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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Tuesday - 08/04/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Testing 1, 2, 3. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: everything still works on a Tuesday afternoon. And good afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. After a couple days off,
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  Speaker 1: off Friday and Monday, and back in the saddle again
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  Speaker 1: here on a Tuesday. It's already August. August 4th already.
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  Speaker 1: What is it, 88 degrees? Pleasant day out there today.
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  Speaker 1: 88 degrees, August 4th, Tuesday. We're on Verb News Radio,
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  Speaker 1: 570 WQEN. Pleasure to be with you here this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Have they changed the phone numbers? No, they still remain
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  Speaker 1: the same.
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  Speaker 2: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 3: 330-729-9977. 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get you through to us. here on News Radio
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKN, and we can conversate. Would you like to conversate?
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  Speaker 1: I understand this is a first-time caller on the end
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  Speaker 1: of my line. Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Ronald.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, first-time caller, yes.
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  Speaker 4: First-time caller.
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  Speaker 1: Long-time listener.
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  Speaker 4: Long-time listener. Do I get a bell?
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. You know, normally, yes, but sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: cleaning lady moves it here in the studio and I
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  Speaker 1: can never find it. Oh, first-time caller, long-time listener. I'll
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  Speaker 1: call you Ted the Conservative. How's that sound? Okay.
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  Speaker 4: That sounds pretty good. That sounds pretty good. I know
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  Speaker 4: it's probably hard for you getting readjusted there today. You've
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  Speaker 4: been gone, and I don't think you realize the effect
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  Speaker 4: that has on our lives. I mean, it's total disruption
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  Speaker 4: when you're not on the air.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, total disruption. Okay, I'll go with that. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was nice.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I was driving home from New Jersey Friday.
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  Speaker 4: I put the radio on thinking, okay, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: get three hours out of Ron, and it'll get me
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  Speaker 4: halfway home. Next thing I know, Sean Hannity comes on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, no. What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 4: And then yesterday we were left with a big void.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And there wasn't baseball on, so I had to make do.
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  Speaker 4: It was difficult. I'm sure others are struggling, you know,
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  Speaker 4: having the same struggle. So we're glad to have you back.
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  Speaker 4: It's the heat of election season now. We're 90 days
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  Speaker 4: away probably. What do you think? I don't know, 90 days,
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  Speaker 4: give or take?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. August, September, October, November.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, I remember a time when local politics
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  Speaker 4: were a big issue on WKBN radio. We sometimes get
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  Speaker 4: distracted with the noise coming out of Columbus. So I'll
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  Speaker 4: take this quick minute. You know, it is election season.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what they say, all politics are local.
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  Speaker 4: Local constituents tend to care more about the things that
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  Speaker 4: affect them directly. What is that? Property taxes? Police?
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  Speaker 1: Fire?
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  Speaker 4: Schools? communities, right? Those are all the things that matter.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And not only that, but voting for people who think
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  Speaker 4: we know best, the voter, not that they know best
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  Speaker 4: how to spend our money.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And it just so happens tonight that Christine Oliver, Republican
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  Speaker 4: candidate for Mahoning County Commissioner, is going to have a
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  Speaker 4: meet and greet at the Republican headquarters at 630. It's
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  Speaker 4: not a fundraiser. You don't have to worry about going
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  Speaker 4: there and giving them your money. But you can show up.
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  Speaker 4: You can meet them. You can talk to the candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe G2, if he's in the area, would stop by.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we can get Rich out there since Rich was
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  Speaker 4: really misinformed in the last primary. He voted for the
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  Speaker 4: guy that wanted to raise taxes. He voted for the
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  Speaker 4: guy that thought he knew best how to spend Rich's money. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 4: That still was a surprise to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I know JJ's turned a loon. Maybe he can come
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  Speaker 4: out and meet Christine tonight.
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  Speaker 1: J.J. the Trumpster. Yeah, now that he's switched from J.J.
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  Speaker 1: the liberal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's famous. I saw him on TV. He's
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  Speaker 4: famous now. I don't know if J.J. knows that.
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  Speaker 1: That was not him. I'm telling you. I've done... That
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  Speaker 1: was not him.
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  Speaker 4: That was not him? No. Okay. It sounded like him.
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  Speaker 4: It sounded like when he was... No, no, no. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you. I can... I visually can identify J.J. J.J., the... Trumpster, formerly..
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  Speaker 4: That guy was too big to be J.J., huh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: J.J.
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  Speaker 5: 's more like..
