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The Ron Verb Show - 5pm Hour Friday, 08/21/26 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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Speaker 2: Welcome, 505 NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Ron Verb, 83 degrees on
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Speaker 2: this Friday, August 21st. We're always glad when the weekend
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Speaker 2: is here. All right, Alec, go ahead with your conversation.
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Speaker 3: What I'm saying is if they're buying longer-term debt back,
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Speaker 3: they've got to do something. So they're issuing shorter-term debt.
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Speaker 3: It's the Treasury doing it now, when we always thought
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Speaker 3: about quantitative easing or money printing, where the Fed would
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Speaker 3: usually do it. Now, Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, and
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Speaker 3: the new Federal Reserve Chairman were both picked by Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: So I'm sure they're on the same page as each other.
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Speaker 3: But we haven't seen the Treasury do things like this
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Speaker 3: in quite some time. It's just, how are they going
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Speaker 3: to do anything with all this shorter-term debt? And I
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Speaker 3: know I've said this before. People always ask, well, how
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Speaker 3: are they going to fix this? What are they going
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Speaker 3: to do? One of the things that the Treasury Secretary
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Speaker 3: said when they were doing this change in the buybacks
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Speaker 3: is that they don't see the national debt going any higher. Now,
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Speaker 3: are those just talking points?
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Speaker 4: What's he going to say?
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Speaker 3: I see it going to $ 50 trillion, $ 60 trillion. But
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Speaker 3: if they buy back all the long-term debt and build
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Speaker 3: new short-term debt, they're going to have to sell that
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Speaker 3: to somebody. And that's where these stable coins are coming in.
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Speaker 3: And I know you don't like to hear about it,
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Speaker 3: but I just want to be on record that Because
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Speaker 3: I think this is going to happen extremely quickly, too,
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Speaker 3: where the short-term interest, short-dated bonds are going to need
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Speaker 3: to be sold to somebody. And the only way they
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Speaker 3: could sell them are through the stable coins because they're
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Speaker 3: backed one-to-one. Everybody in the entire world is going to
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Speaker 3: want to use these stable coins because they're U.S.
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Speaker 5: Dollars.
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Speaker 3: And that's how they're going to fix the problem. I
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Speaker 3: don't know how long that's going to be the fix for.
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Speaker 3: But it's going to happen quickly because stable coins are
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Speaker 3: a law passed last year, the Genius Act, September 15th
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Speaker 3: at 2 o'clock is a big day because the Senate
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Speaker 3: will vote on the next bill, which is the Clarity Act.
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Speaker 3: And if that goes through, the stable coins are going
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Speaker 3: to just take off. And that's how they're going to
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Speaker 3: fix that debt problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you really look at some of
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Speaker 2: the economic news, I mean, it is troubling, would you
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Speaker 2: not agree, when you take a look at the situation
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Speaker 2: in Japan and what you're talking with, with the buyback
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Speaker 2: and where was I with this stuff with Walmart?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I mean, those are, you know, I'm, I'm zooming
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Speaker 3: way out, you know, from all that.
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Speaker 2: No, I know. I got what you're saying. You're looking
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Speaker 2: at the long game as they say.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I mean, there's no solutions. There's only trade-offs for
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Speaker 3: all this moving forward, but it's just, it's interesting how
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Speaker 3: quickly a lot of these things are moving and changing
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Speaker 3: and and nobody really notices because, like you said, you know,
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Speaker 3: we live our lives, and what are you supposed to do?
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Speaker 3: But my generation is trying to be the one who
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Speaker 3: goes to Florida for four months in the winter, you know,
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Speaker 3: and it's getting harder and harder to do that. We
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Speaker 3: talked about that before, and I just don't know where
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Speaker 3: the solution is going to come from. I'm hoping that,
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Speaker 3: you know, something happens, something gets fixed, but I just
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Speaker 3: don't think it's going to happen without some kind of
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Speaker 3: calamity moving forward.
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Speaker 2: I would agree with you when you say calamity. As
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Speaker 2: I was reading here, Walmart is implementing temporary price cuts,
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Speaker 2: speedy e-commerce offerings, and expanded meal solutions to attract customers.
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Speaker 2: A Q2 comps growth. Let's see. Basically, business was down
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Speaker 2: is what they're saying. This was the lowest growth. So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, when Walmart's got some issues, you know things
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Speaker 2: aren't going good for Joe Bagadonis.
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Speaker 5: It's just not. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, when you get right to it, Walmart's pretty
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Speaker 3: much a branch of the government. I mean, if they
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Speaker 3: didn't take government subsidies from SNAP benefits, basically welfare, if
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Speaker 3: you couldn't go in there and use basically your food stamps,
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Speaker 3: I mean, grocery there would just plummet. I mean, most
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Speaker 3: of the people buying stuff on there are not typically
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Speaker 3: buying the essentials. Most of the people going in there
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Speaker 3: are buying Doritos. Mountain Dew, all those things. So if
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Speaker 3: you couldn't get government benefits to buy those things, the
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Speaker 3: Walmart sales would just plummet if they didn't have that backing.
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Speaker 2: You know, my wife bought a bag of Doritos the
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Speaker 2: other day, and I forget which flavor it was, but God,
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Speaker 2: it's addictive. Don't be making fun of it.
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Speaker 3: Have you had the naked Doritos?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: No, if you look at the ingredients, they're just... There's
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Speaker 3: like three ingredients, and it makes you think to yourself,
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Speaker 3: why did they make the other Doritos? It's because they're
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Speaker 3: chemically designed so that when you put it in your mouth,
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Speaker 3: the flavor goes away quickly, so you want to put
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Speaker 3: another chip in your mouth.
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Speaker 2: You are spot on on.
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Speaker 4: That.
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Speaker 2: The ones she bought were in a blue bag.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you probably ate half the bag. And when I
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Speaker 3: mean half the bag, the entire bag, because half of
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Speaker 3: it is there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you start on those damn things. You are 100% right.
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Speaker 2: Let's say you grab a handful and put them on
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Speaker 2: your plate. And then when you're done with it, you
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Speaker 2: do want to grab more because you're right. The taste
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Speaker 2: is so good and it goes away so fast.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Damn.
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Speaker 3: That's been engineered. That's American ingenuity right there. Now, Ron,
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Speaker 3: going back to these flock cameras, I actually found somebody
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Speaker 3: who is in agreement with you.
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Speaker 2: You really? I'm shocked.
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Speaker 4: Yes. Did you see the video? Yeah, Darth Vader.
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Speaker 3: The guy goes to the township meeting because everybody's there
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Speaker 3: saying that they don't want the flock cameras in their town.
