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Thursday 4pm hour 05/14/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN, 407 in the afternoon. It's 55 degrees.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday, May 14th. Dave Thomas, if you missed the
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  Speaker 1: first hour of the program when I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: State Rep. Dave Thomas, later tonight, go back on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast and pick it up. Okay? I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: can figure that out. It doesn't get posted, I think,
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  Speaker 1: until the show's over. But I want you to go
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  Speaker 1: back and listen to it. You understand when I say
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  Speaker 1: to you, David, how... Frustrating it is. And the first
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  Speaker 1: thing is I want all Ohioans to know this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I want everyone to know about the strewing that's taking
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  Speaker 1: place on Medicaid and how DeWine looked the other way
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  Speaker 1: and how people, whether they're Somalians or not, stole billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars over the years. And there seems to be
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  Speaker 1: no ramifications for it at all. So they can go
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  Speaker 1: drive their BMW and their Mercedes and live a much
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  Speaker 1: better lifestyle by stealing this money than the person who's listening,
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  Speaker 1: who's retired and worked all their life and is on
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  Speaker 1: Social Security, or the person that's working and could never
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  Speaker 1: afford that type of lifestyle. Do you get it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. When you pay your taxes... You at the
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  Speaker 2: very least expect it to be spent on what you
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  Speaker 2: think it should be spent on.
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  Speaker 1: I expect some degree of oversight on how the money
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  Speaker 1: is being spent. We are paying Keith Faber and the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Attorney General, I should say. All these people
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  Speaker 1: have big, big staffs. They're all paid well. Is it
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  Speaker 1: asking too much for them to go actually look at
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  Speaker 1: this stuff and pursue this stuff?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: What am I missing here?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're spot on. And there's been, like I shared,
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  Speaker 2: changes in each budget since DeWine's been in office, the
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  Speaker 2: legislature's tried, it vetoed. Had this type of media coverage,
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  Speaker 2: this type of frustration, it's just been building and building.
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  Speaker 2: Had it been the first year of his term, you
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  Speaker 2: would have seen a lot more robustness coming out of
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  Speaker 2: the legislature. You would have seen probably him realizing he
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  Speaker 2: can't just, you know, kind of skate by on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just taken, which is horrible. But starting to realize
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  Speaker 2: that in government, you know, crises is what leads to action,
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  Speaker 2: not action preventing crises. And this is going to lead
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  Speaker 2: to major changes in Medicaid if we can keep the
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  Speaker 2: pressure up and if We get a new governor that
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  Speaker 2: will actually pursue that.
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  Speaker 1: And there shouldn't be ifs on it. This is just
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  Speaker 1: stealing and fraud. And we hear about it going on
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  Speaker 1: in California. We hear about it in Minnesota. We hear
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  Speaker 1: about it in Ohio. I'm sure it's going on in
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  Speaker 1: all these states, which is just stealing money. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where to go with it. So I'll set
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  Speaker 1: that aside. What else is going on? What do you have?
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  Speaker 1: Any updates on electricity or anything else?
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  Speaker 2: I will end on a positive note for you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: I thought we just got done with a positive hour.
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  Speaker 2: So this morning, I was in Perry, in Lake County,
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  Speaker 2: at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, which is owned by Vistra,
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  Speaker 2: which is based out of Texas. And Perry announced that
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  Speaker 2: they are expanding their nuclear power plants, increasing the size
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  Speaker 2: by roughly 20%. and adding roughly 200 megawatts onto the
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  Speaker 2: grid and extending out the life of the nuclear power
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  Speaker 2: plant by 20 years to 2066. What that will mean
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  Speaker 2: is that Perry, which is in northeast Ohio in Lake County,
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  Speaker 2: will go from the fifth largest power plant in the
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  Speaker 2: nation to the number one power plant producing location in
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  Speaker 2: the nation after they have this expansion, this growth of
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  Speaker 2: their electricity output.
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  Speaker 1: Now, with this House Bill 6, if I go back
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  Speaker 1: to that just for a second, the taxpayers were helping keep–
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  Speaker 1: the money was to help Edison at the time keep
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  Speaker 1: nuclear plants open, correct, and coal plants going?
