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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Thursday, 07/16/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: WKBN. Well, howdy ho, boys and girls. 306 here on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday afternoon. It's Thursday already. And it's July 16th.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: We're at 86 degrees here this afternoon. It's hot and
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: humid out there. Can you believe this smoke, though? I mean, it's...
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: It is... So they say, what, this is from Canada?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty thick in my neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you take a look... Wait a minute.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: I've got to make a technical adjustment here. When you
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: take a look at the smoke that is just going
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  Speaker 1: on out there, I mean, it's like there's a fog.
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  Speaker 1: I thought for just a minute my cataracts had returned.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: But it's like there's a fog out there. And I
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: felt like I was in London. And they say this
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: is that smoke from Canada that's coming in from wildfires
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  Speaker 1: in Canada. I forget where else they said. Isn't that something, though?
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can have... these wildfires. It wasn't just Canada.
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  Speaker 1: I forget where else they said. And this smoke is
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  Speaker 1: coming down with the jet stream down our way. And
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty thick down here. And you can actually not
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  Speaker 1: only see it, you can smell it when you're outside.
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  Speaker 1: You can actually smell the smoke. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: it in my neck of the woods. And they say,
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: you know, if you have COPD or you got asthma,
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  Speaker 1: you have breathing issues, you might want to avoid it.
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  Speaker 1: I just take it on like a real man. And
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  Speaker 1: so let me tell you something. It has had absolutely no,
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  Speaker 1: no effect on me at all. I took it on
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  Speaker 1: all day and I'm, I'm a real man. And I
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  Speaker 1: just said, that's, I'm not going to stay in the house.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to tell me the smoke's bad for
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  Speaker 1: me or my lungs. I'm not going to put up
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  Speaker 1: with that. Just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Little, little theater of the mind there for you. You're
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  Speaker 1: on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ron, did you see where inflation was way down
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  Speaker 2: the other day?
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  Speaker 1: I don't buy any of that government stuff with inflation.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't buy any of it. It's way down
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  Speaker 1: while my gas price is back up to $ 3. 99 a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: It's not way down in the world of Ron Verb,
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  Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, Frank. I mean, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm serious about it. Everywhere I turn, I don't
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  Speaker 1: buy into any of that bull crap that inflation is down.
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  Speaker 1: Everything has gotten too damn expensive. And I mean everything
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  Speaker 1: that is out there. Vehicles, homes, groceries, you name it.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I agree with you. And also, oh, geez, I
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  Speaker 2: almost forgot what I was going to say.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the beginning of the year right there.
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  Speaker 2: With Iran? The stock market was way down again earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you blame it? Frank, I'm going to educate you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to educate you on the market. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: All right, take some notes on this kind of stuff.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: The market does not like uncertainty, and what's going on
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: right now is uncertainty. And I'll say it again, and
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of Trumpsters get upset with me.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: President Trump got into a mess by getting involved in
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  Speaker 1: this from the very beginning. This was a mistake from
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning, and I do mean a mistake. As
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  Speaker 1: a result of the move he's made, we've never had
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: these issues with the straight being open and being closed, ever.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: We've never had these issues until he started this situation.
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  Speaker 1: And now it appears to me that I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the end is. I don't, it's just going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to drag on, and who knows how much longer
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  Speaker 1: it's going to drag on, and I'm going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to pay the price.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I want to give your audience some friendly advice
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: on the market, too. You had the options caller a
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: while back was talking how great Micron Technologies was and
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: was selling. At $ 1, 224 an ounce, at the time he
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  Speaker 2: said it, it's down to almost $ 890, I mean, not
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  Speaker 2: an ounce a share. And you'd be losing money.
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  Speaker 4: And listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when we were having the argument over SpaceX? He
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  Speaker 2: was saying, yeah, I should have bought call options, meaning
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  Speaker 2: betting on SpaceX going up. And I was saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: you should be... Shorting SpaceX or buying put options, betting
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  Speaker 2: it should go down. You know, SpaceX went public at
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  Speaker 2: $ 150 a share. It's now down below $ 134 a share.
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  Speaker 2: If I had taken his advice and bought the put
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  Speaker 2: options like he told me I should have done, I would,
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  Speaker 2: that thing better turn around real fast or I would
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  Speaker 2: lose 100% of my money.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Do you think it's, are you going to buy
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  Speaker 1: any SpaceX?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not going to. Well, I tell you what,
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  Speaker 2: at this price, I'm considering it, but I can't, you know,
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  Speaker 2: give specific recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but I'm just asking if you were going
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  Speaker 1: to buy it because the price is down and put
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  Speaker 1: it in there. But at your age. What difference does
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  Speaker 1: it make, right? I mean, really, how much time could
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  Speaker 1: you possibly have left?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got a surprise for you. I think
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  Speaker 2: this is the end of my stock market report for today.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So Ro Khanna is, you know, talking about that he's
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  Speaker 2: probably running for president and that he will do like
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Massey. cut foreign aid. And also he's going to oppose,
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  Speaker 2: there's a law pending in Congress right now, the Jewish
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  Speaker 2: Something Act, where it will be criminalized to criticize Israel,
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  Speaker 2: which he opposed.
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  Speaker 1: How can something be... Don't we have free speech in
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  Speaker 1: our country? I mean, come on now. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. And it's like, listen, I
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  Speaker 1: think you have a right to speak your piece and
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  Speaker 1: be critical of whatever you want to be critical of.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't fear your own tongue. Even if it's terrible
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  Speaker 1: hate speech, it's still protected speech, and it should remain
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  Speaker 1: that way in the United States of America. Because who
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  Speaker 1: determines what is hate speech?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I have never voted for a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: I despise the Democrats, just like I do the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: But if Ro Cano runs for president, he may be
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  Speaker 2: the first Democrat I ever vote for, even though I
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  Speaker 2: don't know his position on transgenderism and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But I just might overlook that, because I think, number one,
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  Speaker 2: we're integrating the Israeli and American military.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. They want to merge, which I'm opposed to that.
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  Speaker 1: But it says here that he's an American politician and attorney.
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  Speaker 1: There's a strike against him. He's an attorney serving from
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  Speaker 1: California's 17th congressional district. So he's 49 years old. But
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  Speaker 1: he's a Democrat from California, Yale Law School, University of Chicago. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so there you go. So you think you actually said
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  Speaker 1: that you could actually find yourself voting for a Democrat?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the first time in my life. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I never vote for anybody in Florida that's a Democrat
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  Speaker 2: that's running for Congress or the Senate or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, I don't care. what party
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  Speaker 2: they're from, independent Republican. I got full voting for Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He said, no more endless wars, you know, no more
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  Speaker 2: foreign aid. And what happened with that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're exactly right. Your criticism is correct.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, also what else we got, you know? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we got the medals and... precious metals and base metals
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  Speaker 2: are going down again today probably because the inflation report
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  Speaker 2: was down now you know i can't understand what happened
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  Speaker 2: at wall street or ever so off because that i
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  Speaker 2: i think they're too smart they're like us they know
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  Speaker 2: the government lies about just about everything not only the
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  Speaker 2: economic reports the uh... but also war What's the first
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  Speaker 2: casualty in war of the truth, correct?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're talking a market down, the Dow's down 221,
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  Speaker 1: S & P' s down 51, NASDAQ's down 407. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a bad day for your 401k and your retirement.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a bad day for it.
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  Speaker 2: It sure is. And, you know, I read, who was it,
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  Speaker 2: a general or somebody says, how long before Navy SEALs
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  Speaker 2: and special forces take orders from Israeli commanders?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're talking about– I was just looking at this
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  Speaker 1: the other day. I want to make sure I get
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  Speaker 1: this correct. Let me find it here. Let me find
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  Speaker 1: it here. I want to get the– hang on. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get the title correct because I can never remember. It's–
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  Speaker 1: what the heck is the title of that? It's a congressional– movement.
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  Speaker 1: is it not? It's basically a merger, correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a merger, exactly. In other words, it would be
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  Speaker 2: like if the German military merged with the U.S. military,
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  Speaker 2: and we all take orders from the same commanders.
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  Speaker 1: What sense does that make, though? I am totally opposed
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  Speaker 1: to that completely. I am completely opposed to it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't you agree that would be more endless wars
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of Israel if Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Wants to invade Turkey?
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think the National Defense..
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The National Defense Authorization Act is what it's called. The
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  Speaker 1: National Events Authorization Act, it's part of a bigger bill
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  Speaker 1: that would merge, basically, Israel and the U.S., what, military
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  Speaker 1: or intelligence? It's like a merger.
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  Speaker 2: Military is what I read. I think our intelligence has
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  Speaker 2: already been merged for years now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this stuff should remain solely to the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America, period. I'm with you. I'm dead set
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  Speaker 1: against this. I'm absolutely 100% against this. And I also
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  Speaker 1: agree with you. The inflation numbers, I don't buy them
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  Speaker 1: at all. Inflation is just high. Have you got an
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  Speaker 1: electric bill? I don't know if you're affected by it
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  Speaker 1: like we are here in our neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 1: The cost of electricity has doubled up here. And my
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  Speaker 1: last electric bill was like $ 261. They really don't want
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  Speaker 1: you using your dehumidifier and your air conditioner. These pompous
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  Speaker 1: asses want you living like they do in France without
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  Speaker 1: air conditioning and being hot and being miserable. And they're
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: going to get their wish if they continue to see
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: electric rates go up. And so a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are irate because our electric rates have doubled. They were
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  Speaker 1: worried about the demand out there from these AI centers.
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  Speaker 1: And so your electric's gone way up. Your gasoline's gone
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  Speaker 1: way up. Who says inflation is down?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have one benefit here in Florida. When I
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  Speaker 2: was analyzing AI stocks a few weeks ago, they were
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  Speaker 2: saying that there is not enough fresh water in Florida
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  Speaker 2: to build a lot of AI data centers in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: But the rest of the country, let's see, what have
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  Speaker 2: I said? You know, data centers will make all the
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  Speaker 2: profits and homeowners will pay all the bills, according.
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  Speaker 1: To one analyst.
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  Speaker 2: And AI revenues are orders of magnitude lower than the
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  Speaker 2: sums being invested. Ron, I've been reading that for quite
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  Speaker 2: a while. AI data centers. I know the options guy
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  Speaker 2: has disagreed with me. He's very bullish on AI. But
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  Speaker 2: I just haven't seen the return on investments. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen big profits on these AI data centers or stocks yet.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, there was an article in a major investment
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  Speaker 2: publication a few days ago that says that AI stocks
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  Speaker 2: are overvalued, and a lot of AI analysts are predicting
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  Speaker 2: that they're not going to make the money that people
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  Speaker 2: are predicting, and they're putting out sell recommendations on a
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  Speaker 2: number of them.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one for you, a headline from CNBC for Lauderdale. Frank, U.S.
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  Speaker 1: grocery slowdown. Did you hear me? Grocery. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: clear my throat. Maybe this smoke is getting to me, Frank.
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  Speaker 7: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items, raising pressures
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  Speaker 1: on food companies. So who said inflation is down? Would
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  Speaker 1: that indicate inflation is down based on a story I
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  Speaker 1: just read? The U.S. grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy
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  Speaker 1: fewer items. Would that be a sign of inflation being reduced?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: When's the last time you saw prices go down for
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  Speaker 2: eggs or milk or cat food or coffee? In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I think you just read the report that coffee prices
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  Speaker 2: are expected to go up again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the last time I had a good can of
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  Speaker 1: cat food, I can't remember what I paid for it.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, this will probably have to be another call,
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  Speaker 2: but you had a young guy called right before you
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  Speaker 2: went on vacation. Yes. He hears me and you talking
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  Speaker 2: about Zionism a lot, and he has no clue what
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  Speaker 2: it is. Well, I'm going to call next week because...
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  Speaker 2: I think that's important. I think a younger generation, now
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to have the integration of the Israeli
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  Speaker 2: and U.S. military.
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  Speaker 1: I sure hope we don't have that. I'm dead set
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  Speaker 1: against it. I don't believe the U.S. military should be
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  Speaker 1: merging with anybody at all. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where this comes from other than it shows you the
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  Speaker 1: influence of those lobbying groups. All right, Fort Lauderdale, Frank,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed my conversation with you today.
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  Speaker 2: Great, Ron. Take care now.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good day. You too. We'll pause here. We'll
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  Speaker 1: come back with more. Fort Lauderdale, Frank. How about that
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  Speaker 1: for a headline?
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  Speaker 3: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items. So is
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  Speaker 1: that a sign of lower inflation? Or is that a
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  Speaker 1: sign that says, gee, I'm paying more for gasoline and
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: paying more for electricity and paying more for everything and
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  Speaker 1: only got so much money?
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  Speaker 8: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Heidi Ho, boys and girls, 306 here on a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. It's Thursday already, and it's July 16th. We're
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  Speaker 1: at 86 degrees here this afternoon. It's hot and humid
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  Speaker 1: out there. Can you believe the smoke, though? I mean, it's,
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  Speaker 1: it is, so they say, what, this is from Canada?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty thick in my neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you take a look at the smoke
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  Speaker 1: that is just going on out there, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: like there's a fog. I thought for just a minute
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  Speaker 1: my cataracts had returned. But it's like there's a fog
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  Speaker 1: out there. And I felt like I was in London.
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  Speaker 1: And they say this is that smoke from Canada. That's
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  Speaker 1: coming in from wildfires in Canada. I forget where else
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  Speaker 1: they said. Isn't that something, though? I mean, you can
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  Speaker 1: have these wildfires. It wasn't just Canada. I forget where
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  Speaker 1: else they said. And this smoke is coming down with
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  Speaker 1: the jet stream down our way. And it's pretty thick
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  Speaker 1: down here. And you can actually not only see it,
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  Speaker 1: you can smell it when you're outside. You can actually
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  Speaker 1: smell the smoke. And you can see it in my
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  Speaker 1: neck of the woods. And they say, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you have COPD or you got asthma, you have breathing issues,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you might want to avoid it. I just take it
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  Speaker 1: on like a real man. And so let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. It has had absolutely no effect on me
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  Speaker 1: at all. I took it on all day and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a real man. And I just said, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to stay in the house. They're not going to tell
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  Speaker 1: me the smoke's bad for me here. Or my lungs.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to put up with that. Just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Little theater of the mind there for you.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ron, did you see where inflation was way down
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  Speaker 2: the other day?
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  Speaker 1: I don't buy any of that government stuff with inflation.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I just don't buy any of it. It's way down
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  Speaker 1: while my gas price is back up to $ 3. 99 a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: It's not way down in the world of Ron Verb,
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  Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, Frank. I mean, it's not. It's not. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm serious about it. Everywhere I turn, I don't buy
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: into any of that bull crap that inflation is down.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Everything has gotten too damn expensive, and I mean everything
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  Speaker 1: that is out there. Vehicles, homes, groceries, you name it,
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  Speaker 1: everything's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I agree with you. And also, oh, geez, I
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: almost forgot what I was going to say.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the beginning of the end right there.
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  Speaker 2: With Iran? The stock market was way down again earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you blame it? Frank, I'm going to educate you.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to educate you on the market. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: All right, take some notes on this kind of stuff.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: The market does not like uncertainty, and what's going on
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: right now is uncertainty. And I'll say it again, and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of Trumpsters get upset with me.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: President Trump got into a mess by getting involved in
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: this from the very beginning. This was a mistake. from
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the very beginning, and I do mean a mistake. As
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: a result of the move he's made, we've never had
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: these issues with the straight being open and being closed, ever.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: We've never had these issues until he started this situation.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And now it appears to me that I don't know
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: what the end is. It's just going to continue to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: drag on, and who knows how much longer it's going
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to drag on, and I'm going to continue to pay
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  Speaker 1: the price.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I want to give your audience some friendly advice
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: on the market, too. You had the options caller a
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: while back was talking how great Micron Technologies was and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: was selling at $ 1, 224 an ounce. At the time he
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: said it, it's down to almost $ 890, I mean, not
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: an ounce a share, and you'd be losing money. And
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: listen to this. Remember when we were having the argument?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: over SpaceX? He was saying, yeah, I should have bought
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: call options, meaning betting on SpaceX going up. And I
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: was saying, no, you should be shorting SpaceX or buying
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: put options, betting it should go down. You know, SpaceX
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: went public. At $ 150 a share, it's now down below
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: $ 134 a share. If I had taken his advice and
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: bought the put options like he told me I should
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: have done, that thing better turn around real fast or
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I would lose 100% of my money. Are you going
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to buy any SpaceX products? No, I'm not going to. Well,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I tell you what, at this price, I'm considering it,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: but I can't give specific recommendations.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I know, but I'm just asking if you were going
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to buy it because the price is down and put
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it in there. But at your age, what difference does
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it make, right? I mean, really, how much time could
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you possibly have left?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You know, I got a surprise for you. I think
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: this is the end of my stock market report for today.
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: So Ro Khanna is, you know, talking about that he's
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: probably running for president and that he will do like
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Thomas Massey, cut foreign aid. And also he's going to oppose,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: there's a law pending in Congress right now, the Jewish
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: something act, or it will be criminalized to criticize Israel,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: which he opposed.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: How can something be... Don't we have free speech in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: our country? I mean, come on now. I mean, yeah,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about. And it's like, listen,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I think you have a right to speak your piece
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and be critical of whatever you want to be critical of.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't fear your own tongue. Even if it's terrible
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: hate speech, it's still protected speech, and it should remain
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that way in the United States of America. Because who
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: determines what is hate speech?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I have never voted for a Democrat.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I despise the Democrats, just like I do the Republicans.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: But if Ro Khanna runs for president, he may be
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the first Democrat I ever vote for, even though I
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: don't know his position on transgenderism and all that stuff.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: But I just might overlook that, because I think, number one,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: we're integrating the Israeli and American military.
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: Exactly.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: They want to merge, which I'm opposed to that. But
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it says here that he's an American politician and attorney.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: There's a strike against him. He's an attorney serving from
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: California's 17th congressional district. So he's 49 years old. But
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: he's a Democrat from California, Yale Law School, University of Chicago. Okay,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: so there you go. So you think you actually said
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that you could actually find yourself voting for a Democrat?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the first time in my life. I mean,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I never vote for anybody in Florida that's a Democrat
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: that's running for Congress or the Senate or anything like that.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, I don't care. what party
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: they're from, independent, Republican. I got fooled voting for Trump.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: He said, no more endless wars, you know, no more
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: foreign aid. And what happened with that?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you're exactly right. Your criticism is correct.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: And, you know, also, what else we got, you know? Oh,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: we got the.
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: Medals and..
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Precious metals and base metals are going down again today,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: probably because the inflation report was down. Now, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I can't understand why Wall Street will have a sell-off,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: because I think they're too smart. They're like us. They know.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: The government lies about just about everything, not only the
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: economic reports, but also war. What's the first... casualty and
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: war the truth, correct?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. But when you're talking a market down, the Dow's
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: down 221, S & P' s down 51, NASDAQ's down 407.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a bad day for your 401k and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: your retirement. It's just a bad day for it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: It sure is. And you know, I read, who was it,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: a general or somebody says, how long before Navy SEALs
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: and special forces take orders from Israeli commanders?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Well, then you're talking about– I was just looking at
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: this the other day. I want to make sure I
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: get this correct. Let me find it here. Let me
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: find it here. I want to get the– hang.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: On.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get the title correct because I can
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: never remember. It's– what the heck is the title of that?
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It's a congressional– movement, is it not? It's basically a merger. Correct?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a merger, exactly. In other words, it would be
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: like if the German military merged with the U.S. military.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: We all take orders from the same commanders.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: What sense does that make, though? I am totally opposed
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to that completely. I am completely opposed to it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Well, don't you agree that would be more Endless wars
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: on behalf of Israel if Israel wants to.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I just don't think the national defense..
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: If they invade Turkey, we're going to, you know, get..
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Right. The National Defense Authorization Act is what it's called.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: The National Defense Authorization Act. It's part of a bigger
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: bill that would merge, basically, Israel and the U.S., what,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: military or intelligence or... It's like a merger of the..
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Military is what I read. I think our intelligence has
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: already been merged for years now.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, this stuff should remain solely to the United
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: States of America, period. I'm with you. I'm dead set
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: against this. I'm absolutely 100% against this. And I also
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: agree with you. The inflation numbers, I don't buy them
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: at all. Inflation is just high. Have you got an
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: electric bill? I don't know if you're affected by it
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: like we are here in our neck of the woods.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: The cost of electricity has doubled up here. And my
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: last electric bill was like $ 261. They really don't want
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: you using your dehumidifier and your air conditioner. These pompous
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: asses want you living like they do in France without
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: air conditioning and being hot and being miserable. And they're
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: going to get their wish if they continue to see
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: electric rates go up. And so a lot of people
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: are irate because our electric rates have doubled. They were
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: worried about the demand out there from these AI centers.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And so your electric's gone way up. Your gasoline's gone
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: way up. Who says inflation is down?
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Well, we have one benefit here in Florida. When I
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: was analyzing AI stocks a few weeks ago, they were
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: saying that there is not enough fresh water in Florida
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: to build a lot of AI data centers in Florida.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: But the rest of the country, let's see, what have
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I said? You know, data centers will make all the
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: profits and homeowners will pay all the bills, according to
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: one analyst. And AI revenues are orders of magnitude lower
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: than the sums being invested. Ron, I've been reading that
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: for quite a while. AI data centers, I know the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: options guy is... disagreed with me. He's very bullish on AI.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: But I just haven't seen the return on investments. I
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: haven't seen big profits on these AI data centers or
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: stocks yet. In fact, there was an article in a
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: major investment publication a few days ago that says that
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: AI stocks are overvalued, and a lot of AI analysts
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: are predicting that they're not going to make the money
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that people are predicting, and they're putting out sell recommendations
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: on a number of them.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Here's one for you, a headline from CNBC for Lauderdale. Frank, U.S.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: grocery slowdown. Did you hear me? Grocery. I've got to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: clear my throat. Maybe this smoke is getting to me, Frank. U.S.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items, raising pressures
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: on food companies. So who said inflation is down? Would
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that indicate inflation is down based on a story I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: just read? The U.S. grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: fewer items. Would that be a sign of inflation being reduced?
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: No.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: When's the last time you saw prices go down for
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: eggs or milk or cat food or coffee? In fact,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I think you just read the report that coffee prices
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: are expected to go up again.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Well, the last time I had a good can of
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: cat food, I can't remember what I paid for it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: By the way, this will probably have to be another call,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: but you had a young guy. called right before you
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: went on vacation.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: He says he hears me and you talking about Zionism
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: a lot, and he has no clue what it is. Well,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to call next week because I think that's important.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I think younger generation... now that we're going to have
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the integration of the Israeli and U.S. military.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I sure hope we don't have that. I'm dead set
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: against it. I don't believe the U.S. military should be
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: merging with anybody at all. I mean, I don't know
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: where this comes from other than it shows you the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: influence of those lobbying groups. All right, Fort Lauderdale, Frank,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed my conversation with you today.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Great, Ron. Take care now.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: All right, you too. We'll pause here. We'll come back
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: with more. Fort Lauderdale, Frank. How about that for a headline?
