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Wednesday 4pm hour 05/06/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: We're back at it.
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  Speaker 2: News Radio 570 WKBN and Ron Furb. Welcome to a
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday afternoon. Cloudy out there. Boy, does it feel like
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  Speaker 2: May 6th to you? It doesn't to me. It's Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: May 6th, 4.07 in the afternoon. It's cloudy, 56 degrees.
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  Speaker 2: What a ton of rain we had yesterday in my
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  Speaker 2: neck of the woods at my weather station at Furb
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  Speaker 2: Manor yesterday and today. Had an inch of rain. So
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  Speaker 2: isn't that something? I mean, on top of all the
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  Speaker 2: rain that we've had so far, everything's so saturated, then
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  Speaker 2: you throw that onto it, everybody's yard is a swamp
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  Speaker 2: these days. Anyway, welcome here to a Wednesday afternoon with
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  Speaker 2: you till 7 tonight at 330-729-9977. Ted the Conservative, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Ronald, how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Good, congratulations. You know, Christine Oliver, big victory, actually, last night.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she ran the best campaign, quite frankly. I
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  Speaker 2: thought she ran an excellent campaign. And she was front
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  Speaker 2: and center out there on those two very important issues.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. I think she ran the only individual in
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  Speaker 3: that race, I think, that ran a legitimate campaign. She
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  Speaker 3: had a grassroots effort. She had a lot of volunteers.
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  Speaker 3: And she did well raising money. And she did it
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  Speaker 3: without loaning. She didn't have to loan her campaign money.
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  Speaker 3: Unlike Shepas, I think Shepas raised half his money and
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  Speaker 3: he gave himself a loan for the other half. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you and I knew there were only two worthy candidates
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  Speaker 3: in that race, and I thought it would be closer
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  Speaker 3: than it was, to be honest with you. I thought Shepas,
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  Speaker 3: I thought it would be a little bit tighter, but
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  Speaker 3: I think the difference, to be honest with you, when
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  Speaker 3: it came to her, was the work, the effort she
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  Speaker 3: put in by her campaign people, by the grassroots effort,
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  Speaker 3: and the biggest thing is that she went door-to-door, and
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  Speaker 3: You know, in today's world, you don't see that very often.
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  Speaker 3: That's how I just happened to meet her living in
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  Speaker 3: Columbiana on the Mahoning County side. She was knocking on doors,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that was a big factor for people.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's that 30-second interaction, and you make people
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  Speaker 3: feel like they're worthy to know who you are, and
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  Speaker 3: they appreciate that because the voter knows that the candidate
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  Speaker 3: needs their support. So, you know, sometimes I think people,
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  Speaker 3: they want the reward. They want that, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: want that golden star, whatever it might be. They want
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  Speaker 3: that reward, but they don't want to put the work in.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, you saw it clearly in
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  Speaker 3: that race, I think. And then you look at some
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  Speaker 3: of the other races, and I agree with Dave. My
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  Speaker 3: biggest concern last night was watching turnout. And The Republican Party,
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  Speaker 3: I think, I don't have the numbers in front of me.
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  Speaker 3: I looked at them last night. But I think if
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  Speaker 3: you look at the judge races with Rivera and Monorelli,
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  Speaker 3: and then you look at the county commissioner races, those
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  Speaker 3: two races, they did have a lot of activity in them.
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  Speaker 3: They were comparable to the races on the Democrat side.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at those numbers, maybe the Democrat judicial
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  Speaker 3: races pulled in maybe 1,000 more voters. So I'm a
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  Speaker 3: little confused by the disparity in the Democrat number that
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  Speaker 3: came up. I think about 5,300 Democrats in Mahoney County
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  Speaker 3: and maybe 2,300 Republicans, something like that. But the vote
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  Speaker 3: totals don't resemble that. So, you know, we've got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work to do now. This was the easy part.
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  Speaker 3: And now you've got to win the general election. And
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, individually it starts with us locally.
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  Speaker 3: We have a chance to have two Republicans sitting on
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  Speaker 3: the board of the county commissioners. chance to have the
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  Speaker 3: first ever female Republican on the board. We have a
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  Speaker 3: good candidate. I think she's worked hard. She'll continue to
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  Speaker 3: work hard. I really believe Rivera can pull it off
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  Speaker 3: and he can win and get another Republican judge there.
