Latest / Ron Verb / Tuesday 4pm hour 05/26/26

Transcript

Tuesday 4pm hour 05/26/26 · Ron Verb

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKVN. Ron Verba. All right. 406 here.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, Ted, the conservative. Obviously,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Epstein happened. I mean, there's a controversy about it. And obviously,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: there are victims involved here. And I think that it's
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: rather obvious that this was an intelligence operation. So let's
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: not deny that. Hang on. Epstein happened and they're victims.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: And we're not seeing justice take place. We're seeing a
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: double standard of justice because it's the intelligence community.
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: Do we know we're not seeing justice take place?
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: How do we know that? Because people are talking about it?
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: No, tell me who's gotten convicted.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: I can't because we don't know. We don't know what's happened.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: The only person that we know that was convicted of
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: a crime was Jeffrey Epstein. And albeit, his sentencing seemed
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: to be pretty sketchy at best. But what I'm saying is,
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: you've got these politicians on the far sides of the spectrum,
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: and mostly on the far left of the spectrum. And
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: then you've got guys like the libertarians, like Tom Massey.
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: And these guys have made, you can just Google it.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: Pull out your Google machine. How many times has Tom
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: Massey or Ro Khanna threatened to read the names in
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: the Epstein list? They claim they have complete authority and
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: protection under the United States laws to do so. Well,
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: do it. Don't use that for political fodder. Don't use
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: the Epstein list to promote yourself politically. If you have
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: the authority as you claim to do it, do it.
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: Who are they protecting? War. there's no one to protect maybe.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: Like I said, you know, there could be a lot
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: of names just as we found out when the files
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: released that it was Donald Trump who called the Florida
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: police to report Epstein. But people seem to forget that
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: rather quickly. And all they want to do is try
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: to somehow connect Trump to the Epstein file. Just like
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: they want to say the shooting, the assassination attempts didn't happen.
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: We live in a world where people just make things
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: up To satisfy themselves?
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I think you have to be careful of those
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: type comments. And here's why I say that to you.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: Because it can be argued on the other side when
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: people call it a conspiracy theory. They claim, well, you're
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: making all this stuff up that it was a lab
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: leak and it was man-made COVID. It's a conspiracy theory.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: The replacement theory is a conspiracy theory. So you better
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: be careful when you say, oh, people are making things up.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they try to dismiss them as conspiracy theories.
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying anyone's making things up. If you're telling
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: us you have something, then tell us what you have
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: or shut up.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know that they have all of that information.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: If you're asking me, If you're asking me once again,
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: do I think that the government is going to be
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: straightforward with what happened under Epstein and put the information
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: out there and hold people accountable? I do not. Do
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: I sit here and wonder who has that information and
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: or videos? No. Who has possession of them? And can
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: they use that to manipulate people in government power and
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: or the rich and wealthy? I do wonder that. I mean,
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: there's there's there is no question in my mind. I'll
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: say it again. Epstein was created. It's an intelligence community operation.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: It's despicable to me. that it's an intelligent operation and
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: engaged in adult men having sex with underage girls. That's
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: despicable to begin with, whether that's the U.S.
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: It's the worst of all worst.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: I saw on the news over the weekend another local guy,
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: sex crimes against children. I'm sorry, but this may be harsh.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: People like that, they need to be eliminated from the earth.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: But the reality is, I'm saying that there should be this.
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: What I'm witnessing is a double standard of justice. I mean,
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: with Prince Andrew, I don't know if Clinton was involved.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Lutnick was involved. I don't know
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: who all was involved there.
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: And I don't think we'll ever know why.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Right, but like Larry Summers stepped down from his position
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: at Harvard.
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: I think some of the people, the names that were involved,
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: have faced retribution in whatever form that looks like.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: But not legally. They've been humiliated. Larry Sanders, or was
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: it Larry Sanders or Summers, I think.
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: Because you went to dinner with a guy and hung
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: out with him doesn't mean you're a criminal. Doesn't mean
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: that you engaged in the second time.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: That's correct.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: They were found guilty in the arena of public perception
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: because they hung out with the guy. They were friends
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: with the guy. That's all. There's no evidence of them
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: doing anything other than that. So these guys, Massey and
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: Ro Khanna.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: You don't know that, though. You don't know that because
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: we haven't seen. We don't know. Ro Khanna and.
