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Monday 5pm hour 06/15/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: WKVN. Well, hi-dee-ho, boys and girls. 507 News Radio 570 WKVN.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Furb on a glorious Sear Monday afternoon. Perfect temperature.
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  Speaker 1: It's 66 degrees. What a great Monday we have going on.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Till the financial
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  Speaker 1: show tonight at 6 o'clock. Rockport Wealth Truth and Investing
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  Speaker 1: Program tonight. 6 to 7 on News Radio 570 WKVN.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be curious to talk to that guy. That guy
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to prior to the break at 5.
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot I want to talk to him about.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, but this SpaceX IPO that came out, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants a chunk of it at $ 130, and he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the IPO, you could buy it at like $ 150.
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  Speaker 2: And..
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  Speaker 1: The demand has got to be so huge. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that the demand is huge from people that
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  Speaker 1: just want to buy it and sell it. I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people want to buy it and hang
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  Speaker 1: on to it because it's Elon Musk, it's SpaceX, and
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  Speaker 1: they say it could merge with Tesla and this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. And it's one of them that you just
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  Speaker 1: say to yourself, this thing could, who knows where this
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  Speaker 1: could go? I mean, like anything in the stock market,
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  Speaker 1: it's a gamble. But it could make you some significant
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  Speaker 1: money maybe. So I'm going to pick his brain on that.
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  Speaker 1: That guy tomorrow, I'm going to pick his brain on
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  Speaker 1: it more. Believe me when I tell you, he is
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  Speaker 1: not a financial guy, professional financial guy. But believe me
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  Speaker 1: when I tell you, he is an investor that has
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  Speaker 1: made huge amounts of money. But when he starts talking
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  Speaker 1: about some of that stuff, it's so far over my
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  Speaker 1: head other than buying and selling when you get into
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  Speaker 1: the puts and all this kind of stuff. That's a
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  Speaker 1: whole different realm. But anyway... That's I'll continue. Hopefully you
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  Speaker 1: call me tomorrow. I want to talk to him more
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  Speaker 1: about that and and a few other things. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see where things are going.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when people are talking about this situation as
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  Speaker 1: far as the deal with Trump, we don't know enough
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  Speaker 1: of the details yet. Make no mistake about it. I
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  Speaker 1: want this thing to conclude. I mean, there's no question
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  Speaker 1: in my mind that Trump's back is up against the wall, too.
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  Speaker 1: And he knows he's got to reach an agreement because
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  Speaker 1: we're close to what they call tank bottom as far
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  Speaker 1: as our supplies are concerned. If this thing would drag on,
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  Speaker 1: we will have big problems as far as inflation and
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  Speaker 1: the cost of energy, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel. It can
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  Speaker 1: get a whole lot worse. And there's other issues, fertilizer
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  Speaker 1: and what have you, with the Strait. So there could
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  Speaker 1: be many things that would be of concern if this
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  Speaker 1: thing would go on. So nothing pleases me more than
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  Speaker 1: if we can reach an agreement, even if it isn't
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  Speaker 1: the perfect agreement, if we can reach an agreement to
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  Speaker 1: open up the Strait with no tolls and work at
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  Speaker 1: resolving this issue. so that we can get back to normal,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, and Trump can concentrate more on the
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  Speaker 1: American agenda. Let's get inflation in line, affordability, as they say.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get energy prices down. Can you imagine if this
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  Speaker 1: whole situation would have never started in Iran, since we
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  Speaker 1: saw inflation coming down, and we also happen to see
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  Speaker 1: gasoline prices in my neck of the woods here around
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  Speaker 1: $ 2. 50 and declining, where we would be financially stable. if
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  Speaker 1: this thing ever happened in the first place. As I've
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  Speaker 1: said to you numerous times, I was not staying up
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  Speaker 1: at night worried about Iran and the nuclear threat. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't on my radar screen. I wasn't worried about it then,
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  Speaker 1: not worried about it now. I think the bunker buster
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  Speaker 1: did its job. I mean, when they're talking about the dust,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the hell they're going on with the dust, it's
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  Speaker 1: buried down there. And with our satellite images, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's much of a concern as far as what
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  Speaker 1: they're up to. So as I've said to you before,
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  Speaker 1: I think he got involved in this because of Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. And I certainly would like to see it,
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  Speaker 1: them not drag us back into it. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see Trump stand tall against that and say, listen, we
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  Speaker 1: got to get out in America's best interest and get
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  Speaker 1: the straight open, get energy prices down, work on inflation.
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  Speaker 1: And if they say they got an agreement that's been what,
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  Speaker 1: like digitally signed as, As I understand it, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess J.D. Vance will be going for the official signing,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully things will work out. You're on air.