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  Speaker 3: But then we've got to start looking outside of our circle,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got to look at the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: I hear a lot of infighting in the Republican Party,
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  Speaker 3: and it's starting to bother me. I think starts at
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  Speaker 3: the top with a lot of these podcasters, whether it's,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I just call her crazy Candace Owens at
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  Speaker 3: this point because she will say anything to get someone
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  Speaker 3: to click on her social media because that's how she
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  Speaker 3: gets paid. That's how these folks get money. They had
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  Speaker 3: advertisers and the more clicks and hits they get, the
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  Speaker 3: more money they make. I mean, that's why you hear
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  Speaker 3: her talking about, you know, she's throwing out this idea
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  Speaker 3: that Charlie Kirk's wife had him murdered. you get pepper
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  Speaker 3: carlson you know what type of first one of our
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  Speaker 3: party was doing well i think he'd be he's just
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  Speaker 3: gone off the edge far-right same thing and what they're
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  Speaker 3: doing internally is what we saw the democrats we saw
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  Speaker 3: the democrat party split in half with the far-left progressive
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  Speaker 3: in the moderate and i'm worried that that's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen with the republican party and just look at a
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  Speaker 3: local you look at the commissioners with look to me
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons i spoke up with i got
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  Speaker 3: i don't like Don't tell me what's bad about the
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  Speaker 3: other candidate. Tell me why I should vote for you.
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  Speaker 3: We saw in that commissioner's race that people just attacked
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  Speaker 3: Christine every day instead of telling us why we should
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  Speaker 3: vote for them. And if we don't now come together
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  Speaker 3: and support our candidates, and especially at the governor's race,
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  Speaker 3: I sent you some information yesterday, Vivek was neck and neck.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's on those polling markets. He's five points behind.
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  Speaker 3: The betting market is putting their money on Amy Atkin,
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  Speaker 3: which I don't understand how you could make wagers on
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  Speaker 3: political offices like this. It's not something I'm familiar with,
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  Speaker 3: but it's pretty accurate and people do it. So the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party has got a lot of work to do,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to start locally. Hopefully people can come
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  Speaker 3: together now that the dust has settled and get behind
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  Speaker 3: our local candidates, get them elected. I think we have
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  Speaker 3: good candidates in the party now. We made it through
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  Speaker 3: the primaries. We've got a big issue now. We've got
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  Speaker 3: to win the state of Ohio. We cannot afford for
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  Speaker 3: a low turnout to let Amy Acton be governor and
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  Speaker 3: to lose the progress we're making at the local levels,
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  Speaker 3: especially the county commissioners. We've got a candidate who's told
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  Speaker 3: us where she stands. There's no guessing. And she's running
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  Speaker 3: against McNally, who has told us that she will not
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  Speaker 3: reduce taxes. She will fight to raise your taxes. And
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  Speaker 3: she thinks she knows how to spend your money better
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  Speaker 3: than you do, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, and so we can disagree. We cannot
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  Speaker 3: maybe have the same opinions or under one umbrella. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the Republican Party. And we've got to stick together
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  Speaker 3: now or else McNally will walk in. It'll be the same.
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  Speaker 3: The same practices we saw from Carol Rigetti. continued with
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  Speaker 3: McNally because she was appointed basically by Carol to fill that.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I, I would, I get the impression that
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  Speaker 2: if Christine Oliver is successful in a general election, she
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  Speaker 2: at least it will be a champion of those two issues.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike Gino, she'll make those a priority and try to
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  Speaker 2: get something done there.
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  Speaker 1: That's the difference.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. I agree completely. I think she will lead
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  Speaker 3: that charge. She said she would. You know, you can
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  Speaker 3: only take someone at their word. And she has been
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  Speaker 3: very vocal about this. I don't see how she would
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  Speaker 3: backtrack from everything that she said. If you saw her
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  Speaker 3: on the news last night, you know, that's the thing
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  Speaker 3: she beat on. I think Geno, and due respect for Geno,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's in a hard position. He's got two people.
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  Speaker 1: That are hard-nosed. Listen, I don't cut him a break
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  Speaker 1: like that. And here's why.
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  Speaker 2: If you believe in it, you should be fighting for
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  Speaker 2: it now to convince one of those other two.
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  Speaker 1: You should not concede.
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  Speaker 3: You need two people to even get it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's convinced on it. You know, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I do not cut Gino a break in that sense.
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  Speaker 2: I think she will fight for it and try to
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  Speaker 2: make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: I would certainly hope so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see him fighting for that issue.
