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Friday 3pm hour 05/08/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Howdy ho, NewsRadio 570. Welcome. Hey, another one of those days.
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  Speaker 1: Cloudy skies, on and off showers, and chilly temperatures. How
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  Speaker 1: about that for your May 8th on this Friday afternoon?
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  Speaker 1: It looks like Saturday's going to be kind of spotty
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  Speaker 1: with some showers as well. I'm all choked up here
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  Speaker 1: as we start this afternoon's broadcast till 6.30. Guardians pregame
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  Speaker 1: at 6.30 tonight here on NewsRadio 570. What do you
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  Speaker 1: give me on? Are you tired yet of the cloudy skies,
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  Speaker 1: the chilly temperatures, and the constant rain? Is it just
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  Speaker 1: getting to you? Yes. I mean, everything is so saturated
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  Speaker 1: and so wet. It's really something. Anyway, good afternoon. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: S & P 500 hits record on strong jobs reports
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  Speaker 1: and are on deal hopes. That's for six straight winning week.
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  Speaker 1: They keep talking about an Iran deal. When is that
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  Speaker 1: going to happen? They've been talking about it for weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So we wait and we see. We wait and we see.
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  Speaker 2: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Payroll jumps more than expected, but the report had several
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  Speaker 1: red flags for the economy. Consumer confidence falls to record
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  Speaker 1: lows in May as rising gas prices are affected, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: an effect on that. Consumer confidence, how secure do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about spending money When it comes to your world,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't surprise me at all. Doesn't shock me at all,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least. Let's see. U.S. details military action
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  Speaker 1: after Iran unleashes nonstop incoming fire in key oil routes. So,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on there? It's not a good sign. You're
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  Speaker 1: on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I had a guy call me the other day. He said,
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  Speaker 1: are you listening to Frank? He said, did you hear him?
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  Speaker 1: He took one of your He bought one stock you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He lost a bunch of money. And I said, you
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  Speaker 1: don't sell when it's low, man. I mean, what was
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  Speaker 1: up with that guy?
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  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, Ron. I'm not allowed to tell
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  Speaker 3: people what stocks to buy on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. You were just talking about stocks. And he
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  Speaker 1: was listening. He bought some stock. And then he said
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  Speaker 1: it went down in value. And he sold it. And
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, you sell high and buy when it's low.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, see?
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  Speaker 3: You can be a stock advisor, too.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. You know, I try to advise him.
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  Speaker 1: You don't sell it. But he said to me, he
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  Speaker 1: said to me, well, he needed the loss anyway. Believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, he said he needed the loss that year,
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: and then he bragged a little bit about your insights. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: the fan club Fort Lauderdale, Frank, seems to be growing, friends.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Seems to be growing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just lost a big fan today.
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  Speaker 1: What happened today? Well..
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  Speaker 3: About seven days ago, I called my sister and left
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  Speaker 3: a message. And she usually answers the phone or called back.
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  Speaker 3: So the next day, I called and left a message.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't call back. The next day, I called and
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  Speaker 3: left a message. She didn't call back. So a couple
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  Speaker 3: days later, I called the police department in North Carolina
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  Speaker 3: where she lives. And I asked them if they would
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  Speaker 3: go out.
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  Speaker 1: Welfare check.
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  Speaker 3: Knock on her door and see if she was okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, police officer called me within two minutes. He said,
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  Speaker 3: I need more information. Calls me back within five minutes. Says,
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  Speaker 3: I went. Knocked on her door. She didn't answer. I
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  Speaker 3: went to her neighbor and she said, oh, she's vacationing
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  Speaker 3: in Europe. I drove her to the airport. So, today
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  Speaker 3: I get a call from my sister. She said, you
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  Speaker 3: are never ever to send the police out to my
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  Speaker 3: house again. Do you hear me?
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 3: I said, if I do, what are you going to do,
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  Speaker 3: drive down to Fort Lauderdale and shoot me? She said,
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't waste my time. And I says, okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: then you'll hire somebody down here to come shoot me.
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  Speaker 3: And my girlfriend's listening to the conversation. She says, Tell
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  Speaker 3: your sister I'm available for the job.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, oh, boy. The inner circle is, like, all coming
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  Speaker 1: in on you.
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  Speaker 3: I might be losing two fans now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what's up with that sister of yours?
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  Speaker 1: All you are, you're just concerned that she, let's be realistic,
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  Speaker 1: you thought she could be hurt or dead or who
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  Speaker 1: knows what.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: So you didn't know she was out of town. So
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  Speaker 1: here it is, folks. This is terrible. So the good
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  Speaker 1: side of Fort Lauderdale, Frank says, I'm worried about my sister.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't call me back. I don't know if she's
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  Speaker 1: dead or she's hurt. He sends the cops out for
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  Speaker 1: a welfare check. Here she's in Europe. She doesn't tell
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  Speaker 1: him that. Then she's upset that you care about her. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I need to talk to her.
