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Tuesday 4pm hour 05/19/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by Taking a Walk Podcast. This
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like the mentality that you get from
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  Speaker 1: some people. So when I was talking to the boss
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  Speaker 1: lady about taxes and a lot of stuff that was
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  Speaker 1: renewed was renewals, that people voted for renewals, and myself included.
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  Speaker 1: I voted to renew the quarter percent sales tax for
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  Speaker 1: Pat Giannetti's road resurfacing program. Because as I said it
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  Speaker 1: before to you, and as I'll say it to you
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  Speaker 1: again in Mahoning County, there hasn't been a county engineer
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  Speaker 1: that is doing more as far as road resurfacing than
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  Speaker 1: Pat Giannetti. And if you actually looked at when he
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  Speaker 1: pitched that sales tax initially, his funding had remained pretty
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  Speaker 1: much stagnant over many, many, many years because it would
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  Speaker 1: come from license plates and gas tax. So the money
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going up as the costs were going up to
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  Speaker 1: do road resurfacing. So you kept your ability was to
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  Speaker 1: do less and less road miles. And we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of county roads around here and not to give
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  Speaker 1: them the attention that they're needed. So when he proposed
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  Speaker 1: this quarter percent sales tax, which you don't even notice.
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  Speaker 1: And it's out there, and the townships get some money
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  Speaker 1: for it. So it's in addition to the township budget.
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  Speaker 1: So you're seeing more roads get resurfaced in your townships,
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  Speaker 1: Boardman and Austintown, and in your community, in Jackson Township.
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  Speaker 1: You see more county roads getting the attention that they
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  Speaker 1: haven't gotten for 25 or 30 years in all the
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  Speaker 1: outlying areas of our county because of this $ 10 million
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  Speaker 1: coming in from a quarter percent sales tax, all of
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  Speaker 1: which goes to dealing with road resurfacing and fixing roads
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  Speaker 1: and infrastructure, doesn't go to raises and that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: as he said when that was passed. So that's something
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  Speaker 1: that I want to see continue because it makes a
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  Speaker 1: huge difference on the roads that you drive throughout our county.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if oil prices would come down because
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  Speaker 1: asphalt is an oil-based product? So if you can get
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  Speaker 1: oil prices down to where asphalt is less expensive than
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  Speaker 1: it is now, then the amount of road miles you
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  Speaker 1: can pave goes up even more. Unfortunately, oil prices are high,
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  Speaker 1: and asphalt obviously is an oil-based product, so it eats
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  Speaker 1: up more of your $ 10 million to buy the product
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  Speaker 1: to be able to resurface some of these roads. But
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  Speaker 1: if you could bring those prices down, as was happening
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  Speaker 1: before the war, then it means you can pave even
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  Speaker 1: more miles. But any way you slice it, it's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing for Mahoning County that you're not driving on
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  Speaker 1: as many crappy roads. And roads that have been ignored
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  Speaker 1: in the county for years are getting the attention that
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  Speaker 1: they need. Because the money is there. If oil prices
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  Speaker 1: come down, even more gets done. And your township benefits...
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  Speaker 1: as a result of it as well. Just like when
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  Speaker 1: I voted in Austintown Township, a couple of them were
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  Speaker 1: road renewal levies for your local roads. That's your budget
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  Speaker 1: to fix the roads you drive on every day. That
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  Speaker 1: is a necessity unless you want to replace your shocks
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  Speaker 1: and have giant potholes everywhere. But I've never seen more
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  Speaker 1: attention given to fixing roads than here. you're seeing right now,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get as much bang for your buck as
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  Speaker 1: you possibly can. And that's a good thing. Just like
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  Speaker 1: when people would renew fire levies and police levies, well,
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  Speaker 1: they want somebody to show up to put the fire
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  Speaker 1: out if their house catches on fire, or a cop
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  Speaker 1: to show up if they got a problem. They need
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  Speaker 1: somebody to show up. I mean, there was some... New
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  Speaker 1: levies had passed off the top of my head. I
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  Speaker 1: can't say in Mahoning or Trumbull counties. Can't think of
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  Speaker 1: them offhand. But in general, people support usually their police
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  Speaker 1: departments because let's be realistic. When I talk about inflation,
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  Speaker 1: inflation affects the government, too. They got to pay more
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  Speaker 1: for police cars and benefits and salaries for cops as
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  Speaker 1: well as fire trucks and cars. to replace a plow
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  Speaker 1: truck for your county roads, but we all want the
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  Speaker 1: roads plowed. We'd like to have decent roads to drive on.
