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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Friday, 08/21/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN. And it's a
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  Speaker 1: good Friday to you. It's 3.05 in the afternoon. It's
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  Speaker 1: 83 degrees. It's Friday, August 21st already. Not that far
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  Speaker 1: from the Canfield Fair, which I would say if you're
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  Speaker 1: in my neck of the woods, gang, once you hit
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  Speaker 1: the fair here in our neck of the woods, that's
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  Speaker 1: pretty much, well, how would you view it? It's the
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  Speaker 1: end of summer. Isn't that kind of the official marking point?
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  Speaker 1: in our community to say, okay, summer's behind us and
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  Speaker 1: fall is here. That's when you start to notice the
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  Speaker 1: days getting a lot shorter, right around Canfield Fair time.
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  Speaker 1: Just giving you some of the history of where we
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  Speaker 1: broadcast from right here at the Kingdom of Mahoning with
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  Speaker 1: one of the largest county fairs around. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: be coming up in not a handful of days, basically.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe two handfuls here of days and the Canfield Fair
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  Speaker 1: will be here and it's then fall will be here
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  Speaker 1: in shorter days.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And it'll be the times of your life, to quote
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  Speaker 1: Paul Anka, if you remember him. 83 degrees, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: I'll set that aside. I'll get to that shortly. Some
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  Speaker 1: things I want to mention to you. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you called. I want to ask you a question. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead. I want to pick your brain on some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And can you give me some analysis? And I say this, folks,
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  Speaker 1: and you tell me if I'm allowed to or if
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  Speaker 1: I should stop. You were just … You're Joe Bagadonich.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a stock guy. You're not a certified financial
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  Speaker 1: guy or anything like that. But it's fair for me
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  Speaker 1: to say that I've spoken to you for years. Would
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  Speaker 1: you agree with that? And I've watched you make a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to the 90s, I believe, when I used
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  Speaker 4: to trade Chrysler stock.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I said that was the big winner for me
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  Speaker 4: back in the 90s with Chrysler.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess my point is this, folks. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I've known this guy for a long, long
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  Speaker 1: time in talking to him. And I'm here to say,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, he's a really smart guy, all right?
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  Speaker 1: And just on how the financial world that he understands
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  Speaker 1: and what he's done on his own is just, to me,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely remarkable. And I do mean remarkable. So would you
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  Speaker 1: give me some input? From an economic standpoint, I would
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  Speaker 1: like to ask you, I saw the other day this
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  Speaker 1: bailing out of Japan to prevent them from selling off.
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  Speaker 1: They have a trillion dollars in treasuries to prevent them
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  Speaker 1: from selling them off, which our country said would raise
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  Speaker 1: our interest rates or the interest rates would go up.
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  Speaker 1: So we bailed out Japan. in a strange kind of
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  Speaker 1: way for our own benefit, if you will. Then you
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  Speaker 1: had this bond buyback that's going on. The best it's preaching,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like the market doesn't care for much. Then
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  Speaker 1: I just take a look at the Walmart stock and
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  Speaker 1: purchasing power from people. So I want to ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my long introduction to a question. How do you
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  Speaker 1: think the economy actually is as we talk today? on
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  Speaker 1: Main Street, if you will. And where do you think
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  Speaker 1: the economy's heading and the global economy is heading? Because
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  Speaker 1: some of these things, I think, are very deeply troubling
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  Speaker 1: and disturbing to me.
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  Speaker 4: I think for the... There's two worlds. It's the Joe
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  Speaker 4: Bag of Donuts and the people that have money. The
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  Speaker 4: economy is great. If you have money and you can
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  Speaker 4: take advantage of this... foals gold on Wall Street. I
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  Speaker 4: can't believe how the market is discounting it. I was
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  Speaker 4: looking back at a clip of Donald Trump in 2016
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  Speaker 4: when he was running for president, when our national debt
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  Speaker 4: was $ 24 trillion, and Trump was at a rally. He said,
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  Speaker 4: if we hit $ 24 trillion, it'll be a point of
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  Speaker 4: no return. He says we'll become a country that's unsalvageable.
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  Speaker 4: And now look at the debt now under Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 4: $ 40 trillion. And I don't follow bonds and the Japanese situation.
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  Speaker 4: I think they had a bailout in Japan. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: with $ 40 trillion in debt, we have no business giving
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  Speaker 4: anyone foreign aid. That's the first thing.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, pause for a second. When you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about that, they say Trump is responsible for $ 4 trillion
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  Speaker 1: of debt in his two years. $ 4 trillion. It's the
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  Speaker 1: number they're putting out there. In two years. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he is really growing this debt at a record base,
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  Speaker 1: record number.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if he would have taken care of... He promised
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  Speaker 4: this a year ago, and he put J.D. Vance in
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  Speaker 4: charge of his fraud... investigations, uncovering fraud. Nothing's ever come
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  Speaker 4: of that. And then, of course, you've had Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 4: and he had so many great suggestions that Trump completely ignored.
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  Speaker 4: Trump turned his back on the MAGA movement. And the
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  Speaker 4: sad thing is, you can't live in, you know, my
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  Speaker 4: house has paid off. I just mailed in my payment
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  Speaker 4: for taxes, the real estate taxes. I mean, it's just like,
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  Speaker 4: unless you move to Florida, you can never own your house.
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  Speaker 4: You have to keep paying on it, and it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: If we would just cut the fraud, you wouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: to have real estate taxes, income taxes. But we have
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  Speaker 4: two parties. I'm an independent now. Next time I go
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  Speaker 4: to vote, I'm going to drop my Republican... registration and
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  Speaker 4: register as an independent. I'm just fed up with both parties.
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  Speaker 4: These clowns do nothing. With a $ 40 trillion debt, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they are juggling... The reason that they did
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  Speaker 1: this bailout, most people don't understand it, of Japan was
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  Speaker 1: because Japan has over a trillion dollars of our treasuries.
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  Speaker 1: And if Japan sold off a bunch of them, as
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  Speaker 1: they were talking about doing, their concern was it would
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  Speaker 1: raise the interest rates, which would be detrimental to the country,
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  Speaker 1: to our country as far as their debt and deficit
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  Speaker 1: is concerned. That's why they bailed. Did this run around
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  Speaker 1: to bail out Japan. And it's also why they're doing
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  Speaker 1: this bond buyback stuff. I mean, the stuff you see
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  Speaker 1: going on globally is a lot of moves, I think,
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  Speaker 1: to stabilize the global economy. But you can do all
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff. And as long as you have... this
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  Speaker 1: situation going on in Iran. And I go back to
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  Speaker 1: say this, here's the reality. There's a shortage of oil.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone tries to spin it or
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  Speaker 1: how they try to spin it. When you take 20
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  Speaker 1: or 30 million barrels of oil off the market a day,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to have a shortage of oil, prices
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  Speaker 1: are going to go up. And so you, the straight
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  Speaker 1: is still basically closed. So there's the reality of where
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  Speaker 1: things are headed today. And as these oil experts say,
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  Speaker 1: as you go further into August, June, July, August, September,
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  Speaker 1: it's just going to get worse.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, Trump said we have complete control of the strait.
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  Speaker 1: But that's nonsense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. And all of a sudden he comes up
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  Speaker 4: with this economic D-Day two days ago. It's a whole
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  Speaker 4: new plan. Well, what happened to the military war? Is
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  Speaker 4: that on the back burner?
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, I'm glad you brought that up. The bombing campaign,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to bomb them to rubble and all
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. He was just talking that, what,
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  Speaker 1: a month ago or something? We're going back to the
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  Speaker 1: bombing campaign, the likes of which I've never seen, all
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  Speaker 1: of this kind of stuff. Now that's come to an end,
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  Speaker 1: and now we're on a different strategy. Now we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have, what did he say, this economic— D-Day.
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  Speaker 3: Economic D-Day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what happened to the bombing you were talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Now it's going to be an economic D-Day. Okay. It
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  Speaker 1: just seems like we're trying to try anything to see
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  Speaker 1: if we can get somehow an agreement to get out
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  Speaker 1: of this mess. And it doesn't seem like they're too agreeable.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know what bothers me, talking about bombing, our
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  Speaker 4: military partner, the Israelis... I don't think they've bombed Iran.
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  Speaker 4: What they're bombing now is Gaza and Lebanon in a
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  Speaker 4: major way. And that is turning a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: in the MAGA movement against Trump. They do not like
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  Speaker 4: to see innocent civilians killed with our tax dollars. And
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  Speaker 4: it's funny, I just heard that you ran a commercial
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  Speaker 4: for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. They want
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  Speaker 4: you to donate. I'm saying... We're giving you military aid.
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  Speaker 4: You own all of our politicians. You're running our country.
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  Speaker 4: And I think our president is a puppet. And now
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  Speaker 4: they want us to donate to the International Fellowship. But
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  Speaker 4: we should be giving money to the poor civilians in
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  Speaker 4: Lebanon and Gaza. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, basically, as a Trump supporter, he's turned you off, correct?
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when I heard you on, I believe it was
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  Speaker 4: this week on a Monday or Tuesday, you were really
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  Speaker 4: ripping into G2.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Rightly so.
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  Speaker 4: I said, you're reading the room and you're looking at
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  Speaker 4: the facts. and I don't know what world G2 is
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  Speaker 4: living in, but you sort of cut them some slack
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  Speaker 4: a little bit yesterday. But I think G2 is underestimating
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  Speaker 4: how fed up the MAGA movement is with Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: And I talked to a lot of people, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Trump supporters, and And all but the most diehard
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  Speaker 4: Trump supporters have lost their enthusiasm for the guy. And
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  Speaker 4: then he put a thing out, I think it was today,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to dump foreign beef into the country to
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  Speaker 4: lower the price of beef at a 25% below the
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  Speaker 4: market price, no tariffs. And what he should be doing
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  Speaker 4: instead of doing that is helping our cattle farmers to
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  Speaker 4: and building up our herds. But he's going for like
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  Speaker 4: a Biden. Remember when Biden released oil from the Strategic
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  Speaker 4: Reserve just for a short-term gain? Trump is doing the
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  Speaker 4: same thing with beef. And I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 4: going to help him or not, but he's down in
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  Speaker 4: the polls.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but basically economically, you're not thrilled with what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the country.
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  Speaker 4: No, but as far as you asked me, if things
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  Speaker 4: are good, things are great in the market. And this AI,
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  Speaker 4: you're not going to stop it. It's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a big multi-year boom for the investors in the stock
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  Speaker 4: market and the people that have money. But I feel
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  Speaker 4: sorry for the average guy that's paying his house payments
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  Speaker 4: and insurance and groceries and utilities. And when Trump ran,
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  Speaker 4: he said he was going to lower our utility bills
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  Speaker 4: next to nothing. And I said, what has happened to
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  Speaker 4: the guy? All the promises he made, he broke. And
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  Speaker 4: I know the Epstein files will never, nothing will overcome
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  Speaker 4: of that. That's a done deal. And the debt is
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  Speaker 4: what bothers me the most. But after that, well, put
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  Speaker 4: the war on the top of it. This stupid war
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  Speaker 4: that we started, that we didn't have to start.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would back up and drop the we, the
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  Speaker 1: stupid war that he started.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yes.
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  Speaker 4: It was, well, it was..
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't any debate in Congress. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: your senators and congressmen really didn't have a vote or
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  Speaker 1: a say-so on it and still really haven't had one
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  Speaker 1: on it.
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  Speaker 4: But they really haven't protested the war that much.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats, it's all one big uniparty. The Senate is
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  Speaker 4: a joke, tunes a joke, do nothing, they've done nothing. And, well,
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats now have their own problem with the DSA
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  Speaker 4: wing of the party, but they seem to have that
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  Speaker 4: almost under control. But we'll see how the midterms turn out.
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  Speaker 4: But then the other thing that bothers me is all
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  Speaker 4: of the promises that he made, you know, he just
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  Speaker 4: turned his back on everybody. And he threw all of
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  Speaker 4: his allies and all the MAGA people under the bus.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you go back, we have a two-party system
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  Speaker 4: that I think will never change. It almost changed with
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  Speaker 4: Ross Perot, and then the Tea Party had a little shot,
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  Speaker 4: but that was, it sort of fizzled out and it
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  Speaker 4: became MAGA, and then Trump, I think, hijacked the MAGA movement,
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  Speaker 4: which was the original Tea Party movement, and now he's
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  Speaker 4: dumped MAGA as far as I'm concerned, but it's Not
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  Speaker 4: looking good.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could say, I hope I'm wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic, economically speaking. We shall see as time
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  Speaker 1: goes on. Always a pleasure talking to you. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: One other quick thing. I was talking about politicians, senators, congressmen.
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  Speaker 4: Down on the local level, it really disturbs me what
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  Speaker 4: I see in cities like Youngstown, where we have incompetent
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  Speaker 4: leadership in city council, in the mayor, I believe. They
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  Speaker 4: don't know what they're doing. They can't get out of
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  Speaker 4: their own way. Nothing seems to be coordinated. And all
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  Speaker 4: the COVID money, I think, is almost gone. They've blown
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  Speaker 4: it on parks, on playgrounds. And they had the program
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  Speaker 4: for putting new roofs on dilapidated homes and then helping
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  Speaker 4: other people out. And they just basically gave the money away.
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  Speaker 4: And now we have nothing to show for it. And
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  Speaker 4: if you drive down Wick Avenue, it's terrible. They should
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  Speaker 4: have put the new fire and police station there.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: They were going to do that. That would have been
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  Speaker 4: a great asset to the city. It was a corridor
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  Speaker 4: into YSU, Earthland, and the downtown area. But they just,
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  Speaker 4: now what's going to happen when they're out of money?
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  Speaker 4: And they're a bunch of clowns.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. NewsRadio 570. Don't hear
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  Speaker 1: you again. Just talking about Youngstown, I want to acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: the passing of Bob Bush. Many of you might remember him.
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  Speaker 1: He was with the Youngstown Police Department and was the
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  Speaker 1: chief of police. And I thought a hell of a guy.
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  Speaker 1: It was an honor to know Bob Bush and to
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  Speaker 1: talk to him on the radio over the years, both
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  Speaker 1: as police chief and when he left that position. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was a very, very interesting man, to
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  Speaker 1: say the least. Was in Vietnam. Was a gunner on
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: a helicopter. And ultimately was in the police department. Became
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer and police chief. And he has passed away.
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  Speaker 7: And a.
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  Speaker 1: Heck of a life, though. Lived a heck of a life.