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: U.S.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items. So is
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that a sign of lower inflation? Or is that a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: sign that says, gee, I'm paying more for gasoline and
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: paying more for electricity and paying more for everything. And
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I only got so much money.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: Stop in to Sapphire Essentials in 19... 570 WKBN.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Back to it. And Ron Ferb, you're on the air.
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: Ron, how you doing? Speak of the devil. I wasn't
• 31:03
  Speaker 13: going to talk about options. I said I'm going to
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: break my own rule today just to educate Frank. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 13: don't think he has a grasp of options or hedging
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: a personal account. And I don't know what his net
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: worth is, but I think I'm many, many, many, many
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: billions ahead of Frank. And Mike, Ron, again, I sold
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: this morning put options, cash secured out of the money. So, yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: right now Micron is selling at $ 846. I sold out
• 31:37
  Speaker 13: of the money contracts at $ 600. And what you want
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: to do with options, you want them with cash secured puts, Frank,
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: if you listen to this, you want them to expire.
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: You collect your premiums. And then you wash and repeat.
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: You do that every... I write three-weeks to four-week contracts.
• 31:58
  Speaker 13: But what I wanted to talk about was Trump, Carolyn Leavitt,
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: and the fires from Canada.
• 32:06
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: Let me get back real quick to options again. It's
• 32:11
  Speaker 13: amazing that people, you know, talk about things that they
• 32:15
  Speaker 13: have no knowledge of, but or no experience doing and
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: right now i have over two hundred option contracts are
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: written and sold to you that would mean nothing but
• 32:30
  Speaker 13: to a guy like say andrew the accountant that calls
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: or on your show that is a lot a lot
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: of money and the bulk of those are in cash
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: secured puts and twenty percent are in.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Covered calls Yeah, you guys are talking so far over
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: my head, I'm totally lost.
• 32:49
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that's why I'm not going to talk about it,
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: because people tell me at coffee, don't talk about options.
• 32:54
  Speaker 13: You're boring the audience.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'll say this. I think you're a really smart guy.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I have great admiration for you. I wish I knew
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: half of what you know, and I know you've done
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: extremely well and extremely successful. I commend you for the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: knowledge you have. You're just so far over my head,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to follow.
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: Okay, here's my, leading in, such weighing into my next point,
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: I use AI to do, have you, do you use
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: AI at all in your?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:23
  Speaker 13: Okay, I use it extensively in investing, and especially with options.
• 33:28
  Speaker 13: I use, my favorite is Grok, Gemini, and occasionally Copilot.
• 33:34
  Speaker 13: And what I do, this used to take me, Ron,
• 33:38
  Speaker 13: three hours a day. What I do now is I
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: use Grok, I'll run a trade by it like a
• 33:43
  Speaker 13: vertical spread on an option. I ask it where I
• 33:47
  Speaker 13: had to use the probability calculator that Schwab gives me
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: and do my own work. I could ask AI, and
• 33:55
  Speaker 13: Glock is really nice. It's just like Alexa, the same voice.
• 33:59
  Speaker 13: But anyway, I ask it, is this trade going to
• 34:02
  Speaker 13: be profitable? What's the probability on it of expiring or
• 34:06
  Speaker 13: not expiring?
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: And..
• 34:10
  Speaker 13: Within a minute or two minutes, it'll run the numbers
• 34:13
  Speaker 13: and then ask me, this is the AI is talking
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: to me, would you like me to run another scenario
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: farther out of the money or deep in the money? And,
• 34:24
  Speaker 13: you know, it'll give you different scenarios. And it's amazing
• 34:28
  Speaker 13: what AI can do. I use it a lot for business,
• 34:33
  Speaker 13: but I use it also for medical information, health, Just
• 34:39
  Speaker 13: general anything. It's the future that we're not going back on.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 34:47
  Speaker 13: But anyway, let me get back to what I was
• 34:49
  Speaker 13: going to call, and I don't want to bore the
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: audience because everybody tells me to shut up. You probably
• 34:55
  Speaker 13: didn't catch Carolyn Leavitt's press conference today.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I did not. Tell me about it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: One of her better press conferences, and leading into you've
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: got to watch Trump tonight at 9 p.m., I think
• 35:07
  Speaker 13: he's going to have a good chance to win back
• 35:10
  Speaker 13: a lot of his supporters. In fact, he's going to
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: talk about the safe and secure elections, but he's also
• 35:18
  Speaker 13: going to bring up election fraud and evidence how there
• 35:22
  Speaker 13: was election tampering, which I've been waiting for years for
• 35:26
  Speaker 13: some accountability. And if he does that, he's going to
• 35:30
  Speaker 13: win back a lot of people. And the second point
• 35:33
  Speaker 13: is the war.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Now, pause for a second. So he's going to talk.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Is he going to go back to the 2020 election
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff? I mean, he's going
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: to address the nation, they say tonight, about the SAFE Act?
• 35:51
  Speaker 13: Yes, and election fraud. He's going to go back to 2020.
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: And I agree. I also listened to Alex Jones's... Stand.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: By for me. Stand by. Let me do my headlines
• 36:02
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• 36:05
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• 36:08
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• 36:10
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• 36:11
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• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I'm back to it. And Ron Furb, you're on the air.
• 36:18
  Speaker 13: Ron, how you doing? Speak of the devil.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: I wasn't going to talk about options. I said I'm
• 36:22
  Speaker 13: going to break my own rule today. Just to educate Frank,
• 36:26
  Speaker 13: I don't think he has a grasp of options or
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: hedging a personal account. And I don't know what his
• 36:32
  Speaker 13: net worth is, but I think I'm many, many, many,
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: many billions ahead of Frank. And Micron, again, I sold
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: this morning put options, cash secured out of the money. So, yeah,
• 36:49
  Speaker 13: right now Micron is selling at $ 8. 46 million. I sold
• 36:54
  Speaker 13: out-of-the-money contracts at $ 600. And what you want to do
• 36:59
  Speaker 13: with options, you want them with cash-secured puts, Frank, if
• 37:03
  Speaker 13: you listen to this. You want them to expire. You
• 37:06
  Speaker 13: collect your premium, and then you wash and repeat. You
• 37:10
  Speaker 13: do that every... I write three-weeks to four-week contracts. But
• 37:15
  Speaker 13: what I wanted to talk about was Trump, Carolyn Leavitt,
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: and the... fires from Canada.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:23
  Speaker 13: Let me get back real quick to options again. It's
• 37:28
  Speaker 13: amazing that people, you know, talk about things that they
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: have no knowledge of or no experience doing. And right now,
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: I have over 200 option contracts written and sold. And
• 37:45
  Speaker 13: to you, that would mean nothing. But to a guy like, say, Andrew,
• 37:48
  Speaker 13: the accountant that calls on your show... That is a lot,
• 37:53
  Speaker 13: a lot of money. And the bulk of those are
• 37:56
  Speaker 13: in cash secured puts, and 20% are in covered calls.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are talking so far over my head,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I'm totally lost.
• 38:06
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that's why I'm not going to talk about it,
• 38:08
  Speaker 13: because people tell me at coffee, don't talk about options.
• 38:11
  Speaker 13: You're boring the audience.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'll say this. I think you're a really smart guy.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I have great admiration for you. I wish I knew
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: half of what you know, and I know you've done
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: extremely well and extremely successful. I commend you for the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: knowledge you have. You're just so far over my head,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to follow.
• 38:30
  Speaker 13: Okay, here's my, leading in, such weighing into my next point,
• 38:34
  Speaker 13: I use AI to do, have you, do you use
• 38:38
  Speaker 13: AI at all in your?
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 38:40
  Speaker 13: Okay, I use it extensively in investing, and especially with options.
• 38:45
  Speaker 13: I use, my favorite is Grok, Gemini, and occasionally Copilot.
• 38:50
  Speaker 13: And what I do, this used to take me, Ron,
• 38:54
  Speaker 13: three hours a day. What I do now is I
• 38:57
  Speaker 13: use Grok, I'll run a trade by it like a
• 39:00
  Speaker 13: vertical spread on an option. I ask it where I
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: had to use the probability calculator that Schwab gives me
• 39:08
  Speaker 13: and do my own work. I could ask AI, and
• 39:11
  Speaker 13: Grok is really nice. It's just like Alexa, the same voice.
• 39:16
  Speaker 13: But anyway, I ask it, is this trade going to
• 39:19
  Speaker 13: be profitable? What's the probability on it of expiring or
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: not expiring?
• 39:24
  Speaker 15: And..
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: Within a minute or two minutes, it'll run the numbers.
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: and then ask me, this is the AI is talking
• 39:33
  Speaker 13: to me, would you like me to run another scenario
• 39:37
  Speaker 13: farther out of the money or deep in the money? And,
• 39:41
  Speaker 13: you know, it'll give you different scenarios. And it's amazing.
• 39:45
  Speaker 13: what AI can do. I use it a lot for business,
• 39:50
  Speaker 13: but I use it also for medical information, health, just
• 39:56
  Speaker 13: general anything. It's the future that we're not going back on.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 40:04
  Speaker 13: But anyway, let me get back to what I was
• 40:05
  Speaker 13: going to call, and I don't want to bore the
• 40:08
  Speaker 13: audience because everybody tells me to shut up. You probably
• 40:12
  Speaker 13: didn't catch Carolyn Leavitt's press conference today.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I did not. Tell me about it.
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: One of her better press conferences, and leading into you've
• 40:20
  Speaker 13: got to watch Trump tonight at 9 p.m., I think
• 40:24
  Speaker 13: he's going to have a good chance to win back
• 40:27
  Speaker 13: a lot of his supporters if, in fact, he comes up.
• 40:32
  Speaker 13: He's going to talk about the safe and secure elections,
• 40:35
  Speaker 13: but he's also going to bring up election fraud. and
• 40:38
  Speaker 13: evidence how there was election tampering, which I've been waiting
• 40:41
  Speaker 13: for years for some accountability. And if he does that,
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: he's going to win back a lot of people. And
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: the second point is the war.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Now, pause for a second. So he's going to talk.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Is he going to go back to the 2020 election
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff? I mean, he's going
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: to address the nation, they say tonight, about what the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: SAFE Act is.
• 41:08
  Speaker 13: Yes, and election fraud. He's going to go back to 2020.
• 41:11
  Speaker 13: And I also listened to Alex Jones's.
• 41:16
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• 42:05
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• 42:08
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• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Let me just tell you, I mean, this is a
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: really smart guy, and he's a savvy investment guy. But but,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: you know, you're so far over my head on that. Now,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I want to shift. I want to shift you. I
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: hear this stuff about Trump talking tonight and it's going
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: to be at nine o'clock. Obviously, I'll watch it. But
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, is is he going to drone on about
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: how he really won a 2020 election or what? I mean,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: what is this is going to be about the Save
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Act or whatever. Save America Act. As far as election goes,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 43:06
  Speaker 13: I think in secure elections. But with Carolyn Leavitt was
• 43:11
  Speaker 13: implying that he's going to bring up election fraud evidence
• 43:17
  Speaker 13: and how China was involved. And do you really believe
• 43:21
  Speaker 13: Joe Biden got 81 million votes in 2020? No, I don't.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I think that whole election was during covid. i'm glad
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: you asked that question i mean am i do i'm
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: i convinced that we have secure elections today i don't
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: support any state that mails out ballots like california that
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: just mails out ballots to everybody as i say you
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: could be dead you could have moved you don't know
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: who's voting that ballot there's the states who just mail
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: everybody a ballot i i have no confidence in the
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that system at all. I have zero confidence in it
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: on any federal election or any local election. So my
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: answer to you is no. The Democrats and the politicians
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: have taken me to a point where I've, can I,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: bear with me for a minute, where I don't have
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of faith in the judicial system anymore, and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I don't have much faith in the voting system anymore.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: The judicial system is becoming too political. And I always
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: thought all judges were the same when I was growing up.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: They would listen to the facts of the case, and
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: they would make their decision based on the facts and
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: the Constitution, whether you were guilty or innocent. It had
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with politics and whether they're liberal or
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: or conservative. You follow what I mean? Just give me
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: a fair shot in front of the judge, and politics
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be a factor. Well, I think politics has entered
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: judicial decisions in many cases on local cases when it
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: comes to many of these things that are going on
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: in our country. So I'm losing faith in a judicial system.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: And I certainly have lost faith in the voting system.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Do I think the COVID vote? I mean, during COVID,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the whole thing stunk to high heaven as far as
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I was concerned. And I'm losing faith in it daily
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: by these states mailing out ballots to everybody. In Ohio,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: we do it the right way. In Ohio and in Florida,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: they do it the right way. But unfortunately, there are
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: many states that do not. I believe you should show
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: an ID when you go and vote. You should have
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: to show an ID. You should have to be a U.S.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: citizen to vote, period.
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: Yes, that's what Carolyn Leavitt was getting at. She brought
• 45:37
  Speaker 13: up the primary in California, that joke that they kept
• 45:43
  Speaker 13: extending and extending and extending until the Republican was off
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: the ballot.
• 45:47
  Speaker 21: Right, right.
• 45:48
  Speaker 13: And uh and then she chastised the press she said
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: after trump speaks tonight i want you guys to report
• 45:56
  Speaker 13: accurately what he said and you know let's get this
• 46:00
  Speaker 13: out in the open that we're having problems with our
• 46:02
  Speaker 13: elections and so we'll see i i i have high
• 46:07
  Speaker 13: hopes and the other thing that um Alex Jones was
• 46:11
  Speaker 13: bringing up that he might bring up the Iran war about...
• 46:17
  Speaker 13: You can't do it with an air campaign. I mean,
• 46:19
  Speaker 13: you can't... We're not going to win the war through
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: the air. You're going to have to have boots on
• 46:25
  Speaker 13: the ground. So he implied that we might have a
• 46:29
  Speaker 13: coalition of troops, or maybe the Israelis would come in
• 46:34
  Speaker 13: and be our partners on the ground, which I would...
• 46:37
  Speaker 13: I don't want American boots on the ground. If the
• 46:39
  Speaker 13: Israelis want to do that, we'll back them up, let
• 46:42
  Speaker 13: them go in. But I hope he addresses that point.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Would you agree with me? He created a mess, he
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: being President Trump in this situation in Iran. Listen, I
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: voted for Trump. I'm a Trumpster and all that kind
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: of stuff. But I can certainly criticize him. And this
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: mission that he got us involved in is a mess
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: and was a mistake from day one. I don't know
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: that you can unring the bell low. So where do
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: you go from here? I don't know that..
• 47:13
  Speaker 13: Trump hates to admit that he ever made a mistake.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: That's correct.
• 47:16
  Speaker 13: That's one of his flaws.
• 47:17
  Speaker 14: Yep.
• 47:18
  Speaker 13: And he's done that with COVID, where Operation Warp Speed
• 47:23
  Speaker 13: was his baby, and it was the best thing that
• 47:26
  Speaker 13: ever happened. And he won't admit that it was a
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: mistake and it hurt a lot of people. I don't
• 47:32
  Speaker 13: know if you follow Senator Johnson's... Senate hearings on COVID
• 47:37
  Speaker 13: and the VAERS reporting that was covered up. It's coming out.
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: It's fascinating. And, of course, the mainstream media, no one
• 47:46
  Speaker 13: knows about it because no one's going to report it.
• 47:49
  Speaker 13: The number of side effects, sudden deaths, turbo cancers among
• 47:53
  Speaker 13: the young, health issues, it's mind-blowing. But because Trump, that
• 48:01
  Speaker 13: was his baby, I think he's sort of not letting
• 48:04
  Speaker 13: it come out, and that's what I'd knock them on, that.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, the problem is, I don't think that
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: he's holding anybody accountable for a lot of stuff. I mean,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I can't see, I can talk about Epstein, I can
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: talk about the situation in Iran, I can talk about
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: we don't want to get involved in bogged down regime
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: change wars in the Middle East. I mean, there's a
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: lot that he's disappointed me in. I mean, make no mistake,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I would never vote for Harris or Biden or I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: wouldn't vote for any of these crazy Democrats. But the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: reality is that this mess that he created is a
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: giant mess and trying to figure out how it's just escalating.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: It's not getting better. It's getting worse.
• 48:54
  Speaker 13: Well, he's got a chance to get his poll numbers
• 48:57
  Speaker 13: up tonight and to give us some clarity on the
• 49:00
  Speaker 13: war situation. Give us some clarity on the elections and accountability.
• 49:04
  Speaker 13: And if he does that, I mean, he's going to
• 49:06
  Speaker 13: win me back.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm curious what your interpretation of it is tomorrow.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: So make sure you call me and let me know.
• 49:12
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I can't wait to hear them tonight. Let me
• 49:14
  Speaker 13: get back real quick to the forest fires. You know,
• 49:17
  Speaker 13: I'm getting sick of this every year, the fires coming
• 49:20
  Speaker 13: down from Canada. When did this start? About five, six
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: years ago? It's the same policies in Canada that they
• 49:27
  Speaker 13: have in California. The liberals will not manage their forests.
• 49:32
  Speaker 13: They have dry vegetation, and then when you have a drought,
• 49:36
  Speaker 13: you get I don't think they're saying it's lightning strikes.
• 49:40
  Speaker 13: I think it's arson myself. But if you have good
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: management policies and common sense on how to, you know,
• 49:49
  Speaker 13: take care of a forest, you won't have these problems.
• 49:52
  Speaker 13: It was really bad today. I went down to coffee.
• 49:55
  Speaker 13: We have a guy that rides a bike down there
• 49:57
  Speaker 13: every day, four miles or three miles, and he wrote
• 50:02
  Speaker 13: it down today, and I said, you've got to be crazy.
• 50:06
  Speaker 13: and I drove by Stambaugh Municipal Golf Course, you should
• 50:09
  Speaker 13: have seen the guys out golfing. I mean, the air
• 50:12
  Speaker 13: was really bad, and I'm looking out now. You could
• 50:15
  Speaker 13: actually cut that smoke with a knife.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very visible, and you can smell it. I mean,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: it's got an odor to it, in addition to being
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: able to see how thick the smoke is. But let's
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: be realistic. People have got to go to work. You've
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: still got guys out pouring concrete driveways. You've still got
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the landscapers out. You've still got the guys from Ohio
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Edison out. There's plenty of people that don't have the
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: option not to be outside and working.
• 50:40
  Speaker 13: I feel sorry for those poor guys. And real quick,
• 50:43
  Speaker 13: talking about guys working outside, did you see the three
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: Trumbull County commissioners put an end to the fiber optic
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: laying in Trumbull County because of all the accidents?
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Well, what's the alternative? I mean, OK, so what?
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: Here's the alternative. Hire a competent company to put your
• 51:03
  Speaker 13: fiber optics in. That's T-Mobile hired this, I think it's
• 51:07
  Speaker 13: called Lumina. And I made a joke to a couple
• 51:11
  Speaker 13: of people. I should call ICE because all of the
• 51:13
  Speaker 13: guys that work. They don't speak English. They're all Mexicans.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but, I mean, what has that got to do
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: with putting a cable in?
• 51:21
  Speaker 13: Well, they're hitting water mains.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Right, but, I mean, they're going underground. They mark the utilities.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: What's the answer to this? I mean, what they're doing
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: is they're in the easement. They have a right to
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: be there because that's where the easement is, obviously, because
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: they're hitting stuff. How do you put the fiber underground? Competently.
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: They laid it in our township last year. And within
• 51:51
  Speaker 13: my five-block area of my home, they hit a couple
• 51:55
  Speaker 13: of water mains in the Youngstown Water Department. I mean,
• 51:58
  Speaker 13: these were big, big water breaks. And these guys, I
• 52:02
  Speaker 13: don't know if they don't know what they're doing.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Well, remember, you mark the utilities and you're going underground.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: You can't visually see. You're slinging this thing underground. I
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: don't know what the answer to this is.
• 52:16
  Speaker 10: I mean, I.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Don't know where you go.
• 52:22
  Speaker 13: My hat's off to the Trumbull County commissioners that are
• 52:25
  Speaker 13: putting a stop to it until they find out why
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: this particular company is having so many problems. And they've
• 52:32
  Speaker 13: had problems in Youngstown and in Liberty Township. Now they're
• 52:37
  Speaker 13: further up north. But I was glad to see that.
• 52:41
  Speaker 13: I said, finally, someone's going to You know, I don't want..
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, but with all due respect, now what do you do?
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: How do you put the fiber... In my neighborhood, we
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: have underground utilities. We don't have phone poles. So how
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: do you put it in the ground?
• 52:56
  Speaker 13: Well, you have to do it in a safe manner.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: How do you do that?
• 53:01
  Speaker 13: The commissioners want to find out. They want to find
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: out what the problems are with this particular company, why
• 53:07
  Speaker 13: they've had so many more problems than other companies.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: And..
• 53:13
  Speaker 13: It's all T-Mobile cable that they're putting in. And their
• 53:19
  Speaker 13: company is called Lumina. And they hire a lot of
• 53:22
  Speaker 13: guys that..
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: You know, I have nothing. I have no prejudice against,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're saying, well, they can't speak English
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: or they're Mexican. Well, they're at least out there doing
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: the work. That doesn't mean they're lousy at their job
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: or lousy workers. I don't go for that one bit.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: It means they show up and they're willing to do
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the work and move from town to town to do
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: this kind of work where we got a lot of Americans, obviously,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: that don't want to do it.
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: Not only that, these guys work like– sometimes they'll be
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: out there 12– when they did my neighborhood, they were
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: out there 12, 14 hours a day.
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I applaud any hardworking person, any hardworking person.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: But I would say to any of these commissioners, okay,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: so what's the answer here? They are running this system underground.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: They get the utilities marked. They think that they're missing it,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and maybe the utility is not marked properly or it's missed.
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: And we've had gas explosions. We've had water mains hit.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: We've had other lines that have been injured as a
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: result of it. Well, how do you– I don't know
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: what the answer is. How do you put it under–
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: in the ground?
• 54:29
  Speaker 13: Well, they're going to– my hat's off to them again.
• 54:32
  Speaker 13: They're going to investigate and find out. At least they–
• 54:36
  Speaker 13: those politicians did something that the Youngstown officials wouldn't do
• 54:41
  Speaker 13: and my township officials wouldn't do. They said, whoa, what's
• 54:45
  Speaker 13: going on? We've got to find out. You know, we
• 54:47
  Speaker 13: don't want these incidents happening.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: But I would hear people bitching, oh, look at what
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: they're doing in the yard. Well, that's really not your yard.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: There's an easement there. I mean, when people get this way,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you know what? Would you prefer them not
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: to fix your electric line or your water line or
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: whatever else is there? This is how, if you're in
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: a neighborhood like mine and a lot of people's neighborhoods,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: you have underground utilities. Well, everything is buried. Well, if
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: you've got to change something out or... upgrade something. How
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: do you do that?