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: Massey have said, I'm going to Google it and I'll
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: send it to you. I'll email you the article.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Listen, if you think I'm going to sit here and
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: support people that don't want to release anything or don't
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: want to get to the bottom of this, I will not. Listen,
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: I don't care if they're Democrats.
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: You're just as complicit as the other ones.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans. I believe
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: this information is being... I agree. I'm not going to
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: sit here and say Massey should go do this or
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: this guy should go do that. It comes back to
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: where are the attorney generals to deal with this? What
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: happened with Pam Bondi? What happened to the current guy?
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: What happened to Garland? What happened under Biden administration or
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: under Trump? It's Republicans and Democrats. And that tells me
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: that you'll never get to the bottom of it, which
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: also tells me there's a double standard of justice, which
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: also tells me the victims will never get the justice
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: that they are deserving, which I find despicable. I don't.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to sit there and point fingers
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: at the people that wanted out there.
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: More horrendous than crimes against.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're trying to you're trying to tarnish the
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: people that are saying, hey, you people in power, put
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: this information out here. Well, I'm not going to blame them.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: They're saying to the attorney general, Pam Bondi changed her
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: story in a blink of an eye. What the hell happened?
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: They're telling us Pam Bondi lied. They're telling us President
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: Trump is covering something up. So they have proof and evidence.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: They have to have proof and evidence to say that, right?
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: So tell us what you know.
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: I think they're expressing an opinion. Some people might believe
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: that to be true. And I don't know. Listen, I
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: can't sit here and say to you, I know 100%
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: Trump was involved or wasn't involved. I don't know. You know,
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, remember, remember Elon Musk said when he was
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: in his feud with Trump, he says Trump will never
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: release the Epstein files because he's in them. Am I
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: supposed to say.
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: He was in the he was in the. Yeah, but
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, what did he it was disclosed that he's
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: the one who.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think that was I don't think that was
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: in the Epstein files. That's rumored. That was never in
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: the files that he was the one that was, that
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: was put out there, but I don't know what fact
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: is released.
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: I've seen it on Fox news.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: I've seen, I don't know.
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know that.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: I think that's more, I don't think that that's fine.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: That for me, then if you say that it's in
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: the Epstein files.
• 7:53
  Speaker 3: I will, I will do that. Is that my homework assignment?
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Listen, the bottom line is I'm not going to attack
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: the people. I'm going to say to everyone involved in this,
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: there is a cover-up. It will continue to be covered
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: up because somebody has this information, and maybe they're using
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: it to get things to fall in line that they
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: want these people to do.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: Would you agree with me on this?
• 8:19
  Speaker 3: Anyone who claims to know the names that are in
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: the files but doesn't tell us the names are just
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: as complicit as everyone else.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: No, I think they only know as much as has
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: been put out there.
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: I don't know. These guys, some of these congressmen claim
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: they've seen the names, they've seen the files.
• 8:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: But let's move on.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: Why I called you. Did you see the news over
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: the weekend out of Ukraine?
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: What about it?
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: The latest assaults from Russia, hundreds of missiles, ballistic missiles, drones. Now,
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: I know G2 has made numerous statements supporting Russia's aggressions.
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: And we could agree, I think, that the boundaries of
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: those countries have been changed as to where Russia wanted them.
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: What is the endgame here? Like, what is going on?
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: Why are we just allowing Russia to just destroy this country?
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying we as the United States, why
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: the United Nations is not doing anything, but what's the
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: endgame here? I was just shocked to wake up.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know that there is an end game. This
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: has gone on for years. And do you see an
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: end game? I do not.
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm asking you. I don't know. I don't
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: see it.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you remember when Trump said, if I
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: get elected, I'll solve it day one? Well, he tried,
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: but he was unsuccessful in it. He thought he could
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: reach an agreement, and obviously he's unable to do so.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: It's almost like he's given up on it and said,
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to hell with it at this point.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just surprised to see the continued attack on civilians.
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: It's one thing to reestablish the lines of the country.
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: the border that you claim territory should be Russian because
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: they're Russian-speaking people, or you can go all the way
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: back to the biolab issue if you want to make
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: that an issue. But, I mean, what's the ending? I
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: just don't understand it. I don't understand it. I thought
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: maybe the great Ron might have.