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  Speaker 3: Then I said to my girlfriend, I said, yeah, you'll probably...
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  Speaker 3: Do the job for free. And she says, yeah, tell
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  Speaker 3: your sister I won't charge her for it.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, I tell you, these women that are enjoying the
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle that you provide for them, and now they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do that. I tell you, it's not easy being you,
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  Speaker 1: is it, Fort Lauderdale, Frank?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think my other four girlfriends would volunteer
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  Speaker 3: for the job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm sitting here, Frank. Listen to this. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a god-awful April and May. It's been just raining constantly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not just raining a little bit, but huge
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  Speaker 1: downpours we've been having here. Everything is so saturated. And
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  Speaker 1: so yet another rainy day. Nothing can dry out, and
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow is going to rain some more. And it's chilly temperature-wise.
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  Speaker 1: It's 57. So I want to bellyache about my springtime,
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  Speaker 1: which is very wet and very unusual for me here
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  Speaker 1: in the great state of Ohio. Meanwhile, you sit there
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  Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale with sunshine and blue skies.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, would you rather have 88 degree weather, though? It
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  Speaker 3: was 94 the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I wouldn't mind. I guess I really
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't mind. It would be nice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, I try to get back on
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  Speaker 3: my sister's good side. Yes. So I says, you know,
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  Speaker 3: tell me about your vacation. You know, would you like,
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  Speaker 3: do you enjoy it? And she says, oh, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: went to Amsterdam and they, give you a guided tour
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  Speaker 3: on foot, and we went to Antwerp, and she goes, now,
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  Speaker 3: don't you start telling me about the history of all
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  Speaker 3: these places. She goes, I know you know all about
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  Speaker 3: European history, and I don't want to hear it. They
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  Speaker 3: told me about, you know, William of Orange, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you know all about it. I said, yeah. He
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  Speaker 3: was the king of the Netherlands and After they got
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  Speaker 3: rid of their king in England, they invited him to
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  Speaker 3: come over to be their king, and he married Mary,
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  Speaker 3: a woman princess in England, and that's where they got
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  Speaker 3: the name William and Mary College in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: And she said, I told you not to tell me
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, if she continues to be tough on you,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to send her on that cruise ship that
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  Speaker 1: has this virus that's going around. What the hell is
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  Speaker 1: it that's knocking off the passengers? Now, here's a great
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  Speaker 1: vacation idea. We're going to go on this cruise ship,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to go to places in South America
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  Speaker 1: that are very rarely visited by tourists, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to go to these places. Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a great idea. What could possibly go wrong? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you go to these places that are rarely visited and
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  Speaker 1: don't have necessarily the best conditions that you're used to.
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  Speaker 1: Your immune system isn't used to it. And then you
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  Speaker 1: get back on a cruise ship and you're dead three
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  Speaker 1: days later for a lot of these people because they
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  Speaker 1: got this strange virus. Can you imagine? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: like I have no desire to leave the country. I
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  Speaker 1: have absolutely no desire.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, East Elm Carnival Cruise Lines, I think their home
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  Speaker 3: port is Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. I mean, you know, that's about
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  Speaker 1: it for me. I mean, when I was reading that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, can you imagine being on that cruise?
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  Speaker 1: And that's where it was going, South America, and these
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  Speaker 1: places very rarely go. And you got people, what, three
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  Speaker 1: of them dead? And then they're trying to track down
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  Speaker 1: the passengers that got off the boat. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, how would that make you feel? How was
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  Speaker 1: your cruise? Oh, by the way, Fort Lauderdale, Frank and
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  Speaker 1: the CDC are looking for you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, the stock market's doing well, but
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  Speaker 3: I still got stops on everything.
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  Speaker 1: Now, why is it doing well? I was reading in my,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I always look at my Let's see. It
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  Speaker 1: says here, S & P 500, its record on strong
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  Speaker 1: jobs report in Iran deal hopes, heads for six straight
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  Speaker 1: winning week. But, Frank, I keep saying this. I keep
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  Speaker 1: hearing about the pending deal. I've heard about a pending
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  Speaker 1: deal for weeks now.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so where is it? I mean, Monday it could
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  Speaker 1: go right back down because there isn't a deal or
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  Speaker 1: something happens over the weekends.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Ron, you hit it on the head.
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  Speaker 3: It's because of hopes of a deal with Iran and
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  Speaker 3: a good jobs report. But there are some warning signs.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of money is starting to flow into safe treasuries.
