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Monday 3pm hour 06/01/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by Taking a Walk Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what a great day we got going here, boys
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  Speaker 2: and girls. 306 Monday afternoon. We're sitting with 75 degrees.
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  Speaker 2: Just perfect weather for this time of the year. Comfortable
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  Speaker 2: as far as the temperature is concerned. The sun is shining.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have any rain. And it's just a glorious Monday.
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  Speaker 2: a hold of us here on NewsRadio 570. Hello? Hello there.
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  Speaker 2: May I help you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I'd like to order a pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Extra pepperoni.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Now, do you want to New York style or...
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  Speaker 2: I'd love a deep.
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  Speaker 5: Dish, if you guys say. A deep dish would be
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  Speaker 5: quite nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Normally I like.
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  Speaker 5: The thin crust, but I'll go with the, if you
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  Speaker 5: suggest the deep dish.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'll get that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. And it's a guy like you better double
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  Speaker 2: up on the pepperoni. Anyway. Welcome to Monday. It's JJ,
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  Speaker 2: the liberal. It was terrific. I mean, you just had
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  Speaker 2: spectacular weather. I mean, when you get a day like today,
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  Speaker 2: how can you have a bad day?
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  Speaker 5: No, you can't. I thought about you this weekend, and
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  Speaker 5: my wife thinks very highly of you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's good to hear.
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  Speaker 5: You know that I do as well, but we just
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  Speaker 5: talked about you.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on over there?
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  Speaker 5: This valley and people that are living here.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You should be proud of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on in that Cornersburg area? What's going on
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  Speaker 2: at that Cornersburg Sparkle over there, the shelves?
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you, that is my favorite bakery. They got
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  Speaker 5: the best donuts and the best cakes. Actually, right up
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  Speaker 5: the street from me where the old Rite Aid used
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  Speaker 5: to be, they're going to put a Speedway, I think, in.
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  Speaker 2: No, a Sheetz, I was told.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're not all happy about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's a beautiful building, and they're just going
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  Speaker 2: to tear it down and put... We tear so much
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  Speaker 2: stuff down, but I guess that's it. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: put a guest.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a big business. Of course, it's right down
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  Speaker 5: the street, so we're worried about a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: the traffic. But nonetheless, that's kind of just boring about nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, everybody keeps talking. Well, not everybody.
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  Speaker 2: People in the area keep talking about how there's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff on the shelves at the Sparkle
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  Speaker 2: in Cornersburg anymore these days. And it's very.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not interrupting my friend. I went there this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I tried to get there as soon as I can
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  Speaker 5: to get the donuts, and I unfortunately wasn't. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: get there until about 10, 10, 30, and I walked
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  Speaker 5: down where you walk in, you go straight in, you
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  Speaker 5: get the pop, and the pay distance is up, and
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  Speaker 5: it was... I thought somebody robbed the place.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 7: It was.
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  Speaker 5: You know, and I just kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of shook my head, and I was like, it's... Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's why people always make all this speculation.
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  Speaker 2: Is this place going to stay open or not? Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's why they're asking the question, because... There's so many
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  Speaker 2: shelves that don't have anything on it anymore.
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  Speaker 5: It would be a shame, because especially with the, at
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  Speaker 5: least in my case, the bakery, you know, it was
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  Speaker 5: something that I... I know you love the bakery, Fatso, but.
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  Speaker 2: But, hey, let's be realistic. It's also competition in the business.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's only so much money to go around.
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  Speaker 2: And you open a big, beautiful store like the Meyers
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  Speaker 2: store over there on Moaning Avenue. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 2: great store. I love going there when my wife says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I've got to go to Meyers. I'm the first guy
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  Speaker 2: to jump up and say, I'll go with you. Then
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  Speaker 2: she gets this grimace look on her face.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. You're like jumping up and down, ready to go.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, so it's, I, I enjoy going to the Myers, uh, Meyer,
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  Speaker 2: I should say a grocery store, but, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm sure that is, that has affected, uh, giant Eagle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that's affected sparkle and all the rest of them.
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  Speaker 4: No more mom-and-pop stores anymore, Ron.
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  Speaker 5: It's a real shame that that's gone by the wayside.
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  Speaker 2: Did you happen to see, just as a side note,
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  Speaker 2: that Rooney Brothers said that they were no longer going
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  Speaker 2: to be closed on Sunday, that they were now going
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  Speaker 2: to be open on Sundays?