• 55:17
  Speaker 13: You're in the high rent district. God bless you. But
• 55:20
  Speaker 13: a lot of people don't realize..
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: You're the last one to say that with your wealth,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: believe me.
• 55:25
  Speaker 13: Yeah. A lot of people don't realize they don't own
• 55:28
  Speaker 13: out to the street.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 55:29
  Speaker 13: I mean, your grass goes out to the street, but
• 55:32
  Speaker 13: that's not your property.
• 55:33
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: So there's an easement there for utilities. And they're operating
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: within that easement. What are they trying? They're not doing
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: some sinister thing. They're trying to run a fiber optic
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: cable so that it's there for people. And all these
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: people will tie into it and will use it. That's
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: all they're trying to do. I mean, I don't know
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: what the other option is. All right.
• 55:54
  Speaker 13: There's only one way to get it in. So I'll
• 55:57
  Speaker 13: let other callers get on the line and I'll... We'll
• 56:00
  Speaker 13: see what Trump says, and I hope it's a positive speech.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Well, give me some analysis tomorrow. I appreciate it. You're
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: on the air.
• 56:08
  Speaker 22: Hey, Ron, it's David Thomas.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dave. I was looking for you. All right,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Dave Thomas is out at— are you out at the Trumbull
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: County Fair?
• 56:16
  Speaker 22: I was going to say you may want to check
• 56:19
  Speaker 22: your cough, because there are people coughing here, too.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: That was a little theater of the mind here, David,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: a little show business. But you're out at the Trumbull
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: County Fair?
• 56:29
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I actually have a hard time even seeing the
• 56:31
  Speaker 22: Ferris wheel.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you something, though, folks, and listen
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: to me. If you run into Dave Thomas at the
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Trumbull County Fair or wherever, you go up and shake
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: his hand and thank him for all that he's done
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: for all of us. I mean, you know, the guff
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: that this guy has taken and the criticism he's taken
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: from making things better for all of us is just terrific.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about that. So we
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: got the re-evaluations here in Mahoning County. that Meacham said, oh,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: that's went up 25% or whatever. Talk to people about
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the legislation that you got approved, which will at least
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: hold back as big increases you would get without this legislation.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Explain that so our listeners understand. This is what Dave
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Thomas did for all of us on these new re-evaluations
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: that said, oh, your properties were 25% more. The old way,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: you would get it. Explain how it would work the
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: old way and what you changed for everybody.
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 22: So first, big kudos to the Mahoning County Commissioners and
• 57:35
  Speaker 22: the Columbiana and the Trumbull County Commissioners for doubling the
• 57:38
  Speaker 22: owner occupancy credit. So that is one way folks will
• 57:42
  Speaker 22: already see a difference in their tax bill in January.
• 57:46
  Speaker 22: Regardless of what happens with values, that credit will double
• 57:50
  Speaker 22: average of about an extra $ 100 or so in savings.
• 57:54
  Speaker 22: What is changing with the bills that we passed last year,
• 57:57
  Speaker 22: your property values will keep changing. They'll go up, they'll
• 58:01
  Speaker 22: go down. Like Ralph said, Mahoney County increasing by 25%.
• 58:06
  Speaker 22: Under the previous law, what had essentially broken with the
• 58:10
  Speaker 22: property tax system in the last six years, that 25%
• 58:14
  Speaker 22: meant a huge unvoted spike in your tax bill. It
• 58:18
  Speaker 22: meant essentially that your property value was tied directly to
• 58:21
  Speaker 22: your tax amount, and as your property value went up,
• 58:25
  Speaker 22: your tax bill went up right along with it. And
• 58:27
  Speaker 22: that's why we've seen all the spikes.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: It would go up 25%, correct? Correct.
• 58:33
  Speaker 22: Maybe not quite 25%, but maybe 17%, 20%. There were portions,
• 58:37
  Speaker 22: you know, when you vote for a levy, regardless of
• 58:41
  Speaker 22: however those values move, that levy brings in the same
• 58:44
  Speaker 22: amount of money, but there are portions of your tax
• 58:46
  Speaker 22: bill that are tied directly to your value, and those
• 58:49
  Speaker 22: are what really spiked up to your school, to Township, Village, City, County,
• 58:55
  Speaker 22: but those really kind of just skyrocketed with the higher values.
• 58:59
  Speaker 22: So 25% increase in your value, probably, yeah, like a 17, 18, 20%
• 59:04
  Speaker 22: increase in your tax bill.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: So what, and now listen to this. Everybody listen to this.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: This is what Dave Thomas did. for you. Explain.
• 59:12
  Speaker 22: So now with our bills we passed last year, your
• 59:15
  Speaker 22: value can increase by 25%, but that is now capped
• 59:19
  Speaker 22: in terms of the tax amount. The revenue coming into
• 59:22
  Speaker 22: all those local governments is now capped to inflation. Whatever
• 59:26
  Speaker 22: inflation has been, it's now capped. for them so that
• 59:30
  Speaker 22: your tax bill will not see that spike, won't go
• 59:33
  Speaker 22: up nearly as much. It still will increase, but by
• 59:36
  Speaker 22: an inflationary amount versus what you have been seeing over
• 59:39
  Speaker 22: the last six years, which was huge unvoted spikes.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Right. Instead of getting a 17% increase, let's say you
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: would get a, what, a 4% or 5% increase? Yep.
• 59:49
  Speaker 22: I don't know the exact numbers for this year. I
• 59:51
  Speaker 22: think those will be calculated here pretty soon, but there'll
• 59:53
  Speaker 22: be some much smaller amount of increase.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Stand by, Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas talking to us live
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: from the Trumbull County Fair. Back with Dave after this
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: and more of your calls.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. All right, back
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: to it.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Let me just tell you, I mean, this is a
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: really smart guy, and he's a savvy investment guy. But,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: you know, you're so far over my head on that. Now,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: I want to shift you. I hear this stuff about
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: Trump talking tonight, and it's going to be at 9 o'clock. Obviously,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: I'll watch it. But, I mean, is he going to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: drone on about how he really won a 2020 election?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is going to be about the SAVE
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Act or whatever, SAVE America Act, As far as election goes,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be safe.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 13: And secure elections. But with Carolyn Leavitt was implying that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 13: he's going to bring up election fraud evidence and how
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 13: China was involved. And do you really believe Joe Biden
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 13: got 81 million votes in 2020?
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: No, I don't. I think that whole election was during covid.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked that question. I mean, am I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: convinced that we have secure elections today? I don't support
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: any state. that mails out ballots, like California, that just
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: mails out ballots to everybody. As I say, you could
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: be dead. You could have moved. You don't know who's
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: voting that ballot. The states that just mail everybody a ballot,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: I have no confidence in that system at all. I
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: have zero confidence in it on any federal election or
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: any local election. So my answer to you is no.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: The Democrats... And the politicians have taken me to a
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: point where I've, can I, bear with me for a minute,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: where I don't have a lot of faith in the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: judicial system anymore, and I don't have much faith in
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: the voting system anymore. The judicial system is becoming too political.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: And I always thought all judges were the same when
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I was growing up. They would listen to the facts
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: of the case and they would make their decision based
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: on the facts and the Constitution, whether you were guilty
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: or innocent. It had nothing to do with politics and justice.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: whether they're liberal or conservative. You follow what I mean?
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Just give me a fair shot in front of the judge,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: and politics shouldn't be a factor. Well, I think politics
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: has entered judicial decisions in many cases on local cases
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: when it comes to many of these things that are
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: going on in our country. So I'm losing faith in
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: a judicial system. And I certainly have lost faith in
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: the voting system. Do I think the COVID vote? I mean,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: during COVID, the whole thing stunk to high heaven as
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: far as I was concerned. And I'm losing faith in
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: it daily by these states mailing out ballots to everybody.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: In Ohio, we do it the right way. in Ohio.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: And in Florida, they do it the right way. But unfortunately,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: there are many states that do not. I believe you
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: should show an ID when you go and vote. You
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: should have to show an ID. You should have to
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: be a U.S. citizen to vote. Period.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 13: Yes, that's what Carolyn Leavitt was getting at. She brought
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 13: up the primary in California that joked that they kept
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 13: extending and extending and extending until the Republican was off
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 13: the ballot. And And then she chastised the press. She said,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 13: after Trump speaks tonight, I want you guys to report
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 13: accurately what he said. And, you know, let's get this
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 13: out in the open that we're having problems with our elections.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 13: And so we'll see. I have high hopes. And the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 13: other thing that... Alex Jones was bringing up that he
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 13: might bring up the Iran war about... You can't do
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 13: it with an air campaign. I mean, you can't... We're
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 13: not going to win the war through the air. You're
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 13: going to have to have boots on the ground. So
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 13: he implied that we might have a coalition of troops,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 13: or maybe the Israelis would come in and be our
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 13: partners on the ground, which I would... I don't want
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 13: American boots on the ground. If the Israelis want to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 13: do that, we'll back them up, let them go in.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 13: But I hope he addresses that point.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Would you agree with me? He created a mess. He
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: being President Trump in this situation in Iran. Listen, I
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: voted for Trump. I'm a Trumpster and all that kind
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: of stuff. But I can certainly criticize him. And this
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: mission that he got us involved in is a mess
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: and was a mistake from day one. I don't know
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: that you can unring the bell low. So where do
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: you go from here? I don't know that..
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 13: Trump hates to admit that he ever made a mistake.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: That's correct.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 13: That's one of his flaws.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 13: And he's done that with COVID, where Operation Warp Speed
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 13: was his baby, and it was the best thing that
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 13: ever happened. And he won't admit that it was a
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 13: mistake and it hurt a lot of people. I don't
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 13: know if you follow Senator Johnson's Senate hearings on COVID
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 13: and the VAERS reporting that was covered up.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 13: It's coming out. It's fascinating. And, of course, the mainstream media,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 13: no one knows about it because no one's going to
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 13: report it.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 13: The number of side effects, sudden deaths, turbo cancers among
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 13: the young, health issues, it's mind-blowing. But because Trump, that
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 13: was his baby, I think he's sort of not letting
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 13: it come out. And that's what I'd knock him on, that.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, the problem is I don't think that he's
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: holding anybody accountable for a lot of stuff. I mean,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't see I can talk about Epstein.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: I can talk about the situation in Iran. I can
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: talk about the we don't want to get involved in
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: bogged down regime change wars in the Middle East. I mean,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: there's a lot that he's disappointed me in. I mean,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: make no mistake, I would never vote for Harris or
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Biden or I wouldn't vote for any of these crazy Democrats.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: But the reality is that this mess that he created
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: is a giant mess and trying to figure out how
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: it's just escalating. It's not getting better. It's getting worse.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 13: Well, he's got a chance to get his poll numbers
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 13: up tonight and to give us some clarity on the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 13: war situation. Give us some clarity on the elections and accountability.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 13: And if he does that, I mean, he's going to
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 13: win me back.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd be curious what your interpretation of it is tomorrow.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: So make sure you call me and let me know.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I can't wait to hear him tonight. Let me
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 13: get back real quick to the forest fires. You know,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 13: I'm getting sick of this every year, the fires coming
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 13: down from Canada. When did this start? About five, six
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 13: years ago? It's the same policies in Canada that they
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 13: have in California. The liberals will not manage their forests.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 13: They have dry vegetation. And then when you have a drought,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 13: you get... I don't think they're saying it's lightning strikes.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 13: I think it's arson myself. But if you have good
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 13: management policies and common sense on how to, you know,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 13: take care of a forest, you won't have these problems.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 13: It was really bad today. I went down to coffee.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 13: We have a guy that rides a bike down there
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 13: every day. four miles or three miles, and he wrote
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 13: it down today, and I said, you've got to be crazy.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 13: And I drove by Stambaugh Municipal Golf Course. You should
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 13: have seen the guys out golfing. I mean, the air
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 13: was really bad, and I'm looking out now. You could
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 13: actually cut that smoke with a knife.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very visible, and you can smell it. I mean,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: it's got an odor to it, in addition to being
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: able to see how thick the smoke is. But let's
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: be realistic. People have got to go to work. You've
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: still got guys out pouring concrete driveways. You've still got
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: the landscapers out. You've still got the guys from Ohio
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Edison out. There's plenty of people that don't have the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: option not to be outside and working.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 13: I feel sorry for those poor guys. And real quick,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 13: talking about guys working outside, did you see the three
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 13: Trumbull County commissioners put an end to the fiber optic
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 13: laying in Trumbull County because of all the accidents?
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Well, what's the alternative? I mean, okay, so what..
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 13: Here's the alternative. Hire a competent company to put your
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 13: fiber optics in. That's T-Mobile hired this, I think it's
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 13: called Lumina. And I made a joke to a couple
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 13: of people. I should call ICE because all of the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 13: guys that work, they don't speak English. They're all Mexicans.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, what does that got to do
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: with putting a cable in?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 13: Well, they're hitting water mains.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: Right, but I mean, they're going underground. They mark the utilities.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: What's the answer to this? I mean, what they're doing
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: is they're in the easement. They have a right to
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: be there because that's where the easement is, obviously, because
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: they're hitting stuff. How do you put the fiber in
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: underground competently?
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 13: They laid it in our township last year within my—
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 13: five-block area of my home, they hit a couple of
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 13: water mains in the Youngstown Water Department. I mean, these
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 13: were big, big water breaks. And these guys, I don't
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 13: know if they don't know what they're doing.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Well, remember, you mark the utilities and you're going underground.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: You can't visually see. You're slinging this thing. I don't
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: know what the answer to this is. I mean, I
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: don't know where you go.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 13: My hat's off to the Trumbull County commissioners that are
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 13: putting a stop to it until they find out why
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 13: this particular company is having so many problems. And they've
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 13: had problems in Youngstown and in Liberty Township. Now they're
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 13: further up north.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: But..
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 13: I was glad to see that. I said, finally, someone's
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 13: going to, you know, I don't want..
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, but with all due respect, now what do you do?
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: How do you put the fiber... In my neighborhood, we
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: have underground utilities. We don't have phone poles. So how
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: do you put it in the ground?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 13: Well, you have to do it in a safe manner.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: How do you do that?
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 13: Well, that's what the commissioners want to find out. They
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 13: want to find out what the problems are with this
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 13: particular company, why they've had... so many more problems than
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 13: other companies. And it's all T-Mobile cable that they're putting in.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 13: And their company is called Lumina. And they hire a
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 13: lot of guys that You.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Know, I have nothing. I have no prejudice against, you know,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: if you're saying, well, they can't speak English or they're Mexican. Well,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: they're at least out there doing the work. That doesn't
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: mean they're lousy at their job or lousy workers. I
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: don't go for that one bit. It means they show
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: up and they're willing to do the work and move
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: from town to town to do this kind of work
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: where we got a lot of Americans, obviously, that don't
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: want to do it.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 20: Right.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 13: Not only that, these guys work like– sometimes they'll be
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 13: out there 12– when they did my neighborhood, they were
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 13: out there 12, 14 hours a day.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I applaud any hardworking person, any hardworking person.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: But I would say to any of these commissioners, okay,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: so what's the answer here? They are running this system underground.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: They get the utilities marked. They think that they're missing it,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: and maybe the utility is not marked properly or it's missed.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: And we've had gas explosions. We've had water mains hit.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: We've had other lines that have been injured as a
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: result of it. Well, how do you– I don't know
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: what the answer is. How do you put it under–
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: in the ground?
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 13: Well, they're going to– my hat's off to them again.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 13: They're going to investigate and find out. At least they–
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 13: those politicians did something that the Youngstown officials wouldn't do
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 13: and my township officials wouldn't do. They said, whoa, what's
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 13: going on? We've got to find out. We don't want
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 13: these incidents happening.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: But I would hear people bitching, oh, look at what
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: they're doing in the yard. Well, that's really not your yard.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: There's an easement there. I mean, when people get this way,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you know what? Would you prefer them not
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: to fix your electric line or your water line or
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: whatever else is there? This is how– if you're in
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: a neighborhood like mine and a lot of people's neighborhoods,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: you have underground utilities. Well, everything is buried. Well, if
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: you've got to change something out or– upgrade something, how
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: do you do that?
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 13: You're in the high-rent district. God bless you.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: You're the last one to say that with your wealth,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: believe me. Yeah.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 13: A lot of people don't realize they don't own out
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 13: to the street.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 13: I mean, your grass goes out to the street, but
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 13: that's not your property.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 21: Right.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: So there's an easement there for utilities. And they're operating
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: within that easement trying to– what are they trying? They're
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: not doing some sinister thing. They're trying to run a
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: fiber optic cable so that it's there for people, and
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: all these people will tie into it and will use it.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: That's all they're trying to do. I mean, I don't
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: know what the other option is. All right.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 13: There's only one way to get it in, so I'll
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 13: let other callers get on the line, and I'll– We'll
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 13: see what Trump says, and I hope it's a positive speech.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: Well, give me some analysis tomorrow. I appreciate it. You're
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: on the air.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 22: Hey, Ron, it's David Thomas.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dave. I was looking for you. All right,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Dave Thomas is out at the Trumbull County Fair.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 22: I was going to say, you may want to check
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 22: your cough, because there are people coughing here, too.
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  Speaker 1: That was a little theater of the mind here, David,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: a little show business. But you're out at the Trumbull
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: County Fair?
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  Speaker 22: Yeah, I actually have a hard time even seeing the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 22: Ferris wheel.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you something, though, folks, and listen
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: to me. If you run into Dave Thomas at the
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: Trumbull County Fair or wherever, you go up and shake
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: his hand and thank him for all that he's done
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: for all of us. I mean, you know, the guff
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: that this guy has taken and the criticism he's taken
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: from making things better for all of us is just terrific.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about that. So we
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: got the re-evaluations here in Mahoning County. that Meacham said, oh,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: that's went up 25% or whatever. Talk to people about
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: the legislation that you got approved, which will at least...
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: hold back as big an increase as you would get
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: without this legislation. Explain that so our listeners understand. This
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: is what Dave Thomas did for all of us on
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: these new re-evaluations that said, oh, your properties were 25% more.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Explain how it would work the old way and what
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: you changed for everybody.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 23: Yes.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 22: So first, big kudos to the Mahoning County Commissioners, and
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 22: the columbiana and the trumbull county commissioners for doubling the
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 22: home for the owner occupancy credit so that is one
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 22: way folks will already see a difference in their tax
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 22: bill in january regardless of what happens with values that
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 22: credit will double average of about extra hundred dollars or
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 22: so in savings what is changing with the bills that
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 22: we passed last year your property values will keep changing
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 22: they'll go up they'll go down like ralph said Mahoney
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 22: County increasing by 25%. Under the previous law, what had
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 22: essentially broken with the property tax system in the last
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 22: six years, that 25% meant a huge unvoted spike in
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 22: your tax bill. It meant essentially that your property value
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 22: was tied directly to your tax amount, and as your
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 22: property value went up, your tax bill went up right
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 22: along with it. And that's why we've seen all the spikes.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: It would go up 25%, correct?
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 24: Correct.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 22: Maybe not quite 25%, but maybe 17%, 20%. There were portions,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 22: you know, when you vote for a levy, regardless of
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 22: however those values move, that levy brings in the same
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 22: amount of money, but there are portions of your tax
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 22: bill that are tied directly to your value, and those
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 22: are what really spiked up to your school, to township, village, city, county,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 22: but those really kind of just skyrocketed with the higher values.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 22: So 25% increase in your value, probably, yeah, like a 17, 18, 20%
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 22: increase in your tax bill.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: So what, and now listen to this. Everybody listen to this.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: This is what Dave Thomas did for you. Explain.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 22: So now with our bills we passed last year, your
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 22: value can increase by 25%, but that is now capped
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 22: in terms of the tax amount. The revenue coming into
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 22: all those local governments is now capped to inflation. Whatever
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 22: inflation has been, It's now capped for them so that
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 22: your tax bill will not see that spike, won't go
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 22: up nearly as much. It still will increase, but by
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 22: an inflationary amount versus what you have been seeing over
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 22: the last six years, which are those huge unvoted spikes.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Right. Instead of getting a 17% increase, let's say you
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: would get a, what, a 4% or 5% increase?
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 22: I don't know the exact numbers for this year. I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 22: think those will be calculated here pretty soon, but there'll
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 22: be some much smaller amount of increase.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: Stand by, Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas, talking to us live
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: from the Trumbull County Fair. Back with Dave after this
• 1:17:39
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  Speaker 8: Youngstown's News, Weather, and Talk Station, 570 WKBN. All right, 355.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 8: All right, Dave Thomas. So, basically, because of the legislation
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 8: that you got approved, the increase from the re-evaluations will be,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 8: let's say, 15%. Oh, maybe 4%, 5%, 6% in that ballpark?
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 22: Yes, yeah, that inflation amount. And then that's just purely
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 22: from value. So like I said, your value can go
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 22: up by 25%. That revenue will only increase by inflation.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 22: And what we've also done is we've now required the
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 22: local governments to say formally that they're accepting those increases,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 22: that they're the ones actually raising property taxes with those
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 22: higher values, and reminding them that they can actually say no.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 22: And they can forego those increases as well. So it's
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 22: just putting that in the front of mind for folks.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: Now, this is very important for all of us to understand.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: So instead of saying, okay, the former way that these
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: would be done, like when they were done last time,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: and you get this, big 17%, 18% increase in your
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: property taxes based on the re-evaluations, you pass legislation that
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: says it will be tied to the rate of inflation.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: So the rate of inflation is maybe 4% or 5%.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: So it'll still be an increase, but it'd be a
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: much smaller one than it would have been if you
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: did nothing. That's number one. And number two is, who
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: can determine whether or not they want to accept this?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: Who makes that decision?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 22: Each one of the boards. So going straight down, the
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 22: county commissioners, they can accept for their portion of the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 22: tax bill. Your school board, they can accept for their portion.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 22: Your city, they can accept for their portion. And the township,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 22: they accept for theirs, whether they're going to bring in
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 22: that increase in unvoted taxation, or if they're going to
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 22: decrease their tax rates and bring in the same amount
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 22: of money.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: So this is important to understand. So everybody knows, all
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: of the local politicians that say the following, boy, we
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: understand the difficulties of our young people buying a home,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: our older citizens staying in their property. We get it.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: We're going to find out now if that's just lip
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: service or if it's reality. if it's lip service or reality,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: because you're saying your local politicians have the ability to
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: say no to these increases, which means that the property
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: tax payer would not have to pay additional money.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 10: Correct.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 22: And the great thing about what the commissioners of Trumbull, Mahoning,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 22: and Columbiana did with doubling the owner occupancy credit, it
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 22: was making a decision for everyone, essentially, so that anyone
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 22: that lives in those counties... they know they're going to
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 22: have that doubling, and that's being done. But these increases
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 22: that come from higher valuations, that essentially is up to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 22: each local government, and that's up to the boards of
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 22: those local governments. Do they accept them? Do they not?