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  Speaker 2: In 2019, First Energy said, we're declaring bankruptcy. We're closing Perry.
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  Speaker 2: We're closing Davis-Bessey. Unless you, the state, bail us out.
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  Speaker 2: and essentially get us back on our feet.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Davis-Bessey is nuclear as well?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, just correct me if I'm wrong. Oh, great one.
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  Speaker 1: Nuclear power is, at the time, and I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about wind and solar, nuclear power plants, it was one
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  Speaker 1: of the most costly operations you can do to produce electricity,
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  Speaker 1: and it cost a great deal for the electric it
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  Speaker 1: produced at that time. Is that still accurate?
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  Speaker 2: So it's much more efficient now.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: One of the reasons, because these plants are already there,
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  Speaker 2: to build a new plant, a new large-scale nuclear power
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  Speaker 2: plant is extraordinarily expensive because of all the safety pieces.
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  Speaker 2: But if you have a current plant that already has
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  Speaker 2: all those base costs kind of covered, this was built
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  Speaker 2: in 1977, it's actually very cost-affordable now. And the best
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  Speaker 2: thing is it's 24-7, 365.
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  Speaker 5: Dependable.
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  Speaker 2: Base load power. We actually saw... all of the fuel
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  Speaker 2: that they have used over the past 45 years is
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  Speaker 2: still on site. We actually physically saw it. It's smaller than,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a 50-yard line. From the goalpost 50-yard line,
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  Speaker 2: it's difficult to describe how it's stored, but in big
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  Speaker 2: concrete kind of tubes, 40 years, every year powering over
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  Speaker 2: a million homes from this one plant, The fuel that
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  Speaker 2: was used for that, smaller than that, much of a footprint.
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  Speaker 2: It shows how efficient and how easy it is in
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  Speaker 2: a sense. But House Bill 6, that was the corrupt
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  Speaker 2: House bill with the former, former speaker. He's still in prison.
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  Speaker 2: We have repealed House Bill 6. Part of why we did, clearly,
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  Speaker 2: Perry actually is super successful. They're expanding their grilling, not
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  Speaker 2: because of the bailout, but because... a private company actually
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  Speaker 2: bought them and turned them around. It is now putting
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  Speaker 2: more electrons onto the grid, which is a huge success story.
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  Speaker 1: So it did need supplementation to keep it open.
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  Speaker 2: No, that was a first energy accounting ploy, which is
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  Speaker 2: why the first energy execs are going to prison.
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  Speaker 1: Did they use that also on coal?
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  Speaker 2: There were several coal plants, one in Indiana. and one
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  Speaker 2: in southeast Ohio that also were subsidized. Not needed, but
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  Speaker 2: that was part of the big deal, was if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to subsidize nuclear, you subsidize coal. We repealed those subsidies.
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  Speaker 2: Those plants are doing perfectly good. There's no need for subsidy.
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  Speaker 2: First Energy did accounting employees with that as well.
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  Speaker 1: And is it the... rule that if you build a
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  Speaker 1: data center, you have to provide the power for it?
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  Speaker 1: It can't go on a grid in Ohio?
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  Speaker 2: So as of today, no. You don't require that you
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  Speaker 2: build your own power. We have now allowed it. Previous
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  Speaker 2: to House Bill 15 that passed last year, you could not. Today, though,
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  Speaker 2: we allow you and encourage you. We actually expedite, make
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  Speaker 2: it faster to permit, make it much simpler to build
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  Speaker 2: if you have your own power. so that way you're
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  Speaker 2: not taking from the grid.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the grid can't support a bunch of data centers,
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  Speaker 1: can it?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We're at that kind of tip. If we keep adding
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  Speaker 2: more and more without adding new power onto the grid,
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  Speaker 2: our plans to generation, exactly. We're right close to that
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  Speaker 2: kind of breaking point. The House and Senate two days
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  Speaker 2: ago announced the formation of a six-member kind of body
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  Speaker 2: to have committee hearings, proposed legislation by June 10th that
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  Speaker 2: will essentially give kind of a standardized, here's what we
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  Speaker 2: want to see when a data center comes in across
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  Speaker 2: the state.
