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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Wednesday - 08/12/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: On News Radio 570, WKBN. All right, testing 1212. Is
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  Speaker 1: the transmitter on? I think it might. Good afternoon, 305
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, News Radio 570, WKBN. And your fearless leader,
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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb, underway here from the kingdom of Mahoning this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: It is just a... This is my kind of day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's overcast and windy and 77 degrees. And
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  Speaker 1: I just think enjoyable weather, temperature-wise. Anyway, good afternoon. Glad
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  Speaker 1: you tuned in. Glad you're with us here today. And
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  Speaker 1: let's get underway and see what awaits us. You're on air.
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  Speaker 1: Line one. I'll put him back on hold. You're on air.
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  Speaker 2: Ron, good afternoon, sir.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am well, Richard. Thank you for calling. What seems
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  Speaker 1: to be on your mind today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the last two days, I have received two different bills,
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  Speaker 2: one from Mercy Health, one from Southwoods, and was overcharged
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  Speaker 2: on both of them. And I've been talking to people.
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  Speaker 2: A guy I work with, same thing. He got a
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  Speaker 2: bill from Mercy from some stuff he had done, overcharged.
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  Speaker 2: Because when you start looking at what they're billing you,
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  Speaker 2: and then you get the remittance that the insurance company
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  Speaker 2: sends you, And they don't match up. Like this one,
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  Speaker 2: I think my wife had a bone density scan, which
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  Speaker 2: is a preventative thing. So most of the health insurers
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  Speaker 2: now pay it for free. I get a bill from
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  Speaker 2: Southwoods for $ 500.
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  Speaker 1: For a bone density scan?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for a bone, it was $ 800. The insurance paid
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  Speaker 2: like $ 250. And I get a bill for the balance,
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  Speaker 2: which is like $ 500. So I go into the computer,
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  Speaker 2: log into my benefits, pull up the remittance, and it
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  Speaker 2: says my cost is $ 0. And it just seems to
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  Speaker 2: be happening more and more, unfortunately. And so I start
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  Speaker 2: to wonder, like, why is this happening? And it dawned
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  Speaker 2: on me that it's kind of like you said yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: the baby boomers, as they retire and die off, there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be homes available, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the flip side to that. As they're retiring and entering,
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  Speaker 2: you know, leaving us, The number of qualified people, say
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  Speaker 2: what you want about the baby boomers, most of them
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  Speaker 2: knew their jobs. Most of them did a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: job and were very good at what they did. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they had experience. As they're retiring, as, you know, my
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  Speaker 2: generation is starting to come up and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: us are starting to retire, what's coming up to replace
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  Speaker 2: us just lacks the same level of skills. And you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing this across industries. If you talk to people, I
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  Speaker 2: went to the dentist today, we were talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: about how there's just, number one, there's just not as
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  Speaker 2: many people being produced. I think he told me when
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  Speaker 2: he graduated in his mid-60s, probably early 60s, there were
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  Speaker 2: about 270 kids, I think he said, in his dental class.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're down in Ohio State to like 110, 120.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with Case. And you're just not getting the
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  Speaker 2: same caliber of student going into this a lot of times.
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  Speaker 2: I know for pharmacy school, basically, you want to go
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  Speaker 2: out to Neomed and go to pharmacy school, just apply.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to take you because they've got more seats
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  Speaker 2: than they have students. And they want that revenue. And
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  Speaker 2: if you start talking to people, it's getting harder and
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  Speaker 2: harder to find applicants to fill these positions. It's getting
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  Speaker 2: harder and harder to find employees that really care enough
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  Speaker 2: to do a good job anymore. Does that make any sense?
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  Speaker 1: It does, and I'm sitting here listening to it, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, is it just a matter of time before AI,
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  Speaker 1: in a very short period of time, will fix this
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  Speaker 1: problem with competence?
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  Speaker 2: It can actually make it worse, I think, because there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things AI can do. And literally, half
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  Speaker 2: an hour ago, I was talking to a guy that
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  Speaker 2: I know that's a superintendent somewhere, and we were having
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  Speaker 2: this conversation, and I said, like with us, when we
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  Speaker 2: get prescriptions in now, it picks the right patient, it
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  Speaker 2: picks the right drug, it picks the right doctor. It's
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  Speaker 2: not picking our directions yet, and mostly because there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of variables, there's a lot of nuances that can
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  Speaker 2: go into directions on a prescription label. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: same thing with a lot of other jobs. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just mine. There's a ton of jobs like that where
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  Speaker 2: AI can do a lot. It can get to a
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  Speaker 2: certain level, but then you get to a point where
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  Speaker 2: you need a human being that knows what he's doing
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  Speaker 2: and has experience and can make a judgment call to
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  Speaker 2: make a decision. Does that make any sense?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think you're ever going to see AI
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  Speaker 2: take that part over because it just requires something about
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  Speaker 2: being human and being able to judge. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that AI is ever going to get to the
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  Speaker 2: point where it's able to judge and make a judgment call.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make any sense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but so you're saying in your opinion, for example,
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  Speaker 1: let's just deal with this bone density thing. That should be,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a colonoscopy. It should be totally and completely covered, period.