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Speaker 3: And the guy goes up, and he's dressed as Darth
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Speaker 3: Vader and gives a great speech on why he wants
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Speaker 3: more flock cameras.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for him. I really am.
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Speaker 4: It's... Ron Vader.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ron Vader. And I tell you, my... Son, the
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Speaker 2: police officer, says some of this stuff people are saying
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Speaker 2: is just so damn ridiculous, he says. I mean, it
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Speaker 2: is really a tool for law enforcement. And there are
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Speaker 2: a lot of bad people that are out there that
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Speaker 2: are on the run or committed serious crimes that can
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Speaker 2: be coming into your community and things. They don't have
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Speaker 2: time to deal with whether or not you're going to
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Speaker 2: Walmart or going to Five. They could care less about that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's ridiculous. Yeah. All right. So we shall
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Speaker 2: see what happens with the economy. I'm not optimistic at
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Speaker 2: all right now. Do you know in the last couple
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Speaker 2: of days, do you know how many people outside of
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Speaker 2: this broadcast– that I've talked to have said the same
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Speaker 2: thing to me about filling up their vehicle and how
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Speaker 2: much it costs. You know, and people won't act like, well,
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Speaker 2: the gas prices, it's not just gas prices. Well, it's
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Speaker 2: not just gas prices, but it is because I've heard
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Speaker 2: from just in the last three or four days, people
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Speaker 2: call and say, Jesus, I put this gas in the
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Speaker 2: car and it was $ 72 or $ 73. Just the sticker
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Speaker 2: shock from that. And then people are starting to say,
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Speaker 2: you know, those stickers where they put Biden on the pump,
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Speaker 2: I did this. Now, I guess they're starting to produce
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Speaker 2: the Trump image with I did that. You know what
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Speaker 2: I mean? As far as the gas prices go. There's
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Speaker 2: a big problem. The Democrats are.
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Speaker 3: Smarter with their stickers. Have you ever seen a Trump
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Speaker 3: I did this sticker? If you try to peel it off,
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Speaker 3: it peels away from Trump's picture and him saying I
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Speaker 3: did this. There's a little perforation around it, so it's
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Speaker 3: harder to take off.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: All right, Alec. You have a wonderful weekend. I appreciate you.
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Speaker 4: You got it.
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Speaker 2: All right. Hello?
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Speaker 4: Good evening, Ron. How are you?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad it's Friday. Let me put it that way. Boy,
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Speaker 2: all these people with our spirited debates. Oh, boy. Am
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Speaker 2: I getting a lot of feedback on that. How about that?
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Speaker 4: Oh, good. Well, good, because... I mean, it's great that
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Speaker 4: people are paying attention, and I think we've got to
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Speaker 4: have these debates because on some of this stuff, you're
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Speaker 4: just wrong.
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Speaker 2: But I think on some of this stuff, you know
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Speaker 2: what I think? On some of this stuff, you're wrong.
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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, that's not right.
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Speaker 2: I know, because you're wrong. But, you know, folks, really,
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Speaker 2: that's what makes America spin to a large extent. But
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Speaker 2: these are major problems that need to be solved. And
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, like I will say as we begin
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Speaker 2: our conversation, and I'll say it again, folks, I don't
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Speaker 2: see a quick way or an easy way out of
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Speaker 2: this situation in Iran. I mean, you know, it wasn't
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Speaker 2: that long ago he's talking about bombing them, the smithereens,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to keep bombing them and all this stuff. Well,
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Speaker 2: now we've given up on that. We stopped that. Now
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Speaker 2: we're going to destroy them. Now we're on the economic
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Speaker 2: D-Day or whatever he said the other day, and it's like,
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Speaker 2: I've been through the– they won an agreement. We're close
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Speaker 2: to an agreement. Time after time after time after– we
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Speaker 2: got this ceasefire and they won an agreement. Now we
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Speaker 2: got another ceasefire. Now we're going to go back to
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Speaker 2: bombing them. We're going to bomb them forever. Now we're
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Speaker 2: on this economic thing. And I tell you, I think
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Speaker 2: the patience of the American people is wearing very thin
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Speaker 2: on this mess that he did create, that he created.
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Speaker 2: Let's give him the credit for doing it. Because he'll
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Speaker 2: take the credit if it turns around all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: but he also gets the blame.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting. I talked to somebody today who said
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Speaker 4: they're happy to pay more for gasoline if it means
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Speaker 4: that we end up permanently ending this.
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Speaker 2: I have not talked to many people that say that
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Speaker 2: at all. I'm just going to tell you right.
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Speaker 4: Off the bat. That's the first one. I haven't had
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Speaker 4: this with more than one or two people since the
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Speaker 4: beginning of this war. But I was surprised this far
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Speaker 4: in to hear it. but the position is you know
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Speaker 4: i'm happy to pay because this threat was real and
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Speaker 4: you know and and it just, it's, there's a very
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Speaker 4: small segment of the population that believes that still. And
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Speaker 4: I think most people understand the reality of it, which
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Speaker 4: is what we talked about back in March.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe you believed it. I don't believe you
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Speaker 2: believe it to this day, because if I remember my
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Speaker 2: conversation when you're talking about Telsey and what her own
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Speaker 2: intelligence was saying at the time.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: This Russian... I'm sorry, I was going back to the
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Speaker 4: Ukraine thing. No, no, this is absolutely... I do not
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Speaker 4: believe a word of it. I don't think we had...
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Speaker 4: a pressing nuclear threat i think uh... as we talked
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Speaker 4: about extensively last year a year ago you know uh...
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Speaker 4: or and military and and police capabilities are really predominantly
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Speaker 4: faced internally when they had a chance to go after
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Speaker 4: israel they sent missiles but they really didn't do that
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Speaker 4: much damage uh... and you know they just i don't
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Speaker 4: believe they were real threat i think this was a
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Speaker 4: a mistake to go into this war and yet i
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Speaker 4: haven't changed i haven't shifted positions on that one bit.
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Speaker 2: What's the exit ramp, though, for him? I mean, he
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Speaker 2: has kept changing everything. We're going back to bombing. Now
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Speaker 2: we're off to bombing. We're going to this economic D-Day. And,
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Speaker 2: of course, people are saying, well, wait a minute. What's
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Speaker 2: the out here? This can get a lot worse economically
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Speaker 2: for not just the United States and oil prices, but
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Speaker 2: there's chemicals involved in this. I got an email from
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Speaker 2: a manufacturing guy that was saying, They weren't able to
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Speaker 2: get something that they needed in their business. And the
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Speaker 2: effect that this is going to have on business is productivity,
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Speaker 2: not being able to get some of these chemicals.