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  Speaker 1: Including not being on the grid and shifting the cost
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  Speaker 1: to the regular electric users, provide your own electricity. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for data centers. But power it yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And that's actually a part of this PERI expansion is
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  Speaker 2: that essentially worked with them to help offset some of
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  Speaker 2: their data center higher kind of load needs across the state.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what we want to see. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a shifting over to the customers, but actually the data
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  Speaker 2: centers paying their own way and sharing their own their
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  Speaker 2: own costs, which is what should be happening. They can
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  Speaker 2: afford it. My House Bill 706 essentially mandates that, that
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  Speaker 2: they can't be sharing their costs onto others. Next question,
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  Speaker 2: I have a House Bill 833 that allows them to
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  Speaker 2: do this kind of virtually so that you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to build it right on site, but you can build
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  Speaker 2: it somewhere else in the state. It still counts. We
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  Speaker 2: have to be adding even more electrons on, but at
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  Speaker 2: the very least, we should be offsetting if there's data
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  Speaker 2: center coming in. But that was a huge announcement this morning,
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  Speaker 2: something that we're seeing more of across the state, more
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  Speaker 2: power being put on the grid, and just that stabilizing
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  Speaker 2: the electrons is..
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to make sense. of this email ask him
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  Speaker 1: why they are not finishing unit number two at Perry
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  Speaker 1: great question.
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  Speaker 2: That is the wrong question I usually get.
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  Speaker 1: What no explain explain the question.
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  Speaker 2: To me so Perry nuclear power plant was built in
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  Speaker 2: 1977 was built with two reactors and So when you
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  Speaker 2: have a power plant, whether it's coal, natural gas, nuclear,
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  Speaker 2: what actually is the power is some heating source, boiling water,
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  Speaker 2: creating steam, and that steam turning a turbine, which creates
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  Speaker 2: a generator, which is the electrons. And so at PERI,
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  Speaker 2: the heat source is the nuclear fission. It created two reactors,
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  Speaker 2: reactor one and reactor two, two turbines, two generators, to
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  Speaker 2: have even more electricity on. They finished Reactor 1 back,
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, in the early 80s. They were
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  Speaker 2: roughly 40% to 50% done with Reactor 2. Early 1980s,
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  Speaker 2: the price of power dropped. It was no longer financially feasible.
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  Speaker 2: Generation dropped, and they stopped. Unfortunately, what they've been doing
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  Speaker 2: since the 1980s is actually taking... equipment or materials from
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  Speaker 2: Reactor 2 when things in Reactor 1 break. And so
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  Speaker 2: Reactor 2 now is, the building is still there, but
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  Speaker 2: nothing else is actually inside. It's essentially empty. So there's
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  Speaker 2: no other reactor there. But they are going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do what they mentioned today. There are things
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  Speaker 2: called small modular reactors. These are almost considered the mini
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  Speaker 2: nuclear power plants. These are what's now financially feasible. Big
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  Speaker 2: nuclear power plants are not financially cost-effective anymore, but smaller
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  Speaker 2: ones now are. What we can do now at PERI,
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  Speaker 2: instead of essentially building brand new a second reactor, which
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  Speaker 2: would financially never work, we can actually have these small
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  Speaker 2: nuclear reactors in place of that. What we'll be seeing,
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  Speaker 2: not as part of this expansion they now say, but
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  Speaker 2: when there's even the ability for more work growth there.
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  Speaker 1: So are they talking about doing that then where number
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  Speaker 1: two is?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: They mentioned that there's actually room at Perry for more
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  Speaker 2: reactors or small nuclear SMRs. But reactor two is essentially
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  Speaker 2: just a hollow pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but they're going to do something with it with
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  Speaker 1: a smaller reactor, correct?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That's their plan, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And as you talk about all this, this
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  Speaker 1: stuff takes years.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: When do you anticipate some of this easing the burden
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  Speaker 1: as far as the market for electricity costs?
