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The Ron Verb Show - 5pm Hour Monday, 08/10/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Today's YSU Penguins preseason update on your home of the Gwens,
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dre Smith with today's YSU football preseason camp report
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  Speaker 2: Actually a meal.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me today..
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  Speaker 2: Is YSU fifth-year All-American quarterback and 2025 Walter Payton Award winner,
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  Speaker 2: Beau Brungard. As a leader and a captain for this squad,
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  Speaker 2: how exciting is it to be out here now practicing
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  Speaker 2: as a team? And what is the primary focus as
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  Speaker 2: you work and progress toward the season opener here on
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  Speaker 2: August 27th?
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  Speaker 4: Just knowing it's my last year, getting to spend it
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  Speaker 4: with the guys who came in with me in 2022,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's something special. And nowadays in college football
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  Speaker 4: to have a big group of seniors who came in
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  Speaker 4: together and stayed together, so I'm proud of the guys
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  Speaker 4: for that. I'm just excited to see that maturity on
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  Speaker 4: the field and how that translates to our game.
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  Speaker 2: That was YSU fifth-year quarterback Bo Brungard. I'm Dre Smith
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  Speaker 2: with today's YSU football preseason camp report.
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  Speaker 1: Sharon and Newcastle, too.
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  Speaker 5: Great talk every step of your day.
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  Speaker 1: So much more than.
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  Speaker 5: Just the news.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Ron Verb on.
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  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKBN. On NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: I was just reading this. Dr. Anthony Fauci privately discussed
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  Speaker 1: concerns about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for pregnant women in January 2021,
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  Speaker 1: including questions about fever after a second dose and the
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  Speaker 1: theoretical risk of miscarriage during the first trimester, according to
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  Speaker 1: newly released text messages obtained from his government-issued cell phone.
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  Speaker 1: The exchange involved Fauci, then Center of Disease Control Prevention Director... Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Vivek Murthy, who would later become
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  Speaker 1: the former President Joe Biden's Surgeon General. Fauci said because
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  Speaker 1: many people experience significant cytokine-related symptoms and fever after a
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  Speaker 1: second dose, that reaction theoretically could be associated with miscarriage
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  Speaker 1: in the first trimester, according to the messages shown on
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  Speaker 1: page two of documents released Monday by Senator Ron Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't this interesting, huh? The text chain released today could
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  Speaker 1: have an immediate impact on public health and the principle
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  Speaker 1: of informed consent. So what they did is now they
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  Speaker 1: went back and they looked at Fauci's cell phone and
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  Speaker 1: his messages that he had on his cell phone. The
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  Speaker 1: release questioned why only three contacts were listed by name
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  Speaker 1: while all other text messages are identified only with phone
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  Speaker 1: numbers among the 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails. It
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  Speaker 1: is too early to determine whether any data has been deleted.
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  Speaker 1: To protect the privacy of individuals with whom Dr. Fauci communicated,
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  Speaker 1: as well as personal messages unrelated to public health issues
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  Speaker 1: he was involved in, it will take time to carefully
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  Speaker 1: review the large volume of information the senators received. Chairman
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  Speaker 1: Johnson said the staffs will work diligently to release relevant
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  Speaker 1: information to the public as soon as possible. Mr. Murthy
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  Speaker 1: initially asked whether there was any reason to favor vaccination
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  Speaker 1: earlier or later in pregnancy and whether officials had seen
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  Speaker 1: evidence of adverse outcomes among pregnant women who had already
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  Speaker 1: been vaccinated. Fauci's director of National Institute of Allergy and
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  Speaker 1: Infectious Diseases at the time responded that there were no
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  Speaker 1: data or theoretical reasons to believe vaccinations earlier in pregnancy
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  Speaker 1: should be preferred over later vaccinations. He also said concerns
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  Speaker 1: that an mRNA vaccine could alter a person's genes were
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  Speaker 1: a misconception. Later that evening, however, Fauci mentioned evidence of
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  Speaker 1: issues with the second shot for pregnant women. Malinsky replied
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  Speaker 1: that it was definitely a good point, especially after dose two.