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, J.J. the liberal. Let's see. J.J. the Trumpster, formerly
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  Speaker 1: known as J.J. the liberal. Yeah, he's like Prince. I
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  Speaker 1: got to do the whole name.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, you know, he's turning a new leaf. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure he's real happy today with things that are going
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  Speaker 4: on in the world. I don't know. Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but how come... I just went by my gas station,
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  Speaker 1: and it's either 415 or 420. I got sticker shock.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, oh, boy.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to get you off of that subject. That's
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  Speaker 4: my goal.
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  Speaker 1: I can't.
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  Speaker 4: You're looking at that glass like it's half empty.
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  Speaker 1: But when I stop at the light here as I
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  Speaker 1: come to the studio, South Avenue and 224, there's the
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  Speaker 1: gas station. And, of course, it's a long light, so
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  Speaker 1: I look at the price. So I can tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's $ 4. 15 the price, but I've seen it
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  Speaker 1: at other gas stations at $ 4. 20 as I'm driving here
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  Speaker 1: into our Boardman Studios. And I just shake my head
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  Speaker 1: and I say, okay, that's not good. I'm not happy
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: But sometimes, you know, we have to do things and
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  Speaker 4: there's a price tag associated with that. I wasn't going
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  Speaker 4: to go into that today, but I'll inform you of
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  Speaker 4: some things I learned over the last week. When you're raw.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I did want to talk about local issues.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that's important. We'll start with the local
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  Speaker 1: issues because I think there are many important local issues
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  Speaker 1: and candidates that are coming up. And as I say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a very optimistic guy on a lot of
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  Speaker 1: local stuff because we have got to get away from this.
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  Speaker 1: I've said it before I left. I said, can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine living in Canfield? If you're living in Canfield, once again,
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  Speaker 1: and you're facing this monumental school levy and the MRDD levy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, both of them significant levies. If one passes,
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  Speaker 1: it sucks. If both of them pass, it really sucks.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in Canfield. I mean, if both of those
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  Speaker 1: would pass, what a burden it would put on the taxpayers,
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  Speaker 1: certainly in Canfield. Two huge levies in addition to the reappraisals.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and I feel like I know how.
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  Speaker 4: Many boards have voted not to take these increases at
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  Speaker 4: which has been thought.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll have to check with him. But
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  Speaker 1: but I look at this and I say to myself,
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  Speaker 1: do you think. Any of these people know the damage
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  Speaker 1: that they're doing? And I answer my own questions. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times I talk to myself. Is that a problem? No,
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  Speaker 1: I do the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's something that married men have to do
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  Speaker 4: in order to maintain our sanity.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You can only be told no so many times, right?
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  Speaker 4: You can only be told yes. You don't want to
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  Speaker 4: be told, hey, Einstein, so many times. Yes. You just
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  Speaker 4: finally stop talking to them and you just talk to
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  Speaker 4: yourself and everything works out great.
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  Speaker 1: And I just say..
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  Speaker 4: You're always right.
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  Speaker 1: Do I think that any of these local political figures
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  Speaker 1: get it? My answer is no. I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: get it. Now, I'm going to try... I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get on the program. Not today. I'll just tip my
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  Speaker 1: hands here because... Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Where is it? So many people..
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  Speaker 4: Tipping his cards.
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  Speaker 1: I'm tipping my cards.
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  Speaker 4: I mean..
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  Speaker 1: You come back in a good mood.
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  Speaker 4: You get some rest, and you come back, and you're re-energized.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's right. I was visiting my daughter in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: so it was very nice.
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  Speaker 4: You went down to Florida, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I was in the sunshine states. I said, are
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  Speaker 1: you Ron DeSantis? I kept walking around.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you should have called him and told him, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you could have did a bit for the program. You
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  Speaker 4: could have recorded him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm going to get on. Let me
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  Speaker 1: see here. I'm going to get this plush neck on
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  Speaker 1: because Lake County Commissioner wants to. Retire property taxes for seniors.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to him about that. I want
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  Speaker 1: to see what he has to say. Not going to
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  Speaker 1: be today, but I've got to get him back on
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  Speaker 1: the air. Listen, I think it's ridiculous what's happening when
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  Speaker 1: you talk local politics, what's happening in this area with
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  Speaker 1: the re-evaluations and with those two levies if you live
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  Speaker 1: in Canfield. I mean, I hate to say this, I
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  Speaker 1: feel sorry for you folks in Canfield if one or
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  Speaker 1: both of those levies pass. it will significantly alter your
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle because you can't have those two levies pass and
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  Speaker 1: the re-evaluations and not notice it in your household income.
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  Speaker 1: It is absolute insanity. But that's me. What local issues
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  Speaker 1: would you like to discuss?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's so many things. I agree with you on everything.
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  Speaker 4: But like you said, it's so important for the voter
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  Speaker 4: to be educated. And I'll stick with Christine. We've got
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  Speaker 4: a candidate here– running as a Democrat who thinks that she,
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  Speaker 4: you should never have any of your money to spend.
