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The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Monday, 10/19/26 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKVN.
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Speaker 2: Well, Heidi Ho, 305 in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570 WKVN. Monday,
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Speaker 2: October 19th, 69 degrees. Sun is shining. It is a
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Speaker 2: terrific day outside today. It's good to be with you
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Speaker 2: until 6 o'clock tonight. Then, of course, the Rockport Wealth
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Speaker 2: Truth in Investing program, 6 to 7 tonight here on
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Speaker 2: NewsRadio 570 WKVN. Guardians pregame about 7.30 tonight, 8 o'clock
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Speaker 2: first pitch.
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Speaker 3: Must win.
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Speaker 2: We shall see. Tom Hamilton and Rosie with the call.
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Speaker 2: That'll be all coming up. Should be an interesting afternoon
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Speaker 2: and evening.
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Speaker 3: Keep it here.
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Speaker 2: News Radio 570 WKBN. Congratulations. What a great Browns victory, huh?
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Speaker 2: What a great Sunday. Who thought they would pull that
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Speaker 2: one out? I tell you who, Dick from Dayton, my
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Speaker 2: official sports prognosticator, who thought they would actually pull that
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Speaker 2: one out and make that a victory. That was something,
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Speaker 2: wasn't it? That Browns game was something else. Talk about,
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Speaker 2: that's the great thing about sports. You watch a TV show,
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Speaker 2: you pretty well can figure out the ending in most cases.
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Speaker 2: But you just can't do that in sports. You think
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Speaker 2: you know how this is going to go early on,
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Speaker 2: and it surprises you sometimes. with Sunday's Browns game, to
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Speaker 2: say the least, with that victory. Really, really, really something.
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Speaker 2: YSU had a great game as well. It was proud
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Speaker 2: to say, happy to see them with a victory as well.
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Speaker 2: The Guardians, unfortunately, had an off day yesterday. They weren't
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Speaker 2: off from playing the game. They were playing a game.
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Speaker 2: They were just off their game, to say the least.
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Speaker 2: And that wasn't so good. And we shall see what
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Speaker 2: happens tonight. All right, we shall see what happens tonight. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: good afternoon. What's my top secret number? Well, you should
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Speaker 2: know it by now if you want to conversate here.
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Speaker 4: 330-729-9977.
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Speaker 5: 330-729-9977.
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Speaker 3: One more time. Say it slow. All right.
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Speaker 6: 330-729-9977.
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Speaker 3: We'll get you through to us on News Radio 570 WQN.
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Speaker 3: So much to talk about. So much to talk about.
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Speaker 3: All right. I don't know. Some days I just don't
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Speaker 3: know where to start. I mean, you sit back. I
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Speaker 3: sit back and I look at I just shake my
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Speaker 3: head sometimes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, in all seriousness, you know where I'm at
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Speaker 2: on some of this stuff.
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Speaker 3: I can't. Ted, the conservative, would be proud of me.
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Speaker 2: Ted, the conservative, you should call in and you'll probably
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Speaker 2: be proud of me when he says you just can't
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Speaker 2: vote for a Democrat because they go for all this
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Speaker 2: crazy stuff.
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Speaker 3: And he's right. He's absolutely right. Take a bow, Ted.
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Speaker 3: But he's absolutely right about that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I look at some of these signs, as
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Speaker 2: I say to you, I look at people with these
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Speaker 2: and you see a lot of them in this community.
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Speaker 2: Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown signs and some of these Democrats. Folks,
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to tell you straight up, straightforward as
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Speaker 2: I begin to broadcast here today. You know, you take
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Speaker 2: a look at Ralph Meacham, he's our Mahoney County auditor.
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Speaker 2: You won't find a better guy in doing that job.
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Speaker 2: There hasn't been, in my 41 years, he's the best
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Speaker 2: guy to ever take that office. You know, he's a CPA,
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Speaker 2: took that office, and he didn't play politics at all.
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Speaker 2: Shortino was involved in some no good activities. So he got,
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Speaker 2: so needless to say, Ralph Meacham won. And when Ralph
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Speaker 2: took that office over, here's the great thing I tell
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Speaker 2: you about Ralph Meacham. When Ralph took that office over,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't about politics. It wasn't about politics at all.
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Speaker 2: He said, listen, if you're here and you're good at
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Speaker 2: your job, you can stay and you'll stay. If you're
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Speaker 2: here and you're involved. as you're here for political purposes
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Speaker 2: or political appointees and this kind of stuff, then you're
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Speaker 2: not going to stay. So a lot of the people
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Speaker 2: that actually do the work in these offices, even though
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Speaker 2: he didn't hire him or appoint him, they knew their
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Speaker 2: job and he kept them on staff. He didn't play
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Speaker 2: politics when he first won his election. He did not
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Speaker 2: play politics. So, You know, there you go. You say
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Speaker 2: to yourself, OK, that's he assessed people. And if they
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Speaker 2: knew their job, they stay in a vast majority of
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Speaker 2: people stayed. He had to get rid of a couple
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Speaker 2: of people that were just way, way, way too involved
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Speaker 2: in politics and too tied to the political structure, as
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Speaker 2: opposed to just being competent to serve the taxpayers. His
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Speaker 2: view when he took that office was just crazy. Really
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Speaker 2: refreshing for a change. It wasn't, let's fire all these
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Speaker 2: people and hire a bunch of cronies from our party
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Speaker 2: into this who don't know what they're doing.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean, it was so refreshing.
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Speaker 2: The guy's been doing a terrific job ever since he's
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Speaker 2: taken that office. As I say, in 41 years, Ralph
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Speaker 2: Beecham is the best guy at that position. Doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: if he's a Democrat or Republican. Happens to be a Republican, incidentally.
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Speaker 2: And he does a terrific job. He just does a
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Speaker 2: terrific job. So I look at some of these people
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Speaker 2: with some of the signs that they have in their yard.
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Speaker 2: And my initial reaction is, do they know anything about
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Speaker 2: these people other than, you know, they're Democrats? I mean,
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Speaker 2: do they know anything that Amy Acton stands for? Amy
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Speaker 2: Acton for governor. Do they sit back as I do
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Speaker 2: and say to you a million times, Amy Acton quit
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Speaker 2: as the state's doctor because it got too hard, too tough.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't take the criticism. Couldn't take the heat. Let's be
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Speaker 2: realistic here and let's call things as they are. So
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Speaker 2: when I see an Amy Acton sign in somebody's yard,
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Speaker 2: it's like I'm thinking to myself, I don't care if
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Speaker 2: you're a Democrat or Republican. I don't see how you
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Speaker 2: can vote for her at all. She quit when the
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Speaker 2: going got tough. She refuses to bait Ramaswamy. And it's
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Speaker 2: a pretty good bet. You don't have a clue what
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Speaker 2: she stands for, but she's a far-left progressive. And you
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Speaker 2: can see what happens in those far-left progressive states. Usually
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Speaker 2: means more taxes, more governments. It's just bad news. So
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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter to me she's from Youngstown. None of
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Speaker 2: that means anything to me. What means something to me
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Speaker 2: is you quit in the thick of it. And you
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Speaker 2: couldn't take the pressure. You don't debate Ramaswamy. So I
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Speaker 2: look at those signs and I say, this is ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: And I just conclude, do any of these people know
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Speaker 2: anything about this woman? And probably the answer is no.
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Speaker 3: Oh, she's a Democrat. I'm a Democrat. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: vote for her.
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Speaker 2: Likewise, when I see the Sherrod Brown signs and I
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Speaker 2: say to you, as I've said a million times, Sherrod
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Speaker 2: Brown was on board with all the crazy crap that
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden did. He was there and he supported it.
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Speaker 2: What are your pronouns? I mean, you remember the crazy
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Speaker 2: stuff when we were ripping down statues? We could call
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Speaker 2: it Columbus Day.
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Speaker 7: Oh, no.
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Speaker 2: Indigenous People Day. Christopher Columbus. You had to rip that
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Speaker 2: statue down. Lincoln, Jefferson, all these people, these statues had
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Speaker 2: to come down. We had to rename Fort Hood. All
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Speaker 2: this political correctness nonsense to whitewash our history that Biden did.
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Speaker 2: All the crazy sexual stuff that they stood for. All
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Speaker 2: the hiring based on sexuality, not based on your merits.
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Speaker 2: All of the craziness on that social agenda. All the
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Speaker 2: craziness as far as more government, more taxes, more programs,
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Speaker 2: more corruption. Because that's what you get. More government, more
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Speaker 2: money coming in, more corruption that happens as a result
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Speaker 2: of it. I mean, Sherry Brown was there every step
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Speaker 2: of the way. Every single step of the way. The
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Speaker 2: guy's been around for 30 years. And it's like, so
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Speaker 2: when I see a Sherrod Brown sign, I just shake
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Speaker 2: my head and say, that is the great thing I
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Speaker 2: can say about being older at my age. I've lived history.
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Speaker 2: I've lived it.
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Speaker 3: I've watched it.
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Speaker 2: And it's just, you sit back, and I was here
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Speaker 2: with all the Sherrod Brown time as a senator, and
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Speaker 2: I wasn't impressed with him at all. And he backs
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Speaker 2: all this far-left liberal stuff because he is a far-left liberal.
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Speaker 3: You want to go back to that?
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Speaker 2: Like when Disney said, we're not going to say ladies
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Speaker 2: and gentlemen, boys and girls, this nonsense. We're not going
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Speaker 2: to say mother and father, birthing parents, birthing person, this craziness.
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Speaker 2: And I do mean craziness. That's what he believed in
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Speaker 2: and stood for and supported, an open border of letting
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Speaker 2: millions of people into this country, many of whom have
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Speaker 2: no desire to be assimilated into our society. They just
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Speaker 2: have no desire to do that at all. He was
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Speaker 2: right there supporting that, the open border. It's just insanity.
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Speaker 2: So that's initially what I think when I see the
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Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown signs, the Amy Acton signs. all of that
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Speaker 2: kind of stuff. I'm saying, I just shake my head.
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Speaker 2: And we are getting a society of a bunch of
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Speaker 2: wimps anymore these days, a bunch of wimps. They just
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Speaker 2: should be taken care of. Oh, you know, it's like Democrats, Socialists.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't work anywhere. So why does anybody do anything?
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Speaker 2: Why do you go to school and get a hard
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Speaker 2: major to become a physician, to become an engineer? Some
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Speaker 2: of these very difficult majors, and they're hard. They take
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Speaker 2: a lot of years. Why do they do that? Well,
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Speaker 2: because that's what they want to do, and it has
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Speaker 2: a good financial reward at the end of it.
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Speaker 3: There's no sin in that. It's a motivating factor.
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Speaker 2: I mean, some of these people I sit back and say,
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Speaker 2: do you think the plumber really wants to go to
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Speaker 2: your house and fix your plumbing for nothing just because
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Speaker 2: he has nothing better to do? Or does he do
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Speaker 2: it because that's how he makes his living?
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Speaker 3: That's how he eats.
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Speaker 2: I mean, these socialists think everything should be given to
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Speaker 2: them by the government. Oh, health care should be free.
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Speaker 3: It's not a responsibility.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, it shouldn't be a responsibility. Someone else should
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Speaker 2: pay for it. Somebody else should provide it. It's not
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Speaker 2: like you should be an adult and be responsible and
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Speaker 2: get a job that has benefits or buy them on
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Speaker 2: your own like it's always been.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. We should have Medicare for all,
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Speaker 3: which is nonsense.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we are becoming a society of wusses. They
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Speaker 2: want to blame everybody else for our dilemma and our problems.
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Speaker 2: and think everybody else should pay for our situation. Take
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Speaker 2: it from this guy who put some effort forth, opened
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Speaker 2: a business, went to school, works overtime. Take some of
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Speaker 2: their stuff and give it to this person over here
10:36
Speaker 2: sitting like a bum. Absolutely not. And that is where
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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party is heading, and I will never go
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Speaker 2: down that road. You take away capitalism, you take away
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Speaker 2: the incentive for people. It just doesn't work, hasn't worked,
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Speaker 2: and it won't work. How about the novel time when
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Speaker 2: I grew up? It was okay. Your health care was
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Speaker 2: covered by your dad. And when you became an adult,
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Speaker 2: you either found a job that had health care benefits
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Speaker 2: or you went out and bought it. There was your options.
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Speaker 2: Still are your options to this day. Because it wasn't
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Speaker 2: a right, it's a responsibility. It's part of growing up.
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Speaker 2: But now we have people saying, oh, no, I should
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Speaker 2: be given this.
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Speaker 8: Oh, no.
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Speaker 3: I'm owed this. It's a right. It's just craziness that's
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Speaker 3: going on.
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Speaker 2: No wonder so much of your money is taken for you.
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Speaker 2: Taxes are so high and there's so much fraud that's
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Speaker 2: going on. As I said to you, there's no way
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Speaker 2: in hell, you know, this MRDD levy, I think you
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Speaker 2: should have your head examined if you vote for that levy.
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Speaker 2: It is absolutely ridiculous the amount of money they're asking
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Speaker 2: you to tax yourself on your homeowners, on your property taxes,
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Speaker 2: I should say.
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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: It is absolutely an astronomical amount. And as I said
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Speaker 2: to you, keep your powder dry, support your police, support
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Speaker 2: your fire and ambulances.
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Speaker 3: That's what you need.
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Speaker 2: If you've got somebody you need, the most important thing
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Speaker 2: is a cop car running around your community that's a
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Speaker 2: deterrent to crime. Or if you've got a problem, some
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Speaker 2: cop showing up or the fireman showing up if you
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Speaker 2: have a house on fire or a medical emergency. Those
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Speaker 2: are the services you need. You need your police, your
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Speaker 2: fire department. your ambulance, and your road department to plow
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Speaker 2: your streets. That's where you got to save your powder,
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Speaker 2: whatever additional sacrifices you might have to make when it
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Speaker 2: comes to property taxes for those very vital services. The
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Speaker 2: schools get enough of your money. MRDD gets enough of
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Speaker 2: your money. So much of your money that's taken from you,
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Speaker 2: they literally piss it away. It's unbelievable to me. So
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Speaker 2: when I see people with these signs, I say, boy,
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Speaker 2: you have no clue what you're supporting. You have no
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Speaker 2: clue the damage you're doing to young people's abilities to
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Speaker 2: be able to buy a house or people to stay
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Speaker 2: in their house. Because here's the reality that I like
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Speaker 2: to say, and this is a reality. You know, you
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Speaker 2: might say, oh, I'm going to vote for this and
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Speaker 2: I think I can afford it. Then the economy can
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Speaker 2: take a turn. We don't know what's ahead with artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 2: All it takes for a couple is somebody to lose
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Speaker 2: their job. Now, all of a sudden, you might have
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Speaker 2: a hard time finding another one, or there's just one
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Speaker 2: person bringing an income in in that household. All of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, those property taxes become a huge deal. And
13:38
Speaker 2: let me tell you what happens. You lose your house.
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Speaker 2: The community isn't there to support you. They're not there
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Speaker 2: to bail you out. Your house is taken from you
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Speaker 2: and auctioned off. And you got to get the hell out. Now,
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Speaker 2: you think these are far-fetched scenarios? They're not if there's
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Speaker 2: two old people, both on Social Security and trying to
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Speaker 2: make a go of it. One of them dies because
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Speaker 2: death is inevitable as you get older. Now you have
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Speaker 2: your household income is cut in half. How are you
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Speaker 2: going to pay those property taxes? How are you going
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Speaker 2: to pay those increases? The answer is you're going to
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Speaker 2: lose your home. The answer is you're going to be
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Speaker 2: forced to sell. Or if you're a young person, and
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I don't know economically what's ahead with...
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Speaker 2: with artificial intelligence about people losing their jobs. So the
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Speaker 2: only thing that I'll sit back and support are police, fire, ambulances,
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Speaker 2: road departments. Outside of that, the rest of them, absolutely not.
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Speaker 2: No circumstances will vote for them. And it's high time
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Speaker 2: that this problem of property taxes gets resolved from a
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Speaker 2: state level. By passing these things, you're not going to
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Speaker 2: make it easier to fix this problem. You're going to
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Speaker 2: make it harder, and you're going to price yourself out
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Speaker 2: of your own home. I'm telling you, you just don't
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Speaker 2: know what's coming. So that's my scenario on property taxes.
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Speaker 2: When I see people with these signs for stuff and
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, do you even know what your property taxes are?
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Speaker 2: Do you even know what this is going to cost you?
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Speaker 2: Do you even know how much you're paying to this now?
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Speaker 2: Do you even know how they're spending the money?
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Speaker 3: It infuriates me. And What did Forrest Gump say? And
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Speaker 3: that's what I have to say about that.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's why I admire when Richard Farmacist calls
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Speaker 2: and he talks about the MRDD levy and that kind
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Speaker 2: of stuff. Pay attention and listen to what he has
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Speaker 2: to say. Here's the great thing about Rich.
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Speaker 3: He reads all this stuff. You don't.
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Speaker 2: Most people don't. He does, and he tries to explain
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Speaker 2: it to you. But I'm telling you, the Democrat Party
15:48
Speaker 2: has just lost its way. It's gone so far left. And,
15:51
Speaker 2: you know, all the polling shows, oh, Sherrod Brown's going
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Speaker 2: to win, Amy Acton's going to win.
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Speaker 3: God help us if that's the case. God help us.
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Speaker 3: You're on the air.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, so you're on your mom and dad's insurance.
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Speaker 9: You get up, you go out and find a job.
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Speaker 9: You can barely just make ends meet with just getting
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Speaker 9: back and forth to work and enjoying your life so much.
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Speaker 9: You'd have to work two or three jobs to be
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Speaker 9: able to buy insurance. medical insurance nowadays. It's not like
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Speaker 9: you and me. We grew up, our company gave us.
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Speaker 3: Okay, now pause for a second. This is nonsense.
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Speaker 6: You know what?
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Speaker 2: There's still plenty of self-employed people out there. And when
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Speaker 2: I say that, I got a cough. And when I
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Speaker 2: say that, heating and cooling guys, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: self-employed people, mainly people who do services for you.
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Speaker 3: They're buying it. They're buying their insurance. You know what
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Speaker 3: they're doing?
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Speaker 2: They're factoring it into the price of their service. In
16:46
Speaker 2: other words, they're not going without insurance. This idea that
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Speaker 2: it's so big. Stand by. Stand by.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to get back to him, pick up my
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Speaker 3: conversation with him. 322 in the afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's the big news radio 570 WKVN. I want to
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Speaker 2: go back to this guy. I'm going to spend a
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Speaker 2: little bit of time. You acted so when I was young.
17:42
Speaker 2: Everything was just so easy. And, you know, to a
17:46
Speaker 2: certain extent, I resent that because, you know what, things
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Speaker 2: might have cost less, but you made less. And here's
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Speaker 2: the reality. Not everybody during my tenure bought a home
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Speaker 2: or could afford a home or anything like that. They
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Speaker 2: spent their money or whatever they did or didn't get
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Speaker 2: as good a job as they could. But, you know,
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Speaker 2: I can remember when I bought, well, when I built
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Speaker 2: Verb Manor in 1996. I've had other places prior to that.
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Speaker 2: You don't think it wasn't a massive undertaking? It was
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Speaker 2: a lot of money at that time, and I had
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Speaker 2: to put a lot down. But I saved. I wanted
18:21
Speaker 2: to make sure I had 20% down. And even if
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Speaker 2: I was buying a home today, I would have 20% down.
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Speaker 2: And it was not, oh, this is really cheap, or oh,
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Speaker 2: this is no big deal.
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Speaker 3: It was a big deal. The payment was a big deal.
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Speaker 3: And so I kind of resent.
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Speaker 2: That you want to act like everything was so much
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Speaker 2: easy at that time.
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Speaker 3: It was not.
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Speaker 2: And quite frankly, things have gotten more expensive, but people
18:48
Speaker 2: are also making more money at the same time and
18:50
Speaker 2: things have gotten better. There's things on cars. We don't
18:54
Speaker 2: have carburetors. We have radial tires, fuel injection, backup cameras,
18:59
Speaker 2: state-of-the-art audio systems. All of that costs money, so that's
19:02
Speaker 2: why you've got vehicles more expensive. You go into a home.
19:06
Speaker 2: You take my mother and father's home. You take a
19:07
Speaker 2: look at my home. The difference in square footage, significant.
19:11
Speaker 2: The number of bathrooms, significant. Central air, dishwashers, garage door openers.