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  Speaker 1: Murthy then wrote that he had been hearing concerns about
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  Speaker 1: mRNA causing mutations in a developing fetus and said Fauci's
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  Speaker 1: point about the cytokine response, if I'm saying that correctly,
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  Speaker 1: after the second dose was a really good point. The
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  Speaker 1: following day, after Murphy flagged a World Health Organization recommendation
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  Speaker 1: at the time advising against use of Moderna's vaccine in
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  Speaker 1: pregnant women because of limited data, Fauci emphasized that officials
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  Speaker 1: had to weigh the potential risk of vaccination against the
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  Speaker 1: risk posed by COVID-19 itself. He wrote that more than
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  Speaker 1: 10,000 pregnant women had already been vaccinated with no issues reported.
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  Speaker 1: The Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee on obstetrics and
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  Speaker 1: gynecology guidance allowed pregnant women to choose vaccination and that
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  Speaker 1: the animal toxicology studies had not raised red flags. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is just getting more bizarre as time goes on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Fauci to me is like a Dr. Mengele.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this guy, he will never see justice.
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  Speaker 1: He's too damn old and he's going to get away
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  Speaker 1: with all of it. He's up to his eyeballs. This
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  Speaker 1: guy is just bad news. He was funding this COVID stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He was just lying about things. He was funding it
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  Speaker 1: and just covering his ass. And this was just one
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  Speaker 1: giant experiment on people. This other, this Murphy responded that
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  Speaker 1: the WHO recommendation surprised him and warned that a strong
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  Speaker 1: recommendation against vaccination based on a lack of data could
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  Speaker 1: be potentially quite damaging to public confidence among pregnant women.
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  Speaker 1: Walensky agreed and said she would flag the issue for
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  Speaker 1: an upcoming meeting. So these text messages are out of
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  Speaker 1: concern that if you, that if you were pregnant in
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  Speaker 1: your first trimester and you were getting the vaccination, there's
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  Speaker 1: a second dose could cause you to have a miscarriage. Well,
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  Speaker 1: don't you think people should be advised of that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is just an unbelievable nightmare. The more that's coming out,
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  Speaker 1: this is all text messages on Fauci's phone. And you
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  Speaker 1: saw the other stuff that Rand Paul had last week.
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  Speaker 1: But once again, the best part about all this is
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  Speaker 1: we have a right to know. We have a right
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  Speaker 1: to this information. We should know this information. It's why
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  Speaker 1: people don't trust anything government says anymore. And this involves
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  Speaker 1: people's reproduction and health issues. And I'm telling you, Fauci
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  Speaker 1: is just, to me, sheer evil. And he'll never face
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  Speaker 1: any justice, just like they won't any of these Epstein
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  Speaker 1: people will, just like the Russian Oaks people won't. You're
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  Speaker 1: on the air.
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  Speaker 6: You ready for the stock market report?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm not, because I don't even know where the
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  Speaker 1: stocks were today. Let me bring it up on my
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  Speaker 1: ticker here. S & P 500 closes, little changed as
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  Speaker 1: oil rises on Iran uncertainty. Intel leads chips lower.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's true, but it's not just Treasury oil prices.
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  Speaker 6: Rising Treasury yields are rising, too, because despite the fact
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  Speaker 6: that Warr said he's going to keep interest rates steady
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  Speaker 6: and not raise them, investors are saying that with Congress
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  Speaker 6: spending like drunken sailors... we're demanding higher yields. And now
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  Speaker 6: gold and precious metals are starting to rise. Gold bottomed
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  Speaker 6: out at 4,000 an ounce not that long ago, closed
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  Speaker 6: today at almost 4,500 an ounce. And gold is a
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  Speaker 6: hedge against inflation. With interest rates going up, people normally
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  Speaker 6: sell gold and buy treasuries. They're not doing that. They're
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  Speaker 6: buying treasuries and they're buying gold at the same time.
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  Speaker 6: Now also, we're in end of corporate earnings season. I'll
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  Speaker 6: explain to your audience, every quarter, every three months, corporations
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  Speaker 6: file the reports, how much profit they made or they
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  Speaker 6: lost money, how much they lost. Well, Corporate earnings for
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  Speaker 6: the last second quarter of the year have been good.
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  Speaker 6: It's not just tech, Ron, that's driving the stock market.
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  Speaker 6: We have a broad-based stock market where not just the
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  Speaker 6: S & P 500, but medium-sized companies are reporting great earnings.
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  Speaker 6: That's very good for the stock market. And workers are
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  Speaker 6: worried about AI is muscling people out of their jobs.
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  Speaker 6: on a massive scale. But that doesn't change the fact
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  Speaker 6: that if you live near an AI data center, your
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  Speaker 6: utility bills are up 40%, 50%, as much as 100%
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  Speaker 6: or more. They've doubled for a while. Some people across
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  Speaker 6: the country.
