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Ron Verb. On News Radio 570, WKBN. On News Radio 570, WKVN. Let me see. I was just reading this. Dr. Anthony Fauci privately discussed concerns about COVID-19 MRNA vaccines for pregnant women in January 2021, including questions about fever after a second dose and the theoretical risk of miscarriage during the first trimester. According to newly released text messages obtained from his government issued cell phone, the exchange involved Anthony Fauci, then Center of Disease Control Prevention Director, Dr. Rochelle Walinsky, and Dr. Vivek Ramaswamy Murthy, who would later become the former President Joe Biden's Surgeon General. Anthony Fauci said because many people experience significance to kind. related symptoms and fever after a second dose, that reaction theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester, according to the messages shown on page two of documents released Monday by Senator Ron Johnson. Wasn't this interesting, huh? The text chain released today could have, could have an immediate impact on public health. and the principle of informed consent. So what they did is so now they went back and they looked at Anthony Fauci's cell phone and his messages that he had on his cell phone. The release question why only three contacts were listed by name while all other text messages are identified only with phone numbers among the 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails. It is too early to determine whether any data has been deleted. To protect the privacy of individuals with whom Dr. Anthony Fauci communicated, as well as personal messages unrelated to public health issues, he was involved in, it will take time to carefully review the large volume of information the senators received. Chairman Johnson said the staffs will work diligently and to release relevant information to the public as soon as possible. This Murthy initially asked whether there was any reason to favor vaccination earlier or later in pregnancy and whether officials had seen evidence of adverse outcomes among pregnant women would already been vaccinated. Anthony Fauci's Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time responded that there were no data or theoretical reasons to believe vaccinations earlier in pregnancy should be preferred over later. vaccinations. He also said concerns that an MRNA vaccine could alter a person's genes were a misconception. Later that evening, however, Anthony Fauci mentioned an evidence of issues with the second shot for pregnant women. Milinski replied that it was definitely a good point, especially after dose two.

Murthy then wrote that he had been hearing concerns about MRNA causing mutations in a developing fetus and said Anthony Fauci's point about the cytokine response. If I'm saying that correctly, after the second dose was a really good point. The following day after Murphy flagged a World Health Organization recommendation at the time advising against use of Moderna's vaccine and pregnant women because of limited data, Anthony Fauci emphasized that officials had to weigh the potential risk of vaccination against the risk posed by COVID-19 itself. He wrote that more than 10,000 pregnant women had already been vaccinated with no issues reported. Food Drug Administration Advisory Committee on Obstructics and Gynecology Guidance, allowed pregnant women to choose vaccination, and so that the animal toxicology studies had not raised red flags. I mean, this is just getting more bizarre as time goes on. I mean, Anthony Fauci, to me, is like a Dr. Mingla. I'm telling you, this guy is, he will never see justice. He's too damn old, and he's going to get away with all of it. But he's up to his eyeballs and some, this guy is just bad news. He was funding this COVID stuff. He was just lying about things. He was funding it. and just covering his ass, and this was just one giant experiment on people. This other, this Murthy responded that the WHO recommendation surprised him and warned that a strong recommendation against vaccination based on a lack of data could be potentially quite damaging to public confidence among pregnant women. Wolinsky agreed and said she would flag the issue for an upcoming meeting.

So these text messages are out of concern that if you were pregnant in your first trimester and you were getting the vaccination, the second dose could cause you to have a miscarriage. Well, don't you think people should be advised of that? I mean, this is just an unbelievable nightmare. The more that's coming out, this is all text messages on Anthony Fauci's phone, and you saw the other stuff that ran Paul had last week. But once again, the best part about all this is we have a right to know what's, we have a right to this information. We should know this information. It's why people don't trust anything government says anymore because of, and this involves people's reproduction and health. And I'm telling you, Anthony Fauci is just, to me, sheer evil. And he'll never face any justice, just like they won't any of these Epstein people. Well, just like the Russian Oaks people won't. You're on here. You ready for the stock market report? No, I'm not because I don't even know where the stocks were today. Let me bring it up on my ticker here. S&P 500 closes little changed as oil rises on Iran uncertainty. Intel leads chips lower. Well, that's true, but it's not just treasury oil prices, rising treasury yields are rising too. Because despite the fact that war said, he's going to keep interest rates steady and not raising. Investors are saying that with Congress spending like drunken sailors, we're demanding higher yields. And now gold and precious metals are starting to rise. Gold bottomed out at 4,000 an ounce, not that long ago, closed today at almost 4,500 ounce. And gold is a hedge against inflation. With interest rates going up, people normally... sell gold, and buy treasuries. They're not doing that. They're buying treasuries, and they're buying gold at the same time. Now, also, we're in end of corporate earnings season. I'll explain to your audience. Every quarter, every three months, corporations file the reports how much profit they made or they lost money, how much they lost. Well, corporate earnings for the last second quarter of the year have been good. It's not just tech, Ron, that's driving the stock market. We have a broad-based stock market where not just the S&P 500, but medium-sized companies are reporting great earnings. That's very good for the stock market. And workers are worried about AI is muscling people out of their jobs on a massive skill. But that doesn't change the fact that if you live near an AI data center, your utility bills are up 40%, 50%, as much as 100% or more. They've doubled for...

