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Friday 5pm hour 05/22/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Back to us, 506 News Radio, 570 WKBN, Ron Furb.
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  Speaker 1: It's 62 degrees. So, so far, the second Trump presidency,
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  Speaker 1: you think, hasn't gone that well, correct?
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  Speaker 2: No. No, I don't think so. I don't, I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't classify it as a failure, but I think
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  Speaker 2: the only thing we've done is suspend Democrat... How do
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  Speaker 2: I even say this? We've stopped the Democrats in their
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  Speaker 2: tracks from making things any worse than they would have,
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  Speaker 2: meaning if Kamala was elected, because we're really not seeing
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  Speaker 2: some of the legislative things that we had hoped for.
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  Speaker 2: And a big problem, I think, is because of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: But that's where leadership comes in, and Trump should be
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  Speaker 2: leading a little better, I think, when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: those things. But In the end, I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get out of this guy for another
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  Speaker 2: year or, what, two years or so. Other than that,
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  Speaker 2: we've put the brakes on all those liberal Democrat policies.
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  Speaker 2: I still support him. I still think he has, in
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  Speaker 2: the back of his mind, he does want the best
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  Speaker 2: for the country. I think he's been distracted by some
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  Speaker 2: who have influenced his decision-making. I think he's still a narcissistic,
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  Speaker 2: petty person. the way you've gone after matthew mtg and
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  Speaker 2: all those other folks and yes you can say she
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  Speaker 2: quit you can say whatever you want about matthew i
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  Speaker 2: have no opinion on matthew whether he should have won
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  Speaker 2: whether he shouldn't have won i don't like what happened
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  Speaker 2: but you know all those little things they're leading up
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  Speaker 2: that you're just more smoke on the fire just more
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  Speaker 2: smoke on the fire that we don't need and i
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  Speaker 2: don't like the way he involves himself so much in
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  Speaker 2: the primary election because doesn't have a good track record
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to general elections. My biggest concern now
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  Speaker 2: is in Texas. You know, we can leave that seat.
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  Speaker 2: Paxson carries a lot of baggage. And, yes, Cronin, you know,
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  Speaker 2: G2 doesn't like him. He said some things about him.
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  Speaker 2: But we're at the point now where it's wins and
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  Speaker 2: losses again. It's keeping the others out of office. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're back to that point where we're trying to win
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  Speaker 2: elections because, honestly, Republicans are horrible at governance. They don't
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  Speaker 2: get anything done. They talk a lot. They tell us
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  Speaker 2: how great they're going to make things. But they don't
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  Speaker 2: get a lot done. And again, I'm still going to
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  Speaker 2: vote for him. I'm not going to vote for a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to support Trump and keep supporting him. I'm
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  Speaker 2: willing to deal with all the stupid stuff he does
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  Speaker 2: that upsets so many of us. I still think he
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  Speaker 2: could come out on top. But every day that we
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  Speaker 2: don't take a step in the right direction, we're making
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  Speaker 2: that hill to climb steeper and steeper. So I'm worried
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  Speaker 2: about that. But I agree with you on everything you said.
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  Speaker 2: We need to hold him to the same standard we
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  Speaker 2: held Bill Biden. And I don't agree with that slush
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  Speaker 2: fund thing. It's just a disaster. But who knows? We'll
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  Speaker 2: see where it all ends up. But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to share with you something else. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons I called you. Two things I
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  Speaker 2: want to share with you. Can I do that before
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  Speaker 2: you kick me off?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. You like to eat at the fireplace restaurant, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You're a fan. So mark your calendar for Thursday, June 5th.
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  Speaker 2: When you get off the radio, you've got to go
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  Speaker 2: to the fireplace. And all of your listeners have an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to go to the fireplace and meet Christine Oliver.
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  Speaker 2: She's holding a fundraiser there that night. And I think
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  Speaker 2: we need not forget about our local politics. And we
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  Speaker 2: need to really start focusing on the local issues and
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  Speaker 2: the local races because those things affect us too. much
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  Speaker 2: more in a bigger way than things at the national level.
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  Speaker 2: It all runs, you know, the water runs up, if
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  Speaker 2: you say, or runs down, you could say, however you
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  Speaker 2: want to say it, but everything starts at the local,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's our school boards, our city councils, our county commissioners,
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  Speaker 2: our local judges, you know, those are the things that
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  Speaker 2: affect us. And I think this county commissioners race is huge.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree. I certainly hope she would win over McNally. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I can't make that because how am I supposed to
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  Speaker 1: make out with my wife at a political fundraiser? When
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  Speaker 1: I go out to dinner, I'm trying to... Don't drink
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  Speaker 1: the margarita.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm going to betterize you. Get the margarita to go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm dead serious. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: back and forth within the party in the primaries, whether
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  Speaker 2: it was the commissioners, the judges. There was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of close judge races. But I think the party really
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  Speaker 2: needs to come together now and support the candidates that won.
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  Speaker 2: And that's critical.