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  Speaker 1: With no end in sight, they could go up even more.
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  Speaker 1: And forget people in the country. That's what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: Our electric rate, what you're paying here because of, as
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  Speaker 1: I've said numerous times, because once again, Clinton and Obama
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  Speaker 1: and John Kerry, all these people, the green energy people
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  Speaker 1: that wanted to rip down coal-powered plants, and they regulated
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  Speaker 1: them out of business here, then they required they be
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  Speaker 1: torn down so they couldn't be turned back on. They
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to replace the deficit they created. Then you
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  Speaker 1: come along with the demand for this AI stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: it's why my cost of electricity has doubled right here
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  Speaker 1: in the community in which we broadcast from, and it
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  Speaker 1: can go up more next year. So this isn't the
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  Speaker 1: end of it. More than likely, it'll go up even more.
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  Speaker 6: And Ron, I also want to mention about uranium mining companies.
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  Speaker 6: But before I do..
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  Speaker 1: Well, before you do that, I want to mention this
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  Speaker 1: to you. Oil in U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls below
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  Speaker 1: 300 million barrels, lowest since 1983. There's the headline. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just reading that from CNBC's ticker. How about that?
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  Speaker 6: Now, normally, the Federal Reserve doesn't do anything... to harm
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  Speaker 6: an incumbent president. They don't usually raise interest rates. They
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  Speaker 6: try to keep inflation modest, except under Jimmy Carter, because
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  Speaker 6: he wasn't 100% on board with Israel. The Federal Reserve,
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  Speaker 6: we had inflation coming down when Carter got elected president.
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  Speaker 6: And that's one of the main reasons he got elected.
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  Speaker 6: He promised to bring inflation down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he failed at that. He was a terrible president. Terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Reagan? Reagan turned things around. Of course, you had
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a recession there to get things
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  Speaker 1: turned around.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the reason he failed as far as inflation was
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  Speaker 6: because the Federal Reserve just cranked up the printing presses.
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  Speaker 6: It says, okay, it's the economy, stupid. And since you
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  Speaker 6: aren't totally on board with Israel and war spending, we're
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  Speaker 6: going to make sure that you don't get reelected. But
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you this. In 2025, of all the uranium
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  Speaker 6: delivered to U.S. nuclear power plants, only 7% came from
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  Speaker 6: the U.S. But no country on Earth burns more of
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  Speaker 6: it than America.
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  Speaker 4: And the U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Currently has 94 reactors, the largest operating fleet in the world,
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  Speaker 6: producing one-fifth of all the electricity in the country. And
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  Speaker 6: 20 of those plants are working through license renewals, Ron.
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  Speaker 6: They're going through hoops of bureaucratic red tape to get
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  Speaker 6: these renewals when we need as much energy to bring
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  Speaker 6: prices down as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Like, that's why I go back and
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  Speaker 1: emphasize Obama regulated the coal-powered plants out of business and
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  Speaker 1: then insisted they be destroyed so they couldn't be turned
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  Speaker 1: back on. What a disaster that guy was. What an
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  Speaker 1: absolute disaster. But when you talk about Jimmy Carter, and
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  Speaker 1: I hate to admit it. you and I were around
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  Speaker 1: during that time, it was a disaster. Energy was a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Interest rates were a disaster. The economy was terrible. And
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  Speaker 1: when Reagan got elected, he really did turn things around.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he really, really changed things for the better.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, 95% of the uranium fleet plans to
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  Speaker 6: run these plants for 80 years or more. And there
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  Speaker 6: are also three shuttered that will be reopened and brought
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  Speaker 6: back online, the Palisades in Michigan, Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 6: and Dwayne Arnold in Iowa. And all three produce 2.3
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  Speaker 6: gigawatts between them. Now, in addition, Trump just signed four
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  Speaker 6: executive orders last year aimed at taking America's nuclear capacity
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  Speaker 6: from 100 gigawatts to 400 gigawatts by 2050, that's a quadrupling. Ron,
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  Speaker 6: that's because our Republican Congress, who's in the back pockets
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  Speaker 6: of the fossil fuel industry and the fossil fuel industry
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  Speaker 6: view alternative energy as competition.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to tell you why that is with
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  Speaker 1: that in mind. It's because all these people that were
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  Speaker 1: these green energy people like Bill Gates and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff did a 180 when they needed all this
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  Speaker 1: power for their AI centers. They changed their opinion literally overnight.
