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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Monday, 07/13/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Heidi Ho, 306 here on a Monday afternoon. Ron
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  Speaker 2: Furb with you until 7 o'clock tonight. It's the Rockport
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  Speaker 2: Wealth Truth in Investing program. That comes your way tonight,
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  Speaker 2: 6 to 7, here on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Welcome on
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  Speaker 2: and all. Boy, it's a hot, humid day. So you say, Ron,
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  Speaker 2: how hot and humid is it out there? Well, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be more than happy to tell you. It's 90 degrees
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  Speaker 2: here at my studios on Tiffany Boulevard in Boardman.
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  Speaker 3: 90 degrees.
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  Speaker 2: On Tiffany Boulevard in Boardman. And it's humid out there,
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  Speaker 2: to say the least. But so be it. We'll make
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  Speaker 2: the best of it, wherever you are, whatever you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you're having a healthy and happy day.
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  Speaker 4: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get you through to us.
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  Speaker 3: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get you through to us on NewsRadio 570 WQEN. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have I'm going to have a discussion
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow on the Poland Library with the architect, the guy
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  Speaker 2: that was the architect of the Poland Library when it
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  Speaker 2: was built. And that'll be tomorrow at 3 o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 2: That'll be on the 14th at 3 o'clock. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing that. So I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a done deal, but we shall see
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  Speaker 2: what happens. what he has to say about all of this,
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  Speaker 2: and where it goes. A lot of people in Poland
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  Speaker 2: are very upset about it. Bob Mastriana, the original architect,
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  Speaker 2: I think, of the Poland Library. So he will be
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  Speaker 2: here tomorrow. And I'll ask him questions about what's going
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  Speaker 2: on there in his... as far as the thing sinking
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  Speaker 2: and everything else. I'll try to pick his brain on
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. For you folks in Poland, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people in Poland are very upset about the
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  Speaker 2: decision to vacate the Poland Library and build a new
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  Speaker 2: one because of just how spectacular the Poland Library is.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so that'll be tomorrow. Let's see. You're on air. Hey, Ron.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: What's going on, sir? Beautiful, beautiful Ohio day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're back. You're back.
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  Speaker 5: I am back. I'm back from up north.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's good to hear your voice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a nice vacation. We went up to Iceland,
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  Speaker 5: took a cruise. Gorgeous country. I would tell anybody out there,
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  Speaker 5: if you ever get a chance to go, go. It's
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  Speaker 5: just absolutely beautiful. It's a natural wonder. It really is.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: Now it's Now it's time to come back. I was
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  Speaker 5: out at 6.30 this morning trimming my hedges. I just
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  Speaker 5: spent three hours down at my neighbor's house helping him.
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  Speaker 5: He lost a giant limb on one of those oak
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  Speaker 5: trees during that storm, so I was helping him cut
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  Speaker 5: that up, so... Just figured I'd give you a call
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  Speaker 5: and see what I missed the last week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you missed a lot. Let me put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: You got a big levy going on on the Canfield schools. Now,
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  Speaker 2: think if you lived in Canfield. Now, just think of this,
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  Speaker 2: what you're facing in Canfield. I think it's like a
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  Speaker 2: 5.9 mil levy. It's a huge levy. All right, so
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  Speaker 2: let's say you're a resident of the city of Canfield.
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  Speaker 2: So you're getting the re-evaluations, right? So they're done with
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  Speaker 2: the re-evaluations. So your property taxes are going to go
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  Speaker 2: up anyway. You follow me? Because of the re-evaluations. So
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get an increase on top of what
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  Speaker 2: you're already paying if you don't vote for anything. Then
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  Speaker 2: they want you to vote for like a 5.9 mil levy,
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  Speaker 2: which is a huge levy on top of that. Then
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  Speaker 2: you're facing an MRDD levy as well that's on the...
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot as well. Can you imagine if any
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  Speaker 2: of those pass and you reside in a city of Canfield?
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  Speaker 5: Well, unfortunately, MRDD probably will because everybody, you know, feels
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  Speaker 5: they've got to support that. And I mean, the problem is,
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  Speaker 5: I bet if we look into it, you're going to
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  Speaker 5: see gross mismanagement. You're going to see salaries and benefit
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  Speaker 5: packages that those of us who are going to be
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  Speaker 5: asked to pay that tax do not get from our employers.
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  Speaker 5: Or from the federal government if we're retired. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: that's the other thing we have to remember. Think of
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  Speaker 5: how many people in this area are actually retired living
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  Speaker 5: on fixed incomes. They don't get those big increases. It's fascinating.
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  Speaker 5: If they get any increase from Social Security, I think
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  Speaker 5: their Medicare premium usually sucks up a good chunk of it.
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  Speaker 5: And now you want these people to keep paying. These
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  Speaker 5: people just don't understand the meaning of the word no.
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  Speaker 5: I had internet access, so I was reading some of
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  Speaker 5: the Vindicator article on that Canfield levy. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: of course they have to threaten. If it doesn't pass,
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  Speaker 5: this is what we're going to cut.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And one of them was we're going to have to
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  Speaker 5: duplicate administrative costs, I think was one of them. Why
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  Speaker 5: don't you cut it now? Because I can tell you
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  Speaker 5: right now, in the 20 years I've been following local education,
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  Speaker 5: there is no government entity that wastes money like school systems.
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  Speaker 5: And I should call up the treasurer at Canfield and
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  Speaker 5: request copies of their contracts and different things that they sign,
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  Speaker 5: their employee contracts, benefits.
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  Speaker 2: They say it's a 5.9 mil levy. They say if
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't pass the consolidation of administrative duties. Well, why
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  Speaker 2: aren't you doing that now?
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  Speaker 5: Doing it now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's called being more efficient, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, I wonder how many principals and assistant
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  Speaker 5: principals you think they have in the high school.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but they're saying if we don't get
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  Speaker 2: more money..
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  Speaker 5: Is there an assistant superintendent? There's probably that, or probably
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  Speaker 5: an administrative assistant. These people, if they had to put
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  Speaker 5: in an honest day's work, it'd kill them.
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  Speaker 2: So consolidation of administrative duties. Then they say elementary and
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  Speaker 2: middle school STEM programs. High school?
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: So you're going to punish the smart kids, then? We're
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  Speaker 5: going to take care of this. The kids that are
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  Speaker 5: in STEM are usually your future engineers, doctors, things like that.
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  Speaker 5: So if you don't pass the levy, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: punish the smart kids.
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  Speaker 2: High school elective courses, including programs such as aviation and forensics,
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  Speaker 2: advanced academic opportunities, including honors, AP, and college credit plus.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, number one, I don't think as a
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  Speaker 5: high school you have to have avionics. And I don't
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  Speaker 5: think you have to have forensics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, man, those are nice if you can afford
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  Speaker 5: it and you've got a couple extra bucks laying around
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  Speaker 5: burning a hole in your pocket and you want to
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  Speaker 5: do those, that's fine. But those are wants, not needs.
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  Speaker 5: And I have to wonder, you know, how many kids
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  Speaker 5: really are going to get jobs in those subject areas?
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  Speaker 5: I bet it's not many. I bet it's one handful,
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  Speaker 5: maybe two handfuls tops.
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  Speaker 2: Well, school-sponsored field trips, non-core courses such as art, music,
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  Speaker 2: family and consumer sciences, home economics, or required families.
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  Speaker 5: Foreign language is the first thing that should go. You
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  Speaker 5: know why? There's only one foreign language you really need
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  Speaker 5: in this country if you want it, and that's Spanish.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: But I can tell you right now, like, you've got
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  Speaker 5: all the Koreans that work out at LG Chem, right?
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 5: They would come in. I know a pharmacist that works
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  Speaker 5: over in Austintown. They would come in. Real simple to
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  Speaker 5: talk to them. You just got out your cell phone
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  Speaker 5: and get on Google Translate. No issues at all. So
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  Speaker 5: is there really a need to have foreign language anymore?
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  Speaker 5: Has technology maybe replaced the need for every kid that
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  Speaker 5: wants to go to college? A lot of the colleges,
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  Speaker 5: most of the colleges don't even require it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, busing. I mean, all of this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: they're basically saying, listen, if you folks in Canfield don't
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  Speaker 2: pass that 5.9 mil levy, This is what we're threatening
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  Speaker 2: to do. And it's the threats to, once again, to
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  Speaker 2: try to pass a levy. Just like that levy, I
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  Speaker 2: forget what it was. I got to find a levy
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  Speaker 2: for MRDD. I mean, it was a pretty substantial levy
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  Speaker 2: as well. I remember it would increase your taxes $ 85
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  Speaker 2: for every $ 100, 000 of a value.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, so that's, you know, I mean, and what's the average?
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  Speaker 5: I like how they always say the average owner of
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  Speaker 5: $ 100, 000 or $ 125, 000 house. Who owns a $ 125, 000 house anymore?
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  Speaker 5: Take a look at the, Vindicator prints the property sales
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  Speaker 5: every weekend, Saturday, Sunday paper. Take a look at it.
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  Speaker 5: How many city of Youngstown are selling for six figures now?
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  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: And when the mills went under, I mean, I remember,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's been decades since a lot of those
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  Speaker 5: areas did that. You could buy houses for $ 15, 000, $ 20, 000
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  Speaker 5: a decade or two ago.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the guy in charge at MRDD said the cost
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  Speaker 2: of providing all of the services has increased from roughly
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  Speaker 2: $ 60 million annually to $ 100 million. How do you spend
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  Speaker 2: $ 100 million.
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  Speaker 5: On that? I mean, I'm sorry, not to sound unkind, okay,
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  Speaker 5: but if you're going to be spending big chunks of
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  Speaker 5: change like that, you need to put it on the
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  Speaker 5: people that are going to be producers in society. And
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  Speaker 5: we stopped having kids after our third because we had
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  Speaker 5: three healthy kids and I didn't want to risk it.
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  Speaker 5: I can't even fathom. I feel... so bad for people
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  Speaker 5: that have kids that are developmentally challenged.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I said this last week, though, and I said
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  Speaker 2: it again. It was a great discussion.
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  Speaker 5: And I.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioned it last week. Okay, but last week, Clay and Buck,
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  Speaker 2: I was with my son, and Clay and Buck said, well,
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  Speaker 2: about young people, you know, his generation not having a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of kids. And he turned to me and he said,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are out of touch with reality. You want
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  Speaker 2: to know why productive people aren't having a bunch of kids?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's so damn expensive. They made everything so expensive. Housing,
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  Speaker 2: buying a house is expensive. Buying a car, truck, or
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  Speaker 2: SUV is expensive. Having children has become so expensive. So
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  Speaker 2: these people, like Clay and Buck are bitching. that my
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  Speaker 2: generation isn't having more kids, instead of saying, why aren't
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  Speaker 2: they having more kids? You want to know the answer?
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  Speaker 2: They can't afford it, is what he said. And all
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  Speaker 2: of these people who look like, oh, we should be
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  Speaker 2: having more children, the only people having more children are
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  Speaker 2: the people on the dole who don't pay for it
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  Speaker 2: or worry about it. But productive people that actually are
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  Speaker 2: concerned about providing for their children are saying, we can't
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  Speaker 2: afford any more kids, or we're only going to have
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  Speaker 2: one kid or two kids, because look at the cost
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  Speaker 2: of daycare. Look at the cost of everything.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, it's just insane. If you look at
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  Speaker 5: the cost of building a house today, my neighbor went
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  Speaker 5: out to the Parade of Homes, I think it was
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  Speaker 5: in Canfield, maybe four or five weeks ago, he told me.
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  Speaker 5: Him and his wife went out there and they're going around.
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  Speaker 5: I think all the houses were over a million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Are you serious?
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  Speaker 5: We're not talking mansions. Yeah, we're not talking mansions. I
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  Speaker 5: think he said they were, you know, 2,500, 3,000 square
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  Speaker 5: foot houses, which is a nice size house. But can
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  Speaker 5: you imagine a house.
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  Speaker 2: In my neighborhood? I can't even imagine how you could
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  Speaker 2: justify that kind of cost. Now, here's the shocker. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of times these lots, when we build Verb Manor,
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  Speaker 2: I think our lot cost us $ 25, 000 for three-quarters of
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  Speaker 2: an acre. And today, a lot's much smaller than that, $ 80, 000, $ 90, 000,
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  Speaker 2: just for the lot.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, stop and think about it. If you're the developer, okay,
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  Speaker 5: and you have to put in sewers and you have
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  Speaker 5: to put in water lines and you have to probably
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  Speaker 5: pay for the electric.
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  Speaker 2: All that stuff got expensive, too. I mean, inflation has
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  Speaker 2: affected everybody. But what are we doing? This is why
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  Speaker 2: my son's generation aren't having 10 kids or 5 kids
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  Speaker 2: or 3 or 4 kids. They simply can't afford it.
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  Speaker 9: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: I trust me. I've got, I've got three kids.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 5: I've got one grandkid now and my daughter and her
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  Speaker 5: husband and his husband would like to have, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: two or three, maybe four and they, and they can
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  Speaker 5: afford it, but there's not many people in their generation
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  Speaker 5: that are making that kind of money. I mean, just
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  Speaker 5: to re you know, you, you see those studies where
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  Speaker 5: they say, yeah, this is how much it costs to
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  Speaker 5: raise a boy. This is girls are always obviously more expensive. Um,
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  Speaker 5: But I think it's like $ 150, $ 300. I can't even
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  Speaker 5: remember what I saw it last time. But it was
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  Speaker 5: a substantial, a huge amount of money. And you divide that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you've got 18 years to pay for that.
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  Speaker 5: So let's say it's a quarter million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: And yet..
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  Speaker 2: And yet there's nothing better in life than that. No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when the dust settles in life, what was
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  Speaker 2: more important than when you got married and when you
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  Speaker 2: had children? There is nothing better in life.
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you what's better than kids, grandkids. Grandkids is,
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  Speaker 5: I hope to God you get one very soon because
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  Speaker 5: it is a joy. My wife retired. My wife is done,
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  Speaker 5: I think, August 7th is her last day. Because all
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  Speaker 5: she wants to do is go babysit. She just can't
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  Speaker 5: spend enough time with that little girl. Because it is
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  Speaker 5: just a joy. I mean, you watch them, you forget
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  Speaker 5: how quickly they grow up and how fast they develop.
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  Speaker 5: And you're watching this little human being that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: was helpless. And when they're born, they can't do anything.
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  Speaker 5: And then you just start seeing the mile markers, you know,
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  Speaker 5: one month, three months, five months. And it's just amazing
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  Speaker 5: watching them. It's a pure joy.
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  Speaker 2: And being retired, she doesn't have to worry about going
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  Speaker 2: to work and all that kind of stuff. She can
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  Speaker 2: sit back and And take it all in. But that's–
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look around, it's just– it's absolute insanity.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy. I mean, just how expensive it
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  Speaker 2: is for our young people to do. And we're not
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  Speaker 2: making it easier on them. We're making it more difficult
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  Speaker 2: for them as we continue to– to dwell on all
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  Speaker 2: the time as we continue to increase property taxes. So
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  Speaker 2: now if they want to buy a house, look at
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  Speaker 2: how much property taxes are on the inflated value of
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  Speaker 2: the house on top of what your payment is. Crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just, they told us all the, I think
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  Speaker 5: Ralph and all the rest of them told us only
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  Speaker 5: to pay the first half taxes. I haven't gotten my
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  Speaker 5: second half. Second half should be coming up in about
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  Speaker 5: three weeks, right? Isn't it due the beginning of August?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's usually due like August 6th, August 10th,
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  Speaker 5: somewhere in there. So, I mean, I don't know where
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  Speaker 5: the bill is. Well, I think I might know. I
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  Speaker 5: think all the laws that Dave Thomas got passed that
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  Speaker 5: affected how much, you know, they're going to be able
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  Speaker 5: to tax and collect from us. I don't think they're
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  Speaker 5: getting any guidance from the state of Ohio on how
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  Speaker 5: to do it. That's just a guess on my part,
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  Speaker 5: but it would be neat if, you know, if Ralph
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  Speaker 5: could call in or if somebody at the auditor's office
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  Speaker 5: could explain, you know, because I looked about three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: There's a house in my neighborhood that's sold. And I mean,
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  Speaker 5: young couple, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by. Stand by one minute. Stand by.
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  Speaker 10: Back with Rich and more of your calls straight ahead. Now,
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  Speaker 10: Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKVN.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Heidi Ho, 306 here on a Monday afternoon. Ron
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  Speaker 2: Verb with you till 7 o'clock tonight. It's the Rockport
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  Speaker 2: Wealth Truth and Investing Program. That comes your way tonight,
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  Speaker 2: 6 to 7. You're on News Radio 570 WKBN. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: on and on. Boy, it's a hot, humid day. So
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  Speaker 2: you say, Rod, how hot and humid is it out there? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be more than happy to tell you. It's 90
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  Speaker 2: degrees here at my studios on Tiffany Boulevard in Boardman.
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  Speaker 2: 90 degrees on Tiffany Boulevard in Boardman. And it's humid
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  Speaker 2: out there, to say the least. But so be it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll make the best of it wherever you are, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you're doing. I hope you're having a healthy and happy day.
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  Speaker 2: 330-729-9977 will get you through to us.
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  Speaker 6: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: 729-9977. We'll get you through to us on NewsRadio 570 WQEN. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have a discussion tomorrow on the Poland
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  Speaker 2: Library with the architect, the guy that was the architect
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  Speaker 2: of the Poland Library when it was built. And that'll
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  Speaker 2: be tomorrow at 3 o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be on the 14th at 3 o'clock. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing that. So I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a done deal, but we shall see
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  Speaker 2: what he has to say about all of this and
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  Speaker 2: where it goes. A lot of people in Poland are
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: very upset about it. Bob Mastriana says, The original architect,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I think, of the Poland Library. So he will be
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: here tomorrow. And I'll ask him questions about what's going
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: on there as far as the thing sinking and everything else.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I'll try to pick his brain on a lot of stuff.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: For you folks in Poland, a lot of people in
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Poland are very upset about the decision to vacate the
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Poland Library and build a new one. And because of
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: just how spectacular the Poland Library is. All right, so
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: that'll be tomorrow. Let's see. You're on air.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: What's going on, sir? Beautiful, beautiful Ohio day.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're back.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Way on the warm side.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: You're back.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: I am back. I'm back from up north.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Well, it's good to hear your voice.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a nice vacation. We went up to
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Iceland and took a cruise. Gorgeous country. I would tell
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: anybody out there, if you ever get a chance to go, go.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: It's just absolutely beautiful. It's a natural wonder. It really is.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: There you go, Steve. Now it's time to come back.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I was out at 6.30 this morning trimming my hedges.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I just spent three hours down at my neighbor's house
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: helping him. He lost a giant limb on one of
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: those oak trees during that storm, so I was helping
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: him cut that up. Yeah. Just figured I'd give you
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: a call and see what I missed the last week.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Well, you missed a lot. Let me put it that way.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You got a big levy going on on the Canfield schools. Now,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: think if you lived in Canfield. Now, just think of this,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: what you're facing in Canfield. I think it's like a
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: 5.9 mil levy. It's a huge levy.
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: So let's say you're a resident of the city of Canfield.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: So you're getting the reevaluations, right? So they're done with
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the reevaluations. So your property taxes are going to go
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: up anyway. You follow me? Because of the reevaluations. So
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: you're going to get an increase on top of what
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: you're already paying if you don't vote for anything. Then
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: they want you to vote for like a 5.9 mil levy,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: which is a huge levy on top of that. Then
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you're facing an MRDD levy as well that's on the
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: ballot as well. Can you imagine if any of those
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: pass and you reside in the city of Canfield?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Well, unfortunately, MRDD probably will because everybody feels scared. They've
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: got to support that. And, I mean, the problem is,
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: I bet if we look into it, you're going to see.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: gross mismanagement. You're going to see salaries and benefit packages
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: that those of us who are going to be asked
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: to pay that tax do not get from our employers
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: or from the federal government if we're retired. I mean,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: that's the other thing they have to remember. Think of
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: how many people in this area are actually retired living
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: on fixed incomes. They don't get those big increases. It's fascinating.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: If they get any increase from Social Security, I think
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: their Medicare premium usually sucks up a good chunk of it.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: And now you want these people to keep paying. These
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: people just don't understand the meaning of the word no.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: I had Internet access, so I was reading some of
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: the Vindicator article on that Canfield levy. And, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: of course they have to threaten. If it doesn't pass,
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: this is what we're going to cut. And one of
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: them was... We're going to have to duplicate administrative costs,
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: I think was one of them. Why don't you cut
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: it now? Because I can tell you right now, in
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: the 20 years I've been following local education, there is
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: no government entity that wastes money like school systems. And
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I should call up the treasurer at Canfield and request
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: copies of their contracts and different things that they signed,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: their employee contracts, benefits.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: They say it's a 5.9 mil levy. They say if
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: it doesn't pass the consolidation of administrative duties. Well, why
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: aren't you doing that now?
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Doing it now.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's called being more efficient, isn't it?
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, I wonder how many principals and assistant principals
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: you think they have in the high school.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but they're saying if we don't get
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: more money.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Is there an assistant superintendent? There's probably that or probably
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: an administrative assistant. These people, if they had to put
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: in an honest day's work, it'd kill them.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: So consolidation of administrative duties. Then they say elementary and
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: middle school STEM programs. High school. Go ahead.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: So you're going to punish the smart kids then? We're
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: going to take care of this. The kids that are
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: in STEM are usually your future engineers, doctors, things like that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: So if you don't pass the levy, we're going to
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: punish the smart kids.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: High school elective courses, including programs such as aviation and forensics,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: advanced academic opportunities, including honors, AP, and college credit plus.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, number one, I don't think as a
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: high school you have to have avionics. And I don't
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: think you have to have forensics.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, man, those are nice if you can afford
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: it and you've got a couple extra bucks laying around
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: burning a hole in your pocket and you want to
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: do those, that's fine. But those are wants, not needs.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: And I have to wonder, you know, how many kids
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: really are going to get jobs in those subject areas?
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: I bet it's not many. I bet it's one handful,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: maybe two handfuls, tops.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Well, school-sponsored foreign language, school-sponsored field trips, non-core courses such
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: as art, music, family and consumer sciences, home economics, or
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: required families.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Foreign language is the first thing that should go. You
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: know why? There's only one foreign language you really need
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: in this country if you want it, and that's Spanish. Right.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: But I can tell you right now, like, you've got
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: all the Koreans that work out at LG Chem, right?
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: They would come in. I know a pharmacist that works
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: over in Austintown. They would come in. Real simple to
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: talk to them. You just got out your cell phone
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: and get on Google Translate. No issues at all. So
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: is there really a need to have foreign language anymore?
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Has technology maybe replaced the need for every kid that
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: wants to go to college? A lot of the colleges,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: most of the colleges don't even require it anymore.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: And, of course, busing. I mean, all of this stuff,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: they're basically saying, listen, if you folks in Canfield don't
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: pass that 5.9 mil levy, This is what we're threatening
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: to do. And it's the threats to, once again, to
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: try to pass a levy. Just like that levy. I
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: forget what it was. I got to find a levy
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: for MRDD. I mean, it was a pretty substantial levy
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: as well. I remember it would increase your taxes $ 85
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: for every $ 100, 000 of a value.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, so that's, you know, I mean, and what's the average?
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: I like how they always say the average owner of
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: $ 100, 000 or $ 125, 000 house. Who owns a $ 125, 000 house anymore?
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Take a look at the, Vindicator prints the property sales
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: every weekend, Saturday, Sunday paper. Take a look at it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: How many in the city of Youngstown are selling for
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: six figures now? Mm-hmm. And when the mills went under,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, I remember, you know, it's been decades since
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: a lot of those areas did that. You could buy
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: houses for $ 15, 000, $ 20, 000 a decade or two ago.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Well, the guy in charge of MRDD said the cost
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of providing all of the services has increased from roughly
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: $ 60 million annually to $ 100 million. How do you spend
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: $ 100 million.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: On that?
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sorry, not to sound unkind, okay, but
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: if you're going to be spending big chunks of change
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: like that, you need to put it on the people
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: that are going to be producers in society. And we
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: stopped having kids after our third because we had three
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: healthy kids and I didn't want to risk it. I
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: can't even fathom. I feel... So bad for people that
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: have kids that are developmentally challenged.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Well, I said this last week, though, and I said
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: it again. It was a great discussion. And I mentioned
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: it last week. Okay, but last week, Clay and Buck,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I was with my son, and Clay and Buck said, well,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: about young people, you know, his generation not having a
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: bunch of kids. And he turned to me and he said,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: these guys are out of touch with reality. You want
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to know why productive people aren't having a bunch of kids?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Because it's so damn expensive. They made everything so expensive. Housing,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: buying a house is expensive. Buying a car, truck, or
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: SUV is expensive. Having children has become so expensive. So
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: these people like Clay and Buck are bitching that my
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: generation isn't having more kids. Instead of saying, why aren't
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: they having more kids? You want to know the answer?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: They can't afford it. is what he said. And all
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: of these people who look like, oh, we should be
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: having more children, the only people having more children are
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: the people on the dole who don't pay for it
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: or worry about it. But productive people that actually are
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: concerned about providing for their children are saying we can't
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: afford any more kids or we're only going to have
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: one kid or two kids because look at the cost
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: of daycare. Look at the cost of everything.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, it's just insane. If you look at
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: the cost of building a house today, My neighbor went
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: out to the Parade of Homes, I think it was
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: in Canfield, maybe four or five weeks ago, he told me.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Him and his wife went out there and they're going around.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: I think all the houses were over a million dollars.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Are you serious?
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: We're not talking mansions. Yeah, we're not talking mansions. I
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: think he said there were 2,500, 3,000 square foot houses,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: which is a nice size house. But can you imagine
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: a house.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: In my neighborhood? I can't even imagine how you could
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: justify that kind of cost. Now, here's the shocker. A
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: lot of times these lots, when we build Verb Manor,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I think our lot cost us $ 25, 000 for three-quarters of
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: an acre. And today, a lot's much smaller than that, $ 80, 000, $ 90, 000,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: just for the lot.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Well, stop and think about it. If you're the developer, okay,
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: and you have to put in sewers and you have
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: to put in water lines and you have to put in,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: you know, probably pay for the electric.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: All that stuff got expensive, too. I mean, inflation has
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: affected everybody. But what are we doing? This is why
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: my son's generation aren't having 10 kids or 5 kids
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: or 3 or 4 kids. They simply are. It's just
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: they can't afford it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: I trust me. I've got, I've got three kids.
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I've got one grandkid now and my daughter and her
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: husband and his husband would like to have, uh, you know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: two or three, maybe four and they, and they can
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: afford it, but there's not many people in their generation
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: that are making that kind of money. I mean, just
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: to re you know, you, you see those studies where
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: they say, yeah, this is how much it costs to
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: raise a boy. This is girls are always obviously more expensive. Um,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: But I think it's like $ 150, 000, $ 300, 000. I can't even
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: remember what I saw it last time. But it was
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: a substantial, it was.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: A huge amount of money.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: And you divide that, you know, you've got 18 years
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: to pay for that. So let's say it's a quarter
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: million dollars.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And yet there's nothing better in life than that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: No.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, when the dust settles in life, what was
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: more important than when you got married and when you
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: had children? There is nothing better in life.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: I will tell you what's better than kids, grandkids. Grandkids is,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: I hope to God you get one very soon because
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: it is a joy. My wife retired. My wife is done,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: I think, August 7th is her last day, because all
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: she wants to do is go babysit. She just can't
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: spend enough time with that little girl, because it is
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: just a joy. I mean, you watch them, you forget
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: how quickly they grow up and how fast they develop.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: And you're watching this little human being that, you know,
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: was helpless. I mean, when they're born, they can't do anything.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: And then you just start seeing the mile markers at,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: you know, one month, three months, five months. It's, and
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: it's just amazing watching. And it's a pure joy.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: And being retired, she doesn't have to worry about going
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to work and all that kind of stuff. She can
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: sit back and, and, and take it all in. But that's,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look around, it's just, it's an,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: it's absolute insanity. I mean, it's, It's crazy. I mean,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: just how expensive it is for our young people to do.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: And we're not making it easier on them. We're making
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: it more difficult for them as we continue to dwell
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: on all the time, as we continue to increase property taxes.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: So now if they want to buy a house, look
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: at how much property taxes are on the inflated value
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of the house on top of what your payment is.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Crazy. Yeah, I'm just, they told us all the, I
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: think Ralph and all the rest of them told us
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: only to pay the first half taxes. I haven't gotten
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: my second half. Second half should be coming up in
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: about three weeks, right? Isn't it due the beginning of August?
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: I think it's usually due like August 6th, August 10th.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Somewhere in there.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know where the bill is, but well,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: I think I might know. I think all the laws
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: that Dave Thomas got passed that affected how much, you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: they're going to be able to tax and collect from us.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: I don't think they're getting any guidance from the state
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: of Ohio on how to do it. That's just a
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: guess on my part, but it would be neat if,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: you know, if Ralph could call in or if somebody
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: at the auditor's office could explain, you know, because I
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: looked about three weeks ago. There's a house in my
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: neighborhood that's sold. And, I mean, a young couple, Ron.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Stand by. Stand by one minute. Stand by. Back with
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Rich in more of your calls straight ahead. Ron, from
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: checking in with Terry C-Mac out at C-Mac's Appliance right
• 31:23
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• 31:26
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• 31:30
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• 31:33
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• 31:36
  Speaker 2: over the years, right, Terry?
• 31:38
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• 31:40
  Speaker 3: when refrigeration breaks, freezers.
• 31:42
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• 31:46
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• 31:47
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• 31:49
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• 31:50
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• 31:52
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• 31:53
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• 31:55
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• 31:56
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• 32:02
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• 32:04
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• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Where are you located, Terry?
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: 864 Youngstown Pool Road, a mile and a half north
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: of Poland, a half mile south of Midlothian.
• 32:13
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• 32:18
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• 32:31
  Speaker 2: What else?
• 32:32
  Speaker 14: No, I mean, a young couple, I.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Think about four weeks ago, buys a house in my neighborhood.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, our neighborhood, we lived here 20 years. It
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: was probably about a $ 300, 000 neighborhood the vast majority of
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: that time. This house, very nice house, just sold for $ 765, 000.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, can you imagine being a young couple? I
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: think they're both probably 30, 31 years old. I think
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: he's a dentist. She's a teacher. I mean, even if
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: you put 20% down, you're financing like, what, $ 600? Plus
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: the property taxes, plus the insurance, plus the utilities? Yep.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: I can't even fathom.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even do it. I would not even participate
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: in it. Under no circumstances would I do that.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: But, I mean, that's not... Like I said, every Sunday
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: the Vindicator publishes property sales. Take a look at it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: It's incredible. I don't know how these poor people are
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: affording it.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: It just..
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, God forbid, one of you... Something happens to
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: one of you and you're not working.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: I mean, because you're probably putting it for sale at
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: that point.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: You would have to.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I just..
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: I just... And I don't know how you fix it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know what we can do to fix it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: How do you bring the price of a stick of
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: copper down? Or, you know... 14-2 wire to wire the house.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think I used to buy that stuff
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: 20 years, 25 years ago. I used to buy 14-2
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: wire for, what, probably $ 20 for 100-foot coil. Price it now.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And then you sit back and you look at the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: situation in Iran. It's not looking good.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: I think we just need to basically get serious with them.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I think we've been serious with them. I counted that
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: by saying we smacked the living hell out of them.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you take a look at it, so
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: you can continue to do some more and see what happens.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: He's been threatening bridge and power plant day. Do it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Take out the oil refineries. Look what's happening in Ukraine.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Ukraine's taken out the oil refineries, and now Russia's in
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: worse shape than Ukraine is. You know, so any more today,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: I think the biggest problem you have right now is
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: you've got us and Russia, China, we have all these expensive, powerful,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: you know, weapon systems. And you've got these other countries
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: that have a couple thousand dollar drone that you're shooting
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: a $ 3 million missile to take down a $ 50, 000 to
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: $ 20, 000 drone. The economics don't make sense. I don't know
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: why we're building aircraft carriers. That's just a big fat
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: target sitting out in the sea. A couple billion dollars
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: a pop. But the world is just changing so fast.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: From a world standpoint, five years now for the war
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: in the Ukraine, and now you have this situation where
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: they said, oh, it's over, and And then prices come
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: down and the market adjusts to it. Well, now it's
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: back on. And we shall see where it all goes.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: A lot of stuff going on in the world. There's
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of uncertainty that's going on in the world
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: right now. And inflation.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: On the other hand, you know, you look and Lindsey
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Graham comes back and one minute he's alive and the
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: next minute he's dead.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: He's not worried about any bit of it anymore, right?
