we don't get that choice.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 2: I would never choose that. I would never choose it. Well, yeah,
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: you're propagandized. No, I'm not propagandized. I went to my
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: doctor yesterday. I called in the morning, and I was
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: there at 9 o'clock. So good luck with that in Canada.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 11: You don't think people do that in Canada?
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 11: You don't think they do that in France?
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: I think it's very difficult, quite frankly. I think it's
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: quite difficult the amount of time you'd wait to get
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: a knee replacement or some of the procedures that go
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: on in this country.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 11: So the people who come here from Europe and things
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 11: like that and they get surprise bills, you think they
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 11: actually think it's worth it because they got to see
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 11: the doctor a little faster?
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why they come here. Why don't you ask them?
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: I'll be right back after this.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 12: I heart radio.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: I'm Dr.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 24: Cheryl Figliano with this.
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  Speaker 1: And talk station 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 12: 524 September 29th, 76 degrees. You're on air.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 7: I hear him.
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  Speaker 12: Back on hold.
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  Speaker 2: You're on air.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Unknown caller.
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  Speaker 6: First.
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  Speaker 13: First time caller, first time today.
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  Speaker 2: You sound like a guy that calls, we call him
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: the unknown caller. You sound a lot like him. He's
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: always got to go, though. He's always in a hurry,
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 17: Well, this is first time today, that's all.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is the unknown caller. First time caller today, gotcha.
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  Speaker 13: Hey, you want to talk about retirement, cars and trucks, Medicaid?
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 20: I've been listening to the.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 17: Show, and I called up, and I'm like, what do
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 17: you want to talk.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 7: About, Ronny?
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: I give advice to the lovelorn, too, if you've got
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: any issues.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 17: Yeah, well, there might be some sad saps out there.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 17: All right, so I'll pick a subject, all right?
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: I can hardly wait.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 13: All right, so you're talking about how the whole Medicaid
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 13: thing where, you know, well, first of.
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 4: All, Obamacare.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 17: Remember Obamacare?
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 4: If you want to keep your doctor, you keep your doctor.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 17: You want to keep your, you know.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 13: Medicare, I mean, your insurance, you keep your insurance.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 17: That didn't happen.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 12: Oops.
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  Speaker 11: Oops, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, but.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 13: Creation has, like, the best plan. It's called survival of
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 13: the fittest. You know, if you want something, you've got
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 13: to earn it. Just like you said, you know, your
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 13: dad said, first grade, Everybody is the same until the
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 13: school bell.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 4: Rings, you know?
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: All men are created equal until the first school bell rings, right.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 17: I mean, you know, you've got to work for it.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 13: You can't just sit at home and wait for the
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 13: government to pay your bills. And, like, the drug prices.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: Why would you want to do anything if you can
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: sit at home and somebody else covers everything? I mean,
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: socialism only says... socialism says, oh, we're going to take
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: from you and give it to this person over here.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: But wait a minute, they didn't put the same effort in.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. So it takes away the incentive from people.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 13: Like, yeah, the creation, like I said, the survival of
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 13: the fittest. I don't know, if you don't make your
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 13: own way through life, how do you have any pride
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 13: in yourself? You know, How do you just sit back
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 13: and wait for handouts like the socialism that these young
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 13: kids are working on today?
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work. I mean, it doesn't work anywhere. And
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: they seem to think this is the answer here. Well,
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: good luck. I mean, once these guys, I mean, take
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: a look at this Mondami. I mean, what do they
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: usually want to do? This is the same MO. Well,
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 2: they want to take from these people here and tax
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 2: the living hell out of them and give it to
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 2: these people over here. Well, guess what happens to the
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: people you're taxing the hell out of?
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 12: They leave.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 2: They move.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like New York and California.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 17: Nobody's staying in there. Because you're paying all the bills,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 17: you know?
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 13: If you go to a movie theater and you find
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 13: out you're paying for everybody's ticket and their popcorn.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 17: You're like, I ain't coming back here anymore.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly right.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 13: But, yeah, retirement, though, all right?