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  Speaker 1: And now Trump has stopped the destruction of the coal plants.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Trump's energy policy. Stand by. It's Fort Lauderdale. Frank,
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  Speaker 1: Ron Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Back in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: What more than just awareness for UKBN?
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  Speaker 1: Back to it. NewsRadio 570, WKBN. Got to pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: 525 here. So, at least Trump..
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  Speaker 6: Let me get the legal caveat out of the way,
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  Speaker 6: because I'd like to hear your question. I have invested
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  Speaker 6: a lot of money in uranium mining stocks, but I
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  Speaker 6: have a very high risk tolerance level. and I analyze
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  Speaker 6: all the stocks individually, there's probably nobody listening in your
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  Speaker 6: audience that's fortunate enough to have a brokerage account, a
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  Speaker 6: Roth IRA, a traditional IRA, a rollover, et cetera. They
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  Speaker 6: should not be investing in uranium mining companies. They are
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  Speaker 6: just way too volatile. Ten years ago, they were high,
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  Speaker 6: and they've been doing nothing but going down ever since.
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  Speaker 6: And we don't know who's going to take over in
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  Speaker 6: the midterms. But go ahead and ask your question on Trump,
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  Speaker 6: because I had wanted to mention about all these Democrats
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  Speaker 6: electing socialists now.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, what I make of that is that they're economic
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  Speaker 6: and investment functional literates. They don't have a clue how...
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  Speaker 6: socialism has destroyed the economy of every country that it's
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  Speaker 6: ever been tried. Remember, we have had several conversations. I
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  Speaker 6: read Das Kapital by Karl Marx when I was 21
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  Speaker 6: years old, and he probably did the best job of
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  Speaker 6: analyzing Britain's economy, which was the leading economy in the
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  Speaker 6: world at that time. But the year 1867, he published
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  Speaker 6: Das Kapital, the United States, England, European countries, France, shattered
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  Speaker 6: all previous records. You have to have capitalism or you're
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  Speaker 6: going to have widespread poverty. That's what I make of it.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, Ron, I had told you a while
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  Speaker 6: back when Ro Khanna was talking about running for president. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you know, normally I might have voted for Will Connor
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  Speaker 6: because he wants to get corporate PAC money out of politics.
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  Speaker 6: He wants to limit everything to no more than, I think,
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  Speaker 6: $ 2, 500 per individual contributing to campaigns. And he's also against Israel.
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  Speaker 6: He doesn't think we should be giving billions and tens
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  Speaker 6: of billions of dollars of Israel. He's like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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  Speaker 6: That's our money. It should stay here in this country
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  Speaker 6: to benefit the American people. But, Ron, Ro Khanna is
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  Speaker 6: a socialist, and I would never vote for a socialist.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Fort Lauderdale, Frank, enjoying the sunshine from
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  Speaker 1: the Sunshine State. Thank you. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, sir.
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  Speaker 5: This is Ray. I used to drive a truck.
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  Speaker 1: Ray, who used to drive it. Hey, let me ask
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  Speaker 1: you a question, Ray. I was just thinking about you
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  Speaker 1: the other day.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to think. Did you once give me
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  Speaker 1: a bottle of polish that was like in a water
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  Speaker 1: bottle that was like orange? Yeah. Was that you? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That stuff is fantastic. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so it was orange and it was in
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  Speaker 1: like a water bottle. And you said, try waxing your
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  Speaker 1: car with this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a polymer. I've moved on from that because
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  Speaker 5: they come out with better stuff, but that at the
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  Speaker 5: time was the best stuff. It was a polymer wax,
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  Speaker 5: and you put it on like you do window cleaner.
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  Speaker 5: Wipe it on, wipe it off, good to go for months.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you get that at? I mean, I ran
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  Speaker 1: out of that.
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  Speaker 5: That was a chemical guy's product and was called V07.
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  Speaker 5: They still make it. But I think there's better stuff
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  Speaker 5: out there now that I switched to. It's more durable.
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  Speaker 5: And those would be ceramic sprays.
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  Speaker 1: You're telling me that's better than... That stuff was great.
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  Speaker 5: That was the best stuff at the time. But they've
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  Speaker 5: moved on to actually better stuff. I mean, the new
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  Speaker 5: stuff worked the same.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on a second. Just bear with me, all right?