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Speaker 4: It's a real problem.
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Speaker 2: And it's getting worse, not better, is what this guy
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Speaker 2: is saying.
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Speaker 4: Here's the thing, though. A lot like going through the
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Speaker 4: negotiations on the tariffs. You know, when you're going, you're
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Speaker 4: taking the whole world through these negotiations. And Trump's the
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Speaker 4: most transparent guy ever. He does it on social media.
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Speaker 4: So we're all going down this, you know, incredible, you know,
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Speaker 4: thrust Perry, thrust Perry negotiation with this country. And we
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Speaker 4: talked about this extensively. This is not a homogenous country
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Speaker 4: where everybody is the same and believes the same. It
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Speaker 4: is a country with its own stresses. different groups, some
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Speaker 4: that would absolutely fight this thing to the last Iranian,
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Speaker 4: and others that would like to cut a deal. We
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Speaker 4: know all that. But the American people are accustomed to
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Speaker 4: getting packaged news that comes to them sanitized and false.
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Speaker 4: They're very accustomed to being lied to. And here it's
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Speaker 4: just being blasted out right through the process. So I
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Speaker 4: understand the frustration. And remember, the American people sat by
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Speaker 4: and watched 20 years of war, fought in the Middle
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Speaker 4: East on false pretenses, and didn't care a whip because
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Speaker 4: their gas price didn't go up. So the reality is
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Speaker 4: we have very little patience when, in fact, we're being
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Speaker 4: directly affected by these wars that we've been running through
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Speaker 4: your entire life. But, you know, post-World War II, Vietnam
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Speaker 4: was a bit of a price, right? People knew people
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Speaker 4: who died in Vietnam. But since then, we haven't known
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Speaker 4: people who've died, and we aren't paying a price for it.
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Speaker 4: We just put it on a credit card and say, hey,
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Speaker 4: let the grandkids worry about it. and we just keep
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Speaker 4: going to the Outer Banks for vacation. So, you know,
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Speaker 4: this is one where the bill came right away, so
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Speaker 4: suddenly people are impatient and alarmed. Look, I'm not happy
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Speaker 4: with this gas price. I'm not happy that he started
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Speaker 4: this war, but we are now in it. And this
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Speaker 4: point you made earlier about the economic side, that's not new.
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Speaker 4: We have been going after them economically since before the
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Speaker 4: war started and more intensely during the war. And with
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Speaker 4: the blockade, as we talked about extensively, that took that
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Speaker 4: economic battle to a fever pitch. Because when we took
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Speaker 4: $ 400 million or $ 500 million a day out of their system...
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Speaker 4: We put a tremendous amount of pressure on Iran, and
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Speaker 4: now they've got hyperinflation. They can't make payroll. I mean,
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Speaker 4: this thing is getting really rough inside. Now, you take
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Speaker 4: somebody like Besant, and if you listen to what he said,
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Speaker 4: that guy scares me. I mean, he is absolutely just clear,
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Speaker 4: and he's going to do what he says he's going
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Speaker 4: to do. He is absolutely going to throw every lever
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Speaker 4: he can throw, whether it be a direct economic... attack
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Speaker 4: on them or whether it be working to stop others
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Speaker 4: from helping them, he's going to throw every lever he
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Speaker 4: can throw to put even more economic pressure on Iran.
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Speaker 4: And we always think about this as if it's Afghanistan.
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Speaker 4: You know, a bunch of people living in caves, caves
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Speaker 4: hurting goats and old mud huts. That's not what this is.
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Speaker 4: This is a sophisticated police state, and tyranny is expensive.
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Speaker 4: They need the money. They're not paying some of their police.
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Speaker 4: They're not paying government workers. I mean, they're in trouble.
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Speaker 4: And so we pretend that every time we bomb them,
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Speaker 4: they get stronger. Every time we stop a shipment of oil,
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Speaker 4: it makes them stronger. When we deny them economic success,
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Speaker 4: it makes them stronger. This is the craziest thing I've
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Speaker 4: ever seen American people get duped into, this every day
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Speaker 4: they get stronger idea. It's ridiculous. You know, if that's
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Speaker 4: the case, they should want us to bomb.
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Speaker 2: Them 13,000 more times.
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Speaker 4: Now, I think... that what hasn't laid out is a
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Speaker 4: smart strategy not to begin the economic war but the
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Speaker 4: ramp up the economic war however I still think we
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Speaker 4: should be doing everything possible on the eastern side of
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Speaker 4: the country, not the Gulf side, but the other side,
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Speaker 4: to make sure that all those rail lines and roadways
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Speaker 4: are shut down, because it's not enough to support the economy,
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Speaker 4: but they can still ship in and out materials, including oil,
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Speaker 4: on that back side, on that eastern side, into those
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Speaker 4: adjoining nations. And nothing should be moving on the Caspian Sea,
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Speaker 4: nothing through that sort of northeast area. This should all
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Speaker 4: be locked down as hard as it can be. So
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Speaker 4: I'm not particularly happy that we are holding off on
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Speaker 4: the kinetic side again. However... They have this incredible arsenal.
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Speaker 4: And this is one of the most, this has been
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Speaker 4: a fantastic execution by the United States. You got to,
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Speaker 4: you know, putting in the blockade, stopping all the shipments,
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Speaker 4: bombing the 13,000 targets, taking complete control of the airspace
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Speaker 4: and water. It's a remarkable execution. I don't understand why
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Speaker 4: people keep saying it's not. It's been incredible. and resisting
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Speaker 4: the push of the neocons and the Zionists to put
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Speaker 4: troops on the ground, which is a massive fight. To
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Speaker 4: not deploy U.S. forces into that country is a major
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Speaker 4: stroke of, I don't know, excellent leadership. The fact that
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Speaker 4: Trump is standing up now and saying, listen, you know,
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Speaker 4: I started this thing for you, but I'm not putting
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Speaker 4: our boys in that country because we will incur massive costs,
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Speaker 4: massive losses, and our military is not positioned well. to
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Speaker 4: go into a ground war in Iran. We are not there.
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Speaker 4: It would take us a long time to get there.
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Speaker 2: This tactic will be, I'm telling you, if this drags
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Speaker 2: on and drags on and drags on, nothing good is
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Speaker 2: going to come from it.
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Speaker 4: Well, no, they've got to solve it as fast as
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Speaker 4: they can. But, you know, as we often say, the
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Speaker 4: eggs are broken, now we need to make the omelet. And,
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Speaker 4: you know, there are just a few strategic options here, right?