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  Speaker 1: It's a preventive.
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  Speaker 3: It typically is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a preventive thing. And you're saying that's what she got.
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  Speaker 1: And you got a bill that said you owe us
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  Speaker 1: 500 bucks. And the insurance said we paid, whatever, $ 250
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  Speaker 1: of the $ 800 or $ 300 of it. And that my
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  Speaker 1: responsibility was zero. And how did you find out your
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  Speaker 1: responsibility was zero? Because when I.
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  Speaker 2: Went into the insurance website, I have Highmark, Blue Cross
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  Speaker 2: Blue Shield. You can register and log in so you
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  Speaker 2: can look at your claims. So I did that. I
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  Speaker 2: pulled up. I went into Highmark. pulled up the claim
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  Speaker 2: and looked at it and said, your responsibility, because they
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  Speaker 2: list that. You get that stuff. Some people get it mailed.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them will do it, email it to you
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  Speaker 2: electronically now. But you get that, and it explains everything.
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  Speaker 2: It says, this is what the doctor charged. The doctor,
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  Speaker 2: they charged me $ 1, 000 or $ 1, 200. This is what we approved,
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  Speaker 2: which was, I think, like $ 280. And this is what
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  Speaker 2: you owe. you know, maybe some of it's going to
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  Speaker 2: your deductible, if it wasn't a preventative service. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this $ 250, 000 satisfied your deductible, so because, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't pay anything, so you owe the insurance $ 250, 000.
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  Speaker 1: And keep in mind, this is all, of course, if
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  Speaker 1: they code it properly. There's the key, too.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where, once again, though, that goes back to
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  Speaker 2: how competent is the person doing it, and or, here's
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  Speaker 2: the other thing, okay? Southwood and Southwood, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: bill I got yesterday and the one for Mercy the
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  Speaker 2: day before, they get the same remittance, it's called, that
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  Speaker 2: they mailed to me or that I logged in and got.
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  Speaker 2: They get it, and it shows them all that. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the people that are processing the remittance
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  Speaker 2: know that, you know, look at it and say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: in this instance, you know, we have to write off
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  Speaker 2: that balance because we got paid what we were supposed to,
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  Speaker 2: and the patient isn't due the difference. Because you're just
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  Speaker 2: not getting competent people anymore. I was talking to somebody
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  Speaker 2: about the county.
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  Speaker 1: My question would be, how many people do you think
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  Speaker 1: write a $ 500 check and send it in?
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  Speaker 2: A ton. And that's why I called them. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: when you get a bill, before you send in the
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  Speaker 2: bill to your doctor, hospital, whatever, check it against what
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  Speaker 2: your insurance is telling you you owe them. It may
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  Speaker 2: be right. It's probably more often right than wrong. But
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  Speaker 2: it seems like increasingly, and this has been happening, I've
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  Speaker 2: noticed it increasingly over the last several years, that there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times it's wrong. Because the people that
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  Speaker 2: are processing this stuff don't know what the heck they're
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  Speaker 2: doing anymore. And that's just in that industry, but it's
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  Speaker 2: across a bunch of stuff that we have to deal
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  Speaker 2: with in our lives now.
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  Speaker 3: There's just..
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  Speaker 2: Instances where the people that are making decisions that affect you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say they're not qualified to make
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  Speaker 2: the decisions, but they probably either lack the experience or,
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  Speaker 2: in some cases, just don't care. They're just going to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they just send it out. They just hit
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  Speaker 2: a key and, yeah, accept, accept, accept.
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  Speaker 1: And for all you know, it could be in a
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  Speaker 1: whole other country.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of times, I can tell you right now,
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  Speaker 2: when we call, if we have an insurance issue and
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  Speaker 2: I call a helpdesk, Say I got an anthem claim
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. Usually it'll ring and it'll say, hello.
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  Speaker 5: This is Bob.
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  Speaker 3: This is Bob.
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  Speaker 2: May I help you? Well, his name isn't Bob. It's
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  Speaker 2: probably Babette or something like that. But, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: getting these people over in India. It should almost be illegal.