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  Speaker 3: I'll believe it when I see it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can't fault you for that, but let's be
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  Speaker 1: more positive than negative. Hopefully that will happen this week
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  Speaker 1: when the details will come out.
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  Speaker 2: I've been positive 35 times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're right about that. So let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not arguing with you. I want to see it too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm optimistic more so this time than ever.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good. I'm glad you are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I would like to see it work out
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  Speaker 1: for everybody involved.
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  Speaker 4: So would I.
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  Speaker 3: But until then, I don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, you've been told there's an agreement so
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  Speaker 1: many times, you're skeptical this time until... Of course, they
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  Speaker 1: say it was digitally signed, J.J., the liberal. They say
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  Speaker 1: it was all digitally signed off.
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  Speaker 5: What the hell does digitally signed mean?
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  Speaker 6: What the hell does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's like, have you ever done a real estate
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  Speaker 1: thing where you docusign, where you electronically sign instead of
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  Speaker 1: in person? That's what that means.
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  Speaker 4: But..
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  Speaker 6: I'm... You know, whatever. You know, because I owe you
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  Speaker 6: a If it does, I owe you a gallon of..
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  Speaker 1: Milo's... Listen to me, JJ.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to save my pennies.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I've got to get that..
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  Speaker 1: Now, here's how it works, though, because it's $ 4. 20 a gallon,
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  Speaker 1: it's Milo's unsweet tea, and it's kept in a refrigerated
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  Speaker 1: section at Meijer, where I get it. And you've got
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  Speaker 1: to keep it refrigerated, because you can't have iced tea
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  Speaker 1: getting warm.
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  Speaker 4: I mean..
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  Speaker 3: It'll be cooler with me, so I'll make sure that
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  Speaker 3: I deliver it. It'll be ice cold.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what. As a matter of fact, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to buy it, and I want you to
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  Speaker 1: drink the unsweet tea. All right?
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just buy it, or I'll send you a money
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  Speaker 3: order for $ 4 and some cents so you can buy yourself.
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  Speaker 1: That's all right. Maybe I'll take, like with Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: in the IPO, I'll take one of the space paintings
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all right. I just want to say one
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  Speaker 3: thing that's kind of off subject a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You sound depressed to me today.
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  Speaker 3: The other day, you know, I kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I opened my mouth about the young man who killed
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  Speaker 3: one teenager, killed the other teenager. And I still stand by.
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  Speaker 5: My, you know, I believe that was a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit over with the... The sentence, I thought it was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a little bit long, but again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just me, so I really don't have a say
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  Speaker 3: in it. But, you know, I..
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, wait a second. Wait a second. This
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  Speaker 1: is what drives me crazy with you. Because... You merely said,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll quote you to you, you said you thought
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  Speaker 1: that the 35-year sentence for this young man was too long,
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  Speaker 1: that he should get punished and hopefully be rehabilitated to
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  Speaker 1: where he realized he was young and dumb and did
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  Speaker 1: a stupid thing, to where there's some degree of hope
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  Speaker 1: to get out at some point. and maybe live the
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  Speaker 1: rest of your life as a law-abiding citizen. And you
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  Speaker 1: were attacked for that by people that were saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but the other kid will always be dead. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: The other kid will always be dead. I would never
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  Speaker 1: want him to see the light of day if it
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  Speaker 1: was me because of what he did. But that's really
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  Speaker 1: what you said. And I don't think it's a horrific
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  Speaker 1: thing to say that you think, okay, perhaps he can
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  Speaker 1: be punished and rehabilitated because he's young and old.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll realize the real thing is, is that I
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  Speaker 2: had a I actually thought long and hard because I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking to myself, you know, somebody brought to my
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  Speaker 2: attention that they came over to my house and they
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  Speaker 2: stabbed my son in the chest.
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  Speaker 3: My seven year old autistic son in the chest.
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  Speaker 5: But how would I feel about that?
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  Speaker 3: And my heart was broken. You know that.
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  Speaker 2: Conservative you're listening.
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  Speaker 5: You broke my heart. Why would you say that to me?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there's no excuse for it. Why would
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  Speaker 5: you say that to me?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that to you.
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  Speaker 5: No, you didn't say that to me. He said that
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  Speaker 5: to me. I have to give you credit because you
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  Speaker 5: tried to change the subject, but that idiot continued on it. Now,
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  Speaker 5: if I'm attacking him and you want to hang up
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  Speaker 5: on me, go right ahead. But that was unnecessary, uncalled for,
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  Speaker 5: and he broke my heart. He won't break me, but
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  Speaker 5: he broke my heart.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just, I love the things that I've done
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  Speaker 3: and said.