19:18
Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to compare, to say, well, look
19:20
Speaker 2: how easy my dad had it.
19:22
Speaker 3: Well, guess what? This is nonsense.
19:26
Speaker 2: You make it sound as though everything's at a point
19:28
Speaker 2: where everything is impossible, and it is not impossible.
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Speaker 9: I never said that it was impossible.
19:34
Speaker 2: People are going into business, they're buying their health care benefits,
19:37
Speaker 2: and they're putting it on their price. It's not something
19:40
Speaker 2: that you're owed. It was a responsibility then, just as
19:46
Speaker 2: it is today.
19:48
Speaker 9: When did you first... have your own hospitalization. Did you
19:53
Speaker 9: buy it or did you get it with the company.
19:55
Speaker 3: You work for?
19:56
Speaker 2: Well, I chose to go get a full-time job and
19:59
Speaker 2: it was provided to me.
20:01
Speaker 3: That is okay. But guess what? That was my decision.
20:05
Speaker 2: Now, many of my friends, and I'll tell you this,
20:07
Speaker 2: they went to vocational school and they became car mechanics
20:10
Speaker 2: or they became contractors. They went out and worked for themselves.
20:14
Speaker 2: And you know what they did? They bought it themselves
20:16
Speaker 2: and factored it into their pricing.
20:18
Speaker 3: Guess what?
20:19
Speaker 2: They ended up being general contractors or opening up repair shops,
20:24
Speaker 2: and they became quite successful. And they still buy it
20:27
Speaker 2: for themselves and provide it now for their employees. Let's
20:31
Speaker 2: not act like this is impossible to do it because
20:35
Speaker 2: it is not to do that. And by the way,
20:39
Speaker 2: health care has gotten a lot better from when my
20:40
Speaker 2: father was around. whether it's CAT scans or MRIs or
20:45
Speaker 2: how long you live or some of the medicines that
20:47
Speaker 2: are out there that didn't exist. Things have progressed a
20:50
Speaker 2: great deal, and there's a cost to that.
20:56
Speaker 9: What bothers me is you said at the beginning to
20:59
Speaker 9: get your first house, you saved 20%. So you must
21:02
Speaker 9: have been waiting a long time because when I bought
21:06
Speaker 9: my first house in 78—no, I'm sorry— Yeah, 78. They
21:13
Speaker 9: wanted 10% down, which was a pretty good chunk of money.
21:17
Speaker 3: You worked for the railroad.
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Speaker 9: I worked, but I bought a house that I could afford.
21:21
Speaker 3: Did you work for the railroad?
21:23
Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The railroad paid always pretty good. The railroad paid good
21:27
Speaker 2: and has a good retirement, does it not?
21:29
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, it does, but that's not my point.
21:32
Speaker 3: No, that is my point.
21:33
Speaker 9: If I had to work for somebody else at the
21:36
Speaker 9: wages that I was being paid for by the railroad,
21:38
Speaker 9: I would have never had medical.
21:41
Speaker 3: Listen, these are choices that you make in your life.
21:46
Speaker 3: This is the reality. Guess what?
21:49
Speaker 2: I had 20% down. I didn't go on Hawaiian vacations.
21:54
Speaker 2: I didn't buy new cars. My father taught me, right,
21:57
Speaker 2: live as far below your means as you can, get
21:59
Speaker 2: the money together, and buy the best house that you
22:02
Speaker 2: can afford when you're buying your property.
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Speaker 9: Well, my dad used to say this. If you're going
22:07
Speaker 9: to buy something like that, a car or a house,
22:10
Speaker 9: Television said, remember one thing, you still have to buy
22:13
Speaker 9: toilet paper. You have to buy toilet paper, and you
22:17
Speaker 9: don't need to get it. That's all there is to it.
22:21
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you want to make it sound
22:22
Speaker 2: like everything's impossible. Yet, to this day, I see houses
22:26
Speaker 2: for sale in this community, and they don't last long,
22:29
Speaker 2: and they still sell pretty rapidly, even with these prices.
22:32
Speaker 2: You have to accept the fact that housing's not going
22:35
Speaker 2: to go back, you know, totally down.
22:37
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got a trend down. Stand by. I'm
22:40
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22:42
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Speaker 14: Now, Ron Verb. On News Radio 570, WKBN. All right,
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Speaker 14: let's go back to it. So you understand my frustration.
24:30
Speaker 14: You want to make everything impossible. Life is full of choices.
24:35
Speaker 14: You chose to do that, and that's the way it is.
24:39
Speaker 9: I look at it in a different way. I think
24:45
Speaker 9: critically about the whole thing. When you and I were
24:49
Speaker 9: coming up, we're only a couple years difference between each other.
24:53
Speaker 9: And the thing of it is, is at that time,
24:54
Speaker 9: the percentage of the amount of money that it took
24:57
Speaker 9: to buy the sustainable products that we needed to get
25:00
Speaker 9: by with would maybe go up 1% or 1.5%. And
25:04
Speaker 9: everybody would get a little bit itchy about that. Now
25:07
Speaker 9: it's 3% to 5% on all the products that you
25:11
Speaker 9: need to sustain your life up in rent, gas, the
25:15
Speaker 9: whole nine yards. Insurance, you don't buy health insurance for $ 100.
25:23
Speaker 8: No.
25:23
Speaker 9: You're paying $ 300 or $ 400 a month. And now these
25:29
Speaker 9: people have got to try and figure out. I've got
25:32
Speaker 9: friends whose kids, they don't have medical because they can't
25:36
Speaker 9: afford it, and their kids are working two jobs all
25:40
Speaker 9: the time. And the same with my grandkids. I look
25:43
Speaker 9: at them. Now, when my son graduated from high school,
25:48
Speaker 9: he went ahead and graduated, and he lived We took
25:52
Speaker 9: out a loan together so he could go to school.
25:55
Speaker 9: And he worked through that. Then he got his first job.
26:00
Speaker 9: Then we went out and we looked for a car.
26:02
Speaker 9: We set it up so that he could make the
26:04
Speaker 9: payments on the car. But where did he live? He
26:06
Speaker 9: lived in our house. He ate our food, used our
26:11
Speaker 9: washing machine. We didn't care. We were helping him because
26:14
Speaker 9: each time he would keep making a step forward. And
26:17
Speaker 9: that was the point. But now that stuff is so
26:21
Speaker 9: on godly high because of this inflation upon our products,
26:27
Speaker 9: it's tough. I've got grandkids right now who are just
26:30
Speaker 9: barely struggling to make their car payment, their car insurance,
26:35
Speaker 9: and much less health insurance.
26:37
Speaker 4: Well, listen.
26:38
Speaker 9: It's not health insurance because it's too damn high. You
26:41
Speaker 9: want to sit there, just like my in-laws did. You
26:46
Speaker 9: guys got it down easy. Bullshit. And when I said
26:50
Speaker 9: that to them, they looked at me like I was
26:54
Speaker 9: a real dirty bird.
26:56
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm just going to cut right to the chase,
26:58
Speaker 2: and I don't know much about your grandkids or not,
27:00
Speaker 2: but I'm here to tell you there are plenty of
27:01
Speaker 2: kids your grandkids age that made different decisions and perhaps
27:05
Speaker 2: they got better jobs and they're doing much better because
27:07
Speaker 2: those were the decisions they made. I don't know what
27:09
Speaker 2: to tell you. Just like when you were young and
27:12
Speaker 2: just when I was young, there were successes and failures,
27:14
Speaker 2: and there always will be the case. And I understand,
27:19
Speaker 2: I don't know where medical insurance is going to be
27:20
Speaker 2: 10 years from now or five years from now.
27:24
Speaker 3: Do I think it's expensive? Yes, I do.
27:26
Speaker 2: Do I see a solution to it? The only solution
27:30
Speaker 2: I can see is transparency. And incidentally, that's the solution
27:34
Speaker 2: Trump was talking about. Because as Trump has argued and
27:37
Speaker 2: he has said, what's the one thing that you go and...
27:41
Speaker 2: participate in and you have no idea what it costs
27:43
Speaker 2: you ever go get a cat scan what's this cost
27:46
Speaker 2: your doctor says you need a cat scan okay what
27:48
Speaker 2: does it cost when you go get it you have
27:50
Speaker 2: no idea that you don't know what the price is
27:54
Speaker 2: you know when you go to your dentist and they
27:55
Speaker 2: say you need x-rays what does it cost No, I'm
28:00
Speaker 2: going to answer my own question.
28:02
Speaker 3: Trump said there should be transparency.
28:04
Speaker 2: It's the first smart thing that I've ever heard in
28:06
Speaker 2: health care where I should be able to say, what
28:09
Speaker 2: is this cost here versus this imaging place? Let's see
28:13
Speaker 2: what the competition is. But you don't know. You don't
28:17
Speaker 2: know the pricing of a prescription from one pharmacy to
28:20
Speaker 2: the next. You don't know what a cost of a
28:22
Speaker 2: procedure was. Trump was the one that says we should
28:25
Speaker 2: have transparency in the sense of prices should be posted
28:29
Speaker 2: now obviously if you have a heart attack it's a
28:31
Speaker 2: different story you're going to go to the closest hospital
28:33
Speaker 2: but for 75 of the things that aren't that way
28:36
Speaker 2: what is the cost.
28:37
Speaker 6: Of this and let me let me bring up some
28:40
Speaker 6: and that and.
28:41
Speaker 2: That is the answer but of course you can't stand
28:43
Speaker 2: trump it isn't saying guess guess what no no it
28:47
Speaker 2: isn't saying the government should.
28:49
Speaker 9: Be talking about There's something totally different as to whether
28:53
Speaker 9: I agree with you on Trump at all or not.
28:55
Speaker 3: But if the government pays, if somebody else pays.
28:59
Speaker 9: Nobody cares. Coming in and signing a contract with the
29:04
Speaker 9: hospital and with the doctors, just for the hip surgery
29:08
Speaker 9: alone for the doctor, would have cost me $ 35, 000. But
29:11
Speaker 9: it didn't, did it? Being in the hospital now was
29:15
Speaker 9: another $ 27, 000. I didn't pay a thing because they signed
29:20
Speaker 9: a contract with the medical insurance plan that I had,
29:23
Speaker 9: that they would do the surgery for $ 10, 000 and that
29:27
Speaker 9: people in the hospital would only get $ 8, 000. Now, if
29:31
Speaker 9: I didn't have any insurance or anybody to fight for
29:34
Speaker 9: me to negotiate these prices, I'd have still been paying
29:37
Speaker 9: for it.
29:38
Speaker 2: Well, and guess what? That's why you should have insurance.
29:41
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just part of being an adult and
29:42
Speaker 2: being responsible. I just leave you with that. It's just
29:45
Speaker 2: like driving a car. If you can't afford car insurance,
29:48
Speaker 2: get the hell off the road. You shouldn't be on
29:50
Speaker 2: the road because it's a requirement. Well, growing up, health
29:53
Speaker 2: insurance is a requirement. This idea of Medicare for all,
29:57
Speaker 2: that's ridiculous.
29:58
Speaker 9: How is it Europe's getting away with it?
30:00
Speaker 4: How is Canada's getting away with it?
30:02
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, a lot of these countries are
30:04
Speaker 2: a mess. And their health care systems suck compared to
30:08
Speaker 2: our system here. And the wait times suck. So I
30:11
Speaker 2: don't want their systems as far as the number of
30:15
Speaker 2: people in the systems that they have. You better be thankful.
30:19
Speaker 2: And it's out of control in our country. Look at
30:22
Speaker 2: all the people that are on Medicaid. If you're truly
30:25
Speaker 2: busted in this country, they give you Medicaid. And guess
30:28
Speaker 2: what the difference is of Medicaid? You can go and
30:31
Speaker 2: there's no deductible versus a guy that works. He has
30:35
Speaker 2: to go and pay a $ 3, 000 deductible. So, you know,
30:39
Speaker 2: when you're acting like everything's just so great, people on
30:42
Speaker 2: a dole got it better than a guy paying a tax.
30:45
Speaker 3: That's what we have in this society. I don't know
30:46
Speaker 3: what you're bitching about.
30:48
Speaker 2: We have Medicaid for the poor and Medicare for the elderly.
30:52
Speaker 2: In between, you either buy it or you get it
30:54
Speaker 2: provided by your employer and you go from there.
30:56
Speaker 9: Okay, but all I'm telling you is not made-up facts.
31:01
Speaker 3: I'm not making up these facts either.
31:03
Speaker 9: Telling you is exactly what happened and how it went down.
31:06
Speaker 3: And you paid nothing. You just told me.
31:09
Speaker 9: Well, no, I paid for my part of my medical insurance.
31:11
Speaker 3: Okay, but you paid nothing on that bill. No, I didn't.
31:15
Speaker 3: And guess what?
31:16
Speaker 9: The insurance company come in and said, you're only going
31:18
Speaker 9: to charge so much.
31:19
Speaker 3: No, you had insurance.
31:22
Speaker 2: You were a responsible person with insurance, which is how
31:26
Speaker 2: it should be.
31:27
Speaker 8: All right.
31:27
Speaker 9: If I had to pay for that insurance, I would
31:29
Speaker 9: never be able to have it.
31:31
Speaker 3: Well, you had it.
31:32
Speaker 9: Well, I had it because of where I worked.
31:34
Speaker 3: Well, guess what? Plenty of other people still have it
31:36
Speaker 3: today because of where they work.
31:38
Speaker 8: All right.
31:38
Speaker 3: I've had enough. You're on the air.
31:40
Speaker 15: Hey, Ron.
31:42
Speaker 8: What?
31:43
Speaker 16: You know, something you're not mentioning is what Trump proposed.
31:47
Speaker 2: Did you hear Emanuel who said you've gotten lame with
31:51
Speaker 2: your Tom Hamilton impression? He was very, very critical of
31:55
Speaker 2: you on the last one.
31:56
Speaker 16: I'm sorry to hear that.
31:57
Speaker 3: I had to stand up.
31:58
Speaker 2: For you in saying he was having an off day
32:01
Speaker 2: when he did that one because it was very bad.
32:03
Speaker 3: I don't know what was with you that day. Normally,
32:06
Speaker 3: it's stellar, I told him.
32:08
Speaker 4: Let me talk.
32:09
Speaker 16: Now, I'm going to give you a bone.
32:11
Speaker 15: All right?
32:12
Speaker 16: The odds of the Indians or the Guardians winning the–
32:16
Speaker 16: The World Series is 1,200 to one run. So if
32:19
Speaker 16: you bet $ 10, you'll win.
32:21
Speaker 4: $ 12, 000.
32:21
Speaker 16: So bet $ 10 on that.
32:22
Speaker 17: 1,200 to one.
32:24
Speaker 16: I mean, it's 1,200 to one bet. You know what
32:27
Speaker 16: I'm saying? Why don't you.
32:32
Speaker 3: Go bet $ 1, 000? There you go.
32:36
Speaker 16: You can pay off your house. I'm just giving you
32:40
Speaker 16: a bump.
32:41
Speaker 4: That's all.
32:42
Speaker 16: I just saw the odds.
32:44
Speaker 8: I thought I'd share that with you.
32:47
Speaker 16: So, which I get, do you believe in miracles?
32:55
Speaker 3: Sometimes you just never know what to expect with Bubba Ganoush.
32:58
Speaker 8: No, no, think about it.
33:00
Speaker 16: I believe in miracles, okay?
33:03
Speaker 2: I mean, they got their clock cleaned yesterday. You can't,
33:06
Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, the pitching in the beginning,
33:09
Speaker 2: as far as putting that first run in with a walk,
33:11
Speaker 2: it was.
33:12
Speaker 15: Painful, painful.
33:14
Speaker 8: I know, I know.
33:15
Speaker 16: I was heard. Listen, okay, that's the first thing I
33:17
Speaker 16: want to share.
33:18
Speaker 4: Secondly.
33:20
Speaker 16: And.
33:20
Speaker 3: That's coming from me, you know. I can throw a
33:22
Speaker 3: 41-mile-per-hour fastball. How about that? Are you impressed?
33:25
Speaker 16: I know, I know. Listen, Ron, I'm not worried about that.
33:27
Speaker 4: They're going to be great today.
33:29
Speaker 16: Listen, but I've got to tell you something.
33:31
Speaker 4: What? You know, two things.
33:33
Speaker 16: Now, one, on affordability, Trump's pushing the Energy Department to
33:37
Speaker 16: build a pipeline from Pennsylvania through New York so that the.
33:43
Speaker 16: So that the New England states can get actual gas.
33:48
Speaker 16: I mean, we're talking between $ 120 MCF down to $ 3.
33:54
Speaker 16: And the Democrats could have done this for 15 years.
33:58
Speaker 8: And they didn't.
33:58
Speaker 2: The Democrats hate fossil fuels. They hate fossil fuels. Remember,
34:03
Speaker 2: they were all about the green energy and climate change
34:06
Speaker 2: until they needed more power for their AI centers. You know,
34:09
Speaker 2: all those guys who have gates and that. All of
34:11
Speaker 2: a sudden, when they needed more electricity, they weren't for
34:13
Speaker 2: the green energy stuff anymore.
34:15
Speaker 16: No, no, no, I understand. But what I'm saying is
34:17
Speaker 16: they're screaming affordability, and they're the ones that are causing
34:19
Speaker 16: their people more.
34:22
Speaker 3: Right.
34:23
Speaker 16: So I'm done with this. I'm done with the Democrat pundits,
34:27
Speaker 16: and you know what I mean?
34:28
Speaker 18: Yes.
34:28
Speaker 16: Okay, that's the other one.
34:30
Speaker 17: All right.
34:31
Speaker 16: Thirdly, he's very effective with these rallies. The points are
34:36
Speaker 16: going up everywhere he goes, okay? So that's another one.
34:40
Speaker 16: And the other thing I want to share with you
34:43
Speaker 16: is this thing with France.
34:46
Speaker 3: Yes.
34:48
Speaker 16: He told the president of France and the rest of
34:50
Speaker 16: the leaders in Europe Shut your borders. That was in
34:54
Speaker 16: his first term. And he told him, he goes, you know,
34:59
Speaker 16: it's going to mess you up. You've got all these
35:01
Speaker 16: people coming in that don't assimilate and love France or
35:04
Speaker 16: love Germany.
35:05
Speaker 18: Or love, you know what I mean?
35:06
Speaker 3: Yes.
35:08
Speaker 16: So this is what, this is now, if you vote
35:10
Speaker 16: for a Democrat, this is what we'll get if they win,
35:14
Speaker 16: what you're looking at in France.
35:16
Speaker 3: Oh, I agree.
35:18
Speaker 2: The Democrats hate fossil fuels. They'll do nothing to make
35:21
Speaker 2: your price cheaper. They want you driving an electric car.
35:24
Speaker 3: All right. Now, instead of saying goodbye, Bubba Ganoush, just
35:26
Speaker 3: give me a ballgame.
35:27
Speaker 4: All right. Ready?
35:29
Speaker 18: Yeah.
35:30
Speaker 4: All right.
35:30
Speaker 16: Can I just get in?
35:32
Speaker 7: Okay.
35:32
Speaker 4: Yeah. Four to three.
35:34
Speaker 17: Indians are up.
35:36
Speaker 4: Ninth inning. Two out.
35:42
Speaker 6: Two out.
35:42
Speaker 17: Two out.
35:43
Speaker 4: Two on.
35:44
Speaker 16: Two on. And two strikes.
35:47
Speaker 3: Maybe Emmanuel was right.
35:49
Speaker 17: Here's the pitch.
35:50
Speaker 16: Here's the pitch.
35:53
Speaker 6: Ball game.
35:54
Speaker 16: Cage struck him out.
35:56
Speaker 18: Strikeout.
35:57
Speaker 17: Ball game.
35:58
Speaker 4: All right.
35:59
Speaker 3: See you later. You're on the air.
36:03
Speaker 4: Well, I think Tom Hamilton should rest well at night
36:06
Speaker 4: knowing his job is not in danger.
36:11
Speaker 2: When I see any of these people with the... Listen,
36:16
Speaker 2: just talk about this MRDD levy.
36:18
Speaker 4: I got this stuff.
36:20
Speaker 2: How much is it going to cost a person on
36:22
Speaker 2: a $ 100, 000 house? What do they got, $ 60 million now
36:28
Speaker 2: and they want $ 100 million?
36:32
Speaker 4: Something like that. I mean, I don't have the stats
36:34
Speaker 4: in front of me. Basically, I think for me, if
36:37
Speaker 4: it passes, my wife and I have to shell out
36:39
Speaker 4: another $ 400 a year.