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  Speaker 3: That's called a flight to safety. And there's another thing
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  Speaker 3: called a flight to quality. Back when Clinton was president,
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  Speaker 3: I got out of the market at the end of...
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  Speaker 3: December 1999. And one of the reasons why, when stocks
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  Speaker 3: go up, and most of the stocks don't go up,
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  Speaker 3: they stay about the same and maybe even start going down.
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  Speaker 3: But the Dow Jones was going up while NASDAQ and
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  Speaker 3: S & P 500 were not going up. And I said,
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  Speaker 3: that's a troubling sign. And it got to the point
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  Speaker 3: where 14 out of the 30 Dow Jones stocks were
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  Speaker 3: going up, and the other 16 were not. So that's
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  Speaker 3: why I decided to get out of the market. That's
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  Speaker 3: called a flight to quality. When the big investors get
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  Speaker 3: worried that we might be nearing a market top, they
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  Speaker 3: start selling everything and putting everything into, like, Apple or
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  Speaker 3: Alphabet or Google or NVIDIA. And I told you the
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  Speaker 3: other day, I analyzed... 220 software stocks. I check with
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  Speaker 3: market analysts and analyze, specialize in software, and I have
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  Speaker 3: never seen so many sell recommendations in my life. So
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  Speaker 3: I can't say for sure, but we may be seeing
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  Speaker 3: a flight to quality right now as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely an uncertain time because, listen, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: the first to say I'd love to see some type
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  Speaker 1: of deal come out of this and get things hopefully
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  Speaker 1: back focused on America first and inflation and oil prices.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see that happen sooner than later. I
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  Speaker 1: keep hearing talk about it, but all talk and no action.
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  Speaker 1: Talk is cheap. Deeds are precious. I'd like to see
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  Speaker 1: some type of resolution to this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, oil hit a low of $ 90 a
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  Speaker 3: barrel a few days ago. Yeah, that's pretty good lately.
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  Speaker 3: But like I always say, as long as the Federal
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  Speaker 3: Reserve continues to create money out of thin air, This
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  Speaker 3: market is going to continue to go higher. It may
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  Speaker 3: be overvalued, but it always can become even more overvalued
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  Speaker 3: than it is now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll have to listen to Money Talks Thursday night
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  Speaker 1: with John Early. He's starting his own fund. It's something
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  Speaker 1: he always wanted to do. He's going to take 100 investors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I forget what you call that fund. It
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  Speaker 1: starts with an H, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Hedge fund, yes. All you need is $ 100, 000 to get started.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to start his own hedge fund.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you've got that in your left pocket, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you never know. But he's going to start his
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  Speaker 1: own hedge funds. And, you know, there's obviously income requirements
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  Speaker 1: to get into it. He's going to take 100 investors. People,
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  Speaker 1: the money's kept separately, not with him. And then it's
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  Speaker 1: capped out at $ 100 in his hedge fund. And so
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  Speaker 1: then he's going to manage it like he has done. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: he's done a lot of this with his own money,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. And the returns he's getting are just unreal,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely unreal. So that should be interesting. Just I put
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  Speaker 1: that out there. Something for you to listen to Thursday
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  Speaker 1: nights when John's on at 6 to 7, if you
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  Speaker 1: catch him. Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you went away. I thought you faded. Geez,
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  Speaker 1: for just a minute, folks, I was going to call
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  Speaker 1: the police and have them go to Fort Lauderdale and
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  Speaker 1: do a welfare check on Fort Lauderdale Frank. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he might have dropped right over on the phone when
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  Speaker 1: he was talking to me right there.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we shall see what goes on. Who knows what's
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  Speaker 1: going to be happening, Frank? I mean, I can't tell you, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I think the economy's in a tough position right now.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation's high. All our money's going to basically energy and
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  Speaker 1: necessities and this kind of stuff. Hopefully we can get
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  Speaker 1: back and get inflation under control and get things going
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction sooner than later. We can't stay
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  Speaker 1: on this course. And we better start to get concerned
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  Speaker 1: about the debt of the country, too, Frank.
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  Speaker 3: Well, do you know that... Oh, the, um, the, um, in, in, uh, the, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, spit it out.
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  Speaker 3: What's the, uh, I'm talking about the, uh, um, the, um.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. I got him rattled.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: No, no way. I got to talk about the, uh, Union, uh, uh, ship's.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have to pick it up next time. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to go. Thank you. Fort Lauderdale, Frank. I think today
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  Speaker 1: was my lucky day. I think I rattled Fort Lauderdale, Frank.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: I think I rattled him. I think he kind of
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  Speaker 1: lost his place. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: You had him on his heels.