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  Speaker 1: I hear him making excuses.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what about all these people that we need to
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  Speaker 2: help and we're not going to get reimbursed for the state?
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  Speaker 2: It's one reason after the other why he's not for it.
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  Speaker 2: So he's not for it. He's not out there trying
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  Speaker 2: to convince Traffic Annie or Carol Getty. As I've said
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  Speaker 2: a gazillion times, Carol Getty is a senior citizen. But
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  Speaker 2: she's so out of touch with senior citizens because she has, what,
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  Speaker 2: a retirement when she worked for the city and a
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  Speaker 2: $ 100, 000 a year paycheck plus coming in from being county commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: Her economics is so out of touch with other senior
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  Speaker 2: citizens on Social Security and fixed incomes. She thinks the
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  Speaker 2: answer is another government program. It isn't letting people keep
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  Speaker 2: more of their money when it comes to taxes. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: her whole thought process is just so outdated and bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: Good riddance to her. I mean, and to replace her
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  Speaker 2: with somebody with that same mentality... You're smothering and you're
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  Speaker 2: hurting the productive taxpaying citizen. By God, stop taking their
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  Speaker 2: money and giving it to everybody else. Let them keep
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  Speaker 2: their money. You're making their lives too difficult. That should
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  Speaker 2: be your emphasis. I think Oliver has that emphasis. I
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  Speaker 2: think Geno's lost his focus. And I think Traffic Annie
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  Speaker 2: is just..
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  Speaker 3: Traffic Annie and Carol, you have to remember, they're two
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  Speaker 3: birds of the same feather.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They're a hard no, just like McNally.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they're a hard no. We shall see.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're a hard no, or we would see
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  Speaker 3: some action. I mean, they don't tell us anything because
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  Speaker 3: they don't think we deserve to know how they think.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I really believe that when she gets in there, I
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  Speaker 3: think she can bring Gino to the table and they'll
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  Speaker 3: get something done. At least there's a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: There's a chance if she wins that we have two
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  Speaker 3: Republicans that will do that. We know we have one
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  Speaker 3: that is very supportive of it. Gino is getting there,
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  Speaker 3: in my belief.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we shall see.
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  Speaker 3: We'll wait and see. But, you know, something else that
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  Speaker 3: I was shocked at listening to your program yesterday. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I also got to tell you, I signed a petition.
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  Speaker 3: to get the ballot issue set forward, what you call
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  Speaker 3: the property, repeal the property tax.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I signed the ballot. It's official. However, it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that I'm ready to say, yes, let's burn it up,
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  Speaker 3: let's blow it up, because I'm really confused. I believe
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  Speaker 3: you're supportive of abolishing property taxes. I think I could
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  Speaker 3: be wrong. I don't want to speak for the great
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  Speaker 3: one now. That's your chair.
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  Speaker 1: You sit in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's positives and negatives about it. I make no
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  Speaker 2: mistake because if we abolish property taxes, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to let Home Depot and Walmart off the hook and
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  Speaker 2: shift their burden to the individual. You follow me?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. So this has to be thought out.
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  Speaker 2: If we do away with that, I don't want them
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  Speaker 2: to say, well, now we pay nothing, and now Joe
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  Speaker 2: Bagadonis and Joni Pepperoni have to pay everything. So I
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  Speaker 2: want to be careful of that.
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  Speaker 3: If they abolish this right now with no plan in place,
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  Speaker 3: the working man's going to get drilled.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's no other way to say it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to be.
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  Speaker 2: That negative on it. I mean, you have to see
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  Speaker 2: what progresses. I am highly disappointed... There's many variables. If Vivek,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, is the proper way. If he becomes governor,
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  Speaker 2: things can be dramatically improved. And if the Republicans stay
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  Speaker 2: in charge, I think things can dramatically improve as far
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  Speaker 2: as easing the burden of property taxes, particularly school taxes.
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  Speaker 2: So there's many balls in the air on this whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: But if they continue to ignore... the payer, which seems
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  Speaker 2: to be the M.O. currently, for the most part, then
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  Speaker 2: to hell with them, then you have to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of it. Because at that point, they're just abusing you
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  Speaker 2: as a taxpayer. I hate to quote G2, sometimes you've
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  Speaker 2: got to blow it up to fix it.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to do that, and it's a scary
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  Speaker 3: thing because you better have a plan the next day.
