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Monday 3pm hour 06/15/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Heidi Ho, it's the middle of June already. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to Monday, June 15th. What a pleasant day it is today.
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  Speaker 2: Just perfect. I mean, it is just terrific outside. It's
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  Speaker 2: 66 degrees. I mean, this is just comfortable weather. I
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  Speaker 2: know there's people that I'm so glad that it's 66.
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  Speaker 2: Just so comfortable out there. Anyway, nice to be with
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  Speaker 2: you here on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Be with you right
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  Speaker 2: up until the Rockport Wealth Truth in Investing program tonight.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get you through to us on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, from the email, it says, I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to hear you talk about how amazing the UFC event was.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I can't talk about it because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: watch it. Now, I did see a snippet when the
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  Speaker 2: guy insulted Michelle Obama, so I can't talk about how
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  Speaker 2: amazing the UFC event was because I didn't watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't watch it. Didn't have an interest in it.
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  Speaker 2: I saw one clip where one of the wrestlers, or
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  Speaker 2: one of the fighters, I should say, insulted the former
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  Speaker 2: First Lady, and I didn't think that was appropriate, but
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  Speaker 2: that's my thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what are yours? Run it up the flagpole.
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  Speaker 1: See if anybody salutes. You're on the air. Ted the Conservative.
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  Speaker 3: Ronald, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm doing well, Ted the Conservative. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you make of my..
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: So much to talk about. I don't know if we
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  Speaker 3: have enough time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're talking.
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  Speaker 2: I'm listening to NewsRadio 570. Oh, that's the jingle.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind.
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  Speaker 4: That's okay.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get Baba Ganesha on later to sing it for you.
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  Speaker 3: I got to..
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  Speaker 4: First things first.
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  Speaker 3: Did J.J. drop off the teeth?
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  Speaker 1: Did he do what?
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  Speaker 3: J.J. made a wager last week. He said if this
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  Speaker 3: thing gets done by Sunday, you had to buy him
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  Speaker 3: some candy bars, and he was going to drop off
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  Speaker 3: some Milo's tea.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not a done deal. It's not signed yet.
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  Speaker 3: It has been signed digitally. It's just been on the
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  Speaker 3: news again that they signed it with a digital signature.
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  Speaker 3: And they're meeting for a, what would you call it,
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  Speaker 3: a picture option. to say, look what we did.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing I happened to read was Trump didn't
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  Speaker 2: even say if Trump was going to attend.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's not attending.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a photo op they're doing. The deal's been signed.
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  Speaker 3: It's even been advertised on Fox News as of just
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  Speaker 3: two minutes ago, running a banner at the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the screen that the deal's been signed. They had signed
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  Speaker 3: it digitally. Digitally, if that's the word. They did a
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  Speaker 3: digital signature on it. And they're basically having a big
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  Speaker 3: photo op and a big get-together to say, look what
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  Speaker 3: we did.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you make of it? Well, don't do.
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  Speaker 3: That, because I do want to talk about MMA and
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  Speaker 3: other things.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, we will, but I mean, I haven't heard any
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  Speaker 1: of the details of it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I haven't either. However, we know what the goal
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  Speaker 3: of Donald Trump was, and that was that they would
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  Speaker 3: never have a nuclear deal, and they know that going in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had the last listening to our buddy
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  Speaker 3: Fifth Avenue last week, He was very upset about all this. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the funny thing is, they keep talking about
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  Speaker 3: Obama's JCPOA deal with Iran. And all that did was
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  Speaker 3: delay the inevitable. It still gave them a pathway to
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  Speaker 3: having a nuclear program. It didn't stop them. It slowed
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  Speaker 3: them down. Donald Trump's agreement does not allow them to
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  Speaker 3: keep any of their enriched material. We've destroyed their factories.
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  Speaker 3: We've destroyed them From a military standpoint. So I think
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  Speaker 3: the objectives have been met. Now, obviously, they need to
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  Speaker 3: get down to negotiating how they're going to get this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Out of there.
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  Speaker 3: That's all that's left, really.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about trying to get it out of where
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  Speaker 4: the bunker.
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  Speaker 1: Buster went, correct?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you have to dig down and get it out?
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you just leave it there? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: buried in a..