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  Speaker 2: We need to start getting our elected officials to actually
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  Speaker 2: start caring about the American worker. Because why are we
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  Speaker 2: offshoring all of these jobs? We need to bring good-paying
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  Speaker 2: jobs back for Americans and force these companies to start
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  Speaker 2: employing Americans again instead of all this H-1B visa crap
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  Speaker 2: where they're bringing these people in from Mexico and India
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  Speaker 2: and all these foreign countries, and they're displacing American workers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's disgusting. If you have a company that's
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  Speaker 2: laying people off, before they lay off an American, they
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  Speaker 2: should be forced to lay off every single foreigner that's
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  Speaker 2: on a visa before they can do that, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I go back to what Disney did, what
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  Speaker 2: was it, 10 years ago in that 60 Minutes article,
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  Speaker 2: where they just basically eliminated their entire computer programming staff,
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  Speaker 2: which was all Americans, and in order to get their severance,
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  Speaker 2: they had to actually train their Indian replacements. It's disgusting.
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  Speaker 2: That should never be allowed to happen in this country.
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  Speaker 2: What I don't understand is how you can have basically
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  Speaker 2: full employment, or so they say, at about 4.1% unemployment.
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  Speaker 2: They consider that full. employment. Yet the welfare rolls are
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  Speaker 2: still full. So how is it full employment when you've
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  Speaker 2: got people that are still on the public dole?
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I realize you've got disability and some people
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  Speaker 2: are mentally, physically disabled or whatever, but that isn't the
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  Speaker 2: whole 4.1%. The labor participation rate. Is the lowest I
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  Speaker 2: think it's ever been since they started doing it. How
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  Speaker 2: many people that are eligible to work are actually working?
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  Speaker 2: It's right around 60% now, I think. So 40% of
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  Speaker 2: the people are just not working in this country anymore. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 2: some of them are retired, some of them, like I said, disabled,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what have you. But that's not four out
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  Speaker 2: of ten Americans. you know, is not unable to work.
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  Speaker 2: There's a whole bunch of those people that aren't working
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  Speaker 2: that are able to work and for some reason are
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  Speaker 2: choosing not to. And I would stipulate that with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of this public largesse, these Medicaid programs and assistance
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  Speaker 2: programs and stuff like that, when you start paying the
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  Speaker 2: people more to sit at home and do nothing than
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  Speaker 2: you do to actually show up for work, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to start to distort the workforce. And I think that you're,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's part of it. I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: big part.
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  Speaker 3: Of it actually.
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I know we're worried about the price
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  Speaker 2: of gas, but I think there's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think there's anything more important than a
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  Speaker 1: price of gas, but some guy just sent me, where
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  Speaker 1: was it? I just saw it. It was, it was
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  Speaker 1: at Sam's club. It was pretty low price. What did
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  Speaker 1: I do with that? Yeah, I mean, it wasn't bad. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it was below $ 4 a gallon. So there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird. I mean, some gas stations are way higher
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  Speaker 1: than others. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: any sense at all.
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  Speaker 2: I had to drive up to Cleveland to pick up
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  Speaker 2: one of my kids at the airport Sunday, and I
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  Speaker 2: filled up, I think in North Lyme, it was about $ 375, $ 385.
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  Speaker 2: Up in Cleveland, it was all over $ 4. So it
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  Speaker 2: just depends on where you're at a lot of times,
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  Speaker 2: I think, too. I think yesterday somebody said the gas
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  Speaker 2: in South Carolina was significantly cheaper, but their state gas
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  Speaker 2: tax is a lot less. You know, go across the
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  Speaker 2: line to Pennsylvania. They're, I think, the third highest state
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  Speaker 2: gas tax in the country. That's why, what's funny, if
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  Speaker 2: you go to that Sam's Club, count the number of
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  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania plates there sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can't blame them.
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania's outrageous. They average, I think, at least 25 to
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  Speaker 2: 50 cents a gallon more than what it is in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: I should go on GasBuddy and look that up, but
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  Speaker 2: it's substantially more. It's to the point where if I've
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  Speaker 2: got to travel the PA Pike or go down 79
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  Speaker 2: to West Virginia or something, I make sure I'm full
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  Speaker 2: before I go into Pennsylvania because the gas in Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 2: it's outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? I mean, it's just... Well, it is
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  Speaker 1: a high gas tax, to say the least. All right, Richard.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy your day.
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  Speaker 1: Rich, the pharmacist, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, how are you doing, Ron?
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  Speaker 1: I'm well.
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  Speaker 5: Rich, the pharmacist, should be on a school board. He
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  Speaker 5: should be either a trustee, a mayor, or a county commissioner.
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  Speaker 5: Are you retired now?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I agree with all three.
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  Speaker 5: Those are the kind of people we need, and he's
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  Speaker 5: correct about what's coming up now is... not the same
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  Speaker 5: as it was when we were working. And I think
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  Speaker 5: that's because of our educational system has dumbed down everybody.
