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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Friday - 08/28/26 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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Speaker 2: All right, Heidi Ho, 3.05 in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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Speaker 2: Ron Verb, what a glorious Friday afternoon we have in store.
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Speaker 2: 78 degrees, nice to be with you.
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Speaker 3: 330-729-9977, 330-729-9977.
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Speaker 2: We'll get you through to us on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Welcome,
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Speaker 2: welcome one and all. How about this deal with Trump?
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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got to admit, this is ridiculous. We're
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Speaker 2: going to rename Lake Ontario Lake America. I mean, this
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Speaker 2: is getting a little ridiculous. As I said to you previously,
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Speaker 2: as ridiculous as I thought when Biden was changing the
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Speaker 2: names of things, as ridiculous as I thought the Democrats
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Speaker 2: were when they were ripping down our history, removing statues,
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Speaker 2: whitewashing our history, if you will, when they were doing
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Speaker 2: that nonsense. And I found it just very offensive as
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Speaker 2: an American. Forget Democrat and Republican for once in your life.
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Speaker 2: Forget all of that. Just sometimes think as an American.
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Speaker 2: And how frustrated I was when I saw the Democrats
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Speaker 2: doing that kind of stuff. Well, we got to take
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Speaker 2: this statue down. We got to rename Fort Hood. With
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Speaker 2: the shenanigans that they were pulling with the political correct philosophy.
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Speaker 2: And when Trump got back in office and when he said, okay,
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Speaker 2: we're going to go back and we're going to name
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Speaker 2: it Fort Hood again, I agreed with him in doing
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. I totally agreed with him saying, okay,
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Speaker 2: enough of this stuff. We're going back to what these
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Speaker 2: things were known as. I mean, I never agreed with
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Speaker 2: ripping these statues down and this kind of nonsense that
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Speaker 2: the Democrats were doing in the renaming. I was glad
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Speaker 2: Trump put history back in its place. But with that
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Speaker 2: being said, I'm equally as just frustrated with Trump trying–
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Speaker 2: Trying to change the name. Can I tell you this?
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Speaker 2: I just want to tell you this. I think it
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Speaker 2: should be the Department of Defense. This whole Department of War.
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Speaker 2: We're going to change the name to Department of Defense,
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Speaker 2: the Department of War. I mean, this is what we're
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Speaker 2: worried about. It's ridiculous. We're going to change the Kennedy
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Speaker 2: Trump Center. We're going to– all these people want to
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Speaker 2: put his name on everything. Give me a break. And
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Speaker 2: then if you go one step further and you take
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Speaker 2: a look at this Lake Ontario, let's call it Lake America,
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Speaker 2: enough of this. Some of this stuff is just crazy.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: Got that off my chest. 307, you're on the air. Welcome.
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Speaker 3: Have you taken a– Look back into Mark Carney's past.
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Speaker 2: Who's past?
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Speaker 3: The leader of Canada. And not only what he's done,
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Speaker 3: who he's worked for, and the things that he has
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Speaker 3: said over the years.
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Speaker 2: Have you looked at some of these wackos that the
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Speaker 2: Democrats are running and winning in their primary elections? Have
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Speaker 2: you looked at some of these people that are winning
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Speaker 2: and what they have to say? My God, it's frightening.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's frightening because it's the same thing. See, and
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Speaker 3: that's the deal. Communism was never about a country. It
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Speaker 3: was about the party. Party's the number one thing. So
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Speaker 3: you get this kook in Canada doing and saying the things. Oh,
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Speaker 3: what is it now?
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Speaker 5: The.
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Speaker 3: What's their BBC, whatever, Canadian, CBC, maybe, whatever. And, yeah,
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Speaker 3: nobody there is allowed to say that 9-11 was a
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Speaker 3: terrorist attack because, you know, we're going to be talking
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Speaker 3: about it, but nobody's going to say terrorist attack like 9-11.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like Ilhan Omar wrote their news script, like
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Speaker 3: some people did some things. Or go down the list
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Speaker 3: of all the, like you just said, DSA people here,
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Speaker 3: because they all say the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it crazy when you start to see someone be interviewed?
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Speaker 2: I was watching, was it the woman in... Florida. She
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Speaker 2: didn't even know what the national debt was. I mean,
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Speaker 2: some of these people are running when they're asked these questions. Well,
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Speaker 2: we support Medicare for all. Listen, Medicare is a great program.
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Speaker 2: You got to qualify for it. You got to be 65.
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Speaker 2: You got to work so long and pay taxes and
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Speaker 2: do it just as your employer does for you. But
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Speaker 2: it's still got financial problems despite all of that, representing
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Speaker 2: just our senior citizens. It's a great program. But the
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Speaker 2: idea that you could provide it to everybody, well, how
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Speaker 2: are you going to pay for that? Who's going to
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Speaker 2: pay for that? How much is that going to cost?
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Speaker 2: I mean, the people that champion this kind of stuff
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Speaker 2: are absolutely clueless to any of that, any of those
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Speaker 2: answers of what's going on. They just say, well, we
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Speaker 2: want to have free daycare. We want to have free college.
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Speaker 2: Everything's free, but nothing's free. It just means we're going
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Speaker 2: to have to come up with money somewhere else. by
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Speaker 2: taxing somebody else and taking their money to pay for
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Speaker 2: all this stuff. And how do you do that when
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Speaker 2: you're $ 40 trillion in debt? I mean, the Democrats, people
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Speaker 2: that are winning in a lot of these primaries, it's
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Speaker 2: troubling to me that anybody would vote for him, including
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Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown. You look at Sherrod Brown running these ads,
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Speaker 2: you would think this guy's never been in the Senate. Well,
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Speaker 2: he's been around forever, for 30 years. And he's talking
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Speaker 2: about all the stuff he's going to do if he's
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Speaker 2: going to get elected. He supported every wacky ass thing
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Speaker 2: that Joe Biden believed in. The open border, the pronouns,
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Speaker 2: all of this crazy liberal stuff. He supported 100 percent.
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Speaker 2: And now he's now he's running like he's a newcomer.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that.
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Speaker 2: You should have your head examined if you vote for
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Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown. Really? The guy is a liberal nut job.
