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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Tuesday, 10/27/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: And from NewsRadio 570 WKBN, welcome to a Tuesday afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: October 27th. It is 68 degrees. It's a lovely day outside.
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  Speaker 2: Be with you until 6 o'clock tonight on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see who awaits me here today.
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  Speaker 3: Hello. Ron Verb, this is your friend Dave Johnson calling.
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  Speaker 2: The one and only Dave Johnson is on the end
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  Speaker 2: of my line. That's right. From Hanoverton with a big
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  Speaker 2: mop of gray hair down there, the tall man. How
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  Speaker 2: are you doing, David?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Ron. I just wanted to call into
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  Speaker 3: your program. I haven't been in to see you in
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  Speaker 3: a while. And with everything that's happening in this election,
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  Speaker 3: I thought I just would love to call and have
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  Speaker 3: a couple minutes on your line to let your listeners
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  Speaker 3: know what I see is at stake in this election.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd like to hear it. What is it at
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  Speaker 2: stake here? Give me your assessment.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's take the governor's race just briefly. I know
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  Speaker 3: there's been this controversial ad that's out there, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't favor that ad. I think it was probably not
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  Speaker 3: the right thing to do. But if you look at
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  Speaker 3: the candidate, here you have a candidate in Dr. Amy Acton,
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  Speaker 3: who has never been a doctor. She never did a residency.
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  Speaker 3: She never practiced medicine. And the facts of the matter
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  Speaker 3: are she has never held a job for more than
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  Speaker 3: two years. Most people don't know that she lost her
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  Speaker 3: job as Director of Health under Governor DeWine, and the
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  Speaker 3: truth be known, she was let go. She was fired.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about this lying situation with her. Here's somebody
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  Speaker 3: with a serious drug and alcohol addiction problem where let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about public record. She's got two daughters. Both of
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  Speaker 3: those daughters, on more than one occasion, have called 911
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  Speaker 3: on their mother to the Bexley Police Department to say,
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  Speaker 3: mother's been drinking again, quote unquote. She's breaking things. She's
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  Speaker 3: throwing things. Please come to the house. Not just once,
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  Speaker 3: on multiple, on two different occasions. And there's a public
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  Speaker 3: record of this. Anyone that wants it could get it.
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  Speaker 3: We look at this. She supposedly said she was attacked
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  Speaker 3: at the Canfield Fair. It turns out that that's not true.
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  Speaker 3: The video cameras that they had that night was somebody
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  Speaker 3: who was trying to tape record her. And this is
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  Speaker 3: a campaign that refuses to allow even her supporters to
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  Speaker 3: to either audio tape or videotape any of her public appearances.
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  Speaker 3: Refuses to debate. So you've got to wonder, when somebody's
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  Speaker 3: running a stealth campaign and is not accessible to people,
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  Speaker 3: and you really don't know what her positions are, is
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  Speaker 3: that what we want in Ohio? it should scare the
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  Speaker 3: hell out of us when we think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you made a very important point, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to go back to it. She is a doctor,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to go over this with me again.
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  Speaker 2: She runs as a doctor, but she doesn't have a practice?
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  Speaker 3: She does not have a practice. She never did a residency,
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  Speaker 3: which would be step number one to being a practicing physician.
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  Speaker 3: She uses this doctor title, but she's not a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: She's never practiced medicine. And I was on a radio
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  Speaker 3: program this morning down in Steubenville. It's one of the
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  Speaker 3: reasons I called you. I had several people call in
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  Speaker 3: and say they never knew that. They never knew that
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  Speaker 3: her daughters had called 911 on her. And that there's
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  Speaker 3: a police record about her admitting to police that she
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  Speaker 3: was mixing pills, prescription drugs with alcohol and then wanted
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  Speaker 3: to get in the car and drive. And they refused
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  Speaker 3: to let her do that, obviously. So, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about somebody that has zero experience to take on drugs.
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  Speaker 3: is the chief executive officer of a $ 50 billion corporation,
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  Speaker 3: which is what the state of Ohio is.
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  Speaker 2: So the state of Ohio, I'm taking notes here, $ 50
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  Speaker 2: billion business.
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  Speaker 3: Right. That's the annual budget of this state. We pass
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  Speaker 3: biannual budgets, so the biannual budget's $ 100 billion. And she
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  Speaker 3: has had zero experience as an executive or even as
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  Speaker 3: a leader. She's never held a job for more than
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  Speaker 3: two years. And the biggest job she had was working
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  Speaker 3: as the health director for the state of Ohio during COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Would she quit? Would she quit?
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  Speaker 3: Well, she quit. I was told she was fired.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, either way, but she quit. I mean, she left.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As I understand it, she left, she couldn't take the
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  Speaker 2: pressure or the criticism.
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  Speaker 3: Or the heat. At one point in time, she was
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  Speaker 3: found in a fetal position in her office, having a meltdown. Look,
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  Speaker 3: it was a stressful time. I mean, I don't doubt
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  Speaker 3: anyone would be stressed. But when you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: the leader of, at that time, leader of that agency,
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  Speaker 3: that's hardly the behavior that you would expect. And so
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  Speaker 3: here we are at a time when the state of
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  Speaker 3: Ohio has just been ranked by CNBC, which is not
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  Speaker 3: some conservative right-wing group. CNBC just ranked Ohio as the
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  Speaker 3: number one state in the nation on economic development, on
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  Speaker 3: jobs creation, even on our bond rating, which is critical
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  Speaker 3: for getting financing for public works projects. The best bond
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  Speaker 3: rating that the state has had in three decades. We
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  Speaker 3: have the lowest personal income tax rate in the nation,
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  Speaker 3: second only to Arizona. And then, of course, there are
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  Speaker 3: a couple of states that don't have an income tax
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  Speaker 3: at all. So when I hear people clamoring for tax reform,
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  Speaker 3: they're being taxed out of their houses on their property tax.
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  Speaker 3: And Vivek wants, that's one of his top goals is
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  Speaker 3: to address that problem. She wants to increase taxes. She said,
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  Speaker 3: we're not being taxed enough. I talked to the Farm
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  Speaker 3: Bureau recently. She was interviewed. She interviewed with the Farm Bureau.
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  Speaker 3: She wants to reinstate the estate tax in Ohio. and
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  Speaker 3: would not commit. They said, well, would you commit at
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  Speaker 3: least not to do this for a while? She would
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  Speaker 3: not commit to it. She wants to reinstate the estate tax,
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  Speaker 3: which affects small companies and family farms that are tight
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  Speaker 3: on cash, that would have a very difficult time under
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  Speaker 3: the old scenario that prior to now, we had a 7%, 7.5%
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  Speaker 3: estate tax with a very low exemption. I think the
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  Speaker 3: exemption was... you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars before
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  Speaker 3: that kicked in. And it's the kind of reform that
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  Speaker 3: it took years to put these in place. And we
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  Speaker 3: finally got our economy working well, and someone's going to
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  Speaker 3: come in and turn all that upside down? Someone that's
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  Speaker 3: got zero experience that has lied about her record? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I just think the voters of the Valley need to
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  Speaker 3: stop and think clearly about what kind of future we
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  Speaker 3: want here in this state.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is important information that you're passing along here.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's going to be repetitious to you,
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  Speaker 2: and I understand that, but I want you to repeat
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  Speaker 2: what you just said to me. Now, I want to
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  Speaker 2: go back to her job record. She is not practicing medicine.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't have a practice. She hasn't held a job
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  Speaker 2: for longer than two years, you said?
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  Speaker 3: That's correct. Not anywhere in her career has she held
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  Speaker 3: a job for more than two years with the same employer.
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  Speaker 2: And she's not a practicing doctor right now?
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  Speaker 3: Not a practicing doctor, and she claims that she is.
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  Speaker 3: That's a serious credibility problem as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: She won't debate. Of course, we know that. But she
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  Speaker 3: won't even permit interviews. And they have some of her
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  Speaker 3: handlers come. If you're going to an event for her,
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  Speaker 3: and these are all assumably... her supporters, they're told there
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  Speaker 3: will be no audio and no video at this appearance
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  Speaker 3: that she has.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't that seem odd to you? Why is that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the lock, stock, and trade of any political
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  Speaker 3: leader on either side of the aisle is to be
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  Speaker 3: able to stand before an audience and present themselves and say,
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  Speaker 3: here's what I believe in. Take this to your families.
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  Speaker 3: Take this back to your neighborhood. Let people know, here's
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  Speaker 3: what I want to accomplish for Ohio. But she's running
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  Speaker 3: a campaign that's based on Biden, where, you know, Biden
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  Speaker 3: basically stayed in the basement of his house. And we
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  Speaker 3: ended up electing somebody that you see what he did
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  Speaker 3: to the country. We started a war. We started a
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  Speaker 3: war in Ukraine. And now we have a war in Iran, Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Europe is on fire right now.
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  Speaker 2: But just pause for a second, David. In politics, usually
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  Speaker 2: you want people to record you and post it on
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  Speaker 2: social media because it gets you more exposure. But here's
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  Speaker 2: a case of where we don't want you to do that. That's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's odd to me that she won't debate
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  Speaker 2: Vivek to begin with. I mean, this is you. Neither
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  Speaker 2: one of these people have been governor of the state.
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  Speaker 2: We as citizens have a right to hear them in
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  Speaker 2: an exchange. And she refuses to do that. She refuses
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  Speaker 2: to have these things recorded, which is which is to
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  Speaker 2: me very odd. And you're talking about she's not doing interviews?
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  Speaker 3: Not doing any interviews. Of course, she's being endorsed by,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the big liberal newspapers around the state. That's expected.
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  Speaker 3: And all the polls show that she's ahead. And I
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  Speaker 3: look back four years ago when Governor DeWine was running
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  Speaker 3: against Cordray. Cordray was actually a pretty good candidate. He
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  Speaker 3: had great qualifications, was a very credible candidate. And all
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  Speaker 3: the polls showed that Cordray was winning. And even up
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  Speaker 3: until the night of the election, I remember talking to
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  Speaker 3: the governor himself and said, well, what do you think?
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  Speaker 3: They thought they lost the election because all the media
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  Speaker 3: was saying that Cordray was so far ahead there was
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  Speaker 3: no way we could possibly win. Two years ago when
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  Speaker 3: Bernie Marino ran against Sherrod Brown, the same thing. Right
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  Speaker 3: up until the election, they were saying that Sherrod Brown
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  Speaker 3: had got it. Four or five, six points ahead in
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  Speaker 3: some of these polls. And Bernie Marino, who's a newcomer,
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  Speaker 3: nobody ever heard of Bernie Marino. And he won by
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  Speaker 3: four points. It wasn't even close. So I'm just urging
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  Speaker 3: people to consider what's at stake. What are we trying
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  Speaker 3: to change in Ohio that's so terrible? When I cited
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  Speaker 3: some of the statistics, you know, another statistic. I serve
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  Speaker 3: on the Bureau of Workers' Compensation in Ohio. Several years ago,
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  Speaker 3: back under John Kasich's day, Somerville tiles went a million
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  Speaker 3: hours with one lost-time accident. And I got a call
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  Speaker 3: one day from the governor, and he said, David, I
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  Speaker 3: saw this report. He said, there's a seat on the
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  Speaker 3: Bureau of Workers' Comp. I'd like to have you on
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  Speaker 3: that board. We need business people that understand how this works.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously, if you want a million hours with one
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  Speaker 3: last-time accident, you ought to be on this board. So
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  Speaker 3: let me tell you about the Bureau of Workers' Comp
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  Speaker 3: in Ohio. Under John Husted, who led the way in
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  Speaker 3: this department, he was the chief economic development guy for
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  Speaker 3: the governor for the last eight years. We have initiated
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  Speaker 3: $ 10. 2 billion worth of rebates back to Ohio's employers. And
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  Speaker 3: that includes cities and towns and townships. Any employer in Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: big and small.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm just going to confess to everybody, including me.
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  Speaker 3: Including you. You're paying workers' comp for someone that... I
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  Speaker 3: know you have a lawn mowing business on the side.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got.
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  Speaker 2: This, I think, is the second year that you got
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  Speaker 2: a rebate on that, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's been going on for eight years. The point
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  Speaker 3: I was going to make is if you add up
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  Speaker 3: that total $ 10 billion, that's more than all the employers
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  Speaker 3: of Ohio have paid in in premiums. So in Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: under the Republican leadership, not perfect. DeWine's not perfect. There
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  Speaker 3: are things people upset him about. But if you look
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  Speaker 3: at the record... Workers' comp was free in Ohio. No
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  Speaker 3: other state in the United States can say that. This
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  Speaker 3: is what everyone says. We're going to throw out the
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  Speaker 3: window so we can bring Amy Acton in here, who's
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  Speaker 3: got a drinking problem and a truth-telling problem? You're going
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  Speaker 3: to put her in charge of a $ 50 billion state?
