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Thursday 4pm hour 06/04/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: So here from manager Steven Vogt. But first, a look
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  Speaker 1: at the Northeast Ohio Ford dealers out-of-town scoreboard. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a smattering of play this afternoon in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: They have just gone final in Philadelphia, where the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: held off a late rally by the Padres and win
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  Speaker 1: it by a final score of 6-4. Adelise Garcia with
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  Speaker 1: a home run in that game. Other action. In the
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  Speaker 1: major leagues this afternoon, the Brewers with a home tilt
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  Speaker 1: against the Giants. San Francisco leading that game 6-3 in
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  Speaker 1: the top half of the sixth inning. Orioles are blasting
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox as they took apart Brian Baio in
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  Speaker 1: the first inning for six runs. It's 8-1 Baltimore, bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the eighth at Fenway Park. And that is it
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  Speaker 1: in terms of day baseball in the major leagues in
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  Speaker 1: addition to our game here. Stay with us. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: the highlights and manager Steven Vogt after a 2-1 New
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  Speaker 1: York victory over the Guardians. Welcome back to Guardians Wrap-Up
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  Speaker 1: following a 2-1 Yankees win, and it was Cleveland that
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  Speaker 1: took the lead in this game, their only run coming
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  Speaker 1: in the top half of the fourth inning. Jose Ramirez
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  Speaker 1: had led off the inning with a single. He stole
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  Speaker 1: second and advanced to third later in the inning. And
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  Speaker 1: that brought Stuart Fairchild to the plate looking for his
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  Speaker 1: first hit as a Guardian. And he was there with
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  Speaker 1: two down in the inning. Chance here for the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: to snap this scoreless tie. Two outs. Here's the pitch.
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  Speaker 1: And it's swung on.
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  Speaker 2: Lined.
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  Speaker 1: Left side. Base hit into left field. Scoring is Ramirez.
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  Speaker 1: And Stuart Fairchild on his first hit as a Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Guardian puts the Guardians in front.
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  Speaker 3: 1-0.
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  Speaker 1: But that was it offensively today for the Guardians. Slade
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  Speaker 1: Ciccone pitched well. He did allow a run in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom half of the fourth inning to tie it on
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  Speaker 1: a sack fly by Jazz Chisholm. And then in the
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  Speaker 1: seventh with reliever Cody Hoyer on, an RBI base hit
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  Speaker 1: with two down from Ryan McMahon proved to be the
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  Speaker 1: game winner as that brought in Chisholm from third base
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  Speaker 1: with a second run for New York on the day.
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  Speaker 1: And that was all they would need in a 2-1
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  Speaker 1: victory over Cleveland. Final line score for the Guardians, a
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  Speaker 1: run on two hits, no errors. Cleveland stranded five men.
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  Speaker 1: Two runs, five hits, no errors, and three men left
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  Speaker 1: on base for the Yankees. The winning pitcher, Brant Hedrick.
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  Speaker 1: He's now 4-1. David Bednar with save number 13. Cody
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  Speaker 1: Hoyer takes the loss, falling to 0-1. Time of today's game,
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  Speaker 1: two hours, 20 minutes. Paid crowd, 39,504 here at Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with us. We'll hear from manager Steven Vogt when
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  Speaker 1: we return.
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  Speaker 1: Guardians come up short today in the series finale by
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  Speaker 1: a final score of 2-1. Let's head downstairs and get
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  Speaker 1: the postgame thoughts of manager Stephen Vogt.
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  Speaker 7: Steven, what did you make of the job that Slade
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  Speaker 7: did here today?
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  Speaker 2: Slade was phenomenal. Six innings, one run. Did a great
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  Speaker 2: job keeping us in that game.
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  Speaker 8: We knew kind of going into it, it needed to
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  Speaker 8: be a low-scoring affair. I mean, Rodon was special over
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  Speaker 8: there as well, but I thought Slade threw the ball excellent,
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  Speaker 8: did his job, gave us six innings of one-run baseball.
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  Speaker 9: How about Stuart Fairchild getting his first hit as a
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  Speaker 9: guardian most of the time in.
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  Speaker 2: The first round? Yeah, I thought, you know, like we know,
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  Speaker 2: we knew Stu. You know, we saw him a little
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  Speaker 2: bit at spring training.
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  Speaker 8: He's been hit really well in Columbus and he's historically
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  Speaker 8: been really good off left-handed pitching so good to see
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  Speaker 8: him get his first hit obviously a big RBI there
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  Speaker 8: for us and yeah really exciting for Steve.
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  Speaker 10: Would you make the strategy with the three righties at
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  Speaker 10: the top given that it was the one that produced
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  Speaker 10: the route?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah I mean it's not the strategy necessarily it's just
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  Speaker 8: we want to put our best hitters up there at
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  Speaker 8: the top like always and obviously I don't know if
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  Speaker 8: there was a configuration today that would have led to
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  Speaker 8: more hits. I mean, Rodon was really good, got a
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  Speaker 8: lot of swing and miss against us, made pitches when
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  Speaker 8: he had to.