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  Speaker 1: I did, didn't I? There's something about that guy, though,
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  Speaker 1: that I just enjoy. I can't even describe it.
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  Speaker 4: I like him. He's a smart man. I listen to
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  Speaker 4: him all the time. I just wish I had a
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  Speaker 4: little extra money to make some investments. My ears do
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: perk up when he calls, and I appreciate his patience.
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  Speaker 4: His ideas and his position. So it's always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: See, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Unlike my phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, see, this is the thing, folks. I think J.J.,
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  Speaker 1: the liberal, I've made progress with him. It's give and
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  Speaker 1: take sometimes. See, J.J. 's a guy that says, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't agree with that or I don't agree with
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  Speaker 1: this when it comes to some of these liberal positions.
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  Speaker 1: So you're salvageable, J.J., you're salvageable.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm not a cheerleader for the Democratic Party either.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: The other thing, too, is I'm going to lean that way,
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  Speaker 4: but if you're... I'll vote for a Republican if they're
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  Speaker 4: better than a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: That's a no-brainer there. I'd be foolish not to.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So it's... You've got to vote in your best
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  Speaker 1: interest when you go out to vote.
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  Speaker 4: It's mostly mine and my family's, of course. It's going
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  Speaker 4: to benefit us. But, yeah, I enjoy everybody's phone calls
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  Speaker 4: except for, I think, Tony. Or, no, yeah, Tony or Nick.
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  Speaker 4: They're the ones that I dread. But other than that,
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  Speaker 4: everybody that calls in, even Ted C. and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 4: I enjoy every– because I always learn something from everybody.
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  Speaker 4: And they make me a better person.
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  Speaker 1: Right. You know, that is my mission here, J.J., the liberal.
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  Speaker 1: My mission, to make you a better person.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to have a hell of a time trying.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm failing miserably. But do I give up?
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  Speaker 4: I want to be a better person, Ron. I want to.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but I don't give up. I'm not giving up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still working on it. It's one day at a time, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you don't.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, real quick today, I know you're running your past 3.30,
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  Speaker 4: because you're going to have your commercial, but do you
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: have a second? I just wanted to get your opinion
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  Speaker 4: on when he was talking to the press today. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if you saw it today. There was a couple.
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  Speaker 1: I did not see it.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: What did he do?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was asked about, you know, they were cleaning
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  Speaker 4: up the reflecting pond. And, you know, Lincoln Memorial, and
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  Speaker 4: they asked him why he was so intense on doing
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  Speaker 4: that when, you know, gas prices are where they are.
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  Speaker 4: It was just a snotty question, but it was still a...
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  Speaker 4: And he was just saying how bad they were and
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: that there were seven or eleven truckloads of garbage.
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  Speaker 2: That was in it.
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  Speaker 4: And I was laughing because it was... It obviously wasn't true,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just kind of funny when I see the...
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  Speaker 4: Over-exaggeration of those certain things, and I just didn't know
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  Speaker 4: if you saw it in it. I didn't get angry
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  Speaker 4: or anything. I just kind of found it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a little..
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  Speaker 1: I did not, but I guess, basically, weren't they trying
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to clean up the... green, uh, algae and stuff like that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I appreciate him doing it. It was just that, that,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: you know, he would, and then he just said that
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: that was a horrible question because it came from the
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: ABC and stuff, which, you know, to a certain degree,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: maybe he's, you know, he's got something there, but, uh,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: it was just, I mean.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Let's be realistic. He can't do anything that it seems
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: people don't, uh, critique him on or criticize him on
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: i mean even even if it's like cleaning up that
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: uh the water in there and and whatever fixing to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: finish and that kind of stuff people can't just say
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: well i'm glad to see it's done and it's better
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: they got to criticize trump on everything It's ridiculous.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I tend to agree. You know, there's, you know, I still,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: as I said, wouldn't vote for him. But I told you,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: if he does something that's going to help me and
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: my family and you and everybody else, then, hey, I
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: set my ego at the door. But, you know, that's
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: where I draw the line there. But, you know, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: just found it kind of interesting. And I'll leave it
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: at that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: There he is. All right, JJ the Liberal, thank you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN. Interesting start to the program. We'll
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: come back after this. News Radio 570 WKBN. Well, IDO,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: 335 in the afternoon. News Radio 570 WKVN. Another dreary
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: day and 55 degrees with you till the Guardians pregame
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: at 630 on News Radio 570 WKVN. Frank Fort Lauderdale,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Frank JJ the Liberal, and you're next. Hello there.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Wow. What a group to follow.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You know what? Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, You
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: know you have arrived when I am sent. I am sent, folks.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. I've got to make a little technical
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: adjustment here. When I am sent, I'm going to bring
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it up here on my phone. Last night, an acquaintance
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of mine sends me this on my phone. A picture
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of Ted the Conservative standing next to Christine Oliver. giving
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: a thumbs up.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah, absolutely right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I was invited to the post-election celebrations, and I thought,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: why not?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Why not get out of my bubble that I live in?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Because to be honest, other than family, Ron Verbe is