• 10:20
  Speaker 5: An opinion on that.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know that there is an endgame because it
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: just continues to go on year after year after year.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: In the Ukraine, they're arguing this is our country and
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Russia's saying this part is ours and these are our
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: people that are being tortured. So I don't know how
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: long something like that can go on as far as
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: the expense and the loss of life. I think you
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: have to reach some type of a compromise and I
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: don't think that that's I don't think it's ever going
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: to happen. I don't see it happening, and I don't
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: know that you'll see it happening in Iran either. I
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: don't know what's that.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: I think Iran is turning into a quagmire, as you said.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: That's Rich's line. That's a great description.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Is that Rich's line?
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that was a great description for it.
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: I support Trump. It doesn't mean that I endorse his decisions.
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: I support him. We're there. Do what you have to
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: do now to get it done. But my goodness gracious,
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: time is ticking. I'm starting to look at the midterms,
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: and I don't know. I felt confident for a while there,
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: but it seems like Trump tells us one thing, and
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: another thing happens.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, though, I mean, when you talk
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: about the midterms, I still go back to say if
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: you're crazy enough to vote for the people that brought
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: you this high inflation and if you're crazy enough to
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: vote for the people with that wacky social agenda and
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: to the transgender stuff. If you if that all to
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: vote for that and to bring all that back as
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: bad as Trump might be in some of his decisions overall,
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: his decisions have been common sense decisions good for the country.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: So if you have to take a look in a way,
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: the Democrats and Republicans.
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: You know me, what's the number one rule when it
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: comes to elections? Never vote for a.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: A woman.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: No.
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: Now, that would be sexist. He would never be sexist.
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: He would never vote for a Democrat. And you better
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: hope your wife's not listening to you.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: All right, Ted.
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: You'll be in trouble. You'll be in trouble, Warren.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: I'm fearless. Thank you.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: All right, Ted.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: The conservative. And Ron Furb, you're on. Wait a minute. Hello?
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Hang on.
• 12:42
  Speaker 6: Ron?
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, good afternoon.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: I don't think you're going to see a peace deal
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: with Iran anytime soon. As a matter of fact, I
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: was just looking on Fox, and they have Trump scheduled
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: a meeting at Camp David tomorrow with all his advisors,
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: so it wouldn't surprise me if they start heating things
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: up over there again. And like I said before, the
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: reason is I think you've got people inside Iran that
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: would love to make a deal, but the people that
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: hold the guns control the power. And that's why the
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: thing started. It was the Iranians who started laying mines
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: again yesterday. When we took out the two ships that
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: were laying mines, they fired a missile at one of
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: our planes. Because the people that have the guns and
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: control the military, the Revolutionary Guard, they don't want this
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: to end. Those are religious nutjobs. They would be fine
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: seeing the country go down in flames and the people starve.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: They don't care about the people. It's all about their
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: religious perspectives. and getting their 72 virgins if they go
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: to Seattle.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't sit here and tell you what percentage
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: of the country supports it or doesn't support it. I
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I genuinely don't know. I'll say
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: it again. It's a whole different culture. I can't tell
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: you that 80% of the people support it or don't
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: support it. It's hard to get a read on. Yeah.
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter because they don't have the power. It's
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: basically the Revolutionary Guard has the power.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Well, it's people with the guns.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. The gun wins the fight. So I don't
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: see that ending. But that's actually not what I called for.
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: I meant to call last week, but I got delayed
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: doing a couple of things. Did you see that the
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Board of Elections wants to put the new Board of
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: Elections office down in that old grocery store in the
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: Fosterville area, Youngstown, that old bottom dollar store?
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that?
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Well, now, there's a couple of different things. I thought
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: I was reading where somebody wants to– wait a second–
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I was reading it on one of the local news
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: sites where somebody said they would want to move ASAP,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: the voting machines, to Bev Road because of the concern
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: over water damage. Okay. I thought, let me see if
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I can find that story. And then I was told
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: that the Bev Road building was being used by the
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Green Team. So I don't know.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: That's what I was told as well.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's the case or not,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: because then I saw where... I'm trying to find it
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: as we talk. Where they were saying that somebody in
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the Board of Elections was saying, let's move the machines
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: down to Bev Road. Let me see. Let me see. Naturally,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I can't find it when I need it, but... What
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: are my thoughts? I mean, do we have any county
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: buildings that are unoccupied and available? My opinion is I
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: would put it in a Patriot building in Austintown. That
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: would be my standby. Standby with that. Just standby. Hang on.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Back in a minute with Richard Pharmacist. Should be an
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: interesting discussion. Stay tuned. 570 WKBN. All right. Back with
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Richard Pharmacist. News Radio 570 WKBN. I mean, it's a
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: great question. I mean, in general..