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The one right down the street from me?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. On Kirk Road. And again, they're going to. They
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  Speaker 2: would always be closed on Sunday, which is kind of
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  Speaker 2: strange because a lot of people could do shopping on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday for groceries and that kind of stuff. So they
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  Speaker 2: announced that they would be open on Sundays and would
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  Speaker 2: be closed on holidays. So now they'll be open all
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  Speaker 2: the time. In that business, you have to be. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to be open when people– usually people do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of shopping on the weekends. And if you're closed
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday, you're just kind of conceding everything if you
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  Speaker 2: want to– Stay viable. You have to be open on
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  Speaker 2: a Sunday. So they announced that they were going to
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  Speaker 2: be open on Sunday. This is all a grocery gossip
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  Speaker 2: that I have just in my world. Why are the
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  Speaker 2: shelves empty at the Cornersburg Sparkle? Rulie Brothers is going
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  Speaker 2: to be open Sunday, and Ron loves Meyer. There you go.
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  Speaker 5: How's that?
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  Speaker 4: I love my bakery. I'm hoping that they stick around
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  Speaker 4: because it's nice to have them over there. I like
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  Speaker 4: the people there. As I've lived over here, I've met
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  Speaker 4: and talked to them all the time, and they're just
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  Speaker 4: good people, and I want to see them have their jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Progress marches on. It's like Rite Aid. They build all
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  Speaker 2: those stores, and they close down. But in essence, what
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  Speaker 2: put them out of business was that settlement. where they
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  Speaker 2: suit all the drug stores for filling prescriptions for opioids,
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  Speaker 2: opiates and Oxycontin and that kind of stuff. It's like
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  Speaker 2: if I came into a drugstore with a prescription, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, bring it in. They just email it now,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, to your pharmacist and they didn't fill it.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be saying, what the hell? What's this all about?
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  Speaker 2: You're the pharmacist. Here's the prescription. Fill it. See you later.
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  Speaker 2: And that's pretty much what they do. And this idea
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  Speaker 2: that they sue the pharmacy because they filled some of
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  Speaker 2: these prescriptions that were issued by doctors is just lunacy. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: they say that's what put Rite Aid out of business.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I remember, Rich, a couple months ago,
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  Speaker 4: more than a couple months ago, I remember him talking
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  Speaker 4: about that. And that's, again, it's, you know, people, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they got to, you know, I don't want to really
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  Speaker 4: go there and that, but I, but no, when did that?
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  Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute. Now, whose word are you going
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  Speaker 2: to take on the right? I think mine or Rich,
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  Speaker 2: the pharmacist.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm taking yours. I'm always picking you first, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I would reconsider that one.
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  Speaker 4: They're smart. I've listened to Ted, especially Ted the Conservative, recently,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm very impressed with him. He's a good guy.
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  Speaker 4: I like him. Ted the Conservative?
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  Speaker 2: Ted the Conservative is a really good... Listen, I enjoy
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  Speaker 2: talking to Ted the Conservative. I enjoy his take on things.
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  Speaker 2: And just like I do, J.J., the liberal, who always
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  Speaker 2: starts the week off in a cheery note, J.J., as
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  Speaker 2: we review all of the.
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  Speaker 2: Incidentally, gang, I can also announce, since I'm covering all
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  Speaker 2: this retail stuff, they were cutting the grass at the
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  Speaker 2: Southern Park Mall, all right, because it was like a hayfield. Well,
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  Speaker 2: not a hayfield. It just was getting out of here.
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  Speaker 2: It got cut one time, and it had been a
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  Speaker 2: while since it was cut again, but they cut it to...
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  Speaker 2: They cut it again down at the mall, so it
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  Speaker 2: looks better for now. But I'm sure it's an expensive undertaking.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everybody gets paid, so if the mall doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have the money, they've got to say, okay, we can't
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  Speaker 2: do this every week. It's going to be every so often.
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  Speaker 2: and make the best of it. I mean, everybody says, well,
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  Speaker 2: they should be, uh, fixing the potholes in the parking lot.
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  Speaker 2: And I agree, but I don't know what the economics
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  Speaker 2: of them all are as far as.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 2: How much I used to do.