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Speaker 3: And to keep on this topic. VSA thing. So in
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Speaker 3: the Canadian leader's office, his chief operating officer, something like that,
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Speaker 3: they called her. She worked on the Hillary Clinton campaign,
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Speaker 3: the Biden campaign, and Kamala Harris campaign. That's who they
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Speaker 3: have in their office. So conversely, they send their leftist
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Speaker 3: freaks from hell down to Florida to help the lady
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Speaker 3: you just talked about get elected. That's what's going on.
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Speaker 3: The party is bigger than the country because the leftists,
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Speaker 3: the communists, the Marxists, they want to take over the world.
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Speaker 3: They don't care what country it is. Even Venezuela, it
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Speaker 3: doesn't matter. China, it doesn't matter. But that's what they're
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Speaker 3: doing today. There's people from other countries involved in our elections.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Can somebody look into that, please? And obviously, you know,
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Speaker 3: they're not all idiots. They might be all disgusting creeps. But,
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Speaker 3: you know, they know the rules. And, well, we didn't
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Speaker 3: do this, but we did this. And that didn't cost
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Speaker 3: any money, so we did this. So, you know, the
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Speaker 3: foreign help in elections is okay.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 3: All right. Thank you for getting out of the way.
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Speaker 3: Now you're cooped up on the flock cameras. I hear
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Speaker 3: you're in favor of that.
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Speaker 2: I am in favor of flock cameras. Listen. I understand
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Speaker 2: with everything there's pluses and minuses, but there is a reality.
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Speaker 2: I mean, flock cameras, I'm not paranoid of them. I
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Speaker 2: always hear people say, what about this? What about that?
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Speaker 2: What about this instance? What about that instance? I support
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Speaker 2: the flock cameras. They're a technology tool that your local
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Speaker 2: police department can use to become more efficient and catch
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Speaker 2: fleeing criminals. And it just is technology. Listen, you go
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Speaker 2: to a store, you're on all kinds of cameras. Some
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Speaker 2: store parking lots privately have flock cameras. So you have
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Speaker 2: store parking lots with cameras, stores with cameras, people with
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Speaker 2: ring doorbells, all of that kind of stuff. all over
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Speaker 2: the place. You're out in public. These flock cameras take
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Speaker 2: a picture of your license plate to see if there's
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Speaker 2: any warrants or your car is stolen. Anything along those
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Speaker 2: lines to try to capture criminals. And I'm all for them.
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Speaker 2: For example, just the other night, we had another shooting
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Speaker 2: in Austintown at a bar. And the people at flock
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Speaker 2: cameras do make your community safer. And crime is getting in– well,
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Speaker 2: I think crime is an issue. So if you can
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Speaker 2: keep your cops safer and your community safer and more efficient,
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Speaker 2: why would you be opposed to it out of the fear? Well,
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Speaker 2: what if this? What if that? Well, that isn't the case.
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Speaker 2: What can I say?
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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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Speaker 3: So the people before they wrote the Constitution, right, we're
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Speaker 3: going back to the 1700s now for those, you know,
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Speaker 3: people who were intellectually challenged. But they said you can't
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Speaker 3: just have an open warrant and go look at everything.
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Speaker 3: Because you know what they'll do? They'll go everywhere and
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Speaker 3: they'll look at everything until they find something. Now, look,
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Speaker 3: forget about history. Forget about all of that. Go back
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Speaker 3: to 2021 when Joe Biden took office. There's police at
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Speaker 3: churches writing down the license plate numbers. There's police at
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Speaker 3: the school board meetings writing down the license plate numbers.
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Speaker 3: There's the FBI. saying, oh, no, no, no, we were
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Speaker 3: just looking, there was just a letter at the Richmond,
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Speaker 3: Virginia FBI field office concerning traditional Catholics and how they
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Speaker 3: were a threat. And then we come back to find
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Speaker 3: out six months later, oh, it was a nationwide thing?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because the government lies to you to do what they
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Speaker 3: want to do. And you know this, Ron. I'm not
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Speaker 3: for the criminals. I'm for the police. I'm for people
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Speaker 3: not getting in trouble or, you know, the police all
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Speaker 3: the time. So I'm in favor of them having the
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Speaker 3: body cams. Right. You can't let this happen. Imagine what
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Speaker 3: they would do when Trump's the racist, Trump's the misogynist,
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Speaker 3: Trump's the Islamophobe, Trump's the everything. And guess what? After
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Speaker 3: January 6th, we're all criminals. You vote for Trump, we're
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Speaker 3: stopping you. Look what they did to the truckers in Canada.
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Speaker 3: You can't give your government that much power. Alex said
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Speaker 3: it the other day, and going back to Ben Franklin,
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Speaker 3: if you give up your freedom for security, you deserve
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Speaker 3: and will get neither.
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Speaker 2: Well, listen, listen, I understand people's opposition to it. I
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Speaker 2: have a differing opinion. You know where I stand as
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Speaker 2: far as my suspicion of governments. I am not concerned
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Speaker 2: about flock cameras and how they are being used. And
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Speaker 2: in the hypotheticals, people can have hypotheticals. If we ever
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Speaker 2: get to that point, then we'll have to deal with
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Speaker 2: it at that point. But you have them now. And
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Speaker 2: they've been around for the longest time in Youngstown, in Boardman,
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Speaker 2: in Niles. And no one's making a big damn deal
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Speaker 2: out of them and hasn't been. And we haven't had
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Speaker 2: any issues with it other than it makes your police
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Speaker 2: departments a lot more efficient at finding fleeing criminals. If
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Speaker 2: you've got somebody with a murder warrant.
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Speaker 2: That's driving into your community off of the freeway down
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Speaker 2: on 46, and that flock camera catches that plate, it's
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Speaker 2: probably a good thing that your police department is alerted
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Speaker 2: to it so that that person can be apprehended. I
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Speaker 2: just believe the current situation as it stands now, the
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Speaker 2: positives far outweigh any of the negatives and hypotheticals that
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Speaker 2: people are putting out there. I mean, it just far
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Speaker 2: outweighs it.
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Speaker 3: Look at the local police. And, you know, I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying they're horrible people, but they're using it, right?
