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Wednesday 4pm hour 05/13/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 2: guardians pick up a victory on a nice afternoon game
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  Speaker 4: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hello there.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm pretty good because the Guardians picked up a
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  Speaker 2: victory today. So that's not a bad day. That's a
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  Speaker 2: good day. It's JJ the Liberal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is. It's a good day. My pirates are
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  Speaker 5: doing well also, and it's a nice day. It turned
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  Speaker 5: out to be a nice day. It was a little
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  Speaker 5: nasty this morning, and I don't do well when it rains, right?
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  Speaker 5: I get little aches and pains and stuff, and kidneys
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  Speaker 5: bother me a little bit and that, but you took
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people to change at you yesterday, my friend.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: You knocked them right out of the.
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  Speaker 5: Park, you know that.
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  Speaker 3: Listen....
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you saying that. And it doesn't– I go
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  Speaker 2: back to say it again today, and I'll say it always.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not here as a cheerleader for anybody. What I
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  Speaker 2: see going on as far as this whole situation is
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  Speaker 2: troubling to me. Listen, I think we got big problems
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  Speaker 2: with our economy as a result of the situation that
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  Speaker 2: he's got going on in Iran. And I sit back, JJ,
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  Speaker 2: and often I wonder if he would have never got
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  Speaker 2: involved in this. I say it again. I think Trump
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  Speaker 2: got involved in this because he was sold this from Israel.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why he got involved in this situation. And
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  Speaker 2: this is going on. These are my views that he
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  Speaker 2: got involved because of Israel. This is going on much
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  Speaker 2: longer than he thought it would go on. I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe he ever thought it would go on this long.
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  Speaker 2: It's continuing to go on much longer than he thought
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  Speaker 2: it would go on. Iran isn't rushing off to the
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  Speaker 2: settlement table. Where they're saying, okay, we've pretty much dropped
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  Speaker 2: that bunker buster in the past. We bombed the living
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  Speaker 2: hell out of them. They should be tucking their tail
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  Speaker 2: between their legs and coming to the negotiating table. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it appears they're not... willing to do that or it's
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  Speaker 2: certainly not willing to accept the terms. So they talk about, okay, well, maybe, well,
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  Speaker 2: I just have to bomb them some more. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that that's going to accomplish the goal or not.
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  Speaker 2: So I sit here and I say to myself, all
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  Speaker 2: this is going on. If we would have never got
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  Speaker 2: involved gang in this from the very beginning, can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine where we would have been economically speaking? Gas was
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  Speaker 2: about two 50 a gallon. The economy was going on.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was going in the right direction and, As a
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  Speaker 2: result of our economy, inflation was going down, gas prices
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  Speaker 2: were down, things were going in the right direction. Solely
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  Speaker 2: as a result of this action that Trump decided to
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  Speaker 2: do in the Middle East, things have done a 180.
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  Speaker 2: High gas prices are back. I see them today like 450,
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  Speaker 2: but they're still high gas prices. When they were 250
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  Speaker 2: and inflation is back. And just I mean, he's destroyed
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  Speaker 2: his own economic recovery. So I'm not supposed to sit
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  Speaker 2: here and say that a guy that's meaning that, as
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  Speaker 2: I always emphasize, that doesn't mean I'm a vote for
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  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown or a Democrat. It's just my observation that
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  Speaker 2: the guy destroyed his own economic recovery by doing this.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's going to take a while to
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  Speaker 2: get it back on track. And I think this is
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  Speaker 2: very painful for large portions of this country. Those who
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  Speaker 2: think it isn't are as out of touch as Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden and the Biden administration was when they were saying
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  Speaker 2: the same things that we were all critical of. When
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  Speaker 2: this was going on under Biden, we were all critical
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  Speaker 2: of it, about the inflation and what was all happening. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the same thing applies now. Equally as critical as far
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  Speaker 2: as the attack on your wallets with the cost of energy,
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  Speaker 2: with the cost of inflation, and what that's doing, and
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  Speaker 2: we shall see. I mean, I can't help it if
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  Speaker 2: people get pissed off as a result of it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not a cheerleader. I'm not going to sit here and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: it was okay to criticize Biden's high gas prices and inflation,
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  Speaker 2: but I shouldn't criticize Trump's high gas prices and inflation, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because of decisions he made. He can't lay this on
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. This is all him right now. And who
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  Speaker 2: knows how much longer this thing's going to go on.
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  Speaker 6: What he needs is people like you in his administration,
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  Speaker 6: which are supportive, and saying, hey, listen, I want you
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  Speaker 6: to succeed.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're on the right path. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 5: need yes-men. And that's the thing that a person who
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  Speaker 5: runs a business or a person who runs a family,
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  Speaker 5: a person that is in any position of power, you
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  Speaker 5: need people to be constructive criticism or to say that,
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  Speaker 5: like I told you many months ago, and I don't
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  Speaker 5: think it was based on my opinion, but I told
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  Speaker 5: you at one time that you can support somebody, support
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  Speaker 5: their views, support their objective, but also say you're not.