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  Speaker 3: You know, unlike you, I voted no yesterday. I can't
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  Speaker 3: tell you the last time I voted yes on a
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  Speaker 3: tax issue.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's the only power we have.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that also depends.
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  Speaker 3: The only power I have as a voter is to
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  Speaker 3: say no.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that depends what was on your ballot. Your ballot
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  Speaker 2: might be different from my ballot.
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  Speaker 3: I had one issue.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. I voted for the– that's a
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  Speaker 2: sales tax. It's a quarter percent sales tax, and you
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  Speaker 2: do not notice it at all. It's a quarter percent
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  Speaker 2: sales tax. A large portion of it is paid for
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  Speaker 2: by people who don't live here. And it raises $ 10
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  Speaker 2: million a year for Pat Giannetti, all going to roads
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  Speaker 2: within your township and your county. In my 41 years,
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen more road work done than has been
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  Speaker 2: done by him. It's not going to raises or any
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff. He's lived up to what he said
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  Speaker 2: it would be used for, and he's continuing to do
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  Speaker 2: that with $ 10 million a year. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: hang on.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not done yet. If we can get oil prices down.
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  Speaker 2: That means he can even do more road miles because
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  Speaker 2: asphalt is an oil product. You follow me? If oil
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  Speaker 2: is high, it limits how many you can do. You're
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  Speaker 2: still doing more, but if you bring it down, he
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  Speaker 2: can do even more. But the engineer's office budget hasn't
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  Speaker 2: changed for decades, and it was frustrating for him that
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't repair a lot of roads that needed it
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  Speaker 2: badly that had been not touched for 20, 30 years.
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  Speaker 2: So that was something that was a no-brainer for me
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  Speaker 2: to vote for. Now, when you talk about that, As
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  Speaker 2: I said to Dave Thomas, the roads are important to me.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the things that I use every day
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  Speaker 2: in a nice infrastructure here.
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  Speaker 1: I live in Austintown Township.
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  Speaker 2: These renewals for my road departments and the roads in
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  Speaker 2: my township, I voted to continue those renewals. Because that's
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  Speaker 2: for my township roads. I'm not going to cut my
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  Speaker 2: own throats. Stand by, Ted. Just stand by. I want
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  Speaker 2: to finish my thoughts with Ted. Then I get to
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  Speaker 2: more of your calls. News Radio 570 WKBN and Ron Furb.
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  Speaker 2: Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Ted the Conservative.
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  Speaker 2: So I voted for my renewals of my road tax
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  Speaker 2: in the township. I don't want lousy roads. There is
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  Speaker 2: no easy answer to that. You've got to keep in
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  Speaker 2: mind when it comes to taxes, some of the things
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  Speaker 2: you pay your taxes for are worth it. They're not free.
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  Speaker 2: Police are not free. Fire is not free. Roads and
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  Speaker 2: maintaining them isn't free. I need a road department to
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  Speaker 2: plow them. I need them to be potholes fixed and
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  Speaker 2: roads to be repaved. I've never seen a county engineer
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  Speaker 2: do more than this one we have in Mahoning County.
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  Speaker 2: And that money is in addition to the money that
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  Speaker 2: the township would already spend on roads. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: what your roads would be like if that quarter percent
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  Speaker 2: sales tax wasn't renewed or you didn't pass the renewals?
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  Speaker 1: In your community.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm not upset with people renewing taxes for roads.
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  Speaker 2: And even if I look at some of the stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and I haven't looked it over, I understand, and I
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  Speaker 2: cannot complain if people vote some additional millage for their
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  Speaker 2: police departments, because everyone should be concerned about crime and
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  Speaker 2: police response time. You need a a fire truck to
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  Speaker 2: show up. You need a fire department. It's the equipment replaced.
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  Speaker 2: You saw that house explosion. No, they do not because
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be my one exception because you definitely
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  Speaker 2: need a fire department and equipment and a police department
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  Speaker 2: for crime. These are emergency services, the keyword emergency services
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  Speaker 2: and ambulances. Those things are all vitally important. When it
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  Speaker 2: comes to school systems, they are not emergency services. And
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  Speaker 2: I do believe that the state should be paying for
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  Speaker 2: your school systems. I don't believe it should be based
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  Speaker 2: on your property taxes. So you're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: hard time convincing me of that, particularly in a community
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  Speaker 2: where I live.