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  Speaker 5: Just pause for a second.
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  Speaker 1: I understand your frustration. I don't think the guy— Well,
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  Speaker 1: hang on a minute, then. Give me a second. I
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  Speaker 1: think the guy was trying to say— I think this is
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  Speaker 1: all he was saying. He was only saying, if it
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  Speaker 1: was done to your son, would you have that same
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  Speaker 1: thought that the guy should get out of prison? Instead
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  Speaker 1: of serving his 35 years. That's all he was saying.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to be mean-spirited or wishing it on you.
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  Speaker 1: He was saying, how would anyone feel if that was
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  Speaker 1: done to their child? Would they say, oh, it's okay
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  Speaker 1: to get out before the 35 years? That's all the
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  Speaker 1: caller was saying. Don't take it so personal.
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  Speaker 5: You guys can spin it any way you want.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's how it is.
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  Speaker 5: If I would have said that, you would never let
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  Speaker 5: me call back again.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. Listen, I think you're taking it.
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  Speaker 3: I've been suing over that for three days.
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  Speaker 2: Three days I've been suing over that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, stop suing.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. That really made me change
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  Speaker 3: my mind because I thought about coming over and stabbing
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  Speaker 3: my son in his heart.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what the caller was saying. trying to say.
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  Speaker 1: If that happened to your child, would you be saying
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  Speaker 1: that he should get out before the 35 years are done?
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's, that's, that's your net. And then I went
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  Speaker 3: one time threatened before not to call ever call back again.
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  Speaker 3: And I, and I went against my word, but you know, that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just, just sit there and.
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  Speaker 5: Don't let that person get under your skin.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let that get under your skin.
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  Speaker 5: It's always me.
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  Speaker 3: It's always me that's too sensitive.
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  Speaker 5: It's always me.
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  Speaker 3: It's always me.
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  Speaker 1: You're letting him get the best of you. You're letting
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  Speaker 1: him get the best of you. Don't do that.
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  Speaker 5: Don't do the best of me. That won't.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought that was, you know, maybe that is
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  Speaker 3: the kind of, you know, I'll tell you, that just
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  Speaker 3: proves the example of how it's now my fault. Instead
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  Speaker 3: of correcting him, it was my fault. And I just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I just find that just irreprehensible. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't wish that upon anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he was wishing it upon you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he was wishing it upon you. He was
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  Speaker 1: just trying to use..
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Ron!
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, nine, they go away, nine games. I still think
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  Speaker 7: they're going to be okay. They're doing good.
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  Speaker 1: Our guardians.
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  Speaker 5: The guardians, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now..
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: The Spurs. Now, Dick, from date, my official sports prognosticator..
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: We're the only program that keeps you as a sports prognosticator,
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  Speaker 1: even when you get a whole season wrong. We don't
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  Speaker 1: bail on you like others would and say, he's no good,
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  Speaker 1: we're done with him. We're loyal around here. We keep
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  Speaker 1: you on board. My official sports prognosticator, you must admit...
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when New York— and folks, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: there is about winning a basketball finale that makes people
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  Speaker 1: go out and the mayhem that they caused by almost
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  Speaker 1: like a riot in New York. This is uncalled for.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't get it when your team wins
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  Speaker 1: and you decide to go on out and basically have
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  Speaker 1: civil disobedience and create— a riot like stuff. I don't
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  Speaker 1: go for that at all. And I'm sure my sports prognosticator,
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  Speaker 1: the legendary Dick from Dayton does not support that.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: Nope. That's that.
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  Speaker 5: That was bad.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with you, but yeah, I'm just thinking too.
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  Speaker 7: And I wish they would quit talking in Cleveland about
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  Speaker 7: who's going to be the quarterback. They keep on every
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  Speaker 7: day about that. Miles Garrett and let it go. Let
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  Speaker 7: them have a season for God's sakes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to go on a long shot
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  Speaker 1: for quarterback. You know, I think he's going to get it.
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  Speaker 5: Who, Sanders?
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  Speaker 1: Brian Seip.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, you know who I would vote for, remember? He
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  Speaker 7: was one of the best from your town. I like
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  Speaker 7: Bernie Kosar.
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  Speaker 5: He was good, wasn't he?
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  Speaker 1: Bernie's been through it, though, man. He has definitely been
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  Speaker 1: through it. It's a damn shame. It really is.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 7: He's a great guy. Well, have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. It's Dick from Dayton. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Are you going to let me talk today without screaming
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  Speaker 4: at me and cutting me off?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It depends if you rile me up.
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  Speaker 1: Did you buy SpaceX?