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  Speaker 1: He should be impressed I remember that. I've been wanting
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  Speaker 1: to ask him that. Back in a minute. Have you
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  Speaker 1: heard the news? The last chance for Iran.
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  Speaker 7: Many countries wanted to give this a last chance.
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  Speaker 1: This is the last chance. Rubio on that last chance.
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  Speaker 5: There's been progress made in those talks, but not finality yet.
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  Speaker 1: We're hoping that will happen very shortly. There's good news.
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  Speaker 1: There are ships moving through the straits.
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  Speaker 5: There's oil moving right now through the straits.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanch's nomination for AG advances. Todd Blanch is a
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  Speaker 1: very good man.
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  Speaker 2: And election tests for socialists.
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  Speaker 1: Democrat socialists. Check in often.
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  Speaker 7: Police in Canton are working to determine how two women
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  Speaker 7: died following an apartment fire on Sunday. 42-year-old Katina Spells
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  Speaker 7: and 31-year-old Courtney Yeager were found inside the apartment, but
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  Speaker 7: it's not believed that the women died from the fire,
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  Speaker 7: but by other means due to their injuries. Congresswoman Marcy
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  Speaker 7: Kaptur is out of the hospital a week after the
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  Speaker 7: 80-year-old was involved in a hit-and-run accident in Toledo. Kaptur
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  Speaker 7: was a passenger in the vehicle driven by a campaign staffer.
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  Speaker 7: The two were on their way to church when they
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  Speaker 7: were hit by another vehicle. The driver of that car
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  Speaker 7: fled the scene. At the just-concluded Ohio State Fair, the
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  Speaker 7: Ohio Department of Commerce says it helped some 1,500 visitors
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  Speaker 7: reclaim a grand total.
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  Speaker 1: Of $ 675, 000 from the state's unclaimed funds account. I'm Brian Engel.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb. On NewsRadio 570. WKBN. All right. Ray, the
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  Speaker 1: truck driver.
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  Speaker 6: Ray?
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  Speaker 1: Hello? Hang on. Ray. Ray. Yes. Okay, so this won't
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: mean a lot to a lot of you that are listening,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: but just forget about it. I remember, I've got to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: tell this story. So wasn't I at Morgan Furniture broadcasting
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: back then?
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And he came in and he says, hey, try this
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: on your car. He gave me a water bottle that
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was filled with this orange stuff. And so I had this,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and then I started using it, and it's, what do you,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you put it on, and you, how do you describe
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: how you apply it?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Spritz it on, wipe it with a cloth, 30 seconds later,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: wipe it off, good to go. It's like washing your windows.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it.
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  Speaker 5: Really, really slick.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And it makes like a, just an incredible shine. Would
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you not agree?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yes. I mean, so how did you discover this stuff?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So he gave it to me in a water bottle.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And so I used it, and I ran out. And
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: do you know, I've been waiting here. Listen to this.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting here for you to call, hoping that
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you didn't die. Right. I guess it's like, I hope
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  Speaker 1: he's still on the planet and waiting for you to call.
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  Speaker 5: In the chemical, guys, that's the name brand. You can
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: get it from Amazon. I usually buy it in the gallon,
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: and that's why you got it. I had a gallon,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: and you got it in a water bottle or just
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: a spray bottle. But it's incredibly.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Easy to use.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: If you go Google up ceramic spray sealant or spray detailer,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: ceramic detailer spray.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute. I'm going to go ahead.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: You'll find a bunch of them. I use a yellow
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: one now. It's a ceramic versus the orange one is
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: a polymer. It's just different chemicals. They both work really,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: really good. I think the ceramics have a little bit
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: better durability. But I do my car's truck twice a year,
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: spring and fall. That's it. And it's incredibly easy to use,
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  Speaker 5: isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: You know, if I get, like, a new lawnmower or
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I take my lawnmower apart, I got a John Deere
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  Speaker 5: 2000 model. The deck is absolutely perfect. The top of
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: the deck. When I take it off to, you know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: clean it out or sharpen the blades or whatever, boom.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: While it's off there, clean it up, spray it. It's spring, fall,
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  Speaker 5: good to go. And it's still shiny 20 years later.
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  Speaker 1: So can you believe I can remember that?