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  Speaker 3: It's not only school districts, even though they get the
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  Speaker 3: lion's share, but you're talking about the emergency services you
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  Speaker 3: spoke of.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't vote for the library levy. I wouldn't vote
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  Speaker 2: to renew it. I will not vote for any school
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  Speaker 2: levies after a $ 15 million athletic complex was built. I'm
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  Speaker 2: done with all of that. The school tax has got
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  Speaker 2: to be more absorbed by the state. I agree with
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  Speaker 2: Pleschnik on that. And I believe the state should be
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  Speaker 2: covering that with your state tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: End of story. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the only thing I want to hear.
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  Speaker 2: But when you call a cop, you want somebody to
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  Speaker 2: show up. When you call a fire truck like that
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  Speaker 2: house explosion, Gerard, you want somebody to show up.
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  Speaker 3: You want someone there, exactly. But we keep saying, well,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: we'll vote for this, we'll vote for that. So every
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: additional levy, eventually... Prior to that levy ever coming into existence,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: hold some money from that general fund. Not saying like
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: the engineer's office. They're primarily state gas tax, fuel tax.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: License plates.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Registration fees. Your permissive motor tax. Right. And then they
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: get grants.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And that kind of stuff. His budget was the same
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: for years.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: The matching funds would come from the general fund. So
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: my point is, while we keep approving all these additional taxes,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: we're taking the same thing with the criminal justice system.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Pass a separate tax for that. OK, well, now we're
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: taking we're less than the burden on a general fund.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: And they take that money and blow it elsewhere. So
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the more you give them, the more you keep feeding
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: a lion, the more it eats. And that's why I
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: give vote no on everything. That's the only power I have.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you could do that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I think we need to be honest with you. Instead
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: of an abolishment movement, it'd be nice to see something
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: at the state level reform wise. Because like you said,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: school districts are the problem.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: You got to think each.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: The only thing I would say, and I got to pause, Ted,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: you got to think each issue through and give each
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: one individual thought.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I thank you. And I'll be right back. News Radio
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: 570 WKV. News Radio 570 WKV. You're on the air.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Hello. Hey there, how are you doing this afternoon?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Good, sir.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Hey, they're talking about a lot of these levies on
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: the schools not getting through and everything. How is it
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: our state was taken to court 30-plus years ago about
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: the Constitution of the state of Ohio about making money
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: to give to the schools so they can operate. How
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: is it we can still give $ 600 million for a
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: football stadium and spend $ 1 billion on charter school systems?
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: That's $ 1. 6 billion that could be allocated out to the
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: schools that are hurting in the state of Ohio. But
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: yet we're going to spend money that way? Just to
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: get rid of the teachers' union?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think it has anything to do with the teachers' union.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So I think it has to do with how, for example,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and I've got to get Pleschnik back on the program
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: because he's a tax lawyer and a Duke graduate of
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: law school. But I hear people talk a lot about
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: this decision that was made years ago. I think you
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: brought it up, right, as far as funding of Ohio schools.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, I did, several occasions.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I hear people bring it up all the time, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I put this out there, and you can read it
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: for yourself. Let me give you my brilliant legal opinion,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: all right?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Is there going to be a test later?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, you need a feather pen to write it down,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: all right? I'm going to give you..