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Well, it's not rich.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, hang on.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Where is rich? Are you there? Wait, no, you're not there.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Rich? You got me.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: All right. My problem is that... It seems to me
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: that there's a mentality that all of this stuff somehow
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: has to stay in a city of Youngstown. And I
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: do not agree with that. These are county offices. And
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I would like to see, from a county office standpoint,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: quite frankly, I'd like to see the trustees in the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: township in which I live try to champion getting the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Board of Elections to move to the Patriot Building. I
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: don't know exactly. If it'll fall on deaf ears or not,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: they should certainly be talking with the commissioners about it
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: when we talk about getting... The Patriot Building, I think,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: is centrally located. It has parking. Yes, you're going to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: have to put money into the bottom dollar building. So
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: why not put it into the Patriot Building and do
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: whatever repairs you have to do and have ownership of
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: that building? It's centrally located and easy to get to.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: And I don't think all this stuff... This mentality, it
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: all has to be in a city of Youngstown. I'm
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: not buying it. I don't think the bottom dollar building
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: is in a city and you got to put money
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: into it. And I'm confused. Would you own it or
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: would you be renting it? I'm confused with that whole
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: concept to begin with. The city of Youngstown arguing, well,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they want to buy it for a dollar and the
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Port Authority or whatever.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, I.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Don't get it. I think it should be a county-owned
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: building that's maintained. Your comment.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I would love to see somebody do an investigation of
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: the Port Authority, to be honest with you. Me too.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Because the Port Authority is the one that's pushing all
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: this stuff. They're the ones that, and I'd like to
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: know what's behind that. Why are they pushing the whole
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Eastern Gateway project? Why are they, you know, they had sold,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: paid the Patriot building to the county, and then they
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: took it back to push Eastern Gateway. Now they want
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: bottom dollar. My biggest issue with bottom dollar is, If
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: you're in the city of Youngstown, even if you're in
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: the city of Youngstown, it's not that great of a location.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Because if you live on the north side, the south side,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: the east side, unless you live towards the west side,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: the Mill Creek Park area, you're not close to it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: There's no easy way to get there. It's miles and
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: miles from any freeway access. So for the people that
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: are coming out, let's say you live out in Smith
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Township or Goshen Township and you and your wife want
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: to go vote early. There's people who probably don't even
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: know where the heck that's at, and without Google Maps,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: probably not going to be able to find it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm willing to say there'd be a segment of
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: people who wouldn't feel secure in the area.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: That's not a good area. I mean, there's nothing wrong
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: with saying that. It's an old, beat-up, run-down area of
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: the city. I wouldn't, you know, would you want to
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: walk there at 10, 11 o'clock at night? I wouldn't.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: That's just being realistic. But I'm tired of the county
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: not treating its residents the way a retailer would. Most
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: of my career has been in retail. And you have
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: to take care of the customers you're serving, or the
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: customers will walk with their feet and find someplace else. Unfortunately,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: we can't.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: What's the most important thing in retail? Location.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, is it easy that you could have a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: four-way intersection, two major ways, one corner's better than the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: other because it's easier to get in and out. Stand by.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I want to come back. I'm going to talk more
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: with Richard Pharmacist about this interesting topic. We'll be right back.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: News Radio 570 WKVN. Now, Ron Verb on News Radio
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: 570 WKVN.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm back with Richard Pharmacist. So go ahead with your thoughts.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a fan of that location.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: From what I was told, it's pretty much Dave Beatrice's
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: little baby. He's the one that's really pushing it. The
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Republican parts of the Board of Elections don't really want it,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: but Dave is running the show, so it's his baby.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: That's what I hear through the grapevine. And I'm just
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out why he would want to do that.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: But like you said, the reason that we have to
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: keep it in the city is nonsense. Especially, you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the WRTA runs all through there. People can get rides.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: There's no reason it has to be kept in the
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: city of Youngstown. And I would say the same thing
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: about the title agency. The title agency is probably, what,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: 10 miles from the nearest auto dealer. There's zero reason
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: that those auto dealers should have to go running down
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: to the Oak Hill Renaissance building to get titles, or
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: the general public, for that matter. It should be put
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: somewhere in Boardman, in my opinion. I would even split
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: it in two. I'd put one over off of Mahoning
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Avenue in... an 11 in Austin town, and I'd put