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question. I don't know. I don't have
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  Speaker 3: an answer, but that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so it seems to me... I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: seems to me... I go back to my original statement.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to me that the bunker buster actually worked. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so now what? Now, supposedly, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: dig through this rubble, which would be just a massive
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  Speaker 2: expense and chore to get down in there, to get
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  Speaker 2: the dust... I mean, that seems ridiculous to me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you could be right, Ron.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying you're not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to know.
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  Speaker 3: The whole idea of the second excursion was because they
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  Speaker 3: saw activity through satellite images that they were trying to
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  Speaker 3: put the pieces together after that first bombing. And they
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  Speaker 3: went in and made sure that they could never put
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  Speaker 3: the pieces together. I want to deal with reality. We
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  Speaker 3: know that there's, I've seen on Fox News, the deal's
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  Speaker 3: been signed. They're going to have a little photo op.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has said today, I heard him say it,
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  Speaker 3: that the G7, he will not be there signing because
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  Speaker 3: it's basically just a photo op.
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  Speaker 4: It's done.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when this excursion started. And You had me
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  Speaker 3: and a guy.
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  Speaker 1: From Florida on. But hang on a second. Hang on
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  Speaker 1: a second before you go celebrating. Let's hear what the..
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  Speaker 3: I'm not celebrating. I'm just saying it's going how I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, just... No celebration.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure to be clear. There's no celebration.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The job's not done.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what..
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  Speaker 3: Things are going just how I thought they were.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what the details of the deal are. I
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  Speaker 2: was listening to..
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  Speaker 1: Who was commenting?
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  Speaker 2: Was it Obama or somebody that was making a comment
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  Speaker 2: that says... that he doesn't believe that the deal that
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  Speaker 2: will be reached will be any different than the deal
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  Speaker 2: that was there initially and maybe not as good. So
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  Speaker 2: I'll be curious to see who's right or who's wrong
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  Speaker 2: on this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's any good about the Obama deal
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  Speaker 3: because he still gave them a pass to a nuclear program.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't shut down their program. They made them delay
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  Speaker 3: it by 10 years. That's why we have all this
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  Speaker 3: enriched and rich.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard for me to say if this
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  Speaker 2: is good or bad because all the details that you
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  Speaker 2: hear are all speculation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're going to get their whatever.
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  Speaker 2: $ 24 billion back at a certain point in time once
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  Speaker 2: all of this stuff is verified. Who knows if that's
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  Speaker 2: accurate or not, some of the details that you hear.
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  Speaker 3: Just like your program will listen for weeks, if not months,
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  Speaker 3: Everyone who knew nothing about this situation, including you and I,
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  Speaker 3: thought they knew everything. All I did was make an
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  Speaker 3: educated guess, knowing the parties involved and the military power
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  Speaker 3: being used, that it would end up just how it's
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  Speaker 3: ending up. We're not going to see oil at $ 200
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  Speaker 3: a barrel. It's down to, what, a little over $ 70
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  Speaker 3: a barrel. Stock market's soaring again. Iran will not have
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon, unlike the JCPOA deal with Obama. It's
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  Speaker 3: going just how I thought it would. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: Trump is going to do this, state a very clear objective? Now,
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  Speaker 3: some of this stuff is irrelevant, but the big objective
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  Speaker 3: was no nuclear weapon. He feels comfortable. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: plan in place for that. They signed off on it,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see what happens. Like you said, In my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: I think they will never stop trying to acquire a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. But we're not giving them a path to
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  Speaker 3: do it, unlike Obama. Obama just said, hey, let's slow
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  Speaker 3: this down for 10 years.
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  Speaker 4: That's a very total.
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  Speaker 3: Let's slow it down for 10 years. Didn't stop him.
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  Speaker 3: Trump has made it very clear. You cannot have a weapon,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to stop you from trying to make one,
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  Speaker 3: and he did. Two different things. Now, the money, everyone's
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  Speaker 3: going to say, oh, he's sending them money. He said
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  Speaker 3: he wouldn't send them money. We're not sending them money.
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  Speaker 3: When this excursion started in the Strait of America, as
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  Speaker 3: part of the stranglehold, in addition to our military, we
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  Speaker 3: froze all their assets. So just as we're going to
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  Speaker 3: open the Strait of America, we're going to allow them
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  Speaker 3: to use their ports, we're going to unfreeze their assets.
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  Speaker 3: We're not giving them money. We're not doing anything to
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  Speaker 3: benefit them. We're not giving them American tax dollars. And
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  Speaker 3: when Obama sent them money, it's because we had that
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  Speaker 3: money in our possession because we basically took it from them.