36:41
Speaker 3: On top of what you're already paying.
36:43
Speaker 4: On top of what I'm already paying, and on top
36:45
Speaker 4: of the 20% or 30% increase in valuation we had.
36:50
Speaker 4: My house went up, I think, $ 70, 000. The value they
36:51
Speaker 4: are putting on my house is $ 70, 000 higher next year
36:53
Speaker 4: than it was this year. And if you go to MahoneyCountyAuditor.org,
36:55
Speaker 4: I believe, Well.
37:05
Speaker 3: I got it right here. Listen to this.
37:07
Speaker 2: Monacan Board of Development Disabilities will have a 2.4 mil
37:11
Speaker 2: additional levy on a November ballot.
37:12
Speaker 3: The levy will bring in.
37:16
Speaker 2: Annually for five years and will cost homeowners $ 84 per
37:21
Speaker 2: 100,000 of home valuation.
37:24
Speaker 3: Addition.
37:24
Speaker 4: Yep.
37:25
Speaker 3: $ 84 additional dollars. So let's see.
37:31
Speaker 4: Whose home isn't worth $ 200, 000 anymore? When over the last
37:35
Speaker 4: 10 years, if you had a $ 100, 000 home in 2015,
37:37
Speaker 4: it's at least $ 200, 000 now.
37:41
Speaker 2: This guy Whitaker said the current expenditures are roughly $ 32
37:44
Speaker 2: to $ 34 million annually, with approximately $ 15 to $ 16 million
37:49
Speaker 2: being spent on the Medicaid waiver match. We currently collect
37:53
Speaker 2: around $ 18. 5 million in property taxes, with another $ 9 to
37:57
Speaker 2: $ 10 million in revenue annually. from other sources for a
38:00
Speaker 2: total revenue budget of 28 million he said the proposed
38:05
Speaker 2: new levy would take our property tax collections to a
38:09
Speaker 2: little over 33 and a half million think of that like.
38:14
Speaker 4: I said if you add up the federal and the
38:16
Speaker 4: state money that they're getting to they're over a hundred
38:19
Speaker 4: million dollars a year that's just the local budget that's
38:24
Speaker 4: to pay for his over inflated salary and to pay
38:27
Speaker 4: for a lot of the other people who don't, you know,
38:30
Speaker 4: having looked through those contracts and stuff like that. Number one,
38:33
Speaker 4: you know, like I've said, with all these public entities,
38:36
Speaker 4: especially if it's school-related, take a look at the health
38:39
Speaker 4: care contract and take a look at the benefits. Take
38:43
Speaker 4: a look at the supplemental contracts. It's asinine. These people
38:48
Speaker 4: get benefits that you and I and the people in
38:50
Speaker 4: the private sector could only dream of getting from our employers.
38:54
Speaker 4: If you went in with the average teacher's contract.
38:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't want to get into all their contracts.
39:00
Speaker 4: And tried to get your employer to match it, they'd
39:02
Speaker 4: laugh at you.
39:02
Speaker 2: You know, I just want to stay focused on the
39:05
Speaker 2: astronomical amounts that.
39:07
Speaker 3: They're $ 84 for every $ 100, 000 worth of value additional. I mean,
39:14
Speaker 3: that's a huge....
39:17
Speaker 4: Well, like you said, somebody in Canfield... with, say, a $ 350, 000,
39:23
Speaker 4: $ 400, 000 home, they're looking at well north, well north of $ 1, 000.
39:27
Speaker 4: I haven't done the math, but I can guarantee you
39:30
Speaker 4: just off the top of my head, they're looking at
39:32
Speaker 4: over a $ 1, 000 a year increase if both of those
39:35
Speaker 4: levies pass, Camfield School Levy and MRDD. It's nuts. They're
39:40
Speaker 4: taxing you out of your house.
39:43
Speaker 2: I like to point this out to people and people
39:44
Speaker 2: act like, Oh, this is, this, this is all scare tactics.
39:47
Speaker 3: It's all BS. And listen, I'm here. I'm a realist
39:51
Speaker 3: with people.
39:51
Speaker 2: I'm here to say, uh, For example, 3,000 people are
39:55
Speaker 2: losing their jobs at Kroger. You think they thought that
39:58
Speaker 2: was coming? You think they could see that coming? Now,
40:01
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you've got 3,000 people that are
40:03
Speaker 2: out of work, and who knows if they'll be able
40:05
Speaker 2: to find a job that pays the job that they lost.
40:08
Speaker 2: But AI is coming, and more people lose their jobs.
40:11
Speaker 2: So you might say, well, I got a good job.
40:13
Speaker 2: My wife's got a good job, and we can afford this.
40:16
Speaker 2: We got kids. We can afford all this stuff. Well,
40:19
Speaker 2: guess what? If one of you loses your job, you're
40:21
Speaker 2: going to say, now how do we pay these bills?
40:25
Speaker 2: And if you find a job that doesn't pay what
40:26
Speaker 2: you were making, how do we keep this house? These
40:30
Speaker 2: are real discussions that you can have as a young
40:32
Speaker 2: couple or whatever age you might be, just as senior
40:36
Speaker 2: citizens have to have when the husband dies or the
40:39
Speaker 2: wife dies and the household income is cut in half.
40:42
Speaker 2: No one in any of these communities, the MRDD is
40:45
Speaker 2: not going to come down and say, please don't throw
40:47
Speaker 2: these people out of their house.
40:49
Speaker 3: They voted. They're good people.
40:51
Speaker 2: No, no one's going to be there except the sheriff
40:55
Speaker 2: telling you, guess what? You're behind on your taxes. You
40:57
Speaker 2: got to go get your stuff and get out.
41:01
Speaker 4: No argument for me. You're dead spot on.
41:05
Speaker 3: Stand by. Stand by. It's Rich, your pharmacist. News Radio 570.
41:09
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41:11
Speaker 2: right after this.
41:12
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41:19
Speaker 1: Here in Ohio, KBN.
41:20
Speaker 3: All right, back to it. All right, where is Rich? Rich,
41:26
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41:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got me.
41:28
Speaker 3: All right, what do you got, a cold?
41:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a cold. My granddaughter had a little
41:32
Speaker 4: bit of a cold. Nothing being around her, I caught
41:35
Speaker 4: it off of her.
41:37
Speaker 3: Shouldn't you know better than that?
41:39
Speaker 4: No, it wouldn't bother me. I can tell you right now.
41:44
Speaker 3: I mean, seriously.
41:45
Speaker 4: The day you will retire, the day you will retire,
41:47
Speaker 4: I can't come soon enough. is when your daughter has
41:50
Speaker 4: your first grandchild.
41:52
Speaker 3: What about my son?
41:53
Speaker 4: Is your son married?
41:57
Speaker 3: Not yet.
41:58
Speaker 4: Well, but you just had a wedding earlier in the year, right?
42:01
Speaker 3: That's right.
42:02
Speaker 4: So that's your best chance, you know, I'm just saying.
42:05
Speaker 4: So when you have your first grandchild.
42:08
Speaker 2: All you hope for is that they meet good life partners, right?
42:12
Speaker 9: Yep.
42:12
Speaker 4: Oh, I agree with that. I have a son-in-law I
42:15
Speaker 4: couldn't ask for a better kid. I mean, just a
42:18
Speaker 4: fantastic human being. And it's so wonderful watching your kids
42:24
Speaker 4: get married and start their lives. But I'm telling you
42:29
Speaker 4: right now, grandchildren, it's so different from your own kids.
42:33
Speaker 4: You're older. You have more patience. I'm telling you right now,
42:36
Speaker 4: you will cease caring about pretty much anything else other
42:41
Speaker 4: than that.
42:41
Speaker 3: What a sap you've become.
42:45
Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you, the thing I don't understand, and
42:47
Speaker 4: my neighbor has two young granddaughters, too, and he's just tickled,
42:52
Speaker 4: and he said, I don't understand these people that move
42:55
Speaker 4: down to Florida, like to the villages or something like that,
42:57
Speaker 4: and abandon their family and grandkids, you know, and never
43:00
Speaker 4: see me. So I don't understand how you could do it.
43:03
Speaker 4: And I don't either. I mean, we can't see enough
43:05
Speaker 4: of our granddaughter. We'll even call them up and say, hey,
43:08
Speaker 4: bring her over. You know, you guys want a break?
43:09
Speaker 4: Go out to dinner. Bring her over. We'll watch her.
43:12
Speaker 4: You guys go out and eat. Go out to dinner.
43:14
Speaker 4: It's just a pure joy. They look at you and smile,
43:18
Speaker 4: and your heart just melts.
43:22
Speaker 3: Well, that's what happened to me when I was a 16-
43:24
Speaker 3: or 17-year-old young man when the girls left. But anyway, it's.
43:31
Speaker 4: Just— But anyway, with this MRDD levy, I will tell
43:35
Speaker 4: people this. Vote no. I know that sounds cruel because
43:39
Speaker 4: you think it's helping the mentally disabled people and things
43:42
Speaker 4: like that. Take a look at that Medicaid waiver thing.
43:47
Speaker 4: Just that alone. The chart that I saw when I
43:50
Speaker 4: requested it, because I did a records request from them.
43:53
Speaker 4: I've got all kinds of records. I've been sending them
43:55
Speaker 4: over to Boss Lady for analysis, and she's doing a
43:58
Speaker 4: fantastic job on it. She's putting out stuff that if
44:01
Speaker 4: you need to publish what she's putting out. Because if
44:05
Speaker 4: people saw how bad their money is being abused by
44:08
Speaker 4: that board and that institution, they would vote no tomorrow.
44:13
Speaker 4: It's just ridiculous. Go through the contracts, start looking at benefits.
44:18
Speaker 4: I have no problem with giving people a helping hand.
44:22
Speaker 4: But at what point does it start to get taken
44:26
Speaker 4: advantage of? And that's where you're at. They have that
44:29
Speaker 4: one fund that I was telling you about two or
44:31
Speaker 4: three months ago. Where they just give out, and mind you,
44:34
Speaker 4: there's no more money in it because they've depleted all
44:36
Speaker 4: the money that was in it.
44:37
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44:39
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44:42
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Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on NewsRadio 570 WKBN.
48:11
Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon. 4.05 in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. Monday,
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Speaker 2: you until 6 tonight. Then the Rockport Wealth Truth in
48:22
Speaker 2: Investing Program, 6 to 7. The bottom line is when
48:26
Speaker 2: I look at all of this stuff that they're saying
48:29
Speaker 2: that needs to be done, you're never going to fix
48:32
Speaker 2: this situation as long as you continue to pass these levies.
48:36
Speaker 3: I mean, and I don't know.
48:38
Speaker 2: And I said again that the people realize the damage
48:41
Speaker 2: they're doing to to. They're fellow citizens by pushing this
48:48
Speaker 2: kind of stuff and by saying, oh, this is the
48:51
Speaker 2: only answer. You've got to tax yourself or others out
48:54
Speaker 2: of their homes. And people, if they don't listen, they
48:57
Speaker 2: will come around and understand what I'm saying.
48:59
Speaker 3: It's just a matter of time. I don't know how
49:03
Speaker 3: else to describe it.
49:06
Speaker 4: Here's the question that I have not seen asked nor answered.
49:10
Speaker 4: When it comes to these waivers that Whitaker and the
49:13
Speaker 4: MRDD say they have to fund, which was, it was what,
49:16
Speaker 4: $ 30 million or something like that of their budget, if
49:20
Speaker 4: you look, like I said, if you look at the
49:22
Speaker 4: total number of individuals that are getting waivers and the
49:25
Speaker 4: amount of money spent, it was just shy of $ 105 million. Now,
49:28
Speaker 4: one-third or so of that is county dollars. And when
49:34
Speaker 4: I looked it up, I just, when we were on break,
49:36
Speaker 4: I went to their website and I looked it up,
49:38
Speaker 4: and it says a waiver is a Medicaid funding source
49:40
Speaker 4: to provide services to assist people with disabilities to stay
49:43
Speaker 4: in their own homes and prevent moving to a facility.
49:47
Speaker 4: So that's what it is. The county board pays 40%,
49:49
Speaker 4: state and federal government pays 60%. Those waivers, there's 975
49:55
Speaker 4: people the last time I looked that are getting a waiver,
49:57
Speaker 4: Medicaid waiver. And the total cost, state, federal, and county share,
50:03
Speaker 4: is almost $ 105 million. It's like that's over $ 100, 000. I
50:09
Speaker 4: think it was $ 105, 000 per waiver that they're spending. I
50:14
Speaker 4: hope they're staying at a hill, you know, someplace nice.
50:20
Speaker 4: I mean, because for $ 105, 000, I would think you could,
50:23
Speaker 4: that's going to give you a pretty good lifestyle, I
50:25
Speaker 4: would think. And I get to the point then, is
50:29
Speaker 4: it cheaper to put them in a facility? I mean, granted,
50:32
Speaker 4: it's nice that we're paying these people to stay in
50:34
Speaker 4: their homes, but when you're spending $ 105 million to do that,
50:39
Speaker 4: that's more than the county budget for the entire county
50:42
Speaker 4: of Mahoning, which is only about $ 95 million. That's the courts,
50:46
Speaker 4: the roads, the sheriff's department, everything. All in, the county
50:50
Speaker 4: spends $ 95 million. You're spending $ 105 million on 975 people.
50:52
Speaker 4: Give me that again. Give me that again.
50:53
Speaker 14: How much?
51:01
Speaker 4: You're spending 105, just shy, it was like 104.8 million
51:06
Speaker 4: or something like that, say 105 million round numbers on
51:11
Speaker 4: 975 people.
51:13
Speaker 3: Jesus.
51:13
Speaker 4: And I believe when I did the math, it's almost
51:15
Speaker 4: $ 105, 000 per person.
51:17
Speaker 2: And versus the entire, what's the budget for the county?
51:23
Speaker 4: About 95 million. For the whole county?
51:25
Speaker 3: For the whole county.
51:26
Speaker 4: You're running the entire county on 95 million. MRDD is
51:31
Speaker 4: providing waivers, is picking up the waiver cost, but the
51:34
Speaker 4: total cost when you add in the state and federal
51:36
Speaker 4: is $ 105 million.
51:38
Speaker 3: Over the county budget.
51:41
Speaker 4: These people, I mean, you could probably go put them
51:42
Speaker 4: at the Ritz-Carlton for $ 105, 000 a year. I mean, it's
51:44
Speaker 4: just insane. And so my question is, are we required
51:47
Speaker 4: to give these waivers? Is there any investigation of the
51:57
Speaker 4: people that are getting the waivers to see do they
51:59
Speaker 4: really deserve it? I'm sure most of them do. And
52:03
Speaker 4: I don't mean to– I'm not trying to bash people
52:06
Speaker 4: because I can't imagine what it's like having to deal
52:09
Speaker 4: with a loved one who has that type of a disability.
52:12
Speaker 3: But there are economics involved in all of this. I mean,
52:15
Speaker 3: come on.
52:16
Speaker 15: Exactly.
52:17
Speaker 4: But, I mean, at some point then, instead of spending
52:20
Speaker 4: $ 105 million, why don't we build a nice facility– that
52:25
Speaker 4: we can house these people at that costs a heck
52:27
Speaker 4: of a lot less money. The last person that is
52:33
Speaker 4: thought of, and I was told by somebody who's very
52:37
Speaker 4: involved in Mahoney County politics, that the board of the
52:40
Speaker 4: MRDD knows that the taxpayers in this county are suckers
52:44
Speaker 4: and they will always vote for this levy so they
52:46
Speaker 4: can always count on a revenue stream coming in. And
52:51
Speaker 4: they put people on these boards that are just rubber stamps.
52:55
Speaker 4: Rarely do you see anybody on a board, whether it's
52:57
Speaker 4: a school board, whether it's an MRDD board, whether it's
53:01
Speaker 4: Children's Services Board. None of these people ever question the spending.
53:07
Speaker 4: I got on Eastgate on their Citizens Advisory Committee, where
53:11
Speaker 4: they just basically go and tell us what Eastgate spent,
53:13
Speaker 4: you know, getting the grants and doling out money for.
53:16
Speaker 4: That's where I found out they're spending, you know, $ 1. 4
53:20
Speaker 4: million on an electric bus. And that's just the... And
53:23
Speaker 4: I've told you this a thousand times. If the average
53:27
Speaker 4: person saw how bad their local community is screwing them
53:31
Speaker 4: over on their tax dollar with stuff like this, this
53:34
Speaker 4: MRDD thing so they can have $ 40 million to match
53:38
Speaker 4: the state and federal money to give these 975 people
53:40
Speaker 4: $ 105 million a year. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And I'm
53:48
Speaker 4: not trying to be cool or anything. I want to
53:50
Speaker 4: take care of these people. But I don't think you
53:53
Speaker 4: need to spend $ 105, 000 a person to give them adequate care.
53:57
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it actually does take that. But
54:00
Speaker 4: I would love to see Whitaker. I'd love for you
54:03
Speaker 4: to call him up and just say, hey, let's talk
54:05
Speaker 4: about this. And you make your case. Because I'd like
54:10
Speaker 4: to know how he justifies that. Number one, is it required?
54:14
Speaker 4: They spend it. They do this waiver match, but are
54:17
Speaker 4: they required to do the waiver match? If they don't
54:19
Speaker 4: do it, if let's say they don't have the money
54:21
Speaker 4: to do it, what happens? What's the alternative if we
54:24
Speaker 4: don't have enough money to make these waiver matches? None
54:28
Speaker 4: of this has been explained. They just figure this thing
54:32
Speaker 4: will pass. The people will go in there, oh, these
54:35
Speaker 4: are the poor, you know, mentally challenged people. Yeah, I've
54:39
Speaker 4: got to vote yes on that. And it's only what,
54:41
Speaker 4: what was it, 2.4 mil?
54:42
Speaker 18: Yeah.
54:43
Speaker 4: It doesn't sound like much. 2.4 mills, if you're in
54:47
Speaker 4: the voting booth, that doesn't sound like a lot.
54:49
Speaker 3: Of money, right? People have no idea what millage is.
54:52
Speaker 2: But when you say it's 85 additional dollars on top
54:55
Speaker 2: of 100,000, well, most homes are going to be at
54:58
Speaker 2: least 250 to 300 minimum. So you might as well
55:02
Speaker 2: figure that's going to be, what, 80, 80, 80, 240,
55:08
Speaker 2: 250 additional on your property taxes, additional.
55:12
Speaker 4: Like I said, go to the Mahoney County Auditor's website,
55:17
Speaker 4: and you can find your home value. And take that.
55:20
Speaker 4: Let's say it's $ 300, 000. You're looking at 84 times 3.
55:22
Speaker 4: So you're looking at, what, $ 260, 000, $ 70, 000, something like.
55:26
Speaker 8: That.
55:26
Speaker 4: Speaking of which, don't you think Meacham is probably the
55:28
Speaker 4: best auditor we've ever had? It's not even a probably.
55:42
Speaker 4: In our lifetime, as far as I know, I mean,
55:45
Speaker 4: because most of them have been just, you know, they
55:49
Speaker 4: can barely get the property taxes out. Or if you
55:52
Speaker 4: go to Ralph's website, if you go to Mahoning County
55:54
Speaker 4: Auditor's website, and you look at the reports that he
55:58
Speaker 4: has compiled, and the one he did on the schools
56:01
Speaker 4: two years ago was phenomenal. The problem is nobody ever
56:05
Speaker 4: goes and reads any of this stuff. I wish people
56:09
Speaker 4: would spend a tenth of the time they do on
56:12
Speaker 4: Facebook and Instagram just going to their school board's website,
56:16
Speaker 4: going to the auditor's website, and reading some of the
56:19
Speaker 4: stuff that's out there. Ralph does an outstanding job. Ralph,
56:24
Speaker 4: in my opinion, Ralph Meacham is the best public servant
56:27
Speaker 4: in Mahoning County. And I've told you, I think him,
56:31
Speaker 4: Jerry Green, Jannetty are probably the top three people I
56:34
Speaker 4: can think of, at least at the county level. They
56:37
Speaker 4: do an outstanding job.
56:39
Speaker 2: All right, so if you go to explain. So if
56:40
Speaker 2: you go to his website, I went to his website,
56:42
Speaker 2: and what did you click on? Your parcel?
56:46
Speaker 4: You can click on your parcel, and you can search
56:48
Speaker 4: by last name, address. There's like three different ways you
56:50
Speaker 4: can put your parcel number in.