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  Speaker 3: On top of being just an absolute left-wing liberal. I've
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of Democrat friends that are just, they
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  Speaker 3: can't believe what's happened to the Democrat Party. It's not
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  Speaker 3: the party of JFK and FDR and Hubert Humphrey and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of great Democrats that are their history. Sherrod
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  Speaker 3: Brown is in this school. Let's talk about Sherrod. He's
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  Speaker 3: in favor of open borders. Who could possibly think that
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  Speaker 3: open borders having 20 million, or pick the number, 10
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  Speaker 3: to 20 million, illegals pouring into this country with free
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  Speaker 3: health care and free education and free housing. They were
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  Speaker 3: shipping these illegals all over the state, all over the country,
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  Speaker 3: and housing them basically in the urban areas, especially so
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  Speaker 3: that they could change the census and The Constitution says
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  Speaker 3: that the census of the nation will be not by citizens,
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  Speaker 3: but by residents. So if you put 10 million people
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  Speaker 3: in the urban areas of America, which are the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: congressional districts, guess what that does? That gives you more
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  Speaker 3: Democrat districts. Is it another 10 more? Is it another
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  Speaker 3: 20 more? That's been part of the Democrat strategy with
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  Speaker 3: these open borders. It's what's happened in Europe right now,
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  Speaker 3: that Europe is on fire over this immigration. Mostly over there,
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  Speaker 3: it's Islamic radicals that have taken over. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they've gone to socialism. They're like 20 years ahead of us.
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  Speaker 3: France right now has got free college education. I think
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  Speaker 3: they're down to a four-day work week, free medical care.
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  Speaker 3: Everything's free, and it's not enough. They're burning Paris down
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  Speaker 3: because they want more. Is that what we want here?
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  Speaker 3: This is what Sherrod Brown, this is his wing of
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  Speaker 3: the party. The Bernie Sanders wing, that's what they want.
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  Speaker 3: They want amnesty, immediate amnesty for all illegals. And, of course,
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  Speaker 3: what I just said, they want to make them voters.
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  Speaker 3: They want to eliminate the Electoral College. So the big
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  Speaker 3: urban areas are going to determine the outcome of the voting,
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  Speaker 3: especially for presidential elections. Some of them are talking about
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  Speaker 3: eliminating the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Senate.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're not masking what they have in mind.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to add Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Let's
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  Speaker 3: make them states. So we pick up four more liberal senators.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is the agenda of Sherrod Brown and
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  Speaker 3: Amy Acton. And if they should take control of the Congress.
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  Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Hold that thought. Let me do my break.
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  Speaker 2: Talking with Dave Johnson on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. We'll listen
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  Speaker 2: And Ron Ferb with Dave Johnson with the Republican Party
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  Speaker 2: out of Columbiana County. I mean, I'm sitting here listening
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  Speaker 2: to you, David, and I don't think most people know
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  Speaker 2: what you've just said. I mean, I think she's an enigma.
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  Speaker 3: She really is. She's the Manchurian candidate. that nobody knows
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  Speaker 3: anything about. It's unfortunate that this ad came out about
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  Speaker 3: her mom. I didn't like that ad either. When I
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  Speaker 3: heard the whole backstory, it's a horrible thing. She's had
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  Speaker 3: a very difficult young life, and it's regrettable that that
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  Speaker 3: issue is now clouding people's judgment on what's really at stake.
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  Speaker 3: I used to own Summitville Tiles. My brother and I
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  Speaker 3: recently sold the company that had been in our family
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  Speaker 3: for 110 years. We were the last surviving of the
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  Speaker 3: major tile companies in America. Sitting down here in Somerville
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  Speaker 3: is a 200-year supply of clay. We had a workforce that, again,
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  Speaker 3: some of them were third- and fourth-generation employees, just like
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  Speaker 3: my family was. We were in our fourth generation here
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  Speaker 3: that knew better than anybody how to make these products.
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  Speaker 3: We were shipping our tile around the world. Shipping it
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  Speaker 3: to China, we were paying a tariff over there of 58%
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  Speaker 3: while they shipped tile here to America with no tariff.
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  Speaker 3: And these trade policies of the last couple of decades
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  Speaker 3: are the reason that we eventually really were forced to
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  Speaker 3: sell our company. And so people were screaming at Trump
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  Speaker 3: about the tariffs. Did you realize that the voters of
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  Speaker 3: this valley and your listeners, do you realize that the
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  Speaker 3: tariffs that the president has implemented are only countervailing tariffs,
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  Speaker 3: which means they're only a tariff on a nation that
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  Speaker 3: is tariffing products that we ship into their country? Even
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  Speaker 3: in the case of Canada, they're our next-door neighbor. We said, look,
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  Speaker 3: you lower your tariff and we'll lower ours. You eliminate
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  Speaker 3: your tariff, we'll eliminate ours. And that's what the fight's about.
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  Speaker 3: And yet the media will make you think that Trump's
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  Speaker 3: just doing this to be a bad guy, trying to
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  Speaker 3: be a disruptor, trying to, you know. I wish to
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  Speaker 3: hell we'd had Trump in here 30 years ago and
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  Speaker 3: the tariffs could have saved the ceramic tile industry. We
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  Speaker 3: at one time at Somerville had 800 employees in four factories.
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  Speaker 3: I'm down now to one factory and trying to hold
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  Speaker 3: on to 150 jobs. where the people have good wages
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  Speaker 3: they have a retirement plan they have health care, five
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  Speaker 3: weeks paid vacation, jury pay, funeral pay, perfect attendance pay,
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  Speaker 3: and we couldn't compete with the countries in China and
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  Speaker 3: Southeast Asia and throughout the world that were using America
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  Speaker 3: as a dumping ground until Trump came in and stood
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  Speaker 3: up to them. What the hell's the matter with people?
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  Speaker 3: His bedside manner is not great, but his policies are
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  Speaker 3: working for working families in this country.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, so, I mean, for me to think about it,
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  Speaker 2: talk a little bit about Vivek. What do you like
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  Speaker 2: about him?
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  Speaker 3: What I like about Vivek is, you know, they talk
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  Speaker 3: about him being a billionaire, right? Vivek was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: of common folk. His mom and dad were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they weren't millionaires. I think they're both professionals. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure what they did for a living. I know that
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  Speaker 3: the Republican state chairman, Alex Triantafillo, was the county chairman
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  Speaker 3: down in that county. When Vivek was 17 years old,
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  Speaker 3: he came in to see the state chairman, who at
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the time was county chairman, and said, Sir, how do
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I get involved? I want to be a part of
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: the local Republican Party. He was in high school. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: so I just know people that know him down there.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: And so he goes on to Harvard, graduates top in
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: his class. He scored a perfect score on his ACT.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: He's a concert pianist. He's a guy that went out
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: and started a company and turned it into a billion-dollar enterprise.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: And I hear these ads saying that, well, he duped
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: people and he made some kind of a medical procedure
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: for Alzheimer's people that didn't work. And all this is
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: a bunch of bull. You don't become a billionaire from
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: nothing and just be a fraudster. And they have maligned
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: this young guy on his religion, his ethnicity. He's a
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: man of color. If the Republicans did that to a Democrat,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: there would be hell to pay for it. They've maligned
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: his mother. The media have said nothing about that. They've
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: even tried to rope his mother in on, you know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: malfeasance and, you know, various things that they charged her with.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: You know, and the media doesn't say anything about that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I've got friends of mine, Republicans, that have said, well,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: this ad was so distasteful. I said, well, have you
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: seen what they said about him and about his mother
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: and his family?
• 22:35
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• 22:37
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• 23:55
  Speaker 2: How interesting is what you're learning here today, courtesy of
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Dave Johnson, the Republican Party out of Columbiana County.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: And.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm sitting back and I'm listening to you,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: and I'm just– I don't think people understand a lot
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: of what you've had to say. You know, when you're
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: talking about– and let me just reiterate for anybody that's
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: an employer out there that's pacing a worker's comp. Anybody
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: that's an employer out there, most of you, if not
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: all of you, got a rebate. Correct, Dave Johnson? I mean,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: from workers' compensation.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've gotten a rebate. They've gotten six rebates so far.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Substantial rebates.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Over the last eight years.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you pay a decent buck into workers' comp, obviously,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: but you get a rebate coming back to you, which
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: is a pretty cool thing to get.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: The rebate has been equivalent to the entire amount of
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: the premiums that you would have paid over the last
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: eight years. There's not one employer in Ohio, from the
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: biggest employers we have to the small mom and pop shops,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: that didn't get more back than what they paid. So
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: they got this service for free. And it used to
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: be one of the top. expense items that you had
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: in a company. Workers' comp, years gone by, was a
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: real problem in Ohio. And now it's one of the best,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: and it is the best in the country.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: And for people that get into, oh, you know, they're
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: doing it for big business or employers. No, they're doing
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: it for all employers. You know what they're doing, Dave?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: They're rebating some of your money back to you. the employer.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: And we're concerned that if there's a change in the administration,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: when's the last time the government has given money back
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to you that you paid into a premium? When's the
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: last time an insurance, can you imagine an insurance company saying, well,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: we did so well with our investments and we've done
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: enough reforms that we're going to give you back your premiums?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going to answer your question with a question. You
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: asked me the question, when was the last time the
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: government has refunded a premium, right?
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm going to answer your question.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Are you ready? Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: When was the last time I picked up a dinner
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: bill when you were at the table?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the point of it is that John
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Husted was the governor's point man on all these economic
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: development issues in Ohio. And again, what kind of guy
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: is John Husted? Here's a guy that was born as
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: an orphan. He's adopted by mom and dad in the
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Dayton area. His dad worked in a factory. His mom
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: was a homemaker. The guy goes on and becomes a
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: great athlete, a football player, goes on. He was the
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: head of the industrial economic development for Dayton. That's how
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: he first got involved in politics. When he was in
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: the legislature, he rose up to become Speaker of the House.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: He then becomes a lieutenant governor. and one of the
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: most successful governors. And again, there's Republicans that don't like
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Mike DeWine. He's not perfect. I happen to think he's
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: been one of the best governors of my 40 years
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: of involvement.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Well, there's plenty of things I don't like about him.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: And I'll just whisper one to you, okay? Because I've
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: disagreed with him on stuff. I disagree with him on
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the Haitians, the problems we have in Springfield, Ohio, his
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: attitude with that. And I disagree with him on when
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: he said no sales tax for materials purchased by data centers.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: So it didn't make sense to me. I'd have to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: pay sales tax if I had it on my garage.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But a data center from some of the richest companies
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: in our country doesn't have to pay sales tax for
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the lumber and materials.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. That was wrong.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: And I'm saying this. I just want to go on
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the record. I am totally opposed. for any tax breaks
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: for data centers. I'm all for data centers coming. That's technology.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: But as Houston has said, you must supply your own
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: power so you don't put it on the grid. And
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: you must tell us how much water you're going to
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: use and how you're going to make sure that that
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: water is clean when you return it to the system.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: So I want to make sure there's no ecological impact.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: If that's the case, I have no problem with you
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: building a data center, and there will be under no
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: circumstances any tax breaks at all. You build it. You
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: pay the full lot with property taxes. Because, David, if
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden this big building is paying property taxes,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: guess what that does to my property taxes? It lowers mine.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: It lowers them. Exactly. No, I'm with you 100%, and
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Vivek is with you as well. That's his position.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So I'm not opposed to data centers. People that are
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: opposed to them need to think long and hard. This
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: technology is coming. You will use it and embrace it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, did you happen to see
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: where Houston said he thinks they should provide the electricity
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: on their own and it should be free for the
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: people in that area, that community?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, in some cases, they've negotiated agreements like that
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: in some states around the country. So it's not inconceivable
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: that a data center coming to a community could result
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: in people having dramatically lower costs. And that's the way
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: it should be. Right.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: In other words, you potentially wouldn't have an electric bill,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: and your property taxes would be less.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And people are having... Let's have a moratorium against data centers.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: You better think long and hard about it because they'll
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: go somewhere else. And, Dave, I just want to lay
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: this on you because I've learned a lot from you today.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I'm going to educate you, okay? Are you ready, David?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. I love listening to your program.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: So with with these data centers we are the sweet
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: spot here in ohio we have the perfect weather because
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: we're not too hot we're not too cold for data
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: centers and we have the right transmission lines that are
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: necessary as well we don't need to do anything for
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: them they need us and and we're we are the
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: sweet spot we are the middle east of data centers
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: to locate here with our weather with our water supply
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: and with our transmission lines how about that dave Absolutely.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: And I think not having data centers would be not
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: like not having the interstate highway in the 1950s. I mean,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: this is whether we like it or not, and we're
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: all still learning more about it, but it is going
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: to be the future of the world's economy. And we've
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: got to be able to be on the cutting edge.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: But there has to be guardrails.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Right, and get a piece of it. But I want
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: people to understand all the benefits that can come from it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: So if I hear a political ad say, this person
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: supports data centers, well, so do I, based on what
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I just said to you. I'm not going to say
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: go locate somewhere else and we're behind the technological curve
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: of what is the future. And whether it's the construction
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: jobs and building them, whether it's the jobs to maintain them,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: because there are workers and maintenance that needs to be done,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: there is economic development as a result of them.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: And we don't have a horrible smokestack coming up, polluting
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: the environment and that kind of stuff. It's just something
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: to consider.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: It's a clean industry. Talk about all the water that
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: they use are going to drain the water. They use
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: less water than an area golf course would use.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's something we should embrace. But when you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: talked about DeWine, those are some objections I had with DeWine,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: this whole deal in Springfield and this whole deal going
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: on with that.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: The Springfield deal goes back to, you know, DeWine lost
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: a daughter, was in an accident and was killed. And
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: as a humanitarian thing, the DeWines invested money in Haiti
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: as a humanitarian thing to create a school down there,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: thinking it would be something that they could name after
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: their daughter. And they're just very much humanitarian people. And
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I think that's the way he's looking. These poor folks
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: have come in to that town, and they needed employment there.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: There were companies that were clamoring to get people to
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: work in their factories. And that was one of the
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: reasons that they brought them there. So there are members
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: of that community down there, I know some of them,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: that have said it's been a good thing. And, of course,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: there are others that say it isn't. But on balance,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: DeWine and Husted have done one heck of a job
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: in this state. And that's in evidence by that survey
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: that they just took, naming us number one in the country.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Number one for what in the country?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: For economic development, for infrastructure investment, for the bond ratings
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: that we have, the workers, they looked at every element
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: of what it takes to do business in a state.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: And Ohio was ranked as number one in the country.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Well, that's refreshing.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I'll send it to you. It's a terrific report.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's refreshing. to hear that for a
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: change that that's going on in our great states. All right,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: so Houston, he's under attack. He gets under a lot
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: of attack because of this deal with Edison and House
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Bill 6. Comments about that?