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  Speaker 4: A little till coating and stuff like that. And it's, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, especially with the oil, you know, it's oil
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  Speaker 4: based or, or, uh, You know, PetroBase there, and that's
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  Speaker 4: something right now I couldn't imagine. Even shield coating a
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  Speaker 4: driveway now where years ago it would be, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a driveway like mine, maybe $ 125 to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Now it probably goes about $ 250. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can do it yourself.
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  Speaker 4: But it's still going to go high.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Before you throw me off the air.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little bit, you know, I don't want to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, again, I'm impressed with you maintaining your support
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  Speaker 4: and still standing.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say it again. You give me the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I think this situation Trump got in in the Middle
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  Speaker 2: East with Iran is a gigantic mistake. Here's what one
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  Speaker 2: of the things I was doing over the weekend. I
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  Speaker 2: was reading these oil analysts and this Art Berman is
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  Speaker 2: the guy's name. These are people to understand. I learned
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  Speaker 2: more about oil than I've ever thought I would know.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there's light crude and there's
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  Speaker 2: heavy crude. Did you know that, JJ? And the refineries
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  Speaker 2: are set up. Diesel is made out of what's light
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  Speaker 2: oil and heavy oil. You need heavy oil for that,
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  Speaker 2: for diesel. Diesel comes from heavy crude, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: And you get heavy crude from the Middle East, right?
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  Speaker 2: You get it from Canada, like the tar sands and that.
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  Speaker 2: So you get heavy crude from Canada. You get it
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  Speaker 2: from the Middle East. And the refineries are all designed
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  Speaker 2: to deal with heavy crude, and that's how you make diesel.
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  Speaker 2: So you need heavy crude to make diesel and jet
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  Speaker 2: fuel because you need diesel for shipping. You need diesel
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  Speaker 2: for trucks and jet fuel, obviously. So that's what you
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  Speaker 2: need is heavy crude. Most of the oil that we
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  Speaker 2: get here, gang, in the United States, not most, I
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  Speaker 2: think all of it, is light crude. So the refineries
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  Speaker 2: aren't set up from.
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  Speaker 4: The places you said or it's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Light crude is coming from the United States. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is our refineries aren't set up for light crude and
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  Speaker 2: light crude is only good for really making gasoline for
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  Speaker 2: the most part. That's just that's. That's what it's good for.
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  Speaker 2: And the problem is a lot of refineries don't deal
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  Speaker 2: with light crude. We import– listen to this– six million barrels,
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  Speaker 2: I think, a day of oil from Canada. This idea
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  Speaker 2: that we're energy independent when it comes to oil is nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: We're not. We import a lot of oil, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of it from Canada and the Persian Gulf or the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East. Oil comes from that. And this Art Berman
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  Speaker 2: was saying– that he thinks.
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  Speaker 2: I read Curry on Friday. Remember on Friday's program, I
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  Speaker 2: read what that Curry said. This Berman says he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: believe you'll ever recover from this. Basically, he says.
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  Speaker 4: As far as the gas prices and everything.
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  Speaker 2: He says it's... Now, these guys are the oil experts.
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  Speaker 2: He said this is total bullcrap. This idea that you
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  Speaker 2: could turn a switch and everything's going to go back
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  Speaker 2: to normal, it is not. When you shut oil wells down...
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  Speaker 2: as they have to do.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Democrats too that did that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, you shut the oil well down. It's
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  Speaker 2: like turning the water off in your house. The guy said,
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  Speaker 2: so when you turn the water back on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: gurgles and blows air out of it.
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  Speaker 4: You're getting that much clear through there.
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  Speaker 2: He says, well, the same thing happens with oil because
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  Speaker 2: it's in the ground. Only it can take months for
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  Speaker 2: that to, to, to get going again. And sometimes it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't get going again. But anyway, the bottom line was,
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  Speaker 2: this guy was saying he thought you could see oil
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  Speaker 2: at $ 160 to $ 180 a barrel. This idea of $ 90
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  Speaker 2: a barrel oil is ridiculous. And so that's you're probably
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  Speaker 2: going to see high gas prices. And this is something
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  Speaker 2: that will not change like they're telling you in the
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  Speaker 2: blink of an eye when they get a resolution here,
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  Speaker 2: because too much of it is all messed up. The
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  Speaker 2: whole the whole oil sector production and shipping and everything.