56:51
Speaker 9: All right.
56:52
Speaker 4: But if you just put your last name, and you
56:53
Speaker 4: can usually find, you know, you'll find Ron and Lisa
56:56
Speaker 4: Verbaugh in there, and you can click on and find
56:58
Speaker 4: your house's value.
56:59
Speaker 3: Your appraised value.
57:01
Speaker 4: And I think if you scroll down or if you look,
57:05
Speaker 4: it will show you what your 2027 value is. It'll
57:09
Speaker 4: show you your current year's value, but it'll also show
57:11
Speaker 4: you your 2027 value. So what you're going to get
57:14
Speaker 4: assessed at next year.
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Speaker 3: Oh, even better.
57:21
Speaker 4: Now, granted, Dave Thomas has limited the increase on the
57:25
Speaker 4: inside millage portion. you know, the inside millage to the
57:29
Speaker 4: rate of inflation. But that's only the first, I think,
57:32
Speaker 4: 10 mils of your valuation. Most people's properties are 20
57:35
Speaker 4: to 25 mils in valuation. So half of it will
57:40
Speaker 4: go up at the rate of inflation, which is still, what, 3%
57:44
Speaker 4: to 4% this year. But the other half, well, the
57:50
Speaker 4: other half... really doesn't go up during the reevaluation. It
57:54
Speaker 4: just depends on what your property goes up compared to
57:57
Speaker 4: everybody else's. And I think Ralph always says, a third
58:00
Speaker 4: go down, a third go up, and a third stay
58:02
Speaker 4: the same.
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Speaker 2: Well, as I look at it, I just know it's ridiculous.
58:07
Speaker 2: So there's my yearly property taxes, right? $ 4, 764. And let's see,
58:14
Speaker 2: for the schools I pay.
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Speaker 4: What was it when you first bought the house, Ron?
58:18
Speaker 3: Nowhere close to that.
58:19
Speaker 4: I was going to say... It's ridiculous what they've gone up.
58:24
Speaker 2: I can't even remember what they were. But let's see.
58:28
Speaker 2: $ 2, 311 for the schools. $ 1, 451 for the township. For the park,
58:31
Speaker 2: Metro Park's $ 105.
58:32
Speaker 3: $ 215 for children's services. Developmental disabilities, $ 221. The library, $ 135.
58:34
Speaker 3: They piss away on a regular basis.
58:48
Speaker 4: Well, the government services needed that to send that girl
58:52
Speaker 4: out to Missouri at $ 3, 000 a day.
58:55
Speaker 3: $ 75. 64. Oh, the TB clinic, $ 2.
58:59
Speaker 18: 12.
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Speaker 3: Where is the TB clinic, anyway?
59:02
Speaker 4: It doesn't exist. Oh, okay. Actually, my neighbor is actually
59:06
Speaker 4: the director of the County Board of Health, and he actually...
59:10
Speaker 4: were talking one day, and he said, we actually still
59:12
Speaker 4: treat tuberculosis. We actually use that money. We actually still
59:15
Speaker 4: have tuberculosis in Mahoning County. We do treat it. So
59:18
Speaker 4: I don't get too excited about the two bucks. Not
59:20
Speaker 4: when you've got these other agencies spending fortunes. The library
59:25
Speaker 4: is the one that gets me. I mean, I could
59:28
Speaker 4: buy a lot of books for what I donate to
59:29
Speaker 4: the library and my property taxes every year.
59:31
Speaker 3: I was just looking here because in 2023, let's see,
59:35
Speaker 3: your taxes were $ 4, 479. Then they went in 2024 to $ 4, 550.
59:37
Speaker 3: Then in 2025, $ 4, 733.
59:37
Speaker 2: Boy, there's a trend. They just keep going up. I've
59:41
Speaker 2: never seen them go down. There's no end in sight.
59:58
Speaker 2: There is no end in sight.
1:00:00
Speaker 3: But at least you can see your appraised value.
1:00:02
Speaker 2: So at $ 85 a thousand, so roughly it's going to
1:00:07
Speaker 2: cost you $ 250 additional. $ 250 additional.
1:00:13
Speaker 3: So if that would pass, let's see, I would go
1:00:17
Speaker 3: from four.
1:00:19
Speaker 4: You'd be pushing five grand.
1:00:22
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:00:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, just if that one levy passes. I mean, it's insanity.
1:00:31
Speaker 2: But don't worry, it's for the kids.
1:00:36
Speaker 3: It's insane. It is absolutely insane. This is craziness. All right,
1:00:41
Speaker 3: stay on.
1:00:42
Speaker 4: And that's why everybody, if you have not signed Denise
1:00:46
Speaker 4: DeFabio's property tax repeal for Axe Tax Ohio, sign the petition.
1:00:52
Speaker 4: We have to get it on the ballot. We have
1:00:54
Speaker 4: to abolish property taxes. The only way, the absolute only
1:00:59
Speaker 4: way we will ever fix any of this is to
1:01:01
Speaker 4: blow the system up. That will force the politicians to
1:01:04
Speaker 4: come up with an alternative.
1:01:05
Speaker 3: The G2 quote, you've got to blow it up to
1:01:07
Speaker 3: fix it, and it's true.
1:01:09
Speaker 4: Without a doubt, without a doubt.
1:01:11
Speaker 3: All right. Rich, get well.
1:01:13
Speaker 4: Enjoy your night. Take care.
1:01:14
Speaker 3: Thank you. You're on air.
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Speaker 10: Hello?
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Speaker 18: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I had a couple comments. You were talking about Medicaid.
1:01:24
Speaker 3: Yes.
1:01:25
Speaker 8: A lot of people don't realize if you go on
1:01:28
Speaker 8: Medicaid and you're over 55, when you die, they end
1:01:33
Speaker 8: up taking your house. They claw back every penny they
1:01:38
Speaker 8: have ever spent on you, whether it's an aspirin or anything.
1:01:43
Speaker 3: If you own a home.
1:01:47
Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: And most people don't know that, and the only way
1:01:54
Speaker 8: to get around that is you've got to do it
1:01:56
Speaker 8: five years before you need it. Yeah, right. So in
1:02:00
Speaker 8: my case, when I got hurt, you have no income. Well,
1:02:05
Speaker 8: your only option in Ohio is Medicaid, no other option,
1:02:10
Speaker 8: unless you want to pay $ 1, 200, $ 1, 400 a month.
1:02:11
Speaker 18: Yeah.
1:02:16
Speaker 2: Just so people hear when he says that, just so
1:02:19
Speaker 2: people understand it, make no mistake, that's what your employer's paying.
1:02:22
Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of people take this stuff for granted.
1:02:25
Speaker 2: You know, they say, well, I'm only making 15 or
1:02:28
Speaker 2: 20 or whatever dollars an hour. No, that's what your
1:02:31
Speaker 2: salary is. If you have health care benefits, they're paying
1:02:33
Speaker 2: a large portion of that, what you're talking about, per
1:02:38
Speaker 2: month to insure you or your family would be even
1:02:41
Speaker 2: more than that.
1:02:43
Speaker 6: Right.
1:02:43
Speaker 8: I mean, where I work, my health care was 100%
1:02:46
Speaker 8: paid for. I didn't make as much an hour, but,
1:02:50
Speaker 8: you know, it was paid for.
1:02:51
Speaker 3: Right.
1:02:53
Speaker 8: But when you, like I say, a lot of people
1:02:55
Speaker 8: don't realize when you get on there, they always make
1:02:58
Speaker 8: it sound like it's just if you go in a
1:03:00
Speaker 8: nursing home that they start taking away from your house. No,
1:03:04
Speaker 8: but it's not. And I wish you'd get a lawyer
1:03:07
Speaker 8: on there that does like trusts and that kind of
1:03:10
Speaker 8: stuff to explain a lot of this stuff to people.
1:03:12
Speaker 2: No, it's something most people ignore, but I would highly
1:03:16
Speaker 2: recommend most people. Well, it depends on your assets, quite frankly.
1:03:19
Speaker 2: It depends on your assets. If you got some assets,
1:03:23
Speaker 2: you should probably put things in a trust before you
1:03:28
Speaker 2: think you're going to have issues, five years look-back period.
1:03:31
Speaker 2: Put things in a trust and.
1:03:34
Speaker 8: It has to be a Medicaid.
1:03:37
Speaker 3: There's people that.
1:03:41
Speaker 2: Are good at it. I mean, they're called estate attorneys.
1:03:44
Speaker 2: Estate attorneys. That's what you would want to see.
1:03:48
Speaker 8: And most of them want $ 300 to $ 400 just to
1:03:51
Speaker 8: speak to them.
1:03:53
Speaker 2: I don't know that that's necessarily true.
1:03:55
Speaker 8: I've been dealing with this. I called Johnson & Johnson.
1:04:01
Speaker 8: They wouldn't even answer a question. Without $ 400. I don't
1:04:06
Speaker 8: know about that.
1:04:08
Speaker 2: Okay, you want an estate attorney. I mean, that's just
1:04:12
Speaker 2: what you're looking for, and that's what you should get.
1:04:15
Speaker 2: All right? How did you get hurt?
1:04:18
Speaker 8: I was whipped in a real heavy piece of metal
1:04:23
Speaker 8: at work. The owner of the company was there when
1:04:26
Speaker 8: it happened. He said, you know, when we... lift, pull this,
1:04:30
Speaker 8: you know, block out, grab this thing out from the
1:04:34
Speaker 8: thing and, you know, get it out of there so
1:04:36
Speaker 8: it don't hit nothing or mess anything up. And I
1:04:39
Speaker 8: did it and, you know, boss, the owner looked at
1:04:43
Speaker 8: me because you screwed yourself up, didn't you? And I said, yeah, well,
1:04:47
Speaker 8: I went back to work, but I mean, for a while, but,
1:04:50
Speaker 8: you know, it's just one of them things where, you know,
1:04:54
Speaker 8: it didn't get any better.
1:04:56
Speaker 3: So what do you have, back problems?
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Speaker 16: Yep.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that.
1:05:01
Speaker 2: It's going to be miserable, that's for sure.
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Speaker 20: All right.
1:05:04
Speaker 3: Appreciate your insight. Thank you.
1:05:05
Speaker 2: I'll be right back right after this. All right, let's
1:05:16
Speaker 2: get back to it.
1:05:16
Speaker 3: You're on the air.
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Speaker 4: Hello?
1:05:21
Speaker 3: Line one. Like you know what line you're on. You're
1:05:26
Speaker 3: on the air.
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Speaker 8: Hello?
1:05:29
Speaker 3: Hello?
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Speaker 8: Hello?
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Speaker 17: Hello?
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, turn your radio down and speak your piece.
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Speaker 6: Hello?
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Speaker 4: Ron, can you hear me?
1:05:37
Speaker 3: Yes, I can.
1:05:39
Speaker 4: All right, nice.
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Speaker 23: Hey, I was calling, reading a kind of interesting article
1:05:45
Speaker 23: today about Republicans are kind of like reviving the, you know,
1:05:52
Speaker 23: looking at Nixon, kind of trying to revive his how
1:05:57
Speaker 23: people view him and things like that. What they were
1:05:59
Speaker 23: saying is a lot of conservative intellectuals and things like that.
1:06:04
Speaker 23: They were saying that Nixon was kind of a counter-revolutionary,
1:06:10
Speaker 23: kind of against the 60s. You had a lot of
1:06:14
Speaker 23: the upset and protests and movements and things like that
1:06:21
Speaker 23: because of the racial equality in the 60s. You kind
1:06:25
Speaker 23: of had the the big New Deal policies that came
1:06:29
Speaker 23: implemented in the 40s and the 50s. And Nixon was
1:06:32
Speaker 23: kind of like kind of a bulwark against that kind
1:06:35
Speaker 23: of stuff. And that's exactly, you know, it's kind of
1:06:38
Speaker 23: funny that they're kind of reviving that view of Nixon.
1:06:42
Speaker 23: And that's how I've always thought of Trump as basically
1:06:46
Speaker 23: a counter-revolutionary, that he's trying to oppose, you know, big
1:06:50
Speaker 23: changes that came about by the New Deal. And You know,
1:06:55
Speaker 23: I think that's why I'm pretty confused about why people
1:06:59
Speaker 23: like Trump, because the things that were implemented in the
1:07:04
Speaker 23: New Deal that the right's been fighting against for so
1:07:09
Speaker 23: many years, and they really struggled, and now they're kind
1:07:13
Speaker 23: of starting to get some headway against it, I think.
1:07:17
Speaker 23: And I think it's absolute travesty. You know, like, there's
1:07:21
Speaker 23: a couple things I could talk about, like, One is
1:07:24
Speaker 23: like the world order, you know. So following World War II,
1:07:29
Speaker 23: basically America was kind of the preeminent power. You know,
1:07:34
Speaker 23: we were fighting. And we weren't really fighting, but we
1:07:37
Speaker 23: were actually allied with the socialists and the communists in
1:07:42
Speaker 23: the Soviet Union. And, you know, that was one of
1:07:46
Speaker 23: the best things we could have had because we were
1:07:49
Speaker 23: basically competing against them in order to provide benefits for
1:07:53
Speaker 23: our citizens. You know, like in Russia, they were, or
1:07:58
Speaker 23: in the Soviet Union, they were just like a peasant
1:08:00
Speaker 23: society before World War II. You know, following that, they
1:08:05
Speaker 23: really built up their industry, started investing, you know, in
1:08:09
Speaker 23: things in their capacity, their industrial capacity, trying to extend
1:08:14
Speaker 23: the lifespan of their citizens, you know, increase their health.
1:08:18
Speaker 23: Things like that. And what America had to do was
1:08:21
Speaker 23: compete with that. You know, we had to beat them.
1:08:24
Speaker 23: That was really good for America. And that's really, you know,
1:08:27
Speaker 23: my view, that's why a lot of those new policies
1:08:30
Speaker 23: came about, whether it be Social Security, you know, things
1:08:35
Speaker 23: like Medicare, Medicaid kind of came a little bit later
1:08:37
Speaker 23: in the 60s. But Trump, you know, and the Republicans now,
1:08:41
Speaker 23: they just want to do away with all that stuff. Like,
1:08:46
Speaker 23: you know, you hear it now, like Social Security's bankrupt,
1:08:51
Speaker 23: Medicare's bankrupt. Yeah, because Republicans don't want to fund it.
1:08:55
Speaker 23: They don't believe it's even just to support those programs.
1:09:01
Speaker 23: You know, so that's number one.
1:09:03
Speaker 2: Where is it that Republicans don't want to fund? It's
1:09:06
Speaker 2: Medicare or excuse me, Social Security. The funding was just
1:09:11
Speaker 2: it is there. They just raised the cap on Social Security.
1:09:14
Speaker 2: It's a formula that they do and they haven't changed
1:09:17
Speaker 2: any of it at all. The only changes that have
1:09:20
Speaker 2: happened to Social Security over the years was a change
1:09:22
Speaker 2: of full retirement age to 67. And there's obviously discussion
1:09:28
Speaker 2: now to raise it even more, which I'm opposed to,
1:09:30
Speaker 2: but they've never changed a Medicare age from 65. A
1:09:34
Speaker 2: full retirement age is 67. And, you know, they're talking
1:09:37
Speaker 2: about a serious issue as far as how much money
1:09:41
Speaker 2: is left in Social Security. It's not some phony thing.
1:09:45
Speaker 2: They're saying that there's a serious problem coming in seven
1:09:48
Speaker 2: or eight years that should be dealt with. So they
1:09:50
Speaker 2: better have discussions of raising the cap and or– putting
1:09:54
Speaker 2: additional tax dollars in to supplement the system.
1:09:58
Speaker 3: Because, as I said.
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Speaker 23: I mean, who wants to have those discussions? Is it
1:10:02
Speaker 23: Democrats or Republicans? The Republicans don't talk about... They don't
1:10:06
Speaker 23: talk about ways to fix it.
1:10:08
Speaker 3: Yes, they do.
1:10:08
Speaker 23: You know, I even hear on your program.
1:10:10
Speaker 3: They absolutely do.
1:10:11
Speaker 23: The Ponzi scheme.
1:10:13
Speaker 3: They think it's not an.
1:10:15
Speaker 23: Efficient way for people to say.
1:10:16
Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.
1:10:17
Speaker 2: There isn't a Republican out there that certainly Trump, he's
1:10:21
Speaker 2: not for ending Social Security or changing it.
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Speaker 23: So, you know, basically, like, you know, I don't see
1:12:01
Speaker 23: Republicans offering any solutions to saving Social Security, saving Medicare,
1:12:07
Speaker 23: saving Medicaid. You know, my personal opinion, and this is
1:12:10
Speaker 23: because I... read their intellectuals, their analysis.
1:12:17
Speaker 3: They think Social.
1:12:18
Speaker 23: Security is not the right way to save for people,
1:12:22
Speaker 23: not the right way to help people.
1:12:23
Speaker 2: I don't sense that at all, but why don't you
1:12:25
Speaker 2: tell me what the Democrats are doing to save it?
1:12:28
Speaker 23: Well, Bernie Sanders wants to lower the retirement age and
1:12:31
Speaker 23: increase Social Security benefits. By doing things like raising the cap,
1:12:37
Speaker 23: making people who make money pay their fair share.
1:12:40
Speaker 3: What is their fair share that they should be paying?
1:12:43
Speaker 23: Well, all right, take a look at this. I mean,
1:12:45
Speaker 23: you've got Vivek Ramaswamy running for your governor. Do you
1:12:51
Speaker 23: know how much his net worth increased last year?
1:12:54
Speaker 2: I have no clue. I'm asking you, what do you
1:12:56
Speaker 2: think somebody's fair share should be? You're the guy that says.
1:12:58
Speaker 23: He increased over a billion dollars last year.
1:13:02
Speaker 2: I just want you to sit tight for a second.
1:13:06
Speaker 2: I want to focus on what you said. You said
1:13:08
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders says we should lower the retirement age. What
1:13:11
Speaker 2: should we lower it to?
1:13:14
Speaker 23: Well, it should just be... We should be increasing the
1:13:17
Speaker 23: quality of life for all people.
1:13:19
Speaker 3: What should we lower the retirement age to?
1:13:22
Speaker 16: Well, I.
1:13:24
Speaker 23: I don't know exactly.
1:13:26
Speaker 2: So you're telling me the Democrats are going to save
1:13:29
Speaker 2: Social Security, which has some economic trouble now with a
1:13:32
Speaker 2: retirement age of six, full retirement age. You can still
1:13:34
Speaker 2: retire at 62, incidentally, just as you are. But you
1:13:39
Speaker 2: get less than if you retire at 67. But you
1:13:43
Speaker 2: can go from 62 to 67. Those are the retirement ages.
1:13:47
Speaker 2: And the program has some financial problems that can be solved.
1:13:52
Speaker 2: So I'm not worried about that happening. But Bernie Sanders
1:13:55
Speaker 2: thinks we should lower the retirement age. So what do
1:13:57
Speaker 2: you want to lower to 50? So that's going to
1:14:00
Speaker 2: make the problem, the program more solvent by putting more
1:14:04
Speaker 2: people on it. Yeah, that makes perfect financial sense. I mean,
1:14:09
Speaker 2: exactly what age should you retire?
1:14:11
Speaker 3: 50? Should you be.
1:14:12
Speaker 2: Retired for 30 years, 40 years, maybe longer than you worked?
1:14:16
Speaker 2: Is that what you think the answer is to Social Security? See,
1:14:20
Speaker 2: that's the problem with your Democrat mentality. The reality is
1:14:25
Speaker 2: that's ridiculous. The reality is you want to save Social Security? Well,
1:14:30
Speaker 2: here's what the problem is, as they say, from a
1:14:32
Speaker 2: Social Security standpoint. You used to have 10 people paying
1:14:35
Speaker 2: in for everybody that was retired. Now you don't have that.
1:14:38
Speaker 2: You have maybe two or three people paying in for
1:14:40
Speaker 2: every person that's retired. They came up with a Social
1:14:43
Speaker 2: Security surplus during the Reagan administration. It was always a
1:14:46
Speaker 2: pay-as-you-go system. Reagan came up with that so the baby
1:14:50
Speaker 2: boomers can move through the system. There was never supposed
1:14:52
Speaker 2: to be a Social Security surplus. It was a pay-as-you-go system.