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Right. Well, look, in Ohio, the most powerful political interest
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: in this state, whether or not we like it or not,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: is the utilities industry. And if you know anybody in Columbus,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: on the right side or the left side, the Democrats
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: or the Republicans, the utility companies have bought both sides
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: of the aisle in terms of lobbyists. They've paid to
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: have the lobbyists. They're lobbying their interests. And you can't
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: very well even be in state government and not have
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: to rub up against these guys at one point or another.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you. Well, let me tell you another
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: true story. Are you ready, David?
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: All right. When Mike Rooley was working, you know, in
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the States and they came to Mike Rooley and they said, hey, listen,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: this is what we want you to vote. Now we
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: want you to vote to these lobbyists.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: And he stood up to him.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Well, let me finish. Dave, don't bring on my parade. Michael,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Michael Rooley is talking to him on the phone. He
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: told him, no, he said, I am not, I'm not
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: going to do that. And you know what they said
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: to him? They said, we will fund whoever runs against
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: you and you'll never win reelection. We'll fund them to,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: to the, to the hilt to defeat you in, in
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: your reelection bid. And Michael Rooley, you know what he
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: said to them? Hey, I can't, I got a job. Yeah,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: and I don't need this one based on the terms
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: you want to lay on me. So I'm going to
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: vote what's in the best interest of the people I
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: serve and my constituents that I have to answer to.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And if you want to threaten that you're going to
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: back my opponent, guess what? I still have a job
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I can go to. So you know what? He gave
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: him this, Dave. You see what I'm showing up to
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the microphone? He gave him this. And guess what? That
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: you've got to respect that, don't you?
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Absolutely. That House Bill 6... was a bill that
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I testified before the Ohio Senate and the House on
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: behalf of the Ohio Manufacturing Association. And just a little
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: summit bill tiles, that bill was going to end up
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: costing us like a couple hundred thousand dollars a year
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: more in utilities. And I was taught early on for
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: every $ 100, 000 I spend, you got to sell a million
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: dollars worth of tile to net that. So I was
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: looking at what's this going to cost our company? All
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: for the benefit of a public monopoly. These utilities, if
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: anyone gets elected, they need to be reined in. And
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I've been urging that on Vivek to take a strong
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: look at them when he comes into office because they
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: do need reined in.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: And don't forget, that guy down there went to jail,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the one powerful guy, they ended up convicting him. As
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, David, he went to jail, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: I believe, I don't know if they've gone yet, but
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: the CEOs of First Energy and all that kind of stuff,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: all lost their jobs and are facing criminal.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and one of them committed suicide. Randazzo was the
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: PUCO chairman at one point in time, committed suicide over this.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a nasty... a mess. And I think
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Husted and the governor were trying to navigate their way
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: through it, but they have not done anything illegal. And
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: there's all these allegations, Husted did this and did that.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: If he did, he would have been charged. Right.
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's been dealt with. It's not a tarnishment
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: of all Republicans. By the way, speaking of Republicans, I
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: say this to you, Dave Thomas– not Dave Thomas. Well,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about Dave Thomas to Dave Johnson.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: In my 41 years– and listen and listen good, David.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: In my 41 years, I have never seen a harder-working
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: state rep in my life than Dave Thomas. And, you know,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: he was an auditor in Ashtabula County. And when he
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: was running, he looked at what the effect of property taxes,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: what it had on his constituents, knew the only way
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: he could change it is if he ran for state rep.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: That's the only way he could fix it. And that's
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: why he did it. His intentions of running were noble.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And then when he got there... He didn't just talk
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: the talk. He made massive changes that will benefit Democrats
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: and Republicans on their property taxes that a lot of
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: people don't know. The reevaluations just happened in Monning County.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Instead of getting a 20 or 30 percent increase, you'll
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: get an increase, but it would be based at the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: rate of inflation. Substantially lower because of his efforts and
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: what he did. is what I'm saying. So what I'm
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: saying is, what are your thoughts of Dave Thomas? I mean,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: you've known a lot of guys over the years, and
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I know you like him.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: I know Dave, and Dave is a very impressive young man.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Here's a guy that with basically no experience in the
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: legislature became the leading authority in the General Assembly on
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: this topic. Right.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: But you know, Dave, he didn't just talk stuff. He
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: followed through.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, so in my 41 years, and let's be realistic, Dave,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: you've been around a little bit longer.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I think I got a few years on you. I
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: know my hair is a lot whiter than yours.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: So anyway, when you look at this, David, I can't
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: think of anybody that's worked harder for the citizens of
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Ohio than this guy has done. He's so damn impressive.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's another thing I wanted to mention to
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: you with that being said. How impressive is this, Keith Faber? Now,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: he's got the endorsement. I want you to think about this,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Dave Johnson. I believe it's 81 of 88 sheriffs in
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: That's correct.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: 81 of 88 sheriffs. These are Democrats and Republicans. To
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: carry 81 of 88 sheriffs to endorse somebody for attorney general.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: No question about it. And by the way, he's the only...
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: candidate in this race, the only one that has stood
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: for a debate. He recently debated his opponent at Youngstown
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: State University. I attended that debate, and I watched him
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: eviscerate his opponent. Nice guy, but basically a lawyer that
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: represented millionaires and big corporations, and yet he's attacking the
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: rich and attacking big corporations. That's how he made his living.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: But how impressive those favor. You don't get that type
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: of endorsements from Republicans and Democrat sheriffs if you're not
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: doing something damn right in the position you're in now
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: and you want to be attorney general. I mean, that
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: is impressive.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Very impressive guy, and he's working. They make a lot
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: of money as a state official. I think it's $ 180, 000
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: or something a year. But do you know what attorneys
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: are making? If he were in a law firm, he'd
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: be making triple that amount of money. But he believes
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: in public service.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Now, let me give you one other guy. I'm just
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: talking about impressive people.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: You thought you would call and get lost. No, you're
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: sticking around. I love it.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I love calling into your program.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: So here's the next one. And I won't get into why,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: you know, just for family purposes, we go to the
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Western Reserve Military Cemetery in Ripman for our family and
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: the laying of the wreaths that go every year at
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Christmas time.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And it's a very moving event. And I want to
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: tell all of you, and it's extremely moving event, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: we will do it for the rest of my wife
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: and I, and our children will do it for the
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: rest of my life, and I'm sure their lives. We
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: owe it to our family members. But with that being said,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I have never seen a more impressive guy than Frank LaRose.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, and he spoke there. I don't know if
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: it was last year or this past year or the
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: year before. And I'm going to tell you how impressed
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I was standing there listening to him and his military
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: background and the service he did for this country. I mean,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: he is an impressive human being.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. He's had tours of duty in
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: the Middle East, and he still is in the reserves.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: He serves so many weeks a year in service to
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: this country. And I'm just proud as hell to see, really,
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: this whole slate. This is an impressive group of candidates,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: as we have had in all the years that I've
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: been doing this.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Let me do my break. Sit tight.
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: Awesome.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Talking with old-timer Dave.
• 41:29
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• 41:29
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• 41:45
  Speaker 2: From News Radio 570 WKBN, 3.56 in the afternoon, Ron
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoning. with Dave Johnson from
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: the kingdom of Columbiana County on the end of my line. And,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, they are impressive. Like I say, LaRose with his,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, Green Beret military background, great, gave a short
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: but very moving speech. I mean, as a matter of fact, Dave,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to tell you, after that I was
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: come back during the weekend. I always meant to call
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: him and tell him how great I thought his presentation
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: was and how much respect I had for him just
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: standing there.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a very impressive guy. There's no doubt about it.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: And he's done a great job as Secretary of State
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: of Ohio these last eight years.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then to hear that deal with Faber and
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: 81 out of 88 sheriffs endorsing this guy, I thought, wow,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: that's really impressive. I talked about Dave Thomas and how
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: just impressive he is and all the stuff he has
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: accomplished and the reasons why he is running for state rep.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Because over the years, if I said this to you,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I have been disappointed by Republicans and Democrats saying, that
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: once they get elected, they forget about us. Once they
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: get your vote or your tax dollars, and it becomes
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: all about them and how important they think they are
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: or their job and benefits. And I'm sick of that.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I don't support that. I don't care what party you're with.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I expect more. Your comment, please.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Exactly. And you should. You should expect more. Can I
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: say something about the Seventh District Court of Appeals race?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Were you aware, you have Judge Hanai's running for election
• 43:11
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• 43:16
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• 43:19
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• 43:23
  Speaker 3: judge that was the impetus in that court to take
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: it from last place in the state of Ohio on
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: backlog and on the efficiency of processing cases. They went
• 43:34
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• 43:38
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• 43:43
  Speaker 3: trying to replace a judge there that currently, I won't
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: even mention her name, but there's a judge there that
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: lives in another state. She's been to three or four
• 43:54
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• 44:01
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• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Hold that thought.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
• 44:08
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• 44:10
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• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Love to. Yeah, absolutely.
• 44:13
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• 44:15
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  Speaker 2: from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Dave Johnson is down there
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: in the Kingdom of Columbiana County where he calls home.
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  Speaker 2: As we go through this, you were talking about how
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  Speaker 2: Hannah really has really turned that court around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. If you talk to
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  Speaker 3: the other judges, they'll admit to this. Mark came in
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: like a bulldog and said, for example, they used to
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  Speaker 3: have a whole month in that district court where they
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  Speaker 3: going to do that anymore. We're going to read on
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: our own in our own time. We're going to spend
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: every month and every day getting this backlog of cases
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: that we have caught up. And so they went, again,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: I think there's 11 or 12 districts in the state
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: of Ohio. We were consistently either 12th or 11th worst
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: district in the state. And in two years' time, Judge
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Hanai got that. He took the initiative. The other judges
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: came along. They're doing a good job as well, but
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: the exception of one of them. My grievance is with
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: this one judge, and I've known her over the years.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: She's a nice person. But how does anybody except a
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: judge who's being paid 180, almost $ 200, 000 a year living
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: in another state and using this BS, the COVID, you know,
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: that we. went through, everyone's going to work from home.
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  Speaker 18: That's bull.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: And then to have her chief legal counsel who's making
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: $ 100, 000 a year, again, he's a competent guy. I know
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: him as well. But he lives in Columbus. Judge Hanna,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: I said he's never even met this person in that courthouse.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Well, how can you function if you're in that position
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: if you don't.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Go to work?
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you can't. You can't. And we need a watchdog
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: like Judge Hanai to continue on in that court as
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: it gets cleaned up.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: So basically, true or false, he said the courthouse, these
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: offices have to be open. People have to be here, correct?
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Exactly. And he should call in sometime and tell
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: you what happened in that courthouse. That's how I got
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: involved in his campaign. I didn't really know Mark all
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: that well, and he came down to see me one day,
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: and he said, here's what's going on in this courtroom.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: And he said, can you help me? Can you help
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: me be introduced to other county chairmen? This is a
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: big district. They go all the way down. I think
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: it's nine counties or maybe 11 counties in the 7th
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: District Court of Appeals. And so Mark has made an
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: effort to go down throughout this entire district and share
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: with everybody what's going on. And it's one of these
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: things that it's the whole reason I got involved in politics.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but basically you had people collecting a paycheck and
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: not showing up and not being very productive.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Agree?
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Exactly. And not being accountable to the taxpayers.
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: So that's another office that needs looked at. And Hanai
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: is deserving of another six-year term. We need them in
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: that courtroom. Yeah.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's campaigning hard. He's got a lot of stuff
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: going on. Certainly, I mean, that's like you say, a
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: big district for him here. I mean, it's very interesting.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Let me take some calls. Now, I'm going to ask
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: you again to just talk because we're starting a new
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: hour from 3 o'clock. I just want you to talk
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: at the beginning of this hour. what your concerns is
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: about people that are going to go vote for Amy Acton.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: And you expressed them at the beginning of the program.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: I'd like you to reiterate those for people to join
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: us at 4 o'clock. This is Dave Johnson.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I think we've all been fixated on this ad
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: that was put out there about Amy's mother calling her
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: a liar and so forth. And it turns out there's
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: more to that story than meets the eye. And that's
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: kind of coloring everybody's opinion about this race. But if
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: you look a little deeper... And do we really want
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: to hire somebody to be the chief executive of this state,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: which is a $ 50 billion corporation, is what we are.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: That's the annual budget of this state. Do you want
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: to hire somebody that has never held a job in
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: any particular position for more than two years at a time?