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's amazing that you do remember it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: But that stuff is so good, that's why you remember it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Right. And I said, I know that was from Ray,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the truck driver. Here's my story of Ray the truck driver, folks.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Ray the truck driver, it was– I always learned when
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he was working, Ray would tell me when there was
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a recession or going to be a recession. So all
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of you stock guys listening, Ray would call me and say–
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  Speaker 1: he would look at the load board when he was
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: driving a truck. He'd say– The load board's good or
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the load board's bad. It was always an indication of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: how the economy was doing. Basically, we're people buying stuff
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and we're stores ordering stuff. So he would tip me
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: off over what's going to be happening economically by looking
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: at the load board. This guy was right on the economy,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: what was happening before you would read about it on CNBC.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So then he would be doing his own thing. He's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: one of those guys that would buy stocks on his
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: own and really did really pretty good on his own
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: just because... I don't even know how to describe it
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: just because he seemed smart at it. Okay. So he would,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: he would drive truck. He would look at the load board.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: He would buy stocks and he, and he made money.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And then when I'd be on location, we don't do
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: remotes anymore, but when I'd be on location down at
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Morgan furniture, he would stop by and he was always
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: like a really interesting guy and a really smart guy.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And he hands me this bottle of stuff and he says, Hey,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: try this on your car, man. It's really going to be, it's,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: it's really going to be something. And it doesn't take
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  Speaker 1: very much at all. So finally, I ran out of
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: this stuff. And I'm saying, I know that's from Ray.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I can remember that. And that's why I've been waiting
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: for him to call. Then one day, Ray calls me
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: on the air. And he says... I quit. I quit
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: driving truck. And I remember this conversation. I said, well,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: why did you do that? He said, and he said
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to me, well, because I could just see I would
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: be sleeping in that truck somewhere and just die maybe
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a week before somebody finds me or whatever. And I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: just didn't want to live that way anymore. And how
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: much they wanted, how many miles I would have to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: drive just to cover insurance was ridiculous, right? Remember that?
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  Speaker 7: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: That's good. You do remember. You were paying attention.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Those were some great calls, man. I mean,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that was some great stuff. You were always right on
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the economy. Your stocks were really great picks. Your car
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: stuff was second to none. And then when you decided,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and literally this just happened one day when you said,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I've had enough. I'm not going to die in this truck.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: What were you, 65 at the time or 62?
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: No, I was actually 62.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Right. And remember, you had mathematically done how much your
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: health care was going to cost you if you kept
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: your income as high as it was and how many
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: miles you'd have to drive just to have health care
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: per month. It was beneficial.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was $ 1, 200 a month, Ron.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was beneficial to make less money.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: That was the Obamacare. Yeah, $ 1, 200.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Crazy. Yeah. And so he said, there's no point in
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: me busting my ass. I should make less money and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: my health care, play the Obamacare game. And that was really,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: it was very smart. It was very smart.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, at some point, it just gets to me.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, I feel bad for a lot of these,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: you know, family-owned businesses that have to go out. I
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: think John Arnold was, you know, talking about, what is it,
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: $ 2, 500 a month?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Who can afford that?
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Like even like my eye doctor was telling me what
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: she has to pay for her family. It's even more
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: than that. I mean, just per month. And that's just
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to have insurance. That's just every month.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: And they call it the Affordable Care Act.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Affordable. What a crock of crap.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Talk about affordability. That ain't it. Anyway, here's the reason
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: for my call.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Before you get to the reason.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: You were talking about climate change.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Before you get to that, I got another question for you.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to that. So what are your thoughts?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Were there as many foreign truck drivers then that, first
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: of all, getting a CDL is not an easy thing
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to get. So now we have all these foreigners. They
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: can't speak English or read the road signs. That is
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: deeply disturbing to me. Now, can you talk about that?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Because you were driving for all those years. How can
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you function if you can't read the signs properly? And
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  Speaker 1: speak English. And I think Ray was the first one
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  Speaker 1: who told me this, too, which I remember a lot now.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: He said that's why a lot of signs have pictures
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: on them for people that can't read. Correct.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly. It started when I was doing it. I've been
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: retired for, I don't know, maybe eight years, eight, nine
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: years now. But it had started a little bit. And
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: the biggest issue we had was Canada at that time.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: And just about the time I was leaving, the Mexican trucks,
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: they could come across the border in El Paso, Laredo,
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: and stuff like that. But they had like an international zone.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: It was like, you know, 10 miles from the border.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: Mexican drivers couldn't go outside that 10 miles. Well, now
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: they can.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Now, here's another story Ray told me. Is this accurate
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: or not? And Ray says, you know, a lot of
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: times there will be two of these guys coming in
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  Speaker 1: from Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Actually, back then it was more the Middle Easterners coming
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: from Canada.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And they would have like a hole in the truck floor, right?