1:14:56
Speaker 2: What I paid in went out to current retirees. He
1:14:59
Speaker 2: came up with the surplus so that we could get
1:15:01
Speaker 2: the baby boomers through, most of which are going through
1:15:04
Speaker 2: the system now, and I would be close to the
1:15:07
Speaker 2: end of it. And when that's done, there shouldn't be
1:15:10
Speaker 2: a need for a surplus anymore. Yeah, I agree.
1:15:14
Speaker 3: That's fine.
1:15:15
Speaker 2: So I think that was Reagan that did that. Now, also,
1:15:18
Speaker 2: it was bipartisanship that raised the age from 65 to 67.
1:15:22
Speaker 2: The argument was at the time, well, wait a minute,
1:15:24
Speaker 2: when Social Security started, you were only on it for
1:15:27
Speaker 2: a few years before you died. Now they're saying you
1:15:31
Speaker 2: can be on it for 30 years, 40 years before
1:15:33
Speaker 2: you die. And as they say, the program was never
1:15:36
Speaker 2: designed for you to be on it longer than you've
1:15:39
Speaker 2: actually worked. So that was when they made the argument
1:15:41
Speaker 2: to raise the full retirement age from 65 to 67.
1:15:45
Speaker 2: One of the arguments that you hear taking place, which
1:15:48
Speaker 2: I'm opposed to, is to raise it from 67 to 70.
1:15:51
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean you couldn't retire at 62.
1:15:55
Speaker 18: Right.
1:15:55
Speaker 23: That's what I'm saying Republicans want to do.
1:15:57
Speaker 3: No, you didn't let me finish my thought.
1:15:59
Speaker 23: Our lifespan is decreasing in America.
1:16:00
Speaker 2: It's not increasing. Okay, but here's the reality. Once again,
1:16:04
Speaker 2: I say to you that you don't get it. That
1:16:07
Speaker 2: was bipartisanship supported and raised to 67. This guy, honest
1:16:11
Speaker 2: to God, thinks the answer is lowering the retirement age
1:16:14
Speaker 2: on a program that's in financial trouble and taking off
1:16:17
Speaker 2: the cap.
1:16:18
Speaker 23: No, you're misunderstanding me, Ron.
1:16:20
Speaker 3: No, I understood you perfectly in what you said.
1:16:22
Speaker 23: In this current financial situation, I'm saying that we all
1:16:25
Speaker 23: need to be working together so that we can increase
1:16:28
Speaker 23: the quality.
1:16:29
Speaker 9: Of all our lives.
1:16:30
Speaker 23: What's wrong with the quality of your life now? What's
1:16:33
Speaker 23: wrong with the quality of your life now?
1:16:35
Speaker 8: I don't understand.
1:16:40
Speaker 3: So you only have quality of life if you retire?
1:16:43
Speaker 23: The average lifespan is decreasing in America.
1:16:45
Speaker 3: Not by very much. If it's decreasing. Oh, really? What
1:16:49
Speaker 3: is it now? That's horrendous. What is the average lifespan?
1:16:54
Speaker 23: Oh, for women, it's like, I don't know, 72. Men,
1:16:57
Speaker 23: it's like 70 or something like that. And it's going down.
1:17:02
Speaker 3: That's totally inaccurate.
1:17:04
Speaker 18: I don't know.
1:17:05
Speaker 3: Because I'm going to look at it right now. Let's see.
1:17:08
Speaker 3: You know, it's totally and ridiculous what you're saying as
1:17:14
Speaker 3: far as the ages of your lifespan in the USA.
1:17:18
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you just like to put stuff
1:17:22
Speaker 3: out there.
1:17:22
Speaker 23: Well, I'm telling you the facts. No, you're not.
1:17:27
Speaker 2: You're telling me nonsense is what you're telling me.
1:17:30
Speaker 3: Women, 81.4 years. Men, 76.5 years. So none of what
1:17:32
Speaker 3: you said is true. The standard average life expectancy in
1:17:40
Speaker 3: the United States is 79 years. So everything you just
1:17:44
Speaker 3: said is false. Everything. Everything you just said.
1:17:49
Speaker 23: I didn't know the exact age.
1:17:51
Speaker 3: I've gone down now. But you weren't even close.
1:17:53
Speaker 23: What was it a couple years ago?
1:17:54
Speaker 3: You weren't even close, were you?
1:17:56
Speaker 2: So theoretically, if you retire at 65, 75 to 80,
1:17:59
Speaker 2: you could be retired for 15 years.
1:18:09
Speaker 3: Isn't that good?
1:18:11
Speaker 23: Isn't that what we all want? I mean, retirement should
1:18:15
Speaker 23: be like the best time of your life.
1:18:16
Speaker 2: No, clearly that isn't what you want. You think you
1:18:19
Speaker 2: should retire, I guess, at 50. You go along with
1:18:22
Speaker 2: the communist Bernie Sanders.
1:18:24
Speaker 16: You're putting words.
1:18:24
Speaker 10: In my mouth.
1:18:25
Speaker 23: I want people's quality of life to increase.
1:18:27
Speaker 8: Really?
1:18:28
Speaker 3: I don't think.
1:18:29
Speaker 2: So working doesn't provide you a quality of life, a purpose?
1:18:32
Speaker 2: Working somehow evil?
1:18:34
Speaker 8: Bad?
1:18:35
Speaker 6: Oh, of course.
1:18:36
Speaker 8: No, of course work is good.
1:18:38
Speaker 3: But you only have a quality of life if you're retired.
1:18:39
Speaker 23: I think that when you're retired, you should work on
1:18:40
Speaker 23: the things you should choose to work on.
1:18:43
Speaker 8: Oh, really?
1:18:44
Speaker 23: You can help take care of your grandkids. You can
1:18:47
Speaker 23: contribute to your community.
1:18:49
Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
1:18:50
Speaker 4: Education.
1:18:51
Speaker 3: Well, if that's what you want to do.
1:18:52
Speaker 8: Take care of.
1:18:53
Speaker 3: All right. I mean, this is craziness.
1:18:55
Speaker 15: All right.
1:18:55
Speaker 3: Thanks for your call. You're on the air.
1:18:58
Speaker 4: Brian, that was brutal. I know. Okay. I got three things.
1:19:04
Speaker 15: I'm going to get busy.
1:19:04
Speaker 4: I had a preacher that said... Some people.
1:19:07
Speaker 15: Define work as work as much as you can, make
1:19:12
Speaker 15: as much as you can, so you can sit on
1:19:14
Speaker 15: your can.
1:19:14
Speaker 4: Well, guess what? Thank you. That's Pastor Larry Rose down here.
1:19:24
Speaker 4: You know, we'll put on this earth to be productive.
1:19:28
Speaker 15: And I don't want to get down the biblical road here,
1:19:30
Speaker 15: although I could get going. But I'm thinking about, let's see...
1:19:36
Speaker 15: The caller that called earlier crying about the grandkids and he's,
1:19:41
Speaker 15: you know, their work, they're struggling and this and that.
1:19:44
Speaker 15: But they fail to tell you that these kids in
1:19:46
Speaker 15: that generation probably have the latest iPhone. God knows what
1:19:51
Speaker 15: that costs and the highest plan. They're drinking $ 6 cappuccinos
1:19:56
Speaker 15: at Starbucks with the $ 2 protein foam additive. And they
1:20:01
Speaker 15: wonder why they're still in the basement.
1:20:03
Speaker 16: Well, you know what?
1:20:04
Speaker 15: If you guys are starting out at $ 50, 000, $ 60, 000, $ 75, 000
1:20:07
Speaker 15: a year, because you and I are in the same
1:20:09
Speaker 15: zip code age range, we didn't make that much starting out.
1:20:13
Speaker 15: And I'll tell you what else. When I was in college,
1:20:16
Speaker 15: my first apartment and things like that, I didn't go
1:20:20
Speaker 15: to Ikea or whatever and buy the latest furniture and
1:20:24
Speaker 15: impress my friends with the big screen TV. I would
1:20:28
Speaker 15: go get two concrete blocks and a freaking piece of
1:20:32
Speaker 15: plywood and maybe have a piece of Mexican or Guatemalan
1:20:38
Speaker 15: blanket that I would throw on there to make it
1:20:40
Speaker 15: look really fancy. And that was the living room table.
1:20:43
Speaker 4: And we were happy. We got together. We watched the Steelers.
1:20:46
Speaker 4: We watched the Browns.
1:20:48
Speaker 15: We were drinking Genesee cream ale at $ 6 a case.
1:20:51
Speaker 15: We were on a budget, and we loved it.
1:20:53
Speaker 4: It's different now.
1:20:54
Speaker 15: They've got to have it, and they've got to have
1:20:56
Speaker 15: it now. They've got to have the best phone. They've
1:20:59
Speaker 15: got to have a certain look. $ 80 tennis shoes, whatever.
1:21:02
Speaker 15: I was wearing $ 10 Converse back in the day. So,
1:21:06
Speaker 15: suck it up, buttercups. If you want something, and I'm
1:21:10
Speaker 15: going to bring this to a conclusion, it's called delayed gratification.
1:21:16
Speaker 4: Let me repeat that. Delayed gratification.
1:21:19
Speaker 15: You have to hold off on the things you want
1:21:23
Speaker 15: now forever. for getting them later to make sure you
1:21:26
Speaker 15: get them later. Because if you take them now, you're
1:21:29
Speaker 15: not going to be able to afford them later.
1:21:30
Speaker 4: It's that simple.
1:21:32
Speaker 15: I am 65. I just signed up for Medicare. Still
1:21:35
Speaker 15: haven't taken my Social Security because I'm waiting. I've got
1:21:39
Speaker 15: to drop $ 200 and, what, $ 2 a month on my Medicare,
1:21:42
Speaker 15: plus my UnitedHealth insurance.
1:21:45
Speaker 18: I mean, hell.
1:21:46
Speaker 4: My health insurance is like.
1:21:48
Speaker 15: $ 450, $ 500 a month. So what are they crying about?
1:21:51
Speaker 2: Hey, listen to me. I'm going to give you advice, okay?
1:21:54
Speaker 2: Just take this in, and I want you to promise
1:21:57
Speaker 2: me this, okay?
1:21:59
Speaker 4: Okay.
1:22:00
Speaker 3: I want to make sure.
1:22:02
Speaker 2: If you stay on standard Medicare, do not take a
1:22:05
Speaker 2: Medicare Advantage plan.
1:22:06
Speaker 3: Do you hear me?
1:22:08
Speaker 4: I listen, you're preaching to the choir. I signed up.
1:22:11
Speaker 4: I got traditional Medicare.
1:22:12
Speaker 8: All right.
1:22:13
Speaker 4: But I'm not switching over. Right.
1:22:14
Speaker 2: I never switched to a Medicare event. You want to
1:22:16
Speaker 2: be on traditional Medicare and you get yourself a plan
1:22:19
Speaker 2: G you'll pay for your deductible.
1:22:22
Speaker 3: You follow me?
1:22:22
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:22:23
Speaker 4: Well, I already got it.
1:22:25
Speaker 15: I got United. It's costing me a couple hundred a month,
1:22:28
Speaker 15: but I'm covered.
1:22:30
Speaker 4: Okay.
1:22:30
Speaker 3: In other words.
1:22:31
Speaker 2: So, so, and, and, uh, You can shop around for
1:22:37
Speaker 2: those Plan Gs, too. I don't know if you did
1:22:38
Speaker 2: or not.
1:22:39
Speaker 18: Right.
1:22:40
Speaker 3: You can.
1:22:40
Speaker 2: But the reality is do not get on Medicare Advantage.
1:22:45
Speaker 2: You're going to pay 202. That will go up yearly,
1:22:49
Speaker 2: but you will never, other than what you pay monthly,
1:22:53
Speaker 2: your cost. and a 275 deductible per year, you won't
1:22:57
Speaker 2: have any out-of-pocket expenses and you do not need any
1:23:01
Speaker 2: pre-approvals like on Medicare Advantage. You can go anywhere in
1:23:05
Speaker 2: the country and you do not need pre-approvals. So do not,
1:23:09
Speaker 2: all I'm saying to you is you're smart enough, do
1:23:11
Speaker 2: not be a fool and go on Medicare Advantage. And
1:23:13
Speaker 2: people say, well, I'm on Medicare Advantage, my maximum out-of-pocket's $ 3, 500.
1:23:17
Speaker 3: If you read the.
1:23:18
Speaker 2: Fine print, they can raise it to $ 9, 500. I mean,
1:23:22
Speaker 2: you know, so I'm not a fan of Medicare Advantage.
1:23:26
Speaker 2: You did the right thing. And I don't care if
1:23:27
Speaker 2: your Plan G goes to $ 400 a month or whatever.
1:23:32
Speaker 2: Never get off of it.
1:23:33
Speaker 3: You hear me?
1:23:35
Speaker 4: Listen, thank you for reiterating what I know. I'm going
1:23:40
Speaker 4: to stay there. I'm going to wait. I'm not taking
1:23:42
Speaker 4: Social Security.
1:23:43
Speaker 15: I could have taken it at 62. I learned from
1:23:46
Speaker 15: my brother back in the day. He took it as
1:23:47
Speaker 15: soon as he turned 62.
1:23:49
Speaker 4: He couldn't believe after they took.
1:23:51
Speaker 15: The money out, For Medicare, he's like, I'm only getting.
1:23:55
Speaker 4: Like $ 800 a month. And I'm thinking, okay, well, I
1:23:58
Speaker 4: tried to tell you. So here I am, 65.
1:24:00
Speaker 15: I'm three years past when I could have taken it.
1:24:04
Speaker 15: I'm going to wait until I'm 67 because when I do,
1:24:07
Speaker 15: I can work as much as I want and keep
1:24:10
Speaker 15: every nickel of the Social Security and every nickel of
1:24:13
Speaker 15: my check, you know, minus taxes.
1:24:16
Speaker 2: But here's one thing I'll tell you you can look into,
1:24:18
Speaker 2: and I can give this to you, okay? Just look
1:24:20
Speaker 2: into it, and I know what you make. But you'd
1:24:25
Speaker 2: have to explore this. When you turn 66, for your
1:24:29
Speaker 2: year before your full retirement age, you can make up
1:24:31
Speaker 2: to like $ 65, 000 a.
1:24:32
Speaker 3: Year before there's any penalty whatsoever.
1:24:37
Speaker 2: And then if you go over that, it's $ 1 for
1:24:41
Speaker 2: every three you make instead of one for every two
1:24:43
Speaker 2: you make. Just explore that because your age might be
1:24:48
Speaker 2: better off taking it at 66. Just look into that
1:24:51
Speaker 2: because that all changes for the year prior to your retirement.
1:24:54
Speaker 4: Okay?
1:24:56
Speaker 15: Well, I tell you what, let me hand it back
1:24:58
Speaker 15: to you, and I'll be out of here. My synopsis
1:25:01
Speaker 15: for this call, and I got a little hot because
1:25:03
Speaker 15: these lefties call up, and I love it how you
1:25:05
Speaker 15: pressed him.
1:25:06
Speaker 7: About, you know, what is the age? And he goes, well,
1:25:08
Speaker 7: I didn't know.
1:25:09
Speaker 4: Well, then shut up.
1:25:10
Speaker 15: You know, quit telling us what things are if you
1:25:13
Speaker 15: haven't researched it. There's no excuse for being ignorant.
1:25:16
Speaker 4: We all have smartphones.
1:25:17
Speaker 15: We can all do our research, but these guys, they
1:25:20
Speaker 15: talk the loudest, and they're very glib, but they don't
1:25:24
Speaker 15: know squat. So thanks for putting him in his place.
1:25:28
Speaker 15: And once again, telling people, keep working.
1:25:31
Speaker 4: Be productive.
1:25:32
Speaker 15: Don't feel like you've got to have everything now. Be
1:25:35
Speaker 15: thankful for what you have. Quit being envious of all
1:25:38
Speaker 15: the stuff. People look on their phones and see how
1:25:40
Speaker 15: everyone's living the rich and famous lifestyle. That's not reality.
1:25:45
Speaker 3: You got it.
1:25:45
Speaker 15: And I tell you what, brother.
1:25:47
Speaker 4: Love your show.
1:25:48
Speaker 18: I'm out of here.
1:25:49
Speaker 3: Thank you. Well stated. You're on the air.
1:25:53
Speaker 9: Ron, you asked.
1:25:55
Speaker 4: Where have you been?
1:25:56
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on. Where the hell have you been,
1:25:58
Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale, Frank?
1:26:01
Speaker 9: Analyzing bank stocks.
1:26:03
Speaker 3: Okay, I thought you were dead. I'm just glad to
1:26:05
Speaker 3: hear your voice. Frank, you're not dead, are you?
1:26:09
Speaker 9: No, I'm not dead, but there's 400 bank stocks that
1:26:13
Speaker 9: trade in the United States, and I analyzed all 400
1:26:18
Speaker 9: of them. And I was surprised... There's a lot of
1:26:23
Speaker 9: bank stocks that are undervalued. But none of them are
1:26:27
Speaker 9: undervalued enough to tempt me to buy any.
1:26:31
Speaker 3: Well, there you go.
1:26:33
Speaker 4: Okay.
1:26:37
Speaker 9: When I want to bargain in my investments, I want
1:26:40
Speaker 9: to bargain, not a partial bargain.
1:26:42
Speaker 8: I hear you.
1:26:43
Speaker 3: I hear you cheapskate you.
1:26:45
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm a cheapskate. But, of course, the market was
1:26:50
Speaker 9: way down Friday afternoon. big sell-off in tech stocks. And today,
1:26:56
Speaker 9: the tech stocks are soaring. So, we still have a
1:27:01
Speaker 9: lot of volatility, but AI is still downtrending. Same reason
1:27:08
Speaker 9: as I've always said. Market analysts do not feel that
1:27:14
Speaker 9: the money that tech stocks are making justify the high multiples. So,
1:27:21
Speaker 9: We got a lot of money going into companies that
1:27:26
Speaker 9: may not be worth the money that you put into it.
1:27:31
Speaker 9: We're going to have to see tech stocks. A lot
1:27:36
Speaker 9: of innovation. A lot of improved technology to justify these
1:27:41
Speaker 9: high multiples in tech stocks. But also, the Treasury... was
1:27:48
Speaker 9: having a hard time selling.
1:27:50
Speaker 3: Gee, I can't imagine why.
1:27:54
Speaker 9: Well, the Treasury was having a hard time selling Treasury debt.
1:27:59
Speaker 3: Yep. And they keep up in the rates, too.
1:28:03
Speaker 9: Yeah, not foreign investors especially. They were saying, look, unless
1:28:08
Speaker 9: you raise interest rates, we're not buying your junk.
1:28:11
Speaker 3: Well, the debt is too damn high.
1:28:14
Speaker 9: The debt is too damn high. And people like me
1:28:19
Speaker 9: know that there's going to come a point where either the.
1:28:23
Speaker 2: Hang on, hang on a second. Let me get back.
1:28:26
Speaker 2: Long last, Fort Lauderdale Frank with some insights. Back in
1:28:29
Speaker 2: a minute, Ron Ferb from the Kingdom of Mahoning.
1:28:35
Speaker 3: It's the big building supply auction.
1:28:37
Speaker 2: Car and truck rental right there on Bearstown Road in Youngstown. Russ,
1:28:40
Speaker 2: you've been around for 40 years now.
1:28:42
Speaker 21: That's right.
1:28:43
Speaker 3: It's getting time to retire.
1:28:44
Speaker 21: I need a buyer to buy me out.
1:28:47
Speaker 3: We want you to stay.
1:28:48
Speaker 2: We need those rentals and we need the car prices
1:28:50
Speaker 2: that you have when you're selling stuff.
1:28:52
Speaker 3: You've got a great selection.
1:28:53
Speaker 21: We've got almost 80 cars in stock. Half of our
1:28:57
Speaker 21: cars are priced under $ 10, 000. If you need a car
1:29:01
Speaker 21: for a young driver, extra car, work car, or a
1:29:05
Speaker 21: very nice family car or van, we've got it for
1:29:07
Speaker 21: you over there. We run all our cars through the shop.
1:29:11
Speaker 21: We take care of the problems before you get the car,
1:29:14
Speaker 21: and we're very proud of all the vehicles that we sell.
1:29:18
Speaker 3: And justly so, with a great reputation.
1:29:20
Speaker 2: For rental or sales, remember, it's Mill Creek Auto Sales,
1:29:24
Speaker 2: You Save Car and Truck Rental. They're on Bear's Den
1:29:26
Speaker 2: in Youngstown. What's the phone.
1:29:27
Speaker 21: Number, Russ? 330-792-5580.