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  Speaker 4: She knows best how to spend it. And she, I mean, she,
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  Speaker 4: along with your great township trustee over there in Austin town,
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  Speaker 4: went and cried in front of the county commissioners when
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  Speaker 4: they decided to give the people some of their money back.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got a candidate in Christine Oliver who thinks
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  Speaker 4: you know best how to spend your money. She wants
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  Speaker 4: to reduce your taxes. And then we've got this other
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  Speaker 4: woman over here who's become A life who wants to
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  Speaker 4: make a career out of politics. She wants to make
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  Speaker 4: a career out of spending your money.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And taking your money because, you know, there's never enough.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's a Democrat. She thinks she's a Democrat. She
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  Speaker 1: thinks everybody's problems are your problems as opposed to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't make your problems my problems.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. So little pivots.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: There's so much we have to talk about. Little pivot.
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  Speaker 4: Last week, you've been crying for the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I'll focus on last week. You and Frank had
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  Speaker 4: a little pity party about the stock market, the price
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  Speaker 4: of oil going up. I'm wondering what you think of
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  Speaker 4: the stock market today and the price of oil coming down.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I have, I, I'm going to tell you when.
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  Speaker 4: It's, when it's good, you're quiet. So we need to
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  Speaker 4: change that. We need you to champion the market when
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  Speaker 4: it's good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I listen, I gotta be straightforward with you. You
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  Speaker 1: understand that. I mean, I, I always do.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you are wrong. Right.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I want to read something
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  Speaker 1: to you and then I'll be straightforward with.
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  Speaker 4: Because the market is on fire today, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: Frank will call and tell us it's just a cloud,
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  Speaker 4: it's just a mirage. But Frank's the same guy that
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  Speaker 4: told us when the market was down 1%, not even 1%,
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  Speaker 4: half the time it was crashing. So I'm not sure
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  Speaker 4: what Frank.
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  Speaker 1: Will make out of this.
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  Speaker 4: I hope he's making lots of money so he can
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  Speaker 4: take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't read the article yet, but I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to read you the email I received from someone. America,
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  Speaker 1: it's Wall Street Journal. America is great at creating stock
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  Speaker 1: market bubbles and then shrugging them off. And the guy
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  Speaker 1: who emailed it to me said, the last paragraph in
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  Speaker 1: this excellent article is what we need to worry about
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  Speaker 1: since it could easily be a catalyst for the next
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  Speaker 1: Great Depression. So much money is being borrowed to finance
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  Speaker 1: AI that if AI story doesn't work out perfectly and
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  Speaker 1: a pullback in those stocks happens, you are going to
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  Speaker 1: see a major market losses. Investments financed by large sums
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  Speaker 1: of borrowed money have never ended well. railroads in the 1880s,
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  Speaker 1: entire decade of the 1920s, as Americans bought piles of
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  Speaker 1: stock on margin, dot-com bubble in the 2008 housing crisis,
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  Speaker 1: all built on borrowed money. Problem now is that $ 40
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  Speaker 1: trillion national debt leaves federal governments with almost no financial
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  Speaker 1: dry powder available to buy the country out of the
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  Speaker 1: next big downturn. I honestly think the world is in
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  Speaker 1: for a great financial shock. And it scares the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of me at my age. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you who emailed that to me, but it was
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  Speaker 1: emailed to me. And you asked me about the stock
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  Speaker 1: markets and about oil prices. And listen, I hope I'm
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  Speaker 1: wrong and I hope your optimism is correct. I start
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  Speaker 1: with that. I am not optimistic when I look at
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  Speaker 1: the fundamentals of the economy as a whole. And I
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  Speaker 1: say that because just hear me out. I'm a broken record.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation is tremendous out there. The cost of homes, the
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  Speaker 1: cost of buying an automobile or a car, truck, SUV
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  Speaker 1: or leasing, the cost of rent, the cost of insurance, food,
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  Speaker 1: any type of repair you need. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: it's any type of repair, car repair, furnace repair, roof repair.
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  Speaker 1: Anything that you look at, anywhere you go, you see
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  Speaker 1: double-digit inflation. So when you brag about the economy, I
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  Speaker 1: start with that. I don't believe anybody's income has kept
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  Speaker 1: up with the inflation that's out there. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, I just saw yesterday, do you know how
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  Speaker 1: many people are laid on property taxes in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio? 570,000 people. What percentage does that represent? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure, but the number is way up. And it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting that it continues to go up as the re-evaluations
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  Speaker 1: continue to happen. That's 570,000 people. And I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get it broken down by county by county, just so
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. I think in Franklin County, it
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  Speaker 1: was 53,000. It's huge numbers. So property taxes have gone
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  Speaker 1: way up. So you're asking me this and I go
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  Speaker 1: back to say people only got so much money. Here's
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  Speaker 1: how much money you make. And I mean, it's real simple.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how much you make. Everything costs more. So you
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  Speaker 1: either buy less or you go in debt. So you
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  Speaker 1: ask me these questions. And so I take a look
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  Speaker 1: at stuff. People are starting to tap into their 401ks.