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  Speaker 5: But I called about two quick things. The first thing
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  Speaker 5: was Michael Rooley, which I think they're making a big
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  Speaker 5: deal out of. And the second is Trump and the
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  Speaker 5: war and Operation Epic Fury.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now let's start with Michael Rooley.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Michael Rooley, that is, I just, went into researching
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  Speaker 5: it to see actually what he did and if it
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  Speaker 5: rose to the level of, say, a Paul Nancy Pelosi
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  Speaker 5: stock trade, which it didn't. I think the amount was
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  Speaker 5: like $ 22, 000 to $ 300, 000 in past stock trades, which is
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  Speaker 5: a drop in the bucket. It's nothing. It's chump change.
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  Speaker 5: And the companies he invested in, I think it was Pfizer, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta,
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  Speaker 5: microsoft invidia oracle and talent here and those were nothing
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  Speaker 5: out of the ordinary where you would need insider information
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  Speaker 5: to trade those companies it's uh... they're pretty straightforward you
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  Speaker 5: could you could trade those on your own without being
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  Speaker 5: a congressman i do it through options and make a
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  Speaker 5: lot of money but uh... i think he must have
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  Speaker 5: he must have upset somebody that they went after him uh...
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  Speaker 5: being a republican but uh... That's no big deal. What
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  Speaker 5: bothers me about Michael is the $ 10, 000 he took from AIPAC.
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  Speaker 5: That concerned me more than his stock trading.
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  Speaker 1: It says here, an Ohio congressman violated the Stock Act
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  Speaker 1: with 22 late disclosures. Representative Michael really failed to properly
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  Speaker 1: reveal trades in Pfizer and several tech giants. Let me
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  Speaker 1: see here.
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  Speaker 5: It's the ones I mentioned, which everyone has in-depth knowledge
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  Speaker 5: of all those companies, and they're in everybody's portfolio. The
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  Speaker 5: only one that might be raising a flag is Palantir,
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  Speaker 5: because they're defense, and they have immigration contracts with the government.
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  Speaker 5: But outside of that company, it was nothing really big.
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  Speaker 5: It's going after someone for that... A piddly amount. It
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  Speaker 5: reminded me of, I don't know if you remember, Leona
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  Speaker 5: Helmsley and Martha Stewart.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: They went after Leona Helmsley for $ 1. 2 million, and she
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  Speaker 5: avoided federal taxes. Okay, she was a widow. She was
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  Speaker 5: at the end of her life. When she was going
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  Speaker 5: to die, all of her money was going to a
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  Speaker 5: charitable trust fund, in which it did go to $ 8 billion.
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  Speaker 5: But the government still, for some reason, went after her.
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  Speaker 5: To make an example of her, they gave her 19
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  Speaker 5: months in jail at her elevated age. And they did
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  Speaker 5: the same thing to Martha Stewart for $ 45, 000. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: all the massive fraud that's going on, they go after
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  Speaker 5: these people for peanuts. And they put Martha Stewart in
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  Speaker 5: jail for five years.
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  Speaker 1: Stand by for a minute. Just stand by. NewsRadio 570,
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  Speaker 1: WKBN and Ron Furr, back with more. We're here tonight
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  Speaker 1: until we solve the world's problems. Mike Rowe here with
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  Speaker 1: a random. 70 WKBN. All right, I'm just trying to.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't think this Rooley thing is a big
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  Speaker 1: deal then, right?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a big nothing burger. I mean, it's peanuts.
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  Speaker 5: And like I said, he's probably doing a good job.
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  Speaker 5: That's why they went after him. Or he upset somebody.
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  Speaker 1: It says a freshman lawmaker, Rooley, is one of the
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  Speaker 1: wealthiest members of Ohio's congressional delegation, according to notice. capital
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  Speaker 1: gains project, which tracks wealth of federal lawmakers. Ruling Stock
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  Speaker 1: Act disclosure violation coincides with a Republican-backed effort in Congress
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  Speaker 1: to ban federal lawmakers from buying individual stocks at all.
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  Speaker 1: The Stop Insider Trading Act passed by the House in
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  Speaker 1: July and awaits consideration of Senate, ruling voted in favor
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  Speaker 1: of the bill. Dozens of federal lawmakers have failed to
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  Speaker 1: comply with the existing Stock Act, which Congress passed in 2012,
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  Speaker 1: governing its own members' behavior. Let's see.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: That's called the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act that
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: they just passed, and I guess they're just trying it
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: out on him, but it's going on forever.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm trying to get a read. So does
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: this mean he was doing this by himself on his own,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: doing these trades?
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Well, that's what he was accused of. He made 22
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: personal trades on those companies that I mentioned.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But did he do it, or did he have a broker?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Does he have somebody managing his money that's doing it?