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 13: I used to call off work sometimes when I was young,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 13: and the guys would say.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 17: Why did you call off? And I'd say, well, you know,
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 17: think about it.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 13: When you get old, how much would you spend for
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 13: one day of your youth?
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 7: You know?
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 13: So I would call off while I was young and,
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 13: you know, I had fun. I didn't disrespect the employer, but,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 13: you know, this is time with family and to have
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 13: fun when the kids were small.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 17: So, I mean, that makes sense, right?
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: It was like a mental health day.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 13: And there's a song, I can't remember who sings it,
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 13: but I think it's a girl.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 17: Not like me.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 4: I'm a man, Ronnie.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 17: Everybody knows it.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 13: But she says, I could work my life away, but why?
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 13: You know, I got better things to do before I die.
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 13: You know, like some of these people that just work
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 13: and work and work until they.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 17: Die, you're like, well, you know.
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: Well, it depends what you want out of life. A
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: lot of doctors work from morning to late at night.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, and people get upset because they make a
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: lot of money or they drive a nice car. But
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: they're rounding in the hospital. Stand by. It's the unknown caller.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: I'll wrap up with him and move on in just
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: a minute. News Radio 570 WKVN. Breaking news.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 21: Caleb Flynn has been convicted of murdering his wife in
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 21: their Tip City home back in February.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 24: The prosecution said Flynn killed her. because he wanted to
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 24: be free to marry his mistress. Flynn had claimed an
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 24: intruder killed her while the two slept in different rooms.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 24: We are awaiting sentencing. In other news, an Ohio woman
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 24: had the wrong leg amputated in a surgery gone wrong
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 24: and is now suing several health care providers in Washington County.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 24: Sharon Jax was scheduled to have her lower right leg amputated,
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 24: but got out of surgery with her lower left leg gone.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 24: She still ended up having the correct leg amputated at
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 24: another time, so now she's a double amputee. Jack's lawyer
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 24: has stated there is simply no excuse and that it
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 24: is a complete and total failure by medical professionals when
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I thought the point I was trying to make
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  Speaker 2: with you is it's... A lot of people that are
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: successful in life, they work a lot. I mean, I
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 2: look at physicians around in the morning at the hospital,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: go to their office or do surgery and then round
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 2: at night. They put in long days. And they make
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of money. Look at a lot of guys
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: that are in business. They work from morning till night,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: roofing houses and doing stuff. I mean, it's just a way.
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  Speaker 2: It depends what you want out of life. Let's put
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 2: it that way. Because what you put in is what
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 2: you get out.
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  Speaker 13: Just like Elon Musk, you know, he enjoys what he's doing,
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 13: and money doesn't matter to him.
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  Speaker 17: Can I change the subject real quick?
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  Speaker 13: I just heard a story on your newscast that said
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 13: that a woman had the wrong leg amputated and then
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 13: later had the right leg, you know. I mean, that's
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 13: why I always carry a magic marker in the surgery,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 13: and I say, you know, don't cut off this leg,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 13: you know, with my magic marker.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds to me, though, like she doesn't have a
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  Speaker 2: leg to stand on.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 17: I'll give it to you.
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  Speaker 13: But if you're a doctor and you cut off the
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 13: wrong leg, then she only has one.
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  Speaker 17: Oh, wait a minute. She doesn't have any.
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  Speaker 7: Right. Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big mistake. I wonder if there's going to
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 2: be a big lawsuit there. I'm going to go with yes.
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  Speaker 17: I'm thinking, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, guess what?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: Wait.
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  Speaker 17: One more thing.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Like the guy was talking about fixing his own vehicles,
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 13: you know? Like, if you want to replace your headlight
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 13: on your, you know, new F-150, it's going to be
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 13: like $ 500 just for the thing instead of an $ 8
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 13: light bulb.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, because they're LED. Or more than that.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Ronnie.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to beat you to it. I got to go.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 2: He's always got to go. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, Ron. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm holding the fort down. Reinforcements have come in, ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, live on a satellite phone from an undisclosed
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  Speaker 2: location where only General Johnson Jameson knows where he's at.