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  Speaker 1: We see credit card debts increase. We're seeing credit card
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  Speaker 1: defaults increase. Foreclosures increase. Property tax delinquencies that are taking place.
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  Speaker 1: And energy prices continue to go up. And also, the
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  Speaker 1: futures market means very little to me. Because as I've
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  Speaker 1: learned from these oil experts, I don't want to say
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  Speaker 1: that it's almost a BS number. Because they say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you wait and see if you can buy oil at
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  Speaker 1: that price. Because I'll go with what they're telling me,
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  Speaker 1: that the oil situation is still a mess today and
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  Speaker 1: continues to be a mess as far as shortages are concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Because we tap the reserves. Real shortages. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing $ 4. 20 a gallon as we get into August.
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  Speaker 1: And they're saying this could get worse as time goes on,
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  Speaker 1: depending what happens in Iran. And even if that situation
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  Speaker 1: gets settled, more than likely it won't be like it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. So it's going to create issues. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic about anything economically speaking. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's any good economic signs right now. And the market,
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  Speaker 1: the swings are too extreme. They're way up and they're
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  Speaker 1: way down. And they're driven by where tariffs are on,
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  Speaker 1: tariffs are off. War is on, war is off. Well,
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  Speaker 1: war could be back on. And I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people making a lot of money off of that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not optimistic. I don't think there's anything optimistic
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  Speaker 1: out there, economically speaking. Now, it's your turn after the break. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you decipher that. But, I mean, you just got to
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  Speaker 1: think of that. And I think that that applies to
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  Speaker 1: a huge number of people. It's not just the lower
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  Speaker 1: class or the low middle class. I think it applies
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of people. Back with his response and
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  Speaker 1: more of your calls straight ahead. Well, I've told you
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  Speaker 1: many times, not all... 70 WKBN. Back to it, NewsRadio
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. All right, your thoughts, Ted, to conservatives.
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  Speaker 4: My response, well, first-time caller, I have listened for a
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  Speaker 4: long time, so without debating you, I would just simply
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  Speaker 4: say that you have given, you've laid out the perfect
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  Speaker 4: explanation as to why you don't vote for Democrats. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying but... But I'm not saying that. I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying spatially, look at numbers. Go back for the last
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  Speaker 4: eight years, if you want. There's one president that's responsible
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  Speaker 4: for where we're at today. And those effects, when inflation
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  Speaker 4: got to 9%, I felt like I was one of
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  Speaker 4: the only people screaming from the rooftops. All of my
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  Speaker 4: liberal friends told me, oh, it's transitory. It's no big deal.
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  Speaker 4: It won't have an effect on anything. I said, you
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  Speaker 4: guys are nuts. I said it's common sense. This is
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: going to wreck the economy for the next 20 years,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: and that's what we're seeing happen. It's not because of
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's policies. Now, CPI is up because we're at war.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You could debate the war. You don't have to like
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: the war, but we are at war. You know the
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: old saying, you are where your feet are? We are
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: at war, okay? So you look at core inflation. Core
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: inflation is not bad. G2 tried explaining last week, and
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: you didn't want to hear it, so I'm not going
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: to try to explain it because I don't want you
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: yelling at me. You got pretty aggressive with G2, and
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: I don't want to ruin your day first day back
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: from Florida. I want you to be happy.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Well, no, don't believe me. I'm happy. But here's the problem.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: You..