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  Speaker 2: I am somewhat concerned that Iran's view of the agreement
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  Speaker 2: seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.
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  Speaker 2: Under our law, any nuclear deal with Iran will be
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  Speaker 2: sent to Congress for review. Lindsey Graham, I'm just reading
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  Speaker 2: his statement.
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right, right. And I understand that Congress has got
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  Speaker 3: to do something with approval. I just saw that on
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  Speaker 3: Fox News, too. So I don't know. You and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what's going to happen. No one does. But
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  Speaker 3: it's going exactly how I thought it would go.
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  Speaker 5: How's that?
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  Speaker 1: As I say, time..
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to see 9% inflation, as we did
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  Speaker 3: with Joe Biden. We're not going to see oil prices,
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  Speaker 3: as some said, up to $ 200 a barrel. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's happening. Let's deal with facts. Let's deal with reality.
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  Speaker 3: We know there's only so much we know, but that's
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  Speaker 3: what we know to be factual. Tomorrow there may change.
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  Speaker 3: I think too often the people that know the least
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  Speaker 3: think they know the most. They have opinions that are like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, everyone has.
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  Speaker 5: One.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the stock market is way up today.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going well.
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  Speaker 2: The Dow is up, what, 619. S & P is
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  Speaker 2: up 131. NASDAQ is up 756. And the NASDAQ 100
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  Speaker 2: is up 901. The Russell is up 2400. So everything
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  Speaker 2: on the market is way up.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Dow jumped 600 points to a record with rally gaining
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  Speaker 2: steam after Trump signs Iran deal memorandum.
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  Speaker 3: It has been signed, as I told you.
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  Speaker 1: SpaceX IP.
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  Speaker 3: JJ, if you're listening, Ron Veer till what, 6, 6.30, whatever, 7?
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  Speaker 3: You got a little bit of time to get that
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  Speaker 3: going on Milo's CF there.
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  Speaker 2: SpaceX IPO raises total of $ 85. 7 billion as underwriters exercise
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  Speaker 2: green shoe over allotment option, whatever that is.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny, Ron, how all these economic geniuses that we've
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  Speaker 3: heard so much about in the last couple months appear
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  Speaker 3: to be wrong again. All these experts. Remember when they
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  Speaker 3: told us that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to be honest, I think he fell into
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  Speaker 3: some of that trap again.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I never fell in a trap. Not the Russian part,
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  Speaker 1: but the economic..
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  Speaker 2: Oh, make no mistake. Let me give you my assessment
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  Speaker 2: of it because I listened to yours. My assessment is
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  Speaker 2: Trump had to reach an agreement. I'm curious what the
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  Speaker 2: details of this agreement are. And I'm fine with whatever
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  Speaker 2: the details are because I want this thing to be over.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the following questions that I would want to know,
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  Speaker 2: will they have a tariff to go through the strait?
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  Speaker 2: That's just... a question off the bat. Uh, number two, when,
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  Speaker 2: when does some money get released back to them? Um,
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  Speaker 2: I would just would like to see the details of
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  Speaker 2: it just to see what it's all about. I would,
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  Speaker 2: I would say this to you. I believe Trump's back
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  Speaker 2: was up against the wall. Uh, I do have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different take than you. I think his back
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  Speaker 2: was up against the wall and time was not on
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  Speaker 2: his side. He had, he had to reach an agreement, uh,
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  Speaker 2: because of where we are as far as oil supply
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  Speaker 2: and the economy and inflation. I think his back is
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  Speaker 2: very much up against the wall. When you say about
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  Speaker 2: his agenda, remember when Trump said there's nothing acceptable? The
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  Speaker 2: agenda kept changing, but their unconditional surrender, I remember him
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  Speaker 2: saying that, their unconditional surrender. Well, there hasn't really been
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  Speaker 2: an unconditional surrender in that sense.
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  Speaker 4: So..
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  Speaker 1: It's hard for me to be positive.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of that un-surrender, that's just who he is
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  Speaker 3: trying to negotiate.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so then we can say, until we know what
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  Speaker 2: the agreement is, we can't use the excuse, well, that's
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  Speaker 2: just how he negotiates. All I'm saying to you is...
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  Speaker 2: We have an agreement. Right, I want to know what
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  Speaker 2: the agreement is. Believe me when I tell you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what else we know other than that.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I am pleased that this thing is..