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Speaker 2: Anybody that's around the country. Once again, you want to
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Speaker 2: paint with a broad brush. Any cops that abuse the
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Speaker 2: Leeds computer, which is in their car, are punished and
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Speaker 2: or fired or both. In the same situation as was
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Speaker 2: stated by the chief in Austintown applies to these type
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Speaker 2: cameras as well. It will not be tolerated. It will
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Speaker 2: not be overlooked. The same criteria applies. Now, do you
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Speaker 2: have some bad cops that did that?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Did they get caught doing it?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Was there ramifications to it?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: In other areas. And there should be. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: don't know how to say. Unfortunately, sometimes we have bad judges.
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Speaker 2: We have bad cops. We have bad doctors. We have that.
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Speaker 2: But I'm not going to throw the baby out with
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Speaker 2: the bathwater because of that. Overall, that is not an issue.
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Speaker 3: If you've got.
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Speaker 2: An abducted child, you've got a stolen car. You've got
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Speaker 2: somebody with a murder warrant coming into your community. You've
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Speaker 2: got somebody that they're pursuing. So that they know where
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Speaker 2: they are, that instead of guessing with limited manpower and
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Speaker 2: limited budgets on police departments, it's a tool to make
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Speaker 2: you more efficient. They use technology. I mean, why shouldn't
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Speaker 2: they be able to embrace it the same as us?
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Speaker 2: People can in their own homes with Ring or stores do.
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Speaker 3: That's fine. That's fine.
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Speaker 2: Or anyone else.
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Speaker 3: Or the business or your home. That's fine.
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Speaker 7: That's not my issue.
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Speaker 3: I can't say anything about that. But the government, what
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Speaker 3: they've already done to us, the lockdown from the China virus.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: Listen, I'm in total agreement with you on that. But
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Speaker 2: here's the reality. And I say this again. What's happened
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Speaker 2: to Fauci? Has Fauci been held accountable? We have all
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Speaker 2: of this screaming from Republicans and Democrats, and I haven't
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Speaker 2: seen anybody go to jail with the Russian hoax that
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Speaker 2: happened on Trump's first term. I haven't seen anybody go
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Speaker 2: to jail with Fauci who, well, let's be realistic. The
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Speaker 2: government was funding this through Fauci, and they were also
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Speaker 2: doing it, had it located in China. No one's being
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Speaker 2: held accountable for this at all. We were lied to
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Speaker 2: about the bio labs in the Ukraine. I get all
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Speaker 2: of this. I talk about it all and say you
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Speaker 2: got every reason to doubt your government in many, many,
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Speaker 2: many ways. But in this particular case, I just don't
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Speaker 2: think you throw everything out and say we're not going
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Speaker 2: to use any technology in your local community to to
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Speaker 2: try to apprehend criminals. I drove here today through Youngstown
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Speaker 2: to come to the radio station. Youngstown has flock cameras.
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Speaker 2: Big deal. I didn't get pulled over. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: didn't feel violated. Hell, I went through Boardman. Everybody's got it.
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Speaker 2: What's the big damn deal? You're driving with them now.
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Speaker 2: You want to say, well, what if this happens? Well,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you, if that happens, then I think it
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Speaker 2: should be dealt with on a local level, and it
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Speaker 2: should be dealt with on a local level, period. And
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Speaker 2: I think you have more control on a local level
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Speaker 2: than obviously you do on a federal level.
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Speaker 3: And I'm just afraid we won't be able to stop it.
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Speaker 3: Because they won't let you get to McClurg over there
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Speaker 3: and have a Republican meeting because they'll be shutting it
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Speaker 3: down and arresting anybody that's going there.
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Speaker 6: That's all.
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Speaker 3: Society hasn't gotten better lately. It's gotten worse.
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Speaker 2: All right. I understand people's concerns about that. I get that.
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Speaker 2: But I don't... Go along with it. I understand it, though.
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Speaker 2: I get it. The government's put themselves in that position
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Speaker 2: because of it. I understand all of that. I tell
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Speaker 2: you on a regular basis how frustrating is it, just
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Speaker 2: how frustrating it can be. When your government seems to
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Speaker 2: cover everything up or lie to you. We'll be back.
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Speaker 2: Stay tuned. So your next five minutes could be your
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Speaker 2: most productive. Ron Furb, News Radio 570 WKBN. You're on air.
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Speaker 3: Hello?
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: Hey, Ron. The Democrat governor, Josh Shapiro, is removing all
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Speaker 6: data centers from fast-track permits.
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Speaker 2: Who's that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Josh Shapiro, Democrat governor. Bernie Sanders is proposing legislation to
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Speaker 6: put a moratorium on the construction of all data centers.
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Speaker 6: And so is Ocasio-Cortez and Abdul El-Sayed. And Trump in
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Speaker 6: Fox News says that if you oppose data centers, you
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Speaker 6: are far left. Now, Democrat candidate Gina Hinojosa is running
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Speaker 6: for Texas governor against incumbent Republican Greg Abbott in using
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Speaker 6: Abbott's support for data centers against them. But 70% of
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Speaker 6: Americans opposed data centers. Now, normally Republicans running for governors
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Speaker 6: in Texas beat their Democrat opponents by a 10 to
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Speaker 6: 12 percentage points, or I should say 10 to 12
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Speaker 6: percentage points. But even lifelong Republican voters are threatening to
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Speaker 6: cross party lines and vote Democrat. And the latest poll
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Speaker 6: has Abbott getting only 50% of the vote compared to
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Speaker 6: Hinojosa polling at 49%. There's a dead heat in Texas.
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Speaker 2: Well, we shall see. I mean, there's a couple of
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Speaker 2: things I say about that. A lot of times the
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Speaker 2: polling isn't accurate. We've seen it in a number of
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Speaker 2: races just recently in a primary where the polling is
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Speaker 2: way off. where it isn't even close. But if you
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Speaker 2: go and you say, well, I'm going to vote for
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Speaker 2: this Democrat because of that one issue, I think it's
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Speaker 2: a foolish vote because of the things Democrats stand for.