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  Speaker 4: No, I did not. I began my career at an
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  Speaker 4: investment banking firm. We took companies public every month. We
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  Speaker 4: did an IPO every month. And the way it worked
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  Speaker 4: is we would offer our Best clients, the one that
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  Speaker 4: did the most trading for us, had pre-IPO prices. Like
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  Speaker 4: that guy was saying, SpaceX went public at $ 150 a share,
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  Speaker 4: but a brokerage firm, their best clients, however many shares
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  Speaker 4: they were allocated, they would offer it to them for
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  Speaker 4: $ 135 a share. So when SpaceX went public at $ 150...
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  Speaker 4: they automatically had a $ 15 share profit. SpaceX went up
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  Speaker 4: to $ 164. 95 at the end of trading Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And it closed at $ 192. 50 a share today, almost a 25% profit.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but I mean, do you wish you would have bought?
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  Speaker 1: Stand by, stand by, stand by. Okay, Fort Lauderdale, Frank,
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  Speaker 1: back with him. On NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Stay with us.
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. And you're Fearless Leader on Verb 524, NewsRadio
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. It's 68 degrees. Where is Fort Lauderdale? Fort Lauderdale.
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  Speaker 1: Not you.
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  Speaker 4: Frank?
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  Speaker 1: That's not you. Fort Lauderdale. You're not Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's me.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So do you wish you would have bought SpaceX?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I tried to buy it Friday. I was waiting
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  Speaker 4: for a pullback and never pulled back. Now, did you.
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  Speaker 1: Buy any today?
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  Speaker 4: No, same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't get it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I couldn't get it at the pre-IPO, so I
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  Speaker 4: had to wait for it to go public in order
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  Speaker 4: to buy it. But let me say one thing. The
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  Speaker 4: general investing public has speculative fever. Anthropic and Sam Altman's
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  Speaker 4: OpenAI are scheduled to go public next month. And I
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  Speaker 4: remember the dot-com bubble. Same thing. There were companies that
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  Speaker 4: went public that had nothing to do with technology. They
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  Speaker 4: would just say, RonVerba.com. and people would buy it without
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  Speaker 4: even knowing what the hell the company did.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of that with Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: and SpaceX, just because it's Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad you mentioned that, because that other gentleman
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  Speaker 4: says he owns Tesla and he's happy. But let me
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  Speaker 4: say this first. When I was a private equity broker,
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  Speaker 4: my firm offered SpaceX shares to accredited investors.
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  Speaker 1: Now..
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  Speaker 4: And accredited investors, they had to prove that they made
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  Speaker 4: at least $ 250, 000 a year or had a net worth
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  Speaker 4: of $ 1 million in order to buy private equity shares.
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  Speaker 4: And some brokerage firms like Fidelity, you have to buy
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  Speaker 4: a minimum of $ 250, 000 worth of a private equity company
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  Speaker 4: like SpaceX. Now, the pre-IPO... had a $ 1. 75 trillion target
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  Speaker 4: valuation for SpaceX, the largest in history. Now let's compare
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  Speaker 4: that to NVIDIA's current market cap of $ 4. 28 trillion. SpaceX, Ron,
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  Speaker 4: is losing $ 5 billion a year. Most people with pension plans, 401ks,
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  Speaker 4: and IRAs are now invested in in a highly speculative
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  Speaker 4: stock called spacex in musk is saying he's considering merging
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: spacex with uh... tesla yeah another money loser now i'll
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: give musk a lot of credit a brilliant brilliant investor
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: musk obviously thinks the market is speaking in may soon
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: crash so he went public to get the maximum amount
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: of money from a global investment public And a lot
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: of people don't know, Ron, SpaceX is really a three-company
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: conglomerate that includes Starlink and XAI. Now, last year, these
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: three companies combined reported a total loss of $ 5 billion
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: on revenues of $ 18. 5 billion and must have succeeded in
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: getting the Dow Jones, the S & P 500.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: And NASDAQ.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: To abandon their investor protection safeguards and allow his company
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: to be included in their indices one week after going public.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Because like these S & P index funds, they all
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: have to buy space.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Stand by for a second. Back with Frank and more
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKVN. And Ron Verb with you till 6.
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: By Estella's Pharma.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKVN. And from NewsRadio 570 WKVN, let me
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: go back to you, Frank. So are you going to
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: buy it or not?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I told you I was going to buy it Friday,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: but it never pulled back. It just kept going up.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Up and up and up.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: How about tomorrow?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: No, not now that it went from $ 150 a share
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: to almost $ 200 a share. I will not buy it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: In fact, if I did anything, I would short sell
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: it and bet on it going down.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: What about long term? No, it could be a big
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: moneymaker long term. It really could. Don't you think?