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  Speaker 2: Potentially is over and we can move on, that the
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  Speaker 2: strait is open, that we can get back to business
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  Speaker 2: as usual. I mean, I'm very pleased if that materializes.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, and it seems to me it's going
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  Speaker 2: in that direction. Israel can always screw this up, but
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  Speaker 2: we can go, well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: That's another part of it. Because I think, now we
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  Speaker 3: may disagree on this one, I don't understand all of
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  Speaker 3: this Israel bullying. I'll call it that. Everyone's beating up
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  Speaker 3: on Israel. And let me explain myself before you respond.
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  Speaker 3: So Trump has been blasting Israel every time they respond
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  Speaker 3: to Hezbollah. Now, Hezbollah is bombing Israel at the request
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  Speaker 3: of the IRG. So on one hand, you've got these people...
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  Speaker 3: in Iran trying to negotiate a peace deal. And on
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  Speaker 3: the other hand, you've got these people in Iran telling
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  Speaker 3: Hezbollah to keep bombing Israel. And we expect Israel to
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  Speaker 3: just sit there because Donald Trump told them to sit
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  Speaker 3: there and not respond. So I would ask you this.
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  Speaker 3: What if we were being bombed through Russian proxies from Cuba?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: And Stand by. Stand by. A few more minutes with
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  Speaker 1: Ted the Conservative.
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  Speaker 2: Rich, your pharmacist coming up and more right after this.
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ron. Verb 325 in the afternoon. So all
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying is let's wait. How do I say this?
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  Speaker 2: I would like this thing to be over, period, and
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  Speaker 2: ended and focus on the economy. oil prices, and all
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  Speaker 2: of this other stuff. I hope everything works out to
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  Speaker 2: America's best interest and to Trump's best interest, because that's
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  Speaker 2: my best interest.
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  Speaker 1: So it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: For me to say one way or the other until
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  Speaker 2: I would know all the details of what has taken place.
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  Speaker 3: I give you an eye, Captain, but I'll add, it's
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  Speaker 3: going in the right direction, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It appears to be at this point in time. It
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  Speaker 1: appears to be.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Israel, real quick, and then you ran some up
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  Speaker 3: the flagpole. I've got to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: And it's got to go.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine we're taking incoming fire from Iranian proxies in Cuba.
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  Speaker 3: Bombs are coming, hitting in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do hypotheticals.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I think I don't want to get into that
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  Speaker 2: because Trump has said to Trump has said to Israel himself,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are going to screw this up if you
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  Speaker 2: don't knock it off. So is there a wedge now
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  Speaker 2: between Trump and Netanyahu?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that either.
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  Speaker 3: I think Trump is wrong telling Israel not to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, apparently that's part of reaching the agreements. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: here's my philosophy. Let Israel fight its situation. America should
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  Speaker 2: not be involved in it in any way.
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  Speaker 4: Agreed completely.
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  Speaker 1: Period. I'm giving you too many eyes.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, listen. Here's my question. Will the Strait
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  Speaker 2: be opened up just as it was before this event happened?
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  Speaker 2: Will there be tolls? What conditions are there for them
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  Speaker 2: getting their money back? And it's just confusing right now
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  Speaker 2: because there's two different sides to this story that are
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  Speaker 2: coming out. And I understand, and I don't disagree with
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  Speaker 2: Congress and Schumer, actually, that say, what are the details
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  Speaker 2: of this agreement? Because you do have people in positions
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  Speaker 2: of power saying, and they have every right to know, too,
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  Speaker 2: what is this deal? Trump was asked that today.
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  Speaker 3: And he thinks that by Friday all the documents should
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  Speaker 3: be released to the public.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good, because, I mean, it seems to me that..
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  Speaker 3: I'm not hiding anything. That's why I said there's a lot..
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  Speaker 2: I know, but it's hard to make it say one
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  Speaker 2: way or the other if you don't know the details.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we know that the deal's been signed.
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  Speaker 2: And then I would go one step further. We've spent
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  Speaker 2: enough time on it. I mean, until you have the details.
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  Speaker 3: You wanted to run something up the flagpole last night.