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  Speaker 1: Accomplished a lot in his time. News Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 8: Ron, you and Options Guy said everything I was going
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  Speaker 8: to say, except I disagree with Options Guy. We have
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  Speaker 8: a uniparty, not a two-party system, and people are leaving
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  Speaker 8: both the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what he said, though. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you disagree. I think you're in agreement. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he said. It's like the same party. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to back up, and I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 1: you the same question. Economically speaking, from Japan to the
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  Speaker 1: bond yields yesterday, I mean, these are global things that
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  Speaker 1: are going on as far as the global economy is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: and I find them all deeply disturbing and troubling, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm genuinely concerned about the global economy because of this
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  Speaker 1: war situation. Your comment.
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  Speaker 8: Well, before I answer your question, people are leaving both
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  Speaker 8: the Democrats in Republican Party and record numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've got to go. Yeah, but stand by
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  Speaker 1: for a minute. I'll come right back to you and
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  Speaker 1: more after this. Ron Ferb, it's always a pleasure to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: check in with Mike Leonard out of Bernard Daniels. Ron
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  Speaker 1: Ferb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. So give me, based
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  Speaker 1: on what I've asked the first caller, I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to ask you the same question. Most people don't understand
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: this stuff, and they might not even follow it. But
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: these are, in my opinion, bad economic news for the
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  Speaker 1: globe when you're bailing out Japan and when you're doing
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  Speaker 1: the bond buyback that's going on. And with the situation
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: as far as energy goes, with this war situation that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Trump has created and the debt and deficit situation, They
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: were saying Trump's responsible for $ 4 trillion over two years.
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  Speaker 1: Give me your take on all of that and what
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  Speaker 1: you see and where you think it's headed.
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  Speaker 8: Well, first of all, we shouldn't be bailing out anybody.
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  Speaker 8: Japan is an advanced, industrialized economy. Why are we bailing
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  Speaker 8: them out? And she, too, was giving.
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  Speaker 1: You a hard time the other day.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Pause for a second. We're bailing them out because Japan
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  Speaker 1: was going to cash in. They have a trillion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in treasuries, and they were going to start cashing them in.
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  Speaker 1: And they felt if they did that, the interest rates
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  Speaker 1: would go up and it would be further in the hole.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of bailed them out for our own selfish reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what I said the other day. And I
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  Speaker 8: also mentioned that they're probably cashing in treasuries to pay
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  Speaker 8: for the high price of oil because... They import 90%
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  Speaker 8: of their oil. They have very little oil. Now, G2
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  Speaker 8: has given you a hard time the other day because
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  Speaker 8: he thinks everything is affordable and Republican. Economic policies are
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  Speaker 8: good for the country. Now, I'm going to give G2
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  Speaker 8: a reality check. Walmart's stock is dropping because investors fear
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  Speaker 8: that more Americans will not be able to afford basic
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  Speaker 8: necessities like food and clothes. And, Ron, gold is soaring
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  Speaker 8: in price because Wall Street expects inflation to get worse.
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  Speaker 8: It's not just gold. All my commodity stocks are soaring.
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  Speaker 8: If you've got copper going up, you've got platinum going up, palladium,
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  Speaker 8: iron ore, those costs in most cases are going to
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: be passed on to the consumer at the retail level.
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  Speaker 8: And oil prices jumped. as Trump threatens economic warfare on Iran.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: That was headline news today. But, Ron, I want to
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: say to G2, 92% of Americans say they have delayed
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: or totally abandoned medical care because they fear the cost,
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: especially the young generation. Young people are not getting the
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: care they need because of the cost. And a recent
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: study says that AI, artificial intelligence, is also making health
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: care more expensive, not cheaper. Only the middle class and
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: the millionaires are getting the care they need. Now, a
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: recent study by the Tax Policy Center found that G2' s
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: beloved tariff taxes are regressive. meaning it is hurting lower
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: income earners a lot more than higher income earners. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: another study has shown that every taxpayer dollar spent on
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: the military is ineffective in creating a significant number of jobs.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: And Ron, you.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: Know that interest rate debt is now the largest expense
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: item in the federal budget. larger than the war expense,
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: and Social Security.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Isn't that something? It was the second biggest expense, other
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: than Social Security, was just the interest payment on the debt.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Just paying the interest, not lowering it all. But we
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: continue to run the debt up, and interest rates are
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: going up because of the demand for borrowing money from
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the government. Supply and demand. Government's borrowing so much money.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: AI's borrowing so much money to expand that interest rates
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: are going up without the Fed raising them. And now
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: as a result of that, you're saying that the interest
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: is now the number one expense. And what do you
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: get for it?
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: You're not paying the debt down. You're getting absolutely nothing.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It's a terrible position that all of these politicians have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: put this country in, Democrats and Republicans. And the chickens
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: are coming home to roost.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, Ron, I had called your show, I
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: don't know, a year and a half ago, something like that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: I said I was looking at a technical chart of
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: interest rate debt. And I said it was the scariest
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: thing I'd ever seen. If you see, like, stocks uptrending,
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: it goes up a few days, then goes down a
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: little bit. Goes up a few more days, a few
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: more weeks.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Goes down.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Stand by. Stand by. Let me do my break. I'll
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: come back. Wrap it up with Frank. Take more of
• 22:26
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• 22:36
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• 22:38
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• 22:42
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• 22:46
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• 22:50
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• 22:54
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• 22:57
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• 23:00
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• 23:03
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• 23:06
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• 23:08
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• 23:11
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• 23:15
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• 23:20
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  Speaker 1: All right, 335 in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. So it's...
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: It's not a good scenario. You were talking about, and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to the caller before you, about one party. They all
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: seem to be on the same page. But you've got
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to vote for somebody. And in many cases, most of
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: my life, it has been the lesser of two evils
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to a large extent. And there's no way I can
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: vote for Amy Acton. There's no way I could vote
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: for Sherrod Brown. There's no way I could vote for
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: any of these crazy Democrats. As far as the ones,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: like if you're asking me, do I think AOC should
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: be president? No, I think she's a nitwit or Gavin Newsom.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I think he's been a lousy governor. I don't see
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: anybody worthwhile on the Democrat side. And quite frankly, their
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: agenda and the problems they created, I couldn't vote for
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: any of them. So sometimes it's the lesser two evils.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I could enthusiastically vote for Ron DeSantis. I could tell
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you that. And many of the Republicans, I would support
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: certainly over any Democrat. And Trump, unfortunately, has been a
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: little disappointing lately. But we got some serious, I believe, serious,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: serious economic issues in this country. I mean, serious economic issues.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And it is in part because of the war and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: in part because of the ignorant or ignoring the debt
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and deficits. I mean, this idea, interest being your number
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: one expense, is just lunacy and a waste of your
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: tax dollars. Okay, go ahead with your comments and what you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: Have to add.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: Well, I've never voted Republican or Democrat. I've always voted Libertarian.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: And interest rate expense is growing at an exponential rate
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: with no end in sight. How long before interest rate
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: expense takes every taxpayer dollar to service? And Apple had
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: its worst post-earnings drop in 13 years. Tim Cook, the
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: CEO of Apple, said he will now buy fewer chips
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: from Micron Technology and more chips from other memory suppliers.
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: And on this news, Micron Stop had another big drop.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's not good. I mean, I don't see any
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: good economic signs. Do you?
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: But, you know, Ron, millions of young people are facing
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: collection efforts and wage garnishment on top of all the
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: other challenges they face at the worst possible time.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I read this to John Arnold last night. I've got
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to see if I can find it again. that somebody
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: had posted. And I thought it was really, really well
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: written here that it had to do with buying a home. Okay,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: here it is. Okay, this guy posted this. Now, there's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: a picture of the home, okay? There's a picture of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a home. I would describe it. It'd be hard for
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you to understand because you're in Florida. But it looks
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: like a home that you'd see in any of the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Joe Koch developments, all right? It looks... If you're familiar,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it looks like your typical middle class home. All right.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And the guy and the guy says, my dad bought
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a house on this street in 1996, working at a
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: local warehouse. Today, my wife, a nurse and I and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: accountants with two full time salaries are struggling to qualify
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: for a mortgage on houses in the same neighborhood. Young
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: people didn't suddenly forget how to work hard. Hard work
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: just stopped buying what it used to. I think that
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: is spot on, don't you?
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I called a week or two ago
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: and said that Wall Street expects mortgage rates to rise again.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, interest rates, I told you, are going up. It
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the Fed does because of supply and demands.
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: Well, the reason why the Fed buys back treasuries is
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: they can't find enough buyers, foreign buyers to buy our
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: junk bonds. Interest rates will probably have to go a
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: lot higher on federal government to get people to buy them.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Well, the problem is exactly as you say. As the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: debt of the country continues to go up and as
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: interest rates go up, the amount of money that we
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: have to spend on just servicing the debt continues to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: go up. We take in $ 4. 5 trillion. In federal taxes
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a year, income taxes a year, $ 4. 5 trillion. Well, if
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: your number one expense is just the interest, you don't
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: get anything for that. And you're not lowering it. It
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: just goes on and on and on. And it's just
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: stupid money management. This country can't afford to give anybody
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: foreign aid. It's got to take a serious look at
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: cutting expenditures. And we don't cut Social Security and we
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: don't cut Medicare. You know, I talk about things that
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't cut. But you've got the Democrats out there
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: saying it should be Medicare for all. It should be
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: another government program. No, we can't afford the ones we
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: have now, for God's sakes. And the Democrats are out
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: there championing more stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, are
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you paying attention? We're $ 40 trillion in debt. Are you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: paying attention to what the interest payments are in this?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: And you want to give Medicare for all? The Democrats
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: are insane. All right, Frank. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. As always,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: have a great weekend. You're on the air.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: You're on the air. Hello.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Yes. Yeah. You know, I've been listening to your talk show,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: and I see a lot of these people coming up
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: to you. and doom all the time. So I'm saying
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: to myself, what exactly do we want? I mean, do
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: we want Iran to have a nuclear weapon and kill
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: us all?
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: Or what?
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Can't we take it for six months and see how
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: it goes? I mean, you know, it really baffles me
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: as people come... Keep calling up, gloom and doom, gloom
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: and doom. You know, the stock went down, the stock
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: went up. I heard this guy talk about, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: micron technology going down. I just heard the interview on CNBC,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and they are talking about nothing but prosperity.
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: And they are, you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Know, so I'm saying to myself, what exactly do Americans want?
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, do you want a low price forever at
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: the cost of Iran having a nuclear weapon and killing
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: us all?
• 30:27
  Speaker 14: Or what?
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: It baffles me to listen to all these guys talk
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: about gloom and doom all the time. And I like
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: to listen to your comments. Thank you so much.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you for your call. And I'll let your comments
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: stand and see what people have to say about it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Let people react to your comments. You're on the air.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Hello? Hello?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I waited for you. I wish you would have
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: waited for me. You're on the air.
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: Hello. Well, I waited for you. I wish you'd have
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: hung up on me.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Well, you know this much. You know that's coming.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: Well, listen, a couple, three things. Number one, right? I,
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: how can I put this? I'm going to defend G2.
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: I may disagree with him. But I'm going to defend
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: him in the conversation he had with you. He was
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: trying to..
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I'll defend him. I'll defend him as well. You know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: it's okay for G2 and me to disagree on stuff.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I somewhat enjoyed the conversation. You can disagree. We don't
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: agree on everything. That's healthy and that's good. As a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: matter of fact, you and I don't agree on much,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: but it's still... But I don't dislike you at all. Well,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: some days I do.
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: Yeah, well, you got to understand something, Ron.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: G2 was trying to teach you guys something.
• 31:52
  Speaker 12: Uh-huh.
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: And it was a hard lesson for me to learn.
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: And a guy that retired, he used to work in
• 32:01
  Speaker 13: your station. I think his first name was Dan. Me
• 32:04
  Speaker 13: and him went around about something one time, and he
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: finally got me to listen to him. Now, G2 tried
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: to teach you guys something, but you guys didn't want
• 32:15
  Speaker 13: to listen. And what he was trying to teach you
• 32:19
  Speaker 13: is this. It does not matter how good or how
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: bad your idea is. If you don't get elected, it
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: doesn't matter. So if you say something during a campaign
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: to get you elected, well, so what? You got elected.
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: So what G2 was trying to tell you guys is, listen.
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: You're going to vote Republican... regardless of how bad these
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: guys are. You can have a Republican in the White House,
• 32:55
  Speaker 13: a Republican in the Republican-held Senate, Republican-held House, Republican-held state governors,
• 33:03
  Speaker 13: Republican-held state Senate.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: You're saying I would vote Republican over Democrats despite my
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: disagreements with them because the Democrats are much worse. I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: would plead guilty to that, Your Honor.
• 33:20
  Speaker 13: So G2 is trying to tell you guys, get with
• 33:23
  Speaker 13: the program. The program is we have to get our
• 33:26
  Speaker 13: guys elected. If our guys don't get elected, then we
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: will have problems. And what I say to that is,
• 33:35
  Speaker 13: before I go to the next subject is, The definition
• 33:39
  Speaker 13: of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: and expecting a different result.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: No, wait a minute.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Dirty pool. Dirty pool here. So here
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I think you're—folks, listen. This was masterfully executed by Emanuel.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Right when I think he's going to pay G2 a compliment,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: he's saying if he was doing the same thing over
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and over again and expecting different results, that's a definition
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of insanity. Boy, you got me hook, line, and sinker.
• 34:13
  Speaker 13: Okay, I'm going to leave on that. Have a nice weekend.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Boy, oh boy, oh boy. Was that something? Boy, he
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: reeled me in, didn't he? He just reeled me in.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I want to defend G2, and G2' s talking how despite
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: all of the stuff that's bad that's going on, the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: never-ending war, the debt of the country, the bond bailouts,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff, he's just making a
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: point that you've got to get more Republicans elected because...
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: You'll get different results. What do they say? If you
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: expect different, do the same thing. Expect different results. It's, oh, boy,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: did he reel me in. Boy, did he get me good.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: News Radio 570. But it's like I say, and I'm realistic,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: there is absolutely no possible way I would ever vote
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: for Sherry Brown. Sherrod Brown is a left-wing Biden supporting
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: every wacky thing that Biden did. I cannot go back
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to a party that thinks men can have babies. I
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: cannot go back to a party that can't define what
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: a woman is. I can't go back to a party
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: that says we want to appoint a Supreme Court justice,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: but the justice must be black and female and is
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: just probably one of the lowest IQ members of that
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: court ever.
• 35:41
  Speaker 15: And..
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I can't go back to that party that says we've
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: got to have all this transgender nonsense. So I can't
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: go back to that party on its social agenda and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: certainly not on its economic agenda, which created the bulk
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: of this inflation and its energy agenda. There is absolutely
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: no way as an alternative I can say that's a
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: better choice as a thinking man. So sometimes it's the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: lesser of two evils, but... I would absolutely be voting
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: for the Republican John Houston. And absolutely be voting for
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio. So, you know, there,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, there you have it. Now, these are in
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: your state races and your federal races. So there you
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: have it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Boy, did he get me good. You're on the air.