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: No, I don't Run.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I'm serious.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Run. Long-term, you think it could make money?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: If it merges with Tesla, I think it could. I mean,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of these people that are buying
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: it are buying it to hang on to it long term.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're interested in selling it. Granted, some
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of the big guys are, but I think a lot
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of people are buying it to sit on it for years.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I think they're thinking it can be like an Amazon.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Well, don't take this personally, but I think that's why
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Musk decided to take SpaceX public because... Gullible investors like
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: yourself are rushing to buy it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Ron, SpaceX is losing $ 5 billion a year. Why would
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: you want to buy a stock in a company losing
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: $ 5 billion a year?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Do you remember when Amazon was losing money for years
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: before it started making money? I bet you wish you
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: would have bought the stock, don't you? Maybe you did.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: It was a loser.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: It went public in 19... Look, it took how long
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: before Amazon came from?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. I tell you what. I'll pick up
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: this conversation with you tomorrow. I got business I got
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to take care of.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I'll get back to you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Real quick, Amazon, 15 years before it started becoming profitable. Okay.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I've got to pay my respects here. Look at who's
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: in my studio with me, and I say this, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I told this to my secret guest, all right? Now,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you callers, you're going to have to just stand by.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll have time for you. This
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: is my secret, secret special guest sitting in that chair
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: over there, which I was talking to you on the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: phone the other day. Was I not?
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: You were.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And I said to her, and I won't identify her
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: just yet. And I said, I'm going to tell you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: all a story. I'm going to tell you all a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: story that took place. And I want you to hear it,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: each and every one of you to hear it. Because
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: this is how, as I said to her, one person died.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: changes someone's life. Now, this goes back to 1984. Yes. Oh,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: come on. Yes, this goes back to 1984. I'm going,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: was it 84? I think it was. I've been here, what,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: 41 years. So I was working at WHBC Radio in Canton.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And a young woman said, I.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: Was four years old.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure you were just a teenager at the time.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: A young teenager at the time left our station. I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: was at WHBC in Canton and came to work for WKVN, right?
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And she came up here to work for WKVN. And
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Pete Gabriel at the time, God rest his soul. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I had the opportunity, I say this to all of you,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: every time I saw Pete, Later in life, as he
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: was having some health issues, I thanked him. I thanked
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: him for what he did for me and how he
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: really changed my life, really, and took a chance on me.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I caused him a lot of headaches, believe me.
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: I believe that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I wasn't asking for your confirmation. Okay.
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: So your listeners.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Are saying, yes, yes. Listen, just be TV people.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Now here's it. So anyway, Pete Gabriel hired at the time,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Dan Ryan to come over to this radio station. And
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that was a big snag because he was big at
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: another radio station in town, but he convinced Dan to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: come over to this radio station. And then Pete said,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was looking for a talk show guy to do 7
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to 11 at night. 7 to 11 at night. So
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Pete Gabriel was talking at this time to my special
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: guest who came from WHBC and started working up here
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in radio and television at WKBN. And she said, I.
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: Got a guy.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: She said. Do I have a guy for you?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: She said. Now, this is a true story. That's what
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: she said. I know a guy. I know a guy.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And it's because of her that I've been sitting here
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for 41 years. It is truly because of her. Because
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: if she didn't say something to Pete Gabrielle, And then
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Pete listened to her because she's very convincing, very authoritative.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Pete listened to her and said, really? Tell me about
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: this guy. And she's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: then Pete started listening to the show. At that time,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I was doing in Canton on WHBC. It was on
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: at night. And so then he called me. And he said,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in having you come on up here and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: talking to you about a job opening that we have
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: here from 7 to 11 at night. And I said, really?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: And I said, well, how did you know about this
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: or how did this come about? And he said, Carolyn Pursuity,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: who joined our staff, radio and TV staff from WHBC,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: came up and said, I know a guy. I know
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: a guy. And and so I said, oh, OK, I'll
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: come up and see you. And I was perfectly happy,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: happy and can't make no mistake, perfectly happy. So I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: called Carolyn Persutti, and I remember this better than she does.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And I said, Carolyn, I got to go up where
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you work and talk to Pete Gabriel. He's a great
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: guy and all this kind of stuff. And Carolyn said,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I said, well, how do you get there? Meaning to WKBN.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Because we didn't have GPS back in 84.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: That's when you were just a young child. And she said, listen,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you get on the freeway. And you drive straight till
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you get off on South Avenue. This is exactly what
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you told me. And I says, let me get this.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Let me get this straight. That's what she said. This
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: is easy. You get on South, you get on a freeway,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you drive, you get off on South Avenue, you come
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: up South Avenue and you see WKBN right. It'll be
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: right in front of you. That's before I moved to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: these nice studios here. And I said, okay. And so
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: then I drove up and I came up here and
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I looked at this place and I thought, wow, this
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is really something. And then I went in and I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: met with Pete Gabriel and he talked to me, did
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: my interview. And there's a guy at the time named
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Brian Lamb. I remember his name, not the one on C-SPAN.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: It was a consultant. I don't know if you remember him.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And so then Pete says, well, I'm going to offer
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you this job. And I says, oh, okay. And so
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: then you had to go in and meet J.D. Williamson.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Do you remember him? I mean, no one was hired
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: until you went to J.D. Williamson's office and sat down
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: with J.D., And I can remember J.D. Williamson. This is
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: like it's yesterday to me, not to Carolyn, because she
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: was so young. When you're that young, you forget this stuff.