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: the only person I talk to in this world.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And that's the way it's meant to be. I'm serious.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of serious about that. Family, friends, Ron Verbe,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and that's it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And there he is, the handsome Ted the Conservative, standing
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: next to Christine Oliver at her victory party, I guess
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you'd say. Which is a really nice picture. The very
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: handsome Ted the Conservative.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really out of my character to go
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: there and do that. But I met a lot of good,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: nice people that worked hard for her, and it was
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: a nice evening. I didn't call you about local issues,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: but one thing I'll say is, I don't know if
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: your listeners are aware of this, but I found it
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: very interesting to learn, and I think I may have
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: sent you a copy of the email. I can't remember.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: The great Kamala Harris is raising money for Lauren McNally.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: No, you mean Amy Acton.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: No, Kamala Harris is raising money. Was it for Amy Acton?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I believe there was one. No, no, it was for
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Amy Acton. I don't think she would really care about
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the commissioner's race, Kamala Harris.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe I was wrong on that. You're right, probably. So
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: what does that tell you, how important this is? And
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: so whether people like Vivek or not, I think this
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: election is critical. And I'll go back to telling you this.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Remember how many times I've told you now that the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Republicans will maintain the majority in both the House and
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the Senate. And I feel that stronger every day. Really? Really. Yes, because,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: you know..
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Why, because the Democrats are nuts?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, because, you know what? There's two things holding back
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: this economy from booming. One is Democrats, and two is
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve. Nothing more than Iran. You know, if
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: $ 5 a gallon of gasoline is breaking you, I hate
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: to tell you, gas isn't the problem. You are the
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: problem for your other... financial issues in your life are
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the problem. Now, I filled up this morning with $ 75.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: You know, it makes you open your eyes, but it's
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: not destroying me. It's not ruining me financially, but it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: hurting a lot of people. You and I are on
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the backside of life. We climbed the mountain, and we're
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: slowly trying to transgress down the backside without getting hurt.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: What does that mean? I should be calling the funeral
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: home first thing in the morning? Well, put it this way.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I think our best days are behind us.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you're saying, Ted the Conservative. I'm
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: on the back nine. There's more sand in the bottom
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of the hourglass than in the top.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, and we're looking at the top closer than
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: we're looking at the bottom.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, our brightest days are always ahead. I don't
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: agree with you. I think $ 5 gasoline is a big deal.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Let me rephrase that. It's a big deal to many,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: many Americans.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a big deal. It's a big deal to me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you say when it's done pumping and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you see what that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: You have a fleet of vehicles over there at Birdman.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Right, but when you see that gas pump click off
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and you see that go in, It's got to get resolved. Listen,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I hope you're right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm calling you, Professor.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I hope you're right. Ted the Conservative, incidentally, has an excellent, excellent,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: excellent track record. I will say that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And you know what? Here's what I'll say as far
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: as that track record. I may not be the smartest guy,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and I'm not the smartest guy, but I am able
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: to look through the current situation we find ourselves in,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm often able to forecast what that means in
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the future. And there's a lot of smart guys that
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: call your show, women and men that call your show. And,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: you know, there's just a wealth of information out there.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: So you've got to be able to absorb your information
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and then make good decisions. A lot of people aren't
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: able to do that. Very intelligent people. I think Frank
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: from Fort Lauderdale is a smart guy, but I don't
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: think he's capable of forecasting, taking that data he has.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, remember, he told us oil would be $ 200
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: a barrel. Stock market was going to crash.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, by the way, wait a second.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: He said oil was down to 90 bucks a barrel.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but wait a second.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: It was down to 80 bucks a barrel.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Ted, the conservative, I saw this the other day, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I thought of Fort Lauderdale. Frank, Trump was in that
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: press conference, and Trump himself said he thought oil would be,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be $ 100 a barrel. He thought it would
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: be $ 200 a barrel or more. Even Trump, when I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: heard Trump say that in that press conference.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I guess I should run for president.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. When I heard Trump say that in a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: press conference, my initial thought was..
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not diminishing... Frank's a very intelligent guy. You can't
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: call in and say the things he does without being intelligent.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I disagree with how he processes that information sometimes. And
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: he's a smart guy. You know, but I just feel
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: like I could see things a little bit different than
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: most people. And I think I'm usually right when we
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: talk about..