1:29:31
Speaker 3: Give us a call. Pay them a visit. It's You
1:29:34
Speaker 3: Save and Mill Creek Auto Sales.
1:29:37
Speaker 1: All right, I'm.
1:29:40
Speaker 2: Going to pick Fort Lauderdale, Frank's brain.
1:29:44
Speaker 9: Before you go, Ron, you asked at what age do
1:29:49
Speaker 9: you want the retirement age lowered to? I want it
1:29:54
Speaker 9: lowered to 18.
1:30:02
Speaker 4: Well, you asked.
1:30:06
Speaker 9: Soon as you graduate high school you immediately uh get
1:30:09
Speaker 9: to retire there you.
1:30:10
Speaker 2: Go so you so basically you said you're saying to
1:30:13
Speaker 2: me just before the break though at some point with
1:30:15
Speaker 2: the huge debt the crap's going to hit the fan
1:30:18
Speaker 2: that's why we're having a hard time selling treasuries and
1:30:21
Speaker 2: the future of the dollar is in question correct yes and.
1:30:25
Speaker 9: The good news for the uh democrats and the Republicans
1:30:31
Speaker 9: who support big government, the 10-year Treasury note went up
1:30:36
Speaker 9: to 6% last week, and they had no problem whatsoever
1:30:42
Speaker 9: selling off the Treasuries at auction because the rest of
1:30:47
Speaker 9: the world is saying, you've got to keep letting interest
1:30:50
Speaker 9: rates rise or we're not going to buy your junk.
1:30:53
Speaker 9: And of course, if interest rates rise, I think what
1:30:57
Speaker 9: is interest on the National debt already the number one
1:31:02
Speaker 9: expense item on the federal budget?
1:31:04
Speaker 2: I think it's number two, but as you continue to
1:31:06
Speaker 2: get further in debt and the rates go up, it
1:31:08
Speaker 2: can be number one very quickly. Absolutely, as you see
1:31:12
Speaker 2: that take place. When that's only servicing the debt, that's
1:31:15
Speaker 2: only paying the interest. It's not lowering the amount owed.
1:31:20
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know, the recent auction for 30-year Treasury bonds.
1:31:26
Speaker 4: Was the worst one.
1:31:27
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Speaker 17: Hey, Ron. How are you doing, bud?
1:36:13
Speaker 3: Good, sir. Go ahead, please.
1:36:15
Speaker 17: You know, I got to appreciate the four callers before.
1:36:20
Speaker 17: The first one about the retirement age. And then the
1:36:25
Speaker 17: next gentleman posted up about, you know, you got to
1:36:28
Speaker 17: work till you bleed. I do believe, though, that with
1:36:34
Speaker 17: all the corruption and fraud going on in our country
1:36:38
Speaker 17: through our federal income taxes.
1:36:40
Speaker 8: Yep.
1:36:41
Speaker 17: Most Americans should be able to retire at 62 with
1:36:45
Speaker 17: full benefits. That's my stand. But I understand that a
1:36:51
Speaker 17: lot of these people that are out there who are
1:36:54
Speaker 17: against the left, I don't want anybody to retire at
1:36:58
Speaker 17: 50 years old. And if they did, they're millionaires, they're
1:37:01
Speaker 17: on the stock market, and anybody participating in 401K doesn't
1:37:07
Speaker 17: have that option.
1:37:09
Speaker 7: They have.
1:37:10
Speaker 17: nothing to do with insider trader information or anything like that,
1:37:16
Speaker 17: and it being curbed because of that workforce that's needed
1:37:21
Speaker 17: for America, which I totally understand, we are being shortchanged
1:37:30
Speaker 17: in prosperity.
1:37:32
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you this when I hear people talk
1:37:34
Speaker 2: about it. Difficulties of young people in retiring. And I
1:37:37
Speaker 2: will say this again for the gazillionth time. If you're young,
1:37:42
Speaker 2: whatever age that might be, I mean, I don't care
1:37:44
Speaker 2: if you're 18 or 20, 30, 40s, 50s, 60s. If
1:37:49
Speaker 2: you don't, and listen, all of you, if you don't
1:37:53
Speaker 2: have a Roth IRA, R-O-T-H, Roth IRA, which means you're taxed,
1:37:58
Speaker 2: you take taxable money, open a Roth IRA, put it in,
1:38:02
Speaker 2: and it grows rapidly. tax-free when you take it out.
1:38:07
Speaker 2: So the sooner you start it and the more you
1:38:10
Speaker 2: put in a.
1:38:11
Speaker 3: Year, put $ 1, 000 in.
1:38:12
Speaker 2: You can put up to $ 7, 000 a year in, and
1:38:15
Speaker 2: I would highly recommend you make that sacrifice every year,
1:38:17
Speaker 2: put money into a Roth IRA as a young person.
1:38:20
Speaker 2: And when it comes to your retirement time, whether that's
1:38:23
Speaker 2: 65 or whatever it will be, odds are that you
1:38:27
Speaker 2: would be a multimillionaire.
1:38:29
Speaker 4: If yes.
1:38:30
Speaker 8: Totally well off.
1:38:32
Speaker 2: And there's no interest on taking that money out like
1:38:36
Speaker 2: there is in a traditional IRA. That's if you're smart
1:38:39
Speaker 2: enough to do it in your 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s.
1:38:42
Speaker 2: You do it every year. You can put in up
1:38:44
Speaker 2: to $ 7, 000.
1:38:44
Speaker 3: If you do that.
1:38:47
Speaker 2: Same advice I've given my own children that are all adults.
1:38:50
Speaker 2: If you do that, you will have a terrific retirement.
1:38:53
Speaker 2: But that means instead of spending $ 7, 000 on a Hawaiian vacation,
1:38:58
Speaker 2: you say I'm putting it into my Roth IRA. I'm
1:39:00
Speaker 2: planning for the future. It takes discipline. The more you
1:39:03
Speaker 2: put in, the better you are. So at least put
1:39:06
Speaker 2: $ 1, 000 or $ 2, 000 or $ 3, 000 in a year.
1:39:09
Speaker 3: At least that. At least. And max out if you can.
1:39:13
Speaker 18: Okay.
1:39:14
Speaker 17: Ron, okay. I know you don't have a lot of time,
1:39:18
Speaker 17: but don't you think that the federal government and its constituents,
1:39:24
Speaker 17: all of those people that are sitting in the Senate
1:39:26
Speaker 17: and the Congress, have exploited our federal income taxes beyond
1:39:32
Speaker 17: comprehension right now?
1:39:34
Speaker 3: Yes.
1:39:35
Speaker 17: Okay, so I'm talking about something that needs to be
1:39:40
Speaker 17: reset to where people who have contributed to their federal
1:39:47
Speaker 17: income taxes and their Social Security, they should cut this
1:39:53
Speaker 17: stuff off until they get a grip on where our
1:39:57
Speaker 17: dollars are going. They should eliminate this kind of tax
1:40:01
Speaker 17: until they get a grip on where this money is
1:40:05
Speaker 17: actually supposed to be going instead of Somalia or, you know,
1:40:10
Speaker 17: things that are going on in California, Minnesota, Michigan, and
1:40:14
Speaker 17: God only knows where else. But I would like to
1:40:17
Speaker 17: see the government stand up against the Federal Reserve and
1:40:24
Speaker 17: stop this income tax until they get a grip on
1:40:29
Speaker 17: how they're going to police our money. Then we'll see
1:40:34
Speaker 17: what the retirement age could possibly be.
1:40:36
Speaker 3: How about my buddy Fort Lauderdale, Frank? He had the
1:40:39
Speaker 3: best line of the day. I think the retirement age
1:40:41
Speaker 3: should be 18, you graduate high school.
1:40:43
Speaker 4: I would laugh from the laundry room to the kitchen.
1:40:47
Speaker 16: I would laugh, and yes, he's absolutely right. We don't got.
1:40:52
Speaker 17: Silver and gold spoons in our mouths, so we got
1:40:56
Speaker 17: to do our due diligence as Americans and patriots to
1:40:59
Speaker 17: do what we can, especially for the ones that are
1:41:02
Speaker 17: disabled and.
1:41:03
Speaker 16: You know.
1:41:03
Speaker 3: All right, Tiger.
1:41:05
Speaker 4: You got it.
1:41:05
Speaker 3: All right, thank you. You're on the air. Hello?
1:41:14
Speaker 4: Hello?
1:41:14
Speaker 3: Yes, hello.
1:41:16
Speaker 4: Hi. Deinsurance, the hospitalization....
1:41:21
Speaker 7: Everybody's firing out these numbers. I'm paying $ 1, 700 a month.
1:41:29
Speaker 3: Okay.
1:41:29
Speaker 7: And? And that's unsustainable on a, we'll just say a
1:41:34
Speaker 7: $ 60, 000 salary.
1:41:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:41:38
Speaker 3: Are you self-employed?
1:41:39
Speaker 7: No, I'm not. But my employer doesn't provide an insurance.
1:41:45
Speaker 3: Okay.
1:41:46
Speaker 2: And he doesn't provide any. Okay, so I'm going to
1:41:50
Speaker 2: just ask the obvious question. Have you thought about finding
1:41:53
Speaker 2: another job where they.
1:41:53
Speaker 7: Do provide it? I'm in the market a little bit,
1:41:57
Speaker 7: but at 61 years old, there aren't a whole lot
1:41:59
Speaker 7: of people that want you anymore.
1:42:02
Speaker 3: Well, it depends on your skills and all that kind
1:42:05
Speaker 3: of stuff. But there's a certain degree of truth to that.
1:42:08
Speaker 7: I'm somewhat limited physically on what I can do, which
1:42:12
Speaker 7: doesn't help. But nonetheless, I mean, they've got to get
1:42:15
Speaker 7: this under control. I mean, I was paying.
1:42:19
Speaker 7: In 2025, of course, they were using the COVID money
1:42:23
Speaker 7: for the supplement. I was paying $ 488, 000. Oh, yeah, yeah.
1:42:28
Speaker 7: And that was doable. Yeah, but that's not... $ 1, 700 a
1:42:31
Speaker 7: month is borderline unsustainable on a $ 60, 000 salary. And it's
1:42:37
Speaker 7: garbage insurance.
1:42:38
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
1:42:38
Speaker 3: What's your deductible?
1:42:39
Speaker 8: $ 11, 200.
1:42:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's definitely garbage.
1:42:44
Speaker 3: But it's better than nothing. It's better than nothing. Why
1:42:50
Speaker 3: does your employer provide health insurance?
1:42:55
Speaker 7: I really never have. I've worked for three different companies
1:42:59
Speaker 7: in the last 41 years, and we just always, but
1:43:04
Speaker 7: it was always doable.
1:43:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's usually if you're a full-time employee, that's part
1:43:13
Speaker 3: of the game is having health insurance.
1:43:15
Speaker 7: Not so much anymore. Not so much anymore.
1:43:19
Speaker 3: Well, there are some rules out there. But that's interesting.
1:43:24
Speaker 3: But you're right.
1:43:25
Speaker 2: I don't know where the price of it's going to
1:43:26
Speaker 2: be long term on this kind of stuff. I'm not
1:43:29
Speaker 2: saying that there isn't a problem in the cost of
1:43:32
Speaker 2: health care. But I'm not saying that there isn't a
1:43:35
Speaker 2: problem there, you know. Are you going through Obamacare?
1:43:42
Speaker 7: Yes.
1:43:44
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:43:45
Speaker 3: What are you on, a bronze plan or whatever?
1:43:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, honestly, that was the cheapest thing.
1:43:50
Speaker 4: I could get.
1:43:51
Speaker 3: Is that a family plan?
1:43:54
Speaker 4: For me and my wife. We don't have any kids.
1:43:56
Speaker 3: All right. So in essence.
1:43:58
Speaker 7: But then her deductible is $ 11, 200 as well.
1:44:01
Speaker 4: Right.
1:44:02
Speaker 7: Okay, so think about it. If something catastrophic happened to
1:44:05
Speaker 7: both of us in the same year, you're talking $ 40, 000
1:44:07
Speaker 7: out of pocket between deductible... You know what I mean?
1:44:12
Speaker 7: On a $ 60, 000 salary... You know, what do you want
1:44:15
Speaker 7: me to live on?
1:44:16
Speaker 3: Exactly.
1:44:18
Speaker 2: And then you say to yourself, people on Medicaid don't
1:44:21
Speaker 2: have any of those concerns at all.
1:44:23
Speaker 3: They're not worried about deductibles.
1:44:26
Speaker 4: Correct.
1:44:27
Speaker 7: I know plenty of them.
1:44:29
Speaker 4: Trust me.
1:44:30
Speaker 2: That are either milk in a system or whatever. You
1:44:35
Speaker 2: can't blame them based on the numbers you're talking about.
1:44:37
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I don't know what the answer
1:44:40
Speaker 2: is to it. It isn't Medicare for everybody. It isn't
1:44:45
Speaker 2: government health care. I still say transparency is... It's the
1:44:52
Speaker 2: only product that you have no idea what it costs.
1:44:54
Speaker 2: It's crazy. I go to the dentist. I have no
1:44:56
Speaker 2: idea what this costs. I go to my family doctor.
1:44:58
Speaker 2: I have no idea what it costs. Go get a
1:45:00
Speaker 2: CAT scan. I have no idea what it costs. That's
1:45:03
Speaker 2: what the problem is. You can't even shop around.
1:45:06
Speaker 3: You have no idea. You could be getting totally screwed.
1:45:08
Speaker 7: No, but I mean, you can get a, if you
1:45:11
Speaker 7: tell them you're paying cash up front, you can get
1:45:14
Speaker 7: a total.
1:45:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
1:45:18
Speaker 7: But, you know, how many people can pay? And, you know,
1:45:20
Speaker 7: what concerns me is if I have a heart attack
1:45:22
Speaker 7: or something, you know, that's, what, $ 100, 000- plus?
1:45:28
Speaker 3: Well, it depends on what you... It could be.
1:45:31
Speaker 2: It depends if you need a stent or a bypass,
1:45:34
Speaker 2: or maybe we just let you go peacefully in your sleep.
1:45:37
Speaker 7: That would probably be the best option.
1:45:42
Speaker 2: I will advise your wife, don't rush him to the hospital.
1:45:48
Speaker 3: Just let him go in his sleep.
1:45:51
Speaker 2: We can't afford to take you to the hospital and
1:45:53
Speaker 2: have you survive. You see the white light, answer the
1:45:57
Speaker 2: white light. He's coming for you. You'll see the white
1:46:02
Speaker 2: light and it'll be me in a robe.
1:46:03
Speaker 3: Come with me.
1:46:06
Speaker 4: Oh, no.
1:46:07
Speaker 8: Yes.
1:46:10
Speaker 3: All right. I wish I could give you an answer,
1:46:12
Speaker 3: but I don't have one.
1:46:13
Speaker 7: I'm just curious if everybody else, because I'm hearing these
1:46:17
Speaker 7: people saying, you know, $ 400 or $ 500 a month. I
1:46:22
Speaker 7: don't know.
1:46:23
Speaker 2: Well, really, if you look at it, I'm just saying,
1:46:26
Speaker 2: if it makes it any easier, you're paying $ 800 per
1:46:28
Speaker 2: person per month.
1:46:30
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? So you're paying $ 1, 700. That's
1:46:31
Speaker 3: $ 800 for.
1:46:32
Speaker 2: You, $ 850 for you, $ 850 for her.
1:46:34
Speaker 3: Now, can she get a job?
1:46:38
Speaker 7: She has a job, but she works part-time. And, again,
1:46:44
Speaker 7: no benefits. And she's been, you know, because I thought
1:46:51
Speaker 7: it would be best for her to change jobs and
1:46:53
Speaker 7: get something with benefits. But she doesn't want to leave
1:46:57
Speaker 7: where she's at.
1:46:58
Speaker 4: She's been there almost 30 years.
1:47:00
Speaker 3: Have you ever thought of starting an OnlyFans page?
1:47:06
Speaker 7: I know them money by the end of it.
1:47:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're saying you've let yourself go at 61.
1:47:14
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to see you butt naked.
1:47:17
Speaker 7: Nothing, no. Absolutely not.
1:47:19
Speaker 8: That's a definite deal breaker.
1:47:21
Speaker 3: I'm out of ideas for you. Okay. Stay healthy is
1:47:24
Speaker 3: what I'm going to tell you to do, but it
1:47:26
Speaker 3: is a problem.
1:47:28
Speaker 4: It is.
1:47:28
Speaker 3: All right, man, man. Thank you. Appreciate your call. You're
1:47:31
Speaker 3: on air.
1:47:35
Speaker 4: Hello.
1:47:36
Speaker 3: Sounds like the space shuttle.
1:47:38
Speaker 8: Hello.
1:47:39
Speaker 16: Hi, Ron.
1:47:39
Speaker 8: Hi.
1:47:40
Speaker 18: Hey.
1:47:41
Speaker 26: Yeah, just to tie in to what you said about
1:47:43
Speaker 26: medical and health care coverage. It's like, what do you do?
1:47:46
Speaker 26: I have relatives in England. They're on the supplement. They
1:47:52
Speaker 26: said it's no good because, once again, you're delayed in treatment.
1:47:56
Speaker 26: All the horror stories we hear about how bad England
1:48:00
Speaker 26: is because not only do you pay your national health
1:48:03
Speaker 26: care or health services tax, then you have to pay
1:48:06
Speaker 26: a supplement. And you still might wait to get services.
1:48:10
Speaker 26: and be forced to go to Cleveland Clinic to get
1:48:12
Speaker 26: anything done if you have a heart trouble.
1:48:15
Speaker 4: Right.
1:48:17
Speaker 2: I mean, we were lucky around here because... you know,
1:48:20
Speaker 2: you've got UMPC, you've got Cleveland Clinic, you've got a
1:48:23
Speaker 2: lot of options around here, well-known ones, too.
1:48:27
Speaker 4: Right.
1:48:29
Speaker 26: To tie into what the other caller said, you know,
1:48:33
Speaker 26: because we're kind of in the same spot with my
1:48:35
Speaker 26: family trying to figure out I'd like to retire, but
1:48:37
Speaker 26: how to move forward with limited or above-care silver plans,
1:48:43
Speaker 26: something like that.
1:48:45
Speaker 3: Well, tap the brakes. How old are you?
1:48:48
Speaker 26: I'm 54.
1:48:50
Speaker 2: Well, why are you even thinking about retirement? Don't you
1:48:53
Speaker 2: think you should work another 11 years to get to 65?
1:48:57
Speaker 26: Well, I have a farm. I'd rather farm full-time than
1:49:01
Speaker 26: work a regular job.
1:49:02
Speaker 8: Yeah, but.
1:49:05
Speaker 2: If you do that, you're putting yourself in a– listen,
1:49:08
Speaker 2: you know better than anybody. Farming is very subjective to
1:49:12
Speaker 2: the weather. You can have a drought. You can have
1:49:14
Speaker 2: too much rain. I mean farming is difficult, extremely difficult,
1:49:18
Speaker 2: seven days a week. I'm singing to the choir. You
1:49:21
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And you know the cost of
1:49:25
Speaker 2: diesel and look at what the equipment is selling for
1:49:29
Speaker 2: these days and the repairs.
1:49:32
Speaker 3: You see, it's astronomical. You almost have to work full-time
1:49:35
Speaker 3: and have a part-time farm, don't you think?
1:49:37
Speaker 26: I think so. But I think also in a couple
1:49:42
Speaker 26: of years, things are going to change because food prices
1:49:44
Speaker 26: will keep up high enough where even marginal productions like
1:49:48
Speaker 26: small family farms, I think they'll reap the benefits of
1:49:52
Speaker 26: higher costs because they don't have a.
1:49:55
Speaker 4: Lot of options.
1:49:55
Speaker 26: If you're paying, whatever, $ 7 a dozen for eggs in
1:49:59
Speaker 26: March because they kill off all the chickens, well, then
1:50:01
Speaker 26: start a chicken farm.
1:50:03
Speaker 4: We're kind of.
1:50:03
Speaker 26: Geared well to go into chicken farming. We keep some bees, timber,
1:50:09
Speaker 26: that type of thing. We're thinking about really scaling up
1:50:12
Speaker 26: the chicken side of the operation. Plus the fact that
1:50:15
Speaker 26: beef is out of control and chickens don't require it.
1:50:19
Speaker 26: They'll have the anomalies of the weather and that.