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: No, I can't. Go ahead, but I'll try to catch up.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll try not to talk over your head.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Let me take a deep breath.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Take a deep breath. Relax.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Basically, that decision from a legal standpoint says we have
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: got to have equal funding for schools. For example, what
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: changed was the amount of state dollars that went to
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: poor districts, because part of the argument was that kids
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: that were born in districts that were poor didn't get
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: a very good education because the local funds weren't there.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: To support their education.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: And that's when everybody was getting like the same amount
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: of money from the state and a district.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Okay. Follow me so far. So, okay.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: So what, what that decision said was, well, we're not
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: going to give as much money to Canfield because that's
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: a wealthier community and they can pay for their schooling
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: more through their property taxes versus how much state money
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: goes to the city of Youngstown or, or, pick whatever
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: area in the state so.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It it basically redistributed.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: How the state pool of money was distributed among school
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: districts so that students could get uh one would the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: argument was a fair education or fair opportunities as opposed
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to that not being a case that's how from a
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: legal standpoint, how I understood that decision. And I would
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: have to, I would really, I got to, like I say,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I got to get Pleschnik on. You know, he's went
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: to Duke Law School. So I want to find out
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: if he interprets it the same way. I would like
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: to know what his thoughts are about it. But that's
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: how I interpret that decision. I hear a lot of
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: misconceptions over the years. People always say, well, the lottery
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: money was supposed to go to the schools. And the
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: state did this. I was This is a great thing.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: You're no spring chicken. I was around when the lottery started.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I was around when they said about all this kind
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: of stuff. Well, what happened with the lottery is all
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: that money did go to the schools. But the exact
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: amount of money that was going to the schools through
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the general fund then didn't go to the schools.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: You follow me?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a net gain for the school system. They
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: didn't get additional money from the lottery. They just stopped
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: funding it out of the general fund, the state. And
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: so it was kind of a wash. Where if you
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: look in Georgia, when Georgia did the lottery, Georgia, that
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: was additional money going to the school system. So what
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: that meant in Georgia was they had pre-kindergarten classes. They
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: had that if anybody got a B average and graduated
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: high school, you could go to a university in Georgia
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: for free.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Follow me?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, there were benefits that you could see as
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a result of additional money coming.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: From the lottery.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Can you stop a second, though?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: If I may.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I'm taking questions. Yes, sir. You in the front row
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: with your hand up?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my inkwell went out of ink with my feathers. Yes, yes.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Anyhow.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Here we go. I think the problem in the school
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: districts is not just the school district's fault. How did
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: your kids... Okay, I'm just going to assume... Your kids
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: are doing well out there now. Only because you kept
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: saying get an education. You put your time in to
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: make sure that your children, instead of out there playing
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: around and farting around and doing absolutely nothing, were actually
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: getting an education. Hey, let's see that report card. Whoa,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: you got an F on Arkansas.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Well, you bring up– right. I agree with that point.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you fix that. I've said this before.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, my mother was a school secretary, okay? So
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: when I was in high school, she knew what my
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: test grade was before I knew what it was.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: You follow me? Oh, boy, I feel sorry for you.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: You know, you should feel sorry for me because if
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't do well– My mother would say to me,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: did you have a test in algebra yesterday? And, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: this was like a police interrogation. And I remember saying, hmm,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I know she knows the answer to the question that
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: she's asking me.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And I said, well, yes, I did.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And then she would say, I don't remember you studying
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: very hard for that last night. And then you'd be
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: hanging there. And she'd say, well, maybe that's why you
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: got a C or a D or whatever on that test.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: I understand it because my dad was the same way.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: All right, because, I mean, she would report Carter and say, what?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: And then I'd get biffed up alongside the back of
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: the head and, okay.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Right, but, I mean, she just, so you knew the
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: pressure you under. But, like I said, the quote of
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the day, I've given it for years. My father would
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: always say, and I say this to all of you
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: out there and tell your kids this, all men are
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: created equal until the first school.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Bell rings and then the race is on.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: That's a good one.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: So remember that all men are created equal. You can
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: say all people are created equal to the first school
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: bell rings. Then the race is on there. If I
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: would have went to my mother and father and said,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I'm going to drop out of high school. Do you
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: think that option existed in our household? Do you think
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that that existed that they would say, Oh, okay, no problem.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: My mother would say like, hell you are. And my,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: that option, you couldn't even approach it. That option didn't
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: even exist. As a matter of fact, Just based on
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the time, if I would have went to my mother
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and father and said, I want to drop out of college,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: that option didn't exist.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: You follow me?
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: I understand. Mine would have been, well, you'll be up
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning. We've got a lot of
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: work to do.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: No, the option didn't even exist. Don't even approach it
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: because it didn't exist with my father or my mother.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Those are called expectations. Now, with my own children, my
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: wife deserves all the credit. When they got stuck on
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: math or something, my wife took them at that time
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: to Sylvan, paid additional money to get them tutoring, because
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: if you get stuck in math, some of the advanced math,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: all you've got to do is understand that little bit
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to get over that hurdle and it'll all fall in line.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: You follow me?
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: I follow you all 100% because I had that problem
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: with my one son, and now he looks at me
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: and he starts talking, and I'm going, what in the
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: hell are you talking about? I'm used to 2 plus 2.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: You're right. But see..
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: 12 squared is 12 squared, but now they've got so many...