• 36:45
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I have some updates on property tax collections. Becky
• 36:48
  Speaker 16: and I were at Rogers Flea Market today, and we
• 36:51
  Speaker 16: had a good day getting signatures and picked up six circulators.
• 36:54
  Speaker 16: I had packets ready for anyone who wanted to be
• 36:56
  Speaker 16: a circulator, and I'm going to do that at the Canfield.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Fair as well.
• 37:00
  Speaker 16: So if you signed at the fair already, if you
• 37:02
  Speaker 16: want to stop in the tent and get a packet,
• 37:04
  Speaker 16: you could circulate a little bit among people you know.
• 37:07
  Speaker 16: I was at the Ashtabula County Fair last weekend, which
• 37:11
  Speaker 16: was my first time there. Very small fair, but we
• 37:14
  Speaker 16: did great. We got like 500 signatures over the course
• 37:16
  Speaker 16: of the fair.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: So that's really.
• 37:18
  Speaker 16: Good for a small fair. Brian Massey has a new
• 37:22
  Speaker 16: hat out, Axe Ohio Tax Hat.
• 37:24
  Speaker 13: It's black.
• 37:25
  Speaker 16: It's got white lettering and red lettering on it. He
• 37:28
  Speaker 16: wants to know if you want me to get you
• 37:30
  Speaker 16: a copy. Would you like a hat from Axe Ohio Tax?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Anything Brian Massey is willing to do, I'm 100% for.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: He is a great, he is really, first of all,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I got a world of respect for all you are doing.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you are just giving it your all. And
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: you represent everything great about citizens getting involved to try
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to make a change. giving up so much of your
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: free time. It's just so admirable. And Becky, in your
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: entire organization, and Brian Massey. And anytime I talk with Pleschnik,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it is just, every time I talk with Commissioner John
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Pleschnik from Lake County, whenever I end that conversation, I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: just think that is a smart man.
• 38:11
  Speaker 17: Oh, yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 16: He was good on the show. I heard it the
• 38:15
  Speaker 16: last time he was on your show a couple weeks ago.
• 38:17
  Speaker 17: He's really good.
• 38:17
  Speaker 16: He helped our movement a lot.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's so smart.
• 38:21
  Speaker 16: He's very dynamic.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I would love to see a guy like that actually
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: become governor of the state. I genuinely would with his philosophy.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: The state would be much better off. So the fair
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: is September 2nd through Labor Day. So let's see. So
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: that's about a couple weeks away.
• 38:37
  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 16: We'll be collecting all days of the fair. So come
• 38:40
  Speaker 16: see us. We're sort of on the corner of Smith
• 38:43
  Speaker 16: and Poland streets once you're inside the fair.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I really think you should think about getting like a
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: lemon shake stand and also take signatures. There's no reason, Denise,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: you can't make a buck or two while you're out
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: there and maybe cook some fries, maybe a kielbasa sandwich.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: And in addition to getting signatures, it could be a
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: whole new career for you. Let's do it this way.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Becky could be making the lemon shakes and the fries.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: You could be collecting the signatures.
• 39:13
  Speaker 16: Frank could be drilling some stuff, yeah.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I think it all worked together. It's time to get
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: yourself a trailer and begin that carny life that you
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: so desire.
• 39:24
  Speaker 17: Well, what I'm.
• 39:25
  Speaker 16: Hoping is we're so busy taking signatures, we would have
• 39:28
  Speaker 16: no time to do that.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't.
• 39:30
  Speaker 18: My plan.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: There's three of you. Somebody could be doing the fries
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and lemon shakes. The other two could be getting signatures.
• 39:35
  Speaker 16: Listen, I got 20 volunteers lined up to help me.
• 39:38
  Speaker 19: 20 people.
• 39:40
  Speaker 16: And I got people coming in from Lake, from Portage,
• 39:42
  Speaker 16: and from Stark.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: To work a couple shifts.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 39:45
  Speaker 16: We're hopefully going to.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Stand by. Stand by.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Stand by.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Back with Denise and more in a minute. Stay tuned.
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• 40:27
  Speaker 16: Yeah, so again, if people want to sign at the
• 40:29
  Speaker 16: fair or if they've already signed and they want to
• 40:31
  Speaker 16: come out and get a packet, I'll give them a
• 40:33
  Speaker 16: packet so they can circulate. It'll have instructions and petitions
• 40:36
  Speaker 16: in there. You know, even if you get 10 or 20,
• 40:38
  Speaker 16: that's really what we need people to do across the
• 40:41
  Speaker 16: state of Ohio. We should just get a sum, and
• 40:44
  Speaker 16: then the rest of us, you know, we're just doing
• 40:45
  Speaker 16: as much as we can out.
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: There, so..
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Well, if you don't want to do, like, a stand
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: in addition to get the signatures, what about, like, the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: balloons and darts? And if you, you know, hit four balloons,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you get a teddy bear. It's something I'm trying to do.
• 40:58
  Speaker 16: Juan, you're giving me more work.
• 40:59
  Speaker 21: I don't need more work.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to have it so you can get signatures
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: and make a buck as well. You give all your
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: time for free, and you're doing all of this, and
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: we all benefit from it. I'm just trying to get
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: some money in your pockets.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: You might enjoy the car.
• 41:15
  Speaker 16: The money in my pocket is going to be when
• 41:16
  Speaker 16: this passes.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you were at the Ashtabula Fair. You're at, obviously,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the Canfield Fair. You can make the rounds of the fair.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: You might as well make a couple of bucks. You
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and Becky there.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Denise. Appreciate it. You're on the air.
• 41:30
  Speaker 21: It's 10 times.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe you should be out there with Denise and Becky
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: when they're collecting signatures just.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: To make an appearance.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: You should be there making an appearance. Say, here's J.J.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the Trumpster, formerly J.J.
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: The Liberal.
• 41:51
  Speaker 21: It'd be like, well, who's asking for the signature?
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 41:58
  Speaker 21: She's bringing in hired guns now. She's getting people from outside.
• 42:02
  Speaker 21: She's just doing some wonderful work.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: She really was.
• 42:05
  Speaker 21: She was a real pleasant person when I met her.
• 42:07
  Speaker 21: She was very receptive.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Do you go to the fair? JJ, do you attend
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the fair?
• 42:13
  Speaker 17: Pardon me?
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Do you go to the Canfield Fair?
• 42:17
  Speaker 21: I go one time with, you know, because my... My
• 42:20
  Speaker 21: son's a little sensitive to noise and crowds, and he
• 42:23
  Speaker 21: tries to go in the evening.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, you could always leave him home and go
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: by yourself. I mean, it is possible. I mean, sometimes
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: you get strayed out by yourself. By the way, let's
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: get an update, an important update. How's the destruction of
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the Rite Aid doing in Cornersburg? Live, my cub reporter
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: live from Cornersburg on the destruction of the Rite Aid
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: where they're going to be building a sheet station across
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: from the Walgreens, which is about, what, five places from
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: your headquarters. What do you see? What's going on down there?
• 43:00
  Speaker 17: Well, Ron, this is J.J.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: On the spot.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 43:02
  Speaker 21: I'm out here, and I'm observing the teardown of the
• 43:06
  Speaker 21: old Rite Aid, and they're going to be the creation
• 43:09
  Speaker 21: of the new sheets, I believe it is, or.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: The seaway that we spoke of.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: It's the sheets.
• 43:14
  Speaker 21: And they're getting it lowered there, and we'll be expecting
• 43:17
  Speaker 21: probably a christening or a ribbon cutting here probably in
• 43:21
  Speaker 21: the beginning of next year. And so it looks like we're...
• 43:25
  Speaker 21: Let's get a hold of one of these people. Nobody
• 43:27
  Speaker 21: wants to speak to me as they're going by here,
• 43:29
  Speaker 21: but it's coming along.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: It's not as.
• 43:33
  Speaker 21: Bad as it is, but I just noticed again, you
• 43:35
  Speaker 21: wondered why I was so, not against it, but a
• 43:38
  Speaker 21: little bit apprehensive. I came to the garage today and
• 43:43
  Speaker 21: put my son playing the pool and that, and there's
• 43:45
  Speaker 21: people that are just racing down the street, which is, the.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Speed limit's 25 at best.
• 43:52
  Speaker 21: And, you know, what they do is they cut through
• 43:55
  Speaker 21: because they don't want to hit the light. They're coming
• 43:57
  Speaker 21: up from tip of canoe from Boardman. So they go
• 44:00
  Speaker 21: down that little lower part and they come up over
• 44:02
  Speaker 21: the little crest of the hill there.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute. I'm trying to get my bearings.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: You would be coming up..
• 44:10
  Speaker 21: You're coming from Boardman on Kippa Canoe.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that takes you right to the light.
• 44:14
  Speaker 21: You're coming toward Cornersburg.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Standby, standby, standby. Back with my cub reporter on the scene,
• 44:22
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• 44:24
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  Speaker 1: you there?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, hang on. J.J., are you there?
• 47:57
  Speaker 21: Yes, Ron. Yes, I'm here on Canfield Road.
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  Speaker 27: On location.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I'm observing them now.
• 48:02
  Speaker 16: Yes, yes.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, JJ.
• 48:04
  Speaker 21: You're breaking in and out there, Ron. I'm trying to
• 48:06
  Speaker 21: keep a... All right.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, JJ's out there on location where they've ripped
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: down the Rite Aid, where they're going to put up
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: a sheet. You have on, like on the war zones,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: you have on a bulletproof vest that says press and
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a helmet, right? That's out there that says press as
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: you're standing there on the sidewalk observing. Now, from your observation,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: most of the work down there, the building has pretty
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: well been torn down. And from my observation point, do
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you see that the building is pretty well ripped down
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: as far as the former Rite Aid, J.J.? Flat as
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: a pancake, Ron. Flat as a pancake.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Flat as a pancake. Are there large dumpsters there, J.J.,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: that they seem to be putting in recycled material and
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: things like that?
• 48:52
  Speaker 21: No, they have the dump trucks coming in and out.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: I actually got a hold of it.
• 48:55
  Speaker 21: I talked to one of the drivers, and he's enjoying himself,
• 48:59
  Speaker 21: making a little overtime here. And since Trump's no tax
• 49:03
  Speaker 21: on overtime, that's actually working very, very good for him today.
• 49:07
  Speaker 21: So he's quite happy here.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: So he's making overtime. Now you were talking about some
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: of your concern, J.J., our cub reporter on the scene
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: here in Cornersburg, where they ripped down Rite Aid to
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: build a sheet store. Your concern was– I'm trying to
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: get the bearings. Meridian Road, you're not talking Meridian Road
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: where they're talking.
• 49:27
  Speaker 21: No, I'm on the– the Boardman side of, as soon
• 49:32
  Speaker 21: as you hit Canfield Road, once you pass over Canfield,
• 49:35
  Speaker 21: where the spark was, you're going toward Mahoning Avenue, that's
• 49:41
  Speaker 21: Austin Town, where I'm at right now is on the
• 49:44
  Speaker 21: Boardman side. But when you're coming down, say, Tipper Canoe
• 49:47
  Speaker 21: from Boardman, and you're going down it, you come to
• 49:50
  Speaker 21: that little lip area, it kind of rises up, and
• 49:54
  Speaker 21: then you cross to the... where the Walgreens is at,
• 50:00
  Speaker 21: the people are going to the light, and then if
• 50:03
  Speaker 21: they make a right to go on Campbell Road toward
• 50:06
  Speaker 21: the park, they make that cut on Sunnybrook.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 50:10
  Speaker 17: And we live.
• 50:11
  Speaker 28: On Sunnybrook, and they make that right right there, and
• 50:14
  Speaker 28: they just don't realize that it's really a community right
• 50:16
  Speaker 28: here where there's some children And even if you're not,
• 50:20
  Speaker 28: if you're out there cutting the grass, you can get
• 50:23
  Speaker 28: by a pancake, you know, like a pancake.
• 50:24
  Speaker 21: In fact, I'm kind of hungry for pancakes.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I detected that you were hungry for pancakes because you've
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: mentioned them now twice, but you're concerned about speeders. You're
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: concerned about speeders on Sunnybrook. So you're doing more than
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: just covering the tearing down of Rite Aid. You're also
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: giving traffic reports.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, And so I'm also setting.
• 50:44
  Speaker 21: Up my dinner for tonight, too. So actually, I'll be
• 50:47
  Speaker 21: doing a little. I'm multitasking.
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: You're wrong.
• 50:51
  Speaker 21: I'm multitasking.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: In your phone call, you've accomplished four things, folks. Let's
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: review the four things. He's done a live report on
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the destruction of Rite Aid for the sheets. He's updated
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: all of us. He's reported on speeding in the area
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: as well. He's done that. He's also become J.J. the
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Trumpster in reminding the dump truck driver how he's making
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: overtime and there's no tax on overtime. And also he's
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: planned his dinner because he mentioned pancakes and he is
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: going to go get some pancakes tonight.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 51:23
  Speaker 21: I got breakfast on the mind for dinner, and so
• 51:25
  Speaker 21: I mean, if I go out there and I hop there,
• 51:28
  Speaker 21: you never know, I might be able to take care
• 51:30
  Speaker 21: of all the things. But that's the thing I get
• 51:32
  Speaker 21: my concern is.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Do you have a mask on? I mean, I don't
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: know how much dust there is in the area from
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the destruction of where the building is down, but there
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: could be dust lingering. I don't want you to get
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: any type of diseases from the construction debris.
• 51:47
  Speaker 13: Just a little bit.
• 51:50
  Speaker 21: Just a little bit. I think I might have to
• 51:55
  Speaker 21: just depart from the area here.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: So, listen, Ron, have a great.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Weekend, my friend. All right, there you go, live on
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the scene, J.J. My cub reporter, as he reports live
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: on location where they ripped down the Rite Aid to
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: put up a sheet store in Cornersburg and talking about
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: speeding cars. All right, you're on the air.
• 52:18
  Speaker 12: He also doxxed himself pretty good, too.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: I think it was just– he is really– actually, J.J.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: has got a great sense of humor. He does. He
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: might be one of the best actors on radio since,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: you know, the old days. You know, Horses Gallop. You
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: know how they did those old shows on radio? I
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: think J.J. encompasses all of that. I could picture him
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: out there on the corner, though, couldn't you, with the
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: press vest on, you know, the bulletproof vest like they
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: were in a war zone, the helmet?
• 52:47
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: That says press as he's out there by the right
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: aid that is no more. All right, so Miguel.