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  Speaker 5: Doing it the proper way, and that can be positive.
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  Speaker 5: And the thing is, is that, you know, I hear,
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  Speaker 5: and again, I'm not going to pick on people, but
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  Speaker 5: I hear Bubba Ganesh, and I hear, yesterday, I was
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  Speaker 5: very disappointed in Ted again. He was, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad his leg is doing better, but now, you know, just,
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  Speaker 5: he was, yeah, you're not holding any, any, you're not
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  Speaker 5: holding any, you know, Fire, for us, you're not holding
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  Speaker 5: a lantern for us. You always are critical of us
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  Speaker 5: and critical of my thinking and the things that I,
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  Speaker 5: my views, because you want to make it, you want to,
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  Speaker 5: that's the whole idea of this program and the whole
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  Speaker 5: idea of what our country is based on. And I
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  Speaker 5: just saw that he disappointed me once again, saying that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that we misunderstood him.
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  Speaker 2: No, we didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I looked at it and listened to it three more
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  Speaker 5: times today, and no, that wasn't the case. The lady said,
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  Speaker 5: because of the war, have you been thinking about how
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  Speaker 5: this is affecting the American people? He wasn't, you know,
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  Speaker 5: beating around the bush. He wasn't whatever, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 5: you could come up with. It wasn't the case. And
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  Speaker 5: then for him to say that, you know, that you
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  Speaker 5: and I are, you know, that you think that you're
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  Speaker 5: leading me to believe this or believe that doesn't understand
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  Speaker 5: it just because I'm a Democrat doesn't make me stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And that's a good point. Let me just put
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  Speaker 2: this out there. It doesn't matter what he said yesterday
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  Speaker 2: or not. I'm just dealing with the reality of it.
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  Speaker 2: And here is the reality. Perhaps the neocons want to
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  Speaker 2: sell everybody on this particular situation that we're in now.
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  Speaker 2: And many people were most of these people that are
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  Speaker 2: talking about this situation weren't even remotely concerned or worried
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  Speaker 2: about Iran and a nuclear threat at all. Till the
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  Speaker 2: media dwelled on it and the neocons put out this information.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't staying up at night worried about Iran, worrying
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  Speaker 2: about the nuclear weapon. I mean, we did the bunker
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  Speaker 2: buster that was supposed to be the end of it.
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  Speaker 2: Then we dropped all of this bombing and we're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to really have wiped out all of their stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: now they're talking about, well, they're still not willing to
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  Speaker 2: reach an agreement. So we're just going to have to
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  Speaker 2: bomb them more. Well, OK, how much more are you
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  Speaker 2: going to bomb them? and what makes you think that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be successful. So I just look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Fox News keeps saying, well, they want to make a deal,
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  Speaker 2: a deal's eminent, and that hasn't happened for weeks that
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  Speaker 2: they keep saying that. You're blowing smoke. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: and you can't criticize. You can't say, listen, Trump was
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  Speaker 2: talked into this by Netanyahu and by Israel, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why we got into this. that Trump's not going to
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  Speaker 2: admit that this has gone on longer than he thought
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  Speaker 2: it would go on and it's getting difficult to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: how to end this or get out of this and
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  Speaker 2: is it okay is it okay if this goes.
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  Speaker 5: On i didn't realize how war was or something i.
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  Speaker 2: Mean is it okay if this goes on six months
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  Speaker 2: or a year I mean, is that going to be okay?
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  Speaker 2: Because we're ruining our economy. We are destroying our day-to-day
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  Speaker 2: living for our citizens with energy prices and inflation. And
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  Speaker 2: this is because of this single action. It is because
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  Speaker 2: of this move that this is happening, and this is
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  Speaker 2: causing immediate pain to a large segment of the American population.