1:50:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's... It's tough. I mean, I'm just trying to
1:50:28
Speaker 3: think of everything you're saying. Why do you think beef
1:50:31
Speaker 3: is so damn expensive? I mean, it's just like a shortage.
1:50:38
Speaker 26: I see a few things. Of course, the production out
1:50:40
Speaker 26: of Mexico, because they had a worm, they're shutting that down.
1:50:42
Speaker 26: The Argentina helps, but once again, you've got to get
1:50:46
Speaker 26: it here. It's not cheap to get it here. A
1:50:49
Speaker 26: lot of the family farms, even with big corporate farms,
1:50:53
Speaker 26: the majority of your food is still grown on small farms.
1:50:56
Speaker 26: family farms, and a lot of them are just getting
1:50:58
Speaker 26: out of business.
1:51:01
Speaker 4: Sorry about that.
1:51:02
Speaker 2: There's nothing sadder about that than to see that happen.
1:51:05
Speaker 26: Well, it's not good in the long run. What happens
1:51:08
Speaker 26: if you get a major disease or whatever? Something attacks
1:51:12
Speaker 26: you or whatever. Worse yet, the Iranians go after your
1:51:15
Speaker 26: corporate farms.
1:51:16
Speaker 4: Right.
1:51:17
Speaker 16: Now what?
1:51:17
Speaker 26: So you need that diversity of production.
1:51:22
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I worry about in farming in
1:51:25
Speaker 2: general is I've never seen a study on it, but,
1:51:29
Speaker 2: you know, like spraying the fields with Roundup and that
1:51:32
Speaker 2: kind of stuff to keep the weeds down for corn
1:51:34
Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff. I'd like to know how
1:51:36
Speaker 2: many farmers end up getting some type of cancer as
1:51:38
Speaker 2: a result of just some of the pesticides you have
1:51:40
Speaker 2: to use.
1:51:42
Speaker 26: Yeah, there's a lot. We're an organic farm. We don't
1:51:45
Speaker 26: deal with it. We're hay. We keep the hay. We
1:51:48
Speaker 26: don't have to spray anything for hay. And then without
1:51:53
Speaker 26: that way, we keep the honey production organic, and it's
1:51:56
Speaker 26: getting better for the chickens and that stuff. We're trying
1:51:58
Speaker 26: as much as possible to keep it organic.
1:52:01
Speaker 2: Boy, it sure does make a big difference with the
1:52:04
Speaker 2: eggs the chickens lay, would you not agree, and the
1:52:06
Speaker 2: color of the yolk?
1:52:08
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
1:52:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's a huge difference. Absolutely huge. And
1:52:13
Speaker 2: in the taste of the beef, I think, if you
1:52:15
Speaker 2: do anything with cattle.
1:52:18
Speaker 26: Well, we do not. We're small operations.
1:52:22
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:52:23
Speaker 3: Well, that's an interesting thing.
1:52:25
Speaker 2: I understand what you love doing, and be careful of
1:52:29
Speaker 2: ticks out there, just when I'm putting paranoid in you
1:52:31
Speaker 2: on everything else, all right?
1:52:32
Speaker 26: I've had Lyme disease about three times. I took my
1:52:36
Speaker 26: doxycycline to get through it, so there's a way around everything.
1:52:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, but be careful, my friend. Be careful. All right.
1:52:43
Speaker 3: Good talking with you.
1:52:44
Speaker 4: All right. Thank you.
1:52:45
Speaker 2: So much to worry about in farming. At 522, nothing
1:52:50
Speaker 2: better than a family farmer. Nothing we need more, and
1:52:53
Speaker 2: no one deserves more respect than a farmer. Hi, it's
1:53:00
Speaker 2: Ron Verb.
1:53:00
Speaker 3: Have you been thinking all summer about us?
1:53:02
Speaker 14: News, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN.
1:53:08
Speaker 3: All right, and Ron Verb from the kingdom of Mahoning.
1:53:11
Speaker 2: At 524 here on a gorgeous-looking Monday, 69 degrees, sun
1:53:15
Speaker 2: is shining.
1:53:16
Speaker 3: It's October 19th. Hope I find you in good health today,
1:53:20
Speaker 3: and you're on the air.
1:53:23
Speaker 8: Ron.
1:53:25
Speaker 3: Well, here she comes.
1:53:28
Speaker 17: How are you?
1:53:29
Speaker 3: Walking down the street. I'm okay.
1:53:34
Speaker 24: I'm actually driving.
1:53:37
Speaker 10: I'm almost to Lancaster, PA.
1:53:40
Speaker 16: Like an hour away from Philly.
1:53:42
Speaker 10: I have a sales presentation tomorrow morning.
1:53:46
Speaker 3: Really? So you're out in Amish country, kind of, I guess, right?
1:53:50
Speaker 10: I am. I might come home with a blue bonnet.
1:53:54
Speaker 18: Really?
1:53:54
Speaker 10: It's bacon banana bread.
1:53:57
Speaker 8: Yes.
1:53:58
Speaker 3: Maybe you should stop at the market and buy some
1:54:00
Speaker 3: goods when you come home.
1:54:01
Speaker 10: I think I might stop and ask how they set
1:54:04
Speaker 10: up their little community because they don't pay property taxes.
1:54:07
Speaker 10: So I hear.
1:54:08
Speaker 3: Yes. Will you be out there voting for all the
1:54:11
Speaker 3: new levies?
1:54:13
Speaker 23: Yes.
1:54:14
Speaker 10: What's that?
1:54:15
Speaker 3: Will you be out there voting for all the new levies?
1:54:17
Speaker 17: Oh, yeah.
1:54:18
Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, yeah.
1:54:20
Speaker 10: I'll be voting for all these levies.
1:54:22
Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
1:54:23
Speaker 10: My throat hurts from screaming all.
1:54:25
Speaker 16: Day about the levies.
1:54:26
Speaker 10: You know, I was looking yesterday. And, you know, here's
1:54:31
Speaker 10: what I want everybody to understand, Ms.
1:54:33
Speaker 4: Whitaker.
1:54:33
Speaker 10: On June 25th, 2026, I'll never forget it. Because I
1:54:38
Speaker 10: listened to the Mahoning County Commissioner's meeting and he went
1:54:41
Speaker 10: in there and he pleaded his case on how he
1:54:44
Speaker 10: needed a new levy. And he said that the state
1:54:49
Speaker 10: raised $ 8 million for matching funds and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:54:54
Speaker 10: So my question to Mr. Whitaker, I'd love him to
1:54:56
Speaker 10: call your show. I don't know why these guys don't
1:54:58
Speaker 10: take advantage because you've got the biggest audience and he
1:55:01
Speaker 10: could address all of our concerns. Because there are many
1:55:05
Speaker 10: concerns and many people are complaining. And they're very upset
1:55:10
Speaker 10: because we just approved the forever levy just last year.
1:55:15
Speaker 10: So he goes and he puts on a $ 15 million levy,
1:55:19
Speaker 10: not even an $ 8 million, which was his big plea
1:55:24
Speaker 10: in the commissioner's meeting. So why did you ask for 15?
1:55:28
Speaker 10: Sharp to the right. He's the one who said he
1:55:31
Speaker 10: needed eight. I didn't make that number up. People go
1:55:33
Speaker 10: look it up. Google June 25th. Go to the Mahoning
1:55:37
Speaker 10: County Missioners meeting and listen to what the man himself said.
1:55:40
Speaker 10: The man said he needed eight million.
1:55:43
Speaker 23: Boom.
1:55:44
Speaker 10: Eight million on the ballot.
1:55:47
Speaker 3: I love somebody.
1:55:49
Speaker 10: To mansplain that to me. You know what mansplaining is?
1:55:54
Speaker 10: You know what mansplaining is. What's a mansplaining?
1:55:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yeah. I can't do it because you
1:56:02
Speaker 2: got to be a man to do that. So I might.
1:56:07
Speaker 10: I want a mansplain. I want someone to mansplain to
1:56:10
Speaker 10: me how you say you need eight and you ask
1:56:13
Speaker 10: for 15 and then you want to play let's make
1:56:16
Speaker 10: a deal.
1:56:17
Speaker 16: Okay.
1:56:18
Speaker 10: If you approve this levy, next year we won't put
1:56:22
Speaker 10: that other levy back on. Now, first of all, do
1:56:25
Speaker 10: you know how dumb you'd have to be to buy that?
1:56:28
Speaker 10: There's no rule or law that says you can't do that.
1:56:32
Speaker 10: I mean, he didn't put that in writing. That's not
1:56:33
Speaker 10: a contract. That's all, you know, that's all fluff. That's all,
1:56:38
Speaker 10: I mean, I mean, there's nothingness, right?
1:56:41
Speaker 3: Yes.
1:56:41
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, promise me what? Promise me what?
1:56:44
Speaker 10: You can't even, you know, they just will never stop.
1:56:47
Speaker 10: But I would love him to answer that question. And
1:56:50
Speaker 10: I also want to ask Mr. Whitaker, you're asking everybody
1:56:54
Speaker 10: to make a sacrifice. It's a sacrifice, no matter what,
1:56:57
Speaker 10: because you're saying you'd have to say yes. You're willing
1:57:01
Speaker 10: to give more to them and less to your family.
1:57:05
Speaker 10: You sign this levy. That's what it means. You vote yes.
1:57:08
Speaker 17: That's what it means.
1:57:09
Speaker 10: It means you're willing to take less income to your
1:57:11
Speaker 10: family and give it to him. What has he done?
1:57:15
Speaker 10: What has he given up? What is he willing to do?
1:57:19
Speaker 10: Has he offered any changes within his MCBDD in the
1:57:23
Speaker 10: way that they operate? Has he offered to give up?
1:57:25
Speaker 10: any portion of his salary? Has he offered to give
1:57:28
Speaker 10: up any of his benefits package? Why is it always
1:57:32
Speaker 10: the homeowner I put the skin in the game and
1:57:34
Speaker 10: everybody else gets to sit pretty?
1:57:37
Speaker 2: Well, that's the key question. Yeah, I can't, like I say,
1:57:41
Speaker 2: I can't mansplain any of that. My boys be able
1:57:45
Speaker 2: to boysplain some of it, but it doesn't make any
1:57:47
Speaker 2: sense to me.
1:57:49
Speaker 10: I mean, really, you stay in a meeting. June 25th,
1:57:53
Speaker 10: go look it up, everybody. I mean, go look it up.
1:57:55
Speaker 10: You know, I'm not just making stuff up. I mean,
1:57:58
Speaker 10: it's June 25th. He went into the meeting and he
1:58:01
Speaker 10: said he needed $ 8 million. I didn't believe him then.
1:58:04
Speaker 10: But then you come back and say now you want
1:58:06
Speaker 10: to levy for 15. Like you're doubling down. And you
1:58:11
Speaker 10: know how like arrogant that is.
1:58:14
Speaker 16: It's almost like.
1:58:14
Speaker 10: You can't stop me. Like I just got a forever
1:58:17
Speaker 10: levy pass and I'm coming back again. Like it's, it's,
1:58:20
Speaker 10: it's so pompous and arrogant. Uh, and, and it's, I just,
1:58:27
Speaker 10: if this levy passes, I'm going to need a Texas timeout, Ron.
1:58:32
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to picture you.
1:58:33
Speaker 15: I'm going to need a Texas timeout.
1:58:35
Speaker 17: Here's what I'm thinking.
1:58:36
Speaker 10: I'm going to take a three-month sabbatical.
1:58:38
Speaker 2: You should stop at the Amish General Store, go and
1:58:41
Speaker 2: get yourself some beef jerky, and then wink at the
1:58:44
Speaker 2: guy on your way out.
1:58:44
Speaker 3: Get a pound of Swiss cheese. And wink at him.
1:58:54
Speaker 10: I'll be great tomorrow morning.
1:58:56
Speaker 3: I'll see you later. I got to go. I got
1:58:58
Speaker 3: to go.
1:58:58
Speaker 4: Bye.
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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to picture it. The boss lady in
2:00:14
Speaker 2: Amish country. Can you imagine that? In her business attire suit.
2:00:23
Speaker 2: She walks into the general store. The Amish look and say,
2:00:28
Speaker 2: what do we have here? Look at the English woman.
2:00:32
Speaker 2: And she comes in and gets a package of beef jerky.
2:00:39
Speaker 2: Imagine boss lady eating some beef jerky and then winks
2:00:43
Speaker 2: at the guy on the way out as she gets
2:00:44
Speaker 2: into her expensive car and races off.
2:00:47
Speaker 4: The end.
2:00:48
Speaker 9: All right.
2:00:49
Speaker 3: News Radio 570.
2:00:52
Speaker 4: Hello. Good evening, Ron. How are you?
2:00:56
Speaker 2: I tell you, live from the bunker on a satellite
2:00:58
Speaker 2: phone that only General Johnson Jameson knows the exact coordinates.
2:01:02
Speaker 2: Sometimes it fails when there are sunspots and everything.
2:01:06
Speaker 3: You're coming in loud and clear. Do you copy me?
2:01:08
Speaker 5: Over.
2:01:09
Speaker 18: Solid copy.
2:01:10
Speaker 4: Over.
2:01:11
Speaker 3: It's G2 on NewsRadio 570. What's going on in France?
2:01:19
Speaker 18: Well, here's what happened. They brought in Huge numbers of
2:01:25
Speaker 18: people from other places who aren't French, who don't share
2:01:28
Speaker 18: the French culture.
2:01:30
Speaker 2: Well, who would do something like that? That seems like
2:01:32
Speaker 2: a dumb idea.
2:01:34
Speaker 18: It'd have to be somebody that was affiliated with the
2:01:36
Speaker 18: World Economic Forum and the Bilderberg Group and all these
2:01:39
Speaker 18: other things that we were told don't exist. The Council
2:01:41
Speaker 18: on Foreign Relations. All these folks who hate that these
2:01:46
Speaker 18: nations have their own government.
2:01:48
Speaker 2: So I sense that some of this is going on
2:01:51
Speaker 2: in other countries, maybe even this one. You mean where
2:01:53
Speaker 2: they let all these people in who don't assimilate from?
2:01:56
Speaker 2: And well, and it's usually males of work age, males.
2:02:04
Speaker 18: Of fighting and breeding age. They bring in and they
2:02:07
Speaker 18: and here's the funny thing, too. They pay them. They
2:02:11
Speaker 18: write checks to these guys. Listen, we'll cover your rent.
2:02:14
Speaker 18: We'll cover your food. We'll cover your transportation. And if
2:02:17
Speaker 18: you want, you can bring your entire village over once
2:02:19
Speaker 18: you get in.
2:02:21
Speaker 3: And so this is what happened in France?
2:02:24
Speaker 17: Turns out.
2:02:25
Speaker 18: So they brought in millions of these people, did not
2:02:29
Speaker 18: in any way ask them to assimilate. It paid for
2:02:33
Speaker 18: them to be there. Brought all over the rights and
2:02:36
Speaker 18: interests of their own French people. And then they claimed
2:02:41
Speaker 18: that these riots started because there was some student uprising.
2:02:44
Speaker 18: Now it's about inflation.
2:02:46
Speaker 16: Well.
2:02:47
Speaker 18: Look, when you have to spend all your money supporting
2:02:51
Speaker 18: people from other countries and other cultures, that certainly doesn't
2:02:54
Speaker 18: help on the inflation front. When you fill your apartment
2:02:56
Speaker 18: buildings with people from nations whose names you might not
2:03:00
Speaker 18: even be able to spell, it does, you know, it
2:03:04
Speaker 18: increases the cost of housing, it turns out. And sooner
2:03:08
Speaker 18: or later, when those people have enough mass, they demand more.
2:03:12
Speaker 3: Free stuff, you mean?
2:03:14
Speaker 18: Free stuff. That's right. And And here's the great news.
2:03:17
Speaker 2: So these are natives of the country. They're not Frenchmen or, well, frankly,
2:03:22
Speaker 2: Irish or anything. But they're people that were brought in,
2:03:24
Speaker 2: and they don't assimilate, and they bring their thought process
2:03:27
Speaker 2: with them, and they get a lot of free stuff,
2:03:29
Speaker 2: and now they're demanding more. And that can lead to riots,
2:03:32
Speaker 2: can't it?
2:03:34
Speaker 18: See, that's the thing. Now they got the riots again.
2:03:37
Speaker 18: Not for the first time. I think the first big riots,
2:03:40
Speaker 18: because of mass migration, were in, like, 2005. Now they
2:03:44
Speaker 18: have the riots again. And so they're trying to say, well,
2:03:48
Speaker 18: this really hasn't got anything to do with migration. It's
2:03:52
Speaker 18: that all these people are so angry about inflation, they've
2:03:54
Speaker 18: decided to burn down churches and government buildings that are,
2:03:58
Speaker 18: you know, 250 years old or 500 years old.
2:04:02
Speaker 2: You mean like landmarks that have been there? Historic buildings
2:04:07
Speaker 2: are burning them down.
2:04:08
Speaker 18: Yes, but the French have run past for years, protested
2:04:11
Speaker 18: around for years. But now.
2:04:14
Speaker 2: That'd be like ripping down a statue of Christopher Columbus
2:04:17
Speaker 2: in this country.
2:04:18
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
2:04:19
Speaker 18: It would be. It'd be like trying to dissolve your
2:04:22
Speaker 18: entire culture and replace it with something else.
2:04:25
Speaker 8: Yeah.
2:04:26
Speaker 18: And so this ridiculous situation is going on. There's something like,
2:04:30
Speaker 18: they say, 800,000 people involved in this. I don't know
2:04:33
Speaker 18: what the real number is. I suspect it's much higher
2:04:35
Speaker 18: than that. And there was a great video. And I
2:04:39
Speaker 18: will tell you, I have no compassion for this woman.
2:04:43
Speaker 18: I'm sure many listeners have seen it, but there's a
2:04:44
Speaker 18: video of this woman who is standing outside of her shop.
2:04:49
Speaker 18: And the, you know, these African Muslims come in and, well,
2:04:53
Speaker 18: we're going to go, we're going to destroy your shop.
2:04:55
Speaker 18: And she stands in front of it and she's saying
2:04:57
Speaker 18: in French, which I can't do, no, no, I'm with you.
2:05:00
Speaker 4: I supported you.
2:05:02
Speaker 18: I've defended you. I'm like, oh, great. Well, then we
2:05:05
Speaker 18: won't rape you right now. You can stand over there,
2:05:07
Speaker 18: but we're going to go rip your shop down and
2:05:09
Speaker 18: steal everything you got, which they proceeded to do. It's
2:05:12
Speaker 18: just like this video from back when they were burning
2:05:14
Speaker 18: cities in the U.S., and there were some guys playing
2:05:17
Speaker 18: pool with some college kids, and when the rioters threw
2:05:20
Speaker 18: a rock through their window, they shouted out the window,
2:05:22
Speaker 18: but wait, we're with you. Well, listen, you can't be
2:05:26
Speaker 18: with these people when they get enough numbers that they
2:05:29
Speaker 18: will overtake you. They do not care that you were
2:05:32
Speaker 18: the dumb person who brought them in. So this woman
2:05:38
Speaker 18: was brushed aside, and they went in, and they ransacked
2:05:40
Speaker 18: her shop, and Now she has to find a way
2:05:42
Speaker 18: to make a living. They don't have to find a
2:05:45
Speaker 18: way to make a living, by the way, because the
2:05:47
Speaker 18: government will pay them. She has to find a way
2:05:50
Speaker 18: to make a living.
2:05:54
Speaker 3: That seems like it was really a stupid idea.
2:05:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does.
2:05:57
Speaker 18: I mean, it almost seems like every government in Europe
2:05:59
Speaker 18: is run by traitors. You know, the reason we've talked
2:06:02
Speaker 18: about Ireland so much and the reason we've talked about
2:06:04
Speaker 18: France and all these things is, of course, because those
2:06:07
Speaker 18: are exactly the plans for the United States. That is exactly...