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, you know, at what point do you
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: just say, you know, Quit worrying about all this stuff
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: and just live your life and what's to be is
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: to be.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: 71.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely right.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: All right, Rich.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Appreciate it. News Radio 4. You too. You're
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: on air.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Ronald.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Ted the Conservative.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: How are you doing?
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I am doing well, Theodore. Thank you for asking. An
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: interesting discussion with Rich, a pharmacist, and now Ted the Conservative.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: You know what I call that, folks? A good day.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: A good start to the week.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: How about that? I thought I would check in with you.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: I wanted to share something with you and then maybe
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: talk about Lindsey Graham.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: Also wanted to tell you, you know, last week listening
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: to the program, you were discussing your career path and
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: your reduction in hours. And I've got to share my
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: thoughts to myself. Wow, this sounds like the beginning to
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: the end. And I don't know if that's right or not,
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: but that's what I thought last week.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I think it could be.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: It could be.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I think it very.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: Well could be. So we have to cherish the time
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: we have with you.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: The time we have together. Nothing goes on, you know,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: like I say, nothing goes on forever. And so everybody
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: gets older every day that goes by, right?
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: And you know what? It's sad and it's unfortunate. I
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: was in the car this morning. I'm not sure what
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: program is on, 5, 7, 8 o'clock in the morning,
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: but It's just not the same. These national programming spots
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: that they fill these voids with, it's just not the same.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: It just seems like a bunch of smoke and mirrors,
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: nothing very..
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Well, hold that thought for a second. Hold that thought.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Let me do my headlines.
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: Youngstown's News, Weather, and Talk Station, 570 WKBN. All right.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: All right, Rich. What else?
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, a young couple, I think about four
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: weeks ago, buys a house in my neighborhood. I mean,
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: our neighborhood, we lived here 20 years. It was probably
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: about a $ 300, 000 neighborhood the vast majority of that time.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: This house, very nice house, just sold for $ 765, 000. I mean,
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: can you imagine being a young couple? I think they're
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: both probably 30, 31 years old. I think he's a dentist.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: She's a teacher. I mean, even if you put 20% down...
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: you're financing like, what, $ 600? Plus the property taxes, plus
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: the insurance, plus the utilities?
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: I can't even fathom.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even do it. I would not even participate
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: in it. Under no circumstances would I do that.
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: But, I mean, that's not– like I said, every Sunday
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: the Vindicator publishes property sales. Take a look at it.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: It's incredible. I don't know how these poor people are
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: affording it. It just, I mean, God forbid, one of you,
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: something happens to one of you and you're not working. Right.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, because you're probably putting it for sale at
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: that point.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: You would have to.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: I just, I just, and I don't know how you
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: fix it. I don't know what we can do to
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: fix it. How do you bring the price of a
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: stick of copper down? Or, you know, 14-2 wire to
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: wire the house.
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think I used to buy that stuff
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: 20 years, 25 years ago. I used to buy 14-2
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: wire for, what, probably 20 bucks for 100-foot coil. Price
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: it now.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: And then you sit back and you look, this situation
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: in Iran uh is uh not looking good yeah.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: I i think we just need to be we need
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: to basically get serious with them and just i think we've.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Been serious with them i i counter that by saying
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: we smacked the living hell out of them I mean,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: if you take a look at it, so you can
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: continue to do some more and see what happens.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: He's been threatening bridge and power plant day. Do it.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Take out the oil refineries. Look what's happened in Ukraine.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Ukraine's taken out the oil refineries, and now Russia's in
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: worse shape than Ukraine is. Any more today, I think
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: the biggest problem you have right now is You've got
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: us and Russia, China, we have all these expensive, powerful,
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: you know, weapon systems. And you've got these other countries
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: that have a couple thousand dollar drone that you're shooting
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: a $ 3 million missile to take down a $ 50, 000 or
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: $ 20, 000 drone. The economics don't make sense. It just, you're,
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know why we're building aircraft carriers. That's just
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: a big fat target sitting out in the sea. You know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: a couple billion dollars a pop. It's... But the world
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: is just changing so fast.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, from a world standpoint, five years now for
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: the war in the Ukraine, and now you have this
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: situation where they said, oh, it's over, and then prices
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: come down and the market adjusts to it. Well, now
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: it's back on. And we shall see where it all goes.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: A lot of stuff going on in the world. There's
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of uncertainty that's going on in the world
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: right now. And inflation.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: On the other hand, you know, you look and Lindsey
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: Graham comes back and one minute he's alive and the
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: next minute he's dead.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: He's not worried about any bit of it anymore, right?
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Nope. So, I mean, you know, at what point do
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: you just say, you know, quit worrying about all this
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: stuff and just live your life and what's to be
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: is to be?
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Yep, 71. Absolutely. Absolutely right. All right, Rich, thank you.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. News Radio 5. You too. You're on air.
• 41:40
  Speaker 15: Ronald.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Ted the Conservative.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: How are you doing?
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I am doing well, Theodore. Thank you for asking. An
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: interesting discussion with Rich, a pharmacist, and now Ted the Conservative.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: You know what I call that, folks? A good day,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: a good start to the week.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: How about that? I thought I would check in with you.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: I wanted to share something with you and then maybe
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: talk about Lindsey Graham.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: Also wanted to tell you, you know, last week listening
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: to the program, you were discussing your career path and
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: your reduction in hours. And I got a tear in
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: my eye and I thought to myself, wow, this sounds
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: like the beginning to the end. And I don't know
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: if that's right or not, but that's what I thought
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: last week.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I think it could be. I think it very well
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: could be.
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: So we have to cherish the time we have with you.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: The time we have together. Nothing goes on, you know,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: like I say, nothing goes on forever. And so everybody
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: gets older every day that goes by, right?
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And you know what?
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: It's sad and it's unfortunate.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: I was in the car this morning. I'm not sure
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: what program is on 5, 7, 8 o'clock in the morning,
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: but it's just not the same. He's National Programming. spots
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: that they fill these voids with. It's just not the same.
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: It just seems like a bunch of smoke and mirrors,
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: nothing very..
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Well, hold that thought for a second. Hold that thought.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Let me do my headlines. I'll come right back here.
• 43:06
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• 43:08
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• 43:09
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• 43:11
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• 43:17
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• 43:19
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• 43:21
  Speaker 14: The deal we reached with Iran. The devil's in the details.
• 43:24
  Speaker 14: Bringing the price of gasoline down. Maintain the Fed funds rate.
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: Tying Pfizer to the save app. NATO has been.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: A paper tiger for the very latest.
• 43:32
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  Speaker 7: The American Red Cross has deemed an emergency blood shortage
• 43:50
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• 44:02
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• 44:05
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• 44:08
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• 44:12
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• 44:14
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• 44:16
  Speaker 16: Those offering condolences following the news over the weekend of
• 44:19
  Speaker 16: the death of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, DeWine recalled
• 44:22
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• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: But networks, sir, they have their good and their bad.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Let's put it that way.
• 44:49
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's a shame we're losing our top radio.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: I think..
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: I think times change and we all evolve. I'm sure
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: younger kids today, the last thing they can think about
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: is putting on talk radio.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: I will tell you something when people talk about radio.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: I'll educate you on the industry. Radio listening is gigantic.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I'm a radio guy. If you look at trends, I
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: don't care what age group you are. It doesn't matter
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: whatever age group you are. Radio listenership is in the 90s,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: and there's a reason. It's easy, it's convenient, and it's free,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: whether that's music radio or talk radio or whatever. The
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: listenership is huge. And I'll give you the inside scoop.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Radio advertising is more effective than any other form of advertising.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: That's the spoken word. And listenership is huge.
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: I believe it.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think that'll change any time soon. This idea
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: that everybody's listening to podcasts and that kind of stuff
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: is somewhat of a myth, even though a lot of
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: people listen to the podcast. this program when it's posted
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: on podcasts because god did i get a lot of
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: emails from people that were upset it wasn't getting posted
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: they made up for all of that though they posted
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: the previous shows and that kind of stuff because we
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: had some technical problems but It's just interesting. You have
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: people that have maybe cut the cord on cable on TV,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: but they still watch a lot of TV with streaming.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: They just get it differently. And that's had a major
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: effect on local television, just as a side note. Local television,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: like when you would get your TV off the cable,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: local television got a piece of that fee that you
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: paid every month to, whether it's Spectre or Armstrong or something.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: the outside of the ads that they sold, they got
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: a big, they got a chunk of, uh, of the
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: money that you paid as a subscriber to cable. Well,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: they lost all of that money because there's so many
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: people have cut the cord as they say, and they
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: get it all through streaming as opposed to paying a
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: cable bill. So local TV is taking a big financial
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: hit by losing all of that revenue, which is, uh,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: which is pretty, you know, streaming.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: Uh, I've been watching a program on HBO Max and,
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: Remember when streaming first came out, they sold it as
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: no commercials. Yeah. You know, just content, content. Well, now
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: you watch streaming and it's like this HBO Max. It's
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: flooded with commercials. It's just crazy how things change. And,
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: you know, they lure you in with with one hand
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: and then they pull you back with the other hand.
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: But that is what it is. I guess the evolution
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: of the world we live in.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: I was listening to someone that was talking about they
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: would advertise on Facebook, and the guy was talking about
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: how ineffective it was for him, how it was just
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: a monumental waste of his ad dollars. I just think
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: it's interesting, but it's all there. But anyway, with that
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: being said, what else is on your minds?
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: So I was asked a question yesterday, and I thought
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: I'd share it with you and run it up the flagpole.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: I don't want to talk about Lindsey Graham, but someone,
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: I was having a conversation with someone, and they said,
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: you know, who do you think is the biggest threat
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: to America, China or Russia? And I told them, well,
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: in my humble opinion, I don't think neither of the
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: biggest threats to America. They looked at me like I
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: was crazy. So who's the biggest threat? I told them Democrats.
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: Democrats are the biggest threat to the fabric of our country.
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: And then He looked at me and just pure astonishment.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: Couldn't believe I said that. And I'm sure some of
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: your callers might freak out on me today. But then
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: what do I wake up to this morning? I read
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: this article out of Minnesota. And for every Democrat that
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: opposes ICE, I say you too are the problem with America.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: Did you happen to read that article about this guy
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: that Tim Walz pardoned in Minnesota?
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Tell our listeners about it. Tell them.
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: Raped a 10-year-old child. A 10-year-old child. And these are
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: the same people that are telling you ICE is bad.
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: They're trying to stop ICE from being in Minnesota. Well,
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: Minnesota is like the beehive of the legal immigrants of America.
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: And all you, I'm going to say it, all you
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: dumb Democrats out there fighting for these people need your
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: head examined. This guy raped a 10-year-old kid, girl, not once,
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: not twice, not three times, not four times, for years,
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: for two years or so. And you Democrats are fighting
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: to keep these people in our country. So when I
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: say the Democrats are the biggest threat to America, the
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: America you and I grew up in, I never felt
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: stronger than I did this morning when I read that.
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: You've got to be out of your mind to oppose
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: ICE and the propaganda that the far left is selling you,
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: like these guys are coming into your neighborhood and they're
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: going to shoot and kill you and your neighbors. Come on, people,
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: don't be so dumb. You watch all these social media clips.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: They only show you what they want you to see.
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: They don't show you the aggravating or the incitement of
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: the riots that begin. They just show you ICE defending
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: themselves or ICE taking action after the incident happened.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Here's the story. A 42-year-old illegal immigrant convicted of repeatedly
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: raping a child was awarded a pardon... by Governor Tim Walz,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: tampon Tim, Board of Pardons, after the state's clemency commission
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: recommended it be granted to him due to immigration concerns.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean? Minnesota Clemency Review Commission,
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: which voted 4-2 to grant a pardon, let's see, following
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: his conviction for criminal sexual conduct, this guy admitted to
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: repeatedly raping a girl over a multi-year period beginning when
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: she was 10 years old. Well, the two board members
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: who voted against granting a pardon noted the serious nature
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: of his offenses. Four members recommending a pardon, each listed
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: concerns about him being deported. One commissioner who voted in
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: favor of granting a pardon wrote in his recommendation, very
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: tough cases, but the kids not having a father is
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: not in the best interest of society. Referring to the
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: rapist's six children.
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: And what are the chances those kids were not born
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: out of rape? I mean, these people, Ron, they are
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: mentally damaged and there's no repair. So when I say
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: Democrats are the biggest threat to America, I never feel
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: stronger about that. You have got to be out of
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: your mind to oppose ICE. You know, when that woman
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: was shot in... in minnesota and killed i remember all
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: the dummies getting on the radio and saying oh how
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: horrible was this she wasn't doing anything and then you
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: give it 20 minutes 30 minutes give it an hour
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: and you see all the whole video come out and
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: you hear how how she's been behaving for days and
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: then they say well they didn't need to shoot and
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: kill her you know what ron this may sound harsh
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: but That's the only way you deal with people like that.
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: Just get rid of them.
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: Just like we're doing with these illegals.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Get them out of the country.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: of child rapist so he can remain in our country
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: is disgusting. These are criminals, illegal aliens he and his
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting. This guy entered the U.S.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: through California in 1994 and was granted legal status by
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: the Clinton administration between 2002 and 2004 when Vang, is
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: his name, was between 18 and 20 years old. He
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: had sexual intercourse with the victim four to six times.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: The abuse took place at St. Paul, Minnesota, and the
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: first rape took place when the victim was in fourth grade.
• 53:03
  Speaker 9: Unbelievable.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: But yet these dummies will say, you know, they'll get on...
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: They'll get on their soapbox and scream about how bad
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: ice is and how horrible it is. I mean, there's just, Ron,
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: we're living in a country that has two different universes.
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: The universe with common sense who can think for themselves
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: and the universe that has been programmed to just do
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: whatever they're told to do. It's scary. It's really scary
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: how anybody could support this stuff. And it's these far-left states,
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: you know, these quote-unquote progressive states that are leading the way.
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: You're seeing it, you know, I don't have to name
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: the states. You know where they're at. It's just, it's scary.
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: It's really scary.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: This guy served eight months at the county correctional workhouse.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: He was discharged for probation early for raping a child.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: A young child. I mean, I'm sorry, Rahm. People like that,
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: they need to be hung on the town square to
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: be made an example. They need to be put on
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: the firing line and... and broadcast that so people see
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: there are consequences.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Well, this Vang told police..
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: But if you're a Democrat, I guess that's okay.
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: You support that stuff.
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: The Democrats think that's okay and that ICE shouldn't be
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: in Minnesota, right?
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Vang told police, I made a mistake, but this is
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: a minor thing. It is a cultural thing in Thailand
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: But he's not in Thailand.
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: This is America. If you cannot assimilate to our laws
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: and our way of life, get the.
• 54:48
  Speaker 14: Hell out of here.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't ask for you to come. Vang stated that
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: the child should be arrested also because she was as
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: much at fault.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, 10-year-old child.
• 54:58
  Speaker 6: It's her fault she got raped, huh? That's a typical
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: thing Democrats say, though, isn't it? You know, just like
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: this goofy platner up in Maine that the Democrats were
• 55:10
  Speaker 6: dripping from the mouth supporting him. You know, the first
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: victim that came out was a Republican. So obviously they
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: didn't believe her. They said, oh, this can't be true.
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: This is bull crap. You know, and if it did happen,
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: she probably deserved it and she probably asked for it, blah, blah, blah.
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: And then it just snowballs one after the other after
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: the other comes out. And you realize the guy's a
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: serial rapist who the Democrats are propping up on a
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: stool like he's the next great thing in America.
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: And it wasn't until a Democrat came forward and said, yeah,
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: he raped me, too, that they said, oh, we can't
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: have that. Can't have that. I'm telling you, Ron, we've
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: said it a hundred times. There was someone a lot
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: more famous than you and I that said it. Liberalism
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: is a brain disorder. It's a brain disease. And the
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: funny thing is, you know, people like you and I,
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: we were raised as moderate Democrats. You know, we grew
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: up in a different time and we saw the light.
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: And we changed, not only has the world changed, but
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: we went so far as to change political affiliation many, many, many,
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: many years ago. We didn't need to see 10-year-olds getting
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: raped by illegal aliens to realize that this Democrat Party
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: was losing their minds.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: The fact that anybody would, the actions that were taken
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: in any part of the United States with this guy
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: is amazing to me. It's just unbelievable to me.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: If you oppose ICE, you need your brain examined.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: And if you.
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: Didn't gripe when Joe Biden was in office, then maybe
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: we should deport some of these people, too.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: I would say in a specific situation, everybody on that
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: parole board or everybody involved in that decision should really
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: get a mental test. Because it's just, it's unreal.
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say it again. You've got to be
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: nuts to vote for a Democrat today.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: There he is.
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: And yeah, I don't care if he's your local county commissioner,
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: your local mayor, your local prosecutor. Guess what? When that
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: person you think is a nice guy and smiles and
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: shakes your hand and talks to you, when they get
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: in that voting booth, they vote for Joe Biden. They
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: vote for the Kamala Harris. They vote for the Tim Walton.
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: They vote for the Comrade Mom Dommies of America. But
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: you really need your head examined if you vote for
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: a Democrat.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: There he is.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: If you find that harsh, I don't apologize.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: There he is, taking a stand.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: I'll leave it at that, buddy, because I'm getting upset.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ted the Conservative. Thank you, Ted. Ted the
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Conservative on NewsRadio 570, WKBN 347. In the afternoon, you're
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: on the air.
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: Hello, Ron.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: How are you doing today?
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Good, thank you.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: I got an article from Wall Street Journal today.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: It's going to affect all of us in the very
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: near future. The headlines. Frequent oil draws from the U.S.
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: Strategic Reserve push old systems to breaking point. Fracturing wells,
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: leaky pumps, wear and tear are straining the Gulf Coast
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: salt caverns that make up the reserve. It's going to
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: cause fuel shortages pretty soon, I believe.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: So you say because of drawing down on the Strategic
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Oil Reserve to keep gas prices down that we're in
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: a tough spot now, right?
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's depleting it rapidly, according to Wall Street Journal.
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: The U.S. is tapping its national stock of crude with abandon.
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: Withdrawals are taking a toil on the strategic reserve system.
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: There's 60 Gulf Coast salt caverns. Make up the stocks.
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: It can't be drawn down from or refilled at the
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: rate at which they were designed. Wow. And there's a
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: giant gas station. Travel Center, Bucky's.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: It's in Melissa, Texas. 50 square foot, 50,000 square foot building.
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: 100 fuel pumps. Last week, they only had 60 working.
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: 40 were shut down.
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: For fuel.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: They didn't have fuel or the pumps were broke?
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: I think they didn't have fuel. I think you're going
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: to start seeing fuel shortages here in the very near future.
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: They're drawing down on their oil reserves rapidly.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Well, this is a mess. I mean, I was saying
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: earlier to Rich, this is a disaster. Trump, and let's
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: be realistic, you've got to call him as you see him.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: The mess that Trump put this country in, As far
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: as this Iran war, it was a gigantic mistake when
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: he got involved in this. I don't know why he
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: reversed himself about getting involved in these endless wars in
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: the Middle East. He did a 180. He reversed himself
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: both on Epstein and this particular situation, both of which
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: I find very troubling. And he got us in a
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: mess that we're certainly not getting out of it, and
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: it's just continuing to drag on. And I mean, so
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: you got people say the only answer is you got
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: to do bomb them more, bomb them more. I mean,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: we bombed them a lot. We bombed them to the
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: point where they're concerned about the shortage of our artillery.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: You follow me there? We bombed them so much that
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: they're saying, well, wait a minute. With all the weapons
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: that we sold to Ukraine and gave to Ukraine and
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: with all of this stuff that we just did there,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: we're at a kind of a critically low level there.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: And now now we're right back to the bombing campaign. Well,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: what makes you think it's going to work better this time?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, what do they say? Insanity's doing
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: the same thing again and expecting a different result? I mean,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: I thought we bombed them really, really good last time.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's not prepared to be effective. They keep
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: standing against us. Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, you take a look at it, and it's like, so...
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're right back to where we were, what,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: not that long ago. We're right back to it. And
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: the gas prices are right back to $ 4 a gallon.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: And Saudi Arabia attacked the Houthis, which are Iran's terror
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: group in Yemen. And Yemen's Houthis are getting ready to retaliate.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: And they say they're going to block the Bab el-Mangab Strait,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: which is even narrower than the Strait of Hormuz. It's
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: where the Red Sea comes into the Indian Ocean. It
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: goes up to the Suez Canal.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, this whole situation is Trump's fault. Stand by
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: for a minute. I'll come back to him and more
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: of your calls ahead. Back to it. News Radio 570.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: All right, Theodore.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: But networks, they have their good and their bad. Let's
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: put it that way.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's a shame we're losing our top radio.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: I think... I think times change and we all evolve.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: I'm sure younger kids today, the last thing they can
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: think about is putting on top radio.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: I will tell you something when people talk about radio.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: I'll educate you on the industry. Radio listening is gigantic.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you actually look at trends, I don't
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: care what age group you are. It doesn't matter whatever
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: age group you are. Radio listenership is in the 90s.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: And there's a reason. It's easy, it's convenient, and it's free.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Whether that's music radio or talk radio or whatever, the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: listenership is huge. And I'll give you the inside scoop.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: Radio advertising is more effective than any other form of advertising.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: That's the spoken word. And listenership is huge.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: I believe it.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think that'll change any time soon. This idea
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: that everybody's listening to podcasts and that kind of stuff
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: is somewhat of a myth. even though a lot of
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: people listen to this program when it's posted on podcasts because, God,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: did I get a lot of emails from people that
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: were upset it wasn't getting posted. They made up for
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: all of that, though. They posted the previous shows and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff because we had some technical problems.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: But it's just interesting. You have people that have maybe
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: cut the cord on cable on TV, but they still
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: watch a lot of TV with streaming. They just get
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: it differently. And that's had a major effect on local television,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: just as a side note. Local television, like when you
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: would get your TV off the cable, local television got
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: a piece of that fee that you paid every month to,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: whether it's Spectrum or Armstrong or something, outside of the
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: ads that they sold, they got a chunk of... of
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: the money that you paid as a subscriber to cable. Well,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: they lost all of that money because so many people
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: have cut the cord, as they say, and they get
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: it all through streaming as opposed to paying a cable bill.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: So local TV's taking a big financial hit by losing
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: all of that revenue, which is pretty substantial.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: You know, it's funny, too, you mentioned streaming. I've been
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: watching a program on HBO Max, and remember when streaming
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: first came out, they sold it as no commercials.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: You know, just content, content.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 12: Well, now..
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: You watch streaming, and it's like this HBO Max. It's
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: flooded with commercials. It's just crazy how things change. And,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: you know, they lure you in with one hand, and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: then they pull you back with the other hand. But
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: that is what it is, I guess, the evolution of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 6: the world we live.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 19: In, right?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: I was listening to someone that was talking about they
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: would advertise on Facebook, and the guy was talking about
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: how ineffective it was for him, how it was just
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: a monumental waste of his ad dollars. I just think
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: it's interesting, but it's all there. But anyway, with that
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: being said, what else is on your mind?
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 6: So I was asked a question yesterday, and I thought
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: I'd share it with you and run it up the flagpole.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: See if anybody salutes.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 6: I also want to talk about Lindsey Graham.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: Someone, I was having a conversation with someone, and they said,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: you know, who do you think is the bigger threat
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: to America, China or Russia? And I told them, well,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: in my humble opinion, I don't think neither are the
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: biggest threat to America. They looked at me like I
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 6: was crazy.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: So who's the biggest threat?
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 6: I told them Democrats. Democrats are the biggest threat to
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: the fabric of our country.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 19: And then..
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 6: He looked at me and just pure astonishment. Couldn't believe
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 6: I said that. And I'm sure some of your callers
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: might freak out on today, but then what do I
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 6: wake up to this morning? I read this article out of,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: out of Minnesota. And for every Democrat that opposes ice,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: I say you two are the problem with America. Did
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: you happen to read that article about this guy that
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: Tim waltz pardoned in Minnesota?
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: Tell our listeners about it. Tell them.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 6: A 10 year old child raped, A 10-year-old child. And
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: these are the same people that are telling you ICE
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: is bad. They're trying to stop ICE from being in Minnesota. Well,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 6: Minnesota is like the beehive of the legal immigrants of America.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 6: And all you, I'm going to say it, all you
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 6: dumb Democrats out there fighting for these people need your
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 6: head examined. This guy raped a 10-year-old kid. Girl, not once,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: not twice, not three times, not four times, for years.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: For two years or so. And you Democrats are fighting
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 6: to keep these people in our country. So when I
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 6: say the Democrats are the biggest threat to America, the
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 6: America you and I grew up in, I never felt
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 6: stronger than I did this morning when I read that.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 6: You've got to be out of your mind to oppose
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 6: ICE and the propaganda that the far left is selling you,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: like these guys are coming into your neighborhood and they're
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 6: going to shoot and kill you and your neighbors. Come on, people,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 6: don't be so dumb. You watch all these social media clips.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: They only show you what they want you to see.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 6: They don't show you the aggravating or the incitement of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 6: the riots that begin. They just show you ICE defending
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 6: themselves or ICE taking action after the incident happened.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: Here's the story. A 42-year-old illegal immigrant convicted of repeatedly
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: raping a child was awarded a pardon... by Governor Tim Walz,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: tampon Tim, Board of Pardons, after the state's Clemency Commission
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: recommended it be granted to him due to immigration concerns.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean? Minnesota Clemency Review Commission,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: which voted 4-2 to grant a pardon, let's see, following
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: his conviction for criminal sexual conduct, this guy admitted to
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: repeatedly raping a girl over a multi-year period beginning when
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: she was 10 years old. Referring to the rapist's six children.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 6: And what are the chances those kids were not born
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 6: out of rape? I mean, these people, Ron, they are
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 6: mentally damaged and there's no repair. so when i say
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: democrats are the biggest threat to america i never feel
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: stronger about that you have got to be out of
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: your mind to oppose ice you know when that woman
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 6: was shot in uh in minnesota and killed i remember
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: all the dummies getting on the radio and saying oh
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: how horrible was this she wasn't doing anything and then
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 6: you give it 20 minutes 30 minutes give it an
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: hour and you see all the whole video come out
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: and you hear how how she's been behaving for days
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 6: and then they say well they didn't need to shoot
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: and kill her you know what ron this may sound
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: harsh but That's the only way you deal with people
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: like that. Just get rid of them. Just like we're
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: doing with these illegals.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: Get them out of the country. Governor Tim Walz's decision
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: to pardon an illegal alien convicted of child rapist so
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: he can remain in our country is disgusting. These are criminals,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: This guy entered the U.S. through California in 1994 and
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: was granted legal status by the Clinton administration between 2002
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: and 2004. when Vang is his name, was between 18
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: and 20 years old. He had sexual intercourse with the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: victim four to six times. The abuse took place at St. Paul, Minnesota,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: and the first rape took place when the victim was
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: in fourth grade.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 18: Unbelievable.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: But yet these dummies will say, you know, they'll get
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: on their soapbox and scream about how bad ICE is
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: and how horrible it is. I mean, there's just, Ron,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 6: we're living in a country that has two different universes.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: The universe with common sense, who can think for themselves,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: and the universe that has been programmed to just do
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: whatever they're told to do. It's scary. It's really scary.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: Anybody could support this stuff. And it's these far-left states,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: you know, these quote-unquote progressive states that are leading the way.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 6: You're seeing it, you know, I don't have to name
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: the states. You know where they're at. Um, it's just,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: it's scary. It's really scary.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: This guy, this guy served eight months at the county
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: correctional workhouse or a workhouse. He was discharged for probation
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: early for raping a child, a young child.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, I, I, I'm sorry, Rama, people like that.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: They need to be hung on the town square to
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 6: be made an example. They need to be put on
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 6: the firing line and, and, and broadcast that so people
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: see there are consequences.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Well, this Vang told police..
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: But if you're a Democrat, I guess that's okay.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: You support that stuff.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: The Democrats think that's okay and that ICE shouldn't be
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: in Minnesota, right?
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: Vang told police, I made a mistake, but this is
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: a minor thing. It is a cultural thing in Thailand
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: But he's not in Thailand.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: This is America. If you cannot assimilate to our laws
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: and our way of life, get the hell out of here.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: We didn't ask for you to come. Vang stated that
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: the child should be arrested also because she was as
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: much at fault.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, 10-year-old child. It's her fault she got raped, huh?
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: That's a typical thing Democrats say, though, isn't it? You know,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: just like this goofy platner up in Maine that the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 6: Democrats were dripping from the mouth supporting him. You know,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 6: the first victim that came out was a Republican. So
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: obviously they didn't believe her. They said, oh, this can't
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: be true. This is bull crap, you know. And if
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 6: it did happen, she probably deserved it and she probably
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 6: asked for it, blah, blah, blah. And then it just
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 6: snowballs one after the other after the other comes out.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 6: And you realize the guy's a serial rapist who the
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 6: Democrats are prompting up on a stool like he's the
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 6: next great thing in America.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: And it wasn't until a Democrat came forward and said, yeah,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 6: he raped me, too, that they said, oh, we can't
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: have that. Can't have that. I'm telling you, Ron, we've
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: said it a hundred times. There was someone a lot
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 6: more famous than you and I that said it. Liberalism
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: is a brain disorder. It's a brain disease. And the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: funny thing is, you know, people like you and I,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 6: we were raised as moderate Democrats. You know, we grew
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: up in a different time. And We saw the light,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 6: and we changed not only as the world changed, but
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 6: we went so far as to change political affiliation many, many, many,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 6: many years ago.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: We didn't need.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: To see 10-year-olds getting raped by illegal aliens to realize
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: that this Democrat Party was losing their minds.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: The fact that anybody would, the actions that were taken
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: in any part of the United States with this guy
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: is amazing to me. It's just unbelievable to me. The
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: whole story.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: You need your brain examined. And if you didn't gripe
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: when Joe Biden was in office, then maybe we should
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: deport some of these people, too.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: I would say in a specific situation, everybody on that
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: parole board or everybody involved in that decision should really
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: get a mental test because it's just unreal.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say it again. You've got to be
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 6: nuts to vote for a Democrat today. And yeah, I
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 6: don't care if he's your local county commissioner, your local mayor,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 6: your local prosecutor. Guess what? When that person you think
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 6: is a nice guy and smiles and shakes your hand
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 6: and talks to you, when they get in that voting booth,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 6: they vote for Joe Biden. They vote for the Kamala Harris.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 6: They vote for the Tim Walton. They vote for the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 6: Comrade Mom Dommies of America. But you really need your
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 6: head examined if you vote for a Democrat. If you
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: find that harsh, I don't apologize.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: There he is, taking a stand.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: I'll leave it at that, buddy, because I'm getting upset.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ted the Conservative. Thank you, Ted. Ted the
• 1:14:57
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• 1:15:01
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Ron. How are you doing today?
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 12: Good.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Go ahead.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 5: I got an article from Wall Street Journal today.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: It's going to affect all of us in the very
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 5: near future. The headline, frequent oil draws from the U.S.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 5: Strategic Reserve push old system to breaking point. Fracturing wells,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 5: leaky pumps, wear and tear are straining the Gulf Coast
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 5: salt caverns that make up the reserve. It's going to
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 5: cause fuel shortages pretty soon, I believe.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: So you say because of drawing down on a strategic
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: oil reserve to keep gas prices down that we're in
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: a tough spot now, right?
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's depleting it rapidly, according to Wall Street Journal.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 6: The U.S.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: Is tapping its national stock of crude with abandon. Withdrawals
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 5: are taking a toil on the strategic reserve system. The
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 5: 60 Gulf Coast salt caverns make up the stocks. They
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 5: can't be drawn down from or refilled at the rate
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 5: at which they were designed. Wow. And there's a giant
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 5: gas station. Travel Center, Bucky's.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 5: It's in Melissa, Texas. 50 square foot, 50,000 square foot building.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 5: 100 fuel pumps. Last week, they only had 60 working.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 5: 40 were shut down for fuel.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: They didn't have fuel or the pumps were broke?