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  Speaker 2: And how much longer do you think they're going to
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  Speaker 2: sit there? and say, you should be worried more about
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  Speaker 2: Iran than you are your bills or inflation or what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in your household. Because that didn't work for
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  Speaker 2: Biden when Biden's people tried to blow it off as, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's transitory or, oh, it didn't work. People said to hell,
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  Speaker 2: and they voted Trump in and all the Republicans in. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you think that the same thing can't happen, and
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  Speaker 2: like I say, I would never vote for Sherrod Brown
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  Speaker 2: or Democrat, but if you don't think the public will say,
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  Speaker 2: we'll vote all these guys out and try the Democrats again,
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  Speaker 2: then you're fooling yourself. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: That's the thing. Like I told you one time, I
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  Speaker 5: think years ago, coming up to the railroad tracks and
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  Speaker 5: me seeing the crossing sign and me seeing the gates,
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  Speaker 5: I don't need to see the train to know that
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  Speaker 5: there's a possible train coming. So those are signs that
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  Speaker 5: the Republicans need to take and heed these warnings. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it bothered me that, you know, like, personally,
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  Speaker 5: Bubba Ganoush, you know, I like the guy, but, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like he was saying that, you know, that everything's perfect,
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  Speaker 5: and then you even said, well, we'll see what happens Monday,
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  Speaker 5: and then it was the complete opposite, and I'm very
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  Speaker 5: surprised that he's not learning from that, where he can
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  Speaker 5: still support Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: He can still support the executive.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: But also say that, you know, you've got to be,
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  Speaker 5: you've got to make sure that this is, this is
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  Speaker 5: a rollercoaster, and, you know, as you said, I laughed, sir.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think you make a legit point. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: my friend. I appreciate it. I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: And your fearless leader, Ron Furp, from NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like you've got to feel apologetic by saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't vote for Sherrod Brown. I'm not one of
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  Speaker 2: those people that's going to say, I'll vote for the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not going to happen. But I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to sit here and say that anything Trump does, I'm
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  Speaker 2: on it 100% and support it 100%. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: just ridiculous. I scratched my head when I saw the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats doing that for Joe Biden. And so where they
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  Speaker 2: were making all these excuses for inflation and gas prices
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  Speaker 2: and the effect that it was having on Joe bag
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  Speaker 2: of donuts. They're making all of these excuses for it.
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't matter. Because when push came to shove,
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  Speaker 2: they lost everything. They lost everything in the election because people,
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  Speaker 2: it is the economy, stupid. And people voted based on that.
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  Speaker 2: And I suspect they will do that again if we
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  Speaker 2: continue down this course. I mean, is it fair to
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  Speaker 2: say this is why I believe he got into this
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  Speaker 2: in the first place was because of Israel? Is it
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  Speaker 2: fair to say that I honestly think this is going
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  Speaker 2: on much longer than he ever thought it would go on?
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  Speaker 2: That he's shocked that they haven't given in to this?
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  Speaker 2: that he might have gotten some bad advice so that
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  Speaker 2: they keep saying a deal's eminent but one isn't happening?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, are you at the point where you don't
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  Speaker 2: know who to make a deal with because so many
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  Speaker 2: people have been wiped out? Or is it just that
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  Speaker 2: they're not about to make a deal or the deal
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  Speaker 2: that you want? And then you say, okay, we'll go
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  Speaker 2: back to bombing them more. Well, we bombed a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a lot now, and that doesn't seem like it's
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  Speaker 2: working at the present time to get them to negotiate
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  Speaker 2: with us as far as reaching an agreement. So if
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  Speaker 2: we bomb them some more, I mean, how long is
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  Speaker 2: this supposed to go on? The people don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get involved in regime change and bog down in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East again. The expense involved in it. And they
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  Speaker 2: certainly don't want soldiers deployed to the on the grounds.
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  Speaker 2: And how successful can you be at winning a military
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  Speaker 2: operation without ground troops? How successful has that been in
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  Speaker 2: the past? You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Ron, good afternoon, sir. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I am well.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just hang on. I'll let you take it away.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the reality that I'm dealing with here. I
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  Speaker 2: don't give a damn. Inflation is affecting everyone right now.
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  Speaker 2: I keep reading the CNBC and these reports and the
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  Speaker 2: percentages that they're giving out there. If you don't think
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  Speaker 2: that that isn't affecting everyone right here, right now, and
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  Speaker 2: that that isn't having a big effect, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: people are most concerned about, their life and what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in their household, they're not worried about Iran. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, what's the old saying? The path to
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  Speaker 3: hell is paved with good intentions or something like that?
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  Speaker 3: And I think you're probably right. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: he probably got involved with this thinking it would be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, very quickly over and done. I think he
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  Speaker 3: was a little bit on a sugar high after what
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  Speaker 3: happened with Maduro in Venezuela. And if you look at
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  Speaker 3: what we've done to the military, I mean, we've really beaten,
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  Speaker 3: you know, beaten the tar.
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  Speaker 2: Out of them. But they haven't, again, they haven't reached
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  Speaker 2: an agreement. People keep saying that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the problem you're going to run into is they're not,
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  Speaker 3: and they're probably not going to. So now you've got
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  Speaker 3: to come up with plan B. You know, very few people,
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  Speaker 3: if you look at the wars since World War II
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  Speaker 3: and even World War II, how many have really capitulated?