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Somebody that was basically relieved or fired would be the word,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: but relieved from her position as director of health during
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: this whole COVID fiasco in Ohio where they were shutting
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: down schools and shutting down businesses based on what she
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: said rather than what the science was saying. Do we
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: want somebody that frankly has a drug and alcohol problem
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: to the point that her own daughter's Two different daughters
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: on two different occasions calling 911 to the police in Bexley, Ohio, saying,
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: Mom's drinking again. She's breaking things. She's throwing things. Somebody
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: please come to the house before somebody gets hurt, in
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: so many words. There's a public record of it. I
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: urge people, if you don't believe me, there's a public
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: record request that you can make of Bexley police, and
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: they'll give you the transcript. These are her daughters that
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: are saying this. She says she's a doctor. She touts
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: this Dr. Amy Acton. She's this celebrated doctor in Ohio.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: She never took a residency. She never practiced medicine. She's
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: not a physician. She's went to medical school and has
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: held positions, administrative positions, not even as an acting doctor.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: medical professional. These have been all administrative positions that she's had,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: none of which she held for more than two years
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: at any given time. So she's really, I look at
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: her as sort of a Manchurian candidate that will not debate.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: She will not take questions. Even at her own rallies,
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: she has her people come up to the mic and say,
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: if you have a video or you have audio equipment
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: with you, we are not permitting that at this hearing,
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: at this presentation. And these are her own rallies. So,
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, what's she trying to hide here? And then
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: her record is that she's going to turn things around,
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: that things are so terrible in Ohio. And I sort
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: of walked through recently where Ohio was ranked number one
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: in the nation on economic development and jobs creation and
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: the overall business climate compared to every other state in
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: the country. And this is a ranking that was done
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: by CNBC. That's not some right-wing group. It's... So, and
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: then you look at where are we on income tax.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: We're the lowest personal income tax rate at the current
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: time that we've had since the tax was adopted back
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: in 1972. It's a 2.75, a flat tax rate. So
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: everybody pays the same. At the same time, we've eliminated
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: the estate tax in Ohio, and especially affecting small family
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: businesses and small family farms that want to pass the
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: business on to the next generation. Is that such a
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: terrible thing? Amy met with the Farm Bureau in Ohio,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: and they point-blank asked her, will you preserve this estate
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: tax waiver that's been in place since Kasich? and she
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: refused to commit to that. I talked a little bit
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: about the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and an area that
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: John Husted worked closely with the governor.
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: On, and that's bringing about reforms.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: In that agency that produced $ 10. 2 billion of rebates back
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: to Ohio's employers, large and small, public and private, Every subdivision,
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: every township, every city in the state.
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: Of Ohio got thousands of dollars to millions of.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: Dollars, depending on the size that they are. I think
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: the largest in the state went to Columbus, Ohio. I
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: think they got somewhere around $ 13 or $ 14 million back
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: this year alone. Can you imagine what project you could
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: undertake with that? And so if you add up the
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: last eight years, workers' compensation in the state of Ohio
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: has been free to Ohio's employers. So what's Amy going
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: to fix? What's so terrible that she's going to come walking.
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: In here with somebody with.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: Zero administrative and executive experience and going to walk in
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden take over a $ 50 billion
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: corporation with zero experience, zero transparency about what she wants
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: to do, She's mentioned that she has picked out a number,
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: $ 26 billion increase in the income tax. That would be
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: a doubling of the current income tax rate in the
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: state of Ohio. And that affects, again, we all say, well,
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: let's get the rich. Well, you know, it isn't just
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: the rich. If you look at who's paying the taxes,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: if you took the top 1% and just took all
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: their money, Don't just raise taxes on it.
• 57:25
  Speaker 19: Take it all.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: You'd have enough to operate the government for probably six months,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: and they'd all be broke and out of business, and
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: every enterprise and the thousands of millions of people that
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: they employ would be out of a job. But this
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: idea of get the rich, it sounds good, but it's
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: not a credible policy idea. for creating jobs and building
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: strong communities and having a solid tax base that can
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: support our schools and can support our communities. I find
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: it incredible that the liberals of this ilk, Amy Acton included,
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: are all in favor of defunding police. There's a reason
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: that the police departments in this state and the county
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: sheriffs across Ohio have all endorsed the Republicans. They're scared
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: to death that we're going to actually defund the police.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: We're going to give amnesty to all these illegal aliens
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: so they can create havoc and at the same time
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: defund the police to protect us from this. Makes no
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: sense to me. So that's what we're up against.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Have you seen this up-and-comer that is running for the Senate,
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: this fresh, new, young face, this guy Sherrod Brown, who's
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: running these ads like he's never run before in everything
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: that he's going to do and all this kind of jazz?
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I think... I think he's deceiving people because this is
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: the same Sherrod Brown that supported every single thing Biden
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: stood for. The open border. I mean, I listened to a...
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Hear me out, Dave Johnson. I listened to a... democrat
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: party that hates me why do i say that because
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: you know what during this tenure i heard from him
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: if i'm white i'm a white supremacist if i did
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: anything in my life it's because i have white privilege
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: I listen to this nonsense of how they degrade me
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: because of my skin color. I often look at them
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: as the biggest racist because it was they who said,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: guess what? Unless you're female and black, you're not going
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: to get on a Supreme Court with this appointment. So
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: you're eliminating everyone else based on their sexuality and their
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: skin color. You're not looking for the best and the brightest.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: I find that very troubling. So Sherrod Brown's there all
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: along on this kind of stuff. He supported the open border.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: He supports basically the vilification of ICE and the glorification
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: of these criminals that are in our country illegally and
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: some violent criminals that are here as well. He supported
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: all of this nonsense.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: He supports sanctuary cities. Yes. He supports amnesty for illegals.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: He's a flaming left-wing liberal that's trying to run like
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: he's a moderate. And I mean a flaming left-wing liberal.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: And he's got a lot of these unions all duped
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: that he's for the working man. Well, if you let
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: everybody in here illegally, they're going to lower the working
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: man's wages.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Some of them see through that, but that's why he
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: got beat two years ago. He got beat by a no-name.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: Bernie Marino had never run for office before. And all
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: the polling showed that Bernie Marino was going to get
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: beat by Sherrod Brown right up until the day of
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: the election. He was six, seven, eight points below in
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: the polls, which almost suppresses the Republican vote. It said, look,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: you might as well not vote. You're going to lose.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: And yet when the votes came in, guess who won?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: Bernie Marino by, I think it was three and a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: half or four points. It wasn't even close. And he
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: repudiated this Sherrod Brown, who's been in office for 50 years.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: My God, the guy's 75 years old. Do we need
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: another octogenarian in the Congress? I say that on both sides.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: I saw Mitch McConnell.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: Should have been retired out of that assembly, out.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: Of the Senate 10 years ago.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: We saw with Dianne Feinstein, Mitch McConnell, so many of
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: them that are just, it's like you can't even function.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: You're just a figurehead. I mean, I don't care if
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: they're Democrats or Republicans. You got to go at some point. Hey,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: let me tell you, and I'm going to take calls
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: coming up here. I just want to bounce one more
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: thing off you. You know who really impresses me, Dave Johnson?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: You know who really impresses me?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: Who's that?
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: You ever talk to Pleschnik, the commissioner out in Lake County?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Commissioner Noe?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: I have.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: I have talked to him. He's a very interesting guy.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: Of course, he has a passion for this reform of
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: our property taxes.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Passionate guy. Listen to this, David. And I want you
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: to think about this, because I feel, like I say
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: to everybody, I'm intimidated talking to him. University of Akron graduate.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: He graduated Duke Law School. He's a Duke Law School lawyer.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: You follow me? From Duke Law School. He's a college professor.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: He's a tax lawyer. And he's a commissioner. And they
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: call him Commissioner No because he says no. No to
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: property taxes. No to this stuff. And yet they get
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: it done anyway in Lake County. They build a jail
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: where they said they had to pass an additional tax
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: to do it. And he did it without doing any
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: of that. I'm telling you, this is an impressive guy
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: that should go far in the state of Ohio. He
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: is very intelligent, very good guy.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to see it.
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  Speaker 5: You know who he reminds me of? You remember, this
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: is going way back.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: You and I have been around a while.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: But you remember Howard.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: Jarvis out in California, Proposition 13? Yes. They had the
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: same kind of battle out there on property taxes that
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: were basically taxing.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: People out of their homes.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: And he led that crusade. He was a big, rough,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: and tumble guy like Pleschnik. And I love John. I'd
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: love to see John in the General Assembly. That's where
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: he ought to be.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: I'd love to see John in any of those upper positions.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: You need the Pleschniks for governor. You need the Pleschniks
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: in any of these upper positions. And quite frankly, since
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: I got your ear, you need Dave Thomas in those
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: upper positions as well.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. He's a bright young guy. And again, to be
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: in the leadership position, like in his first term in
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: the General Assembly, I mean, usually it takes three or
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: four years to even find your way around to where
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: the bathroom is. And here's a guy leading the way
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: in one of the most important public policy issues of
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: our day, and that's property tax reform. It's taxing people
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: out of their homes.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's a huge problem. All right, so I'm going
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: to do my break, folks, and then I'm going to
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: come back and take phone calls. You've been patient and waiting.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 8: Awesome.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: He's here. You're a little shy today, aren't you, Dave?
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm all fired up. I was on a talk
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: radio this morning down in Belmont County, and I had
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: so many people calling me, and I thought, I'm.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: Going to call Ron.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: You want to be on real talk radio, and you are.
• 1:04:25
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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it's Ron Verb with Dave Johnson on the
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  Speaker 2: end of the line. Are you ready, David?
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  Speaker 20: I sure am.
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  Speaker 2: All right, hang on. On one of these lines is DeFabio.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to find him, but let me see. With
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Dave Johnson, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Ron. Yes.
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  Speaker 19: Dave, Ron, it's nice to hear you on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: You recognize this voice, Dave? One of my guys that
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: I love to death, former Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey. who
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I always say this, and I want you to hear this,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: Dave Johnson, and McKelvey gets tired of me telling this story.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: He would sit in his studio when he was mayor.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: People would call in with a complaint. He wrote it
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: down on a legal pad, and then during the breaks,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: before cell phones, he'd come over to my studio phone,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: made a call, and said, take care of this pothole
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: or take care of this. He tried solving problems when
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: he was on the air because these people weren't voters
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: to him. They were customers to him. You follow me?
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: Exactly. That was George McKelvey, and he's a Democrat I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: would have voted for every day, all day.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 19: That's kind of you. You know, Ron, Dave was talking
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 19: about the data center issue. And as a mayor, I
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 19: would support data centers 100 percent with the legislature having
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 19: the power to create guardrails on the water usage, on
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 19: the electrical, on the taxes not being abated, et cetera,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 19: et cetera, to stand against them and to make them
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 19: a boogeyman as the many have done it would be
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 19: comparable to in the nineteen hundred eight up against United
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 19: States steel or I or one of those companies locating
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 19: in Youngstown it it's insanity exactly I be it just
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 19: it's ridiculous and they've made the boogeyman other data center
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 19: square data centers are the future and as long as
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 19: the legislative body have the power to create guardrails to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 19: protect the community and to protect the taxpayers, they'll be wonderful.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 19: I mean, it's just, I can't get over what they've done.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 19: I just can't get over it.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a totally clean industry, too. Yeah. No pollution.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 19: Absolutely. It's, well, needless to say, Dave, it's... It's sad
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 19: what they've done with them, how they've tried to create
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 19: them as the worst thing that could happen to a community,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 19: when if you do it right, it's going to be
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 19: the best thing that happens to a community.
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  Speaker 5: That's all I can say about it.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 19: And it's good to hear your voice. So, Rod, I've
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 19: known Dave a long, long time. He's a great, great guy.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 19: Just wonderful.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you, George.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: And you know what? I've known George a long, long time,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: and he's a great, great guy.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: You bet he is.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 19: I wish I had a restaurant like Dave Johnson. Then
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 19: I'd be doing real well.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you, George.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 19: That's the best restaurant in Ohio, Ron.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: No question about it.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you, George.
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  Speaker 19: Nice listening to both of you.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: George McKay, I've got to get a world of respect
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: for all that guy did. He truly didn't view you
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: as a voter. He did view you as a customer,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: and he was a public servant. You follow me?
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: I mean it's no doubt and he has such deep
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: roots in youngstown his family go back generations and they
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: were civic leaders and and business leaders in youngstown a
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: hundred years ago so he's a great public servant yeah.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: You're on the air with dave johnson.
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  Speaker 20: Hello mr verb yes How are you?
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: I'm with Dave Johnson. I'm looking for Gino.
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  Speaker 22: But as you said, it's the tax abatements for these AIs.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 22: It's the tax abatements. I want AIs too, but I
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 22: want them to pay their fair share of taxes.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: I think we're in agreement there, are we not, David?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: I'm in total agreement with you. I think early on,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: they made mistakes in granting tax abatements because they were
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: trying to bring, they wanted to be on the cutting
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: edge of bringing data centers to Ohio, and tax abatements
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: is something that is often used in economic development, whether
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: we like it or not.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 22: They hold the states hostage when they talk about these
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 22: tax abatements. It's been going on for the last 20,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 22: 30 years.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: We're in a total agreement on that for a change.
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  Speaker 22: All right. And so we're going to talk about Amy Acton.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 19: A little bit here.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Sure.
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  Speaker 22: Amy Acton completed a pediatrics residency and practiced in child
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 22: health before moving into public health leadership. According to her
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 22: official biography and multiple credible sources, After earning her doctorate
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 22: of medicine degree.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Wait a second.
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  Speaker 5: Hold that thought.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Hold that thought, caller.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: Hold on.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Back with Dave Johnson on this line. And go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about Amy Acton-Caller.
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  Speaker 22: Amy Arkin, again, I'm going to say, completed a pediatrics residency.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 22: Her first clinical assignment was a pediatrics residency focused on
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 22: addressing the severe health impacts of the crack cocaine epidemic
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  Speaker 22: on children. She then completed a second residency at Children's
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  Speaker 22: Hospital and Ohio State University, where she also created the
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 22: first ever residency rotation in child advocacy. This training and
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 22: work directly involved her in clinical care for children and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 22: in developing programs.