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  Speaker 2: Only one man knows the exact coordinates of the undisclosed location.
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  Speaker 2: It's Johnson Jameson. But here he is, G2.
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  Speaker 4: Hello. Good evening. I'm actually in the mobile unit, so
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 4: I'm out on the prowl.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, mobile command base.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You were going to talk a little bit about health care.
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  Speaker 4: Well, first, the thing about working, you know, I know
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 4: a lot of people that on their deathbed think, you know,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 4: I should have worked more because they just didn't work enough.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 4: And a lot of people say, well, gee, I work
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 4: too much. And, you know, the great thing is finding
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 4: a team you love, getting a mission you think is important,
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 4: whatever that is, whether it's in tech or manufacturing or health,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 4: whatever it is, something you care about, and then work
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 4: it hard and get good at it. But then when
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 4: you're off, be with that family or whoever it is
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 4: you care about and play hard and do fun things.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think taking a day off to go
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 4: play with the kids is a very legitimate thing to do,
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 4: assuming you're cranking when you're there, right? I mean, so
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 4: I don't think work has to be this sort of slaving,
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 4: boring thing, but it depends on not just what you're
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 4: doing but who you're doing it with. When you're on
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 4: a high-performance team, There's nothing like it, and it's so
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 4: much fun. But, you know, maybe there's a middle there
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 4: where we can really thrive.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, absolutely. There's got to be, because life does end.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: It doesn't go on forever.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. Right, but great work is great stuff, but
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 4: it's got to matter. So on the healthcare thing, I really....
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 9: This kind of conversation all the time is happening because
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 9: we've got a healthcare system that is deeply troubled.
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  Speaker 4: It is in real trouble. You know, as we've talked
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  Speaker 4: about many times, we're paying two times the amount that's
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 4: paid by many of the other developed nations. But the idea, then,
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 4: of going to full government-paid and government-controlled healthcare, it's only
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 4: a great idea until you have it.
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  Speaker 7: And.
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  Speaker 4: I remember looking at data a couple years ago in
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 4: the UK. A million people waiting to get appointments, and
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 4: a million appointments were missed. because it didn't cost anything,
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 4: so people would schedule appointments and not go. And the
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 4: people that needed health care, and especially unique testing in Canada,
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 4: this is a problem, or a unique procedure like you mentioned,
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 4: that can take forever. So that's why people from other
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 4: countries come here for health care. And anybody that lives
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 4: in Ohio that's been up to the Cleveland Clinic, I mean,
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 4: that is not an Ohio medical facility. That is a
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 4: global medical facility, and that's why you see those 747s
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 4: backed up along that fence at the airport. You know,
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 4: those are family planes. And they're coming here to get
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 4: health care they can't get, even with their money in
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 4: their own country. So, you know, we're in this weird
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 4: place where we've got places like the clinic that could
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 4: do miracles, but then we've got this bizarre government thing.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw the note about Fauci today.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 4: These guys aerosolized Ebola, and then were hiding the fact
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 4: that people that were vaccinated were performing worse or having
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 4: a worse experience than the unvaccinated. So Fauci's order, as
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 4: a government official has the power to do, is hide
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 4: the data. Don't tell anyone that the vaccine not only
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 4: doesn't help, it makes it worse.
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: And this is for Ebola?
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, these idiots, they aerosolized Ebola and then and then
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 4: tested it against vaccinated, unvaccinated, and found out that the
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 4: unvaccinated were performing better. So they've got emails that were
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 4: just released that show this lunatic, Fauci, telling people to
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 4: hide the evidence because he doesn't want to undermine confidence
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 4: in vaccines. Well, listen, if you've got a car, like,
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 4: you remember there was a car that GM made many
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 4: years ago that rolled over a lot and killed a
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 4: lot of people?
