The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Tuesday, 08/04/26

Now, Ron Verb on News Radio 570, WKVN. Testing, 1, 2, 3, hey, everything still works on a Tuesday afternoon. And good afternoon, Ron Verb, News Radio 570, WKBN, after a couple days off, off Friday and Monday. And back in a saddle again. Here on a Tuesday, it's already August, August 4th already. What is it, 88 degrees? Pleasant day out there today. 88 degrees, August 4th, Tuesday, Ron Verb News Radio 570W, QIN. Pleasure to be with you here this afternoon. Have they changed the phone numbers? No, they still remain the same. 330-99-77-3-3-30-7-29-99-79-79-79-79-77. 729.9977. We'll get you through to us here on News Radio 570WKUN and we can conversate. Would you like to conversate? I understand this is a first time caller on the end of my line. Hello. Ronald. Oh, first-time caller, yes. First-time caller. Long-time listener. Do I get a bell? Wait a minute. You know, normally, yes, but sometimes a cleaning lady moves it's here in the studio, and I can never find it. Oh, first-time caller, a long-time listener. I'll call you Ted the conservative. How's that sounds? Okay. That sounds pretty good. That sounds pretty good. I know it's probably hard for you getting readjusted there today. You've been gone, and I don't think you realize the effect that has on our lives. I mean, it's total disruption when you're not on here. I tell you, total disruption. Okay. I'll go with that. No, it was nice. I mean, I was driving home from New Jersey Friday. I put the radio one thinking, okay, well, I'm going to get three hours out of Ron, and it'll get me halfway home. Next thing I know, Sean Hannity comes on. I'm like, oh, no. What are we going to do? And then yesterday we were left with the big void. Yes. And there wasn't baseball one, so I had to make do. It was difficult. I'm sure others are struggling, you know, having the same struggle. So we're glad to have you back. It's the heat of election season now. We're 90 days away probably. What do you think? I don't know, 90 days, give or take. Yeah, I think so, August, September, October, November. And, you know, I remember a time when local politics were a big issue on WKBN Radio. We sometimes get distracted with the noise coming out of Columbus. So I'll take this quick minute. You know, it is election season. And you know what they say? All politics are local. Local constituents tend to care more about the things that affect them directly. What is that? Property taxes, police, fire, schools, communities, right? Those are all the things that matter? Yes. And not only that, but voting for people who think we know best, the voter, not that they know best how to spend our money. Yes. And it just so happens tonight that Christine Oliver.

Republican candidate for Mahoning County Commissioner is going to have a meet and greet at the Republican headquarters at 630. It's not a fundraiser. You don't have to worry about going there and giving him your money. But you can show up. You can meet them. You can talk to the candidate, you know. Maybe G2, if he's in the area, would stop by. Maybe we can get Rich out there since Rich was really misinformed on the last primary. He voted for the guy that wanted to race taxes. He voted for the guy that thought he knew best how to spend rich his money. Yes, yes. That was a surprise to me. Yes. I know JJ's turned a little. Maybe he can come out and meet Christine tonight. JJ the Trumpster, yeah, now that he's switched from JJ the liberal. Yeah, and he's famous. I saw him on TV. He's famous. I don't know if JJ knows that. That was not him. I'm telling you, I've done, that was not him. That was not him. No. Okay. It sounded like him. It sounded like winning with food stock. No, no, no. I can tell you, I can, I visually can identify JJ. JJ, the Trumpster formally. That guy was too big to be JJ, huh? Yeah, JJ's more like. Yeah, JJ the liberal. Let's see, JJ the Trumpster formerly known as JJ the liberal. Yeah, he's like Prince. I got to do the whole name. Okay. Okay, well, you know, he's turning a new leaf. I'm sure he's real happy today with things that are going on in the world. I don't know. Probably not. Yeah, but how come I just went by my gas station and it's either 415 or 420? I got sticker shock. Boy, oh, boy. I got to get you off of that subject. That's my goal. I can't. You're looking at that glass like it's half. But when I stop at the light here as I come to the studio, South Avenue and 24, there's the gas station. And of course, you know, it's a long light. So I look at the price. So I can tell you, I think it's 415, the price, but I've seen it at other gas stations at 420 as I'm driving here into our Boardman studios. And I just shake my head, and I say, okay, that's not good. I'm not happy about that. Well, I agree. But sometimes, you know, we have to do things, and there's a price tag associated with that. I wasn't going to go into that today, but I'll inform you of some things I learned over the last week. when you're raw. Yes. I didn't want to talk about local issues because I think that's important. We'll start with the local issues because I think there are many important local issues and candidates that are coming up. And as I say, I'm not a very optimistic guy on a lot of local stuff because we have got to get away from this. I've said it before I left. I said, can you imagine living in Canfield? If you're living in Canfield, once again, and you're facing this monumental school levy and the MRD levy. I mean, if both of them significant levies, if one passes, it sucks. If both of them pass, it really sucks. If you're in Canfield. I mean, if both of those would pass, what a burden it would put on, the taxpayers, certainly in Canfield. Two huge levies, in addition to the reappraisals.

I mean, and I feel like I'm on. How many boards have voted not to take these increases at which has been taught? I don't know. We'll have to check with him. But I look at this and I say to myself, do you think? any of these people know the damage that they're doing. And my answer, I answer my own questions. I don't know if you notice, but a lot of times I talk to myself. Is that a problem? So when I say to my... No, I do the same thing. I think it's something that married men have to do in order to maintain our sanity. Yes. You know, you can only be told no so many times, right? You can only told... You don't be told, hey, Einstein, so many times. You just finally stop talking to them, and you just talk to yourself, and everything looks down there. And I just say, you're always right. Do I think that any of these local political figures get it? My answer is no. I don't think they get it. Now, I'm going to try, I'm going to get on the program, not today. I'll just tip my hands here because, where is it? So many people. Tipping his cards. I'm tipping my cards. I mean, uh, You come back in a good mood. You get some rest and you come back and you're re-energate, you're re-energized. Well, that's right. I was visiting my daughter in Florida, so it was very nice. Oh, it went down to Florida. Yes, I was in a sun. I was in a sunshine state. I said, are you, are you, are you Ron DeSantis? I kept walking around. Hey, you should have called them and told them, you know, you could have, you could have did a bit for the studio, for the program. You could have recorded them. Yeah, I think I'm going to get on. Let me see here. I'm going to get this Plushnik on because Lake County Commissioner wants to... retire property taxes for seniors. I want to talk to him about that. I want to see what he has to say. Not going to be today, but I've got to get him back on the air. Listen, I don't think it's ridiculous. What's happening when you talk local politics? What's happening in this area with the reevaluations and with those two levies if you live in Canfield? I mean, I'd to say this. I feel sorry for you folks in Canfield if one or both of those levies pass. Yet it will significantly alter your lifestyle because you can't have those two levies pass and the reevaluations and not notice it in your household income. It is absolute insanity. But that's me. What local issues would you like to discuss? Well, there's so many things. I agree with you on everything. But like you said, it's so important for the voter to be educated. And I'll stick with Christine. We got a candidate here. running as a Democrat who thinks that she you should never have any of your money to spend right she knows best how to spend it and she I mean she along with your great township trustee over there in Austin town went and cried in front of the uh

county commissioners when they decided to give the people some of their money back. So we've got a candidate in Christine Oliver who thinks you know best how to spend your money. She wants to reduce your taxes. And then we got this other woman over here who's become a life who wants to make a career out of politics. She wants to make a career out of spending your money and taking your money because, you know, there's never enough. Well, she's a Democrat. She thinks she's a Democrat. She thinks everybody's problems are your problems as opposed to, you know, don't make your problems, my problems. Exactly. So, little pivot. Yes. There's so much we have to talk about. Little pivot. Last week you've been crying for the last two weeks. Maybe I'll focus on last week. You and Frank had a little pity party about the stock market, the price of oil going up. I'm wondering what you think of the stock market today and the price of oil coming down. Uh, I have, I'm going to tell you. When it's, when it's good, you're quiet. So we need to change that. We need you to champion the market when it's good. Well, listen, I've got to be straightforward with you. You understand that. I mean, I always do. If you are wrong, I understand that. Right. As a matter of fact, I want to read something to you. And then I'll be straightforward with you. Because the market is on fire today. And I'm sure Frank will call and tell us there's a, you know, it's just a cloud. It's just a mirage. But Frank Sin guy that told us when the market was down 1%, not even 1%, half percent that it was crashed. So I'm not sure what Frank will make out of it. I haven't read. I haven't read the article yet, but I'm just going to read you the email I received from someone. America, it's Wall Street Journal. America is great at creating stock market bubbles and then shrugging them off. And the guy who emailed it to me said, the last paragraph in this excellent article is what we need to worry about since it could easily be a catalyst for the next Great Depression. So much money is being borrowed to finance AI that if AI story doesn't work out perfectly and a pullback in those stocks happens, you are going to see a major market losses. Investments financed by large sums of borrowed money have never ended well. Railroads in the 1880s, entire decade of the 1920s, as Americans bought piles of stock on margin. dot-com bubble of 2000 and the 2008 housing crisis all billed on borrowed money. Problem now is that $40 trillion national debt leaves federal governments with almost no financial dry powder available to buy the country out of the next big downturn. I honestly think the world is in for a great financial shock, and it scares a hell out of me at my age. I'm not going to tell you who emailed that to me, but it was emailed to me. And you asked me about the stock markets.

and about oil prices. And listen, I wish, I hope I'm wrong, and I hope your optimism is correct. I start with that. I am not optimistic when I look at the, when I look at the fundamentals of the economy as a whole. And I say that because just hear me out. I'm a broken record. Inflation is tremendous out there. The cost of homes, the cost of buying an automobile or a car, truck, SUV, or leasing. the cost of rent, the cost of insurance, food, any type of repair you need. I don't care if it's any type of repair, car repair, furnace repair, roof repair. Anything that you look at, anywhere you go, you see double-digit inflation. So when you brag about the economy, I start with that. I don't believe anybody's income has kept up with the inflation that's out there. As a matter of fact, I just saw yesterday, Do you know how many foreclosure? Now, how many people are laid on property taxes in the state of Ohio? 500 and 70,000 people. What percentage does that represent? I'm not sure, but the number is way up. And it's interesting that it continues to go up as the re-evaluations continue to happen. That's 570,000 people. And I'm trying to get it broken down by county by county, just so you can do it. Like, I think in Franklin County, it was 50 something, it was 53,000. It's huge numbers. So property taxes have gone way up. So you're asking me this, and I go back to say, people only got so much money. Here's how much money you make. And, I mean, it's real simple. Here's how much you make. Everything costs more. You either buy less or you go in debt. So you ask me these questions. And so I take a look at stuff. People are starting to tap into their 401ks. We see credit card debts increase. We're seeing credit card defaults increase. Foreclosures increase. Property tax delinquencies that are taking place. So energy prices continue to go up. And also, the futures market means very little to me. Because as I've learned from these oil experts, I don't know how to say that. It's almost a BS number because they say, well, you wait and see if you can buy oil at that price. Because I'll go with what they're telling me that the oil situation is still a mess today. and continues to be a mess as far as shortages are concerns. Because we tap the reserves, real shortages. And that's why you're seeing 420 a gallon as we get into August, and they're saying this could get worse as time goes on, depending what happens in Iran. And even if that situation gets settled, more than likely it won't be like it used to be. So it's going to create... It's going to create issues. So I'm not optimistic about anything economically speaking. I don't think there's any good economic signs right now. And the market is the swings are too extreme. They're way up and they're way down. And they're driven by where tariffs are on, tariffs are off. War is on, war is off. Well, war could be back on. And I think there's a lot of people making a lot of money off of that.