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 22: What does it actually look like? And we're seeing entities
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 22: across Ohio actually saying, no, we're going to decrease our
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 22: tax rates. We're not going to take in these increases.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 22: And we'll keep things the same. We'll keep things flat.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Well, we shall see what happens here. And incidentally, that
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: doubling of the owner-occupancy in Mone and County is only
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: for a year. I mean, they've just agreed for a year.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: Why only a year? Why not just say... Why put
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: a time frame on it? Stand by, Dave Thomas. Hang
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: in there. He's going to talk about fiber, too, but
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: I want to finish a discussion on this. Then I
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: get to more of your calls. Hang on.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 16: And talk station 570 WKBN.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: All right, 355. All right, Dave Thomas. So, basically, because
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: of the legislation that you got approved, the increase from
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: the re-evaluations will be, let's say... Oh, maybe 4, 5, 6%
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: in that ballpark?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 22: Yes, yeah, that inflation amount. And then that's just purely
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 22: from value. So like I said, your value can go
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 22: up by 25%. That revenue will only increase by inflation.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 22: And what we've also done is we've now required the
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 22: local governments to say formally that they're accepting those increases,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 22: that they're the ones actually raising property taxes with those
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 22: higher values. and reminding them that they can actually say no,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 22: and they can forego those increases as well. So it's
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 22: just putting that in the front of mind for folks.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: Now, this is very important for all of us to understand.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: So instead of saying, okay, the former way that these
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: would be done, like when they were done last time,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: and you get this big 17%, 18% increase in your
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: property taxes based on the re-evaluations, you pass legislation that
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: says it will be tied to the rate of inflation.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: So the rate of inflation is maybe 4% or 5%.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: So it'll still be an increase, but it'd be a
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: much smaller one than it would have been if you
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: did nothing. That's number one. And number two is who
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: can determine whether or not they want to accept this?
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: Who makes that decision?
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 22: Each one of the boards. So going straight down, you know,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 22: the county commissioners, they can accept for their portion of
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 22: the tax bill. Your school board, they can accept for
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 22: their portion. Your city, they can accept for their portion.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 22: And the township, they accept for theirs, whether they're going
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 22: to bring in that increase in unvoted taxation or if
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 22: they're going to decrease their tax rates and bring in
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 22: the same amount of money.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: This is important to understand. So everybody knows all of
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: the local politicians that say the following. Boy, we understand
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: the difficulties of our young people buying a home or
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: older citizens staying in their property. We get it. We're
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: going to find out now if that's just lip service
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: or if it's reality. if it's lip service or reality,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: because you're saying your local politicians have the ability to
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: say no to these increases, which means that the property
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: tax payer would not have to pay additional money.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 23: Correct.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 22: And the great thing about what the commissioners of Trumbull, Mahoning,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 22: and Columbiana did with doubling the owner occupancy credit, it
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 22: was making a decision for everyone, essentially, so that anyone
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 22: that lives in those counties they know they're going to
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 22: have that doubling and that's that's being done but these
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 22: increases that come from higher valuations that essentially is up
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 22: to each local government and that's up to the boards
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 22: of those local governments you know do they accept them
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 22: do they not what does it actually look like and
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 22: we're seeing entities across ohio actually saying no we're going
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 22: to decrease our tax rates we're not going to take
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 22: in these increases And we'll keep things the same. We'll
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 22: keep things flat.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: Well, we shall see what happens here. And incidentally, that
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: doubling of the owner-occupancy in Mone and County is only
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: for a year. I mean, they've just agreed for a year.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: Why only a year? Why not just put a time
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  Speaker 4: A Blue Angels low flyby for beachgoers near their Florida
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  Speaker 30: When President Donald Trump approached the podium to deliver his
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  Speaker 4: Navy's Blue Angels say that they're conducting a review of
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  Speaker 4: a low-altitude pass that rocked beachgoers in Pensacola Beach. On
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  Speaker 4: House shared photos of the incident with the caption, It's
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  Speaker 32: Our two deputy sheriffs were medevaced at Tampa General Hospital
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  Speaker 4: The suspect shot by a third deputy and police say
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 4: he died, the suspect did, while being transported to the hospital.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: The third deputy was not injured. Scientists say a massive
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: great white shark, recently spotted and tagged off North Carolina,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 4: appears to be headed north to Cape Cod.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 33: Michelle Franzen, ABC News. From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen.
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  Speaker 4: Hostilities between the US and Iran continuing to escalate. ABC's
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: James Longman says the Strait of Hormuz remains at the center.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 25: A US aircraft attacked a tanker trying to make port
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 25: at Karg Island. That is the Iranian oil terminal in
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 25: the Persian Gulf. CENTCOM says that it gave this tanker
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 25: multiple warnings and it did not heed them. This is
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 25: in breach of the blockade. that the US currently has
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 25: on Iranian ports.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, President Trump will deliver a speech to Americans. White
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 4: House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt giving a preview.
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  Speaker 26: I think the American people will be relieved to hear
• 1:31:12
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• 1:31:14
  Speaker 26: States and his commitment to transparency.
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  Speaker 27: And the focus on the integrity of our elections tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News the president
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: will detail information received from the DNI office related to
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 4: the 2020 election. Some outgoing Republicans critical of the president
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 4: say looking back at the 2020 elections does not help
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: with the party's message. Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries calling
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 4: for the president to be checked out, he says, saying
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 4: why does he continue to focus on conspiracy theory related
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  Speaker 4: the U.S. knows he's lost. In Texas Hill Country, catastrophic flooding,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: being blamed for at least one death. Governor Greg Abbott
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: says the person died between Kerrville and Comfort. He says
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: no camps along the flooded Guadalupe River have sustained damage.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: The governor also says 70 people have been rescued so far.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 4: ABC's Faith Abubay is in Kerrville.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 9: The river is quietly in the middle, usually. I'm being
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 9: told that usually there are about maybe 2,000 cubic feet
• 1:32:12
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• 1:32:17
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• 1:32:21
  Speaker 9: of water per second moving. We've been getting emergency alerts nonstop.
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  Speaker 4: A Blue Angels low flyby for beachgoers near their Florida
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 4: home base this week set off a review, but it
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: appears the incident is getting a pass from Defense Secretary
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 4: Pete Hegsack.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 30: When President Donald Trump approached the podium to deliver his
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 30: State of the Union address in February, one of the
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 30: few people who knew what he was about..
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 31: Officials with the U.S.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: Navy's Blue Angels say that they're conducting a review of
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 4: a low-altitude pass that rocked beachgoers in Pensacola Beach. On
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 4: social media, though, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsath writing that
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: the flyovers will continue until morale improves, while the White
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: House shared photos of the incident with the caption, It's
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 4: okay to love America. In Florida, two deputies were shot
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 4: and injured in Ruskin, just south of Tampa. Police say
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 4: one of the sheriff's deputies was struck in the face,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 4: the other injured. in the neck after a suspect began firing.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 4: Deputies arriving on scene after a report that the suspect
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 4: had taken his ex-girlfriend hostage overnight, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 32: Our two deputy sheriffs were medevaced at Tampa General Hospital
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 32: where they're currently undergoing some of the best medical care
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 32: they can receive in this county, if not in this state.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 4: The suspect shot by a third deputy and police say
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 4: he died, the suspect did, while being transported to the hospital.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 4: The third deputy was not injured. Scientists say a massive
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 4: great white shark, recently spotted and tagged off North Carolina,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: appears to be headed north to Cape Cod. Michelle Franzen,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 4: ABC News.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: Howdy ho, 4.06 in the afternoon, it's 86 degrees, News
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: Radio 570 WKBN. It's always a thrill when I've got
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: State Rep. Dave Thomas on the end of my line.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: So people know, Dave Thomas did this legislation that says
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: the increase you're going to get from the re-evaluations isn't
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: going to be as big as it would be if
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: he didn't get this legislation passed. With the Republicans, you're
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: still going to get an increase, but it's going to
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: be 4%, 5%, 6%, not 17%. So a salute to you, okay,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: about making that happen. Okay, David?
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 22: And the key for folks is that's if they don't
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 22: vote for levies. If there's new levies on the ballot
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 22: and they vote for them, then those increases are going
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 22: to be beyond what those valuation inflation limits are.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you live in a city of
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: Canfield around here, They're facing an almost six mil school
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: levy and Mahoning County has a big levy for the MRDD.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: If both of those would pass, I can't imagine what
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: would happen to the property taxes of anybody living in
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: a city of Canfield. You throw in a six mil
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: school levy, you throw in this MRDD levy, which is
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: another big one, and you throw in a reevaluation, I
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: think they very well could price a substantial number of
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: people out of their homes. I'm dead serious.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 22: And here's my reminder to folks, you know, those things
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 22: can be paid for. Those services, if the money absolutely 100%
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 22: has to happen, new revenue, which oftentimes it doesn't, but
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 22: if it does, both of those are great examples of
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 22: government services that can be paid for by other means
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 22: than just the property owner. Schools can have the income tax,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 22: and the DD school and the DD services can have
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 22: the sales tax revenue from the county.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And they should because this is just utter insanity. Now, incidentally,
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: I'm talking with Dave Thomas live from the Trumbull County
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: Fair where he's out winning teddy bears at all the rides.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: He's knocking down the throwing the baseball, knocking down the
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: bottles and all that kind of stuff and darts. He's
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: shooting balloons and all that kind of stuff. He has
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: four or five large teddy bears that you've won already.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: And he's eating cotton candy and a bucket of fries. Right, David?
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 22: You over-evaluate my skills with the baseball, for sure.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. Now, let's go next to this person complaining about
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: the fiber being run in communities in the easement. We've
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: had gas explosions and other problems. What's going on with
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: the folks running these fiber optic lines?
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 22: Yeah, so real quick, this just happened again yesterday, and
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 22: that's kind of what's caused some of the conversations to happen.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 22: And a big kudos to the the Trumbull Commissioners and
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 22: Bezetta Township Trustee Mike Hovis. So over the last two
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 22: weeks in Trumbull County, first in Howland, then in Cortland,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 22: now in Bezetta, there have been large road closures, large
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 22: natural gas pipes, large water sewer mains being cut into
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 22: by fiber operations, two different companies. And this just doesn't happen.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 22: It happens across the state. We hear about it, like
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 22: you said, You're digging underground. You don't necessarily know what's there.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 22: Things move. But this does not happen all of a
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 22: sudden three times in two weeks without something being wrong
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 22: with some process. And the video from the Bezetta cut
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 22: is on my Facebook page if people haven't seen it.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 22: It looks like a water main break or a sewer break,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 22: but that's actually just how big of a hole in
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 22: the natural gas pipeline there was. We're very fortunate there
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 22: wasn't a spark or there wasn't an explosion there because
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 22: the actual EPA had to get called in because of
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 22: the amount of natural gas that was released by this pipeline.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 22: And so the question then is, like you said earlier,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 22: what do you actually do? And we're trying to, if
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 22: you think property taxes are complex, the regulatory and oversight
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 22: framework on fiber optic cables, you've got federal government, the
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 22: state government, you've got county, and you've got local governments,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 22: all with different pieces and oversight into these companies. You've
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 22: got companies like T-Mobile and Bright Speed. Then you've got
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 22: subcontractors for them. And then you've got subcontractors under those
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 22: subcontractors who are doing the actual work. So the commissioners
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 22: today called the meeting, brought in one of the companies.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 22: They cannot just do a universal stop work order across
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 22: the county. But they did have the one subcontractor voluntarily say,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 22: we're pausing for two weeks. We're firing the contractor that
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 22: did the big damage yesterday. We're doing training with our
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 22: other subcontractors for the rest of the county. And each
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 22: one of these examples are essentially where things went wrong
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 22: with the actual digging, where they were marked correctly, but
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 22: something was not correct with either training or the policies
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 22: with the subcontractors. And so that's why there's been cuts
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 22: and really some big issues in those three different communities
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 22: just in the last two weeks.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: So the flaws have been, the lines were marked properly,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: the flaws were actually the companies that were operating the
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: equipment or the subcontractors. Now, do they get, you might
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: not know this, do they get held liable for that?
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would think that they, for the repairs
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: or any damage done to people's property?
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 22: Yeah, so I'm wondering a lot about this real quick.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 22: So the PUCO, is doing investigations in Holland already and
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 22: they're going to be starting investigations in Cortland and now
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 22: at some point. And, yes, so they'll have kind of
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 22: a listing and we're going to encourage folks. Rex Santucci
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 22: has been awesome at researching this as well with me.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 22: We cover all Trumbull together. We'll be releasing kind of
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 22: like somewhere where folks can send in, hey, here's damage,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 22: here's the cost. The city of Cortland, for example, has
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 22: tons of expenses. of fixing water lines over the past
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 22: week before they issued a stop work order. So the
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 22: PCO will investigate that, and they'll levy fees, fines, penalties
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 22: on these companies to recover those costs. They can get
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 22: quite large. And we're not talking about, like you said earlier, yes,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 22: destroying your front easement or having to replant grass. That's
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 22: one thing that's kind of minor in comparison to cutting
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 22: into a, a natural gas mainline, or a water or
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 22: sewer line.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: Well, remember that explosion he had down in Girard. Don't
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: forget that one.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 22: So the city of Girard was there at the meeting
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 22: this morning, as was the city of Hubbard. The city
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 22: of Girard shared with us that they have stopped all
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 22: companies currently. They're still investigating with the FUSIO what happened
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 22: with that house explosion. And they now have new rules
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 22: on you kind of share what could they be doing better.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 22: So they brought in an engineer. They have new kind
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 22: of policies and rules on what the distance is between
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 22: the different pipes, who is actually there on the work
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 22: site overseeing what's happening, and just having a lot more guardrails,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 22: I guess, with that process. So they're pretty confident now,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 22: but they're waiting until the final investigation results. That's one
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 22: example of how to kind of do it in a
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 22: much better way.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: So this is on a local level, and on a
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: state level, There's not much you can do there?
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 10: Well, we're learning.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 22: We're meeting with more folks tomorrow. Representative Tuchin and I
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 22: had meetings with folks yesterday, too. The state comes in
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 22: after there's an issue or there's an incident, before there's
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 22: an incident. And these happen every day, miles and miles
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 22: of fiber optics are late, and there's no problems at all.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 22: It's the exception, not the constant rule. Pre-incidents. The state
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 22: will come out, do the markings, or will help with
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 22: permitting if it's on a state route. But they're not
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 22: considered a quote-unquote public utility in terms of having all
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 22: the different kind of licenses. They're largely for the federal
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 22: side with some of their licenses. And then they get
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 22: permits from local governments who are actually doing the work
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 22: in their local community.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: Have you heard from anybody talking about the tornado and
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: any type of aid about that?
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 22: No, I know Rep. Fisher was working with the governor's office,
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 22: and he's got some more details for what money or potential.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 22: But I know that he said he was disappointed with
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 22: the state governor's office or EMA not necessarily delivering on
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 22: some of that financially. But I don't know or have details, unfortunately,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 22: for what that means.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: Dave Thomas, state rep. Anything else you want to express
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: to our audience today? He's at the Trumbull County Fair.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: If you go to the Trumbull County Fair, how late
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: are you going to be there, Till?
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 22: Today I have an event at 6.30. Probably about 6.30 tomorrow.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 22: I'll be here all day Saturday as well. Hey, I
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 22: listen to you on the radio.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: So if you see Dave Thomas at the Trouble County Fair,
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: buy him a lemon shake. Get him a bucket of fries.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: This guy has done great things for all of us.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is the hardest working state rep.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: He's doing great things for all of us as far
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: as the updates on we're going to get an increase
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: but less of one because of Dave Thomas. He's doing
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: so much that it's just a joy to have somebody
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: like this in our community. and he deserves a bucket
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: of fries and a lemon shake, in my opinion. I
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe even a candy apple, folks. You be
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: the judge of that at the Trumbull County Fair, but
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: you be the judge of that. Now, is there anything
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: else you want to pass along that's going on in
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: the legislature?
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 22: Last two updates real quick. The governor did sign two
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 22: of the bigger bills, the one being the Medicaid fraud bill.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 22: that puts a lot of extra checks, audits, verifications on
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 22: Medicaid payments, Medicaid recipients. I actually was talking to a
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 22: group of insurance folks yesterday, and they just offhandedly commented
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 22: that they've noticed a huge increase in reporting and in
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 22: questions from the Department of Medicaid for their clients, which
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 22: is a positive step. The governor did sign that. That
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 22: becomes effective in 90 days. And the governor also signed
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 22: our bill that... issued out the kind of excess funds
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 22: that the state had this past year, which increases the
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 22: sales tax holiday that will be happening next year for
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 22: all folks in August, and it increases the amount of
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 22: homestead that our seniors are getting on homestead for January
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 22: as well by an additional $ 350 million. So he did
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 22: sign that this past week, and that will be effective
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 22: for next year.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: All right. It's all next year, huh? All right, so
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: there you have it. He's live from the Trumbull County Fair.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: He's Dave Thomas. He's state rep. He's the guy fighting
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: these issues. And we're benefiting from the legislation that you spearheaded.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: And it has been passed. And so we thank you immensely.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: So if you see Dave Thomas, are you going to
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: be at the Trumbull County Fair? If you make an
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: appearance at the Mahoning County Fair, I better know about
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: it so that we can mention to people you're at
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: the Mahoning County Fair. Because really, people should say thank
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: you to you. And you deserve a thank you for
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: all that's You're doing for us. You're doing terrific work,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm just honored to have you on the program,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: and I thank you, Dave. And enjoy the rest of
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: the fair. Go on out there. Dave, is it a
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: little hot out there today?
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 22: I'm drinking about two bottles of water every hour. and
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 22: just holding current.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, can you be in shorts and a t-shirt
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: or do you have to dress up for this? And like,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: you know, you're not in a suit or tie or
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: anything like that, are you?
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 22: Oh, no, it's a fair. I've got jeans on and
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 22: I've got a button down shirt on. So not too
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 22: dressed up.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I just want you to know it's 86 degrees
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: and humid. So I'm glad you're able to enjoy yourself
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: there at the Trumbull County Fair. Up here, do you
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: guys have the smoke down there like we have up here?
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 22: Yes, I crossed over Mosquito Lake, and it looked like
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 22: it was 7 a.m. with the fog.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: Isn't that something? From Canada. This is coming in from
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: the Canucks.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 22: People have been coming over to our booth asking if
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 22: we can, like, find Canada or if we can put
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 22: up a wall with Canada right now.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: It's just the jet streams. There's nothing you can do
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, it's like it's pretty intense today. as
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: far as visually, and you can actually smell it. Unless
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: that's my own body odor from the humidity. I don't know.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: I'm smelling something when I'm outside. It could be me, Dave.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 22: Unless you smell like a barbecue. Well, then again, I'm
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 22: by barbecue right now, so I smell barbecue.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's not the Canadian fire, David. Maybe that's your
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: belly talking and that kind of stuff. And incidentally, it
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: seems to me you got it. great mother, just as
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: a side note from some of your posting. You know,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: your mother should be very, very, very proud of you
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: as we all are. Thank you, Dave Thomas. Enjoy the fair.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 22: Thank you.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 20: Have a good day.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 10: Bye-bye.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: He's just first class. I mean, he is absolutely first class.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: There's a guy all of us owe a debt of
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: gratitude to because of his knowledge and his dedication. Sure,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: we're going to get an increase with these re-evaluations, but
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: nowhere close to what it would be without Dave Thomas.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: He has made it clear, guess what? Your tax entities
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: can turn the increases down. Let's see how many of
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: them are all talking no action. You know, there's local
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: government like, oh, no, we always got to have more money.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: We can't do it on the same amount of money
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: we got coming in. Let's see. Let's just see how
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: good these folks do because they can turn the increase down.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 16: You're on the air.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron, how are you doing today?
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: I'm well. Thank you for calling. Go ahead, please.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 3: Hey, I was listening a little bit earlier.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 5: I've been on hold forever.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 3: I almost forgot what I was going to call you about.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: Don't feel bad. I almost forgot what I was here doing, too.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 5: Hey, you said something about grocery sales going down. Yes.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 3: Would you like me to explain that to you?
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: Let me give the headline. I do want you to
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: explain that to me. Let me find that headline here
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: for one second. Here it is.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 5: U.S.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: Grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items. Go ahead.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 5: Well, Is there not a lot of people getting kicked
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 5: off of SNAP and these people with TPS, temperate protective status,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 5: getting sent back to Haiti and Syria and stuff?
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: These people were on SNAP.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 5: These people had a free card to go get all
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 5: the groceries they want.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute. Hang on. Wait just a couple
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: more minutes. Let me do my break. I'm coming back.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: Just be patient. I'll be right back.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 8: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: Hi-dee-ho, 4-0-6 in the afternoon. It's 86 degrees, NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: It's always a thrill when I've got State Rep Dave
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: Thomas on the end of my line. So people know
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: Dave Thomas did this legislation that says the increase you're
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: going to get from the re-evaluations isn't going to be
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: as big as it would be if he didn't get
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: this legislation passed quickly. With the Republicans, you're still going
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: to get an increase, but it's going to be 4, 5,
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: 6 percent, not 17 percent. So a say-loo to you, okay,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: about making that happen.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 22: And the key for folks is that's if they don't
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 22: vote for levies. If there's new levies on the ballot
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 22: and they vote for them, then those increases are going
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 22: to be significant. beyond what those valuation, you know, inflation
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 22: limits are.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you live in a city of
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: Canfield around here, they're facing an almost six mil school
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: levy and Mahoning County has a big levy for the MRDD.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: If both of those would pass, I can't imagine what
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: would happen to the property taxes of anybody living in
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: a city of Canfield. You throw in a six mil
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: school levy, you throw in this MRDD levy, which is
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: another big one, and you throw in a reevaluation, I
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: think they very well could price a substantial number of
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: people out of their homes. I'm dead serious.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 22: And here's my reminder to folks. Those things can be
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 22: paid for, those services, if the money absolutely 100% has
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 22: to happen, new revenue, which oftentimes it doesn't. But if
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 22: it does, both of those are great examples of government
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 22: services that can be paid for by other means than
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 22: just the property owner. The school can have the income tax.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 22: And the DD school and the DD services can have
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 22: a sales tax revenue from the county.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: And they should because this is just utter insanity. Now, incidentally,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: I'm talking with Dave Thomas live from the Trumbull County
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: Fair where he's out winning teddy bears at all the rides.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: He's knocking down the throwing the baseball, knocking down the
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: bottles and all that kind of stuff and darts. He's
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: shooting balloons and all that kind of stuff. He has
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: four or five large teddy bears that you've won already.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: And he's eating cotton candy and a bucket of fries. Right, David?
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 22: You over-evaluate my skills with the baseball, for sure.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: Okay. Now, let's go next to this person complaining about
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: the fiber being run in communities in the easement. We've
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: had gas explosions and other problems. What's going on with
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: the folks running these fiber optic lines?