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  Speaker 1: Like I say, Christine Oliver ran a really good campaign,
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  Speaker 1: and I think she's championed the issues that are important
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to property taxes. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: she was front and center on those two issues. And
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  Speaker 1: so she champions those. She said that she will do
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  Speaker 1: so if she's elected. So and ran a really good campaign.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, if I looked at it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I really thought it was was a campaign for commissioner
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  Speaker 1: between really her and Bruce Shepis. I didn't think Dragas
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  Speaker 1: really was much of a contender, just didn't think he
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  Speaker 1: would he would be a factor in it. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I think it would have been perhaps closer. I
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  Speaker 1: just think Bruce should have embraced those two issues more.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know why he didn't. I think he
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  Speaker 1: should have. But, you know, I'm not saying he should
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  Speaker 1: embrace something if he doesn't believe in it. Don't misunderstand me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I think he should have probably reviewed
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  Speaker 1: that and supported those issues for the sake of the
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer and championed and said, listen, if I'm elected, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make sure that these things come about and
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  Speaker 1: champion those issues if he sincerely believed in it. By
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  Speaker 1: not doing that, I think it hurt his campaign because
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  Speaker 1: I sit back. I live in Austintown. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that we have any major issues as far as how
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  Speaker 1: the township is being run. I think that as a township,
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  Speaker 1: things seem to be going quite well as far as
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  Speaker 1: the community is concerned at this point in time. So
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  Speaker 1: I can't fault him for his job at this point
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  Speaker 1: as trustee or any of the rest of them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like everything's going pretty well. But if you
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  Speaker 1: do like the deep dive into campaigns, I would say
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  Speaker 1: that was probably not the best– I think that was
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  Speaker 1: a big mistake. But you shouldn't embrace something unless you
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  Speaker 1: sincerely believe in it either. I mean, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in it, then you've got to stand up for
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  Speaker 1: what you believe in, too. And maybe you didn't believe
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  Speaker 1: in it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's okay for people to disagree.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: I had a lot of people come at me because
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  Speaker 2: of my support for Christine. And maybe they didn't like
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  Speaker 2: the things I said about the other candidates. But don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong. I respect anyone that throws their hat.
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  Speaker 2: in that public circus and does what they do to
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  Speaker 2: get elected for whatever reason, whatever motivation. And we all
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  Speaker 2: have an opinion. Right. And just because I have an
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  Speaker 2: opinion that's different from yours, does it mean that I,
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  Speaker 2: I think your opinion is, is any right to your
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  Speaker 2: opinion is any less than mine.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Ted, really? What about those Obama years? I just
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  Speaker 1: leave you with that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I tried, I tried. I think if you can
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  Speaker 2: go back and do it again, you'd hold your nose.
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  Speaker 2: And push the button for Mitch Romney.
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  Speaker 1: God, I can't stand the guy. All right.
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  Speaker 3: One more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to share this with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll get to top politics later. You know, everyone's
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  Speaker 2: talking about inflation.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And the cost, the burden that we're carrying today. And
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  Speaker 2: people are very, very short-memory.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second. When you say that, my buddy sent
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  Speaker 1: me this this morning. Let me give you the time.
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  Speaker 1: I forget what. Let's see. Gallons. 19 gallons. 19 gallons.
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  Speaker 4: $ 89. 45. Just a snapshot of the pump. He said, absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 4: Just the truck. It was at half a tank.
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  Speaker 1: Half a tank and his truck was $ 90.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not forget that CPI is up. Core inflation isn't
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  Speaker 2: back right now. The CPI is up because of volatility
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  Speaker 2: in the, what do you call it, Strait of America. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got to hope that that gets taken
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  Speaker 2: care of. But something else I just witnessed. I've got
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  Speaker 2: to tell you. I've got to share this with your listeners.
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  Speaker 2: So I had to run out to Mineral Ridge to
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  Speaker 2: go see him. So there's a butcher out there, Berdirk Butcher.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only place I buy meat. Really? Great, great. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: great people, great meat, great, just great. Can't say enough
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  Speaker 2: about him. Take a ride out there one day. You
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  Speaker 2: won't be disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: Where's that at?
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  Speaker 2: It's in Mineral Ridge. As you're driving through Mineral Ridge,
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  Speaker 2: it's a dirt butcher. It's not hard to miss. What
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  Speaker 2: is that, 46 that cuts right through there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't miss it, I'm telling you. Great, great guy.
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  Speaker 1: Is it after the ice cream store or what?
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  Speaker 2: I don't pay attention to ice cream stores, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure where the ice cream store is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a coffee shop. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a park.
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  Speaker 2: There's an empty park out there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it's almost right across. There's like a gazebo there
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  Speaker 2: across the street, I think. So it's in that vicinity.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so it's by the school, maybe, Minette? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Down a little bit from the school. Yep, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And there's a post office pub and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes. And it's on the same side as
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  Speaker 2: a post office pub. I'm telling you, whatever you want,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you like, they got it. And it's just all great.
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  Speaker 2: And the guy who owns it is even a better
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  Speaker 2: person than the stuff he sells.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know. My son says the post office pub
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  Speaker 1: has really, really good food there. You should probably stop sometime.
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  Speaker 3: Why is it.
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  Speaker 2: You know all the ice cream places and your son.
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  Speaker 3: Knows the food places?
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  Speaker 1: Because. Because.
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  Speaker 2: And you know the margarita place.
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  Speaker 1: Because he's whining and dining his girl more than I am.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so listen to this. You may be running out
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  Speaker 2: of time. I got to tell you. So I leave
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  Speaker 2: the butcher. I'm heading home to Columbiana.
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  Speaker 3: I want to run into Walmart.