So I'm not optimistic about it. I don't think there's anything optimistic out there economically speaking. Now, it's your turn after the break. Yeah, you decipher that. But, I mean, you just kind of think of that. And I think that that applies to a huge number of people. It's not just the lower class or the low middle class. I think it applies to a lot of people. Back with his response and more of your calls. Straight ahead. Well, I've told you many times, not all 70 WKBN. Back to it, News Radio 570, WKBN. All right, your thoughts to have the conservative. My response. Well, first time caller I have listened for a long time. So without debating you, I would just simply say that you have given, you've laid out the perfect explanation as to why you don't vote for a Democrat. I'm not saying, but I'm not saying that. I'm saying factually, look numbers, go back for the last eight years, if you want. There's one president that's responsible for where we're at today. And those effects, when inflation got to 9%, I felt like I was one of the only people screaming from the rooftops. All of my liberal friends told me, oh, it's transitory, it's no big deal, it won't have an effect on anything. I said, you guys are nuts. I said, it's common sense. This is going to wreck the economy for the next 20 years. And that's what we're seeing happen. It's not because of Donald Trump's policies. Now, CPI is up because we're at war. You could debate the war. You don't have to like the war, but we are at war. You know the old saying you are where your feet are? We are at war, okay? So you look at core inflation. Core inflation is not bad. G2 tried explaining last week, and you didn't want to hear it. So I'm not going to try to explain it because I don't want you yelling at me. You got pretty aggressive with G2, and I don't want to ruin your day first day back from Florida. I want you to be happy. Don't believe me. I'm happy. But here's the problem. You can't sit there. We can't undo what happened. I understand it. But we're adding on top of it. The problem is you're falling in the same category that's... No, I'm not. I'm not saying everything's perfect. No, but you're falling into denial. I'm simply saying... Just hear me for one second. You're falling into denial like the Democrats when they didn't understand why everybody didn't think everything was great when it was horrible with Joe Biden. They didn't get it. They just were in this bubble. And I don't want to see you falling into that same bubble because the reality is things are continuing to go up on top of that. I mean, I would just say to you, think of how much. I would never fall into that bubble. All right. But that is solely as a result of Trump and this war with Iran. And I go back to say, look at how things were before it. All right. Okay. I'm not saying, Warren, I'm not saying any of those things you said. I agree. We're in hard times. People are struggling. It's expensive to live. Don't disagree with any of that.

But what I'm saying is, you have, look at history. If you don't know the history of anything, you're in big trouble. You don't know how you got to where you are today. You're going to make the same mistakes you made 10, 12, 20 years ago. Right. I get that. People are attacking the Jew. They've been under persecution since the Romans came in and pushed them out of Jerusalem, you know. 2,000 years ago. So if you don't know the history of the Jews, you can't understand what's happening in Israel today. You can't comprehend Palestine because you're just too dumb, to be honest with you. And it translates to the economy. If you don't know how you got where you are today, you're just a dumb person. I'm not saying a great economy is great, but if you don't know how you got to where you are, you are in big trouble because you will repeat the same mistakes that got you where you are. And we're hearing that, and I'm seeing that with so many. uneducated, dumb people, to be very point blank and honestly, you know, they want to go back to electing the people who created the policies that got us here. It wasn't Donald Trump that got us here. It was a Democrat. Donald Trump's inflation was really well up until he went to war. And we've seen a price in fuel increase that's affected CPI. But core inflation, there's good numbers out there. You just don't want to admit it. And that's okay because you're looking at the glass half empty. I got it. I'm looking at it half full. We're looking at it through two different lengths. All I'm trying to say is if you don't know how you've got to where you are, you're in big trouble because you're going to make the same mistakes. And I'll give you a shovel. Dig the whole deeper. That's basically what you're doing. You know, you talk a lot about this war. What do you think of Senator John Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from Louisiana? Let me ask you that question first. I think he's comical. Comical. Do you think he's educated? Do you think he's honest? Do you think he's a smart guy? I think he's a law professor. I think he's all of those things. Okay. So let me inform you and your listeners a little about something because you guys keep thinking. Trump's in this war because of Benjamin Netanyahu. And that's ridiculous, number one. And number two, the people that like to talk about the Zionists don't know the struggles of the Jewish people. Okay. Go back 2,000 years. But anyway, John, I listened to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talk while I was driving home from New Jersey last week. Prior to the war, there was a meeting in the skiff. You know what the skiff is, right? Underneath the Senate. Stand by wrap it up with Ted after the break and take more of your calls. News Radio 570, WKVN. The man from the Cincinnati suburb of Delhi Township is facing charges in Butler County for sex crimes against children. Kendrick Daniels is being charged on eight counts of rape. No other details have been made available so far. Police in Stark County are still looking for a teenager that's been missing since Friday and is without his medication.

Hilsendale's village police say 17-year-old Cameron Kaiser's car was found abandoned in Akron. Kaiser is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 178 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is asked to contact police. The Cleveland Guardians and the Cincinnati Reds were trading partners yesterday ahead of the MLB trade deadline. Cincinnati picked up pitcher Alejandro Rivera and infieler Juan Brito from Cleveland, and the Guardians acquired first baseman Nathaniel Lowe. I'm Andy Betts. Listen on the free iHeartRadio app for all your music, news, talk, and sports radio. Podcast to do. Download the app. Free never sounded so good. A to Z dependable service. On verb. On News Radio 570, WKBN. All right. Okay, real quick. And before you get, before you hang up on me, let me get this out real quick, that I want JJ to show up at 6.30 at the Republican headquarters to meet him, and I want him to meet Christine Oliver. So at 6.30, I'll be looking for JJ. Now, Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I'll make this real quick because I'm sure you've got a lot of calls. He was asked, basically, do you support this war and why? Okay? He said, yes. He says, I can share some information with you, some of it's classified. Had a meeting in the SCIF before all this started. So Senate was informed, even though the Democrats will tell you they weren't. They were given and shown intelligence by the top military brass, top officers of the CIA, and many other people. And basically what was about to happen was... Iran was getting ready to make a statement to the world that they were beginning, they were going to begin back with their nuclear program to weaponize these missiles, and that even though they said they didn't, we're going to admit we lied to you. We have missiles that could hit France, Poland, Germany, and the UK. And if anyone tries to get in our way, we will shoot these ballistic missiles at you. So it's based on that intelligence that they were that close to make this announcement that we stepped in and did what we did and started taking out all these missile batteries. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said if we did not do this, that's where things would have been. And that was a decision that had to be made. And that's why they did it. Now, remember, this is the same Iranian people that told you there was no nuclear program. They didn't have missiles that could reach anywhere. But what happened as soon as we start bombing them? They did send missiles to Europe. One of them reached somewhere, didn't it? So sometimes we may not like things, but oftentimes we don't know half the stuff they know. And we sit back as Monday morning quarterback, eating popcorn, and we have this vision as how the world should look. But that's just not reality. You know, we've been at war since this world was created, and we're going to probably be at war until you and I die. Different factions, different people, different countries. You know, without paraphrasing him, that's the long and short of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. And some of it was classified. He couldn't disclose. So there's a reason we went there. It wasn't because of Benjamin Netanyahu. I'm saddened because if anyone knows the history of the Jewish people, I'm sad that now the Americans are becoming the next country to turn on them. And I'm not saying that clearly from a military standpoint.

But there's so much Jewish hate. It's ridiculous. It started with the Romans, the Russians, the Germans. It was the Arab nations. Now it's the Americans. I mean, these people have been persecuted their whole lives. And if people don't know the history of the Jewish people, I suggest that they do some reading because it goes back to the Romans 2,000 years ago. They've been on the run ever since. You know, but that's it. Welcome back. How's that? All right. Thank you, Ted, the conservative. You got it. All right. Maybe I'll see you at 6.30, huh? I don't hold your breath. All right, thanks. You're on the air. They did do some reading, Ted. It's just a sad thing that they were reading Mind Calm. So, yeah, and this has been going on for a little while here, Ron, and I think Ted, I think myself, are just trying to, I don't know, pump the brakes there, wildfire. I calm down a little bit, Ron, because it's hard to say on... Tuesday, oh, listen, Ron, the stock market went down 500. Well, then on Wednesday, it goes up 500. It's the same thing. And I understand what you're saying. It doesn't look good for long-term forecasts. But guess what? You said nobody's making money right now? I didn't say that. What did you say about it? I'll let you use your words. Listen, everybody's entitled to their own opinion. I'm saying that from my standard, once again, not to be a broken record, the economy is not in a good spot. Okay, and I'll go through it again. I understand Joe Biden created a lot of this inflation with his policies. Let me back up on that. COVID also caused this. COVID created a lot of this problem with the supply shortages that took place during COVID. If you want to get realistic on this stuff and everybody wants to get into it, I'd be more than happy to get into it. We had COVID. COVID created shortages because things were shut down and things weren't being produced. Government policy created a part of the problem because they stimulated the economy with all this money that was going out there. So employers didn't have to pay their employees. They were giving them money for that. You had the people getting these checks. So what did the government do? They created demand when things weren't being produced. So if you have big demand and a shortage, prices go up. because of supply and demand. It's as simple as that. So COVID created some of this inflation. Then you go on to it with the additional government policies that added to it under Biden. That's why you saw double digit inflation. I mean, to get into the specifics of this with people, that's why you saw double digit inflation at that time under COVID started under Trump.

And some of these policies were under Trump the first term. Biden continued them under his term and made it worse by the decisions that he made. And then when Trump took office, inflation was coming down. Gas prices were down. The economy was going in a good direction. Supply chain issues were being dealt with. So things were going in the right direction. Then along comes this war. and creates a huge issue with oil and energy supply issues. And they are a mess right now. I don't care how much you love Trump or whatever. It is an absolute mess. And it's going to continue to be a mess. This is solely on him. This was his decision. And the economy did a 180 inflation ward back on top of what we had. Additional inflation came back and we're facing serious issues with a shortage of oil. We've depleted our reserves. China's depleting their reserves. People don't understand this. So there's a shortage of oil. And even if you open this straight up tomorrow, the problem's going to persist for quite some time to get everything back in line. And do you think a shipping company's going to take these oil tankers, which are extremely expensive, and say, let's go through the straight again. Everything must be fine. More than likely, they're not going to do that right away because they're too nervous to do something like that at that time. The whole system. is an absolute mess, and it's because of the decision Trump made with this situation with Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel. I totally disagree with Ted. He did it because Benjamin Netanyahu. He did it because of Israel. This is a major mess. It continues to be a mess. And even if he can get it dealt with, it will be a mess for quite some time. I don't know if it ever go back to normal. It will be an absolute mess. Supply and demand. You cannot take... 20 to 30 million barrels of oil off the market a day and not think prices are going to go up. So I can go back to COVID. I can go back to Biden. I can go back to COVID and Trump, COVID and Biden. I can go to Trump and Iran. And this is where you are today. And so when Ted says it's negative, well, I don't know. Does people's income keep up with double-digit inflation? Not just in that stuff. But you're seeing it, like I say, with inflation, with housing, property taxes going up. Do you think I just sit here and crap this stuff out? Do you think I'm making it up when I'm talking about foreclosures on homes? You think I'm making it up when I'm talking about people that are defaulting on their credit cards, their mortgages? Do you think that this is all just BS as you see those trends go up? It is not. So...

Once again, I don't give a damn who you are. You got so much money, and it takes more of your money to pay your property taxes. Your electric rates have doubled around here. Your property taxes have gone up. They're going to go up again. Your electric rates have doubled in this community. Your groceries are up. Your car costs are up. Tell me anything that's in good shape right now. so people only got so much money so the stock market's up today but it was down last week big time you want to talk about the stock market one of the worst things on a stock market not not if you're a day trader which most people are not i get what fort lauderdale frank is doing or some of these guys they're in a whole other league they're in a league most people aren't in when most people are not day traders you can make a lot of money and you can lose a lot But the worst thing of a stock market is volatility. High, high, the huge volatility like this. Because it's just unpredictable. So the market's up today. It could be down tomorrow. There is no... We're just saying the same thing to you because of the constant back and forth. But it's like Ted saying, it's happy, happy, joy, joy, because it's down and Trump's stupid. And then when it's up, we... See, that to me is a stupid comment. It's not happy, happy, joy, joy. I'm just trying to give you the reality. I'm not sitting here telling you happy, happy joy. You don't think I lose a lot on a day that it's down like that, whether it's in my retirement and that kind of stuff. It's not happy, happy, happy joy, joy. It's the reality. I'm sitting here, maybe unlike a lot of people. And you know what? I'm genuinely concerned about people that are close to retirement or in retirement. Now, you know, there's many things when you say happy, happy, joy, joy. You get a down market and somebody's got to take a required minimum distribution because of their age. You know, you have to start doing that at 73, 74. Well, guess what? You want to take it in a down market when it's severely down? You think that doesn't affect that person? You don't think, you've got people saying they plan for their retirement and now things are so inflated. The cost of everything that they thought they had it in good shape. And they're not in good shape. Now, I'm not making any of this crap up. I mean, medical costs are off the charts. So, no, you want me to, no, this is not my opinion. This is what's going on. So you want me to sit here. That's what I'm saying. You want me to sit here and say, oh, I voted for Trump. Everything's always great and wonderful. I am not a cheerleader. It is not. This situation is a damn mess. Period. It's a mess. Period. And there's no end in sight.