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 5: I think they didn't have fuel. I think you're going
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 5: to start seeing fuel shortages in the very near future.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 5: They're drawing down on their oil reserves rapidly.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: Well, this is a mess. I mean, I was saying
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: earlier to Rich, this is a disaster. Trump, and let's
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: be realistic, you got to call him as you see him.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: The mess that Trump put this country in. As far
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: as this Iran war, it was a gigantic mistake when
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: he got involved in this. I don't know why he
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: reversed himself about getting involved in these endless wars in
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: the Middle East. He did a 180. He reversed himself
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: both on Epstein and this particular situation, both of which
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: I find very troubling. And he got us in a
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: mess that is... We're certainly not getting out of it,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: and it's just continuing to drag on. And, I mean,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: so you've got people saying the only answer is you've
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: got to bomb them more, bomb them more. I mean,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: we bombed them a lot. We bombed them to the
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: point where they're concerned about the shortage of our artillery.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: You follow me? We bombed them so much that they're saying, well,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: wait a minute. with all the weapons that we sold
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: to Ukraine and gave to Ukraine and with all of
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: this stuff that we just did there, we're at a
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: kind of a critically low level there. And now, now
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: we're right back to the bombing campaign. Well, what makes
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: you think it's going to work better this time?
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 11: I agree.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, what do they say? Insanity is
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: doing the same thing again and expecting a different result.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, I thought, I thought we bombed them really,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: really good last time.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 5: And so I mean, not prepared to be effective. They
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: keep standing against us. Yeah.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, you take a look at it, and it's like, so,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're right back to where we were, what,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: not that long ago. We're right back to it. And
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: the gas prices are right back to $ 4 a gallon.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: And Saudi Arabia attacked the Houthis, which are Iran's terror
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: group in Yemen. And Yemen's Houthis are getting ready to retaliate,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 5: and they say they're going to block the Bab el-Mangab Strait,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 5: which is even narrower than the Strait of Hormuz. It's
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 5: where the Red Sea comes in. into the Indian Ocean.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: It goes up to the Suez Canal.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, this whole situation is Trump's fault. And I
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: stand by for a minute. I'll come back to him,
• 1:19:01
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  Speaker 2: I just think we're in a mess with this situation.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: And though I voted for Trump and I'd vote for
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: him again over Biden, no question about it, or Harris.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: But he got this country into a mess. And I
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: think he was duped into this by Israel and Netanyahu.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know why he did a reversal of himself.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: I just, it's just a mess and, and it's not
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: going away anytime soon. They're not giving him an unconditional surrender.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: They're not doing, they're not doing much as, uh, They're
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: not agreeing to any of this stuff. And we bombed
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: a living hell out of them already.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: Now what?
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: We're going to bomb them some more? Now what else
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: do you want to bomb? What do you want to
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: bomb next? You want to bomb their water desalination plants?
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, where do you want to go next with
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: all of this kind of stuff?
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: That's a war crime if you do something like that.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just he got us into a mess.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: And it's like I don't know what his thinking was
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: or what Netanyahu sold him on that they would give you.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: Remember when he said, nothing but unconditional surrender will do.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, we're kind of back to
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: the Obama agreements. Oh, yeah, we'll give you this. We'll
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: give you that. You do this. You do that. And
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Kind of back to an agreement
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: where they actually somewhat would argue were better off than
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: they got under that original deal under Obama.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 5: Not as straight of our moods. It's pretty much closed again.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 5: Trafficking going in and out like it normally does. It's
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: going to cause major world problems, no doubt about it.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: Huge with chemicals and not just fertilizer, but chemicals for
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: other products, as well as oil, as well as prices
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: going up and inflation coming back, all because of the
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: decision that he made with Netanyahu.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 5: We're heading into serious times, I believe, but I thought
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 5: I'd share that article with Wall Street Journal today.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: So basically the Wall Street Journal is saying we've tapped
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: our strategic oil reserves. What?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: Dangerous levels. Low levels.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: And basically, what do they ask the question? What do
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: we do now?
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 5: Frequent oil drawdowns from U.S. strategic reserves. There are 60
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: salt capers on the Gulf Coast. They're all being drained
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 5: for really bad low levels, according to this article.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 5: So it just can't go on forever. They keep doing it.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so where do you go after that is what
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: they're saying.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: I'm with you.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 5: Wall Street.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: Keep me posted. I appreciate it. You guys are a
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: well-read guy. And it's something to be concerned about. I mean,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: at one point, gas was down like $ 3. 33 or something.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: Remember when he had it down at $ 2. 50 or whatever? Now,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, in a lot of these stations,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: it's back up to $ 4 a gallon. And now we're
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: right back to this situation. 87 degrees. Welcome to Monday,
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• 1:22:35
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• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: I just think we're in a mess with this situation.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: And though I voted for Trump and I'd vote for
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: him again over Biden, no question about it, or Harris.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: But he got this country into a mess. And I
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: think he was duped into this by Israel and Netanyahu.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know why he did a reversal of himself.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 14: And..
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: I just, it's just a mess and, and it's not
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: going away anytime soon. They're not giving him an unconditional surrender.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: They're not doing, they're not doing much as, uh, they're not, uh,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: they're not agreeing to any of this, any of this stuff.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: And we bombed a living hell out of them already.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: Now what we're going to bomb them some more. Now,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: what else do you want to bomb? You want to buy?
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: What do you want to bomb next? Uh, You want
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: to bomb their water desalination plants? I mean, where do
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: you want to go next with all of this kind
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: of stuff?
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 5: That's a war crime if you do something like that.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just he got us into a mess.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: And and it's like, I don't know what his thinking
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: was or what Netanyahu sold him on that they would
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: give you. Remember when he said nothing but unconditional surrender
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: will do that all of a sudden we're kind of
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: back to the Obama agreements. Oh, yeah, we'll give you this.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: We'll give you that. You do this. You do that.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: And that kind of stuff kind of back to an
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: agreement where they actually somewhat would argue we're better off
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: than they got into that original deal under Obama.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 5: Not as straight of our moods. It's pretty much closed again.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: Traffic ain't going in and out like it normally does. Right.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: It's going to cause major world problems. No doubt about it.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: Huge with chemicals and not just fertilizer, but chemicals for
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: other products, as well as oil, as well as prices
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: going up and inflation coming back. All because of the
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: decision that he made with Netanyahu.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: We're heading into serious times, I believe. I thought I'd
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: share that article with you. Wall Street Journal today.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: So basically the Wall Street Journal is saying we've tapped
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: our strategic oil reserves.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 5: Dangerous levels. Low levels.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: And basically, what do they ask the question? What do
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: we do now?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: Frequent oil drawdowns from U.S. strategic reserves. There's 60 salt
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: capers on the Gulf Coast. They're all being drained out.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 5: really bad mood levels, according to this article. So it
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: just can't go on forever. They keep doing it.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so where do you go after that is what
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: they're saying.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 5: Wall Street.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Keep me posted. I appreciate it. Guy's a well-read guy.
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  Speaker 2: And it's something to be concerned about. I mean, at
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: one point, gas was down like $ 3. 33 or something a gallon.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: Remember when he had it down at $ 2. 50 or whatever? Now,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, in a lot of these stations,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: it's back up to $ 4 a gallon. And now we're
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: right back to this situation. 87 degrees. Welcome to Monday,
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  Speaker 2: July 13th. Ron Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Always
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  Speaker 20: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. The memo of understanding
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 20: now officially over between the U.S.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: And Iran.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 20: The White House formalized its re-engagement in the war in Iran,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 20: notifying Congress last week, July 10th, of renewed military action.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 20: That according to a copy of the notice obtained by
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 20: ABC News. President Trump says the U.S. will reinstate the
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 20: naval blockade against Iranian ships and ports. And in a
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 20: social media post says the U.S., should charge a 20% toll.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 20: Here's ABC's Karen Travers.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 22: The president in that post does not explain how this
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 22: is going to work in terms of charging tolls or
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 22: why the U.S. has a right to do this in
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 22: an international waterway that he himself has said multiple times
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 22: should be free for commercial travel. Notably, the Iranians have
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 22: also said that they should charge for shipping that goes
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 22: through there, that they would be able to protect the
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 22: cargo ships that are going through this area and then
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 22: get paid for it. The president has pushed back very
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 22: strongly on this.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 20: Senate lawmakers returning today following the sudden death this weekend
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 20: of Senator Lindsey Graham. Preliminary findings from the medical examiner
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 20: shared by the 71-year-old's office shows Graham died from a
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 20: tear in his aorta stemming from heart disease. Longtime colleague
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 20: Chuck Grassley on the floor.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: Senator Graham deeply loved his country.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: He was a bold leader.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 20: Graham's desk in the Senate now draped in a black
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 20: shroud with a vase of white flowers on top. In Biddeford, Maine, today,
• 1:27:15
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• 1:27:19
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  Speaker 23: We know very little. All sources have told us is
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• 1:27:29
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• 1:27:33
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• 1:27:36
  Speaker 23: responded to multiple requests for comments on this. Maine official
• 1:27:40
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• 1:27:42
  Speaker 23: a person was killed there.
• 1:27:44
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  Speaker 20: star for his roles in The Hunt for Red October,
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  Speaker 5: It's a dinosaur.
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  Speaker 2: And Iran.
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  Speaker 20: The White House formalized its re-engagement in the war in Iran,
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  Speaker 20: notifying Congress last week, July 10th, of renewed military action.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 20: That according to a copy of the notice obtained by
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 20: ABC News. President Trump says the U.S. will reinstate the
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 20: naval blockade against Iranian ships and ports. And in a
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 20: social media post says the U.S. should charge a 20
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 20: percent toll. Here's ABC's Karen Travers.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 22: The president in that post does not explain how this
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 22: is going to work in terms of charging tolls or
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 22: why the U.S. has a right to do this in
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 22: an international waterway that he himself has said multiple times
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 22: should be free for commercial travel. Notably, the Iranians have
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 22: also said that they should charge for shipping that.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 20: Goes through there, that they would be.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 22: Able to protect the cargo ships that are going through
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 22: this area and then get paid for it. The president
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 22: has pushed back very strongly on this.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 20: Senate lawmakers returning today following the sudden death this weekend
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 20: of Senator Lindsey Graham. Preliminary findings from the medical examiner
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 20: shared by the 71-year-old's office shows Graham died from a
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 20: tear in his aorta stemming from heart disease. Longtime colleague
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 20: Chuck Grassley on the floor.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: Senator Graham deeply loved his country.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: He was a bold leader.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 20: Graham's desk in the Senate now draped in a black
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 20: shroud with a vase of white flowers on top. In Biddeford, Maine, today,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 20: north of Kennebunkport, according to multiple sources, federal immigration authorities
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 20: were involved in a fatal shooting. ABC's Olivia Rubin has details.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 23: We know very little. All sources have told us is
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 23: that federal immigration officials were involved in a shooting and
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 23: describing it as sort of dynamic and still unfolding. Specifically,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 23: the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have not
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 23: responded to multiple requests for comments on this. Maine official
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 23: did say that it was involved with ICE and that
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 23: a person... was killed there.
• 1:32:25
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• 1:32:28
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• 1:33:43
  Speaker 20: a possible solution, requiring more playtime at school.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 26: Quite literally, by requiring 40 minutes of recess time compared
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 26: to the previous 20. Norman, Oklahoma, Assistant School Superintendent Holly
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 26: McKinney has had to get creative.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 27: We've taken parts of those times and integrated literacy into it,
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  Speaker 27: which freed up a few minutes for us to be
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 27: able to do that second recess.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 26: Other Oklahoma districts have added hours to the school day
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 26: or days to the academic calendar. State lawmakers in Ohio
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 26: and New York are considering similar mandates.
• 1:34:11
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• 1:34:12
  Speaker 20: Fans are remembering actor Sam Neill following his death. His
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 20: family did not state the cause, but earlier this year,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 20: Neill revealed... He was cancer-free after undergoing groundbreaking treatment following
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 20: a years-long battle with blood cancer. Neil became a worldwide
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 20: star for his roles in The Hunt for Red October,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 20: The Piano, and Jurassic Park.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: To millions, he was Dr. Alan Grant.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 5: It's... It's a dinosaur.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 28: The reluctant hero of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, propelling him
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 28: to superstardom, which he talked about right here on Good
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  Speaker 28: Morning America in 1993.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 29: It's kind of a monster, isn't it? People seem to
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 29: be very nice to me. That's kind of good. And
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 29: people come and make dinosaur noises to me when I'm
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 29: standing in the checkout line.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 20: Sam Neill was 78. Michelle Franzen, ABC News.
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• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: a Monday afternoon. July 13th already. Almost the middle of July.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: It's hot.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: It's humid. It's 88 degrees. Ron Verb from the Kingdom
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: of Mahoning. And you're on the air.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 5: Hi, Ron.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: JJ the Liberal.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: How are you today?
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: Say again.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: How are you today?
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: I am well, sir. Thank you for asking. It's Monday.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Monday.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 5: How was your weekend?
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 4: Good?
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was. I mean, it's hard to have a
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: bad weekend. I mean, it's the weekends.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 3: True.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, eh.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 8: True.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: You sound tired. You sound frustrated. You sound on edge,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: No, no. I'm just waiting at the... I had to
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 3: just check in at the doctor's office because I'm getting...
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 3: I'm getting my head checked. Oh, good. I was thinking,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: you know, my kidneys and everything.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: I just get my head checked. So I'm just waiting for..
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. Because they say liberalism is a mental disease. Dr.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: Savage used to say that. Do you want to know
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: if you got it?
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know I have it. I just want
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 3: to see..
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: How severe?
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't know if my insurance would cover insanity, so
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 3: I had to do some inquests on it. So they'll
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 3: cover a little bit of it. The electroshock, they only
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: cover like 10% of it or 15% of it.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: So the lobotomy, you don't know if it's covered and
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: the electric shock portions of it will be covered?
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 3: Well, the electric shock, they'll cover... I actually think they'll cover...
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: I have to pay 20% or 20% of the electric shock.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: If I get a lobotomy, I really won't know. So basically,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: I won't know with the price because I won't be...
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: I'll be kind of disconnected from my... from my common
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 3: sense part of my brain, which is already on its
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 3: last legs right now. But, yeah, I'm just sitting in
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: the waiting room, and I'm looking around.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 5: And there's one guy over there that's drooling, and.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 3: Another person over there is talking to themselves.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 5: So I thought that..
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: So I thought, you know, I'll just kind of blend
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 3: in here, you know. That was one of the first
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: things they asked me. They said, do you have your
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: insurance card? And I said, here's my insurance card. And
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 3: then they no longer see my driver's license. And then
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 3: they asked me if I was a Democrat. And, you know,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 3: I kind of, I was a little hee-hawing around about it.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 5: But I said, yeah.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 3: And they said, well, you know, that might, the adjustment
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: might take longer.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: Just might take longer being a Democrat.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 3: Being a Democrat, there's a certain, they have a certain
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 3: policy that, you know, that they say that I'm a Democrat.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 3: They put you in like, they consider you on the dole,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 3: you know, so they kind of have to, they'll work
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 3: with me. But they all kind of gave me like
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 3: a little dirty look, you know, that's why.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: Do you think that was why? Because you mentioned that
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: one guy was drooling. The other guy was talking to himself.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: I heard while you were sitting there, you pooped your pants.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't poop my pants. No, that's not me. No,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: there's a couple of men. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 3: insulting this guy over here because now he's looking like
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: he might want to hurt me. So I'm going to
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: just watch.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: What I say right now.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: So we've got a drooler.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: We've got a– when he's talking to himself. And this
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 3: other one, I don't know if he's putting his hands
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 3: on his pants or not. I'm not too sure.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 5: So I've got to watch myself around here, though.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 3: But I kind of blend right in.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I think so. Ted, the conservatives should be happy
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: to know that you're actually at the mental institution getting
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: examined as we speak. Now, when all of this electric
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: shock therapy is done, do they anticipate that you will
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: be supporting the Republican Party then at that point in time?
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 3: Well, basically, once I get the electroshock, it's part of the,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: you know, the symptoms of after the electroshock is I
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: become more of a Trumpster and I'll be voting Republican
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: from this point on. And if I don't, if I don't,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: then I think it kind of gives me, I think
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 3: I actually, if I vote, if I pull it, or
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 3: I start to write in a Democrat vote... Then I
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 3: think I actually pee myself. I'm not too sure. That's
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: part of the aftershock thing there. So it basically gives
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: me an opportunity to make sure that I'm.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 14: Not going to do the wrong thing.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: But I told him, you know, as long as I
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: don't poop myself, peeing myself, that's not a problem. But
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: the pooping, I would prefer them not to do that.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: Because I don't want to be doing that right in
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: the middle of, you know, voting right there. That would
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: be kind of mean, sad enough. But, yeah, that's a contingency,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: a little plan there that they have in place there
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: that if I go to Mark B. anywhere, then I
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: automatically turn to Twitch and I pee myself. So I'm
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 3: hoping that'll work for me right now.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure Ted's going to be very proud
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: of the new J.J., the conservative.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it has kind of a nice ring to it,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: I think. But you'll have to give me something, because
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: he's technically conservative. I can't be J.J. the conservative.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 8: J.J.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: The right-winger or something. Now, when people look at you,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: will you have almost just a blank stare as you
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: look forward after all of this therapy?
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 3: Well, I've always had a blank stare. I've always had
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 3: a kind of a distant, you know, I kind of don't,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 3: my eyes are kind of not really focusing on who's
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 3: talking to me. But this one will be, I don't
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 3: be able to see. I think part of drooling is
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 3: part of it that I have to consider. I think
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: that guy that was drooling over here that next to me,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 3: I think he's already gone through a couple of sessions
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 3: of electroshock. So I have that to look forward to. So, uh, but, uh,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know if my wife's going to like it
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: too much. Cause she's, uh, she doesn't like me in
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 3: the first place right now. So you have to worry
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: about that. So, but, um, but other than that, you know,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 3: I thought you guys would get it. You know, you
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: guys would be very, very.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 5: Happy with that.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: That I kind of just said, you know, I might
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 3: as well get everything checked to get my heart checked,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: get my kidneys checked. And now I'll get the noggin check.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 3: And so, uh, so, uh, hopefully it'll work out and, uh, So,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 3: you know, I knew that I was going to go
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: Republican as if actually I had to have something physically
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: done to me, you know, that that will change my.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 3: So you guys have to look forward to that. I'm
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 3: a changed man.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: I can hardly wait for the outcome. I'm really excited
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 3: So am I. I don't know if I'll be losing
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 3: any hair or anything like a chemo, which that's really
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: not really all that funny. But I do know that
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: my wife, she was emphasizing that she would like.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: Me to do that.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: Either that or divorce. So it's one of the two.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: After the therapy, instead of JJ the liberal, you might
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: be JJ the Trumpster.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: You never know. Actually, I'm starting to become very fond
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: of the color red. So, you know, actually, you know,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: I was wondering why I put on some red underwear today.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's kind of leaning. Now I'll
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 3: be driving around. I have to purchase a new car
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: and get a red car. And, you know, so it's
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: a good thing.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: Well, let me know tomorrow, please, on how it's working
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: for you, okay?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if I can still speak English, I'll be more
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 3: than happy to give you a call and let you
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: know how it worked. But other than that, I just
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 3: got to watch that I, afterwards, that I don't say
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 3: anything or do anything on the left part, leftist side,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 3: because then I don't want to be being myself right
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: in public. So I got to keep an eye on that.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 5: So anyway, I thought you'd get a... Thank you.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Have a good therapy.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 5: It's worked.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 12: All that effort worked, Ron.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 14: There you go.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: J.J. the liberal at therapy, where he's getting some extensive reprogramming.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: So he might, instead of J.J. the liberal, he might
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: end up being J.J. the Trumpster. That is really something.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 13: How you doing, Ron?
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 30: Good.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 13: You'll either end up like John Fetterman or Jack Nicholson
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 13: in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: Wasn't that a great movie with Jack Nicholson?
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 13: He ended up as a vegetable in the end, but
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 13: it was a great movie. And then Fetterman was cured.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 13: I mean, they turned him around, but... Evidently, the marijuana's
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 13: not working, I guess, huh, for J.J.? I know.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: That was one of his best bits I think he's
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: ever done. But anyway, go ahead.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I was going to say, you're cutting your hours
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 13: to three hours?
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, not every night, because they've got Rockport Wealth
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: on Mondays, and on Thursdays they've got the John Arnold
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: Show until 7.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 13: Yeah, with the two shows.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: That's about right.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 13: That's what Dan Ryan, he was three hours. Rivers was
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 13: three hours.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 13: And you're doing the big shows. And then when you
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 13: do decide to retire, you can become a translator. For
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 13: YSU and all of the public schools, you can translate
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 13: cursive writing for the kids.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that it?
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 13: So they can understand, you know, it's a foreign language
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 13: right now, anyone under 20 years old.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: That they don't know how to cursive write.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 13: They don't know how to read cursive write.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's almost a sin, isn't it?
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 13: It takes them hours to decipher a letter or anything written,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 13: which is, it's a sin. That's our school system, though.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 5: That's where we're at.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 13: And getting back to, just want to clarify, we've won
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 13: the war over in the Iran war. Trump said we
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 13: sunk their Navy, defeated the Army. And a year ago,
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 13: when we sent the stealth bombers over, we completely eliminated
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 13: their nuclear threat, which confused me as to why we
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 13: went to war to remove the nuclear threat when we
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 13: got rid of it last year. But, yeah, Trump, I
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 13: took some flack at a family get-together. Some out-of-town people
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 13: can pick up your radio station, believe it or not,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 13: and they were criticizing me for knocking Trump.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: Well, see, I don't get people with that because when
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: we say how could Democrats support Joe Biden when he
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: didn't have any press conferences, he didn't have cabinet meetings,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: he clearly wasn't functioning. So are people saying that, oh,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: you should support Trump no matter what he does, what
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: decision he makes, you should check your brain at the door?
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: I'm here to tell you you shouldn't do that with
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: any politician. I don't care if they're a Republican, Democrat.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: I don't care if they're president or local. You should
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: never stop thinking. I know few people I agree with 100%,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: and anybody who gives you a hard time on it
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: is foolish. I'll be the first guy to sit here
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: and say, Trump got us into this mess, and look
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: how long it's going on, and right now the exit
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: ramp doesn't seem to exist. I mean, we're right back
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: to $ 4 gas. Inflation is going to come back. I mean,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: what's your assessment?
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 13: Well, if you run down the list, starting with COVID,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 13: we never got the true story on COVID. Where it originated,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 13: how many people it killed, how many people the vaccine injured.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 13: That never came out because that was Trump's program, Operation
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 13: Warp Speed. That's one of his achievements as far as
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 13: he's concerned, which I'm very disappointed that they're still pushing
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 13: this mRNA technology forward. and vaccines, and it doesn't make
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 13: any sense. And then he's never taken care of the
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 13: election fraud problem, and then we're coming up on the
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 13: midterms again. And then the no wars, that's what he
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 13: ran on, and what did he do? He did a 180,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 13: like you said. He did a 180 on Epstein and
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 13: the wars, and then to top it all off, inflation.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 13: That's his biggest crime, what's going on in the country
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 13: because of... The cost of inflation, what it's costing these
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 13: young families and trying to buy homes and trying to
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 13: raise a family and survive. I watched two guys over
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 13: the weekend. I don't know if you watch Face the
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 13: Nation beat the press on Sunday morning.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: I do not watch it, but go ahead.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 13: They had Rahm Emanuel on, you know, the ex-mayor from Chicago.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 13: And he was Obama's chief of staff. I mean, the guy...
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 13: was amazing. He sounded like JFK, a moderate Democrat. He
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 13: made a lot of sense, and he agreed with J.D.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 13: Vance on a lot of things. And one of his
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 13: big points was, with this war, you can't kill your
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 13: way out of this war. And that's the Jewish philosophy,
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 13: kill as many people as you can, and that's not
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 13: going to work. You see what happened in Gaza and
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 13: what's going on in Lebanon. But my assessment, we've lost
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 13: the war in Iran. We'll never beat them. It's going
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 13: to be another Vietnam. I don't know how he's ever
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 13: going to get out. If you know the geography of Iran,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 13: it's extremely mountainous. in the city you're gonna you're gonna
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 13: happen multiple nukes to win that war you're gonna have
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 13: to kill in level the whole country which we would
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 13: never do so were they uh... i don't know not
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 13: not looking good and then the uh... the other show
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 13: i think it was uh... face the nation they had
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 13: row connor the congressman from california He was in the
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 13: West Bank interviewing Palestinians, and he was harassed by the
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 13: Israeli settlers, and the IDF detained him for over 90 minutes.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 13: He told them he was a congressman from America, and
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 13: they knew he was coming, and they still had the
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 13: arrogance to mistreat him. I don't agree with a lot
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 13: of his philosophy, but you don't. you don't read a
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 13: congressman that way uh... that especially since we're paying for
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 13: your military your war your economy uh... that was that
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 13: was bad on the israelis parts but that's another story.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: Minutes a mess it is a mess city created ends uh...
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: i don't know that there's an easy way out of it.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 13: Do you i don't know if it is that they
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 13: did a lot of people A lot of companies try
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 13: to base their planning on, you know, is the war over?
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 13: Is it not over? We signed an agreement. And you
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 13: look at the market, you've got to take that into
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 13: consideration when you make your strategic moves. You know, what's tomorrow?
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 13: What's tomorrow going to be? Is it oil going back
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 13: to 120? For $ 150?
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Stand by. Stand by. Hang on. I'll
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: come back to him. More calls straight ahead. Ron Verb,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: NewsRadio 570 WKBN from the Kingdom of Mahoning here tonight
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: till 6th and Rockport Wealth.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 10: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: Back to you on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Welcome. 406 here
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: on a Monday afternoon, July 13th already. Almost the middle
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: of July.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: It's hot.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: It's humid. It's 88 degrees. Ron Verb from the Kingdom
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: of Mahoning, and you're on the air.
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 19: Hi, Ron.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 5: J.J.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: The Liberal.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 3: How are you today?
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: Say again?
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: How are you today?
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: I am well, sir. Thank you for asking. It's Monday.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Monday.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 5: How was your weekend?
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 6: Good?
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to have a bad weekend. I mean,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 2: it's the weekends.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 4: True.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, hey.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 4: True.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: You sound tired. You sound frustrated. You sound on edge,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 3: No, no. I'm just waiting at the... I had to
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: just check in at the doctor's office because... I'm getting
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 3: my head checked.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, good.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 3: I was thinking, you know, my kidneys and everything. I
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 3: just get my head checked. So I'm just waiting for..
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. Because they say liberalism is a mental disease. Dr.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: Savage used to say that. Do you want to know
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: if you got it?
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know I have it.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: How severe?
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 3: I didn't know if my insurance would cover insanity, so
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 3: I had to do some inquests on it. So they'll
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 3: cover a little bit of it. The electroshock, they will
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 3: only cover like 10% of it or 15% of it.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 2: So the lobotomy, you don't know if it's covered and
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: the electric shock portions of it will be covered?
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 3: Well, the electric shock, they'll cover– I actually think they'll cover–
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 3: I have to pay 20% or 20% of the electric shock.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 5: If I get a lobotomy, I really won't know.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 3: So basically I won't know with the price because I
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 3: won't be– I'll be kind of disconnected from my– from
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 3: my common sense part of my brain, which is already
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 3: on its last legs right now. But, yeah, I'm just
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 3: waiting in the waiting room, and I'm looking around, and
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 3: there's one guy over there that's drooling, and another person
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 3: over there is talking to themselves. So I thought that...
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 3: So I thought, you know, I'll just kind of blend
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 3: in here, you know. That was one of the first
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 3: things they asked me. They said, do you have your
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 3: insurance card? And I said, here's my insurance card. And
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: then they wanted to see my driver's license. And then
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 3: they asked me if I was a Democrat. And, you know,
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 3: I kind of, I was a little hee-hawing around about it.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 3: But I said, yeah. And they said, well, you know,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 3: the adjustment.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 2: Might take longer. Just might take longer being a Democrat.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 3: Being a Democrat, there's a certain, they have a certain
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 3: policy that, you know, that they say that I'm a Democrat.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 3: They put you in like, they consider you on the dole,
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 3: you know, so they kind of have to work with me.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 3: But they all kind of gave me like a little
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 3: dirty look, you know.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: Do you think that was why? Because you mentioned that
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: one guy was drooling. the other guy, the other guy
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: was talking to himself. I heard while you were sitting there,
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 2: you pooped your pants.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't poop my pants, but no, that's
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 3: not me. No, but I know there's a, there's a couple,
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 3: you know, a couple of men. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 3: you know, insulting this guy over here. Cause he, now
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 3: he's looking like he might want to hurt me. So
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 3: I'm going to, I'm going to just watch what I.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: Say right now.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 5: But, uh, So we got a drooler.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 3: We got a, uh, uh, when it's talking to himself
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 3: and this other one, I don't know if he's putting
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 3: his hands on his pants or not. I'm not too sure.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 3: So I got to watch myself around here though.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 5: But, uh, but I kind of blend right in, you know, it's, uh, well,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 5: I think so.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: Ted, the conservative should be happy to know that you're
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: actually at the mental institution getting, uh, getting examined as
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 2: we speak. Now, when all of this electric shock therapy
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 2: is done, do they anticipate that you will be supporting
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: the Republican party then at that point in time?
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 3: Well, basically, once I get the electroshock, it's part of the,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 3: you know, the symptoms of after the electroshock is I
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 3: become more of a Trumpster and I'll be voting Republican
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 3: from this point on. And if I don't, if I don't,
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 3: then I think it kind of gives me I think
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 3: I actually if I vote If I pull it or
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 3: I start to write in a Democrat vote, then I
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 3: think I actually pee myself. I'm not too sure. I
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 3: think that's part of the aftershock thing there. So it
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 3: basically gives me an opportunity to make sure that I'm
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 3: not going to do the wrong thing. So I told him,
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 3: you know, as long as I don't poop myself, peeing myself,
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 3: that's not a problem. But if pooping, I would prefer
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 3: them not to do that. Because I don't want to
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 3: be doing that right in the middle of, you know,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 3: voting right there. That would be kind of sad enough. But, yeah,
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 3: that's a contingency, a little plan there that they have
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 3: in place there that if I go to Mark B. anywhere,
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 3: then I automatically turn to Twitch and I pee myself.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that'll work for me right now.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure Ted's going to be very proud
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 2: of the new J.J., the conservative.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that has kind of a nice ring to it,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, but you'll have to give me
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 3: something because he's conservative. I can't be J.J. the conservative.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 2: You're right. J.J., the right winger or something. Now, when
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: people look at you, will you have like just like
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: almost like just a blank stare as you look forward
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 2: after all of this therapy?
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I've always had a blank stare. I've always had
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 3: a kind of a distant, you know, I kind of don't,
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 3: my eyes are kind of not really focusing on who's
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 3: talking to me. But this one will be, I don't
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 3: be able to see. I think part of drooling is
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 3: part of it that I have to consider. I think
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 3: that guy that was drooling over here that's next to me,
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 3: I think he's already gone through a couple sessions of electroshock.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 3: So that I have looked, I have that to look
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 3: forward to. So I I don't know if my wife's
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 3: going to like it too much because she doesn't like
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 3: me in the first place right now. So I have
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 3: to worry about that. But other than that, I thought
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 3: you guys would be very happy with that, that I
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 3: kind of said, you know, I might as well get
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 3: everything checked. I get my heart checked, get my kidneys checked,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 3: and now I'll get the noggin checked. So hopefully it'll
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 3: work out. So, you know, I knew that I was
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 3: going to go Republican as if actually I had to
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 3: have something physically done to me, you know, that that
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 3: will change my. So you guys have to look forward
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 3: to that. I'm a changed man.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: I can hardly wait for the outcome. I'm really excited
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so am I. I don't know if I'll be
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 3: losing any hair or anything like a chemo, which that's
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 3: really not really all that funny. But I do know
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 3: that my wife, she was emphasizing that she would like.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 2: Me to do that. So you will... Either that or divorce.
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 3: So it's one of the two.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: After the therapy, instead of J.J. the liberal, you might
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: be J.J. the Trumpster.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 12: You never know.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 3: Actually, I'm starting to be... very fond of the color red. So,
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 3: you know, actually, you know, I was wondering why I
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 3: put on some red underwear today. I don't know if
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 3: it's kind of leaning. Now I'll be driving around. I
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 3: have to purchase a new car and get a red car. And,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 3: you know, so it's a good thing.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 2: Well, let me know tomorrow, please, on how it's working
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 2: for you, okay?
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 4: I mean..
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if I can still speak English, I'll be more
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 3: than happy to give you a call and let you
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 3: know how it worked. But other than that, I just
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 3: got to watch afterwards that I don't say anything or
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 3: do anything on the left part, leftist. Right.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 5: Because then I don't want.
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 3: To be peeing myself right in public. So I got
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 3: to keep an eye on that. But anyway, I thought
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 3: you'd get a..