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  Speaker 1: Slade was using the cutter a lot today.
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  Speaker 5: He talked about how he was throwing a lot more confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the cutter was really good. I thought he changed
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  Speaker 2: shapes with it.
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  Speaker 8: He was able to throw it up, throw it down.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the curveball was really good today.
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  Speaker 8: I thought he threw a lot more curveballs than we've seen.
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  Speaker 8: He and Hedgie did a really nice job.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of the series? Yeah, anytime we
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  Speaker 2: win a series, we're happy.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously, we would have loved to have gotten a sweep today,
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  Speaker 8: and that was definitely a game we felt like we
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  Speaker 8: could win.
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  Speaker 2: We were in it the whole way.
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  Speaker 8: We hit some balls hard right at people. Just weren't
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  Speaker 8: able to get enough going to score more than the
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  Speaker 8: one run. But I'm really proud of the way our
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  Speaker 8: guys bounced back after a tough homestand. And now get
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  Speaker 8: on this fight and get ready.
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  Speaker 2: To go get Texas. What did you think of him?
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  Speaker 2: I thought Cody was pretty good.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously the walk hurt and then the stolen base wild
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  Speaker 8: pitch kind of got to him. But, I mean, really
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  Speaker 8: it was a walk and a seeing my single. So
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  Speaker 8: I thought Cody stepped up in a big spot facing
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  Speaker 8: the middle of their order on a day.
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  Speaker 2: Where we needed him to. And I thought he threw
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  Speaker 2: the ball really well.
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  Speaker 8: Just like I said, a walk to Chisholm and the
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  Speaker 8: stolen base kind of led to it.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought Cody.
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  Speaker 8: Threw the ball great.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it. Still a quality series for
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians. They take two out of three here in
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  Speaker 1: New York. And their record now heading into play tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: night will be 36-28. They remain atop the American League's
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  Speaker 1: Central Division. Yankees now, they pull to win in a
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  Speaker 1: half game of the first place Tampa Bay Rays with
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  Speaker 1: the win here today in the AL East. Next up
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  Speaker 1: for Cleveland, the Texas Rangers. Tomorrow night, 8-15 first pitch.
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  Speaker 1: Airtime for Guardians warm-up, 7-35. Until then, for Paul Schrager,
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  Speaker 1: our on-site engineer here in the booth, and Brian Motze
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  Speaker 1: back at Command Center, and, of course, Tom Hamilton, this
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  Speaker 1: is Jim Rosenhouse reminding you the final score from Yankee
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  Speaker 1: Stadium in New York, the New York Yankees 2, the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians 1. Have a good night, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: All right, from NewsRadio 570 to ODKBN, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: And Ron Furman, welcome. We'll be with you until 5,
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  Speaker 2: Legal Show at 5, as always on Thursdays. We look
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  Speaker 2: NewsRadio 570 to ODKBN. Dave Thomas should be under my lines.
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  Speaker 2: Hardest working state... Let me do the proper introduction, Dave,
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  Speaker 2: before you do that. It's okay, please. Hardest working state
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  Speaker 2: rep I've seen in 41 years who actually is a
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  Speaker 2: public servant working for the people. Here's Dave Thomas. Now
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  Speaker 2: the hey, Ron, please.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I tell you, just like we rehearsed it, Dave.
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  Speaker 2: Just like we rehearsed it. Okay. Can you– I would
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  Speaker 2: like you to talk about– and it is now getting
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  Speaker 2: some national attention on radio talk shows as well, the
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  Speaker 2: fraud in Ohio and what's, what, you know, what's the latest,
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  Speaker 2: is it the Somalian community? What's going on with that?
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  Speaker 2: Talk to our listeners. It's so irritating for me as
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  Speaker 2: a tax paying citizen here in Ohio. And I'm so
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  Speaker 2: frustrated with, uh, governor DeWine.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Um, handful of things here. So first next Wednesday, uh,
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  Speaker 10: We are having our final kind of session for this month.
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  Speaker 10: You will see us in session on Tuesday, Wednesday, possibly Monday.
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  Speaker 10: We'll be voting out. They've been having hearings every day
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  Speaker 10: this week compiling a huge Medicaid fraud bill. We will
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  Speaker 10: be voting on that, passing it. The question will be,
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  Speaker 10: how will the governor react? But you will see strong
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  Speaker 10: action happening. Wednesday, I can call and explain kind of
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  Speaker 10: what's in the bill. They're still compiling everything.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no. Take me slow on this. There's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a bill that you guys are introducing
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday?
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  Speaker 10: We're passing on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: All right, to the House. Then it would go to
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. Correct?
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  Speaker 10: Well, it'll actually be, and it's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 10: we're going to have two session days, and it will
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  Speaker 10: be probably a 2 or 3 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Session.
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  Speaker 10: It will be going back and forth between the chambers.
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  Speaker 10: There's already essentially kind of a joint agreement that we
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  Speaker 10: will take action on Medicaid fraud that day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so once the House passes it, it has to
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  Speaker 2: be passed by the Senate, does it not?
