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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Friday, 07/24/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Hey, good afternoon. It's
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  Speaker 1: finally Friday, and we couldn't be happier. 306 in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: It's comfortable outside. Nice day, 82 degrees, and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: with you until 6 tonight. Our top secret number, as always,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like to conversate here this afternoon, 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get you through to us on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: Another day that I look at the finances of things
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  Speaker 1: and you just kind of shake your heads to a
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  Speaker 1: certain extent. As I've said to you, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a little more time today, this situation in Iran is
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  Speaker 1: just a mess. It's an absolute mess. And put me
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  Speaker 1: down as one of those people who just, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't see it getting better. As I've said to you
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  Speaker 1: numerous times and I say to you again, I think
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  Speaker 1: that this was probably a gigantic mistake from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: A big mistake from the very beginning. And I think
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  Speaker 1: there are serious consequences that as this goes on. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong and hopefully that's not the case. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: concerned that I'm genuinely concerned with where oil prices go,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices go. And how do you get out of
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  Speaker 1: this situation? How do you get out of this situation?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got to remember before any of this
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  Speaker 1: took place, we didn't have any of these problems with
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  Speaker 1: the straight. The straight was open. There wasn't any of
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  Speaker 1: these issues at all. Take a look. Just take a look.
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  Speaker 1: Oil prices were down. Gas was around, what, 250, 260
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  Speaker 1: a gallon. Inflation seemed to be coming down. All of
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  Speaker 1: those gains that Trump managed to achieve vanished in the
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  Speaker 1: blink of an eye as a result of this. And
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  Speaker 1: now you take a look, yes, back to $ 4 or $ 3. 89,
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  Speaker 1: depending on where you are, a gallon in my neck
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  Speaker 1: of the woods. And so we're right back to bombing again,
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  Speaker 1: which is just, I just, we shall see if it
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  Speaker 1: changes things. If it changes things, we shall see. What's
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  Speaker 1: your insight? What's your input? What's your thoughts? You got any?
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  Speaker 1: 330-729-9977 will get you through to us. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: genuinely would tell you straightforward, I'm not optimistic. I hope
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but I'm not optimistic. And I just, we
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  Speaker 1: shall see. I mean, I definitely hope I'm wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely not optimistic on this. How about you? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I just look around and I see a stock market
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  Speaker 1: that's up and down. I mean, down big time. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a volatile stock market these days. I see oil
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  Speaker 1: prices that are up. I read a story yesterday where
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  Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines was actually taking oil from or taking jet
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  Speaker 1: fuel from I think, from the East Coast and trucking
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  Speaker 1: it to the West Coast. I mean, there's major problems
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  Speaker 1: out there as far as the oil supply is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: as far as fuel is concerned. See, you might not
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  Speaker 1: be aware of it, but we've been tapping into the
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  Speaker 1: strategic oil reserves. We've been tapping into all these reserves.
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  Speaker 1: China's cut their consumption. China's going into their reserves. We've
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  Speaker 1: been going into them here in our country. They're at
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  Speaker 1: the lowest level since, I think, 1985. So we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of been supplementing, if you will, gas prices with the
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  Speaker 1: Strategic Oil Reserve. Well, now you're getting fairly low with
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  Speaker 1: the Strategic Oil Reserve. So now what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: So now what do you do? I just thought it
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  Speaker 1: was interesting yesterday when I was just talking about jet fuel.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem that they were having on the West Coast,
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  Speaker 1: so they were shipping some, as I said, Southwest from
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast to the West Coast. Hmm. So they
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  Speaker 1: say S & P 500 turns red, meaning it's down again,
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  Speaker 1: as a result of Iran. And mounting chip stock losses.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just looking at this stuff. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: anything positive. I wish I could. I just don't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see anything positive. This is a mess. You
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  Speaker 1: can't sit back. I mean, you got to Trump. This
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  Speaker 1: was his decision. He owns it. He made this decision.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a broken record. Like I said to you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he thought this would be over much sooner
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  Speaker 1: than Maybe he was deceived, whether that was by Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: or his real intelligence. I'm sure he thought this would
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  Speaker 1: be over much sooner than it is, but it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: And it continues to go on, continues to affect inflation,
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  Speaker 1: stock markets, energy prices, with no end in sight. With
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  Speaker 1: no end in sight. So we shall see. We shall see.
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  Speaker 3: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see. I think I'm going to start here.
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  Speaker 1: You're on here.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, a couple things.
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  Speaker 6: I wish you'd be more positive. Iran has called for
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  Speaker 6: the destruction of the United States and Israel. They get
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  Speaker 6: a nuclear weapon. What do you think would happen if
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  Speaker 6: they dropped that in New York City?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's even a possibility. I mean, let
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  Speaker 1: me put it this way to you. Listen, I don't
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  Speaker 1: buy into any of this stuff. It's okay if you
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  Speaker 1: want to. I think the bunker buster actually did its job.
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't sitting up at night concerned about Iran
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  Speaker 1: and a nuclear weapon with the United States, nor do
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  Speaker 1: I think that they would use it on the United States.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a foolish presumption to make
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  Speaker 1: with the United States. We would destroy them, and they
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  Speaker 1: know it.
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  Speaker 6: If I went and bought a gun and openly said
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  Speaker 6: I was going to come assassinate you, wouldn't that be
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  Speaker 6: your obligation to come after me? You can't have another
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  Speaker 6: country calling for the destruction of us and our ally
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  Speaker 6: over there and not do nothing about it. He just
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  Speaker 6: had the balls to stand up and do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going? How's it going?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's not going like they want, but it'll come
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  Speaker 6: out good in the end, you'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: How far is Iran from the United States? Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about from a military strategy, as Bush would say, standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: How easy is this going to be?
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  Speaker 3: Let me back up some more.
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  Speaker 7: How successful have we been in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 6: Well, they've got the Abraham Accords. They've got a lot
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  Speaker 6: of the Middle East countries.
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  Speaker 1: How successful have the wars been in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 1: And how successful have we been with the wars and
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  Speaker 1: regime change in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you tell me.
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  Speaker 1: It's a disaster. I think I think we look at Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all you got to do is look at
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  Speaker 1: all of them. I think they've been dismal failures for
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  Speaker 1: seeing change and what we've done. And now let's take Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. We gave it back and they got it
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  Speaker 1: better than they had it originally. And they kept all
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  Speaker 1: of our equipments.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, was that worth it? Yeah. Well, was that we're
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  Speaker 1: dying for? Well, you know, I'm asking you because you're
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  Speaker 1: the guy saying, let's, you know, he's got the balls
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  Speaker 1: to do it. So all those kids that died over
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  Speaker 1: there or lost arms and legs, what was the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of it?
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  Speaker 9: No, that's no good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just saying, I'm just saying they openly call for
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  Speaker 6: our destruction.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what they say. I really don't care
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  Speaker 1: what they talk. I don't believe that's a possibility at all.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not believe that the United States... If they're
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  Speaker 1: developing one, I think that the bunker buster was effective.
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  Speaker 1: But by the way..
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  Speaker 6: Well, what you think, but what information do you have
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  Speaker 6: more than, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Trump saying that apparently that didn't get it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, wait a minute. He told me it did.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they thought it did, but apparently it didn't.
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  Speaker 10: That's why they had to go back in.
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  Speaker 11: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Well, how do I know? How do you know that's true?
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  Speaker 6: Apparently, you've got inside information. You're thinking it got it.
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  Speaker 1: He told me it got it. It's all buried deep
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  Speaker 1: down in the mountain. I mean, do you think North
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  Speaker 1: Korea should have a nuclear weapon?
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they do. What do you want to do about that?
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  Speaker 6: You're just hurting us. You're hurting the upcoming election with
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  Speaker 6: your attitude towards that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think I'm going to tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: Trump is hurting the upcoming election. And you want to
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  Speaker 1: know why? Because the majority of people in the country
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  Speaker 1: don't support this. And if you get high oil prices,
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  Speaker 1: high gas prices and high inflation, it is the economy.
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  Speaker 1: And he will lose.
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  Speaker 6: When the fuel prices were high during the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 12: Where was the outcry?
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  Speaker 1: There was plenty of outcry. Incidentally, plenty of outcry from
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  Speaker 1: the conservatives about how high they were and how low
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  Speaker 1: they were under the Trump administration. There was plenty of
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  Speaker 1: outcry over it.
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  Speaker 6: All right, I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so, you know, it's a typical cheerleader. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hurt this. You're going to hurt that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm supposed to sit here and no matter what
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  Speaker 1: Trump decides to do, I'm supposed to say I'm with
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  Speaker 1: it 100%. I'm not to disagree with any decision he
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  Speaker 1: makes or anything he does. Even though I voted for him,
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  Speaker 1: and I certainly wouldn't vote for Harris, but I can
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  Speaker 1: sit here and look at this and say, this is
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  Speaker 1: a disaster. And this isn't going how he thought it
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  Speaker 1: would go. And I would say to this caller, just
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  Speaker 1: imagine if he hadn't gotten involved in this in the
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  Speaker 1: first place, where do you think things would have been economically?
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  Speaker 1: When we saw oil prices coming down, gas prices coming down,
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  Speaker 1: inflation being reduced. All the reasons why he was elected.
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  Speaker 1: When we saw that happening. All of that's now been erased.
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  Speaker 1: How's that a good thing? And I wasn't contrary to
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  Speaker 1: that caller. I'd be curious if that caller was up
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  Speaker 1: at night before they made all of this stink about it.
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  Speaker 1: Was he up at night scared that Iran was going
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  Speaker 1: to come get him with a nuclear weapon? Because I
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  Speaker 1: am not. Not with American intelligence. Not with the nuclear
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  Speaker 1: weapons we have. I'm not even remotely concerned about it. Now, terrorism,
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole different story. That's a whole different problem.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, good afternoon. Yes.
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  Speaker 13: I'm going to call you every dirty bird word that
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  Speaker 13: I can think of, and I'm going to threaten to
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  Speaker 13: kill you. So now, what does that leave out?
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing.
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  Speaker 13: That's exactly right. The talk is the talk, but they're
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  Speaker 13: not going to be able to make it walk. They
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  Speaker 13: may have the stuff to do it with, but they
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  Speaker 13: don't believe that they're just going to get up and
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  Speaker 13: walk away.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently..
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  Speaker 13: They're going to get annihilated.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently..
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  Speaker 11: They want North Korea.
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  Speaker 13: North Korea is the same way. But what is the
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  Speaker 13: big rush with Iran wanting a nuclear bomb? Because the
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  Speaker 13: state of Israel has one. So now they want one.
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  Speaker 13: Same thing happened with India and Pakistan.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 13: So, I mean, you're sitting here, you've got these people
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  Speaker 13: running around here who say that Trump is doing the
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  Speaker 13: right thing. And I'm sorry, but he's not. I'm in
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  Speaker 13: agreeance with you. He had no plan. He just thought
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  Speaker 13: the American could not be touched or hit, and they're
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  Speaker 13: getting hit. And the worst part about it is we
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  Speaker 13: have American young people who are dying because our heads, Jeff,
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  Speaker 13: did not set it up to protect them the best
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  Speaker 13: he could.
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  Speaker 10: He didn't do nothing.
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  Speaker 13: He left them out there with big old zero marks
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  Speaker 13: on them to get shot at.
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  Speaker 2: Well..
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  Speaker 1: Our casualties have been relatively few, I mean, in all reality.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the big picture of this, and
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  Speaker 1: I go back to say it. Trump thought he could
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  Speaker 1: go in and do this and be over relatively quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was sold that bill of goods by
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu and Israel. We're going to go in. They want
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  Speaker 1: regime change. You're going to bring them to their knees
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  Speaker 1: right away. This will be over in a month. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, they gave you every indication that
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  Speaker 1: that was the case, did they not? And then Trump
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  Speaker 1: kept saying, oh, we got them where we need them.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to sign a– they want to make a deal.
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  Speaker 1: They want to make a deal. Did you hear him
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  Speaker 1: say that week after week after week on how they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make a deal? But they never made a deal.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, then we got the memorandum of understanding,
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  Speaker 1: and that didn't work out. So now we're right back
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  Speaker 1: to bombing them again. thinking, okay, now this time, and
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  Speaker 1: let's be realistic, we bombed the living hell out of
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  Speaker 1: them all along. Now this time when we do it,
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  Speaker 1: this time it's going to work.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I hope to God you're right.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's what he says. I hope he's right as well.
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  Speaker 13: But you have to kind of watch yourself, because pretty
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  Speaker 13: soon you're going to be threatened with anti-Semitism because of
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  Speaker 13: what you're saying about Netanyahu. And the thing of it is,
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  Speaker 13: is that's not true. I know that's not true about you.
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  Speaker 13: You just picked him out saying what he did and
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  Speaker 13: led Trump into this.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct.
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  Speaker 13: That one Jewish person.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm just trying to say that's where that's
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  Speaker 1: why I believe Trump reversed himself and why he went
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  Speaker 1: into he didn't want like the Middle East. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: want regime change and he didn't want these endless wars. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what? He now started one. And all these people
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  Speaker 1: who act like it's easy. I mean, Iran's what, 6,000
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  Speaker 1: miles away from us? I mean, it's a huge distance
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  Speaker 1: away from, strategically away from the United States of America. Strategically,
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  Speaker 1: look how far away it is. You think it's an
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  Speaker 1: imminent threat to the United States?