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  Speaker 2: Some of the natural gas plants that have already been
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  Speaker 2: permitted late last year, those are already underway. Those are
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  Speaker 2: probably a two to three year time frame. Some of
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  Speaker 2: the data centers are being built now. They're smaller power
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  Speaker 2: plants are actually able to either help put a little
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  Speaker 2: bit on the grid, and power the data center, those
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  Speaker 2: are able to be faster, maybe a year, year and
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  Speaker 2: a half. The nuclear expansion of Perry, for example, that's longer.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably more like a five-year, if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 2: five-year process. So we are looking out a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years for any of these large numbers of electrons to
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  Speaker 2: be on the grid.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Any other good news or bad news I need to
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  Speaker 1: know about? No.
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  Speaker 2: I am just about in Marietta, Ohio. It is sunny,
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  Speaker 2: nice down here. It's only 61, though.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be 90 Monday.
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  Speaker 2: I heard.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I mean, it's, I mean, well, that went over. So, so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what's going on so far, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yep. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That's, that's what happened today. We just got back from
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  Speaker 2: a recess from April this past week. You'll see us
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  Speaker 2: in session again next week, a couple more times before
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  Speaker 2: July 1st. The speaker announced that he wants actual legislation
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  Speaker 2: on the Medicaid side. We're going to have more legislation
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  Speaker 2: on the data center side, hoping for some of the
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  Speaker 2: tax things as well. We had a big push, and
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  Speaker 2: the president, I think, is supporting this. The easing of
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  Speaker 2: the gas tax, while the gas prices are as high
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  Speaker 2: as they are, I'm not sure how that's going to
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  Speaker 2: actually play out on that bill as well. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to see, I think, a lot of activity here in
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  Speaker 2: May and June out of Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Governor. I was just trying the title out.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to see if you felt comfortable with it.
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  Speaker 3: I do not.
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  Speaker 1: All right. State Rep. Dave Thomas. Hardest working state rep
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  Speaker 1: I've been around in 41 years. He's doing a terrific job.
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  Speaker 1: He's informing all of us. He's fighting for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet in all your lives you can't think
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  Speaker 1: of anybody working harder than Dave Thomas. I'm a big fan.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dave.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Back after this, NewsRadio 570, WKBN and Ron Furb.
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  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. More to come. Towns News, Weather and Talk Station,
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. Is that guy not doing a great job?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as I sit here at 425 in the
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  Speaker 1: afternoon and you and I can bellyache about politicians that have,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, been a disappointment. As I've said
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  Speaker 1: to you over the years, and I asked you to
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  Speaker 1: think about it, other than collect a paycheck, can you
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  Speaker 1: think of anything most of these politicians have done for you?
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  Speaker 1: Let me repeat that because I want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that sits in that mind of yours. Other than collect
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  Speaker 1: a paycheck, can you think of anything these politicians have
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  Speaker 1: done for you? Moment went over. Well, you're seeing stuff
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  Speaker 1: get done by Dave Thomas. He's benefiting this entire community.
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  Speaker 1: He is the hardest-working state rep that I've seen in
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  Speaker 1: my 41 years sitting at this radio station. He's aided, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: by Tex Fisher, who's helping him. I mean, the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: from our community are really doing a good job, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the Republicans in Columbus are doing a
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  Speaker 1: good job to make a lot of this stuff happen.
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  Speaker 1: What a major disappointment Mike DeWine is. What an absolute
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  Speaker 1: major disappointment Mike DeWine is. And And when you hear
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  Speaker 1: about this fraud and just his lack of action, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, it's hard to tell the difference between
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  Speaker 1: him and Tampon Tim on that kind of stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope I make sense to you guys when I
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  Speaker 1: say it's very frustrating for me to sit here and
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  Speaker 1: listen to these Somalians or other people that come to
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  Speaker 1: this country and are able to just set up these
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  Speaker 1: fake businesses. You know, maybe I should open up Ron's
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  Speaker 1: hospice house. Ron's Learing Center. Ron's Transportation Center. And they
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  Speaker 1: open up these fake storefronts and they steal millions and
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars over the years. They're not providing any services.
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  Speaker 1: No one goes and checks up. So They're living a
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle of which you will never be able to enjoy yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You just go to work and pay your taxes and
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  Speaker 1: eke out a living. Well, they're screwing a system and
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  Speaker 1: no one's checking on it. And they're living a better
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle than you will if you live to 10 years
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  Speaker 1: or 10 times over. It's ridiculous. And they get away
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  Speaker 1: with it. And you'll never get the money back because
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  Speaker 1: that's gone forever. We'll see if anybody ever goes to
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  Speaker 1: prison for it. Yet, if you step out of line
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  Speaker 1: somehow and whatever, you screw up on your tax return
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  Speaker 1: or something, we'll hassle a living hell out of you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how does this make a lick of sense?