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  Speaker 2: It's been damaged. And some of the damage it's done
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  Speaker 2: is messed up. I mean, he said it's just totally
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  Speaker 2: messed up, and it's just going to be crazy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: his prediction, J.J. See, I'm doing all this on a
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  Speaker 2: weekend when you're painting in the garage. His prediction is
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  Speaker 2: July will be a terrible month. July is when the
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  Speaker 2: crap will hit the fan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because when everybody wants to travel and they're going
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  Speaker 4: to race.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, it's not. We're tapping the oil reserves and
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  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. And he just says, in July,
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  Speaker 2: you'll see the beginnings of this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're also going to see those two footbridge, or
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  Speaker 4: the only one footbridge, because you'll be carrying me then, right?
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  Speaker 4: I'll be able to have to use that again.
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  Speaker 2: Biggie back ride, I'll be giving you. All right, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's good hearing your voice. Take care of yourself, pal.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Good talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 7: J.J.
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  Speaker 2: The liberal. I don't know. He kind of makes my day.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. But this is what that Art Berman
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  Speaker 2: was saying. And there's another guy, I think his name's Curry.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned him on Friday. These guys are like the
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  Speaker 2: big gurus, and they're all saying the same thing. This
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  Speaker 2: is unprecedented. The amount of damage done in the oil
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  Speaker 2: area in the Middle East and.
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  Speaker 2: Just like the types of oil. I mean, when you
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  Speaker 2: hear oil, you think, oh, oil. Oil is oil. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, basically, oil is like alcohol. You can say, well,
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  Speaker 2: alcohol is beer and alcohol is Jack Daniels. They're not
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  Speaker 2: the same, but we call them, they're all alcohol. And
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  Speaker 2: it's the same thing with oil. Well, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: have light crude, which is not the same as heavy crude.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where diesel comes from, as I said. And
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  Speaker 2: so that's what you really need because of trucks and
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  Speaker 2: shipping and jet fuel. And how much damage has been
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  Speaker 2: done in the Middle East and the wells, some of
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  Speaker 2: these wells being shut down. He says it's a nightmare
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to be one for quite some time.
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  Speaker 2: His comment was he doesn't think it will ever go
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  Speaker 2: back to how it was. That's how big a mistake
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  Speaker 2: he thinks this whole thing deal with Trump doing was.
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  Speaker 2: He says he doesn't think you'll ever go back to
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  Speaker 2: where it was. So I hope he's wrong. But these
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  Speaker 2: guys are the experts in the field. I mean, these
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  Speaker 2: are the big names in that field. There's four of them. Curry, Berman,
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  Speaker 2: and I forget the other two. And I haven't read
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  Speaker 2: enough from the other two yet to hear what they
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  Speaker 2: have to say about all this kind of stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: it is fascinating. And where there could actually be some
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  Speaker 2: oil shortages in July. How about that? Now you know
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  Speaker 2: what I remember off the top of my head. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have my notes in front of me. 321 in
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon. Ron Verb, News Radio 570, WDQN. You're on
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  Speaker 2: the air.
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  Speaker 7: Ron, what a load of crap. You are the worst
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  Speaker 7: student I ever had. That's not why I called you,
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  Speaker 7: but I'm calling you to tell you this. I told you.
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  Speaker 7: When we invaded Venezuela, they were talking about all this oil.
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  Speaker 7: I told you that was dirty oil down there. We
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  Speaker 7: don't have the refineries for it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, hang on. That's another thing. Venezuela does have
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  Speaker 2: some heavy crude there as well. That's a small part
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  Speaker 2: of heavy crude. The majority of oil in the United
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  Speaker 2: States we don't have refineries for. That is light crude.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by. Stand by, Emmanuel. He's upset with me. Manuel
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  Speaker 2: thinks I'm not a good student. We'll find out why
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  Speaker 2: right after this. And your fearless leader, Ron Furb from
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom of Mahoning here at 325 in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So this is the United States oil mainly
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  Speaker 2: is what they call light crude. So you can't get
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  Speaker 2: diesel from light crude.
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  Speaker 7: Ron, you missed the whole point. We don't have the
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  Speaker 7: refineries to handle that.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 7: It's not about the oil. It's about the refineries. But
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  Speaker 7: that's not why I called you. I called you to
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: give you risk to pharmacists, Ted the conservative.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: And a couple of, oh yeah, Boss Lady.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: And Bubba Ganuch.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: I want to give both y'all a quick pop quiz.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Two questions.