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  Speaker 10: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: All right, and then once that passes, is it a
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  Speaker 2: done deal?
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  Speaker 10: No. Then it has to go to the governor's office.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, see, how long is this going to take? Believe
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  Speaker 2: it or not, I have to do a commercial break
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  Speaker 2: just as we get started. Just bear with me. I
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  Speaker 2: want to take this slow and easy so we all
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  Speaker 2: understand it. Hardest working state rep. We're glad to have him.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Thomas, back in a minute. 570-WKBN. All right, back
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  Speaker 2: to it with Ron Ferber. Okay, so Dave Thomas, you
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  Speaker 2: guys put a bill together, and what will this bill do?
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  Speaker 10: So this bill, it's not currently finished, so I don't
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  Speaker 10: know exactly all the different mechanisms of it. It will
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  Speaker 10: be done and passed by the House, and the goal
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  Speaker 10: is actually to have it also passed by the Senate
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  Speaker 10: by Wednesday. The base of the bill... essentially kind of
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  Speaker 10: looks at what went wrong with some of the fraud side.
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  Speaker 10: So providers not having a follow-up with, you know, making
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  Speaker 10: sure that they're actually going to the houses, um, providers
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  Speaker 10: doing services without prior authorization, um, oversight of huge anomalies,
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  Speaker 10: which has happened in Franklin County, where certain zip codes
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  Speaker 10: have far outlandishly high, um, rates of Medicaid participation.
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  Speaker 2: Are these the Somalian areas?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: And as a side note, so on Wednesday, there's two
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  Speaker 10: big kind of announcements that just happened yesterday and today.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking yesterday or next, this coming Wednesday?
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  Speaker 10: This coming Wednesday, next week, will be the day that
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  Speaker 10: we pass the Medicaid fraud bill.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: But yesterday, there was actually a hearing in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 10: where we had our auditor of state We had Representative
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  Speaker 10: Mike Davila, who's been kind of leading the charge in
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  Speaker 10: the House, and we had the Senate Minority Leader testify
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  Speaker 10: in front of the House Oversight Committee, which has been
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  Speaker 10: doing testimonies and changes on national fraud in Minnesota, Ohio.
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  Speaker 10: And the Auditor State and Rep. Davila testified on some
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  Speaker 10: of the things that they've been finding. For example, There
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  Speaker 10: has not been the proper or correct financial checks for
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  Speaker 10: folks that are actually applying. You could actually be far
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  Speaker 10: above the income thresholds, but they've not been really checking
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  Speaker 10: to see who's actually been applying for Medicaid, for example.
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  Speaker 10: That's been one of a huge kind of fraud-slash-abuse side.
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  Speaker 10: that the auditor state has found this year.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so individuals that are getting it who shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be getting it because income-wise they don't qualify. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're so interested in, after we saw the leering centers
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  Speaker 2: and the hospice and transportation, and no one was actually there,
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  Speaker 2: we're all interested in that aspect of the fraud in Ohio, too.
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  Speaker 10: Yep, and that's where... your international populations are essentially working
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  Speaker 10: all together, signing people up, maybe, maybe not real, doing
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  Speaker 10: services on paper, but then not actually doing them in
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  Speaker 10: real life. And the chair of the Oversight Committee in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 10: Congressman Gill, out of Texas, asked the minority leader of
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  Speaker 10: the Senate, Ohio Senate, during testimony yesterday, Do you think
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  Speaker 10: Somali immigration has been good for Ohio?
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  Speaker 2: I'll answer it. Hell no.
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  Speaker 11: I agree.
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  Speaker 10: She, though, said that that question was bringing her to tears.
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  Speaker 10: And how could someone ask a question like that that
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  Speaker 10: could hurt our communities?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and I'll wait. I want everyone to hear this.
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  Speaker 2: Who asked this question? Give me the..
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  Speaker 10: So this is Congressman Brandon Gill out of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Ask the following question.
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  Speaker 10: He asked as the chairman of the oversight committee to
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  Speaker 10: the Ohio Senate minority leader, Nicky Antonio, out of Cleveland,
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  Speaker 10: given all of the fraud issues, the zip code, the
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  Speaker 10: immigration kind of targeting that we've seen with Medicaid aspect,
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  Speaker 10: is all of the Somali immigrant population been good for Ohio?
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  Speaker 2: Now, doesn't that appear to you to be an asked
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  Speaker 2: nine question based on why would you even ask a
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  Speaker 2: question like that when we're talking about millions and billions
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  Speaker 2: of stealing money i mean can you elaborate on this
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  Speaker 2: for me because this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 10: What and that's exactly why you asked it such a
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  Speaker 10: simple question and i get that we've had all these
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  Speaker 10: immigrant populations come in and if there's all this fraud
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  Speaker 10: here everyone should be on the same page that has
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  Speaker 10: been bad for ohio But our Senate Minority Leader couldn't
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  Speaker 10: answer the question and said that that was a question
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  Speaker 10: that would hurt our communities here in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is a Democrat. I want everyone to hear this.