We're not saying it isn't a mess. I'm just grouping people together. But the saying that Trump did this against Iran because of Israel is your opinion. That part, I'm not talking about the property taxes or anything. You're right about that. But that's just an opinion because you don't know that. Only Trump knows that, right? Why he did it. And I'm just saying. Back to the old best shouldn't be the enemy of better. Yes, is that a mess? And should that get better? Absolutely. But look, you mentioned all those things that happened. COVID, Biden, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. How about COVID and... four years of Biden and anybody can come in. We don't know anything about them. We don't know any vaccination. We're not asking them to do it. And the COVID was a baby under Trump. So I would think you got to give him a little break. Did he make all the right decisions? No. But that was the very beginning. And then he was out. Right? That's November. That's January. He's done. It's a year. It's less than a year than when we knew about it. You do the COVID and the Biden thing. Yes, that affects a lot of stuff. Who made the bad decisions? And we wouldn't know about these bad decisions or the lying if it wasn't for Trump being in there now. We wouldn't know Nemadaz today. How many people indicted in Pennsylvania for more fraud? It's the Trump administration that's making things better. It made the border better that continues to make the border better. I understand that. Listen, I'm not here talking about everything here. I'm talking about one thing, which is the economy. All right, I'm going to say it again. I'm not a cheerleader for the guy. All right? I mean, I'm here to tell you, in my opinion, it sucks right now. And I wish I could tell you it's going to get better. I don't know. I mean, if that's what you want, you know, you can tune in to Sean Hannity or Clay and Buck where Trump can do nothing wrong. This is a mess. All right? I don't know where you get any positivity in it. And I go through it. You know, I get the Democrats pissed at me when I say, here's why your electric prices increase. Because Obama and Hillary Clinton had the war on coal, and they mandated that these coal plants be torn down with nothing to replace them. So they created a shortage in electricity. That's one of the main reasons why. Your electric rates went up. Now, the Democrats call, like you, the Democratic cheerleaders call, and they say, well, Ron, that isn't why the prices went up. It's AI. Well, it is AI as well. But they went up because they created the problem by ripping the coal plants down, but it's also AI. So I agree with them, but they don't want to acknowledge the other part of it. So I'm here to tell you, I understand what Biden did. I understand what Trump did. I understand what Trump did during COVID. He was giving some money out too on policies.

as i remember he was sending out some checks and this kind of stuff but many people were arguing at the time what do you give people money for when we got when we don't have any products to produce when we shut everything down i mean it's it's basic economics i mean to me this is basic i don't know how if you got an endless stream of money i mean whose income is keeping up with this I mean, I just got done with that over the, and my time back. I just started looking at delinquencies on property taxes. They're at a huge high in the state of Ohio, 500 and about 75,000. That's huge delinquencies. I mean, is that a good economic sign? Or is that showing you people are having a tough time keeping up with these constant increases that are beyond the rate of inflation? And I sit here and I give Dave Thomas time and I try to get things changed for some of these people. But these damn stupid local politicians think the answer always is, well, we need more of your money. They are the problem. And some of them are Republicans. And they are the problem. And many of these people locally who are running as Republicans really aren't Republicans. They are tax and spend Democrats. They are running as Republicans because they think they can get elected that way. That's my observation with them. Because if you're a Republican, you believe in less government, lower taxes. Not more government and more taxes. Get rid of the bonds, exactly. But in both parties, of course. And I'm just pointing out the other things that are good. The going after the fraud is actually happening. I understand all of that. That's all good. But I can't talk about 87 things at one time. I'm talking. He asked me about the economy. What do you want me to say? Well, before I get to the economy, I want to make sure I'm how happy I am about the border being closed. Frankly, I think, frankly, I think he should be getting more of these people out of the country that are here illegally anyway. And that's what I was going to say about supply and demand. Once we're doing it, some are self-deporting. It's happening, right? The judge said, okay, yeah, your temporary protective status is over. You're going. Okay. I'm just saying there's good things going on. Wow, there's bad things going on. Except if we had anybody else in there, we wouldn't have the good part with the bad part. Well, I don't. If you think I would vote for Harris, you did. I won't vote for a Democrat, that's for certain. I tell you who I'd like to see president. I just make no bones. I think Ron DeSantis would be an excellent president, in my opinion. Yes, he will. Because I think, frankly, I think he's smart. I just think Ron DeSantis is probably one of the smartest guys out there because I just think he's well-read. He's a lawyer, and I set that aside, that can be good or bad. But he's well-read.

I leave you with that. We'll be back after this. Hi-Hard Radio. You're one-stop for advertising? Box Station 570 WKBN. All right, Ron, Verb News Radio 570-DOTY KBN, you're on here. Hey, Ron. The Pentagon war-gamed multiple scenarios and told Trump. that the Iran war is unwinnable. And please tell Ted the conservative that if Iran has enough uranium to make maybe eight atomic bombs, and they were foolish enough to nuke Europe, the United States would nuke Iran into the Stone Age. They're not going to do something that's stupid. Now, when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, We had double-digit inflation because now there was no check on unlimited money creation. Ted is wrong. Trump could tell the Fed to stop creating money and prices would stabilize immediately. And when Ronald Reagan appointed Paul Volker, Fed Chairman, he took money out of circulation and gas prices, interest rates, and other prices actually came down. And the same thing happened during the Great Depression. The Fed contracted the money supply, and goods and services became cheaper. So Ted, Trump is responsible for stagflation and monetary inflation. He could stop it immediately. You're making Biden a scapegoat. Trump is the president. He's responsible for inflation. And Trump promised that tariff taxes could eliminate income taxes entirely. But last year, income taxes brought in $2.7 trillion in tax revenue. Now, when I subtract $2.7 trillion from $200 billion that we received in tariff taxes, I get a $2.5 trillion shortfall. That's more than the entire U.S. War budget. There's no way. Tariff taxes like G2 promised is going to eliminate income tax. And when Reagan cut taxes in the highest income bracket, in the Soviet Union collapse in 1991, with the house arrest by the Politburo of Gorbachev, the socialist countries of China and India saw the writing on the wall. They opened their countries to foreign investment. This made vast amounts of low-cost labor available to U.S. capital. And Ron, I've always said, investment capital always seeks out the lowest cost of production. But you know, Ron, American executives who did not quickly capitalize on low labor cost in Asia by moving their production for U.S. markets offshore. They were warned by Wall Street that they better get their asses over there quickly. Stand by. Just stand by for a minute. Back in a minute. News Radio 570 W. KVN. One hour down. More to come. Stay tuned.

Looking to upgrade your home, start with Window Depot of Youngstown in their summer savings event located next to Marks in Boardman. Take 60% off installation of a full house of windows or a new bath or shower. Their triple-paying windows are like adding another layer of insulation to your home. They help block outside noise, reduce condensation, and add an extra layer of safety. Warranteed as long as you own the home. Visit Window Depot Yungestown.com today and ask about zero down and zero interest for 18 months, plus extra savings for seniors and military. Window Depot is proud to announce their new bath and shower rewobeling division. Home team. See them next to Markson Boardman. Hey, this is Hayes-Dabbing. Coach John Arnold Studios. This is 570 WKBN Youngstown, an I-Heart radio station, guaranteed human. From ABC News, I'm Chuck Siebertson, a new allegation, a new action regarding Congressman Max Miller, Ohio Republican, who denies allegations of abusing his now ex-wife and daughter. The House Ethics Committee today formally announced an investigation into Miller for alleged domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use. Sources tell ABC News that President Trump called Miller telling him his reelection campaign is in jeopardy. Senator Bernie Moreno. Ohio Republican ex-father-in-law Millers wants Miller to resign. This is truly the seventh level of health. This has been a horrific experience for my entire family. My daughter specifically did not want this to be out in the public. Bales a million dollars for a man arrested for allegedly starting the largest of the three wildfires in Spokane, Washington that destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. He went to prison for manslaughter and his father's 2010 killing in Arizona. Oil prices have been dropping as the U.S. tries to get a deal with Iran, but... Gasoline prices are still high. It could go higher, says Patrick Dahan. Gas buddy had a petroleum analysis because of the Ukraine attacks on Russian oil facilities. The loss of refining capacity in Russia is problematic because traditionally Russia is a major exporter of product. Without any product to export after those refineries have been knocked offline, that is becoming another pain point that we're going to have to watch very closely in the weeks and months ahead. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has been confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Todd Blanche can only afford to lose two Republican votes in the full Senate vote ahead, says ABC's Catherine Falters in Washington. He still does have a challenge with the full Senate. He will likely get through, but that doesn't mean it's going to be smooth sailing between now and presumably Saturday night is when that full vote for Todd Blanche at this point at least will likely be. You're listening to ABC News.

If you haven't switched to Pure Talk because you're not sure their coverage is every bit as reliable as big wireless, why not take them for a test drive? For a limited time, Pure Talk is offering any of their plans for just $15 a month for the first three months, including their top-tier unlimited data plan. No contracts, no commitments. Just a great deal on a high-speed network with unlimited data from an American wireless company. Dial pound 250, say Mike Rowe, and let the savings begin. These days, heading back to school means more than pencils and notebooks. It means laptops, tablets, online accounts, and a lot of personal information moving across the Internet. WebRute Total Protection gives families powerful online defense tools with antivirus, VPN, cloud backup, identity protection, and more. Helping keep your digital life secure throughout the school year and beyond. Go to webroot.com slash radio and get 60% off today. That's webroot.com slash radio for 60% off. Live a better digital life with WebRut because peace of mind shouldn't be optional. Alleged terrorism attack brings a federal grand jury indictment. Former Army private, Andrew Arabaka was charged with one count of arson for the attack, which prosecutors say began planning back in January. The entire incident last month was caught on surveillance footage, showing Arabaka allegedly lighting fireworks, pouring gasoline onto a stairwell and then lighting it, and then firing a BB rifle towards the main federal building in downtown Manhattan. Arabeca hasn't yet entered a plea, and an arraignment was not immediately scheduled. Peter Harolumbus, ABC News, New York. Extreme heat warnings for millions in the southwest, says ABC News forecaster Samar Theodore. 113 degrees in Las Vegas, 112 in Palm Springs, 110 in Phoenix. Not much of a break in the coming days the farther south you had. Things have cooled off a bit in the north. But even there, firefighters have to be on the lookout because as we had towards the end of the week, temperatures will start to rise again. Hitting a pause button, this state. with a whole lot of data centers. No data center, no data, data, data. The protests have only gotten louder, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has heard them demanding last week that data centers be self-sufficient. They must provide their own power, not taking power off the power grid. Now he's going to step beyond announcing a moratorium on new data centers without approval from the state's regulatory agencies. He's offered no deadline on the completion of those audits. Jim Ryan, ABC News in Dallas, Fort Worth. An update for Wall Street. Chuck Sievertson, ABC News. A to Z dependable services, plumbing, septic, heating, cooling, and one-day baths. Construction delays continue on I-80 West. That's down to one lane from Salt Springs Road to Route 46. You're stop and go back to 422. Other than that, traffic moving along on the highways. You're all clear on 422 from Warren into Newcastle and up to speed on 376 between 422 and I-80 and Friedrich Merz County. I'm Mike Ross from the Total Traffic Center. This report is sponsored by Ohio Division of Unclaimed Funds. Think about a time you left something behind. It happens to all of us. This is Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel reminding you to check for your unclaimed funds. Money that belongs to you, waiting to be claimed. Visit unclaimedfunds.ohio.gov and search for your name. Weather brought you by Mesa, heating, and cooling, and briot, keeping you comfortable here around. Tuesday after now, Ron Verb.