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  Speaker 13: Well, you know something? Everybody in the back of their mind,
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  Speaker 13: including yours, including mine, and anybody that's got any brains
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  Speaker 13: at all, remember 9-11 and how that played out. And
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  Speaker 13: everybody's concern about that is what could happen. But if
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  Speaker 13: that's the case, America's going to come back together, and
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  Speaker 13: they're going to go after the people and the country
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  Speaker 13: that did it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, 9-11 is a whole different story as far as
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  Speaker 1: we knew those people were in this country. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it really was an intelligence failure in America not to
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  Speaker 1: have those people apprehended. Would you not agree? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I say 9-11 could have been prevented. Stand by for
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  Speaker 1: a minute. I'll come right back to you in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on. I'll get right back to him in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Hey, Ron from WKBN. And from NewsRadio
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. What's up? As I said, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a mistake from the very beginning, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: if you keep doing the same thing and expecting different results,
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  Speaker 1: would they say that's insanity, right? I mean, we've been
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  Speaker 1: bombing all along, and we just continue to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and we expect different results. Well, I hope it happens,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not optimistic.
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  Speaker 13: What bothers me is there's no clear plan. No clear
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  Speaker 13: plan of what we're going to do and how we're
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  Speaker 13: going to do it and how we're going to accomplish it.
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  Speaker 13: But if I may switch the subject to a couple
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  Speaker 13: more things. On your show, you have a few people
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  Speaker 13: who call up and say that Trump has business sense.
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  Speaker 12: Now, we're Americans.
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  Speaker 13: We're free to say what we think and what we feel.
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  Speaker 13: I would request strongly that these people honestly look at
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  Speaker 13: Trump's business ventures and to see how many failed. Take
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  Speaker 13: a look at Trump's past and how many people he
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  Speaker 13: left hanging on his business ventures. And then if you
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  Speaker 13: honestly look at that and then still have the complete 100%
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  Speaker 13: or even 50% feeling that he was a good businessman, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 13: I'll accept that because we're Americans. But I can't see it.
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  Speaker 13: And I don't see anybody else. I cannot understand why
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  Speaker 13: these people... And these people are not uneducated because they
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  Speaker 13: can talk plain and they can use three-syllable words. So
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  Speaker 13: it's telling me that somewhere down the line, in my belief,
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  Speaker 13: in my belief alone, that they weren't really paying attention.
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  Speaker 13: That's my feeling.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Duly noted, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 13: And Vic Cerami, I'm sorry, I don't mean to mess
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  Speaker 13: up his name. I'm not doing that on purpose. If
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  Speaker 13: I had it right in front of me, I'd be
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  Speaker 13: able to say it right.
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  Speaker 3: Vivek, well, whatever.
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  Speaker 13: You know where he was the 4th of July?
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  Speaker 1: No, I do not.
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  Speaker 13: He was in France.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: So, I mean, if he's so hot on America, why
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  Speaker 13: wasn't he here trying to boast up his... vote here
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  Speaker 13: in the state of Ohio. Why is he going to...
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  Speaker 13: He's talking about abolishing Medicaid here in the state of
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  Speaker 13: Ohio because he said there's so much fraud and voter problems. Well,
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  Speaker 13: guess what? When Trump said that, our representatives here in
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  Speaker 13: the state, LaRusso, come out and said, that's a lie.
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  Speaker 13: This is not happening. But yes, we do have some
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  Speaker 13: sort of fraud in the Medicaid system, and we're getting
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  Speaker 13: into that. But the fact that a matter here for
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  Speaker 13: Trump to come out and say the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 13: is a mess.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's a mess. Really, I think
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  Speaker 1: how we do our elections in Ohio is pretty secure
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: as far as we don't just mail out absentee ballots
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to everybody. You have to show an ID to go vote.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, actually, Ohio is one of the premier systems
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: when it comes to voting. and how our system is done,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: copied by Florida, incidentally. So I think we've got a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: lot to be proud of in how we do it
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: here in Ohio. Is there the possibility that there's always
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a small amount of fraud? Absolutely. But I don't think
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: there's any massive aspect of fraud. However, when it comes
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to Medicaid, I think that there's a lot of fraud
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: involved in that. And you've got to sit back and say, well,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Where was Mike DeWine? And he is
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a Republican and surrounded by the auditor and all the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: executives that were Republican. This fraud that was taking place
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on Medicaid in the state of Ohio happened under Republican watch.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying so. So let's take a look at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: all of that. And it seems to me, as I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: sit here right now, Mike DeWine doesn't seem that fired
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: up to go after this fraud of billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know about that because a lot of the
• 20:16
  Speaker 13: fraud that's being caught, a lot of the fraud that's
• 20:22
  Speaker 13: been seen and gone after are from the state of
• 20:26
  Speaker 13: Ohio's group. The state of Ohio is doing it. It
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: only was brought up because of things that are happening
• 20:33
  Speaker 13: in the whole country.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, but it needs to be looked at. And we
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: have the same problem with the Somalians here in Ohio
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that they do in Minnesota. And so who dropped the ball?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Who wasn't investigating it? Who let it happen? You'll never
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: get the money back.
• 20:49
  Speaker 13: You'll never get the money back. That's what I've been
• 20:52
  Speaker 13: saying for quite a few years. Quite a few years about,
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: go ahead, make your government less..
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Right. All I'm trying to say is it doesn't matter
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: if it's Republicans or Democrats, Minnesota or Ohio. The people
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that should have been looking and verifying this stuff and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: doing some follow up obviously weren't doing it in either
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: one of the states. I got to pause for the headlines.
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• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Kind of stuff. I'm just not optimistic about this entire situation.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And as I've said to you numerous times, I'm not
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: going to sit here and be a Trump cheerleader. No
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: more than I'd be a– you've got to call balls
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and strikes as you see them. And the things that
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: many of you found frustrating when you had Democrats that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: saw nothing wrong or no bad decisions that the Democrats
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: made supported everything. You want to go down that same
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: road and make yourself guilty of the same charge? Oh,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: everything that Trump does is great? Well, I don't think
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that that's the case, nor do I think that that's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a wise way to go. And, you know, I'm just
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: saying he reversed himself on this, and I don't know
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: why he did that. And the bunker buster, and it's
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: buried in a mountain, and I think it probably is,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and it was very successful. I don't know why the reversal.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But I suspect not a single one of you were
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: laying awake at night, unable to sleep, fearful of Iran
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: with a nuclear bomb. I don't think you were fearful
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of that, certainly just based on the distance that we
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: are away from Iran, but knowing full well that they
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: know that we would annihilate them. Now, that might be
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a different story about people in the Middle East. But
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: then again, as the one caller said, well, why is
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it okay for this country to have one and this
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: country to have one and this country not to have one? And,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you know, there's that philosophy that people say, well, who's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the United States to tell a country of 93 million
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: people what they can and can't have? You can't do that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Didn't do it in North Korea or Pakistan or India
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: or some of these other places. Remember, Pakistan was where
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: they were hiding Osama bin Laden. So you can sit
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: back and you can look at it. A lot of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: times I think many of these countries want it because
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: they feel it's a deterrent. And maybe it is. But anyway,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: we are where we are. And I just don't see
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a good way out. I don't see any... I don't
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: see a successful way out. And I said this numerous
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: times to you guys, and I say it again. It's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a whole different part of the world. They don't think
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: like you do. You know, I learned this from our
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: eldest son who tour after tour after tour was in
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the Middle East. Was right there. His mother has a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: picture of him sitting in Saddam Hussein's throne when that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: was dealt with. And boy, he taught us something very valuable.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: He says, people over here just don't understand the culture,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and it's just different. They don't necessarily want to be
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: like you. You think they're longing to be just like you?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: They're not. This has gone on for as long as
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: time has begun. They got a different religion, a different philosophy,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: grew up differently. Everything's different. The Sunnis and the Shiites. Hell,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I remember studying the Sunnis and the Shiites when I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: was in college that long ago. You know, this group
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: likes that group and this group doesn't like that group anyway.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: You say, well, they're going to turn against the Supreme
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Leader and there's going to be an overthrow. Well, I'm
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: sure there's some people who support that. But is it
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the vast majority of people? I don't know. Seems to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: me when you see the huge turnout of the funeral
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of the Supreme Leader, that would give you an indication
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that that might not be the case. You know, you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: can read it many ways. They might be more and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: more united and pissed as countrymen as their country is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: being attacked and their people are being killed. I don't know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Does that win friends and influence people with the United
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: States if they're living in a country and they see
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: their people, their country being destroyed, their people being killed?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Or does that unite the country as a whole against
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the United States? Well, we really don't know that now,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: do we? So you don't see any major uprisings and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: people say, well, you don't see any major uprisings because, well,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: only the government has the guns. And that's probably true, too.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: You start an uprising and they shoot six people in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the head and the uprising is over real fast if
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: you don't have any weapons to counter it. But I
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: don't know if the majority of people are ready to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: overthrow the governments. And you don't know if that's true
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: or false. It just seems when I see all these
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: people showing up for the Supreme Leader's funeral or whatever
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they want to call it, that's a hell of a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: lot of people. So I'm not saying that they're in
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: any good shape at all. I mean, they're getting the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: hell knocked out of them, too. But they might just
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: have a philosophy. We're going to sit and we're going
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to wait this out. And you at some point are
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: going to leave and go home. And you're going to
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: worry about the midterm elections and things can change dramatically
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: once the midterms happen. You know, they're sitting there. Iran's
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sitting there saying, well, we got some weapons here too.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You haven't wiped us out. We can definitely– remember early
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: on when they said we can definitely tank your economy
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: because we can change the oil situation real fast. So,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that we understand. It's clear
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to me they don't want– in many of cases, they
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: view us as infidels, as we're bad news. Not that
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they want to be like us. So we shall see.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: That's why I say it just seems to me that
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: what's the way out now? What's the answer? Well, we're
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: going to bomb them some more. Well, we bombed them
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a lot. Now we're bombing them some more. Now is
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: this going to bring them to their knees and make
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: them surrender and throw up the white flag? And if
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: it doesn't, then what do you do? And where do
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you go? I mean, there's so many things to put forth.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it's a mistake from the very beginning,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: do you just continue on? Or at some point, do
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you say, hey, Israel, we're done. You're on your own.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: But the strait was open before all this happened. Things
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: were taking place. Now you don't just have a problem
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: with oil. You have a problem with fertilizer. And that
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: affects the food supply in this country and in other
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: countries because it becomes so expensive and farmers are not
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: able to afford it and crop yields. There's long-term effects
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to that and other chemicals as well in oil. Like
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I said, the oil prices have been somewhat– Disguised because
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: you're draining your strategic oil reserve. China has done it
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and cut their consumption. We have done it. Well, what
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: happens when we're at these lows? Now what do you
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: do when that's done? You say, okay, now what do
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you do? Now we're at five bucks a gallon or
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: six bucks a gallon or whatever. Now you've got inflation.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Now everything costs more. And I just don't sense that
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that's a good direction to be in right now. And
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: it's still not resolved. So it is genuinely a mess.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Think of, as I say this often, think of how
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: much better this country would have been if he would
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: have never gotten involved in this in the first place.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Because gas was around, what, $ 2. 50 a gallon? Oil prices
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: were coming down, gas prices were down, inflation was coming down.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Everything was going in the right direction. And in the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: blink of an eye, by doing this one move, everything
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: has reversed and been a disaster. And what does inflation
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: do when you have high inflation? It devalues your dollars.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: So those people that are retired and say, well, listen,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I got my half a million or whatever in retirement. Well,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: now it doesn't buy as much as it used to.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Or maybe some of it's in stocks and it's declining
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: because the market goes down. Or it takes more money
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to buy something. It takes $ 50, 000 now to buy that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: vehicle that used to be $ 35, 000. It costs you... $ 250, 000
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: to buy the house that used to be $ 175, 000 or more.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, so when you look around at all this
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: inflation and how it affects everything by sucking up more
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: dollars so that your community says, well, we need to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: tax you more because it costs twice as much for
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: a fire truck. We need to tax you more because
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a police car costs us $ 100, 000 by $ 75, 000 or so
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: by the time you outfit it. We got to tax
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you more because the snowplow truck, you got to order
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: two years in advance. And when you get it, it
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: costs a whole bunch more. You see how it's just
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: sucking up money? So we need to raise taxes so
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: we can provide these services. And then you're paying more
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: for everything else that you look around. Your electricity is doubled.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Your food prices are up. Your insurance is up. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: if oil goes up, 100, 120 a barrel, 130 a barrel,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you got big problems. And diesel can be a big
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: problem because that's how everything's trucked. The farmer's tractor, jet fuel.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: So travel tickets go up, costs more to go on
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a vacation or a business trip. I mean, it just
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: sucks your money. Inflation makes everyone poorer. is what I
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: like to say. Inflation makes all of you poorer. Whether
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you're working or retired, it doesn't matter. Your dollars buy less.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: And if more inflation comes back as a result of this,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: then you become poor on top of it. Inflation's a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: terrible thing. Just some thoughts. So what's the next strategy, Mr. President?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: If the bombing, you know, we're bombing every night. Now,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: if this doesn't work now, what are we going to do? Now,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: where do you go? What's the next plan? And what
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: do we do when you're done tapping the strategic oil reserves?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: What's the plan after that? What's the plan on getting
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the Strait open? and getting ships through it again. Because
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: none of it's working out. And I just say, listen,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: as a guy that voted for Trump, I just say,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I keep looking around. And he kept certainly deceiving me
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: to say the least at all. They want to deal,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: they're on their knees. Week after week, I kept hearing
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: this stuff. And nothing materialized. And we have that memorandum
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: of understanding. And well, that didn't last very long either.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: So now we're right back to this. So We shall see.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, stocks are up, stocks are down,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: dramatic falls. Inflation is up. Gas prices are up. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: just think it's just an absolute disaster. You're on the air.