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 4: Probably better to let them know that so they buy
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 4: a different car. I don't understand this vaccine religion where
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 4: we have to be dedicated to them and pretend they work,
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 4: pretend they don't have any side effects, pretend there's no downside.
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 4: All these autistic kids just happened because, I don't know,
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 4: suddenly we started dropping kids on their head or something
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 4: and I mean, this is insanity, but that's what you
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 4: get when you let a bureaucrat have power. And that's
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 4: why government-controlled health care is a really bad idea. That's
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 4: the health care quality side. You know, these people many
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 4: times in government are psychopaths and corrupt. You know, you
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 4: think about all the people in government taking money from
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 4: pharma related to the intellectual property for the drugs they oversee.
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 4: So then they get a financial incentive... to let bad
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 4: drugs go out of the market and they do it
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 4: and in this is a lot of money for them
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 4: it's not a little bit so that you may remember
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 4: a couple years ago about you with that in the
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 4: senate hearing to disclose who is getting paid and how
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 4: much and he said the law allows us to get
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 4: this money and does not require that we did it's
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 4: gloves who's paying us or how much we're getting so
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 4: i'm not telling you and there's no government oversight no
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 4: cut congressional oversight or any oversight of who in the
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 4: government is getting paid by pharma, on what products, and
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 4: what their role is in promoting and protecting, defending that product,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 4: whether it's effective or dangerous, or ineffective or not dangerous.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 4: So you just can't hand your life to the government
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 4: and say, please, daddy, take care of me, because it
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 4: ain't your daddy, it's the government.
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  Speaker 2: In this country, we have freedom. We have personal responsibility
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 2: and there are consequences to it. That's what should motivate you.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 2: Fear of failure. How do you want to live? What
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: effort do you want to put forth? It's called freedom.
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 2: To a degree. And capitalism.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 4: But we don't have capitalism and we don't have freedom
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 4: when it comes to health care because the government dictates
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 4: so much of what happens. And then they've allowed these anti-competitive,
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 4: non-capitalist markets to evolve where the person you're paying your
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 4: health care premium to might also be then running your
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 4: pharma benefit manager, selling you the pharmaceuticals, and actually providing
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 4: you the health care, whether you know it or not
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 4: is another thing. But remember, Johns Hopkins notified UnitedHealthcare that
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 4: they were withdrawing from United's program because United was redirecting
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 4: all the profitable business internal to their own assets, their
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 4: own service providers, and pushing the unprofitable stuff to these
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 4: people like Johns Hopkins. And Johns Hopkins said, I'm not
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 4: taking any more of your unprofitable business. I'm out. So
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 4: this system is broken, and this Obamacare thing created such
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 4: a mess. Here's one of the big problems. You know,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 4: you talked about with that gentleman starting a business. Well,
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 4: when you get a health care benefit from your employer,
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 4: that's tax-free. You don't pay for that, right? The benefit
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 4: part that they pay for.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 7: Is not taxed.
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 4: But if you pay for that outside, if you say,
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 4: I don't like my employer's plan, to buy my own,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 4: you don't get a tax deduction for that. So there's
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 4: a massive tax incentive for large corporations to be providing
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 4: health care and for consumers to work for large corporations
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 4: that have the most buying power.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 7: This is insanity.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 4: We don't do our auto insurance or our home insurance
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 4: that way. This is not wise. We need to fix
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 4: the tax system so that if you're an individual or
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 4: a small business owner, you can have the same tax
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 4: advantage with health care premiums and costs that the employed have.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 4: That means health savings accounts and deductibility for your premiums
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 4: so that you start to have the freedom to shop around.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 4: And these anti-competitive behaviors like lack of transparency. You know,
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 4: in a capitalist system, there's a natural tension between the
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 4: buyer and the seller, right? The buyer wants a better deal.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 4: The seller wants a better price. And it goes back
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 4: and forth. Competition helps make that work, but not in
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 4: health care, because you have to buy whatever your employer
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 4: gives you. You can't afford to do it yourself with
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 4: the tax penalties and the cost of buying on your own, right?