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: But you do remember the owners.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: They were wonderful.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: He was wonderful. So I went in. I sat in J.D.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: 's office with Pete. And you remember Pete had to be, what,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: six foot four or whatever? Pete was an intimidating figure
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to me. Pete Gabriel, very intimidating. He's a big, tall guy.
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: But a teddy bear at heart.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And he had this big baritone radio voice. And I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: felt like, standing next to him, I felt like a midget.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I really did. And it was like, oh, my God.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And so then Pete walks me into JD's office, and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I sit down. And then Pete says, call me, JD,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: when you're done. I'll come and get him. And I thought,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: what the hell is this? You know what I mean?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So then JD talks to me about a number of things,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and we work some things out. And then he says
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to me, I'll never forget he says this. He says, Verb,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I want you to know something. Nothing's forever. That is
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: what he said in my initial interview. Nothing is forever.
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: And look, 41 years later, it's almost forever.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So when J.D. Williamson and his family sold the radio
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: station and they had a little get-together for that, I said, well, J.D.,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: nothing's forever, and I'm going to miss you. But he
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: sold and he left and we'll be celebrating a hundred
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: year anniversary of this radio station in September. Now think
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: about this. And I've been on it for 41 years.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: That's a long time. So if it, so I said
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to this wonderful human being here, I said, if it
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: wasn't for you, Carolyn Pursuity, if it wasn't for you,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: None of this would have happened.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: You'd still be in Canton.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I probably still would be in Canton.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: I got to tell you. Now, two things.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: Somebody will open the door for you or you will
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: open the door for someone else. Then it's totally up
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: to them. Your talent carries you. I stepped back then
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: and I said, go, go shine. And you did.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And here you are. But nothing would have happened if
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: it wasn't for you talking to Pete.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: And that's so important for people to know. You have
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: to recommend the people that you enjoy working with and
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: that are competent and that go 110% out of their
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: way to do a good job.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: So then you were at KBN and then you went
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: to FMJ. Then you left for some TV jobs everywhere
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: else in the country.
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: Richmond, Baltimore, and then Washington.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: Can I tell your listeners one more thing that you
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: may not remember?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: No, this is..
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: This is very..
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Depends what it is. This is very important to me because, folks,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I want you to know something. I finally had a
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: chance when I talked with Carolyn on the phone the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: other day. And I says, Carolyn, I want you to know...
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: What a difference you've made in my life. And Carolyn says, okay, yeah,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: I looked at the phone like, wait a second, is
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: this Ron Burr?
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: I had seen him in years.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: And I said, yes, I wanted you to know this.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And then I know there's a get-together for all of you. Right, right.
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: I wish you would have been there.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I don't like to be around all you old people.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks a lot.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Not you. No, it was wonderful.
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: It really was. A media reunion.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: It depresses me. It really does. No. So they had
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a reunion. And she says, I am coming to town
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: from Washington, D.C. And I says, well, that's going to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: be wonderful. And so then I saw Carolyn sent me
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a news clip that they did. And I says, Carolyn
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Persutti looks the same as she did if I flash
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: back to WHBC. Time has been good to you.
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: I love you, too.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you. But, I mean, you look as good as
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you did then. Today, life must have been good for you.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Whatever vitamins you're taking, let me have a full list.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: But I want all of you to know something. And
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I thank all these people. My life wouldn't be what
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: happened to me today if it wasn't for Carolyn Persutti.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Carolyn Persutti is what I owe a 41-year career at
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: this radio station to. Her, Pete Gabriel, J.D. Williamson.
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: And we're all asking for part of his salary now
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: that he's invented that.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: He'll be lining up when he gets the check.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: And you deserve it. And then you go to J.D.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, over the years, you know, Williamson
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: sold it to J.Core. And then J.Core sold it to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Clear Channel. And Clear Channel became iHeart.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: And you're the last man standing.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I am the last man standing. I'm the last of
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the Mohicans.