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  Speaker 2: So you have a Democrat Senate Minority Leader who couldn't
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  Speaker 2: answer the question about a community of people that haven't
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  Speaker 2: assimilated and are stealing millions and billions of dollars. Is
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  Speaker 2: that a fair statement?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 10: And that just shows we..
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  Speaker 2: What a disappointment as a citizen of Ohio that someone
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  Speaker 2: in the legislature cannot sit there as a citizen of
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  Speaker 2: Ohio and say, stealing and ripping off the taxpayers to
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  Speaker 2: this degree is unacceptable. And no, they're not a good addition.
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  Speaker 2: How difficult is that to answer that question? Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Thomas is going to elaborate more on this. Don't
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  Speaker 2: lose your place, all right? I want to hear more
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  Speaker 2: of what you got to say. Hang in there. He's
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  Speaker 2: always interesting when we have him on. State Rep. Dave Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: a true public servant, back in a minute.
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  Speaker 11: WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: 433 in the afternoon. We're at 85 degrees on a Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: June 4th. State Rep. Dave Thomas is with me. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know how as an Ohio citizen, because, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're in the legislature, I sit back here and to
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  Speaker 2: hear somebody ask that question, who's the Senate Minority Leader,
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  Speaker 2: And the question, once again, just so our listeners can
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  Speaker 2: hear it, she was asked what?
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  Speaker 10: She was asked, is the Somali immigration in Ohio a
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  Speaker 10: good thing for Ohio?
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is a community where we have all this
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  Speaker 2: fraud going on in Ohio, stealing millions and potentially adding
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  Speaker 2: up to billions of dollars. But let's just go with
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars and not assimilating into our culture. So
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  Speaker 2: I can sit here and say to you, the answer
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  Speaker 2: to that is no. It has been a negative. And
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  Speaker 2: this woman answered, the Senate Democrat minority leader in Ohio
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  Speaker 2: answered it how?
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  Speaker 10: She said, that question brings me to tears, and I
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  Speaker 10: can't answer something that could be hurtful to our communities.
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  Speaker 2: Now, folks, I want you all to hear this. This
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  Speaker 2: is a Democrat who can't stand there and say, people
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  Speaker 2: that are stealing... millions of dollars through fraudulent means, fears
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  Speaker 2: their tongue so much they can't sit there and say,
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  Speaker 2: this is horrific. Your comments, please.
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  Speaker 10: And I tell you that just because over the next week,
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: you're going to hear a lot, and that goes back
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: to our earlier conversations of when we're looking to reform
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: and to fix the system, there's so much that needs
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: done that you're going to hear all this pushback. And
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: this is one of them, that these folks are good,
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: don't go after everyone, go after just small numbers, when
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: really we have to almost wholesale change how we do
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: Medicaid here in Ohio. And that's just one example of
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: the pushback and resistance. That committee yesterday was very positive
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: to help kind of highlight some of the things that
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: have gone wrong. And then today... The acting U.S. Attorney General,
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: the FBI Director, our Attorney General, our Auditor of State,
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: and Legislative Leadership actually had a press conference this morning.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: There is now a formal federal and state partnership, task
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: force essentially, with the FBI, with law enforcement, that will
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: go even further in terms of some of the international side.
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: You asked last week, will any of this money ever
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: be returned? Now we actually have some of those criminal
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: resources to go after a ton of.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: People because of this partnership. Listen, you're never going to
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: get the money back. I mean, it's spent, it's stolen,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: it's hidden. I mean, you're never going to get the
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: money back. I just want justice for the people that have...
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that have stole huge sums of money. I mean, I'm
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: looking for justice. I'm looking for people that don't assimilate.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for people that came here and are committing
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: these crimes to be taken out of this country and or... Well,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I would rather they be deported, because if you put
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: them in jail anymore, it's never long enough for this
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. So, consequently, they get a slap on
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: the wrist, and I'm getting a nervous breakdown.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: Now, just this week, there were 14 folks. Well, just
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: this week, as an example, the Attorney General announced there
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: are 14 individuals who he's arrested. He's charging with Medicaid fraud.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: about $ 50 million just from those 14 individuals. These are
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: examples of, in the smaller community here in Franklin County,
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: who have been signing folks up for services they're not
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: actually providing, who have been using... I heard an ad
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: on the radio program about giving out your Medicaid or
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: your Medicare number, who have been using stolen Medicaid numbers
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: to sign up folks for services. All these different things
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: that kind of add up So that was just this week,
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: just announced yesterday as well. So a lot more of
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: those types of things will be coming, too. Like you said,
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: all this adds up, and it's just a culture of, frankly,
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: waste and abuse in the Medicaid system. We ultimately need
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: a new governor to change.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: The same community does it in Tampon Thames, Minnesota. That's
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: doing it here. We got the second largest Somali community,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: they say, next to Minnesota. And the same culture did
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: it there and they're doing it here. So I'm not
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: afraid to offend the community because it's just stealing. You
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: either assimilate or you don't. But you don't come and
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: rip off millions of dollars. Now, getting the money back,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: that money's gone if they sent it to Somalia or
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: they spent it. And they're looking at us as a
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: bunch of damn fools. But that jeopardizes the health of
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: both Medicaid and Medicare when you have people stealing money
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: like this. And I am so damn disappointed in DeWine.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, he just and I pray that Vivek is successful,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: because if you get a liberal like Amy Acton in there,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Good luck with ever getting justice here. I mean, because
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: we don't want to offend anybody, even if they're a
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: group of criminals. Okay, I'm done. Go ahead.