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 4: You're trapped. You really are trapped. And And so this
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 4: whole system has to be reworked. And there are just
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 4: a few things that could do that. We should begin
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 4: changing the incentives so that you have an equal freedom
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 4: to buy your own in an open market, not an
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 4: Obama market, an open market where there is true competition
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 4: and transparency. If we brought capitalism to health care, you
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 4: would see immediately better service, better pricing. That's what would happen.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 4: So that's why we're so screwed up. But people think
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 4: that these government-supplied systems like Canada has are this panacea,
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 4: mostly because they're not in it. But, you know, I
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 4: was on a bus to a rental car place at
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 4: LAX one day, and I'm talking to this Canadian woman.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 4: She's very boastful about how it's free and all this stuff.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 4: I got about three, four questions in, and she said, yeah,
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 4: you're right, it sucks. It's only good for, you know,
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 4: for like.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 4: Minor problems. Otherwise, we wait forever. It's a problem. So
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 4: you might have to go to Mexico or India or
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 4: the United States to get the health care you need
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 4: if it's important to your life. So that government-supplied system
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 4: sounds great until you start actually... living in it and
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 4: and of course the cost is outrageous because you've got
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 4: to pay the government attacks the government that takes its
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 4: cut then it goes out and buys your health care
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 4: but wait there's no tension between the buyer and the
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 4: seller there the government's dictating everything it's a horrible idea
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 4: so again what we really need is to restore a
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 4: capitalist system in health care that allows competition and transparency
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 4: where we're spending our own money you know, so that
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 4: we have to buy right. So we're thinking about where
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 4: we're going, about the quality of care, but also the cost.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 4: And where the system gets re-energized. so we can continue
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 4: to get the miracles that a place like the clinic
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 4: can deliver, but we're not trapped in it. And the
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 4: idea that we saw during COVID, that the bureaucrats are
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 4: going to decide not just whether or not you can
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 4: get one treatment or another, the bureaucrats are going to
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 4: decide you have to use something that's dangerous like remdesivir
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 4: rather than get an effective, safe treatment, that's just not
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 4: acceptable to let a bureaucrat have that kind of power.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 4: And so if we don't fix this, we're going to
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 4: continue to have these sort of conversations just go round
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 4: and round because we don't see a path out. Now,
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 4: why aren't our elected officials giving us a path out? Well,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 4: because they get paid a lot of money by health
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 4: care providers, right? And think about a nonprofit. I don't
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 4: understand why they're nonprofit hospitals. I don't get this. So
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 4: if a nonprofit hospital buys a for-profit hospital, then all
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 4: the sudden that asset no longer pays property tax, and
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 4: all that gets dumped on the remainder of the populace. Why?
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 4: Why is that? Why isn't a property tax the same
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 4: burden to a for-profit and non-profit health care provider? This
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 4: is illogical. And then again, it doesn't have the same
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 4: pressure to drive down property taxes because there are people
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 4: that find a way out of paying them. So the
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 4: system's really broken. I think that gentleman was asking really
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 4: good ideas. But the answer is to make that health
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 4: care decision, your decision as a consumer, in an open
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 4: market with transparency and competition, where government isn't providing laws
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 4: and structures that crush competition and employers, and you're driven
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 4: to use your employer's plan, and the employer then dictates
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 4: what you get. It's just a broken system.
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 2: That it is.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 7: But.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 2: These guys with the Democratic Socialists, why do you think
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 2: that they're doing so well, according to that guy, in
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 2: some of those areas? I said to him, it depends
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 2: what area you go to. I mean, if you go
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 2: to New York, I suspect they will do well for
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 2: a period of time. But, you know, New York also
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 2: had Giuliani as mayor, and he did a really good
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 2: job at lowering crime and that kind of stuff. Bloomberg,
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, now they're just gone with craziness. Even Bill
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 2: Maher says the Democrats have just gone to the crazy been.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 4: Well, and that's true, but if you go back to
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 4: that Mamdani race, remember who he was running against. So
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 4: Mamdani came in with a massive organization, lots of money,
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 4: good strategy, good comms, I mean, really effective campaigning. And
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 4: on the other side, was the Cuomo kid, you know,
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 4: the Mario's son, whatever, I can't remember his name.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 21: Andrew.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 4: But the Cuomo boy. Andrew. Yeah, that guy. Yeah, Andrew,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 4: who showed up as the COVID czar in his state
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 4: because he's governor. So, of course, we look to the
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 4: governor to decide how we're going to get through COVID.