• 35:37
  Speaker 18: That first caller has been calling your show every week
• 35:41
  Speaker 18: for five months now, saying that if Iran threatened to
• 35:45
  Speaker 18: nuke the U.S., wouldn't you invade them, Ron? He needs
• 35:50
  Speaker 18: to enlist in the military and go to the Persian
• 35:53
  Speaker 18: Gulf to defend America, but I bet he'll have lame
• 35:57
  Speaker 18: excuses for not serving. And Iran has been two weeks
• 36:00
  Speaker 18: away from acquiring a nuclear weapon for 40 years.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true.
• 36:07
  Speaker 18: And Israel is threatening nuclear allies if we stop funding them.
• 36:13
  Speaker 18: They told the leaders of Europe that our fighters can
• 36:16
  Speaker 18: reach every capital of Europe. And Chris Hedges, an American Jew,
• 36:21
  Speaker 18: says Israel has repeatedly threatened to use their nuclear arsenal
• 36:27
  Speaker 18: against any country that interferes with their land-grabbing expansion goals. Now,
• 36:34
  Speaker 18: the patriotic Congressman John Duncan says that the great majority
• 36:39
  Speaker 18: of Americans want Washington to stop the war against Iran.
• 36:44
  Speaker 18: But he said almost every congressperson just wants more money
• 36:49
  Speaker 18: from the Zionist lobby. Now, today, there's a tremendous market
• 36:55
  Speaker 18: uncertainty concerning inflation, tariffs, and the weakness in AI stocks.
• 37:02
  Speaker 18: And there's a process called the Haber-Bosch process that feeds
• 37:07
  Speaker 18: half of the world, and it is going offline because
• 37:12
  Speaker 18: natural gas... The feedstock for nitrogen fertilizer is no longer
• 37:18
  Speaker 18: flowing from its best sources. And diesel shortages also cripple agriculture.
• 37:25
  Speaker 18: Without diesel, food can't be harvested or transported. And diesel
• 37:31
  Speaker 18: and jet fuel prices have been rising faster than gas. And,
• 37:38
  Speaker 18: you know, Ron, let me see the headline. Okay. Dow
• 37:44
  Speaker 18: was way down, but Dow's in positive territory now. Guess why?
• 37:50
  Speaker 18: Because of reports that Pakistan is pushing for new U.S.-Iran talks.
• 37:59
  Speaker 18: I mean, what in the hell is going on in
• 38:02
  Speaker 18: Wall Street? They haven't figured out by now that, you know,
• 38:06
  Speaker 18: what are they doing, manipulating the market? Oh, yeah, Pakistan's
• 38:11
  Speaker 18: pushing for new U.S.-Iran talks. Does that mean Chuck Schumer
• 38:15
  Speaker 18: and Donald Trump and Mike Johnson and Barron Trump all
• 38:21
  Speaker 18: bought stocks right before that announcement? I think that's what's
• 38:25
  Speaker 18: going on. And Trump's targeting..
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Here's a story from yesterday, Frank. Southwest Airlines hired a
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: ship this spring to send jet fuel from Texas to California,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: where prices are much higher and concerns had grown about supply.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: The chief financial officer said it was the first for
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the Dallas airline. It brought like a week's supply to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the West Coast at a time when supply was most constricted,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: when it was most at risk. The ship, which left
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: from Houston and went through the Panama Canal, arrived May
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: 28th in Los Angeles and had about 12.6 million gallons aboard,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Southwest said. For context, Southwest used 564 million gallons of
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: jet fuel in the last quarter. Stand by for a minute.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: This is Bill Wills with Michael Claven, senior of the News,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Weather and Talk Station 570 WKBN. And Ron Verb, it's
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: 3.56 in the afternoon.
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: Where to begin?
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: It is where to begin. I mean, because, you know,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: you could very easily, as we draw down our strategic
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: oil reserves, I mean, listen, we could only speculate. You
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: could have oil prices easily go to $ 120 a barrel
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: or more. and the effects that come from that. You
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: have bond yields that are at 4.7%, and they're saying
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: if you hit 5%, we can no longer service the debt.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Does that ring a bell with you?
• 39:55
  Speaker 18: Yeah, one of the financial headlines today was the bond
• 40:00
  Speaker 18: market has been unusually quiet, but a lot of interest
• 40:05
  Speaker 18: rate analysts said this could be the calm before the storm.
• 40:11
  Speaker 18: before we see big increases in interest rates. And you're right, Ron,
• 40:17
  Speaker 18: how can we service the debt? Our only choice is
• 40:23
  Speaker 18: going to have to be for the Fed to start
• 40:26
  Speaker 18: buying these bonds when they mature, because nobody else will
• 40:31
  Speaker 18: buy them. And China has told their big banks, don't
• 40:35
  Speaker 18: buy American treasury debt anymore. Start buying gold.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, in all reality, there's an economic mess that
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: is simmering.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Agree?
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, no one can be certain, but oil can
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: very easily and very quickly go to $ 100 to $ 120
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: to $ 150 a barrel. I hope not. I hope I'm wrong.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: But if it does, that's economic disaster. And I don't
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: think people understand bond yields. If they go to 5%,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: we can't service the debt.
• 41:09
  Speaker 18: Well, the uncertainty isn't just in Wall Street. It's all
• 41:14
  Speaker 18: over the world. Stock markets are volatile all over the world.
• 41:20
  Speaker 18: China has the biggest strategic petroleum reserve in the world.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And they're drawing theirs down.
• 41:27
  Speaker 18: They're drawing theirs down. And Israel has the largest... China
• 41:34
  Speaker 18: also has, I think, the largest fertilizer strategic reserve. But
• 41:41
  Speaker 18: Israel has the largest... fertilizer strategic reserve in terms of
• 41:48
  Speaker 18: their population's consumption of fertilizer. They've been planning for this
• 41:54
  Speaker 18: war for 10 years now. China saw it coming. Israel
• 41:58
  Speaker 18: knew it was coming because they're the ones that started it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, I'm surprised to see it coming,
• 42:04
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  Speaker 19: From ABC News, I'm Stephanie Officer. Hope Gray, the teen
• 42:25
  Speaker 19: accused of killing two teachers and two students in the
• 42:29
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• 42:30
  Speaker 6: School shooting in Georgia.
• 42:31
  Speaker 19: Has pleaded guilty to all 55 charges in court this morning.
• 42:36
  Speaker 19: A 16-year-old now faces a minimum life sentence. A jury
• 42:47
  Speaker 19: in March convicted Gray's father, Colin, on charges of second-degree
• 42:50
  Speaker 19: murder and involuntary manslaughter after reportedly giving his son the
• 42:54
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• 42:55
  Speaker 1: In the massacre.
• 42:56
  Speaker 19: Taylor Farms is out with an update regarding their lettuce
• 42:59
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• 43:02
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• 43:05
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• 43:09
  Speaker 19: As of July 19th, the FDA says there have been
• 43:12
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• 43:16
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• 43:19
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• 43:24
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• 43:27
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• 43:30
  Speaker 14: U.S.
• 43:30
  Speaker 19: Attorney for the Western District of Texas, Justin Simmons, said
• 43:33
  Speaker 19: an investigation found six bodies when the train arrived in Laredo, Texas,
• 43:37
  Speaker 19: and were connected with another found in San Antonio.
• 43:40
  Speaker 20: There was one individual inside that then fell out of
• 43:42
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• 43:46
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• 43:50
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• 43:53
  Speaker 20: ending up in Laredo, Texas, where the other six bodies
• 43:58
  Speaker 20: were found.
• 43:59
  Speaker 19: President Trump calling it a, quote, hot ticket. Tonight's White
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• 44:09
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  Speaker 19: A former NFL quarterback is in some hot water after
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• 45:40
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• 45:43
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• 45:45
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• 45:50
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• 45:53
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• 45:57
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• 46:00
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• 46:04
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• 46:06
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• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Alok Patel.
• 46:10
  Speaker 23: So essentially what the FDA panel is trying to do
• 46:13
  Speaker 23: is basically put peptides on the 503A bulk compounding list.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: That does not mean FDA approved. That's an important distinguish
• 46:22
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• 46:22
  Speaker 23: What this means is that the raw ingredients can be
• 46:25
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• 46:28
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• 46:35
  Speaker 19: R & B singer Nibia has shared her leukemia diagnosis
• 46:38
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• 46:41
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• 46:44
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• 46:49
  Speaker 19: I'm Stephanie Officer, ABC News.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: When you said about being surprised that this happens, I'm
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: surprised because it went against everything Trump said that he
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: believed in and supported. So I'm surprised by this action
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: as well because he reversed himself.
• 47:15
  Speaker 18: Yeah, he ran as the peace president.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Well, he said we shouldn't get bogged down in the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Middle East and forever wars and we should get out
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: of it. And he did a total reversal. And then
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: he reversed himself when he said, the bunker buster, that's it.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Mission accomplished. See you later. And I believe it probably
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: was accomplished, quite frankly. And then he got involved in
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: this situation. And let me just ask you some questions,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: some yes or no questions. I sincerely believe that he
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: thought this would be over relatively quickly. Would you agree?
• 47:44
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 47:45
  Speaker 18: He said within two weeks, that's when Mossad and then
• 47:48
  Speaker 18: Yahoo told him. That lasts longer than two weeks.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Right, or maybe a month, and that wasn't the case,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: and that there wasn't this gigantic uprising or any of
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff that he was led to believe.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: And now when you look at the situation, I'm asking you,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: what's the way out? Where do we go from here? Well,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the way out is— What should we do is what
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I'm asking you.
• 48:19
  Speaker 18: Here's what we have to do. The Israel-owned Congress is
• 48:23
  Speaker 18: about to pass two laws. One merges the U.S. military
• 48:27
  Speaker 18: with Israel, and the other makes Americans who criticize Israel
• 48:32
  Speaker 18: to be criminals. We need to stop funding Israel. We
• 48:36
  Speaker 18: need to get AIPAC to register as a foreign lobby.
• 48:40
  Speaker 18: And we need voter election integrity. I don't know if
• 48:46
  Speaker 18: I can trust the elections.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't disagree with anything that you just said.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: But my question is, what's the way out of the
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: situation right now that we are in Iran? I mean,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: what do you do? Do you say to Israel, we're done,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: you're on your own, see you later, this was a
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: mistake and we're leaving? What do you do now?
• 49:05
  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
• 49:06
  Speaker 18: If I was Trump or the dictator of America, I
• 49:10
  Speaker 18: would declare peace and not only bring hope All the
• 49:14
  Speaker 18: troops home from the Persian Gulf close all 858 military bases.
• 49:20
  Speaker 18: bases all over the world and bring the troops home,
• 49:23
  Speaker 18: and that would drastically cut the war budget because we
• 49:27
  Speaker 18: can't afford war anymore. It's bankrupting us. We're involved in
• 49:34
  Speaker 18: war on Israel's behalf. not to defend the American people
• 49:39
  Speaker 18: from harm.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: In other words, what you're saying is we attacked them,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: them being Iran, they didn't attack us.
• 49:45
  Speaker 18: That's correct. Now, to your first scholar, you know, he's saying, well,
• 49:50
  Speaker 18: the Iranians are chanting death to America. Well, you know,
• 49:53
  Speaker 18: the CIA, Mossad, and British MI5 overthrew the democratically elected
• 50:01
  Speaker 18: Mossadegh prime minister in 1953. and installed a dictator called
• 50:07
  Speaker 18: the Shah of Iran, whose Soviet tortured Iranians for criticizing
• 50:13
  Speaker 18: the government. I think if some country did that to us,
• 50:18
  Speaker 18: we would be chanting death to them as well.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: All right. It is a mess. So what do you think?
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Just a quick question. I mean, and it's all speculation
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: because we've never been in a situation like this before.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: And I do sincerely think that this is a mess.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm deeply concerned where inflation is going to go.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I'm deeply concerned with what's the exit ramp on this situation.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: How do you get out of this mess?
• 50:42
  Speaker 18: Well, I think. The economy is in deep trouble.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: So do I.
• 50:46
  Speaker 18: I read a report yesterday. Small businesses are closing up shop.
• 50:52
  Speaker 18: They're laying people off. You know, small businesses is the
• 50:56
  Speaker 18: backbone to economic growth. It's not the large companies like
• 51:00
  Speaker 18: NVIDIA and General Motors. Small businesses... historically create the jobs,
• 51:07
  Speaker 18: and we're not creating the jobs in small businesses or
• 51:11
  Speaker 18: in trouble. They can't afford.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Pause for a second. I thought on John Arnold's show
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, Thursday night, 6-7, John Arnold Money Talk, I
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: thought he made an interesting observation. I just want to
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: bounce this off you, then I get to more calls.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, he really made an interesting observation. Listen, John's
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: a pretty sharp guy. Would you agree financially? I mean,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: he's a pretty smart guy. So he was talking about
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: this doesn't make sense as far as spending is concerned
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and inflation and what's going on and how people are
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: continuing to spend. You follow me? He said, here's what
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I think is causing that. And I said, well, what, John?
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: And he said, I think it's as a result of COVID.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: And he said, as a result of COVID, it's changed
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: people and their philosophy where suddenly many people thought, well,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: what's the point? I could die tomorrow. What's the next pandemic?
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Or who knows that I'm going to live and be
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: able to retire? It's changed the mentality of a lot
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: of people to where they're going to buy no matter
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: what the situation is, even if it puts them in debt.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: And I think he might be right about that.