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: Yes. The first question is, If a Democrat found a
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: cure for cancer, would you support him?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Listen, I would support a Democrat if they were
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: doing a great job. It doesn't matter to me. I'm
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: an American first. And if you're doing a great and
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: outstanding job, I'm going to support you. And if you're
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: a lousy Republican, I'm not going to support you. How's
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: that sound? I mean, I'm looking for performance.
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: The second question for the class is this.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Attention, boys and girls. Emanuel now wants to address the
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: class with the second question.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: Especially the boss lady.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I hope she's listening. I hope she is, too.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: I'm sitting here watching a commercial. Yeah. And this lady
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: says that she was abused while she was growing up.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: And a politician... took money from the Epstein class, and
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: then voted for not to have the Epstein files released, right?
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: My question, especially to the boss lady, right? How can
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: you support somebody like that?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: How can you support somebody that doesn't release the Epstein files?
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, what's the guy? The guy's running for, what,
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: senator or something like that? The guy's running against Sherrod.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Brown, right? Oh, you can answer that question, Houston. Well, no,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: he took a campaign contribution, but he supposedly returned that
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: campaign contribution. I can answer that question. I will vote
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: for John Houston because Sherrod Brown is a lunatic. He's
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: a far-left... progressive liberal that sided with every wacky ass
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: thing that Joe Biden supported, like an open border, like
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: men can have babies and all this other nonsense. He
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: supported all of that. I won't vote for a lunatic
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: like that. I'll go with Houston. Sometimes it's a lesser
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: of two evils. And I'll vote for Houston in a
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: heartbeat than any of these wacky ass Democrats that you support.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: So you don't think— I'm telling you exactly what I think.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you that the Democrats with men can have babies.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: We've got to embrace this transgenderism nonsense. And we've got
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to have DEI and all the other ridiculous crap that
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: they spew. I will never support that ever. And Sherrod
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Brown believes in all of that. Sherrod Brown is a
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden clone, and I've had more than enough of
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden and anybody that supported that nonsense. That's what
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I'm saying to you.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: According to you guys, right?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: That's according to Ron. I gave you the world according
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: to Ron. Wait a minute.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I ain't done with you yet.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I'm done with you. I'll be right back.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Back to us at 336 here in the afternoon on
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: News Radio 570 WKBN. And Ron Verb, you're on air.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: So, remember the Karen Carpenter lady?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: We've only just begun. A kiss for luck and we're
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: on our way. That Karen Carpenter?
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess, probably. She sings a lot of Christmas songs,
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: I know that.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Rainy days and Mondays always bring me down.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: She doesn't sing much anymore.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Just like me, they long to be close to you.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: See, what happened was she had this problem in her head,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: and she thought she was fat.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: But she wasn't. And it was whatever, back in the 70s,
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: we didn't know much about anorexia, bulimia, all the mess
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: that goes with that. And the poor lady died. But
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: she thought something... But she was mistaken of what she thought.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: It's like the transgender people today, right? We would be
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: doing to them if we said, oh, okay, Billy, you're
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: really a girl? You think you're a girl? Okay, you're
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: a girl, right? It just doesn't work. It's just wrong.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: You're not helping the people by going on with their insanity, right?
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: The whole transgender issue is just, you know, I know
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: you say they're weirdos and it's bizarre, and it is.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: It's a mental illness, and you've got to put a
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: stop to it. But you were talking with the previous
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Democrat callers, and yeah, it's really hard to be on
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: that ship with the rest of the Democrats when you
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: know not only the people are just going along with
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: it because they're weirdos, and then the other ones are
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: grooming and molesting children. I don't know. I think Ron
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: would say that's not good. But even if your guy
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: doesn't do it, the guy that Your support does it, right?
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Sherrod Brown, if it's not him, it's Kamala Harris. Yes,
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: we should pay for men's abortions in jail, too. Okay? Okay,
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about. You're insane. But
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: the whole issue is just ridiculous and a non-starter. Right?