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  Speaker 3: You and I had mixed feelings. We were both against
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  Speaker 3: it going in. I was wrong. That was the most
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: patriotic thing I've ever seen. And let me explain. Unlike
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Biden and Obama, who had the gay pride events or
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: BLM events, and we saw transgender dancing with their genitals exposed,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: what last night was about was honoring the men and
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: women in our military along with first responders. In between
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: all of the videos and displays of violence honoring all
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: of our former people who died serving our country. They
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: had some boxing match fighting, UFC fights in between. That's
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: how I took it. There were speeches from Reagan. There
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: were speeches from former presidents that were played. It was
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: just the most... Amazing thing I've seen. And I didn't
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: want to shut it off. But at midnight, I was
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: so tired. And I'm so glad I stayed up to
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: watch the last play.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKVN.
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  Speaker 1: Ron, 335, you're on the air.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Ron, good afternoon, sir.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: It's Rich, a pharmacist, yes.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I pretty much agree with everything Ted said, to be
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: perfectly honest with you. This isn't a victory dance or
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: a victory lap or anything like that. I think... A
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: lot could still go wrong with this. I agree with
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: what he said about Israel. I don't understand why people
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: are mad at them when they're not the ones that
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: are getting, you know, they're not the aggressor there. Stop
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: and think, why is Iran so worried about Lebanon that's hundreds,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: if not thousands of miles from its country? Why are
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: they worried about that? Why are they insisting that Israel
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: get out of Lebanon? That has nothing to do with Iran.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: It's because that's their proxy. They've got their little, you know,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: army over there that is very effective at lobbing missiles
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: into Israel, which no other country in the world would tolerate.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: If Cuba was lobbing or Mexico was or Canada was
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: lobbing missiles into this country, we'd annihilate them. And no American, well,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I don't know, with the left anymore, you probably would
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: have Americans saying we shouldn't do it. but no real
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: americans would we would disagree with that decision but i
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: had a good look gives me pause is i was
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: just reading an article jd jd vance said uh... they've
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: agreed that they will not pursue a nuclear weapon. That's
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: a big difference from they're going to give up what
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: they have. Now, it also said that in the next
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: 24 to 48 hours, that's when the terms of the
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: deal will come out. So if they caved on getting...
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: what Trump refers to as the dust, the highly enriched uranium,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: if they caved on that, that's a big concession on
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: our part. It's probably not in our interest. On the
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: other hand, I'm at the point now where once this
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: is over, bring everybody home. Let's just get out of
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: there and let those countries, in the future, if there's
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: anything going on, let them all figure it out amongst themselves.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I'm tired of being the world policeman. That includes Korea, Japan,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: and especially Europe. If we learn nothing else from this
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: three-month endeavor that we've been in, we were shown very
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: explicitly who our friends are and who our friends aren't.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Because we don't really need the oil that comes over
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: from the Middle East. We don't import that much of
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: it from them. Well, you're right that we need oil
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: from other countries.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Mainly we get most of it from Canada. Yeah, exactly.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: So we don't really need the oil over there. Who
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: does need it? Asia needs it, and Europe needs it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Did either one of those regions lift a finger to
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: support us, even in trying to get the industry open,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: putting pressure on Iran, putting pressure on the Chinese to
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: put pressure on Iran? None of them. All they did
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: was yell and scream and cry, but none of them,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: these supposed allies and friends of the United States, none
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: of them lifted a finger to help us. which doesn't
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: surprise me at all because since World War II, we've
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: been used by these countries. I think G2 and I
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: were talking about that, and I agree with them on
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: that 100%. I'm tired of being the patsy for these countries.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: You're just signing blank checks that they use. We're defending Europe.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: It's time for these people to start paying their own freight.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: So that would be my biggest takeaway from it. Once
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: this stabilizes over there, which God willing it will, It's
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: time to start building Fortress America and disengaging from a
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: lot of the rest of the world because we're not appreciated.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: We're not, you know, it's not the, when we need them, they're,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: you know, when they need us, we're there. When we
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: need them, they're not. And who needs a fair weather friend?
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: So I think it's time for us to just start
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: disengaging and build Fortress America and call it a day.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Did you watch the big celebration? I didn't watch any
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: of it. I thought I got an interesting email in
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: response to what Ted had to say. And it says,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: in response to Ted, there's a lot more to America
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: than cops, firemen, and soldiers, when he said it was
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: saluting that. And I agree with that. I mean, I
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: think we take our average citizens for granted. I mean,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: there are other– I agree with what the emailer is saying.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: What celebration?
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: The U.S.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Debt fight that was last night?
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently there was some..