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You can't sit there. We can't undo what happened. I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: understand it, but we're adding on top of it. The
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: problem is you're falling in the same category. No, I'm not.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying everything's perfect.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: No, but you're falling into denial.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: I'm simply saying.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Just hear me for one second. You're falling into denial
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like the Democrats when they didn't understand why everybody didn't
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: think everything was great when it was horrible with Joe Biden.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: They didn't get it. They just were in this bubble.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to see you falling into that
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: same bubble because the reality is things are continuing to
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: go up on top of that. I mean, I would
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: just say to you, think, think.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Of, think of how much I would never fall into
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: that bubble. All right.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But that is solely as a result of Trump in
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: this war with Iran. And I go back to say,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: look at how things were before it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: All right. Okay. I'm not saying any of those things
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: you said. I agree. We're in hard times. People are struggling.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: It's expensive to live. Don't disagree with any of that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is, look at history. If you
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: don't know the history of anything, you're in big trouble.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: You don't know how you got to where you are today.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: You're going to make the same mistakes you made 10, 12,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: 20 years ago. Right.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I get that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: People are attacking the Jews. They've been under persecution since
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: the Romans came in and pushed them out of Jerusalem,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: you know, 2,000 years ago. So if you don't know
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: the history of the Jews, you can't understand what's happening
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: in Israel today. You can't comprehend Palestine because you're just
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: too dumb, to be honest with you. And it translates
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: to the economy. If you don't know how you got
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: where you are today, you're just a dumb person. I'm
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: not saying a great economy is great. But if you
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: don't know how you got to where you are, you
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: are in big trouble because you will repeat the same
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: mistakes that got you where you are. And we're hearing that,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: and I'm seeing that with so many uneducated, dumb people,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: to be very point blank and honest with you. you
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: know they want to go back to electing the people
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: who created the policies that got us here it wasn't
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: donald trump that got us here was a democrat donald
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: trump's inflation was really well up until he went to
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: war And we've seen a price in fuel increase that's
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: affected CPI. But core inflation, there's good numbers out there.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: You just don't want to admit it. And that's okay
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: because you're looking at the glass half empty. I got it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at it half full. We're looking at it
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: through two different lens. All I'm trying to say is
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: if you don't know how you got to where you are,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: you're in big trouble because you're going to make the
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: same mistakes. And I'll give you a shovel. Dig the
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: hole deeper. That's basically what you're doing. You know, you
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: talk a lot about this war. What do you think
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: of Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana? Let me ask you
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: that question first.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I think he's comical.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Comical. Do you think he's educated? Do you think he's honest?
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Do you think he's a smart guy? I think he's
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: a law professor.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I think he's all of those things.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, so let me inform you and your listeners a
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: little about something, because you guys keep thinking... Trump's in
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: this war because of Netanyahu. And that's ridiculous, number one.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: And number two, the people that like to talk about
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: the Zionists don't know the struggles of the Jewish people.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Go back 2,000 years. But anyway, John, I listened to
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Kennedy talk while I was driving home from New Jersey
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: last week. Prior to the war, there was a meeting
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: in the skiff. You know what the skiff is, right?
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Underneath the Senate. Stand by.
• 21:21
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• 21:23
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• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Okay, real quick, and before you hang up on me,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: let me get this out real quick. I want J.J.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: to show up at 6.30 at the Republican headquarters to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: meet him, and I want him to meet Christine Oliver.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: So at 6.30, I'll be looking for J.J. Now, Senator Kennedy,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I'll make this real quick because I'm sure you've got
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: a lot of callers. He was asked basically, do you
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: support this war and why? Okay. He said yes. He says,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I can share some information with you, some of it's classified.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Had a meeting in the SCIFS. before all this started.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: So Senate was informed, even though the Democrats will tell
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: you they weren't. They were given and shown intelligence by
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: the top military brass, top officers of the CIA, and
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: many other people. And basically what was about to happen
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: was Iran was getting ready to make a statement to
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: the world that they were beginning, they were going to
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: begin back with their nuclear programs, to weaponize these missiles
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: and that even though they said they didn't, we're going
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: to admit we lied to you. We have missiles that
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: could hit France, Poland, Germany, and the U.K. And if
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: anyone tries to get in our way, we will shoot
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: these ballistic missiles at you. So it's based on that
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: intelligence that they were that close to make this announcement
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: that we stepped in and did what we did and
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: start taking out all these missile batteries. And Kennedy said,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: if we did not do this, that's where things would
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: have been. And that was a decision that had to
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: be made. And that's why they did it. Now, remember,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: this is the same Iranian people that told you there
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: was no nuclear program. They didn't have missiles that could
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: reach anywhere. But what happened as soon as we started
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: bombing them? They did send missiles to Europe. One of
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: them reached somewhere, didn't it? So sometimes we may not
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: like things, but oftentimes we don't know half the stuff
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: they know. And We sit back as Monday morning quarterbacks
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: eating popcorn, and we have this vision of how the
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: world should look, but that's just not reality, you know?