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  Speaker 2: What year was that?
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 5: What year was the residency?
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: You know, if you're a resident....
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  Speaker 22: Of maternal and child health at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Does it bother you she's not a practicing doctor? Okay,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: do you want to listen at all? I realize you
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: want to read me this stuff.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 22: Well, I want to read it because You don't have
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 22: your facts straight, Mr. Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think you have your facts straight, and
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: I've been waiting for you to.
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  Speaker 22: that she did not have a residency.
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  Speaker 2: All right, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 3: I will present the facts when I get them. I'll
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: send them over to Ron. You're reading from her bio
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: on her website.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 22: And we want to bump this up a little bit.
• 1:14:02
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• 1:14:07
  Speaker 22: holds on to that job. Somebody that was a.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 22: Person that was on Fox News as a whatever.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're not here to talk about that. All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Just respond to him. He's all over this.
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  Speaker 3: All I can say is that I will produce her
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: true record of what she really did in the medical field,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: and she was not a practicing physician. She's held administrative positions.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: She's done studies. She's done all, but not a practicing
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: medical doctor. And that's why the Ohio Medical Association came
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: out and endorsed the vague. So, I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 3: plain and simple. Even if she was a doctor for
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: a short period of time, does that qualify you to
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  Speaker 3: run a $ 50 billion corporation? That's why we wanted her
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  Speaker 3: to debate. I would love to have heard her answer
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: this question. and be subjected to cross-examinations of questioners, not
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: even from the candidate, but from objective sources saying, tell
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: us about your background that qualifies you to be governor
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: of Ohio.
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  Speaker 19: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. All right. You're on the air with
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: Dave Johnson.
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  Speaker 10: Hi there.
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  Speaker 24: I'm glad I got Dave. I've never met you, but
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 24: I heard a lot of good things about you. Two
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 24: questions for Dave. First question would be, Do you believe
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 24: these polls? Because they're stressing a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of us out.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 24: And if so, why do you think it's happening?
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 19: And I'll let you go to that one first.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier in this conversation that these polls all
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: across the country have underrepresented. I didn't state this earlier.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: I said the polls are wrong, but I'll tell you
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: how they've been wrong. They have underrepresented Republican expressions of
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: support out there, and we're not sure quite why. Some
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: of it's on purpose, and I think some of it
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: is that just Republicans don't answer polls for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: And in the last gubernatorial race, Governor DeWine, who was
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: running against Richard Cordray, who was a very impressive candidate.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: He was a guy that was qualified, could have been
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: a good Democrat governor had he been elected. He was
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: leading DeWine right up until the day of the election.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: And on the night of the election, the DeWine camp
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: thought they lost the race because of all this polling
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: data that had come out. And it ended up he
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: won it. You know, it wasn't a huge victory, but
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: it was substantial. So same with Bernie Marino. When he
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: ran against Sherrod Brown in the last election cycle, he
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: was losing in every poll. There wasn't one poll that
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: showed he was going to win. And what happened on
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: election day? He won. And in his case, he won
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: by like four percentage points.
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  Speaker 24: Now, here's my other, I heard you mention, and I
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 24: too read that Ohio was very favorable with business, ranked
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 24: number one, which is really good for us.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 19: And I love that.
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  Speaker 24: But my question is, how do we do better? Because
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  Speaker 24: I don't want us to be ranked number one in business,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 24: but then number 14th in business. most heavily burdened in
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 24: taxes in the country. Do you know what I mean?
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 24: It should be more comparable. And that's my area of contention.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 24: And I'm not blaming the Republicans for that. I'm just,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 24: that's an area of contention.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it takes years and years of reform You know,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: we started in Ohio, one of the first reforms in
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: tax reform was started back under Kasich, but was eliminating
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: the tangible personal property tax. Most people don't even know
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: what the heck that is, but it was essentially a
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: tax on inventory that affected the competitiveness of manufacturing companies
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: in Ohio. So Republicans led the initiative to eliminate that
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: particular tax. Then came the estate tax, also under Kasich.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: He eliminated the estate tax. Didn't cut it back, eliminated it,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: which was a very good thing for small family companies
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: and small family farms that wanted to lead their family
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: business on to the next generation. And then more recently
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: has been a series. It wasn't just one tax cut,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: but over the last eight years, the Republicans, led by
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: Governor DeWine and John Hustedt, brought the tax rate all
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: the way down from 7.5% down to 2.75%. One of
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: the lowest tax rates in the country. The next step
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: we have to take, and you're quite right, we're still
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: overburdened by taxes. The fake is the one talking about
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: reforming property taxes. And that's what's got to happen.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 24: Yep, absolutely. I agree with that. Well, thank you for
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 24: your time. I appreciate it.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: What about my time?
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: Awesome, thank you.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: What about my time?
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 19: Ron.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: Ron.
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  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 19: Gotta go.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: Gotta go.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: Well, no one thanks me for my time. It's just
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: Dave Johnson's on. Well, Dave, thank you for your time.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: You're on the air with Dave Johnson.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 26: Hello, Ron?
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: Ron?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 26: I want to talk to you a little bit about
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 26: Amy Acton, why she is... There's no way she has
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 26: a shot because when COVID was going on, she shut
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 26: down every dental office in the state of Ohio for
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 26: three months. Physicians were declared basically non-essential services and only
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 26: emergencies were prepared. Do you think a doctor and his
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 26: wife or a dentist's wife is going to.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 20: Vote for Amy Acton?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: No way.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 19: The polls are a joke.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 26: Don't even believe the polls, but show up to vote
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 26: because every vote counts.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: Amen to that.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: Amen to that.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: Sir, I couldn't help but notice on your call, it
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: seems like you've got a little tartar on your front
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: teeth there. Just kidding, okay?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: Thanks for your call.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 19: Yeah, Dave, and you know what also is disturbing?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 26: All this money being spent on these eight and a
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 26: half by 11 sheets.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 19: Of colored, heavy-duty paper.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 26: Do you realize all the money that they're pissing away
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 26: that could be spent for the public good?
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. That's for veterans. it's a shame what these elections cost.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: It's just, and the money that's coming in from out
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: of state, the millions and millions of dollars coming in
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: from California, from Illinois, from New York state, trying to
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: influence the outcome of our vote here in Ohio.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 19: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: So are you done? Yep.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 19: I'm done, Ron.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: Go get them.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: Dave Johnson.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: Hey, David, how are you?
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: It's Gino.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: Hey, Gino, how are you? Good. Good, sir.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: Who else can call you other than Madonna with a
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: first name and you know who they are? It's Gino.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: We all know. Hi, Gino.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: He recognizes his voice right off the bat.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 10: And yours as well, sir. You know, I've been trying
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 10: to stay out. Not stay out, but I've got a lot.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: We've got a lot.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 10: Going on in the county. I haven't been much into
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 10: the selection.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 19: But a couple of points. One on Amy Acton. When
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 19: Governor DeWine was on every.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 10: Day at 2 o'clock with his updates and Amy Atkin
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 10: came out, there was one particular time when she was
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 10: shutting down. I forget what it was. Maybe it was
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 10: funerals or the nursing homes. And she came out all smiles. Now,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 10: this woman has the power in her pen of signing
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 10: to destroy people's lives. They cut off weddings and everything else.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 10: And she literally said, the governor's given me the honor
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 10: of doing this today.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 19: It's not an honor, Amy.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 10: You're shutting down a state, number one. Then she said,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 10: I'm going to do it like he does with four
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 10: different pens so I could pass them out when I'm done.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 10: She had such glee in her eye when she was
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 10: effing over the people of Ohio, and that's what she wanted.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 10: I mean, she got more joy out of that than
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 10: anything else, and that tells you something about her.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 19: She's about her. She's not about people. I mean, Dave,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 19: it was disgusting. I remembered it.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 10: I remember seeing it when I was home, and I
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 10: went back and I found it, and I saw it again,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 10: and I says, this is not somebody who I want
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 10: in the governor's chair, who is so much about the
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 10: pomp and circumstance, and look what I could do. Look,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 10: with a pen, look what I could do. Well, what
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 10: the hell else would she do to Ohio? And I'll
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 10: tell you this, Dave. We've gone back and forth on
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 10: the governor a few times because we've had some disagreements
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 10: over him. But every time Maloney County has reached out
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 10: to the governor, he stepped up immediately. Carving out the
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 10: lake to river as the seventh entity for the Jobs Ohio.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 10: We wouldn't have YBI downtown. We wouldn't have YBI downtown. Ron,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 10: have you ever toured that place?
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: Years and years ago.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 10: Well, you ought to see it now, what they're doing
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 10: down there. And I got to say, I got to
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 10: hats off to the governor. He's the one that put
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 10: that together. Him and Barb Ewing is doing a great job.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 9: But we wouldn't.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 10: Have had that if the governor hadn't have said, you
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 10: know what, we're going to take Mahoning, Ashtabula, Columbiana, and.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 19: Who else is in that?
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: Trumbull.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 19: Trumbull. We're going to take them out with Cleveland.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 19: So we could get our fair share. Exactly right. And
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 19: we don't have to sell that. We have. We absolutely have.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 10: That was the governor and John Husted that did that. Now,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 10: a little bit about Sherrod Brown. I've been in office
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 10: two years. I plan on running again. And I'm going
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 10: to run on my record and what I've done and
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 10: what I want to do. Sherrod Brown has had 50
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 10: years of a record. And you won't see one accomplishment
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 10: he made. He won't say how he helped Biden open
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 10: the borders. or how he pushed for the illegals and
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 10: whatever else to come across our border. You won't hear
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 10: him say how he was a champion of men and
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: women's sports. That's his record.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 19: Run on your record, for God's sakes.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 10: You have a record. And another thing, Dave, you talked
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 10: about data centers. You know who the biggest advocate, really,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 10: the biggest lobby for data centers are in the state
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 10: of Ohio?
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 9: You know who they are?
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: It's the trades.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 10: Because when they build these things, they get three years
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 10: of steady work. And, Ron, I'm friends with a lot
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 10: of guys, the West Reserve Trade Council. And I'm telling you,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 10: I don't understand. You have Brown out there demonizing Husted
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 10: over his support for data centers and what he did
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 10: for them.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 19: And then they're.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 10: Supporting Sherrod Brown. And he's poisoning the public to data centers.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 10: It just doesn't make sense.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: It's technology, Gino. It's the future. It is. You know, Houston,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: as we were talking earlier, Gino, said first you've got
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: to power it. You can't go on our grid and
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: increase our electric prices. You've got to show us how
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: much water you're going to use and make sure it's
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: clean when it gets pumped back in. But outside of that...
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: It's something everybody's going to use, and it can lower
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: my property taxes by shifting a lot of the burden
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: of the data center.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: Exactly. It's a critical investment for the whole future of
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: our economy here in Ohio.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 10: It is, and I don't want anybody poisoning for a campaign,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 10: poisoning people's thoughts on those.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 9: That's what's happening.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 19: It has happened.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 10: Now, we as commissioners, there's nothing that comes to us
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 10: over data centers. There hasn't been, and I don't.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 19: Foresee it coming.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 10: But if it's done right, I've talked to mayors, local mayors, Ron,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 10: and others that were data centers have come in, and
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 10: they said they would pay for every kid to go
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 10: to college. They said we have to, you know, Ohio's prime. Well,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 10: if we got a tool in the toolbox, I say
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 10: we use it, and I'll piggyback on what both of
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 10: you guys said and what George McKelvey said.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 19: Put guardrails on it.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 27: Right.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 19: Put guardrails on it and make it work for us.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 5: You know, the.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 19: We have to do that. And that's.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: Exactly what Vivek is calling for. He's calling for the guardrails.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: He's calling for guidelines. We've got to have them, but
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 3: they've got to be here on our terms.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 10: Absolutely, because we have the hammer. Trafka used to always say,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 10: when you have the hammer, you win. Whoever brings the
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 10: hammer to a fight, we've got a hammer. They want
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 10: to be here. And like I said, I don't want
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 10: our electricity costs to go up.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 19: Who would want that? I don't want all our.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 10: Water to disappear. But there's a lot of infrastructure that
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 10: still has to be done. If we can negotiate with
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 10: these places and have them pay for some of that,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 10: they evidently want to be here. We just got to
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 10: do it right, and we can do it right with
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 10: the right person in charge, and that person wouldn't be
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 10: Amy Acton or Sherrod Brown.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: How could you reach that conclusion, Gino?
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 19: Oh, well, geez.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 10: I can say more, Ron, but I'm not going to.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: There's some deep thinking right there.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 19: Hey, listen.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 10: I backed Bernie Moreno when Moreno came in, and Bernie said,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 10: if I could win Mahoney County, I win Ohio. In fact,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 10: he said it on the steps down at the Spread Eagle.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: I think that's still the case today. I think to
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: win this election, this is ground zero. This is a
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: critical area right here in this community. And you cannot
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: vote for these people that are frauds, in my opinion.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: She won't debate Vivek. She's got a questionable work record.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's not a doctor like you would think
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: she's a doctor. She's not like a Dr. Jill Biden, right, Dave?