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: My sixth... One granddaughter was in eighth grade, and her
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: and I were going through this math thing, and I
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: figured the answers out. But when she turned it in
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: the teacher, the teacher turned right around and said, that's
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: not how I told you to do it. So she
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: got a D, I mean, just for the fact that
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: she tried it. It took her six weeks to teach
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: me how to do that math.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Right, but this is how education works, and I'm in
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: total agreement with you. I don't know how you fix parents.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, there were so many things that didn't apply
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: in our household. You could not smoke cigarettes. You weren't
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: going to do a lot. There were just rules and
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: they weren't negotiations. This was the way it was going
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: to be. So when I look at my own kids
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: and when your children grow up and you look at
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: your children and you say they're smarter than you are,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and they're better at everything than you are, then I
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: think as a parent, you achieved what a parent should achieve.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: If you can raise your kids to be smarter than you,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: do things better than you, then as a parent, you've succeeded.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Because that is what your goal. You want them to
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: be better than you. You want them to... You want
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to make sure that your sacrifices... financially in every other
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: way will benefit their life and maybe even make their
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: life a little easier so they can have more free
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: time and enjoy themselves more than you did or perhaps
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: your parents did by working constantly so that they can
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: enjoy some of that and still have have good financial
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: sense about them if you can achieve that as parents
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: mothers and fathers you you are A success. And you
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: know that old line, my friend, the older I got,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the smarter my parents got, was 100% true.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I can remember I was having problems
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: in eighth grade with..
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Your sexuality, I bet. You didn't know if you were
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a man or a woman.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: My part was angles. You know, geometry and stuff like that. Dances,
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: you got to do this, you got to do that.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: See how the book says it? Do it this way,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: do it that way. I just couldn't hang it. I
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: tried and I tried and I guess I got over
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: and frustrated. But we lived out in the country. We
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: could get three television channels. But on certain days, we
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: could get four. But the only way to get that
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: was to go out there with a 14-inch pipe wrench
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: and turn the antenna. Sarah, that's your angle. You've got
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: to remember you've got to have the angle. Right.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And it's just to see.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Listen, from the time when I went to school to today,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, math hasn't changed. English hasn't changed. I just
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: think parents... But I would ask this to you because
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I agree with your point. When I went to school,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: most kids didn't come from a divorced home. Most of
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: them had the same name as their parents. And most
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: of them had a home intact. And most of it
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: was pretty similar on all cases. So part of the
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: problem is there's too much divorce. There's too much... I
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: don't think..
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: The distractions that kids had.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: It's just a lot harder raising kids today, I think,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: than it was when we were kids.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I understand what you're saying. I appreciate it. And as
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: far as your city goes, Ted, the conservative, I'd have
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: been mad too. Because you want to know something? I
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: was always taught that if you go to the bathroom
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: and you go number one, It's best to sit down
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: so you don't make a mess all over the place.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, me too. There you go. Okay, thank you, my friend.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Easy does it with that. All right, you're on the air. Hello.
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's Rhett and Butler.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Do you mind if I change the subject?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: No, sir.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Freedom of speech here on NewsRadio 570.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Speak your peace.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, just could I change the subject a little bit
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: to national interest?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I said okay.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, a couple years ago I started following this shipping,
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: and I noticed something interesting that the audience could probably
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: sort of check out themselves. With the shipping in the Hormuz,
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: the Strait of Hormuz, if you go to Marine, and
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: this G2 might be interested in this, if you go
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: to Marine Traffic, uh... dot com and uh... move your
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: cursor over to the state of warmers uh... you'll see
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: that there are container ships tankers and uh... bulk shipping
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: going all through the straight right now so i mean
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: i'm not sure what's going on over there.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: But the no no no no you're sure what's if
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: you watch news you understand that they're being escorted by
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the uh... by the united states military that the blockade
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: in the military is taking control to make sure the
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: ships can now get through it, and they have been
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: going through there without fear.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Of being attacked.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: As of right now, that's been postponed. It's no longer
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: in effect until Operation Freedom or something like that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: That has been put on hold, but the situation as
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: far as getting ships through the Strait has not been
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: put on hold.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: That is continuing. I think those are two separate things.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Dow surges 600 points, S & P 500 post first
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: close above 7,300 as traders hope for a Ron deal. But,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, they paused the bombing and this kind of stuff.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: But getting traffic moving through the strait is still going
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: on with the assistance of the military. And yesterday– was
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: it yesterday or the day before? where they destroyed those, uh,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: small boats where they were coming with the machine guns
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: and they wiped them right out. So that part has
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: not curtailed. They want to make sure all those ships
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: that have been out there for months can get moving
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: and get to their destination.