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I would say this. I would say this, folks,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and tell the conservatives... Defense. Ted has been more right
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: than he's been wrong over the years. And I can remember, gang,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Ted the conservative was his passionate pleas to me. All
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of you listening, his passionate pleas to me. I will
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: never forget this. When I was in this argument with
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Ted the Conservative, I could not vote for Mitt Romney.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I've said that to you guys a million times. Mitt Romney,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I could not vote for him. I can't stand him today.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I couldn't stand him back then. I could never vote
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: for Mitt Romney. So I actually voted for Obama. And
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I remember talking about this on the air, and Ted
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the conservative, folks, I mean, gave everything he could possibly
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: have to implore me to not vote for Obama. As
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: much as I... it was a lesser two evils and
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I would have to over your opinion.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: It was a lesser. Yes. Obviously today, I think you
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: might say Romney was the less.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Yes. Now that's where I'm going. That in fact, Ted,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the conservative was a hundred percent right. If I had
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to do it over again, I would have voted for
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Mitt Romney and I wouldn't have voted for Obama. He
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: was 100% right. I didn't listen. His insight was right.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And if I had a redo, I would probably, not probably,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I'd vote for Mitt Romney. That's how accurate over the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: years Ted the Conservative has been on this kind of stuff. However,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I go back to say this. I keep hearing there's
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: going to be a deal or it's going to be
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a deal. Well, I'm getting tired of it. I realize
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you can't rush this stuff.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I don't care when the deal comes. I know that
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I trust Donald Trump to do what's best for America.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I believe America first is why he's there. So when
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: it comes, it comes. It's not changing how you and
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I live our lives. Yeah, gas is a little more expensive.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: But you know what? Think back to 2022, when gas
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: was higher than what we're paying today, because it was,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and inflation was 9%. I can remember arguing with my
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: liberal friends, and they loved to use the word transitory.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So I'll tie the two together. We didn't get where
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: we are today economically because of one year of Donald Trump.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: We got here because of guys like you who believed
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: in the hope and change. And what Obama did, he
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: said he was going to transform America. He completed his task.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Boy, did he ever.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: He transformed America. He is why we are where we're
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: at today, with the divisiveness, the DEI, all that garbage.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: And then he threw Joe Biden on top of that
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: for four years.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Inflation and the policy. That's the biggest thing. People don't
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: understand how policy affects economics. And then you show some
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: other uncertainties in there you can never forecast.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: This is how, Ted, the conservative, how naive I could be, folks.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And listen to this. I would often think, what difference
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: does it make as far as judges are concerned? I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was one of those Americans who believed, listen, it's pretty
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: much to say, if I go in front of a judge,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the judge is going to sit there kind of like
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a referee, if you will, listen to the case and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: base their decisions on the law. on what is the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: law and what's taken place, that's how I thought it
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: should be. But now I'm taking a look and I'm saying,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: my God, that isn't the case. Now we have judges
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: that are so political, letting criminals out of prison. I mean–
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: We would all like to think if you go in
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: front of a judge, it shouldn't matter if you're a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal. It shouldn't matter. And
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: it shouldn't matter what they are, conservative or liberal. They
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: should sit there, hear the case, and rule based on
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the law, the legality of it. But any more of
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: these days when you see that judge apologizing to the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: guy that tried shooting the president at the White House
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: press dinner, and you look at these liberal judges... that
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: are just letting people out of jail, illegals and with
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: criminal records, and you say, this is craziness. And I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: can't remember a time that it's been so severe as
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: it has been over the last several years. If I
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: go back, because I've been around a long time, I
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: don't remember judges being like this. I mean, in the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: past of this country where– they would be so liberal
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: they would let criminals get away and do some of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the bizarre stuff I'm seeing.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I remember it happened with the transformation of America under
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but that's relatively recent. I'm saying that's recent.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I'm saying if I go back beyond Obama, that to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: me is recent times. If I go further back, it
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: seems like judges basically heard the case and made a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: decision based on the rule of law, if you will.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Somewhere along the line, it became bizarre.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: You don't have to go back that far. You can
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: go back to the Bush years, the Clinton years. the
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Bush years before that, the Reagan years. You know, even
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: our politicians, they disagree on policy, but they respected each other,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: and they socialized, they had great friendship. But then came
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: along Barack Hussein Obama, and that's when the world changed.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: He told you he was going to transform America, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: he did.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And not for the better. And I should be held
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: responsible for that, because it's absolutely... Not for the better.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I'm in total agreement with you. The only thing I'll