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  Speaker 1: My friend said to me, as I've said to you before,
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  Speaker 1: he said, it is so discouraging when you see all
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  Speaker 1: the fraud going on that Elon Musk was exposing that's
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  Speaker 1: still going on and continues to go on. And then
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  Speaker 1: you hear about this in the States with Medicaid, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what's going on with Medicare. It makes it
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  Speaker 1: difficult on April 15th to file and pay your taxes
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  Speaker 1: and do the right thing, because you know so much
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  Speaker 1: of your money is being stolen and swindled and wasted.
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  Speaker 1: And it's your money, and it's being taken from you,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes it harder for you to enjoy your
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  Speaker 1: life and survive. And that's why I say even look
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  Speaker 1: on a local level with these commissioners in Mahoning and
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  Speaker 1: Trumbull County all making the arguments that with this big
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  Speaker 1: increase that they gave you on, not gave you, that
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  Speaker 1: we had with the reappraisals, and there's reappraisals going on now,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be another increase, but we're not able to give
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  Speaker 1: you even a small portion of that big increase back.
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  Speaker 1: It's more important that we keep it all and you
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  Speaker 1: struggle because we got all these people to take care of.
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  Speaker 1: As opposed to saying, where's personal responsibility? When did it
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  Speaker 1: become the government's responsibility to take care of everybody and everything? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to have a senior level. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: take care of seniors who fail to prepare and all
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. It's craziness. It's so out of control.
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  Speaker 1: It's beyond belief. Back with your calls right after this.
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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKVN. And we're back. News Radio 570 WKVN.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb, let's take some calls. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Good afternoon, sir. I like the way you ended that call,
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  Speaker 5: referring to Dave Thomas as governor. I would like to
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: see that happen.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, I would. He is genuinely, like I say, the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: title I would like to give him is one that's deserved.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: He is a public servant. He is a guy that's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: working as a servant to the public, trying to make
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: your life so much better in every aspect of it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: It.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I have such respect for what he's doing, and he's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: such a rarity. He's so rare.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think he's right. I think if we
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: get Vivek in there and we can get rid of Mr. DeWine,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: that disaster, I think it would be a huge improvement.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Look at all the things that he passed last year
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: that DeWine went and line item vetoed.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I can only hope that when we talk about the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: fear of everything AI, one thing that AI should be
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: able to do is monitor all of this fraud so
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: much better than what's being done now. But I also
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: would like to say it's a huge disappointment with the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: fraud going on in Ohio that all these people in
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: these other offices weren't on top of it as well.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just they're all making a good salary.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: It's just blatant incompetence to me that you could have
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this going on. I mean, I can't see much difference
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: between DeWine and Tamp on Tim.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, there really isn't, other than supposedly the party,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: although I don't even understand how DeWine can call himself
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: a Republican after what he did the other day when
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: he had a chance to appoint basically every person that's
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: running in the primary. He would have appointed Yost's replacement,
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: the man that won, I can't remember what his name is,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: that won the Republican primary. But that would have snowballed
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: down the line and he would have been able to
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: appoint every person that's running and made them an incumbent.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And why wouldn't you do that?