On News Radio 570, WKBN. Hey, it's 406 in the afternoon. It's 88 degrees. It's Tuesday, August 4th already. 2026, Ron Verb. Okay, go ahead with your comments, Frank. Okay, Ron, you did a great job with Jacob about record number of consumer card debt. You know, people are defaulting in record numbers. But American... Executives who did not quickly take advantage of low labor costs in Asia by moving their production offshore were warned by Wall Street that they better get over there quickly, or Wall Street would finance takeovers of those corporations and do the job themselves. And the American economy experienced a wave of mergers and acquisitions that was breathtaking. Now, with the relocation of U.S. manufacturing jobs to Asia and Mexico, so went blue-collar jobs in middle-class incomes. And the tax bases of U.S. cities and states shrunk. One, America is a consumer-driven economy. Absolutely. Consumer income growth stopped dead and extracts as a result of shipping production factories overseas. Well, there's two things that go in a consumer-driven economy. There's two fundamentals. You have to have consumers. And consumers have to have jobs to have income. Okay, so if you're a consumer-driven economy, And everything around you costs more. You're able to consume less. You follow me? So you buy less unless you go into debt. So in a consumer-driven economy, you buy less because you're spending more for all these other items. In other words, like if I look at my sign out here for gas today, I have to pay $420 for a gallon of gas where I used to pay $250. So I'm paying more of my dollars for the same gallon of gas, right? Just as we have to pay more dollars for the same hamburger quantity that we used to get for less dollars. So it's pretty simple to figure this stuff out when it comes to your finances. It's not a difficult... We are a consumer-driven economy, but if consumers have less money because more of it's taken away in inflation or taxes, that's not a good for a consumer-driven economy. especially when they go deep into debt and don't consume based on their current wages. Let me give you a catch-22. Are you ready for this? Yes, sir. Here's a catch-22. I give this to Fort Lauderdale, Frank, and I put this out for all of you. It's called a catch-22. You tell me what the right answer is. So many of you remember during COVID, You found out for the first time that many of our antibiotics were no longer made in the United States of America, that they were in fact made in China, that you learned that we are at their mercy because they threatened to cut a lot of that stuff off. I don't care if it's ibuprofen or Tylenol or whatever. This stuff was, many of your prescriptions are made in China. And they said, we'll cut it off.

So what does Trump want to do right now? Here's where Trump is. And remember people were saying at that time, by God, when did we concede all that to China? So they got us over a barrel that we got to buy all this from China and they can cut us off on this kind of stuff. When did this happen? So now here's what Trump is proposing. Trump is saying that he wants this manufacturing to return to America. So that means you, if you're on a generic drug, would probably pay. What I'm reading, they say substantially more than what you're paying. I don't know what substantially means in this case, but they're saying you would pay more than you are currently for your generic drugs than you are presently so that you can have that manufacturing ship back to America. Now the question is, are you're absolutely correct? Are you willing to do that? And let's just say that happens. Let's just say Trump does that to say, well, we should make this stuff here. How many old people do you think are going to be bitching saying, wait a minute, I'm paying more for all of this kind of stuff and I can't afford it. So there's a catch-22. A consumer will have to pay more for these generic drugs. But at the same time, they'll be made in America. You won't be a victim of China, but it will cost you more. Which one do you want? Well, that's why Trump is trying to buy votes for the midterms, because we have Trump R.X right now, which keep generic drug prices dirt cheap. And he would expand that. said to China, we're not buying prescription drugs for you. We're going to make them here in America, and it would take years to make the same drugs that China makes. You'd have a black market. And also, Ron, when it comes to data AI centers, they're causing electricity prices to rise as they compete with homeowners for electric power. Supply and demands, right. And America is suffering from depleted resources, such as water, air, and fertile land, for example. Now, the Democrats welcomed in 30 million illegal aliens who they knew would vote Democrat that are also accelerating the depletion of resources. And Trump's war for Israel will send energy prices skyrocketing upward. That's why the Republicans stole Venezuela's oil. and it's threatening to still Greenlands and Canada's resources as well. But, you know, I want to add to the great point you made to Ted and Jacob. Under Trump, six million student loan borrowers were in default last August. That figure surged to $7.7 million by December, and now by April, student loan defaults have surged again to 9.2 million borrowers, which is one in every five persons with student debt. And another $3 million are 90 days delinquent or more, and also heading towards default. Now, Obama...

Biden and Trump have kicked the can down the road through payment pauses, but with interest continuing to accumulate so that some former students now owe more than their original principle. Well, what was it saying? You might, I mean, listen, it was ridiculous, and I think it had to do with... Was it car loans or something to try to bring the price, make it more affordable? They wanted it to be like a nine or eight-year loan or nine-year loan. I forgot what, or no, it was housing. He wanted to extend mortgage loans to 50 years. Right. Most people would be dead before they paid, yeah. Right, right. This was some of the discussion. How do we make housing more affordable for people? And it was, you would have a 50-year mortgage. Of which you would know, you'd probably follow it. The money people said you'd be just better off renting because it's ridiculous. You'll never pay it off. You know, Ron, Florida has one of the best managed state economies in the country. Hey, Frank, Frank, I was just down there. I just came back late last night, and I bet you people listened to thought it was probably down there visiting Frank from Fort Lauderdale. No, you weren't. You were enjoying yourself. I don't know why he came in a summer. It's like in the 90s. Oh, it was wonderful. You know, Florida, you want to know how bad the economy is run. Florida has the highest home foreclosure rate in the country. That's how bad things are. And we got a good economy compared to the other 49 states. Yeah, you do. It's a great area. All right, Frank, enough today. Thank you, my friends. All right. Fort Lauderdale, Frank, you're on here. Hello. You know, There's a conversation going on. The narrative jumps all over the place. But, you know, you started out the program very well. You can support Donald Trump and be critical of them. You know, I'm 100 percent. I would never have voted for the other alternative. But some of the things are going on right now, I'm just not happy with. I could point them out. I could be critical of them. I'm not going to be a cheerleader. There's a big difference between the economy and the stock market. I mean, one day we're at war, one day we're making a deal. You know, why did the market go up today? I was a work today and have much attention, but I'm sure it had something to do with us coming a deal possible. And then guess what? Friday at 401, we're going to decapitate the Iranian regime. You know, it keeps going back and forth and back and forth. And the administration, they're not dumb. They didn't get this position because they got lucky. You know, you play the narrative. You let the market ride up by saying there's a deal. There's no deal. The market comes back in. It goes back up. You know, it's not Frank and Ted trading this afternoon buying mutual funds and ETS. These are algorithmic-driven markets. They see the headline, and then they buy on the news. It's the same thing with the oil. When oil drops to $70 a barrel, it's not because the straight moves opened up, and Iranians are waving the white flag.

I mean, this is a game back and forth. They're going to drag this out. They understand they got midterms. They can't let oil soar through the roof. Got a complete mess on our hands. If you believe the CPI numbers or the inflation numbers, I mean, are you just blind? If you don't understand their lying to what inflation is, I mean, you're just listening to a narrative that's just been given to you. You have to open your eyes and... see what's going on in the world around you. I'm happy that the market one day, but it could go down just as easy a few days from now, and you hit the nail on the head. The market shouldn't go up. The NASAC shouldn't go up 3.5% or 4% in the day. What news came out that made all of these companies that much more profitable? What company goes up $100 billion in one day on what kind of news? Did they come out with something new? I mean, everybody... The market is just the S&P 500. You buy a basket. One stock goes up, and as long as that's a bigger portion in the basket, the whole market goes up. I mean, Frank's right in a lot of points there. I don't usually agree with Frank. But, you know, when we came off that gold scene in 1971, inflation's been through the roof. It's just we've had a GDP that's been able to cover it all. You guys have all the, like you said, too. uh... health care prices uh... pharmaceutical prices i could tell you right now if you gave up every uh... group boomers out there the option to make medications in america or pay less for them ninety eight of them will say i want to pay less because the other two percent have so much money that it doesn't matter to our country is going to absolute bonker town moving forward we've got nothing good going on right now most people don't even realize we bailed out japan friday i mean that that's not even in the news their market i can go on a whole tangent about that we totally save them because they have no domestic oil production and they're buying all of their oil in a dollar that in their currency it's getting destroyed if we didn't bail them out on friday they probably would be wrecking the whole entire stock market people don't understand that They just every two weeks put their money into their 401k, their 403B, and all the market does is go up on what? Because we have deflated dollars. Everybody gets richer nominally, but everybody complains about the same thing that your dollar doesn't buy as much. We've got every local government in this area crying that they need more money. It's because the low, it's getting your tax dollars, and those dollars are worth less. Your local government can't put money into assets. The Poland canfield, all these townships, they can't invest their money in the S&P 500, so they're getting hit by inflation too. Of course, you can do things on the margin to fix things that are wasteful, idiotic spending, of course. But it all comes back to money. Everything comes back to money, and the money is just completely ruined and it's wrecked. And the whole system in which it operates there is ruined and wrecked. I mean, I'll tell you right now, too, I'm all over the place because everybody else's comments are all over the place because we can't focus on one thing. We've got so many problems. Look at Donald Trump. Are you being happy that now you can buy for $100,000 earlier access to his posts, his tweets on X or Trump or whatever? You don't think that moves market. If you get millisecond faster information that Donald Trump's going to do this, this, or that, that moves the market instantaneously. That is...

completely insane that that he even thinks or that his family or his team thinks that that's okay. I mean, everything is all over the place. And I talked to you last week before I think the legal show is the last thing we talked about. Did you even see what happened in Spain the other day? What happened? Did you see? They don't even know it's 40 or 80,000. migrants stormed the beach in Spain. Yes. If you watch the video, it looks like a zombie apocalypse. I mean, look at this. I'll criticize Donald Trump for these things because the opposite would have been, instead of that happening in Spain, it would have happened to our country. 40,000 military-aged men, these weren't women and children, didn't all just decide one morning stormed the beaches of this little enclave of northern Africa on the beach of Morocco, because somebody organized it, they knew that. Spain has a law. If you come by sea, you don't get deported. So they just took a population of 60,000 in that Ceuta, Spain, and doubled it overnight. There's migrants just running amok there, and they're all going to get citizenship there, because they won't get deported because of Spain. So what happens when they get citizenship? They're all just going to disperse over Europe. Europe is a complete disaster. We're going the same direction. And, yeah, I will criticize Trump again because if Kamala Harris were president, that 60,000 people in Spain would have been organized, the 60,000 people flood our border or even more over the last two years. It's just utter insanity. And it's because, again, everything comes back to money, everything, everything, and our whole system is broken because there's no repercussions and no consequences to anything, ever. Yeah, that was an amazing video. Stand by for one second. I want to come back with Alec in a minute. News Radio 570 WKVN. Well, listen to this, the recent tornado. That deal that you're talking about in Spain, if people haven't seen that picture, it is unbelievable how many people are rushing into that area. It's overwhelming. And think of what that does to... the folks that are already there and the burden it puts on that society. Yeah, and I mean, think about that would happen here 100%. They already tried to do it. Those 60,000 25-year-old aged men didn't do that on their own. Somebody's organizing that. Do you think whoever's organizing that wants to get them into Spain or do you think they want to get them into Europe? They want to get them here. So yes. I don't care of Donald Trump does this, this, and this. I will criticize them for all those other things, but the alternative was way worse. And we won't even have a country, yet alone our financial aspect of it will be inflation through the roof, you name it. But what are people leaving behind?