Some people across the country. With no end at sight, they could go up even more. And forget people in the country. That's what's happening here. Our electric rate to what you're paying here because of, as I've said numerous times, because once again, Clinton and Obama and John Kerry, all these people that's the green energy people that wanted to rip down coal-powered plants. and they regulated amount of business here. Then they required they'd be torn down so they couldn't be turned back on. They had nothing to replace the deficit they created. Then you come along with the demand for this AI stuff, and it's why my cost of electricity is doubled right here in the community in which we broadcast from, and it can go up more next year. So this isn't the end of it, more than likely, it'll go up even more. And Ron, I also want to mention about uranium mining companies. But before I do... Well, before you do that, I want to mention this to you. Oil and U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls below 300 million barrels. Lowest since 1983. There's the headline. I'm just reading that from CNBC's ticker. How about that? Now, normally, the Federal Reserve... doesn't do anything to harm an incumbent president. They don't usually raise interest rates. They try to keep inflation modest, except under Jimmy Carter. Because he was 100% on board with Israel, the Federal Reserve. We had inflation coming down when Carter got elected president. And that's one of the main reasons he got elected president. He promised to bring inflation down. Yeah, but he failed at that because he was a terrible president. Terrible. Remember Reagan? Reagan turned things around. Of course, you had a little bit of a recession there to get things turned around. Well, the reason he failed as far as inflation was because the Federal Reserve just cranked up the printing presses. It says, okay, it's the economy stupid. And since you aren't totally on board with Israel and war spending, we're going to make sure that you don't get reelected. But I'll tell you this, in 2025 of all the uranium delivered to U.S. nuclear power plants, only 7% came from the U.S. but no country on earth burns more of it than America. And the U.S. currently has 94 reactors, the largest operating fleet in the world, producing one-fifth of all the electricity in the country. And 20 of those plants are working through license renewals, Ron. They're going through hoops of bureaucratic red tape to get these renewals when we need as much energy to bring prices down as possible. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. That's why I go back and emphasize Obama regulated the coal-powered plants out of business and then insisted they be destroyed so they could be turned back on.

What a disaster that guy was. What an absolute disaster. But when you talk about Jimmy Carter, and I hate to admit that you and I were around during that time, he was a disaster. Energy was a disaster. Interest rates were a disaster. The economy was terrible. And when Reagan got elected, he really did turn things around. I mean, he really, really changed things for the better. Well, you know, 95% of the uranium... plans to run these plants for 80 years or more. And there are also three shuttered reactors that will be reopened and brought back online, the Palisades in Michigan, three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, and Wayne Arnold in Iowa. And all three produced 2.3 gigawatts between them. Now, in addition, Trump just signed four executive orders. last year, aimed at taking America's nuclear capacity from 100 gigawatts to 400 gigawatts by 2050, that's a quadrupling. Ron, that's because our Republican Congress, who's in the backpockets of the fossil fuel industry. And the fossil fuel industry view alternative energy is competition. Well, I'm going to tell you why that is with that in mind. It's because all these people that were these green energy people like Bill Gates and that kind of stuff did a 180 when they needed all this power for their AI centers. They changed their opinion literally overnight. And now Trump has stopped the destruction of the coal plants. I mean, Trump's energy policy. Stand by. It's Fort Lauderdale, Frank. Ron Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoney. Back in a minute. I heart radio. What more than just awareness for UKBN? Back to it. News Radio 570.000 to KVN. Got to pay attention. 525 here. So at least Trump. Hey, Ron, let me get the legal caveat out of the way because I'd like to hear your question. I have invested a lot of money in uranium mining stocks, but I have a very high risk tolerance level, and I analyze all the stocks individually. There's probably nobody listening in your audience that's fortunate enough to have a brokerage account, a Roth IRA, a traditional IRA, a rollover, etc.