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Speaker 4: One is to simply walk away. Well, that carries with
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Speaker 4: it a certain set of problems that we may not
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Speaker 4: want to face. So, you know, of course, other people
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Speaker 4: are saying, and I heard it today, we should put
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Speaker 4: an end to this, this is ridiculous, let's nuke them.
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Speaker 2: I would not support that at all, or that philosophy.
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Speaker 4: No, but I'm hearing people, this started with Mark Levin about,
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Speaker 4: I don't know, a couple months ago.
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Speaker 2: He's crazy.
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Speaker 4: I'm hearing people now, oh, he's out of his mind.
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Speaker 4: I'm hearing people saying, listen, we've got to bring this
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Speaker 4: to an end, and look what we did to win
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Speaker 4: in Japan. I'm like, whoa, wait a minute, we killed..
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: And you and I had that conversation in March in
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Speaker 4: detail about Germany and Japan and the Bolsheviks raping all
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Speaker 4: those women and all the people we killed in Hamburg
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Speaker 4: and Tokyo and the bombs. This country is not in
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Speaker 4: any position to be doing that right now, and this
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Speaker 4: war does not warrant it. So that's off the table.
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Speaker 4: So I think, from my perspective, we're sort of stuck
18:31
Speaker 4: where we are, which is they've got to do exactly
18:33
Speaker 4: what Bessette was saying. I was extremely happy to hear
18:36
Speaker 4: what he's saying. I just hope they keep enough of
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Speaker 4: the kinetic side, enough of the warfare going, to make
18:43
Speaker 4: sure that they aren't rebuilding supply chains that they can
18:46
Speaker 4: use in other avenues than the Persian Gulf. They've got
18:49
Speaker 4: to try to shut up. This is a massive piece
18:51
Speaker 4: of ground. It is not a simple place to deal with,
18:54
Speaker 4: and it is a sophisticated country. Now, here's the irony, though.
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Speaker 4: We're shooting these 1,000 Tomahawk missiles that cost $ 2. 25 million apiece.
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Speaker 4: They will take us years to rebuild this thing, right?
19:09
Speaker 4: And all we're hearing about is how Ukraine is destroying
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Speaker 4: the Russian energy infrastructure and how Iran is able to
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Speaker 4: do all the things that it's doing with very inexpensive
19:18
Speaker 4: short-range missiles and drones. And these are real weapons. The
19:22
Speaker 4: fact that they aren't the most sophisticated weapons on the planet,
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Speaker 4: like a Tomahawk, yes, they're not a Tomahawk. They also
19:29
Speaker 4: don't cost $ 2. 25 million. They cost $ 20, 000. and they're making
19:33
Speaker 4: them inside Iran. You do not need sophisticated supply chains.
19:37
Speaker 4: And here's the crime. The crime is that this nation
19:40
Speaker 4: is trapped in the clutches of a military-industrial complex that
19:44
Speaker 4: refuses to allow us to go make cheap weapons that
19:48
Speaker 4: are effective. We should be raining cheap missiles and drones
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Speaker 4: down on any supply chains that they have that are
19:57
Speaker 4: still running anywhere in that country. And we can't do
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Speaker 4: it because we don't build that kind of thing because
20:03
Speaker 4: they don't cost $ 2. 25 million. This has got to change.
20:08
Speaker 4: This is, again, the idiocy of government. You know, you
20:11
Speaker 4: mentioned Walmart a minute ago, just a shift into that
20:13
Speaker 4: for a second. They estimate that Walmart's earnings would have
20:17
Speaker 4: been 0.8% higher, which is a significant number on a
20:21
Speaker 4: company that size, but for the repricing policy on pharmaceuticals. Now,
20:28
Speaker 4: wait a minute. Once again, it's lower earnings because government
20:32
Speaker 4: decided so. The government is involved in everything we're doing,
20:36
Speaker 4: and they make bad decisions, and a very bad decision
20:39
Speaker 4: is forcing us to continue paying all this money for
20:43
Speaker 4: expensive weaponry when we're fighting people who are just simply
20:46
Speaker 4: using the cheapest, most effective tool available to get the
20:49
Speaker 4: job done. If we shifted into drugs, remember when we
20:52
Speaker 4: started making all those lung-blasting ventilators that they decided not
20:57
Speaker 4: to use because they were killing everybody once we got them?
21:00
Speaker 4: Look how fast that happened. Trump got every manufacturer that
21:04
Speaker 4: could put a motherboard in a machine to get those
21:06
Speaker 4: things made. We should be making these missiles and drones
21:09
Speaker 4: at a pace that is frightening. And we're not, because
21:13
Speaker 4: they don't cost $ 2. 25 million, and no general gets a
21:15
Speaker 4: board seat for buying a $ 20, 000 drone. So we have
21:20
Speaker 4: a serious problem that has to get rectified, and I'm
21:22
Speaker 4: very concerned about that. So I think that is the course.
21:26
Speaker 4: I think what Besant said is smart. It's the best
21:28
Speaker 4: path forward, I think. On the kinetic side, they've got
21:31
Speaker 4: to maintain this blockade, let everybody else's ships out but Iran's,
21:34
Speaker 4: but maintain the blockade. And absolutely under no circumstances go
21:39
Speaker 4: in with ground forces or do these, you know, firebombing cities,
21:43
Speaker 4: destroying water supply energy and nuking them. We just can't
21:47
Speaker 4: do that. We don't have cause and we don't have
21:49
Speaker 4: the national will to do so. It will rip the
21:51
Speaker 4: country apart, our country.
21:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trump's in a catch-22. He's definitely created a mess.
21:57
Speaker 2: And look how long, incidentally. The Ukraine war has gone
22:01
Speaker 2: on and on and on and on as well. Stand by.
22:05
Speaker 2: We'll take some calls after this. News Radio 570 WKVN.
22:08
Speaker 2: News Radio 570 WKVN. Vice President J.D.
22:16
Speaker 8: Vance returned to his hometown of Middletown Friday to celebrate
22:19
Speaker 8: a $ 1 million investment in Cleveland Cliffs Middletown Works Steel Plant.
22:23
Speaker 8: The project includes $ 500 million in support from the U.S.