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  Speaker 1: We want to have the roads plowed. We want a
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  Speaker 1: cop to show up when we call him. And what's
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  Speaker 1: most important to policing, you got to have a police car, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: to get around, and a fire truck. So there's some
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  Speaker 1: things like when they were renewals, people voted for them
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  Speaker 1: because they were a renewal that made perfect sense. It
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  Speaker 1: was in your best interest. to say, okay, that's my money,
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  Speaker 1: but I can see the direct benefits from that. So
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  Speaker 1: that's something I'll stick with. Unlike, as I say, the
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  Speaker 1: property tax of the library, which I never vote for.
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  Speaker 1: I never vote for it. I never voted for the
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  Speaker 1: forever tax for WRTA, which was a sales tax. I
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  Speaker 1: never voted for that. I never voted for the senior levy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't vote to renew the senior levy. I never
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  Speaker 1: voted for it when it first came out. I don't
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  Speaker 1: vote for the library levy. Never have, never will. I
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  Speaker 1: never voted for the sales tax for WRTA. It's a
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  Speaker 1: forever levy, so I never get a chance to vote
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  Speaker 1: against it again because it's there forever. But there are
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  Speaker 1: ones that when you see that have a direct benefit
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  Speaker 1: for you, that's a different story. So I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to cut my own throat in that sense. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make a lick of sense to me to do something
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  Speaker 1: like that. I'm not going to do that. Now, do
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  Speaker 1: I think we have a problem with property taxes? Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: And I've said that. And I'll continue to say that.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is people keep thinking it's... there is
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  Speaker 1: no longer personal responsibility that somehow it's the government's responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to take care of everybody and their problems. It's now
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  Speaker 1: the government's responsibility to take care of every senior citizen
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  Speaker 1: or pay somebody to the taxpayers, pay somebody to mow
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  Speaker 1: your lawn or pay somebody to clean your house. This
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  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. I mean, and to vote for this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff is stupid and yet people do it. And
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  Speaker 1: then they sit around saying, well, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it has to be some degree of personal responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: There has to be success and failure in capitalism. Your
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  Speaker 1: problems shouldn't be my problems. And my problems shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: your problems. The decisions you make in life, there has
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  Speaker 1: to be some degree of ramifications to them. And you
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  Speaker 1: just take it from there. That's why I talk about
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  Speaker 1: it so much because I sincerely am concerned about the
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  Speaker 1: burden that this is putting on senior citizens as well
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  Speaker 1: as younger people trying to buy homes. It is too
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  Speaker 1: much of an additional burden in addition to the payments,
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  Speaker 1: the tax burden that's there, and how much of that
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  Speaker 1: money is being literally pissed away. You can't take care
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  Speaker 1: of everybody. That isn't the role of local governments. But
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  Speaker 1: you can see the philosophy of your local governments, as
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  Speaker 1: I point out, with commissioners that say, despite the huge
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  Speaker 1: increase we got in reappraisals, we can't give a small
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  Speaker 1: portion of it back to the people who we claimed
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  Speaker 1: we knew were suffering as a result of it. And
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  Speaker 1: we were given the power by Dave Thomas to ease
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  Speaker 1: that pain, but we're not going to do any of that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm talking. It's just cheap political talk
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  Speaker 1: by them because there's no way they can ease a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of that pain with people. So there you
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  Speaker 1: have it. 414 in the afternoon. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ron, I'd like to ask you a favor. What
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  Speaker 2: do you need, sir?
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  Speaker 1: You need money?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, can you loan me $ 2 billion? I want to
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  Speaker 2: open an account with Warren Buffett so I can attend
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  Speaker 2: a board meeting. Because I want to ask him, if
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  Speaker 2: inflation has hit a three-year high, how come a lot
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  Speaker 2: of my commodity stocks are still going down? Commodities are
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  Speaker 2: a hedge against inflation.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You'd have to ask him. All I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you is there's a lot of inflation out there.
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  Speaker 1: I live it every day. And I'm sure you do, too.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going by memory, but one of the financial
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  Speaker 2: headlines yesterday was a CEO of a larger bank said
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  Speaker 2: he's firing thousands of workers because he's He considers them
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  Speaker 2: to be low-value capital, and he's going to replace them
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  Speaker 2: with investments in AI technology.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there is... I think that's a coming problem, though,
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  Speaker 1: for Lauderdale, Frank. I mean, I just, when people are
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  Speaker 1: talking about this, what was it, you follow this, Meta
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  Speaker 1: or Facebook got rid of 9,000, 10,000 people replaced by AI,
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  Speaker 1: and now you're saying that you're going to see this
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  Speaker 1: at whatever that bank or institution you're talking about. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a tip of the iceberg, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I sure do. And, you know, Ron Paul, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read you his latest article. because I think
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  Speaker 2: it's worth knowing. He said there's a worldwide surge in
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  Speaker 2: interest rates paid by government bonds all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's because a lot of people are scared
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  Speaker 2: of this war, and they're keeping their money in the bank,
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  Speaker 2: and the only way to get them to buy government bonds,
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  Speaker 2: because so many governments are deep in debt, and with
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  Speaker 2: this war and a possible global depression, the only way
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  Speaker 2: you can get people to buy government bonds is to
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  Speaker 2: raise the interest rates.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and in other words, how you get interest in it.