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: We're so divided in this country. Yes, because one party
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: believes in this, and it's wrong, and it's insane, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: the people are dealing with mental illness, and you're only
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: making it worse for them. You're pushing them down the
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: road that's probably going to lead to an early death.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: You're pushing surgery and drugs that are irreversible. Okay? Is
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: that good for a 15-year-old? Well, you don't let them
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: drive or buy cigarettes or vote. But, yeah, they can
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: say that they're a boy or a girl when they're
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: not and get the surgery. Super, super terrific. Sounds like
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: a great plan, Democrats. Appreciate it. Keep it up. You
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: wonder why people don't vote for you. And you wonder
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: why people talk about it because it's this big, giant
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: issue that's hurting people. Not only children, but adults, too, right?
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: The families, you're in the wrong place. You're in California,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: and take your kids away because Billy said he's now Katie.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: It's just wrong, and we can't do it. So another analogy,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: like the Karen Carpenter, let's use Ron's lovely and talented wife.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: They're going to their daughter's wedding, but Ron had to
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: leave early, so he drove his car and went there
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: and tied the bows on the back of the chairs
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: like the ladies do at the weddings and the venues
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: and such. And your wife was getting ready, so she
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: left later. She gets a flat tire. Oh, man, she's
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: all dressed to the nines. She's in makeup style and everything.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: It's 4 million degrees in Florida. You can't get out
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: and change a tire, right? And she calls Ron, and
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: she's like, oh, well, I'm just going to get the AAA.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: And Ron's like, oh, that AAA, I didn't get that
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: last year. It costs $ 25 a year. You can't spend
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: that kind of money. And she says, well, I'll just
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: let this nice citizen passing by. He said he'd offer
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: to change the tire. And Ron says, no, that's not happening.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: I really need you to change the tire. And she's like, well,
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: I get this can of fix-a-flat, and Ron says, no,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: you can't put fix-a-flat in a tire. You know what
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: they say? When you get back to the Flynn's Tire later,
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: you can't use that stuff. I think your wife is
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: like Donald Trump, okay? This whole Epstein thing, everyone in
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: the world was involved with it. Everyone.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Everyone.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: And, like, we're kind of at the end of it now, right?
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: There was Clinton, there was Bushes, there was Obamas, there
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: was Biden. Everybody's got their hand in it. And nobody
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: did nothing, but Ron wants to.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Only Trump can do this. Because even Ted last week
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: or whatever was like, Ron, why can't Thomas Massey go
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: and do this? Why can't Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: Go and do this?
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: No, no, no. What about Trump? And I'm like, dude,
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: your wife's all dressed up in a dress. Let somebody
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: else change the tire. And it doesn't matter. I just
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: want the tire fixed, right? I just want the tire fixed.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: I just want the Epstein thing fixed. But why can't
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Thomas Massey do it? He's the tough guy, you know,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: blowing up his chest and running around. NTG is running
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: around with the supposed victims. Can you take them to
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: a lawyer? Can you take them to the police station?
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Can you do something? Why does it run? My question
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: to you is, why does your wife have to change
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: the tire? Or why does Donald Trump have to be
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: the one to fix the Epstein thing? Why can't somebody
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: else do something?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Well, what do they say? The buck stops there?
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Was that Truman?
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I think that was Dan Ryan used to say that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Not in, but across from Eastwood Mall and Miles.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, there you go.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Who doesn't love Godson's furniture?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: God, you've got a good memory. Oh, Lord. But listen,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I don't care who it is. The Epstein files, all
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: of it should be released. And like I said, they
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: won't be because there's a two-tier system of justice, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: that's wrong.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: I'm saying why doesn't Thomas Massey get them a lawyer
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: and say, hey, we're putting a FOIA request on these files,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: whatever they might be. Because, again, just to remind everybody,
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: this happened under Clinton being president, under Bush being president,
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: under Jeb Bush being governor. Go to Obama. Go to
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Biden being vice president. All the attorney generals before. And
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: it took all the way to Donald J. Trump to
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: send Epstein to jail. And the other one's in jail, right?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Never was before. Here they are now. What did they
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: get before? Okay, you got home arrest, but it's not
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: really arrest, and you're not even getting a leg iron,
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: and you can come and go as you please. Wait, wait,
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: so you didn't give them anything before in 2007? He
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: can just do whatever he wants? And Trump's people sent
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: him to jail? Okay, sent him to prison? Same with
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: the Maxwell lady? They're in jail. He did more than
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: anybody else did. I'm asking, like Ted was trying to
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: get from you the other day, why can't MPG do it?