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Have a good therapy.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 3: All that effort worked, Ron.
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: JJ the liberal at therapy where he's getting some extensive reprogramming.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 2: So he might, instead of J.J. the liberal, he might
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 2: end up being J.J. the Trumpster. That is really something.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 13: How you doing, Ron?
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 13: You'll either end up like John Fetterman or Jack Nicholson
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 13: in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 2: Wasn't that a great movie with Jack Nicholson?
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 13: He ended up as a vegetable in the end, but
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 13: it was a great movie. And then Fetterman was cured.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 13: I mean, they turned him around, but... Evidently, the marijuana's
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 13: not working, I guess, huh, for J.J.? I know.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 2: That was one of his best bits I think he's
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 2: ever done. But anyway, go ahead.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I was going to say, you're cutting your hours
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 13: to three hours?
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 2: Well, not every night, because they've got Rockport Wealth on Mondays,
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: and on Thursdays they've got the John Arnold Show until 7.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with the two shows.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 13: That's what Dan Ryan, he was three hours. Rivers was
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 13: three hours.
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 5: Right, right.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 13: And you're doing the big shows. And then when you
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 13: do decide to retire, you can become a translator. For
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 13: YSU and all of the public schools, you can translate
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 13: cursive writing for the kids.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that it?
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 13: So they can understand, you know, it's a foreign language
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 13: right now, anyone under 20 years old.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 2: That they don't know how to cursive write.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 13: They don't know how to read cursive writing.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's almost a sin, isn't it?
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 13: It takes them hours to decipher a letter or anything written,
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 13: which is a sin. That's our school system, though. That's
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 13: where we're at. And getting back to, I just want
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 13: to clarify, we've won the war over in the Iran war.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 13: Trump said we sunk their Navy, defeated the Army. And
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 13: a year ago, when we sent the stealth bombers over,
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 13: we completely eliminated their nuclear threat, which confused me as
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 13: to why we went to war to remove the nuclear
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 13: threat when we got rid of it last year. But yeah, Trump,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 13: I took some flack at a family get-together. Some out-of-town
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 13: people can pick up your radio station, believe it or not,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 13: and they were criticizing me for knocking Trump.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: Well, see, I.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 2: Don't get people with that because when we say how
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: could Democrats support Joe Biden when he didn't have any
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 2: press conferences, he didn't have cabinet meetings, he clearly wasn't functioning.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 2: So are people saying that, oh, you should support Trump
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 2: no matter what he does, what decision he makes, you
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: should check your brain at the door? I'm here to
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 2: tell you you shouldn't do that with any politician. I
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: don't care if they're a Republican, Democrat, Republican. I don't
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 2: care if they're president or local. You should never stop thinking.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 2: I know few people I agree with 100%, and anybody
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 2: who gives you a hard time on it is foolish.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: I'll be the first guy to sit here and say,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 2: Trump got us into this mess, and look how long
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 2: it's going on, and right now the exit ramp doesn't
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: seem to exist. I mean, we're right back to $ 4 gas.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: Inflation is going to come back. I mean, what's your assessment?
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 13: Well, if you run down the list, starting with COVID-19,
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 13: We never got the true story on COVID, where it originated,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 13: how many people it killed, how many people the vaccine injured.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 13: That never came out because that was Trump's program, Operation
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 13: Warp Speed. That's one of his achievements as far as
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 13: he's concerned, which I'm very disappointed that they're still pushing
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 13: this mRNA technology and vaccines. And it doesn't make any sense.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 13: And then he's never... taking care of the election fraud problem,
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 13: and then we're coming up on the midterms again. And
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 13: then the no wars, that's what he ran on, and
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 13: what did he do? He did a 180, like you said.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 13: He did a 180 on Epstein and the wars, and
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 13: then to top it all off, inflation. That's his biggest crime,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 13: what's going on in the country because of... The cost
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 13: of inflation, what it's costing these young families and trying
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 13: to buy homes and trying to raise a family and survive.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 13: I watched two guys over the weekend. I don't know
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 13: if you watch Face the Nation beat the press on
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 13: Sunday morning.
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 2: I do not watch it, but go ahead.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 13: They had Rahm Emanuel on, you know, the ex-mayor from Chicago.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 13: And he was Obama's chief of staff. I mean, the guy...
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 13: was amazing he sounded like jfk a moderate our democrat
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 13: made he made a lot of sense and he agreed
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 13: with uh... jd van for a lot of things in
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 13: one of his big points was with this war we
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 13: can't kill you can't kill your way out of this
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 13: war and that's that's the jewish philosophy kill as many
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 13: people as you can and that's not going to work
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 13: you see what happened in gaza and what's going on
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 13: in lebanon but uh... My assessment, we've lost the war
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 13: in Iran. We'll never beat them. It's going to be
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 13: another Vietnam. I don't know how he's ever going to
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 13: get out. If you know the geography of Iran, it's
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 13: extremely mountainous in the cities. You're going to have multiple
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 13: nukes to win that war. You're going to have to
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 13: kill and level the whole country, which we would never do.
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 13: So we're at a, I don't know, not looking good.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 13: And then the other show, I think it was Face
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 13: the Nation, they had Ro Khanna, the congressman from California.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 13: He was in the West Bank interviewing Palestinians, and he
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 13: was harassed by the Israeli settlers, and the IDF detained
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 13: him for over 90 minutes. He told them he was
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 13: a congressman from America, and they knew he was coming,
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 13: and they still had the arrogance to mistreat him. I
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 13: don't agree with a lot of his philosophy, but you
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 13: don't treat a congressman that way, especially since we're paying
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 13: for your military, your war, your economy. That was bad
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 13: on the Israelis' parts, but that's another story.
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a mess. It is a mess that
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 2: he created. And I don't know that there's an easy
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 2: way out of it. Do you?
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 13: No, there isn't. And the sad thing is a lot
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 13: of people, a lot of companies try to base their
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 13: planning on, you know, is the war over? Is it
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 13: not over? We signed an agreement. And you look at
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 13: the market, you've got to take that into consideration when
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 13: you make your strategic moves. You know, what's tomorrow? What's
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 13: tomorrow going to be? Is it oil going back to
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 13: $ 120 or $ 150? I don't know.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 2: Stand by. Stand by.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 14: Hang on.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 2: I'll come back to him. More calls straight ahead. Ron Verb,
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 2: NewsRadio 570 WKBN from the Kingdom of Mahoning here tonight
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 2: until 6, then Rockport Wealth.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 10: Ron, from checking in with Youngstown's News, Weather, and Talk Station,
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 10: 570 WKBN.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 2: It's 424 on a Monday afternoon, July 13th. It's 88 degrees.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 2: It's a hot, humid one out there. And so there
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 2: is a big mess that is going on now. When
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 2: you think it, you see it happen. The stock market's up.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: The stock market's down. Oil prices are up. Oil prices
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 2: are down. The ceasefire's on. It's off. I mean, this
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 2: scenario's been going on for months now. And it continues
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 2: to go on. Where do you see this heading?
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 13: I see it becoming another Vietnam. I mean, there is
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 13: no exit strategy. And like I said, I think we've
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 13: lost the war. I mean, they're holding all the cards.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 13: They have the straight. There's no way we can open it.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 13: We can't even get our Navy close to it without
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 13: putting it in harm's way. But that's not what we
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 13: were told by the Israeli intelligence. But and then like
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 13: i said again you could ask the sheet to i
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 13: mean it's it comes down to are we going to
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 13: do come or we get it there are we going
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 13: to do what we did in world war two and
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 13: kill civilian populations to end the war we did in
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 13: japan you're going to have to.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 2: I can't see that happening no.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 13: Exactly so in other words it's going to be like
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 13: another vietnam and it's going to go on for the
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 13: next who knows how many years And then you're getting
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 13: back to that 10-year-old video that was abducted. What state
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 13: was that in?
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 2: Minnesota.
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 6: Minnesota.
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 13: And I saw that on X, and that's not an
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 13: isolated incident. If you put every incident that goes on
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 13: with these illegals that, you know, the people try to
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 13: protect them and keep... them in the country, that'll never
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 13: be on the national news tonight. You know what they're
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 13: going to show on CBS, NBC? They'll show that out-of-control
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 13: bison flipping the grandpa up in the air 10 feet.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 13: But you'll never see a little girl being abducted on
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 13: the late-night news.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 2: Listen to this for a minute. Millions of Americans are
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: borrowing money or draining their savings to buy groceries with
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 2: more than a quarter of working-age adults relying on credit
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 2: cards to buy groceries. About 20% of working-age adults tapped
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 2: long-term savings not intended for everyday expenses to pay for
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 2: groceries in the last 12 months. Grocery prices have jumped 32%
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 2: over the past five years, making food affordability a top
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 2: concern for many Americans. More adults are using credit cards
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 2: to pay for groceries, but failing to make the minimum
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 2: payments to avoid interest charges, with the share rising by
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 2: 1.6 percentage points since 2023. About 12% of low- and
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 2: middle-income adults who use credit cards to pay for groceries
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: missed a minimum payment last year, triple the rate for
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: higher-income consumers. That's not good.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 5: No, it's not.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 13: The working poor are really getting hammered and the middle-income people.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 13: It's great if you have money. If you're rich, you
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 13: can make a lot of money in this environment. If
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 13: you're a middle-income or a working poor family, you're getting squeezed.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 13: And if you're a Somalian, Haitian, or Muslim in Minnesota,
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 13: things are great for you. The U.S. will take care
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 13: of you. You don't have to worry about groceries, rent,
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 13: or anything.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you, the gap is inflation
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 2: has really affected this economy. It's horrible what it's done
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 2: to this economy. And the gap is growing too wide
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 2: between the haves and the have-nots, between the rich and
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 2: the middle class and the lower classes. The gap is
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 2: getting too wide. I mean, this needs to be paid
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: attention to. I mean, it just needs to be. paid
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 2: attention to when you read this kind of stuff, when
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 2: people are charging groceries and not making at least a
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 2: minimum payment on their credit card.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 13: Do you ever watch the Saturday Night Live skits on Trump?
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: Not really, no.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 13: Well, call them up on YouTube. You don't have to
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 13: watch it live. You can call them up on YouTube.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 13: They do Trump, Haysec, all of his cabinet members. And,
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 13: you know, it's getting to be to the point now
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 13: where it's actually, yeah, that is happening.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the reality. As much as I can
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 2: criticize Trump, the Democrats aren't any better. I mean, by
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 2: any stretch. I mean, I don't want to confuse anybody.
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 2: I can criticize Trump on some of the things he did,
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 2: but I'm glad he's president, not Kamala Harris. I'm glad
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 2: he's president, not Joe Biden. And I certainly wouldn't want
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom as my president. I mean, you've got to
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 2: dial back and remember a lot of this inflation happened
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 2: as a result of Joe Biden's policies and the Democrat policies. Now,
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 2: Trump had it going in the right direction until he
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 2: got involved with Israel, Netanyahu, and this war. If he
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have fallen for that, for whatever reason he was
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 2: duped into it, that's how we got in this situation.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 2: Would you give me an aye-aye?
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 13: I don't think it was Joe Biden. I think it
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 13: was the deep state or Obama pulling the strings.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 2: Could be. Appreciate your call. Thank you.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 10: News, weather and talk station 570 WKBN.
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 2: It's 424 on a Monday afternoon, July 13th. It's 88 degrees.
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 2: It's a hot, humid one out there. And so there
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 2: is a big mess that that is going on now.
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 5: That's.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 2: When you think you see it happen, the stock market's up,
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 2: the stock market's down, oil prices are up, oil prices
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 2: are down, the ceasefire's on, it's off. I mean, this
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 2: scenario's been going on for months now, and it continues
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 2: to go on. Where do you see this heading?
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 13: I see it becoming another Vietnam. I mean, there is
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 13: no exit strategy. And like I said, I think we've
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 13: lost the war. I mean, they're holding all the cards.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 13: They have the straight. There's no way we can open it.
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 13: We can't even get our Navy close to it without
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 13: putting it in harm's way. But that's not what we
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 13: were told by the Israeli intelligence. And then, like I said,
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 13: and you could ask Xi, too, I mean, it comes
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 13: down to are we going to nuke them? Are we
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 13: going to do what we did in World War II
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 13: and kill civilian populations to end the war like we
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 13: did in Japan? You're going to have to.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 2: I can't see that happening.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 13: No, exactly. So in other words, it's going to be
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 13: like another Vietnam, and it's going to go on for
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 13: the next who knows how many years. And then you're
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 13: getting back to that 10-year-old video that was abducted. What
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 13: state was that in?
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 2: Minnesota.
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 6: Minnesota.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 13: And I saw that on X, and that's not an
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 13: isolated incident. If you put every... incident that goes on
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 13: with these illegals that, you know, the people try to
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 13: protect them and keep them in the country. And that'll
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 13: never be on the national news tonight. You know what
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 13: they're going to show on CBS, NBC? They'll show that
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 13: out-of-control bison flipping the grandpa up in the air 10 feet.
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 13: But you'll never see a little girl being abducted on
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 13: the late-night news.
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 2: Listen to this for a minute. Millions of Americans are
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: borrowing money or draining their savings to buy groceries with
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 2: more than a quarter of working-age adults relying on credit
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: card debt. credit cards to buy groceries. About 20% of
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 2: working-age adults tapped long-term savings not intended for everyday expenses
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 2: to pay for groceries in the last 12 months. Grocery
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 2: prices have jumped 32% over the past five years, making
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 2: food affordability a top concern for many Americans. More adults
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 2: are using credit cards to pay for groceries, but failing
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 2: to make the minimum payments to avoid interest charges, with
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 2: the share rising by 1.6 percentage points since 2023. About 12%
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 2: of low- and middle-income adults who use credit cards to
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 2: pay for groceries missed a minimum payment last year, triple
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 2: the rate for higher-income consumers. That's not good.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 5: No, it's not.
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 13: The working poor are really getting hammered and the middle-income people.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 13: It's great if you have money. If you're rich, you
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 13: can make a lot of money in this environment. If
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 13: you're a middle-income or a working poor family, you're getting squeezed.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 13: And if you're a Somalian, Haitian, or Muslim in Minnesota,
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 13: things are great for you. The U.S. will take care
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 13: of you. You don't have to worry about groceries, rent,
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 13: or anything.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you, the gap is inflation
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: has really affected this economy. It's horrible what it's done
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 2: to this economy. And the gap is growing too wide
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 2: between the haves and the have-nots, between the rich and
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 2: the middle class and the lower classes. The gap is
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 2: getting too wide. I mean, this needs to be paid
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 2: attention to. I mean, it just needs to be paid
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 2: attention to when you read this kind of stuff, when
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 2: people are charging groceries and not making at least a
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 2: minimum payment on their credit card.
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 13: Do you ever watch the Saturday Night Live skits on Trump?
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 2: Not really, no.
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 13: Well, call him up on YouTube. You don't have to
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 13: watch it live. You can call him up on YouTube.
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 13: They do Trump, Haysec, all of his cabinet members. And,
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 13: you know, it's getting to be to the point now
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 13: where it's actually, yeah, that is happening.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the reality. As much as I can
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 2: criticize Trump, the Democrats aren't any better. I mean, by
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 2: any stretch. I mean, I don't want to confuse anybody.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 2: I can criticize Trump on some of the things he did,
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 2: but I'm glad he's president and not Kamala Harris. I'm
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 2: glad he's president, not Joe Biden. And I certainly wouldn't
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 2: want Gavin Newsom as my president. I mean, you've got
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 2: to dial back and remember a lot of this inflation
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 2: happened as a result of Joe Biden's policies and the
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 2: Democrat policies. Now, Trump had it going in the right
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 2: direction until he got involved with Israel, Netanyahu, and this war.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 2: If he wouldn't have fallen for that, for whatever reason
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 2: he was duped into it, that's how we got in
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 2: this situation. I don't think it.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 13: Was Joe Biden. I think it was the deep state
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 13: or Obama pulling the strings.
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 2: Could be. Appreciate your call.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, Ron.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 14: Let's start here. So good morning and welcome. We are
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 14: now underway.
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 10: We are following the events of the day.
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 14: What we're just now hearing about.
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: This is new information. Throughout the day. Good day.
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 14: This is where it stands now.
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: Pick up the conversation.
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 9: We'll talk about what's happening.
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 14: Anytime. Gas prices in Ohio are not.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: Going in the right direction.
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 14: A big jump over the past week. AAA says the
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 14: current average.
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 9: For regular grade is about $ 3.
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: 82 a gallon.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 19: And that's about 23 cents a gallon higher compared to
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 19: last week. A 17-year-old girl is dead after a shooting
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 19: at the Weiler Homes housing complex in East Toledo. Happened
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 19: early this morning. She's identified as Zayona Jackson. No reports
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 19: of any arrests yet. Police say there was a party
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 19: outside the Weiler Homes and that the teenage girl was
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 19: gunned down outside. An Elyria man facing charges that he
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 19: fired shots in the direction of a police drone. It
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 19: happened early Friday morning as the device was being used
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 19: to investigate an alarm. Police tracked down 27-year-old Devon Grant,
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 19: whom they say admitted to the incident.
• 2:18:07
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's 435 here on a Monday afternoon, 87 degrees.
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 2: It's a hot, humid Monday, to say the least. Ron
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  Speaker 31: Well, we should be proud the first half for the Guardians.
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 31: They're in first place, buddy.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: First half down, another half to go. Another half to go.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 31: They don't have to worry like last year. Remember, they
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 31: came 18 games from 500 down. I'm thinking they can
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 31: go all the way this year.
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 2: I've seen it in the past where the first half
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 2: of the year is really outstanding, and then something happens.
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 2: You've seen it in the past. I mean, the first
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 2: half of the year is really good, and then the
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 2: second half, it just goes right down the crapper.
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 31: I know, but I don't think so.
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 5: You know, what is your.
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 31: Opinion about the sports people? Do you think LeBron would
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 31: be welcome back to Cleveland for the Cavaliers?
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was last time, was he not? I mean,
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 2: remember when he left?
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 31: Yeah, I like LeBron.
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 2: Remember when he left and everyone was burning his jersey
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 2: and they were upset about it and everything? And you
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 2: can't blame him for leaving. I mean, he wanted to
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 2: get a championship team. And then he came back, and
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 2: everybody loved him again. But I don't think that last
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 2: time I checked, I didn't think there was a possibility
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 2: that he was coming back. Wasn't he going somewhere else?
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: Well, have a good day, buddy.
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 2: All right. It's Dick from Dayton. You're on the air.
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 8: Ron, I'm a total failure when it comes to economics
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 8: and inflation.
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 2: You're a total failure? When did you come here for therapy?
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 8: No, total failure when it comes to educating you on
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 8: economics and monetary inflation.
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 8: You keep saying, Biden, the inflation is a legacy of
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 8: Joe Biden. She, too, thinks that Congress has the power
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 8: to create money. Juan, how many times have I said this?
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 8: that Trump can stop inflation immediately. All he's got to
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 8: do is tell Kevin Warsh, the chairman of the Federal Reserve,
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 8: stop creating money in excess of the economic growth rate,
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 8: and inflation will go to zero run.
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 8: Yes, it will. Tell your audience what I used to
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 8: do for a living before I retired.
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 2: What you used to do for a living?
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, certified financial planner.
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 2: I thought you were a mafia hitman.
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 8: Now, you would think if anybody knows about what causes inflation,
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 8: it would be me.
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't necessarily agree when you're talking about inflation.
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 2: There's many things that create inflation. There just isn't one
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 2: thing that creates inflation. Anytime, for example, anytime you have
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 2: energy prices that go up, that creates inflation. I mean,
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 2: we can talk about any number of things. No, hang on.
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 2: If wages go up. If wages go up, costs have
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 2: to be passed along. So consequently, as I say, when
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 2: you have oil prices go up, that creates inflation. When
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 2: you have, let's say, when people would argue about the
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 2: minimum wage for years, and now a lot of places
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 2: are paying $ 13, $ 15 an hour because of what they
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 2: call labor shortages. They have to pay more to get
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 2: people to show up at a lot of these fast
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 2: food places. Well, guess what? When they have to pay
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 2: the help more, When you look at the menu, the
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 2: prices have gone up. I mean, you want to act
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 2: like one thing creates inflation. It isn't just one thing.
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 2: Government policy can create inflation. Obviously, when they printed more money,
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 2: it made the existing supply and demand, it Worth less
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 2: supply and demand. What they did was they screwed everybody's
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 2: savings and paycheck by that policy. So I don't think
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 2: you need to apologize. I get a total grip on
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 2: what creates inflation. I've lived it as long as you have.
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 2: I've been through Carter. I've been through stagflation. I've watched
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 2: this stuff happen. And if you're asking me, does government
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 2: policy create it outside of the, you know, the Fed
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 2: obviously can create it. And they can also fix it
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 2: in many cases. But I go back to say this.
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 2: This mess in the Middle East is creating inflation. If
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 2: you have $ 4 a gallon gas or higher, that cost
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 2: is passed on when it comes to shipping companies, when
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 2: it comes to farmers buying diesel. That creates inflation right there.
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know where you want to go
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 2: with what creates inflation.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 8: Well, this is why I say I've been a total failure. Because,
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 8: number one, I've never said that monetary inflation, which is
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 8: increasing the money supply in excess of the economic growth rate,
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 8: is the only thing that causes inflation. If the dollar
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 8: goes down in value... versus other foreign currencies, that causes
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 8: inflation as well. But higher energy prices does not cause inflation,
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 8: and it certainly doesn't cause monetary inflation.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 8: Higher energy prices cause recessions, or if they go high enough,
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 8: even global depressions. What will happen is if energy prices
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 8: go up and there's no monetary inflation, capital will begin
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 8: exiting oil and natural gas into lower-cost energies like solar.
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 8: So that's what I want the audience to understand. And also,
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 8: there's no oil shortages exist. There's plenty of oil, Ron.
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 8: There are only planned scarcities engineered for the benefit of
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 8: the ruling classes. Well, eight of the biggest banks have
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 8: made from $ 4 to $ 45 billion in profits. In the
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 8: first quarter of 2026, oil cartel producers and their privileged
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 8: traders are making massive profits, including Donald and Barron Trump
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 8: and their friends and family. You know, I've spent all
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 8: day today Because Trump keeps giving me a gift. Every
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 8: time he says that, well, the war in the Middle
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 8: East is going to continue on, what happens to the
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 8: stock market? It crashed again today. So I've been busy
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 8: buying gold, silver, oh, and especially nuclear mining companies. They
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 8: were way down today. And I tell you, I got
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 8: to thank As much as I think Donald Trump is
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 8: one of the most corrupt and worst presidents we've ever had,
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 8: I'll give him credit for him allowing me to buy
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 8: stocks and other investments at bargain basement prices. And I
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 8: tell you, the market closed at 4 today. That's why
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 8: I called your show. But I still have more orders
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 8: to put in for tomorrow. In case he says, well,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 8: we're going to have another peace deal with Iran tomorrow.
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 8: And what'll happen? It'll go way up. Ron, you know
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 8: that every time Trump says that we're going to have
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 8: peace in the Middle East, what happens? All of a sudden,
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 8: stock call options, there's a big, right before he makes
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 8: the announcement, there's huge orders for stocks and stock options
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 8: and other derivatives. Because obviously somebody knows ahead of time
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 8: he's going to make these announcements. And they're getting filthy
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 8: rich off of this. Me and you aren't getting filthy rich. Well,
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 8: I mean, I'm making money because as soon as he
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 8: makes those announcements, I immediately log in to my mutual
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 8: fund company and start putting orders in left and right
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 8: for stocks. Or like today. putting in orders. I waited
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 8: until about 2, 2.30 as everything went way down. That's
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 8: when I started putting orders in. I can't thank Trump
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 8: enough for making me some, giving me opportunities to buy
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 8: stocks at bargain basement prices, which he did again today.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 8: And as far, you know, Trump has depleted the strategic
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 8: petroleum reserve by 40% now. And Exxon Senior Vice President
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 8: Neil Chapman said, we are approaching unheard of low inventory levels.
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 8: And once these reserves are gone, we will see prices
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 8: shoot up. And according to the numbers I've seen, global
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 8: stockpiles should be exhausted by the end of this month.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 8: And storage tanks for oil... Diesel, gasoline in Europe are
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 8: now at full capacity and can handle no more. Some
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 8: inventories could be wiped out in weeks, and oil executives
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 8: have warned just in time for peak summer travel season.
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 8: And I have absolutely no doubt the White House, from
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 8: Trump on down, is fully aware of the alarm among
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 8: oil analysts about the direction of travel for oil prices.
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 8: And according to Bob McNally, he was an energy advisor
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 8: to George Bush and the founder of the Rapid Energy Group,
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 8: he said the strategic petroleum reserve is down to 349
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 8: billion barrels, the lowest last seen since 1983. Now, the
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 8: exact date reserves start to run dry is difficult to
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 8: calculate because they cannot be run all the way down.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 8: But millions of barrels of oil need to remain in
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 8: the pipelines and refineries to keep the system from breaking down.
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 8: And the critical moment could come by the end of
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 8: this summer. Roger, I will agree with you 100%. We're
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 8: in a lot of trouble.
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 2: I'll say it again. Listen, I don't care if it
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 2: offends people or not. You got to call him as
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 2: you see him. Trump started a mess with this situation
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 2: in Iran. And I think he thought he was sold
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 2: a bill of goods by Netanyahu. He was sold a
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 2: bill of goods by Israeli intelligence. He thought he could
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 2: get in and get out and it would be over
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 2: in no time. And he's got every right to be
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 2: pissed at them. But he ultimately made the final decision.
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 2: And you've heard we're close to a deal. We're close
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 2: to a deal. You've heard that for the longest period
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 2: of time. And then, of course, we got the 60-day ceasefire,
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 2: and now that's not working out. I mean, it's just
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 2: like you're right back to the beginning here. You're right
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 2: back to this. And like you say, the market's down.
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 2: Oil prices are going back up. And there's no end
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 2: in sight. There's absolutely no end in sight. And this
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 2: idea that if you bomb them some more, that should
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 2: bring them to their knees. Well, we bombed them a
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 2: hell of a lot. Like, you know, I heard that. Well,
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 2: their Navy's gone. It's at the bottom of the sea.
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 2: We own the skies. I mean, I've heard all of
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 2: this stuff. So now what do you want to do?
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, the war with Iran... I've always said
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 8: I believe it's manufactured. I said on day two you
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 8: look at the Iranian parliament building, and it looks like
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 8: an Illuminati period. You know, I think the high-ranking members
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 8: of the Iranian generals, the top politicians, same with Israel,
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 8: their top generals, our top generals, they're all in on this.
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 8: They wanted this war. They're getting filthy rich, Ron. I
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 8: think they're going.
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 2: To drag this war on as long.
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 8: As possible and prolong it because they're making tons and
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 8: tons of money.
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, was it Eisenhower that said, beware the industrial complex?
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 2: Make no mistake about it. There's a lot of people
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 2: that make a lot of money with these type of conflicts.
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 2: And it's good business for them. I don't care if
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 2: they're building the bombs or selling you the supplies for
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 2: those bombs. What do they say? Just about every congressional
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 2: district out there or every state has some type of
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 2: military facility in it. So when it comes to producing
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 2: some of the equipment so that, you know, it's a
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 2: lot of pressure. Well, you want to protect these jobs,
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 2: don't you? You can't vote against increasing military spending. Did
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 2: you see where 80% of our federal discretionary spending 80%
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 2: of our federal discretionary spending goes to the military. We
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 2: used to spend $ 900 billion on the military. It's now
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 2: $ 1. 5 trillion. Just think about what I'm saying. You get numbers.
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 2: So we went from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion spent
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 2: on the military, and they've been unable to account for
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 2: how that money's been spent for years, right? They've been
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 2: absolutely unable to show how that money's been spent. So
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 2: when you sit back and you say, well, wait a minute, 80%
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 2: of our discretionary spending is going there? What about the
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 2: American people? What about the fact that Social Security is
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 2: in bad shape and could use a few billion put
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 2: into that? What about Medicare, which is in bad shape? Now,
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 2: these are entitlement programs. No, they're earned programs. So what
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 2: about bolstering programs for our senior citizens and helping out
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 2: Social Security by infusing some money into it instead of 80%
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 2: of this discretionary money going to the Military. What about
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 2: bolstering Medicare? You could even make an argument. I mean,
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 2: the military spending is out of control today. This is
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 2: absolutely ridiculous.
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 8: I think it was 1965, the first time that Congress
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 8: authorized auditing the military budget.
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 2: And they can't complete one.
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 8: And Ron Paul says... They have never, never passed a budget.
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 8: There's always hundreds of millions and now hundreds of billions
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 8: of dollars unaccounted for.
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 14: Yeah, missing.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 8: And you know, according to the Constitution, the Founding Fathers
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 8: said if the military can't account for any money they get,
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 8: then they're not supposed to get any more until they
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 8: can account for every penny that they have and that
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 8: they've spent.
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 2: But it's hard for people to understand, which to understand,
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 2: that the military has never been able to pass these audits.
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 12: Period.
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 2: Period. So now we're going from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. 80%
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 2: of the discretional federal income going to the military, which
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 2: can't account for for the $ 900 billion and where it's gone.
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 2: And I go back to say, at the same time
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 2: when we need to figure out how to fix Social Security,
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 2: at the same time when we need to figure out
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 2: how to fix Medicare, should all this money be going
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 2: to the military and not using some of it in
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 2: other arenas that benefit the American people? I can't. I've
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 2: got to go. Thank you.
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 10: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 2: Well, it's 435 here on a Monday afternoon, 87 degrees.
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 2: It's a hot, humid Monday, to say the least. Ron
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 2: Verb with you until the Rockport Wealth Truth in Investing
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 2: program tonight, 6 to 7 here on NewsRadio 570 WKBN,
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 2: and you're on the air.
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  Speaker 31: Well, we should be proud the first half for the Guardians.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 31: They're in first place, buddy.
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 2: First half down, another half to go.
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 2: Another half to go.
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 31: They don't have to worry like last year. Remember, they
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 31: came 18 games from 500 down. I'm thinking they can
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 31: go all the way this year.
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 2: I've seen it in the past where the first half
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 2: of the year is really outstanding, and then something happens.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 2: You've seen it in the past. I mean, the first
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 2: half of the year is really good, and then the
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 2: second half, it just goes right down the crapper.
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 31: I know, but I don't think so. You know, what
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 31: is your opinion about the sports people? Do you think
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 31: LeBron would be welcome back to Cleveland for the Cavaliers?
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 2: Yes. I mean, he was last time, was he not?
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, remember when he left?
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 31: Yeah, I like LeBron.
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 2: Remember when he left and everyone was burning his jersey
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 2: and they were upset about it and everything? And you
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 2: can't blame him for leaving. I mean, he wanted to
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 2: get a championship team. And then he came back and
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 2: everybody loved him again. But I don't think that... Last
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 2: time I checked, I didn't think there was a possibility
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 2: that he was coming back. Wasn't he going somewhere else?
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: Well, have a good day, buddy.
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 2: All right, it's Dick from Dayton. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 8: Ron, I'm a total failure when it comes to economics
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 8: and inflation.
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 2: You're a total failure? What, did you come here for therapy?
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 8: No, I'm a total failure when it comes to Educating
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 8: you on economics and monetary inflation.
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 5: Uh-oh.
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 8: You keep saying, Biden, the inflation is a legacy of
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 8: Joe Biden. She, too, thinks that Congress has the power
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 8: to create money. Ron, how many times have I said
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 8: that Trump can stop inflation immediately? All he's got to
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 8: do is tell Kevin Warsh, the chairman of the Federal Reserve,
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 8: stop creating money. in excess of the economic growth rate,
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 8: and inflation will go to zero run.
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 5: Yes, it will.
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 8: Tell your audience what I used to do for a
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 8: living before I retired.
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 2: What you used to do for a living?
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 8: You were a certified financial planner.
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 2: I thought you were a mafia hitman.
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 8: Now, you would think if anybody knows about what causes inflation,
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 8: it would be me.
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't necessarily agree when you're talking about inflation.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 2: There's many things that create inflation. There just isn't one
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 2: thing that creates inflation. Anytime, for example, anytime you have
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 2: energy prices that go up, that creates inflation. I mean,
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 2: we can talk about any number of things. No, no,
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 2: hang on. If wages go up. If wages go up,
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 2: costs have to be passed along. So consequently, as I say,
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 2: when you have oil prices go up, that creates inflation.