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  Speaker 2: In Launcetown real quick for a few items. I got
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  Speaker 2: like five items. I don't want to do the..
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I want to hear this.
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  Speaker 2: So check out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm watching this woman, okay?
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  Speaker 4: Not..
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  Speaker 2: But like two stations in front of me. I'm watching
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  Speaker 2: her scan every other item... and putting the one she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't scan in her bag. And I'm watching her fill
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  Speaker 2: her pockets with candy that she's not scanning. And there's
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  Speaker 2: employees everywhere watching her. And she's looking to see if
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  Speaker 2: anyone's watching her. I mean, that's how blatant it was.
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  Speaker 1: So you're there, and she would scan an item, and
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  Speaker 1: then she would skip one or act like she was
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  Speaker 1: scanning the other one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. And I'm thinking half her cart was like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I was, you know, I was back a little
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  Speaker 2: bit ways, but I could see it clear as day.
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  Speaker 2: And I was maybe 20 yards, 25 yards away. And
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  Speaker 2: there's Walmart employees all over the place, you know, watching
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  Speaker 2: people do this. And they just let her go out
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  Speaker 2: and do what she was doing. So then I go
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  Speaker 2: to check out and I've got cash. I'm paying with cash.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have change. I just put the bills in
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  Speaker 2: and it sticks out.
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  Speaker 1: So you were paying with the petrodollar?
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  Speaker 2: Petrodollar, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: They wouldn't take Bitcoin, so I was using the petrodollar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So then this thing spits out coins, and I realized, now,
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  Speaker 2: I know young kids today can't do math. When you
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  Speaker 2: go give someone cash, they have a hard time counting
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  Speaker 2: the change back. Well, this machine spits back more change
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  Speaker 2: than I'm due. By like a nickel. And I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: by a penny, rather, or whatever. And I'm thinking to myself,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a shortage in pennies. So I put two
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  Speaker 2: and two together. So in other words, they're not giving
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  Speaker 2: you pennies back. They're just rounding up and giving you
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  Speaker 2: the coin.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So how much money are we losing? How much money
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  Speaker 2: are these businesses losing like Walmart by doing that? Right.
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  Speaker 2: By just rounding up change, not doing it properly, and
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  Speaker 2: then allowing people to steal it. So you and I
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  Speaker 2: probably just paid for that woman's grocery business.
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  Speaker 1: And you would think, like, they have cameras everywhere anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean everywhere watching everything. And it's part of
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  Speaker 1: the problem with self-checkouts, although I become much better with
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  Speaker 1: them because, like, if I want to go in, here's
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  Speaker 1: my M.O., Ted the Conservative. All right, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give you my M.O. Are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I got a game plan, and this is usually what
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  Speaker 1: I do. I go to, you know, Meijer right there
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  Speaker 1: in Austintown. I go in and I buy unsweetened iced tea.
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  Speaker 1: That's already made, all right? It drives my wife crazy.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, because I just don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: And I drink it. Remember, Ted, I gave up drinking pop, okay?
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  Speaker 1: So I totally gave it up. All right, so I
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  Speaker 1: gave up that. So I buy a gallon of pre-made
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  Speaker 1: unsweetened tea at Meijer. It's Milo. It's called Milo's Milo.
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  Speaker 1: On sweet tea, it costs $ 4 for a gallon of it.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it just went up to
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  Speaker 1: $ 4. 20 a gallon. I just noticed that the last time
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  Speaker 1: it was sold, it went up 20 cents. And it's
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  Speaker 1: really good. You know why it's good? Because you know
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  Speaker 1: what the ingredients are? Filtered water and tea. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: else in it.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So it's pure. To me, it's pure. It
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  Speaker 1: tastes good. I ain't going to mess with making it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a gallon. It lasts a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: it cost me $ 4.
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  Speaker 2: So..
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  Speaker 1: And I know right where it is, Ted. I go
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  Speaker 1: right in the door. If you go in the door,
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  Speaker 1: you go walk straight to the back wall. You follow me?
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  Speaker 1: You got it down. Yes, I do. With the orange
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  Speaker 1: juices and all that kind of stuff, I walk right in.
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  Speaker 1: I pull it open. I grab it. And then sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I get bananas for my cereal. So then I go over.
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  Speaker 1: I grab the bananas. And then I go to the self-checkout.
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  Speaker 1: I feared the self-checkout for a lot of years. And
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  Speaker 1: then I always look when I go to the self-checkout
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  Speaker 1: to see if the cashier line is, like, moving and
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  Speaker 1: there's not many people in it. I've never had to
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  Speaker 1: do the self-checkout because I look over and it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I can go right over to the cashier and get
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  Speaker 1: right out. But when I go with my wife, she does, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can do kind of like a scan thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Scan and go or whatever. She'll do that. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: cause you get the, you get, you get those coupons
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  Speaker 1: in the mail. We get them where if you spend
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  Speaker 1: 30 bucks, you get 10 off and that kind of stuff. So,
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  Speaker 1: so if she has a couple of them because of
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  Speaker 1: friends and family, uh, like she'll say, okay, I'll, I'll
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  Speaker 1: scan this on my phone. And then, uh, you hold
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  Speaker 1: your phone up to the thing, self-checkout and then it
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  Speaker 1: Then it shows it, then she does a coupon and
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  Speaker 1: then whatever, $ 35 becomes 25. And then she'll take the
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  Speaker 1: other stuff and then scan that, you know, check out
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  Speaker 1: one time and then she'll scan the other stuff in
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  Speaker 1: her cart. And let's say that's $ 35 and use another coupon.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Huh? How about that? Right. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she is really good at the self-checkout. I do
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  Speaker 1: not fear the self-checkout anymore. I've done it at Home Depot.