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 22: Yeah, so real quick, this just happened again yesterday, and
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 22: that's kind of what's caused some of the conversations to happen.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 22: And a big kudos to the the Trumbull Commissioners and
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 22: Bezetta Township Trustee Mike Hovis. So over the last two
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 22: weeks in Trumbull County, first in Howland, then in Cortland,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 22: now in Bezetta, there have been large road closures, large
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 22: natural gas pipes, large water sewer mains being cut into
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 22: by fiber operations, two different companies. And this just doesn't happen.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 22: It happens across the state. We hear about it, like
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 22: you said, You're digging underground. You don't necessarily know what's there.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 22: Things move. But this does not happen all of a
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 22: sudden three times in two weeks without something being wrong
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 22: with some process. And the video from the Bezetta cut
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 22: is on my Facebook page if people haven't seen it.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 22: It looks like a water main break or a sewer break,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 22: but that's actually just how big of a hole in
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 22: the natural gas pipeline there was. It we're very fortunate
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 22: there wasn't a spark or there wasn't an explosion there
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 22: because the actual EPA had to get called in because
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 22: of the amount of natural gas that was released by
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 22: this pipeline. And so the question then is, like you
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 22: said earlier, what do you actually do? And we're trying to,
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 22: if you think property taxes are complex, the regulatory and
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 22: oversight framework on fiber optic cables is You've got federal government,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 22: the state government, you've got county, and you've got local governments,
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 22: all with different pieces and oversight into these companies. You've
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 22: got companies like T-Mobile and Brightspeed. Then you've got subcontractors
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 22: for them. And then you've got subcontractors under those subcontractors
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 22: who are doing the actual work. So the commissioners today
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 22: called the meeting, brought in one of the companies. They
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 22: did not, they cannot just do a universal stop work order.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 22: across the county, but they did have the one subcontractor
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 22: voluntarily say, we're pausing for two weeks, we're firing the
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 22: contractor that did the big damage yesterday, we're doing training
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 22: with our other subcontractors for the rest of the county,
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 22: and each one of these examples are essentially where things
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 22: went wrong with the actual digging, where they were marked correctly,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 22: but something was not correct with either training or the
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 22: policies with the subcontractors. And so that's why there's been
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 22: cuts and really some big issues in those three different
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 22: communities just in the last two weeks.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: So, so the flaws have been the, the lines are
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: marked properly. The flaws were actually the companies that were
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: operating the equipment of the subcontractors. Now, did they get,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: you might not know this. Do they get held liable
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: for that? I mean, I would think that they, for
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: the repairs or any damage done to people's property.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 22: So I'm wondering a lot about this real quick. Um,
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 22: So the PUCO is doing investigations in Howland already, and
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 22: they're going to be starting investigations in Cortland and now
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 22: at some point. And, yes, so they'll have kind of
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 22: a listing, and we're going to encourage folks. Rep Santucci
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 22: has been awesome at researching this as well with me.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 22: We cover all Trumbull together. We'll be releasing kind of
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 22: like somewhere where folks can send in, hey, here's damage,
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 22: here's the cost. The city of Cortland, for example, has
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 22: tons of expenses that, of fixing water lines over the
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 22: past week before they issued a stop work order. So
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 22: the PCO will investigate that, then they'll levy fees, fines,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 22: penalties on these companies to recover those costs. They can
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 22: get quite large. And we're not talking about, like you
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 22: said earlier, yes, destroying your front easement or having to
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 22: replant grass. That's one thing that's kind of minor in
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 22: comparison to cutting into a a natural gas mainline, or
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 22: a water or sewer line.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: Well, remember that explosion he had down in Girard. Don't
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: forget that one.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 22: So the city of Girard was there at the meeting
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 22: this morning, as was the city of Hubbard. The city
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 22: of Girard shared with us that they have stopped all
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 22: companies currently. They're still investigating with the FUSIO what happened
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 22: with that house explosion. And they now have new rules
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 22: on you kind of share what could they be doing better.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 22: So they brought in an engineer. They have new kind
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 22: of policies and rules on what the distance is between
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 22: the different pipes, who is actually there on the work
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 22: site overseeing what's happening, and just having a lot more guardrails,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 22: I guess, with that process. So they're pretty confident now,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 22: but they're waiting until the final investigation results. That's one
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 22: example of how to kind of do it in a
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 22: much better way.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: So this is on a local level, and on a
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: state level, There's not much you can do there?
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 22: Well, we're learning. We're meeting with more folks tomorrow. Representative
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 22: Tucci and I had meetings with folks yesterday, too. The
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 22: state comes in after there's an issue or there's an incident.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 22: before there's an incident. And these happen every day. Miles
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 22: and miles of fiber optics are laid, and there's no
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 22: problems at all. It's the exception, not the constant rule. Pre-incident,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 22: the state will come out, do the markings, or will
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 22: help with permitting if it's on a state route. But
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 22: there's not... you know, direct, they're not considered a quote-unquote
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 22: public utility in terms of having all the different kind
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 22: of licenses. They're largely for the federal side with some
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 22: of their licenses, and then they get permits from local
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 22: governments who are actually doing the work in their local community.
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: Have you heard from anybody talking about the tornado and
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: any type of aid about that?
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 24: No.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 22: I know Rep.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 10: Fisher..
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 22: Was working with the governor's office, and he's got some
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 22: more details for what money or potential. But I know
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 22: that he said he was disappointed with the state governor's
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 22: office or EMA not necessarily delivering on some of that financially.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 22: But I don't know or have details, unfortunately, for what
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 22: that means.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: Dave Thomas, State Rep, anything else you want to express
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: to our audience today? He's at the Trumbull County Fair.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: If you go to the Trumbull County Fair, how late
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: are you going to be there, Till?
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 22: Today I have an event at 6.30, so probably about
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 22: 6.30 tomorrow. I'll be here all day Saturday as well. Hey,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 22: I listen to you on the radio.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: So if you see Dave Thomas at the Trumbull County Fair,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: buy him a lemon shake. Get him a bucket of fries.
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: This guy has done great things for all of us.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is the hardest working state rep.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: He's doing great things for all of us as far
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: as the updates on we're going to get an increase
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: but less of one because of Dave Thomas. He's doing
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: so much that it's just a joy to have somebody
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: like this in our community. And he deserves a bucket
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: of fries and a lemon shake, in my opinion. I
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe even a candy apple, folks. You be
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: the judge of that at the Trumbull County Fair. But
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: you be the judge of that. Now, is there anything
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: else you want to pass along that's going on in
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: the legislature?
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 22: Last two updates real quick. The governor did sign two
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 22: of the bigger bills, the one being the Medicaid fraud bill.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 22: that puts a lot of extra checks, audits, verifications on
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 22: Medicaid payments, Medicaid recipients. I actually was talking to a
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 22: group of insurance folks yesterday, and they just offhandedly commented
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 22: that they've noticed a huge increase in reporting and in
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 22: questions from the Department of Medicaid for their clients, which
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 22: is a positive step. The governor did sign that. That
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 22: becomes effective in 90 days. And the governor also signed
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 22: our bill that... issued out the kind of excess funds
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 22: that the state had this past year, which increases the
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 22: sales tax holiday that will be happening next year for
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 22: all folks in August, and it increases the amount of
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 22: homestead that our seniors are getting on homestead for January
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 22: as well by an additional $ 350 million. So he did
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 22: sign that this past week, and that will be effective
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 22: for next year.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: All right. It's all next year, huh? All right, so
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: there you have it. He's live from the Trumbull County Fair.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: He's Dave Thomas. He's state rep. He's the guy fighting
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: these issues, and we're benefiting from the legislation that you've spearheaded,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: and it has been passed. And so we thank you immensely.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: So if you see Dave Thomas, are you going to
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: be at the Trouble County Fair? If you make an
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: appearance at the Mahoning County Fair, I better know about
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: it so that we can mention to people you're at
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: the Mahoning County Fair. Because really, people should say thank
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: you to you. And you deserve a thank you for
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: all that you're doing for us. You're just you're doing
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: terrific work. I'm just honored to have you on the program,
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: and I thank you, Dave. And enjoy the rest of
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: the fair. You know, go on out there. Dave, is
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: it a little hot out there today?
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 22: I'm drinking about two bottles of water every hour and
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 22: just holding current.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, can you be in shorts and a T-shirt,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: or do you have to dress up for this? And, like,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: you know, you're not in a suit or tie or
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: anything like that, are you?
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 22: Oh, no, it's the fair. I've got jeans on, and
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 22: I've got a– button-down shirt on, so not too dressed up.
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I just want you to know it's 86 degrees
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: and humid, so I'm glad you're able to enjoy yourself
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: there at the Trumbull County Fair. Up here, do you
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: guys have the smoke down there like we have up here?
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 22: Yes, I crossed over Mosquito Lake, and it looked like
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 22: it was 7 a.m. with the fog.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Isn't that something from Canada? This is coming in from
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: the Canucks.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 22: People have been coming over to our booth asking if
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 22: we can, like, find Canada or if we can put
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 22: up a wall with Canada right now.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: It's just the jet streams. There's nothing you can do
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 11: No.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, it's pretty intense today as far as visually,
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: and you can actually smell it, unless that's my own
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: body odor from the humidity. I don't know. I'm smelling
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: something when I'm outside. It could be me, Dave.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 22: Unless you smell like a barbecue. Well, then again, I'm
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 22: by barbecue right now, so I smell barbecue.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe that's not the Canadian fire, David. Maybe that's
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: your belly talking and that kind of stuff. And incidentally,
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: it seems to me you've got a great mother, just
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: as a side note from some of your posting. Your
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: mother should be very, very, very proud of you, as
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: we all are. Thank you, Dave Thomas. Enjoy the fair.
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 30: Thank you.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 22: Have a good day.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: Bye-bye. He's just first class. I mean, he is absolutely
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: first class. There's a guy all of us owe a
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: debt of gratitude to because of his knowledge and his dedication. Sure,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: we're going to get an increase with these reevaluations, but
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: nowhere close. to what it would be without Dave Thomas.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: And he has made it clear, guess what? Your tax
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: entities can turn the increases down. Let's see how many
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: of them are all talking no action. You know, there's
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: local government like, oh, no, we always got to have
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: more money. We can't do it on the same amount
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: of money we got coming in. Let's see. Let's just
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: see how good these folks do because they can turn
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: the increase down. You're on the air.
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 7: Hey, Ron.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 3: How are you doing today?
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: I'm well. Thank you for calling. Go ahead, please.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 3: Hey, I was listening a little bit earlier. I've been
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 3: on hold forever. I almost forgot what I was going
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 3: to call you about.
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: Don't feel bad. I almost forgot what I was here doing, too.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 5: Hey, you said something about grocery sales going down.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 3: Would you like me to explain that to you?
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 20: Yes.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: Let me give the headline. I do want you to
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: explain that to me. Let me find that headline here
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: for one second. Here it is.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 7: U.S.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: Grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items. Go ahead.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 5: Well... Is there not a lot of people getting kicked
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 5: off of SNAP and these people with TPS, temperate protective status,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 5: getting sent back to Haiti and Syria and stuff?
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 3: These people were on SNAP.
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 5: These people had a free card to go get.
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 3: All the groceries they want.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute. Hang on. Wait just a couple
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: more minutes. Let me do my break. I'm coming back
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: to you. Just be patient. I'll be right back. 100
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: years ago in 1921.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 8: Youngstown's News, Weather, and Talk Station, 570 WKBN. All right, back.
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: To it, News Radio. I think the smoke is getting
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: to our chief engineer, John Clark, out there. The Canadian smoke, yes. Yes,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: safe AM. You're on the air.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're acting like it's all the illegals and
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: a snap is why grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: fewer items. Listen, it's inflation.
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 5: The government is buying less groceries because the little EBT
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 5: cards are.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 3: Getting taken away from.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 16: People that didn't deserve.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 5: Them, shouldn't have had them. People are going back to work.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 13: People that are.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 5: Able-bodied and not working, just collecting their little EBT card
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 5: and going shopping are getting that stuff taken away. Government
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 5: is buying less groceries.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 3: Therefore, that's what I'm saying.
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: Listen, I know that's what you're saying. Listen to me.
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: It's the inflation. But I'm going to give you a
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: pass today, folks. What this guy is saying, it's inflation,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: not what he's saying. But this guy was probably in
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: the Canadian smoke a lot today. He might have brain damage.
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: All right. Just teasing. See you later. I don't know
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: what you're on. You're on the air.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 7: Are we talking to me?
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you. You're talking to me.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 7: I think so. I'm lucky. I'm lucky B because it
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 7: turned out my AM FM radio decided to die. And
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 7: the only thing I could get was AM. And all
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 7: of a sudden I was listening to Hannity and I'm
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 7: listening to you and I'm listening to People that are
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 7: from another planet, I think, because I very rarely hear
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 7: a good fact. I don't know if there's some... I've
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 7: taken like two classes in Christianity. thinking at YSU recently.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 7: And there's things called ad hominem attacks. There's things called
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 7: if you make a statement, you need to pack it
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 7: up with data. I'm not seeing that. I mean, you're
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 7: not nearly as bad as the national. My jaw dropped.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 7: I mean, I used to judge college debate. They wouldn't even,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 7: they wouldn't have gotten the final round. And people listen
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 7: to these people. They'll start off with a minor fact
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 7: about the war or something, and then they go on
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 7: and on and on, like, we've got to kill everybody.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, we started a war with some people
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 7: that were just sitting there. We went over to a
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 7: thousand miles away, and because another country said they wanted
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 7: to go to war, we followed them into war. The
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 7: facts are never brought up. It's like, let's finish the job.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 7: That's just the war side of it. When there's a
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 7: mother and a working woman and somebody with my own business,
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 7: I really am sick of my tax dollars going to war.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 7: You still with me?
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm listening. I'm judging you. I got a score
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: sheet here as you're talking.
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 7: If you look at 10,000 years of history, you will
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 7: never see 30,000 women coming over the hill with pitchforks.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 7: I mean, women have been known to be able to
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 7: defend themselves, to wear armor, but they don't start them.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 7: Men start wars. And if you look at what war
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 7: really is, it's just theft on a grand scale. They
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 7: got something I want. We didn't negotiate a price. So
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 7: let's just go get it. And the rest of the
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 7: candy coating, you've got Huckabee sitting there talking about how
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 7: we're going to create the greater Israel and God's going
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 7: to come down on a golden ladder. And, you know,
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 7: my brain fries when I hear somebody who's supposedly representing
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 7: my government as a legal representative. And even Hegseth was
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 7: standing there talking about God coming down and we have
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 7: to finish this so there's a greater Israel. I thought
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 7: we had a separation of church and state. We did
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 7: Arab Spring because Israel told us to do it. We
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 7: just took apart. And you know what? I noted all
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 7: the way back to the Lebanese wars. They never show
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 7: you the cities before we bombed them. They never show
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 7: you shopping malls. and hospitals, and nice neighborhoods, and taxi cabs,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 7: and widescreen TV. These are civilized countries. They may not
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 7: practice the same religion we do, but you want to
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 7: fight a religious war, go do it with pamphlets. Go
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 7: do it with proselytizing on street corners. I mean, I
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 7: really am tired of my tax dollars going for spurious
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 7: reasons to blow people up. I lived in Washington. I
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 7: was from here. Went to D.C. Did my internship at
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 7: a federal commission. Matter of fact, the FCC.
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: All right. Stand by.
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 20: And I did it under a federal communications commissioner.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 3: And I was interpreting.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: Okay. Stand by.
• 2:11:08
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• 2:11:08
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• 2:11:10
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• 2:11:11
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• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: All right, back to it, News Radio. I think the
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: smoke is getting to our chief engineer, John Clark, out there.
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: The Canadian smoke, yes. Safe AM. You're on the air. Yes, sir. Okay,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: so you're acting like it's all the illegals and a
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: snap is why grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items. Listen,
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: it's inflation.
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 5: The government is buying less groceries because the little EBT
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 5: cards are getting taken away from.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 3: People that didn't deserve them, shouldn't have had them.
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 5: People are going back to work. People that are able-bodied
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 5: and not working just collecting their little EBT card and
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 5: going shopping are getting that stuff taken away.
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 6: So..
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 5: Government is buying less groceries.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 22: Therefore, that's what I'm saying.
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: Listen, I know that's what you're saying. Listen to me.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: It's the inflation. But I'm going to give you a
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: pass today, folks. What this guy is saying, it's inflation,
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: not what he's saying. But this guy was probably in
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: the Canadian smoke a lot today. He might have brain damage.
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: All right. Just teasing. See you later. I don't know.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 7: Are we talking to me?
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you. You're talking to me?
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 7: I think so. I'm lucky. I'm lucky bee because it
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 7: turned out my AM FM radio decided to die. And
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 7: the only thing I could get was AM. And all
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 7: of a sudden I was listening to Hannity and I'm
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 7: listening to you and I'm listening to People that are
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 7: from another planet, I think, because I very rarely hear
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 7: a good fact. I don't know if there's some... I've
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 7: taken like two classes in critical thinking at YSU recently.
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 7: And there's things called ad hominem attacks. There's things called
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 7: if you make a statement, you need to pack it
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 7: up with data. I'm not seeing that. I mean, you're
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 7: not nearly as bad as the national. My jaw drops.
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 7: I mean, I used to judge college debate. They wouldn't
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 7: have gotten the final round. And people listen to these people.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 7: They'll start off with a minor fact about the war
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 7: or something, and then they go on and on and on, like,
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 7: we've got to kill everybody. I'm like, we started a
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 7: war with some people that were just sitting there. We
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 7: went over to a thousand miles away, and because another
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 7: country said they wanted to go to war, we followed
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 7: them into war. The facts are never brought up. It's like,
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 7: let's finish the job. That's just the war side of it.
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 7: And as a mother and a working woman and somebody
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 7: with my own business, I really am sick of my
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 7: tax dollars going to war. You still with me?
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm listening. I'm judging you. I got a score
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: sheet here as you're talking.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 7: If you look at 10,000 years of history, you will
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 7: never see 30,000 women coming over the hill with pitchforks.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 7: I mean, women have been known to be able to
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 7: defend themselves, to wear armor, but they don't start them.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 7: Men start wars. And if you look at what war
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 7: really is, it's just theft on a grand scale. They
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 7: got something I want. We didn't negotiate a price. So
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 7: let's just go get it. And the rest of the
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 7: candy coating, you've got Huckabee sitting there talking about how
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 7: we're going to create the greater Israel and God's going
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 7: to come down on a golden ladder. And, you know,
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 7: my brain fries when I hear somebody who's supposedly representing
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 7: my government as a legal representative. And even Hegseth was
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 7: standing there talking about God coming down and we have
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 7: to finish this so there's a greater Israel. I thought
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 7: we had a separation of church and state. We did
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 7: Arab Spring because Israel told us to do it. We
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 7: just took apart. And you know what? I noted all
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 7: the way back to the Lebanese wars. They never show
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 7: you the cities before we bombed them. They never show
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 7: you shopping malls. and hospitals, and nice neighborhoods, and taxi cabs,
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 7: and widescreen TV. These are civilized countries. They may not
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 7: practice the same religion we do, but you want to
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 7: fight a religious war, go do it with pamphlets. Go
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 7: do it with proselytizing on street corners. I mean, I
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 7: really am tired of my tax dollars going for spurious
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 7: reasons to blow people up. I lived in Washington. I
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 7: was from here. Went to D.C. Did my internship at
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 7: a federal commission. Matter of fact, the FCC. All right.
• 2:16:17
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• 2:16:19
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• 2:16:19
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• 2:16:20
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• 2:16:22
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• 2:16:23
  Speaker 12: Let's start here.
• 2:16:23
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• 2:16:26
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• 2:16:33
  Speaker 16: This is where it stands now. Pick up the conversation.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 6: We'll talk about what's happening anytime.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 16: The deal we reached with Iran.
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 2: The devil's in the details.
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 16: Bringing the price of gasoline down. Maintain the Fed funds rate.
• 2:16:44
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• 2:16:45
  Speaker 34: NATO has been a paper tiger.
• 2:16:47
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• 2:16:49
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• 2:17:00
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• 2:17:04
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• 2:17:10
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• 2:17:14
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• 2:17:17
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• 2:17:20
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• 2:17:25
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• 2:17:34
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• 2:18:19
  Speaker 16: There's not one woman.
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  Speaker 36: The one woman I found had her own show, I
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 36: think on Saturday night at midnight, talking to psychics. Morning, noon,
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 36: and night, it's a bunch of men and no women,
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 36: and my FCC background makes me wonder how that.
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 7: And I did talk to some of your news director people,
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 7: and they said, oh, no, it's news radio.
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 36: And I went, no, no, she said it's opinion radio.
• 2:18:42
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• 2:18:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you have news breaks, but so does every other
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 7: station around, you know, the hour. I just see it.
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 7: She goes, oh, it's opinion. So you should be called
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 7: Opinion Radio.
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: Well, that's not.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 7: So you go from Virginia. You go from Alexandria, Virginia
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 7: to the airport when you live in Washington, D.C. And
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 7: every named building you can see is a military contractor. Raytheon,
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 7: General Dynamics. You don't see Campbell's Soup. You don't see
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 7: Johnson & Johnson Band-Aids. We look at our budget. Our
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 7: budget is almost half to the military. Our American budget
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 7: is larger than the next 11 countries combined. That's clinical insanity.
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 7: There's no reason to have that much except the revolving
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 7: door of the military. If you become a military, you know,
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 7: very high-ranking member of the military, you can retire after
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 7: so many years and you're still a young person. You
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 7: can go work for Atheon. You can go work for
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 7: these companies. Right.
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: Now, lady, write this down in your book of facts, okay?
• 2:19:52
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• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: it to you. Are you ready? Our military budget went
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. With Trump just, it
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: went from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. 80%, are you listening? 80%
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: of our discretionary income goes to the military. Can you imagine? 80%
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: of it. Yeah.
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 7: I was trying to be conservative because I didn't want to.
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 7: My jaw dropped. And then we've got this national debt
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 7: that is because of all these wars going. I don't
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 7: know if we're still not paying off Vietnam. And so
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 7: other countries aren't buying our bonds. They're avoiding us like
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 7: the plague. It used to be we were the platinum. Everybody,
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 7: banks overseas, wealth, everybody bought American bonds. And everybody's turning
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 7: to us and going, we keep doing it with the
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 7: war machine. And the war machine keeps saying, Hegseth wants more?
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 7: I mean, they're not. Psychologists will tell you that When
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 7: you study human animals, only 3% do not have what
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 7: we'd call empathy. They're the bad seed. They literally are
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 7: like chemically their brain doesn't understand hurting something else. So
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 7: you could have 3% of the populace that we would
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 7: have to be worried about. So whether it's nature or nurture,
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 7: you know, is it the nature of man to be
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 7: violent or is it the way they're raised? Well, to
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 7: listen to your advertisers and to listen to your people,
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 7: everybody's got a gun and everybody should be paranoid and
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 7: everybody should use this phone company because they can't tap it.
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 7: And who put all the Homeland Security packed onto everybody?
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 7: It was Republicans after 9-11. I mean, you guys are
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 7: walking around saying, you know, have your gun and safe, safe.