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 4: That's insane. And if you remember, he'd show up in
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 4: those meetings with those tight shirts on and those nipple
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 4: studs showing. That was bizarre.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 2: And remember this. They were saying, there's your next president
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 2: right there, the guy that was– making these tough decisions
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 2: and handling everything right i mean they were really touting
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 2: him until the other.
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  Speaker 4: Shoe drops and then and then he set up a
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  Speaker 4: system where if you were a provider of of assistance
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  Speaker 4: to elderly folks you couldn't get sued based on the
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  Speaker 4: outcome of this covid thing they gave him a two
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  Speaker 4: million dollar contribution for that and that that association did
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  Speaker 4: And then, of course, they put the sick people in
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  Speaker 4: with the healthy people in those facilities and killed tens
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  Speaker 4: of thousands of elderly trapped in a facility where the
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  Speaker 4: government said you can't see your family, your family can't
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  Speaker 4: see you, you've got to take remdesivir, these lung-busting blowers,
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  Speaker 4: the ventilators. And no one can make their own decisions.
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  Speaker 4: And if you wanted to treat your family member with
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  Speaker 4: something like One of the effective treatments, the steroids or
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  Speaker 4: the hydroxychloroquine or whatever was working. You had to sneak
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  Speaker 4: it in and not get caught. Remember when people were
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  Speaker 4: smuggling in baked goods with treatment in them, and they
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  Speaker 4: were sneaking in clothing, and they were hiding medicine in
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  Speaker 4: the clothing because the hospital wasn't going to let you
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  Speaker 4: have it, and the government was telling you you can't
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  Speaker 4: have it? That's where we're going if we put more
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  Speaker 4: government control over our health care. Now, Mamdani, coming back
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  Speaker 4: to that for a minute, he's running against Mr. Nipple
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  Speaker 4: Studs and Curtis Lewa, the cartoon character. Now, Curtis Lewa
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  Speaker 4: did probably some really good things back in the day
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  Speaker 4: with those berets and all that. But that's not really
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  Speaker 4: a serious contender for the mayor of New York, right?
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't have the experience, the training, the qualifications. He
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have the issues-based understandings. So he's running as a
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  Speaker 4: cartoon character. You've got then the guy that killed Grandma
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  Speaker 4: running against an incredibly effective machine, the Mamdani campaign. Mamdani,
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  Speaker 4: if you listen to the rhetoric that they were delivering
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  Speaker 4: at the time, Mamdani sounded more America first than anyone else.
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  Speaker 4: He was saying, I'm going to take care of you.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't saying, I'm going to turn this into an
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  Speaker 4: Islamic state and bring in as many people from the
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  Speaker 4: Middle East as I can. He was saying, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to address the issues that are the same issues that
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  Speaker 4: got Donald Trump elected. Remember, Trump won the popular vote,
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  Speaker 4: the Electoral College, and every swing state. The reason they're
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 4: stumbling now is that the Republican Party did not form
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  Speaker 4: up around Donald Trump and force that America First agenda
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  Speaker 4: through Congress and turn it into policy. In which case,
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 4: we would have seen the benefits to wages. We would
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  Speaker 4: have seen the deportations. Not a million. It would have
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  Speaker 4: been millions.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Remember when you bought me that ivermectin
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  Speaker 2: peanut butter sandwich? It's delicious.