• 52:55
  Speaker 12: Except I keep picturing Winnie the Pooh. I wish I
• 52:58
  Speaker 12: knew what he looked like, so I wouldn't keep thinking
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: of Winnie Pooh.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I think people say he sounds more like Tigger when
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: he laughs, not Winnie the Pooh.
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: It's more like when he laughs, it's more like.
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: Oh, wow, you did that.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: Great.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: It's more like Tigger. Now we switch from the Cornersburg
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: area to go to the guru of Gerard. Come in. Over.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 53:22
  Speaker 12: Oh, one other thing as I was listening. I'm sorry
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: I forgot the woman's first name that's collecting all the signatures.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Denise. Denise.
• 53:29
  Speaker 12: Denise, sorry.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: And don't forget her helper. Denise and her helper, the nephew.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 53:40
  Speaker 12: So, Denise, by next week, hopefully, I'll give this to
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: Ron and he'll give it to you, but you'll be
• 53:47
  Speaker 12: able to check if a voter is registered before they
• 53:51
  Speaker 12: sign your petition. Right from your phone. Because of Mike
• 53:57
  Speaker 12: the Guru. Really? Yeah, I sent you an email, Ron,
• 54:02
  Speaker 12: that has the link to it. I did just for
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: Trouble County. It's really cool. I remember about my goal,
• 54:07
  Speaker 12: my mission, is to reduce taxes by more efficient processing.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but whenever I click on that link, all I
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: see is you flexing with your shirt off. Is that
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: the link you meant.
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: To send me? Oh, you got the porn link?
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: It's you standing there with your shirt off, flexing your muscles.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that I want to look at that.
• 54:32
  Speaker 12: Well, they are getting bigger, you know, with all that
• 54:34
  Speaker 12: brickwork I'm doing up front there.
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: I can feel it, man.
• 54:36
  Speaker 12: It's like it's working out. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than a guy your age with his
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: shirt off.
• 54:42
  Speaker 12: Oh, I have to, though. When it was so hot, like,
• 54:45
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Here's the first tip I have for anyone. Once you're
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: over 60 years of age... Do not take your T-shirt
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: off when you're working in the yard or anywhere else
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: as a man. It's disgusting, okay? I mean, that's just–
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm saying that from personal experience. Things just change
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: as you get older. Once you're beyond 60, keep your
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: T-shirt on for the love of God.
• 55:10
  Speaker 12: Especially after you've been under the knife a bunch of times.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, like you. That would be– oh, that would almost– yeah,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: it would be disgusting to look at all those scars
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: and everything like that.
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm like a patchwork railroad.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that would really be very disturbing. Very frightening
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: to children in the neighborhood. Yeah.
• 55:30
  Speaker 12: You know, I like my neighborhood now. We're starting to
• 55:33
  Speaker 12: get some good kids that are out playing. Many of
• 55:37
  Speaker 12: them have the e-bikes too much, you know? Like, they
• 55:40
  Speaker 12: don't have the same reason I do. But they're all,
• 55:43
  Speaker 12: there's kind of a bunch of good kids.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: How old are you now? 63.
• 55:49
  Speaker 12: How old?
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: 63.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: 63.
• 55:52
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Well, you're lucky you made it to 63 with all
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the health problems you've had.
• 55:58
  Speaker 11: I know.
• 56:00
  Speaker 12: And I, I, you know, every day for me is
• 56:02
  Speaker 12: like a good day, you know, because now I just
• 56:05
  Speaker 12: appreciate it. That's why I'm, why, why am I doing
• 56:08
  Speaker 12: all this stuff? Like, you know, the auditor function for
• 56:10
  Speaker 12: the entire state of Ohio and because I can't, because
• 56:13
  Speaker 12: I want to like make a difference. I don't have
• 56:14
  Speaker 12: anything else to do in life.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: So, Well, don't you think you've made a difference? See,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: this is what disturbs me about people like you when
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: you say, well, I want to make a difference. Well,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: don't you think you made a difference? You went to work.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: You paid your taxes. You got a wonderful wife, and
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: you lived a good life.
• 56:31
  Speaker 12: I've created two wonderful children that.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Are successful in this world. Don't you think that that is–
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Your greatest accomplishment. I mean, when you sit back and
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: reflect on your life, don't you say probably the most
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: important decisions you made in your life was when you
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: got married and when you brought those beautiful children into
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the world and obviously being able to provide for them,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: that that is really what life is all about. Everything
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: else is just bullcrap. Would you not agree?
• 57:03
  Speaker 12: I do not say it's bull crap. I would say
• 57:05
  Speaker 12: that those.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Are more important than some things.
• 57:07
  Speaker 12: But they're still important things.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I'd like to be a.
• 57:11
  Speaker 12: Productive member of society for as many days as I'm here.
• 57:16
  Speaker 12: And this is my goal. I mean, you know it yourself, Ron.
• 57:23
  Speaker 12: The status quo is not working.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: No, it is not. I agree.
• 57:27
  Speaker 12: We are paying way too much for way too little.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Let me put it this way to you. When you
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: talk about the status quo, like I've been doing some
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: prerecorded interviews that I've been doing of some of the
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: local politicians. We'll be running them at some point. But
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: we have some impressive results. guys on the, on the
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: local fronts. I, I did, uh, I did a brief
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: interview with Tex Fisher the other day and I got
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: to tell you, he's a fairly impressive guy. I mean,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: he's an impressive young man. Well, that was my impression.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: I thought Tex Fisher was an impressive young man and
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: I think he's got a bright future in front of him. Uh, I, I, uh,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: was talking with, um, Mark DiApolito the other day, and
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I think he's an impressive younger man. And I think
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: he's got a bright future in front of him, a
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: very bright attorney and a real good– he's just got
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: a very calming, pleasant way about him. And he's an
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: attorney and seems to be a very nice guy to me.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, so, you know, I kind of reflect on
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: all of that. I mean, there's some good people out there.
• 58:40
  Speaker 12: I'll tell you what, the guy that you talked to,
• 58:43
  Speaker 12: James Clark from Girard, if you remember.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, I talked to him one time. When you're talking
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: about people I talked to from Girard, there's one person
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: I talked to from Girard. Well, there's actually two. There's you,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: the guru of Girard, and then there's, of course, on
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: The Legal Show, attorney James Melfi, who's a pretty damn
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: good attorney. Yeah, I mean, he's– I mean, attorney Melfi,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: he's not only a damn good attorney, but he has
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: really got a great sense of humor.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 59:16
  Speaker 12: What was the one he did last night? I actually
• 59:21
  Speaker 12: sent that– I sent that to his dad. What does
• 59:25
  Speaker 12: it say?
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Can you believe this?
• 59:30
  Speaker 12: Factory of Sadness.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Factory of Sadness.
• 59:35
  Speaker 12: New Brown Stadium.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Is that what he called it, the Factory of Sadness?
• 59:42
  Speaker 12: Why would I want to give any money to the
• 59:44
  Speaker 12: Factory of Sadness? I would give it to schools.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Cracking up. That was a great line, man. The factory
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: of sadness.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: How about when I was talking to Attorney Melfi on
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: The Legal Show? This was a classic, I thought. So
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Attorney James Melfi, whose dad was mayor
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: a long time of Girard. 24 years. Yeah. And I said,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: your dad and I are the same age. I think
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: it was his dad's birthday, if I'm not mistaken. It
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: was his dad's birthday.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: And I said, well, your dad's this old? He said, no,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's that old. Now, this is his dad.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: He said, I don't think he's that old. No, I said,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: I know he's that old. He's born, him and I
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: are the same age.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 12: He guessed him as seven.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: No, he guessed him, I think he guessed him younger.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: He didn't. And so I was arguing with the son
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: over his father's age. And guess who was right? Me.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: You were. Yes.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 12: Yes, I knew that.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 12: You guys are the same age.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 12: You and my brother and Jim are all the same age.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We're all senior citizens. And we couldn't be happier
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 12: I'm catching up, Ron.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 12: Every day I'm alive. I get a little closer.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, in all seriousness, you're lucky to be around
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: with all the health issues you've had. I mean, technology
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing with some of the great doctors
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: that we have in our area to keep you going.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I go back when you go through
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 12: the cancer treatment stuff, like you've got to get scans
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 12: and everything. So I keep going through and get scans.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 12: And every time I go and I talk to the doctor,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 12: I tell her, other things that I've done with the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 12: time that she has allotted me.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: And what does she say? I've got to see another patient.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: See you later.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 12: No, she thinks it's pretty amazing, actually. I mean, if
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 12: you follow it, I've done a few things since. that happened,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 12: you know, and they're just things like, okay, yeah, I just,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 12: where am I.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: Going to do?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 13: I'm here.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 12: I got to do something. I'm not just sitting around.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: How did, now, how did all of your, your bout
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: with cancer and having a lung, part of a lung removed,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: change your life, change your philosophy? How did it change it?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 12: Well, I think I told you this, like, I don't
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 12: have time to fight. I don't, I don't have time
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 12: for bad feelings. I, every day I ask myself, what
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 12: am I going to do? Like, let's change the world
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 12: today in some way. And I'm totally serious. You know,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 12: a lot of people say that. I'm not running for office.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, this is true.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 12: It's just, it's made me, I find myself, like, communicating
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 12: with the soul of my mother and the guy who
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 12: built this house years ago. And just, I don't know, like,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 12: just communicating, like, you know, with those people, like, hey,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 12: I want to make a difference. give me a good
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 12: word from up there. You know, I mean, just, I
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 12: don't know. Things like that. I don't, every day above
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 12: ground is a good day. And, and I think, and
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 12: no matter, you know what, here's what a lot of
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 12: people don't realize. You know, I went through this, a
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 12: ton of people went through this. By the way, I
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 12: think the COVID vaccine had something to do with it.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 12: But anyway, a bunch of people go through this, right?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 12: And you, it does change your life and it should,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 12: but But everybody should feel this way. You just don't
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 12: realize it until something like that happens.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: Right. Until you have a health situation and you realize
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: how precious life really is.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, this doesn't have to be. You know,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 12: I mean, a lot of people will complain. The guy
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 12: that calls in says everybody's complaining about things. Yeah, you know,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 12: I mean, a lot of people do complain. They don't realize, like,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 12: it doesn't have to be. You know, something could happen.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 12: You could walk out in the street.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: Boom.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 12: And now what are your complaints?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's interesting that you mentioned that, you know,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: I like there's two there's two things that I had
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: been thinking about lately. One today, I was genuinely saddened
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: to see the passing of Bob Bush, who was the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: police former police chief in Youngstown and. a lawyer, and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: as I say, a gunner on a helicopter in Vietnam.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: He's just a hell of a guy. I mean, I've
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: talked to him over the years, God rest his soul,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: and really enjoyed his company. And I always thought he
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: was a hell of a guy. And then, and then,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: stand by. Stand by. Bang in there. It's the Guru
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: of Gerard, News Radio 570 WKBN, and Ron Verp from
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Mahoning. Ron Verb, it's always a pleasure
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: to check in with Mike Leonard out of Bernard Daniels.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: There are 250 railroad streets in Canfield, folks. It's one
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: of those places where you just have to go because
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: you never know what bargains that they get in. And
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: can I tell you something? If you're looking for lumber, 2x4, 2x6, plywood,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: anything you want, they store it the right way in
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: pole barns. They load it for you. You don't have
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: to sort through a pile looking for a straight one.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Let's start with what you're known for. Great lumber, right, Mike?
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Great lumber. We store it properly.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 29: We order good material. If you're in a project, need
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 29: good stuff, you've got to stop and check it out.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 29: And that's the key thing, Ron. You've got to visit
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 29: us here. You've got to come in, walk around. Inventory's
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 29: always changing. We have everything you need.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Whether that's composite decking, whether that's Anderson windows, whether
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: that's Silver Creek cabinets, from top to bottom, where are
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: you located and what's your phone number?
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 29: We're at 250 Railroad Street in Canfield. Phone number 330-533-2211.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: Bernard Daniels, right there on Railroad Street in Canfield. Power
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: isn't a luxury. It's a CN. So the Guru to Gerard.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: So I've been reflecting on that today because I read about,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: as I said, Bob Bush's passing. And I'm saddened by it.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: You follow me? Because it's like, to quote Paul Anka,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: the times of your life. And then it was probably
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: a week ago, and it really kind of set me
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: back and– It really set me back, and I just
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: reflected for a bit. For the longest period of time
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: that I've been in Youngstown, I knew Nick Levinsky. He
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: was on the Boardman Police Department for a long time,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: and he was a sergeant on the Boardman Police Department.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Got to know him over the years when I was
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: much younger and he was much younger, as a matter
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: of fact. And he would sometimes be on duty and
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: stop by when we'd be doing remotes on location and
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And I remember seeing Nick come in,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: and he worked for the Board of the Police Department,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: and he would have on his uniform. And it would
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: be wintertime, and he had on the police, you know,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: the leather jackets that they would wear and looking sharp
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff. And I always thought he
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: was just a really good guy and really enjoyed life.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: his friendship and talking to him over the years. And
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: he was a hell of a woodmaker. I would see
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: him at the Shaker Woods Festival with my wife from
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: time to time. But I saw that he had passed
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: away and he was like, I think 71. He had
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: pancreatic cancer. And that really saddened me. I was really
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: saddened that Nick Levinsky passed away just from my over
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: the years running into him and knowing him and talking
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: to him as I was with Bob Bush. And I
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: was saddened by the passing of both of those gentlemen.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: It's like Paul Anka said, it's like the times of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: your life right in front of your eyes. These people
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: that you've had good friendships with who seem to vanish
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: before they really... And time is precious, let's put it
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: that way.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it is.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 12: You know, you asked me that, but all I've done
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 12: is realize it more because, you know, your life kind
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 12: of flashes in front of your eyes sometimes. When you're
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 12: going through something like that, because it doesn't have to be.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 12: And then if you wake up and you say, okay,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 12: I got more days, what can we do with them?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: What can we do? Well, enjoy them and relax. This idea..
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 12: What if I enjoy the work I'm doing?