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  Speaker 1: I've done it at Meijer. But I prefer to go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if the checkout is open, I prefer to
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  Speaker 1: go through there with my iced tea and bananas, Ted.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But what about the milkshakes? Are you still drinking the
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  Speaker 2: milkshakes even though.
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  Speaker 1: You gave up the pop?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Not very much, but..
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  Speaker 2: I know that was a weakness of yours.
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  Speaker 1: It's right here. Where's my thing? Here's my Yeti. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times I'll bring a gallon of that
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  Speaker 1: Milo unsweet tea right here to the station and put
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  Speaker 1: it in the refrigerator.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ted.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, have a great weekend, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Good weekend.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Back with more in a minute. 570 WKBN. And to
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  Speaker 1: Ron Furb, you're on the air. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: And they moved.
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  Speaker 5: They both moved to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Who moved to Texas?
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  Speaker 3: I saw him at.
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  Speaker 1: Who moved to Texas?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hello.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who moved to Texas?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I was talking to my wife. So that's personal conversation, Ronnie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you were talking to your wife. Wow. Aren't
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  Speaker 1: you romantic?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, once a week she lets me talk to her.
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  Speaker 5: And now you're interrupting me. This ain't going to go well.
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  Speaker 2: On divorce court.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, geez, I'm sorry I did such a thing.
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  Speaker 5: That new judge in Mahoning County will probably treat me right, though, right?
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  Speaker 3: Newly elected.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not yet. Not yet. But don't you worry. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to work it out. Cheaper to keeper.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, she's a keeper, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's see.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, to paraphrase Mike, like me and you, Ronnie, we're
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  Speaker 5: not going to be around for a while.
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  Speaker 2: You know, too long.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm worried about my kids also.
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  Speaker 6: You?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now I'm feeling like I should just probably jump
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  Speaker 1: off the closest bridge after that.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I'll pick out the highest one, Ronnie.
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  Speaker 3: Just let me know.
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  Speaker 5: I got Google.
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  Speaker 3: I got Google Maps.
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  Speaker 5: I can find it.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I can hardly wait.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, so Ted thinks Trump, his second term is a failure.
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  Speaker 1: So far, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted to shut down the border.
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  Speaker 2: Drill, baby, drill.
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  Speaker 3: What else?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's got so many accomplishments. more than any
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  Speaker 5: other president that I can remember in my life, I
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  Speaker 5: know all human beings have faults. You know, even me, Ron,
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  Speaker 5: I know it's hard to imagine, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Have my faults.
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  Speaker 5: I won't disclose them on the radio. But, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: think Trump, his second term is way better because he
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  Speaker 5: understands the machine that's against him. It just like, uh,
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  Speaker 5: what was the newly coined term? But had called in earlier. Remember,
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  Speaker 5: I think you made some really great points.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, what about the Democrats?
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  Speaker 5: Why, why did they shut down Doge? Why did they
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  Speaker 5: want to stop the investigation into all the corruption that
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  Speaker 5: That's happening in our country. Billions and billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Can you answer that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're benefiting from the fraud. Right.
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  Speaker 5: I believe there's bad Republicans, too, but... Yeah, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: even like what they did to Elon Musk with his dealerships.
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  Speaker 5: They're like the evil people. You can look up on
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  Speaker 5: YouTube and see all these people saying, Yeah, kill Trump,
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  Speaker 5: you know. kill this, kill that. And when was the
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  Speaker 5: last time a Republican was caught trying to assassinate somebody?
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  Speaker 5: It just, I don't know, it's just like that.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you. I hear you.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, but one of your earlier callers said that he
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  Speaker 5: doesn't think a businessman should be in charge of the government. Well, Trump,
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  Speaker 5: like back in the 80s, he got a ice rink
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  Speaker 5: that the government tried to get done for like, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, two, three years. And he got it done
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  Speaker 5: in six months. He got it built and done. Because
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  Speaker 5: a businessman wants to get the job done, get paid,
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  Speaker 5: and move on to the next thing so he can
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  Speaker 5: make more money.
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  Speaker 3: It's just that thought process.
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  Speaker 1: Standby, standby, standby. It's the unknown caller trying to make
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  Speaker 1: sense of it all and talking to his wife at
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  Speaker 1: the same time.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: All right, unknown caller, go ahead with whatever point you
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  Speaker 1: were trying to make.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is a test. you're two months younger than me.
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  Speaker 5: What were we talking about, Ronnie?
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, I was focused so much on you talking
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  Speaker 1: to your wife. I was, I know.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, by the way, she's looking for me. So I,
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  Speaker 5: at some point I'm going to have to go, but Hey,
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  Speaker 5: how about them calves? That first game was, I was nervous.
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  Speaker 5: They were like 22 points ahead with seven minutes left
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  Speaker 5: and they still lost.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I was, Nervous for a reason. But they lost
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  Speaker 5: the first two in the last series, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: In the current one, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, hey, one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: Obamacare.