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Why can't Massey do it? They both quit.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: They both got out.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Massey wasn't suicidal. I kind of want suicide from Massey.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: But what I'm saying is do something now. If I
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: was the one, right, if it was Trump with the border,
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: good grief, if he came in and didn't do anything eventually,
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: which he did, and, you know, I'm looking at all
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: the things he's doing, and, you know, hey, can somebody
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: else pick up this ball and run with it? Obviously not. Obviously,
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: you don't want to. Obviously, I don't know, you're busy
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: doing something else. I just don't see why somebody else
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: can't do something. He's the only one that did anything.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I want him to do the things he's doing. I
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: want him to get those done. Those two people, one's dead,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: one's in jail. There's statute of limitations that have run out.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Not you, but these other blowhards, the MPG, pointed out
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: that the statute of limitations has run out, pointed out
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: that there's millions of dollars that have been paid out
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: from the Epstein estate to the victims. It's not like
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: nothing has happened. A lot has happened. If you want
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: to finish it, go ahead. But I don't need to
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: hear about you people anymore.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: It just, I don't get it. I don't get it.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: And I don't get, the only one I can ask
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: is you, because Thomas Massey's busy doing something. I mean,
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: not helping the victims, but he's probably doing something maybe.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: But Ron, why can't it be them? That would make
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: them better in my eyes.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Well, because there's one person who's president who really has
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: the power, who has the power over the attorney general,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: and is the president of the United States. The president
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: has way more power than a congressperson has. So the
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: presidents can order things and get things accomplished. I mean,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: a fair question would be, why didn't Joe Biden do it?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Why didn't... Trump do it. You could even go back
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: to Obama. I mean, if you take, I'll go back
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to this. Listen, with everything that you're just saying, Trump
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: reversed himself. And the bottom line is, I don't think
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you're ever going to find out the truth in this.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: And I'll say it again. This is really about the
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: victims here. The victims are the ones that deserve the justice.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: And this was an intelligence operation. Epstein was created. I
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: believe it has ties to Israel. And I don't know
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: who has all of the information that's holding it over
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: everybody's head to manipulate, whether that's politicians or influential or
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: rich business people. But however you want to stack this up,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: it was basically about having minor children, underage girls having
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: sex with grown adult men. And I don't know how
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: you stack that up other than to say that that's
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: just vile and disgusting that an intelligence community operation would
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: be involved in such a thing to begin with. It's
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: also disturbing that the so-called videotapes or whatever you call it, files,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: if you will, over who was involved in this, who
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: has that information? Because who's holding that power over people's
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: heads to say, unless you do this, we'll release this,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: whatever this video is? Or whatever. After all, look at Gates'
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: wife left him when he was involved with Epstein and
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: divorced him. And now Gates is finally, you read all
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: this crazy stuff, was trying to slip his wife some
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: drug for VD because he was afraid he was giving
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: her that. Now he claims, oh, I was just having
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: sex with prostitutes or whatever. I mean, it's just some
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: of this stuff is ridiculous. So, I mean, so you had,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: you have people who think they're above everything. They think that,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, the mentality of it to say they're going
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: to go have sex with a 14-year-old girl. The whole
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: thought of it is sickening. And the reality is, I
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: don't think you're going to see anybody held accountable for it.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: When Epstein was tried the first time, it was ridiculous
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: how he was treated. treated uh in in that situation
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: basically somehow.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: They not trump.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Right right this is before trump but uh obviously the
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: orders came down and from the high mountain the mountaintop
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: and they looked the other way on this stuff hell
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: he would come and go in jail as he pleases
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: the door was open was ridiculous when you saw how
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: he was sentenced i forget what year that was 2007. Yeah,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and everybody understood what was going on. And it went
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: on anyway. So everything should be released. The people that
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: are responsible for it, I don't care if they're Democrats, Republicans,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: rich or whatever they are, should be held accountable and
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But I'm
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: here to tell you this. None of that's going to happen.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: None of it's going to happen. And people will see
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: that the government has a two tier system of justice,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: that those people will get away with it. None of
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: that will ever happen. And they'll and they'll just wait
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: for it's. I mean, Trump did a reversal. They'll wait
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: for it to die down more. And it'll never come out.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: It just... Okay, but listen.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: So we didn't know about Crossfire Hurricane. We didn't know
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: that they were spying on a U.S. citizen, numerous U.S. citizens,
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: before Trump was elected, right? The whole Russia collusion thing.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: The whole Arctic.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Cross after that.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: The whole FBI going after traditional Catholics. Well... What people
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: did was filed FOIA requests, right? Freedom of information.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but who's actually gone to jail for any of that? See,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: this is where the frustration is with the American public,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: and justly so. All the stuff that you described. Well,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: who's paid a penalty for doing any of it? Where's
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: the justice? Where is the justice?