in uranium mining companies. They are just way too volatile. Ten years ago, they were high, and they've been doing nothing but going down ever since. And we don't know who's going to be takeover in the midterms. But go ahead and ask your question on Trump because I had wanted to mention about... All these Democrats electing socialists now. Can you imagine that? What do you make of that? Well, what I make of that is that they're economic and investment functional illiterates. They don't have a clue how socialism has destroyed the economy of every country that it's ever been tried. Remember, we have had several. conversations. I read Das Kapital by Karl Marx when I was 21 years old. And he had, he probably did the best job of analyzing Britain's economy, which was the leading economy in the world at that time. But the year 1867, he published Das Kapital, the United States, England, European countries, France, set shattered all previous records. You have to have capitalism, or you're going to have widespread poverty. That's what I make of it. And you know, Ron, I had told you a while back when Roe Conno was talking about running for president. Well, you know, normally I might have voted for Ro Khanna because he wants to get corporate PAC money out of politics. He wants to limit everything to no more than, I think, 2005. individual contributing to campaigns. And he's also against Israel. He doesn't think we should be giving billions and tens of billions of dollars of Israel. He's like Marjorie Taylor Greene. That's our money. It should stay here in this country to benefit the American people. But Ron, Ro Khanna is a socialist, and I would never vote for a socialist. There you go. Fort Lauderdale Frank and join the Sunshine from the Sunshine State. Thank you. You're on the air. Hello, Ron. Hello, sir. This is Ray. I used to drive a truck. Ray who used to drive it. Hey, let me ask you a question, Ray. I was just thinking about you the other day. Oh, that's bad news. I was trying to think, did you once give me? A bottle of polish that was like in a water bottle that was like orange. Yeah. Was that you? Yes. That stuff is fantastic. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yep. I mean, so it was orange and it was in like a water bottle. And you said, try waxing your car with this? Yeah, it's a polymer. I've moved on from that because they come out with better stuff. But that at the time was the best up. It was a polymer wax. And you put it on like you do window cleaner. Wipe it on, wipe it off, good to go for months. Where do you get that at? I mean, I ran out of that. That was a chemical guy's product.

and was called V-O-7. They still make it. But I think there's better stuff out there now that I switched to. It's more durable. And those would be ceramic sprays. You're telling me that's better than that stuff was great. That was the best stuff at the time. but they've moved on to actually better stuff. I mean, it worked to say, the new stuff worked to say. Hang on. Hang on a second. Just bear with that, right? He should be impressed. I remember that. I've been wanting to ask him that. Back in a minute. Have you heard the news? The last chance for Iran. Many countries wanted to give this a last chance. This is the last chance. Marco Rubio won that last chance. There's been progress made in those talks, but not finality yet. We're hoping that will happen very shortly. There's good news. There are shit moving through the streets. There are oil moving right now through the straits. Todd Blanche's nomination for AG advances. Todd Blanche is a very good man. And election tests for socialists. Democrat socialists. Check in often.