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: It's not fair. It makes perfect sense. They never play fair.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It just makes perfect sense. I mean, why put an
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: intermediary in there? Why don't you just put the person
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: in that's your party's nominee for that position because you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: have the opportunity to do so? It's just stupid. I mean,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: it's just so damn dumb on his part.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: He's just such a disappointment. I mean, I voted for
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: him two years ago, three years ago, whatever it was,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: because I couldn't pull the trigger on a Democrat. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: just can't. But he's really not much better.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Right, and listen, I'll be the first to say there's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: plenty of lousy Republicans on the federal level, local level,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and state level.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: And I think we, you know, I've always said that
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Ohio Medicaid is just, The corruption there is just rampant.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: It's disgusting. But I think the other thing they need
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: to look at is education, because especially with that autism thing,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I was in a school board meeting, I think it
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: was about a year ago, and they were talking about
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: how the state has mandated preschool for kids that are
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: identified with a learning disability. Most of it is autism.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: So before you're even in the school system, they are
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: required to service a kid who I think is young
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: as two, who could have autism, I believe the cost
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: to the school district was $ 22, 000 per student.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: My problem with that is, and here's just my thoughts,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: we are at a point where, I hate to say
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: this to all of you, where there's a financial incentive
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: for a lot of these places to target somebody in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that fashion because it becomes a lot of money that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the entity can make. Somewhere along the line, something has
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: gone terribly wrong in our society. Everything is, and I
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: do mean everything, has gotten so damn expensive we can't
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: get anything done. It's gotten so expensive to lay down
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: roads and infrastructure and fix it. The cost is astronomical.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: It's so expensive to To build anything today. I mean,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: everything is just out of control. And as time goes on,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: more and more unaffordable. And even to fix and maintain things.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And now I just look at this and I'm having
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: this thought and I share this with you, Rich. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: used to be the guy, folks, and I'll just confess
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it to you. I used to think, what difference does
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: one judge make from the other that a judge is
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: going to sit there and hear your case and rule
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: on the law, right? I mean, that used to be
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: my concept of judges. So it really doesn't matter what
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: political party they're with or anything because they're going to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: sit there, hear the case, and rule on the law.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: And boy, was I naive because you come to find
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: out by looking at how some of these judges rule
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: based on their politics and their liberalness by– such light
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: sentences to violent criminals and all, and all types of criminals.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, the judge that's.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: That's prosecuted, that's in charge of the case with the
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: shooter that down in DC at that, uh, at the, uh, press, uh, yeah,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: that they were at, he apologized, apologizing, apologizing to the
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: perpetrator for the way he was being treated.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, it is just now in my life. I mean,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you guys, I can never remember this, uh,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Happening when I was younger, I I can never ever
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: remember judges acting like this when I was younger This
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: is relatively a new thing certainly brought to my attention
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: in the last 10 or 15 years maybe when these
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: judges became activists or political or this Totally bizarre philosophy.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: So now you come to realize there's a big difference
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: between judges and And do you remember where they wanted
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to fight being able to put on, are you a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Republican or Democrat when it comes to a judge's race
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to identify what party you're with? And I think you
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: should be identified with what party you're with. And the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Democrats are the ones that are trying to fight it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: The Democrats are the ones that don't want you to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: be identified by a political party in a, in a,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: in a, judicial race, and I'm totally opposed to that.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: I know last year, that was another thing that the
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Republicans passed last year. It was going to be at
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: least for school board races. They were going to allow
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: you to put your party affiliation for school board races.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: And since summer of last year, guess who? Wine Item
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: vetoed it again. Governor DeWine, he's... I don't want to
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: say anything. Right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a lame duck, and thank God for that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: But But I mean, that's the reality when it comes
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to these. When I look at these judges today and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: it reminds me just a lot.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: It coincides, though, with it's the it's the it coincides
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: with the destruction of the Democrat Party or the way
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: it's been taken over by the left. Because the Democrat Party,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: you and I were both Democrats at one point in
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: our lives, and the party at that time was sane.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: The party changed to the party. Right, and the Republican
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Party changed. When I hear people say this kind of stuff, listen,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party used to be the party of the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: business snob guy, the rich, the elitist, the snob person.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And now the Republican Party has become the party of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the working person and the successful person as well as
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the working, I would say, the productive people. It's become
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the party of the productive taxpaying people. The Democrat Party
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: has become the party of the oddballs and the weirdos
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and the people that are sponging off the system. That's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: where that party has gone. So that's why you see
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: people leaving that party, coming to the Republican Party and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And so you can just see the change in the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: parties and the change in people. And I don't know
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: why anybody would be a member of the Democrat Party.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I just don't get it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: It's the party of the freebies for freeloaders. If you're
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: on the government dole, if you're sucking at the government teats,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: you're going to vote Democrat because they're the ones that
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: promote that. They're the ones that want that to keep.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: They not only want it to stay where it's at,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: they want to grow it. They want more people addicted
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: to the government. So that's where the support comes from.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But how much more can you afford? Where are you
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: going to get the money?