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  Speaker 3: The North Vietnamese never capitulated. The North Koreans really didn't capitulate,
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  Speaker 3: although we had, you know, that's probably the biggest misnamed
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  Speaker 3: war because it really was a war against China, not
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  Speaker 3: North Korea. But, you know, there's still an armistice, what, 50,
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  Speaker 3: 70 years later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's the older you break it, you bought it. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think, unfortunately, they broke it, and now
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  Speaker 3: they're going to have to figure out what they want
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  Speaker 3: to do with it and how to get out of
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  Speaker 3: the mess. I think long term, like I've said all along,
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  Speaker 3: I think long term, you know, you look 10 years
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  Speaker 3: down the road, you're probably going to see that this
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  Speaker 3: was the right thing to do. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in hindsight looks like it was. A complete disaster.
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  Speaker 2: Or it could be the exact opposite, where you destroyed
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  Speaker 2: your presidency, your legacy, where you destroyed the American economy.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget, hurting a lot of economies in the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the world. Because farmers are paying, if they
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  Speaker 2: can get fertilizer, are paying way more for it. It's
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  Speaker 2: hurting our farmers in our country. But you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see other areas where you're going to have starvation in
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  Speaker 2: many of these countries and major problems in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them. It's not just America and Iran. It has
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  Speaker 2: got global effects to it as a result of this decision.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by, Rich. I'll come right back to you and
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  Speaker 2: hear your thoughts and more of your thoughts. We're here
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  Speaker 2: tonight till 7. Ron Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoning.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get back to Rich. I just hate to
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  Speaker 2: see where I put those thoughts out there. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: where would this economy be if he would have never
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  Speaker 2: got involved in this when gas was a 250? And
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  Speaker 2: where would this economy be and inflation be? And things
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  Speaker 2: could be soaring right now. And that's the American first program.
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  Speaker 2: And could we be getting more people out of the
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: country that are here illegally? Just think of what where
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: the agenda is. could possibly be, as opposed to where
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: it is now with a prayer and a hope of, oh,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: this will be over soon, which I've been hearing for
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: the longest period of time. And when it does, don't worry.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Everything will get back to normal. And, you know, oil
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: prices have come down and gas prices have come down.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: And then I'm reading on some of the financial pages, oh, no,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: they're not going to come down like that because there's
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: actually an oil shortage that has to be picked up.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: A lot of what's going on is depletion of oil
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: reserves in places like China and the United States and
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: what have you, and that's what's kind of keeping prices
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: somewhat where they are right now. Well, when that stops,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: it could just be a mess that takes a while
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: to fix.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I won't argue with that. What's really kind
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: of strange, though, is how disconnected the market is. to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: what's actually happening.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: But isn't that always the case? If I said to you, Rich,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: and I've said it for years, so I've got to
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: be fair, Main Street and Wall Street are two different entities.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: They really are. I mean, I've seen it in the past.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Even under Biden, the market soared when we had horrible
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: situations on Main Street.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the market's supposed to be forward-looking. It's supposed
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: to look at where economic activity is going to be
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: six months to a year from now. and reflect that
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: in today's prices. It's anticipatory of what's going to happen
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: in the future. And, I mean, as of right now,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't look like this is going to
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: wrap up anytime soon, in my opinion. I just don't
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: think you've got anybody in Iran that can make a deal.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I think that's the problem they're running into is they
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: just don't have anybody to make a deal with because
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the religious nutjobs with the guns aren't going to capitulate.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: No different than the North Vietnamese never capitulated. The Japanese
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: wouldn't have if we didn't nuke them. You're just not
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: dealing with people that think the way we do. And that's,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: you know, most of the world is like that. So
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: that's nothing unusual. So assuming this thing doesn't wrap up quickly,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: which I don't think it's going to, you have to
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: figure economically. growth six months to a year from now
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: is a lot worse than what the market is currently reflecting.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: The funny thing is, as John Arnold always said, we
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: don't really have a market anymore. I think it's more
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: of a casino.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: It's manipulated. What John Arnold and those guys say, it's
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: major manipulation. I mean, would you not agree that there's
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of people making a lot of money on
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: this situation because they're tipped off and they're buying their
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: shortened stuff or they're getting into it? It's almost like
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: there's a two-tier system when it comes to the stock market.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Everybody else and these insiders that you see that are
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: making all these deals on inside information.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that's anything new, though. I think
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: that's been going on for decades and decades, probably since
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: the market began, actually. If you go back and you read–
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I was reading a book on– Oh, God, not Rockefellers.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: It was Rockefellers, the Rockefeller-found families. I mean, if you
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: look at some of the stuff that went on in