When you vote for these things, it just blows my mind. You've got callers that will call it and say, Donald Trump's dad gave him a million dollars. I could never vote for him. Donald Trump did this. I could never vote for him. And it will turn a blind eye to their country absolutely being utterly destroyed right in front of their face and won't care because their hate for Donald Trump received their love for the country. We got a lot of problems in this country. But there are a lot of people out there that put their hate for one single person, fuck anything else. And it is just cascading downhill here, and it's getting worse and worse. You can just see it in society as an entirety. It's getting worse. And I just wonder what we're leaving future generations. It honestly makes me sad to see what's going on anymore. Look, again, the economy, you can't find people to work. Why would you work? Why do you have to work if you can just do this, this, and that? You saw the, I don't know if you saw the fraud that came out in Pennsylvania with all these home health care agencies. I mean, people saying they're taking care of their loved ones. They're getting pulled over with drugs in the car, getting taxpayer dollars. A lot of the U.S. as tax payers just run out. I mean, we fought a revolution in this country over a 2% tax. Now most people are blind. They don't even realize they're paying 50% of what they earn in taxes. It is just, it blows my mind that the level of frustration out there isn't higher. And I talk to people about this and they shrug their shoulder and it is what it is. It is what it is because people are lazy out there because they just haven't suffered the consequences enough yet. And usually it does take a catastrophe to actually get things fixed. It's just I don't want to have to go through a catastrophe to get the things fixed. We had a chance during... COVID when there really was an actual pandemic, it was terribly, but we had a chance to fix a lot of things. We didn't. We got, we have all this fraud in Ohio that came to light. We've got all of this that could have been fixed. It did. We got all these problems locally with local government. It's a chance to get it fixed. It won't. Because they'll get brushed under the rug because most people out there would rather watch Netflix and scroll through them and just live like a zombie that actually realize what's going on. And that's the sad part because those people's vote count the exact same as my vote. Most of the listeners out there who are actually formed. And we're... We've got to have people that actually want to fix things, do things, and understand things, and let people know what's going on. Because this is like a frog in a pot boiling slowly. You don't even realize it's hot until it's too late. Look at everything you've just been talking about the whole time. Oh, boy, the stock market went up 3.5%, 4% today. Congratulations. I mean, what are we talking about?

Again, it's all, you got richer today nominally. If you look at the stock market, even since 1971, priced in anything else, gold, you name it, it's almost flat. When your dollars less, you have more of it, and it keeps buying you less. But people can't comprehend that because they're not willing to put in the work to understand it. Yeah, it's... It's of concern. Alec, always appreciate your input. I thank you. News Radio 570 W. Kimi Ann and Ron Furby, you're on the air. Hi, Juan. Hi. I'm glad you're back. Anyhow, after all this, but I say this, that Trump's not going to tell us everything he's doing. And I go along with Ted. We're going through inflation. Many people know that, but they don't seem to care. Stand by for me. Just stand by. I come right back to you. After the break at 430, Ron Verb, News Radio 570, WKVN from the Kingdom of Mahoning. News Radio 570, WKVN. The House Ethics Committee is opening an investigation into Max Miller, Republican Congressman who's the former son-in-law of Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, is under a deadline of tomorrow to make a decision on whether to continue in the race for re-election from Ohio's 7th District. If you like historic sites, there's one in Cincinnati that's getting a lot of attention. The Harriet Beacher Stowe House is enjoying a surge of popularity since the completion of its restoration. of years ago. And since that time, we have seen about a 40% increase in attendance. Christina Hartlebe is executive director shortly after leaving Cincinnati. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the legendary anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. I'm Matt Reese. Listen on the free I Heart Radio app for all your music, news, talk, and sports radio. Podcast, too. Download the app. Free never sounded so good. A to Z. On News Radio 570, WKVN. Back to it, News Radio 570, WKVN. All right, go ahead, dear. Hi. Excuse me, I have a cold. Anyhow, the key to the whole thing is, If we get back to God, he said he can heal our nation. And I see all these religious people, too, running around with purple hair and tattoos all over them and all the rest are, and just got some money and all that, too, on top of it. And then we wonder why things go wrong. So to me... That's the key to the whole thing, and we can do this or that, but if we don't obey God's word, we're in trouble. And Israel, especially when we come against that nation, that's really bad, too. Okay, a little bit here. After everybody said their thoughts, that's how I feel. I'm glad you're back.

God bless. All right. This woman wraps me around her finger with that sweet little voice of hers. I can't even get upset with that. I mean, you know, I can't say, well, thanks for calling you old bad lax or anything because she sounds so sweet and all that kind of stuff. It's terrible. You totally disarm me with that. God bless and that beautiful little voice of yours. Do you know? Now you keep listening to... Cheryl Swindley, or what's his name? I forget. Oh, you see, you're so old, you can't even remember what you're listening to anymore. No, I forget. Do you know what year it is? No, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I mean, we're running around like crazy. We don't know what we're doing today. I mean, we really do it. TV can really mess your mind up. That's what's doing the kids in that telephone thing, messing everybody up. Really? And we've got to pray like crazy. for all our people and our leaders. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So what did you learn in Florida? You know that back here is better yet, yeah. Still better. Oh, no. Florida's wonderful. It's absolutely. Oh, it's too hot. Oh, it's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. All right. Get out of here, you. Yeah. All right. Goodbye. You're on here. She's an assassin, I think. She's not. With that sweet voice, she's probably a killer. There he is. That tigger laugh of his. It's JJ, JJ the Trumpster formerly known as JJ the liberal. He's like Prince. He's a killer. I'm guarantee you she's all that sweet voice and everything while she's packing heat. She probably got, she probably works with Ted going to Jersey to take out people. He's always going to Jersey. I wonder why he's going to Jersey. I wonder why he's going to Jersey all the time too. Like you think he's kind of like the sopranos type thing going to. Yeah. He never thought of us. Tony and Vinny and all the, you know, all those guys, he's going up there to do a, he's going up there to do a hit, huh? Yeah, he's going to do a job, yeah. How are you doing? It's going to do a job, going to do a hit. How's your little trip down to the FLA? It was good. It was good. Yes. I should have taken you with me, so, but during spring training and you could have went over and. Watch some spring training. You know, bring you back to your baseball A day. Except in a couple of endings, yeah. I would have, it would have been, it wouldn't have been nice. I'm glad you got a chance to go and see your daughter and, you know, it'll get a break from all of us up here, so we didn't miss you. Get a break from all of you up here, I tell you what. We did miss you, though. Thank you. I missed you, too. And I was listening to Frank. He was, you know, I love, Teddy, I really do. But it is partially Trump's fault the reason why we're in the position that we're in. Well, he was making it better before he got into this war situation. I mean, it's undisputable. I mean, I don't agree with my things, but yeah, I have to, I have to concur, you know, that he was doing some things that even us Democrats wanted done, you know, whether you guys think we did or not, but we wanted to.

You know, we didn't want people here that don't, don't, not just the word belong, that they are, they're not going to contribute. Or they're going to, you know, they're going to, you know, take away from, you know, they're going to just make things more difficult for all of us, including the people they, you know, that are their kinds, so to speak, you know, from their own country. But, but I believe you're right. And you even stated that for a long time that once you got away from that, and we started spending money on that, and we're still spending. You know, there's spools of money, and it should start getting any better. You know, it really isn't, you know. Today I had to, you know, I had to eat one of our cats today for crying out loud. It was things are so tough. You can't even joke about that today. You know that. Don't go there. Hey, I'm an animal lover. You know that. I know that. Who else stops in the middle of traffic to go out to get a cat or dog out of the road other than you? No, that is true. Every now and then I have a tendency to throw a bad joke out there. And that was a bad one. But it was not meant, you know. Yes. But sometimes you land it and sometimes you don't. Yeah, of course. Most of the time I don't. I don't know. Lately you've been on a roll. This is the first time that it did. The vault was good, but the landing was bad. There you go. There you go. All right. I just think he's got to just watch things, and, you know, and again, you know, the other thing, too, is, and I think you agree a little bit. It's the A-S-Kissing that everybody's doing as far as, and they're not, you know, they're not telling him the things that they need to tell him, you know, that, you know, if he's wrong about something or they need to give a bit different opinion, you know, and, you know, just don't think they're either not doing that to Trump or. You know, Trump is not accepting any type of, you know, constructive criticism. So that I worry about. And I think you and I discussed that too also before. And that can be kind of troublesome, you know. Well, hey, listen, he's got us in a tough jam now. I hope things work out. But. It hasn't worked out at this point in time. And we shall see, listen, I'll be the first guy. I would love to see there be some type of agreement reached and this thing put behind us. And we could get back to doing the business of the American people and the America First Agenda. That's what I'd like to see. Right, and then, you know, I have to disagree with, I don't know who said it a little bit earlier, but, you know, I think it might have been Ted. But, you know, you know, no, I can't impress his name, Dibi, as whatever, he had a lot, I think he misled him horribly, and, and it, like right now, you just see that, you know, you're too much about Israel being involved in this. And I, and it's, it seems like it was. It landed in our lap, and we're taking the brunt of it. And, you know, I would just, like, I agree with you guys. We shouldn't be spending money overseas. We shouldn't be giving it to different countries and taking care of everybody else's, everybody else's dirty laundry. But we, you know, what he's doing, we got to, you know, I just think he's got to just say that, you know, we want it. You know, he's been, you know, in a lot of ways he's been pulling us for a while, just say, we want it, get our troops out of there.

and, you know, make an agreement with Iran and get that straight opened up. And sometimes remember you and I talk to a couple months before, I'll leave you with this, is that sometimes you've got to, you know, you've got to humble yourself and say, you know, that even if you want to fool it and, you know, it's full everybody and say, well, we want the war and it's over and done with him. But we've got to get out of there, Ron, because it's only going to get progressively worse. And then somebody's going to get a little agitated. You know, they're going to bomb Iran. It's going to bomb somebody over there that's not going to like it. And it's just going to escalate. But, again, I appreciate everything you do, my friend. And it's good to have you back. And, you know, you made it safely. So that's a good thing. Amen. Thank you. JJ, the Trumpster. Cool, buddy. All right, here on the air. Hello. Hey, Ron, I haven't talked to you in a couple weeks. So give me a minute like JJ. First of all, I want to mention something about Frank from Fort Laudelville. Three months ago, he said we were running out of ammunition. Okay? But we're not. I want to make that comment. Secondly, the thing he's doing with Iran, they're playing him. But he says this is it. So you're not going to see an agreement because Islam will not honor an agreement with an infidel. So you're not going to see an agreement. So, okay? Secondly, oil just went down again, if you look, on the oil thing. I check that every day. But gas. Trump was yelling at the producers of gas to come on down, you know, to bring it down. And that's them trying to reach profits. And we live in America, so I'm not working, you know, there's nothing we can do about that unless they decide to do that. The other thing is on the aspect of what's going on in this country. People think the Democrats are going to win the midterms. You know, they're all scared, blah, blah, blah, because of the polls. They're hell with the polls. Listen, you can't elect Democrat, socialist, communists, like the guy in Michigan. You know what I mean? And did you hear what the Democrat said? I mean, how about the Cajun man? He says if he gets elected, he's quitting. And then Joe Manchin, same thing. And then another Democrat, same thing. They're getting out of the party. So what I'm saying is I'm not worried about the midterms because these guys are making it easy for us by saying, you know, no Senate, you know, more, you know, more judges on the Supreme Court, no president. I mean, come on, man. I mean, you know, like the one guy says. They're adding crazy sauce to everything. I mean, who's going to vote that in? Now, we have to go out and vote in the midterms. So everybody who's listening, vote in the midterms, okay? And then last one or not least, John Fetterman's probably going to get out, too. He's sick of them. Well, I don't know that he's going to get out. He just disagrees with him. John Fetterman actually is a pleasant surprise. I mean, John Fetterman is his own man. It appears to me. I find it interesting that the Democrat Party is trying to find a male figure that's a male figure. And they come up with some of these characters and they try to make him more manly and it just falls flat on their face. And I'm thinking, you guys don't need to look any further than John Fetterman.