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: one somewhere in Boardman because that's where 95% of all
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: your auto transactions are going to be. But I just
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: think it's time for some people in county government to
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: start treating us like the consumers we are instead of
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: just taking advantage of us as voters and basically saying, well,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: this is what we've decided. And if you don't like
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: it too bad.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a statement I agree with because I'm obviously
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: opposed to this Eastern gateway nonsense that's going on. I'm
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: totally opposed to that. And, I don't think there's been
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: much discussion about it at all. But keep in mind,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the bonds will be the responsibility of Mahoning County, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: yet you don't have a say-so on it, which I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: find very troubling. That it's like, oh, this is the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: decision we made, and shut up and sit down, and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: you're responsible for the bonds. I don't know. Like I say,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find that report where they were saying,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: let's move the voting machines out to Bev Road.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And, you know, honestly, you could store the voting machines anywhere.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: You just need a workplace with warehouse space that's secure.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go back. So if if they
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: do that, what is it? What is in that Masco
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: building on Bev Road and how much of it's being
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: used and how necessary is it? I mean, what county
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: buildings do we own presently that we own that we
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: can look at for the Board of Elections? And what
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: can we get the Patriot Building back, which is a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: newer building, just as Bottom Dollar was a newer building
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: for a grocery store. But the Patriot Building, let's get
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that back with... ground level, plenty of parking. It's got
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the parking. If you're going to put money in a building,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: why not put money into that building? It's centrally located.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I just think it's a better location for the Board
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: of Elections. But this nonsense, oh, we can't put it
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: in Austintown. It must be in a city. I don't
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: agree with that. And I think last time I checked,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Austintown Township is one of the largest townships around. And
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: so I put the Board of Elections there. It's easy
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: access for everybody. So why not do it? I don't
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: understand any of this stuff. I'm with you. The whole
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Port Authority thing is disturbing to me when it comes
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to this building that you mentioned. What did you do?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: The Eastern Gateway Building. That whole thing is like you
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: sit down, shut up. You're responsible for the bonds. By
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the way, here we're going to give you the Patriot
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Building back. But wait a minute, shouldn't that be a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: good location for the Board of Elections? But now we're
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: going to look at the bottom dollar where we're trying
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to tell a city, sell us a building for a dollar. Well,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: we don't want to do that. And then who would
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: own it? Would we be owners of it or leasing it?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you should own the building and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you should maintain it, and that should be the end
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I agree, but what I don't understand is with relocating
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: a lot of the county businesses, And I've said this before,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I believe there's huge numbers of vacancies in most of
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: those office towers in downtown that you could easily put
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: a lot of these agencies in. Now, the argument is
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: there's no parking. But then what that tells me is
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: you don't really need to build a building, you need
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: to build a parking deck. so that people can park
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and use downtown better.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Usually you like to park for free. There is zero
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: consideration given to the county as a whole, in my opinion.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It's all about Youngstown. And I'll make the argument. I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: think the economic hub of Mahoning County is Boardman. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: don't think it's downtown Youngstown. I think the economic hub
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: is Boardman Township. That's where all your economic activity really
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: is centered. But with that being said... I don't go
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: with this bottom dollar. I'm with you. I think a
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: lot of people don't view it as a safe area.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people would be– elderly
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: would feel comfortable going there. And I think it's more
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of a, I just think it's a bad decision. I
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: don't know what more to say about it.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: My biggest concern is there's no easy way to get there.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: It's not close to any major, you know, transportation artery.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: And it's not just, like we said, it's not just
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: the people that live in the city of Youngstown. You
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: should be looking at the county as a whole.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: And doing what's best for the vast majority of county residents, which,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, I agree with you, it's the Patriot Building.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Which are senior citizens, incidentally, the vast majority.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean, you still have plenty of transportation.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: WRTA goes out to Austin Town, so anybody in the
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: city would have no problem hopping on a bus or calling,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: you know, if you want to go vote and you
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: know you're going to do it, call WRTA. They offer
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: door-to-door transport, the last time I checked, which is astronomical
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: what it's costing them, but that's a whole different argument.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: That's another agency that needs to be revamped top to bottom,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: in my opinion.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I'll be the first guy to say I think that