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the 1880s and stuff like that, it's a lot better
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: now than what it was. You know, there's not nearly
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: enough cornering the market and stuff that used to have.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: But I just think that this isn't going to end
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: anytime soon because there's nobody to make a deal with.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I think that's the issue that he's running into. But
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I would like to point out something where I think
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I'm starting to be proven right and you and G2
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: were proven wrong on something.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, I want to hear it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: And that's the war in Ukraine. Because Putin right now
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: is in a very bad space. You would think, I
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: think it was the Polish prime minister was quoted recently
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: as saying, why are we asking a country of 300 million,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: referring to the United States, to help a continent of
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: 600 million, which is Europe, Defeat a country of 160 million,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: which is Russia. That was a statement he made recently.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Why are we asking the United States when we've got
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: 600 million people here and Russia's only 180? But the
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Ukrainians have scrapped and clawed and adapted, and they're kind
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: of taking the fight to Russia right now. I don't
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: know if you saw, I think it was over the
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: May Day parade weekend that they had in Russia last weekend,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: where Putin... sort of begged Trump to get a ceasefire
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: put in place and said, you know, I think this
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: thing's just about over. Because if you start reading some
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: articles out there, Wall Street Journal, there's, you know, international media,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Al Jazeera, others, he's in a rough place at home.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: The people in Russia are really, really starting to turn
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: on him and get, you know, it's questionable whether there
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: may be a coup attempt against him or, you know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: uprising and things like that. And when things go bad
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: in Russia, it doesn't usually... happens slowly, it usually is
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you know, today it's fine and
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: tomorrow all hell breaks loose. But I think, and I
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: told you then, I thought it was the right thing
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: to do to support Ukraine. I didn't support giving them
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: as much money as we were doing, but giving them
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: the weapons or selling them the weapons. Now at least
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: we're doing it, we're selling the Europeans the weapons. So
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: it's not really costing us what it was the first
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: two years that Sleepy Joe had it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Well, what about the experts?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: That's another war, though, that's going to end up. If
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Ukraine can stand tall and survive this, and Russia just
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: sort of strikes a deal, and they'll probably keep what
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: they have but not get any more.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: How many years has that gone on, though? How many years?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: We're not talking months now.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: It's been over four years. They've actually... Russia has been
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: fighting Ukraine longer than it took them to defeat the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Nazis in World War II.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Right, so... That's how.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Long that war's going on.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: And.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: And they've suffered over a million casualties, injured and wounded.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: But look at Ukraine.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: And a country of 160 million. So you stop and
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: think about how many people in Russia have kids that
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: are in their 20s and 30s who are either coming
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: back severely wounded or aren't coming back because they're in
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: a hole in the ground.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: And likewise for Ukraine. It's a lot of death. Likewise
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: for Ukraine. Ukraine is destroyed. I mean, it's just destroyed.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And the death toll there is devastating with no end
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: in sight. And I would almost make the argument with
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: all the weapons that we provided to the Ukraine, the
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: ones that we gave them in the past and that
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: they bought from us, and with all the weapons that
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: we are using in the situation going on now in Iran...
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I wonder how our stockpile of weapons really is at
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: this point in time. I'm sure they will never say anything,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: but there's no way that you can't say that that's
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: got to be severely depleted.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: One thing both of these wars has shown the U.S.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: military is you can't take a $ 40, 000 Iranian Shahid drone,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and the Russians are using those too. Iran gave and
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: sold a bunch of those to Russia to use against
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: the Ukrainians. You can't take a drone that is costing
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: $ 40, 000 to produce and use a $ 2 million missile to
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: knock it out of the sky, especially when that missile takes,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: you know, you can maybe produce, what, 30, 40 of
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: them a month? So they're going to have to really
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: look into, the Ukraine war to me is fascinating because
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I've followed it pretty closely for the last four years.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: And warfare before the Ukraine war and warfare after the
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Ukraine war is going to be a totally different animal.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: The days of using, you know, the days of the
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: tank are done. The Russians have lost 4,000-plus tanks in
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: this conflict. Pretty much every tank that the Ukrainians had
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: is gone, and most of the Western ones.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Why don't you tell me when it's going to end, then?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: How much longer is that going to go on?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Well, then, once again, you know, the Ukrainians are not
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: going to surrender, and the Russians can't.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Run over them. They've tried for four years to run
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: over them.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: They're not going to.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: So do you think it's okay if it goes on
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: another five years?