If you're looking for a normal guy or a male figure for your party, you should be looking at John Fetterman. You shouldn't be trying to look at this guy running in Texas who you go put in a truck to try and make look more manly or you're trying to make some guy masculine for the Democrats. I mean, look, I don't know why they ignore John Fetterman. He would be their best choice. And you know what else, too? That girl, Sophie Cunningham. What a dream girl. I mean, I wish I was young again. I'd tell you what, I'd be pen paling here. She's amazing. She's got a great attitude. She backs up her teammates. You know, when she gets beat up, she comes out and beats the person that beats her up. Oh, she's a black belt in judicious. I'll tell you when you talk about sports, what's troubling is how Caitlin Clark is treated. Oh, yeah, that's what I mean. And Caitlin Clark is she treated that way because she's white and she's heterosexual? Is it because she's white and heterosexual? She seems to be getting snubbed. by the WNVA. And she is the reason. She solely is the reason solely for the growth in attention in that sport. She is the superstar of that sport. And it's like they don't want to acknowledge it because she's white and heterosexual. It's amazing to me, the stupidity. And Sophie's standing behind her. You see her? And she's doing great and, you know, going against the woke. And she's selling all her sneakers and her t-shirts. So the country loves her, too, you know. But like I say, you know, we're going to overcome all this. We are. We're going to win. And... Trump's, you know, nobody talks about all the things he did last week and the week before. Do you know what he did while you were gone on vacation? He got truck drivers, veterans to drive trucks so that we don't need illegals. I thought that was a great idea. Well, he's trying to get some of these states that are giving these CDLs out with... Some degree of, I mean, CDLs to people who can't even read the signs or speak English. That scares the heck out of me because I used to travel down to Florida all the time. Yeah, I mean, and he wants to change that. He wants to change that tremendously. All right. Absolutely. Thank you, Bubba Ganoosh. News Radio 570. Goodbye. You're on the air. Ronnie. It's the unknown caller. Yes. Hey, first of all, JJ, you know, that cat joke? Yes. I could just see now that he's a Trumpster, they're going to say, yeah, new pandemic starts in Mahoning County from saved cat or whatever. Yeah. You're right. He better watch it now.

Yeah, yeah, it's not easy being a trumpster, just saying, hey, did you take the allegiance light down there, Ronnie? No, I took Breeze. Breeze, oh, okay. Wow, I didn't know you had that kind of money, Ronnie. Actually, I went out of the Akron Canton Airports and took Breeze, which was a pleasant experience, actually. Yeah, yeah, it's a nice drive there. Yeah, also, was that Patty, the old battle axe as such a sweet soul now? No, it's not Patty, the old battlex. I don't know what her first name is. I don't know. Maybe you don't know what you're talking about, Ronnie. I don't recognize her as Patty. I forget what her name is. All right. Hey, but... Yeah, where do I start? I guess I heard, I think it was on Clay and Buck that the crypto was down today? Yes. Yeah, I have like, I know, maybe, you know, three grand in crypto that I bought 10 years ago, and I'm still down on it. So I don't know what's going on all with that, but hey. The ticks, you know, like the whole tick thing. Yes. What is it? The white spotted tick or something? Yeah, that's the one that if it bites you, you can't eat meat anymore. You hate meat. Yeah. What's going on with that, Ronnie? Is that another one of, you know. I'm awful suspicious of it, like I told people, and people don't pay attention. Lyme disease was created in a military lab over by... in the New York area on an island where we simply had a bio facility there where they were experimenting with ticks and they created Lyme disease. I think they might have also done Rocky Mountain spotted fever. But I know for certain Lyme disease, they didn't think it would get off this island, but the birds flew with these ticks on them and the deer swam onto the main islands. And in turn, people started coming down with something that we've never seen before called Lyme disease. And in turn, that's why it's called Lyme disease. because the community was like Lyme, New York, or the county was. So now I'm awful suspicious. I'll tell you, all of a sudden you got this tick that if it bites you, you can't eat meat. At a time when Bill Gates was talking about, we got to eat less meat and eat this manufactured meat and stuff. Stand by, Unknown Caller. Back with the Unknown Caller. And more, 452 in the afternoon. Ron Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Nice to be back. Nice to be with you. Your one stop for advertising? Call 844-844-Eheart. In this edition of the marketers report, Roe Cullinarros, Vice President of Marketing for Omnicom, weighs in on today's splintered media landscape.

The way consumers think and shop and interact with brands is more complex than ever. Brands that can figure out how to move people and how to connect will be the brands that win. As the number one audio company, IHeartMedia connects marketers to the audiences, live events, and trusted influencers you need to grow. If you're a marketer, go to iHeartadvertising.com. No required subscriptions, no trial period. And talk station, 570 WKBN. And Ron Verlare, an unknown caller. What were you saying? We were talking about the ticks. Is this like a flesh-eating tick or something like that? No, I mean, the typical tick, they get in you and they put this stuff in you. If you're asking me, do I think that that tick was man-made? I do. I mean, just as I said to you, Lyme disease was that way. I had a cousin that died from a tick bite with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. I have a cousin was in Tennessee, and he got bit by a tick, and he died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Lyme disease was created in a lab, and I think that it's what a coincidence Bill Gates talking about. We've got to eat less meat. And all of a sudden, you have this tick that bites you, and then you hate meat. Isn't that interesting? It was only like a couple of weeks or a couple months later, right? Yeah, it wasn't that long ago. Hey, but. I know you don't like to go back in the past, but in like 1978, gas was like $1.79 a gallon, and the car's got like 10 miles a gallon. So we all went through this before a second, ebb and flow of everything. But today, there are so many more things that people are dependent on, like, you know, streaming services, their phones. There's so much more expense going out, and basically caused by the computer age, I think. Back in the day, it was like we got to get food and gas for the car to get to work. And now there's just so much other stuff that you got to pay for. And people just like, oh, I need this. I need that. You know? So I think that's a big part of the problem with the finances of people today. Plus, they got, you know, the charge cards that they can't pay off. Right. I mean, if you're saying to me, we got more bills than our forefathers had, I would agree with that. Yeah. I mean, you had four fathers? Well, yeah, I had four of them. I mean, you're talking about Internet. You're talking about cell phone, cable, whatever the case might be. Yeah. You got gaming systems, you know. And I think a lot of times people want to start where their parents started, and it doesn't work that way. Hey, Ron, the good thing is that the Mahoning County commissioners, you know, they're here for us. Yeah, they're here for you. So we got to go. All right, Ronnie, I got to go. All right, he's always got to go. He's the unknown caller, News Radio 570 WKVN. Welcome to Tuesday, August 4th. It's 87 degrees. Ron Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Good to be with you back after a couple days off. News Radio 570 WKVN. Don't.

Touched dial, don't shit air. Callers on line standby. 330729-99-77. You want to get on board with us? 330729-99-77. Back in a bit. The stadium GM Superstore is now. Coach John Arnold Studios. This is 570 WKBN Youngstown, an I-Heart radio station, guaranteed human. From ABC News, I'm Chuck Siebertson. The House Ethics Committee today formally announced an investigation into Congressman Max Miller for alleged domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use. Miller has denied allegations. Sources tell ABC News that President Trump called Miller telling him his re-election campaigns in jeopardy. ABC's Peter Harlambus. Miller's faced accusations of abuse by at least two different women. Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham. and Emily Moreno, the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio. He told reporters today that he believes Miller's unfit for office. My daughter lives in constant fear of this man. Responding to Emily Moreno's accusations, including that he threw her against a wall and held a gun to her head, Miller tried to discredit his ex-wife. If I had assaulted her... Which he had offered a cook meat dinner six days later. Miller's running for re-election, and he's denied the allegations, sued both women for defamation, and called for a house ethics investigation into his own conduct. Peter Harlamboos, ABC News. Bails a million dollars for a man arrested for allegedly starting the largest of the three wildfires in Spokane, Washington that destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. He went to prison for manslaughter in his father's 2010 killing in Arizona. ABC's Alex Stone in Spokane. Today, some of the evacuation orders are being lifted and or they are being at least lessened where people can start coming back. A lot of the evacuees are now able to come in and start seeing what remains. Acting Attorney General and AG nominee, Todd Blanche has been confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. He can only afford to lose two Republican votes in the full Senate vote ahead. On Wall Street, the Dow and S&P 500 closed at new records as stocks rallied on hopes of an Iran deal, lower oil prices and strong corporate earnings. Oil continued to drop U.S. and Brent crude finishing $75 and $79 a barrel. You're listening to ABC News. If you haven't switched to Pure Talk because you're not sure their coverage is every bit as reliable as big wireless, why not take them for a test drive? For a limited time, Pure Talk is offering any of their plans for just 15 bucks a month for the first three months, including their top-tier unlimited data plan. No contracts, no commitments. Just a great deal on a high-speed network with unlimited data from an American wireless company. Dial pound 250, say Mike Rowe, and let the savings begin. These days, heading back to school means more than pencils and notebooks. It means laptops, tablets, online accounts, and a lot of personal information moving across the Internet. WebRute Total Protection gives families powerful online defense tools with antivirus, VPN, cloud backup, identity protection, and more. Helping keep your digital life secure throughout the school year and beyond. Go to webroot.com slash radio and get 60% off today. That's webroot.com slash radio for 60% off. Live a better digital life with WebRut because peace of mind shouldn't be optional.

More on money, SpaceX, which reports his first earnings as a publicly traded company today, closed at $125 a share, up about 9%. The national average U.S. price for a gallon of regular grade gasoline as of less than an hour ago was $4.7, up $0.34 from last month. That's 91 cents higher than last year. There was no big winner in last night's $753 million powerball drawing. Tomorrow night's big prize up to now $786 million. Suspicion or downright opposition to AI data centers appears to cut across party lines. ABC's Jim Ryan says Democrat dominated New York. was the first to impose a moratorium on the facilities. Now deep red Texas has done the same. Governor Greg Abbott, once an ardent supporter of data centers, has shut the door on new ones until the state can audit their potential impact on public water and power supplies. More than 330 data centers are up and running in Texas with another 250 on the drawing board. Nate Rowett and his brother, fishing on a Massachusetts beach, got the surprise of their lives reeling in a five-foot... tiger shark i saw those you know those horizontal those lines um you know indicating that it was a tiger shark which was super cool uh you know immediately i started yelling my brother i was like you know it's a tiger it's a tiger shark and uh he was in disbeliefs i had to say the tropical species showing up farther north because of warmer ocean waters chuck severson abc news a to z depend on verb On News Radio 570, WKVN. And so good to be with you. Thanks for your patience. 506 News Radio 570, WKBN. Welcome to a Tuesday afternoon. Nice to be back with you after a couple days off. It's 87 degrees. The sun is shining in my neck of the woods and some patient callers. We appreciate that. You're on the air. Hey, how you doing, Ron? I'm doing well. Thank you for calling. Oh, thank you for coming back. I wanted to share something with you because I think this will help to answer some questions for me. I was scrolling through Facebook, and I got some reels from this, I don't know, this company or person or whatever, and it's called Tanyaka Lab. Okay. And I'll spell it later. But basically, it talks about, like, what's going on with the war and geopolitical stuff. I think it's powered by AI and a lot of things make sense. And it speaks very plainly, takes one particular thing at a time, and explained it. For example, they were talking about Iran. And we wonder, why is Iran, say, yeah, we want a deal. No, we're not going to make a deal. Yeah, we want a deal. Well, basically, it said that Iran is also government, someone like America, that is fighting against itself.