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Speaker 2: As frustrating as I can get with Trump, with the
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Speaker 2: Lake Ontario thing, with the war as far as Iran
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Speaker 2: is concerned, Do you think I would ever vote for
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Speaker 2: a Democrat like Sherry Brown? Do you think I would
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Speaker 2: ever vote for a Democrat that thinks that wants to
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Speaker 2: go back to men can have babies, can't define a woman,
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Speaker 2: transgenderism in your school. We're going to hire based on
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Speaker 2: your skin color, not on merits. And if you're gay
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Speaker 2: and it's nonsense, we've got an open border. We're going
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Speaker 2: to let all these people come into the country. We
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Speaker 2: don't believe in borders. We don't believe in ice. We
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Speaker 2: don't believe in the police. I mean, you think I
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Speaker 2: would vote for this socialism we're going to take from
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Speaker 2: this person over here and where we want Medicare for all,
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Speaker 2: but we have no idea how to pay for this stuff.
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Speaker 2: Do you think I would vote for that under any circumstances?
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Speaker 2: I mean, even when it comes to data centers, under
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Speaker 2: any circumstances that I would say, I'm still going to
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Speaker 2: vote for the Democrat. There is absolutely no way in
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Speaker 2: hell I will vote for Amy Acton for Ohio governor.
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Speaker 2: There's no way in hell I will vote for Sherrod Brown.
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Speaker 2: And I think if you do, you should have your
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Speaker 2: head examined based on what they stand for and what
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Speaker 2: they believe in. And I don't want the pronouns. I
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Speaker 2: don't want the nonsense of the social agenda. I will
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Speaker 2: not do it. I will not support it. And in
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Speaker 2: many cases, I don't believe those polls. I absolutely don't
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Speaker 2: believe those polls to be accurate. And we see in
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Speaker 2: many cases that they're not accurate. So I don't know
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Speaker 2: where to go with all of that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 6: Time will tell, but Republicans are behind in... Normally, Republican
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Speaker 6: states like North Carolina for like Senate and Congress. So
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Speaker 6: it's not just Texas.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: And I think that there's a reason why Republicans have
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Speaker 2: cause to be concerned. It's the economy. And listen, I
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Speaker 2: think Republicans are in a bind not because of me,
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Speaker 2: solely because of Trump, because of Trump and the war
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Speaker 2: and Trump and with the inflate the economy. From inflation
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Speaker 2: and economy into war, I think Trump has hurt a
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Speaker 2: lot of Republicans because of decisions he made. Now, a
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Speaker 2: lot of them ride on his coattails, but hopefully to
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Speaker 2: vote opposite that is just a disaster, an absolute disaster.
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Speaker 6: Well, the other day, Trump said he wants the Republican-controlled
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Speaker 6: Congress to to give him another $ 5 trillion increase in
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Speaker 6: the national debt, on top of the $ 40 trillion we
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Speaker 6: have already. And today's financial news is, quote, the stock
22:17
Speaker 6: market forfeits gains in bond yields and the U.S. dollar
22:21
Speaker 6: rise because investors fear that interest rates are going to
22:27
Speaker 6: go even higher.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think there is that possibility. But once again,
22:34
Speaker 2: we shall see. I mean, there's a possibility of that.
22:37
Speaker 2: I am concerned about the debt deficit before Trump, during Trump,
22:43
Speaker 2: and after Trump. But if the answer is the Democrats, well,
22:47
Speaker 2: they want to give everything away to everybody. How are
22:50
Speaker 2: they going to pay for it? They're just going to
22:52
Speaker 2: make the debt even worse. So I wish Republicans and
22:56
Speaker 2: Democrats as a whole— it seems to me the whole damn
22:58
Speaker 2: lot of them— Don't give a damn about the debt
23:01
Speaker 2: deficit at all, and haven't for the longest period of time.
23:04
Speaker 2: Look what the Democrats did to Elon Musk to try
23:07
Speaker 2: to drive him out of his mission to find the
23:09
Speaker 2: fraud and waste. That says all you need to know
23:11
Speaker 2: about Democrats and the debt deficit.
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Speaker 6: Well, I've been talking about how they've been artificially suppressing
23:21
Speaker 6: interest rates going back to Obama. So yields on treasuries
23:25
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Speaker 2: I mean there's I don't know where you go with
24:59
Speaker 2: all of it all I can say is Frank I've
25:01
Speaker 2: been disappointed in Republicans and Democrats over as long as
25:04
Speaker 2: I've been around on not taking the debt and deficit
25:07
Speaker 2: seriously and increasing it and not doing a thing I
25:13
Speaker 2: saw what they did to Elon Musk and it was
25:16
Speaker 2: reprehensible where do you go.
25:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm here, Ron.
25:24
Speaker 2: All right. I saw what they did to Musk. So
25:28
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a serious... They were talking under Musk, Frank.
25:33
Speaker 2: Do you remember of $ 2 trillion a year of fraud?
25:37
Speaker 2: I mean, that's your tax dollars and mine just being
25:40
Speaker 2: pissed away on political nonsense. And they did everything to
25:44
Speaker 2: destroy Musk. And I don't think you'll ever find anybody
25:46
Speaker 2: willing to take it on again. I'm not optimistic that
25:49
Speaker 2: it'd ever be solved. I think it'd continue to grow till...
25:52
Speaker 2: Everything busts as a result of it. And I agree
25:57
Speaker 2: with you. I think it's creating a major problem for
26:02
Speaker 2: this country and getting people to buy the treasuries.
26:07
Speaker 6: Well, you know, another financial news today. Trump's very upset
26:14
Speaker 6: with Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve chairman, because he will
26:19
Speaker 6: not cut interest rates. But Ron, yields on treasuries have
26:24
Speaker 6: to go higher in order to get investors to buy
26:27
Speaker 6: an additional $ 1 trillion of new treasuries issued every three
26:32
Speaker 6: to five months. I mean, think about that, $ 1 trillion
26:37
Speaker 6: of new treasuries every three to five months on top
26:41
Speaker 6: of all the treasuries that are out there. Yields also
26:45
Speaker 6: have to go higher to overcome investor fears on inflation
26:49
Speaker 6: and government spending. and a sharp increase is incurring in
26:54
Speaker 6: interest rates, not only in our country, in Japan, but
26:59
Speaker 6: all across Europe as well. And Washington is intentionally keeping
27:03
Speaker 6: interest rates artificially low because only a small increase in
27:08
Speaker 6: interest rates will cause a huge increase in government debt payments.