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Well, like Maggie Thatcher said, socialism is a wonderful system
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: if you run out of other people's money. Right.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty much where we are when you
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: look at all of this kind of stuff that's going on.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And you look at DeWine, I mean, just because somebody's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a Republican doesn't necessarily mean they do a great job either.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And DeWine's a shining example of that.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and as much as I didn't like Mitt Romney,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: he was right when he was talking. He said, what,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: back then it was, I think, 48% of the country
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: got excoriated for saying 48% of the country was sucking
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: off the government. Well, it's well north of that now.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I'd say it's closer to probably 55%, 60%.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: If I go back, I've been on talk radio a long,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: long time. If I go back to the earlier days,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: even before I was at this radio station, I can
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: remember people calling me at that time. So think how
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: long ago. I've been here 41 years, so it's beyond
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: 41 years. They used to be, call them John Birchers.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You ever hear that term, John Birchers and that kind
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of stuff? I can remember those people calling me at
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: that time saying, you will see a gigantic change when
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the people benefiting from the government outweighs the people paying
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the taxes and and the shift you'll see when it
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: comes to voting as a result of it. They were
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: warning me about that, what, 50 years ago or 45
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: years ago. They were talking about how the equations, when
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: you've got more people on the take than you do pay,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: then they do all the voting and you get screwed.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And they were right, and that's what's happening.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: They say republics typically fail because the politicians figure out
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: they can keep voting longer, pay raises and benefits for
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: the people until they basically bankrupt the Republic. And that's
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: where we're headed.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately, I think that's true. Far too much of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: your money is taken from you in all forms of taxes.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and basically just totally pissed away to the percentage is
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: too large it's being wasted and how long can that
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: go on that's all i'm asking how long.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Even as but even as much as they take and
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: confiscate of our wealth They're borrowing 50 percent, at least
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: 50 percent more than they're taking and adding that on.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: And then we have to pay the interest on it.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: We're in this. The debt is probably the biggest issue
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: facing the country by far. And nobody's paying attention to
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: it because it really doesn't affect them in a meaningful
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: way yet. But it's that that meaningful way is coming
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: and it's coming very soon.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Well, it'd be devastating. But I can assure you it
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: won't affect those people that caused the problems and got
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: their government pensions. They'll be just fine. Their pensions will
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: be just fine or their retirements will be just fine.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But everyone else on Medicare or Social Security has something
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to worry about at that point in time. And therein
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: lies the problem.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: The freebie crowd will always be fine. They will be
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: taken care of while the rest of us, the people
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: that are the makers, will continue to get screwed by
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: our elected officials.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: It's deeply disturbing and deeply troubling to me. I mean,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: it really is. And I hate to dwell on it
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: too much because it can... But it's important for people
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to know. I mean, when you listen to Dave Thomas
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that first hour and a half of the program, you
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: can learn so much of what's going on as far
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: as what's happening with electricity and the power plants and everything.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: But you also, on a positive note, but you also
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: learn about the fraud, what's going on with that kind
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: of stuff.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: So..
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: He's an important guy. That's why I have him on
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: so regularly, because he's an important guy to learn from
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and listen to.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: We need to elevate his position, though, over the next
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: couple of years. He should really be encouraged to run
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: for a higher office.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I mean, I would completely
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and totally agree with that. Completely and totally agree with that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: He's a young guy. I think he has a very
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: bright future ahead of him because he's doing what every
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: politician should do, serving the people.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm around long enough to see that happen.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I really am. You give me great joy as I
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: get older. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. You're
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: on air.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: You're not old, Ron. You're not old, Ron.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: All right. Not yet.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: No. I don't know what to say about what..
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: All these... You have very important people on your station.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: You know, if we literally took out federal income tax,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: and I don't want to hear about the fire, the police,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: or anything else like that.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that has nothing to do with federal income tax.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Well, okay then. Even better... Why do we have to
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: pay federal income tax for people that are in Congress
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: and Senate to exploit us and do all kinds of fraud?