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Speaker 8: Department of Energy, and it's expected to employ more than
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Speaker 8: 1,500 workers during peak construction. Vance highlighted his grandfather's 40
22:32
Speaker 8: years as a welder at the plant, saying it was
22:34
Speaker 8: a great day for Middletown in southwest Ohio. He also
22:37
Speaker 8: praised the Trump administration's efforts to bring manufacturing jobs back
22:41
Speaker 8: to the U.S. while attacking Democratic policies and urging support
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Speaker 8: for Ohio Republican candidates this coming November. And in the meantime,
22:48
Speaker 8: a Wooden County man is facing charges for allegedly assaulting
22:51
Speaker 8: a woman. David Kinsley of Perrysburg is accused of attacking
22:54
Speaker 8: a woman in late June, pushing her to the ground,
22:57
Speaker 8: throwing her head first through a wall and holding a
22:59
Speaker 8: knife to her head. The victim suffered major injuries, including
23:03
Speaker 8: a fractured vertebrae. I'm Brady Hopkins.
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Speaker 1: From the A to Z, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
23:22
Speaker 2: Well, Heidi Ho, NewsRadio 570 WKBN, Ron Verb, G2. Oops,
23:27
Speaker 2: wait a second here. Hang on a second. Let me
23:29
Speaker 2: do that. Let me do this. All right. Now let
23:33
Speaker 2: me do this. All right. Let me take some calls here.
23:36
Speaker 2: See what awaits us. You're on the air. Ronnie. It's
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Speaker 2: Vince from Austintown. Vincent.
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Speaker 7: One of your oldest and above ground friends.
23:49
Speaker 2: Seems to be the case these days. Well, at least
23:52
Speaker 2: for now.
23:56
Speaker 7: And I want to I want to. Tell people how
23:58
Speaker 7: great you and little Eric was the other day after
24:02
Speaker 7: we were pushing the lawnmower down the street to my
24:05
Speaker 7: buddy's house.
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Speaker 2: You were spotted by myself and my adult son. He's
24:14
Speaker 2: not little Eric. He's 30-something years old. But anyway.
24:17
Speaker 7: And then you said, hey, do you guys need a hamster?
24:22
Speaker 2: No, I don't remember that at all. Here's how I
24:25
Speaker 2: remember it. You're pushing this lawnmower that you borrowed from
24:28
Speaker 2: your neighbor down the street because your mower broke. And
24:32
Speaker 2: I remember my son calling your phone saying, are you
24:36
Speaker 2: stealing that or what are you doing?
24:37
Speaker 5: And I said, no.
24:44
Speaker 2: You said, no, I don't. And goodbye, never call me again. Well,
24:50
Speaker 2: you know, it was pretty pathetic.
24:53
Speaker 4: Ronnie..
24:55
Speaker 2: I mean, at your age, really, with the heart issues
24:57
Speaker 2: you have, it's probably best to just... Well..
25:02
Speaker 7: The issues I have were taken care of by Dr.
25:05
Speaker 7: Hand and his staff. So I'm okay on that end.
25:08
Speaker 2: Well, that's... That's what they all say. Okay, go ahead.
25:13
Speaker 7: Have you seen any Amy Acter positive commercials?
25:20
Speaker 4: We've seen..
25:21
Speaker 7: Everything that Revet has thrown out there about she was
25:27
Speaker 7: on drugs and couldn't use the remote. Have you seen
25:31
Speaker 7: any Amy positive commercials? Or did they, the Democratic Party,
25:36
Speaker 7: give up this end of the state and say, well,
25:39
Speaker 7: we can't win there anyhow?
25:40
Speaker 2: No, I don't think, believe me, the Democratic Party is
25:44
Speaker 2: not going to give up this area. It's still a
25:47
Speaker 2: 50-50 area. And as far as Amy Acton is concerned... Well,
25:53
Speaker 2: they say, if you believe the polls, it's neck and
25:56
Speaker 2: neck or she's got a slight lead in the polls,
25:59
Speaker 2: which is a possibility. I said it early on when
26:05
Speaker 2: Tim Ryan said he wasn't going to run. I said
26:06
Speaker 2: they picked the Democrat Party should stick with her because
26:10
Speaker 2: they picked a better candidate than Tim Ryan. She's a
26:12
Speaker 2: woman and a lot of women will vote for because
26:15
Speaker 2: she's a woman. A lot of people know her when
26:18
Speaker 2: COVID was going on. And she has a very likable
26:21
Speaker 2: way when she comes across at these conversations, these get-togethers
26:27
Speaker 2: that she has. But what she stands for is God-awful.
26:33
Speaker 2: But there's people that don't... So I hope Vivek wins.
26:40
Speaker 2: I genuinely do. I would never vote for Amy Acton.
26:42
Speaker 4: They're not slowing down. I'm getting regular texts from the
26:45
Speaker 4: Amy Acton campaign asking for campaign donations and advertising her positions.
26:51
Speaker 4: I mean, they're working it hard. They're not backing off. And,
26:55
Speaker 4: you know, you're right. She's completely unqualified. But if you
26:58
Speaker 4: don't look at the qualifications... Why not? And her performance
27:02
Speaker 4: during COVID was a disaster.
27:04
Speaker 2: But she could win.
27:05
Speaker 4: How many people really understand that?
27:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, she could definitely win.
27:08
Speaker 4: She can win. She's a threat.
27:10
Speaker 5: Yeah.
27:11
Speaker 4: A threat.
27:12
Speaker 7: All right.
27:12
Speaker 4: I'll buy you. Hey, here's one point on Amy Acton,
27:15
Speaker 4: if you would. You know, a lot of people are saying, hey, listen,
27:18
Speaker 4: let's not vote for Vivek because of the H-1B thing.
27:21
Speaker 4: And I got to tell you, you know, you've heard
27:23
Speaker 4: me scream about these things for years now. I agree
27:26
Speaker 4: the H-1B thing is bad, and he seems to be
27:28
Speaker 4: maybe leaning that way. But then they say, well, let's
27:31
Speaker 4: get acting. Even though everything she stands for is horrible,
27:34
Speaker 4: we'll then have the majority in the state legislature that
27:38
Speaker 4: can stop her from implementing her policies. Well, that's kind
27:42
Speaker 4: of crazy, isn't it? Why wouldn't you go with Vivek,
27:45
Speaker 4: who you agree with on 9 out of 10 issues,
27:48
Speaker 4: and use that legislature to stop him on the H-1Bs?
27:50
Speaker 4: Because I'll tell you this, if you think she is
27:53
Speaker 4: going to oppose H-1B visas, That is not consistent with
27:56
Speaker 4: her party's agenda and execution. So you're going to get
28:00
Speaker 4: the H-1B support at some level either way. But at
28:03
Speaker 4: least with Vivek Ramaswamy, you're probably going to get intelligent
28:06
Speaker 4: economic policies, and hopefully he can start shifting this Mike
28:12
Speaker 4: DeWine problem into a real, more conservative, more active, more
28:17
Speaker 4: better policy position for a Republican governorship.