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Listen to this. I've been waiting here for you to call, hoping that you didn't die. Right. I guess it's like, hope he's still on the planet and waiting for you to call. And the chemical guys, that's the name brand. You can get it from Amazon or. I usually buy it in the gallon, and that's why you got it. I bought a, had a gallon, you got it in a water bottle or, you know, just a spray bottle. But it's incredibly easy to use. I use, if you go Google up ceramic, spray sealant, or spray detailer, ceramic detail or spray, wait a minute, I'm going to go ahead. You'll find a bunch of them. I use a yellow one now. It's a ceramic versus the one, the orange one is a polymer. It's just different chemicals. They both work really, really good. I think the ceramics have a little bit better durability. But I do my car's truck twice a year, spring and fall. That's it. And it's incredibly easy to use, isn't it? It's unbelievable. You know, if I get like a new lawnmower or I take my lawnmower apart, I got John Deere at 2000 autumn, the deck is absolutely perfect. The top of the deck. When I take it off to, you know, the sharp, you know, clean it out or sharpen the blades or whatever, boom, lots off there, clean it up, spray it, it's spring, fall, good to go, and it's still shiny 20 years later. So can you believe I can remember that? I mean, that's amazing that you do remember it. I remember that. But that stuff is so good. That's why you remember it. Right. And I said, I know that was from Ray, the truck driver. Right. Here's my story of Ray the truck driver, folks. Ray the truck driver, it was, I always learned when he was working, Ray would tell me when there was a recession or going to be a recession. So all of you stock guys listening, Ray would call me and say, he'd look at the load board. When he was driving truck, he'd say, the load board's good and the load board was bad. It was always an indication of how the economy was doing. Basically, where people buying stuff and were stores ordering stuff. So he would tip me off over what's going to be happening economically by looking at the load board. This guy was right. on the economy what was happening before you would read about it on CNBC. So then he would be doing his own. He's one of those guys that would buy stocks on his own and did and really did really pretty good on his own just because. I don't even know how to describe it, just because he seemed smart at it, okay? So he would drive truck, he would look at the load board, he would buy stocks, and he made money.

And then when I'd be on location, we don't do remotes anymore, but when I'd be on location down at Morgan Furniture, he would stop by. And he was always like a really interesting guy and a really smart guy. And he hands me this bottle of stuff. And he says, hey, try this on your car, man. It's really going to be something. And it doesn't take very much at all. So finally, I ran out of this stuff. And I'm saying, I know that's from Ray. I can remember that. And that's why I've been waiting for him to call. Then one day Ray calls me on the air, and he says, I quit. I quit driving truck. And I remember this conversation. I said, well, why did you do that? And he said to me, well, because I could just see, I would be sleeping in that truck somewhere and just die. Maybe a week before somebody finds me or whatever. And I just didn't want to live that way anymore. And how much they wanted, how many miles I would have to drive just to cover insurance. It was ridiculous, right? Remember that? Correct. That's good. You do remember. You were paying attention. Yeah, yeah. Those were some great calls, man. I mean, that was some great stuff. You were always right on the economy. Your stocks were really great picks. Your car stuff was second to none. And then when you decided, and literally this just happened one day when you said, I've had enough. I'm not going to die in this truck. What were you 65 at the time or 62? No, I was actually 62. Right. And remember you had mathematically done how much your health care was going to cost you if you kept your income as high as it was and how many miles you'd have to drive just to have health care per month. It was beneficial. Yeah, it was $1,200 a month wrong. Yeah, it was beneficial to make less money. That was the Obamacare. Yeah, 1,200. Yeah. Yeah. And so he said, there's no point in me. Busting my ass, I should make less money, and my health care play the Obamacare game. And that was really, it was very smart. It was very smart. Well, I mean, at some point it just gets to me. I mean, I feel bad for a lot of these, you know, family-owned businesses that have to go out. I think John Arnold was, you know, talking about, what is it, $2,500 a month? Yeah. Who can afford that? Yeah. That's crazy. Like even like my eye doctor was telling me what she has to pay for her family. It's even more than that. I mean, just per month. And that's just to have insurance. That's just every month. And they call up the Affordable Care Act. Affordable. What a crock of crap. Talk about affordability. That ain't it.

Anyway, here's the reason for my call. Before you get to the reason. You were talking about climate change. Before you get to that, I got another question for you. I'm going to get to that. So what are your thoughts? Were there as many foreign truck drivers in that, first of all, getting a CDL is not an easy thing to get? So now we have all these foreigners. They can't speak English or read the road signs. That is deeply disturbing to me. Now, can you talk about that because you were driving for all those years? How can you function if you can't read the signs and speak English? And I think Ray was the first one who told me this, too, which I remember a lot now. He said, that's why a lot of signs have pictures on them for people that can't read. Correct. Exactly. It started when I was doing it. I've been retired for, I don't know, maybe eight years, eight, nine years now. But it had started a little bit, and the biggest issue we had was Canada at that time.