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  Speaker 1: I think Rich, a pharmacist, I thought he summed it
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  Speaker 1: up pretty good. If I bounce this off of you,
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  Speaker 1: it's a quagmire. I mean, I think that is where
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  Speaker 1: we are at the present time. Listen, I go back
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  Speaker 1: to say this. Have you noticed if you criticize anything
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  Speaker 1: Trump does that you got... These people that think unless
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  Speaker 1: you agree with everything Trump does, then you're bad news
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  Speaker 1: for some reason. I mean, it's you can't disagree with
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  Speaker 1: Trump on anything. You've got to be like have blinders
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  Speaker 1: on the same stuff. I bitched when you had Biden
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  Speaker 1: supporters who did the same thing. It didn't matter what
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  Speaker 1: was reality or anything. They supported Biden. And I thought,
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  Speaker 1: how can you be that out of touch with stuff? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you got a lot of people on the Republican side
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  Speaker 1: that are doing the same thing. And when I say
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  Speaker 1: I say that because I say I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: this war was a good idea from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if I said to you, Frank, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: staying up at night worried about Iran and a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't up at night. It wasn't really discussed anywhere
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  Speaker 1: on any regular basis that this was a big threat. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we dropped the bunker buster. That was the
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  Speaker 1: end of it. All this stuff is buried underground and
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  Speaker 1: mission accomplished and this kind of stuff. OK, that was
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  Speaker 1: a bunker buster. So I still say we got into
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  Speaker 1: this because of Netanyahu. I really think that's why he
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  Speaker 1: reversed himself. I mean, I am genuinely troubled by his
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  Speaker 1: reversal on the Epstein files, by his reversal on his
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  Speaker 1: stand in the Middle East when it comes to this
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  Speaker 1: war situation. But what's happening, by his not giving attention
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  Speaker 1: to getting people who are in this country out of
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  Speaker 1: this country that are here illegally, that seems to be
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  Speaker 1: totally vanished off the radar screen at any level of
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  Speaker 1: notoriety and the affordability issue. So I think he's in
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  Speaker 1: a hell of a spot right now. Don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm glad you keep saying that because I
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  Speaker 2: was the one that originally pointed out that Margie Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Greene was one of his first supporters. She was MAGA
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  Speaker 2: all the way. As soon as she started criticizing Israel
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  Speaker 2: and saying, hey, keep the money at home, people in Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: I say, why are we giving all this money to
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  Speaker 2: Israel when people at home need help? And I also
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  Speaker 2: pointed out that Thomas Massey, the AIPAC in the Israel lobby,
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  Speaker 2: They pledged to spend unlimited amounts of money, whatever it took,
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  Speaker 2: to unseat Massey.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading today it might be the most expensive
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  Speaker 1: congressional race ever. And here's what troubles me about it.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Massey. When people say about foreign aid,
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  Speaker 1: Massey's opposed to foreign aid, period.
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  Speaker 3: Period.
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  Speaker 1: Not just Israel. He's opposed to foreign aid to Israel, Egypt, everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: His argument is, we're $ 40 trillion in debt. We can't
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  Speaker 1: afford any of this foreign aid. We should stop it
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  Speaker 1: all and take care of America first. You know as
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  Speaker 1: well as I do, we're talking about a situation, the
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  Speaker 1: financial issues with Social Security and Medicare. When are we
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  Speaker 1: going to address the concerns in our own country with
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  Speaker 1: our own American people? This is the argument that the
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  Speaker 1: Masseys and Margie Taylor Greene are making. What are we
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  Speaker 1: giving billions of dollars away to all of these countries
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  Speaker 1: when we can't afford to do it? So he's against
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  Speaker 1: foreign aid. So right away, he's pinpointed as a result
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  Speaker 1: of that to say, okay, he's got to go. I don't...