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know that. That's up to him to tell
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: you that. I don't know if it's his personal account,
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: but it was only 22 trades, which is really nothing.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, I do that in... three days or four days,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: and it was on those stocks that I mentioned. But
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: he was late on his paperwork. That was the only thing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: It was the technicality. You have to file within so
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: many days of selling the stock or buying the stock,
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: and he was past that expiration date. So technically, that's
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: why they went after him. But I don't think it's nothing, really.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: All right, well.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: My biggest gripe with Rui is he doesn't come on
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: the show anymore. He used to come on every Friday and,
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: you know, talk to all the callers and take questions.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: He knows the number. He knows the number.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Other than that, I think, you know, he's probably a
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: pretty good congressman. And he was rich before he went
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: into Congress. So it's not like he went in poor
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: and came out rich. I don't know.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'd describe him as rich. I mean,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: he worked every day. I mean, I'm sure he's better
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: than a lot, but it wasn't like he was sitting
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: on a beach.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I mean, he's the owner of the Raleigh
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Grocery Shop.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Along with his family members. But that's, you know, no
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: big deal. And the other reason I called real quick is, boy,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: you had a lot of bloodthirsty callers on yesterday that
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: want to nuke Iran and let's finish it, let's kill
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: them all. Men, women, children, everyone. I go, I can't believe.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Hang on one second. It says the account type, the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: transactions were processed through a Merrill Lynch managed account. So
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: he wasn't even doing it. Somebody else is making those
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: decisions and managing his money. As most people, I think
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of people have, whether that's Rockport or Merrill
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Lynch or any of those companies.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: A broker.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: In other words, he's not sitting there doing it. They're
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: doing it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: And I think it's all overblown. But getting back to
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Operation Epic Fury.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: After hearing all of your bloodthirsty callers yesterday, one after another, boy,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I couldn't get over it. I said, these are all Christians,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: and they want everybody nuked and killed. And I said,
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: let me go back and research how in the heck
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: did Trump get into this war and So I used AI.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: I said, you know, why did we go to war?
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: What was the main reason we went? The official U.S.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Reason.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: And Rubio came out, and this is back in March 2026,
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: and claimed that we launched the preemptive strike because Israel
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: was going to attack. They let us know. They let
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Trump know they were going to attack Iran and Lebanon,
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: and they were having a... their strategic war plans. So
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Trump was drawn in. He said, if we didn't go in,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: we would have been drawn in because we're allies with
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Israel and they would have hit our bases. So that
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: was the reason for a couple of weeks. And then
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: it went from that to the weapons of mass destruction
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: and the nukes and everything else. And it's just, you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't call it Epic Fury anymore. I would call
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: it Operation Snafu or Operation Tarfu.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: A mess. I would call it a mess.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's what it is. Situation normal, all fouled up.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: And the other one that's not as polite as Tarfu.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Things are really blanked up. Now we're at a point
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: where we probably can't get out. I don't see how
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: this is going to end. And then after hearing all
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the callers nuke them, I'm thinking, you know, that's probably
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: what it's going to come to, is we're going to
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: have to nuke them.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I certainly hope that isn't the case. I want
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to finish my thoughts with him and get to more
• 22:45
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• 23:59
  Speaker 1: just cut into the chase, though. The bottom line is, obviously,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you think this whole situation is a mess. You don't
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: see a way out of it. Correct? No.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: No, and I'm surprised that the market is just ignoring it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: So evidently, it's like, really, it's not a big deal
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: to the market. And I was going to tell you,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: you asked a while back, and I said I wasn't
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: going to talk about stocks. You were asking about SpaceX.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Do you think I should just buy it and hold
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: it forever? I watched an hour interview today with Ron Barron,
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: the old billionaire that runs the Barron Fund. And he's
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: got a personal relationship with Elon Musk. He's invested in
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Tesla from way back in SpaceX. He is so bullish
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: on SpaceX. He said that's the one company you want
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: to own, not so much for rockets, but it's for AI, robotics, telecommunications, Starlink,
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: and everything else. And... That's a company that I bought
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: it through put options. It went down when it hit
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: the low. They exercised the options, so I was obligated
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: to buy it. So now I bought it like four
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: weeks ago. And then I turned around and wrote call
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: options on it. So now, because it's going up so much,
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: I'm going to have to sell probably half my position.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: But I'll buy that back through put options again.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: So you think for a long-term investment, you like it?