They've got the hardliners who, you know, want to have the Ayatollah and prop him up and everything and are part of the Royal Guard. And then you have moderates. Now, moderates want to stabilize the economy, and if it's stabilized and they figure they'll get the power. So basically the two of them are fighting there for power. And the reason that the Royal Guard is so adamant about not having peace is because they do all this black market and smuggling and everything else to the tune of about $30 billion. So they've got an empire that's built on Iran having sanctions. If there ends up being peace, their whole business model falls apart. So they are going back and forth there because, again, because money. But, you know, when I thought about it, it makes sense. Why would they say, yeah, we want to, then the next, we want to have peace, or we want to talk, and we're not going to talk. And it was the moderate who came up and, you know, did that agreement. But the Royal Guard... is fighting against it. But basically, it was just one point that, but there were several points. It talked about the different straits and how everybody's got to reroute their oil and what China is doing with North Korea, what this one's doing. And there's a whole lot of geopolitical stuff going on that we... It's not just as simple as what we're trying to make it. And so the name of this, just in case anybody out there wants to look it up, C-H-A-N-A-K-Y-A dot lab, L-A-B. And, but like I said, it's Power by AI. I tried to look into it more, but I was just fascinated by... each one of these points and they make it very simple and all it is is a map and he draws you know he writes things and and draws lines and shows you know it shows you in that respect and it really has helped a lot to answer some questions so anyhow I just wanted to share that and then I have one more thing to say yes I'm all ears okay So years ago, years and years, I saw this cartoon. I wish I could have, I wish I could have would have ripped it out because I did a lot of that. But the cartoon was there's a guy who's sitting on a bus and he's looking out the window and down below the bus is a really cool guy in a convertible sports car. And it said the Democratic...

uh or excuse me uh conservative republican looks down at that car and says one day i'll be driving a car like that and the democratic socialist looks down and says one day you'll be riding the bus with me i just thought i and you know i remember that for all these years they were and i just It is when young people ask, and if they aspire to have nice things, that's, I mean, that's as simple as it can get. They want us to ride the bus. You know, we want them to aspire to a convertible car. Anyhow. There you go. All right. Thank you. You're on here. Hello. Mr. Verb, how are you today? I want you to know, I'm taking a break. from my duties outside, cleaning up my yard. And I thought I'd come in and say hello to you. What exactly do you have to clean up? I've got different beds of flowers, and I've got different beds of different things that I need to clean up because you've got the creeping Charlie coming around and you've got all this other junk that takes over the area, so you've got to clean it up. Oh, okay. You know what creeping charie he is. Yeah, he was peeping in my windows the other night. That creep and try? I bet he was. He can't wait to get to your house. I mean, I thought a guy like you of your stature would have gardeners do that type of work. I like, well, if you remember. A couple weeks ago, we might have to break up because I have things to do, and I don't have time to sit on the radio for an hour waiting for Mr. Verbe to say hello to me. I know, and that disturbed me a great deal. I bet it did. Yes, it did. Yeah, I'm sure. But the last couple days off, did you have a... Nice vacation or did you have to work harder? No, I had a nice time off. I was visiting my daughter. Outstanding. Right. Doesn't get any better than that now, does it? No, it does not. As I did that about a week and a half ago. Yeah, the 22nd, we came back on the 22nd, whatever that is. Right. You know what I mean? At a time. Right. Right, right, right. But I'm trying to picture you slaving away out there with the, who's this creep Charlie? Is he your next-door neighbor or somebody? No, it's called Creeping Charlie. Oh, is he your next-door neighbor? No, no, no, no, no. It's the creeping Charlie that takes over my lawn if I don't take care of it. Well, don't you get it? I fertilize. I do everything I can to keep it away, but. It just keeps popping up. Don't you get it sprayed or treated or something? I do. I do. But my neighbor doesn't take as good at care of his lawn as I do mine. There's always one in every neighborhood. Well, I guess one is the two of them. One on the other side is the same way. So anyway.

That really sucks. You always see that. I don't care what neighborhood you go into. There always seems to be one person. It just doesn't seem like they give a damn. Which I always wonder when that's the case. Well, why did you move to that neighborhood in the first place then? If you can see all these places are nice and you come and you have no desire to do that. Well, go where everyone else has that same mentality. There you go. I'm glad you said, because the backyard of this person that lives next door to me is like... A jungle. And like you said, why move into this neighborhood and let that happen? So I guess I'm going to have to do something as far as going downtown and talking to the mayor and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, because I'm not going to, I'm not, I'm too old to confront somebody with that crap. Yeah, but where's it? Anyway, they just don't take care of anyway. Yeah, where's your zoning and that kind of stuff if they, if they don't cut your grass and that kind of stuff? Well, call the zoning department. Yeah, there you go. I'll like that one, Sony. Right. I mean, what seems to be the problem? They're just bum neighbors, right? They're just, and they planted these tomatoes and peppers and these great big barrels that, chin barrels, and they put dirt in it. And these things are just growing all over the place and the back. It's terrible. It's terrible. And it looks awful. Here you are in your pristine mansion, you know, in your elite neighborhood, and you keep your lawn manicured. Obviously, times are tough because of Trump, that you're out there doing it yourself. You had to let your gardening staff go. So you're out there doing it yourself, and you look over at the neighbor's place, and they just don't give a damn. That's the bottom line, my friend. That's the bottom line. I'm not trying to be, you ever hear the word persnickety? No, I mean, you're just trying to say, listen, put a little damn pride into your house and in your property. Is it asking too much to pick up the crap, mow your lawn, and to keep your place neat? I mean, can't you see that's what we got going on over here? Why do you live there if you're not willing to do that? Go live somewhere with other bums then. department will maybe get some results yeah you never know till you call and ask yeah i mean they got they got a zoning department's calling call and ask what direction i could go here's what my problem is who's going to help me solve it you can easily either the zoning departments sometimes you got a community police officer they might be able to assist you in that as well but i also wanted to mention now now if none of that works up That works out for you. If Ted the conservative comes back from New Jersey, I'll send him over there to rough the person up a little bit when he's done in Jersey. Well, he does go to Jersey a lot, and people are getting a little suspicious. What's just going to Jersey? What's going on? I don't know what's going on. He's going to Jersey all the time, and I'm beginning to no wonder like these people are saying. What's Ted the conservative up to?

up with the people that contacted the Department of Justice or whoever it was that contacted Sammy the Bull. Yeah. To try to find out. What's it about now? I can't remember. What the heck was that about? They contacted Sammy the Bull. Yeah. And he took care of it. And he took care of business. Yeah. Now, they may, you know, they actually did this, contacted him to find out what they were trying to find out. I mean, come on, maybe that's why your buddy's there too. Yeah, hanging around with their Jersey boys. Yeah, he's out there in Jersey. You know, he goes out there with another guy. I don't know if you've ever heard of him. His name, Creep and Charlie. No, no, I never heard. I've heard of, I've heard of other names in this town as far as they're associated with that, those people, but never creep in charge. They're driving out together. He's had to get conservative and creeping Charlie going to Jersey. I just want to know, you know that this is probably turned into the Salem witch hunt that's going on with this administration. What do you mean? That's what I equated to. The Salem witch hunt. What do you mean?

Everybody that they have tried to bring charges against, you know what's happened? Nothing. They have convicted no one. No convictions whatsoever. All this is is the Salem witch hunt of the 1650s in 2026. That's all it is. Say that again. Give me that again. people that the Trump administration, the Department of Justice, is trying to put in jail, bring charges against. Anybody that they tried to do that, too, nothing has ever stick. Nothing sticks. It's all been a big mush burger and nothing. You know what's saying? is, don't you? Yeah, but don't you think Trump was a victim of a lot of those witch hunts? I mean, that took place? I can't think of any guy that was more persecuted. I didn't think of a better guy to have all these people after him than Mr. Trump. He is, he is, come on, come on. Well, it seems like you guys, it seems to me. The Costa Nostra, they went to them to find out. certain thing, and he's going to, you're supposed to believe whatever would come out of his mouth? Are you people have got, no, I don't want to say you people. You get, it's getting so stupid. Everything is out there. It's just all one, like the woman was just on talking about Iran and all that over there. That should have never happened. It should have never happened. Everything was in place to keep that nuclear program under check. All he's doing is manipulating the market, period. You know he's made over $2 billion in this last go around with being president. He's made over $2 billion. Stand by. Let me deal my commercials back with Fifth Avenue. News Radio 570 W. Kvian, I'll be right back.

If you run a business, you know, 570 WKBN. Seems to me you've got a double standard when it comes to Trump, you know, with all the persecution that the Biden Justice Department did against him and his family. Hell, they tried to debank the guy in his entire family, not just him, his wife, his kids, and all that kind of stuff. I mean, that was how reprehensible the Biden administration was. I didn't hear you calling pointing that out, but now you're saying, well, it seems... Oh, I see. So what they... Whatever they did was justified. I see. He has, now he's going to have the immunity when he gets out of office of all his taxes. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Come on. I see. It sounds to me like you've got a double standard. No, there's no double standard here. It's just as you and the Republicans, you just don't want to admit the truth. Everything that comes out of that guy's mouth is a lie. You know that. It's a complete lie. I can't believe anything that the Department of Defense says or any, and Trump or Todd Blanche or any, it's all lies. Well, there is a lot of exaggeration. Like he, it's lies. It's not exaggeration. Yeah, like when he said an agreement is nearer with Iran, what, a couple months ago, yeah. I mean.

It's out in the open. It's obvious. You don't have to be a Philadelphia lawyer to figure this stuff out. Yeah, and Todd Blanche was his personal attorney. I get that. You know, Ron, I know. I know deep in your heart. You know what I'm talking about is the truth. But you are not, you are not going to, you don't want to upset your Republican callers that called into you. Really? I'm telling you the truth. If you keep, you don't, if you don't take care of this problem. I'm, I'm better outside in the sunshine. No, you're not. No, you're not. You're better off his side in the air conditioning. I'm better in the sunshine. See, that's why, that's the other reason.

Now, did you vote for Kamala Harris? I brought it for Joe Biden. Well, he didn't run against Trump. Well, he ran the first time. I'm talking when Trump just won his last election. No, I did not. No. You didn't vote for Harris? Nope. And you didn't vote for Harris. And you didn't vote for Harris. And you didn't vote for Trump. And women. Men can't have babies. And you've asked me these things a thousand times. I was just asking, so you didn't vote for Harrison, you didn't vote for Trump. That's all I'm asking. I'm just trying to, I'm trying to get a read on you. Well, all right, what do you want to read? I am anti-Trump to the core. To the core. I mean, so you don't think he's, you just can't stand the guy, or his policies, or both. proportions and the tall blanchees and the rest of the sink of fence that he has a poor allow him to get away with what he's getting away with I just hope I'm hoping beyond hope that come November I'm hoping beyond hope that the landslide happens do I want the alternative no I understand what the alternative is with a lot of that I don't want the democratic socialism either. All right. I don't want that. I don't want that to happen. Stand by, stand by. I'll let you finish your thought. I'll let you finish in a minute. 70. WKV.S. The House Ethics Committee is opening an investigation into Max Miller, Republican Congressman who's the former son-in-law of Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, is under a deadline of tomorrow to make a decision on whether to continue in the race for re-election from Ohio's 7th District. If you like historic sites, there's one in Cincinnati that's getting a lot of attention. The Harriet Beacher Stowe House is enjoying a surge of popularity since the completion of its restoration. of years ago. And since that time, we have seen about a 40% increase in attendance. Christina Hartlebe is executive director shortly after leaving Cincinnati. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the legendary anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. I'm Matt Reese. Listen on the free Iheart Radio app for all your music, news, talk, and sports radio. Podcast, too. Download the app. Free never sounded so good. Now, Ron Verbe. On News Radio 570, WKBN. All right. Well, I'm deeply troubled by your hatred of Trump. Hatred. It's standing up for what's right.

Constitution says, not letting someone, I don't care who it is, step all over it like this guy has done. And you know I'm speaking the truth. You know it. I'm not some, you know I'm speaking the truth. And this guy is stepping all over it. He's giving this country, I mean, the other countries can't stand this anymore because of what he's done. I have, I probably have 50 things in front of me right here that I could talk about until tomorrow, next week. The impeachable offenses of Donald Trump. I'm going to read you five of them. Well, these are just democratic talking points. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's, that's not true. That's not, no. Get away from that Republican talking points and the, this is the truth. Has every Republican, well, but most of them are. I must have them under his tutelage. They're enamored by him. They're afraid of them. He pardoned 1,500 right-wing domestic terrorists that attacked America. And he wants to pay them $1.8 billion of your money. isn't the worst situation that you could come. It's just unbelievable. To even think that up, these people that broke into the Capitol.