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: Yes. But do you remember? We didn't start out this way,
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: liking each other. I don't know if you remember. So
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: Ron was doing a nighttime at WHBC, and I was
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: the newscaster cutting in at the bottom of the hour,
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: the top of the hour. And one time he introduced
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: me with a term that I had never heard. I
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: was green. I was right out of college. And he said,
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: and here's our crack news reporter, Carolyn Persutti. And I
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: was like, he called me crack. Oh, my gosh. He
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: has the nerve to call me crap.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I don't remember this.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: I was so upset. I ran into the studio after
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: I finished the news and read you the riot act.
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: And you said, Carolyn, crack means a good news reporter.
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: I said, really?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Thank God I forgot all of this.
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: Oh, my gosh.
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: I was so angry at you.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: But you forgave me.
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: I did because then I learned that my vocabulary wasn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: as good as yours.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: And she and but but I always think that you
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: as you get older, you should thank the people in
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: your life that make the biggest impacts on your life.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: And when I think of them, there's there's a Carolyn Pursuit.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: You would be at the top of the list. Pete
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Gabriel would be on that list. J.D. Williamson would be
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: on that list. There are many others that would be
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: on that list that I've worked for over the years,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you know, including my current folks at iHeart that have
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: been absolutely wonderful. Nothing lasts forever. But I mean, think
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: of how it's changed. Oh, it's changed a lot. And
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: if you would have said to me at my age
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: that I would, I always thought, well, I'll finish, stand by.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to finish this story momentarily. Carolyn Persutti, She
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: makes me nervous, folks. I'll be right back.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: Radio app.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Youngstown's news, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, Ron Furr back with the woman that brought me
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to Youngstown, Carolyn Persutti. And I just said to you
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: during the break, you know, that you should remember the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: people that changed your life.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. Let me turn your mic on. Absolutely.
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: And for me, I remember Mike Gontner. Oh, my gosh.
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: He hired me at WKBN to do radio, and I
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: worked with him.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: And TV, yeah.
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: And then TV at FMJ, though. So this was Vivian.
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: And he taught me so much because I was working
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: right alongside him. We were co-anchoring the news.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: He's still around today.
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know. I would love to see him, too.
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: And I remember we were on the air constantly for
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: 21 hours for the Warren tornado.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:18
  Speaker 9: Remember that?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do.
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: I learned so much from that man. Yeah, Gary Hansen.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: Same thing. John Gurdick.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Passed away, yeah.
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: Ed Barron. I mean, all names from the past that
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: I'm sure your listeners remember.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: And Nadine Tom Holden.
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, Tom Holden, too.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: Everybody. They all play a role in your career. And
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: you always want to remember to thank them. And you
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: hope you do.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And I thought, oh, well, Carolyn's got a good
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: job now. She's at KBN. Now she's at FMJ. But
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that wasn't enough, right? You said, I got to go elsewhere.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: I did.
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: My goal was always to work at a top 10 market.
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  Speaker 9: And I really wanted New York. That's where I really
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: wanted to end up. But once I got to Washington,
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: I was like, oh. this is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: This is where politics is. Oh, I got this. You know,
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: it's like the news starts there.
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  Speaker 1: And then like, I would see pictures of you in
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the white house. How was that?
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  Speaker 5: Cool.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. White house course.
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  Speaker 1: Did you look around and go, this is, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 9: Every day. You can never take that for granted. It's,
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  Speaker 9: it's incredible to be able to walk through those gates,
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  Speaker 9: no matter who, whom the president is. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: When you say that, it reminds me of another thing.
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  Speaker 1: There was a guy that, uh, from WHBC that, you know, that, uh,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: You know a guy? Yeah, I know a guy. He
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: was a board up at the time on the program,
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  Speaker 1: and his name was Jim Chenevise. And do you remember him?
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Chenevise was at WHBC, and his brother Fred was
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: a big newscaster somewhere in the country. But Jim Sheneves
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: left WHBC and became a radio news guy for CBS
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Radio News. Yeah, I would listen to him often. And
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: he retired. And the first time I heard him, I
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: was shocked. Like, the first time I heard CBS News
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: come on, this is Jim Sheneves. I thought, Jim Sheneves
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: used to run the board on a talk show.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Look at him.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: He's so hard. And he's doing the network news. I was, like,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: really proud of him with that.
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: But CBS News, no more.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: After 100 years. Isn't that sad?
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: It's very sad. We should never eliminate a network.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Never.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: No. And that's why I get nervous when we're approaching
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: our 100-year anniversary here at WKBN Radio. Are we going
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to make it?