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: That is the one stock. My biggest stock is NVIDIA
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: and then Apple. I'd love to make SpaceX number three
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: or four because after hearing that, if you can watch
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: it on YouTube, it's Ron Barron on YouTube on SpaceX.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: He gives all his reasons why he likes it. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: real quick, back to Rich and the coding errors. Yes.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: I have Medical Mutual. That happens to me all the time.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I used to have Anthem, and it was a common occurrence.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: And I'd always wait until I got the statement to
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: see what my responsibility was, because it was always a
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: coding error. And if it was a coding error, the
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: insurance company would call the physician or the hospital, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: they would work it out for you. You weren't responsible
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: for it. But that's just due to whoever works in
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: the office coding it. I don't think it's intentional fraud,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: but To end my call real quick, if you want
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: to have an upbeat video of the day, go to
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: YouTube and watch a music video called Sad Little Man
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: on Fauci. It was put out four years ago, but
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: now with his phone being exposed and all of his
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: lies being exposed, this video is popular again in music video.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: It is hilarious. You have to watch it. And real
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: quick with Fauci, I was listening to Dan Patrick's show today.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: They had Cam Newton on talking about COVID and the
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: vaccination cards. And he said half of the players in
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: the NFL had fake vaccination cards that they would purchase
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: from nurses that were selling the forged documents and making
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: a fortune. But he said all of the players had
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: phony cards, the owners, the coaches. COVID was a big scam.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: And the only people that I feel sorry for, like
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I said yesterday or Monday, were all the pregnant ladies
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: that they forced a shot on and had miscarriages. And
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: no one's been held accountable on that.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: All right. I'll watch that, Ron Barron. I appreciate it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Okay, Ron Barron, and watch that little man.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, Ron.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you. You're on the air.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Hello, Ron. I called in yesterday about the Gulf states.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: They think Iran's in control of the strait. Yes. Yeah,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: and they don't even want to go back to war.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Got an article today giving an example of this. Panic
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: in Dubai. Thousands fleeing airport fearing Iran attack. Thousands of
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: people in Dubai are fleeing to the city's major airport
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: trying to get the first flight out to anywhere. Dubai
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: airport punching the chaos. Thousands of travelers accompanied by their
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: families rushed to leave the city amid growing fears, potential
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: drone attacks by Iran. Every time we bomb Iran, they
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: bomb one of our allies, and they're getting fed up
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: with it. That's United Arab Emirates. Dubai is one of
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: the bigger cities.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Isn't that like one of the big vacation spots for
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of people these days? I mean, it's a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: very wealthy area, and... I mean, it's really something they
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: say if you're over there. So you're saying that people
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: are trying to get out of there?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. They fear another war is coming soon. Wow. You know, escalation,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: which could be true.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: But they think Iran's in control of the strait, most
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: of the Gulf states, according to the Wall Street Journal.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: What do you make of this situation?
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: It's a mess. We should have never started it. And
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: I agree with the last caller, but we shouldn't be
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: nuking me.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid that's coming. The first person that uses a
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: nuclear weapon is... I mean, I think everybody understood when
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: we did this to end... We were attacked and to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: end World War II and to save American lives in
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a situation that involved a war. We were... This idea
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that Israel or the United States or somebody should be
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: nuking someone is just a troubling, it's just a very
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: troubling thought, let me put it that way, that people
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: would say, well, there's the answer, let's just nuke it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: And that changes everything if you want to start going
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: down that road. Plenty of people got nuclear weapons. They
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: usually have them as a deterrent not to use them.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: There's a trio of events taking place today. I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: know if you heard this. It's so rare. It's never happened.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: They say it'll never happen again. The total solar eclipse
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: is supposed to happen around 1130. I don't know what
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: happened to it. Six planets aligning, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: and Neptune, all in alignment. And then in the evening,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: a first-side meteor shower. Those three events have never happened.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: And they say it's so rare it'll probably never happen again.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: It's happening today, August 12th.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I was unaware of that. You weren't aware of that? Yeah,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear any of that. I'm more intrigued by
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: what you're saying about Dubai, that a lot of people
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: are leaving Dubai fearful that this could escalate.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're worried about drone missiles and a lot of drones.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: They've been attacked before already. They hit our bases, you know.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You don't see an end in sight then, do you?
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I don't see a good end. I think it might
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: be going. I hope not.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I certainly hope not. Certainly hope not, but he definitely
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: started a mess. He definitely started a mess because the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: straight was open and we weren't having any of these
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: problems before he started this situation. And now, I agree
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: with you, it doesn't seem like there's a good end
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in sight.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: It might cause famines. 37% of the world's fertilizer goes
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: through there. It stays closed. It You might see that
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: book Revelation open up.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're already saying it's going to create issues as
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: far as the food supply. I believe they're talking, what,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: next year or this year? I think more next year,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: if you will, because of the lack of fertilizer. Perhaps
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: it was this year. I was reading that as well.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: It's not just fertilizer. It's other chemicals, too, that are
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: hard to get right now, too, for a lot of..
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: It's called the global financial collapse. Yeah. If it don't
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: get solved soon.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: As I said yesterday, there is an oil shortage that's
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: going on in countries.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Every day.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: People don't understand. When you take 20, 30 million barrels
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: a day out of the oil situation because of the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: strait situation, when you take that much out, you've got
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a big problem. You have a major problem. We've been
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: depleting our strategic oil supply. China's been depleting theirs. Well,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: so it's kind of made the prices look artificial, if
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you will, because that's exactly what they are. And what
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: happens when you say, okay, we can't draw down anymore?