• 52:22
  Speaker 18: Well, Ron, let me wrap it up by saying I've
• 52:25
  Speaker 18: been telling you for decades now, that we've got to
• 52:30
  Speaker 18: stop taxing businesses, especially small businesses, and we've got to
• 52:36
  Speaker 18: stop over-regulating them. If we did that, small businesses would
• 52:41
  Speaker 18: create jobs where we would have to import more workers
• 52:46
  Speaker 18: than we're doing now. We would have such labor shortages
• 52:53
  Speaker 18: in the wages for Americans. People would go up and
• 52:57
  Speaker 18: up and up if we just did those two things.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: All right. I got you. Thanks, Frank. Appreciate it. You're
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: on the air.
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just need one thing. I'm at the grocery
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: store right now. Can I bill you guys for my
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: Reese's peanut butter sticks?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Why do you want to bill me for your, excuse me, your.
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: Reese's peanut butter sticks? Yeah, don't you remember our bet?
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: If we had signed a peace agreement.
• 53:27
  Speaker 25: This was a couple weeks ago.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: If we signed a peace... You don't remember? No, refresh
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: my memory.
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: Remember, our bet was if we would sign a peace
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: agreement within the week that you stated we were going
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: to do, then I would either get you some Milo's
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: iced tea, or you would get me my Reese's Pieces.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: So it's been..
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: That's all I'm concerned about. World affairs and stuff, I'm
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: not too worried. I just want my Reese's.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Well, wait a minute. I... I thought I said that
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't do that. What was my side of that bet?
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: The side of the bet was within what you guys
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: all said and everybody said.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: I never said that. No, no, no, no. I never
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: said we had signed it. We had that.
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: You're going back on our bet.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: No, we had the moratorium. I think it's yet to
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: be determined, and it's looking more like you owe me
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: the gallon of Milo's unsweet tea. Not the sweet tea,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the unsweet tea.
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: But we're not signing a peace agreement. We haven't signed
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: a peace agreement. That was the bet.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: And I don't think, I never said we'd sign a
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: peace agreement. You must be mistaking me for G2 or
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Rich or somebody else.
• 54:28
  Speaker 10: That's what it is.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: I thought it was you. I'm so sorry it was
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: somebody else.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: No, it's you're a whole different because.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: You've had nothing but liberals on.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: You're a whole different guy. You're a whole different guy
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: since you went and had your analysis by your psychiatrist.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: He's coming back to be flashbacks now.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're supposed to be.
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: So I never had that. So I'll get you.
• 54:50
  Speaker 10: I'll get on that.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: Milo's for you real soon here.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: You're not you're supposed to be. I thought your psychiatrist
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: was transforming you from JJ the liberal to JJ the Trumpster.
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: That's what it is. I just had another twitch right now.
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: I remember now, though. I am going to have to
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: go to Milo's today. Honey, honey, would you go get
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: that Milo's unsweetened?
• 55:10
  Speaker 25: Yeah, the gallons.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 55:12
  Speaker 10: Tell him it's Moran Verb.
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: Tell him it's Moran Verb. Thank you, honey. Thank you.
• 55:17
  Speaker 25: Can you pick up some Reese's sticks for me, too?
• 55:20
  Speaker 16: Oh, no.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: Never mind.
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to take too much of your time,
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: but it is true.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: You know, folks, I said this the other day, and
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: I just say it while you're online. The two most
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: frequent callers people ever ask me about when I dare
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to go anywhere outside of my home. The two most
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: callers that they ask me about are G2 and JJ.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Honest to God, they're the two most. Yeah, I haven't
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: had a quick goodbye yet. Way like telling, well, JJ
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the liberal has now become JJ the Trumpster ever since
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: he went in for some psychiatric counseling. Your bits are
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: better than ever, though. I mean, you are on a roll.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're acting.
• 56:08
  Speaker 11: You're lying.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Your acting is very good.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, no, Milo's.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Milo's.
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: That's it, right.
• 56:14
  Speaker 10: Write it down.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, buddy. I get this.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Remind yourself. I mean, it's theater of the mind. It's
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: almost like I feel you're at the grocery store as
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: you're talking right now. I picture you.
• 56:24
  Speaker 24: Wait a second.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. Cooler.
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: And then they have the bags of ice outside because
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: we got to make sure it's delivered cold. So could
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: you do that for me?
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you, honey.
• 56:37
  Speaker 18: I owe you.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Go ahead.
• 56:41
  Speaker 10: Wait a minute.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. I mean, folks. It is almost like
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: it's like the old days when they were doing the
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: dramas on radio. I mean, I'm sitting here listening. It's
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: like JJ.
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: It's like, it's like, it's like, how was it like after?
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Cause I'm turning 64 tomorrow.
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: How was life after that? Is it as good as
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: your living? Do I have to look forward to it?
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, buddy. As long as you're
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: alive and healthy, life is wonderful. But you are doing
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: some great theater of the minds. I pictured you right
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: at the grocery store, hollering to your wife, And getting
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: the cooler and ice. I mean, I visually could see
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: it in my mind, everything that you were enacting on
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: the program. So I got to give you kudos. I mean,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: brilliantly done. Just brilliantly done.
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: I still remember you're in G2' s thing. Remember when they,
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: what was it? It was giving you that weird background feed.
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: And you guys went along with it. You guys were
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: feeding off of one another. It was amazing. I actually
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: had me laughing. I was actually crying. I was laughing
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: so much. And I think even the people that don't
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: agree with me most of the time, we all had
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: a belly laugh that day. So it really is, you
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: had the ability to kind of blend with one another.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: And that's called improv.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: You better hang up. Your wife's at the self-checkout. You
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: better get down there.
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: M-I-L-O-S, plus V-S, Milo's. Yes, Milo's.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: Listen, I got to go take care of this, man.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: Have a great weekend.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: There he is. Oh, Lord. You're on the air.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Ron.
• 58:25
  Speaker 11: How are you?
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: I'm doing okay. I really am. I'm doing much better now.
• 58:30
  Speaker 11: Where's he calling from? The Seventh Planet?
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: No, the grocery store. It's all theater of the mind.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: It's J.J. the Trumpster. He went through some psychiatric shock
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: therapy to go from being a liberal to the Trumpster.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: And he's got some side effects. You understand.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: Well, that's okay.
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: I don't think he's quite there yet.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Hey, now let me ask you this question. How are
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: things going out there economically, in your opinion? Folks, Mike
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: is like a sales guy. This is a guy, folks,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: that it's easy for me to brag about. And I
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: want you to hear this. This is a guy that
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: is one of those guys that leaves on Monday and
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: gets home on Friday because he's all over. the country
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: selling an industrial product, you know, machinery and that, all
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: over the country. So he's a guy that's out there
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: providing for his family, and he doesn't get to see
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: them very much. Just as a side note, does that
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: get old after a while, yes or no? Yes. Okay.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, hotels and just being in different places and
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:33
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: I had a good week this week.
• 59:34
  Speaker 11: But, you know, I have nothing new to report, Ron.
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: Everything is on the credit card. But, you know, it's
• 59:42
  Speaker 11: been a while since we've talked.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 59:46
  Speaker 11: And, you know, probably the last time, one of the
• 59:51
  Speaker 11: last discussions we had was, you know, we need to
• 59:53
  Speaker 11: get out of this Iranian tussle here. as quickly as
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: possible because this current government that we hired is not
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 11: doing what we hired them to do, which is the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 11: America first agenda and to secure these elections.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 11: So it really doesn't matter what the economy is doing
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 11: right now. If we don't get this solved, because as we,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 11: you know, going back to 2020, uh, We can see
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 11: how quickly that everything can be, it's just like a
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 11: light switch. Everything can be undone with a few strokes
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 11: of the auto pen.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Right. Aren't you disappointed in the Republicans as a whole
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: that in the majority they haven't secured more of this
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: other than executive orders? I mean, the Republican Party is
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: extremely disappointing with the American agenda that they didn't secure
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: it more and that they don't get the SAVE Act passed.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I think that's vital. Okay, so it's horrible that you've
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: got to show an ID to vote and be a citizen.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: That's controversial? You've got to have your head examined.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: I should be able to walk on the sub-base that
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 11: I was on this week with just a piece of
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: paper that says I'm coming in to look. And I'm
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 11: not going to look and take any pictures, but I
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 11: want to sell you something.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: How'd that work out? Were you able to do that?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 11: So let's go real quick here. I don't want to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 11: tie up too much of your time. You know, Donald Trump,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 11: he's the de facto leader for this America First agenda.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 11: We hired him to... push this agenda forward. Obviously, he
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 11: cannot do it himself. He's got, you know, he's got,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 11: you know, the Senate and the Congress to deal with.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 11: I wish that he would go after these people that
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 11: are holding up this agenda as hard as he did
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 11: Thomas Massey.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Bravo. Stand by. Just let me do my break. I'll
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: come right back to you, okay? Just hang in there.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: All right. I'm always intrigued by what Mike has to say.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Back after this, stay tuned. Ron, Verb 422.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: So, see, I'm in tune with what you're saying. You're
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: saying Trump has got to get back to why he
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: was elected.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 11: And I'm going to go a little... I've got a
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 11: couple points, but this one, you know, you talk about
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 11: the standards quite a bit.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: And..
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 11: You know, the job that the people in Florida hired
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 11: DeSantis to do, he's doing.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 11: Absolutely. And I don't know, you know, this is obviously
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 11: hindsight is 20-20, and I don't know how wrong DeSantis
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 11: would be as President of the United States, but just
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 11: based on where we are today and the results that
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 11: he has achieved there versus the results that we have
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 11: achieved on the national level, I may vote for, I
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 11: would probably vote for DeSantis over Trump.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Are you prepared? Well, Trump obviously can't run again. I
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: would vote for, if DeSantis was running for president next time,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: I would vote for him over anybody. I think, quite frankly,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: there's a couple of things. What I like about DeSantis
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: is he reads. He reads this stuff. I mean, he
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: just doesn't go by advisors. I think he's smart. He reads.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: And I love his philosophy on taxes. And I played
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: it one day for an hour. I want to repeat
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: that on some future broadcast. It's so moving.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 11: Hopefully this deer does not try to cross the road. Oh,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 11: it's going back. Good.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 11: Sorry about the play-by-play.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, I remember your call vividly because you said, listen,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: we've got to get out of this Iran situation. We've
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: got to get back to the American first agenda, getting
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: rid of inflation and the secure elections. That's all. We've
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: got to get back to that kind of stuff. And
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: he's not doing any of that.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 11: No. For whatever reason, he is, you know, stuck in
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 11: a rut. with this Iranian war, and, you know, I
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 11: just want to see you get out of it. How
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 11: do you get out of it? I don't know, other
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 11: than just walking away and saying, who did Frank say,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 11: I'm declaring peace?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: I'm declaring victory.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 11: No, no, no, he said I'm declaring peace.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 11: And walking away. So, now I've got a couple questions
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 11: for you, Ron.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 11: Do you trust people?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Some, yes.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 11: Do you trust people running business?
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Some, yes.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 11: Do you trust people running the government?
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 11: I got your answer. Yeah, I got your answer. That's okay.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: You don't have to.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 11: So my question to you is why do we You know,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 11: why do people, their default position is that if I
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 11: can't figure this out, we're going to have government do it,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 11: provide the solution, where you've got in, say, the free
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 11: market and business where you would have choices. You know,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 11: the only time we don't have a choice in the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 11: free market is when it has government-granted monopoly powers and licensure.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 11: That's the only time we don't have a choice. Every
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 11: other one, you can go, you know, you don't have
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 11: to go to Burger King. You go to McDonald's. And
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 11: I heard today it was a great, on another radio show.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: Is there such a thing?
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 11: Not as good as yours.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 12: Wink, wink.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 11: They said that having the government put forth regulations, They
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 11: were talking about school boards. It was like having Burger
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 11: King regulate where McDonald's can go and vice versa. Can
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 11: you put a Burger King next to a McDonald's and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 11: then going and ask McDonald's if that's okay? So that's
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 11: what you have when you have government, except for one thing.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 11: The government can come back with a gun and say
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 11: you must comply, where a business cannot. You can just
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 11: go down the street. So why do we trust government
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 11: to provide, say, Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security or, oh,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 11: I don't know, how about your currency? You know, Bitcoin,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 11: stable coin or whatever Alec was talking about. the other day.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 11: I mean, the one thing that struck me was he
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 11: was saying that they had some clarity act that was
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 11: going to prevent government..
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• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: from Mike. Okay, go ahead. What were you saying?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 11: There's not many words of wisdom left.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, to me, here's my credit to you.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to ask you this. How do
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: you think the economy is doing right now?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 11: It's teetering on the edge. I mean, it's all smoke
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 11: and mirrors.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, because you're out there and you're dealing with industry
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: and business and you sell a machinery and it's expensive
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  Speaker 1: and you hear it firsthand. Folks, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: know how the economy is doing, ask a salesman. Ask
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: a truck driver. Ask anybody in shipping. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: But that's only going to give you part of the picture.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 11: You know, if a company is close to, say, the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 11: government trough, Oh, yeah.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 12: Okay?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 11: They're buying like crazy.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 10: They don't care.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 11: Because that's... At this point, it's never-ending.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 11: It's like, oh, we're going to go to, I don't know,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 11: the buffet at the Ron Herb restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: If they're involved in anything with the military, I get you.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 10: Sure.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 11: So, you know, that's only part of the story. The
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 11: real thing, though, is this, you know, the $ 40 trillion that...
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 11: debt that we have, and the gazillion dollars of unfunded liabilities,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 11: things like Social Security and pensions and stuff like that,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 11: that is what's going to crush the United States if
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 11: we do not continually dip into future productivity to pay
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 11: these things. You know, so back to this Clarity Act
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 11: thing and the Bitcoin and stablecoin thing. They're not going
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 11: to be backed by anything. And to say that they're
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 11: going to be backed by the U.S. Treasuries or the dollar,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 11: what is that? There's no backing there either. It's our
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 11: ability to pay those bills, you and I, to contribute
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 11: with our productivity that keeps this charade going. And therein
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 11: lies the problem. At some point in time, that loaf
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 11: of bread... you will need a wheelbarrow.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 13: Full of money to buy it.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 11: So, you know, the long-term outlook, as long as we
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 11: are under this system, is not good. Now, I've got
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 11: a question for you. If you change the way Social
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 11: Security is funded, is it still Social Security?