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 2: When you have, let's say, when people would argue about
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 2: the minimum wage for years, and now a lot of
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 2: places are paying $ 13, $ 15 an hour because of what
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 2: they call labor shortages. They have to pay more to
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 2: get people to show up at a lot of these
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 2: fast food places. Well, guess what? When they have to
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 2: pay the help more, When you look at the menu,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 2: the prices have gone up. You want to act like
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 2: one thing creates inflation. It isn't just one thing. Government
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 2: policy can create inflation. Obviously, when they printed more money,
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 2: it made the existing supply and demand, it made the
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 2: existing money Worth less supply and demand. What they did
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 2: was they screwed everybody's savings and paycheck by that policy.
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 2: So I don't think you need to apologize. I get
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 2: a total grip on what creates inflation. I've lived it
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 2: as long as you have. I've been through Carter. I've
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 2: been through stagflation. I've watched this stuff happen. And if
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 2: you're asking me, does government policy create it outside of the,
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 2: you know, the Fed obviously can create it. And they
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 2: can also fix it in many cases. But I go
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 2: back to say this. This mess in the Middle East
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 2: is creating inflation. When you have, if you have $ 4
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 2: a gallon gas or higher, that cost is passed on.
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 2: When it comes to shipping companies, when it comes to
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 2: farmers buying diesel. that creates inflation right there. I mean,
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know where you want to go with what
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 2: creates inflation.
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 8: Well, this is why I say I've been a total failure.
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 8: Because number one, I've never said that monetary inflation, which
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 8: is increasing the money supply in excess of the economic
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 8: growth rate, is the only thing that causes inflation. If
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 8: the dollar goes down in value, versus other foreign currencies,
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 8: that causes inflation as well. But higher energy prices does
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 8: not cause inflation, and it certainly doesn't cause monetary inflation.
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 8: Higher energy prices cause recessions, or if they go high enough,
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 8: even global depressions. What will happen is if energy prices
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 8: go up and there's no monetary inflation, capital will begin
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 8: exiting oil and natural gas into lower-cost energies like solar.
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 8: So that's what I want the audience to understand. And also,
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 8: there's no oil shortages exist. There's plenty of oil, Ron.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 8: There are only planned scarcities engineered for the benefit of
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 8: the ruling classes. Well, eight of the biggest banks have
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 8: made from $ 4 to $ 45 billion in profits. In the
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 8: first quarter of 2026, oil cartel producers and their privileged
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 8: traders are making massive profits, including Donald and Barron Trump
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 8: and their friends and family. You know, I've spent all
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 8: day today Because Trump keeps giving me a gift. Every
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 8: time he says that, well, the war in the Middle
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 8: East is going to continue on, what happens to the
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 8: stock market? It crashed again today. So I've been busy
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 8: buying gold, silver, oh, and especially nuclear mining companies. They
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 8: were way down today. And I tell you, I got
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 8: to thank As much as I think Donald Trump is
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 8: one of the most corrupt and worst presidents we've ever had,
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 8: I'll give him credit for him allowing me to buy
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 8: stocks and other investments at bargain basement prices. And I
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 8: tell you, the market closed at 4 today. That's why
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 8: I called your show. But I still have more orders
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 8: to put in for tomorrow. In case he says, well,
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 8: we're going to have another peace deal with Iran. And
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 8: what'll happen? It'll go way up. Ron, you know that
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 8: every time Trump says that we're going to have peace
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 8: in the Middle East, what happens? All of a sudden,
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 8: stock call options. There's a big, right before he makes
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 8: the announcement, there's huge orders for stocks and stock options
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 8: and other derivatives. Because obviously somebody knows ahead of time
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 8: he's going to make these announcements. And they're getting filthy rich.
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 5: Off of this.
• 2:43:33
  Speaker 8: Me and you aren't getting filthy rich. Well, I mean,
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 8: I'm making money because as soon as he makes those announcements,
• 2:43:42
  Speaker 8: I immediately log in to my mutual fund company and
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 8: start putting orders in left and right for stocks. Or
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 8: like today. putting in orders. I waited until about 2,
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 8: 2.30 as everything went way down. That's when I started
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 8: putting orders in. I can't thank Trump enough for making
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 8: me some, giving me opportunities to buy stocks at bargain
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 8: basement prices, which he did again today. And as far,
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 8: you know, Trump has depleted the strategic petroleum reserve by 40% now.
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 8: And Exxon Senior Vice President Neil Chapman said, we are
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 8: approaching unheard of low inventory levels. And once these reserves
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 8: are gone, we will see prices shoot up. And according
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 8: to the numbers I've seen, global stockpiles should be exhausted
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 8: by the end of this month. And storage tanks for oil, diesel,
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 8: gasoline in Europe are now at full capacity and can
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 8: handle no more. One, some inventories could be wiped out
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 8: in weeks, and oil executives have warned just in time
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 8: for peak summer travel season. And I have absolutely no
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 8: doubt the White House, from Trump on down, is fully
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 8: aware of the alarm among oil analysts about the direction
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 8: of travel for oil prices. And according to Bob McNally,
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 8: he was an energy advisor to George Bush and the
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 8: founder of the Rapid Energy Group. He said the Strategic
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 8: Petroleum Reserve is down to 349 billion barrels, the lowest
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 8: last seen since 1983. Now, the exact date reserves start
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 8: to run dry is difficult to calculate because they cannot
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 8: be run all the way down. But millions of barrels
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 8: of oil need to remain in the pipelines and refineries
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 8: to keep the system from breaking down. in the critical moment,
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 8: could come by the end of this summer. Rodney, I
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 8: will agree with you 100%. We're in a lot of trouble.
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 2: I'll say it again. Listen, I don't care if it
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 2: offends people or not. You've got to call him as
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 2: you see him. Trump started a mess with this situation
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 2: in Iran. And I think he thought... He was sold
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 2: a bill of goods by Netanyahu. He was sold a
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 2: bill of goods by Israeli intelligence. He thought he could
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 2: get in and get out, and it would be over
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 2: in no time. And he's got every right to be
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 2: pissed at them. But he ultimately made the final decision.
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 2: And you've heard we're close to a deal. We're close
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 2: to a deal. You've heard that for the longest period
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 2: of time. And then, of course, we got the 60-day ceasefire,
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 2: and now that's not working out. I mean, it's just
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 2: like you're right back to the beginning here. You're right
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 2: back to this. And like you say, the market's down.
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 2: Oil prices are going back up. And there's no end
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 2: in sight. There's absolutely no end in sight. And this
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 2: idea that if you bomb them some more, that should
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 2: bring them to their knees. Well, we bombed them a
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 2: hell of a lot. Like, you know, I heard that. Well,
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 2: their Navy's gone. It's at the bottom of the sea.
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 2: And we own the skies. I mean, I've heard all
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 2: of this stuff. So now what do you want to do?
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, the war with Iran, I've always said,
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 8: I believe, is manufactured. I said on day two, you
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 8: look at the Iranian parliament building and it looks like
• 2:47:27
  Speaker 8: an Illuminati period. You know, I think the high ranking
• 2:47:31
  Speaker 8: members of the Iranian generals, the top politicians, Same with Israel,
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 8: their top generals, our top generals. They're all in on this.
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 8: They wanted this war. They're getting filthy rich, Ron. I
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 8: think they're.
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 2: Going to drag this around as long.
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 8: As possible and prolong it because they're making tons and
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 8: tons of money.
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, was it Eisenhower that said, beware the industrial complex?
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 2: Make no mistake about it. There's a lot of people
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 2: that make a lot of money with these type of conflicts.
• 2:48:11
  Speaker 2: And it's good business for them. I don't care if
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 2: they're building the bombs or selling you the supplies for
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 2: those bombs. What do they say? Just about every congressional
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 2: district out there or every state has some type of
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 2: military facility in it. So when it comes to producing
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 2: some of the equipment so that, you know, it's a
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 2: lot of pressure. Well, you want to protect these jobs,
• 2:48:32
  Speaker 2: don't you? You can't vote against increasing military spending. Did
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 2: you see where 80% of our federal discretionary spending 80%
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 2: of our federal discretionary spending goes to the military. We
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 2: used to spend $ 900 billion on the military. It's now $ 1.
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 18: 5 trillion.
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 2: Just think about what I'm saying. You get numbers. So
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 2: we went from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion spent on
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 2: the military, and they've been unable to account for how
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 2: that money's been spent for years, right? They've been absolutely
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 2: unable to show how that money's been spent. So when
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 2: you sit back and you say, well, wait a minute, 80%
• 2:49:22
  Speaker 2: of our discretionary spending is going there? What about the
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 2: American people? What about the fact that Social Security is
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 2: in bad shape and could use a few billion put
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 2: into that? What about Medicare, which is in bad shape? Now,
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 2: these are entitlement programs. No, they're earned programs. So what
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 2: about bolstering programs for our senior citizens and helping out
• 2:49:44
  Speaker 2: Social Security by infusing some money into it instead of 80%
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 2: of this discretionary money going to the government?
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 24: Military.
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 2: What about bolstering Medicare? Hell, you could even make an argument.
• 2:50:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, the military spending is out of control today.
• 2:50:04
  Speaker 2: This is absolutely ridiculous.
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 8: I think it was 1965, the first time that Congress
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 8: authorized auditing the military budget.
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 2: And they can't complete one.
• 2:50:17
  Speaker 8: And Ron Paul says... They have never, never passed a budget.
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 8: There's always hundreds of millions and now hundreds of billions
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 8: of dollars unaccounted for.
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, missing.
• 2:50:31
  Speaker 8: And you know, according to the Constitution, the Founding Fathers
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 8: said if the military can't account for any money they get,
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 8: then they're not supposed to get any more until they
• 2:50:46
  Speaker 8: can account for Every penny that they have and that
• 2:50:49
  Speaker 8: they've spent.
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 2: But it's hard for people to understand, which to understand,
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 2: that the military has never been able to pass these audits.
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: Period.
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 2: Period. So now we're going from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion. 80%
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 2: of the discretional federal income going to the military, which
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 2: can't account... for the $ 900 billion and where it's gone.
• 2:51:17
  Speaker 2: And I go back to say, at the same time
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 2: when we need to figure out how to fix Social Security,
• 2:51:24
  Speaker 2: at the same time when we need to figure out
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 2: how to fix Medicare, should all this money be going
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 2: to the military and not using some of it in
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 2: other arenas that benefit the American people? I can't. I've
• 2:51:37
  Speaker 2: got to go. Thank you.
• 2:51:41
  Speaker 10: News Radio 570 WKBN.
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't understand how that's even acceptable that
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 2: the military's never been able to account for all of
• 2:51:51
  Speaker 2: this money. But how you go from $ 900 billion to
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 2: $ 1. 5 trillion, that you increase military spending. There are other
• 2:52:04
  Speaker 2: problems that we have in our country. 80% of our
• 2:52:06
  Speaker 2: discretionary income should not be going to military spending. There
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 2: are other issues that should be addressed affecting the American
• 2:52:16
  Speaker 2: people where some of that money should be going. And
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 2: I say it again. We should be putting some of
• 2:52:22
  Speaker 2: that money to bolster Social Security, which is they're saying
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 2: in serious financial condition within seven years. Medicare, which has
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 2: financial issues. This is about earned benefits for senior citizens. Hell,
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 2: I even understand the argument to be made where people
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 2: are saying when it comes to Obamacare and how their
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 2: premium prices have increased tremendously. I understand that. But even
• 2:52:49
  Speaker 2: they're saying some of this money can't be used to
• 2:52:52
  Speaker 2: benefit the American people with some of the issues that
• 2:52:55
  Speaker 2: they're facing as a result of the economic times or
• 2:52:59
  Speaker 2: the inflation that's going on. that it's all going 80%
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 2: to the military. It doesn't make a damn bit of
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 2: sense when you can't account for the money you're getting now.
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 2: And Trump has created a mess here. And I will
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 2: not be a cheerleader for anybody. He was duped into
• 2:53:22
  Speaker 2: this by Netanyahu and by Israel. He thought it would
• 2:53:25
  Speaker 2: be quicker than it is. And it's just dragging on.
• 2:53:29
  Speaker 2: And there truly is no end in sight. And we
• 2:53:33
  Speaker 2: all have to live with what's going on. Right back
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 2: to $ 4 gasoline. Right back to inflation coming back up
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 2: as a result of these decisions. This should have never
• 2:53:47
  Speaker 2: happened in the first place. I was perfectly satisfied with
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 2: the bunker buster and the dust being buried in the mountains.
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 2: To go down the road that he's gone down now.
• 2:54:03
  Speaker 2: And now he's trying to look for an exit ramp.
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 2: And he thought he has one. But guess what? They're
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 2: never working out. Deals close. Deals close. We don't get
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 2: a deal. And I'm getting a little sick and tired
• 2:54:13
  Speaker 2: of it. But we all are paying the price for
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 2: these decisions. And it's a serious price when it comes
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 2: to inflation. And energy. And the depletion of strategic oil reserves...
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 2: And where do we go as this goes on with
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 2: our oil prices? I mean, some of that stuff, I
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 2: don't poo-poo all these oil experts, as many have done.
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 2: I do not. This is an ongoing situation. We'll take
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 2: more calls coming up. G2 later. Here till 6. Rockport
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 2: Wealth Truth Investing, 6 to 7. I mean, I don't
• 2:54:58
  Speaker 2: understand how that's even acceptable that the military's never been
• 2:55:04
  Speaker 2: able to account for all of this money. But how
• 2:55:07
  Speaker 2: you go from $ 900 billion to $ 1. 5 trillion, that you increase...
• 2:55:15
  Speaker 2: military spending, there are other problems that we have in
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 2: our country. 80% of our discretionary income should not be
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 2: going to military spending. There are other issues that should
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 2: be addressed affecting the American people, where some of that
• 2:55:32
  Speaker 2: money should be going. And I say it again, we
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 2: should be putting some of that money to bolster Social Security,
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 2: which is, they're saying, in serious financial condition within seven years. Medicare,
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 2: which has financial issues. This is about earned benefits for
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 2: senior citizens. Hell, I even understand the argument to be
• 2:55:53
  Speaker 2: made where people are saying when it comes to Obamacare
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 2: and how their premium prices have increased tremendously. I understand that.
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 2: But even they're saying some of this money can't be
• 2:56:05
  Speaker 2: used to benefit the American people with some of the
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 2: issues that they're facing as a result of the economic
• 2:56:12
  Speaker 2: times or the inflation that's going on. That it's all
• 2:56:18
  Speaker 2: going 80% to the military. It doesn't make a damn
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 2: bit of sense when you can't account for the money
• 2:56:23
  Speaker 2: you're getting now. And Trump has created a mess here.
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 2: And I will not be a cheerleader for anybody. He
• 2:56:34
  Speaker 2: was duped into this by Netanyahu and by Israel. He
• 2:56:38
  Speaker 2: thought it would be quicker than it is. And it's
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 2: just dragging on. And there truly is no end in sight.
• 2:56:47
  Speaker 2: And we all have to live with what's going on.
• 2:56:49
  Speaker 2: Right back to $ 4 gasoline. Right back to inflation coming
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 2: back up as a result of these decisions. This should
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 2: never happen in the first place. I was perfectly satisfied
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 2: with the bunker buster and the dust being buried in it. mountain.
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 2: To go down the road that he's gone down now,
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 2: and now he's trying to look for an exit ramp,
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 2: and he thought he has one, but guess what? They're
• 2:57:20
  Speaker 2: never working out. Deal's close. Deal's close. We don't get
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 2: a deal. And I'm getting a little sick and tired
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 2: of it. But we all are paying the price for
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 2: these decisions. And it's a serious price when it comes
• 2:57:35
  Speaker 2: to inflation and energy. And the depletion of strategic oil
• 2:57:43
  Speaker 2: reserves ends. Where do we go as this goes on
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 2: with our oil prices? I mean, some of that stuff...
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 2: I don't poo-poo all these oil experts, as many have done.
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 2: I do not. This is an ongoing situation. And we'll
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 2: take more calls coming up. G2 later. Here till 6.
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 2: Rockport Wealth Truth Investing, 6 to 7.
• 2:58:15
  Speaker 20: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. Following the sudden death
• 2:58:19
  Speaker 20: of Senator Lindsey Graham this weekend, South Carolina's Governor Henry
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 20: McMaster appointing Graham's sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, to carry out
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 20: the remainder of his term until January.
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 32: Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed.
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 32: It's my honor to ask his little sister, Darlene Graham,
• 2:58:39
  Speaker 32: to finish his work for him now.
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 20: A special election will be held August 11th. to choose
• 2:58:44
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• 2:58:47
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• 2:58:51
  Speaker 20: who was hospitalized last month. Here's ABC's Jay O'Brien.
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 33: For four weeks, Mitch McConnell's office did not disclose his
• 2:58:57
  Speaker 33: health condition or why he was hospitalized. But then yesterday,
• 2:59:01
  Speaker 33: they released a photo of McConnell and his wife Elaine
• 2:59:04
  Speaker 33: Chao and a statement from McConnell explaining... that he had
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 33: a fall, he was briefly unconscious, and then he was
• 2:59:09
  Speaker 33: treated for a mild case of pneumonia. He was then moved,
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 33: McConnell says, from the hospital to a rehab facility. He
• 2:59:17
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• 2:59:20
  Speaker 2: Or anything more serious than that.
• 2:59:22
  Speaker 20: The White House has formalized its re-engagement in the war
• 2:59:25
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• 2:59:29
  Speaker 20: according to a copy of the notice obtained by ABC News.
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 20: Iran announcing a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Now
• 2:59:34
  Speaker 20: President Trump says a naval blockade will go back into
• 2:59:37
  Speaker 20: effect and the U.S. should get a 20% toll.
• 2:59:40
  Speaker 12: Now we're going to guard it.
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 5: We're going to get paid for guarding it.
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 6: A lot of money.
• 2:59:43
  Speaker 3: But we just want to be reimbursed for doing all
• 2:59:46
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• 2:59:48
  Speaker 20: The renewed hostilities pushing oil prices higher, and in the U.S.,
• 2:59:52
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• 2:59:55
  Speaker 20: past week.
• 2:59:55
  Speaker 34: Analysts say this will be the first weekly rise in
• 2:59:58
  Speaker 34: gas costs since back in May. Now, before that new
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 34: round of strikes yesterday, President Trump suggested the U.S. and
• 3:00:05
  Speaker 34: Iran were close to a deal to move forward.
• 3:00:07
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• 3:03:06
  Speaker 20: McMaster appointing Graham's sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, to carry out
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 20: the remainder of his term until January.
• 3:03:12
  Speaker 32: Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed.
• 3:03:18
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• 3:03:22
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• 3:03:25
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• 3:03:37
  Speaker 33: For four weeks, Mitch McConnell's office did not disclose his
• 3:03:41
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• 3:03:45
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• 3:03:48
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• 3:03:51
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• 3:03:53
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• 3:03:58
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• 3:04:00
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• 3:04:08
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• 3:04:12
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• 3:04:15
  Speaker 20: Iran announcing a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Now
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 20: President Trump says a naval blockade will go back into
• 3:04:21
  Speaker 20: effect and the U.S. should get a 20 percent toll.
• 3:04:23
  Speaker 6: Now we're going to guard it.
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 5: We're going to get paid for guarding it.
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 8: A lot of money.
• 3:04:27
  Speaker 6: But we just want to be reimbursed for doing all
• 3:04:30
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• 3:04:32
  Speaker 20: The renewed hostilities pushing oil prices higher, and in the U.S.,
• 3:04:35
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• 3:04:38
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• 3:04:39
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• 3:04:42
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• 3:04:45
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• 3:04:48
  Speaker 34: Iran were close to a deal to move forward.
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  Speaker 20: Houses surrounded by water. More than 350 people rescued in
• 3:06:16
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• 3:06:24
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• 3:06:29
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• 3:06:35
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• 3:06:39
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• 3:06:42
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• 3:06:46
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• 3:06:50
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• 3:06:53
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• 3:06:57
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• 3:07:01
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• 3:07:08
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• 3:07:11
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  Speaker 2: in the afternoon. Some quick calls. G2 coming up. You're
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  Speaker 2: on the air.
• 3:07:47
  Speaker 11: Hello.
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 3:07:49
  Speaker 12: Hi.
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 11: First-time caller, Vince Toob.
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 11: I just want to do a little bit of history.
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 11: Maybe you can research it. I'm not an expert, but,
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 11: you know, the correlation between Germany during the buildup of
• 3:08:07
  Speaker 11: their army and armed forces before World War II, they
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 11: were limited in their oil and resources, and as compared
• 3:08:16
  Speaker 11: to Iran, that have... There's a much larger nation and
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 11: much more resources. The world put their head in the sand,
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 11: so to speak, and they never really stepped on Germany,
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 11: and look what happened to that. With Iran much stronger
• 3:08:38
  Speaker 11: and much more aggressive, what would become of the world if...
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 11: you know, the United States hadn't stepped up. I'll let
• 3:08:49
  Speaker 11: you go. And just a little bit of your audience
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 11: on that. I appreciate to hear that. Thanks so much.
• 3:08:58
  Speaker 2: What is so before you hang up and go, what
• 3:09:00
  Speaker 2: are you saying that if we wouldn't have done anything?
• 3:09:04
  Speaker 11: Well, yes, I'm sort of.
• 3:09:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll answer your question. I don't know that anything
• 3:09:11
  Speaker 2: would be different. I mean, first of all, when I
• 3:09:14
  Speaker 2: hear the comparisons between Germany and World War II and Iran,
• 3:09:19
  Speaker 2: maybe they just don't make a connection with me. When
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 2: I look at this particular situation, I mean, you remember
• 3:09:24
  Speaker 2: the bunker buster, which the dust, as everyone talks about,
• 3:09:28
  Speaker 2: is we couldn't get it if we wanted to. I mean,
• 3:09:32
  Speaker 2: the bunker buster was effective. I don't know. I was
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 2: not up at night worried about the nuclear threat of Iran.
• 3:09:41
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even remotely worried about it. I think it's
• 3:09:44
  Speaker 2: to a large extent was you were somewhat duped into
• 3:09:49
  Speaker 2: this situation because of Netanyahu and Israel. Maybe they were
• 3:09:54
  Speaker 2: more worried about it than we were, but I don't
• 3:09:56
  Speaker 2: consider it to be a big threat to the United
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 2: States of America at all. And I think the bunker
• 3:10:01
  Speaker 2: buster was effective. And now you take a look at
• 3:10:05
  Speaker 2: the situation when you say, well, what if we would
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 2: have done nothing? Well, I'll tell you something. I don't
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 2: think that this was necessary at all. And if we
• 3:10:12
  Speaker 2: would do nothing, perhaps we wouldn't have the high inflation
• 3:10:15
  Speaker 2: that's affecting every American, high energy prices that's affecting every American,
• 3:10:20
  Speaker 2: and potentially a disaster when it comes to the midterms. Maybe,
• 3:10:24
  Speaker 2: maybe not.
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  Speaker 11: Well, those are all logical assumptions. Questions and responses, I
• 3:10:33
  Speaker 11: don't know, but I'm just like thinking, you know, Iran
• 3:10:37
  Speaker 11: was building up an incredible arsenal of conventional weapons, and
• 3:10:43
  Speaker 11: they just take that to the United States.
• 3:10:47
  Speaker 2: Or so they say.
• 3:10:48
  Speaker 11: There's somewhat of a comparison of what Germany did with everybody,
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 11: just let them go and then look how that resulted.
• 3:10:58
  Speaker 11: as well as Iran's incredible conventional powers or military powers
• 3:11:05
  Speaker 11: and what they could do to the world's economy as
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 11: it compares to international shipping through the strait.
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I think they're doing that right now. I mean,
• 3:11:19
  Speaker 2: the strait wasn't a problem before we did this situation,
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 2: now was it?
• 3:11:24
  Speaker 15: Well..
• 3:11:25
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 3:11:28
  Speaker 11: You're right, but what's the potential? You ignore it, and
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 11: then the entire world's economy, based on oil and things
• 3:11:37
  Speaker 11: like that, Iran would be almost invincible. You know, I'm
• 3:11:43
  Speaker 11: just throwing that out there for your..
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 2: Well, you can throw it out.
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 11: For your audience to say, discuss it. A little bit
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 11: of history looking backwards. What would happen with a small
• 3:11:53
  Speaker 11: country like Germany and a large country like Iran and
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 11: so much more aggressive?
• 3:12:00
  Speaker 2: That's a big mistake, in my opinion. You're on air.
• 3:12:04
  Speaker 30: Good evening, Rolando. You know, the budget you talked about,
• 3:12:08
  Speaker 30: $ 1. 5 trillion, that's not taking into account this present war
• 3:12:12
  Speaker 30: that's being fought on a credit card. We've talked a
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 30: couple times. How many months now?
• 3:12:17
  Speaker 5: A billion?
• 3:12:18
  Speaker 30: Somewhere around a billion a day? So put that on
• 3:12:22
  Speaker 30: top of the defense budget you're already talking about. And,
• 3:12:27
  Speaker 30: you know, Ron, I was stationed in Kuwait about a
• 3:12:31
  Speaker 30: year before, six months before the second Gulf War, and
• 3:12:35
  Speaker 30: George Bush Jr. decided to go in and take Saddam
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 30: Hussein out. And there was a tremendous buildup of troops there.
• 3:12:43
  Speaker 30: and I won't mention the particulars. I hope the statute
• 3:12:46
  Speaker 30: of limitations has gone by because I was involved. You
• 3:12:50
  Speaker 30: talk about money being made. Contracts for feeding, contracts for housing,
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 30: and when you house buildings, furniture, Ron, the contracts and
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 30: the amount of money that was passed around, unbelievable. And
• 3:13:09
  Speaker 30: what would happen, a lot of times a contract would
• 3:13:12
  Speaker 30: be given out, And then the contract with subcontract, subcontract, subcontract.
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 30: And it ended up a lot of third-party, third nationals
• 3:13:22
  Speaker 30: coming in doing substandard work. I don't know if you
• 3:13:24
  Speaker 30: remember or not, a couple of people got electrocuted in
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 30: substandard showers over there at the time.
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 36: Of course, that's.
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 30: Our own government's fault for not enforcing the standards. I'll
• 3:13:33
  Speaker 30: give you a specific example. I was involved with a
• 3:13:36
  Speaker 30: dining facility over there at an Air Force base. And
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 30: the contractor... He got a contract, and he was reimbursed
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 30: for the amount of people fed at each meal. So
• 3:13:48
  Speaker 30: there were maybe, let's just say around figures, there were
• 3:13:50
  Speaker 30: 1,000 people assigned to that base. And the contractor, almost
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 30: every meal, billed the government for 1,000 or very close
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 30: to 1,000. Now, I know doggone well, right, not almost
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 30: everybody didn't eat there every day, every meal. But that's
• 3:14:08
  Speaker 30: the way the billing went. And that's just one small example,
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 30: one base, one time. But war does make money. And
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 30: at that time, I think Dick Cheney, God rest his soul,
• 3:14:19
  Speaker 30: he was retired, I mean, out of office. But he
• 3:14:22
  Speaker 30: was with Brown and Root, Kellogg Brown and Root, some
• 3:14:25
  Speaker 30: big contracting company that did a lot of work for
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 30: the government. Yeah, I'm sorry to say that there's a
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 30: lot of money being made in war and sacrifice, and
• 3:14:36
  Speaker 30: it's always been that way. And I hope it's not always,
• 3:14:39
  Speaker 30: but it kind of looks that way. You know, the
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 30: people do make a lot of money in war.
• 3:14:43
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. Beware Eisenhower, the military-industrial complex, right?
• 3:14:49
  Speaker 30: Yeah, I saw it, Ron. I saw it. You know,
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 30: gifts would be exchanged if somebody got a contract. You
• 3:14:56
  Speaker 30: meet this important person from Kuwait. We'll go out to dinner.
• 3:15:00
  Speaker 30: We'll go here. And, you know, like I say, I
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 30: hope the statute of limitations has gone by. I might
• 3:15:05
  Speaker 30: get divulged in my name or address. I don't want
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 30: them to come grab me. But I saw it, and
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 30: I was part of it. I mean, I didn't turn
• 3:15:12
  Speaker 30: it in to anybody, but I saw what was going on.
• 3:15:15
  Speaker 30: One little note of interest today, too, I saw on
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 30: the news, and I'm not sure if too many people
• 3:15:21
  Speaker 30: have seen or heard of it, Today, Russia announced, I
• 3:15:24
  Speaker 30: think it was today, Russia announced they are no longer
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 30: going to export diesel fuel. And Russia is one of
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 30: the largest suppliers of diesel, gasoline, oil, so forth and
• 3:15:35
  Speaker 30: so on. I guess they decided there's going to be
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 30: a shortage or whatever, so they are no longer going
• 3:15:40
  Speaker 30: to export diesel. And as we all know, it's a
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 30: global market, correct? So that probably can't be a good thing.
• 3:15:50
  Speaker 2: I would think not. I don't think any of this
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 2: latest happenings in this situation are good at all.
• 3:15:57
  Speaker 30: And, you know, 7,000 years, Iranians have been negotiating. And
• 3:16:02
  Speaker 30: we have two real estate people there, Jared Kushner, and
• 3:16:06
  Speaker 30: I forget the other gentleman's name. Well, the people in Iran,
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 30: 7,000 years, they were with Alexander the Great. They negotiated
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 30: with him, the British, the French, the Ottomans. We don't
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 30: understand their culture. We were celebrating 250 years. They're 6,000,
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 30: 7,000 years, you know. And the three things, the Strait
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 30: of Hormuz, the regime change, and the nuclear capabilities, well,
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 30: I know two out of three are probably the same
• 3:16:37
  Speaker 30: or worse, and I'm betting all three because you have
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 30: a more hardline government in there now. The Strait of
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 30: Hormuz was doing pretty good before the war. And the
• 3:16:46
  Speaker 30: nuclear stuff, I don't think we've touched that too much.
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 30: So the three big guys. in my book have either
• 3:16:51
  Speaker 30: been the same or were worse off.
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. Thank you for your call. Appreciate it.
• 3:16:58
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 3:17:00
  Speaker 12: Hello?
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 3:17:02
  Speaker 15: Hey, I wanted to add a few things that I
• 3:17:05
  Speaker 15: heard today. I'm a firm believer in that an ounce
• 3:17:08
  Speaker 15: of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So, yeah,
• 3:17:12
  Speaker 15: I think Iran does need knocked down a peg and
• 3:17:16
  Speaker 15: taken out so they can't control that kind of stuff
• 3:17:21
  Speaker 15: by when they start saber-rattling and or have a nuclear weapon.
• 3:17:25
  Speaker 15: The just prior caller, when he was discussing about Kellogg
• 3:17:28
  Speaker 15: Brown and Root, the government contracts in regards to Private
• 3:17:35
  Speaker 15: companies operating military bases, a lot of times it's a
• 3:17:39
  Speaker 15: no-bid contract, or if they put it up for contract,
• 3:17:42
  Speaker 15: you have to be able to prove to the government
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 15: that you can do the job in accordance with the
• 3:17:50
  Speaker 15: bid or the price. So KBR has been doing business
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 15: with the government and the military since probably the Vietnam War.
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 15: So I don't know if there's too many other companies
• 3:17:59
  Speaker 15: out there that can actually do.
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 5: What they do.
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 15: They mean they run the bases. they run all the
• 3:18:03
  Speaker 15: big forward bases out there, just like civilian infrastructure would.
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 15: So as far as like the meals and whatnot, if
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 15: your base has X amount of soldiers attached to it,
• 3:18:17
  Speaker 15: you're going to have to purchase food and supplies to
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 15: match all the people that are on that base, not
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 15: to mention all the transients that come in and out
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 15: during the day, other units coming in, convoys, you know,
• 3:18:29
  Speaker 15: that take advantage of the services that base has. They
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 15: also have a sign, and when you go to the
• 3:18:34
  Speaker 15: defect to get your meal, you have to put your
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 15: name and rank and all that before you get in
• 3:18:39
  Speaker 15: line to get your food. And they tally those sheets
• 3:18:42
  Speaker 15: up by how many people they serve per day. So
• 3:18:46
  Speaker 15: that might add a little bit of light to what
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 15: he just said. And one other thing. I think Fort
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 15: Lauderdale Frank needs a new name. I think we should
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 15: call him Pat Bragadocious. because I have never heard anyone
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 15: so so arrogant and condescending about everything it's like you
• 3:19:13
  Speaker 15: hate Trump that's fine but you know you're bragging about
• 3:19:18
  Speaker 15: how much money you make how much you did how
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 15: much you didn't do that's like you know that's all
• 3:19:24
  Speaker 15: he does he makes money and you know It's just great.