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: say is, listen, I hope you're right about the midterms.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: And I would like to think you are because, quite frankly,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you could vote for the Democrats
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: at all because they're just the social agenda, the economic agenda,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: how we got where we are today, their energy policies.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: There's nothing there that's any good. But sometimes people aren't
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: as informed. They're low information voters. And so they say,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: they make snap decisions on stuff like that. It was
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: interesting when, what was it, Dave Thomas was saying, he's
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: concerned you've got to get Republican turnouts in this governor's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: race because if you don't, the Democrats are getting out
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and supporting Amy Acton, which is very strange to me
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: why you would support her. She's a far-left progressive.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: You know what's interesting, though? I saw some data from
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: different news sources saying And this one I got off
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: of CNN. And they were comparing, they were looking at
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: turnout nationwide. And every state was different. In Ohio, we
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: didn't have great turnout. But the thing that shocked me,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: my biggest concern was the Trump voter. They call him
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the MAGA voter. How they identify these people, I have
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: no clue. I think maybe what they're doing is looking
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: at Trump endorsed candidates. And look at Indiana, for example.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Big turnouts. not only was the turnout big, it was
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: a MAGA turnout. You know how Trump opposed all those
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: individuals that shot down the redistricting? Well, every one of
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: his candidates won. And they said there's swaths across America
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: where they're seeing that the MAGA vote was very strong
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: where it was needed or where Trump endorsed or where
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: there were high publicity issues. So maybe that MAGA voter
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: isn't going away. Maybe that MAGA voter is... is more
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: alert than ever before. You know, so that's going to
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: be interesting. And like I said, you know, I told people,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I remember telling my father-in-law, Christian, Southern, Southern Christian conservatives,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: they just couldn't, they couldn't stand Trump. They despised him.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: That's when he got all the grab him by the,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: you know, what was coming up. And I told him
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: just what you talked about. I said, you know, I
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: understand you don't like Donald Trump, but who would you
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: rather have appointing justices to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: or Hillary Clinton? And I stuck with him and he
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: voted for Trump. Today, he's become part of the MAGA cult.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I can't say anything negative about Donald Trump or he
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: will just rip my head off arguing.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Look at that.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's, you know, never say never. The midterms
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: are a long way off. And like I said, the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: only two things that are in the country are the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Democrats and interest rates. And I know Frank will disagree
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: with me, but The Fed has been very politicized. And
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: all you have to do is go back and look
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: at Biden's run-up to re-election and Kamala's run-up to re-election,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: where they were lowering rates as inflation was rising. Why
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: were they doing it? They were trying to paint a
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: picture that things are great. It was killing Americans, young families,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: credit card interest rates, trying to start a family and
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: buy a home, high mortgage rates, killing them. The Biden
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: inflation is what propelled the economy to where it is today.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: It's not Trump. Trump came in and inflation's back to normal.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I also think sometimes as the world evolves, our metrics change.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: You know, we used to look at the jobs report,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: the unemployment report, and that's something that was good today.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Good jobs report, unemployment report, consumer spending report was good
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. We used to have all these
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: key metrics before technology was part of our economy. And
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: that 2% inflation, I think that they apply today. was
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: to a whole different set of metrics, in my opinion.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: The world has changed so much with technology and AI
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: and jobs and just everything. And I don't think our
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Federal Reserve is capable of grabbing a good snapshot. I
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: think that's why you saw a lot of dissension in
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: the last vote at 8-4 to hold the race steady.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: That's why my liberal friends, they all wanted to raise them,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: but they didn't want to raise them. There's no excuse
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: to have interest rates at this level prolonged for as
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: long as it's killing small business. Small businesses that have
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: to have lines of credit to buy products, turn them
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: on and sell them and pay that debt off. It's
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: killing them. It's crushing them.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: It's crushing America.
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  Speaker 1: Here I leave you with this. This top-secret message from J.J.
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  Speaker 1: the Liberal. Hey, Ron, please tell Teddy, he calls you Teddy,
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  Speaker 1: that I don't have problems with our family's financial situation,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad he's enjoying paying $ 75 for gas.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, no one's enjoying it. But what I'm saying is,
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  Speaker 2: if that, and then you hear people talking about how..
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  Speaker 1: I got to go. I got to go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: There he is.
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  Speaker 2: Hang in there, buddy. It'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: Ted the Conservative. Podcast Network and the Webby Podcast Company
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  Speaker 1: of the Year. 570 WKBN. 356 in the afternoon, News
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  Speaker 1: Radio 570 WKBN, and you're on the air. Hello? All right,
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  Speaker 1: apparently not. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Bubba!
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  Speaker 1: There he is.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying. There he is,
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  Speaker 1: meaning you. I mean, what an interesting program. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed listening to Fort Lauderdale, Frank and JJ,
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  Speaker 1: the liberal and Ted, the conservative. He's just a tense.