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: Well, that's okay. Then if you do, I'm all for it.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: But this idea that you've got to change the world? No,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: you should enjoy your time while you have it. It's
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: very limited.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 26: Well, I am.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 12: That's why I'm doing all these projects that I don't
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 12: really need to do, but I want to do.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: So you're enjoying painting that barn? You're enjoying... fixing those
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: yes those okay well that's that's good you get a
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: sense of accomplishment out of it i would agree with
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: you i would i get it you don't have to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: explain it to me i totally get it but i
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: mean you know you you definitely would get that firsthand
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: because obviously you had a brush with death and uh
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: so it should change you uh but as you get
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: older and you look around and that that it was
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: it was those three there was one there was a
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: third one there was a girl that passed away in
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: my high school class that was posted. And I thought, boy,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: that's sad because I remember her and I was sad
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: by her passing as well. Oh, well, let's let's move along.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: You're depressing me.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 12: Hey, you started this.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: You're depressing me.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 12: I was positive. I wanted to change the world and
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 12: all that. You're talking about death.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. You'll change the world. All right, Michael. Appreciate it.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 12: I see you. Have a good weekend.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: You too.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: You're in here. Hello.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Hello, Rob. Yes. Just two quick points. When previous callers
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: said that Interest was now the largest expense. Well, I
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: just Googled it. It's nowhere near the largest expense. Social
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: Security is still number one by far, and interest is
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: number two, but not even close.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I believe I was reading a news story.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: Was it yesterday or something? If it's not there, it's
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: very close to. I thought I read the same news
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: story somewhere where it is the largest expense. But if not,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: it is. It has been the second largest expense, which
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. I don't care if it's one or two.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: That's insanity to spend that much money on just servicing
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: the debt, paying the interest, wasted tax dollars.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, I agree. But it's. a half a trillion dollars
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: away from being the largest expense. Now, what it is,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: is the fastest-growing expense.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably true. And as interest rates go up,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: and as a... Stand by for me. Stand by for
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: a minute. I want to talk to him some more.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: We'll get back to him and take more of your calls.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Ron Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning on a Friday.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKBN. News Radio 570 WKVN. Vice President J.D.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: Vance-Returner is hometown of Middletown Friday to celebrate a $ 1
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: million investment in Cleveland Cliffs Middletown Works Steel Plant. The
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: project includes $ 500 million in support from the U.S. Department
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 6: of Energy... and he's suspected to employ more than 1,500
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: workers during peak construction. Vance highlighted his grandfather's 40 years
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: as a welder at the plant, saying it was a
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 6: great day for Middletown in southwest Ohio. He also praised
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: the Trump administration's efforts to bring manufacturing jobs back to
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: the U.S. while attacking Democratic policies and urging support for
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: Ohio Republican candidates this coming November. And in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: It is sad, though, whether it's second or first, how
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  Speaker 1: much money. I mean, when you sit back and reflect
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  Speaker 1: on it, caller, that we're spending so much money today
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  Speaker 1: that we're strapping future generations for, and we're just paying
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  Speaker 1: this huge amount of our tax dollars just for the interest.
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  Speaker 1: It's a crime. It really is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the huge difference between Social Security and interest payments,
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  Speaker 3: you're getting something for Social Security. For the $ 1 trillion
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  Speaker 3: you're spending in interest payments, you might as well burn
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  Speaker 3: it in the middle of your house during the winter.
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  Speaker 3: At least it'll throw off some heat. Right now, we're
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  Speaker 3: getting nothing for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a wasted tax dollars. You don't get
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  Speaker 1: a damn thing for it, and you're not lowering the...
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  Speaker 1: The amount that you owe, you're just paying this huge
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  Speaker 1: sum of money to service the debt. And what happens
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  Speaker 1: if interest rates go up or even if they don't
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  Speaker 1: go up as we continue to add to it at
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  Speaker 1: an alarming rate?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, interest rates can remain the same. We keep adding
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  Speaker 3: to the debt, so therefore it will keep going up
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  Speaker 3: because we borrow the money we spend now.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't see a serious effort by Republicans or
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  Speaker 1: Democrats over the years, and I do mean years, to
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  Speaker 1: ever do a damn thing about it. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: optimistic that they will. I believe the crap is getting
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  Speaker 1: closer every day to hitting the fan, and they'll get
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  Speaker 1: their pensions, and the people that put us in this
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  Speaker 1: position won't be affected by it. But I can assure
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  Speaker 1: you everybody else will. I don't care whether you're in
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  Speaker 1: the market or on Social Security or on welfare.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the reality is I know you have children, I
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  Speaker 3: have children, and granted that, he's going to pay the price.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm 72, so do I believe I will suffer?
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  Speaker 3: Probably not. Do I believe my children will? Absolutely. At
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  Speaker 3: some point. They're in their 30s or 40s.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And I just have one more comment. I was listening
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  Speaker 3: to your, I'll call it a debate the other day
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  Speaker 3: with G2.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, my debate.
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  Speaker 3: It sounded fascinating because, I don't want to sound nerdish,
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  Speaker 3: but G2 is talking macro. He's talking big numbers, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and his numbers are correct. The numbers he was discussing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the rate of increase is dramatically down as
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  Speaker 3: compared to the Biden era. You're talking micro. You're talking
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  Speaker 3: that person who goes to Giant Eagle and goes to
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  Speaker 3: Meijer and is paying so much more for a loaf
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  Speaker 3: of bread or a pound of meat. You know, and
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  Speaker 3: that person's not saying, well, that darn Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 3: He's saying that darn Donald Trump, because that's who's in office.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys, you know, I don't want to sound nerdish,
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  Speaker 3: but it reminds me of the parable. We have six
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  Speaker 3: guys feeling an elephant, and one touches the trunk and says, wow,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: that's a hose. Another one touches the body and says,
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  Speaker 3: that's a wall. Another one touches the tail and says,
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  Speaker 3: that's a rope. One touches the leg and says it's
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  Speaker 3: a tree. You're both talking about the same thing, but
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  Speaker 3: you're never going to agree that it's an elephant. Right.
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  Speaker 3: So you and G2 are arguing. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: say arguing. Debating. And neither one was going to change
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  Speaker 3: your point because, to some degree, both of you were right.
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  Speaker 1: It is the reality of today that the thing on
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  Speaker 1: just about everybody's mind is the gas price. Gas and groceries,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot negate inflation. Obviously, inflation, the big chunk of
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  Speaker 1: it started under, well, frankly, it started under COVID. As
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  Speaker 1: I would always say to people, you know, how stupid
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  Speaker 1: was this? COVID was there. Everything was shut down. And
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  Speaker 1: we give people all this money. So we create a
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  Speaker 1: demand when things aren't being produced, which creates inflation. And
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  Speaker 1: we keep pumping out all these dollars that the government makes,
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  Speaker 1: which lessens the value of existing dollars, supply and demand.
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  Speaker 1: So government creates this inflation that's going on during COVID.
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  Speaker 1: And then Biden adds to it tremendously. Then Trump. seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be going on the right path before this war situation,
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  Speaker 1: because gas was about $ 2. 50, and we were drill, baby, drill,
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  Speaker 1: and the goal to bring prices down, because we're an
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  Speaker 1: energy-driven economy, and it seemed to be going in that direction. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: in a blink of an eye, it's reversed and created
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  Speaker 1: a worldwide problem, not just on oil, but on chemicals
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  Speaker 1: as well, and with no end in sight. And I'm deeply,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm genuinely deeply concerned with the economics of
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  Speaker 1: our country and even to a certain extent, the globe.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm probably like most people who, when I watch TV,
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  Speaker 3: I'm starting to see the commercials and they talk about affordability,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe I've missed it. Have you seen any politician
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  Speaker 3: anywhere who's come up with a solution other than say
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  Speaker 3: affordability is an issue?
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  Speaker 1: The only politicians that I would put forward who come
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  Speaker 1: up with a solution, I would say two come to
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  Speaker 1: my mind, Ron DeSantis and Dave Thomas, the state rep
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  Speaker 1: that I have on, because they say as politicians, from
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  Speaker 1: their aspect, what we can do is try to become
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  Speaker 1: like DeSantis. Every year they're spending less money than the
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  Speaker 1: year before, not adjusted for inflation. That is making it
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: so people can keep more of their money and they're
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: trying to do away with property taxes or significantly reduce them.
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  Speaker 1: As DeSantis says, that's what we can do in government
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  Speaker 1: to make your life better, easier, and that's what we
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  Speaker 1: can do. And I think that's what Dave Thomas is
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  Speaker 1: doing locally. But from a federal level– No. From a
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  Speaker 1: federal level, I was optimistic about Trump. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: do think Trump made some differences in many ways. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: they're only for three years. Like, for example, no tax
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  Speaker 1: on tips, no tax on overtime, and by upping the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: deduction on Social Security. All of those things help you
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  Speaker 1: keep more of your money in the tax breaks. So
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  Speaker 1: I would throw him into that mix, but he's gotten
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  Speaker 1: off course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was thinking more in terms of, do you
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  Speaker 3: know what the Democratic platform is for affordability or the
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  Speaker 3: Republican platform for affordability?
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  Speaker 1: I know the Democrat one. It's social. apparently. We take
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  Speaker 1: it from you and give it to the guy over here.
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  Speaker 3: And the Republicans, what's their plan? Because I haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Trump supporter. You know, I think he's made
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: some mistakes. You know, the war, I think, is a
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  Speaker 3: horrible mistake. But I'm like you. I'm waiting for somebody
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  Speaker 3: to give me a solution, not to sit there identifying
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  Speaker 3: the problem. Yep, affordability is a real issue. Well, what
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  Speaker 3: are you going to do about it? Well, affordability is
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: a real issue. And then they go on to the
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  Speaker 3: next thing.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, did you know this, Colin? Affordability is a real issue, though.
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  Speaker 5: You're kidding.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now has it... What did you say? You're 71
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  Speaker 1: years old, did you say?
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  Speaker 3: 72.
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  Speaker 7: 72. 72.
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  Speaker 1: Are you doing okay? I mean, you're on a fixed income,
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  Speaker 1: I would assume.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was very fortunate. I'm somewhat similar to your
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  Speaker 3: first caller.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Several years ago, I invested in three stocks. Apple, because
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: I have an iPhone, and I have an iPad.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Google because I use it, and Amazon because I use it.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the only three stocks I bought.
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  Speaker 1: And this is way back in the day or early on.
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  Speaker 3: This is back in the day, and I don't sell.
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  Speaker 3: I don't trade. Well, I do trade. I have a
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  Speaker 3: margin account. I assume you're familiar with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So whenever I would get way ahead of my margin account,
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  Speaker 3: I would just keep buying more of those three stocks.
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  Speaker 3: And that's all I own. I don't trade. I don't
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  Speaker 3: watch the market. And let's just say I've.
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  Speaker 1: Done very well. Do you take money out of it, though,
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  Speaker 1: to supplement your Social Security and your retirement, I would assume?
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  Speaker 3: Because of the dividends and some of the other things
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  Speaker 3: I get on those, whenever I have a major expense,
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  Speaker 3: I will take it out of that margin account. But otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: I leave it alone. And the reality is, Ron, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sort of like you. I live in Youngstown, Ohio. I
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: could probably live anywhere I want.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But I have a I have a wonderful life here.
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  Speaker 3: I think I don't have, you know, 12 big cars or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we live in a lovely area of Boardman.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I look at some of the homes on Kensington,
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  Speaker 3: for example, you know, the McMansions. Yes. And probably probably
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  Speaker 3: I could afford one.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Why would I?
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  Speaker 15: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I like where I like my neighbors. I like the
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: car I drive. I like the neighborhood. Why would I move?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how much can you spend? I mean, when
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: we vacation, we vacation very well. But other than that,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: it's much harder to be extravagant in Boardman, Ohio, than
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: it probably is in Beverly Hills, California.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you've discovered? How to be happy in life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in all seriousness, how to be content and happy.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: The people who think happiness is, oh, I got to
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: have this particular car or I got to have this
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: particular house or whatever. And I think what you've described,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting here listening to you and I'm enjoying everything
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: that you said about it. You know, I mean, I sit,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy my neighborhood. I enjoy the home I live in.
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  Speaker 1: This community, obviously we've got some issues that we have
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: to deal with, but this community, it's really a nice
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: place to live. Traffic-wise, expense-wise, even weather-wise, it's not horrible.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, spring, fall, and summer. I mean, you know,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: those few winter months. And you can always go to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: Florida if you want to do something like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm listening to you talking, man. You make a lot
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: of sense to me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ron, to show you our level of contentment, my
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: wife and I were talking. Do you remember when it
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: was Lotto or Powerball? One of them went up to
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: a billion dollars.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And my wife and I were talking, and we said,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: how significantly would our lifestyle change at this point if
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: we were to win that? And we're trying to think
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: of what we would do. Now, our kids' lifestyle would
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: change dramatically. But as far as our lifestyle, well, Ron,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: you're probably better off financially than you were 10 years ago.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: Has your lifestyle changed dramatically over those 10 years?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I'm like you. I don't really get. Listen,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: I want reliable. I don't want a rust bucket. I
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: want reliable transportation. I never longed for a Mercedes Benz
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: or BMW. I could care less about it. I mean,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: I get in it, I drive it here and get
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: out of it. I drive home. It's transportation to me.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: I never got caught up in the, in the, in
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: the nameplates like some people do. And, uh, I have
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: a 2,400 square foot house. That's how much, how much
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: bigger do you need? I mean, it's, it's been a
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: wonderful home in a great neighborhood.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: And, uh, Now, if somebody offered you a 3,500-square-foot home,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: I don't want to pick on Kensington. Let's say Firestone.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: Would you move?
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: No, I would not.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: Neither would I.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Neither would I. I would absolutely not move at all.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want the headaches of that. I wouldn't want
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: the expense involved in that kind of stuff at all.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: You're like me. You've reached a point of contentment in
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: your life. And, you know, we listen to you more
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: than most, you know, listen to a lot of issues,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: you know, which can at some point, I'm surprised, doesn't
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: make you absolutely crazy. I don't know what when you
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: go to bed, how you clear your mind is absolutely
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: beyond me. Listening to all you hear in a given day. But,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: you know, you and I are at an age where
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: we're content with our lives, and there's nothing wrong with that.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: You know, money isn't going to buy you much more
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: contentment at a certain point in your life.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: It's not going to buy you more time, and it's
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: not going to buy you– it's just not– you and
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: I probably worry about two of the most important things,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: staying healthy and staying alive. Would you not agree?