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: I agree 100% with you and anybody who thinks like that,
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: because we haven't seen action. Now, just now, in 2026,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: we saw a lady get sentenced to 40 years in
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: prison for the Minneapolis fraud, for the Minnesota fraud, right?
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: So there's something that happened. It's a glimmer of hope
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: for me. Not just for that, but.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: For the same Epstein thing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying there's other ways to get information.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Go.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: We'll be back. Browns News, Weather and Talk Station, 570 WKBN.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: And Ron Furb, you're on the air.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I don't care how much monetary compensation the Epstein victims
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: have received. Justice won't be served until the Zionists accused
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: of rape are put on trial, and if convicted, go
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: to prison for life. And Ron, I also have a
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: quiz for you. Do higher oil prices cause inflation?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: No, they don't.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, they do. And I'm going to tell you exactly
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: why they do. If you have the price of oil,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: which is used in plastics and so many other products,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: If you have the price of oil go up, that
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: cost is passed on to the product. If you don't
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: think they're inflationary, take a look at gasoline, take a
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: look at the products that come from it, and take
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: a look at shipping. It is inflationary.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Higher oil prices cause recession. Monetary inflation causes higher prices. Now,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I've been bullish on stocks for years because, Ron, every
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: year the demand for energy increases while the number of
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: new underground oil wells being discovered.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: All right, stand by. Back in a minute. Hang on, Frank.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Back with more. Ron Furb here tonight till 6.
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  Speaker 8: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. Iranian state media reporting
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  Speaker 8: that Iranian officials have stopped sending messages to the U.S.
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  Speaker 8: claiming Israel was violating the ceasefire with Lebanon. President Trump
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  Speaker 8: says he held separate calls with Israel's prime minister and
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  Speaker 8: Hezbollah mediators and both have agreed not to attack the other.
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  Speaker 8: So far, though, a deal to end the 14-week war
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  Speaker 8: between the U.S. and Iran is not gaining traction. ABC's
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  Speaker 8: Karen Travers says more.
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  Speaker 9: Some mixed messages from the president saying that he didn't
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  Speaker 9: care if the negotiations were off. The United States could
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  Speaker 9: then turn around and go silent on the Iranians. But
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  Speaker 9: now he is claiming that talks are moving forward quickly.
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  Speaker 9: I do think we need to caution here that the
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  Speaker 9: president in the past has also put out messages like
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  Speaker 9: this when we've seen oil prices spike on news that
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  Speaker 9: the talks were not going well, potentially as a way
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  Speaker 9: to try to throw some optimism in the conversation. But
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  Speaker 9: for now, the president says they're on. The Iranians have
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  Speaker 9: said they're off.
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  Speaker 8: The Justice Department issued a statement amid reports that the
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  Speaker 8: Trump administration is backing away from its $ 1. 8 billion anti-weaponization
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  Speaker 8: fund after a Virginia judge's ruling, saying that it will
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  Speaker 8: abide by a district judge's ruling that temporarily ordered the
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  Speaker 8: fund to be frozen amid litigation. An appellate court, meantime,
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  Speaker 8: weighing in on a key case centering on transgender military members.
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  Speaker 1: By a two-to-one vote, the D.C.-based appeals court panel ruled
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  Speaker 1: in favor of transgender service members. with the majority opinion
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  Speaker 1: finding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's transgender ban to be arbitrary
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  Speaker 1: and based on animus. But the decision does not grant
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  Speaker 1: relief to transgender people who hope to enlist, and it
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  Speaker 1: does not extend beyond the named plaintiffs in the case.
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  Speaker 1: Appeals Court Judge Justin Walker, a Trump appointee, dissented, saying
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  Speaker 1: questions of military readiness should not be decided by courts.
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  Speaker 8: ABC's Stephen Portnoy. In Laos, the race to rescue two
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  Speaker 8: remaining miners from flooded remote caves continues. Crews have located
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  Speaker 8: them but have yet to reach them. Five other miners
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  Speaker 8: were already rescued. You're listening to ABC News.