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch any of it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: If you honor the cops, the troops, I mean, I'm
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: not going to complain about that. By all means, honor them.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I didn't watch it. I think that sport is barbaric.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I think the fact that it was on the lawn
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: at the White House is idiotic.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but see, they try to justify it. They try
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to justify it. I agree with you from my perspective.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: But they say, well, Biden had that whole transgender thing. Well,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I think that was wrong, too.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: What do they say?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Two wrongs don't make a right. That whole transgender thing
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: was wrong in this deal that they had last night.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I did not watch it. I mean, I just didn't have—
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: any desire to watch it. I was just doing other things.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: So I didn't make the time to go watch it,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: but I did see the clip. And I do think
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: it is it to me, it is in poor taste.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You have, I forget what are these fighters that made
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the comment about Michelle Obama being a man. And I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: just think that kind of stuff is just inappropriate. I mean, listen,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: whether you like Obama or not, he was the president
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: and she was the first lady show some damn respect.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and that's where I part ways with, you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: I love most of Trump's policies. I think he's probably
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: one of the best policy-driven presidents of my lifetime, if
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: not the best. Probably even better than Reagan. That said,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: he is not without his shortcomings. Most of, you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: first and foremost, you know, that hole beneath his nose
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: that he can't keep shut most of the time. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: that's the... And what I understood, his biggest flaw, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I like to look at things from a historical perspective,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and I think 15, 20, 30 years from now I'll
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: be dead, but if I were to live to see it,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: the biggest criticism you'll have of Trump by historians, other
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: than the left-leaning ones who do what they do now,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: is that he never has been able to rise to
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: the office. That's probably my biggest criticism of him. Act presidential.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: You know, you don't need to sit there and tweet
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: everything and come up with these good name-calling and sit there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: He's in love with himself. I mean, he's definitely a
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: narcissist because everything he does is great and fantastic and wonderful.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Normal people don't talk like that. You and I don't
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: talk like that. You don't talk like that. You don't
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: sit here, oh, I've got the greatest talk show on Earth.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: It's just ridiculous to sit there and self-promote yourself all
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: the time like that. Maybe his dad didn't love him
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: enough as a child. I don't know. I don't understand it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: But that said, from a policy standpoint, he's still the
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: best president. I vote for him 100 times as president
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: because of that. You know, I think what, and I
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: told you at the beginning of this, I know you
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: opposed it. I don't necessarily think it had to be done.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: But I think if you can defang and neutralize or
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: even just, get them to quit being bad actors in
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: the Middle East, if you kind of neuter Iran, that's
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: a good thing for the world over the next couple
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: of decades. Because they're a bad actor. Probably the worst
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: actor in the world. North Korea is not even that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: North Korea just basically keeps to themselves. They're not exporting
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: stuff around the world. Iran, you look at the wars
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: that we fought in the Middle East, especially Gulf II,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Their proxies over there, their versions of Hezbollah in Iraq,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: they sponsored a lot of that. They led to the
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans with all
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: those roadside bombs and stuff like that. So they're not
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: a good government. I mean, we've got legitimate beefs with
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: them and what they're doing. And the rest of the
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Middle East. You know, those other countries didn't do anything,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: and he hit the other Arab countries.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I think it's good that we're at a strategic pause
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: on that. I was just reading a Wall Street Journal
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: article or a Fox article, I can't remember, and it
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: was an op-ed, and it basically said where we're at
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: right now is a strategic pause. This isn't a victory.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Neither side can claim victory at all. But the fighting
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: has stopped. Hopefully it stays stopped, and we can reach
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: a detente with them that stops them from being aggressive,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: bad actors. And from this point on, as far as
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I'm concerned, like I said, Time to pack our bags
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: and come home.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: All right. Well said. Thank you, Rich. Appreciate it. Well said.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: All right. You're on the air. I thought you'd take
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: care as well. Wait a second here. Let me do this.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Hi there.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: You almost cut me off.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Did you do that on purpose or what?