These are truths. These are Democrat opinions. Oh, my God. Oh, sweet Jesus. Yes. Oh, sweet Jesus. I think you've been in a heat too long today. I feel bad. I do. I feel bad that you think like that. I do. I'm not trying to convert you to anything. I'm not trying to. I'm not trying to. I'm not trying to. I'm not true. Now, if you, the Republicans have told me. All right. Go get creeping Charlie. I got more. Now, that's enough. I can't. You can't take it. I can't take any more. All right. See you. You're on here. Well, maybe you should take two days off because this has been a great show. But to start off with the last conversation we had, I want to apologize to you for that because I really... really, really blew my top, you know, just like the last caller. And as much as I can stand, I couldn't stand anymore. So for that, I will apologize. You always told me, don't bite your tongue. And as far as Bubba Ginoos goes, listen, maybe back in a day he might be able to dance like a clinger. But I've seen that man dance now. Ain't a woman going to be with him. That ain't going to be with him. That ain't going to happen. Now, as far as the lady they called, this tweet waste. A.A. A.K.O. Battle Action. Yes. I want her to know, right, that I pray all the time. I'm like you, Ron. I raise dollars. And when you raise a girl, you pray all the time. So there's nothing wrong with praying, and I believe a lot more people are praying that are getting credit for. You know what I mean? And this is the last one. This is a good one, too. Yes, I'm ready. No, you ain't a young used to be. You got a lot going on, and you might not remember this. Okay, so let's get the scenario. I'm not as young as I used to be. I might not remember this because I'm senile or have dementia. Okay. Go ahead. Okay, well, maybe about 15, maybe 17 years ago. Yeah, 17 years ago. I can't even remember yesterday. Go ahead. Me and you had a conversation. This was going on President Trump. had just came on the scene. And I asked you, you know, what do you think you're going to get from the president? And you asked me what I thought he was going to do. And then I told you something. I asked you a question, and I believe you told me that it wouldn't happen because he was too smart. I said to you, Well, what if he does all that, and he's like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and he has a whole bunch of people around him that's going to hurt him? You know, because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had his brother as the Attorney General. Remember that? Yes. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. really started the Vietnam War. Remember that? Yes. You remember McNamara and Westmoreland, all the people around him? I said I was worried about that. Are we looking at that now with Donald Trump? We're looking at a mess with Donald Trump. I mean, I say it. I take a lot of criticism from people.

I think we're looking at a serious mess. I've said it before. I think he thought this would be over and done with and be a lot easier than it is. You're looking at a major miscalculation of Donald Trump and a mess that he has created. And I don't know what the outcome will be or what the exit ramp will be at this point. Okay, can you think about this? You are a businessman. You are running business. You have people up under you running different sections. And when you need to make a major move that's involved, the whole company, you get input from the people that are running a company. Yes. I refuse to believe that Donald Trump did this all by itself. They've had to be some people in the room saying, boss, this is going to happen. I think he got bad information. That's in my personal opinion. I don't know. I don't know if he had bad information or if he just... I mean, ultimately, he made the final decision. It seems to me, just to my perception, based on the cabinet meetings that I do see, which I... Talk with a lot of Trump supporters. I get a little tired. There's some things of Donald Trump that do wear thin with me, this idea of naming everything after him or whatever these cabinet members are. Oh, we're going to call it the Trump this, the Trump that. And it's just that gets a little old with me real fast, you know, like the Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump Center. And these. Basically ass kisses that want to put his name on everything. Enough of that already. I've had my fill of that. And when I watch these cabinet meetings, it seems a lot of those cabinet people just sit there and really, truly, just kiss the guy's ass. And it's sickening to watch some of it. So I don't know if there's any dissent as far as discussion is concerned with Trump or if there's a fear to give him any dissent. You just answer my question because if you got people sitting around him sitting on their ass and sitting on their hands saying yes sir, yes sir, then he got some bad people around him. If you got people around you that are afraid to speak up and because what difference does it make or he'll retaliate? then any good boss is going to listen to people that agree with their decision, and he's also going to listen to ones that disagree with their decision. Remember Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would listen when it came to a Cuban Missile Crisis, where if he listened to his military, we would have got into a major conflict there. But he listened to what they had to say. He listened to what they had to say, and then he thought it through, and he made the final decision and the correct decision to prevent that from happening. You think that actually happened in this gift with Donald Trump? Or you think Donald Trump just going to say he's smarter and everybody else, the smartest person in the room. I'm going to make the decision no matter what you guys say. I would have a tendency to probably think the latter. I think he makes a final decision no matter what you have to say.

Well, my brother, welcome back. And one more thing. When you guys get to talk about the next generation, think about our kids and what our kids are doing and our grandkids are doing. And think about that young man who is brilliant, right? Even though we don't get along. We get along, but we don't agree on everything. But I think Alex is a brilliant. You have a good day, man. So thank you. You're on here. Yeah, I think we're the last of the great generation, Ron. But Donald's got it right. He's following the money. He's following the money. He's a businessman. He's falling the money. And I, you know, I think it goes back to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia controls Iran, and Iran does the dirty work. I'm thinking, but Donald is falling the money. That's what it's all about. Money and power. Not the people, not the religion, not... basketball, women's basketball, it's about the money, money and power. Donald knows money. He's a capitalist, like me. I'm a capitalist. I know money. That's why I'm not married. But anyhow, so where are we going to go from here? Well, I don't know. You made the phone call. I was trying to figure out what the hell you were saying in the first place. I felt myself, I mean, just in listening to your initial comments, I felt myself getting dumber the more you talked. Well, no, I got to get my points in quick because you never know when the next caller is going to come on, but you guys excite me, especially today. I don't know what it is about today, but because you took a couple days off. I think that's what it is. You know, absence makes the heart grow fonder. It is. Less is more. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Don't hang out. No, I'm not done. Okay. I won't hang up. I'm perfectly comfortable listening to you. Did I tell you the story about Uncle Bill and Chester when they were fishing on the Grand River in a steamy summer night, and they were trolling. They were trolling. That's a point that I'm making. They were trolling. And they got this lantern on the canoe, and this big musky comes swimming up right next to the boat. And Uncle Bill... did what he naturally did. He just ruts down there and grabbed that musky and rolled it in the canoe and sat on and grabbed the tail. And he told, Chester, Chester, grab the head. And Uncle Bill looked back and Chester was gone. Really? Wow. Yeah. Thanks for sharing. That's the best I got today. Thanks. That's not good. You're on the air.

It's the boss lady. What are you been doing? It's been out in Florida. Yeah, I've been keeping a low profile. I don't blame you. I'm trying to, too. Really? It's not working so good for you. It's not working so good. I've been trying, kind of. I know, but you just keep gaining popularity. You're like good. I'm quieting. You know somebody came up to me and said, are you the boss lady? You are the boss lady. And I started laughing. I know, I started laughing. I said, oh, my God. I don't recognize me. And you want to know the funniest part? Yes. Someone came up to my sister and said, are you? Are you on video? Do you? Are you on social media? And she goes, no. That's my sister. So they're not thinking it's her, my sister. Why do you guys look like sisters, obviously? Yes, yes. Everybody thinks for twins, but I don't think we look that much alike, but people think we look very alike. Isn't that interesting? So your sister is putting up with the guff that you create, the controversy that you create. It's hilarious. So I'm just going to keep telling people, no, that's my sister. And then she's going to, yeah, I'm listening to know that's my sister. It's hilarious. Boy, that isn't. We get to find out. Go ahead. That isn't really fair to your sister. Oh, it is if you knew we'd be fair. I'm kidding. Well, I can see that there's a little sister love here, all right. Oh, it's always, it's always a treat with us. My youngest sister's real quiet, but she's a sniper. Really? I'm not quiet. Yeah, she's really quiet, but she's a sniper quiet. She's like a samurai warrior quiet. She's sneak up on you. Yeah. Man, I tell you, you got to watch out for you, you Italian women. You know, I got a lot to worry about folks. I get Ted the conservative, always going to Jersey with creeping Charlie. And now I got these two that I got to worry about. You know, there's nothing but troublemakers out there. So what has you been devoting your time to? Because this ought to be interesting. Well, right now I'm super excited because we get to find out the outcome of their little polling meeting today. Are we broke or are we not broke? Well, what do you make of that situation? I think it's a bunch of hogwash. I think that they just are backtracking right now because they know how terrible that meeting came off. They were, you know, the fire alarm was pulled to get everybody's panties in a twist. And then Angiro went on the other, you know, Youngstown Studio podcast and basically said that, no, it's, you know, everything's fine. So I don't know how you ask for a levy if you're going to say everything's fine. That's what I'd like to know. I think they got a lot of explaining to do. You're going to ask for three mill and you want to portray everything's fine only because you're trying to.

Well, I can wait a minute. Your meeting was and how your lack of understanding of the depth and breadth of the issue at hand. So I'm not going to call it scary anymore at all. I'm going to say, we don't need a levy. Everything's fine. Yeah, everything's fine. If everything's fine, then everything's fine. Okay, good. Well, wait a minute. Before I left for a few days, we heard that meeting and we heard what the guy that's in charge of money had to say. That doesn't seem like everything's fine to me. No kidding, Ron. No kidding. But do you know how dumb you have to be to go on to a studio podcast and then say all is well in the hood? And then ask for money? Do you know what kind of a stoon-od you must be to do that? Because guess what? You already gave me my talking points. No need to pass this levy. I mean, they're good. They're good in the hood. It doesn't make it. It's so bizarre to me. It's because they're covering. This doesn't make a lick of sense. Not a lick, not a lick. It's so, I'm entertaining to me because you're trying to watch them banangle out. All they had to say was, it's on me. You know what? I should ask better questions. This will never happen again. We were caught with our pants down. Stand by. And we need money. Stand by. This is interesting. The continuing economic situation in Poland back in a minute.

Looking to upgrade your bathroom? Hi, this is WKBN. Well, something doesn't seem right here in Poland Township to me. So the initial meeting, which I think it was fairly accurate when they had that special meeting, and they're putting this levy on, said they're running out of money. How has anything changed since then, boss lady? Nothing changed since then. But the fact of the matter is, is then I started... screaming. Truly, honestly, I think it's because I started screaming and saying, what idiots? How did you guys not know this? What's going on? So then they don't want to admit that they're idiots and didn't know what was going on. So they just went like, no, it's all fine in the neighborhood. And they positioned that way. Now, do you know how stupid you have to be to do that when you want three mill? Do you know how dumb that makes you? It makes you... Ron. I just laugh. I don't know how these people exist. How do they exist? You thought that was your power play? I'll just say it's all good. And then I'll still ask for a three-mill levy. Because now I have my talking points. They don't need any money. No, I don't care. Nope. You're a trustee. You're saying you're needing any money. You don't need any money. We'll see what they vote today. Now they're all three getting together today. Now, you know what I think is going to happen? Today they're going to vote and they're going to vote to put the levy on the ballot. And then he's going to have to go back on what he just said Friday. I mean, it seems it's a three-ring circuit. Tell me if I'm wrong here. It seems like no one was paying attention to where the dollars and cents and they were making decisions on things that they couldn't afford. And now they're trying to fire sales to Tahoe that the police department needs. I mean, how is that proper management of doing the responsibility that you were elected to do? It's not. It's not. It's not. And you know what? I bet you they're going to vote. They're going to scramble because I think the deadline has got it. I think the deadline to put something on the ballot. What did Denise say last week? I think it's got to be tomorrow. I think it's the fifth. I think it's the fifth or the sixth is the deadline to get it on the ballot. So they're meeting today. They met at five o'clock.

And hopefully somebody was there to record. Oh, no, it's being recorded. So I'll be watching that for my nightly entertainment. I'll giggle and laugh. I'll send you. I'll send you the recap, Ron. You'll be the first on my recap. I would like to do that because, I mean, it seems to me they've got a financial mess in Poland Township. They probably need this levy. Not probably they need this levy for their police departments. And they're trying to act like they were on top of things when they really weren't on top of things. I don't know. Absolutely. You know what? Here's what you're doing business. You just face into it. You just got to face into it, own it, and move along. You would steal all the smoke in the room, all the air, you would suck it, all the oxygen out of the room if you just owned it and moved on. Right? It's just the... What you're telling me, the reversal or the explanation is just strange to me. The whole damn thing didn't make it. Well, tomorrow ought to be an interesting day, folks, when the boss lady's... I'm going to give a recap tomorrow. Stay tuned. Sort this all out and explain it so the rest of us can understand. Thank you, boss lady. Stay on top of things. That was a good night. She's making it happen. Ron Verp from McKincombe, Mojone, News Radio 570W2, and Sean's coming up. I know that hiring can be.