27:13
Speaker 6: So by keeping interest rates artificially low, the Treasury and
27:17
Speaker 6: the Fed weakens the value of the dollar, which causes inflation.
27:22
Speaker 6: And a falling dollar and skyrocketing fuel prices caused by
27:26
Speaker 6: the Iran war is why wages are not keeping up
27:31
Speaker 6: with the higher cost of living.
27:33
Speaker 2: I don't think wages could keep up with this inflation
27:36
Speaker 2: that we've had. I don't know that there's a company
27:39
Speaker 2: that's can keep pace with this ridiculous inflation. You would
27:44
Speaker 2: know finances as well as anybody. I think there are
27:47
Speaker 2: plenty of people that retired, and it was pretty much
27:50
Speaker 2: the status quo, and it should be. We never even
27:53
Speaker 2: really noticed inflation for the longest period of time because
27:55
Speaker 2: it was 1.1% or 1.5%. It wasn't that noticeable. Now
28:01
Speaker 2: it became noticeable when it became double-digits. during COVID and
28:07
Speaker 2: Biden and Trump and the situation that's going on now.
28:11
Speaker 2: And it keeps just building on top of the double digits.
28:14
Speaker 2: Now it's real noticeable. Then you throw property taxes on
28:18
Speaker 2: top of it, which are going through the roof, and
28:20
Speaker 2: all the prices that go up. So whose income can
28:24
Speaker 2: keep pace with the prices? I don't give a damn
28:27
Speaker 2: if you're retired or you're working. There isn't anyone listening
28:31
Speaker 2: who isn't becoming poorer as time goes on.
28:35
Speaker 6: Well, that's why the Democrats are polling better in the polls. Hey,
28:40
Speaker 6: we're going to raise minimum wage and we're going to
28:45
Speaker 6: prevent price increases.
28:47
Speaker 2: Good luck with any of that.
28:48
Speaker 6: I mean, that's ridiculous.
28:49
Speaker 2: Right. But you're right. They're winning in some of these
28:54
Speaker 2: polls because people are just fed up. But... That isn't
28:59
Speaker 2: going to be the answer.
29:00
Speaker 6: They're better off with the cost of living.
29:01
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:02
Speaker 2: The answer isn't throw out capitalism and go to socialism.
29:06
Speaker 2: That just doesn't work, period. But you're right. That message
29:09
Speaker 2: appeals to a lot of people. Let me ask you this. See,
29:12
Speaker 2: I get sick and damn tired of all these people
29:14
Speaker 2: who think they're owed something, that they're owed. For example,
29:19
Speaker 2: I hear this all the time. Health care is a right.
29:22
Speaker 2: It's a right, Ron. And I think to myself, no,
29:25
Speaker 2: it's not. Healthcare is a responsibility. I say this all
29:30
Speaker 2: the time. When I was a kid, Frank, my dad
29:32
Speaker 2: provided healthcare to his family. When I became an adult,
29:36
Speaker 2: it was up to me to get a job that
29:38
Speaker 2: had health care or go out and buy it. I
29:41
Speaker 2: was now an adult. It was now a responsibility. I
29:44
Speaker 2: wasn't owed it that somebody should just give it to me.
29:48
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of people that don't want to
29:49
Speaker 2: get off their ass and go do those things that
29:53
Speaker 2: you need to do to get health care coverage, like
29:56
Speaker 2: get a job, go to work. or buy it on
30:00
Speaker 2: your own.
30:03
Speaker 6: After the war between the states, the Civil War, from
30:07
Speaker 6: 1867 to 1893, the U.S. economy shattered all previous growth records.
30:17
Speaker 6: We had hardly any government. And Ron, listen to this.
30:22
Speaker 6: Health care was affordable.
30:24
Speaker 2: That was then. I mean, you can't even compare it
30:27
Speaker 2: then to today. I mean, we weren't putting bloodsuckers on
30:31
Speaker 2: everybody today like we were back then. I don't know
30:34
Speaker 2: how many CAT scans they could do. Look at the
30:36
Speaker 2: quality of health care and the technology. It's not even comparable.
30:40
Speaker 2: It's not even remotely comparable. Look how much longer we're living.
30:46
Speaker 6: Well, I would say it's comparable because people were living
30:51
Speaker 6: healthier lives. They were... Eating organic food.
30:54
Speaker 2: They were dying sooner. We're living longer than we've ever lived.
30:59
Speaker 2: But they were dying sooner than we were. I mean,
31:02
Speaker 2: there's a lot of issues back then. And you've got
31:05
Speaker 2: to admit, technology is much better today. You're not a
31:08
Speaker 2: spring chicken. Look at you, how feisty you are. What
31:11
Speaker 2: are you, 85?
31:11
Speaker 6: No, not 85. But, Ron, look, I've got to disagree
31:19
Speaker 6: with you on this. I've always called it the evil
31:25
Speaker 6: medical industrial complex. They're not here to make you or
31:29
Speaker 6: me healthier. They want us to stay sick so they
31:34
Speaker 6: can just keep charging more and more. Ron, I've been saying.
31:38
Speaker 2: Well, now wait a minute. Now wait a minute. How
31:42
Speaker 2: do I put this?
31:44
Speaker 6: The inflation rate for health care has always been much higher.
31:49
Speaker 7: Than the inflation rate.
31:51
Speaker 2: I'm not saying, let me back up with you. Let
31:54
Speaker 2: me just give me a few minutes. Let's talk about
31:59
Speaker 2: health care. Hospitals open 24 hours a day, seven days
32:03
Speaker 2: a week. So whether they're busy or not, that emergency room,
32:07
Speaker 2: doctors are there, nurses are there, anesthesiologists are there. You've
32:14
Speaker 2: got maintenance people there around the clock. You have the
32:17
Speaker 2: pharmacy open, the lab open around the clock. There's a
32:20
Speaker 2: lot of expense at a hospital just being there 24
32:25
Speaker 2: hours a day, seven days a week, and people that
32:27
Speaker 2: you don't even see. All the record-keeping that has to
32:30
Speaker 2: be done. My wife once explained to me when people
32:33
Speaker 2: would say, well, why is an aspirin, you can go
32:35
Speaker 2: to Walmart and buy aspirin for this, and why does
32:38
Speaker 2: it cost so much in a hospital? Well, because in
32:40
Speaker 2: a hospital, guess what? You want an aspirin, and you're
32:43
Speaker 2: in the hospital, the doctor has to issue an order
32:46
Speaker 2: for that. right? That order has to go to the pharmacy.