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  Speaker 1: And of course, he's opposed to how the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: are being handled, as was Marjorie Taylor Greene. And as
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  Speaker 1: you said, these are some of his best supporters. And
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  Speaker 1: he's turned on them all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I said last year, I said, Ron,
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  Speaker 2: Massey votes for the Republicans 97% of the time. About
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  Speaker 2: the only time he doesn't vote with the Republicans is
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  Speaker 2: foreign aid or uh... aid to israel or given weapons
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  Speaker 2: of israel so they're going on cedar a guy that
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  Speaker 2: votes for republicans ninety seven percent of the time what
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  Speaker 2: is trump in the republican party doing but you know
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  Speaker 2: what the the democrats You know what?
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  Speaker 1: Now, see, Ted the Conservative says Massey only votes with
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  Speaker 1: Republicans 75% of the time. But... All right, back to it.
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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN. Where is Fort Lauderdale, Frank?
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  Speaker 4: Frank? Not him.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Frank?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ron..
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  Speaker 2: Even though inflation hit a three-year high at 3.8%, American wages,
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  Speaker 2: they have increased on average 3.6%. So they're still falling behind.
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  Speaker 2: the cost of living.
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  Speaker 1: Here's an email for you. Tell Frank, who is supposedly
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  Speaker 1: such a financial guru, that if he would just read
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  Speaker 1: today's Wall Street Journal, he would quickly discover the reason
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  Speaker 1: treasury yields are up is because foreign government, specifically Japan
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  Speaker 1: and China, are selling the treasuries they hold to defend
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  Speaker 1: their currencies, which have weakened as the dollar has strengthened
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  Speaker 1: during this war, because they are selling them. The price
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  Speaker 1: of the treasury's the price of the treasuries is going down,
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  Speaker 1: which causes the yield on the treasuries to go up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, okay, but that's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you tell this emailer that I read the Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal and other publications, and I said that the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese government is told that Their big banks do not
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  Speaker 2: buy any more Treasury debt, so he needs to know that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm well informed of what's going on in the global
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  Speaker 2: bond market, and that's correct. When interest rates go up,
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  Speaker 2: the price of bonds go down, but you also tell
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  Speaker 2: this e-mailer, that most people buy bonds to hold to maturity.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to sell them before maturity. Now, also,
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  Speaker 2: as far as the Democrat Party, Ron, the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 2: has like $ 14. 9 million in cash, but they owe, from
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  Speaker 2: the Kamala Harris campaign, something like $ 17 million. So the
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  Speaker 2: net amount, they're in debt. And a lot of big
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  Speaker 2: Democrat donors to the party have been polled. And they said, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to contribute money to the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 2: just to get them out of debt. And I think
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat Party is on the way of the dodo bird.
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  Speaker 2: All these people... They're worried about the Republicans in the midterm.
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  Speaker 2: It takes a ton of money to run political campaigns,
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  Speaker 2: and the Republicans are sitting on a.
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  Speaker 1: Ton of money. Okay, go out on a limb. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think Massey will survive today or not?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I sure hope so, but I tell you what,
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  Speaker 2: if he can survive, that's going to send a strong
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  Speaker 2: message out to the Israeli lobby that, It's going to
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  Speaker 2: require trillions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I support it. I'm totally opposed to foreign aid. I'm totally,
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  Speaker 1: I completely, I agree with him. And listen, I don't think..
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  Speaker 2: Well, in most foreign aid, first of all, Israel's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest recipient.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just against any of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be for starving countries, right?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just opposed to it. Appreciate it. Thank you, Frank.
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  Speaker 1: Back with more in a minute. Ron Furb from the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: By Estella's Pharma. News Radio 570 WKVN. Back to it.
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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKVN. And Ron Furb, and you're on
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  Speaker 1: the air. Hello there.
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  Speaker 5: Ronald.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Ted the Conservative.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I was calling in the conversation. And now
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  Speaker 4: I've got a comment on a few of your calls. First,
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  Speaker 4: I strongly disagree with Rich the pharmacist. I think the
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  Speaker 4: experience is... gained by a student athlete better prepare him
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  Speaker 4: for the real world, him or her, better prepare them
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  Speaker 4: for the real world than any student that's not involved
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  Speaker 4: in extracurricular activities on a competition level of being an athlete.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, those kids from the rigid scheduling, they have
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  Speaker 4: to prioritize under exhaustion. They learn to work as a team.