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: No, you're spot on. Last week, Favek had a press
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: conference with our legislative leadership and the auditor of state
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: and attorney general office to essentially say that of all
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: the different kind of changes, just wholesale culture change with
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: the Medicaid on top of all these different protections. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: I'm not aware of anything she has put out. I
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: think she is essentially probably taking the position that, hey,
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: there's really not that big of an issue here. We
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: can't change the system because then people will be hurt.
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: And there's a very stark difference between these two campaigns
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: and how they're approaching, again, half of the state's budget
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: and how much of taxpayer dollars is going out for
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: these programs.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: It represents to me such a dramatic difference. in these
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: two parties. You see it in Minnesota with the Democrats,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: and now I'm seeing it in Ohio with the Democrats.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I'm really disappointed in the Republicans. I mean, DeWine knows
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: this happened under their leadership. I mean, is it fair
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: to me to say, hey, governor, where were you all
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: this time? Hey, auditor, where were you all of this time? Hey,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: attorney general, where were you all of this time? Why
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: was this going on? How did this happen? Why can't
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I hold some of these folks accountable? It doesn't matter
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to me if they're Republicans.
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: It takes a, and it's horrible to think of this
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: this way, but it is. It takes a crisis of
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: this type of level for us to even broach topics
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: that are usually considered taboo, which is touching Medicaid and
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: improving how Medicaid actually is.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Well, you're saving Medicaid for the people that are stealing it, money,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and hurting it financially. You're saving Medicaid and Medicare. You're
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: not hurting it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: Exactly. Exactly. And that's how we approach it. That's how,
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: I mean, frankly, the facts are. But just like with
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: a lot of these other entitlements, and this is not
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: an entitlement, but it's in that same kind of bucket,
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: whenever you start broaching changes... that's when all of the
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: interest groups, all the different folks that are benefiting, come
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: out and claim you're hurting kids, you're putting people on
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: the streets, you're taking food out of.
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: Babies' mouths.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: It's a load of crap.
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: And then folks kind of back away. So we have,
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: I mean, frankly, this is an almost once-in-a-generation opportunity to
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: actually really change the system and how it's been operating
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: here in the state. There's even talk about taking away,
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: which was unheard of as well, that expansion that John
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: Kasich did. We've been eating away at it. We're actually
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: just taking it away completely and being able to really
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: hone in back in then on the money that this
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: is actually supposed to be for. Those folks that cannot work.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Here's what I've learned. I mean, here's what I've learned, folks.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And make no mistake. There isn't a Democrat that would
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: have been any better, because I know how these Democrats, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you're explaining how these Democrats view this. But I'm going
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: to tell you something. From a Republican standpoint, John Kasich
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: was a disappointment as governor, and Mike DeWine has been
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: a disappointment as governor. I mean, it doesn't matter to
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: me that they're Republicans. I'm not a cheerleader. John Kasich
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: was a disappointment, and he's a disappointment to me today,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: as Mike DeWine is. Good riddance to him. I think
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Vivek will be different. If he wins. If he wins.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I saw a poll today, incidentally, Dave Thomas, where they
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: were saying that Sherrod Brown is ahead. And I'm thinking
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: to myself, of course, I don't know whether to believe
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: polls or not, but it said Sherrod Brown is ahead
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: of John Husted. And I'm thinking, here's Sherrod Brown. It's
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: been around forever. And Sherrod Brown backed every wacky thing
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: that Joe Biden stood for. Open borders. Men can have babies.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: All the craziness. of the Democrats, Sherrod Brown was there
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: backing it all away. The war on coal. Yeah. So
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you would say, well, let's vote for Sherrod Brown over Houston. Well,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that's just stupid. He supported all this, all the problems
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: that Biden created. He's in support of them. And his
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: philosophy hasn't changed at all. Like you say, the war
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: on coal and that kind of stuff. All right. I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: got it off my chest. So so this bill.
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: You're right.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: The polls are close.
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: The polls are close. The polls are close. And I
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: keep I keep hearing people. We cannot take this election
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: for granted. You know, you may be disappointed, upset. I am, too,
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: about kind of where the economy is and where things are.
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: But we're seeing just if we stay home, we're actually
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: electing by staying home.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: And it will be that much worse if we do that,
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: that much worse.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. So Wednesday, you have this bill, and hopefully
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: that'll solve some of this stuff. So your preventive action,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: for everybody to know, is just review it for our listeners.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: You're doing what?