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: You can call your truck stop right over here in
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: the TA or the Petro and ask for the service
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: department and they'll tell you.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So listen to this.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: They wouldn't work on the truck.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: This is all... I remember all of this stuff. I mean,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: this would be going on during the commercial breaks. So
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I'd be saying, so you would have two guys. One
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: would drive the required hours and then he would go
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: sleep and the other one would drive. In the meantime, though,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: if they had to crap, they would crap. They had
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a hole in the floor of the truck and it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: would crap right out the floor of the truck and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: it would go all underneath the truck. They'd be doing
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: their business there. And it was just disgusting, and they
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: refused to work on their trucks because of that, right? Yep.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: You can call your truck stop and ask them. Just
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: ask for their repair shop. Ask them. They'll tell you. Yeah,
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: when I hit the drive shaft, obviously the drive, right?
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: You can imagine what happens at that point. It just
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: goes everywhere.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Here's what I call.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: You had a little short thing there. You were talking
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: about climate change.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: And you could not just limit it to climate change.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Listen to anything that the government, elected officials, Republicans, Democrats, senators, congresspeople, whatever.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Whatever it is they're championing. You know, for some of
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: them it's climate change, for others health insurance, whatever. Why
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: is it, Ron, that every time they find this issue
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: to campaign on and crusade on, I should say mostly,
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: it's campaign and mostly crusade, is there is always billions
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: and billions and billions of dollars of government programs to
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: work on it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Always.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: I don't care what the issue is. For example, Obamacare,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: at the time, there were like 30 million people who
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: didn't have health insurance. But instead of figuring out a
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: way to help those 30 million people get some kind
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: of coverage, they changed the entire thing for 330 million
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: people in the country.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Stupid.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Absolutely stupid. So my health insurance, in a period, it
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: went from $ 300 a month to $ 600 to $ 900 to $ 1, 200.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: And I said, that's it. I'm done. Right.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: It's nuts.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: I'm working for the insurance company and everybody else. Everybody
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: else gets, you know how you, you want a business.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: You pay your bills, you pay this, you pay that guy,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: the repair bill, the cost bill, the insurance guy, the
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: fuel guy. Okay, I get what's left. There's nothing left
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: after I said, okay, that's enough for me. So why
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: is it that Bernie Sanders has been carpet on this
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: for 30 years and One of the guys that I remember,
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: he had a guy one time that said, you know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: these politicians should be like the NASCAR drivers and have
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: all the little patches for all their sponsors.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: On there.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: That was a great idea.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I remember that call, too. He said that when you
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: get up to speak as a politician, you should have, like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: on your suit, all the patches like a NASCAR guy
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: of everybody that's giving you money so we can just
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: look at it as you're talking.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: But all of these programs have billions of... That's how
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: the government grows, Ron. They keep finding things. On the
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: local level, it's the same thing. I hear you talking
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: about a week or two ago about the property. You
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: broke down the property taxes.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: You didn't have that 20... Your father didn't have all that.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Mine didn't either. Coming out of your property taxes... It
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: just goes on and on and on and on and on. Government,
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: they just figure out more ways to spend money, hire
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: more people, grow the government, and collect more money from
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: everybody else. I haven't called much, and part of the
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: reason is extreme disappointment. I am severely, and I've been
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: disappointed for a number of years, you know, when Republicans
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: get in power, they can't seem to govern.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: They talk about everything. They don't get anything done. If
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Trump hadn't done executive orders, I can't think of a
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: damn thing the Republican Congress and Senate have passed.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: They're too similar. They're too similar, right? The Democrats and Republicans. Right.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: And why haven't the Republicans caught him?