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 15: I sometimes turn your show off whenever I hear him
• 3:19:34
  Speaker 15: call because I just can't hear his voice anymore. But
• 3:19:37
  Speaker 15: it's like, you know what, if he was as good
• 3:19:40
  Speaker 15: as he said he was, why isn't he the chair
• 3:19:43
  Speaker 15: of the Federal Reserve or in the government?
• 3:19:47
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that you're taking him, in my opinion,
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 2: out of context. He's merely saying that he has taken
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 2: advantage of when the market is way down today because
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 2: of what is happening as a result of the Iran situation.
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 2: And he's merely saying that he bought a bunch of
• 3:20:06
  Speaker 2: stuff today that, as many other people have done, who
• 3:20:10
  Speaker 2: are making a bunch of money over this situation, but
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 2: the rest of the country is suffering from tremendous inflation
• 3:20:18
  Speaker 2: as a result of it. I think that was his
• 3:20:20
  Speaker 2: main point. His main point was there's plenty of people
• 3:20:23
  Speaker 2: making money on this, and that's not necessarily a good thing,
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 2: including himself, because many people are suffering as a result
• 3:20:29
  Speaker 2: of it as you see gas prices go back up
• 3:20:32
  Speaker 2: and inflation continue to be a major issue. I thought
• 3:20:36
  Speaker 2: that was what his point was. At least that's how
• 3:20:40
  Speaker 2: I interpreted what he was having to say. And there's
• 3:20:44
  Speaker 2: no end in sight to this. There's absolutely no end
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 2: in sight.
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 15: He's made assertions before about other stuff too.
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 15: And I mean, I would much rather, again, pay a
• 3:20:54
  Speaker 15: little bit more for fuel in the short term, knowing
• 3:20:57
  Speaker 15: that Iran will no longer be able to have a
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 15: stranglehold on that market. Being nuclear armed.
• 3:21:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think you think the bunker
• 3:21:05
  Speaker 2: buster work it worked. I was I was not in
• 3:21:08
  Speaker 2: the least bit concerned about what about our own American intelligence,
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 2: which which said that there wasn't reason to be concerned
• 3:21:16
  Speaker 2: about it. What about what about the bunker buster? What
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 2: about all of that? What about when they said done?
• 3:21:22
  Speaker 2: It's over. Saddle up. Let's ride home. All of a sudden,
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 2: everything changed? What makes you think that the information you
• 3:21:30
  Speaker 2: got for this particular situation was wise and you're willing
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 2: to pay for a short period of time? What's a
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 2: short period of time? A year?
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 18: Two years?
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 2: Three years? Five years? Define a short period of time.
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 15: I would say within one year would be..
• 3:21:47
  Speaker 2: Well, there's no end in sight, is there? What's the
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 2: exit strategy?
• 3:21:53
  Speaker 15: The exit strategy probably should be complete and total regime
• 3:21:57
  Speaker 15: change in Iran.
• 3:21:59
  Speaker 2: Well, how do you do that? How successful have we
• 3:22:02
  Speaker 2: been at that in the Middle East on any of that?
• 3:22:06
  Speaker 15: You need to put more pressure on the regime. As
• 3:22:10
  Speaker 15: much as I hate to say it, they're going to
• 3:22:12
  Speaker 15: have to take out the infrastructure. They're going to have
• 3:22:14
  Speaker 15: to take out the bridges, the roads, and the power stations.
• 3:22:18
  Speaker 15: Because the IRGC there, they're petrified, I think, of their
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 15: own citizens because they're going to be taken out first.
• 3:22:27
  Speaker 15: So right now, they still have the ability to control
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 15: their population through their media and through their forces on
• 3:22:35
  Speaker 15: the ground. But when the lights go out, they're going
• 3:22:39
  Speaker 15: to be hard-pressed. They're going to have to put the
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 15: lights back on and provide services to the people. So
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 15: they're not going to be able to screw around with
• 3:22:45
  Speaker 15: the rest of the world when they're busy covering their
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 15: own tails.
• 3:22:51
  Speaker 2: And that would give.
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 15: More incentive for the people there to revolt against their government, too.
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, do they have guns, the people
• 3:22:58
  Speaker 2: that want to revolt?
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 15: I don't believe so.
• 3:23:01
  Speaker 2: Right, so it's a little hard to revolt. You know,
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 2: you can go out and revolt, and once you shoot
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 2: six people in the head and they drop over dead,
• 3:23:08
  Speaker 2: the revolt stops pretty quick, doesn't it? At least apparently
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 2: it did in the past. And secondly, what makes you
• 3:23:15
  Speaker 2: think they're thinking like you? I saw, I don't know
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 2: about you, I saw... thousands of people at this funeral
• 3:23:23
  Speaker 2: or whatever event they just had for the Supreme Leader.
• 3:23:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, what makes you think that they're buying into
• 3:23:31
  Speaker 2: what you're saying, that they want regime change? Maybe they don't.
• 3:23:36
  Speaker 15: That's a possibility, but I would hazard a guess that
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 15: they do.
• 3:23:40
  Speaker 14: All right, we'll see.
• 3:23:41
  Speaker 2: Well, hi there. This is Dan. Back to our news radio,
• 3:23:44
  Speaker 2: 570 WKBN and Ron. Verb 506 here. In the afternoon,
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 2: some quick calls. G2 coming up. You're on the air. Hello. Yes.
• 3:23:54
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 3:23:55
  Speaker 11: First-time caller, Vince 2.
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 3:23:59
  Speaker 11: I just want to do a little bit of history.
• 3:24:03
  Speaker 11: Maybe you can research it. I'm not an expert, but,
• 3:24:07
  Speaker 11: you know, the correlation between Germany during the buildup of
• 3:24:11
  Speaker 11: their army and armed forces before World War II They
• 3:24:16
  Speaker 11: were limited in their oil and resources as compared to Iran.
• 3:24:21
  Speaker 11: There's a much larger nation and much more resources. The
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 11: world put their head in the sand, so to speak,
• 3:24:33
  Speaker 11: and they never really stepped on Germany, and look what
• 3:24:38
  Speaker 11: happened to that. With Iran much stronger and much more aggressive,
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 11: What would become of the world if, you know, the
• 3:24:51
  Speaker 11: United States hadn't stepped up? I'll let you go. And
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 11: just a little bit of your audience on that. I
• 3:25:00
  Speaker 11: appreciate to hear that. Thanks so much.
• 3:25:03
  Speaker 2: So before you hang up and go, what are you saying?
• 3:25:05
  Speaker 2: That if we wouldn't have done anything?
• 3:25:08
  Speaker 31: Well, yes.
• 3:25:09
  Speaker 11: I'm sort of.
• 3:25:13
  Speaker 2: I'll answer your question. I don't know that anything would
• 3:25:16
  Speaker 2: be different. I mean, first of all, when I hear
• 3:25:18
  Speaker 2: the comparisons between Germany in World War II and Iran,
• 3:25:23
  Speaker 2: maybe they just don't make a connection with me. When
• 3:25:26
  Speaker 2: I look at this particular situation, I mean, you remember
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 2: the bunker buster, which the dust, as everyone talks about, is...
• 3:25:34
  Speaker 2: We couldn't get it if we wanted to. I mean,
• 3:25:36
  Speaker 2: a bunker buster was effective. I don't know. I was
• 3:25:40
  Speaker 2: not up at night worried about the nuclear threat of Iran.
• 3:25:45
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even remotely worried about it. I think it's
• 3:25:49
  Speaker 2: to a large extent was you were somewhat duped into
• 3:25:54
  Speaker 2: this situation because of Netanyahu and Israel. Maybe they were
• 3:25:59
  Speaker 2: more worried about it than we were, but I don't
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 2: consider it to be a big threat to the United
• 3:26:03
  Speaker 2: States of America at all. And I think the bunker
• 3:26:06
  Speaker 2: buster was effective. And now you take a look at
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 2: the situation when you say, well, what if we would
• 3:26:12
  Speaker 2: have done nothing? Well, I'll tell you something. I don't
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 2: think that this was necessary at all. And if we
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 2: would do nothing, perhaps we wouldn't have the high inflation
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 2: that's affecting every American, high energy prices that's affecting every American.
• 3:26:25
  Speaker 2: And potentially a disaster when it comes to the midterms. Maybe,
• 3:26:29
  Speaker 2: maybe not.
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah, well, those are all logical questions and responses. I
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 11: don't know, but I'm just like... thinking, you know, Iran
• 3:26:42
  Speaker 11: was building up an incredible arsenal of conventional weapons, and
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 11: they just hate the United States. There's somewhat of a
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 11: comparison of what Germany did, With everybody, just let them
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 11: go and then look how that resulted, as well as
• 3:27:03
  Speaker 11: Iran's incredible conventional powers or military powers and what they
• 3:27:10
  Speaker 11: could do to the world's economy as it compares to
• 3:27:16
  Speaker 11: international shipping through the strait.
• 3:27:20
  Speaker 2: I think they're doing that right now. I mean, the
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 2: Strait wasn't a problem before we did this situation, now
• 3:27:27
  Speaker 2: was it? Well... There you go.
• 3:27:32
  Speaker 11: You're right, but what's the potential? You ignore it, and
• 3:27:37
  Speaker 11: then the entire world's economy... based on oil and things
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 11: like that, you know, Iran would be almost invincible. You know,
• 3:27:47
  Speaker 11: I'm just throwing that out there for your audience to say,
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 11: discuss it. A little bit of history looking backwards. What
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 11: would happen with a small country like Germany and a
• 3:28:00
  Speaker 11: large country like Iran and so much more aggressive?
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 2: It's a big mistake, in my opinion. You're on the air.
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 30: Good evening rollo you know the budget you talked about
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 30: at one point five trillion that's not taking into account
• 3:28:16
  Speaker 30: this present war that's being fought on a credit card
• 3:28:19
  Speaker 30: we've talked a couple times how many months now a
• 3:28:22
  Speaker 30: billion somewhere on a billion a day so put that
• 3:28:26
  Speaker 30: onto that on top of the defense budget you're already
• 3:28:29
  Speaker 30: talking about You know, Ron, I was stationed in Kuwait
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 30: about a year before, six months before the second Gulf War,
• 3:28:39
  Speaker 30: and George Bush Jr. decided to go in and take
• 3:28:42
  Speaker 30: out Saddam Hussein. And there was a tremendous buildup of troops.
• 3:28:48
  Speaker 30: And I won't mention the particulars. I hope the statute
• 3:28:51
  Speaker 30: of limitations has gone by because I was involved. You
• 3:28:55
  Speaker 30: talk about money being made, contracts for feeding people, contracts
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 30: for housing, and when you house buildings, furniture, Ron, the
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 30: contracts and the amount of money that was passed around, unbelievable.
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 30: And what would happen, a lot of times a contract
• 3:29:16
  Speaker 30: would be given out, and then the contract would subcontract, subcontract, subcontract,
• 3:29:22
  Speaker 30: and it ended up a lot of third party, third nationals,
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 30: coming in doing substandard work. I don't know if you remember,
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 30: but a couple of people got electrocuted in substandard showers
• 3:29:32
  Speaker 30: over there at the time. Of course, that's our own
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 30: government's fault for not enforcing the standards. I'll give you
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 30: a specific example. I was involved with a dining facility
• 3:29:41
  Speaker 30: over there at an Air Force base, and the contractor,
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 30: he got a contract, and he was reimbursed for the
• 3:29:49
  Speaker 30: amount of people fed at each meal. So there may be,
• 3:29:53
  Speaker 30: let's just say around, figures there are 1,000 people assigned
• 3:29:56
  Speaker 30: to that base. And the contractor, almost every meal, billed
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 30: the government for 1,000 or very close to 1,000. Now,
• 3:30:05
  Speaker 30: I know, doggone well, right, not almost everybody did eat
• 3:30:10
  Speaker 30: there every day, every meal. But that's the way the
• 3:30:13
  Speaker 30: billing went. And that's just one small example, one base,
• 3:30:17
  Speaker 30: one time. War does make money. And at that time,
• 3:30:22
  Speaker 30: I think Dick Cheney, God rest his soul, he was retired,
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 30: I mean, out of office, but he was with Brown
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 30: and Root, Kellogg Brown and Root, some big contracting company
• 3:30:32
  Speaker 30: that did a lot of work for the government. Yeah,
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 30: I'm sorry to say that there's a lot of money
• 3:30:37
  Speaker 30: being made in war and sacrifice, and it's always been
• 3:30:41
  Speaker 30: that way, and I hope it's not always, but it
• 3:30:44
  Speaker 30: kind of works that way. You know, the people do
• 3:30:46
  Speaker 30: make a lot of money in war.
• 3:30:47
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. Eisenhower, the military-industrial complex, right?
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 30: I saw it, Ron. I saw it. Gifts would be
• 3:30:57
  Speaker 30: exchanged if somebody got a contract. You meet this important
• 3:31:02
  Speaker 30: person from Kuwait. We'll go out to dinner. We'll go here.
• 3:31:07
  Speaker 30: Like I said, I hope the statute of limitations has
• 3:31:09
  Speaker 30: gone by. I might get divulged in my name or address.
• 3:31:11
  Speaker 30: I don't want them to come grab me. But I
• 3:31:14
  Speaker 30: saw it, and I was part of it. I didn't
• 3:31:16
  Speaker 30: turn it in to anybody, but I saw what was
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 30: going on. Well, one little note of interest today, too,
• 3:31:22
  Speaker 30: I saw on the news, and I'm not sure if
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 30: too many people have seen or heard of it. Today,
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 30: Russia announced, I think it was today, Russia announced they
• 3:31:30
  Speaker 30: are no longer going to export diesel fuel. And Russia
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 30: is one of the largest suppliers of diesel, gasoline, oil,
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 30: so forth and so on. I guess they decided there's
• 3:31:41
  Speaker 30: going to be a shortage or whatever, so they are
• 3:31:44
  Speaker 30: no longer going to export diesel fuel. And as we
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 30: all know, it's a global market, correct? So that probably
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 30: can't be a good thing.
• 3:31:54
  Speaker 2: I would think not. I don't think any of the
• 3:31:58
  Speaker 2: latest happenings in this situation are good at all.
• 3:32:01
  Speaker 30: And, you know, 7,000 years, Iranians have been negotiating, and
• 3:32:06
  Speaker 30: we have two real estate people there, Jared Kushner, and
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 30: I forget the other gentleman's name, all the people in Iran,
• 3:32:14
  Speaker 30: 7,000 years, they were with Alexander the Great, They negotiated
• 3:32:18
  Speaker 30: with him, the British, the French, the Ottomans. We don't
• 3:32:21
  Speaker 30: understand their culture. We were celebrating 250 years. They're 6,000,
• 3:32:28
  Speaker 30: 7,000 years, you know. And the three things, the Strait
• 3:32:34
  Speaker 30: of Hormuz, the regime change, and the nuclear capabilities, well,
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 30: I know two out of three are probably the same
• 3:32:41
  Speaker 30: or worse, and I'm betting all three because you have
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 30: a more hardline government in there now. The Strait of
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 30: Hormuz was doing pretty good before the war, and the
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 30: nuclear stuff, I don't think we've cut that too much.
• 3:32:53
  Speaker 30: So the three big items in my book have either
• 3:32:56
  Speaker 30: been the same.
• 3:32:57
  Speaker 8: Or were worse off.
• 3:32:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. Thank you for your call.
• 3:33:02
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 3:33:03
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 3:33:03
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 3:33:05
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 15: I wanted to add a few things that I heard today.
• 3:33:11
  Speaker 15: I'm a firm believer in that an ounce of prevention
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 15: is worth a pound of cure. So, yeah, I think
• 3:33:18
  Speaker 15: Iran does need knocked down a peg and taken out
• 3:33:22
  Speaker 15: so they can't control that kind of stuff by when
• 3:33:26
  Speaker 15: they start saber-rattling and or have a nuclear weapon. The
• 3:33:30
  Speaker 15: just prior caller, when he was discussing about Kellogg Brown
• 3:33:33
  Speaker 15: and Root, the government contracts in regards to private companies
• 3:33:40
  Speaker 15: operating military bases is that a lot of times it's
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 15: a no-bid contract, or if they put it up for contract,
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 15: you have to be able to prove to the government
• 3:33:50
  Speaker 15: that you can do the job in accordance with the
• 3:33:55
  Speaker 15: bid or the price. So KBR has been doing business
• 3:33:58
  Speaker 15: with the government and the military since probably the Vietnam War.
• 3:34:02
  Speaker 15: So I don't know if there's too many other companies
• 3:34:04
  Speaker 15: out there that can actually do what they do. They
• 3:34:06
  Speaker 15: run the bases. they run all the big forward bases
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 15: out there, just like civilian infrastructure would. So as far
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 15: as like the meals and whatnot, if your base has
• 3:34:19
  Speaker 15: X amount of soldiers attached to it, you're going to
• 3:34:22
  Speaker 15: have to purchase food and supplies to match all the
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 15: people that are on that base, not to mention all
• 3:34:28
  Speaker 15: the trenches that come in and out during the day,
• 3:34:31
  Speaker 15: other units coming in, convoys, you know, that take advantage
• 3:34:34
  Speaker 15: of the services that base has. They also have a sign,
• 3:34:38
  Speaker 15: and when you go to the defect to get your meal,
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 15: you have to put your name and rank and all
• 3:34:42
  Speaker 15: that before you get in line to get your food.
• 3:34:46
  Speaker 15: And they tally those sheets up by how many people
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 15: they serve per day. So that might add a little
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 15: bit of light to what he just said. And one
• 3:34:57
  Speaker 15: other thing. I think Fort Lauderdale Frank needs a new name.
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 15: I think we should call him Pat Bragadocious. because I
• 3:35:08
  Speaker 15: have never heard anyone so so arrogant and condescending about
• 3:35:16
  Speaker 15: everything it's like you hate Trump that's fine but you
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 15: know you're bragging about how much money you make how
• 3:35:24
  Speaker 15: much you did how much you didn't do that's like
• 3:35:27
  Speaker 15: you know that's all he does he makes money and
• 3:35:32
  Speaker 15: you know It's just great. I sometimes turn your show
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 15: off whenever I hear him call because I just can't
• 3:35:40
  Speaker 15: hear his voice anymore. But it's like, you know what?
• 3:35:44
  Speaker 15: If he was as good as he said he was,
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 15: why isn't he the chair of the Federal Reserve? or
• 3:35:50
  Speaker 15: in the government making those kinds of decisions.
• 3:35:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know that you're taking him, in my opinion,
• 3:35:56
  Speaker 2: out of context. He's merely saying that he has taken
• 3:36:00
  Speaker 2: advantage of when the market is way down today because
• 3:36:03
  Speaker 2: of what is happening as a result of the Iran situation.
• 3:36:09
  Speaker 2: And he's merely saying that he bought a bunch of
• 3:36:11
  Speaker 2: stuff today that, As many other people have done who
• 3:36:14
  Speaker 2: are making a bunch of money over this situation, but
• 3:36:18
  Speaker 2: the rest of the country is suffering from tremendous inflation
• 3:36:23
  Speaker 2: as a result of it. I think that was his
• 3:36:25
  Speaker 2: main point. His main point was there's plenty of people
• 3:36:28
  Speaker 2: making money on this, and that's not... necessarily a good
• 3:36:31
  Speaker 2: thing including himself because many people are suffering as a
• 3:36:34
  Speaker 2: result of it as you see gas prices go back
• 3:36:36
  Speaker 2: up and inflation continue to be a major issue i
• 3:36:40
  Speaker 2: thought i thought that was what his point was that
• 3:36:44
  Speaker 2: at least that's how i interpreted what he was having
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 2: to say and uh There's no end in sight to this.
• 3:36:50
  Speaker 2: There's absolutely no end in sight.
• 3:36:51
  Speaker 15: There's assertions before about other stuff, too.
• 3:36:55
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 3:36:55
  Speaker 15: And, I mean, I would much rather, again, pay a
• 3:36:59
  Speaker 15: little bit more for fuel in the short term, knowing
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 15: that Iran will no longer be able to have a
• 3:37:03
  Speaker 15: stranglehold on that market being nuclear-armed.
• 3:37:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think– didn't you think the bunker buster worked?
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 2: I was not in the least bit concerned. What about
• 3:37:16
  Speaker 2: our own American intelligence, which said that there wasn't reason
• 3:37:20
  Speaker 2: to be concerned about it? What about the bunker buster?
• 3:37:24
  Speaker 2: What about all of that? What about when they said, done,
• 3:37:27
  Speaker 2: it's over, saddle up, let's ride home? All of a sudden,
• 3:37:31
  Speaker 2: everything changed? What makes you think that the information you
• 3:37:34
  Speaker 2: got for this particular situation was wise and you're willing
• 3:37:38
  Speaker 2: to pay for a short period of time? What's a
• 3:37:40
  Speaker 2: short period of time?
• 3:37:42
  Speaker 9: A year?
• 3:37:43
  Speaker 2: Two years? Three years? Five years? Define a short period
• 3:37:47
  Speaker 2: of time.
• 3:37:48
  Speaker 15: I would say within one year would be..
• 3:37:52
  Speaker 2: Well, there's no end in sight, is there? What's the
• 3:37:54
  Speaker 2: exit strategy?
• 3:37:57
  Speaker 15: The exit strategy probably should be complete and total regime
• 3:38:02
  Speaker 15: change in Iran.
• 3:38:03
  Speaker 2: Well, how do you do that? How successful have we
• 3:38:06
  Speaker 2: been at that in the Middle East on any of that?
• 3:38:11
  Speaker 15: That you need to put more pressure on the regime
• 3:38:13
  Speaker 15: when as what did i hate to say that they're
• 3:38:16
  Speaker 15: going to have to take out the infrastructure they're going
• 3:38:19
  Speaker 15: to pick out the bridges the roads in the power
• 3:38:21
  Speaker 15: stations because the the higher gc there they're petrified i
• 3:38:26
  Speaker 15: think of their own citizens because they're going to be
• 3:38:29
  Speaker 15: taken out first so right now well how are they
• 3:38:33
  Speaker 15: going to be taken out they hit they still have
• 3:38:35
  Speaker 15: the ability to control their population through their media and
• 3:38:38
  Speaker 15: through their forces on the ground But when the lights
• 3:38:41
  Speaker 15: go out, they're going to be hard-pressed. They're going to
• 3:38:45
  Speaker 15: have to put the lights back on and provide services
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 15: to the people. So they're not going to be able
• 3:38:49
  Speaker 15: to screw around with the rest of the world when
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 15: they're busy covering their own tails.
• 3:38:55
  Speaker 2: And that would give more.
• 3:38:57
  Speaker 15: Incentive for the people there to revolt against their government, too.
• 3:39:01
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, do they have guns, the people
• 3:39:03
  Speaker 2: that want to revolt?
• 3:39:05
  Speaker 15: I don't believe so.
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 2: Right, so it's a little hard to revolt. You know,
• 3:39:08
  Speaker 2: you can go out and revolt, and once you shoot
• 3:39:10
  Speaker 2: six people in the head and they drop over dead,
• 3:39:12
  Speaker 2: the revolt stops pretty quick, doesn't it? At least apparently
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 2: it did in the past. And secondly, what makes you
• 3:39:19
  Speaker 2: think they're thinking like you? I saw, I don't know
• 3:39:22
  Speaker 2: about you, I saw thousands of people at this funeral
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 2: or whatever event they just had for the Supreme Leader.
• 3:39:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, what makes you think that they're buying into
• 3:39:36
  Speaker 2: what you're saying, that they want regime change? Maybe they don't.
• 3:39:40
  Speaker 15: That's a possibility, but I would hazard a guess that
• 3:39:43
  Speaker 15: they do.
• 3:39:43
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll see.
• 3:39:45
  Speaker 15: Good evening, Ron.
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 1: How are you doing? Good.
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 10: Comments about some of the previous callers?
• 3:40:03
  Speaker 12: I think it was great to get some of those
• 3:40:06
  Speaker 12: thoughts into the mix. I mean, the gentleman is talking
• 3:40:10
  Speaker 12: about Iran versus Germany and whether it was ignored or
• 3:40:14
  Speaker 12: not ignored. Of course, Iran has been under sanctions for
• 3:40:16
  Speaker 12: a long time. You know, there was this war last year,
• 3:40:20
  Speaker 12: which lasted only 12 days, but where the nuclear weapons
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 12: infrastructure was attacked and we were told destroyed. So Iran
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 12: wasn't being ignored, and they didn't have the economic might
• 3:40:38
  Speaker 12: and industrial might that would allow them to become a
• 3:40:42
  Speaker 12: major power. Looking at Iranian military capability pre-this second war, right,
• 3:40:51
  Speaker 12: like up until now, you remember when they attacked Israel
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 12: back in 2025, and they had virtually no impact. So
• 3:40:59
  Speaker 12: their ability to project power outwardly was really constrained. Otherwise,
• 3:41:05
  Speaker 12: they would have done a lot more damage in Israel
• 3:41:08
  Speaker 12: in 25. And even since then, they do have a
• 3:41:12
  Speaker 12: large supply of these missiles, these sort of intermediate missiles
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 12: and drones and things, and that's allowed them to do
• 3:41:18
  Speaker 12: a lot of damage around the region. But it's not
• 3:41:21
  Speaker 12: the kind of damage that a superpower could do, right?
• 3:41:26
  Speaker 6: And..
• 3:41:28
  Speaker 12: And so I don't think they were ignored. I think
• 3:41:30
  Speaker 12: they've been constrained through sanctions and through attacks over time.
• 3:41:36
  Speaker 12: And they've been monitored very closely. As we know, one
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 12: of the most senior generals in the Iranian IRGC was
• 3:41:45
  Speaker 12: a Mossad spy who's now living in Israel. So it's
• 3:41:51
  Speaker 12: an interesting point to make, but I think the comparison
• 3:41:54
  Speaker 12: is limited. With regard to the idea that if we
• 3:41:58
  Speaker 12: didn't do something to Iran, they might rise up again,
• 3:42:02
  Speaker 12: I think it's the same point. Their ability to project
• 3:42:06
  Speaker 12: power outwardly was limited. It doesn't seem like any of
• 3:42:09
  Speaker 12: their allies, these people they were trading oil with or Russia,
• 3:42:12
  Speaker 12: they weren't building them up to be nuclear power. They
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 12: seemed to be stalled out on that front. So I
• 3:42:23
  Speaker 12: just don't see Iran having been the kind of... threat
• 3:42:29
  Speaker 12: that maybe we've been told they were. Either way, now
• 3:42:32
  Speaker 12: we're in the fight. So then you turn to this question,
• 3:42:35
  Speaker 12: what do we do about it? And I know one
• 3:42:38
  Speaker 12: of those guys, one of those callers just mentioned regime.
• 3:42:40
  Speaker 12: Those were great calls, by the way, because they're bringing,
• 3:42:42
  Speaker 12: you know, these are all important questions to be talking about.
• 3:42:46
  Speaker 12: And we've talked a lot about this issue of regime change,
• 3:42:49
  Speaker 12: how hard that's going to be. The people that I've
• 3:42:52
  Speaker 12: asked that question to who are experts are telling me,
• 3:42:56
  Speaker 12: Any regime change in Iran has to come from inside, right?
• 3:42:59
  Speaker 12: I mean, we're not going to launch a ground war.
• 3:43:03
  Speaker 12: But now that we're past this round of negotiations, clearly
• 3:43:06
  Speaker 12: they didn't work. Whether you want us to be in
• 3:43:10
  Speaker 12: this war or not, we're in this war. Something now
• 3:43:13
  Speaker 12: has to happen to resolve this conflict. I come back
• 3:43:16
  Speaker 12: to what we talked about the other day. The only
• 3:43:19
  Speaker 12: course forward that I can see now is that whatever
• 3:43:23
  Speaker 12: Trump and Israel can do, to neutralize the IRGC, they're
• 3:43:27
  Speaker 12: going to have to do it. Because the IRGC isn't
• 3:43:29
  Speaker 12: just the military, right? They have a huge position in
• 3:43:32
  Speaker 12: the Iranian economy. Just like the People's Liberation Army has
• 3:43:36
  Speaker 12: a huge position in the Chinese economy, and the United
• 3:43:39
  Speaker 12: States military has a huge position in the U.S. economy
• 3:43:43
  Speaker 12: through either contracts of procurement or direct investment in people like,
• 3:43:48
  Speaker 12: agencies like DARPA, you know, the Advanced Research Facility or group.
• 3:43:53
  Speaker 14: In u.s.
• 3:43:53
  Speaker 12: Military that invested in things like bio and tech to
• 3:43:56
  Speaker 12: you know leading up to the covet attack so all
• 3:44:00
  Speaker 12: these militaries are integrated but the iranian military is as
• 3:44:03
  Speaker 12: well they control a lot of that arraigning economy so
• 3:44:07
  Speaker 12: it's gonna have to be a combination and whatever effect
• 3:44:09
  Speaker 12: it can have is what it's gonna have to have
• 3:44:11
  Speaker 12: it's gonna be a combination of devastating constant attacks on
• 3:44:17
  Speaker 12: irgc infrastructure and a and a and a lockdown that
• 3:44:20
  Speaker 12: prevents Iran from selling oil or exporting goods or importing goods.
• 3:44:25
  Speaker 12: They're going to have to be isolated. I think there
• 3:44:28
  Speaker 12: have been a couple of attacks on the other side
• 3:44:30
  Speaker 12: of the country, right, not by the Gulf, but on
• 3:44:32
  Speaker 12: the backside. So there's some rail lines and things that
• 3:44:35
  Speaker 12: are being disrupted. That's essential. This is just going to
• 3:44:39
  Speaker 12: have to be a country that gets completely isolated so
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 12: that it becomes desperate. I know people think, well, you know, gee,
• 3:44:46
  Speaker 12: the Taliban, you know, they didn't have much of an
• 3:44:49
  Speaker 12: economy and they were okay.
• 3:44:51
  Speaker 3: Well, that's true.
• 3:44:52
  Speaker 12: But here what you have is a country that's accustomed
• 3:44:55
  Speaker 12: to shipping oil. They depend on those oil shipments. Their
• 3:44:59
  Speaker 12: economy depends on those oil shipments. They're accustomed to doing
• 3:45:03
  Speaker 12: trade at a level that Afghanistan probably wasn't. And so
• 3:45:09
  Speaker 12: when you take that away, yeah, that's a problem, because
• 3:45:12
  Speaker 12: they've got folks in that country who make a lot
• 3:45:13
  Speaker 12: of money. They've got to pay a lot of people,
• 3:45:16
  Speaker 12: like the IRGC.
• 3:45:16
  Speaker 5: You cannot..
• 3:45:21
  Speaker 12: Hurt their economy so aggressively and have it not have
• 3:45:24
  Speaker 12: an impact.
• 3:45:25
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Ron. How are you doing? I think it
• 3:45:27
  Speaker 2: was great to get some of those thoughts into the mix.
• 3:45:29
  Speaker 12: I mean, On the gentleman that's talking about Iran versus
• 3:45:53
  Speaker 12: Germany and whether it was ignored or not ignored, of course,
• 3:45:55
  Speaker 12: Iran has been under sanctions for a long time. You know,
• 3:45:59
  Speaker 12: there was this war last year, which lasted only 12 days,
• 3:46:03
  Speaker 12: but where the nuclear weapons infrastructure was attacked and we
• 3:46:08
  Speaker 12: were told destroyed. So Iran wasn't being ignored, and they
• 3:46:16
  Speaker 12: didn't have the economic might and industrial might that would
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 12: allow them to become a major power. Looking at Iranian
• 3:46:27
  Speaker 12: military capability pre this second war, right, like up until now,
• 3:46:33
  Speaker 12: you remember when they attacked Israel back in 2025, and
• 3:46:36
  Speaker 12: they had virtually no impact. So their ability to project
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 12: power outwardly was really constrained. Otherwise, they would have done
• 3:46:46
  Speaker 12: a lot more damage in Israel in 25. And even
• 3:46:49
  Speaker 12: since then, they do have a large supply of these missiles,
• 3:46:54
  Speaker 12: these sort of intermediate missiles and drones and things, and
• 3:46:57
  Speaker 12: that's allowed them to do a lot of damage around
• 3:47:00
  Speaker 12: the region. But it's not the kind of damage that
• 3:47:03
  Speaker 12: a superpower could do, right? And And so I don't
• 3:47:09
  Speaker 12: think they were ignored. I think they've been constrained through
• 3:47:13
  Speaker 12: sanctions and through attacks over time. And they've been monitored
• 3:47:17
  Speaker 12: very closely. As we know, one of the most senior
• 3:47:21
  Speaker 12: generals in the Iranian IRGC was a Mossad spy who's
• 3:47:26
  Speaker 12: now living in Israel. So it's an interesting point to make,
• 3:47:33
  Speaker 12: but I think the comparison is limited. With regard to
• 3:47:37
  Speaker 12: the idea that if we didn't do something to Iran,
• 3:47:41
  Speaker 12: they might rise up again, I think it's the same point.