28:20
Speaker 2: All right, Vince, go ahead.
28:22
Speaker 4: What?
28:22
Speaker 7: When Vivek Barber came out for him, that won me over.
28:26
Speaker 2: When who?
28:27
Speaker 4: Vivek Barber.
28:28
Speaker 7: Don't you ever see the commercial?
28:30
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:32
Speaker 4: Great ad.
28:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. All right, Vince.
28:35
Speaker 4: It's a great ad. Thanks.
28:36
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. I'm happy to report the U.S. Supreme Court
28:40
Speaker 2: Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily allowed above-ground construction of Trump's
28:44
Speaker 2: White House ballroom to continue Friday. issuing a stay of
28:48
Speaker 2: a lower court injunction that would block the work. Roberts
28:52
Speaker 2: issued an administrative stay of a preliminary injunction entered April
28:57
Speaker 2: 16th by the U.S. District Court of putting the injunction
29:01
Speaker 2: on hold pending further order from Roberts or the Supreme Court.
29:05
Speaker 2: The move puts the case in a temporary holding pattern
29:07
Speaker 2: while the Supreme Court considers whether the Constitution can continue
29:11
Speaker 2: or construction can continue and the underlying legal battle plays out.
29:16
Speaker 2: Above ground construction can continue for now. We're all happy
29:19
Speaker 2: about that, that the ballroom construction will continue. I've been
29:23
Speaker 2: tossing and turning all night over that, incidentally. I've been
29:26
Speaker 2: very concerned.
29:28
Speaker 4: The fact that the United States Supreme Court is involved
29:30
Speaker 4: in a construction project is utterly ridiculous and it's a
29:33
Speaker 4: sign of a nation in distress.
29:35
Speaker 2: And I'm also happy to report WNBA commissioner. Do you
29:38
Speaker 2: know the WNBA commissioner is G2? Do you have any idea?
29:44
Speaker 4: I'm not sure who it is, no.
29:46
Speaker 2: I'm going to show you an easy way to remember it,
29:47
Speaker 2: all right? I'm going to give you an easy way
29:49
Speaker 2: to remember it, because if anyone says, hey, G2, who's
29:52
Speaker 2: the WNBA commissioner, okay? Now, here's how you're going to
29:55
Speaker 2: remember it. Remember, there's a singer named Engelbert Humperdinck. Remember him?
30:01
Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
30:02
Speaker 2: All right. So, Engelbert Humperdinck. And the NBA commissioner's name
30:08
Speaker 2: is Kathy Engelbert. Ah, okay.
30:13
Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you, I'm standing by with bated breath,
30:15
Speaker 4: because if Roycinda White gets to play, I will be
30:19
Speaker 4: kin watching WNBA games. I don't even watch NBA games.
30:23
Speaker 4: But if Roycinda is playing, I'm watching.
30:27
Speaker 2: Here's the problem, though. I'm afraid, folks, I confused G2.
30:30
Speaker 2: He'll think the WNBA commissioner is Engelbert Humperdinck. No, I
30:33
Speaker 2: said it's Kathy Engelbert. I'm helping you understand that. Put
30:38
Speaker 2: that in your head. She denounced those she claims are
30:41
Speaker 2: using the league to... sowed divisiveness over the topic of
30:46
Speaker 2: transgender athletes. Engelbert commented on the matter in Dallas on Thursday,
30:51
Speaker 2: a week after the league issued a statement criticizing concerns
30:54
Speaker 2: about transgender participants in WNBA. People are trying to use
30:59
Speaker 2: the league to create divisiveness, Engelbert said, while standing next
31:04
Speaker 2: to Wings CEO and managing partner Greg Bibb. We're being
31:08
Speaker 2: the center of political football for people who have never
31:11
Speaker 2: watched the WNBA, never written about the WNBA, or reported
31:14
Speaker 2: on the WNBA. From background, various WNBA players and media
31:18
Speaker 2: members condone fever star Sophie Cunningham for stating in an
31:23
Speaker 2: ESPN profile last month that the effort should be made
31:26
Speaker 2: to protect little girls from competing against biological males. The
31:31
Speaker 2: backlash within the WNBA to Cunningham's remark prompted former NBA
31:36
Speaker 2: players to ask how women in the league would feel
31:40
Speaker 2: about having to compete against men to fight out. Freedom
31:44
Speaker 2: and White declared themselves eligible for the WNBA draft, saying
31:48
Speaker 2: they identify as women. This is ridiculous, isn't it?
31:52
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't realize that Karen Humperdick is a transphobe.
31:58
Speaker 4: I thought she would welcome Royce into the league. and
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Speaker 4: recognize Roy Cinder's womanhood. This is offensive to me that
32:05
Speaker 4: the commissioner of the WNBA is a transphobe. I had
32:09
Speaker 4: no idea.
32:10
Speaker 2: Let's see. The league's collective bargaining agreement states that only
32:16
Speaker 2: players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.
32:19
Speaker 2: The agreement does not include any more specific language about
32:22
Speaker 2: men who identify as women. Clearly, Engelbert... The people have
32:29
Speaker 2: turned to the WNBA. Yeah, the last thing I want
32:31
Speaker 2: to see is men who declare themselves women playing in
32:35
Speaker 2: the WNBA. As a matter of fact, I don't even
32:40
Speaker 2: want to think about that.
32:41
Speaker 4: I think it'll be hilarious. It'll be a great time.
32:44
Speaker 4: It'll make the sport more profitable and famous. I mean,
32:48
Speaker 4: it'll be even more effective than this fake fight between
32:51
Speaker 4: all these players now. We're supposed to believe that somehow...
32:55
Speaker 4: The league can't get the refs to enforce the rules
32:57
Speaker 4: and stop the fighting. Of course they can. But it's
33:00
Speaker 4: the drama of the fighting that's drawing people to the
33:03
Speaker 4: WNBA and has people talking about it. Imagine what happens
33:06
Speaker 4: when those four giant women Those four previous dudes, those
33:10
Speaker 4: four giant women, walk out on the basketball court and
33:14
Speaker 4: start dribbling. It is going to be epic, and everyone
33:18
Speaker 4: in the world is going to watch. They will make millions.
33:21
Speaker 2: Were there ever any transgender athletes on your favorite basketball team,
33:25
Speaker 2: the Harlem Globetrotters?
33:28
Speaker 4: You know, I never really gave it any thought because
33:32
Speaker 4: I personally am not transphobic.
33:35
Speaker 2: I see. Okay. All right. You're on the air. Hello.