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that's an That's a good building down there. I think
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: that's plenty of land and it'd make a great board
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: of elections. And quite frankly, if it isn't a board
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: of elections, it would make great offices for the township
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: as they potentially outgrow their existing facility. That's probably too
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: small for them. Where could they make that function for
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: them in a better fashion? I mean, even if the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: township looked at it for its future.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Well, like I said, you know, to me, you could
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: put the voting machines anywhere. I don't know, unless there's
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: a law that says they have to be kept under
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: board of election control and they, you know, monitor or
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: something like that. But I think if you just had
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: secure warehouse storage that was monitored, you know, video monitored
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: and stuff, you could, it wouldn't matter where you could
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: store them out in Goshen and green or in, you know,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: on the country, if.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: You want to just put it, I'm with you on this.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't disagree with you one bit. I mean, I,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Don't you find even the argument, will you sell it
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to us for a dollar, then the Port Authority would
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: own it, and then we're going to give you a
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: 20-year lease? What do you mean a 20-year lease? Who's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: going to own the building? Who are you paying rent to?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, shouldn't the county own the building and maintain
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the building?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think the bigger issue is if you
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: look at a lot of these..
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: What about some of these closed-down schools, incidentally? Of course,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: most of those are in residential neighborhoods, so that's not
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: always a good thing. But, I mean, we've got... What
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: about some of these closed down? Rich, I'm going to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: tell you what drives me crazy. What absolutely drives me crazy.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I just saw it the other day. When a bank
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: closes and some other bank comes to the community, why
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: don't they just go buy an existing bank that's already
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: there in a vault in it and open there, as
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: opposed to ripping that down and building a new building
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: somewhere else that I just don't get it. I mean,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: some of the stupid decisions I see business make as
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: far as just some of the dumb stuff that I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: see them do. We've got plenty of old banks that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: are sitting around. Not old banks, but ones that have closed.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: The thing you're going to see, in my opinion, you're
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: already seeing with all the closed Rite-Aids, that left at least, what,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: I think 25 or 30 buildings just in the county area.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: You know, and you're probably..
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Well, you got that one right in Cornersburg, a former
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Rite Aid. That's getting wrecked, though.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: You're putting the sheets over there.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Is that what they're doing?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're going to put the sheets over there. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: it's not a very big footprint, so I don't know
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: how they're going to shoehorn that in there, but that's
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: what I was told. The other thing I was told,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: and I forgot to mention, I found this out a
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: couple weeks ago, is supposedly, I think, do you have
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: curbside recycling in Austin Town like Boardman and Poland have?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: But a lot of the county doesn't. Like, I live
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: out in Beaver. We have to take it to recycling
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: behind the Township Administration Building here. There's dumpsters you can
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: put recycling in. But I was told that countywide, supposedly
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: in the next year or two, we're going to have
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: curbside recycling across the county. which I haven't read anything about,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: but I heard that was another thing that I heard
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: through the grapevine.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Well, you take a look at, I think I think
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the busiest recycling center is the one at the 9-11
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: park in Austintown I mean it's huge the amount of
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: containers they have over there and they fill really fast
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's the busiest one.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: My biggest complaint is within a day of them emptying
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: or two days at the most of them emptying, I
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: think we have eight of them in Beaver. New Middletown has,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: I forget, I was over at my daughter's house, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: the ones here in Beaver were full. I went over
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: to New Middletown. They had, I think, 15 or 20
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: of them, and they were all full. So when you
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: don't have curbside, you know, residents do like to, people
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: do like to recycle. But those containers fill up very quickly.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: So if they went to curbside, I think that would
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: be a big advantage.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: It just shows you you've got to empty them more often,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: because a lot of times people want to take boxes
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff there. But I don't know
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: if you've happened to see where recycling material was not
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: in huge demand over the years. Now, this might have
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: changed with the petroleum issue, and it might have changed
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: on plastics because of the situation going on with petroleum
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and the straight being closed. But I believe that there's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: now more of a demand for the plastic recycling. But
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: China stopped taking a lot of crap. I mean, did
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you ever look at like recycled cardboard boxes? They're pretty crappy, actually.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: They're not very good. And I was told several years