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  Speaker 5: Remember, one of your previous callers was talking about the
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  Speaker 5: fact that why are we giving this money to Medicaid,
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  Speaker 5: or why is he cutting it off to Medicaid?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, they used to call it Obamacare. Obamacare.
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  Speaker 5: Everything Obamacare.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, Obamacare.
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  Speaker 3: Obama's great.
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  Speaker 5: And then Obamacare turned out to be, like, not so good.
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  Speaker 5: So now they call it the original name, the Affordable
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  Speaker 5: Care Act. I mean, that's just the bias.
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  Speaker 3: What do you call it?
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  Speaker 5: What did... No Spin News guy. Yeah, it's just the
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  Speaker 5: spin that the... Mainstream media puts on everything. All right, hey, Ronnie, Ronnie,
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  Speaker 5: here comes my wife.
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  Speaker 3: I got to go.
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  Speaker 1: He's always got to go. G2, hello.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? You sound almost saddened by your introduction.
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  Speaker 3: No, just working through something here. It'll be done in
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  Speaker 3: a second.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're not talking to your wife, too, like the
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  Speaker 1: last caller was.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm in the clear. I'm in a subset of
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  Speaker 3: the bunker situation.
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  Speaker 1: Right, where you don't have to worry about anything. What's
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  Speaker 1: your reaction, Tulsi Gabbard resigning as Trump's intelligence chief? I
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  Speaker 1: was saddened by it, by the reason, too, but just
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  Speaker 1: saddened to see her go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, obviously, I mean, it's sad to hear that her
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  Speaker 3: husband has this problem, and it's, you know, no small thing.
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  Speaker 3: So that's tragic, and I'm sorry to hear it as well.
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  Speaker 3: But on the other side of losing her as ODNI,
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  Speaker 3: as DNI, that's tragic for the country because she is
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  Speaker 3: one of the very few people in this administration who
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  Speaker 3: clearly was America first and who was somewhat fearless. She
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  Speaker 3: didn't yield easily to the, you know, the power brokers.
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  Speaker 3: And we saw that all the way back when she
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  Speaker 3: was in Congress as a Democrat and was challenging them
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  Speaker 3: on the narrative around Syria and And they, of course,
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  Speaker 3: you know, she wasn't allowed to challenge the narrative on Syria.
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  Speaker 3: That was off limits. She did anyway. And you may
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  Speaker 3: remember she went over and saw Bashar al-Assad, and the
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  Speaker 3: establishment freaked out because they were hoping to go to
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  Speaker 3: war against him and, you know, spend a lot of
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  Speaker 3: lives and money. So she was brave. She was clearly
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  Speaker 3: on target. She refused to lie. You remember, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a month or two ago that Laura Loomer– raced
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  Speaker 3: to the White House to tell Trump to fire her.
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  Speaker 3: And the basis of that was that she wasn't willing
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  Speaker 3: to come out and say that there was a nuclear
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  Speaker 3: threat in Iran. I think that's really why this happened.
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  Speaker 3: Because if you remember, they changed the narrative. It was
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  Speaker 3: all about this threat. We were all going to die
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  Speaker 3: in an Iranian nuclear attack. And Gabbard would never come
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  Speaker 3: out and say that.
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  Speaker 1: If you had to read the tea leaves, if I
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  Speaker 1: had to get you to speculate, do you think Chelsea
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  Speaker 1: Gabbard believes what Trump is pitching?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it depends on what it is. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 3: heard some of the conversation over the last couple of hours. And, look,
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  Speaker 3: Trump has achieved more than any other president in our lifetime.
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  Speaker 3: What he did before the Iran war on inflation was
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  Speaker 3: absolutely unbelievable, driving inflation down from these very high numbers
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  Speaker 3: down to about a 0.7. There are a couple problems
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  Speaker 3: with that. One is that people think lower inflation means
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  Speaker 3: prices go down. It doesn't. Of course, some prices go down,
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  Speaker 3: and gasoline went down. Eggs went down. A bunch of
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  Speaker 3: things went down. But on average, prices continue to climb
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  Speaker 3: because the Congress won't stop printing money. So what he
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  Speaker 3: achieved on inflation was remarkable. Now, the other problem is,
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  Speaker 3: of course, he gave it all back when he launched
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  Speaker 3: the war, and fuel prices went up, and people looked
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  Speaker 3: at that and said, oh, you know, I'm back to
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  Speaker 3: $ 4. 50 or $ 4, $ 4. 50, maybe in some places $ 5 or
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  Speaker 3: $ 6 gasoline. So it's just really unfortunate that this gas
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  Speaker 3: and this oil industry disruption has happened that's caused us
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  Speaker 3: to have these high prices. I know we had a
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  Speaker 3: call the other night that said that it wasn't the
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  Speaker 3: war in Iran that did this. I'm not sure exactly
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  Speaker 3: how they got there, but this is what it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was disrupting the 21 million barrels a day that
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  Speaker 3: flow through the Strait of Hormuz. Of course, some of
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  Speaker 3: those have since come back online through pipelines and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: But that's what caused the price to go up. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: knows it. And because there was no effort to sell
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  Speaker 3: this war as being in America's interests, people didn't really
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  Speaker 3: know what to think until they changed the story later
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  Speaker 3: and said, oh, no, no, this is all about the
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  Speaker 3: United States and a nuclear war threat. So it has
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  Speaker 3: been messy. But coming back to point, Trump has been
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  Speaker 3: the most successful, effective president in modern day times. In
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  Speaker 3: the last six presidents, no one's come anywhere close to him.