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: I don't think it will, because I don't think the
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Russian people are going to tolerate it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: No, but my point is.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: The Ukrainians are, because they're defending their own land.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Well, it's their land, of course. Well, there's a couple
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: of different things. It's their land, and the proximity of
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: it to Russia is very close. It's much different than
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: this situation with Iran, where it's nowhere close to the
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: United States, and getting military equipment there is.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Difficult at best. And some of our so-called allies there
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: don't want us operating out of our bases there anymore,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: where they're turning on us to say, get out in
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the Middle East region. It's going to be interesting to
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: see what happens. I mean, one can argue Russia's close
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: to Ukraine, and that's their homeland. So it's much easier,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I guess, for both sides than it is for the
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: United States to deal with Iran, which is so far away.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And it's a whole difficult situation. I don't believe the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: American people will tolerate this going on a year.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. Although they tolerated Vietnam for, what,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: nine years? It took forever to get out of Vietnam.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: What was the lesson of Vietnam?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: What was the lesson of all the stuff in the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Middle East? Do you think the American people are going
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: to say, let's continue another endless war in the Middle
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: East for a period of time? If you haven't learned
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: from this situation, I don't know that you'll ever be successful.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I always hear some of these people argue, you can't
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: win an operation like this without boots on the ground. Well,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: that's the last thing people want.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: The lesson for us, I think, has to be enough of,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: listen to what Washington said in his farewell address, where
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: he said, beware foreign entanglements. He knew, just stick with your,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: mind your own business, stay in your country, and let
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the rest of the world worry about the rest of
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: the world.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You don't see China getting involved in any of this
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: stuff as far as they are concerned. They're concentrating on
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: just winning everything economically. I mean, they're not doing this
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, and I think America should stop doing
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. I mean, he has single-handedly destroyed
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: this economy at this point in time, and as this
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: goes on, it will get worse.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, the thought— The retail inflation number today came out,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I think, was 6%. The retail inflation yesterday was, what,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: over 4%. Right.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: And if it keeps getting worse, I mean, it's going
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: to be an ugly November for the Republican Party. It's
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: going to be really.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: And I hate to say this, Republicans, not with my votes,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: but I understand it if it will, because the same
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: thing happened to the Democrats when they ignored the financial
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: situation that people are going through and made excuses for it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And what did people say? No, not living like this.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. Rich, a pharmacist. You're
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: on the air.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: How are you doing, Ron? Good, sir.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Well, I was thinking, you know, just like a lot
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: of people were saying about Iran, you either deal with
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: them now while the people there are, like, protesting and
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: rebelling against them, or you deal with them another time
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: where they eliminate their protesters and the internal, you know,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: problems they have. So what do you want to do?
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: You want to give, you know... I ran time to
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: get with maybe Russia, China, get a nuke, and then
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: they attack us. They attack Israel first, and then they
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: attack us. No, they need to be taken.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Care of now.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: So it's a problem that, in my belief, is that
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: if you don't take care of it now, you're going
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: to have a bigger problem later. But, you know, to
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: compare what the Democrats were doing four years prior to Trump, they.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Were taxing the crap out of us. I mean, we
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: were high inflation, this and that.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Where was that money?
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Going?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: It was getting stolen out of Minnesota and California and
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Democrat cities like that.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: That's federal money. We all put into that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: For our benefit. You've got to tap the brakes. It's
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: getting stolen out of Republican states, including Ohio as well.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Because cities are being run by Democrats.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: You know, I understand.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: You've got a Republican state, but you've got cities that
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: are run by Democrats.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're talking here in the state of Ohio
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: and the amount of Medicaid fraud here in Ohio. And
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: this is a Republican state.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: And you have cities that are blue, even though it's
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: a red state. So, yeah, there's fraud all over the place.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: And what the Democrats did was, you know, it was
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: like on steroids.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? All that thieving they were
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: doing in Minnesota, it's just the tip of the iceberg.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: But what I'm getting at is during the four years
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: that Biden was raising inflation, they were having a good
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: time on our money. Right now we're experiencing inflation because
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: there's a problem. It's called Iran. And they were really
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: close to getting a nuke. And what do you think
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: they're going to do when they finally get a nuke?
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Have we just said, you know what, let's mind our
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: own business and, you know, get gas at $ 1. 85 like
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: it was the first time he was president? They're not
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: worried about that. They get a nuke and they come
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: over here.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: Guess what?
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: We're all going to be speaking Arabic. No, we're not.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: No, we're not. I happen to agree with G2' s assessment.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: If you believe for one minute that even if Iran
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: had a nuclear weapon... I don't believe that. No, you
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: didn't even let me finish my thought that I was
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: going to say. I didn't finish what I was saying
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: to you before you did. As he said, if you
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: believe for one minute that Iran getting a nuclear weapon
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: would launch it or do something against the United States,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: we would obliterate them in the blink of an eye.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: And they know that as well, because no matter what
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: they have, it is nowhere close to what we have
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: here to deal with that. OK, now their argument is,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: which I wish I could remember which Kennedy brothers said it.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: You have to understand your enemy and what they're thinking
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: when you get in these conflicts. So you've got to
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: first realize they have a whole different culture than you.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: They don't think like you. They don't want to be you.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: So this idea of the past experience with us. No,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I'm going to answer your question. You're talking about the protesters,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: the protesters. Well, guess what?