32:49
Speaker 2: The pharmacy has to fill it and then bring it
32:54
Speaker 2: to the nursing station so that they give it to you.
32:57
Speaker 2: And it all has to be recorded because it has
33:00
Speaker 2: to be written down. They don't want you to have
33:02
Speaker 2: an aspirin before the operation or whatever. So there's a
33:05
Speaker 2: lot more to it on anything that goes on in
33:09
Speaker 2: a hospital that adds to the cost of it. There's
33:12
Speaker 2: more hands involved in getting that aspirin to you And
33:17
Speaker 2: the record-keeping, that's the result of it. Listen, I'm the
33:20
Speaker 2: first guy to tell you I think the cost of
33:23
Speaker 2: health care is ridiculous. I was just looking at a
33:26
Speaker 2: bill the other day, and this is what they charged
33:28
Speaker 2: and this is what they settled on. The charge was so–
33:32
Speaker 2: it was like, okay, what's the point of $ 1, 400 charge
33:35
Speaker 2: if you settle for $ 400? Why don't you just price.
33:38
Speaker 4: It at $ 400?
33:38
Speaker 2: I don't get the crazy-ass pricing that they give you
33:44
Speaker 2: that makes no sense based on what they settle. So
33:48
Speaker 2: I'm not... I agree with you, and at the same time,
33:52
Speaker 2: I disagree with you.
33:55
Speaker 6: Ron, you know the United States is the only developed
33:59
Speaker 6: country in the world where people go bankrupt because of
34:03
Speaker 6: health care. Canada is second, but only a small amount.
34:08
Speaker 6: And Australia, which has socialized medicine, has only a fraction...
34:14
Speaker 6: of the people filing bankruptcy.
34:18
Speaker 2: Right, but what's their population size in both of those
34:22
Speaker 2: countries compared to ours? Who's going to pay for all
34:25
Speaker 2: of this stuff? Listen, as I say, do we have
34:32
Speaker 2: cost problems in health care? Yes. Some people argue lawyers
34:39
Speaker 2: are part of the problem. There's many issues in health care,
34:43
Speaker 2: but do you.
34:45
Speaker 6: You know I analyze stocks.
34:47
Speaker 2: I know, but I mean, when you're talking about this
34:49
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, and this Medicare for all is craziness.
34:53
Speaker 2: The system will go broke. How are they going to
34:56
Speaker 2: pay for it? Hell, Medicare right now, as you know,
34:58
Speaker 2: is in tough financial straits, just as it stands today.
35:01
Speaker 6: When Biden was president, I called your show, said I'm
35:06
Speaker 6: analyzing health care stocks and pharmaceuticals, And hospitals are going
35:12
Speaker 6: bankrupt for the reason you just gave. You just gave.
35:17
Speaker 6: Bureaucratic red tape. You have to get reimbursed for your
35:22
Speaker 6: health care from your insurance. You've got to fill out
35:25
Speaker 6: this form. You've got to fill out that form. They
35:30
Speaker 6: deny you. The insurance company denies you because you forgot
35:35
Speaker 6: to fill out a form. The bureaucratic red tape. It's
35:39
Speaker 6: a big cost in keeping people from getting the care
35:44
Speaker 6: they need, even if they have good health care insurance,
35:48
Speaker 6: just like auto insurance companies.
35:52
Speaker 2: But when you say, listen, I go to my doctor,
35:54
Speaker 2: I don't think he's trying to kill me if he says, hey,
35:56
Speaker 2: we'd like you to lower your cholesterol. hey, we'd like
36:00
Speaker 2: you to lower your A1C. I mean, everything that they're
36:03
Speaker 2: trying to do for you is to keep you around
36:05
Speaker 2: longer so you don't become a diabetic, so you don't
36:08
Speaker 2: get heart disease. And let's be realistic. Most of those
36:12
Speaker 2: drugs are pretty inexpensive today to do that. Now they're saying, Frank,
36:18
Speaker 2: that some of these people that are on the fat shot,
36:21
Speaker 2: as Trump calls it, those whatever those shots are that
36:25
Speaker 2: people take for diabetes, that we might actually, people might
36:29
Speaker 2: live longer and not need knee replacements and have all
36:32
Speaker 2: the complications of diabetes and problems because they're too fat
36:36
Speaker 2: and too overweight.
36:38
Speaker 6: Well, the vast majority of doctors are not in practice
36:43
Speaker 6: because they're trying to milk you for all you're worth.
36:47
Speaker 6: But the vast majority of doctors, their hands are tied.
36:52
Speaker 6: They have to do what the medical, the evil medical
36:56
Speaker 6: industrial complex tells them to do, or they could lose
37:00
Speaker 6: their license.
37:01
Speaker 4: I don't know.
37:02
Speaker 6: They have no choice.
37:03
Speaker 2: When I go to my doctor, I don't see that.
37:06
Speaker 2: All right, enough. Thank you, my friends.
37:07
Speaker 6: By the way, real quick, my girlfriend worked for a
37:10
Speaker 6: doctor for 30 years. She said the same thing, bureaucratic
37:16
Speaker 6: red tape. All right. Her boss wanted it. do this surgery,
37:22
Speaker 6: but nope, can't do it because not approved.
37:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that is true. I don't disagree with that.
37:30
Speaker 2: That's the insurance companies. I totally agree with you. If
37:34
Speaker 2: you want to talk about Medicare, that's the great thing
37:37
Speaker 2: about Medicare. If you are on standard Medicare, forget Medicare Advantage.
37:42
Speaker 2: You brought up a great point. If you're 65 and
37:45
Speaker 2: you're on Medicare Advantage, you've got to go through, as
37:48
Speaker 2: you would know, an HMO or a PPO and get pre-approval.
37:52
Speaker 2: If you're on standard Medicare, you don't have to get
37:55
Speaker 2: any approval at all. On standard Medicare, you don't have
38:01
Speaker 2: to go through any of that nonsense whatsoever. On regular Medicare,
38:05
Speaker 2: not Medicare Advantage. Regular Medicare is probably.