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  Speaker 3: What he's done in foreign affairs, I'm setting aside the
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  Speaker 3: Iran war. That's a special thing to talk about. What
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  Speaker 3: he's done in foreign affairs is remarkable. What he's done
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  Speaker 3: in the economy is remarkable. Now, I am not a
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  Speaker 3: fan of this explosion of data centers, so I'm setting
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  Speaker 3: that investment aside. But the investment in industry that created
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  Speaker 3: high-value jobs for Joe Mainstreet, the reversal of four decades
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  Speaker 3: of inflation rising faster than wages, therefore the middle class
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  Speaker 3: being squeezed. He's just done miraculous things. The problem is,
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  Speaker 3: and we're seeing this in spades now, the forces he
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  Speaker 3: is up against, these forces trying to impoverish the American
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  Speaker 3: people and even tear the country apart, are incredibly powerful.
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  Speaker 3: He's contending with extraordinarily dangerous people. He's contending with people
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  Speaker 3: that have stakes that run to the trillions. And they
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  Speaker 3: will do anything to maintain power and money.
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  Speaker 2: Anything.
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  Speaker 3: We saw this guy, Gowring, that ran against Massey come
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  Speaker 3: out and say that Massey voted against the Save America Act,
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  Speaker 3: which is just a lie. He knew it. Said it anyway.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sure some people believe it. So what Trump
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  Speaker 3: is facing is a battle, an epic battle, at a
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  Speaker 3: level that no one else has ever faced. None of
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  Speaker 3: the other presidents have faced it because they didn't stand
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  Speaker 3: up to these guys. Now, remember the first term when
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  Speaker 3: Donald Jr. went into a room one day for 40
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  Speaker 3: hours of deposition. It wasn't one day, it was five days.
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  Speaker 3: He went day after day after day, hour after hour
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  Speaker 3: to be deposed, not because he'd done something wrong or
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  Speaker 3: because they even had a crime to investigate. They were
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  Speaker 3: just trying to get him to slip up. What's really remarkable,
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  Speaker 3: he came out of that without a problem. They got
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  Speaker 3: nothing on him.
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  Speaker 2: It's remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: There aren't really very many people who can make it
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  Speaker 3: through a 40-hour deposition with attorneys and these incredibly well-paid
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  Speaker 3: people who have massive motivation to destroy you and walk
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  Speaker 3: away without a bruise. It was something else. Now, what
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  Speaker 3: else would they be willing to do to those kids? Anything.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen them go after Trump several times, trying to
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  Speaker 3: kill him. Some people think these are hoaxes. Some people
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: think they're not... You know, I've got to tell you,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: when you have a sniper on a roof shooting people
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  Speaker 3: in a crowd, it's pretty hard to take that as
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  Speaker 3: a hoax. But this guy is fighting fights that have
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  Speaker 3: never been fought on our behalf, that aren't being fought
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  Speaker 3: in Europe much. They've fought in Hungary for a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: It remains to be seen if they've won or lost.
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  Speaker 3: And these powers, I mean, just think about Health and
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  Speaker 3: Human Services. You take him on Albert Borla, the head
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  Speaker 3: of Pfizer. This man was comfortable putting out an injection
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  Speaker 3: for six-month-old children, knowing that it was going to kill
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of them, knowing that none of them needed it.
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  Speaker 3: That's the level of darkness that we're talking about here.
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  Speaker 3: These people are, and of course, how do we know
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  Speaker 3: we knew that? Well, because we looked at the statistics
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  Speaker 3: and we read a lot of the research and we
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  Speaker 3: heard the comments made by the experts and yeah, they knew.
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  Speaker 3: And we all knew that there wasn't any kid that
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  Speaker 3: needed it. Their risk from that silly COVID was minimal
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  Speaker 3: if there was any risk at all. These people are
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  Speaker 3: so motivated that they've taken that whole inside square of
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  Speaker 3: the grocery store and made it effectively poison with dyes
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  Speaker 3: and chemicals and, and, and, uh, you know, high fructose
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  Speaker 3: corn syrup run around telling us how natural it is,
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  Speaker 3: how great it is. They have created a food supply
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  Speaker 3: that is harming the populace by all accounts. And they
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  Speaker 3: don't care because they have trillions of dollars in that
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  Speaker 3: industry flowing into pockets every day.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's taken on this whole community of people that,
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  Speaker 3: that take grants for research just to produce the research
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  Speaker 3: that the grant offer, whoever offered the grant, whether it
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: be NOAA or whoever it is, they already tell you
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  Speaker 3: what the conclusion is. Right at the grant it says
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: the climate's changing because of V8 engines. Got it. Those
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: people are making huge amounts of money. College professors making
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  Speaker 3: $ 350, 000 a year teaching six hours a week. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there are massive financial interests that boil right down to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: the people involved in these, I don't know what you'd
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  Speaker 3: call them, crime syndicates, right, like our universities, that are
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  Speaker 3: just motivated to keep this machine going. Why can't we
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  Speaker 3: get off the $ 2 trillion deficits? Because Congress is corrupt,
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  Speaker 3: and there are millions of people sucking up that money.