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 7: And if you should buy this Magnum and you should
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 7: do this. I've never heard so much paranoid testosterone. And
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 7: it comes from the right. And then last night, one
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 7: of the commentators was like, it's those Democrats. They're they're
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 7: such violent. And I'm like, listen to your radio station.
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 7: This is if you better be– and again, 3% supposedly
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 7: are bad seeds. So technically, we should only need 3%
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 7: police force and 3% military.
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: But that isn't the case. Do you understand there are
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: other cultures that think differently than you and are raised
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: differently than you? Like in the Middle East where women
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: can only show their eyes– where they really do push
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: gay people off building roofs, where in essence they have
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: much different culture, beliefs, and views than you do. They're
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: not hypocrites.
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 12: No.
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 7: They're not hypocrites. In America, supposedly women, the glass ceiling
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 7: is broken, but Wall Street's funding of women is only 2%. Well, 50%
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 7: of the workforce. When we go to Wall Street to
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 7: get our businesses funded, it's 2%. And I have an
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 7: SBA study from 1991. It's 2026 already.
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: Listen, I wouldn't accept your study.
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 2: It's 2026.
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: Your study is 30 years old.
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 7: You've just kept us as your little handmaids to do
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 7: your little jobs in corporate America. But if we try
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 7: to have our own big businesses... We're told to go
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 7: to the back of the line. So at least over there,
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 7: they make you wear a veil. Over here, they just
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 7: hand you bullshit, and then they take your money.
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: Now, listen.
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 8: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: Now, what a heartwarming story, folks, of this new listener
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: we have. Her radio broke, apparently. And she's stuck on AM.
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: And she's found a whole new world. Her life has expanded.
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: Her world has expanded. Her view has expanded.
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 7: I thought that I was going to get testosterone stuck
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 7: through my speakers.
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, she was one woman.
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 36: The one woman I found had her own show with,
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 36: I think, on Saturday night at midnight talking to psychics.
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 7: Morning, noon, and night, it's a bunch of men and
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 7: no women, and my FCC background makes me wonder how that.
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 7: And I did talk to some of your news director people,
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 7: and they said, oh, no, it's news radio.
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 36: And I went, no, no, she said it's opinion radio.
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 36: I said, Federal Trade Commission says truth in advertising. Yeah,
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 36: you have news breaks, but so does every other station around.
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 7: You know, the hour. I just see it, and she goes, oh,
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 7: it's opinion, so you should be called Opinion Radio. Well,
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 7: that's not, see, you go from Virginia, you go from Alexandria, Virginia,
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 7: to the airport when you live in Washington, D.C., and
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 7: every named building you can see is a military contractor. Raytheon,
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 7: General Dynamics, you don't see Campbell's Soup, you don't see
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 7: Johnson & Johnson Band-Aids. We look at our budget. Our
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 7: budget is almost half to the military. Our American budget
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 7: is larger than the next 11 countries combined. That's clinical insanity.
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 7: There's no reason to have that much except the revolving
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 7: door of the military. If you become a military, you know,
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 7: very high-ranking member of the military, you can retire after
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 7: so many years and you're still a young person. You
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 7: can go work for Atheon. You can go work for
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 7: these companies.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 20: Right.
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: Now, lady, write this down in your book of facts, okay?
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: Make sure you've got a pencil. I'm going to give
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: it to you. Are you ready? Our military budget went
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: from $ 900 billion– to $ 1. 5 trillion. It went from $ 900
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. 80%, are you listening? 80% of
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: our discretionary income goes to the military. Can you imagine? 80%
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 7: I was trying to be conservative because I didn't want to...
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 7: And then we've got this national debt that is because
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 7: of all these wars going... Still not paying off Vietnam.
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 7: And so other countries aren't buying our bonds. They're avoiding
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 7: us like the plague. It used to be we were
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 7: the platinum. Everybody, banks overseas, wealth, everybody bought American bonds.
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 7: And everybody's turning to us and going, we keep doing
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 7: it with the war machine. And the war machine keeps saying,
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 7: what did they, Hegseth wants more? I mean, they're not.
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's, okay, psychologists will tell you that When
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 7: you study human animals, only 3% do not have what
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 7: we'd call empathy. They're the bad seed. They literally are
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 7: like chemically their brain doesn't understand hurting something else. So
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 7: you could have 3% of the populace that we would
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 7: have to be worried about. So whether it's nature or nurture,
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 7: you know, is it the nature of man to be
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 7: violent or is it the way they're raised? Well, to
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 7: listen to your advertisers and to listen to your people,
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 7: everybody's got a gun and everybody should be paranoid and
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 7: everybody should use this phone company because they can't tap it.
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 7: And who put all the Homeland Security packed onto everybody?
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 7: It was Republicans after 9-11. I mean, you guys are
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 7: walking around saying, you know, have your gun and safe, safe.
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 7: And if you should buy this Magnum and you should
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 7: do this. I've never heard so much paranoid testosterone. And
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 7: it comes from the right. And then last night, one
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 7: of the commentators was like, it's those Democrats. They're such violent.
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, listen to your radio station. It's as
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 7: if you better be– and again, 3% supposedly are bad seeds.
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 7: So technically, we should only need 3% police force and 3% military.
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: But that isn't the case. Do you understand there are
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: other cultures that think differently than you and are raised
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: differently than you, like in the Middle East where women
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 1: can only show their eyes publicly? where they really do
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: push gay people off building roofs, where in essence they
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: have much different culture, beliefs, and views than you do.
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: They're not hypocrites.
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 7: No.
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: They're not hypocrites.
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 7: In America, supposedly women, the glass ceiling is broken, but
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 7: Wall Street's funding of women is only 2%. Well, 50%
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 7: of the workforce. When we go to Wall Street to
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 7: get our businesses funded, it's 2%. And I have an
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 7: SBA study from 1991. It's 2026 already.
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: 1991, it's... Listen, I wouldn't accept your study. It's 2026.
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: Your study is 30 years old or more.
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 7: But you've just kept us as your little handmaids to
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 7: do your little jobs in corporate America. But if we
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 7: try to have our own big businesses... We're told to
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 7: go to the back of the line. So at least
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 7: over there, they make you wear a veil. Over here,
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 7: they just hand you bullshit, and then they take your money.
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: Now, listen, you can't use that foul mouth on these airwaves.
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 1: You say that BS word. You should know better than that.
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 6: Okay, cat poop.
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: Right. And, boy, I mean, you really make this country, son,
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: this is a country of great opportunity. We have many
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: successful women in this country that have achieved tremendous success
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: in business in our country. I mean, and you're comparing
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: that to how women are treated where, for example, they
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: can't even go to school in the Middle East, in Iran.
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: When you're talking about Iran, they don't allow them to
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: go to school. They don't allow them to get the
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: second-class standards that they have in the Middle East for women?
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 1: And you're comparing that to the United States?
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 7: Well, actually, there's photographs. If you look it up, in 1972,
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 7: there were women in downtown Tehran sitting on a bench
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 7: in go-go boots and very short skirts.
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 6: It's 2026!
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 7: We are the ones that blew the place up and
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 7: got rid of Somebody who had a very open mind,
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 7: and we did the same thing in Afghanistan.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 15: It's 2026.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 7: There are pictures in Afghanistan of women wearing high boots
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 7: and miniskirts in downtown in Afghanistan until we blew them
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 7: to the 6th century.
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 10: Oh, I see.
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 7: Go get a book, and it's called Ghost Wars. It's
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 7: the story of what we did in Afghanistan. If you
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 7: want to get another good book about... It's called The Brothers.
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 7: It's the story of Dulles.
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: Do you hate this country? Do you hate America? Do
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: you hate the United States?
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 14: No.
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 7: What I hate is hypocrisy.
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: And do you enjoy your freedom that you have here?
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, you could go out and start a business
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and become very successful. There's all kinds of opportunities
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: here in America. Do you know we have more college
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: graduates that are women than we do men? There's nothing
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: stopping you. Of course, your age. You know, you're citing
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: me stuff from 1972 or 1991. It's 2026, for God's sakes. No, no, no, no. 2026. 2026.
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 20: According to Inc.
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 7: Magazine, Forbes Magazine, go look it up. Women's business owners
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 7: are funded at the, it's a unicorn, like big funding,
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 7: real funding at 2%. Anything for $ 50, 000, you could go
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 7: get an SBA loan.
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 20: I agree.
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 7: You can open yourself a little barbershop.
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: There's nothing stopping you from going in.
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 7: And the women that have made it either were licensed,
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 7: if you're a licensed doctor, you're a licensed insurance agent.
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 7: As long as men can control you, you're okay. Or
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 7: if you want to, like I said, you want to
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 7: have a candle factory in your garage, we'll get you.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 7: But capitalism is implied that you need a large chunk
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 7: of money to open a warehouse or buy the trucks
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 7: or whatever.
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: In 2019, there were 356 male unicorns on Wall Street.
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: The unicorn is $ 100 million round.
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 7: There were 13 women that their companies got $ 100 million.
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 7: 356 B-round boys got $ 100 million. 13 women. No, it's
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 7: not equal in the wild, wild west. Now, corporate America,
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 7: General Motors, whatever, their lawyers started to say, look, if
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 7: a woman's passing her review... You can't just let her
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 7: sit there. You've got to give her some advancement. So
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 7: they declare a whole lot of dead-end jobs for women,
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 7: or you get to do all the piled-on work and
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 7: some guy gets it. Because if you talk to women
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 7: at work, they're sick of it.
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: We're sick of being the one that has to be in.
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 7: The birthday cake. Or the one that has to, the
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 7: maid didn't come in, so you have to empty the wastebasket.
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: Lady, lady, lady, lady, lady. Do you know who runs,
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 1: who's the head of General Motors?
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 37: It's a woman.
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's runs. She's actually at the top of GM,
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: isn't it? So everything you're saying is ridiculous.
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 7: What I'm talking about is real capitalism.
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: No, isn't that real capitalism? You want to have a
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: business and you want to make it as big as
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 7: I'm talking in 2026.
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: Mary Barr is running General Motors.
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 7: That the women had to be pushed ahead at some
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 7: point because they were..
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: Look at all the women that are mayors today. Look
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: at all the women that are in Congress today. Look
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: at all of the opportunity in this country. There's nothing
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: stopping you from going to school and becoming a doctor
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 1: or a lawyer or opening a small business that can
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: grow into a big business. That's exactly what I said.
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: You just act like you're a victim. You act like
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: you're a victim of men.
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 7: You could be a lawyer or you could have a
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 7: small business. You could have a candle shop.
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 1: And you can grow it. And you can grow it
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: into a big business.
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 7: The word capital implies you need a chunk of money.
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 7: And that's private wealth.
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: Have you ever found a good man? Have you ever married?
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: Have you ever found a good man to marry?
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 7: I had a good man. I had a bad man.
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 7: I had a good fiancé and married a bad man
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 7: at Duke Ed's.
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, so how long were you married?
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 7: I had partners in this town that were.
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 6: Fabulous to me.
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: How long were you married?
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 7: And then my guys from my homeroom, they won't even
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 7: answer your phone calls.
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't imagine why.
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 7: When a woman starts talking about $ 10 million, $ 50 million,
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 7: or whatever, men just roll their eyes and go, she
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 7: can't possibly be worth that much.
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 20: Trust me.
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: Now, how long were you married?
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 7: Doesn't matter.
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: No, it does to me. Come on. How long?
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 4: No, it doesn't matter.
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't matter.
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 7: My personal life that way is nobody's business. I like men. Really?
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 7: My best partners are men.
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 7: My good friends are men. I don't have a problem
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 7: about men. I have a problem about men stealing women's capital.
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 7: And then saying we're all, everything's equal. The numbers are 2%.
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 7: I take classes at YSU.
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 16: Wait a minute.
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: If you take these classes, why do we have more?
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 7: What is that statistically?
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 16: It's indistinguishable.
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: Why do we have more women graduating college than.
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 7: We do men? Explain that.
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: We have more women graduating college than men today.
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 7: No, no, no. That's true. If you take critical thinking,
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 7: that's a red herring.
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: No, it isn't a red herring. It's a fact. More
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: women are graduating from college than men are graduating from college.
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 7: Do you know what a red herring is? It's changing
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 7: the subject.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to say, when you're talking about how
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: women are all victimized, the women have great opportunities in
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 1: this country today. You know what? I, as a man,
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 1: have allowed you to drive and vote.
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 7: Women were allowed to wear miniskirts in the country we're
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 7: blowing up.
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 5: We blew it up.
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 7: And then blew it up again.
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: I only think attractive, skinny women should be wearing miniskirts.
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 7: Or men.
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think men should be wearing them. Now,
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: let's talk about the black yoga pants. I think that
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: they should only be worn by women.
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 7: You know, you look at the pictures of King Louie. Look,
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 7: there's a portrait of King Louie, and he's wearing satin pantaloons,
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 7: white silk stockings.
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I do not support cross-dressers.
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 7: Made out of ruby and a big wig.
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: I don't support men cross-dressing, do you?
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 7: It's not cross-dressing, but why shouldn't you wear something that's
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 7: more comfortable? Like, why are you wearing a suit in
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 7: the winter? You just ask this congressman if he should–
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 7: is he wearing a suit? The three-piece suit. I did
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 7: a history of the three-piece suit because as a businesswoman,
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 7: I was told I had to wear it, and I went–
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 7: It's 90 degrees outside. Why are we not wearing shorter sleeves, linen? No,
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 7: but you've got to go to a meeting anywhere in
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 7: a business meeting in this weather, and you've got to
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 7: wear a jacket and a shirt.
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: And a belt. I am sitting here, lady. I am
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: sitting here. I am broadcasting. I am wearing a tuxedo
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: for you. I have a full tuxedo on. It doesn't
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: matter that it's 86 degrees. I want to be dressed
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: just like Jerry Lewis was on a telethon when I'm broadcasting.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, man, and I don't have video.
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: That's why I have a full tuxedo on for you.
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, it makes me feel like a professional.
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 7: I get knocked by a CEO. I'm in New York,
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 7: and it was 90 degrees, and I'm at a big meeting.
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 7: I walk down the hallway, and I'm wearing a sundress. Now,
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 7: it was very modest. It had straight across the top,
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 7: wide straps, a long, like a ballet, but it was
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 7: clearly a sundress. And the CEO looked at me, and
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 7: I went, hi, Neil. And he looked at me like
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 7: somebody put Bengay on his toothbrush. And I went, you
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 7: don't like... this dress, do you? He goes, that's not
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 7: appropriate business dress. I said, it's 93 degrees out in
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 7: New York City. You're wearing way too much fabric. And
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 7: we've got how many coal furnaces burning so men can
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 7: wear something dumb.
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: Were you showing too much cleavage maybe for Neil?
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 7: No, now they do, but that was when they weren't
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 7: allowed to show cleavage like five years ago. But I'm
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 7: just saying, we've got things that are led by men,
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 7: there are traditions by men that are not rational. And
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 7: clothing is one. We women in business have to wear
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 7: that suit that no man should wear. The last innovation
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 7: in men's clothing was 1896. It was a bow brommel
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 7: and long pants. That's the last time you guys changed clothes.
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: Do you think overweight women should be allowed to buy
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: yoga pants?
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God. I go to Walmart or to a
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 7: big box store and my jaw drops. It's an entertainment
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 7: that you can't pay for of what people think of clothing.
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 7: I think men should have their heads shaved.
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 20: No.
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 7: What if they're bald? They started shaving people's heads in
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 7: World War I because of scabies or something. Why shouldn't
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 7: men have beautiful hair, like longer hair? The Beatles had it.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 7: I mean, today all the men have all their heads shaved.
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 7: And again, you're wearing a suit, and you make women
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 7: wear the suit. Instead of we women, the only time
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 7: I see... A sweater on a woman's chair is in
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 7: the summer in business, not in the winter. They keep
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 7: air conditioning. So I called the Department of Energy, and
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 7: I said, how much.
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: Coal can we save if you change the thermostat? People
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 1: change their clothing. Were you ever attracted to your boss?
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 7: What does that have to do with wearing wrong clothing
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 7: for the climate, wearing clothing that somebody else dictates?
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: I'm just asking because it sounds to me like you
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: were wearing some provocative clothing to work, and I'm wondering
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: if you were attracted to your boss. That's my follow-up question.
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 7: It wasn't provocative, and he was the.
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: CEO, and I was the vendor. Well, you were in
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: a sundress.
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 16: It went straight across.
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 13: It was almost to my chin.
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: For God's sakes, you were wearing a sundress.
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 10: It went to my chin.
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 7: It did have straps on it. There was no cleaving showing.
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 7: It was totally flat. Did you have.
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: Go-go boots on? Were you wearing go-go boots?
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 7: No, I was dressed very beautifully and very elegantly, but
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 7: I didn't have a three-piece suit on in the middle
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 7: of the summer.
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: I have to pause.
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 7: So why do men wear suits in the middle.
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: Of the summer? You'll have to call tomorrow. I have
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: to pause.
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 16: Thank you.
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. Hey, Ron, I'm going to go check
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: in with Mike.
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 8: News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: All right, so you're on air.
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  Speaker 10: Hello.
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 10: Was she talking about Dr.
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 23: Jesus? He should dress as Dr. Jesus when he gives
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 23: his speech today.
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're on the air.
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 10: Oh, that lady was painful, man.
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: You think?
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 16: Oh, my Lord.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 10: I'll tell you what, she's the perfect match. You've got
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 10: to hook her and Frank from Fort Lauderdale up. They
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 10: would be perfect together.
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, I get right on it.
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 10: Get their contact information so you can get those two together.
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 10: I think that would be a match made in heaven. No,
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 10: thank God for Dave Thomas. I've got a school board
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 10: meeting I'm going to tonight, and that's the first thing
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 10: I will ask them is to not accept the increase
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 10: in property value. And I think that's, like I said yesterday,
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 10: that's what everybody should be doing. Go to your trustee meetings,
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 10: your city council meetings, call Gino up and tell him
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 10: he shouldn't be accepting it because they're commissioner meetings.
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: Well, report in tomorrow.
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 10: We have to start pushing back.
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: Report in tomorrow on how that goes. I'm running short
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: on time. Let me know.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 10: Take care, Ron.
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you. You're on the air. Hello. Hello? Yes, go ahead.
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 20: Hey, Ron, I have a comment on the cable thing.
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 6: I have a.
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 20: Property that's across the street from the cable company where
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 20: they load and do the cabling, and suddenly the sewer
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 20: drain on my house was plugged up and went through
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 20: different companies' take the cameras through there, and they said
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 20: it was plugged up. So the city came out, and
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 20: they said that homeowners' responsibility goes all the way out
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 20: to the middle of the road.
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it goes to the middle of
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: the road because there's an easement there.
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 20: I don't know if that's... That's what they told me,
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 20: the city of Warren.
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I thought... I think the part that would be
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: your responsibility would be from... where your yard begins. I
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: would double check on that.
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 20: All right. A number of times, the city even came
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 20: out and put lines down into the middle of the road.
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 20: And they said that their sewer was open in the middle.
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 15: Of the road.
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 20: And the homeowner is responsible even though it's beyond the curve.
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 20: And the connection is in the middle.
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 13: Of the road.
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: Well, call me tomorrow when I have more time and
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: maybe people will be able to help you out. You're
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: on air.
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 38: Yeah, fiber optic cable came through Rock Creek this summer.
• 2:43:14
  Speaker 38: Tractrum can't touch the utility poles by the electric company,
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 38: but they underground and then they put boxes to junction
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 38: it just next to the pole and a PVC pipe
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 38: up to the wire and it zip ties so you
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 38: can go across the street.
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: I have very few seconds. Where have you been? I've
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: actually got emails from people that were concerned because they
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: haven't heard from you. Where have you been?
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 38: Well, that lady sparked my interest. You know, I told you,
• 2:43:39
  Speaker 38: women have issues. I tell you, you guys listen to
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 38: these women. They have a lot of issues.
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 20: Why do women have issues?
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, call me tomorrow. People were worried about you. You're
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: on here.
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 7: Hello?
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you're on.
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm out of time. I've got to do the
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: legal show. All right? Call me tomorrow. I've got the
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: lawyers coming up next. It's Thursday. Stay tuned. I'm Dr.
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 15: Cheryl Figliano from Senate Talks Investment Coach John Arnold Studios.
• 2:44:09
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• 2:44:19
  Speaker 4: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. Renewed strikes between the U.S.
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 4: and Iran continuing.
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 29: The U.S.
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 4: Targeting ships trying to reach Iranian ports. And Iran also launching...
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 4: and targeting U.S. assets in the region. The stalemate in
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 4: the strait leading to uncertainty for oil and shipping. White
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 4: House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says the president wants Iran
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 4: to open the strait.
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 26: President Trump is not going to sit by and allow
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 26: these active... acts of terrorism to take place in the
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 26: straight without ensuring Iran pays consequences for that.
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 27: And that's what we are witnessing right now.
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 4: In a few hours, the president will deliver a speech.
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 4: Levitt says his remarks will focus on election integrity ahead
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 4: of the midterms. ABC's Rachel Scott has more on the
• 2:45:00
  Speaker 4: president's speech.
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 39: Sources say the president is expected to detail information he
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 39: says he received from the office of the director of
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 39: national intelligence related to the 2020 election. Of course, President
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 39: Trump has long pushed conspiracy theories and false claims about
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 39: the 2020 election.
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: Which he lost.
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 4: In Texas Hill Country, high river rescues continuing due to
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 4: flash flooding. The governor says one person died. Dozens of
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 4: others have been rescued. ABC's Jim Ryan on the challenges.
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 40: The swift water rescue crews pre-positioned along the Guadalupe River
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 40: are being put to the test today.
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 6: There's literally a couple that's trapped in their house. I
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 6: don't know if we can get to them or not.
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 6: I've got many boat crews that are ready to go
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 6: over there.
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 40: The audio from Broadcastify. The state has deployed more than
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 40: 800 vehicles and 1,300 personnel for rescue and recovery efforts,
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 40: with more help coming from Louisiana and Oklahoma.
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 4: The CDC tracking cases of cyclist variances across 34 states,
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 4: 7,000 cases nationwide, with more than half of those cases
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 4: centered in Michigan.
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 41: Epicenter is in Michigan, where doctors tell us they typically
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 41: see less than 50.
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 11: Cases per year.
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 41: Now it's up to 600 per day. Health officials there
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 41: say the outbreak could be tied to lettuce or salad greens,
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 41: but nationwide, federal officials still have not identified a cause.
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 4: ABC's Elizabeth Schulze, you're listening to ABC News.
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 1: From the NASCO Roofing and Construction News Center, NASCO, the
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: Valley's trusted and passionate roofer, here's what's trending across Ohio.
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 17: Multiple cities in the Midwest as well as in the
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 17: Northeast are dealing with dense smoke from Canadian wildfires today.
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 17: Cleveland is one of them, and Tom Moore says visibility
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 17: is limited.
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 42: Driving into our Cleveland studio late this morning, it was
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 42: like a thick fog descended over Northeast Ohio. Approaching downtown,
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 42: you couldn't see the tall buildings, and even the home
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 42: of the Cleveland Guardians, Progressive Field, was a blurr.