33:40
Speaker 6: Ron, Dick, I enjoyed what G2 said, but I'm like you.
33:47
Speaker 3: This is Amy acting.
33:51
Speaker 5: I don't know how she would, you know, with DeWine.
33:54
Speaker 9: I just don't think.
33:56
Speaker 2: It would be a good situation.
33:58
Speaker 4: You're right. It's getting kind of bad around, isn't it?
34:02
Speaker 4: Kind of bad. Yeah. You know?
34:03
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dick, from Dayton. It is getting kind of bad.
34:05
Speaker 2: You're on the air.
34:07
Speaker 4: He's right.
34:08
Speaker 2: Hello.
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Speaker 5: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Hi, good afternoon. This is Christine Bodie. A friend of
34:12
Speaker 9: mine was just driving home from Shaker Woods, where she's
34:16
Speaker 9: a vendor, and she called me because my fiancé, Nick Levinsky,
34:20
Speaker 9: passed away a week ago today.
34:21
Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
34:22
Speaker 9: Go ahead, I'm sorry.
34:24
Speaker 2: She said she.
34:24
Speaker 9: Heard his name on the radio, that you were speaking
34:27
Speaker 9: about him, and I was wondering how I could catch
34:29
Speaker 9: a recording of the podcast to keep for my own,
34:32
Speaker 9: you know.
34:33
Speaker 2: Well, they usually post it when the program is done.
34:36
Speaker 2: I have nothing to do. iHeart does that. They usually
34:39
Speaker 2: post the program afterwards. I would say to you my condolences.
34:43
Speaker 2: I mean, I knew Nick Levinsky for a long, long time.
34:46
Speaker 2: Him and I were both much younger back in the day,
34:50
Speaker 2: and we would talk quite regularly. I would see him
34:53
Speaker 2: quite often in the parking lot here. We would talk
34:55
Speaker 2: after the program and that kind of stuff. When he
34:57
Speaker 2: was a police officer and boardman, he would stop by
35:00
Speaker 2: numerous remotes that I would be at. Are you ready
35:04
Speaker 2: for this? I once arm wrestled Nick Levinsky. I forget,
35:08
Speaker 2: I was on 224. And this was when I was
35:11
Speaker 2: doing some serious physical work. And are you ready for this?
35:16
Speaker 2: I actually beat Nick. I beat Nick.
35:18
Speaker 5: Did you?
35:19
Speaker 2: Yes. And I mean, we were looking at each other.
35:23
Speaker 9: You never shared that with me, Mr.
35:25
Speaker 2: Verb. He is probably hiding it. But I always enjoyed
35:28
Speaker 2: Nick showing up in his police. He wore this beautiful leather,
35:33
Speaker 2: you know, the police leather jacket. And he was very
35:36
Speaker 2: proud of being a Boardman police officer and just was
35:39
Speaker 2: a genuinely wonderful I just thought he was a really
35:42
Speaker 2: good guy, a very, very good guy. And I was
35:44
Speaker 2: deeply saddened when I read about his passing because of,
35:49
Speaker 2: you know, I mentioned earlier Bob Bush passed away. And
35:54
Speaker 2: I was saddened by that. That happened today. And then
35:58
Speaker 2: that's on the heels of Nick Levinsky. And I was
36:01
Speaker 2: very shocked by that and saddened by that. How long
36:03
Speaker 2: had he had pancreatic cancer?
36:05
Speaker 9: He was diagnosed in late May of 2025. And he
36:10
Speaker 9: went through chemo. Then he went to the Cleveland Clinic
36:12
Speaker 9: last October for a Whipple surgery, which has something to
36:15
Speaker 9: do with taking it out of the pancreas and the
36:18
Speaker 9: ones that affected. He did more chemo. He was a
36:21
Speaker 9: rock star. I mean, we were going to Menards after
36:23
Speaker 9: chemo up in Howland. And, I mean, he was, you know,
36:27
Speaker 9: the neighbors didn't even realize he had cancer. Then he
36:31
Speaker 9: did a radiation in the spring. He had a CAT
36:33
Speaker 9: scan June 8th. It was clear, no concerns. By July 21st,
36:38
Speaker 9: he wasn't feeling good all through July. You know, the
36:41
Speaker 9: doctors kept saying it's the radiation affecting him. You know,
36:44
Speaker 9: it's a high dose. Well, then July 21st, I said
36:48
Speaker 9: enough of this. You know, something's not right. Took him
36:50
Speaker 9: for another CAT scan, and it had already metastasized to
36:54
Speaker 9: his stomach, liver, and a peritoneal cavity. But it was
37:02
Speaker 9: full circle, though, Ron, because... We would listen to your
37:06
Speaker 9: show in the afternoons, and even if I was driving
37:08
Speaker 9: and randomly forgot to put on AM, he would say
37:11
Speaker 9: put on verb, even with the polling library stuff this
37:14
Speaker 9: summer and the tax and the important elections relocation. He
37:19
Speaker 9: was very– it's almost full circle that his name was
37:22
Speaker 9: mentioned today by his neighbor who he was neighbors and
37:25
Speaker 9: friends with at Shaker Woods for up 30-some years. And
37:29
Speaker 9: she was leaving Shaker Woods today and called me and said–
37:32
Speaker 9: You know, I heard his name just now when I
37:34
Speaker 9: turned on my radio.
37:34
Speaker 2: Well, I can't tell you how sad I was to
37:39
Speaker 2: hear it. I mean, it deeply saddened me when I
37:45
Speaker 2: heard this just because of knowing him over the years
37:48
Speaker 2: and enjoying his company. And I always thought he was
37:52
Speaker 2: just a really good guy. I mean, I just thought
37:57
Speaker 2: the world of him. And then I was just set
38:00
Speaker 2: back because he was only, I think, 71 years old. Seventy.
38:05
Speaker 4: Seventy, yeah.
38:06
Speaker 2: And I didn't know that he was ill. He was
38:08
Speaker 2: always a picture of health. And a Whipple surgery, as
38:11
Speaker 2: you described, is a very extensive surgery, to say the least,
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Speaker 2: to go through all of that. And then he just
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Speaker 2: took a turn for the worse, you're saying. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it had spread.
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Speaker 4: It did.
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Speaker 2: I'm just deeply saddened by it is all I can
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Speaker 2: say to everybody on it. I would occasionally, when my
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Speaker 2: wife would drive me to Shaker Woods, I would see
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Speaker 2: him down there. and enjoy my conversations with him down there.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you how many times I would get
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Speaker 2: done with the broadcast, and I'd come walking out, and
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Speaker 2: there he would be in my parking lot. Of course,
38:53
Speaker 2: him and I work similar hours, and we just enjoy
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Speaker 2: talking to each other. Let's put it that way.