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 11: Well, in name only, Ron.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: In name only it's a great program and you and
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: i will always disagree on that.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 11: We will disagree on it but it is not a
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 11: great program we will disagree that it's a program.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great program and you and i
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: are just i tell you what we're just gonna have
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: to arm wrestle okay you want to Well, probably not
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: at my age. Yeah, probably not at my age.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, you're right.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 11: It'd be beating up on an old man.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. At least you acknowledge it, you know
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Hey, sonny boy, respect your elders, all right? Okay.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: See you later, Mike.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: So, Ron, no kidding.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 11: Have a great weekend.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: You too. You're on the air.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 10: Hi.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm kind of disappointed that you went to
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 7: three hours, but I totally understand because, you know, I'm
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 7: an older person, too.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: I just want to say this again. Three hours is
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: important to me, folks, because... Four hours is a long...
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: Most talk shows are three hours, not four hours. I've
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: done a four-hour talk show here for 41 years. And
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: that's a long haul to do a four-hour talk show.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: When people would complain about the Guardians coming on, I
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: love listening to the Guardians, but I rejoiced when they
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: came on because it meant sometimes I could finish at
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: 6 or 6.30 as opposed to 7 o'clock. And by
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: the time I get out of here and get home
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: and I'm eating dinner at 8.30, it's crazy. You know
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: what I mean? I totally get that. I just said
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: I had enough of that. I don't want to do
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: that anymore.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 7: But here's my comment. That all being said, and I
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 7: totally understand that, but now we have three hours, and
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 7: then three nights a week, you have other shows that
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 7: go on for the third hour.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I have to do those, yeah. Rockport on Monday
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: and John Earl, yes.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: So it's only three days.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: That being said.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 10: Three days.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but three other... three, one hour a day. So
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 7: basically I've been on hold for an hour. And what I'm,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 7: what I want to ask is for the people who
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 7: call every day.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Just go ahead.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 7: Every day.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: I love my everyday callers.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 7: Try to keep it a little pithy.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 7: To give other people a chance to talk. Now I'm
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 7: not saying that they shouldn't, they can call every day.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I'm going to answer, I'm going
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: to answer your criticism and I'll let you talk. This
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: program would not exist at the level it exists without
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: those regular callers. I'm just telling you point blank that
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: without them, this program would not exist to the level
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: that it exists. And because many of those regular callers
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: are outstanding contributors and make the program possible. what it is.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Here's a little inside baseball I give you on radio
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: talk shows. Less than 2% of the audience actually picks
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: up the phone and calls. That's a very small percentage. 98%
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: of the people that listen to talk radio never pick
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: up the phone and call. It takes a certain degree
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: of guts to call. And when you get regular callers
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: like JJ, he's really a fairly entertaining guy. Richard Farmacist
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: is a smart guy. G2 is in a category by himself. Oh, yeah.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: And all of this kind of stuff. The regular callers
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: that we've cultivated and have are excellent from a knowledge
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: standpoint and they're very entertaining. So I will defend them.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: And that's why most talk shows, if you've ever listened, like,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: for example... Jesse Kelly that's on at 10 o'clock at night,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: he doesn't take any calls. If you listen to Clay
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: and Buck, they don't take very many calls. I don't
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: understand radio talk shows anymore, folks, where it's just two
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: or three people talking to each other all the time,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: and they never engage with the audience or take calls
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: from the audience. It's a risk.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 7: It's a risk.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: Even Sean Hannity takes very few calls. And a lot
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: of these guys use what they call the iHeartRadio app,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: which is like one way. You know, you can record
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: 20 seconds and then they can play it. And to
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: a certain extent, this sounds terrible. It's the coward's way
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: out because I think you should be..
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 7: I agree with you. And it is very risky. I mean,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 7: you know, we've got the one caller that you have
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 7: to hang up on all the time, you know, because
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 7: it's kind of foul mouthed. But you know what I'm saying.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 7: You know that guy. And then you have to hang
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 7: up on him. But anyhow, are you still there?
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 12: Hello?
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 25: Yes.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 12: Anyhow.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: Where do you think I went? Do you think like
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: a UFO came down? Are you still there? No, I
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: went out for lunch.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 7: Maybe you hung up on me.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't hang up. You are starting to get
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: on my nerves.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 7: I'm not trying to complain.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 9: I want to.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 7: You know, I love..
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes... Sometimes I.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 7: Like about, too, you have a lot of critical thinkers.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, I get some very smart..
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 7: Now, some people are just critical.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 7: Early on the program, you were probably kind of just critical.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 7: But there are them, the critical thinkers, like JT, like
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 7: Ted the Conservative... Like, you know, sometimes, you know, Frank,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 7: he can just be critical.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Frank's a pretty smart guy, actually. I know a lot
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: of people don't.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 7: Well, I agree. You know, I'm past the age. I
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 7: don't have the money to do the investing and to
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 7: do all of that. So sometimes when those callers come on,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 7: it just kind of goes over my head. And, you know,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 7: and I'm sure there's a lot of people out there
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 7: who are like that.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: It goes over my head when they get into the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: weeds on ads.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, it really does. But I'm conscious of what
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: you're saying, and I appreciate it. Believe me.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 7: I'm asking them. Try to, you know, hold it. Keep
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 7: it a little pippy because your fellow listeners would occasionally
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 7: like to get.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 11: A word in.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: Well, if they're interesting, I really like a lot of
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: those people, and I really enjoy engaging with them. Hey,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: nothing lasts forever, I've got to tell you. Here's the reality.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: There are very few local radio talk shows anymore at all.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: And here, I'm going to give you the inside scoop,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: because you've intrigued me now, and now I'm confessing everything
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: to you. Okay, you're going to... And I probably shouldn't
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: say any of this, okay? So you'll probably get me
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: in deep trouble. Just between you and me. Just between
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: you and me. Like when you see on a lot
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: of talk radio stations and they put on what they
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: call network shows, like Sean Hannity, like Jesse Kelly, like
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: Clay and Buck, all of those programs are owned by Premier,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: which is a network which is owned by iHeart, okay?
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: You follow me? So iHeart Radio owns Premier, so those
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: are all their properties. That's all their network shows.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 7: That's a stable of people.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Absolutely correct. And they're tried and true and tested and
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So if you go pretty
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: much anywhere in the country, on iHeart Station, you mostly
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: hear all network programming. You hear very few local radio
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: talk shows at all anymore, particularly in medium-sized markets or
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: small markets, and even in some of the larger markets.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: You hear very few local radio talk shows. And I
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: think that's a big mistake. Make no mistake. In my opinion,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: I think it is a huge, huge mistake. But I
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: don't own this company. They own it. And it's theirs
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: to do with what they please. And I think local
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: radio stations should serve the local community. And I think
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: it's hard to do that when you have network programming
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: on all the time. Yeah.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 11: I agree.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 7: You know, I used to sell advertising for three different
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 7: radio stations when I lived in State College. So radio
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 7: is close to my heart. That's why I listen.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: It's far better than television. And I'm going to enjoy
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: this conversation, folks, so everybody else is just going to
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: have to wait. When you say, I enjoy this conversation because...
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: Like the other day when I was talking about the
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: Poland Library, you can't do what we did here on
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: television or any other outlet. I can sit here with
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: the architect that built that library and talk to him
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: for two to three hours about that situation. And it's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: such an honor. And it's such an honor to have–
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: a blessing, I guess you would say, to have a
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: large audience. You follow me? I mean, you know the business.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're blessed. We got a huge signal. We
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: got a lot of listeners and people that if they
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: don't listen live, they listen on the iHeart app or
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: they listen to the podcast. So it's easy to get
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: stories out to people because you can hear from people
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: and they have time to explain themselves and you can
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: cover stuff in more detail. And I think you lose
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: that when you lose local talk radio.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 7: And then people can call and ask specific questions that
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 7: you might not have thought of, and you kind of
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 7: stir the imagination of people who didn't really know what
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 7: was going on. Maybe they don't read the newspaper anymore.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 7: Maybe they are.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 7: And that's how things like the library sneak by.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: Exactly right. And you can't. As much as they talk
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: about podcasts and this kind of stuff, other than Joe
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: Rogan and that kind of stuff, for the most part,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, the big names... most like if
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: they're regional or local podcast, I mean, we get a
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: lot of listenership to our podcast when he, when we
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: post it, we've been having some problems with our it.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: So they, I think they finally got them sorted out.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: So a lot of people were upset with that. So,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: but we, we are successful at our podcast posts because
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: of the radio program. You follow me, the people who
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: aren't able to hear the program live, listen to it
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: on a podcast, but most podcasts don't have that many
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: listeners or viewers, right? At all, if you look at it.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: It's a very small audience. And that's the benefit, since
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: you know radio. Radio listenership is huge. And it's huge
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: because it's free. You don't have to pay for it.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: You don't need a cable. It's easy to get to
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff, whether it's music or
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: whether it's talk radio. It's free. So it's huge. You
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: sold advertising. I think it's the most effective advertising. Absolutely.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 7: I used to say to people, even if you advertise
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 7: and you do three commercials during the day, the same
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: people are listening. They will hear that commercial three times
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: because they are listening. They don't change the channel. They
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 7: just go from one program to the next a lot
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 7: of times. And I just, while we're on the topic,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 7: I want to say that I really like Michael DiGiorno.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: In the morning. He's excellent, yeah.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 7: If anybody hasn't Listen to him from six to nine.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: It's excellent. I learn a lot. He's funny. He's got
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 7: ADD like a lot of radio people do.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: But even if you listen, like, you know, when I
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: evaluate things, just in my opinion, I think Armstrong and
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: Getty are way better than Clay and Buck. I think
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty are way better than Clay and Buck.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: They're kind of knuckleheads.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 7: They're kind of a couple-of-guy knuckleheads.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? But they're pretty good. I'm
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: not a big fan of Clay and Buck. I never
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: have been, but I thought Rush Limbaugh was excellent on that.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: And Sean Hannity, obviously, is the king because he's on
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: like 600 stations or something along those lines. So network
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: programming has its place, but it's pretty much– When a
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: company owns a network, they want to get that kind
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: of stuff out. So all I'm saying is local talk
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: shows are an endangered species, and everybody's getting older and
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And not to sound like a goofball,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: but you would know it's not an inexpensive undertaking. People
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: might find this hard to imagine. I don't show up
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: for free. And it's been very good to me.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 7: And, you know, it's hard to replace. It's hard to
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 7: replace somebody like you or like Dan because you need
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 7: somebody who's been around for a long.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: Time and knows the history.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 7: You can't, like the library lady, you can't just throw
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 7: somebody in who has no ties to the community, doesn't
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 7: know anything about the past or what happened 20 years
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 7: ago or whatever.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: But I've always taken, you know, before I was here,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: I've always done the same thing. I've always, you know,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: I'll have guests on from time to time, but very infrequently.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: And I've usually have always taken calls from listeners. And
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: I've never been able to figure out why so many
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: radio talk shows, whether network or local, are afraid to
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: do that. And or too nervous to do that. And
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: I've never been able to figure that out. But it
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: is what it is.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 7: A control thing. It's a control thing. And the risk,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 7: the risk of what they're going to say. And, you know,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 7: some of them just don't want to take that risk.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 7: I'll just leave you with that.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: You're actually pretty smart. I mean, I've got to confess.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you kind of know what you're talking about.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 7: I'm always underestimated.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: Well, guess what? I'm always overestimated. Believe me, I'm much
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: dumber than you would think. Thank you for your call, though.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: I got to go.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: Back after this, NewsRadio 570 WKBN and Ron Furb from
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Mahoning. Hi there, this is 570 WKBN.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: And your fearless leader, Ron Furb, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Ron. Hey, I just want to make a quick
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: statement about Trump.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to have to give him the benefit
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 3: of the doubt. I think he.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 9: Meant well for the country and the world of what
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 9: he got into.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: Maybe he got duped by Israel. I don't know. But
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: I just have to give him a little break on
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: this and say he thought he was doing the right thing.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: He got duped, probably. But I think he.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 9: Meant well in what he's doing. And I have to
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 9: cut him a little break on that. And And I
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 9: know things aren't going good, but if.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: I was him, I would say, okay, we're going to.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 9: Bomb the crap out of them and then get out
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 9: of there.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 12: That's it.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: If they don't want to come to the table, we're done.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: That's what I would do if I was Mr. Donald J. Trump.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you for short and sweet. I appreciate it. All right.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: Have a good night, Ron.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 26: Hello?
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 26: Ron, I got a question here. ask, and maybe one
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 26: of your smart listeners will know the answer to it.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 26: I'm one of your 94-year-old young persons.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 13: 94?
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: You better get the question out. Who knows how much
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: longer you got?
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 26: That's for sure. Anyhow, this is an article written about
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 26: birthright citizenship by Edward J.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 13: Erler.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 26: E-R-L-E-R.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: What's your question?
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 26: He states that Birthright citizenship is not birthright by birth.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 26: It's citizenship by law. And it goes on to say,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 26: all persons born of naturalized U.S. citizens or U.S. people
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 26: are subject of the jurisdiction. And then he goes on
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 26: to explain what they meant by citizenship. jurisdiction in the
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 26: Constitution means owning exclusive allegiance to the U.S. He said
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 26: that's the reason why Indians didn't join the Union, because
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 26: their allegiance was to their tribe and not to the U.S.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 26: And I would like to know if that's true, and
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 26: if that is true, why don't they get all these
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 26: politicians down at are that are asking for communism and
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 26: socialism and get them expelled, expel their citizenship and get
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 26: them out of the country.