• 2:46:50
  Speaker 1: And it is right off I-90.
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 42: The worst thing about the smoke?
• 2:46:54
  Speaker 6: The smell.
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 42: A smell like melting plastic coming from some of the
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 42: chemicals in the burning wood from up north.
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 1: I'm Tom Moore.
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 17: The Ohio EPA issuing an air quality advisory today due
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 17: to the smoke. Other cities like Toledo, Sandusky, and Akron
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 17: also dealing with dense smoke, turning skies a shade of
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 17: yellow and orange. Some Ohio restaurants and grocery stores are
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 17: removing fresh lettuce and other produce as a precaution during
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 17: the ongoing cyclospora outbreak. Federal health officials say Ohio and
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 17: Michigan are among the states with the most reported cases
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 17: and investigators believe that contaminated lettuce and salad greens may
• 2:47:27
  Speaker 17: be the source. Businesses say the move is intended to
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 17: protect customers while the outbreak remains under investigation. A second
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 17: gag order filed in the child abuse case out of
• 2:47:35
  Speaker 17: Benton County Earlier this week, a gag order granted by
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 17: a judge for Gary Siders Jr., who is one of
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 17: the four people facing 16 counts of child endangerment. The
• 2:47:44
  Speaker 17: latest gag order request filed by an attorney for Christina Siders.
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 17: The order would prohibit those connected to the case from
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 17: commenting on or providing information to the public. Back on
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 17: June 30th, 16 children were discovered living in deplorable conditions
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 17: inside a small home in the village of Hampton in
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 17: southern Ohio. Ohio's gas price averaged after a decline the
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 17: past two days up a nickel to $ 3.
• 2:48:04
  Speaker 1: 80 entering today.
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 17: The price is 9 cents higher compared to a week ago,
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 17: but still 22 cents less from last month. And the
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 17: MLB season resumes Friday for the Cleveland Guardians and Cincinnati Reds.
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 17: The Guardians host the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Reds visit
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 17: the Colorado Rockies. I'm Sean Galbiger.
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• 2:48:41
  Speaker 8: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: the law firm. I know that Attorney Beatrice is in
• 2:50:33
  Speaker 1: Chicago at a conference, and I believe he took Frank
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: with him as well. So I'm going to go out
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: on a limb and say at least Melfi's going to
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: show up tonight. Attorney James Melfi better be with us
• 2:50:49
  Speaker 1: on a legal show.
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 6: What's going on, Ron?
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 1: There he is, the steady voice of attorney James Melfi
• 2:50:57
  Speaker 1: to put the program together. Celebrating, what did you say,
• 2:51:01
  Speaker 1: your fifth anniversary? Didn't that come up, Jim?
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 6: Fifth wedding anniversary last week.
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you take up my advice? Take her to
• 2:51:09
  Speaker 1: the one place, I bet she's never been to this place, Leo's.
• 2:51:13
  Speaker 6: She's never been there, and it was not an option.
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 1: What a great idea I had, though. Take your wife
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: to Leo's. The food's great. She would absolutely have loved it.
• 2:51:24
  Speaker 1: And tell her, you know, this wasn't my idea. It
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: was Ron's idea.
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 6: Nothing like spending your wedding anniversary with 75 people that
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: Exactly. You kind of know it's an inside joke, don't you?
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, I know.
• 2:51:37
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 2:51:38
  Speaker 6: Don't you worry.
• 2:51:41
  Speaker 1: It was a good one, though, wasn't it? It was
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: very good. So did you take her out to eat
• 2:51:45
  Speaker 1: for your fifth anniversary?
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 6: We did go out to eat for our anniversary. Got
• 2:51:51
  Speaker 6: her a little gift, and her and my kids are
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 6: in Florida with my in-laws this week.
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 1: Really? I'm home alone. So let me get this straight
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: before I go one step further. So for your fifth anniversary,
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: they decided to go to Florida with the in-laws and
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 1: leave you behind.
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 6: Well no she was home for our anniversary but uh
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 6: on sunday.
• 2:52:13
  Speaker 1: But left shortly thereafter.
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 6: But left shortly thereafter.
• 2:52:16
  Speaker 1: Well happy anniversary james i appreciate that that that's for
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: taking her out to the jib jab for your anniversary
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: dinner you know what i mean that's probably.
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah that's that's not below me don't worry.
• 2:52:29
  Speaker 1: I know i know all right james melfi is with
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 1: us and uh who else would join us tonight james
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: let's see who would be left at the firm besides
• 2:52:38
  Speaker 1: you jim Hmm.
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 6: Let's think about this. I'm joined by Tally tonight.
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 1: There she is. Hi, there she is now. Tally does
• 2:52:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of the family law at the firm. She's
• 2:52:52
  Speaker 1: very good at it, incidentally. Thank you. I just want
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: to make sure I properly introduce Tally. When it comes
• 2:52:58
  Speaker 1: to family law, and I'm telling you, she is good.
• 2:53:02
  Speaker 1: So if you've got a problem with child support or
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: divorce or custody issues, Tally, that's one of the things
• 2:53:10
  Speaker 1: that you are really good at and you handle for
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of the clients at the firm, correct?
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 31: Yeah, Mark and I handle a lot of our cases together,
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 31: but now that I've started taking over, it's kind of
• 2:53:22
  Speaker 31: funny because Mark and I say the same exact sentence
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 31: at the same exact time. But yeah, I've started slowly
• 2:53:29
  Speaker 31: taking over, and that's what I mostly do is domestic relations.
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 1: And you've done it for a long time. And can
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 1: I just say, folks, she's really good at it. I mean,
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 1: she's really good at it. If you come home, guys,
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: if you come home and you hit the play button
• 2:53:47
  Speaker 1: on your machine to hear what the messages are, and
• 2:53:51
  Speaker 1: you hear, hey, that's Tally calling back your wife, just
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: pack your bags and leave, fellas. Get out where you
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: can get out. I mean, you know, and run for
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: the hills because... You're going to lose everything. Or the
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: other way around, whichever way it goes. But you do
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 1: a great job representing your clients. You've got a great reputation. Oh,
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 31: I appreciate that.
• 2:54:12
  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I think is admirable is,
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: you know, you try to get these things settled and
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: you try to, You operate in a client's best interest.
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: It isn't about, let's spend $ 2, 000 arguing over a $ 600
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: TV or anything like that.
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 31: No, there's no point in that. If it's good for
• 2:54:30
  Speaker 31: my client, I will definitely advocate in that direction. But
• 2:54:33
  Speaker 31: I also, first and foremost, I put kiddos first. Kiddos
• 2:54:38
  Speaker 31: and my clients.
• 2:54:39
  Speaker 1: Is that tough in the sense of a lot of
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 1: times that's decided by the tables, are they not? You
• 2:54:46
  Speaker 1: take a look at the... When it comes to like
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: child support, don't they just look at the two incomes
• 2:54:51
  Speaker 1: and look at this table and say, here's what you
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: pay or here's what you get and all that kind
• 2:54:55
  Speaker 1: of stuff?
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 31: So for child support, yeah, it is a standard calculation. However,
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 31: there are deviations, percentages. If you have a number of overnights,
• 2:55:04
  Speaker 31: like if you have more than 90 overnights, you get
• 2:55:06
  Speaker 31: at least a 10% to 50% deviation. So yeah, it
• 2:55:11
  Speaker 31: just kind of depends. But you can also alternatively agree
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 31: on a different number. So sometimes I have clients who, Actually,
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 31: I had one a few weeks ago. She was willing
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 31: to waive child support so she could have more custodial time.
• 2:55:23
  Speaker 31: So whatever my client wants to do, I will advocate
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 31: for that. And if child support is a negotiating factor,
• 2:55:29
  Speaker 31: we can always utilize that.
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 1: Back in the good old days, Tally, it used to
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 1: be always assumed that the woman got custody and the
• 2:55:36
  Speaker 1: man would get to see the kids on the weekends.
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: Is that still..
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 31: Not anymore.
• 2:55:41
  Speaker 6: No.
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 31: Ohio is finally catching up.
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 14: So..
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 31: I've been an attorney for like 10 years now. And
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 31: in Pennsylvania, it was always 50-50 right out of the
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 31: gate when it comes to custody. Ohio is referred to
• 2:55:54
  Speaker 31: as a mother state. So, yes, that used to be
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 31: how it is. But there is a new bill that
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 31: was entered. And now out of the gate, Ohio is
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 31: turning into like Pennsylvania, 50-50 out of the gate. And
• 2:56:05
  Speaker 31: if one person wants more custody, there has to be
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 31: a darn good reason why.
• 2:56:11
  Speaker 1: 50-50, so equal time with the mother and the father
• 2:56:15
  Speaker 1: if it's doable, right, depending on work schedules.
• 2:56:19
  Speaker 31: If it's doable and if it's in the best interest
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 31: of the kiddos. Sometimes it's not, and sometimes I have
• 2:56:23
  Speaker 31: clients that can see that and say, you know, my
• 2:56:26
  Speaker 31: son really needs more time with his dad, so I'm
• 2:56:28
  Speaker 31: okay with him having 70% of the time and I'll
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 31: have 30. So it really just depends on the client's needs,
• 2:56:35
  Speaker 31: the kiddos' needs.
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: What about location, though? Doesn't it depend on how far,
• 2:56:40
  Speaker 1: you know, once they separate, how far apart they are?
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 31: A hundred percent. The school district, making sure the kid,
• 2:56:46
  Speaker 31: you know, there has to be one residential parent. So, yeah,
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 31: that's a big factor as well.
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 1: And often if you want to move to another state,
• 2:56:55
  Speaker 1: that can change everything if one of the two want
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 1: to do that, does it not?
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 31: A hundred percent. That's going to change basically everything.
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: See how smart she is, folks? Geez, I'm sitting here thinking, wow,
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 1: she's really smart. Now, I didn't get that impression when
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: I was talking earlier on to Melfi, but I do
• 2:57:13
  Speaker 1: get that impression with you, Tali.
• 2:57:15
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you.
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 31: He's smart, too, I promise.
• 2:57:19
  Speaker 6: Broads the shoulders that bears the cross, don't worry.
• 2:57:22
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: You're on the air with our attorneys tonight. Our first question.
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: Hello there.
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 34: Hi, yeah, I got a quick question for you guys.
• 2:57:31
  Speaker 34: Upon his death, are my Social Security earnings transferable to
• 2:57:36
  Speaker 34: my spouse?
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: Upon your death?
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: How long have you been married?
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 23: 18 years.
• 2:57:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he's over the 10-year mark, Dally.
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 31: He is over the 10-year mark.
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 1: So she'll get a chunk of those, I mean... I mean,
• 2:57:56
  Speaker 1: she'll be entitled to get something, right, because it's been
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: over 10 years.
• 2:58:02
  Speaker 31: Yeah, 10 years is considered one of the stepping stones.
• 2:58:05
  Speaker 31: So there's 10 years and then there's 20 years.
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if they don't automatically transfer, you have to apply
• 2:58:11
  Speaker 6: for it. You apply for survivor benefits. You should be eligible.
• 2:58:15
  Speaker 31: You should be eligible, but you can take care of
• 2:58:17
  Speaker 31: it before you pass.
• 2:58:19
  Speaker 1: Do you think you'll be married a couple more years,
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 1: at least 20 years?
• 2:58:24
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 34: I have faith in that.
• 2:58:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's wonderful. I don't hear that.
• 2:58:30
  Speaker 42: No, I think it was great.
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, he's made the, or she's made the
• 2:58:37
  Speaker 1: 10-year mark, so she's entitled. As I understand it, Tali,
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 1: let me, hang on, caller.
• 2:58:42
  Speaker 31: Wait a minute. I think it's the larger of the two.
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 31: So if you have a larger one or she has
• 2:58:46
  Speaker 31: a larger one, she's going to keep the one that's larger.
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 1: If she worked in it and has more.
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: Now here's the kick. Watch this caller. I got it
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 1: under control. Let's say you pass and she remarries. She
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 1: would also be entitled to the social security of whichever
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 1: husbands is higher. Right. Time. How's that work? If she
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 1: would remarry.
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 31: It's whichever is higher. But when she gets remarried, she's
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 31: going to be entitled to that one.
• 2:59:11
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 2:59:12
  Speaker 1: Why are you so worried about it, caller? Are you
• 2:59:14
  Speaker 1: on death's doorstep, if I could ask, or what seems
• 2:59:16
  Speaker 1: to be the problem?
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 23: Oh, no, no, no.
• 2:59:18
  Speaker 34: We had an agreement years ago that she was going
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 34: to be a stay-at-home mom, and our daughter just graduated recently.
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 34: So all this time that she's been staying at home,
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 34: taking care of everything, she hasn't been putting into her
• 2:59:30
  Speaker 34: own Social Security. So we just got to talking about
• 2:59:33
  Speaker 34: the other day that if something were to happen, would
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 34: she be able to get any? Because she has two
• 2:59:37
  Speaker 34: elderly parents that she worries that, If her dad passes,
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 34: it's the same situation where her mom's not going to
• 2:59:43
  Speaker 34: have anything.
• 2:59:44
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 34: And I told her, I said, well, let me call
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 34: the legal show and make sure that you're correct on
• 2:59:49
  Speaker 34: that because I've heard otherwise before on this show. I said,
• 2:59:52
  Speaker 34: let's make sure that we know what we're talking about here.
• 2:59:55
  Speaker 1: You know what, Sue? You should call us.
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 31: You can definitely apply for that.
• 2:59:58
  Speaker 1: You should call the Social Security Administration in downtown Youngstown
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 1: and they can answer that question because I think even
• 3:00:05
  Speaker 1: if she hasn't worked, she's entitled to Social Security even
• 3:00:09
  Speaker 1: if you don't die. to a degree. Okay.
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 31: Definitely contact the administration, but also if you just want
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 31: to get it set up beforehand so you're a peace
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 31: of mind, you can definitely do that.
• 3:00:19
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 3:00:19
  Speaker 12: I got one follow-up question real quick.
• 3:00:23
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 34: Recently, in the last year or so, my father had passed,
• 3:00:28
  Speaker 34: but my mom is still alive and still working. Is
• 3:00:31
  Speaker 34: she entitled to any of his social security, or is
• 3:00:33
  Speaker 34: that a different situation?
• 3:00:35
  Speaker 31: It's a different situation, yeah.
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 20: Okay, okay.
• 3:00:39
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 23: I think that's all I have.
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 16: Thank you guys so much.
• 3:00:43
  Speaker 23: I appreciate it.
• 3:00:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 6: No problem.
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: Is that something that you see quite often, Tally, in
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 1: divorce or not? I mean, there are some important years
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 1: in divorce. I've learned this over the years. 10 and
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: 20 are too important. Explain why those are important to
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: our listeners, oh smart one.
• 3:01:05
  Speaker 31: Oh smart one. Well, To answer your first question, no.
• 3:01:08
  Speaker 31: A lot of times we see that in estates, wills,
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 31: and trusts. So that's for survivorship benefits and things like that.
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 31: But when it comes to long-term marriages, 10 years is
• 3:01:19
  Speaker 31: a good landmark. And 20 years, you're going to be
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 31: paying spousal support basically until you retire or until there's
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 31: another order of the court. And also, it goes directly.
• 3:01:30
  Speaker 31: So there's kind of an unspoken rule between attorneys about
• 3:01:34
  Speaker 31: how long somebody can get spousal support. It's not an
• 3:01:39
  Speaker 31: actual rule.
• 3:01:40
  Speaker 1: We used to call it alimony.
• 3:01:42
  Speaker 31: Yes, we used to call it alimony. Now we call
• 3:01:44
  Speaker 31: it spousal support. But every year you're married, every three
• 3:01:48
  Speaker 31: years you're married usually means about one year of spousal support.
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 31: But if you have those long-term markings, it's different.
• 3:01:57
  Speaker 1: So there's a rule, but it's not necessarily a standard rule.
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 31: It's not a standard rule. It's like the unspoken known
• 3:02:03
  Speaker 31: rule between courts and attorneys, but it's not written.
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: How does that work, though, if both of them are employed?
• 3:02:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, would they still be entitled to alimony if
• 3:02:13
  Speaker 1: they were both working?
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 31: If they're both working and they're both working to their
• 3:02:18
  Speaker 31: fullest extent. So sometimes I have an argument where I
• 3:02:21
  Speaker 31: think the other person going through the divorce is underemployed.
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 31: They're not working 40 hours a week and they don't
• 3:02:26
  Speaker 31: have a physical ailment, something like that. But you look
• 3:02:29
  Speaker 31: at both spouses, what they made during the marriage, their
• 3:02:32
  Speaker 31: education level, and if they're able to maintain that. So say,
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 31: you know, somebody got in a car accident, and even
• 3:02:39
  Speaker 31: though they were an engineer, they can no longer be
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 31: an engineer. That also plays a factor. But whichever spouse
• 3:02:45
  Speaker 31: makes more, most likely will be paying the other spouse
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 31: spousal support unless they waive it or there's some sort
• 3:02:51
  Speaker 31: of negotiation there.
• 3:02:52
  Speaker 1: What always surprised me is when... I'm from the good
• 3:02:57
  Speaker 1: old days where the idea of men getting alimony was ridiculous.
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 1: Never happened. But today, it is a reality.
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 31: Child support, alimony happens all the time.
• 3:03:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have situations where, as a matter of fact,
• 3:03:11
  Speaker 1: women make more money than men.
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 6: All the time.
• 3:03:16
  Speaker 1: And consequently, they have to pay alimony to their spouse.
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 31: And child support as well if they have children.
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: See, I told you she's smart, gang. I told you
• 3:03:26
  Speaker 1: she's sharp. And I told you that's what she deals
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: with at the firm. So if you've got problems with
• 3:03:31
  Speaker 1: child support, divorce, custody issues, tally to the rescue at
• 3:03:36
  Speaker 1: the law firm of Beatrice Copp, just so you know.
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: All right, onward, 330-729-9977. I have three lines open right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you have legal questions on this hot, humid, smoky
• 3:03:45
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• 3:03:48
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• 3:03:52
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• 3:03:55
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• 3:03:58
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• 3:03:59
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• 3:03:59
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• 3:04:05
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• 3:04:10
  Speaker 1: whatever it might be under the sun, give us a call.
• 3:04:12
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• 3:04:14
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• 3:04:16
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• 3:04:24
  Speaker 1: great opportunity just to let people know how refreshing when
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: we talk to Talia and how good she is at
• 3:04:29
  Speaker 1: the job that she does. And I want all of
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: you to be aware of that. I hope you don't
• 3:04:33
  Speaker 1: go through a divorce.
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 6: Sometimes it's nice.
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 1: I hope you don't go through a divorce. Pardon me?
• 3:04:38
  Speaker 31: Sometimes it's nice to have a woman on the team.
• 3:04:40
  Speaker 6: Ron, you're making Tally blush.
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. Let me do some commercials and I'll
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 1: compose myself and come right back. Hang in there, Tally.
• 3:04:48
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more legal advice in just
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: a minute. Alright, I've composed myself. I'm back now here
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 1: with Attorney Melfi and Tally and You ready for more calls, guys?
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 31: We're ready when you are.
• 3:05:07
  Speaker 6: Bring them on, Ron.
• 3:05:08
  Speaker 1: Look at that. All right. You're on the air. Hello.
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 13: Hello.
• 3:05:15
  Speaker 24: So let me roll my windows up so I can hear.
• 3:05:17
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 3:05:18
  Speaker 6: That's a good start.
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 12: My air doesn't work, so anyway.
• 3:05:22
  Speaker 24: So hypothetically, I'm going to rent a place from a house,
• 3:05:28
  Speaker 24: and it's equipped with central air. If the air goes out,
• 3:05:34
  Speaker 24: Whose responsibility is it to fix it? Is that the landlord,
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 24: the homeowner, or the renter who has to repair the
• 3:05:41
  Speaker 24: central air?
• 3:05:44
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 3:05:44
  Speaker 6: What's the contract say?
• 3:05:48
  Speaker 24: In general, there's no contract.
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 6: I do work for a guy.
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 24: And there's a whole situation.
• 3:05:55
  Speaker 34: I was just in general.
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 6: Typically, it would be the landlord's responsibility, but if you
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 6: have a lease agreement, they could say tenant's responsible for...
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 6: you know, any and all repairs to HVAC, for example,
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 6: you can contract the agreement in any way you want,
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 6: but typically it's the landlord.
• 3:06:13
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 3:06:15
  Speaker 6: Especially if you're going in there and it has central air.
• 3:06:19
  Speaker 24: Because if the furnace goes out or the hot water
• 3:06:22
  Speaker 24: tank goes out or something like that or the roof leaks,
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 24: then that's typically the homeowner's responsibility. They have to get
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 24: that fixed. So I was just wondering about is that
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 24: the same thing with the central air?
• 3:06:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yes. Hey, Jim, are you ready for this? Hit me, Ron.
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 6: Are you ready?
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 1: Yes. That would apply on a residential, but it's much
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 1: different on a commercial building.
• 3:06:48
  Speaker 6: Much different. Commercial leases are totally different. You don't pay
• 3:06:53
  Speaker 6: your rent, they can change the locks, and you can't
• 3:06:55
  Speaker 6: get back into your commercial lease the next day.
• 3:06:57
  Speaker 1: I wonder why he's worried about air conditioning with this beautiful...
• 3:07:00
  Speaker 1: weather we're having right now. Gee, can't imagine.
• 3:07:04
  Speaker 31: If you know for a fact, like if it says
• 3:07:06
  Speaker 31: in your contract that it is the landlord's responsibility, you
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 31: can give them a written text or email or something saying, hey,
• 3:07:17
  Speaker 31: this needs fixed. Give them a reasonable amount of time,
• 3:07:19
  Speaker 31: and then you can always escrow your rent until it's fixed.
• 3:07:22
  Speaker 6: Always escrow the rent because..
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 31: But you have to give them a reasonable time, a
• 3:07:25
  Speaker 31: right to cure first.
• 3:07:26
  Speaker 6: They have a right to cure, but you know how
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 6: many people..
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  Speaker 6: They just totally... That we get calls for, and they...
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  Speaker 6: There's not much you can do. You have to escrow
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  Speaker 6: your rent with the court.
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  Speaker 31: But make sure you escrow. There's a proper way to
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  Speaker 6: So if you live in Girard, for example, and your
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  Speaker 12: Social Security, too. And she actually gets.
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  Speaker 34: Twice what I get.
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  Speaker 1: And you're on the air. Hello there. Okay, are you there, caller?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm still here.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So you're here to say your wife got
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 1: Social Security and she gets more than you. Right.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I had a pension from the post office, but
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 12: I had my 40 quarters. And before that, thanks to
• 3:11:32
  Speaker 12: Reagan's law on double dipping, they cut about two-thirds out
• 3:11:36
  Speaker 12: of mine. Plus, I retired right at 62, and she
• 3:11:40
  Speaker 12: worked longer. And maybe that's why she gets more, but
• 3:11:43
  Speaker 12: she gets twice what I get. And her pension comes
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 12: from the state. She never put into Social Security, but
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 12: she got it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she must have at some point, you know, before
• 3:11:52
  Speaker 1: she worked for the state, paid into it.