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Why are we paying for something that they know is
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: a fraudulent front under the banner of who knows what
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: flag they fall under? Can you tell me with a
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: certainty that every one of your tax dollars federally are
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: being taken care of?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Of course I can't tell you that. I can tell you,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: look at all of the waste that Elon Musk exposed
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: in Doge, and look at what the Democrats did to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: discredit him, dishonor him, and get rid of him, and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: they were successful at it, when he was simply exposing
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: billions of your dollars going to foreign countries for... the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: most ridiculous transgenderism and all this ridiculous stuff that should
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: have never happened in the first place. And he exposed it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And it's just a total waste of your tax dollars. Exactly.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: But listen, on a local level, Ron, you're here. You're
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: right here in Austintown. You know what's going on. When
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: we're building roads and all this other stuff, and we
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: see that Medicaid and Medicare is on a billion-dollar fraudulent level,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: how can we sit there and say that we should
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: be paying federal income taxes? And I'm not against taking
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: care of our federal..
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Listen, your federal income taxes are... We can debate the waste,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and we should certainly address it and certainly get rid
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of the debt and deficit. But it is how you
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: fund your army for your freedom and your protection, and
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that's not to say that it hasn't gotten out of
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: control as far as costs are consumed. All right, Tiger,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I'm running short on time. You're on
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the air.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Hi, Ron.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I just would ask that somebody at your station review
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: the sports section of your break at 4 30 was
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: it about two weeks.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Old that happened yesterday i'm going to get on that
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: right now okay i'm going to do.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: That all right just want to let you guys know.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much thank you very much you know
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: sometimes there's just computer screw-ups that uh I've got to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: deal with it. I'll deal with it during this break.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: And I thank you for bringing it to my attention.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. You know, I've noticed that with sports.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that woman who called who reminded me of that. Listen, folks,
• 35:39
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• 35:51
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• 35:59
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• 36:07
  Speaker 1: good afternoon with you till 7 o'clock tonight. Of course,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: being Thursday. Kind of things change a little bit. We
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: have a legal show that happens from 5 to 6,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and then from 6 to 7, Money Talks with John
• 36:20
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• 36:23
  Speaker 1: legal show 5 to 6, and then John Arnold has
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Money Talks from 6 to 7 tonight. And then, of course,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity of Follow Guardians got the day off. Ron
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning, NewsRadio 5, so D.W.D.K.V.N.,
• 36:33
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• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Hey, Ron, how are you?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I'm well. Go ahead, sir.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just want to, I'm tired of the waste, too.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: But I was happy to see Trump's in China, and
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: I've seen online where Musk was with him.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, I would like to see that work out.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen him. He was in a picture with him,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: and I was glad to see that, too. I just
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: want to throw that in there.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you. You're on air. Hello.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I can hear you, but you can't hear me.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I guess that's your problem, though. But it doesn't matter
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: because we've got to pause for the headlines at 5
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: o'clock anyway, so call back. Well, you're going to have
• 37:17
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• 37:21
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• 37:24
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• 37:28
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• 37:31
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• 37:33
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• 37:40
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  Speaker 6: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. A temporary stay by
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  Speaker 6: the Supreme Court to block a popular abortion pill expires
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  Speaker 8: People have been able to access the pill online from
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  Speaker 8: a doctor, from a provider, get it in the mail.
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  Speaker 8: It is the most commonly formed method of abortion in
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  Speaker 6: If the block is upheld, women would still have to
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  Speaker 6: China continuing for a second day with working groups focusing
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  Speaker 6: on investments and trade. It follows meetings between President Trump
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  Speaker 6: but no big breakthroughs on trade and tensions remain on
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  Speaker 6: Taiwan and over Iran. ABC's Selena Wang is in Beijing.
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  Speaker 9: Big picture, if you look at what they're saying on camera,
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  Speaker 9: both leaders are focusing on stability between these two countries,
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  Speaker 9: the long history between the U.S.
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  Speaker 9: And President Trump even lavishing praise on Xi Jinping, saying
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  Speaker 6: An American cruise ship passenger who tested positive for hantavirus
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 7: By testing negative and being better symptomatically, there's a lot
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  Speaker 6: Health officials continue to monitor more than three dozen Americans
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