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  Speaker 1: All right, old timer. Duly noted. I'll see if anybody
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: has any reaction to it. Hang in there.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: Stay healthy. I'll be right back. Looking to upgrade your bathroom? Hi,
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  Speaker 1: this is..
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  Speaker 2: Money Talks investment coach, John Arnold Studios. This is 570
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  Speaker 19: From ABC News, I'm.
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  Speaker 27: Lindsay Davis, anchor of Prime, streaming on ABC News Live.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 27: It's still unclear whether Saudi Arabia will agree to a
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 27: nuclear partnership with the U.S. that President Trump insists is
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 27: in the works. The president added a caveat to the deal,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 27: which would allow the U.S. to help the Saudis build
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 27: nuclear power, but the Saudis have to sign on to
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 27: the Abraham Accords. That agreement paves the way for other
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 27: Mideast nations to have normalized relations with Israel. Saudi Arabia
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 27: has long said it wants formal recognition of a Palestinian state,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 27: something the current Israeli government won't do. ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 28: We've looked at the history of this and the law.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 28: This is the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which allows
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 28: for a congressional review process once a deal is struck
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 28: with a foreign country to share nuclear technology. It was
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 28: controversial to begin with because of the concerns about nuclear
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 28: nonproliferation and the idea of, might this not allow for
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 28: international inspectors? And would the Saudis actually be enriching uranium
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 28: in Saudi Arabia? The president insisted that wouldn't be part
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 28: of the deal.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 27: A shocking broad daylight double stabbing in Manhattan Thursday afternoon.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 27: The NYPD says the suspect shouted, then randomly stabbed two
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 27: men in the 50s. ABC's Aaron Katursky.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 29: One of the victims is Asian who was stabbed in
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 29: the back with a knife. The other victim is Jewish
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 29: and had just stepped outside a synagogue when he was
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 29: stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver. A UPS driver
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 29: who saw what happened followed the suspect for several blocks.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 29: Police then took 51-year-old Raul Morales into custody.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 27: Both were hospitalized and are in stable condition. The Carolinas
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 27: are on pace for multi-day floods in the next several days.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 27: ABC meteorologist Ginger Zee.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 30: Charleston to Wilmington today finds themselves in a level three
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 30: out of four. So that's where some of the heaviest
• 1:31:17
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• 1:31:19
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• 1:31:22
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• 1:31:25
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• 1:31:27
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  Speaker 19: The FDA out with another warning today, this time regarding
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 19: certain types of eggs. The agency says at least 98
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 19: people across 17 states have been infected with salmonella, with
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 19: eggs likely being the source. Midwest Poultry Services issued a
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 19: voluntary recall of white shell eggs and brown cage-free shell
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 19: eggs with the sell-by-best-by date between July 20th and August 17th.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 19: The DOJ today announced 11 indictments in the deaths of
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 19: seven migrants who died from extreme heat after being locked
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 19: in a cargo train container in May.
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  Speaker 16: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney for the.
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  Speaker 19: Western District of Texas Justin Simmons said an investigation found
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 19: six bodies when the train arrived in Laredo were connected
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 19: with another found in San Antonio.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 20: Eleven individuals that we've identified to date that operated this
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 20: alien smuggling organization and caused the death of these seven individuals.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 19: Seems there was a fight involving one of the most
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 19: famous prison inmates in New Jersey. ABC's Sherry Preston.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 8: A source tells ABC News that Sean Diddy Combs has
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 8: been in a fight at the Federal Correctional Institution at
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 8: Fort Dix, where he's serving a 50-month sentence for transporting prostitutes.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 8: The other inmate involved in the altercation apparently made a
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 8: remark to Diddy, which instigated the entire event, and Diddy
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 8: was sent to solitary confinement, according to a source. It's
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 8: unclear if that move will be temporary or whether he'll
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 8: be kept there long-term. Combs' release is supposed to be
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 8: in 2028.
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  Speaker 19: I'm Stephanie Officer, ABC News.
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  Speaker 17: A to Z depends on verb on news radio, five
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  Speaker 17: 70 WKBN. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Patient callers. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 13: Hello.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, hi, Ron.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 10: It's not Marianne.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: No, pretty good. Actually, not a bad, like a blast
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: from the past.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 10: I know. Right.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 31: Hey, I was, Thinking about the past, not yesterday, but
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 31: the Thursday prior, you had a woman call in. She
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 31: was college-educated, and she was just going off. I don't
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 31: know if you recall or not.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 31: And when you asked her if she was married, I
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 31: just busted up laughing because, like, who's going to marry
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 31: something like that?
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: She was something else.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 31: She was going off, I'll tell you. Hey, Sherrod Brown, though, right?
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 31: He's the only one worried about the Swable people. He's
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 31: running for something. Now he's getting photo ops with the
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 31: people from Swable. I don't know if you saw it
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 31: on the news.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: Well, naturally. He's there acting like he gives a damn
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: about it because he's looking for votes. And let me
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: tell you, when he's done, he goes home and he
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: forgets all about it.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 11: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 31: You guys were talking about the library the last couple
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 31: of days. And, you know, they're talking about replacing it.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 31: You know, what, are they going to build it further
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 31: up on 170?
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got a different location. They're going to want
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: to build a new building, which would be nearly as
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: spectacular and would cost... Instead of fixing what you have,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: fixing the building that you have, which is spectacular, and
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: putting the money in that, their philosophy is, well, it's
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: 25 years old. Let's go build a new one. I mean,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: with their philosophy, who would stay in their house? I mean,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: it's just the most strangest damn philosophy and so arrogant
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: to the people of that community and, quite frankly, the
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: rest of us.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 31: If they say it's going to be like $ 10 million
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 31: to build a new one, you know it's going to
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 31: be $ 20 million by the time it's done.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 31: That's a consideration. But I don't know if it was
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 31: Rich or Ted said that he was just by the library.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 25: And then, like, I heard him on the radio.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 31: And then, like, the next day I was like, I'm
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 31: going past the library and I'm looking at it. And
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 31: I'm like, yeah, it's not maintained. It's just from the
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 31: street you can see it.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: And like anything, you have to do maintenance over that
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: period of time. And obviously, you have not done it.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: And now you want to say, well, the maintenance is overwhelming. Well,
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: because you haven't done it. But that doesn't mean you
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: abandon a beautiful facility that's one of the gems of
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: that community or, frankly, Mahoning County.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 31: You were talking about guest hosts. The guy you had the–
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 31: not the contractor, the– the guy that designs the buildings,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 31: the engineer, whatever.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: Architect.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 13: Architect, yeah.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 31: Yeah, I mean, that was a good guest host. I
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 31: enjoyed that program. And, I mean, you just learn so
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 31: much about what's behind the scenes, you know, more than
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 31: you hear on the regular news. You know, they just
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 31: do like a three-minute blip on the library, you know,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 31: on the news, but you don't get all the, inside
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 31: info like you do on your show.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: Many of his critics, though, were not around when it
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: was being built. Many of these paid hired guns to
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: try to discredit the guy were never around when this
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: was being built. They're not architects. They're not contractors. They
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: weren't there when it's being built. So really, they're just
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: spewing stuff out to try to justify the narrative that's
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: out there. Like the guy, like he said, it's built
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: on bedrock. They tell you where all the gravel came from,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: how it was certified. He can tell you the engineer
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: was as far as the footings are concerned. And he
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: can tell you everything about when it was built. All
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: these people that are critical of it none of them
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: were there when this was going on and none of
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: them have the expertise he has of not just himself
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: but all the other people that were involved in this
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: process including a woman who's in charge of library who's
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: not even from our area.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 31: Well, just the fact that he said that you could
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 31: enlarge the creek out back and make it like a
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 31: pond that would... It'd be like a retention pond, basically,
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 31: when the water got too high and would make the
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 31: flow go better.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 31: You know, just like that, that didn't get put in
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 31: the play there.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: But..
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, it really deeply disturbs me when people say,
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: you know, the architect of the deeply flawed building. I mean,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: I just think that somebody who writes something like that
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: is a total ass. And I just think you have
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: no understanding of this man, his character, and his knowledge.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, so that's what you're paid for.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: But you don't know what you're doing. In my opinion.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 31: Ronnie, you know, you were talking about the regular callers
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 31: with that woman.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 31: She said, you know, cut them short. I was on
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 31: hold the whole time that woman was blathering on. But
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 31: she was a very interesting caller.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 31: I encourage her to call again.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: So do I.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 31: I'm like an irregular caller. I never know when I
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 31: got to go, but.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 10: I got to go.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: There he is. He's very irregular. He calls, he waits,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: and he's always got to go. You're on the air.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 12: Mr. Burb, how are you?
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: I'm doing well.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 12: Good for you. Good for you. Listen, in addition to
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 12: what the... Blathering woman had to say that your other
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 12: caller just called her.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: He was just kidding. He was just making a joke.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 12: Well, I don't get kidding in that voice.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: He's a comedian. You get it.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're all comedians. Anyway, I agree with
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 12: her a lot. Now, you had a four-hour program that
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 12: was really, if you... if you put all the minutes together,
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 12: it was probably three hours.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: Probably.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 12: Because of all the ads and the off-the-air. So you
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 12: had an hour. I'd say you had at least an
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 12: hour to sit in that chair and go to sleep,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 12: if you follow what I'm saying. But if not in
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 12: a row, I know. I know they're not all in
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 12: a row. Now that you have a three-hour show.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 3: Guess what?
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 12: You're going to have... Two hours on you. And then
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 12: you have some callers that take up a lot of airtime.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 12: A lot of airtime. And I'm not going to get
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 12: into names. So then, I mean, I hate to say this.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, say it. It's not going to hurt my feelings.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 12: I'm ready. No, I'm not trying to do that. I'm
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 12: not trying to do that.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, say it then.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 3: Spit it out.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 12: I'm just trying. I think I'm thinking logically here. So
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 12: what in the heck do you do for that huge
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 12: amount of money that you're getting and spending this 41 years?
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 12: I mean, come on. Let's cut that in half. Maybe
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 12: 20 years because of..
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 10: Anyway.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: What am I doing with this?
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 12: I'm just trying to say that the on-air time is
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 12: not four hours. It's three hours. And it's not going
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 12: to be three hours anyway. You've got to do what
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 12: you've got to do. Okay, I understand.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: I get it. Now I'm starting to feel guilty.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 12: Oh, I'm not trying to make you feel guilty.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 7: No, you're making me feel guilty.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: You're genuinely making me feel guilty. No, I'm not. You're
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: trying to get under my skin, and that's not very nice.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 12: I would like to spend... If you noticed, I'm sure
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 12: you did when I called you on the phone, it
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 12: was usually 6 o'clock and beyond.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 12: Because I was down in my little..
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: You were busy.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 12: Making dinner and telling you what I, you know, but...
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 12: Now that's going to go to 3, you're going to
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 12: be off the air at 6 o'clock, plus all of
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 12: the other John Arnolds and the Beatrices and everything else.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 12: I think the woman said she was on this phone
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 12: for an hour just waiting to get on the phone
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 12: to talk. And I have a lot to say, but
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 12: I can't do it anymore because... Between the hours of
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 12: 3 and 6, even though I'm retired, there's a lot
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 12: going on.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: What could possibly be going on? You're retired between 3
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: and 6.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 12: Trust me. I don't sit around. I do not sit around.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 12: There's a lot going on. And I just don't have
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 12: the time to sit and wait for that hour to
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 12: get on the air for 5 or 10 minutes. I
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 12: just don't. I'm sorry. I mean, I know you're saying.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry. What are we breaking up?
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 12: That might be the situation. We might be breaking up.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: No, no, don't leave me.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 12: No, you can't leave me.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: You can't break up.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 12: Just before you come, I mean, not before, but when
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 12: you come on air, you just don't come on the air.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 12: and present. You do research. You read. You go on
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 12: the computer. You write things. It's more than just talking,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 12: and I know that on the air. Well, guess what?
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 12: I do the same thing. I've got volumes of stuff
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 12: over here that I would really like to talk about,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 12: and 95% of it is opposite of what you believe.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: Well, there's the problem.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 12: I'm listening.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's opposite of what I believe. So how
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: accurate could it possibly be?
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I get it.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 11: I get it.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 12: And you're the master of the microphone there. You can
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 12: cut me off any time. And that brings me to
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 12: another thing. You should have– I wish you had more callers.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 12: I really do. I wish you had not the same
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 12: ones in that– So, I mean, you're the one that
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 12: can push that button to get them off the air,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 12: or you keep them on the air, whatever you want
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 12: to do.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: See, I keep you on because there's something about you.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: There's something about you I find intriguing. I mean, it's
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: your voice.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 12: We might have to break up here.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: No, I refuse to let you break up. If you
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: start saying it's not you, it's me, if you start
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: doing that to me, I'm going to start to cry.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to weep like a baby. You
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: can't break up. I tell you what, you just call
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: in when we start at 3 o'clock, and you're not
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: shucking potatoes or anything like that at that time, and
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: we'll be able to carry on a discussion. Listen, you
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: know as well as I do, because you attended the
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: Kings rally, that I think you're like a knucklehead.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 11: I can't wait for the next one.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: And as I said, I am going to send a
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: boss lady down undercover in disguise looking for you at
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: the No Kings rally. She's going to pull up, screech
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: your tires in a van, and then shove you in
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: a van and bring you to my studio where I'll
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: try to deprogram you. I might have to waterboard you
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: like a CIA agent to get some sense into you
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: to say– What are you doing at the No Kings rally?