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: ago that a lot of places didn't want this stuff.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: They didn't want all the cardboard. They didn't want any
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of this stuff. So it's a big problem with getting
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: rid of it when China decided it didn't want to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: take it anymore. And some of it, I was led
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to believe, was just going to the landfill.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to see if there was ever
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: any investigation on that because my wife believes we're wasting
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: our time that most of it just gets dumped in
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: the landfill.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Most of the plastics, there's only about two or three. There's, what,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: six or eight, ten types of plastic with those little
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: chasing arrow, that triangle tracing arrow recycling thing. But I
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: read somewhere that they only really recycle one or two
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: of them. If it's not like a soda bottle, a
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: water bottle.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: My biggest, I guess my biggest criticism of the green
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: team is, is that I never hear from them, incidentally,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and they should call in and plug when they do
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: their recycling drives at the fairgrounds or whatever they do.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think they advertise the things worth a damn,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: quite frankly, to say, okay, you can bring up to
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: 10 tires at Covelli Center, the fairgrounds, or we're going
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: to take old refrigerators. I just don't think that they're
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: very effective at advertising these events so more of the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: public knows that that they're going on. I fault the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: green team for, in my opinion, piss poor marketing on
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: getting that information out to people of those recycling events.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I can go back when, I forget who the director
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: that was, I would always hear from them. And they
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: would either be running commercials on a station or they'd
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: be running commercials and calling in and mentioning to people
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: where these events were taking place. Because if somebody's got
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a dehumidifier or a refrigerator or four tires in their garage.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: It'd be nice to spread the.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Word about it. Another public agency that is poorly serving
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: its customers. Right. You know, the citizens it's supposed to serve.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: And I think that's the biggest issue between government and
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: the private sector is the government needs to start When
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: you talked about George McKelvey, he always looked at people
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: calling him in with complaints as, that's my customer.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Because he grew up in a retail environment, and that's
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: the way he was raised and taught.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: It would be so refreshing if we would start to
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: see that happen somewhat in government. whether it be from
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: the schools to the townships to the cities, the county,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: all of them. They could all do a much better job,
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: in my opinion.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: With that being said, I also can sit back and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I can say, from my perspective, I don't think that...
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I live in Austintown Township. I think it's being run
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: fairly well. I don't have any complaints with my trustees
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: or how they're running a township. It seems like everything's
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: working pretty smoothly, and I don't see major concerns in
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Boardman at this time. I mean, when you're talking, it
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: seems Boardman runs pretty smooth, and it seems Austintown is
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: running pretty smooth to me. I mean, I don't know
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: how else to assess it. I don't have any real...
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: complaints with boardman township or austin town.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Especially if you look at it from a revenue standpoint
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: because i guarantee you if you were to figure out
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: what austin town township was spending you know revenue per
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: resident that they're spending and then you look at some
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: of the place like the county or the city where
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: you know their revenue per resident is going to be
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: astronomically higher than what i think township government's pretty efficient.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, they don't have a bunch of guys. I
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: think they had 9, 10, 11. They might have 12
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: or 13 people in the entire road department in a township. Well,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that's not a lot of people to plow your streets,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and they do really a decent job anymore. So the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: road department's doing a pretty good job at dealing with
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: all the vacant properties. I can only tell you where
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I live. They're dealing with foreclosures or people who don't
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: cut their grass. They're doing a good job on that.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: They did a good job plowing the streets. They did
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: a good job at sweeping up whatever you do at
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the end of winter, all the gravel.
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: On this news, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: 455 on a Tuesday afternoon, May 26th, 80 degrees. Ron
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoning, and you're on the air.
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Ron. Thanks for taking my call, buddy.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Good to hear your voice.
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: Hey, I'll be quick. I know you've got to run.
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: One thing, they started with the free house on my
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: street today, so that's something to look forward to.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: The what house?
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: The free house. You know, you get them for $ 150,
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: but they cost $ 450.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, you mean when they're building a... That program doesn't
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: make a lick of sense to me. Let's see. We're
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: going to build a $ 300, 000 house, but we're going to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: sell it for $ 180, 000.