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Yes. It was a secret mission of mine.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Well, okay. I don't... Everybody wants to... everybody wants to
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: agree with Trump, but them bad people over there in
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: the Middle East, and that's including Israel, are never, ever,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: ever going to stop fighting. And that's a fact. I mean,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: you talk about critical thinking and woke, well, if it
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: hadn't been for critical thinking and woke, we would have
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: never had the Boston Tea Party. Same thing with the
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Revolutionary War. Same thing with The Civil War. But the
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: thing that gets me is when you read what him
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: and his group have done as far as getting rid
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: of anybody that is black, indigenous Indian, women, and LBGT,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: they have gone out of their way to get rid
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: of those people who served in the military for us.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: And I don't understand why people think that he has
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: done so good, measurably, when he's jacked up the cotton-picking
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: debt that we owe so high. If he was such
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: a businessman, why didn't he cut that back? No, he
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: added more to it. He did it his first time.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: And the way he talks and the way he carries on,
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: there is no point in history... that anybody cannot move
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: out without thinking about it. If they were just to
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: listen and sit back and not know it was Trump,
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: they'd say, who the hell is that? Why in the
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: world would all these countries throughout the world step up
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: to help us when he went after them? with the tariffs?
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: And the tariffs are going to come and bite us
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: in the next five to ten years. Because people are
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: going to realize, we don't need America. We can go
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: to China. And China's over there licking its chops saying, yeah,
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: I'll buy from you, but it ain't going to be
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: the same price because America's out. And that's what China
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: was waiting for. And they got it. They are going
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: to take the world. They're not going to take the
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: world by war. They're going to take it by economics,
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: which is what Ronald Reagan said Japan was trying to do.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: I just, I can't. And it just irritates me when
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: people start talking about this thing woke for the past
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: seven years. Then if you think about it a little
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: bit longer, Trump's been screaming about it. rigged elections for
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: how many years now? Two years prior to going in
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: after Obama, then the whole time through the four years,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: then after he lost the next election, he kept screaming,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: it's rigged, it's rigged, and he keeps on doing it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: It got to the point where that was the big
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: flag for the conservative Republicans to say that they couldn't
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: have their way And if you didn't vote with them,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: you were considered a rhino. And you know what happened
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: in this state when they pulled that. Somebody called up
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: and talked to the guy that was usually in the morning,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: telling him exactly what was going on. And then they
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: shut up. This Republican doesn't understand why people cannot see
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: what is truly going on here. We've got a crime
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: family that's in the White House right now making hundreds
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: of millions of dollars a year. So, so far. And
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: they're going to keep on doing it.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: But that's what this Republican sees. He's not doing anything
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: for me. I'm too old now. You're too old now.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Knock it off with the too old crap.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Just when I was starting to feel good about myself today,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: you slapped me right down.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: You're only as old as you think you are.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but now I think I'm much older based on
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: your comments. Hey, listen, he benefited stuff. Keep in mind,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: if you're on Social Security, well, it doesn't even matter
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: if you're on Social Security. If you're over 65, you
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: got a significant tax deduction as a result of Trump.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Believe me when I tell you, you save significantly on it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: There's things that... that he has done that you've benefited
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: from as far as tax cuts are concerned and allowing
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: you to keep more of your money.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know about that because when I looked at mine,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I couldn't see it.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Well, it's there.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: And then you also take a look at some of
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the things that are going on with prescription drugs and
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: the costs that you can save that he's doing there
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Let's corporate agree with the minute he walks out, TrumpMed
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: is gone.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Well, let's hope it isn't.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Well, I hope so, too, but we ought to go
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: back there and have Social Security or Medicare or Medicare
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: should walk in there and start negotiating prices.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just, I don't understand. I look at
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: this and I'm so scared for my grandkids and my
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: great-grandkids of what they're going to have to pay for.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, if you're saying that, I would agree with you.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: If you're saying you're concerned for your children and your
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: grandchildren because of the debt and deficit of this country,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: how it continues to grow, how we continue to spend
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: more money than we take in, how the interest takes
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: up so much of our tax dollars, how there seems
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: to be zero interest in solving this problem, and we
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: pass that burden on to future generations, they have every
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: right to be pissed about that. I'm in total... Total
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: agreement with you there. I mean, if you're saying, am
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: I concerned about the future for our younger generations? And
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: my answer to that would be yes, when it comes
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: to the debt and deficit of the country. And also
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: my answer to that would be yes, when it comes
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: to the cost of health care, which is already off
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: the charts.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And where can that be going?