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  Speaker 4: They learn to... Objectively take criticism. They learn to critically
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  Speaker 4: think like a snap of a finger. They learn how
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  Speaker 4: to tolerate pain, discomfort, thresholds that the average guy doesn't
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  Speaker 4: like to deal with. They're accountable, strict. accountability um they
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  Speaker 4: they share a collective consequence with the team in other
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  Speaker 4: words for that team to be successful every 22 guys
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  Speaker 4: on that football field have got to work together as
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  Speaker 4: one so there's just so many things that kids learn
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  Speaker 4: um I don't agree with a lot of Rich's positions
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to post-secondary education. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: think he thinks kids should just go sit in the classroom,
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  Speaker 4: get an education, and leave. I think universities, I think
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  Speaker 4: there's a big difference in universities, whether it's Ivy League
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  Speaker 4: schools or the Youngstown State Universities of the world, schools
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  Speaker 4: that specialize in engineering. Those schools are the same. I
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  Speaker 4: just disagree with him on everything he said. J.J.? smoke
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: a little bit more weed before you call Ron would
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: be my next suggestion. I don't know what he was
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: getting at with that whole ballroom thing. None of it
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: made sense. I don't know how that compared to him
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: putting a pool in his backyard and selling his house
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: and not recouping the funds invested in the pool. This
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: is a ballroom that is the people's ballroom that will
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: be used for Decades and decades to come. I mean,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: how many I don't even know offhand how many renovations
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: have been done to the White House. But, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: the building has been renovated. I would I would feel
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: safe to say dozens of times. I don't think J.J.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: complained when the Biden team basically put a studio in there.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: with a huge teleprompter. So when we thought Biden was
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: sitting in the Oval Office, he was sitting in a
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: make-believe room with a monitor the size of a wall
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: that he could read and act like he had a pulse. So,
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: so many, just so many crazy things. And then, Frank,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: there's Fasten and there's Frank. You know, your one caller
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: shot him down immediately. You've heard one guy take.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: His investment advice and lost, what, $ 30, 000 or something like that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Now he says Tom Massey votes 97% of the time
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: with Republicans.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: That's just false. All you need is a computer, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you can get on there. You don't even have to categorize,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: as Ron Rubin would say. You just go into your
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: favorite AI platform and ask the simple questions, and it
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: gives you a simple answer. Tom Massey votes against Republicans 23%
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: of the time. That means he votes... Only 70, what, 77%
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: of the time for the party. Now, we think that
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: the guy next door in Pennsylvania does a great job.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: He only votes with Republicans one or two percent of
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: the time. So think about that. Okay? Put that into perspective.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Massey voted against the one big, beautiful bill. What's your
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: response to that, Ronald?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: AI tells you what he voted. It didn't tell you
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: why he voted against it or what he disagreed with
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: in the bill. You've been a champion of the big,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: beautiful bill, have you not? No, stand by. To fully
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: understand why somebody voted the way they voted, you'd have
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to ask them why specifically did you do that? I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: do not fall into the category and I think... It's
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: of concern to me that I think to a certain
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: extent you're either with Trump or you're against Trump. And
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I say this to you. I don't go down that road.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I question people who were like that with Joe Biden,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: who refused to analytically look at him or his deficiencies,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and they totally didn't acknowledge any of it because they
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: were with Biden 100% because they were good Democrats. And
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: they voted that way, and they hit all this stuff
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: with Biden. Well, I don't like that with Democrats any
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: more than I like it with Republicans. I think dissent
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: within a party is not a bad thing. I mean,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I am deeply concerned, and I just share this with
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you once again. I'm deeply concerned with the attacks on
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: people who supported Trump, who we had him on the stage,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and because they disagree with him on some issues. And
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: believe me, there is plenty to disagree with on the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Iran situation. We should never be a party or a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: country of people that walk in lockstep and say, whatever
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: this guy says, I'm 100% for. Because I don't know
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: if Trump is compromised. I don't know why he did
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: what he did. Is it worth a discussion about it?