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: Staying healthy, staying alive, and our kids and wives.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, hoping that your kids have– good health
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: and a good life as well as you watch them
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: grow up. It's hard to imagine as you get closer
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: to the end, the thing that you probably will miss
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: most is being able to watch them grow. Uh-huh.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: And it's so easy to do in Youngstown, Ohio. You know, Boardman, Canfield,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: Boston Town. It's just, it's an easy place to live
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: from the perspective of traffic and just all the things
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: that you see in major cities. I mean, I'm sure
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: you drive other places. And when you go to Florida,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: Florida is lunacy. I-4? There's never a good time.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: To go on I-4. Boy, are you a spot on.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: It is damn right. It's frightening. I mean, make no mistake.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: I love Kissimmee and where my daughter is. And we
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: go there quite often. And it's very enjoyable and relaxing.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: I love every minute of it. My brothers are both
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: in Florida. And I enjoy it tremendously. But I'm going
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: to tell you, the I-4 is enough to make me
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: wet myself.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: And it's like that all the time. It's not 5
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 3: o'clock at night. It's 10 o'clock at night, 9 o'clock
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: in the morning. It doesn't matter. You're on I-4. It's
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: a disaster. And people do that every day.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: Well, my daughter, you can see your life in front
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: of your very eyes when you get on there.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: She travels I-4 every day.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she goes from Kissimmee to Orlando and back. Well,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: a few days. Some days she can work from home.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: But it is a nightmare. Nightmare trip. But there's an
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: excitement about Florida when you go down there, though, if
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: you ever go down for the winter or whatever. My
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: brothers say the sunshine in the wintertime makes you live longer.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: You get out, you walk, you enjoy. Something about the
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: sunshine is.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: A good thing.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 7: We do.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: We go down for four months. People go, well, four months,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: it's cold here for four months, and it's warm there.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: You're going to spend four months somewhere where it's uncomfortable.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: I would not want to be in Florida August, January, well, July, August, September,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: and even May. You know, there's four months there where
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: it's unbearable. There's four months here where it's ridiculous. So
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: just trade your four months. We go down to Naples
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: for four months. We have a condo down there.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: They call that Little Youngstown, don't they, Naples? Yes, they do.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: You're going to run into somebody you know if you
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: go to Naples. For four months, I'd rather be there
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: than four months. Trust me, Ron, you've gone down there
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: in the summer. You know what it's like in Florida
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 3: during the summer.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: You've got to come over to Osceola County.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: You've got to stray out of Naples and come down
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: to Kissimmee, and we'll have lunch.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 9: I have.
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  Speaker 30: And once your bills are paid, usually happiness is very
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• 1:30:15
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• 1:30:17
  Speaker 30: so much, but you can never buy more time. That's
• 1:30:21
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• 1:30:24
  Speaker 30: is money, and mostly what I wanted to call about today.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let me hear it. I'm paying attention.
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  Speaker 30: Well, you know, we've been talking about these interest rates
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 30: and everything, and what happened the other day with the
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 30: Treasury Secretary saying that he's going to increase interest rates,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 30: or not increase them, but increase the buybacks from $ 2
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 30: billion to $ 4 billion, which on a $ 4 trillion budget
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 30: and $ 40 trillion debt is really just a rounding error.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 30: So what happened with the market and the bonds? You know,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 30: I heard the options guy call first thing today, and
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 30: he didn't really understand it, and Frank was kind of
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 30: talking about it, but It didn't really change anything because
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 30: the interest rates came down and then went right back
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 30: up the next day even higher than when he initiated
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 30: this buyback. So the signaling was the biggest thing. We
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 30: must have gotten to the point where it's actually a problem.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 30: So I've always said, I don't know when the poo-poo
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 30: hits the fan, but there's this rate, and I think
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 30: we're at it right now, where things start to go
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 30: in the wrong direction if they let rates keep going higher.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 30: And Rates are, you know, we always talk about the
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 30: Fed and the Fed, you know, lowering or increasing interest rates. Well,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 30: that's just the overnight rate. It's the market that determines,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 30: you know, 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year bonds. So if the
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 30: price of the bond keeps going down because people don't
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 30: want to buy it, that means the interest rate has
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 30: to go up. So if you have a $ 100 bond
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 30: and you get a 5% interest rate on it, well,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 30: if nobody wants it and you can only sell it
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 30: for $ 90... Nobody's going to buy it for that unless
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 30: the interest rate on it is higher. So it's not
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 30: that the rates keep going up. It's just nobody wants
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 30: to keep buying our bonds. Is it because they know
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 30: Japan's going to be selling a huge tranche of them
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 30: because they're wrecked?
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 13: I don't know.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 30: Is it because we keep printing money into oblivion and
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 30: nobody thinks they're going to be able to get the
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 30: same nominal rate of return 30 years from now for
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 30: a 30-year treasury? So I think this is finally the
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 30: point where things have..
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  Speaker 30: Well, what I'm saying is if they're buying longer term
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 30: debt back, they got to do something. So they're issuing
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 30: shorter term debt. It's the Treasury doing it now, when
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 30: we always thought about quantitative easing or money printing, where
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 30: the Fed would.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 17: Usually do it.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 30: Now, Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, and the new Federal
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 30: Reserve Chairman were both picked by Donald Trump. So I'm
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 30: sure they're on the same page as each other, but
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 30: we haven't seen the Treasury do things like this in
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 30: quite some time. It's just, how are they going to
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 30: do anything with all this shorter-term debt? And I know
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 30: I've said this before, and people always ask, well, how
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 30: are they going to fix this, or what are they
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 30: going to do? One of the things that the Treasury
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 30: Secretary said when they were doing this change in the
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 30: buybacks is that they don't see the national debt going
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 30: any higher. Now, are those just talking points? What's he
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 30: going to say? I see it going to $ 50 trillion,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 30: $ 60 trillion. But if they buy back all the long-term
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 30: debt and build new short-term debt, they're going to have
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 30: to sell that to somebody. And that's where these stable
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 30: coins are coming in. And I know you don't like
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 30: to hear about it, but I just want to be
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 30: on record that because I think this is going to
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 30: happen extremely quickly, too, where the short-term interest, you know,
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 30: our short-dated bonds are going to need to be sold
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 30: to somebody. And the only way they could sell them
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 30: are through the stable coins because they're backed one-to-one. Everybody
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 30: in the entire world is going to want to use
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 30: these stable coins because they're U.S. dollars, and that's how
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 30: they're going to fix the problem. I don't know how
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 30: long that going to be the fix for. But it's
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 30: going to happen quickly because stable coins are a law
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 30: passed last year, the Genius Act, September 15th at 2
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 30: o'clock is a big day because the Senate will vote
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 30: on the next bill, which is the Clarity Act. And
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 30: if that goes through, the stable coins are going to
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 30: just take off. And that's how they're going to fix
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 30: that debt problem.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you really look at some of
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: the economic news, I mean, it is troubling, would you
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: not agree, when you take a look at the situation
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: in Japan and what you're talking with, with the buyback
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: and where was I with this stuff with Walmart?
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 30: And I mean, those are, you know, I'm, I'm zooming
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 30: way out, you know, from all that.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: No, I know. I got what you're saying. You're looking
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: at the long game as they say.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 30: And I mean, there's no solutions. There's only trade-offs for
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 30: all this moving forward, but it's just, it's interesting how
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 30: quickly a lot of these things are moving and changing
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 30: and and nobody really notices because, like you said, you know,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 30: we live our lives, and what are you supposed to do?
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 30: But my generation is trying to be the one who
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 30: goes to Florida for four months in the winter, you know,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 30: and it's getting harder and harder to do that. We
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 30: talked about that before, and I just don't know where
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 30: the solution is going to come from. I'm hoping that,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 30: you know, something happens, something gets fixed, but I just
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 30: don't think it's going to happen without some kind of
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 30: calamity moving forward.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: I would agree with you when you say calamity. As
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: I was reading here, Walmart is implementing temporary price cuts,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: speedy e-commerce offerings, and expanded meal solutions to attract customers.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: A Q2 comps growth. Let's see. Basically, business was down
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: is what they're saying. So it's the lowest growth. So,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, when Walmart's got some issues, you know things
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: aren't going good for Joe Bagadones.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: It's just not.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 30: I mean, when you get right to it, Walmart's pretty
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 30: much a branch of the government. I mean, if they
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 30: didn't take, you know, government subsidies from SNAP benefits, you know,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 30: basically welfare, if you couldn't go in there and use your,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 30: you know, basically your food stamps, I mean, grocery there
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 30: would just plummet. I mean, most of the people buying
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 30: stuff on there... are not typically buying the essentials. Most
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 30: of the people going in there are buying Doritos, Mountain Dew,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 30: all those things. So if you couldn't get government benefits
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 30: to buy those things, the Walmart sales would just plummet
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 30: if they didn't have that backing.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: You know, my wife bought a bag of Doritos the
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: other day, and I forget which flavor it was, but God,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: it's addictive. Don't be making fun of it. Have you
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: had the naked Doritos?
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 26: No.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 30: No, if you look at the ingredients, there's like three ingredients.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 30: And it makes you think to yourself, why did they
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 30: make the other Doritos? It's because they're chemically designed so
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 30: that when you put it in your mouth, the flavor
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 30: goes away quickly, so you want to put another chip
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 30: in your mouth.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: You are spot on on that. The ones she bought
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: were in a blue bag.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 17: Yeah, you probably ate half the bag.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 30: And when I mean half the bag, the entire bag,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 30: because half of it is there.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You start on those damn things. You are 100% right.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: Let's say you grab a handful and put them on
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: your plate. And then when you're done with it, you
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: do want to grab more because you're right. The taste
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: is so good and it goes away so fast.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 12: Damn.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 17: That's been engineered.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 30: That's American ingenuity right there. Now, Ron, going back to
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 30: these flock cameras, I actually found somebody who is in
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 30: agreement with you.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: You really? I'm shocked.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 12: Did you see the video?
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Darth Vader.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 30: The guy goes to the township meeting because everybody's there
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 30: saying that they don't want the flock cameras in their town.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 30: And the guy goes up, and he's dressed as Darth
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 30: Vader and gives a great speech on why he wants
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 30: more flock cameras.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: I'm all for him. I really am.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 3: It's... Ron Vader.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: I'm Ron Vader. And I tell you, my... Son of
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: a police officer says some of this stuff people are
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: saying is just so damn ridiculous, he says. I mean,
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: it is really a tool for law enforcement. And there
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: are a lot of bad people that are out there
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: that are on the run or committed serious crimes that
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: can be coming into your community and things. They don't
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: have time to deal with whether or not you're going
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: to Walmart or going to Five. They could care less
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: about that. I mean, it's ridiculous.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: All right. So we shall see what happens with the economy.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic at all right now. Do you know
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: in the last couple of days, do you know how
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: many people outside of this broadcast? That I've talked to
• 1:43:29
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• 1:43:33
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• 1:43:35
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• 1:43:37
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• 1:43:40
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• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: last three or four days, people call and say, Jesus,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: I put this gas in. The car, and it was
• 1:43:50
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• 1:43:55
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• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: stickers where they put Biden on the pump. I did this. Now,
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: I guess they're starting to produce the Trump image with
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: I did that. You know what I mean? As far
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: as the gas prices go. But the Democrats.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 30: Are smarter with their stickers. Have you ever seen a Trump,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 30: I did this sticker? If you try to peel it off,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 30: it peels away from Trump's picture and him saying, I
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 30: did this. There's a little perforation around it, so it's
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 30: harder to take off.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Alec. You have a wonderful weekend. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 13: You got it.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Hello?
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  Speaker 13: Good evening, Ron.
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  Speaker 17: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Well..
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: I'm glad it's Friday. Let me put it that way. Boy,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: all these people with our spirited debates. Oh, boy, am
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: I getting a lot of feedback on that. How about that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 17: Well, good, because, I mean, it's great that people are
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 17: paying attention, and I think we've got to have these
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 17: debates because... On some of this stuff, you're just wrong.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: But I think on some of this stuff, you know
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: what I think? On some of this stuff, you're wrong.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 17: Wait a minute. That's not right.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: I know. Because you're wrong. But, you know, folks, really,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: that's what makes America spin to a large extent. But
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: these are major problems that need to be solved. And
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, like I will say as we begin
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: our conversation, and I'll say it again, folks, I don't
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: see a quick way or an easy way out of
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: this situation in Iran. I mean, it wasn't that long
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: ago he's talking about bombing them, the smithereens, and we're
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: going to keep bombing them and all this stuff. Well,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: now we've given up on that. We stopped that. Now
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: we're going to destroy them. Now we're on the economic
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: D-Day or whatever he said the other day, and it's like,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: I've been through the– they won an agreement. We're close
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: to an agreement. Time after time after time after– we
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: got this ceasefire and they won an agreement. Now we
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: got another ceasefire. Now we're going to go back to
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: bombing them. We're going to bomb them forever. Now we're
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: on this economic thing. And I tell you, I think
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: the patience of the American people is wearing very thin
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: on this mess that he did create, that he created.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: Let's give him the credit for doing it. Because he'll
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: take the credit if it turns around all of a sudden.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: But he also gets the blame.
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  Speaker 17: Well, it's interesting. I talked to somebody today who said
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  Speaker 17: they're happy to pay more for gasoline if it means
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 17: that we end up permanently ending this.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: I have not talked to many people that say that
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  Speaker 1: at all. I'm just going to tell you right off
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: the bat.
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  Speaker 17: This is the first one. I haven't had this with
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  Speaker 17: more than one or two people since the beginning of
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  Speaker 17: this war. But I was surprised this far in to
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 17: hear it. But the position is, you know, I'm happy
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  Speaker 17: to pay because this threat was real. And, you know,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 17: and it just it's there's a very small segment of
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 17: the population that believes that still. And and I don't
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 17: understand the reality of it, which is what we talked
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 17: about back in March.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe you believed it. I don't believe you
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  Speaker 1: believe it to this day, because, you know, if I
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: remember my conversation when you're talking about Telsey and what
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: our own intelligence was saying at the time.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 17: Right now, that This Russian, I'm sorry, I was going
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 17: back to the Ukraine thing. No, no, this is absolutely,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 17: I do not believe a word of it. I don't
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  Speaker 17: think we had a pressing nuclear threat. I think, as
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  Speaker 17: we talked about extensively last year, a year ago, you know,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 17: Iran's military and police capabilities are really predominantly faced internally.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 17: When they had a chance to go after Israel, they
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 17: sent missiles, but they really didn't do that much damage. And,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 17: you know, they just I don't believe they were a
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 17: real threat. I think this was a mistake to go
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 17: into this war. And, yeah, that hasn't changed. I haven't
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 17: shifted positions on that one bit.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: What's the exit ramp, though, for for him? I mean,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, he has kept changing everything from we're going
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: back to bombing. Now we're off to bombing. We're going
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: to this economic D-Day. And and of course, people are saying, well,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, what's. What's the out here? This can
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: get a lot worse economically for not just the United
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: States and oil prices, but there's chemicals involved in this.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: I got an email from a manufacturing guy that was
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: saying they weren't able to get something that they needed
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: in their business and the effect that this is going
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: to have. on business is productivity, not being able to
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: get some of these chemicals.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 12: It's a real problem.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: And it's getting worse, not better, is what this guy
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: is saying.