38:10
Speaker 2: It's probably one of the best insurance programs around. But
38:12
Speaker 2: you've got to pay into it before you can qualify
38:16
Speaker 2: for it. It's a great program, regular Medicare. I personally
38:20
Speaker 2: would never be on Medicare Advantage. I think it's a
38:24
Speaker 2: huge mistake. All right, buddy, thank you. You're on the air.
38:28
Speaker 3: Hey!
38:29
Speaker 4: And I've been on the phone for 45 minutes.
38:33
Speaker 2: Well, okay, it's Bubba Ganou. She's been on the phone
38:36
Speaker 2: for 45 minutes. Sorry to keep you waiting, Your Highness.
38:40
Speaker 4: Yes, and by the way, I hope that's not true
38:44
Speaker 4: with the governor of Pennsylvania. I hope that's not true
38:49
Speaker 4: because Sharon's looking to build a huge center there that's
38:54
Speaker 4: going to create financial wealth for Sharon, and they're going
38:58
Speaker 4: to be able to take care of their roads.
39:00
Speaker 2: You know? I'm not opposed to AI as long as
39:04
Speaker 2: there's the following conditions. Absolutely zero tax abatements, period. Zero
39:10
Speaker 2: tax abatements. Absolutely zero increase on your electric bill. They
39:17
Speaker 2: cannot be on the grid. They cannot create demand to
39:20
Speaker 2: increase your electric bill because part of the reason why
39:23
Speaker 2: your electric bill is high now is because of demand
39:26
Speaker 2: in addition to what Obama did. But so you have.
39:30
Speaker 4: shut down 20 plants in Ohio to create electric. That's
39:34
Speaker 4: what you're going to get.
39:35
Speaker 2: Right. And we all know that solar plants and windmills
39:40
Speaker 2: aren't as effective as coal as far as stability of it.
39:44
Speaker 2: But I go back to say this. If you can.
39:51
Speaker 2: Have a AI center and you can power it. Like what,
39:56
Speaker 2: who is it? It's it's which one is going in
39:58
Speaker 2: PA where they opened up a three mile Island again. Now,
40:03
Speaker 2: what if Obama, Obama insisted these coal plants be torn
40:06
Speaker 2: down like Samus plant, which should have never been torn
40:08
Speaker 2: down in Ohio. What if they would have insisted that
40:11
Speaker 2: the nuclear plant be torn down three mile Island? Well,
40:14
Speaker 2: guess what? Now, all these years later, they're, they're getting
40:17
Speaker 2: it up and running again and, Who is it? I
40:22
Speaker 2: forget which one of these great big-name companies is doing it,
40:26
Speaker 2: getting it up and running again to power their AI center,
40:30
Speaker 2: and the additional power can go into the grid. Well,
40:33
Speaker 2: damn good thing they didn't destroy the place, right? Unlike
40:36
Speaker 2: Obama that insisted that the coal plants like Samus be
40:39
Speaker 2: torn down and destroyed because of the green energy nonsense.
40:44
Speaker 3: Right.
40:47
Speaker 4: But here's the deal. Down in South Carolina, they're kicking
40:52
Speaker 4: out these turbine generators to create electricity from gas, and
40:57
Speaker 4: it also creates steam. So these electrical plants, they just
41:01
Speaker 4: got to get these turbine plants hooked up, generate their electricity,
41:06
Speaker 4: and add additional to the grid. It's as simple as that.
41:09
Speaker 4: And then the water, that has to be purified. So,
41:13
Speaker 4: you know, that was the other thing people were freaking about,
41:15
Speaker 4: no water.
41:17
Speaker 2: Well, I want all of these plants or these AI
41:20
Speaker 2: centers to provide their own power. And I want all
41:23
Speaker 2: of them to explain how the water is going to
41:29
Speaker 2: be used and how it can be returned safely to
41:32
Speaker 2: the system. So I think there are questions that need
41:36
Speaker 2: to be answered. And I also want them to say,
41:41
Speaker 2: when these data centers become obsolete because of how fast
41:44
Speaker 2: technology moves, who is responsible for either tearing them down
41:49
Speaker 2: or repurposing them? Because it sure as hell shouldn't be
41:52
Speaker 2: the taxpayer when that LLC walks away from it.
41:56
Speaker 4: Well, we can convert it into a jail for illegals. Hey, listen. Listen,
42:06
Speaker 4: I found a great location for AI. Listen to me.
42:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm listening.
42:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.
42:14
Speaker 4: What? You ever drive down Wilson Avenue where the steel
42:18
Speaker 4: mill used to be?
42:19
Speaker 2: Yeah.
42:20
Speaker 4: And then they told you all that brownfield all the
42:23
Speaker 4: way to Louisville?
42:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.
42:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.
42:27
Speaker 4: Build there.
42:30
Speaker 2: All right.
42:30
Speaker 4: Doesn't that make sense?
42:31
Speaker 2: I'm not opposed to it given the criteria.
42:35
Speaker 7: What?
42:35
Speaker 4: The city. No, I agree with all your criteria 100%.
42:38
Speaker 4: Because I love the environment as well. And noise, too.
42:43
Speaker 4: The environmental noise, okay? Down there, nobody's bothered. They had
42:48
Speaker 4: steel mills down there. People ain't worried about noise.
42:50
Speaker 2: I'm not opposed to it. I'm not opposed to it
42:53
Speaker 2: as long as it meets those requirements. There is a
42:55
Speaker 2: fourth requirement as well. Absolutely no Mediterranean food within 100 miles.
43:01
Speaker 4: That's going to be the lunches down there.
43:02
Speaker 3: Okay.
43:03
Speaker 4: So anyhow, listen.
43:04
Speaker 3: What?
43:05
Speaker 4: You know how much money that Youngstown and Struthers and
43:09
Speaker 4: Lowellville can make? I mean, we'll have a rich society
43:12
Speaker 4: around here again.
43:13
Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a lot of employees, but
43:16
Speaker 2: there is a lot of maintenance that happens on these facilities.