• 3:47:45
  Speaker 12: Their ability to project power outwardly was limited. It doesn't
• 3:47:48
  Speaker 12: seem like any of their allies, these people they were
• 3:47:50
  Speaker 12: trading oil with or Russia, they weren't building them up
• 3:47:54
  Speaker 12: to be nuclear power. They seemed to be stalled out
• 3:47:58
  Speaker 12: on that front. So I just don't see Iran having
• 3:48:05
  Speaker 12: been the kind of... threat that maybe we've been told
• 3:48:10
  Speaker 12: they were. Either way, now we're in the fight. So
• 3:48:14
  Speaker 12: then you turn to this question of what do we
• 3:48:15
  Speaker 12: do about it, and I know one of those guys,
• 3:48:18
  Speaker 12: one of those callers just mentioned regime. Those were great calls,
• 3:48:21
  Speaker 12: by the way, because they're bringing, you know, these are
• 3:48:23
  Speaker 12: all important questions to be talking about, and we've talked
• 3:48:27
  Speaker 12: a lot about this issue of regime change and how
• 3:48:29
  Speaker 12: hard that's going to be. The people that I've asked
• 3:48:32
  Speaker 12: that question to who are experts are telling me, Any
• 3:48:37
  Speaker 12: regime change in Iran has to come from inside, right?
• 3:48:39
  Speaker 12: I mean, we're not going to launch a ground war.
• 3:48:43
  Speaker 12: But now that we're past this round of negotiations, clearly
• 3:48:47
  Speaker 12: they didn't work. Whether you want us to be in
• 3:48:50
  Speaker 12: this war or not, we're in this war. Something now
• 3:48:53
  Speaker 12: has to happen to resolve this conflict. I come back
• 3:48:56
  Speaker 12: to what we talked about the other day. The only
• 3:48:59
  Speaker 12: course forward that I can see now is that whatever
• 3:49:03
  Speaker 12: Trump and Israel can do to neutralize the IRGC, they're
• 3:49:07
  Speaker 12: going to have to do it. Because the IRGC isn't
• 3:49:09
  Speaker 12: just the military, right? They have a huge position in
• 3:49:12
  Speaker 12: the Iranian economy. Just like the People's Liberation Army has
• 3:49:16
  Speaker 12: a huge position in the Chinese economy, and the United
• 3:49:20
  Speaker 12: States military has a huge position in the U.S. economy
• 3:49:23
  Speaker 12: through either contracts of procurement or direct investment. And people like,
• 3:49:28
  Speaker 12: agencies like DARPA, you know, the Advanced Research Facility or GROUP.
• 3:49:33
  Speaker 5: In the U.S.
• 3:49:34
  Speaker 12: Military that invested in things like BioNTech, you know, leading
• 3:49:37
  Speaker 12: up to the COVID attack. So all these militaries are integrated,
• 3:49:42
  Speaker 12: but the Iranian military is as well. They control a
• 3:49:44
  Speaker 12: lot of that Iranian economy. So it's going to have
• 3:49:48
  Speaker 12: to be a combination. And whatever effect it can have
• 3:49:50
  Speaker 12: is what it's going to have to have. It's going
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 12: to have to be a combination of devastating, constant attacks
• 3:49:56
  Speaker 12: on IRGC infrastructure and a lockdown that prevents Iran Iran
• 3:50:03
  Speaker 12: from selling oil or exporting goods or importing goods. They're
• 3:50:05
  Speaker 12: going to have to be isolated. I think there have
• 3:50:08
  Speaker 12: been a couple of attacks on the other side of
• 3:50:10
  Speaker 12: the country, right, not by the Gulf, but on the backside.
• 3:50:13
  Speaker 12: So there's some rail lines and things that are being disrupted.
• 3:50:16
  Speaker 5: That's essential.
• 3:50:18
  Speaker 12: This is just going to have to be a country
• 3:50:20
  Speaker 12: that gets completely isolated so that it becomes desperate. I
• 3:50:23
  Speaker 12: know people think, well, you know, gee, the Taliban, you know,
• 3:50:28
  Speaker 12: they didn't have much of an economy and they were okay. Well,
• 3:50:31
  Speaker 12: that's true. But here what you have is a country
• 3:50:33
  Speaker 12: that's accustomed to shipping oil. They depend on those oil shipments.
• 3:50:38
  Speaker 12: Their economy depends on those oil shipments. They're accustomed to
• 3:50:43
  Speaker 12: doing trade at a level that Afghanistan probably wasn't. And
• 3:50:48
  Speaker 12: so when you take that away, yeah, that's a problem,
• 3:50:51
  Speaker 12: because they've got folks in that country who make a
• 3:50:53
  Speaker 12: lot of money. They've got to pay a lot of people,
• 3:50:56
  Speaker 12: like the IRGC. You cannot... hurt their economy so aggressively
• 3:51:03
  Speaker 12: and have it not have.
• 3:51:04
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  Speaker 2: You were saying?
• 3:53:13
  Speaker 12: Well i think i think you know we're in a
• 3:53:15
  Speaker 12: very difficult situation now and again whether we wanted to
• 3:53:17
  Speaker 12: be here not now is irrelevant this is where we
• 3:53:20
  Speaker 12: are what's the path out if economic pressure and a
• 3:53:23
  Speaker 12: devastating campaign of of attack someone said earlier that you
• 3:53:28
  Speaker 12: have to add whatever they're spending on this war to
• 3:53:32
  Speaker 12: that the military budget remember our budget heading into this
• 3:53:35
  Speaker 12: year's like a trillion dollars so of course to the
• 3:53:39
  Speaker 12: extent we have to replace munitions and some of these
• 3:53:41
  Speaker 12: munitions could be you know, a million dollars apiece, to
• 3:53:45
  Speaker 12: the extent we have to replace those things, that's going
• 3:53:48
  Speaker 12: to possibly increase spending. But we already spend so much
• 3:53:51
  Speaker 12: on defense that the cost of this war really isn't
• 3:53:54
  Speaker 12: that relevant. You know, when you're spending a trillion dollars
• 3:53:57
  Speaker 12: on your Department of War, you know, the ammunition becomes
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 12: somewhat of a rounding error. You know, this is what
• 3:54:08
  Speaker 12: we're spending on war is hard to accept. And the
• 3:54:13
  Speaker 12: idea that we're going to take our war budget, our
• 3:54:17
  Speaker 12: Department of War budget, to a trillion and a half
• 3:54:20
  Speaker 12: dollars a year, that's hard for me to get my
• 3:54:23
  Speaker 12: head around. I don't understand the justification for that. And
• 3:54:27
  Speaker 12: I understand it's like $ 1. 1 trillion in one bucket and
• 3:54:30
  Speaker 12: $ 350 billion in the other. These are massive numbers. And
• 3:54:34
  Speaker 12: I don't think that we have actually justified the use
• 3:54:38
  Speaker 12: of this kind of money in this way, and certainly..
• 3:54:42
  Speaker 2: They can't account for the money they got now.
• 3:54:45
  Speaker 12: Well, they can account for it. They cannot. They haven't
• 3:54:48
  Speaker 12: been able to ever. Remember, it was September 10, 2001,
• 3:54:51
  Speaker 12: when they announced the first time that they'd lost, could
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 12: not find $ 2 trillion. And then September 11 happened, and
• 3:54:58
  Speaker 12: the accounting department got wiped out, and we never did
• 3:55:00
  Speaker 12: find the answers to that. They've not been able to
• 3:55:02
  Speaker 12: pass audits for years. They can't pass audits. And now
• 3:55:06
  Speaker 12: there's this sort of strange trick happening where... Netanyahu came
• 3:55:10
  Speaker 12: out and said, you know, I don't want to get
• 3:55:12
  Speaker 12: any more aid. We want to be partners. And his
• 3:55:15
  Speaker 12: view of being partners is that he gets into that
• 3:55:19
  Speaker 12: war budget, that he gets tapped into that as an
• 3:55:22
  Speaker 12: integrated part of the Pentagon's budget. So he got some
• 3:55:25
  Speaker 12: congressmen to write that up for him, and it's got
• 3:55:27
  Speaker 12: a chance of passing. Same with the intelligence funding that
• 3:55:31
  Speaker 12: we do, which is much less. It's like $ 81 billion,
• 3:55:33
  Speaker 12: $ 85 billion a year of discreet funding. specific spending for intelligence.
• 3:55:38
  Speaker 12: He wants to be baked into that as well. Well,
• 3:55:40
  Speaker 12: an agency that can't account for, you know, trillions of
• 3:55:43
  Speaker 12: dollars at a time certainly is going to be able
• 3:55:45
  Speaker 12: to tell us how much they're spending on Israel. So,
• 3:55:49
  Speaker 12: you know, I find this idea that we're going to
• 3:55:51
  Speaker 12: integrate Israel directly into our Department of War extremely troubling.
• 3:55:54
  Speaker 12: I don't think this is a good idea.
• 3:55:57
  Speaker 2: Just so people in our audience can understand, it's almost
• 3:56:01
  Speaker 2: like Israel, or they put a bill together, let's see
• 3:56:05
  Speaker 2: if people are going to understand it. There's a bill
• 3:56:07
  Speaker 2: circulating that would basically say Israel would merge with the
• 3:56:11
  Speaker 2: United States Defense Department or Department of War, correct?
• 3:56:15
  Speaker 13: Yes, yes.
• 3:56:17
  Speaker 12: And then all their foreign aid would be canceled. They
• 3:56:18
  Speaker 12: wouldn't get any more foreign aid. All the aid would
• 3:56:21
  Speaker 12: come in the form of defense spending on our part
• 3:56:23
  Speaker 12: or war spending in the U.S. military budget. Well, okay,
• 3:56:27
  Speaker 12: so you're changing the name of the funding, but that
• 3:56:30
  Speaker 12: funding could go up tenfold, we'd never know. Because once
• 3:56:34
  Speaker 12: the money goes into the Pentagon, it disappears and we
• 3:56:37
  Speaker 12: don't have any way to know how it's being spent.
• 3:56:40
  Speaker 12: Either because they can't account for things because their calculators
• 3:56:43
  Speaker 12: don't work, or because they put things in black boxes
• 3:56:47
  Speaker 12: and say, oh, hey, we tell you how we spent
• 3:56:49
  Speaker 12: that money, but then we'd.
• 3:56:50
  Speaker 5: Have to kill you.
• 3:56:53
  Speaker 2: It's this idea, and as you said, it has a
• 3:56:57
  Speaker 2: real good possibility of passing because it's buried in a bill.
• 3:57:01
  Speaker 2: It's buried in a bill so that it's not stand-alone legislation.
• 3:57:07
  Speaker 3: Well, and which legislator?
• 3:57:09
  Speaker 12: I understand that Israel has tremendous representation in the U.S.
• 3:57:12
  Speaker 8: Congress.
• 3:57:13
  Speaker 2: That's obvious.
• 3:57:13
  Speaker 12: I mean, there's really citizens in Congress. But after what
• 3:57:16
  Speaker 12: they did to Massey, who's going to stand up and
• 3:57:18
  Speaker 12: say no?
• 3:57:20
  Speaker 2: No.
• 3:57:20
  Speaker 4: No.
• 3:57:20
  Speaker 12: $ 30 million is a pretty hard number to overcome when
• 3:57:23
  Speaker 12: you're running a campaign for Congress. So I don't think
• 3:57:28
  Speaker 12: that the Massey takedown was isolated. It was part of
• 3:57:34
  Speaker 12: this overall strategy.
• 3:57:35
  Speaker 2: But I mean, this is genuinely craziness. This is crazy
• 3:57:39
  Speaker 2: town to say this National Defense Authorization Act I mean,
• 3:57:44
  Speaker 2: who actually wrote this legislation, put it in, as they
• 3:57:47
  Speaker 2: do in these bills with all this other stuff, thinking
• 3:57:51
  Speaker 2: that this is a good idea for the United States
• 3:57:54
  Speaker 2: of America to merge with Israel on some of our most...
• 3:58:01
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't make a lick of sense.
• 3:58:04
  Speaker 12: No, and do it at the same time that you
• 3:58:05
  Speaker 12: increase spending on military by $ 500 billion a year. I mean,
• 3:58:10
  Speaker 12: it just... The money is just going to slosh around uh...
• 3:58:13
  Speaker 12: you look like a tidal wave like a a tsunami
• 3:58:15
  Speaker 12: of cash washing through the war zones uh... you know
• 3:58:20
  Speaker 12: i did this is troubling on every front i actually
• 3:58:23
  Speaker 12: think that the one point one to do the one
• 3:58:25
  Speaker 12: trillion dollar amount we're spending now it's crazy and i
• 3:58:28
  Speaker 12: bet we could have the same ability to project power
• 3:58:32
  Speaker 12: at five hundred billion i think we should be cutting
• 3:58:35
  Speaker 12: war budget not expanding it we should be cutting it
• 3:58:39
  Speaker 12: and uh... and just don't go to tell us that
• 3:58:42
  Speaker 12: If you can buy a bucket of bolts for $ 200
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 12: at a hardware store, all right, maybe it costs you
• 3:58:49
  Speaker 12: $ 400 because of all the extra testing and requirements and
• 3:58:52
  Speaker 12: all the craziness with the bidding and all the social
• 3:58:55
  Speaker 12: engineering that goes through these contracts. I mean, it's crazy
• 3:58:58
  Speaker 12: what we do from a procurement standpoint. So maybe instead
• 3:59:00
  Speaker 12: of $ 200 for a bag of bolts, it's $ 400. But
• 3:59:03
  Speaker 12: it can't be $ 25, 000, right? I mean, so something has
• 3:59:08
  Speaker 12: to change. And instead of doing that, we're not talking
• 3:59:11
  Speaker 12: about dropping... another $ 500 billion into the war machine. This
• 3:59:16
  Speaker 12: is insanity.
• 3:59:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, particularly when we can't account for where the money
• 3:59:22
  Speaker 2: is already. Do you think, G2, that they're going to
• 3:59:26
  Speaker 2: do what you said would have to be done at
• 3:59:29
  Speaker 2: this point in time in Iran?
• 3:59:33
  Speaker 12: I think that the attacks have already begun. There's an
• 3:59:37
  Speaker 12: island in the strait that they started attacking. They're going
• 3:59:40
  Speaker 12: to go after every..
• 3:59:42
  Speaker 3: Target that..
• 3:59:43
  Speaker 12: Remember, when they first went in and started doing the
• 3:59:45
  Speaker 12: first 13,000, 16,000 targets, those were top-tier targets. Now we're
• 3:59:49
  Speaker 12: down to the next tier. They're going to continue to
• 3:59:54
  Speaker 12: run down the list of targets, and I think that
• 3:59:57
  Speaker 12: this is going to be focused not as much, I hope,
• 3:59:59
  Speaker 12: on civilian infrastructure, much more on the IRGC. I know
• 4:00:03
  Speaker 12: that it is widely hoped in the administration that The
• 4:00:08
  Speaker 12: Iranian people step up and take on this fight. We
• 4:00:11
  Speaker 12: all know they can't do that without weapons. You may
• 4:00:14
  Speaker 12: remember when we armed the Taliban against the Russians, we
• 4:00:18
  Speaker 12: gave them the missiles that allowed them to shoot down
• 4:00:20
  Speaker 12: Russian helicopters. Without that, they could have never beat the Russians.
• 4:00:26
  Speaker 12: So I know that there's a strong hope that Iranians
• 4:00:31
  Speaker 12: rise up. We also know it's not a homogenous country
• 4:00:33
  Speaker 12: of people that are completely aligned. There are factions and fractures.
• 4:00:38
  Speaker 12: And now we know that it's getting increasing amounts of
• 4:00:41
  Speaker 12: economic stress. So, you know, I don't... I think we're
• 4:00:49
  Speaker 12: going to have to watch this and see how it goes.
• 4:00:51
  Speaker 12: I don't think there's some obvious path. This is not,
• 4:00:54
  Speaker 12: as I said, a video game. And so thinking we're
• 4:00:57
  Speaker 12: going to bomb our way into success may be limited,
• 4:01:01
  Speaker 12: may be not possible.
• 4:01:03
  Speaker 19: But..
• 4:01:03
  Speaker 12: Coupled with severe economic restrictions. And, again, you don't see
• 4:01:07
  Speaker 12: Russia or China rushing in to.
• 4:01:08
  Speaker 5: Help these guys.
• 4:01:09
  Speaker 12: So if they could cut off shipping in and out
• 4:01:12
  Speaker 12: of the country back on the other side, you know, Afghanistan,
• 4:01:17
  Speaker 12: they cut that off, keep the ports locked down, don't
• 4:01:20
  Speaker 12: let any ships go out. You know, you really don't
• 4:01:21
  Speaker 12: have to take Karg Island. Of course they could. We
• 4:01:24
  Speaker 12: could do that. You know, it's 20 miles offshore and
• 4:01:26
  Speaker 12: all that, and it was really stupid for Iran to
• 4:01:28
  Speaker 12: have 95% of its oil go through that island, but
• 4:01:31
  Speaker 12: they did it. They don't have an alternative. So, you know,
• 4:01:34
  Speaker 12: we could take Karg Island, but I'm not sure it's
• 4:01:37
  Speaker 12: worth the fight when you could just block off the
• 4:01:39
  Speaker 12: entire Strait of Hormuz and just not let any Iranian
• 4:01:43
  Speaker 12: ships out. I don't think it's credible for Trump to
• 4:01:46
  Speaker 12: say the Strait is open. That would be credible when
• 4:01:49
  Speaker 12: we see, you know, 100 ships a day sailing through
• 4:01:52
  Speaker 12: the Strait. We're not seeing vessels transiting the Strait. And
• 4:01:56
  Speaker 12: if one or two get through, that's not an open Strait.
• 4:01:58
  Speaker 12: So I think he's premature in announcing the Strait is open, but...
• 4:02:04
  Speaker 12: But by attacking some of the bases around the Strait
• 4:02:07
  Speaker 12: and by blocking the Strait so Iranian vessels can't get out,
• 4:02:11
  Speaker 12: these are, I think, the best tactics they could deploy.
• 4:02:15
  Speaker 12: I don't think Trump will get to the point where
• 4:02:17
  Speaker 12: he's willing to drop a nuclear weapon on Tehran or
• 4:02:19
  Speaker 12: firebombs or any of the things we did in World
• 4:02:22
  Speaker 12: War II. I just don't think he's going to get there,
• 4:02:24
  Speaker 12: and I do not believe the American people are committed
• 4:02:28
  Speaker 12: to this conflict in a way that they would support that.
• 4:02:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 4:02:34
  Speaker 2: It is definitely a mess. I mean, you're right. We
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 2: can debate whether or not it should have started in
• 4:02:41
  Speaker 2: the first place. And it's a debate worth having. Make
• 4:02:43
  Speaker 2: no mistake. I mean, it should not go without having
• 4:02:46
  Speaker 2: because a mistake is a mistake and people should be
• 4:02:48
  Speaker 2: held accountable for it. But remedying this situation, this is
• 4:02:53
  Speaker 2: just dragging on and on and on. And like I say,
• 4:02:56
  Speaker 2: you're seeing the stock market. with a down day today.
• 4:02:59
  Speaker 2: And I'm just going to be realistic. That does affect
• 4:03:02
  Speaker 2: people who have 401ks and who are retired and what
• 4:03:06
  Speaker 2: have you. I mean, the market goes up and goes down.
• 4:03:09
  Speaker 2: We're having these dramatic up and down days. So there
• 4:03:12
  Speaker 2: are people that are affected by that that are retired
• 4:03:14
  Speaker 2: or near retirement. These things are factors that have an
• 4:03:19
  Speaker 2: effect on people. And you see gas prices shoot back
• 4:03:22
  Speaker 2: up to $ 4 a gallon. There's a lot of effect
• 4:03:26
  Speaker 2: on this. And inflation, we're in its head back. and
• 4:03:28
  Speaker 2: people are saying, okay, how much longer is this going
• 4:03:30
  Speaker 2: to go on?
• 4:03:32
  Speaker 12: Well, there are other issues, you know, that happen. The
• 4:03:35
  Speaker 12: war isn't the only thing in the world, right? There
• 4:03:38
  Speaker 12: are other markets that come up and down. If you
• 4:03:40
  Speaker 12: look at the Korean KOSPI, the Korean index today, I
• 4:03:47
  Speaker 12: think it had a relatively bad day. I think it was,
• 4:03:50
  Speaker 12: when I last checked, it was down about 8%. So,
• 4:03:53
  Speaker 12: You know, you've got other things happening around the world.
• 4:03:57
  Speaker 12: The Europeans, these lunatic globalists that have controlled Europe, have
• 4:04:01
  Speaker 12: put that economy under such stress that they don't have
• 4:04:05
  Speaker 12: a really good way to revive it. They've driven up
• 4:04:07
  Speaker 12: oil energy costs. They've driven down energy supply. They've driven
• 4:04:11
  Speaker 12: up the cost of operating in the EU. And specifically,
• 4:04:15
  Speaker 12: I talk a lot about this German industrial machine. They
• 4:04:18
  Speaker 12: are really hammering away on Germany's industrial economy, which is
• 4:04:23
  Speaker 12: a critical element of keeping the EU afloat. That's just
• 4:04:27
  Speaker 12: all policy. That's got nothing to do with this war.
• 4:04:29
  Speaker 12: That's just that you've got lunatics running every government in Europe. No,
• 4:04:33
  Speaker 12: I think it's everyone. And so, you know, there are
• 4:04:37
  Speaker 12: other issues beyond the war. The war is just simply
• 4:04:41
  Speaker 12: one more. So I think Trump has clarity on what
• 4:04:44
  Speaker 12: we need to do to get out of this.
• 4:04:46
  Speaker 5: Uh..
• 4:04:46
  Speaker 12: And what he's not willing to do which again i
• 4:04:48
  Speaker 12: think is a ground invasion now kenner israel get us
• 4:04:51
  Speaker 12: somehow to do a ground invasion i don't see it
• 4:04:54
  Speaker 12: i don't see how they can get us to do
• 4:04:55
  Speaker 12: it don't have to take trump out and get them
• 4:04:57
  Speaker 12: out but i think but um... but this is troubling
• 4:05:01
  Speaker 12: and And, you know, he's got to find a path.
• 4:05:05
  Speaker 12: So we're going to watch this day to day.
• 4:05:06
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of uncertainty in the world. And as
• 4:05:09
  Speaker 2: the financial guys will tell you, the market doesn't like uncertainty.
• 4:05:12
  Speaker 2: The economy doesn't like uncertainty. But there's a lot of uncertainty.
• 4:05:15
  Speaker 2: It's not just Iran. Now you've got the situation, the Ukraine.
• 4:05:18
  Speaker 2: Five years, G2, Ukraine-Russia situation. It's been going on five years.
• 4:05:25
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's sort of interesting. They're still saying Russia
• 4:05:28
  Speaker 12: failed because it hasn't taken Kiev. where at the outset
• 4:05:32
  Speaker 12: of this war, I don't remember Russia saying they were
• 4:05:34
  Speaker 12: going to take Kiev, but they certainly have taken a
• 4:05:37
  Speaker 12: lot of territory in those southeast oblasts. So, you know,
• 4:05:44
  Speaker 12: we started hearing again last week, Ukraine is winning, Ukraine
• 4:05:47
  Speaker 12: is winning. Listen, Ukraine does as well as we fund it, right?
• 4:05:51
  Speaker 12: They've killed a whole generation of men. They've got huge
• 4:05:55
  Speaker 12: numbers of people who have left the country. There are
• 4:05:57
  Speaker 12: now reports that they're beginning to replace the population. is
• 4:06:00
  Speaker 12: beginning to be brought in. There are different groups that
• 4:06:05
  Speaker 12: are being brought in now to begin replacing the Ukrainian
• 4:06:08
  Speaker 12: men and turn this into another what they're doing in
• 4:06:12
  Speaker 12: Europe as a whole and in the United States. They
• 4:06:14
  Speaker 12: want to do that. So you're going to see a
• 4:06:16
  Speaker 12: lot of Africans and Middle Easterners flooding in. And I
• 4:06:19
  Speaker 12: suspect they'll probably put tens of millions of Indians in
• 4:06:23
  Speaker 12: there because India is desperate to export its population. So
• 4:06:28
  Speaker 12: I think we're going to see the attempt now to
• 4:06:31
  Speaker 12: repopulate and transition Ukraine. And the globalists in Europe cannot
• 4:06:35
  Speaker 12: allow this to stop. They can't. First of all, they
• 4:06:38
  Speaker 12: want to repopulate it. They want to change it. They
• 4:06:40
  Speaker 12: want to destroy the country. Obviously, they wouldn't let this
• 4:06:42
  Speaker 12: happen if they didn't. And secondarily, I mean, they desperately
• 4:06:46
  Speaker 12: need those Russian resources to revive their economies. I think
• 4:06:49
  Speaker 12: that's now obvious to almost everyone. So, now, I don't
• 4:06:54
  Speaker 12: know how Ukraine's going to do now that they've lost
• 4:06:56
  Speaker 12: Lindsey Graham, who's been working on this war since, what,
• 4:06:59
  Speaker 12: like 2010 or something?
• 4:07:01
  Speaker 5: You know, since.
• 4:07:01
  Speaker 12: Before the war in the Donbass, before the color revolution
• 4:07:07
  Speaker 12: that they did over there with Newland and him and
• 4:07:09
  Speaker 12: McCain and all those guys. So, I don't know... How
• 4:07:15
  Speaker 12: much more we're going to be able to pump in that?
• 4:07:16
  Speaker 12: But when I see Trump now beginning to weaken and say, hey,
• 4:07:19
  Speaker 12: we're going to be a Patriot missiles, we're going to
• 4:07:21
  Speaker 12: be this or that, or God forbid, more money. Everybody
• 4:07:24
  Speaker 12: knows that the supercar population in Europe, in Monaco, is
• 4:07:28
  Speaker 12: driven by Ukrainians, right? We know that the yacht inventory
• 4:07:34
  Speaker 12: or the backlog of orders for super yachts is Ukrainian.
• 4:07:37
  Speaker 12: It's all our money. being used for that while they
• 4:07:40
  Speaker 12: claim to need our resources to fight their war and
• 4:07:42
  Speaker 12: pay their pensions. We're paying the..
• 4:07:45
  Speaker 10: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
• 4:07:50
  Speaker 2: On a Monday, July 13th, we're sitting with 86 degrees
• 4:07:53
  Speaker 2: on a humid day here on this Monday afternoon. Going
• 4:07:56
  Speaker 2: to be a hot week. Temperatures later in the week
• 4:07:59
  Speaker 2: in the 90s. And it's going to be a hot
• 4:08:01
  Speaker 2: one to say the least. All right, back to a
• 4:08:04
  Speaker 2: G2 on the program. NewsRadio 570 WKBN. you were saying.
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  Speaker 12: Well i think i think you know we're in a
• 4:08:13
  Speaker 12: very difficult situation now and again whether we wanted to
• 4:08:16
  Speaker 12: be here or not now is irrelevant this is where
• 4:08:18
  Speaker 12: we are what's the path out it's economic pressure and
• 4:08:22
  Speaker 12: a devastating campaign of of attack someone said earlier that
• 4:08:26
  Speaker 12: you have to add whatever they're spending on this war
• 4:08:30
  Speaker 12: to the military budget remember our budget heading into this
• 4:08:34
  Speaker 12: year's like a trillion dollars So, of course, to the
• 4:08:37
  Speaker 12: extent we have to replace munitions, and some of these
• 4:08:40
  Speaker 12: munitions could be a million dollars apiece, to the extent
• 4:08:44
  Speaker 12: we have to replace those things, that's going to possibly
• 4:08:47
  Speaker 12: increase spending. But we already spend so much on defense
• 4:08:50
  Speaker 12: that the cost of this war really isn't that relevant.
• 4:08:54
  Speaker 12: You know, when you're spending a trillion dollars on your
• 4:08:56
  Speaker 12: Department of War, you know, the ammunition becomes somewhat of
• 4:09:02
  Speaker 12: a rounding error. You know, this is... What we're spending
• 4:09:07
  Speaker 12: on war is hard to accept. And the idea that
• 4:09:12
  Speaker 12: we're going to take our war budget, our Department of
• 4:09:16
  Speaker 12: War budget, to a trillion and a half dollars a year,
• 4:09:21
  Speaker 12: that's hard for me to get my head around. I
• 4:09:23
  Speaker 12: don't understand the justification for that. And I understand it's
• 4:09:26
  Speaker 12: like $ 1. 1 trillion in one bucket and $ 350 billion in
• 4:09:29
  Speaker 12: the other. These are massive numbers. And I don't think
• 4:09:33
  Speaker 12: that we have actually justified... the use of this kind
• 4:09:37
  Speaker 12: of money in this way.
• 4:09:40
  Speaker 2: They can't account for the money they got now.
• 4:09:44
  Speaker 12: Well, they can account for it. They cannot. They haven't
• 4:09:46
  Speaker 12: been able to ever. Remember, it was September 10 of
• 4:09:50
  Speaker 12: 2001 when they announced the first time that they'd lost,
• 4:09:52
  Speaker 12: could not find $ 2 trillion. And then September 11 happened,
• 4:09:56
  Speaker 12: and the accounting department got wiped out, and we never
• 4:09:58
  Speaker 12: did find the answers to that. They've not been able
• 4:10:01
  Speaker 12: to pass audits for years. They can't pass audits. And
• 4:10:04
  Speaker 12: now there's this sort of strange trick happening where Netanyahu
• 4:10:08
  Speaker 12: came out and said, you know, I don't want to
• 4:10:10
  Speaker 12: get any more aid. We want to be partners. And
• 4:10:13
  Speaker 12: his view of being partners is that he gets into
• 4:10:16
  Speaker 12: that war budget, that he gets tapped into that as
• 4:10:20
  Speaker 12: an integrated part of the Pentagon's budget. So he got
• 4:10:24
  Speaker 12: some congressmen to write that up for him, and it's
• 4:10:26
  Speaker 12: got a chance of passing. Same with the intelligence funding
• 4:10:29
  Speaker 12: that we do, which is much less. It's like $ 81 billion,
• 4:10:31
  Speaker 12: $ 85 billion a year. of discrete specific spending for intelligence
• 4:10:36
  Speaker 12: he wants to be baked into that as well well
• 4:10:39
  Speaker 12: an agency that can account for you know trillions of
• 4:10:41
  Speaker 12: dollars at a time certainly is going to be able
• 4:10:43
  Speaker 12: to tell us how much they're spending on on israel
• 4:10:46
  Speaker 12: so you know i i find this idea that we're
• 4:10:49
  Speaker 12: going to integrate israel directly into our department of war
• 4:10:51
  Speaker 12: extremely troubling i don't think this is a good idea uh..
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  Speaker 2: And just so i just saw a little people are
• 4:10:57
  Speaker 2: on its condition it's almost like israel or they put
• 4:11:02
  Speaker 2: a bill together. Let's see if people can understand it.
• 4:11:05
  Speaker 2: There's a bill circulating that would basically say Israel would
• 4:11:08
  Speaker 2: merge with the United States Defense Department, or Department of War, correct?
• 4:11:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 12: And then all their foreign aid would be canceled. They
• 4:11:17
  Speaker 12: wouldn't get any more foreign aid. All the aid would
• 4:11:19
  Speaker 12: come in the form of defense spending on our part,
• 4:11:21
  Speaker 12: or war spending in the U.S. military budget. Well, okay,
• 4:11:26
  Speaker 12: so you're changing the name of the funding, but that
• 4:11:29
  Speaker 12: funding could go up tenfold we'd never know because once
• 4:11:33
  Speaker 12: the money goes into the pentagon it disappears and we
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 12: don't have any way to know how it's being spent
• 4:11:38
  Speaker 12: either because they can't account for things because their calculators
• 4:11:42
  Speaker 12: don't work or because they put things in black boxes
• 4:11:45
  Speaker 12: and say oh hey you know we tell you how
• 4:11:47
  Speaker 12: we spent that money but then we'd have to kill you.
• 4:11:51
  Speaker 2: It's just it's it's a little this idea and as
• 4:11:54
  Speaker 2: you said it has a real good possibility of passing
• 4:11:57
  Speaker 2: because it's buried in a bill It's buried in a
• 4:12:01
  Speaker 2: bill so that it's not stand-alone legislation.