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  Speaker 17: Here's the thing, though. A lot like going through the
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 17: negotiations on the tariffs. You know, when you're going, you're
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 17: taking the whole world through these negotiations. And Trump's the
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 17: most transparent guy ever. He does it on social media.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 17: So we're all going down this, you know, incredible, you know,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 17: thrust Perry, thrust Perry negotiation with this country. And we
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 17: talked about this extensively. This is not a homogenous country
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 17: where everybody is the same and believes the same. It
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 17: is a country with its own stresses. different groups, some
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 17: that would absolutely fight this thing to the last Iranian,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 17: and others that would like to cut a deal. We
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 17: know all that. But the American people are accustomed to
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 17: getting packaged news that comes to them sanitized and false.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 17: They're very accustomed to being lied to. And here it's
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 17: just being blasted out right through the process. So I
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 17: understand the frustration. And remember, the American people sat by
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 17: and watched 20 years of war, fought in the Middle
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 17: East on false pretenses, and didn't care a whip because
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 17: their gas price didn't go up. So the reality is
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 17: we have very little patience when, in fact, we're being
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 17: directly affected by these wars that we've been running through
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 17: your entire life. But, you know, post-World War II, Vietnam
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 17: was a bit of a.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 3: Price, right?
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 17: People knew people who died in Vietnam. But since then,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 17: we haven't known people who've died, and we aren't paying
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 17: a price for it. We just put it on a
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 17: credit card, say, hey, let the grandkids worry about it.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 17: and we just keep going to the Outer Banks for vacation. So,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 17: you know, this is one where the bill came right away,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 17: so suddenly people are impatient and alarmed. Look, I'm not
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 17: happy with this gas price. I'm not happy that he
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 17: started this war, but we are now in it. And
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 17: this point you made earlier about the economic side, that's
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 17: not new. We have been going after them economically since
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 17: before the war started and more intensely during the war.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 17: And with the blockade, as we talked about extensively, that
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 17: took that economic battle to a fever pitch. Because when
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 17: we took $ 400 million or $ 500 million a day.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 3: Out of their system..
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  Speaker 17: We put a tremendous amount of pressure on Iran, and
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 17: now they've got hyperinflation. They can't make payroll. I mean,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 17: this thing is getting really rough inside. Now, you take
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 17: somebody like Besant, and if you listen to what he said,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 17: that guy scares me. I mean, he is absolutely just clear,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 17: and he's going to do what he says he's going
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 17: to do. He is absolutely going to throw every lever
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 17: he can throw, whether it be a direct economic... attack
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 17: on them or whether it be working to stop others
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 17: from helping them. He's going to throw every lever he
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 17: can throw to put even more economic pressure on Iran.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 17: And we always think about this as if it's Afghanistan.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 17: You know, a bunch of people living in caves, caves,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 17: herding goats and old mud huts. That's not what this is.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 17: This is a sophisticated police state and tyranny is expensive.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 17: They need the money. They're not paying some of their police.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 17: They're not paying government workers. I mean, they're in trouble.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 17: And so we pretend that every time we bomb them,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 17: they get stronger. Every time we stop a shipment of oil,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 17: it makes them stronger. When we deny them economic success,
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 17: it makes them stronger. This is the craziest thing I've
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 17: ever seen American people get duped into, this every day
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 17: they get stronger idea.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 17: You know, if that's the case, they should want us
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 17: to bomb them 13,000 more times. Now, I think... that
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 17: what hasn't laid out is a smart strategy not to
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 17: begin the economic war but the ramp up the economic
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 17: war however I still think we should be doing everything
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 17: possible on the eastern side of the country, not the
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 17: Gulf side, but the other side, to make sure that
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 17: all those rail lines and roadways are shut down, because
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 17: it's not enough to support the economy, but they could
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 17: still ship in and out materials, including oil, on that
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 17: back side, on that eastern side, into those adjoining nations.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 17: And nothing should be moving on the Caspian Sea, nothing
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 17: through that sort of northeast area. This should all be
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 17: locked down as hard as it can be. So I'm
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 17: not particularly happy that we are holding off on the
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 17: kinetic side again.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 3: However..
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 17: They have this incredible arsenal, and this is one of
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 17: the most, this has been a fantastic execution by the
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 17: United States. You've got to, you know, putting in the blockade,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 17: stopping all the shipments, bombing the 13,000 targets, taking complete
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 17: control of the airspace and water. It's a remarkable execution.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 17: I don't understand why people keep saying it's not. It's
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 17: been incredible. and resisting the push of the neocons and
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 17: the Zionists to put troops on the ground, which is
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 17: a massive fight. To not deploy U.S. forces into that
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 17: country is a major stroke of, I don't know, excellent leadership.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 17: The fact that Trump is standing up now and saying, listen,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 17: you know, I started this thing for you, but I'm
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 17: not putting our boys in that country because we will
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 17: incur massive costs, massive losses, and our military is not
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 17: positioned well. to go into a ground war in Iran.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 17: We are not there. It would take us a long
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 17: time to get there.
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  Speaker 1: This tactic will be, I'm telling you, if this drags
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: on and drags on and drags on, nothing good is
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: going to come from it.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 17: Well, no, they've got to solve it as fast as
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 17: they can. But, you know, as we often say, the
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 17: eggs are broken, now we need to make the omelet. And,
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 17: you know, there are just a few strategic options here, right?
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 17: One is to simply walk away. Well, that carries with
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 17: it a certain set of problems that we may not
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 17: want to face. So, you know, of course, other people
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 17: are saying, and I heard it today, we should put
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 17: an end to this, this is ridiculous, let's nuke them.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: I would not support that at all, or that philosophy.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 17: No, but I'm hearing people, this started with Mark Levin about,
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 17: I don't know, a couple months ago.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: He's crazy.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 17: I'm hearing people now, oh, he's out of his mind.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 17: I'm hearing people saying, listen, we've got to bring this
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 17: to an end, and look what we did to win
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 17: in Japan. I'm like, whoa, wait a minute, we killed..
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 15: No.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 17: And you and I had that conversation in March in
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 17: detail about Germany and Japan and the Bolsheviks raping all
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 17: those women and all the people we killed in Hamburg
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 17: and Tokyo and the bombs. This country is not in
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 17: any position to be doing that right now, and this
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 17: war does not warrant it. So that's off the table.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 17: So I think from my perspective, we're sort of stuck
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 17: where we are, which is they've got to do exactly what.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 12: Bessette was saying.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 17: I was extremely happy to hear what he's saying. I
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 17: just hope they keep enough of the kinetic side, enough
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 17: of the warfare going, to make sure that they aren't
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 17: rebuilding supply chains that they can use in other avenues
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 17: than the Persian Gulf. They've got to try to shut up.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 17: This is a massive piece of ground. It is not
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 17: a simple place to deal with, and it is a
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 17: sophisticated country. Now, here's the irony, though. We're shooting these
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 17: 1,000 Tomahawk missiles that cost $ 2.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 12: 25 million apiece.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 17: They will take us years to rebuild this.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 3: Thing, right?
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 17: And all we're hearing about is how Ukraine is destroying
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 17: the Russian energy infrastructure and how Iran is able to
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 17: do all the things that it's doing with very inexpensive
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 17: short-range missiles and drones. And these are real weapons. The
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 17: fact that they aren't the most sophisticated weapons on the planet,
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 17: like a Tomahawk, yes, they're not a Tomahawk. They also
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 17: don't cost $ 2. 25 million. They cost $ 20, 000. And they're making
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 17: them inside Iran. You do not need sophisticated supply chains.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 17: And here's the crime. The crime is that this nation
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 17: is trapped in the clutches of a military-industrial complex that
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 17: refuses to allow us to go make cheap weapons that
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 17: are effective. We should be raining cheap missiles and drones.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 17: down on these the on any supply chains that they
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 17: have that are still running uh... in in any anywhere
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 17: in that country and we can't do it because we
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 17: don't build that kind of thing because they don't cost
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 17: two point two five million dollars this is this has
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 17: got to change this is again the idiocy of government
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 17: you know you mentioned walmart a minute ago just a
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 17: shift into that per second estimate that walmart earnings would
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 17: have been zero point eight percent higher which is a
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 17: significant number of our company that side but for the
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 17: repricing policy on pharmaceuticals. Now, wait a minute. Once again,
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 17: it's lower earnings because government decided so. The government is
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 17: involved in everything we're doing, and they make bad decisions,
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 17: and a very bad decision is forcing us to continue
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 17: paying All this money for expensive weaponry when we're fighting
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 17: people who are just simply using the cheapest, most effective
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 17: tool available to get the job done. If we shifted
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 17: into drones, remember when we started making all those lung-blasting
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 17: ventilators that they decided not to use because they were
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 17: killing everybody.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 13: Once we got them?
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 21: Look how fast that happened.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 17: Trump got every manufacturer that could put a motherboard in
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 17: a machine to get those things made. We should be
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 17: making these missiles and drones at a pace that is frightening.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 17: And we're not, because they don't cost $ 2. 25 million, and
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 17: no general gets a board seat for buying a $ 20, 000 drone.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 17: So we have a serious problem that has to get rectified,
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 17: and I'm very concerned about that. So I think that
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 17: is the course. I think what Besant said is smart.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 17: It's the best path forward. I think on the kinetic side,
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 17: they've got to maintain this blockade, let everybody else's ships
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 17: out but Iran's, but maintain the blockade, and absolutely under
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 17: no circumstances go in with ground forces or Or do these,
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 17: you know, firebombing cities, destroying water supply energy and nuking them.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 17: We just can't do that. We don't have cause and
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 17: we don't have the national will to do so. It
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 17: will rip the country apart.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 3: Our country.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Trump's in a catch-22. He's definitely created a mess.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: And look how long, incidentally, the Ukraine war has gone
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: on and on and on and on as well. Stand by.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: We'll take some calls after this. NewsRadio 570 WKBN. News
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  Speaker 6: Vance returned to his hometown of Middletown Friday to celebrate
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 6: a $ 1 million investment in Cleveland Cliffs Middletown Works Steel Plant.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 6: The project includes $ 500 million in support from the U.S.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 6: Department of Energy and is expected to employ more than
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 6: 1,500 workers during peak construction. Vance highlighted his grandfather's 40
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 6: years as a welder at the plant, saying it was
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 6: a great day for Middletown in southwest Ohio. He also
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 6: praised the Trump administration's efforts to bring manufacturing jobs back
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 6: to the U.S. while attacking Democratic policies and urging support
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 6: for Ohio Republican candidates this coming November. And in the meantime,
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 6: a Wooden County man is facing charges for allegedly assaulting
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 6: a woman. David Kensley of Perrysburg is accused of attacking
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 6: a woman in late June, pushing her to the ground,
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 6: throwing her head first through a wall, and holding a
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 6: knife to her head. The victim suffered major injuries, including
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  Speaker 6: a fractured vertebrae. I'm Brady Hopkins.
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  Speaker 1: Download the app. Free never sounded so good. From the
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  Speaker 1: A to Z, Ron Verb. On NewsRadio 570, WKBN. Well, hidey-ho,
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  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570, WKBN, Ron Ferb, G2. Oops, wait a second here.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on a second. Let me do that. Let me
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  Speaker 1: do this. All right, now let me do this. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let me take some calls here, see what awaits us.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Ronnie.
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  Speaker 1: It's Vince from Austintown. Vincent.
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  Speaker 15: One of your oldest and above-ground friends.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: It seems to be the case these days. Well, at
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: least for now.
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 15: And I want to tell people how great you and
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 15: little Eric was the other day after we were pushing
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  Speaker 15: the lawnmower down the street to my buddy's house.
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  Speaker 1: You were spotted by myself and my adult son. He's
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: not little Eric. He's 30-something years old. But anyway..
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  Speaker 15: And then you said, hey, do you guys need a hand?
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: No, I don't remember that at all. Here's how I
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: remember it. You're pushing this lawnmower that you borrowed from
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: your neighbor down the street because your mower broke. And
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: I remember my son calling your phone saying, are you
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: stealing that or what are you doing?
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 15: And I said, no.
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  Speaker 1: You said, no, I don't. And goodbye, never call me again. Well,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: you know, it was pretty pathetic. I mean, at your age, really,
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: with the heart issues you have, it's probably best to just, well..
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 15: The issues I have were taken care of by Dr.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 15: Henn and his staff. So I'm okay on that end.
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: That's what they all say. Okay, go ahead.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 15: Have you seen any... Amy at their positive commercials. We've
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 15: seen everything that Rivette has thrown out there about she
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 15: was on drugs and couldn't use the remote. Have you
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 15: seen any Amy positive commercials, or did they, the Democratic Party..
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think– believe me, the Democratic Party is
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: not going to give up this area. It's still a
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: 50-50 area. And as far as Amy Acton is concerned– Well,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: they say that if you believe the polls, it's neck
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: and neck or she's got a slight lead in the polls,
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  Speaker 1: which is a possibility. She's I said it early on
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  Speaker 1: when she did when Tim Ryan said he wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to run. I said they picked the Democrat Party should
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: stick with her because they picked a better candidate than
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Tim Ryan. She's a woman and a lot of women
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: will vote for because she's a woman. A lot of
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: people know her when COVID was going on. And she
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: has a very likable way when she comes across at
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: these conversations, these get-togethers that she has. But what she
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: stands for is God-awful. But there's people that don't... So
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: I hope Vivek wins. I genuinely do. I would never
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: vote for Amy Acton.
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  Speaker 17: They're not slowing down. I'm getting regular texts from the
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 17: Amy Acton campaign asking for campaign donations and advertising her positions.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 17: I mean, they're working it hard. They're not backing off. And,
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 17: you know, you're right. She's completely unqualified. But if you
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 17: don't look at the qualifications... Why not? And her performance
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 17: during COVID was a disaster.
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: But she could win.
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 17: How many people really understand that?
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she could definitely win.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 3: She can win.
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  Speaker 17: She's a threat.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 17: A threat.
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 19: I'll buy you.
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  Speaker 17: Hey, here's one point on Amy Acton, if you would.
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  Speaker 17: You know, a lot of people are saying, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 17: let's not vote for Vivek because of the H-1B thing.
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  Speaker 17: And I got to tell you, you know, you've heard
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  Speaker 17: me scream about these things for years now. I agree
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 17: the H-1B thing is bad, and he seems to be
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 17: maybe leaning that way. But then they say, well, let's
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 17: get acting. Even though everything she stands for is horrible,
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 17: we'll then have the majority in the state legislature that
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 17: can stop her from implementing her policies. Well, that's kind
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 17: of crazy, isn't it? Why wouldn't you go with Vivek,
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 17: who you agree with on 9 out of 10 issues,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 17: and use that legislature to stop him on the H-1Bs?