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: And also it would be saying the burden of taxes
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: that people will face as a result of it. I'm
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: concerned about all of those things. And then you throw
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: in AI on top of it. There's four major things
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I'm concerned with with the younger generation, which would include
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: my own adult children. I mean, I think they should
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: be OK for the most part. But I'm genuinely concerned
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: based on those things. Debt and deficit of the country.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: the amount of taxes that people are going to have
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: to be charged on this, the cost of health care,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: and the AI situation is of grave concern to me
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: for younger generations.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I'm with you there.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Stand by for me. If you've got more to say,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: just hang in there for a minute. I'll be right
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: back with them after this. Youngstown's news, weather, and talk station,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: 570 WKBN. So I think you make some legitimate points
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: when you say you're concerned about what's ahead for future generations,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: because I would totally agree with you. But like I said,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I throw AI in as well, and what effects that
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: could have.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: You know, are you done? Yeah. Okay, this gerrymandering stuff
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: going on, United States people are lazy. They don't want
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: to get out and vote. In places like California, they
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: did the ballot because it's easier to do the ballot-ing thing.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: I've been doing the ballot-ing thing since Obama because I
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: didn't want to stand in line for a half hour,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: 45 minutes to vote. So I've been doing it that way,
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: like I said.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? You go down to the Board
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of Elections to vote?
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  Speaker 5: No, I did that twice, and I had to stand
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  Speaker 5: in line for a half an hour. I said, I
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  Speaker 5: ain't doing this nonsense anymore. I ain't wasting my time.
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  Speaker 5: When I can have them sent for me, then I
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  Speaker 5: can do it at my leisure, at my house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but how we do it in Ohio as far
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  Speaker 2: as mailing ballots is much different than in California. In California,
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  Speaker 2: they're mailing everyone a ballot. And that's not right. You
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  Speaker 2: could be dead. You could move.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know who's voting that ballot.
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  Speaker 2: We do it in a much better fashion here in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio. It's way different how we do
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  Speaker 2: it here. than they do in California. I've got to
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  Speaker 2: get you to stand by again. I'll wrap up my
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  Speaker 2: conversation with you and get to more calls that have
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  Speaker 2: been patient. Right after the break at 4, I'll ask
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  Speaker 2: him to stand by. Ron Ferb from the Kingdom of Mahoney.
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  Speaker 1: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen.
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  Speaker 7: In the French Alps, President Trump is meeting with world
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  Speaker 7: leaders for the start of the G7 summit. Earlier, the
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  Speaker 7: president told reporters he thinks terms of a deal between
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  Speaker 7: the U.S. and Iran will be finalized later this week.
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  Speaker 1: The deal's on the side.
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  Speaker 6: And the strain is already partially opened. As you know,
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  Speaker 6: they're doing a little hunting for a couple of mines
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  Speaker 6: that they've already found. But it's essentially ships are starting
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  Speaker 6: to go out now on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be completely open.
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  Speaker 7: The U.S. Navy today issuing a maritime advisory to ships
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  Speaker 7: saying the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports will remain in
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  Speaker 7: effect until an agreement is formally complete. Prices for a
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  Speaker 7: barrel of crude began to drop today on word of
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  Speaker 7: a deal and in the U.S. gas prices also dipping
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  Speaker 7: below $ 4 a gallon. California's Governor Gavin Newsom in a
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  Speaker 7: social media post on X says the Justice Department has
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  Speaker 7: launched an investigation into him and his wife. He didn't
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  Speaker 7: specify why. ABC's Alex Mallon has more on the possible probe.
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  Speaker 8: Is looking into Gavin Newsom's wife's taxes. It's really unclear
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  Speaker 8: whether prosecutors have amassed any evidence that would suggest they
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  Speaker 8: are going to seek an indictment against Gavin Newsom or
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  Speaker 8: his wife. They've been trying to speak and subpoena people
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  Speaker 8: close to him, close to his wife, to dredge up
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  Speaker 8: in his words information that would lead them to potentially
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  Speaker 8: seek charges. And he is framing this as a campaign
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  Speaker 8: of retribution by President Trump.
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  Speaker 7: In Southern California, officials at Edwards Air Force Base in
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  Speaker 7: a social media post announced emergency personnel are responding to
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  Speaker 7: a B-52 crash that happened shortly after takeoff this morning.
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  Speaker 7: The air base, located nearly two hours northeast of Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 7: the Air Force and NASA conduct test flights of new
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  Speaker 7: and developmental aircraft there. In Missouri, federal investigators beginning to
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  Speaker 7: collect evidence at the scene of the deadly skydiving plane
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  Speaker 7: crash Sunday. Outside Kansas City, the pilot along with 11
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  Speaker 7: skydivers were killed when the plane went down shortly after takeoff.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to ABC News.