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Now what do you do? And like I said yesterday,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: these oil experts are saying you're getting closer and closer
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to that each and every day. They've been talking about
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: August being a bad time for the oil situation.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: They're talking about the next, you know, three or four weeks, too.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, down, you know, way down the road.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Right, right.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Amen. Time's coming.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Hey, appreciate your call. Thanks for your input.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: That's an interesting guy. That guy doesn't call that often,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: but when he calls, he always has some interesting stuff
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that he's been reading. You're on the air. Hello? Line one? Well,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I don't understand that. You're on the air.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: I said a prayer today for the Guardians. They're way down, Ron.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Well, you better say..
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I better... You better do the rosary.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: How could in August... Because it's almost like a trend. Yeah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I told you, year after year, I mean, they seem
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to be doing excellent before the All-Star break, and there's
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: something about the All-Star break. It seems to go all downhill.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, if I had to say there's a pattern...
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: To me, there seems to be a pattern here.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: And it's very troubling. I mean, I don't get how
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: you can have a decent first half of the season
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and then it goes in this direction. I still listen.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I still find it painful.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: But I still listen and I hope for the best.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Let's put it that way.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm going to watch if it's on CBS.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: I want to see.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I think the Browns are on TV. Saturday night, I'm
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: going to watch them and see how they look.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Not even thinking about football yet. Not even thinking about it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even though it's not that far away. Appreciate your calling.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Well, have a good day. Bye-bye.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Dick from Dayton. Really not that far away from
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: high school football. Not that far away from YSU football.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: And not that far away from the Canfield Fair. How
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: about that? Not that far away from that. You know
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: what I did over the weekends? You want to know
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: what I did over the weekends? I went to the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Medina County fair. That's where I, that's where I grew
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: up as a kid and all that kind of stuff.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: It's in my mother's backyard basically. And I went to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the Medina County fair and, uh, had a good time,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I just, uh, I felt I needed a
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: fair experience. So I went to the Medina County fair and, uh,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Walked around and enjoyed it. Looking forward to the Canfield
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Fair as well. NewsRadio 570 WKBN, you're on the air.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Ronald.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: It's Ted the C.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: I had to take a break from cutting grass to
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: call you.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you did. Go ahead.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Who is the biggest threat to America?
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Many people say Fort Lauderdale Frank.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: This is a big picture.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: What have I told you? This is a quiz. I
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: have one question. Is it pass or fail? If you
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: fail it, you've got to go back.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You say the Democrats are.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: The Democrats.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: The Democrats. So guess what? If we keep looking in
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: the rearview mirror at the decisions Trump's made, we're going
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: to get run over by the DSA train that's coming
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: down the track. Now, one of the things I've learned
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: in life is you have to learn to accept things.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: You don't have to like them, but you can't change them,
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: so you better accept them and move on and keep
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: living life, or that train coming down the tracks is
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: going to run you over again.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be honest. You may not like to
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: hear this. I don't mean to offend anyone, but it's
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: getting really old every day hearing a bunch of grown
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: men cry about a war that Trump started. We can't
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: change it. We are at war. We don't have to
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: agree with it. I wish him the best. I hope
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: he succeeds. But guess what? Trump's in my rearview mirror. OK,
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: I'm looking to the next election. And if you guys,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: meaning everyone listening right now, don't start doing the same thing,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: then we're going to fall victim to history.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Well, wait a minute. When you say you're looking to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the next election, do you mean the midterms?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Midterms, local elections, biggest elections of our lifetime. Every election
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: is bigger than the last. You've got a governor's race.