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: You know, I go to the promotion closet. I get
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: the cannon out of there that can fire this giant
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: net to put around some of you lunatics down there
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: at the No Kings rally and try to get you
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: the shock therapy that you need.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 12: Well, there is no amount of... netting, there's no amount
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 12: of waterboarding that is going to change my mind with
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 12: this present administration. If there is... You would have to
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 12: eliminate me from the face of this earth.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, you hear me that I totally disagree with
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: this war situation and what he got us involved in.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 25: And I appreciate that.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: And the message is great. So I want you.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 12: Months ago, this guy, it should have never happened in
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 12: the first place.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 3: Never.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: Why do you dislike Trump so much outside of the war?
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 12: Trump is a master manipulator. He's manipulating the market. Now
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 12: he's got the tariffs coming back, what he wasn't supposed to.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 12: Do you know what that's going to do? That's just
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 12: going to raise your prices again. You think you're paying
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 12: a lot for stuff now? Guess what? He just put
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 12: a whole world again. He put tariffs on whatever. So
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 12: why do I dislike this guy? He is a he's
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 12: a thief. This guy is a grifter thief. His companies
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 12: and his family are making billions of dollars. You keep
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 12: saying about how this country is going broke. It is broke.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 12: He is part of that problem. The situation right now,
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 12: the most horrendous, the national security of this country is
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 12: under jeopardy because of Donald J.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 18: Trump.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 12: I cannot stand a guy. I wouldn't be able to
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 12: stand a guy if he wasn't president, if I just
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 12: happened to know him as a fellow human being that
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 12: I happened to run into. I don't like his personality
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 12: to me. I can't stand it.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: Have you ever voted for someone who wasn't a Democrat?
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 12: Say that again?
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: Have you ever voted for a Republican?
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 12: Yes, I have.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: Well, that's surprising.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 22: Really?
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: I told you that before.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 12: I voted for Mr. Bush. The first Mr.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 11: Bush.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: Did you vote for Reagan?
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 12: No. I voted for Bush. Now, Bush was a president.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 12: He was in the military. He was in the CIA.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 12: He was involved in government in a way that, I mean,
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 12: he just was made for that position, in my opinion.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 12: And that's why I voted for him.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: I would like you to reconsider. I would want you
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: to call 3 o'clock, and I don't think we should
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: break up.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 12: I'm not trying to be— I don't want to break up, though.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 12: I'm not— I'm just telling you.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: There's things going on between— I'm not accepting your breaking
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: up with me.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 12: All right, well— I'll give it some thought. I'll try
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 12: to work things, but there's things that don't. You'll see.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 12: You'll have things to do when you return. You'll see.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 12: You'll have things to do. You won't be with 41
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 12: years of doing what you're doing.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: I got to go.
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  Speaker 17: Gongstown's news, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 24: Ron, it took me almost everything I had. When you
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 24: were talking to Fifth Avenue, when he hung up, I
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 24: wanted the first thing to say, it's not you, it's me.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but I wouldn't let him say that. I
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: was waiting for him to say that to me as
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: he was trying to break up with me. Oh, it's
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: not you, it's me.
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  Speaker 24: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to accept that. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: accept his... I'm intrigued by the guy. I like the guy.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 24: Well, you make me laugh, and you know I'm a fan.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 24: I do kind of agree a little bit with the
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 24: woman that called. You know, there's some days where I just,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 24: I'm like, you know, it's your show, so it happened,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 24: but it's also my life, so I just say, I
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 24: just turn you off.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: Well, that really hurts my feelings.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 24: I know, that's why I'm telling you. I don't turn
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 24: you off every day, but there's some days where you
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 24: just go on with the same person.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: Now you're piling on with the Fifth Avenue guy. Because
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: I love you. Well, see, you're still in love. That's
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: all that matters.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 24: I love you. Yeah, I don't want to break up.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: You know, you're the guru of Gerard. You're now the professor.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: Now you think you're better than the rest of us, huh?
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: Now you want.
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  Speaker 11: Nothing to do with us. You know what I'm doing, Ron?
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm doing? Now you don't want anything
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: to do with the rest of us. Now you want
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: to run in those elite circles of those college people.
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  Speaker 24: I'm chipping off mortar on bricks on a driveway that
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 24: was built in 1970.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: We'll get back to painting the garage.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 24: Well, that's the color, but it was too hot. You
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 24: can't really paint when it's that hot. So I went
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 24: down to the oak tree and I started power washing.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 24: And that driveway is looking awesome. You know, I mean,
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 24: you asked about the economy. That's what I do when
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 24: it's like this. I did this last time. It was horrible.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 24: I remember when Obama was first in. I just do
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 24: stuff around the house. It doesn't cost anything, and I hope.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 24: that enough money comes in to cover my bills because
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 24: I'm not spending anything. That's my mode of operation.
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  Speaker 1: Then don't go in debt. Don't go in debt.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 3: That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 24: It's like, I don't need it if I'm not spending it, right?
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 24: So I just try to limit everything I can. My
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 24: wife goes, why don't you just get a new driveway?
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 24: You're out there like all day doing that. I was like, okay,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 24: if you give me $ 10, 000.
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  Speaker 5: I'll have it.
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  Speaker 24: I'll come and I'll have them for a whole big
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  Speaker 24: slab of company.
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  Speaker 1: What is your driveway all cracked up and not even?
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  Speaker 24: Oh, It's actually beautiful now. I mean, it's a brick
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 24: driveway that doubles long. Oh, okay. But it had cracks
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 24: in it, cracked bricks. Well, the guy who built it
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 24: years ago, he left all these bricks in the backyard
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 24: that I never got rid of. I just kind of, like,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 24: found a place to put them. So I can replace
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 24: this whole thing. with just labor and with like almost
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 24: brand new looking bricks for basically free for like some.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet you that driveway's beautiful as opposed to
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: a concrete driveway. I mean, there's nothing more beautiful than
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: a brick road. I mean, look how long those brick
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: roads lasted. When I came here, South Avenue was still
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: a brick road, and you had some dips in it
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff, but that thing lasted forever.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: Now it's paved over. They paved over the bricks. Now
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: you've got potholes and everything. I'm with you. I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: You tell your wife. that you're going to keep the
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: brick driveway because that looks spectacular. Don't ever do away
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  Speaker 1: with it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we're committed now, man. You should see.
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  Speaker 24: But I relate this conversation and this effort into your
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 24: library talk, too. I was thinking about it as it
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 24: was like, yeah, I could throw away all these bricks
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  Speaker 24: and get some concrete that would crack in a year.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 24: And pay $ 10, 000 to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Or go the old.
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  Speaker 24: Way, because this really is, it's like labor intensive. If
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 24: you didn't live here, you couldn't afford to.
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  Speaker 3: Have it done.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 12: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 24: I got here anyway.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 24: But maintenance will end up in the end. I'll have
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 24: a lot more for a lot less money, and it's
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 24: going to look really great.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Exactly. And you'll take pride in it.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 24: I just called to tell you happy. I hope you
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 24: have a nice weekend and everything, and I just enjoyed
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 24: your show and all that. But then I was listening
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 24: to your callers on the hour I was on hold.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 31: You know what?
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: You just like the cheap shot, don't you? I mean, really.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 24: Couldn't you just feel that going inside you?
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I can.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, I 100% can. I said, you know, I said,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody would... To have sympathy, it'd be Michael, the
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: guru of Gerard, the professor. But no, he's just as
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: vicious as anybody. Vicious, vicious, vicious.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 24: Hey, I call, but I don't call all that often.
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 24: I don't call every day. I used to call a
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 24: lot back when I was a captive audience on the highway.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 24: That's how we met.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: But you used to be a lot smarter then.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 24: Yeah, that's true.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 12: That part is true.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, hey, listen. You're a sharp guy when it comes
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: to war, and you're a sharp guy when it comes
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: to AI and all that kind of stuff. You know it.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: But fix the bricks. I mean, I'm glad you're doing something.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: And take your wife out to eat tonight, all right?
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 24: She already made some chili and stuff.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 3: We might probably go out tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, we'll go up the.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 13: Harbor or something.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to take my wife over to
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue's house and make them cook something. I'll see
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: you later.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 12: All right, man.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 25: See you later.
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  Speaker 17: got to move quick. I think I've got G2 on
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  Speaker 17: one of my lines.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 3: Dick from Dayton. What did you think about the Cavaliers?
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how come LeBron decided not to return? I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: I wish he would have. It's kind of bad, isn't it?
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the dream has come to an end for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I guess he chose it. I wanted him
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 3: back there, didn't you? Yes. I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I did. Yeah, well, we'll have to just live on,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: won't we? It makes it hard.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, well, I thought I'd tell you about it.
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  Speaker 3: It's sports-related, right?
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  Speaker 1: You got it. Thank you, Dick, from Dayton. You're on
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  Speaker 1: the air. Moving to G2. Yes, Ted the Conservative.
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  Speaker 25: Boy, oh boy, so much to say, but I don't
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 25: think we have enough time. You got G2 coming up.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We'll say quickly then.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 25: Well, I'll say the quick stuff first. The last thing
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 25: is going to take some time because I disagree with
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 25: you on everything I read. An intelligent caller heard me
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 25: talk about the library last week and how deplorable looking
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 25: and today there's crews out there working on the exterior
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 25: of the building, which I thought was interesting.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 12: Very.
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  Speaker 3: We've changed J.J.
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  Speaker 13: How about that, huh?
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 25: We've changed J.J. 's name to the Trumpster.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: J.J. the Trumpster.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 3: J.J. the Trumpster.
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  Speaker 25: And I think after the whining call we just heard
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 25: from Fifth Avenue, I think I've got to change his name.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 25: I think he'll be the new liberal. He can be
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 25: Frank the Fifth Avenue liberal. Kind of fitting. You live
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 25: on Fifth Avenue up there, you know, up the people.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 25: you know, living in the kitchen in the basement. I
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 25: think Fifth Avenue, Frank, Fifth Avenue, the liberals sound good.
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  Speaker 3: J.J.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 25: And G2, good opportunity. I heard him going off on
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 25: G2 all week, especially calling him Vladimir.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 25: And I thought, well, he's very pro-Ukrainian, and I believe
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 25: Zelensky's first name is something like Voldemort. So maybe one
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 25: day you could have Voldemort on, and you could have
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 25: G2 on, maybe these guys could settle the war. What
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 25: do you think?
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  Speaker 1: So you want to, you mean JJ playing a part
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: of Voldemir and G2 playing.
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  Speaker 13: A part of Vladimir.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think I could get the name straight.
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  Speaker 25: How about that? JJ's been on a roll lately, you know?
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: He's done some excellent stuff, yeah.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 25: Now, Iran, so you want Trump to wave the white
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 25: flag and come home?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a disaster. I don't see it. In
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: all seriousness, I don't see a good way out of
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: this at all. I genuinely don't.
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  Speaker 10: You are where your feet are. We're at war.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: But we will see. I mean, you know, I could
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: be wrong. It would be the first time. Let's see
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: what happens. I'm not optimistic.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 25: I'm going to throw two things at you. We'll hear
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 25: what G2 has to say. And maybe next week you
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 25: and I can discuss it in more detail.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 25: And I'm not trying to be critical of your thinking,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 25: but I think you're dead wrong. And I'm going to
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 25: show two examples that are similar in my opinion. We
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 25: agree on most things, but we disagree occasionally. And I'm
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 25: going to show two examples why I think you're wrong.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 25: I want to take you back to the days of
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 25: Pearl Harbor before Japan bombed us. Our intelligence had very
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 25: good reason to believe they were going to attack our
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 25: Pacific fleet, but they just didn't want to believe the intelligence.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 25: So at the 12th hour... After the bombing occurred, they
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 25: sent a notice to Pearl Harbor and said, hey, be
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 25: on alert. Japan's coming. Well, guess what?
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 18: It was too late.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 25: Now, let's fast forward to 9-11. We had intelligence telling
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 25: us that there was going to be an attack.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: On the homeland.
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  Speaker 10: Okay?
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 25: Didn't want to believe it, did we? Again, reactionary. Because
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 25: folks like you just didn't want to believe it. Now,
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 25: you've got a country in Iran. Let me ask you,
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 25: how many Americans have they murdered with their proxy? How
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 25: many military people have they murdered? How many civilians have
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 25: they murdered?
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 3: It's countless.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 25: You can't even answer that question. So we're not supposed
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 25: to believe them when they tell us, when they can't
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 25: death to America, death to Israel. We know that they're
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 25: building a bomb.
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  Speaker 16: Right?
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 25: So do you want to be like we were at
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 25: Pearl Harbor? Do you want another Pearl Harbor? Do you
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 25: want another 9-11? Or do you want a president who
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 25: has the basketballs to make the tough decisions. The guy
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 25: you voted for, because you thought.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: He would make the tough decisions for America. I'll let
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: that statement stand, and we'll carry on a conversation about it.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: I just don't agree with it. I don't view him
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: as a threat like that at all. And I think
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: the ramifications that are going to be Potential, and it's
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: my speculation, could be very detrimental to the economy. I
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: think the economy's in a terrible spot right now. I'll
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: put on G2, and you call me Monday, and we'll
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: have this discussion, because I look forward to it.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 25: Okay, I'd like to hear G2' s response to what I
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 25: just said, too.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 25: I'll call you next week. I'll be in New Jersey,
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 25: but I'll call you.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you. You're on the air.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 10: I just want to point out and congratulate Trump on
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 10: the fantastic work he's done on the economy.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: It's gone great.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 10: Especially inflation. But not just inflation. The price of gasoline.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 10: I mean, you think about this.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: Now, what happened here?