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: Hey, I'm retired, Ron. I'll learn how to build a
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: house now from scratch.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: The other thing is Rich is right about the sheets
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: in Cornersburg.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and I don't see how that's going to support it.
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: I grew up in Cornersburg. But there was at one
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: time six gas stations in Cornersburg. But I can't see
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: them supporting a place that big. But to get back
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: to what I called for yesterday, Memorial Day, where we're
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: supposed to remember our soldiers. Three people on my street
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: had flags on them. on their house. And that really
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: makes me mad. That really does. There happened a barbecue,
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: having family over, and that family can't go out and
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: buy a flag and put it on their house to
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: represent the fallen soldiers, to give them that right to
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: do that. And that's just a veteran. No veteran likes that.
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: A veteran likes when he's driving his car, seeing the
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: people with their flags. That means that means something to them.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: That means we were in a service for something. So
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: that was my rant and rave today.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Well, you are correct. I think people pause and think
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: about the meaning of Memorial Day in addition to enjoying
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: their family and their freedom and potato salad. How's that?
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: That's fine, Ron. So let me get back to watching
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: how to build a house, and maybe every now and
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: then I'll give you a call and give you the
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: progress report.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe you could buy it. Maybe you could move up
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, you probably wouldn't qualify.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: No, I don't have a house. I don't know. They'd
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: throw me out.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go. Take care, buddy.
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I don't understand that program. I just don't understand it.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: But it's there. They didn't ask me whether or not
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I think it's a good idea, but I mean, So
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the house costs this much to build, but we're going
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: to sell it for a loss. But yet, for you
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: in the suburbs, you've got to pay the full boat
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: if you want us to build your house. Isn't that
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be? That's how it worked
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: when I built mine. You're on the air.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Hello, Ron.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I'd like to share a little bit of an article
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I got from Newsweek magazine today about America's oil reserve.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: America's emergency oil reserve is shrinking fast. America oil stockpiles
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: are shrinking rapidly.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: U.S.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Crude inventories posting consecutive weekly declines. Exports surging. The country
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: drawing down from its emergency supplies to offset the impact
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: of the war with Iran and global energy markets. If
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: this continues on much longer, I think you're going to
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: see fuel shortages and rationing gasoline in our country pretty soon.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: It might be wise to store up some food in
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: case you're stuck at home for a while. But I
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: thought I'd share that with you.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I had just read where they were saying it could
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: be more difficult to... Well, stand by for me. Hang on, okay?
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I want to come back to you. I mean, he's
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: bringing up a good point. I want to pursue it
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: with him and more when we return.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: From ABC News, I'm Chuck Sievertson. A chemical explosion at
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: a pulp and paper mill in Longview, Washington, leaves over
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: 10 people injured and more than one dead, say fire officials.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: The injuries range from critical to minor, and searches have
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: been underway for missing workers at the pulp and paper mill.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: A tank imploded that was filled with a compound used
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: in the papermaking process. Fire Chief Scott Goldstein says there
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: is no further risk.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Crews from our agencies have looked at the hazardous materials
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: component as well as the structural concerns.
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: That is why we are saying the incident is now stable.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Emergency operations at the site are ongoing. Alex Stone, EBC News.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: They cooled down the damaged chemical tank and eliminated the
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: chance of a major explosion, say fire officials in Orange County, California,
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: at the military aircraft factory. But there's still a chance
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: of a leak or smaller blast. So not all evacuation
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: orders are lifted. Orange County Fire Captain Weihao Wang.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: The plan is to continue to have our crews working
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: on the ground just to assess the situation and to
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: continue to work on mitigating what's going on at Tank 1.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: A major rebuff to an effort promoted by President Trump
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: for the midterm elections. A proposed South Carolina congressional map
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: that could have allowed Republicans to flip the seat held
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: by Democratic Rep.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Jim Clyburn.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Has been killed by the Republican-controlled state Senate. It voted
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: to go home until after June primaries without action on
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: the map. Earlier today, Clyburn criticized the map effort.
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: 43% of the voters should have zero representation. That is
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: a challenge to the goodness of South Carolinians.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: It happened the same day a three-judge panel in a
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: federal court in Alabama ruled unanimously... that state Republicans are
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: still blocked from using their 2023 congressional map and appeals planned.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: President Trump on social media says during today's six-month physical,
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: everything checked out perfectly. You're listening to ABC News.