2:06:11
Speaker 18: what they intend to have happened here so when the
2:06:14
Speaker 18: democrats removed our border controls for four years and brought
2:06:19
Speaker 18: in tens of millions of people brought in enough fentanyl
2:06:23
Speaker 18: to kill the whole country several times over and did
2:06:25
Speaker 18: in fact kill about four hundred thousand people traffic hundreds
2:06:29
Speaker 18: of thousands of children the disappeared into the into the
2:06:33
Speaker 18: hinterlands right that was preparation for this to happen here
2:06:38
Speaker 18: When you see these American women getting shot or raped
2:06:41
Speaker 18: or whatever, you see people getting beaten. You saw in
2:06:44
Speaker 18: Ireland they tried to cut a guy's head off in
2:06:45
Speaker 18: the street. And the police don't react in the way
2:06:49
Speaker 18: you think they would. In many cases now they're changing
2:06:52
Speaker 18: the description of these people that are committing these crimes
2:06:58
Speaker 18: so they appear to be white males. They're trying to
2:07:02
Speaker 18: imply that they're from whatever country it's in. You look
2:07:05
Speaker 18: at what's happening in Canada where it's been just overrun
2:07:08
Speaker 18: with people from anywhere except Canada. And Canada is a
2:07:10
Speaker 18: much smaller country than the U.S. It started out with
2:07:13
Speaker 18: like 34 million people. I'm not sure what the number
2:07:15
Speaker 18: is now. But they've brought in huge numbers of people
2:07:18
Speaker 18: from all over the world. And now the Canadians are going,
2:07:21
Speaker 18: you know, but wait, I'm with you. It's really interesting
2:07:27
Speaker 18: to watch people undermine their own society with great excitement
2:07:31
Speaker 18: and then get in trouble and then somehow think because
2:07:35
Speaker 18: they brought in the invader... they were going to be spared.
2:07:38
Speaker 18: A woman was just run over in Australia. She was
2:07:42
Speaker 18: a member of parliament. She's been pushing for mass migration forever, right?
2:07:47
Speaker 18: They finally broke down the barriers and got the Australians
2:07:50
Speaker 18: to start bringing people in. And again, why did this
2:07:53
Speaker 18: lunatic female get into a position of power and authority
2:07:58
Speaker 18: as a member of parliament and and then begin implementing
2:08:01
Speaker 18: a policy to destroy her own country? Well, I don't
2:08:04
Speaker 18: know what brings these women and some of the men
2:08:07
Speaker 18: to what we call suicidal empathy. I don't know what
2:08:10
Speaker 18: it is about them where they just decide they hate
2:08:12
Speaker 18: their own culture, they hate their own people, and they
2:08:14
Speaker 18: must be replaced. I understand why the globalists, the puppeteers
2:08:19
Speaker 18: do it. I don't understand why the puppets do it. Anyway,
2:08:22
Speaker 18: this woman got run over now. She's in critical condition,
2:08:24
Speaker 18: fighting for life, and they won't reveal the name or
2:08:26
Speaker 18: identity of the person who ran her over. Could be
2:08:31
Speaker 18: an Australian. Or it could be somebody from one of
2:08:34
Speaker 18: the many places she dragged people into that country from.
2:08:36
Speaker 18: You know, to think that you are somehow going to
2:08:40
Speaker 18: be protected because you were a Democrat or you were
2:08:43
Speaker 18: a radical leftist or a university professor, to think that somehow...
2:08:47
Speaker 18: you're going to be seen as special in the eyes
2:08:50
Speaker 18: of the people you bring in to destroy your country.
2:08:53
Speaker 18: That's pretty naive and stupid. But that is the way
2:08:58
Speaker 18: this woman in France thought, and it's the way many
2:09:00
Speaker 18: of these people think. And the thing with the suicidal empathy,
2:09:04
Speaker 18: this is something I really struggle with. I don't understand
2:09:08
Speaker 18: what it is about women specifically that makes so many
2:09:11
Speaker 18: of them take on this suicidal empathy so that they
2:09:14
Speaker 18: feel like They don't have to take care of their
2:09:16
Speaker 18: own culture, their own children, their grandchildren. They have to
2:09:19
Speaker 18: worry about the men who are breeding and fighting age
2:09:23
Speaker 18: in North Africa. They have to make sure that as
2:09:24
Speaker 18: many as possible of them get into Ireland, Germany, France,
2:09:27
Speaker 18: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Why are women,
2:09:31
Speaker 18: you know, some of the men that are involved in this,
2:09:34
Speaker 18: they're just the normal corruptillions, right? They're just corrupt and
2:09:36
Speaker 18: they're getting paid by the globalists or they've been put
2:09:39
Speaker 18: into power and trained by the globalists. They come from
2:09:42
Speaker 18: the Atlantic Council and Aspen Institute and you know, Council
2:09:46
Speaker 18: on Foreign Relations, and again, the World Economic Forum, all
2:09:48
Speaker 18: these groups, the UN, and they've somehow been ushered up
2:09:51
Speaker 18: through this system. But how do you get a 65-year-old
2:09:55
Speaker 18: Caucasian female who's lived a comfortable life in the United
2:09:58
Speaker 18: States to say, you know what I want to do?
2:10:00
Speaker 18: I want to make sure we get the maximum number
2:10:03
Speaker 18: of Yemeni Houthis into this country that we can get,
2:10:06
Speaker 18: because that's what we need to make this country better.
2:10:09
Speaker 18: We need to get as many Somalians out of Somalia
2:10:12
Speaker 18: and into Minnesota as we can get, as many Haitians
2:10:15
Speaker 18: out of Haiti and into Springfield, Ohio, as we can get,
2:10:18
Speaker 18: because that's what's going to make America great. How do
2:10:22
Speaker 18: these people get to that position? Again, I understand the puppeteers.
2:10:26
Speaker 18: For them, it's about money and power. I don't understand
2:10:28
Speaker 18: the useful idiots that are their frontline shock troops that
2:10:32
Speaker 18: are out protesting for this all the time and vote
2:10:35
Speaker 18: for it every election cycle. So that's the mystery of
2:10:39
Speaker 18: it all. How do you convince millions of people to
2:10:42
Speaker 18: destroy their nation. And now you can look at France again,
2:10:45
Speaker 18: not for the first time, but again, and you can say, well, gee,
2:10:49
Speaker 18: how is America going to be different? Well, the only
2:10:51
Speaker 18: thing we have that the French don't have is we
2:10:54
Speaker 18: have an armed population. Are they going to be willing
2:10:57
Speaker 18: to fight to defend their country? Hard to say, but
2:11:00
Speaker 18: it's pretty likely we're going to have to find out
2:11:02
Speaker 18: one day. And if the Democrats get control of the
2:11:04
Speaker 18: border again and hand it off to the cartels the
2:11:07
Speaker 18: way they did, believe me, the cartels have taken At
2:11:12
Speaker 18: this point, at least a $ 20 billion hit by having
2:11:15
Speaker 18: Trump get elected. They probably lost $ 20 billion from trafficking labor, drugs,
2:11:23
Speaker 18: and children. You think they're going to let that happen again?
2:11:27
Speaker 18: They make a lot of political donations. It's going to
2:11:30
Speaker 18: be tough if the Democrats get control again and throw
2:11:33
Speaker 18: down our border defenses and allow this to resume. We
2:11:37
Speaker 18: will lose this nation.
2:11:41
Speaker 7: Yeah.
2:11:43
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. You can see what's happening in
2:11:46
Speaker 3: these areas. Look at Ireland. Look at France.
2:11:52
Speaker 2: You can see what's happening. Nobody thinks that this is
2:11:55
Speaker 2: a good idea. By the way, speaking of ideas, I
2:11:58
Speaker 2: was just looking at an email here. Early voting numbers
2:12:02
Speaker 2: in Trumbull County, okay?
2:12:04
Speaker 3: Republicans, 2,288.
2:12:04
Speaker 2: Democrats, 4,447. Unaffiliated 2,697. Much larger, huge Democrat turnout in
2:12:19
Speaker 2: Trouble County.
2:12:21
Speaker 18: Yes, and that's normal in most places. If you can
2:12:23
Speaker 18: find that the Republican mail-in ballots are more than 30%
2:12:27
Speaker 18: even of the Democrat numbers, that's pretty shocking. But here's
2:12:31
Speaker 18: the question. The Republicans who continue to push this early voting,
2:12:35
Speaker 18: first of all in Ohio, at least in Mahoning County,
2:12:38
Speaker 18: when you vote early, if you're voting on a touchscreen,
2:12:40
Speaker 18: you must know that there is no way for you
2:12:43
Speaker 18: to know who you voted for. You cannot possibly know
2:12:47
Speaker 18: how your vote was cast. There's no way for you
2:12:49
Speaker 18: to know that. If you're using an ES & S
2:12:51
Speaker 18: touchscreen machine to cast that ballot, I don't care if
2:12:55
Speaker 18: you look at your little printout, the technology does not
2:12:58
Speaker 18: allow you to see who your vote was recorded for.
2:13:01
Speaker 18: It's just a fact. Now, the other piece of it is,
2:13:06
Speaker 18: when you get low propensity republicans who vote by mail
2:13:09
Speaker 18: this is a big push in many states certainly pennsylvania
2:13:11
Speaker 18: next door when you see that it turns out that
2:13:16
Speaker 18: low propensity republicans people who don't vote a lot that
2:13:19
Speaker 18: happen to be affiliated with the republican party are much
2:13:21
Speaker 18: more closely affiliated with the internet and when they're online
2:13:25
Speaker 18: and they're getting inundated with ads targeted specifically at them
2:13:28
Speaker 18: by democrats they may be registered republican but they often
2:13:33
Speaker 18: vote democrat and there's been several races that have been
2:13:36
Speaker 18: won by Republicans voting for a Democrat using mail-in ballots.
2:13:42
Speaker 18: It's been documented over and over again. So if you
2:13:44
Speaker 18: have to vote early, certainly, I guess, go ahead and
2:13:47
Speaker 18: do that. If you're voting on an ES & S
2:13:49
Speaker 18: touchscreen instead of a paper ballot where you actually mark
2:13:52
Speaker 18: the ballot with a pencil, that's an entirely different level
2:13:55
Speaker 18: of risk, much, much more risky, absolutely cannot be trusted.
2:14:01
Speaker 18: And if you're But if you're just pulling votes away
2:14:05
Speaker 18: from the polling place and putting them into voting by mail,
2:14:08
Speaker 18: then to understand where that leads, look at Colorado, Washington,
2:14:11
Speaker 18: and Oregon, who are basically eliminating voting in person. It's
2:14:15
Speaker 18: basically gone.
2:14:16
Speaker 2: I would make this statement. I would say if you want–
2:14:22
Speaker 2: if Iran wanted you to vote one way or the other,
2:14:25
Speaker 2: they would prefer you to vote for the Democrats because
2:14:28
Speaker 2: they know that can weaken Trump and– strengthen their situation
2:14:33
Speaker 2: as far as the war is concerned.
2:14:36
Speaker 3: I say it again.
2:14:36
Speaker 2: Listen, I might be opposed to war, but I don't
2:14:39
Speaker 2: know everything Trump and.
2:14:42
Speaker 3: Rubio know. I mean, you've got to confess that. I mean,
2:14:45
Speaker 3: all of us. I don't know what they know, and
2:14:47
Speaker 3: they're not going to tell me everything.
2:14:48
Speaker 2: They know, and I've just got to accept that. But
2:14:52
Speaker 2: I would say, Iran would say, we would like the
2:14:54
Speaker 2: Democrats to win because we stand a better chance of
2:14:57
Speaker 2: survival if we can get at least one of these
2:15:00
Speaker 2: two houses. That would be number one. Number two, anybody
2:15:04
Speaker 2: that says, I'm upset with the economy and inflation and
2:15:08
Speaker 2: gas prices, who think the Democrats are the answer.
2:15:11
Speaker 3: They hate fossil fuels. They tell you they hate them.
2:15:15
Speaker 3: They regulate it so it's hard to drill. This is
2:15:17
Speaker 3: what they've done, do, and Trump changed all of that.
2:15:21
Speaker 2: If you vote for that, thinking that's in your best interest,
2:15:24
Speaker 2: you get the social agenda, you get the open border,
2:15:27
Speaker 2: you get all of this crap back, and then... You
2:15:30
Speaker 2: get what you deserve because you're just too damn dumb
2:15:32
Speaker 2: to realize it.
2:15:34
Speaker 4: That's right.
2:15:35
Speaker 18: So you mentioned the Iranians. Of course, the Iranians are
2:15:38
Speaker 18: counting heavily on Americans voting Democrat in this cycle, clearly.
2:15:43
Speaker 18: They are counting on it. The other ones who are
2:15:46
Speaker 18: would be the Chinese Communist Party, who want that ability
2:15:50
Speaker 18: to control our trade program again. When I say control,
2:15:53
Speaker 18: of course, people in Congress, like if you remember Dianne Feinstein,
2:15:57
Speaker 18: who you know, had a Chinese communist spy as a driver.
2:16:00
Speaker 18: That's now common knowledge. It's no longer considered like, you know,
2:16:02
Speaker 18: like most people know this now. You know, you've got
2:16:05
Speaker 18: people who made a lot of money in China. They
2:16:07
Speaker 18: made a lot of money working at corporations in China,
2:16:09
Speaker 18: and then somehow they ended up in Congress. The Chinese
2:16:13
Speaker 18: want you to vote Democrat because that will put them
2:16:16
Speaker 18: back in the driver's seat with the trade war they've
2:16:18
Speaker 18: executed against the United States for 40 years, which the
2:16:21
Speaker 18: Mahoning Valley and much of Pennsylvania and Ohio have felt
2:16:26
Speaker 18: with great direct personal pain. So that's not some kind
2:16:30
Speaker 18: of esoteric idea that people live in the valley. They
2:16:33
Speaker 18: know the pain of the trade war we've been losing
2:16:35
Speaker 18: for four decades, and they know the only one that
2:16:37
Speaker 18: ever stood up to the Chinese was Trump, first term
2:16:40
Speaker 18: and second term. The Chinese want you to vote that way.
2:16:44
Speaker 18: Who else does?
2:16:45
Speaker 4: Well, let's see.
2:16:46
Speaker 18: The people that are destroying France want you to vote
2:16:49
Speaker 18: Democrat because they know they'll be able to implement those
2:16:52
Speaker 18: globalist policies again. Truth be told... you really can't come
2:16:57
Speaker 18: up with policies that the Democrats would implement that would
2:17:00
Speaker 18: be helpful to the American people. Now, there are a
2:17:02
Speaker 18: lot of Americans who are dead set on Democrats. They
2:17:05
Speaker 18: are steadfast. And when you get in discussions with them
2:17:09
Speaker 18: and you start talking about actual policies and real statistics,
2:17:13
Speaker 18: they sort of get mad and start calling you names.
2:17:15
Speaker 18: It's always a name. You're a misogynist, a racist, a bigot,
2:17:18
Speaker 18: you know, whatever. Homophobe is a big one. Because they
2:17:22
Speaker 18: can never actually defend those positions by talking about the
2:17:26
Speaker 18: actual policies and statistics. They have to make it up
2:17:30
Speaker 18: to make it make sense. So they put forward a
2:17:32
Speaker 18: candidate like this, Acton, who is completely unprepared, unqualified. Nobody
2:17:37
Speaker 18: in their right mind would hire her to run a
2:17:39
Speaker 18: company as big as the state of Ohio, right? She
2:17:42
Speaker 18: could only get there through a warped media and an
2:17:45
Speaker 18: uninformed electorate. So who wants that? Well, the globalists, because
2:17:52
Speaker 18: she will absolutely support any pharmaceutical company's policy.
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Speaker 2: But I'm afraid things are leaning in that direction from
2:19:11
Speaker 2: what I see, unfortunately.
2:19:13
Speaker 18: I think that's right. I think because of things that...
2:19:18
Speaker 18: It's very hard for American voters to get a fully
2:19:21
Speaker 18: thoughtful perspective on what's going on with context because the
2:19:25
Speaker 18: media only hypes the things that drive them in a
2:19:28
Speaker 18: certain way, right?
2:19:29
Speaker 4: So.
2:19:30
Speaker 18: I think you're right. I mean, obviously, the few polls
2:19:33
Speaker 18: that I will actually read are showing some real serious problems.
2:19:37
Speaker 18: And we know the issues and we can go through
2:19:38
Speaker 18: those again next week or later this week. But the
2:19:43
Speaker 18: issues that have driven the big cut, the big breakage,
2:19:47
Speaker 18: the rift in the Trump coalition are serious issues. I mean,
2:19:51
Speaker 18: they're real issues. The problem is the other side is
2:19:52
Speaker 18: not going to do any better. And so the answer
2:19:55
Speaker 18: can't be, well, let's kill the thing now. let's let's
2:19:57
Speaker 18: destroy the country and then you want to pick up
2:20:00
Speaker 18: the ashes the issue is to lean into the fight
2:20:02
Speaker 18: a little harder in a little different way but but
2:20:05
Speaker 18: i think you're right i think this is going to
2:20:06
Speaker 18: be a very difficult outcome i think we're gonna struggle
2:20:09
Speaker 18: to figure out how to move forward but when you
2:20:11
Speaker 18: look at the interests of the people that are aligned
2:20:13
Speaker 18: on one side of the other the democrats have the
2:20:16
Speaker 18: cartels the chinese communist party they have the globalists in
2:20:19
Speaker 18: davos right they have the governments of mexico these other
2:20:23
Speaker 18: countries that are living off the border want those remittances
2:20:27
Speaker 18: to flow. India wants those remittances to flow. India wants
2:20:30
Speaker 18: those H-1Bs filled up again. They want those happening without reservation.
2:20:36
Speaker 18: Great comment from an Indian guy the other day. He
2:20:38
Speaker 18: said Indians spend $ 24 billion a year on tourism in
2:20:41
Speaker 18: the United States, and if you don't let us steal
2:20:43
Speaker 18: your jobs, we'll stop doing that. And the reaction from
2:20:46
Speaker 18: the Americans was obvious.
2:20:47
Speaker 4: Well, great.
2:20:48
Speaker 18: We'll figure out how to get people to go to Disneyland.
2:20:51
Speaker 18: You just go ahead and drop the H-1Bs. But all
2:20:54
Speaker 18: of these interest groups whose interests are opposed to the
2:20:57
Speaker 18: United States, including transnational criminal groups like the cartels and
2:21:02
Speaker 18: global terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood, that's who's aligned
2:21:07
Speaker 18: with the Democrat Party in this election. It is remarkable
2:21:12
Speaker 18: that Americans are saying, hey, I'm going to vote with
2:21:15
Speaker 18: the cartels. I'm going to vote with the people that
2:21:18
Speaker 18: destroyed our wages over four decades, that hollowed out many
2:21:21
Speaker 18: of our cities. I'm going to do that because, you know,
2:21:26
Speaker 18: gas prices and Epstein. Listen, if the Democrats wanted to
2:21:29
Speaker 18: prosecute Epstein's clients, they had plenty of time to do it.
2:21:35
Speaker 18: You know, we've talked about that at length, and we
2:21:36
Speaker 18: don't want to go down that path again. But if
2:21:38
Speaker 18: you're not voting for, say, a Republican because of Epstein files,
2:21:44
Speaker 18: I understand why you're angry. I'm angry, too, by the way.
2:21:48
Speaker 18: But it's ridiculous to think that the people who refuse
2:21:51
Speaker 18: to do anything about it for years are somehow the
2:21:54
Speaker 18: better choice. Listen, I wish Trump would have gone after
2:21:57
Speaker 18: those people, wouldn't have cut the deal he cut. But
2:21:59
Speaker 18: it's a complicated world, and.
2:22:01
Speaker 4: This is war.
2:22:02
Speaker 18: This isn't some political pendulum swinging left and right. This
2:22:07
Speaker 18: is a war for the survival of the United States
2:22:09
Speaker 18: and Western civilization, as France is proving in its streets today.
2:22:13
Speaker 3: And Ireland is proving as well.
2:22:15
Speaker 4: Right.
2:22:17
Speaker 18: I'm voting against the cartels on the 3rd.
2:22:19
Speaker 3: What do you make of Trump's endorsement of Netanyahu?
2:22:23
Speaker 18: Well, look, you know, this relationship with Netanyahu, I call
2:22:27
Speaker 18: it the Israeli overhang. This is going to be a
2:22:29
Speaker 18: big part of the problem.
2:22:29
Speaker 8: On November 3rd.
2:22:31
Speaker 18: Somehow people think that the Democrats aren't controlled by Israel
2:22:34
Speaker 18: and Republicans are. Anybody who thinks that's not a bipartisan
2:22:37
Speaker 18: problem is just wrong. Trump is not doing us any
2:22:41
Speaker 18: favors by continuing to cuddle up with Netanyahu, but.
2:22:44
Speaker 4: There are extremely powerful forces at work.
2:22:47
Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk more about it perhaps tomorrow. Thank you, G2.
2:22:51
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Hannity, coming up next, Guardians at 7.30.
2:22:54
Speaker 3: For 50 years.