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, so when you're looking to, let's just say the midterms. Okay.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Like I say to people, listen, make no mistake, I
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: would never vote for Sherrod Brown. I just want to
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: make this perfectly clear. I would never vote for Sherrod Brown, period.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, and I laugh when I see these commercials
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: when he says, if I get elected, I'm going to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: do this. And I'd say, you were there for 30 years.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: You were there forever. All of a sudden, now you're
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: running and you're telling me all this stuff that you're
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: going to do. Sherrod Brown backed every wacky-ass social agenda
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: thing of the Biden administration. He's a flaming far-left wacko.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: And there's no way, I'll say it again, that I
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: want to go back to men can have babies. We
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: can't define a woman. We're going to teach transgenderism stuff
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: in school. We're going to hire based on color and sexuality,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: not on competence. There's no way I can ever go
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: back to the Democrat social agenda. It is just... Everybody's
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: a racist. I cannot go back to that at all.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: And I can't go back to the Democrat economics either.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: So make no mistake, I will vote for it.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not making a mistake with you.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: A Republican, but you're right.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I see a big fear.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: I have a big fear. The biggest driving factor, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: you could look at history, you could look at data,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: it will all tell you the same thing. The biggest
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: driver of election results is motivation. The motivation to come
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: out and vote for your candidate.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: So we're sitting around crying every day, five days a week,
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: about war. And the stock market's up today. The stock
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: market's down today. Gas is up a quarter. Gas is
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: down a quarter.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: We're looking in the rearview mirror. while these folks are
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: mounting an army to just run us over, literally run
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: us over, and turn us into a communist socialist country.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: You know, I hear guys, you know, Tucker Carlson. He's
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: another blip on the radar. Why people are falling in
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: love with this guy, I have no clue, because all
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: he's doing is cookbait, making money off of you, capitalist society.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Only 6%. I just looked at some data. His listener vote,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: his listener base makes up 6% of the voting population.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: So if you start going down this rabbit hole of, no,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to be a Republican anymore. I'm going
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: to vote. I'm going to join this third party and
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: vote for this guy. Well, guess what? You go ahead
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: and do that because you doing that is a vote
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: for the Democrat. OK, people got to get their heads
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: out of their arses, as you would say. I'm getting
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: irritated hearing this stuff. If we don't start focusing on
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: all this stuff, we're going to be in big trouble.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Big trouble.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Governor's race, county commissioner's race, midterms, House of Representatives, Senate.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: All these things are on a teeter totter and they
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: can either go up or down. And there's only a
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: few things that are going to weigh them one way
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: or the other. So if we keep crying about spilled milk, well,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: we're in big trouble.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Big, big trouble.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: What did you make? Well, don't you look at some
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: of these wacky-ass Democrats. And I mean wacky-ass Democrats.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: There's just as many wacky-ass Republicans, excuse my language.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about standby, Ted the Conservative, who paused
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  Speaker 1: his day.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: I'm in a board today.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Who paused his day. from his grueling man-like labor today
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: to speak with us. Back with Ted in a minute.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Give your home an energy.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: ABN.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Ron Firm, News Radio 570, Dodie Cary, N355 here in
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the afternoon. So, Ted, the conservative, you take a look, though,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: just into these Democrat candidates that are far left. I mean,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: just let me bounce this off you. Can you even
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: imagine the discussion about AOC running for president?
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's going to happen.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I know, but do you see her as some great
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: intellect to really..
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: No, not at all.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Not at all.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: But guess what?
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: While you and I are crying about the price of gas,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: these people are building an army to storm the walls
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: of the city. And, you know... Elections are about emotions,
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: and people aren't motivated right now on our side.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to back up on that. I think
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: we've got too many low-information voters anymore. The fact that— Well, yeah, I.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: Don't—of course, that's why— you' re 100% right. That's why we even
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: have to refocus even more instead of crying about spilled milk.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Because guess what? Motivation fuels election results. And as long
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: as we keep crying, we're going to be discouraging our
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: people to come fight for it. Well, the enemy is
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: building this monster machine. And if people think I'm wrong,
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: good luck. I feel sorry for you. I've been around
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: this for a long time, you and I both. And,
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: you know, what do you always say? Wars are won, what,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: fighting on empty bellies, right? And the other side's belly
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: is empty. And, yes, we've had Trump in office for
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: two years. Yes, we've had the House and the Senate.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: We've not gotten things done you and I want. So
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: that means we have to work harder to push our
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: message across, not cry about it. And that means electing
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: the right candidates. You know, I'll start off with..
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, so when you see the, I don't know if
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: you believe the polls or not, where they say Amy
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Acton's leading Vivek a little bit or it's neck and neck, what.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Are your thoughts? I believe it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: I believe it. Because my team's over here crying about
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: the touchdown the other team just scored and said they're
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: ready to get their arses back on the field to
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: score one for themselves. You know, we're letting our feelings
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: get in the way of our facts. And I believe
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Amy Atkinson can win. I mean, no disrespect to anyone.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: We'll use the HB-1 visa, for example. A lot of
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: people I've heard say, well, I'm not voting for him
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: because he supports the HB-1 visa. What do you think? Okay,
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: he supports it. I'm not saying I agree with it.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: I think it should be abolished. I think it's criminal.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: But guess what?
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: That's not going to happen. So would you rather have
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: a guy like Vivek in there, or would you rather
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: have a globalist like Amy Atkin, who will not only
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: open up the HB1 visas, but to the, you know,
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: pull the strings off them, she'll open the floodgates up
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: on the border again. These are the people that let
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: your country get destroyed four years ago, for the last
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: four years, who drove inflation to where it is.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Stand by. Ted the Conservative on the warpath. I'll finish
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: my conversation with him after the break at four. Call
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: us on the line. Stand by. Ron, for more to come.