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 9: J.J.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: Has become a Trumpster. Is G2 becoming a liberal? What
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: the hell's going on?
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 10: If you look at inflation right now, taking into account
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 10: something like 50 million data points, it's a 2.11%. It's
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 10: an astonishing low number, given how much money Congress is spending. Okay, Frank,
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 10: and the Fed and all your stuff. The government is
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 10: pumping huge amounts of money into the economy, money we
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 10: should not be pumping into the economy. And yet inflation
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 10: is at 2.11%. That's an incredible achievement. Now, if you
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 10: look at gasoline, gasoline is 93 cents below the 2022 peak,
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 10: which is incredible given that we have two wars going on.
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 10: and this disaster in California. Frank made a point earlier.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 10: I cut some of Frank's call. He made a point
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 10: about Southwest shipping jet fuel from the Gulf Coast over
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 10: through the Panama Canal to California. Now, why is the question? Because,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 10: of course, you could just assume it's the hormones straight
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 10: being closed. But, of course, that would ignore the destruction
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 10: of all the refining capacity in California that's been destroyed.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 10: And they're continuing to shut down. They're down to just
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 10: a handful of refineries, and they're shutting those down. I
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 10: think some recently already shut. So you've dramatically contracted refining
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 10: capacity on the West Coast, eliminating the normal sources of
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 10: jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel. And in doing that, created
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 10: a national security threat, because even our military bases out
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 10: there that need jet fuel to fly fighters, they have
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 10: to now source it elsewhere.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 3: They have to import it.
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  Speaker 10: So what Newsom and the California government, these lunatics, have
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 10: done is not only created a tight market for things
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 10: like diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel, but they've created national
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  Speaker 10: security risk for absolutely no reason other than their mad
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 10: lunacy and corruption. And what's the other reason? Well, of course,
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 10: the other reason is the war in Ukraine. You remember
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 10: Boris Johnson kept it going that lunatics in Europe want
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 10: to keep it going. No one will ever accept any
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 10: kind of a settlement. So what has that done? Well, now,
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  Speaker 10: with all the money and the support that is being
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 10: provided to Ukraine, they are beginning to attack deep inside
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  Speaker 10: of Russia, and they've begun taking out refining capacity. So
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 10: you now have shortages of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel
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  Speaker 10: in Russia. So this war is beginning now to affect
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  Speaker 10: global energy markets in a way that it hadn't for
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  Speaker 10: a long time, because there were... We sunk some Russian ships,
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  Speaker 10: and they attacked inside Ukraine and everything. It really hadn't
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 10: amounted to much in terms of impact on the oil markets.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 10: But now it is. So if you go back over
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  Speaker 10: the last six months, they've stopped exporting gasoline, diesel, and
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 10: jet fuel out of Russia. And we were really needing
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 10: that to continue in order to offset what's going on
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 10: in the Strait. And that's the third factor, of course,
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  Speaker 10: of the Strait of Hormuz. where you had 21% of
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 10: the world's oil coming through, or 20% roughly, and it
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 10: got shut off. Now you've got Saudi using the pipeline.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 10: We've covered that. And there are problems with that. They're
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 10: not getting as much out as they would if the
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 10: Strait was open. You've got UAE getting some out by pipeline. Overall,
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 10: there's a reduction. One oil expert I was talking to
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 10: put it down to about 4 million barrels a day.
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 10: Others say it's more. Whatever it is, we would like
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 10: to get that opened up again. But think about this.
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  Speaker 10: Donald Trump is fighting a war that results in the
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 10: closure of the Strait of Hormuz. He's only drawn down
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  Speaker 10: the Strategic Patrolling Reserve by 68 million barrels.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that factor is true. What I
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: saw is that it's at its lowest level since 1985.
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  Speaker 1: But let me respond to some of the stuff you said.
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  Speaker 1: Just bear with me for a second. Here's what the
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: problem is. If you want to sit there and try
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: to say to people, everything's great. The economy's great. But
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: wait a second.
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  Speaker 10: I know your point.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they were trying to do with Biden. Don't
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: you remember when this was all going on with Biden?
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  Speaker 10: The strategic petroleum reserve was drawn down by Biden by
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 10: 224 million barrels. 224 million barrels. No war in sight.
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  Speaker 10: Donald Trump has drawn down 68 million barrels. So here's
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 10: the problem. While you've got all these good statistics, of
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 10: course the price of gasoline has come up commensurate with
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 10: the attack on Iran. But the attack on Iran is
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 10: an actual war, the reason for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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  Speaker 10: And yet Trump has drawn down a fraction of the amount.
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  Speaker 10: So the irresponsible behavior that you and I spent a
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 10: lot of time covering of the Democrats drawing down the
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 10: SPR for no reason but to try to offset their
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 10: bad energy policy, have put us in a place of jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I just want to emphasize something.
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  Speaker 10: What's happening now?
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: And here's what AI says. President Trump authorized drawing down
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: a strategic petroleum reserve. He approved the release of 172
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: million barrels of oil from the stockpile to help lower emissions.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: energy prices. That's 172 million barrels.
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  Speaker 25: Trump.
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  Speaker 10: You say the decline under Biden was 244.5 million barrels
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  Speaker 10: and the decline under Trump is 69.4 million barrels.
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  Speaker 1: Is the strategic oil reserve at one of its lowest
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: points since 1985?
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  Speaker 18: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, don't you wish we had that 244 million barrels
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  Speaker 10: back in?
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: But we don't, and he's drawing it down further. So
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: are gasoline and oil prices being manipulated by going into
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: the strategic oil reserves so that we're not really seeing
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: the full effect of this war? There's a reason why
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: he's going into it.
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  Speaker 10: It's not manipulation. It was there in case of a
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 10: disruption of the global oil markets. There is a disruption,
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 10: one in Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what do you do when you reach the low?
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: What's the next move then? Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 10: Because the Democrats drew down the 244 million barrels, we're
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 10: now down at this all-time low.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you do now? What do you do
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: when you're done tapping it? Where do you go now?
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 11: Well, that's a separate question.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 10: But what I'm trying to point out to you is
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 10: that You know, you're taking all this inflation that came
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 10: at the hands of these other administrations, Democrat and Republican,
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 10: the $ 40 trillion of debt, and you're dumping it on Trump. Now,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 10: I will tell you that this Congress and Trump have
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 10: signed off on massive spending bills, the big ugly bill,
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 10: this ridiculous defense bill. So they are definitely contributing to inflation.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 10: But his policies have offset so much of that that
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 10: inflation is now down to 2%. The problem is that's
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 10: on top of the 30% that came last. under the Democrats.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 10: And so you're trying to attribute all of that to Trump.
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 10: We've got to look at this more.
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  Speaker 1: So here you are saying that, well, as a result
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: of this war, well into this situation, we saw where
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: Trump was taking this inflation before the war. And prices
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: were down and they were going down. Then we've seen
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: it spring back up. But you're going to say, well,
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: that's not Trump's fault. That's Biden's fault. At what point
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: does Trump take ownership of this?
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 10: What I'm telling you is we're at 2.11% today. That's
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 10: where inflation is right now.
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  Speaker 6: Today.
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 10: That's where it is. Now, the 30% that came before
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 10: is not from Trump. You know that.
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  Speaker 1: You remind me of the people that were trying to
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: tell everybody how good it was under Biden. You're doing
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: the same scenario that they did under Biden, telling people
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: how great everything was. And people said, but I'm not
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: feeling that. I'm not talking about feelings.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 10: This is about data.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: No, but here's the reality. It's called consumer confidence. I'm
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: pretty sure people out there aren't feeling things are going
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: that great.
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  Speaker 10: Ron, what I'm saying is, if you want to analyze this,
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 10: you have to look at the actual numbers and not
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 10: just the feelings.
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, so what people..
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 10: The numbers say the following.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: All right. Things are going well. Whatever.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 10: The numbers say we're at 2.11%. You might wish it
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 10: was 12 or 9 or 7, but it's not.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: Do you think the economy's in a good spot right now?
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 13: No.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: Do you think gas prices are high?
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 10: No.
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you think $ 4 a gallon is fine?
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 10: It's $ 0. 93 less than the peak we had just a
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 10: few years ago.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's $ 4 a gallon. Do you think
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: people are enjoying paying it?
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 10: Oh, no.
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: They want it low. Okay, so it was $ 2. 50 before
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: the war started. But you want to tell me, well,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: at the peak it was this. Well, it was down
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: to $ 2.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 10: 50.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: Now it's up to $ 4. You don't think people get
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: pissed by that and that affects their economics?
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 10: Of course it does.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: Then why are you trying to justify it by saying, well,
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: it used to be this high, now it's only this high. Well,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: it's still too damn high.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 10: Okay, but if we don't look at the actual drivers
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 10: of things, we can't understand them. And when you shut
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 10: down massive amounts of refining capacity... you affect the price
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 10: of gas.
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: When you curtail the amount of oil as a result
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: of the strait being closed and the war that you
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: started and millions of barrels that are off the market,
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: not four million, I think way beyond that, it's going
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: to have a big effect on the price of oil. Period.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: You don't think it does?
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 10: Well, of course the Strait of Hormuz being closed has
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 10: affected the price of oil.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: Do you think it's affected the price of nitrogen and fertilizer?
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: Of course it has.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 10: I've never said it hasn't.
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: And it's creating inflation?
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 10: I told you what inflation is right now today. It's 2.11%.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 10: You may not like the number, but that's the number.
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: Do you think that... This justification reminds me exactly of
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: the Democrats under Biden. They were doing the same thing.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: They were doing the same thing. And then they lost
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: the election. And they said, I don't understand why we lost.
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: We told everybody how great everything was. Well, you're trying
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: to do the same thing now.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 10: I'm not saying any of the things you're saying. Here's
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 10: what I'm saying. The vast majority of the drawdown of
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 10: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve came under the Democrats, who did
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 10: it specifically to offset bad energy policy in order to
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 10: protect them in the midterms. And in 24. 244 million barrels.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 10: Trump has drawn down a fraction of that at 68
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 10: million barrels. A fraction of it. So this whole problem
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 10: with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve came before he got in. Now,
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 10: that's a factor he should have considered.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: We got a break. We got a break. Stand by.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back. The GBN. Ron, we're conversating with
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: the G2. I'll read it again right here. As part
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: of the effort, President Trump authorized the Department of Energy
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: to release 172 million barrels for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: 172 million barrels. It's not 69 million. It's 172 million.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 10: I'm talking about the actual levels in the tanks.
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: A hundred and seventy two million. So they're releasing this
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: to keep oil prices low. I mean, when I say
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: you remind me of the Democrats, the Democrats are trying
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: to tell everybody how low inflation was, how great the
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: economy was doing. And people said, are you nuts? Now
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: you're coming now you're coming on saying, well, you know,
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: gas prices used to be whatever. Five bucks a gallon.
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: They're only four or four. So we should be happy
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: about that. Well, they're still ridiculously high. I mean, you're
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: trying to convince everybody, hey, you know, when we weren't
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: buying the inflation numbers for Biden, you're going right back
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: to the trap that they were using, trying to tell
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: everybody things are really good. Do you really believe that?
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 10: I that's your language. I never said that.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: I think things suck.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 10: I'm telling you, data point and.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: Inflation is there. It's growing. And he was bringing it
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: down and he brought a gas prices down.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 10: And now it's one point six three or something like that.
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 10: It's up like point six from one point something like that.
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 10: It was down about one. I don't think it got
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 10: below one.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: Boy, I don't understand why things aren't soaring. I don't
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: know why people aren't rejoicing in Trump's popularity. Why is
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: it so low then? Things are going great according to statistics.
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 10: No, that's not. You're not hearing me. What I'm telling
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 10: you is these are actual facts. That's the world we
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 10: live in.
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: So let's look at it clear-eyed. And where is his
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: approval rating with the actual facts that say how great
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: things are?
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 10: I'm not saying things are great. I'm telling you where
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 10: we are.
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: Well, where do you think we are?
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 11: Well, we're at.
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 10: Gas that's still 93 cents below the peak. We've got 2.11% inflation,
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 10: not excluding anything, including we've got rents falling in several
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 10: major cities. We've got a strategic patrolling reserve that is
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 10: in desperate need. Now, the purpose of that is war,
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 10: is to protect us during war. And now we're in war.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 10: And we're short by about 244 million barrels because the
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 10: Democrats pumped it out to protect their elections. That's where
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 10: we are. That's just reality. Now, we also have this
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 10: war that no one understands and no one's prepared to
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 10: figure out what to do about it. Because nobody, Trump
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 10: and the Israelis never effectively sold this war to the
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 10: American people. They never explained it properly. Nobody bought the
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 10: nuclear story.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 11: I still don't.
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 10: And so now they're into it, likely with a whole
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 10: dose of deceit from Mossad and overconfidence on Trump's part.
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 11: And now what do you do?
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 10: Well, you've got to find a path out. So one
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 10: of the lies we're told every day is that Iran
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 10: gets stronger every day. But that's just preposterous. That's ridiculous.
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 3: They don't.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 10: And if there is going to be another round of negotiations,
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 10: that's fine, but I don't think Trump should stop attacking
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 10: until he's ready to permanently withdraw. He should not stop
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 10: attacking for negotiations. He should continue pressing on until he's
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 10: ready to withdraw. There should not be another stop in
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 10: this thing until it's over. So you got to make
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 10: this call. Are you simply going to walk away? And
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 10: if so, what are the implications of that? Or are
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 10: you going to stay in And what are the costs
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 10: and what are the implications of that?
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: That'll be a discussion we'll have next week with G2.
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Sean's next.