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 17: Because I'll tell you this, if you think she is
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 17: going to oppose H-1B visas... That is not consistent with
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 17: her party's agenda and execution. So you're going to get
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 17: the H-1B support at some level either way. But at
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 17: least with Vivek Ramaswamy, you're probably going to get intelligent
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 17: economic policies, and hopefully he can start shifting this Mike
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 17: DeWine problem into a real, more conservative, more active, more
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 17: better policy position for a Republican governorship.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: All right, Vince, go ahead. What?
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  Speaker 15: When the Vex Barber came out for him, that won
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  Speaker 15: me over.
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  Speaker 1: When who?
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  Speaker 13: The Vex Barber.
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 15: Don't you ever see the commercial?
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 17: Great ad.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. All right, Vince.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 17: It's a great ad.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. I'm happy to report the U.S. Supreme Court
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily allowed above-ground construction of Trump's
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: White House ballroom to continue Friday. issuing a stay of
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: a lower court injunction that would block the work. Roberts
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: issued an administrative stay of a preliminary injunction entered April
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: 16th by the U.S. District Court of putting the injunction
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  Speaker 1: on hold pending further order from Roberts or the Supreme Court.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: The move puts the case in a temporary holding pattern
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: while the Supreme Court considers whether the Constitution can continue
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: or construction can continue and the underlying legal battle plays out.
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: Above-ground construction can continue for now. We're all happy about that,
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: that the ballroom construction will continue. I've been tossing and
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: turning all night over that, incidentally. I've been very concerned
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 17: The fact that the United States Supreme Court is involved
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  Speaker 17: in a construction project is utterly ridiculous and is a
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 17: sign of a nation in distress.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm also happy to report WNBA commissioner. Do you
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: know the WNBA commissioner is G2? Do you have any idea?
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 17: I'm not sure who it.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 12: Is, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you an easy way to remember it,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: all right? I'm going to give you an easy way
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: to remember it because if anyone says, hey, G2, who's
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: the WNBA commissioner, okay? Now, here's how you're going to
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: remember it. Remember there's a singer named Engelbert Humperdinck. Remember him?
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: All right, so Engelbert Humperdinck, and the NBA commissioner's name
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  Speaker 1: is Kathy Engelbert.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, okay.
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  Speaker 17: Well, I will tell you, I'm standing by with bated breath,
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 17: because if Roycinda White gets to play, I will begin
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 17: watching WNBA games. I don't even watch NBA games, but
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 17: if Roycinda is playing, I'm watching.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the problem, though. I'm afraid, folks, I confused G2.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: He'll think the WNBA commissioner is Engelbert Humperdinck. No, I
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: said it's Kathy Engelbert, okay? I'm helping you understand that.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: Put that in your head. She denounced those she claims
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: are using the league to sow divisiveness over the topic
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: of transgender athletes. Engelbert commented on the matter in Dallas
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: on Thursday, a week after the league issued a statement
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: criticizing concerns about transgender participants in WNBA. People are trying
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: to use the league to create divisiveness, Engelbert said, while
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: standing next to Wings CEO and managing partner Greg Bibb.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: We're being the center of political football for people who
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: have never watched the WNBA, never written about the WNBA
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: or reported on the WNBA. For background, various WNBA players
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: and media members condone fever star Sophie Cunningham for stating
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: in an ESPN profile last month that the effort should
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: be made to protect little girls from competing against biological males.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: The backlash within the WNBA to Cunningham's remark prompted former
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: NBA players to ask how women in the league would
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: feel about having to compete against men to fight out.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: Freedom and White declared themselves eligible for the WNBA draft,
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: saying they identify as women. This is ridiculous, isn't it?
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  Speaker 17: Well, I didn't realize that Karen Humperdick is a transphobe.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 17: I thought she would welcome Royce into the league. and
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  Speaker 17: recognize Roy Cinder's womanhood. This is offensive to me, that
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 17: the commissioner of the WNBA is a transphobe. I had
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 17: no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. The league's collective bargaining agreement states that only
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: The agreement does not include any more specific language about
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: men who identify as women. Clearly, Engelbert... the people have
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: turned to the WNBA. The last thing I want to
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: see is men who declare themselves women playing in the WNBA.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I don't even want to
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  Speaker 1: think about that.
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  Speaker 17: I think it'll be hilarious. It'll be a great time.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 17: It'll make the sport more profitable and famous. It'll be
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 17: even more effective than this fake fight between all these
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 17: players now. We're supposed to believe that somehow The league
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 17: can't get the refs to enforce the rules and stop
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 17: the fighting. Of course they can. But it's the drama
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 17: of the fighting that's drawing people to the WNBA and
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 17: has people talking about it. Imagine what happens when those
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 17: four giant women, those four previous dudes, those four giant
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 17: women walk out on the basketball court and start dribbling.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 17: It is going to be epic, and everyone in the
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 17: world is going to watch. They will make millions.
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: Were there ever any transgender athletes on your favorite basketball team,
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: the Harlem Globetrotters?
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 17: You know, I never really gave it any thought because
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 17: I personally am not transphobic.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: I see. Okay. All right. You're on the air. Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Ron.
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 15: I enjoyed what G2 said, but I'm like you.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 3: This is..
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 5: Amy acted.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know how she would, you know, with DeWine.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 12: I just don't think.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: It would be a good situation.
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 13: It's getting kind of bad around, isn't it? Kind of bad.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 17: You know?
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dick, from Dayton. It is getting kind of bad.
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 17: He's right.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 14: This is Christine Bode. A friend of mine was just
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 14: driving home from Shaker Woods, where she's a vendor, and
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 14: she called me because my fiancé, Nick Levinsky, passed away
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 14: a week ago today.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'm sorry. She said she.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 14: Heard his name on the radio, that you were speaking
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 14: about him, and I was wondering how I could catch
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 14: a recording of the podcast to keep for my own,
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 14: you know.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: Well, they usually post it when the program is done.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: I have nothing to do. iHeart does that. They usually
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: post the program afterwards. I would say to you my condolences.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, I knew Nick Levinsky for a long, long time.
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: Him and I were both much younger back in the day,
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: and we would talk quite regularly. I would see him
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: quite often in the parking lot here. We would talk
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: after the program and that kind of stuff when he
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: was a police officer and boardman. He would stop by
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: numerous remotes that I would be at. Are you ready
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: for this? I once arm wrestled Nick Levinsky. I forget,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: I was on 224. And this was when I was
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: doing some serious physical work. And are you ready for this?
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: I actually beat Nick.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: I beat Nick.
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 5: Did you?
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 26: Yes.
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: And I mean, we were looking at each other.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 14: You never shared that with me, Mr.
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 8: Verb.
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: He was probably hiding it. But I always enjoyed Nick
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: showing up in his police. He wore this beautiful leather,
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: you know, the police leather jacket. And he... He was
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: very proud of being a Boardman police officer and just
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: was a genuinely– I just thought he was a really
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: good guy, a very, very good guy. And I was
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: deeply saddened when I read about his passing because of–
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier Bob Bush passed away and I was
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: saddened by that. That happened today. And then that's on
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: the heels of Nick Levinsky and I was very shocked
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: by that and saddened by that. How long had he
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: had pancreatic cancer?
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 14: He was diagnosed in late May of 2025. And he
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 14: went through chemo. Then he went to the Cleveland Clinic
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 14: last October for a Whipple surgery, which has something to
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 14: do with taking it out of the pancreas and the
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 14: lymph nodes that affected. He did more chemo. He was
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 14: a rock star. I mean, we were going to Menards
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 14: after chemo up in Howland. And, I mean, he was,
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 14: you know, the neighbors didn't even realize he had cancer.
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 14: Then he did radiation in the spring. He had a
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 14: CAT scan done. June 8th, it was clear, no concerns.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 14: By July 21st, he wasn't feeling good all through July.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 14: You know, the doctors kept saying it's the radiation affecting him.
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 14: You know, it's a high dose. Well, then July 21st,
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 14: I said enough of this. You know, something's not right.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 14: Took him for another CAT scan, and it had already
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 14: metastasized to his stomach, liver, and a peritoneal cavity.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 3: And, yeah.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 14: But it was full circle, though, Ron, because we would
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 14: listen to your show in the afternoons. And even if
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 14: I was driving and randomly forgot to put on AM,
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 14: he would say put on verb, you know, even with
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 14: the polling library stuff this summer and the tax and
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 14: the court of elections relocation. He was very it's almost
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 14: full circle that his name was mentioned today by his
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 14: neighbor who he was neighbors and friends with at Shaker
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 14: Woods for.
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 4: 30 some years.
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 14: And she was leaving Shaker Woods today and called me
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 14: and said, you know, I heard his name just now
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 14: when I turned on my radio.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't tell you how sad I was to
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: hear it. I mean, it deeply saddened me when I
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: heard this just because of knowing him over the years
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: and enjoying his company. And I always thought he was
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: just a really good guy. I mean, I just thought
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: the world of him. And then I was just set
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: back because he was only, I think, 71 years old. Seventy.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 2: Seventy, yeah.
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: And I didn't know that he was ill. He was
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: always a picture of health. And a Whipple surgery, as
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: you described, is a very extensive surgery, to say the least,
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: to go through all of that. And then he just
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: took a turn for the worse, you're saying.
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, it.
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: Had spread. Yeah. I'm just deeply saddened by it is
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: all I can say to everybody on it. I would occasionally,
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: when my wife would drive me to Shaker Woods, I
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: would see him down there. and enjoy my conversations with
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: him down there. I can tell you how many times
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: I would get done with the broadcast and I'd come
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: walking out and there he would be in my parking lot.
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: Of course, him and I work similar hours and we
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: just enjoy talking to each other. Let's put it that way.
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 14: Well, he enjoyed your show and the last few years
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 14: especially and would always have it on even at his shop. Or,
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 14: like I said, in the vehicle, he'd always remind me,
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 14: turn it on. And I could not speak while you
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 14: were in the show until I had to wait for
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 14: a commercial to say something.
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: Now, how long had you and Nick been together? I mean,
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that he found happiness. Yeah, nine years.
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 14: Nine years we've lived together.
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 3: I live with him.
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, that makes me feel good. And he was
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: a hell of a talented woodworker. I mean, very, very
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  Speaker 1: talented man. And it's just phenomenal. It's really sad. Life
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  Speaker 1: is very precious is what you learn from that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with his passing and Bob Bush's passing as well.
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  Speaker 17: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my condolences to you. And I'm deeply moved by
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  Speaker 1: his passing. And I thank you for calling.
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  Speaker 14: Thank you. You're welcome. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. News Radio 570 WKBN and Ron Verbaugh come
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  Speaker 1: back right after this.
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  Speaker 11: IDWKBN.
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  Speaker 1: She reminds me of that. I always saw Nick Levinsky.
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  Speaker 1: He was a sergeant on the Board of the Police Department.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought if you had to mold somebody to
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  Speaker 1: look like a policeman, I mean, he's just a good-looking guy,
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  Speaker 1: wore the uniform well, and just it was sad. It's
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  Speaker 1: interesting that when you read some of that stuff, it's
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  Speaker 1: just when I should have said to her, when I
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  Speaker 1: read that, I was at home, and I just paused
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  Speaker 1: and thought about that for quite a while. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so with more calls for G2, let me see. You're
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  Speaker 1: on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, my thoughts and respects out to Levinsky's and the
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  Speaker 19: Bush family.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now.
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  Speaker 19: And Denny Lieber's family. I just learned that last week
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  Speaker 19: on your radio station. I always liked Denny Lieber. But anyhow, G2, trans-vo,
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  Speaker 19: or vo or bo, I never heard that term before. Now,
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  Speaker 19: how many X's and Y's... in that genetic makeup?
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  Speaker 17: Well, in a transphobe, I mean, like X, X, and X, Y,
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  Speaker 17: and anything. I can't keep track of more than two genders.
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  Speaker 17: Just can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: You just can't do it. All right.
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  Speaker 19: Okay, there's X.
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  Speaker 1: Now, wait a second. Wait a second. Just so you understand, G2.
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  Speaker 1: Denny from Rock Creek is fascinated with Maria Bartiromo. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's been off for over a week.
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  Speaker 17: What's the matter with her?
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  Speaker 19: Is she okay?
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried about her. All of a sudden, he calls
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  Speaker 1: me out of the blue, and he's now got a
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  Speaker 1: fascination with this woman on the WNBA, this Cunningham player.
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  Speaker 19: Sophie Cunningham, yes. Just in my dreams, you know.
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  Speaker 17: She's no Maria Bartiromo.
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  Speaker 1: She's no Maria Bartiromo, though.
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  Speaker 17: And I guarantee that you remember the night Maria Bartiromo
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  Speaker 17: was at the White House press corps dinner wearing the
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  Speaker 17: long gloves.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I did.
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  Speaker 19: You know, she fell off her bicycle and it bruised
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  Speaker 19: up her arm. She got contusion. So she needed a
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  Speaker 19: long glove to cover up the contusion on her arm.
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  Speaker 19: And they were welder gloves. They were white welder gloves.
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  Speaker 19: I didn't even know welder gloves came in white.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 17: Welder gloves came in white, and I've never seen a
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  Speaker 17: welder wear them the way she did that night. She
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  Speaker 17: looked fantastic.
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  Speaker 19: Well, if I was a welder today, I would buy
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  Speaker 19: white welder gloves.
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  Speaker 1: So you'd be dressing like a woman is what you're saying? No. No,
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  Speaker 1: you just said it. Don't deny it. You just said
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  Speaker 1: you'd be cross-dressing.
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  Speaker 19: You're always trying to turn the table here. Every time
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  Speaker 19: I call, you try to.
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  Speaker 1: Twist the table. No, it's what you said. So is
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  Speaker 1: that interesting? Cunningham and Maria Bartiromo, he's really... All right,
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  Speaker 1: we better end it at that.
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  Speaker 19: I think so.
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  Speaker 5: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air with G2.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, Ted, Colin, first-time caller.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I would just like to say that the program is
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  Speaker 3: much better when you two guys are arguing and disagreeing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: So, how's that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll try to do more of it.
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  Speaker 17: Wait till we get into flock cameras. Wait till we
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  Speaker 17: finally get a window to hit flock cameras. It's going
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  Speaker 17: to be epic.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Okay. Maybe Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you guys have a good weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You too. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Mayor. Got about 20 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: No, I just wanted to express my condolences to the
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  Speaker 2: Bush family. Bob was just, he was not only a
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  Speaker 2: good policeman, a good lawyer, but he was.
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  Speaker 12: A great guy.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He was great. He was a wonderful human being. He
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  Speaker 1: really was.
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  Speaker 2: It showed in the way he treated people. We need
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  Speaker 2: more people like him, especially more police chiefs like Bob Bush.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mayor McKelvey. You're the best. G2, thank you
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  Speaker 1: as well. Have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 17: And thank you.
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  Speaker 12: Have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: Portions of the following program were pre-recorded.