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: We've been at war since this world was created, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: we're going to probably be at war until you and
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I die. Different factions, different people, different countries. So, you know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: without paraphrasing him, that's the long and short of what
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Kennedy said, and some of it was classified. He couldn't disclose.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: So there's a reason we went there. It wasn't because
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: of Netanyahu, right? I'm saddened because if anyone knows the
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: history of the Jewish people, I'm sad that now the
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Americans are becoming the next country to turn on them.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that clearly from a military standpoint,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: but there's so much Jewish hate. It's ridiculous. It started
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: with the Romans, the Russians, the Germans. It was the
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Arab nations. Now it's the Americans. I mean, these people
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: have been persecuted their whole lives. And if people don't
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: know the history of the Jewish people, I suggest that
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: they do some reading. because it goes back to the
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Romans 2,000 years ago. They've been on the run ever since,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: you know. But that's it. Welcome back. How's that?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Ted, the conservative. You got it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: All right. Maybe I'll see you at 630, huh?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Don't hold your breath. All right. Thanks. You're on the air.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: They did do some reading, Ted. It's just a sad
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: thing that they were reading Mind Calm. So, yeah, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: this has been going on for a little while here, Ron.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: And I think Ted, I think myself, are just trying to,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know, pump the brakes to the wildfire. Like,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: calm down a little bit, Ron. Because it's hard to
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: say on Tuesday, oh, listen, Ron, the stock market went
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: down 500. Well, then on Wednesday, it goes up 500.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: It's the same thing. And I understand what you're saying.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: It doesn't look good for long-term forecasts. But guess what?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: You said nobody's making money right now?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: What did you say about it?
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: I'll let you use your words.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Listen, everybody's entitled to their own opinion. I'm saying that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: from my standard, once again, not to be a broken record,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the economy is not in a good spot. Okay? And
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I'll go through it again. I understand Joe Biden created
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of this inflation with his policies. Let me
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: back up on that. COVID also caused this. COVID created
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of this problem with the supply shortages that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: took place during COVID. If you want to get realistic
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: on this stuff... And everybody wants to get into it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I'd be more than happy to get into it. We
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: had COVID. COVID created shortages because things were shut down
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and things weren't being produced. Government policy created a part
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: of the problem because they stimulated the economy with all
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: this money that was going out there. So employers didn't
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: have to pay their employees. They were given money for that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: You had the people getting these checks. So what did
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the government do? They created demand for... when things weren't
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: being produced. So if you have big demand and a shortage,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: prices go up because of supply and demand. It's as
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: simple as that. So COVID created some of this inflation.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Then you go on to it with the additional government
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: policies that added to it under Biden. That's why you
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: saw double digit inflation. I mean, to get into the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: specifics of this with people, that's why you saw double
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: digit inflation at that time growing. Under COVID started under
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Trump and some of these policies were under Trump the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: first term. Biden continued them under his term and made
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it worse by the decisions that he made. And then
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: when Trump took office, inflation was coming down. Gas prices
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: were down. The economy was going in a good direction.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Supply chain issues were being dealt with. So things were
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: going in the right direction. Then along comes this war.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And creates a huge issue with oil and energy supply issues.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And they are a mess right now. I don't care
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: how much you love Trump or whatever. It is an
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: absolute mess. And it's going to and it's going to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: continue to be a mess. This is solely on him.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: This was his decision. And and the economy has did
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a 180 inflation ward back on top of what we had.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Additional inflation came back and we're facing serious issues with
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a shortage of oil. We've depleted our reserves. China's depleting
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: their reserves. People don't understand this. So there's a shortage
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of oil. And even if you open a straight up tomorrow,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the problem is going to persist for quite some time
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to get everything back in line. And do you think
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a shipping company is going to take these oil tankers,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: which are extremely expensive, and say, let's go through the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: straight again. Everything must be fine. More than likely, they're
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: not going to do that right away because they're too
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: nervous to do something like that at that time. The
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: whole system is an absolute mess, and it's because of
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the decision Trump made with the situation with Netanyahu. and Israel.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I totally disagree with Ted. He did it because of Netanyahu.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He did it because of Israel. This is a major mess.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It continues to be a mess, and even if he
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: can get it dealt with, it will be a mess
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: for quite some time. I don't know if it will
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: ever go back to normal. It will be an absolute mess.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Supply and demand. You cannot take... 20 to 30 million
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: barrels of oil off the market a day and not
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: think prices are going to go up. So I can
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: go back to COVID. I can go back to Biden.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I can go back to COVID and Trump, COVID and Biden.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I can go to Trump and Iran. And this is
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: where you are today. And so when Ted says it's negative, well,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Does people's income keep up with double-digit inflation?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Not just in that stuff, but you're seeing it, like
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I say, with inflation with housing, property taxes going up.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Do you think I just sit here and crap this
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: stuff out? Do you think I'm making it up when
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about foreclosures on homes? Do you think I'm
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: making it up when I'm talking about people that are
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: defaulting on their credit cards, their mortgages? Do you think
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that this is all just BS as you see those
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: trends go up? It is not. Once again, I don't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: give a damn who you are. You got so much
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: money and it takes more of your money to pay