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: So this bill will essentially add in all of the
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: different protections that we've had vetoed. over the past three budgets,
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: things like GPS checking, like prior approval before billing, things
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: like automatic kind of closure of providers if there are
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: kind of suspected irregularities in their billing, extra oversight and
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: auditing of high-use areas, such as here in Franklin County
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: with the small population. So Medicaid is actually not an
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: area I've dived into at all. So I'm only touching
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: the surface of what the bills are going to be doing.
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: I'll have a better kind of explanation next week for
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: you after we kind of see everything that's in there.
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: But I encourage folks, you can actually watch the Medicaid
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: hearings and see firsthand what some of the questions are,
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: what the back and forth is on the Ohio channel.
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: Anyone can watch them. They've been meeting a ton this week.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I say basketball playoffs, you're watching the Ohio Channel.
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: We're nerds.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we shall see how that happens. Now, let
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: me shift gears because we have a limited amount of
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: time today. Legal show at 5. Data centers and the
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: cost of data centers in general, I want you to
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: talk about that, and the cost of electricity.
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: I have a good news for you. Here's good news
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: number two. So the Trump administration just announced today new funding.
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: They're giving roughly $ 700 million to 13 different coal plants
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: across the country to essentially boost them up, make improvements
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: to them, and actually have their output be even stronger.
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: So trying to reinforce current coal plants, And they're building, actually,
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: they're backing the building of two additional coal plants.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: In Ohio or where?
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: Not in Ohio. I'm looking at the announcement right now.
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: I don't know where. But it is not Ohio, the
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: new plants that we have. The seven new ones are
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: natural gas. And then perinuclear power plant expanding. But these
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: are across the country, it looks like. So he's using
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: the War Powers Act to essentially say... electricity, power supply
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: is a national security priority. And so we're granting these dollars.
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: We're boosting up the coal plants. So I know you're
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: a big focus on coal. So that was a good
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: thing I saw this morning.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I would like to see it happen where it benefits
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: me or in my grid area, if you will. I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: had heard a rumor, incidentally, I don't know if it's
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: fact or fiction, where they're talking about putting, it wouldn't
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: surprise me, a data center where that Samus plant used
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: to be. Because it's ideal locations because of the transmission lines.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: And so have you heard that at all?
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: I have not. But that kind of is the perfect
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: example of Ohio is prime and ready for these things.
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: So we shouldn't then be giving away the farm, as
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: we say, to bring them here. But more than likely.
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: But on medicine, there's actually the same thing. There will
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: be a bill next Wednesday. That is the result of
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: the Select Committee on Data Centers. Three members of Republican
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: House membership, one Democrat, same on the Senate, have been
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: meeting several days a week, two weeks ago, last week,
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: this week, next week, hearing from regular citizens, from business groups, utilities,
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: energy folks, on all different ideas about what state kind
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: of parameters and guardrails should be on the data center side.
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: And One of those is my House Bill 706, Representative Rader,
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: which essentially prevents that cost shifting of the electricity side.
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: We had a three-hour long hearing last night on Energy Committee,
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: ended at 7, where we heard from a whole bunch
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: of folks talking about this bill, this concept, which we're
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: hoping will be put into the data center bill that
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: passes next Wednesday. That's one of several different kind of
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: components to us putting guardrails around data centers. But this
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: idea that a data center comes in and that cost
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: should not then be shifted to those other payers that
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: are already there on the grid. Everyone supports it in concept,
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: but once you get down to the nitty-gritty, that's where
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: there's disagreements. But I'm pretty hopeful that that will be
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: in the final bill of the past next Wednesday.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to see. I mean, are we
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: going to put anything in there? When you say guardrails,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: are we going to put anything in there to try
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: to say you've got to be self-sufficient when it comes
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: to providing the power that you're going to need for
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: this stuff? And B, we're not going to give you
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: any tax abatements at all?
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so those are the other kind of buckets of
• 33:11
  Speaker 10: things that will likely be in this bill. Closed-loop water,
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: for example. incentivizing or requiring that they be placed on
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: brownfields or in non-agriculture, non-developed land. And I've submitted an
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: amendment to just take away that sales tax abatement. I
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: don't know exactly where that is yet. I'm still pushing it.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Right, but I mean, the governor, he paused it, but
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: you want to make it permanent to take it away.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: But I want to take away any type of property
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: tax abatement.
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: Well, and I don't know. That's a good question. I
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: actually encouraged kind of using that as the carrot. Like, essentially,
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: I'm not sure if we can legally, I think we can.
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: Tell communities you cannot provide these abatements locally, because it's
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: all local decision, essentially, of the property tax side, what
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: a city is going to give to a data center.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, anybody's, they're all going to ask for it.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: because it's just nature doing business. But you can answer
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the question by saying, no, we're not doing it. I
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: go back. Once again, we're the sweet spot weather-wise. We
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: have the water. We have the weather. We have the
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: transmission lines. They need us. We don't need to be
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: giving them any breaks at all. We should be getting
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: all the benefits. Now, there was a caller of mine
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: that said, you know, another thing that should be in
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: these bills is there should be ramifications in these bills
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to say, because technology changes awful fast, that if you
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: abandon these data centers, because they could in 10 years,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: that how are you going to dismantle them or how
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: is that process going to take place instead of sticking
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: to taxpayers?