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  Speaker 1: Ted's been more right than he's ever been wrong. And
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  Speaker 1: then Bubba Ganoush.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. who's right 98% of the time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. Ted, the
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  Speaker 1: conservative has been right. Oh no, no, no, no. Ted,
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  Speaker 1: the conservative has been right over the years. Uh, even
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  Speaker 1: when I've been wrong, but see, I'm, I'm man enough
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  Speaker 1: to admit I was wrong when I, I couldn't stand
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  Speaker 1: Mitt Romney. I couldn't vote for Mitt Romney today on anything,
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  Speaker 1: but needless to say, uh, I should have voted for
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  Speaker 1: Mitt Romney over Obama. That was a mistake. And Ted,
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  Speaker 1: the conservative tried to guide me in my, my ways,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't listen at the time, and I should
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  Speaker 1: have listened, I think, but I think Obama probably would
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  Speaker 1: have still won, so what difference does it make anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. You know, you got good points. I agree
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  Speaker 2: with you. I didn't like the rhinos, okay, just like
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  Speaker 2: McCain and Romney. Okay, but here's the thing. You see
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  Speaker 2: how oil went down? Well, he said that. But the
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: thing is, is that I told you everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let me put it this way. Okay, Bubba.
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  Speaker 1: Let me put it this way. It could go back
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  Speaker 1: up Monday. I mean, this is a very fluid situation
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: that is ongoing. I mean, I'm not trying to be
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  Speaker 1: a jerk with you, but they've been talking for weeks
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  Speaker 1: that a deal's imminent, a deal's imminent. Well, I've been
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  Speaker 1: hearing this for weeks. Well, where's the deal? Where's the beef,
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  Speaker 1: as they used to say years ago on those Wendy's commercials?
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  Speaker 1: Where's the deal? So you keep telling me that, and okay. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Okay, stand by. Just hang on. I'll
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  Speaker 1: come back to you in a minute. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: do my headlines at 4. I'll get back to you
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  Speaker 1: at Bubba Ganoush and more of your calls. We're here
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  Speaker 1: tonight until 6.30. From ABC News.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Mike Dabusky. A thousand prisoners from both sides of
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  Speaker 5: the Russia-Ukraine war are expected to be released this weekend
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  Speaker 5: as part of a three-day ceasefire the two sides agreed
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  Speaker 5: to today as tensions appear to ease. for the time
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  Speaker 5: being in Eastern Europe, they're still elevated in the Middle East.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: ABC News foreign correspondent Tom Sufi Burridge.
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  Speaker 6: Over the last 24 hours or so, we've seen a
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  Speaker 6: very significant exchange of fire between the Iranians and the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Military in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Those three U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Naval destroyers targeted by the Iranians, drones, missiles, small boats,
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  Speaker 6: the U.S. military, not only eliminating the threats, but then
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  Speaker 6: striking command and control centers and the launch sites in
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  Speaker 6: and around the Strait of Hormuz along the Iranian coast
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  Speaker 6: and on an Iranian island to the northern extreme of
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  Speaker 6: the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Says it's expecting Iran's response to its framework for a
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  Speaker 5: peace deal possibly as soon as today. Meanwhile, global health
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  Speaker 5: authorities are monitoring dozens of people for possible exposure to
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: the Hanta virus, the epicenter of the outbreak, a Dutch
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: cruise vessel with more than 100 people aboard. It's scheduled
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  Speaker 5: to make port in the Canary Islands this weekend. ABC's
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  Speaker 5: Maggie Rooley is there and tells us what happens after that.
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  Speaker 7: Police today showed us the area that they were cordoning off.
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  Speaker 7: They'll be the first area, the first land that everyone
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  Speaker 7: on board that ship has set foot on in many,
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  Speaker 7: many days. They're going to be grouping them in five
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  Speaker 7: different sections based on their level of risk. And then
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  Speaker 7: they'll be loaded into buses that are under military guard,
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  Speaker 7: taken to an isolated area at an airport.
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  Speaker 5: And then.
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  Speaker 7: Flown to their home countries.
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  Speaker 5: Some better than expected jobs numbers out today from the
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  Speaker 5: Labor Department, which found the economy added 115,000 new workers
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  Speaker 5: last month.
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  Speaker 8: We saw the labor force participation rate go down. Generally,
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  Speaker 8: you don't want to see that happening. You want to
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  Speaker 8: see more people working. But part of the reason for
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  Speaker 8: that is because more people are retiring. So there's a
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  Speaker 8: big demographic story here. People age 55 and older are retiring.
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  Speaker 8: You also have the workforce shrinking because there are not
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  Speaker 8: as many immigrants working right now.
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  Speaker 5: ABC's Elizabeth Schulze reporting. You're listening to ABC News.