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: The protesters are against that real law. They actually converted
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: to Christianity there. They're sick of what they've been experiencing
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: for almost 50 years now. They're sick of what's going on.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: And now, you know, the idea was, well, hey, we'll
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: take out their armies and their military and that. Hopefully
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: the inside, you know, the people that live there, they're
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: going to uprise. It ain't happening.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Of course it's not.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: You know, a bad bill of goods. You know, in
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: other words, there's something that has to happen internally somehow.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: It ain't just us.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Well, aren't you making a lot of assumptions? You don't
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: know how many people there are perfectly comfortable with the
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: system as it is versus some of the people who
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: are not. Remember, the protesters started protesting until they started
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: shooting them between the eyes. And guess what the protesters
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: did at that point? They stopped protesting because they were
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: killing them right then and there. So this idea that
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: you still got the military in Iran– Are you going
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: to go out and protest knowing how they deal with
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: protesters over there? Are you going to go out and
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: take a stand in the street?
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: I don't blame them at all, but my philosophy is
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: let's just get the job over with.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Well, how do you get it over with?
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: 50 years of living in a cave somewhere with that
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: kind of mentality. And all they want to do is.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Tell us to go out and destroy it. Well, how
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: do you get it over with? So you say, let's
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: get the job over with.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Put the boots on the ground, but you ain't got
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: a Congress that's going to help you out there. You
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: need boots on the ground, get this taken care of,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: and put it to sleep. Because these are like people
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: throwing rocks at people that have a real military. And
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: what they've been accustomed to for the last 47 years
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: is people have catered to them or ignored them, and
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: they're used to that. And they will take advantage of that.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Now they hit a brick wall with Trump, and they think, well,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: sooner or later, he's not going to be president, and
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: we'll get somebody in there. that will just cater to
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: us all over again. But this time, we're coming. In
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  Speaker 4: my mind, that's their mentality. They think they could take.
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  Speaker 3: Us over time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here would be my speculation on everything you said.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe they can take the United States ever.
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  Speaker 3: I don't either.
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  Speaker 2: No, you just said it. You just said that's what
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  Speaker 2: you thought they would be thinking.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think that's how they think, because they've been
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  Speaker 4: treated like that, with pallets of money, ignored every time
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  Speaker 4: they kill our guys. They've killed plenty of Americans over
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  Speaker 4: 47 years. Even during the Iraq War, they would cross
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  Speaker 4: that border and shoot our guys, and W didn't answer
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  Speaker 4: back just to show us that they can do that.
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  Speaker 4: In other words, to intimidate the United States. They were
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  Speaker 4: doing that during the Iraq War. They were killing our guys.
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  Speaker 2: How has it worked out for us? Let me ask
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  Speaker 2: you this. How successful have we been in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 8: Well.
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  Speaker 4: How successful have we been?
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you just based on the history. How successful
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  Speaker 2: have we been since Vietnam? Let me go back that far.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're in Vietnam. We lost Vietnam.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Would you not agree that many people will fight
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  Speaker 2: a lot harder than others when it's their homeland, when
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  Speaker 2: it's where they live? Would you not agree with that?
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  Speaker 2: Stand by for a minute. Just hang on. I'll come
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: back to you in a minute. Talk more with him
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: and more of your calls ahead. News Radio 570 WKBN
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  Speaker 2: and run for 454 in the afternoon. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at, we haven't, when you're fighting an
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  Speaker 2: enemy where that's their homeland, their country, it's much different
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  Speaker 2: than when you're the visitor going there to try to
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  Speaker 2: deal with it, particularly when it's far away from your
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  Speaker 2: Your homeland. We saw that in Vietnam. We saw that
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  Speaker 2: in Afghanistan. We see that in the Middle East in general.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long ways away from where.
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  Speaker 4: I was at Iraq.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: We were successful, right?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know that we were successful in anything
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  Speaker 2: in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then they changed regimes, and of course they let,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: you know, Obama let ISIS take over Iraq.
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  Speaker 2: I mean... I just look, it's been a disaster in
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  Speaker 2: most of these.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, Iraq at one time was beating the
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  Speaker 4: crap out of Iran. And we took Iraq out. So
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's impossible. Not for us.
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  Speaker 3: It's not impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we shall see. I mean, as this drags on,
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  Speaker 2: what is possible is that we can destroy the American economy.
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  Speaker 2: And there's big ramifications for that, which will be of
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  Speaker 2: more immediate concern than somebody worrying about a nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 2: with Iran.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they said before this started, they were just weeks
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  Speaker 4: away from having a bomb. You know, when this all started.
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  Speaker 2: If you believe them. I mean, they also... I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the people we know personally.
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  Speaker 4: They can say that that wasn't the case.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they also told you it was done and over
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  Speaker 2: with with the bunker buster. Don't worry about it. Everything's buried.