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Speaker 9: Well, he enjoyed your show, the last few years especially,
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Speaker 9: and would always have it on even at his shop. Or,
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Speaker 9: like I said, in the vehicle, he'd always remind me,
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Speaker 9: turn it on. And I could not speak while you
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Speaker 9: were in the show until I had to wait for
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Speaker 9: a commercial to say something.
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Speaker 2: Now, how long had you and Nick been together? I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that he found happiness. Yeah, nine years.
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Speaker 9: Nine years we've lived together.
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Speaker 2: I live with him. I mean, that makes me feel
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Speaker 2: good that he... that you say hell of a talented woodworker.
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Speaker 2: I mean, very, very talented man. And it's just phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: It's really sad. Life is very precious is what you
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Speaker 2: learn from that, you know, with his passing and Bob
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Speaker 2: Bush's passing as well.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Well, my condolences to you. And I'm deeply moved by
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Speaker 2: his passing. And I thank you for calling.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. You're welcome.
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Speaker 9: All right. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: All right. Appreciate it. News Radio 570 WKBN and Ron Furbuck.
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Speaker 2: I'll come back right after this. IDWKBN. She reminds me
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Speaker 2: of that. I always saw Nick Levinsky. He was a
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Speaker 2: sergeant on the Board of the Police Department. I always
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Speaker 2: thought he, if you had to mold somebody to look
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Speaker 2: like a policeman, I mean, he's just a good-looking guy,
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Speaker 2: wore the uniform well, and just, it was sad. It's
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Speaker 2: interesting that when you read some of that stuff, it just,
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Speaker 2: when I should have said to her, I just, when
40:33
Speaker 2: I read that, I was at home, and I just
40:35
Speaker 2: paused and thought about that for quite a while. All right,
40:37
Speaker 2: so with more calls for G2, let me see. You're
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Speaker 2: on the air.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, my thoughts and respects out to Levinsky's and the
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Speaker 6: Bush family.
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Speaker 2: All right, now.
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Speaker 6: And Denny Lieber's family. I just learned that last week
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Speaker 6: on your radio station. I always liked Denny Lieber. But anyhow, G2, trans-vo,
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Speaker 6: or vo or bo, I never heard that term before. Now,
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Speaker 6: how many X's and Y's in that genetic makeup?
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Speaker 4: Well, in a transphobe, I mean, like X, X and X,
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Speaker 4: Y and anything. I can't keep track of more than
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Speaker 4: two genders. Just can't do it.
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Speaker 2: You just can't do it.
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Speaker 4: OK, there's X. No, no, no.
41:24
Speaker 2: Wait a second. Wait a second. Just so you understand, G2.
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Speaker 2: Denny from Rock Creek is fascinated with Maria Bartiromo. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: she's been off for over a week.
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Speaker 4: What's the matter with her?
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Speaker 6: Is she okay?
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Speaker 2: I'm worried about her. All of a sudden, he calls
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Speaker 2: me out of the blue, and he's now got a
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Speaker 2: fascination with this woman on the WNBA, this Cunningham player.
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Speaker 6: Sophie Cunningham, yes. Just in my dreams, you know.
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Speaker 4: She's no Maria Bartiromo.
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Speaker 2: It's all in my dreams. She's no Maria Bartiromo, though.
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Speaker 4: And I guarantee that you remember the night Maria Bartiromo
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Speaker 4: was at the White House press corps dinner wearing the
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Speaker 4: long gloves. Oh, I did.
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Speaker 6: You know, she fell off her bicycle and bruised up
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Speaker 6: her arm. She got contusion. So she needed a long
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Speaker 6: glove to cover up that contusion.
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Speaker 2: On her arm.
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Speaker 6: And they were welder gloves. They were white welder gloves.
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Speaker 6: I didn't even know welder gloves came in white.
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Speaker 4: I didn't know welder gloves came in white, and I've
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Speaker 4: never seen a welder wear them the way she did
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Speaker 4: that night. She looked fantastic.
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Speaker 6: Well, if I was a welder today, I would buy
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Speaker 6: white welder gloves.
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Speaker 2: So you'd be dressing like a woman is what you're saying? No. No,
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Speaker 2: you just said it. Don't deny it. You just said
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Speaker 2: you'd be cross-dressing.
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Speaker 6: You're always trying to turn the table here. Every time
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Speaker 6: I call, you try to.
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Speaker 2: Twist the table. No, it's what you said.
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Speaker 7: So..
42:53
Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting? Cunningham and Maria Bartiromo. He's really... All right,
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Speaker 2: we better end it at that. I think so. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: You're on the air with G2.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Ted. Colin, first-time caller.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
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Speaker 4: I would just like to say that the program is
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Speaker 4: much better when you two guys are arguing and disagreeing.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: How's that?
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Speaker 2: Okay. We'll try to do more of it. Wait till
43:18
Speaker 2: we get.
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Speaker 4: Into flock cameras. Wait till we finally get a window
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Speaker 4: to hit flock cameras. It's going to be epic.
43:23
Speaker 2: All right. Okay. Maybe Monday or Tuesday.
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Speaker 4: Hey, you guys have a good weekend.
43:26
Speaker 2: Thank you. Oh, yeah. You're on the air.
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Speaker 5: Hello, Ron.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Mayor. Got about 20 seconds.
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Speaker 5: No, I just wanted to express my condolences to the
43:37
Speaker 5: Bush family. Bob was just, he was not only a
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Speaker 5: good policeman, a good lawyer, but he was a great guy.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: He was great. He's a wonderful human being. He really was.
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Speaker 5: It showed in the way he treated people. We need
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Speaker 5: more people like him, especially more police chiefs like Bob Bush.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Mayor McKelvey. You're the best. G2, thank you
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Speaker 2: as well. Have a great weekend, everybody.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Have a great weekend.
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Speaker 2: Bye-bye.
44:03
Speaker 10: The Home Valley Scrappers will be back in town this
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Speaker 10: Sunday for their penultimate home series of the season. Catch
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Speaker 10: the Scrappers August 23rd through the 25th. The first game
44:12
Speaker 10: of this series is part of the Every Sunday Matters promotion.
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44:18
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Speaker 10: a baseball hat giveaway for the first 500 fans through
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Speaker 10: the gate. And after every Sunday home game, kids run
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44:33
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44:42
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44:45
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44:52
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44:55
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Speaker 2: Portions of the following program were pre-recorded.