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: I wish you could see my face because I'm smiling
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: really big right now. That's a smart caller. Tell them
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: to reach out, because actually that's another bucket. This concept,
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: we have this in place. If a solar farm or
• 35:12
  Speaker 10: a wind farm comes into an area, the developers have
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: to have bonds.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, stand by. I stand by. I've got to pause again.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: That's my caller G2 that brought that up. He is
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: an extremely smart caller. Yeah, hang on. Back with Dave
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Thomas right after this. News Radio 570 WKBN. Back to it,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Ron Verb, 453 in the afternoon. We're at 84 degrees
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: with State Rep. Dave Thomas. So the bottom line is
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: technology changes quickly, and who knows what's going to be
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the case in five or ten years. And they could
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: walk away from these huge buildings or these facilities, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: perhaps we can't repurpose a building, but there has to
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: be something on the hook to not stick the community
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: or the taxpayers with cleaning up the mess as far as–
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: if we have to get it back to Mother Nature
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff. And you would agree with that?
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: Yes, 100%. We already require that, actually, for coal mines,
• 36:13
  Speaker 10: and we require it for solar fields and for wind farms,
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: where if you come in, you develop it, you essentially
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: have bonds, reclamation bonds is what they're called, and where
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: you're prepaying, essentially, for... the decommissioning or the restoration back
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: to what it was prior for that property. And that's
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: not currently something that we require in state law for
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: data centers, but that has actually been one of the
• 36:41
  Speaker 10: kind of like universal agreements of most folks that, yeah,
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: that just, that makes sense because you're right. You know,
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: these are essentially large warehouses with a whole bunch of
• 36:51
  Speaker 10: computers inside. And I think the first computer took up
• 36:55
  Speaker 10: about the same size as a small warehouse and Today, obviously,
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: very different. So these may become not as necessary over
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: the years. And we should have some type of requirement
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: that they kind of return themselves back. So if I
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: had to bet, that requirement will be in the language
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: that we pass next Wednesday as well. And then I'm
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: sure you've been hearing things about NDAs, non-disclosure agreements.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's been a huge... Huge problem, I think, growing locally.
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: And so there will also, if I had to bet,
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: be language discussing that. Our finance chair has a bill
• 37:38
  Speaker 10: to prevent all local officials, all officials, public officials from
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: signing NDAs. It's just bad practice.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: How can you be a public official and have a
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: nondisclosure agreement? The public has a right to know.
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: Exactly.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously. I mean, it's a contradiction. This is
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the public's business. I can't sign an NDA.
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think these businesses are coming. They're pressuring local officials.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Well, they should stand up and not cave. They should say,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: we're not going to do this. I'm hopeful. Go ahead.
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: I'm sorry. I'm hopeful and I'm almost certain that we
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: will have that language in this inner bill as well.
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: that you'll see on Wednesday, where essentially we prevent local
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: officials from, and state and anyone, from signing these NDAs.
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  Speaker 10: This is another kind of transparency and public having information.
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  Speaker 10: This is, I think, the most important thing. And that
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  Speaker 10: just flies in the face of just good government, especially
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  Speaker 10: at your local, small community level.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I say this because time is short today. Your
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  Speaker 2: parents have to be so proud of you because I
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  Speaker 2: know this much I am. And, I mean, for all
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  Speaker 2: you're doing, you're genuinely a public servant for the folks
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  Speaker 2: here in the great state of Ohio. You represent everything
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  Speaker 2: that a public servant is supposed to, putting a taxpayer first,
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  Speaker 2: not special interest, and doing what is best in the
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  Speaker 2: best interest of the citizen and taxpayer. I've said this before.
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  Speaker 2: Many people will benefit as a result of the changes
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  Speaker 2: you made in property taxes. And so whether they're Democrats
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  Speaker 2: or Republicans, their increases won't be as big because of
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  Speaker 2: what legislation that you've championed and your fellow Republicans. And
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  Speaker 2: it's important for people to know that. And as I say,
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  Speaker 2: kudos to you. But you also say, don't forget the
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  Speaker 2: other Republicans, which made it a reality, including Tex Fisher
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  Speaker 2: and some of our local Republicans here, correct?
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  Speaker 10: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 10: And I do want to give a quick shout out.
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: It's my mom's 60th birthday today. So if she's listening..
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  Speaker 2: She must be extremely... You know, your mother's a great woman.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: You know why she's a great woman? Because she gave
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: birth to you. That's why she's a great woman. She
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: raised you right. I mean, you've been raised... You're raised right.