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  Speaker 2: It's all done and over with. Well, what do you
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  Speaker 2: want to believe? Which one is the truth? I mean,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: you know, is it... Why did it change from the
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  Speaker 2: bunker buster to where it is now? Do you think it's...
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  Speaker 2: Do you think Iran is more of a threat to
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  Speaker 2: Israel or to the United States? I think it goes
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  Speaker 2: both ways.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's Israel and then the United States. If
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  Speaker 4: they can take out Israel, they can partner up with
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  Speaker 4: Russia or China, North Korea, and then we'd have a
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  Speaker 4: real problem.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see Russia and China trying to partner up
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  Speaker 2: with them as far as going and assisting them. China
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  Speaker 2: pretty well minds its own business as far as getting
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: involved in things. They might get involved in it by
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: providing some equipment or something, but they stay pretty much
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: to themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Weren't they already accused of helping them out with some equipment?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't see them putting troops anywhere, do you?
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: They're just kind of saying, we're going to just kind
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  Speaker 2: of continue on here. and win the war economically, win
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: the economic war is kind of what their philosophy is.
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  Speaker 4: And this is my philosophy, and I believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but do you believe that the American people will
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  Speaker 2: tolerate huge inflation that's back again and energy prices that
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: are back again?
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  Speaker 4: And again, if we look and see why these prices
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: are going up compared to the Democrats, you had nothing
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: to show for it. It was like taxation without representation.
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  Speaker 4: They were stealing our money all over the country. They
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  Speaker 4: were having a good time with it. We had nothing.
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  Speaker 2: So in your opinion, people will tolerate high prices for this?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not saying that either. I'm thinking you need
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: to split hairs with this. There was one way where
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: they inflated cost of living. and now there's another here
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  Speaker 4: that's actually protecting America. It's protecting our interests, you know,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: and it's protecting us. They weren't doing nothing.
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  Speaker 3: To protect us.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: They were opening up the borders. With that tax money,
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: they were giving it to illegals. These illegals were all
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: over America, like terrorists, killing people. I mean, that's where
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: our tax money was going.
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: We don't have that.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: The borders shut down.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: We have a nuclear weapon from Iran, and we're addressing
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  Speaker 2: the problem. All right, I'll put it out there, see
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: what people say.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Like I said, if you don't deal with them now,
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  Speaker 4: you may have to deal with them another time when
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: they're more powerful.
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  Speaker 2: All right, NewsRadio 570, Dodie Cummings. Kind of an argument
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  Speaker 2: that they used in Vietnam. Oh, if we let that happen,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be the domino effect.
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  Speaker 8: From ABC News, I'm Lindsay Davis, anchor of Prime, streaming
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: weeknights on ABC News Live. The economic pressure from the
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: war with Iran is weighing on Americans paying more for groceries,
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: gas and energy. Inflation at the wholesale level surged last
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: month by 6 percent compared to a year ago. In
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: Los Angeles at a food distribution event, Jose Torres says
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: his family is trying to make ends meet.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: It's really bad. That's why we're here. You know, prices
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: are going sky high.
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  Speaker 5: Everything's really pricey, even the gas and everything.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: So it makes it a little bit hard.
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: Inflation along with trade and the Iran conflict will be
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: on the agenda in Beijing. President Trump received a red
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  Speaker 8: carpet welcome and is set to hold summit talks with
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: China's leader. ABC's Selena Wang has more.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: The Trump administration prior to this trip has made it
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: clear that they want Beijing to use their leverage over
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: Tehran to convince Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: But what I'm hearing from experts is that China doesn't
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: want to get drawn too deeply into this. They're happy
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: to encourage an end to this war. They would prefer
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: that it ends, but they don't want to get too
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: involved because they really see this as America's problem to solve.
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: The Senate confirmed the nomination for Kevin Warsh today, clearing
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: the final hurdle to become the new Federal Reserve Chair.
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: In Utah, a judge sentenced Corey Britchens to life in
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: prison today without parole. The mother and wife was convicted
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: of fatally lacing her husband's drink with fentanyl.
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: Moments after Corey Richens spoke to the court with a
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: message for.
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  Speaker 2: Her three children.
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  Speaker 6: I did not abandon you.
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: The judge handed down her sentence after a jury convicted
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: Richens of killing her husband for life insurance money by
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: serving him a fentanyl tainted cocktail in bed.
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  Speaker 3: The court hereby sentences you to life. without parole.
• 42:01
  Speaker 9: Richens maintains her innocence. Her attorneys told the court they
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: plan to move for a new trial. Alex Stone, ABC News.
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: Health officials are monitoring three dozen people across the U.S.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: exposed to hantavirus. It includes cruise ship passengers who remain
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: in quarantine centers in Nebraska and Georgia. You're listening to
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  Speaker 8: ABC News.