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's some things that I sit back and wonder.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know anything more about the shooters that try
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to shoot Trump with him as president. I don't know
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: anything more about him than I did before he was president.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And so a lot of the stuff that he said
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: he was going to do that I should know more
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: about is as a citizen, which I agree. I think
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the government hides way too much from us. Where is it?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: So so I can sit here and I can. But
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I can be critical of Trump. And
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I can sit here and say, I mean, to a
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: large extent, the more I would read and read about
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: this stuff, it seems to me that Trump did a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: 180 on this because of Netanyahu and because of Israel.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And I think that's why he got into this. And
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I sincerely believe that he thought this would be over
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: much sooner than it is. And it's not over. And
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the signs don't show that it's going to be over
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. Well, how long do you stay with this?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You know, is a quagmire is where it says, is
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it in that type of situation? How much how much
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: more ignoring this the American first agenda? Or everybody's saying,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I don't care what gas prices are or inflation is.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Most people didn't worry about Iran and a nuclear weapon
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: before they were sold this, I guess, on Fox or
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: sold it by this mission taking place. I wasn't up
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: at night worrying about it. I wasn't concerned about it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: We dropped the bunker buster. That was it. Everything's taken
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: care of. We bombed the living hell out of them,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and everything's compromised now. So at what point do you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: declare somewhat of a victory? We set them back. They're
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: not launching a bunch of stuff. At what point do
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you say, I think we made the point? At what
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: point do you just stay another year, another six months?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Do you let gas oil prices go up? If you
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: actually read some of this stuff, they're talking about an
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: oil shortage. Even if this thing ends of getting oil moving,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: an actual oil shortage of lubricants, oil and lubricants. I mean,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: if you read some of this stuff and we're talking
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: not just in the United States, but globally, it's of concern.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to destroy the American economy
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: with inflation and high gas prices and all this other
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: bull crap as a result of this situation in Iran.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: We're not getting a lot of people out of this
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: country like Iran. People wanted these people out of the country.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Let me just lay this on you and get your reaction.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I think the Democrats won in Minnesota. You know, they
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: made their point after those shootings and they won. And
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you this analysis and I want
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to hear from Ted the conservative. So all of you
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: just got to have to bear with this because I'm
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: interested in what Ted has to say about this. I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: say to all of you, the Democrats won by destroying
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the Doge movement. Let me put it that way. They
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: destroyed Elon Musk. They went out there, all the stuff
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: he was exposing, but they went out and they launched
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: an attack against him. He's a Nazi. They launched an
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: attack against his dealerships with violence. They launched an attack
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: against people who drove the cars by scratching them. They
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: did all of this crap, which is despicable to me.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Absolutely despicable. But when the dust settled, Doge was out.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: So I sit back and say, well, they won. Elon
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Musk is gone. Doge is gone. The waste is continuing on.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: No one's going to do a damn thing about it.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: They say J.D. Vance will. Well, I'll wait and see
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: what happens. And then I sit back and say, well,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: where are these people? So that's number one. So I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: think the Democrats won there in defeating Doge.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: And I think I'm going to respond to that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And no, I'm going to I'm going to let you
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: just keep track of it for me. Just keep it
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: in your mind. Number two, I think that's a dangerous thing. Okay.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Now you're just screwing with me.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: I'm being serious. Go ahead. I'm listening. Okay.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And in Minnesota, they won by getting, they got rid
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of the border guy. They got rid of the Barbie
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: doll that was running ice. They, they got all these
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: people out and, and all of a sudden when they
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: were out ice left, Nothing more there. And you're not
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: seeing any of these big deportations going on anywhere in
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the country. It's just like it disappeared. It's like it
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: was like, wow, we took a lot of political pressure
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and heat. And it's kind of like mediocre now. So
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I think they've won on that. I don't think he's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: doing the deportations like people voted for him to do
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: on any good high level of getting people out of
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: here because of the controversy. So Doge is gone. That's gone.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: He didn't release the Epstein files. Like he said, that's gone.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: He reversed himself on, the war to a certain extent.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And sometimes I'm going to tell you, I do sit
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: back and wonder in my own head, I'm just leveling
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: with you to get your reaction to all of this,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: if they don't have something on him. Who is they?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And when I say they, Netanyahu. Do they have something
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: on this guy that he could so reverse his own
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: agenda and his own priorities of the things he thought
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: was most important that he stood for, that he got
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: elected on, that he reversed them so dramatically?
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you why Democrats are winning the narrative in Minnesota,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: on Israel, and everywhere else. Very simple. They are dividing
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: the Republican Party. They're bringing up divisive issues, and they're
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: inserting them, and that's what they're using.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, just going to interrupt one thing. Are
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they dividing the Republican Party, or is Trump dividing the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Republican Party?
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: No, no, no. And here's, I'm going to use the analogy.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Outside sources, Democrats are dividing the party so they can win,
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: and they're very, very good at it. We've talked about
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: this in the past, how Nancy Pelosi would march through
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: that agenda of theirs, never be dissent. It would come
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: out to the public floor and it would get done. Now,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: you've got me jumping all over the place here, but
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: let me back up first to Massey. Now, I could
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: be wrong, but I thought Ron Verb was a champion
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: of the big, beautiful bill. I've heard you many, many
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: times talk about the great things it's done.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: But there are also many people, and I can't get
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: them off the top of my head, there were many
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: things in that bill that a lot of people didn't like.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are some things..