43:19
Speaker 2: But guess what? It will offset the homeowner's property taxes
43:24
Speaker 2: based on they would pay a larger chunk of the
43:27
Speaker 2: property tax because of the size of their facility, which
43:30
Speaker 2: would lower your property taxes on your home. because they
43:35
Speaker 2: would be picking up a lot of that share. I'm
43:37
Speaker 2: not opposed to them, but I am opposed to them
43:40
Speaker 2: if you're saying we're going to build them and we're
43:41
Speaker 2: going to give them a tax abatement and we're going
43:44
Speaker 2: to increase your electric costs or your water costs.
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Speaker 4: No, that's a Democrat or a rioter will say that.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not a Democrat or thing to say. It's
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Speaker 2: actually happening in large parts of this country. where electric
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Speaker 2: rates have soared and water rates, too, because of AI.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Bubba Ganoosh.
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Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: All right. On NewsRadio 570 WKBN, you're on air.
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Speaker 7: Ron, Billy Goat, how you doing, buddy?
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Speaker 2: It's a man with a Billy Goat beard that had
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Speaker 2: a hernia.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 7: It's been about a month since I checked in with you,
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Speaker 7: so I figured, well, I tuned in. I figured, well,
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Speaker 7: I got to give the old boy a call, see
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Speaker 7: how he's doing.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm still alive.
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Speaker 3: Ain't we all, brother?
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Speaker 7: Ain't we all living in this crazy world we live in,
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Speaker 7: but we're all still alive and still kicking, and that's
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Speaker 7: all that matters.
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Speaker 2: Right. I mean, you got to think every day's a blessing.
44:47
Speaker 2: Take a look at Dolly Parton and the wonderful spirit
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Speaker 2: that she had and attitude that she had and what
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Speaker 2: a void that we have that she's no longer with us,
44:56
Speaker 2: but it is a reminder that We were lucky she
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Speaker 2: was here when she was here and lived to be
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Speaker 2: 80 years old. But it doesn't matter how famous you are,
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Speaker 2: how much money you make, tomorrow isn't promised to enjoy
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Speaker 2: every day.
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Speaker 7: Nope, you got that right.
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Speaker 2: You got that right. See, that's why my goal here
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Speaker 2: is to get you looking good, get rid of that
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Speaker 2: stupid billy goat beard. And I got you groomed up
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Speaker 2: a little bit. I want you to meet a good woman.
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Speaker 2: And get into a loving relationship and maybe have some
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Speaker 2: children and live your life to the fullest extent.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if this world's ready for any more
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Speaker 7: of me, Ron. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: That's kind of a scary thought. You don't know. You
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Speaker 2: don't know. So that's my wish for you, man, formerly
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Speaker 2: the man with the billy goat beard with the hernia.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know how many women would want to
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Speaker 2: live in. How big is that shack you're living in?
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Speaker 7: 522 square feet.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems awful small.
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Speaker 7: Well, you get used to it. I mean, I lived
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Speaker 7: in a studio apartment when I first moved up here,
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Speaker 7: and that was even smaller. But, you know, you make do. Hey,
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Speaker 7: I can't beat it. With rent prices these days, I
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Speaker 7: pay $ 450 a month for rent.
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Speaker 2: Are you still gainfully employed?
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: I'm still employed.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: I'm still employed. I went back to work the 3rd
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Speaker 7: of August and recovering well and just taking it easy
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Speaker 7: and not doing nothing stupid.
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Speaker 2: So you've learned your lesson. You're not lifting anything too heavy.
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Speaker 2: You've been through this hernia surgery. And you'll realize the
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Speaker 2: best way to avoid a hernia... is to ask for help. Hey,
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Speaker 2: could you help me lift this? Could you help me
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Speaker 2: do this?
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Speaker 7: And don't try to be the stinking Hulk. That's all
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Speaker 7: there is to it.
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Speaker 2: I have the strength of ten men, but I still
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Speaker 2: ask for help.
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Speaker 7: Right, exactly. All right, Ron, I'll catch you on the
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Speaker 7: flip side, buddy. You take care.
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Speaker 2: God bless. It's good to hear your voice. You're on
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Speaker 2: the air.
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Speaker 3: Ronald.
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Speaker 2: It's Theodore the Conservative, a.k.a. Ted the Conservative.
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Speaker 8: Well, tell Bubba Ganoush I was on hold an hour
47:04
Speaker 8: or so.
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Speaker 2: Quit crying.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Stop bellyaching. You know, everybody has to wait their turn.
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Speaker 7: You get me, though.
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Speaker 8: You understand when I say this.
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Speaker 2: And Ted is so proud when I say this. When
47:23
Speaker 2: I say, listen, I can be critical of Trump, but
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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean I would have voted for Harris or Biden.
47:31
Speaker 2: And that certainly doesn't mean I'd vote for Sherrod Brown.
47:34
Speaker 2: A bad Donald Trump is better than a Joe Biden
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Speaker 2: or a Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
47:42
Speaker 2: And John Husted is way better than Sherrod Brown. The
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Speaker 2: Democrat Party has gone crazy. Absolutely crazy.
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Speaker 8: You've come so far. I feel like my life is,
47:53
Speaker 8: my mission is complete with you.
47:54
Speaker 2: Do you remember that show? The guy would have the
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Speaker 2: grasshopper in his hand. Kung Fu, you know. Remember that?
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Speaker 2: With the grasshopper.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's the lesson. But see, in general, you've been
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Speaker 2: right about it most of the time. I cannot, when
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Speaker 2: I watch these crazies, Ted, that are winning.
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Speaker 4: When was the last time I.
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Speaker 8: Was, I think the last time I made a wrong,
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Speaker 8: I don't know. Hard to think of a state or
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Speaker 8: federal Democrat officeholder who did us any good. I don't
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Speaker 8: think I've ever been wrong on that, at least in
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Speaker 8: my lifetime. I don't know. But I'm sure I was wrong.
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Speaker 8: I'm sure there was one or two in there because
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Speaker 8: there's always the quote-unquote exception to the rule, right?
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: But your argument— There's some good people locally that become
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Speaker 4: the exception to the rule.
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Speaker 2: Right. But in general, you say, well, standby. Back with
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Speaker 2: Ted the Conservative. Always enjoy talking to him and more
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Speaker 2: of your calls.
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