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  Speaker 3: You were talking earlier about how we see wealth increase,
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  Speaker 3: and I think the caller, I think it was Mike,
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  Speaker 3: said you can only increase wealth by growing productivity, which,
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  Speaker 3: of course, is true. Productivity output. So what do you
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  Speaker 3: do when you print more money? Well, you're taking the
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  Speaker 3: existing wealth, cutting into the smaller bites, meaning a dollar
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: is now worth 90 cents, 80 cents, 50 cents. So
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: you're cutting the smaller bites and passing it out to
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  Speaker 3: different people. In other words, when they print money, the
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: government's just reaching into your savings, taking out money, and
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: handing it to their friends and family. That's a crime syndicate.
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  Speaker 3: Not a legitimate government. So Trump is taking on people
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  Speaker 3: that have trillions of dollars of motivation, who are evil
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  Speaker 3: and dark, who are willing to kill, and who will
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  Speaker 3: destabilize nations to make profit. This is a battle, an
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  Speaker 3: existential battle for survival. Now, the SAVE Act is a
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  Speaker 3: perfect example. So John Thune and the traitors... you know,
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  Speaker 3: Corn and all the rest of the traitors in the
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  Speaker 3: Senate and the traitors in the House, they get together
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  Speaker 3: and concoct a strategy to make sure that our election
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  Speaker 3: security law that has 80% popularity among all likely voters, Democrats, Independents,
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  Speaker 3: and Republicans, they make sure that they're going to look
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: the voter in the eye and say, you can't have it.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've got these arcane rules of the Senate. And, well, wait,
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  Speaker 3: which of those are in the Constitution? None of them.
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  Speaker 3: But you can't have it.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because they're corrupt. Is there any legitimate reason for anyone, Democrat, independent,
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  Speaker 3: or Republican, in the Senate or in the House, to
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  Speaker 3: refuse to increase the security of our elections? The answer, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: is no. That's a ridiculous question to ask. And yet
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: it must be asked because they refuse. Trump then endorses Paxton,
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  Speaker 3: clearly the more popular candidate. Now, I say that because
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: there were three contenders in that Senate race. Paxton had
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  Speaker 3: about 40% of the vote. corn in about forty four
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  Speaker 3: nine or got fifty two there's a runoff but the
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  Speaker 3: third place contender obviously just gave you right now uh...
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: but he's really well-known donaldson uh... he he was thirteen
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  Speaker 3: and a half percent the odds of those votes go
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  Speaker 3: to corner near zero so trump now knows the paxton's
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna win the runoff so many of doors of
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: the matri makes it pretty obvious but that's so enrages
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  Speaker 3: the senate if they shut down the senate storm off
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  Speaker 3: bill cassidy gets defeated not only thirty million dollars from
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: israel he gets defeated by voters who've had enough of
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  Speaker 3: his nonsense he'd taken off the board by voters in
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  Speaker 3: an election which is a remarkable thing given nature of
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  Speaker 3: our election.
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  Speaker 1: Right the old-fashioned way not influenced by huge money coming
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  Speaker 1: in from outside yet.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly so they take this guy off the table because
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: he's a traitor right and they're starting to try to
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: the voters if they had the opportunity would elect quality
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: representatives who would represent them effectively. But John Thune closes
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  Speaker 3: the Senate, says, I'm not even going to pretend that
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I'm working for you for the next month. You voters,
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  Speaker 3: pound salt. Because we're going to have a temper tantrum
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: because Donald Trump endorsed Paxton. And we only want our
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: boys in this Senate club. This is a club. We
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: run the country. We do what we want. We are
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: not bound to the voters, bound to an agenda, bound
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: to a platform. we're bound to our own self-interest people
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: are traders so he shut down the senate and walked
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: off the field while this country is facing multiple existential
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: crises that he is created in part not just him
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: why do i think that will be cut john goodman
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  Speaker 3: in the senate for a very long time he was
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: a champion of secure elections we have secure elections in
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: his body mcconnell So that's the nature of the battle
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: we're in. I saw an image about a year ago
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: of Trump sitting at a table, and around him was
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: just demons, just these demonic-looking characters, obviously one of the
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: finer uses of AI. That's exactly what it's like. So
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: now you've got a guy that's in there that had
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: this agenda. Now we know full well how dedicated he
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: was to the American agenda, because in his first term,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: he fought like a demon himself to execute it. He
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: fought them all. And what'd they do? COVID. Right? The injections.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: They did the election fraud in 2020, 81 million votes.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, nobody..