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: I would think it's that 99% approval rate from Republicans.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: No, Republicans too. I mean, there are some things that
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I support, but I do wonder about some stuff. Why
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: is everything just for three years? No tax on tip. Well,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that ends in three years.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: That's a legislative matter.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I understand it.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Because of the Tom Massies of the world, that's why.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: No, it's not the Tom Massies of the world.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: You need so many votes to get these things done.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: passed legislatively different ways.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: All right, so let me back up. It's not the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Tom Massey's of the world. It's the Republican Party itself.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: It's not taking a lot of these executive orders and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: made them into law. The Republican Party... No, no. I'm
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: going to say to you, if you take a look
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: at the amount of money being spent to defeat Tom
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Massey and where it's coming from, because he doesn't support
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: foreign aid, and where that money's coming from to get
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: him out of there.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, where's Tom Massey getting his money? What about the
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Iranian billionaire that's funneling money to him and to Marjorie
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Taylor Greene?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know. First of all, a lot of the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: stuff they've launched campaigns against Massey And his relationships and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene and all this kind of to discredit them. But,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you know, you're sitting back and I'm saying with all
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: of this, Marjorie Taylor Greene was helping Trump get elected
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and was there all along.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Till he turned on her. Okay, by God. No, wait
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: a minute. If you agree with that completely, if you
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: agree with that completely, he attacked her. And I don't
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: support that. On a personal level, he did that. He
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: attacked Tucker Carlson. He attacked Margie Taylor Greene. He attacked...
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, these people are low IQ. Were
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: they low IQ when they were standing there when he
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: needed their help to get reelected?
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: That's because he's a narcissist, Ron. You have to agree
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: with him 100% of the time, or you're no good
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: in his world.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And that is where he is with Tom Massey on
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Listen, I don't know anybody that
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I agree with 100% on anything. But I will say this.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Well, you've got to agree with your wife, or you're
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: going to be in trouble.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: No, I don't agree with that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: If you don't agree, you have to agree.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with everybody on 100% of everything. But
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: by God, if you agree in general, in general, like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I said, I would never vote for a Democrat. I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: can disagree with Trump on these particular items.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Let me finish, because I'm going to lose my train
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: of thought. You asked me another question. I did. Why
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: the dissent? I know, you got me. I'm not Denny
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: from Rock Creek. I'm not keeping notes over here. I'm
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: working in the kitchen, and you got me stressed out. Division.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: So we made an analogy. I gave you an analogy
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: of a football team and how they operate as one
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: unit and how those kids bring a special characteristic out
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: of college. A political party is no different than a football.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: You practice all week, okay? And you have a game Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: whatever your team plays. Well, you're practicing all week. There's
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: a lot of disagreement. That disagreement stays within the team.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Fights amongst each other stays within the team. But guess what?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: On game day, when it's time to perform, they come
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: out as one solid unit. And we're not seeing that
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: in the Republican Party. The Democrats do it outstandingly. job
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: of that. They say they are united, and you would
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: never know that they have disagreements in the back room.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Nancy Pelosi ran that gavel like a well-oiled machine. Republicans,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: too many egos involved, and that's what kills an athletic team.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: And you can use this analogy on anything in life,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: any organization. You can break it down to sports.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question as you're going along.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I think too many Republicans... are just as bad as
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: career Democrats. I don't know that they sign on to
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: this stuff. I mean, I think it's a fair question
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: when Massey says, we can't afford foreign aid anywhere, including Israel, Egypt,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: everywhere else. And he's right. When do we put America...
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: We are facing a serious issue with Social Security and Medicare.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know what Mas... I think Massey's a libertarian.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: I think his issue... He's not a real Republican. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: think his libertarian... and he votes and he's registered as
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: a Republican to get elected. If he ran as a Libertarian,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: he would never be elected. He is against, he's kind
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: of like a Rand Paul.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Stand by, stand by, stand by. Back with Ted the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Conservative in a minute. News Radio 570, WKBN, stay close.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: News Radio 570, WKBN. All right, I'm supposed to read
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: this to you, okay? Oh boy. For Ted the Conservative, no.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: According to AI Answer that I found, Frank and Ted
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: are both wrong on Massey's voting record. 80 to 90
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: percent is what I found. Massey voting against the big,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: beautiful bill was smart because so much of the bill
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: was an extension of Biden's insane spending. That's what he
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: wanted me to pass along to you. That's why. He
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: voted against the big, beautiful bill. And I think there
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: were other..
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure what your source is, but I'm going
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: to pull up mine right now.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I'm just reading you what the guy said from his AI.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: His AI against your AI, I would say that. But
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: let me back up. Let me back up. Okay, you
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: back up.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Let me ask the great Ron Virk, because you got
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: me confused. You pulled a Donald Trump on me. You
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: hit me with so many things. I look like a Democrat.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know how to respond and what to respond to.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Well, and you've got a leg problem, too, so yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: So most of the time, these AI things will give
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: you the resources. The Kentucky Lantern is one of the resources.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: These are local papers. The Kentucky Lantern that has come
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: up with his voting record. So I stand by the
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: information I'm looking at. They used the New Yorker as
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: another one.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Why do you think they're spending so much money against him?