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron, I disagree there. The Democrats, they figure out
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: a way to get it done.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: Get the legislation passed. I'm not saying it's good legislation.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: It's stupid a lot of times, like the Affordable Care Act,
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: some of this other nonsense. But they do get it done.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: All the things that they run on, they can't seem
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: to get it done. And it's just, I mean, DeWine
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: is really a disappointment.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: On the Haitian thing, okay, they had an earthquake 15
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: years ago. And they come up with a temporary thing.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: What is the definition of temporary? It doesn't mean forever.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: But apparently now it does.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Because they get better money from the federal government to
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: help take care of them. Plus, the COVID thing where
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: they just lie to you. You can go all the way.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: They've been lying to us forever. You can go all
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: the way back to Agent Orange. The Vietnam War, the alliance,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: and that's why, you know, at 72, I just kind
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: of checked out a lot of it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I can't blame you.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: I'm tired of hearing it. Everything's a lie. Do you
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: trust anything they say? I don't trust anything they say.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: No, I really don't. I really don't. Talk is cheap.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Deeds are precious. I'm in total agreement.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Before I go, because I know you've got a break
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: in a couple minutes.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute, because I don't want you to go.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Let me say this before I forget.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I'm 72.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: I'll forget if you don't let me say.
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: It.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Do you listen to the Indians, or the Indians, the
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: Cleveland games? Yes, yes. They have a couple of commercials.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: I think one's Marathon.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: Please, whatever you do, the guy that calls Bubba Ganesh,
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: when he does the ball game thing, please don't ask
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: him to do the imitations of the damn eagle or
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: the wild Australian something or other where they're just screaming.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: Can you think of a stupider?
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: No. It's very annoying.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Commercial than those?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: No.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: Hang on. Those are the most irritating things I've ever heard.
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• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. I made a living for 20-something years on my
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: auto parts for Ford, Chrysler, General Motors.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: And... 16 of the 20 places I used to go
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• 40:20
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• 40:40
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• 40:58
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• 41:01
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• 41:05
  Speaker 5: That's how gone they were.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Did you ever hit a deer when you were
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: in the truck? No. Well, you're lucky.
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  Speaker 5: I almost did. One time I was actually in Canada,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know how the deer survived. I was
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  Speaker 5: coming back. I'm on the interstate. I'm passing another truck.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm in the left lane. He's in the right.
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  Speaker 5: And this deer jumped out, and somehow the smartest deer
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  Speaker 5: I ever saw, Ron, he just turned sideways. Parallel to
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  Speaker 5: both trailers. And both of us went by and he
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  Speaker 5: ran off. Unbelievable. Luckiest deer ever.
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  Speaker 1: Think how difficult it is today, Ray, with the cost
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  Speaker 1: of diesel and insurance and everything to make it as
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  Speaker 1: an independent trucker. Think of that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's got to be impossible. When you're in the truck,
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  Speaker 5: you have two different bosses. One is the customer service,
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  Speaker 5: which means get there. and the other is the safety department.
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  Speaker 5: Don't break any rules.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And you remember you would say..
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  Speaker 5: It's almost... You've got two masters, and one of them
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  Speaker 5: is going to be managing.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes one of the hardest things for a truck
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  Speaker 1: driver to do is find a place to park when
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: he reaches that time limit because everything's full. What are
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you supposed to do?
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  Speaker 5: And the reason for that is because of stupid government people. Ron,
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: we don't elect the smartest people. When they make rules,
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: they make rules that they sound good, but they're not practical.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Because 80% of the businesses in the U.S. open up at, say, 6,
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: 7 o'clock in the morning. Well, the trucks start when
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: the business does. Opens.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But when they put the timeline on the truck 14
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  Speaker 5: hours later, say, 6 o'clock you got up and going,
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  Speaker 5: 8 o'clock at night, 80% of the trucks you have
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  Speaker 5: to find a place to park. Well, guess what?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: There ain't enough spots.
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  Speaker 5: There ain't anywhere to park. And that was a problem
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  Speaker 5: when I was there. It's been a problem since, you know, 1995.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever go to Chicago? You ever have to
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: go to Chicago?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a nightmare? Yes or no?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 5: If they can squeeze the car on the interstate going
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  Speaker 5: 60 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, if there's
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: 15 feet in between you and the car in front
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  Speaker 5: of you, Or a truck. And the car's 12 feet long,
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: so it's a foot and a half front and back. Boom,
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  Speaker 5: they're in there.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: All right. I've got to break. You've got to call
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: me more often. All right. Call me again. I've got
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: a million things to talk to you about. He's just
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: a joy. That guy is great. Hey, folks. Thanks for
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: tuning in. Ron Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoney. Remember
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the good folks at Stadium GM. Shorty Navarro, Mike Hudak,
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  Speaker 1: heart of Salem with the great spirit, great attitude as
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  Speaker 1: a customer, I can tell you it's the spot we
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• 44:25
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• 44:32
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