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: your property taxes. Your electric rates have doubled around here.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Your property taxes have gone up. They're going to go
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: up again. Your electric rates have doubled in this community.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Your groceries are up. Your car costs are up. Tell
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: me anything that's in good shape right now. So people
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: only got so much money. So the stock market's up today.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: But it was down last week big time. You want
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to talk about the stock market? One of the worst
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: things on a stock market, not if you're a day trader,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: which most people are not. I get what Fort Lauderdale
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Frank is doing or some of these guys. They're in
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a whole other league. They're in a league most people
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: aren't in. Most people are not day traders. You can
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: make a lot of money and you can lose a lot.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: But the worst thing of a stock market is volatility. High, high,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the huge volatility like this. Because it's just unpredictable. So
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the market's up today. It could be down tomorrow. There
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: is no.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: We're just saying the same thing to you because because
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: of the because of the constant back and forth. But
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: it's like it's it's it's happy, happy, joy, joy, because
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: it's down and Trump's stupid. And then when it's up.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: See, that to me is a stupid comment. It's not happy, happy, joy, joy.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to give you the reality. I'm not
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: sitting here telling you happy, happy, joy. You don't think
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I lose a lot on a day that it's down
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: like that, whether it's in my retirement and that kind
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: of stuff? It's not happy, happy, joy, joy. It's the reality.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, maybe unlike a lot of people, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm genuinely concerned about people that are
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: close to retirement or in retirement. Now, you know, there's
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: many things when you say happy, happy, joy, joy. You
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: get a down market and somebody's got to take a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: required minimum distribution because of their age. You know, you
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: have to start doing that at 73, 74. Well, guess what?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: You want to take it in a down market when
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: it's severely down? You think that doesn't affect that person?
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: You got people saying they plan for their retirement and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: now things are so inflated. the cost of everything that
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: they thought they had in good shape, and they're not
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: in good shape. Now, I'm not making any of this
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: crap up. I mean, medical costs are off the charts. No,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: this is not my opinion. This is what's going on.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: So you want me to sit here and say, oh,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I voted for Trump. Everything's always great and wonderful. I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: am not a cheerleader. It is not. This situation is
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a damn mess. Period. It's a mess. Period. And there's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: no end in sight.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: We're not saying it isn't a mess. I'm just grouping
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: people together. But the saying that Trump did this against
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Iran because of Israel is your opinion. That part, I'm
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: not talking about the property taxes or anything. You're right
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: about that. But that's just an opinion because you don't
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: know that. Only Trump knows that, right, why he did it.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm just saying... Back to the old best shouldn't
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: be the enemy of better. Yes. Is that a mess?
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: And should that get better? Absolutely. But look, you mentioned
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: all those things that happened. COVID, Biden, blah, blah, blah. Yeah.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: How about COVID and four years of Biden? And anybody
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: can come in. We don't know anything about them. We
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: don't know any vaccination. We're not asking them to do it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: And the COVID was a baby under Trump. So I
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: would think you got to give him a little break.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Did he make all the right decisions?
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: No.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: But that was the very beginning. And then he was out. Right?
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: That's November. That's January. He's done. It's a year. It's
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: less than a year than when we knew about it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: You do the COVID and the Biden thing, yes, that
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: affects a lot of stuff. But who made the bad decisions?
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: And we wouldn't know about these bad decisions or the
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: lying if it wasn't for Trump being in there now.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: We wouldn't know, Nemet Oz today, how many people indicted
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: in Pennsylvania for more fraud. It's the Trump administration that's
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: making things better, that made the border better, that continues
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: to make the border better.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I understand that. Listen, I'm not here talking about everything here.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about one thing, which is the economy. All right,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say it again. I'm not a cheerleader
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: for the guy. All right. I mean, I'm here to
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: tell you, in my opinion, it sucks right now. And
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you it's going to get better.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, I mean, if that's what you want,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: you know, you can tune into Hannity or Clay and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Buck where where Trump can do nothing wrong. This this
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: is a mess. All right. I don't know where you
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: get any positivity in it. And I go through it.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: You know, I get the Democrats pissed at me when
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I say, here's why your electric prices increase. Because Obama
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and Hillary Clinton had the war on coal and they
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: mandated that these coal plants be torn down with nothing
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: to replace them. So they created a shortage in electricity.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: That's one of the main reasons why... Your electric rates
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: went up. Now, the Democrats call, like you, the Democratic
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: cheerleaders call, and they say, well, Ron, that isn't why
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the prices went up. It's AI. Well, it is AI
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: as well. But they went up because they created the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: problem by ripping the coal plants down. But it's also AI.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So I agree with them, but they don't want to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: acknowledge the other part of it. So I'm here to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: tell you, I understand what Biden did. I understand what
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Trump did. I understand what Trump did during COVID. He
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: was given some money out, too, on policies, as I remember.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: He was sending out some checks and this kind of stuff.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: But many people were arguing at the time, what are
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: you giving people money for when we don't have any
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: products to produce, when we shut everything down? I mean,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: it's basic economics. I mean, to me, this is basic.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've got an endless stream of money.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, whose income is keeping up with this? I mean,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I just got done with that over my time back.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I just started looking at delinquencies on property taxes. They're
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: at a huge high in the state of Ohio, about $ 575, 000.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: That's huge. Delinquencies. I mean, is that a good economic sign?