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: That was questionable.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 10: And I'll tell you what, when I was running, I
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 10: ran two campaigns. I got in front of every camera.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 10: I answered every question. I wanted questions. I wanted people
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 10: to know where I stood because I believe that I
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 10: could win people if I talked to them. She can't
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 10: win an argument. Evidently, she can't represent herself where she
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 10: knows she can win. So I'd have to say she's
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 10: hiding like Biden.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: I started out this morning. on a talk radio program
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: down in Belmont County, trying to reach out to Appalachia
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: in the southern part of this state, and now to
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: have the opportunity to be on the Ron Verb Show
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: and take calls, because you said it, Ron, as Youngstown
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: and the greater Mahoning Valley, Mahoning, Trumbull, Appalachia, and Columbiana County,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: as this region goes, so goes Ohio. And as Ohio goes,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: so goes the country. We may be able to save
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: the Senate by winning this race with John Husted.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: Amen. Gino, you got more? Thanks, Gino. Gino, thank you.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 1:29:03
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  Speaker 2: o'clock with a few minutes remaining uh uh let's see
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  Speaker 2: ronda sanis i love the guy don't you dave Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to miss him in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's wonderful. He'd make a great president. There's no
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he would.
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  Speaker 2: So that kind of puts a no-go on that. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Dave Johnson, anything else you got to say in conclusion?
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  Speaker 2: I have, what, a minute and 40 seconds.
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  Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough, Ron. I've had such respect
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  Speaker 3: for you for being the voice of this valley.
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  Speaker 5: And I just urge the voters of this area to
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  Speaker 5: think long and hard about.
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  Speaker 3: The future of this state.
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  Speaker 5: The last election, when Bernie Marino.
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  Speaker 3: Defeated Sherrod Brown, he did it by a mere 23
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  Speaker 3: votes per precinct. That was the difference in winning or
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  Speaker 3: losing in the state of Ohio. So my message is
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  Speaker 3: Republicans and independents that care about the future of this state,
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  Speaker 3: get to the polls and vote. You've got between now
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  Speaker 3: and next Tuesday to vote. You can vote in person. Today,
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  Speaker 3: I think, was the last day for requesting a ballot.
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  Speaker 3: And if you got a ballot by mail, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to either deliver it or make sure it gets to
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  Speaker 3: the Board of Elections by November 3rd.
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  Speaker 5: And but we've got our whole.
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  Speaker 3: Future at stake in this country like never before. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why I called in.
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  Speaker 2: Dave, I love your passion.
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  Speaker 3: You know that. God bless you. Thank you, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, David. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: From the kingdom of Columbiana, that's Dave Johnson, Republican chairman
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  Speaker 2: on NewsRadio 570 WKBN and Ron Ferb. We're here tonight
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  Speaker 2: I love his passion. Love what he puts forth there.
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  Speaker 2: Got a lot of love and respect for Dave Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Back to it, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Welcome, one and all.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Dave Johnson for the first couple of hours. Gosh,
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  Speaker 2: the passion that he has. You can tell he cares
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: so much about what's going on. Very impressive, very impressive.
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  Speaker 2: And you almost get tired of hearing it's one of
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: the most important elections. All elections are important. You should
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: vote in all of them. I think in our society,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: you have a duty to be an informed voter. You
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: have a duty to be an informed voter. And years ago,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: if I go back years ago, I hate to say
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: I've been around a long time, but I've been around
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: a long time. And I remember when I was much younger,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going back 50 years or whatever, and people
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  Speaker 2: would call me and they would say, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: reach a time, Ron, when there's more people on the
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  Speaker 2: dole and they're going to control the political narrative in
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: the elections because they're going to be in it for
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: what's in it for them. And it's going to almost
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: be an attack on productive people and things. And son
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: of a gun if we're not there. And this is
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: long before that happened. I mean, you have half the
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: people not paying taxes, federal taxes. So you got half
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: the country that's actually paying, keeping things afloat. The other half,
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: they're not. And in many cases, when tax day comes,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: they get, it's like winning a lottery. They get a
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: big check and they didn't even pay in. It's the
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: craziest damn thing that you'll see.
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  Speaker 8: And....
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy listening to Dave. As I say to you
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  Speaker 2: numerous times, I cannot vote and I will not vote
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  Speaker 2: for Amy Acton or Sherrod Brown. I don't believe in
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  Speaker 2: what their party stands for or what they stand for.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio is a giant business to be run in vivacous.
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  Speaker 2: the best person to run that business. She genuinely doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really have any qualifications to set her in line to
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  Speaker 2: even take over the state of Ohio. It's very troubling
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  Speaker 2: to me. It's very troubling to me. As I've said
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  Speaker 2: to you numerous times, I want the best for all
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  Speaker 2: of you. Listen, whether we agree or disagree, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: your enemy. But by nature of being in a catbird seat,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: we just got to study this stuff and understand this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And by virtue of living history and being around, you
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  Speaker 2: know what works and what doesn't work? Socialism doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: I hear ads and I get tired of the lies
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  Speaker 2: that I hear about, oh, John Houston cutting Medicaid from
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of people. And I say to myself, but
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: you're leaving out the whole story. Those additional Medicaid supplements
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: were for five years, put in for five years as
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: a temporary thing by the Democrats when they were in charge.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't make them forever. They said it's for five
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  Speaker 2: years and then they'll end. And when they ended, all
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, John Houston, a Republican, is somehow evil.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make a lick of sense to me. It's
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  Speaker 2: just not truthful. But they figure you're a dummy and
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  Speaker 2: you'll buy into it. And a lot of people do.
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  Speaker 2: You'll just accept it. And that's the way it'll be.
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  Speaker 2: You agree? And that's where we are today. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown, I've been around the time that he's, what
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: is he, 75 years old? I mean, good God, come on.
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  Speaker 2: For a six-year term? I'm just on, it's on, it's
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  Speaker 2: all unreal to me.
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  Speaker 3: You're on the air. I will see you. Good luck. Hello.
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  Speaker 21: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 19: I think Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Johnson is doing a great job at YSU as the president.
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  Speaker 2: That's Dave Johnson, the party chairman in Columbiana County, not
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  Speaker 2: Bill Johnson.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, that Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Bill Johnson. Do you remember when Bill Johnson
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  Speaker 2: took over YSU, how all the protests and he was
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: going to destroy the university? Guess what? None of that happened,
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  Speaker 2: did it? They all hated him because of his politics,
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  Speaker 2: and yet he's running a university competently. Did any of
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  Speaker 2: these people ever come back and go, boy, all of
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: our opposition to him and all the things we said,
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: we were dead-ass wrong. We should probably apologize to Bill Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: They never did.
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  Speaker 4: And Ed O'Neill never come back and said he was
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  Speaker 4: sorry for taking back his $ 100, 000 a year that he
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 4: sends into the program. And he said because of Mr. Johnson's,
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  Speaker 4: we'll say his politics. But, you know, he never come
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 4: back and said, no, I was wrong. The guy's doing
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  Speaker 4: a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for that Johnson that's there, tell him, Ronnie, tell
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  Speaker 4: him about when the former senator was in power.
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  Speaker 22: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Three of the biggest plants in his valley shut down
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 4: under his watch.
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  Speaker 1: And what did he do, Ronnie?
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  Speaker 4: But I say this to.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: Everybody, and I say this to you. Don't give these
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: people more power than they have. General Motors decided to
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: close down Lordstown for various reasons. Really, it had nothing
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: to do with Tim Ryan or Sherrod Brown. They just
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: happened to be in office at that particular time. The
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: companies make these decisions to move, and a lot of
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: times people are saying politicians do all this stuff or
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: cause all this stuff, and they don't have much to
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: do with it at all. They really genuinely don't. All right,
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: so in the Republican and Democrat's defense, That doesn't cut
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: it with me.
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  Speaker 3: No, me either.
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  Speaker 9: It doesn't cut it with me.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 4: And that's all those people that once held great paying
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 4: jobs in that.
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  Speaker 1: Valley, in the valley.
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  Speaker 3: Those jobs are now finita.
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  Speaker 5: They're gone.
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  Speaker 19: They're never going to come back again.
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  Speaker 2: Right, but you had General Motors said, we're not going
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: to make the cruise anymore. I mean, I bought two
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  Speaker 2: of them. I bought a couple of them. As a
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, I still have them. And they were
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: great cars. But as the marketplace changed from cars to
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: SUVs and trucks and their sales went down and they
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: went from three shifts down to two and down to
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: one and they couldn't sustain a plan on one, there
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: were many problems that were explained to me from an
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: internal standpoint and none of them had anything to do
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: with politics.
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  Speaker 4: And the Democrat regime that was in there, they do
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 4: anything to bring anything back to the Valley worthwhile.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, contrary to what people say, Kimberly Clark's coming here.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: We got the TJ Maxx warehouse. We got a lot
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: of data centers that want to come here. We just
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: got to get some of the local politicians that are
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: opposed to data centers to get on board to support them.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: Sometimes we cut our own throats.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go along with.
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  Speaker 4: The data, Senator Ronnie. Unlike they did at the race,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 4: they all gave them a 15-year abatement, and that thing
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 4: makes about $ 7 million a month over there.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. No abatements. No abatements. I don't want any abatements
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: for anybody. If you want to come here, zero abatements.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of people skipping out. Zero abatements. I'm against
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: any politician that grants any abatements for anything. So I've
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: had enough.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 4: And when... When the mayor was there, the former mayor
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 4: that was on with you, and it was me, him,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 4: and Mr. Rivers, and a guy from the water department
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 4: who won the WKBN four-man scramble at no run, and
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 4: the mayor, just like he was in office, he made
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 4: that one putt on the last hole for a birdie,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 4: and we won the tournament.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: George McKelvey was just a, I mean, just had the
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: right attitude. George McKelvey said, these are my customers, I'm
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: going to serve them, and I'm going to, if you've
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: got a problem, I'm going to try to assist and
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: make things better. And that was his mentality, and that's
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: what he did.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 4: And he did a great job while he was mayor.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 21: Two key points. We've got to realize we're in an
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 21: age of austerity now. How that affects everybody is this.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 21: You talked about the voters, the takers that are coming around. Yeah,
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 21: just voting for Democratic because they can get more. Well,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 21: on the state level, they need to have the discussion
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 21: how to wean back benefits so people are compelled to
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 21: get a job. Make it easy. Give them benefits if
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 21: they need to for a specific length of time until
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 21: they get benefits for their job. But make them work.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 21: If they start working, they won't revoke Republicans. The other thing,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 21: we talk about, you know, come back property taxes and
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 21: maybe get rid of the income tax, you know, like
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 21: other states have done. We have to also enter into
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 21: discussion things like consolidation of schools. You know, the growth, what?
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 21: It was on the books since 97. Nothing's been really
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 21: done to address school financing and expenditures. Point is... If
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 21: they do like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, consolidate a lot of
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 21: the local school districts in order to save. I'm sure
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 21: on the state level, that would be hundreds of millions,
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 21: if not billions saved on an annual level. Therefore, we
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 21: have money to give back to the taxpayers.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think. It seems to me that there's
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: a superintendent that I'm somewhat impressed with. And there's a
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: number of reasons. I just can't think of them right
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: now as I watched over a period of time. Frankly,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: it's the superintendent of Jackson Milton Schools. I mean, how
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: the guy's running that operation and what he's doing for taxpayers,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: I think is extremely impressive. I have to, I mean,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: I've just watched it over the years, just what he does.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: And I find him somewhat refreshing from a superintendent standpoint.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: But when you're saying, government's got to realize there isn't
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: a lot more money out there. And people got to
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: realize two things. Let me lay this on you. People
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: have to realize things aren't free. Okay. I mean, it's
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: not free. And that's why I tell everybody, do not
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: save your property tax dollars for your police, fire, and
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: road departments. Those are the services that are most vital
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: to you. Do not, I will not vote for the
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: MRDD levy. I'll tell you again, they got so much money,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: it's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous how much money they have.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: And to put a tax burden on you that they're
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: asking you to do, you should have your head examined. Absolutely.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 2: As I told you in the past, the library's got
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: more money than it knows what to do with from
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: their property tax, and WRTA has more money than it
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: knows what to do with from the sales tax they
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: get every year. The biggest problem those two entities have
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: is figuring out how to spend all this money each year,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: the library and the WRTA. Do not make the MRDD
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: another one of those that has more money than they
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: know what to do with, and you have less. I
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: sit here and I tell you all and I will
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: tell you this to you, that your compassionate government is
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: not going to be so compassionate when if you're a
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: senior citizen and one of you die and you can't
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: pay your property taxes and stay in your house, they're
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: going to tell you, get the hell out of here.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: out and if you and if both of you are
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: working and have good jobs and ai replaces one of
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: you so now only one of you is working and
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: the other person can't find a decent paying job because
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: of ai guess what your compassionate government's going to do
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: they're going to tell you to get the hell out
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: of your house So I'm trying to prevent that from
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: happening for you. Don't put more burden on your property taxes.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: Support your police, fire, and your road departments. Save. That's
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 2: where you might have to make sacrifices. Everything else, say no.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: Put it on the state to step up and deal
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: with these issues. Would you agree?
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 21: We're in an age of austerity. The government has to
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 21: accept it, too. Everybody's got to cut.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: Right, but we have to be smart about it in
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: the following sense. And frankly, I'm going to tell all
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: of you, I enjoy talking to this guy. And here's why.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: Because I can say to him, I agree with you
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: when it comes to austerity. But one thing is for certain.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: We need enough cops to respond to crime. You follow me?