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  Speaker 7: Hang on.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 12: Do you run a business? If so, KVN.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown are
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  Speaker 2: leading in Ohio? Sherrod Brown had a pretty good lead,
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  Speaker 2: and Amy Acton even with a five- to six-point lead.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, on the Acton one, I think people
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  Speaker 4: are obviously missing the point that she's completely unprepared, unqualified,
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  Speaker 4: and was horrible during COVID. And, of course, the way
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  Speaker 4: the media pumped it up, they would probably have characterized
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  Speaker 4: her as a hero here. for you know destroying small
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  Speaker 4: business and implementing policies to kill people but but i
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  Speaker 4: think she's got the benefit of never having really been
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  Speaker 4: on the grill outside of that and and the media
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  Speaker 4: being binder on that would be back i mean his
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  Speaker 4: big problem is as i think which is made clear
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  Speaker 4: h one b and in this statement he had that
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  Speaker 4: he wants to bring in four million people into a
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  Speaker 4: united states that are indeed into ohio and for some
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  Speaker 4: reason and this is the logic of it they think
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  Speaker 4: that the republicans in the legislature will be able to
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  Speaker 4: contain any active but somehow wouldn't be able to contain
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  Speaker 4: the background swami I think this is a terrible decision.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not particularly happy with the choices, but this is
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  Speaker 4: a terrible decision, and electing Acton is going to... I
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  Speaker 4: don't think people fully understand the impact she could have
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  Speaker 4: on that state. Now, you've also got, you know, the
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 4: Mike DeWines, who probably support Acton more than Ramaswamy because
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 4: they're sort of on the same team. Remember how those
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 4: two work together so well?
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  Speaker 16: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: I mean... So you've got this Republican thing where you've got,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Karl Rove explaining how he's going to vote
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  Speaker 4: for a Democrat for railroad commissioner in Texas because, you know,
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 4: we have to go for the best candidate. They're signaling
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 4: to people that they want you to vote for the
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  Speaker 4: worst candidate so they can get control of their party back.
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 4: These establishment Republicans care about one thing, party control. And
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 4: implementing policy and all that isn't a way of their
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 4: wealth creation. So there's a problem there. But the truth
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 4: of the matter is you've got to roll with Vivek Ramaswamy,
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  Speaker 4: and then you've got to lean on your legislators to
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  Speaker 4: make sure you check him on anything related to mass
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  Speaker 4: migration or immigration. But on economics, he should be much
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 4: better than an Amy Acton who has no concept of
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 4: economics at all. And, you know, we talked the other
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 4: day about how you're not getting big– construction projects that
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 4: are going to other states. Well, one of the reasons
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 4: is the way the state is not organized to attract
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 4: big investments, and that's the governor. You know, that's that
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 4: economic development agency. They focus on mass migration, as the
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 4: Democrats are, or they focus on creating opportunity.
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  Speaker 9: Just like Indiana and.
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  Speaker 4: Some other states, you know, the amazing turnaround in what
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 4: they call Locust, Locust U.S., Arkansas, and... Alabama and these
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 4: other states that have had massive investment because they've got
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 4: an environment that's attractive to business. And we're setting data
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 4: centers aside, which are just going to go everywhere because
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 4: they need to be really close to the people who
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 4: are being surveilled. And they need water and power, as
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 4: we've talked about at length. So I'm setting those aside.
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  Speaker 4: That's a totally different animal. I'm talking about investments for profit.
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  Speaker 4: And And so then with Sherrod Brown, the guy was
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 4: in for, what, 35 years? He voted right twice. He
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 4: supported every destructive policy. But right now these people are saying, hey,
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 4: the Republicans haven't implemented in 14 or 18 months the
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 4: agenda that I want. I forgot everything that happened during
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 4: the four years of the Biden administration because we're all
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 4: obsessed with, I don't know, football and, I don't know,
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 4: strip clubs. I don't know what people are doing. They
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 4: can't seem to focus on what's happening in government.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen him play football at a strip club, though?
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 2: It is really worth watching. I've got to break.
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  Speaker 4: That's my next stop.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, G2. Appreciate it. Sean is next.