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Or is that showing you people are having a tough
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: time keeping up with these constant increases that are beyond
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the rate of inflation? And I sit here and I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: give Dave Thomas time and I try to get things
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: changed for some of these people. But these damn stupid
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: local politicians think the answer always is, well, we need
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: more of your money. They are the problem. And some
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of them are Republicans. And they are the problem. And
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: many of these people locally who are running as Republicans
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: really aren't Republicans. They are tax and spend Democrats. who
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: are running as Republicans because they think they can get
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: elected that way. That's my observation with them. Because if
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you're a Republican, you believe in less government, lower taxes.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Not more government and more taxes.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Get rid of the bums. Exactly. But in both parties,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: of course. And I'm just pointing out the other things
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: that are good. The going after the fraud is actually happening.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I understand all of that. That's all good. But I
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: can't talk about 87 things at one time. He asked
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: me about the economy. What do you want me to say? Well,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: before I get to the economy, I want to make
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: sure I'm how happy I am about the border being closed. Frankly,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I think he should be getting more of these people
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: out of the country that are here illegally anyway.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: And that's what I was going to say about supply
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: and demand. Once we're doing it, some are self-deporting. It's happening, right?
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: The judge said, okay, yeah, your temporary protected.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Status is over.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: You're going.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying there's good things going on while there's
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: bad things going on. Except if we had anybody else
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: in there, we wouldn't have the good part with the
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: bad part.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: If you think I would vote for Harris, you did.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I won't vote for a Democrat, that's for sure. I'll
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: tell you who I'd like to see president. I just
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: make no bones. I think Ron DeSantis would be an
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: excellent president, in my opinion.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, he would.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Because I think, frankly, I think he's smart. I just think,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and he could be, I just think DeSantis is probably
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: one of the smartest guys out there. Because I just
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: think he's well-read. He's a lawyer. And I set that aside.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: That can be good or bad. But he's well-read. I
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: leave you with that. We'll be back after this.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: The Pentagon war-gamed multiple scenarios and told Trump that the
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Iran war is unwinnable. And please tell Ted the Conservative
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: that if Iran has enough uranium to make maybe eight
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: atomic bombs and they were foolish enough to nuke Europe,
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: the United States would nuke Iran into the Stone Age.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: They're not going to do something that stupid. Now, when
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, we had
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: double-digit inflation because now there was no check on unlimited
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: money creation. Ted is wrong. Trump could tell the Fed
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: to stop creating money, and prices would stabilize immediately. And
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: when Ronald Reagan appointed Paul Volcker Fed Chairman... He took
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: money out of circulation, and gas prices, interest rates, and
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: other prices actually came down. And the same thing happened
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: during the Great Depression. The Fed contracted the money supply,
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: and goods and services became cheaper. So, Ted, Trump is
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: responsible for stagflation and monetary inflation. He could stop it immediately.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: You're making Biden a scapegoat. Trump is the president. He's
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: responsible for inflation. And Trump promised that tariff taxes could
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: eliminate income taxes entirely. But last year, income taxes brought
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: in $ 2. 7 trillion in tax revenue. Now, when I subtract
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: $ 2. 7 trillion from $ 200 billion that we received in tariff taxes,
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: I get a $ 2. 5 trillion shortfall. That's more than the
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: entire U.S. war budget. There's no way tariff taxes like
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: G2 promised is going to eliminate income tax. And when
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Reagan cut taxes in the highest income bracket in the
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: Soviet Union collapse of 1991 with the House arrest by
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: the Politburo of Gorbachev, the socialist countries of China and
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: India saw the writing on the wall. They opened their
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: countries to foreign investment. This made vast amounts of low-cost
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: labor available to U.S.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Capital.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: And, Ron, I've always said investment capital always seeks out
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: the lowest cost of production. But, you know, Ron, American
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: executives who did not quickly capitalize on low labor costs
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: in Asia by moving their production for U.S. markets offshore
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: They were warned by Wall Street that they better get
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: their asses over there quickly.
• 43:19
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