• 4:12:05
  Speaker 3: Which legislator?
• 4:12:07
  Speaker 12: I understand that Israel has tremendous representation in the U.S.
• 4:12:10
  Speaker 6: Congress.
• 4:12:11
  Speaker 12: That's obvious. I mean, there's really citizens in Congress. But
• 4:12:14
  Speaker 12: after what they did to Massey, who's going to stand
• 4:12:16
  Speaker 12: up and say no?
• 4:12:19
  Speaker 13: No.
• 4:12:19
  Speaker 12: $ 30 million is a pretty hard number to overcome when
• 4:12:21
  Speaker 12: you're running a campaign for Congress. So I don't think
• 4:12:26
  Speaker 12: that the Massey takedown was..
• 4:12:31
  Speaker 15: Isolated.
• 4:12:31
  Speaker 12: It was part of this overall strategy.
• 4:12:33
  Speaker 2: But I mean, this is genuinely craziness. This is crazy
• 4:12:37
  Speaker 2: town to say this National Defense Authorization Act. I mean,
• 4:12:42
  Speaker 2: who actually wrote this legislation, put it in, as they
• 4:12:46
  Speaker 2: do in these bills with all this other stuff, thinking
• 4:12:49
  Speaker 2: that this is a good idea for the United States
• 4:12:52
  Speaker 2: of America to merge with Israel on some of our
• 4:12:57
  Speaker 2: most it just doesn't make a lick of sense.
• 4:13:02
  Speaker 12: No, and do it at the same time that you
• 4:13:04
  Speaker 12: increase spending on military by $ 500 billion a year. I mean,
• 4:13:08
  Speaker 12: it just, the money is just going to slosh around.
• 4:13:12
  Speaker 12: You know, it's like a tidal wave, like a tsunami
• 4:13:14
  Speaker 12: of cash washing through the war zones. So, you know,
• 4:13:19
  Speaker 12: this is troubling on every front. I actually think that
• 4:13:22
  Speaker 12: the $ 1 trillion... amount we're spending now is crazy, and
• 4:13:26
  Speaker 12: I'll bet we could have the same ability to project
• 4:13:29
  Speaker 12: power at $ 500 billion. I think we should be cutting
• 4:13:33
  Speaker 12: this war budget, not expanding it. We should be cutting it.
• 4:13:37
  Speaker 12: And just go to them and say, listen, if you
• 4:13:41
  Speaker 12: could buy a bucket of bolts for $ 200 at a
• 4:13:44
  Speaker 12: hardware store, all right, maybe it costs you $ 400 because
• 4:13:48
  Speaker 12: of all the extra testing and requirements and all the
• 4:13:51
  Speaker 12: craziness with the bidding and all the social engineering that
• 4:13:54
  Speaker 12: goes through these contracts. I mean, it's crazy what we
• 4:13:56
  Speaker 12: do from a procurement standpoint. So maybe instead of $ 200
• 4:13:59
  Speaker 12: for a bag of bolts, it's $ 400. But it can't
• 4:14:02
  Speaker 12: be $ 25, 000, right? I mean, so something has to change.
• 4:14:07
  Speaker 12: And instead of doing that, we're not talking about dropping
• 4:14:11
  Speaker 12: another $ 500 billion into the war machine. This is insanity.
• 4:14:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, particularly when we can't account for work. The money
• 4:14:21
  Speaker 2: is already. Do you think, G2, that they're going to
• 4:14:25
  Speaker 2: do what you said would have to be done at
• 4:14:28
  Speaker 2: this point in time in Iran?
• 4:14:32
  Speaker 12: I think that the attacks have already begun. There's an
• 4:14:35
  Speaker 12: island in the strait that they started attacking. They're going
• 4:14:39
  Speaker 12: to go after every target. Remember, when they first went
• 4:14:43
  Speaker 12: in and started doing the first 13,000, 16,000 targets, those
• 4:14:46
  Speaker 12: were top-tier targets. Now we're down to the next tier.
• 4:14:50
  Speaker 12: They're going to continue to run down the list of targets,
• 4:14:55
  Speaker 12: and I think that this is going to be focused
• 4:14:56
  Speaker 12: not as much, I hope, on civilian infrastructure, much more
• 4:14:59
  Speaker 12: on the IRGC. I know that it is widely hoped
• 4:15:04
  Speaker 12: in the administration that the Iranian people step up and
• 4:15:08
  Speaker 12: take on this fight. We all know they can't do
• 4:15:10
  Speaker 12: that without weapons. You may remember when we armed the
• 4:15:13
  Speaker 12: Taliban against the Russians, we gave them the missiles that
• 4:15:18
  Speaker 12: allowed them to shoot down Russian helicopters. Without that, they
• 4:15:21
  Speaker 12: could have never beat the Russians. So I know that
• 4:15:26
  Speaker 12: there's a strong hope that Iranians rise up. We also
• 4:15:30
  Speaker 12: know it's not a homogenous country of people that are
• 4:15:32
  Speaker 12: completely aligned. There are factions and fractures. And now we
• 4:15:37
  Speaker 12: know that it's getting increasing amounts of economic stress. So,
• 4:15:42
  Speaker 12: you know, I think we're going to have to watch
• 4:15:48
  Speaker 12: this and see how it goes. I don't think there's
• 4:15:51
  Speaker 12: some obvious path. This is not, as I said, a
• 4:15:53
  Speaker 12: video game. And so thinking we're going to bomb our
• 4:15:56
  Speaker 12: way into success may be limited, may be not possible.
• 4:16:01
  Speaker 12: But coupled with severe economic restrictions, and again, you don't
• 4:16:05
  Speaker 12: see Russia or China rushing in to help these guys.
• 4:16:08
  Speaker 3: So..
• 4:16:09
  Speaker 12: If they could cut off shipping in and out of
• 4:16:11
  Speaker 12: the country back on the other side, on the Afghanistan side,
• 4:16:15
  Speaker 12: they cut that off, keep the ports locked down, don't
• 4:16:18
  Speaker 12: let any ships go out. You really don't have to
• 4:16:20
  Speaker 12: take Karg Island. Of course they could. We could do that.
• 4:16:24
  Speaker 12: It's 20 miles offshore and all that, and it was
• 4:16:25
  Speaker 12: really stupid for Iran to have 95% of its oil
• 4:16:28
  Speaker 12: go through that island, but.
• 4:16:29
  Speaker 3: They did it.
• 4:16:30
  Speaker 12: They don't have an alternative. So we could take Karg Island,
• 4:16:34
  Speaker 12: but I'm not sure it's worth the fight when you
• 4:16:36
  Speaker 12: could just block off the entire... Strait of Hormuz and
• 4:16:40
  Speaker 12: just not let any Iranian ships out. I don't think
• 4:16:43
  Speaker 12: it's credible for Trump to say that the Strait is open.
• 4:16:46
  Speaker 12: That would be credible when we see, you know, 100
• 4:16:49
  Speaker 12: ships a day sailing through the Strait. We're not seeing
• 4:16:52
  Speaker 12: vessels transiting the Strait. And if one or two get through,
• 4:16:56
  Speaker 12: that's not an open Strait. So I think he's premature
• 4:16:58
  Speaker 12: in announcing the Strait is open. But by attacking some
• 4:17:04
  Speaker 12: of the bases around the Strait and by blocking the
• 4:17:07
  Speaker 12: Strait so Iranian vessels can't get out, these are, I think,
• 4:17:11
  Speaker 12: the best tactics they could deploy. I don't think Trump
• 4:17:14
  Speaker 12: will get to the point where he's willing to drop
• 4:17:16
  Speaker 12: a nuclear weapon on Tehran or firebombs or any of
• 4:17:20
  Speaker 12: the things we did in World War II. I just
• 4:17:22
  Speaker 12: don't think he's going to get there, and I do
• 4:17:23
  Speaker 12: not believe the American people are committed to this conflict
• 4:17:27
  Speaker 12: in a way that they would support that.
• 4:17:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is definitely a mess. I mean, you're right.
• 4:17:37
  Speaker 2: We can debate whether or not it should have started
• 4:17:39
  Speaker 2: in the first place. And it's a debate worth having.
• 4:17:41
  Speaker 2: Make no mistake. I mean, it should not go without
• 4:17:44
  Speaker 2: having because a mistake is a mistake and people should
• 4:17:47
  Speaker 2: be held accountable for it.
• 4:17:49
  Speaker 1: But..
• 4:17:50
  Speaker 2: Remedying this situation. This is just dragging on and on
• 4:17:53
  Speaker 2: and on. And like I say, you're seeing the stock
• 4:17:55
  Speaker 2: market with a down day today. And I'm just going
• 4:17:59
  Speaker 2: to be realistic. That does affect people who have 401ks
• 4:18:03
  Speaker 2: and who are retired and what have you. I mean,
• 4:18:06
  Speaker 2: the market goes up and goes down. We're having these
• 4:18:08
  Speaker 2: dramatic up and down days. So there are people that
• 4:18:11
  Speaker 2: are affected by that that are retired or near retirement.
• 4:18:15
  Speaker 2: These things are factors that have an effect on people,
• 4:18:19
  Speaker 2: and you see gas prices shoot back up to $ 4
• 4:18:22
  Speaker 2: a gallon. There's a lot of effect on this, and
• 4:18:25
  Speaker 2: the inflation we're in, it's head back, and people are saying, okay,
• 4:18:27
  Speaker 2: how much longer is this going to go on?
• 4:18:30
  Speaker 12: Well, there are other issues that happen. The war isn't
• 4:18:34
  Speaker 12: the only thing in the world, right? There are other
• 4:18:37
  Speaker 12: markets that come up and down. If you look at
• 4:18:40
  Speaker 12: the Korean KOSPI, the Korean... index today uh... i think
• 4:18:46
  Speaker 12: it had a relatively bad day uh... i think it
• 4:18:48
  Speaker 12: was big when i last checked it was down about
• 4:18:50
  Speaker 12: eight percent so you know if you've got you've got
• 4:18:54
  Speaker 12: other things happening around the world the europeans these lunatic
• 4:18:57
  Speaker 12: globalist that have controlled europe have put that economy under
• 4:19:00
  Speaker 12: such stress that they don't have a really good way
• 4:19:04
  Speaker 12: to revive it they've driven up oil uh... energy cost
• 4:19:07
  Speaker 12: they've driven down energy supply they've driven up the cost
• 4:19:10
  Speaker 12: of operating in the And specifically, you know, I talk
• 4:19:14
  Speaker 12: a lot about this German industrial machine. They are really
• 4:19:18
  Speaker 12: hammering away on Germany's industrial economy, which is a critical
• 4:19:22
  Speaker 12: element of keeping the EU afloat. That's just all policy.
• 4:19:26
  Speaker 12: That's got nothing to do with this war. That's just
• 4:19:28
  Speaker 12: that you've got lunatics running every government in Europe. No,
• 4:19:31
  Speaker 12: I think it's everyone. And so, you know, there are
• 4:19:36
  Speaker 12: other issues beyond the war. The war is just simply
• 4:19:39
  Speaker 12: one more. So I think Trump has clarity on what
• 4:19:42
  Speaker 12: we need to do to get out of this and
• 4:19:45
  Speaker 12: what he's not willing to do, which, again, I think
• 4:19:47
  Speaker 12: is a ground invasion. Now, can Israel get us somehow
• 4:19:50
  Speaker 12: to do a ground invasion? I don't see it. I
• 4:19:52
  Speaker 12: don't see how they can get us to do it.
• 4:19:53
  Speaker 12: They'll have to take Trump out and get someone else
• 4:19:56
  Speaker 12: to do it, I think. But this is troubling. And,
• 4:20:02
  Speaker 12: you know, he's got to find a path. We're going
• 4:20:03
  Speaker 12: to watch this.
• 4:20:04
  Speaker 13: Day to day.
• 4:20:05
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of uncertainty in the world. And as
• 4:20:07
  Speaker 2: the financial guys will tell you, the market doesn't like uncertainty.
• 4:20:10
  Speaker 2: The economy doesn't like uncertainty. But there's a lot of uncertainty.
• 4:20:14
  Speaker 2: It's not just Iran. Now you've got the situation, the Ukraine.
• 4:20:17
  Speaker 2: Five years, G2, Ukraine-Russia situation. It's been going on five years.
• 4:20:23
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's sort of interesting. They're still saying Russia
• 4:20:27
  Speaker 12: failed because it hasn't taken Kiev. Where at the outset
• 4:20:31
  Speaker 12: of this war, I don't remember Russia saying they were
• 4:20:33
  Speaker 12: going to take Kiev. But they certainly have taken a
• 4:20:36
  Speaker 12: lot of territory in those southeast oblasts. So, you know,
• 4:20:43
  Speaker 12: we started hearing again last week, Ukraine is winning, Ukraine
• 4:20:45
  Speaker 12: is winning. Listen, Ukraine does as well as we fund it, right?
• 4:20:50
  Speaker 12: They've killed a whole generation of men. They've got huge
• 4:20:53
  Speaker 12: numbers of people who have left the country. There are
• 4:20:55
  Speaker 12: now reports that the replacement population is beginning to be
• 4:20:59
  Speaker 12: brought in. Either, you know, there are different groups involved.
• 4:21:03
  Speaker 12: that are being brought in now to begin replacing the
• 4:21:06
  Speaker 12: Ukrainian man and turn this into another, you know, what
• 4:21:10
  Speaker 12: they're doing in Europe as a whole and in the
• 4:21:11
  Speaker 12: United States. They want to do that. So you're going
• 4:21:14
  Speaker 12: to see a lot of Africans and Middle Easterners flooding in,
• 4:21:17
  Speaker 12: and I suspect they'll probably put tens of millions of
• 4:21:21
  Speaker 12: Indians in there because India is desperate to export its population.
• 4:21:25
  Speaker 12: So I think we're going to see the attempt now
• 4:21:29
  Speaker 12: to repopulate and transition Ukraine into And the globalists in
• 4:21:33
  Speaker 12: Europe cannot allow this to stop. They can't... First of all,
• 4:21:36
  Speaker 12: they want to repopulate it. They want to change it.
• 4:21:38
  Speaker 12: They want to destroy the country. Obviously, they wouldn't let
• 4:21:41
  Speaker 12: this happen if they didn't. And secondarily, I mean, they
• 4:21:44
  Speaker 12: desperately need those Russian resources to revive their economies. I
• 4:21:47
  Speaker 12: think that's now obvious to almost everyone. So, now, I
• 4:21:52
  Speaker 12: don't know how Ukraine's going to do now that they've
• 4:21:54
  Speaker 12: lost Lindsey Graham, who's been working on this war since, what,
• 4:21:57
  Speaker 12: like 2010 or something?
• 4:21:59
  Speaker 5: You know, since before..
• 4:22:01
  Speaker 12: The war in the Donbass, before the color revolution that
• 4:22:05
  Speaker 12: they did over there with Newland and him and McCain
• 4:22:08
  Speaker 12: and all those guys. So I don't know how much
• 4:22:13
  Speaker 12: more we're going to be able to pump in that,
• 4:22:15
  Speaker 12: but when I see Trump now beginning to weaken and say, hey,
• 4:22:18
  Speaker 12: we're going to give you Patriot missiles, we're going to
• 4:22:19
  Speaker 12: give you this or that, or God forbid, more money,
• 4:22:22
  Speaker 12: everybody knows that the supercar population in Europe, in Monaco,
• 4:22:27
  Speaker 12: is driven by Ukrainians, right? We know that the... The
• 4:22:31
  Speaker 12: yacht inventory, or the backlog of orders for super yachts
• 4:22:35
  Speaker 12: is Ukrainian. It's all our money being used for that. Well,
• 4:22:38
  Speaker 12: they claim to need our resources to fight their war
• 4:22:40
  Speaker 12: and pay their pensions. We're paying the oligarchs' boat bills.
• 4:22:45
  Speaker 12: So that's another one that's just a real mess. I'd
• 4:22:49
  Speaker 12: like to see us just end it and just tell Europe, listen,
• 4:22:52
  Speaker 12: we're out completely. You guys do what you want, but
• 4:22:55
  Speaker 12: we're out entirely. And by the way, whatever you do,
• 4:22:59
  Speaker 12: just like you did let us use your bases to
• 4:23:01
  Speaker 12: fight in Iran, you can't use any of our resources
• 4:23:04
  Speaker 12: of any kind to fight in Ukraine. And that would
• 4:23:06
  Speaker 12: end this war pretty quickly. But the desperation to displace
• 4:23:11
  Speaker 12: Russia's leadership and put a globalist, a Klaus Schwab acolyte,
• 4:23:16
  Speaker 12: in control of that country, the numbers are just too
• 4:23:19
  Speaker 12: staggering for them to let that go.
• 4:23:22
  Speaker 2: What about Lindsey Graham, 71 years old? I guess the
• 4:23:26
  Speaker 2: heart blew out.
• 4:23:28
  Speaker 12: Well, we don't know. I mean, I got to tell you,
• 4:23:30
  Speaker 12: I'm at a point when when we hear a story,
• 4:23:33
  Speaker 12: any official story, I don't believe any of them on
• 4:23:37
  Speaker 12: their faith. So we don't really know what happened. We
• 4:23:39
  Speaker 12: know that he was in Ukraine. We know that he
• 4:23:41
  Speaker 12: he toured a drone factory. We've got pictures of that.
• 4:23:43
  Speaker 12: And we know that within 24 hours, that drone factory
• 4:23:46
  Speaker 12: was blown up and he was dead. So was it
• 4:23:50
  Speaker 12: a sort of a tear in the.
• 4:23:52
  Speaker 8: Uh..
• 4:23:52
  Speaker 12: Aorta you know wasn't really that or was it guilty
• 4:23:56
  Speaker 12: diner in ukraine people are asking these questions i don't
• 4:23:59
  Speaker 12: know but i put zero faith in whatever comes out
• 4:24:01
  Speaker 12: of dc when they start telling me what a washington
• 4:24:04
  Speaker 12: dc autopsy says i quit listening right i mean kennedy's
• 4:24:09
  Speaker 12: autopsy said a bunch of things that weren't true it
• 4:24:11
  Speaker 12: hasn't gotten better right uh... so so i don't know
• 4:24:15
  Speaker 12: what happened to him whether it was truly a heart
• 4:24:18
  Speaker 12: issue or a a bit of you know vascular issue
• 4:24:20
  Speaker 12: or whether It was something else. But I know that
• 4:24:23
  Speaker 12: Ukraine is going to be concerned to find the next
• 4:24:28
  Speaker 12: advocate who will step up the way he has, who's
• 4:24:31
  Speaker 12: so dedicated to war everywhere all the time that they
• 4:24:36
  Speaker 12: have their representation in Congress. I've got to tell you,
• 4:24:38
  Speaker 12: I really wish the American people had the kind of
• 4:24:41
  Speaker 12: robust representation in Congress that Ukraine has, that the military
• 4:24:45
  Speaker 12: industrial people have, that Pfizer has, and that Israel has.
• 4:24:49
  Speaker 12: If we could get that kind of dedicated representation in Congress,
• 4:24:53
  Speaker 12: we could really change the direction this country's in.
• 4:24:56
  Speaker 2: What do they say? They're going to appoint his sister
• 4:24:59
  Speaker 2: to the seat?
• 4:25:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah, because apparently, like Murkowski proved, government's a family business.
• 4:25:05
  Speaker 12: I don't understand why Trump selected her or whoever told
• 4:25:08
  Speaker 12: him to do this. I don't know if he got
• 4:25:11
  Speaker 12: deeply involved. This makes no sense to me. We've never
• 4:25:14
  Speaker 12: heard of this woman, have no idea what her capabilities are.
• 4:25:17
  Speaker 12: But it seems quite odd that they would just simply
• 4:25:20
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• 4:25:20
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  Speaker 2: So you're not, when they say, well, Lindsey Graham, his
• 4:26:45
  Speaker 2: heart blew out, and this is what the autopsy said,
• 4:26:48
  Speaker 2: you don't accept it on face value.
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  Speaker 12: No, no, I don't think we've been told anything true
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• 4:27:04
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• 4:27:06
  Speaker 12: more information to have it, you know, to really know. Um,
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  Speaker 12: and on the sister again, you know, I'd heard they
• 4:27:14
  Speaker 12: were floating the idea of Trey Gowdy, which is a disaster.
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  Speaker 12: So I guess if it's between Trey Gowdy and the sister,
• 4:27:20
  Speaker 12: I guess I'll take the sister.
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  Speaker 9: She's an unknown.
• 4:27:23
  Speaker 12: Maybe there's a primary challenge. Uh, when the, or there's
• 4:27:26
  Speaker 12: a challenge when the election comes up here in, uh,
• 4:27:29
  Speaker 12: What is it, August 11th or something? It's going to
• 4:27:31
  Speaker 12: happen relatively quickly, I suspect. And then, of course, Mitch McConnell,
• 4:27:37
  Speaker 12: we see that he's alive and doing well. If you're
• 4:27:40
  Speaker 12: watching social media, you see him doing handstands and cartwheels
• 4:27:44
  Speaker 12: in his hospital room. So, of course, he's doing well.
• 4:27:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 4:27:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know, just these videos are fabulous.
• 4:27:54
  Speaker 2: What is it, I mean, when you look at this,
• 4:27:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to say this as I, too,
• 4:27:59
  Speaker 2: grow older, but enough of the old people, wouldn't you say?
• 4:28:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, Mitch McConnell, come on already. I mean, it's
• 4:28:07
  Speaker 2: time to go.
• 4:28:09
  Speaker 12: If they're capable of doing the work and the voters
• 4:28:11
  Speaker 12: choose them, then so be it. But when Mitch McConnell's
• 4:28:14
  Speaker 12: been incapacitated for more than a year, his staff is obviously...
• 4:28:20
  Speaker 12: running his office. He's obviously not capable of doing the job.
• 4:28:24
  Speaker 12: Now he's completely offline, and he won't let go. It's
• 4:28:29
  Speaker 12: like Dianne Feinstein. They rolled her out of there on
• 4:28:31
  Speaker 12: a gurney, and she wouldn't let go. If you saw,
• 4:28:34
  Speaker 12: there was one really tragic picture of her staff whispering
• 4:28:39
  Speaker 12: in her ear, telling her what to do and say.
• 4:28:41
  Speaker 12: She could not function, could not do the job. So
• 4:28:44
  Speaker 12: I don't care whether you're 25 and incapable or 85
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 12: and incapable. It's time to move on. And this idea
• 4:28:50
  Speaker 12: that they should sit in those offices, that they retire
• 4:28:53
  Speaker 12: to the Senate where they have a solid two-and-a-half-day work
• 4:28:55
  Speaker 12: week and they get to travel the world on our dime,
• 4:28:58
  Speaker 12: that they retire to the Senate for four decades, it's
• 4:29:01
  Speaker 12: just wrong. We have to fix our elections so we
• 4:29:05
  Speaker 12: can finally begin challenging some of these people in primaries
• 4:29:09
  Speaker 12: and so that people who would be good candidates can
• 4:29:11
  Speaker 12: begin to run because they have some reasonable likelihood of
• 4:29:15
  Speaker 12: winning if they present a good case. But the way
• 4:29:18
  Speaker 12: the system is set up now You know, you retire
• 4:29:20
  Speaker 12: to the Senate, you've got a gig for life, tons of,
• 4:29:23
  Speaker 12: you know, great contacts. You can do all kinds of deals,
• 4:29:26
  Speaker 12: land deals, AI deals. You can make money hand over fist.
• 4:29:29
  Speaker 12: And you never have to worry about performing at all.
• 4:29:31
  Speaker 12: You just have to remember that every six years or so,
• 4:29:33
  Speaker 12: you've got to start a campaign and run it for
• 4:29:35
  Speaker 12: about 18 months.
• 4:29:37
  Speaker 2: And if you die, then your family has a job.
• 4:29:41
  Speaker 15: Yeah, exactly.
• 4:29:41
  Speaker 12: And if you die, it's okay. Make sure your sister's
• 4:29:43
  Speaker 12: tuned up.
• 4:29:44
  Speaker 2: Remember when Sonny Bono... Sonny Bonnery? Yeah. And guess who
• 4:29:51
  Speaker 2: took his place? His wife.
• 4:29:54
  Speaker 12: Well, I was hoping for Cher.
• 4:29:57
  Speaker 2: Not that wife. The next wife.
• 4:30:00
  Speaker 12: I wanted Cher. That's who I wanted. I thought, let's
• 4:30:02
  Speaker 12: get Cher in Congress. She'll be at least as effective as,
• 4:30:06
  Speaker 12: you know, Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff.
• 4:30:10
  Speaker 12: I mean, let's get Cher to sing a little bit
• 4:30:11
  Speaker 12: during breaks.
• 4:30:13
  Speaker 2: I think it would have made... who's the one that
• 4:30:18
  Speaker 2: claimed to be an Indian that wasn't?
• 4:30:21
  Speaker 12: Pocahontas.
• 4:30:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it would have made Pocahontas
• 4:30:24
  Speaker 2: a little nervous if Cher actually got the appointment actually
• 4:30:28
  Speaker 2: being a real descendant of Indians.
• 4:30:32
  Speaker 12: Oh, there you go. She would have actually challenged Pocahontas
• 4:30:35
  Speaker 12: as the leading Native American in Congress.
• 4:30:39
  Speaker 5: It's a good point.
• 4:30:41
  Speaker 2: 71 years old, Lindsey Graham. So you just don't know.
• 4:30:46
  Speaker 2: You're And I'm with you. You always are curious. It
• 4:30:49
  Speaker 2: could be, could not be. And Mitch McConnell, what a
• 4:30:53
  Speaker 2: story that is. All right, G2.
• 4:30:56
  Speaker 12: It's become ludicrous. Like, we're not really a serious country now.
• 4:30:59
  Speaker 12: I mean, this is all just a game.
• 4:31:01
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 4:31:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you, G2. Appreciate your time, as always. The great G2.
• 4:31:06
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• 4:31:24
  Speaker 2: with G2 here about some of the happenings. So you're not,
• 4:31:28
  Speaker 2: when they say, well, Lindsey Graham, his heart blew out,
• 4:31:31
  Speaker 2: and this is what the autopsy said, you don't accept
• 4:31:35
  Speaker 2: it on face value.
• 4:31:38
  Speaker 12: No, no, I don't think we've been told anything true
• 4:31:40
  Speaker 12: by Washington, D.C. in a very long time. I don't
• 4:31:43
  Speaker 12: know why we would start believing them now.
• 4:31:45
  Speaker 3: Uh..
• 4:31:45
  Speaker 12: You know could be it's plausible i'm just saying i
• 4:31:49
  Speaker 12: don't know what happened to him i'd have to get
• 4:31:51
  Speaker 12: some more information to have it you know to really uh...
• 4:31:56
  Speaker 12: and on the sister again you know i'd heard they
• 4:31:59
  Speaker 12: were floating the idea of trey gowdy which is a
• 4:32:02
  Speaker 12: disaster so i guess if it's between trey gowdy the
• 4:32:05
  Speaker 12: sister i guess i'll take the sister she's an unknown
• 4:32:07
  Speaker 12: maybe there's a primary challenge uh... when this better there's
• 4:32:11
  Speaker 12: a challenge when the election comes up here in uh...
• 4:32:14
  Speaker 12: What is it, August 11th or something? It's going to
• 4:32:16
  Speaker 12: happen relatively quickly, I suspect. And, you know, then, of course,
• 4:32:21
  Speaker 12: Mitch McConnell, we see that he's alive and doing well.
• 4:32:25
  Speaker 12: If you're watching social media, you see him doing handstands
• 4:32:28
  Speaker 12: and cartwheels in his hospital room. So, of course, he's
• 4:32:33
  Speaker 12: doing well.
• 4:32:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 4:32:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen these videos.
• 4:32:38
  Speaker 12: They're fabulous.
• 4:32:39
  Speaker 2: What is it, I mean, when you look at this,
• 4:32:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to say this as I, too,
• 4:32:43
  Speaker 2: grow older, but enough of the old people, wouldn't you say?
• 4:32:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, Mitch McConnell, come on already. I mean, it's
• 4:32:52
  Speaker 2: time to go.
• 4:32:54
  Speaker 12: If they're capable of doing the work and the voters
• 4:32:56
  Speaker 12: choose them, then so be it. But when Mitch McConnell's
• 4:32:59
  Speaker 12: been incapacitated for more than a year, his staff has obviously..
• 4:33:04
  Speaker 3: Uh..
• 4:33:04
  Speaker 12: Running his office he's obviously not capable of doing the
• 4:33:08
  Speaker 12: job now he's completely offline and and uh... you know
• 4:33:13
  Speaker 12: any won't let go it's like diane feinstein they rolled
• 4:33:15
  Speaker 12: her out of there on a on a gurney and
• 4:33:18
  Speaker 12: she would let go if you thought it was one
• 4:33:20
  Speaker 12: really tragic picture of her uh... staff whispered in her
• 4:33:24
  Speaker 12: ear telling her what to do and say if she
• 4:33:26
  Speaker 12: could not function could not do the job so i
• 4:33:29
  Speaker 12: don't care whether you're twenty five and incapable or eighty
• 4:33:31
  Speaker 12: five and incapable it's time to move on And this
• 4:33:35
  Speaker 12: idea that they should sit in those offices, that they
• 4:33:37
  Speaker 12: retire to the Senate where they have a solid two-and-a-half-day
• 4:33:40
  Speaker 12: work week and they get to travel the world on
• 4:33:42
  Speaker 12: our dime, that they retire to the Senate for four decades,
• 4:33:46
  Speaker 12: it's just wrong. We have to fix our elections so
• 4:33:49
  Speaker 12: we can finally begin challenging some of these people in
• 4:33:53
  Speaker 12: primaries and so that people who would be good candidates
• 4:33:56
  Speaker 12: can begin to run because they have some reasonable likelihood
• 4:33:59
  Speaker 12: of winning if they present a good case. But the
• 4:34:02
  Speaker 12: way the system is set up now, You know, you
• 4:34:05
  Speaker 12: retire to the Senate, you've got a gig for life,
• 4:34:07
  Speaker 12: tons of, you know, great contacts. You can do all
• 4:34:09
  Speaker 12: kinds of deals, land deals, AI deals. You can make
• 4:34:12
  Speaker 12: money hand over fist. And you never have to worry
• 4:34:15
  Speaker 12: about performing at all. You just have to remember that
• 4:34:16
  Speaker 12: every six years or so, you've got to start a
• 4:34:19
  Speaker 12: campaign and run it for about 18 months.
• 4:34:22
  Speaker 2: And if you die, then your family has a job.
• 4:34:25
  Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly. And if you die, it's okay. Make sure
• 4:34:27
  Speaker 12: your sister's tuned up.
• 4:34:29
  Speaker 2: Remember when Sonny Bono... Sonny Boner.
• 4:34:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 4:34:35
  Speaker 2: And guess who took his place? His wife.
• 4:34:39
  Speaker 12: Well, I was hoping for Cher.
• 4:34:42
  Speaker 2: Not that wife. The next wife.
• 4:34:45
  Speaker 12: I wanted Cher. That's who I wanted. I thought, let's
• 4:34:47
  Speaker 12: get Cher in Congress. She'll be at least as effective as,
• 4:34:51
  Speaker 12: you know, Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff.
• 4:34:54
  Speaker 12: I mean, let's get Cher to sing a little bit
• 4:34:56
  Speaker 12: during break.
• 4:34:57
  Speaker 2: I think it would have made... uh, who's the, uh,
• 4:35:03
  Speaker 2: one that claimed to be an Indian that wasn't.
• 4:35:05
  Speaker 13: Um, Pocahontas.
• 4:35:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 4:35:07
  Speaker 2: I think it would have made, I think it would
• 4:35:08
  Speaker 2: have made Pocahontas a little nervous if Cher actually got
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  Speaker 2: the appointment actually being a real descendant of Indians.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, there you go. She would have actually, uh, challenged
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  Speaker 12: Pocahontas as the leading, uh, Native American in, uh, in Congress.
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  Speaker 12: It's a good point.
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  Speaker 2: 71 years old. Lindsey Graham, uh, is, uh, So you
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  Speaker 2: just don't know. And I'm with you. You always are curious.
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  Speaker 2: It could be, could not be. And Mitch McConnell, what
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  Speaker 2: a story that is. All right, G2.
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  Speaker 12: It's become ludicrous. We're not really a serious country now.
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  Speaker 12: This is all just a game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, G2. Appreciate your time as always. The great G2.
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