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: And that was just sort of my second quick point. Um,
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: so I was speaking with some, uh, or a couple
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: of relatives of mine, Navy officers, um, just on something
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: that was bothering me last night. Um, so with the
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: CIA involved in, uh, uh... centcom and the u.s. navy
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: i mean for six weeks now that it's hard for
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: me to believe with satellite and everything else that they
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: don't have complete control of that area man you know
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: i mean the people i talk to you know they're
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: not directly involved but uh... i mean could is beyond
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: belief to me that with satellite centcom u.s. navy etc uh...
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: All of those assets, I mean, those swift boats don't
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: just come out of, like, you know, nowhere. I mean,
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: I would think that they could identify, that should have
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: been identified a long time ago and just taken out.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Well, they were taken out, what, yesterday when they started
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: to make movements. But it's clear that that is what
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: is working right now in getting traffic through. Think of
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: how long that those ships and those sailors have sat
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: out there at sea worried for months about having fresh
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: water and food and what you need to survive on
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: a ship like that. And those needs weren't being met.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: And it's really the United States that have said, OK,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: we're going to try to meet some of those needs
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: and get these ships moving. And it's because of America,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: United States and the Trump administration, why that's happening. Listen,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I couldn't be happier if we can reach an agreement
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: here and get this thing behind us. and get oil
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: prices down and the economy booming. That would be a
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: happy day.
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  Speaker 7: One of the things that got me interested in the
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  Speaker 7: shipping a couple of years back was I sort of dabbled.
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: I took a little dip into one of Frank's picks.
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  Speaker 7: He was really high on something called Zim Integrated Shipping.
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  Speaker 7: So in April of, let's see here, 22, I bought
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  Speaker 7: 500 shares for that at like 72, I think. And
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  Speaker 7: within by early summer of 23, it was at 15.
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  Speaker 7: So that's a 70% drop. And, you know, I ordered
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  Speaker 7: some things, you know, shipping things. I've been following. It's
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: not about him. That's just one of the things that I,
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  Speaker 7: you know, sort of got.
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  Speaker 1: Me interested in. Well, did you hang on to it?
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  Speaker 7: Actually, I sold it.
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  Speaker 1: I took the loss.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you do that? I mean, listen, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: here to give you financial advice. Do not sell when
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  Speaker 2: you're at a loss like that. Hang on to it
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  Speaker 2: because the stock that could soar after the straight is open.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, all right? Just hang on.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: You never sell low and buy high.
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  Speaker 1: It's the other way around. Hang on, caller. I'll be
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: right back to you. Yeah, you don't sell at a loss.
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  Speaker 2: You might as well sit on it because it can
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  Speaker 2: turn around.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the stock today?
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  Speaker 7: It's about 27 today. And it could go up even more.
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  Speaker 7: I needed the loss. I mean, I had some gains.
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  Speaker 7: I had a bunch of gains. So I took about
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  Speaker 7: a $ 27, 000 loss on that, took the $ 8, 000 or so
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  Speaker 7: that was left and put it into Corning Glass, which
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  Speaker 7: I already had a position in. And I'm up 220%
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  Speaker 7: on Corning Glass. Wow. You know, the thing is, it
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  Speaker 7: was a yield hog situation. I mean, I used to
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: be in the business. We used to call people who
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: go for yields, yield hog. And, you know, I stay
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: away from that. The Zim was a yield hog situation.
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  Speaker 7: As advertised at like 70, I was a 12% yield,
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  Speaker 7: and I should have known better. Because, I mean, we
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: used to kind of laugh at like what we call
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: yield hogs. You know, I mean, usually when you get
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: a real high yield, especially on something like a shipping–
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: you're going to get handed your head at some point.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, you're right.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: You're right about the loss.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 7: I agree with that. I just needed the loss because
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: I had some gains and some ETFs.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I just was trying to help you out.
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, it was a big loss. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 7: $ 30, 000 is $ 30, 000. And, you know, I'm sure Frank's, you know,
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: I'm sure a lot of his picks are really good.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt in my mind he knows what he's
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: talking about. I mean, I don't question that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, my bad luck on, you know, jotting that one down.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: No, your bad luck on selling too soon.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I got 220% on the courting. So, I mean,
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: I'm up. You know, I'm overall up.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I'm going to let him know. I'm going
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to let him know. Go ahead.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: Thanks for the time.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your input, and I hope you call again.
• 38:35
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