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  Speaker 34: No, never did.
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  Speaker 1: What did she get, a piece of yours or something?
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah, she gets my Social Security. No, she never worked
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 12: more than two months where she had to pay Social Security.
• 3:12:09
  Speaker 12: She was a schoolteacher from right after college, and she
• 3:12:13
  Speaker 12: never put into Social Security.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 20: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy for you, I guess. Yeah, good work.
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 12: Well, maybe some people out there should check on that.
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 12: They may be missing out.
• 3:12:27
  Speaker 1: Make sure when you go out to eat that she
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 1: picks up the tab because she's got more coming in
• 3:12:31
  Speaker 1: than you do.
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  Speaker 34: You got that right.
• 3:12:34
  Speaker 1: Right, just slide that bill right over to her and say,
• 3:12:37
  Speaker 1: you know, you're the breadwinner here. Start paying. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: with that one. Thank you, my friend. Oh, Tally, come.
• 3:12:47
  Speaker 7: On.
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  Speaker 6: I know that from firsthand experience. Yeah, good luck with that.
• 3:12:50
  Speaker 21: Really?
• 3:12:50
  Speaker 31: Yeah.
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: Well, after I heard about that exciting five-year anniversary of yours,
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of it. Melfi, you're
• 3:12:59
  Speaker 1: on the air. Hello? Hello there. Yes, sir. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 22: Hi there.
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  Speaker 21: Hey, I had a home warranty company. National Home Warranty Company,
• 3:13:13
  Speaker 21: and I had an air conditioner problem last June. And
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 21: they sent a local guy out to repair it. Well,
• 3:13:20
  Speaker 21: he actually damaged it. And I didn't... My account got denied.
• 3:13:25
  Speaker 21: So I made a police report. How long do I
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 21: have to file a small claim?
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  Speaker 1: How did he damage it? Yeah.
• 3:13:36
  Speaker 21: So what it was, there was a leak, a small
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 21: leak somewhere. He couldn't find it, so he punches a
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 21: hole in the inside coil so he can show that
• 3:13:46
  Speaker 21: he found the leak instead of taking the time to
• 3:13:48
  Speaker 21: find it.
• 3:13:50
  Speaker 1: He made a leak?
• 3:13:53
  Speaker 21: He made a leak. Yeah, I had my air conditioner
• 3:13:56
  Speaker 21: buddy come over and check it out and said this
• 3:13:58
  Speaker 21: was definitely physical damage.
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  Speaker 31: Well, I would definitely take pictures and all that jazz.
• 3:14:05
  Speaker 31: For property damage... Usually the statute of limitations is two years.
• 3:14:10
  Speaker 31: So if it was less than two years ago, I
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 31: would definitely document that and get moving and grooving on
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 31: that small claims.
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  Speaker 23: Okay. All right.
• 3:14:19
  Speaker 5: Sounds good.
• 3:14:20
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I've made a police report for that.
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 1: You're going to get small claims. You better have his
• 3:14:27
  Speaker 1: buddy show up, the other air conditioning guy, to at
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 1: least write a letter, right, or show up to say, hey,
• 3:14:33
  Speaker 1: this was sabotage.
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  Speaker 31: Write a letter, but show up, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, have your other HVAC friends say what he did wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, Collin, that's the problem with these home
• 3:14:43
  Speaker 1: warranties is you lose the ability to call people that
• 3:14:45
  Speaker 1: you want to call that you know are good, honest,
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: and competent people. You lose kind of a little bit
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 1: of freedom on them home warranties.
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  Speaker 13: Right, right. You don't get to choose.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, and good luck.
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  Speaker 23: Thank you.
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  Speaker 16: James or Tally.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I go by, Ron. James or.
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  Speaker 1: James.
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  Speaker 31: James or.
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  Speaker 1: James. James or Melfi.
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  Speaker 6: Ron, you and I are both doing really well tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Tally's got me all worked up. I don't know. If
• 3:15:25
  Speaker 1: you want to talk with James or Tally is what
• 3:15:28
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• 3:15:37
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• 3:15:40
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead with your call, please.
• 3:15:47
  Speaker 37: This is an insurance call. Beatrice always says, check your insurance. Well,
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 37: I inherited a car, and the company I have, they
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 37: wanted like $ 1, 000 for liability and $ 2, 000 for full coverage.
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 37: So I went with another company just with the car,
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 37: and I ended up trading in another truck. and my
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 37: insurance company found out that I went with another company,
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 37: and they called me and said, I can't have two
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 37: insurance companies on my cars.
• 3:16:22
  Speaker 1: You have both of them insured?
• 3:16:25
  Speaker 6: So, for example, you have Geico on one car and
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 6: State Farm on another.
• 3:16:27
  Speaker 37: I don't have insurers with the same companies. They're separate. Like,
• 3:16:31
  Speaker 37: I've got a truck and a car on one insurance
• 3:16:35
  Speaker 37: and four cars on another insurance. They said I can't
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 37: do that, to have two separate companies, even though they're
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 37: not insuring the truck I just bought. They said it's
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 37: illegal to have..
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 31: Each vehicle you own can have a separate policy, so
• 3:16:49
  Speaker 31: I'm a little confused.
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 6: I don't know if it's illegal, but there's usually contractual
• 3:16:54
  Speaker 6: language in your policy where it's talking about owned autos
• 3:16:59
  Speaker 6: or vehicles in your household. So if they're owned autos
• 3:17:02
  Speaker 6: by definition of the policy and they're owned by you,
• 3:17:04
  Speaker 6: you may have to insure them with the same company.
• 3:17:08
  Speaker 6: And typically, if you... insure two cars with one company,
• 3:17:13
  Speaker 6: it's cheaper than insurance.
• 3:17:15
  Speaker 31: And as long as they're not both insured, like if
• 3:17:17
  Speaker 31: you don't have both insurances insuring one car, if that makes.
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 1: Sense, you don't have dual insurance.
• 3:17:22
  Speaker 31: It should be legally allowed, but I would definitely look
• 3:17:25
  Speaker 31: in your contract.
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you may have an issue with your coverage.
• 3:17:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: So why did you do that, caller?
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 37: Well, I was only paying like... $ 200 and some dollars
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 37: on my old truck a year. And this old car
• 3:17:39
  Speaker 37: I bought, it was a 2003 Saturn. Like I said,
• 3:17:43
  Speaker 37: they wanted $ 2, 000 a year.
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 6: What happened between the $ 200 payments and the $ 2, 000 payments?
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 6: Because typically they look at your driving.
• 3:17:52
  Speaker 37: I was just adding on to Saturn.
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 37: Later I bought the truck and traded in another truck
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 37: that I had.
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 6: So you just thought of putting that truck in.
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 37: On the same policy as a Saturn because they wanted
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 37: so much at the other company.
• 3:18:10
  Speaker 1: So basically you shopped around and found a lower rate.
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 37: So I've got some cars.
• 3:18:17
  Speaker 2: On one company.
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: Let me answer this question.
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 37: And two cars with a different company, and they say
• 3:18:22
  Speaker 37: I can't do that.
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: Well, why don't you shift them all to the cheaper company?
• 3:18:26
  Speaker 37: Well, I was good with the cheap company until the
• 3:18:30
  Speaker 37: beginning of the year, so I wanted to wait until then.
• 3:18:33
  Speaker 6: Usually what happens with the cheaper companies or the big
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 6: box companies, the service that you receive if you need
• 3:18:40
  Speaker 6: to make a claim is just horrible. At times you're
• 3:18:44
  Speaker 6: better off going with the smaller insurance company that costs
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 6: a little bit more money, but it would be a
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 6: much better service.
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 37: I've got a good one about a car repair, too.
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 37: This is a car, and it's like a collector car.
• 3:19:03
  Speaker 37: I never get it in the rain. I took it
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 37: to a transmission place, and they kept it for almost
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 37: 11 weeks and let it sit outside for seven weeks.
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 37: A week later, when I get home, the engine light
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 37: come on, and I took it to AutoZone. They said
• 3:19:17
  Speaker 37: it was a catalytic converter. I got under there to
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 37: see how hard it was to change, and it was gone.
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 6: And they put an old rusty pipe on it.
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 31: Well, I would go back to the auto body shop
• 3:19:35
  Speaker 31: and see if they have video camera footage.
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 6: Video to start, but it's almost like a bailment relationship.
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 6: Remember that from the bar exam?
• 3:19:42
  Speaker 10: Oh, geez.
• 3:19:43
  Speaker 6: So they take possession of your vehicle and they need
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 6: to make sure it's secure. They have to secure their lot.
• 3:19:50
  Speaker 31: And you signed a waiver when you handed it over
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 31: to him.
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 6: Well, we'll see what his waiver said. Did you sign
• 3:19:54
  Speaker 6: any paperwork with the..
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 31: When you dropped it off.
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 6: When you dropped it off? I really never met.
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 37: The owner until I got the car back.
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 16: And I went down there like.
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 37: Four different times asking when are they going to work
• 3:20:07
  Speaker 37: on my car.
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 6: Is this like the auto body shop in the back
• 3:20:10
  Speaker 6: of Tally's house, or is this like a..
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 31: Back of my house.
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 16: A big shop.
• 3:20:15
  Speaker 37: I don't know if you live up by YSU.
• 3:20:17
  Speaker 6: I'm joking.
• 3:20:19
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, caller. I want to
• 3:20:21
  Speaker 1: point this out to the attorneys. Here's my concern with
• 3:20:25
  Speaker 1: this call, attorneys. He took it to this transmission shop. Obviously,
• 3:20:30
  Speaker 1: somebody stole, in his opinion, the catalytic converter. But if
• 3:20:34
  Speaker 1: they stole a catalytic converter, the repair shop had to
• 3:20:37
  Speaker 1: get under there and put the pipe together, right? You're
• 3:20:40
  Speaker 1: telling me that..
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 37: Yeah, they put it with liquid weld. It was an
• 3:20:44
  Speaker 37: old rusty pipe with liquid weld.
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 1: Are you sure you had a catalytic converter in the
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: first place?
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 37: Yeah, I bought the car originally and it's never, like
• 3:20:53
  Speaker 37: I said, been out of the garage.
• 3:20:55
  Speaker 1: Did you visually see that there was a catalytic converter there?
• 3:20:58
  Speaker 1: Yes or no?
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 37: Well, I've been under it before.
• 3:21:02
  Speaker 31: With your own eyeballs.
• 3:21:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it sounds to me like there might never
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: have been one, and the pipe came loose, and now
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: you're trying to blame someone else.
• 3:21:12
  Speaker 6: Here's the question. Do you know the day you dropped
• 3:21:15
  Speaker 6: it off at that mechanic shop, it had a convertor? 100%
• 3:21:18
  Speaker 6: did you know.
• 3:21:22
  Speaker 37: Well, I'm pretty sure, but..
• 3:21:25
  Speaker 31: It can't be 99. You've got to be 100% sure.
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 6: That's what I mean.
• 3:21:29
  Speaker 37: Even because it was a week later, how could.
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 1: I prove it?
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 6: I would still call him.
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 37: You can't prove it.
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 31: I would call him and ask him to pull up
• 3:21:36
  Speaker 31: the security footage. Hopefully they have some.
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 37: I don't think they do way down there.
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 31: Start with a conversation. See where it ends up.
• 3:21:45
  Speaker 37: He gave me a couple hundred dollars, but he was
• 3:21:48
  Speaker 37: supposed to send me more in the summer, and he
• 3:21:50
  Speaker 37: never did.
• 3:21:52
  Speaker 31: Well, that's where communication is key. Start with a phone call.
• 3:21:55
  Speaker 6: Give him a call.
• 3:21:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay. Thanks a lot. I just wanted to let
• 3:21:59
  Speaker 2: you know about it.
• 3:22:00
  Speaker 5: Good luck.
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  Speaker 16: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 6: It stinks.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 37: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 23: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you just sit back and you
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  Speaker 1: wonder about some of the stuff that you hear. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I can say. You just sit back and go,
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  Speaker 1: are you kidding me? But he would have to prove
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  Speaker 1: that there was one there, right? I mean..
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, unless there's security footage of someone, Jimmy, going under
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  Speaker 6: and stealing.
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  Speaker 5: It.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 31: Behind my house.
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  Speaker 1: Therein lies the problem. All right. Legal questions tonight. Our
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  Speaker 1: of people, I'm sure, as time goes on, guys, will
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  Speaker 1: have some legal questions as far as the tornado and
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  Speaker 1: their insurance companies when they finally get the appraisers out
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  Speaker 1: and all of the issues resolved. Would you agree with that?
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  Speaker 6: That's going to be the best.
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  Speaker 31: It is definitely going to be a mess. While we
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  Speaker 31: quick shout out to Roger, my one and only fan.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean you're one and only fan? What
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  Speaker 1: about me?
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  Speaker 31: Oh, well, you too. Actually, I found out someone named
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  Speaker 31: their cat after me. I thought that was kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: A cat?
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  Speaker 6: A cat.
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  Speaker 1: Well, God bless you.
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  Speaker 31: I'm really not cool.
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  Speaker 6: Like a kitten? Or like they changed their cat's name?
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  Speaker 31: No, like a kitten. They got a cat and they
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  Speaker 31: named it after me. They told my husband.
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  Speaker 3: Is it a..
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  Speaker 6: Orangia, is it like an orange cat?
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  Speaker 31: No, it's my first name, Tally. So I've always had
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  Speaker 31: my same one fan from the radio show, Roger, Mad Love,
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  Speaker 31: and then I have a cat named Matt for me.
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  Speaker 31: Frank has all the fans. He's probably the coolest of
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  Speaker 31: the firm, I think. Don't tell Beatrice.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, do you really want David to jump off
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  Speaker 6: a Navy pier this weekend?
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  Speaker 31: No, I don't, but I'm just saying, like, none of
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  Speaker 31: us really have fans.
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  Speaker 6: If he does, all I want is for him to
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  Speaker 31: Frank kind of has a lot of fans.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's take some calls. You're on the air. Hello.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I got a quick question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: With all the.
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  Speaker 34: Storm damage, if you have a tree and the limbs
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  Speaker 34: fall in the.
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  Speaker 12: Neighbor's yard, is it an act of God, or do
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  Speaker 12: you have to clean it up?
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  Speaker 5: I mean..
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  Speaker 31: If you should clean it up and if you're reliable,
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  Speaker 31: those are two different questions. Ethically and morally, I would
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  Speaker 31: clean it up because I live in the forest, and
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  Speaker 31: if one goes on to my neighbor John, his property,
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  Speaker 31: I'm going to go clean it up because I know
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  Speaker 31: it's attached to my tree. Legally, you're not liable as
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  Speaker 31: long as you didn't know that that branch was wiggly
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 31: or whatever. You're not liable, but that's how I would
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  Speaker 31: answer that question.
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  Speaker 10: Jimmy?
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  Speaker 13: All right, that was it.
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  Speaker 24: That's what I needed to know.
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  Speaker 22: Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: If it falls on your neighbor's property, it's your neighbor's
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  Speaker 6: problem unless they can prove that you know you had
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  Speaker 6: a dead disease tree and you haven't done anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just a sucker. If it's his tree and
• 3:26:04
  Speaker 1: it falls on your property, you've got to deal with
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  Speaker 1: it because it was an act of God, right? The tornado.
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  Speaker 6: Well, act of God is different, but I would say yes.
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  Speaker 31: Yeah, you're not liable to clean it. Maybe I'm just
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  Speaker 31: a sucker, but I would do it because it's my tree.
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  Speaker 31: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: That's why you have homeowners. What a smart woman and
• 3:26:22
  Speaker 1: a kind heart. All right. You're on the air with
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  Speaker 1: our attorneys tonight. NewsRadio 570. Hello there.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: Hi.
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  Speaker 6: How can I help you?
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  Speaker 45: Yeah, I have a question to ask you. My husband
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 45: passed away six and a half years ago. And I'm
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 45: still up for probate court. And my attorney, he handled
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 45: it for me and everything. And she was an attorney
• 3:26:51
  Speaker 45: in Ohio. And she moved back to Arkansas in the meantime.
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  Speaker 45: And she came up here to file it and She
• 3:27:00
  Speaker 45: went to the Warren Court House to make sure the
• 3:27:03
  Speaker 45: paperwork was all right and everything. And I was over there, too,
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  Speaker 45: with her. And then the magistrate went and said, yeah,
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 45: the paperwork's okay. And we up and left. And the
• 3:27:20
  Speaker 45: secretary there told me it'll be a couple months before
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  Speaker 45: he gets you checked. I'm waiting and waiting because I
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  Speaker 45: wanted to pay my house taxes because I didn't want
• 3:27:28
  Speaker 45: to pay the interest on it. And so here I
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  Speaker 45: got papers from the courthouse saying that something was wrong
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  Speaker 45: on the paperwork. Now, I don't know what the heck
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  Speaker 45: is going on here.
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  Speaker 5: She goes all the.
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  Speaker 45: Way up here personally to handle that.
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  Speaker 6: Is your lawyer still practicing in Ohio?
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  Speaker 13: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 45: She's an attorney from Ohio. And Tennessee and Arkansas.
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  Speaker 31: So I would call her.
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  Speaker 6: Have you called her?
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  Speaker 31: And say, hey, there's some issue with the paperwork.
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  Speaker 13: I did.
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  Speaker 45: And she put in for it again. And they're still
• 3:28:07
  Speaker 45: going around in circles. And I don't know what they want.
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  Speaker 45: She drove all the way up here. Personally, make sure
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  Speaker 45: it was done right.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know if it was done wrong again the
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  Speaker 6: second time? Or the court's just processing it? Because that
• 3:28:21
  Speaker 6: can happen.
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  Speaker 45: No, because I got a paper in the mail again
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  Speaker 45: saying that we're still going around in circles with this.
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  Speaker 31: I would have your attorney call the chambers and just ask, hey,
• 3:28:37
  Speaker 31: what is the error exactly? Because I want to make
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  Speaker 31: sure that it's not going to happen a third time.
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  Speaker 31: Correct the error and resubmit.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 45: There's something here. It says certificate of service. A notice
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  Speaker 45: of probate of will is required.
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  Speaker 7: What could that be?
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  Speaker 6: So it's a form.
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  Speaker 31: Yeah, that's a form.
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  Speaker 6: There's a notice. So probate's form-based, so there's a form
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  Speaker 6: missing within the probate file that needs to be filed.
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  Speaker 6: So typically whatever county you're in, the probate forms are
• 3:29:12
  Speaker 6: simply just on their website.
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  Speaker 31: If you know which form, you might be able to
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  Speaker 31: just print it off online.
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  Speaker 6: Fill it out send it to your lawyer email this
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  Speaker 6: is the form that you need if have your lawyer
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  Speaker 6: contact the court and they can get it moving for
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  Speaker 6: you your lawyer in the right direction sorry.
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  Speaker 31: You're going through this yeah that stinks I'm so sorry
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  Speaker 31: yeah well.
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  Speaker 45: I don't know what to do because I'm getting dragged
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  Speaker 45: around here forever and I'll be paying interest for my
• 3:29:40
  Speaker 45: house taxes so alright I'm sorry Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Good luck.
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  Speaker 15: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 14: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air with our attorneys. 555. Hello there.
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 20: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, please.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 23: I was in a car accident, and the local bus system,
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 23: the transit authority bus ran into the side of my car.
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  Speaker 12: Wow.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 31: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 23: But this was in Stark County, Alliance. But no injuries. Oh, good.
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  Speaker 23: But then I found out I didn't have insurance. So
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  Speaker 23: I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 31: Did you not renew your insurance? Like, how did you
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 31: find out? Did you not renew it? Did you let
• 3:30:27
  Speaker 31: it lapse?
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 23: Yeah, I ordered insurance, and they sent me an ID card.
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  Speaker 23: But then the payments got behind and got canceled. So
• 3:30:38
  Speaker 23: I had this ID card, like, for what, last for
• 3:30:41
  Speaker 23: six months. And at the time of the accident, I
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 23: thought I had insurance, but then I found out that
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 23: it got canceled because of nonpayment.
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  Speaker 31: If you don't pay for the service, unfortunately, it does
• 3:30:55
  Speaker 31: get canceled.
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  Speaker 6: Has a claims rep for the bus company reached out
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  Speaker 6: to you? Pardon me? Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Who was at fault in
• 3:31:08
  Speaker 1: this accident, Jane? Was the bus company at fault?
• 3:31:11
  Speaker 23: Yeah, they cited the bus company, so their insurance company
• 3:31:15
  Speaker 23: called me, and they sent me a check for $ 500,
• 3:31:19
  Speaker 23: and I think that's the deductible. But now they want
• 3:31:22
  Speaker 23: me to get some papers notarized, and they'll send me
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 23: maybe a $ 4, 000 check for the damage of my car.
• 3:31:31
  Speaker 1: Well, get some papers notarized.
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  Speaker 6: What kind of car were you driving?
• 3:31:36
  Speaker 23: It was a 2005 Chevy Trailblazer. And they sent me
• 3:31:42
  Speaker 23: these papers. One's called property damage.
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 6: They probably sent you a release agreement. So here's what
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 6: they sent you. They sent you a release agreement and
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 6: the affidavits that need to be filed with the BMV.
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  Speaker 6: So do you know how much they were offering you
• 3:32:01
  Speaker 6: for your vehicle?
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  Speaker 23: Well, the insurance company said that they don't want the car.
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 23: They don't total it out. They just pay for the damage.
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 23: Is what they told me, that they don't mess around with.
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  Speaker 6: Is your car totaled? No. Or can it be repaired?
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  Speaker 23: I had to jack it up, put the spare tire
• 3:32:23
  Speaker 23: on it, and I drove it a little bit. It
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 23: just messed up the tire and the rim real bad.
• 3:32:28
  Speaker 6: So they're paying you for the cost of repairs.
• 3:32:31
  Speaker 23: It creased down the whole side.
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  Speaker 6: Of the car. So the estimate for the cost of
• 3:32:35
  Speaker 6: repairs is, they're saying it's $ 500. Did you get an
• 3:32:38
  Speaker 6: estimate from a, mechanic as to how much it is
• 3:32:41
  Speaker 6: to be to fix.
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  Speaker 23: It no not yet but i think the five hundred
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  Speaker 23: dollars the five hundred dollars is something about a deductible
• 3:32:50
  Speaker 23: but they offering me say three thousand five hundred dollars
• 3:32:54
  Speaker 23: for the damage of the car but i didn't receive
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  Speaker 23: that yet until i get these papers notarized what is.
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  Speaker 6: It enough though yeah get them notarized if they're going
• 3:33:03
  Speaker 6: to send you thirty five hundred dollars for a 2005,
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  Speaker 6: I'd take that money.
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you for your call and good luck
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  Speaker 1: to you. Thank you, Tally. Thank you, James. Appreciate it.
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