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Well, it's September, right?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yes. The whole business has changed, hasn't it?
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, it has.
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  Speaker 8: It has.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: It has.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: It's just there are so many different biased outlets, which
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: I avoid. And viewers and listeners can't avoid. They're not
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: real sure who's biased and who's not because I think
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: some grew up in an era where you just trusted
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: TV or you just trusted what you read on your computer.
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: And you can't. You have to source things. You have
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: to find out the source. And you need to know
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: which of these networks are biased. Do you ever think
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: we would ever say that during our lives?
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: No.
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: Because no network was biased when we were growing up.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: No.
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: Nobody was. Now it's obvious. And people ask me, what
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: should I be listening to? What are the different outlets
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: who are biased? Fair. Who's balanced? And I say, well, VOA,
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: when we're on the air, when we're all hired back,
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: and BBC is good, but I say, if you listen
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: to CNN, you've got to listen to Fox. If you're
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: listening to OAN, you've got to listen to MSNOW. You
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: have to balance what you're listening or what you're watching
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: because it's very difficult to find an outlet now, a
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: journalism outlet that is straight down the line. Very difficult,
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: and that's what's sad about our industry and how it
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: has changed.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And that's the way it should. In other words, when
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I'm listening to you do the news, I shouldn't know
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: if you're liberal or Democrat. It should just be the story.
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: Everyone should be a registered independent like me. I've been
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: a registered independent since I was 18, and I've never
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: changed it. I can't be biased in my personal life.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: And it troubles you that media has become so biased, right?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: It really does.
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: It really does. Yeah, I just shake my head.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Because there's a tilt to everything.
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's kind of sad. I don't think CNN started
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: out like that, do you?
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: No, they didn't. No, they didn't. But now it will
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: change because Paramount, that buy was approved just yesterday. So
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: that will change a bit. They'll get more conservative.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just, it's troubling. I like to watch
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: where I just get the news. Well, like you see,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: there's Fox.
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: You need two monitors. You need a CNN monitor right there.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: That one, I think over there is the weather channel,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: but there's not a lot of weather that's going on today.
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: Well, that kind of balances you.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: So what was it like coming back to Youngstown?
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: That was great. Oh my goodness. Just to see everyone.
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: We had our get-together at the B & O Railroad restaurant.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: It's a holiday event center. It was wonderful. Really nice.
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  Speaker 9: Wonderful catering. Wonderful cookies. You know, I'm all about cookies.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: It's the Italian in me.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: But we had homemade cookies from everywhere and just seeing everyone.
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: Seeing everyone from your past. It's great. I hear that
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: little jingle.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: And that means I'm done. Stay tuned for the Truth
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Investing Show. Carolyn Pursuit, you are the best.
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. The G7 Summit, underway
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: in the friendship.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Alps.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: President Trump and world leaders meeting for the first time
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: since the Iran war broke out. President Trump telling reporters
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: that the U.S. and Iran memo of understanding is signed
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: digitally and will be finalized Friday. ABC's Karen Travers has
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: more from Geneva, Switzerland.
• 39:45
  Speaker 10: The deal, according to the president, would reopen the Strait
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: of Hormuz and lift the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports,
• 39:51
  Speaker 10: a return to the status quo before the war. It
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: opens a 60-day window to negotiate the end of the
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: war and Iran's nuclear program.
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: President Trump, while meeting with France's leader today, says he
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: thinks the U.S. can also bring an end to the
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: war in Ukraine.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: We had a very good conversation yesterday with President Zelensky
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and President Putin And I see maybe we can do
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: something there.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: I really do.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I think they're both open to it. So now that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: this is finished, we're going to be focusing on that,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: see if we can get that one done.
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: Following that call overnight, Russia launching a massive drone attack
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: in Ukraine's capital. Ukrainian officials say striking a historic Christian monastery.
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: Russia claimed without evidence that a U.S.-made Patriot air defense
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: missile was responsible for the damage. In Missouri, federal aviation
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: regulators are starting their investigation into Sunday's plane crash outside
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: Kansas City. The pilot and 11 skydivers killed when the
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: plane went down shortly after takeoff. NTSB Vice Chair Michael
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: Graham talked about the FAA's decision in 2021 to adopt
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: certain safety measures following a similar crash, including appropriate training,
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: assurances of weight, and operational guidelines.
• 41:04
  Speaker 11: When you jump on an airliner, you expect a certain
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: amount of safety, but the great safety record airlines have.
• 41:11
  Speaker 11: Any passenger-paying operation should be afforded the same.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Safety as that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: On Wall Street today, stocks ended up. You're listening to
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: ABC News.