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  Speaker 2: You earn your paycheck. You're a public servant. You're the
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  Speaker 2: hardest working state rep that I've seen in 41 years.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: You operate in the people's best interest. And your mother
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  Speaker 2: raised you properly, and it's an honor to have you
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  Speaker 2: on the program. We look forward to talking to you
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  Speaker 2: next week with an update. Thank you, State Rep. Dave Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Or should I say Governor? I want you to get
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: used to hearing that, Governor Thomas. All right. Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, Dave. All right. And happy 60th
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: birthday to his mother. She's got a great son. NewsRadio 570,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Dodie Cummings, and Ron Ferb. We pause. It's Thursday, and
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: that means the legal show, courtesy of Beatrice Capps, comes
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: your way next at 5. And Money Talks with John Arnoldson.
• 40:45
  Speaker 12: From ABC News, I'm Lindsay Davis, anchor of Prime Streaming
• 40:50
  Speaker 12: Week Nights on ABC News Live. President Trump announced a
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: $ 700 million plan intended to boost the nation's coal industry.
• 40:57
  Speaker 13: We will protect 14 coal plants and 42 coal mines.
• 41:02
  Speaker 13: It's a tremendous number. And build two new coal plants
• 41:06
  Speaker 13: and one massive new export terminal because we're exporting coal.
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: The two plans, set to be built in Alaska and
• 41:12
  Speaker 12: West Virginia, would be the nation's first since 2013. The
• 41:16
  Speaker 12: president says he will nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: to the permanent position, and today in Ohio, Blanche told reporters.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I'm honored and humbled that the president indicated he
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: was going to nominate me today.
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  Speaker 2: I was with him last night at the dinner when
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: he said that.
• 41:30
  Speaker 12: It's not clear if Blanche has the support in the Senate.
• 41:33
  Speaker 12: The House Oversight Committee released the transcript of its interview
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: with former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who blamed Blanche for
• 41:39
  Speaker 12: the controversial handling of the release of the Justice Department's
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Votes are still being counted
• 41:45
  Speaker 12: in California's primary, and President Trump suggests Democrats are trying
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: to steal the vote. ABC's Alex Stone has more from
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: Los Angeles.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: He says a U.S. attorney will investigate. The president saying, They.
• 41:56
  Speaker 13: Found a lot of mail-in ballots last night, shockingly.
• 41:59
  Speaker 14: But California did not just find a lot of mail-in ballots.
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  Speaker 14: They are ballots that are legally arriving that were mailed in.
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  Speaker 14: It was known for a while Republicans voted in greater
• 42:08
  Speaker 14: numbers earlier, and the earlier results would favor Republicans. Democrats
• 42:12
  Speaker 14: voted later, and so it's expected as more ballots arrive
• 42:15
  Speaker 14: via the mail, the Democrats will likely see gains in
• 42:18
  Speaker 14: the coming days.
• 42:19
  Speaker 12: A Colorado appeals court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics
• 42:23
  Speaker 12: who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine while he was pinned
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: down by Aurora Police in 2019. The court ordered new trials,
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: citing faulty jury instructions. The NBA banned two people from
• 42:34
  Speaker 12: its arenas for life after one ran onto the court
• 42:36
  Speaker 12: of Game 1 of the NBA Finals last night in
• 42:39
  Speaker 12: San Antonio and attempted to take a selfie.
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  Speaker 11: Secretary of Agriculture says the detection of New World screwworm
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  Speaker 11: on a cattle ranch in South Texas does not threaten
• 44:00
  Speaker 11: the food supply. She told Congress the government is ready
• 44:03
  Speaker 11: to respond.
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  Speaker 9: I was on the phone with about 50 of our
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: cattle ranchers in Texas last night, late last night. I said,
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  Speaker 9: the single, we're getting the treatments down to you. We've
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: got the veterinarians. We're surging veterinarians. We're surging inspectors, et cetera.
• 44:16
  Speaker 11: The USDA says while it's not a food safety risk,
• 44:18
  Speaker 11: but industry experts are warning of the potential for higher prices.
• 44:22
  Speaker 11: A project intended to address the soaring demand for housing
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  Speaker 11: in the fast-growing suburbs of Austin, Texas, has abruptly failed.
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  Speaker 16: Concrete modular homes built in less than 60 days and
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  Speaker 16: offered at a reasonable price. Construction on 1,000 houses on
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  Speaker 16: the 227-acre property in Georgetown, Texas, began last June.
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  Speaker 11: They were building pretty quick.
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  Speaker 16: Richard McGee lives near Rockingwell Co.
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  Speaker 12: We're putting the walls up and the roofs, and then
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: suddenly it just stopped.
• 44:47
  Speaker 16: The money ran out. Yesterday, an auction of the $ 16
• 44:51
  Speaker 16: million property attracted no bidders, so the original lenders left
• 44:54
  Speaker 16: holding the bag. at a neighborhood of half-built concrete houses
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  Speaker 16: since vacant. Jim Ryan, ABC News.
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  Speaker 11: The NTSB's preliminary report on a passenger jet flying too
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  Speaker 11: low into Newark Airport last month found the United flight
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  Speaker 11: did not hit a truck on the New Jersey turnpike,
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