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: And problems. We need enough firefighters to come and put
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: your house out if it's on fire. And we need
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: ambulances to show up if you got a.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: Medical emergency. So there's some areas where we can't have austerity.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: We've got to have enough guys to deal with your
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: road department. Those are services that you can't really cut.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: You've got to make sure they're efficient, but you have
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: enough people to deal with it. Now, the rest of
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: these organizations, the school system's out of control, MRDD's out
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: of control, all of this stuff. I agree with you
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: on that sense.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 21: Well, Yeah, I live on a farm in Appalachia, and
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 21: I agree in principle with your saying, but a lot
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 21: of that we take care of ourselves.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: But it don't work that way, and you know it
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: don't work that way.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 21: Well, the volunteer fire department came around to me asking
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 21: for money. I said, hey, if I please, Burns, can
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 21: you help me out? Your driveway's too inaccessible. We can't,
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 21: we won't, yeah, there's nothing we can do for you.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 21: I'm not going to donate to them.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, guys.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, but here's the reality. You can't have a volunteer
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: fire department in Austintown and in Boardman. I mean, in
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: many cases, they're responding out where you have volunteer fire
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 2: departments faster than the volunteers can get there. Volunteer fire
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: departments are hard to operate these days because so many
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: people don't work that close and can't get there in
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: time and respond to the calls. It's just, it looks
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: good on paper, but it's not realistic. Right.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 3: That's very true.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: And is it worth your life or your wife's life?
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are reasons why we have fire departments,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: and there are reasons why we have ambulances and cops.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't take things into my own hands. No,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: you need a cop, somebody that has the sworn duty
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 2: and authority to deal with these problems.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 21: Well, that's just a tradeoff you make for living in.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: The country, honestly.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with that. Country's a good place to be.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: All right. Thank you. That's all I ask people to
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: give consideration to. That's why I say to you, and
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: I'm sincere, I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican,
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: do not, do not vote for any of these additional
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: levies outside of police, fire, and that kind of stuff.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: I am genuinely concerned for each and every one of you.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: And I'm saying it to you again. I see it
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: on a regular basis. I get emails to people on
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: Social Security. They're making it happen. One of them dies,
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 2: their household income's cut in half, and it is a
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 2: case of how do I stay in the house that
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: I've been in all my life where I want to die?
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: And the answer is you're taxed out of your own home.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: This is utter insanity when this kind of stuff happens.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: What is my property taxes? 400-something dollars a month. So
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: do I own my home?
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: Now, I understand a lot of that's I don't object
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: to what goes to my police departments or my fire
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: department and ambulances or my road departments. The rest of it,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: I'm tapping the brakes on all of that because I
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: see the waste. I mean, WRTA has got to figure
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: out how do we spend all this money every year.
• 1:52:55
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• 1:53:06
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  Speaker 2: I always use that example, and I use that example
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: a lot because that's the reality that you see. And
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: I'm genuinely concerned. I mean, as I look at some
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: of these trends with A.I., And as I look at them,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: and you're not going to fight the technology. It's going
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: to replace a lot of people in what they call
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: white-collar jobs that are making a decent buck. They're going
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: to lose those jobs. And Joe Kovach, Rockport's truth investing program,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 2: he was talking to me. He says he's starting to
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: see that in some areas. And people are having a
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 2: difficult time finding a job that pays somewhat close to
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: what they were making. And don't put yourself under a
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: financial burden tax-wise where you can't pay the taxes. And
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: the next thing you know, they're saying, you've got to go.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: And you say, but wait a minute. I own this
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: house or I paid for 10 years or what. None
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: of it matters. None of that matters. That's why I
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 2: say sign that, you know, Denise DeFabio and Becky and
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: all these people that are the key for that petition
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: to happen. just to give you a chance to get
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: a constitutional amendment on about property taxes. Sign it so
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: you get a chance to vote on it. You've got
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: to stop letting governments screw you and try to slip
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 2: these things past and take more of your money. I
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: don't know how much more of your money they can take.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 2: We are making it more difficult for young people to
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: buy a house, for people to stay in their homes,
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: and for senior citizens to. It can and it will
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: affect you. And I'll be the first to say a
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: lot of people abuse the services. I mean, how many
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: people call for an ambulance that really don't need an ambulance?
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, we don't have enough ambulances to cater to
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Or you call the cops for
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: something that really isn't a police issue. For some of
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 2: these ridiculous things. Boardman has their hands full. Austintown has
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 2: their hands full. All the smaller departments, they have their
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 2: hands full, too, because they have less of a staff
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 2: and one or two officers answering all the calls. You're
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: on the air.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 19: Ron.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking. Hey. Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Real quick, three things I'm not.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 3: Doing leads, but.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: What am I, like an afterthought? Oh, I'm out doing leaves, Ron,
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to pause for just a second.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 19: Hey, I've been waiting online.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 20: I listened to Dave.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 9: It was a wonderful show. Everything good.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 9: Have I, have I stroked you enough?
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 2: I'm not looking for that. I just, sometimes you're the
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 2: guru of Gerard. You can't, you know, you got it.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 19: Well, he's got to do his leave, man.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 9: That's beautiful yard.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 3: But, uh, what a great day.
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: What a great day it is out there, isn't it?
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: It's gorgeous, isn't it? Yes.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 3: Now, I need to know something.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 9: Vivek must have been listening to your show today. And
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 9: I've got to tell you this. You know I have
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 9: respect for you, but I kind of lose when you're
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 9: trying to push Vivek, but you don't have enough respect
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 9: for him to pronounce his name correctly.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 5: Vivek.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 2: I say Vivek.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 3: No, you don't.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 9: You say Vivek.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: No, I don't. A million times.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, man, I'm.
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 19: Playing the tape on you later.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 9: I'm going to do it. I'm going to play the
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 9: tape on you later.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 2: Listen, listen, listen. Okay, if I say it wrong, but
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 2: I know it's Vivek, and I say it, and I
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: learned that from Alec. Alec taught me that. So if
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: I blow it once in a while, you know who
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 2: I mean. And you know who I'm going to vote for.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 9: I know, but I'm saying you've got to get it
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 9: so people kind of don't think of them, like, wrong.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 9: It's like, you know, they call Vienna, Vienna here, right? Like,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 9: it's like, you know, there's pronunciations in Europe, and we
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 9: should respect that.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, but wait a second.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, legally, legally, you would be Michael, but what do
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 2: I call you?
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but I don't.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 3: My name is Mikael. Mikael.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 2: No, I call you Miguel.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 9: He's telling you his name is Vivek.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 2: I call you Miguel. Do I not?
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 3: Miguel.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: And legally, your name is Michael. So I'm not treating
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: you any different than I do Vivek.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 2: And guess what? In Spanish, buenas noches, senor. I took it.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 2: My name is Ronaldo.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 3: Si.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's the same in Italian. But I'm not in Italy.
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: But you're the guru of Gerard.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know. All right, so the second thing. By
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 9: the way, I sent you a link that I wish
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 9: you'd forward over to Dave Johnson. It's that thing I
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 9: did for Columbia.
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  Speaker 2: No, I've got to do my headlines. Just put your
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: leaves on hold. Bear with me.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 3: I've got to come back. All righty.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: Geez, he's demanding. He is demanding.
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  Speaker 3: Have you heard the.
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  Speaker 16: A busy weekend for Trump on the stump.
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is on the stump.
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  Speaker 16: We have seen this movie before.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we've really turned it around. Representative Ilhan
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• 1:58:25
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  Speaker 2: She must immediately resign from Congress.
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  Speaker 9: The fear and intimidation doesn't work on me.
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  Speaker 2: 65 degrees, Tuesday, October 27th. I better get right back
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  Speaker 2: to the Guru chart. He's paused because he's doing leaves, folks,
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  Speaker 9: I just took a break, Ron. I just finished up
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  Speaker 9: right on your commercial.
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  Speaker 19: You know the other thing you weren't hitting?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're doing a good job.
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  Speaker 9: Hitting a lot of things. But the one thing you've
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  Speaker 9: got to keep hitting, I think Alec would agree with this.
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  Speaker 3: Is the debt.
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  Speaker 9: They've got to stop. That's affecting it every bit as
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  Speaker 9: much as property taxes. That's what's making it go up, too.
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  Speaker 9: The value of the dollar is just slowly, every year,
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 9: losing value. They're just stealing from you.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 3: Every year, every day.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 9: And no one says anything about it.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 3: It just keeps happening.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this, and I agree with that.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 2: Inflation is a huge problem. I mean, if you take
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 2: a look at what a police car costs now versus
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: a few years ago, not that long ago, you take
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 2: a look at a fire truck versus a couple years ago,
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: the price increase is dramatic on what the equipment is saying,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 2: or the cost of benefits for your employees. All of
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 2: this stuff is dramatic, and that is a result of
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 2: this inflation that's going on. But that government policy of
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: printing money like Biden did and handing it out, supply
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 2: and demand, right, Michael? The more dollars you print, the
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 2: less value the existing ones have.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 3: You said one thing wrong, sir, okay?
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 9: Because that's where you're missing it. Sure, Biden did it,
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 9: but so did Trump.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 3: So did Obama. So did Bush, okay? So did all
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 3: both parties.
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 9: They all do it because they're all making money off us.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 9: It comes back to them in a circle. It's the
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 9: most corrupt thing ever, and nobody says anything about it.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 9: It's the biggest tax you'll ever pay, and people do
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 9: not say anything about it. They just keep taking it
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 9: and arguing about who's spending more money, right?
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 2: It's crazy, man.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 4: And.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 2: Listen, I don't know anybody's income that's keeping up to it.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 2: And I understand, as I said the other day, all
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 2: the restaurants are busy. 224 is busy. People are out
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 2: and about. But there's no way you'll ever convince me
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: that their household incomes are this much. And if you're
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 2: paying more for electric and gas and... groceries and all
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 2: and all this stuff medical care you name it you
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 2: got to cut somewhere or you just go further in
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 2: debt and and that's the reality of families that are
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 2: out there it's there's an illusion effect or a lot
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 2: of people are in debt up to their eyeballs what
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 2: do you say.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 9: Yep yeah i mean you just you got it it's
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 9: it's a problem i don't care what party you're from
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 9: you know if you're not talking that i it's hard
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 9: to vote for any of you okay because it's not
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 9: going to solve any problem. All these other things you're
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 9: talking about are not going to solve any problem if
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 9: you don't bug the dam, okay? Because it's just flowing.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 3: One more thing, Ron.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 9: We were talking about AI yesterday and everything, and I've
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 9: been busy doing this voting stuff, and I hadn't been
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 9: watching my emails. I've got to tell you something. All
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 9: this stuff I'm finally doing and improving my skills, and
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 9: I told you a lot of people won't do, but
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 9: I had like six legitimate reach out, like job leads
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 9: in the last 24 hours. So that's not happened since,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: Well, do you think there's a possibility that I'm good
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 2: luck for you?
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 9: Sure, but it is more, no one really, they're not
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 9: listening to your show, the kind of people that are
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 9: hiring me. But no, I'm just saying like, you know,
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 9: I've been retooling and retooling, retooling, you know, And now
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 9: I'm teaching retooling and, like, you know, just living in, like,
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 9: I'm working for free so much over this last year
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 9: that finally, because I know that's how you got to
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 9: do it, technology.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 9: You got to improve your own skills.
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 2: How old are you now? 63.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 2: So at what age are you going to take Social Security,
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 2: or did you already?
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 9: I'd like to at about 80. That'd be great.
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 2: No, that's stupid. I mean, because I'm going to tell you,
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 2: you've had.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 9: Okay, at what age can I still make a million
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 9: dollars a year and get my benefits?
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to tell you something. You shouldn't take
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 2: it before 65, but you could take it at 67.
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 2: If you take it at your full retirement age of 67...
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 2: You can then make as much as you want to
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 2: make without a penalty. If you take it at 66,
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 2: one year before you reach your full retirement age, you
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 2: can make like $ 65, 000. If you go over that, then
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 2: they penalize you $ 1 for every $ 3 you go over.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 2: So the penalty changes automatically. Instead of one for two,
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 2: it changes one to three, and then the amount goes
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: up to like $ 65, 000. So you can weigh it. What
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 2: time should you take it? Either you should take it
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 2: when you turn 66 or you should take it when
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 2: you turn 67. Now, I'm saying this to you, and
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to screw around with you. You've had
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 2: part of a lung removed because of cancer, and you smoked,
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 2: so you've had your share of health problems. So don't
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 2: jack me around with taking it at 80. Who knows
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 2: if you're going to be around at 80 is what
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 9: Ron, I don't care. Okay, so Ron, 67, fine. Whatever
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 9: age that I could keep building money.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 19: Because you know what?
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 9: I don't really want to completely retire. I don't know
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 9: whether I want to work full-time all the time. I'm
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 9: not sure yet, but I don't want to retire. I
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 9: just love doing it. I've been working since I was
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 9: seven years old. I'm kidding you not. I cut every
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 9: baseball field in Girard. and lawns and stuff when I
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 9: was like eight or nine years old. And I've been
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 9: working ever since. And I just don't know anything different,
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 9: and I don't feel right unless I'm doing it. And
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 9: so that's what I'm going to do until I can't
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 9: do it anymore because then they'll tell me. Then I'll
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 9: sit there and I'll say, you know, hey, yeah. And also,
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 9: the trophy wife who just came home in a really
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 9: nice yellow windbreaker, looks really nice, she still wants her
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 9: house up on the lake. And I'm almost there.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 2: On Lake Erie?
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 2: Well, why does she want a house up there? First
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 2: of all, it's pretty.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 9: She wants to sit and drink her coffee when she's
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 9: older and look out at the lake.
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, why don't you get her a house in
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 2: Florida that she can enjoy in the wintertime? where you
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 2: can escape the snow and the cold weather. I'll tell
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 2: you what my brothers say.