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Like, there are six people remaining who believe that 81
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: million votes went to a guy that didn't campaign. What'd
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: they do?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: They executed a coup using the.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Russia collusion hoax, the CIA, the FBI, the... John McCain,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: the Republican. They executed a coup attempt They raided his house.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: They made up a fake sex scandal saying he raped
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: some lunatic in a department store and convicted him of
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: like 34 counts of something, like business record something or other.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: All nonsense. They tried to destroy his companies by making
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: it such that he couldn't get any banks to bank him,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: and then they tried to destroy his companies by putting
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: a fine on him that would require that he liquidate
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: all of his assets to pay him. Are you thinking
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: the magnitude of the attacks on this guy simply because
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: he was trying to act in the interest of the
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: American people? And now what are they saying to him?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: I'd like to know. But I suspect that right now
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: him and his family are facing both the carrot and
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: the stick. You can make a bunch of money in
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Gaza there, Witkoff and Kushner. A lot of money made
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: destroying Gaza. There'll be a lot of money made building
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: it back up. You can make some money on Bitcoin
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: and these tokens or whatever you're doing there, Donnie, you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: the boys. Maybe do a little deal in Kazakhstan. Now,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: that won't be like Burisma. That'll be a deal where
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: they actually bring value. But nevertheless, you know, they now
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: have a private equity fund. The boys, you'll notice, have
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: stayed out of government and are working very hard making money.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: They're going to make billions. And what's the alternative? I
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: don't know this, but I wonder... They don't point to
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: the guy in Florida and point to the guy at Butler.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Not this goofy guy.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: In the.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: White House press center. I don't know what that was.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: But they point to these guys and they point to
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Kennedy and they point to others and they say, listen,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: you can fight us and it'll be the last thing
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: you do.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Stand by. Back with G2. In a minute.. com, Youngstown's news, weather,
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• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the news break at 6, and first pitch a little
• 38:20
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• 38:28
  Speaker 1: it away.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: So, my point is that this guy, you know, just
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: think about just locking the border. That seems like it's
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: a simple thing. It's what any government would do. However,
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: they didn't. They left it open. They brought in millions.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: You know, he stopped the flow of fentanyl through Mexico,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: then through Canada. He went back and fought against these
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: countries on their tariffs that were designed specifically to milk
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: the United States of its wealth. You know, the guy
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: has done tremendous things. Now, I don't think you can
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: look at something like the war in Iran and say
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: this was done because... You know, it was in the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: best interest of the United States at that time. You know,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I'm more worried about certainly the Democrats than I am
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: about the mullahs in Iran. You look at losing somebody
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: like Tulsi Gabbard, that's a problem. You know, it's quite
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: possible that going into this war, on the advice of
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Assad and maybe the CIA too, I don't know, that's true.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: But he believed this would be quite easy. You know,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: we're going to bomb them a few thousand times. and,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: you know, they're going to capitulate. Well, it's not true.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: And so now we're in this quagmire. That's causing real problems,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: causing them to lose a lot of support. Now, I
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: don't know all the reasons why Massey has been removed.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: You know, some of them, but not all of them.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: And the questions are huge. So, Did Massey get removed
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: just because he demanded that Epstein's clients be revealed? No,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: I think that's a factor. Just because he demanded that
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: AIPAC or put forward law that would require AIPAC and
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: other foreign lobbyists to register as foreign lobbyists?
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I know they're citizens.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, fine.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Nobody's confused about what AIPAC represents. It's lobbying for Israel.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: So was it that or was it the fact that
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: he's fighting the The protections for Monsanto on glyphosate, and
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: is that tied somehow to concerns that Pfizer has that
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: maybe they lose their protections? That'll get you $ 30 million.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: But think about this. A hardcore Jew-hating, anti-Semitic guy just
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: got elected to Congress in Philadelphia in the primary. His
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: name is Rab. I just heard about this guy today.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Jamie Raskin campaigned for him. And he's openly anti-Semitic.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: We've got to pick it up in that spot next week.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, G2. Appreciate it.
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: I'm Mike Dabusky. An explosion at a shipyard in Staten Island,
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: New York, has sent 16 people to the hospital. It
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: is unclear at this point what caused the blast. Tulsi
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: Gabbard will step down at the end of June as
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: Director of National Intelligence. In a statement, she says she'd
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: like to spend more time with her husband as he
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: deals with a bone cancer diagnosis. President Trump overseeing the
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: swearing-in of Kevin Warsh as the new Federal Reserve Chairman
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: this afternoon.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Thankfully, unlike some of his predecessors, Kevin understands that when
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the economy is booming... That's a good thing. We don't
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: have to go crazy. Just let it boom. We want
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: it to boom.
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: Trump often clashed with the previous Fed chair, Jerome Powell,
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: over lowering interest rates. A third federal lawsuit was lodged
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: today against the Department of Justice over its $ 1. 8 billion
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: anti-weaponization fund. ABC senior White House correspondent Selena Wang.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: This is a fund that would reward the president's allies.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: It could even compensate rioters who stormed the Capitol on
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: January 6th and attacked police officers. So some strong statements
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: coming from Republican members of Congress, including Senator Mitch McConnell.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: He said, quote, so the nation's top law enforcement official
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: is asking for a slush fund to pay people who
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: assault cops.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Utterly stupid, morally wrong.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: Take your pick.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: There are new details about the death of NASCAR champion
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: Kyle Busch.
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: Two weeks ago, he was heard on the radio, on
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: the racing radio. calling for a doctor during a race
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: in New York. And race announcer said it was a
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: sinus infection. But then at the GM training center this week,
• 42:32
  Speaker 8: he became ill. And just reading from the 911 call,
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: the caller saying, I have an individual that shortness of breath,
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: very hot. He's about to pass out. He's producing a
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: little bit of blood and coughing up some of that blood.
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: And the ambulance came at that point. He went to
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: the hospital. His family saying it was a serious illness.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: And then he died. ABC's Alex Stone.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to ABC News.
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  Speaker 1: Hot summer.