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, Washington Examiner, Louisville Public Media. So
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: these are all I'm talking. I'm giving you I'm giving
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: you the sources of my information. So I stand by
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: my numbers. But let me back up because you got
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: me all confused. I got to hit the reset button.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: So you and I are big, big complainers of the
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: spender of the House.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: And useless John Thune because they don't move forward the
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Trump agenda. That's because we don't have unity in the
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Republican Party to do so. And now here we are
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: talking about Representative Massey, who is one of the obstacles
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: to moving the Trump agenda forward. But you're supporting him.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: So help me understand. I'm confused. Well, you do this
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: a lot. No, I think you do it on purpose.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't do it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: We don't know where you stand.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I'm a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. Is
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: that what you're saying? To quote Chris?
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, Einstein, to quote your wife.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: That's Chris Christopherson. Listen, what I'm saying is, you can't.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: Have it both ways.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: You can have the agenda, or you can have Tom Massey.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: So which one do you want? Do you want the self-agenda,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: or do you want Tom Massey?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I do not want..
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: No, no, yes or no?
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: No, I do not want Republicans walking in lockstep like Democrats.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I want people to act as Americans.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: You're not going to get the Trump agenda.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to answer your question. No, I can get
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the Trump agenda because on these issues, the majority of
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: them will agree with it. It's just that the spender
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: of the.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: House isn't... Because they don't have enough members.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Well, they don't have 60. They're not going to overcome that.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: They don't have 6,000 members. They can't even get.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Their own people to vote for it. There's different ways.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think the problem is Massey.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Different rules to get this thing done, but they can't
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: even do it because the party is not united. Because
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: the guys like Tom Massey are in the way.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: So I really don't agree with that at all.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: Okay. That's just my opinion.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I just don't.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: You know what I'll get you?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: What? Nothing.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I kind of like it. I
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: kind of respect it. I enjoy hearing it, quite frankly.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: It's kind of the highlight of the day. Wow. Let
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: me put it this way. I think it's okay to...
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I look at Fetterman and I admire..
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: It's okay to disagree.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I admire Fetterman that he doesn't walk the Democrat line
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and he can stray from it. Well, I'm not going
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: to attack somebody in a Republican party who also does that,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: who says, I don't agree with this. I don't agree
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: with the war. I don't agree with foreign aid. I
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: don't agree with this. I'll leave you with that thought.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: Okay, sir.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: You have a good day.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: From ABC News, I'm Lindsay Davis, anchor of Prime, streaming
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: weeknights on ABC News Live. The Justice Department has issued
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: an addendum to its sweeping settlement to end President Trump's
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: lawsuit against the IRS. Under the terms, the IRS would be, quote,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: forever barred and precluded from conducting audits of tax returns
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: filed by Donald Trump, his family, and their companies. About
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: the other part of Trump's settlement with the IRS, the
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: $ 1. 8 billion compensation fund for aggrieved Americans... ABC News Chief
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl asked Vice President J.D.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Vance.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: I understand that everybody is eligible to apply for this fund.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, you're eligible, but I assume you're not going
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: to apply and you don't think you should get money out.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Of this fund.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: So isn't it just as easy to say that people
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: that attacked police officers should not get taxpayer money from
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: this fund?
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: Well, look, John, we're not trying to give money to
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: anybody who attacked a police officer. We're trying to give money,
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: not give money. We're trying to compensate people. where the
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: book was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: legal system.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Islamic leaders in San Diego say victims of yesterday's gunfire
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: at a mosque fought and died saving others. The teenage
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: suspects took their own lives. Police Chief Scott Wall.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: What you will not hear from us today is the
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: names of these two suspects.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Today is about our victims.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: And our community.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: One of the teenage shooters apparently posted a live stream
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: of the attack before the shooters killed themselves. Georgia is
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: reporting record-breaking turnout in its primary today. Voting is also
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: underway in Kentucky, Alabama, Idaho, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, giving us
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: a clearer picture of Trump's hold on his party. Today,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Trump finally gave his endorsement for Texas Senate Attorney General
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Ken Paxton over the incumbent John Cornyn. Cornyn says Paxton
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: will likely lose to James Tallarico if he's the Democratic nominee.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Losses on Wall Street, the Dow falling 322 points following
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: last week's record rally. You're listening to ABC News.