Just about the time I was leaving, the Mexican trucks, they could come across the border in El Paso, Laredo, stuff like that. But they had like an international zone. It was like, you know, 10 miles from the border. Where Mexican drivers couldn't go outside that 10 miles. Well, now they can't. Now, here's another story, Ray told me. Is this accurate or not? And race says, you know, a lot of times there'll be two of these guys coming in from Mexico. Yep. Or actually, back then, back then it was more of the Middle Easterners coming from Canada. And they would have like a hole in the truck floor, right? You can call your truck stop right over here in the TA or the Petro and ask for the service department and they'll tell you. So listen to this. They wouldn't work on the truck. This is all... I remember all of this stuff. I mean, this would be going on during the commercial breaks. So I'd be saying, so you would have two guys. One would drive the required hours, and then he would go sleep, and the other one would drive. In the meantime, though, if they had to crap, they would crap, they had a hole in the floor of the truck, and they would crap right out the floor of the truck, and it would go all underneath the truck. doing their business and it was just disgusting and he's they refused to work on their trucks because of that right yep you can call your truck stop and ask them that's where they're repair shop ask them they'll tell you Yeah, when I hit the drive shaft, obviously the drive spray, you can imagine what happens at that point. It just goes everywhere. It's crazy. Here's what I call. Yeah. You had a little short thing there you were talking about climate change. Yeah. And you could. You could, not just limit it to climate change, listen to anything that the government elected officials, Republicans, Democrats, senators, Congress people, whatever. Whatever it is, they're championing. You know, for some of them, it's climate change, for others, health insurance, whatever. Why is it, Ron, that every time they find this issue to campaign on and crusade on, I should say mostly, it's campaign and mostly crusade, is there is always billions and billions and billions of dollars of government programs to work on it? Always. I don't care what the issue is. For example, Obamacare at the time there were like 30 million people who didn't have health insurance. But instead of figuring out a way to help those 30 million people get some kind of coverage, they changed the entire thing for 330 million people in the country. Yeah. Stupid. Right? Yeah.

Absolutely stupid. So my health insurance in a period, it went from 300 a month to 600 to 900 to 900 to 1,200, and I said, that's it, I'm done. Right. It's nuts. I'm working for the insurance company and everybody else. Yeah, you said. Everybody else gets, you know how you, you want a business. You pay your bills, you pay this, you pay that guy, the repair bill, the cost bill, the insurance guy, the fuel guy. Okay, I get what's, there's nothing left after I said, okay, that's enough for me. Can you? Why is it? that Bernie Sanders had been carpet on this for 30 years. He almost, one of the guys that I remember, he had a guy one time that said, you know, these politicians should be like a NASCAR drivers and have all the little patches for all their sponsors on there. That was a great idea. I remember that call too. He said that when you get up to speak as a politician, you should have like on your suit all the patches like an NASCAR guy of everybody that's giving you money so we can just look at it as you're talking. Exactly. They're right. But all of these programs have billions of, that's how the government grows wrong. They keep finding things. On the local level, it's the same thing. I hear you talking about a, you know, a week or two ago about your property, you broke down the property taxes. Yeah. You didn't have that 20, your father didn't have all that. Nope. Mine didn't either. you know, coming out of your property taxes. Yeah. It just goes on and on and on and on and on. Government, they just figure out more ways to spend money, hire more people, grow the government, and collect more money from everybody else. I haven't called much, and part of the reason is extreme disappointment. I'm severely, and I've been disappointed for a number of years, you know, when Republicans get in power, they can't seem to govern. Right. They talk about everything. They don't get anything done. If Trump haven't done executive orders, I can't think of a damn thing the Republican Congress and Senate have passed. They're too similar. They're two similar, right? The Democrats and Republicans, because, right, and why haven't the Republicans caught... Well, the Democrats, hey, Ron, I disagree there. The Democrats, they figure out a way to get it done. Yeah. They can get the legislation passed. I'm not saying it's good legislation. It's stupid a lot of times, like the Affordable Care Act, you know, some of this other nonsense, but they do get it done.