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 10: I'll tell you why.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 2: No, I'm an aunt. I'm not done yet with you. Okay,
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: you know, both of my brothers live in Florida. Okay,
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 2: so I have two older brothers, and they've lived there
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: for quite some time. And they say.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 2: If you look, people, if you live in Florida, you
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 2: will live longer. And they say because the sunshine makes
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: a difference and you're more active year-round in Florida. In
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 2: the wintertime, you're not sitting in your house or you
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 2: don't go out because of the snow or ice or whatever.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 2: That you live longer and it's just– more enjoyable place
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 2: to be. You know, all I'm saying is I'm suggesting
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 2: for you, perhaps your wife would enjoy Florida more than,
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 2: than she would sitting at Lake Erie. I mean, I'm just,
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't get that.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 9: Ron.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 19: Okay.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 9: So the reason I married her is she is everything
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 9: about family. Pretty much like I am.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 9: Well, she's never going anywhere that her parents aren't there
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 9: and her kids aren't there.
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 3: End of story.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 9: So, I answered your question.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. You know what? I think I've had just about
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 2: enough of you for one day.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 19: Right.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 9: Too much reality, my friend.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 3: I enjoy you.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 3: Take care of yourself.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 2: Shadaru of Girard, you're on the air.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron. It's Andrew. How you doing?
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 2: Andrew, Andrew, Andrew. I'm doing well. Andrew Smith, the world's
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 2: greatest CPA. How are you, my friend?
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 3: It's been a while.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 30: I think I'm going to talk to you tomorrow. We're
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 30: going to be on the financial show. We'll go ahead
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 30: and talk to you about some finance. But I called
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 30: about the election.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 30: Because, you know, I was talking, listening to the show.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 30: I've been listening a lot. And, you know, I have
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 30: to say, when it comes to Amy Acton and when
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 30: it comes to Vivek Ramaswamy, sorry if I butchered his name.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 30: You know, we would be remiss if we were to
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 30: go backwards over the last 16 years of progress we've
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 30: had here in Ohio and to bring in someone like
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 30: Amy Acton. You know, we're the number one state in
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 30: the union right now for business. That did not happen
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 30: by accident. That happened because we had good Republican governors,
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 30: whether they've been good or bad in some ways, but, man,
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 30: they've been good on business. We've had Kasich, and we've
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 30: had DeWine, and they've been very, very good with business,
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 30: and we became the best state in the union for business.
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 30: And they got rid of the inheritance tax, which is huge.
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 30: I do a lot of taxes for a lot of
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 30: people in Pennsylvania. Do you know how high.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 3: Their inheritance tax is over there? No. It's terrible.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 30: Heaven forbid you leave your estate to your children, or
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 30: God forbid you leave it to a friend who's a
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 30: non-blood relative, you'll pay upwards of over 10% in estate
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 30: tax based on the value of your assets when you die.
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 30: That's ridiculous. The state of Ohio does not have an
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 30: inheritance tax because they eliminate it under Kasich. If you
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 30: want to go back to that type of tax law
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 30: here in Ohio, and if you want to go backwards
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 30: in time 16 years before now where we're at the
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 30: top of the heap now, fine. Go ahead and vote
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 30: for Amy Acton. But I have to say, I don't
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 30: want to go back. And quite frankly, if she wins,
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 30: I might move out. There's other states out there. But, man,
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 30: we are one of the best in the Midwest. And
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 30: we look a gift horse in the mouth with how
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 30: good we've had it from a business standpoint. And we
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 30: have everything going for us here. We've got good economics.
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 30: We have a really good place to do business. We
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 30: have four beautiful seasons. I know we have to deal
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 30: with wintertime, but other than that, it's beautiful out here.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 30: And we have a lot of water. And we're where
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 30: the data centers want to be. Why would we ruin
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 30: that by bringing in this unknown individual who wants to
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 30: go backwards in time? I don't like it one bit.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 30: I encourage people to vote intelligently here and not go
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 30: back in time to under the– basically before Kasich when
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 30: we had to deal with Ted Strickland. Those were not
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 30: good times.
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 2: A lot of times they would call out Andrew Death taxes,
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 2: and it particularly affected a lot of people with family
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 2: farms where they couldn't keep the farm and the family.
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 3: Accurate?
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 30: Well, that's accurate because before, as it is, we already
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 30: have a pretty pernicious estate tax on the Fed, which
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 30: has gotten better at least under Trump because the estate.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 3: Tax exemption is.
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 30: $ 16 million plus per person. So that's become less of
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 30: an issue. But the state of Ohio used to have
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 30: any estate that was worth more than $ 333, 000, I believe
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 30: it was, would be subject to a state of Ohio
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 30: inheritance tax, and that's a debt tax. So in other words,
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 30: these farmers would die, their estate was worth like $ 2
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 30: or $ 3 million, and they had to sell land just
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 30: to pay the tax. And that was a problem on
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 30: the state side, and that was a problem on the
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 30: federal side. The state fixed it here in the state
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 30: of Ohio, and the Fed has really made it less
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 30: of an issue because they raised the cap to a
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 30: very high amount. And I don't want to go back
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 30: to those times where people had to sell their farms
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 30: just to.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 3: Pay the tax.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: Talking with Andrew Smith, CPA. And could you, to catch
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 2: you on the fly here, could you talk a little
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: bit about people on how they benefited from what Trump
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 2: did as far as no tax on overtime, no tax
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 2: on tips, a bigger deduction for Social Security and the
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 2: Trump tax cuts off the top of your head? Could
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: you tell people, everybody, Americans, it doesn't matter if you're
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 2: a Democrat or Republican, what those things did as far
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 2: as you're keeping your money?
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 30: I mean, prior to 2018, under Trump's first term, when
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 30: he brought in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 30: had very low standard deductions for people. We had very
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 30: high tax brackets for various income levels. And he fixed
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 30: that with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, not to
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 30: mention all the business items that we got. We have
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 30: a lot of write-offs for businesses now where we can
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 30: take a heavy depreciation on things. We pay a lot
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 30: less in taxes across the board. And then he re-upped
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 30: it under the big, beautiful bill where he made it
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 30: permanent on a lot of these things, and he re-upped it.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 30: And now we all save many thousands of dollars every year,
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 30: whether you are an individual or whether you're a business owner.
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 30: you're saving money under those tax laws. And I think
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 30: the issue is we have very short memories. We forget
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 30: what it was like under the Obama administration, under the
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 30: old tax laws. When we had to pay higher taxes
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 30: on our income, when we had lower standard deductions and
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 30: the businesses were really suffering with higher tax brackets, we
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 30: forgot what that was like. And then we got this
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 30: great tax boom here under Trump. More money came into
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 30: the Treasury. We all paid less taxes, and the economy
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 30: started booming. And now what are we going to do,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 30: go back in time and go back under Obama-era taxes?
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 30: It's not something I want to see for my clients
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 30: and for my business owners, and it's certainly not something
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 30: that we want to see as a state of Ohio.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 30: you know, with this upcoming election. So we'll see what happens.
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 2: When you look at what Trump did with the tax brackets,
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 2: everyone benefits because what he did with those tax brackets,
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 2: as far as the percentage you pay, because if you
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 2: make $ 300, 000 a year, you start off in the bottom
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 2: tax bracket, then you go to the next one, then
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 2: you go to the next one. But he made those
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 2: percentages less, right, in all of the brackets. Is that accurate?
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 19: All of them.
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 5: All of them.
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 30: What used to fall into the 32% tax bracket only
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 30: falls in a 24% tax bracket now. So it really
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 30: does make a big difference across the board. And then
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 30: with the big, beautiful bill, you are seeing no tax
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 30: on overtime for a lot of people. I've seen that
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 30: help a lot of our blue-collar workers. We're seeing no
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 30: tax on tips up to a certain amount. That's been
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 30: very good for our servers. And, you know, it's not
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 30: really no tax on Social Security, regardless of what he says.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 30: Sometimes he'll go out and say no tax on Social Security.
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 30: That's not quite true. However, he did give a senior deduction, though,
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 30: for people who make under a certain amount. They get
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 30: an extra $ 6, 000 or $ 12, 000 per year of deduction on
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 30: their standard deduction if they're married. And that has helped
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 30: alleviate the tax burden for our seniors. So at the
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 30: end of the day, it's all good. And if you
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 30: want to be taxed more, fine. You can vote for
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 30: the other side. But if you want to enjoy the
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 30: tax benefits we've received over the last several years, then
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 30: you really should keep the current power in place. Because
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 30: I don't want to go back to Ohio 16 years ago.
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 30: I really don't want to see that.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 3: It's not good for us.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 2: Isn't the goal where Trump wants you to be able
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 2: to keep more of your money, basically, by what he did?
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 2: He thinks that your money's best in your pockets. Agree?
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  Speaker 3: That's agreed. I agree with that. That's the point.
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  Speaker 30: You're better at spending your money than the government is.
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  Speaker 30: And I wish that both parties would be better at
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 30: being more statistically responsible. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 30: if you're going to pick the lesser of two evils,
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  Speaker 30: I'm going to pick the party that's going.
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  Speaker 9: To tax me less.
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  Speaker 3: And uh.
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  Speaker 30: is going to keep more my money in my pocket
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  Speaker 30: and that's that is not the party of amy acton
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  Speaker 30: that's not the party of sharon brown that can be
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  Speaker 30: the party of the other side and i have my
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 30: qualms of the republicans i'm not sitting here about cheerleader
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  Speaker 30: for the republicans all the time they have their own
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  Speaker 30: issues but i'm gonna pick the party that puts more
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 30: money in my pocket in my client pocket Because we're
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 30: better at spending our.
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  Speaker 3: Money than the government.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you this tomorrow on the Rockport
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 2: show when we record it. I'm going to ask you
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 2: this question. You explain to me how in the topsy-turvy
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 2: times that we're experiencing, why gold is going down. Usually
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 2: in topsy-turvy times, gold goes up, not down.
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  Speaker 3: Comment? Yeah. Yeah, that's huge.
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  Speaker 30: And the reason why precious metals in general are going
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 30: down is because yields are going up quite quickly and
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 30: inflation's going up. And what's going to end up happening
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 30: here is if the yields don't come under control, we're
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 30: going to see a downward pressure, not just on precious metals,
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 30: but on the stock market as a whole. And if
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 30: the Federal Reserve decides to lower rates in order to
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 30: spruce up the economy, you'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Precious metals go back up.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Andrew.
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  Speaker 3: See you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you tomorrow.
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 2: I tell you about that Joel Ross rants. It's a
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 2: paid-for service, and I get it on the QT. It's
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 2: kind of interesting. I'll have to read it to you
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 2: tomorrow when I have more time to cover all of that.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 2: I was just looking at that during the break, and
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 2: just some of it. The housing market is doing as
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 2: I forecasted and is crashing. It is the worst since 2001.
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  Speaker 2: Very little is selling until sellers of existing homes get
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 2: real and lower their price by 10% so they will
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 2: not sell home prices. are done rising in most of
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 2: the nation. They are declining. So if you are a seller,
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 2: either get real or don't sell. Your house is not
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 2: worth what you fantasize it's worth unless it is at
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 2: the very high ends of the great locations like Palm
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 2: Beach or the Hamptons. He says, I am not predicting
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 2: the outcome, but I don't believe the polls. They miss
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of voter groups and especially conservatives and retired people.
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 2: Don't be shocked if the GOP holds both houses. Now
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 2: we learn that one of the polls that helped push
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 2: Democrat socialist candidates was a fraud. It is not the
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 2: blue wave the media portrays. I mean, this is just
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 2: some of the stuff that he, I find this guy interesting.
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 2: It's called Ross's Rants. I find it stunning that the
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 2: Dems do not look at France and the crushing entitlements
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 2: and realize what they have wrought.
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 3: The U.S.
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 2: Is only moving ahead now due to data centers and
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 2: AI spending, but the massive federal debt is still hanging
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 2: out there waiting to turn into a crisis one day soon.
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 2: What is it that voters do not understand? Good question.
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 2: Is it on TV every day now? It just shows
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 2: how dumb so many voters really are and who fail,
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 2: who fall for the Dems are going to help the
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 2: little guy. That's BS. Do they think the rest of
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 2: us are just going to pay more taxes and smile?
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 2: It is clear that they do not connect France and
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 2: socialism the Dems are selling.
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 2: Let me squeeze this in, then we'll make way for
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity at 6. I think he's off this week
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 2: because he got married. Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 19: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Go ahead. Are you there, Ron? Yes, I am.
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 2: I am here. I am here. I don't know why
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 2: you don't hear me Try it again.
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  Speaker 23: All right.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 2: Not my fault, his.
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 2: We'll make way for Sean Hannity. That's coming up after
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 2: the break at 6. How about the ball game tonight?
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 2: I am going to miss baseball when it isn't around anymore.
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 2: But did you watch last night's World Series game? If
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 2: you haven't been watching it, you missed one spectacular game
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 2: last night. I mean, it was just exciting to watch
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 2: and just terrific to watch. Looking forward to, you know,
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 2: you got the Brewers. They got three under their belts.
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay sitting there with nothing. These are exciting times.
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 2: If you're not watching the World Series, I look forward
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 2: to it. And it's just a part of getting away
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 2: from politics and everything. You will enjoy it. Hey, Ron
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 2: Furt from the Kingdom of Mahoning. We wrap up. Stay tuned.
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 2: Hannity's after the news break at 6. right here from
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 2: NewsRadio 570 WKBN. We'll regroup and come back tomorrow at 3.
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 2: Thanks to Dave Johnson for being on with us, Gino
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 2: the Commissioner being on with us, George McKelvey, the former
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 2: mayor of Youngstown, and Andrew Smith, CPA.