All the things that they run on, they can't seem to get it done. And it's just, I mean, Mike DeWine is really a disappointment. Yes. On the Haitian thing, okay, they had an earthquake 15 years ago, and they come up with a temporary thing. What is the definition of temporary? It doesn't mean forever. Right. But apparently now it does. Why? They get better money from the federal government to help take care of them. Plus, the COVID thing where they just lie to you. You can go all the way. They've been lying to us forever. You can go all the way back to Agent Orange, the Vietnam War. They've been lying to us right. And that's why, you know, at 72, I just kind of checked out a lot of it. I can't blame you. I'm tired of hearing it. Everything's a lie. I don't trust anything they say? I don't trust anything they say. No, I really don't. I really don't. Talk as cheap deeds are precious. I'm a total agreement. Before I go, because I know you've got a break in a couple of minutes. Now, wait a minute, because I don't want you to go because... Hold on. Hold on. Let me say this for I for you. I'm 72. I'll forget if you don't let me say it. Do you listen to the Indians, or the Indians, the Cleveland Games, baseball? Yes, yes. They have a couple of commercials. I think one's Marathon. Yes. Please, whatever you do, the guy that calls Bubba Ganesh, when he does the ball game thing. Yeah. Please don't ask him to do the imitations of the damn eagle or the wild Australian something or other or they're just screaming. Can you think of a stupider? No, it's very annoying. Commercial than those. No, hang on. The most irritating things I've ever heard. Stand by for a minute. Hang on. What more than just awareness for your business? An iHeart media partnership can help drive action through sweepstakes, ticket giveaways, listener contesting, and local media. Attach your business to music moments built to grow awareness, engagement, and leads. Get started today. Call 844-844-Eheart. Give your... Weather and talk station, 570 WKBN. Do you remember when you would tell, when people would be calling, you'd be saying, if you think things are going good... I used to deliver to this plant and to that plant, and now you go by there, and the plant's closed, there's nothing but weeds growing in the parking lot? Absolutely. I made a living for 20-something years on my auto parts, for Ford, Chrysler, General Motors. Yeah. And 16 of the 20 places I used to go are all gone. 16 out of 20. And I did this weekly every week for 20 years. Sixteen of those plants, Twinsburg, up there, Brook Park, over there, the Cleveland Engine Plant. Just right on down the line, Norfolk, Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia, Clay Como, which is in Kansas City area, Belvedere, Illinois. They reopened that one, though. Benton, Missouri, there were Chrysler plants where they made the Chrysler vans, all gone. I mean...

Kind of like the, they're gone to the point where Walton Hills Ford up there right by the racetrack in Northfield area. They're gone to the point where kind of like the coal plants were on. They took them out and bulldozed them. That's how gone they were. Unbelievable. Did you ever hit a deer when you were in the truck? No. Well, you're lucky. I almost did. One time I was actually in Canada, and I don't know how to do survive. I was coming back. I'm on the interstate. I'm passing another truck, so I'm on the left lane. He's in the right. And this deer jumped out, and somehow the smartest deer I saw Ron, he just turned sideways, parallel to both trailers. And both of us went by, and he ran off. Unbelievable. Buckiest deer ever. Think how difficult it is today, Ray, with the cost of diesel and insurance and everything to make it as an independent trucker. Think of that. Oh, it's got to be impossible. When you're in the truck, you have two different bosses. One is the customer service, which means get there, and the other is the safety department that don't bring any rules. Right. And you remember you would say... It's almost... You've got two masters and one of them is going to be managing. And sometimes one of the hardest things for a truck driver to do is find a place to park when he reaches that time limit because everything's full. What are you supposed to do? And the reason that is because of stupid government people. Ron, we don't like the smartest people. When they make rules, they make rules that they sound good. But they're not practical because 80% of the businesses in the U.S. open up and say 6, 7 o'clock in the morning. Well, the truck starts when the business does. Opens. Yeah. But when they put the time limit on the truck 14 hours later, say 6 o'clock you got up and going, 8 o'clock at night, 80% of the trucks are you have to find a place to park. Well, guess what? There ain't anywhere to park. And that was a problem when I was there. It's been a problem since, you know, 1995. Did you ever go to Chicago? You ever have to go to Chicago? Oh, yes. Is it a nightmare? Yes or no? Absolutely. It is, if they can squeeze the car, you're on the interstay going 60 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, is there 15 feet in between you and the car in front of you? or a truck. And the car's 12 feet long, so there's a foot and a half front back, boom, they're in there. All right, I got a break. You've got to call me more often. Call me again. I've got a million things to talk to you about. All right, see you. He's just a joy. That guy is great. Hey, folks, thanks for tuning in. Ron Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoney. Remember the good folks at Stadium GM, Shorty Navarro, Mike Hudak, the entire staff down there. All that you could possibly want that General Motors makes, Buick, Chevrolet, Silverado, GMC, all under one roof.

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