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just to bring everything in line and it works phenomenal. I mean, it's, I mean, the pill is so tiny, Mr. Pharmacist. It's like, it's unreal. I mean, it's, but it works wonders. I mean, it's the lowest possible dose. And I was telling, I was telling Rich a pharmacist, I just started taking, now this is that, as you get older, you start taking more stuff. Is what, metformin after I talk with Rich and everything like that. And it's, uh, actually has a lot of positive things about it. So I started taking my metformin. Rich, after I talk to you, after I talk to you, not after I talk to my doctor and everything, I talked to Rich a pharmacist. So, okay, that's cool. Yeah, no, I mean, you're being proactive, which is what you should be. You know, unfortunately, most people are. Most people wait until they have the heart attack or they've, you know, their diabetes is out of control. Their A1C's 8, 9, 10, you know, or higher when it should be under 6th. And if you're proactive and you start taking stuff, there's a lot of, we can put off, we can modify disease states. There's a lot we can do. compared to when our parents were our age. You know what I found, you know, and our grandparents. What I found interesting and true or false, metformin was actually, it was used for something else before they used it for lowering your A1C, if you will. And mine is just slightly elevated. But when they, it was actually used for malaria. Did you know that? I was unaware of that. They used it for malaria. I actually did not. That one, that was, glucophage was the brand name of that. And that came out. I graduated in 91 from pharmacy school. That probably came out around 94, 95 in this country. It was probably out before that. But it was just old, it was just new enough that we never studied it when I was in pharmacy school. Metformin? But it's a unique drug. It's the only drug of its kind. It has no competition. There's nothing else like metformin. It lowers insulin resistance. It's a great drug. And it pushes back if you're pre-diabetic, if for anybody out there that has pre-diabetes or metabolic syndrome, you should probably be on metformin 500 once or twice a day to start just because it will push back the onset of diabetes. It'll push back the metabolic, the onset of the progression of the metabolic syndrome. It's a great drug. There's a lot of great drugs out there, and a lot of them now are generic and they're cheap. It is really something, how inexpensive they are. Like, Crestor used to be really expensive. Oh, when it was brand, yeah. Yeah, once it goes generically, you could, but you could probably buy a whole year supply. If you had your doctor rate you for, say, 350 or 400 tablets, a Crest store. 10 milligrams, whatever you're on, 5 milligram, 10 milligram. And you brought it in and we put it on GoodRX. You're probably looking at, I don't know, 40 bucks for the whole year. Isn't that amazing? 50 at the most. Yeah, same thing. Metformin's the same way. There's so many. Anything that's generic typically, or I'd say 98% of what's out there generic is very inexpensive.

I'll tell you, though, there's something that's worked to, like for allergies, if you've ever had allergies, pollen or whatever, whatever the case is, or cat fur and that kind of stuff. And that's how I got on monoglucose or whatever. Yeah, singular is basically it's. And I have two cats. I remember going to the Northside Hospital. I got this test, you know, and I was allergic to cat dander and cat stuff and this kind of stuff. You know, they do those tests. It's kind of cool, actually. But so then I got on singular. This is several years ago. And, boy, it's done wonders. And it's. It seemed to take care of any type of allergies you might have as far as pollen and that kind of stuff. So no side effects on that at all, but I've been on that for a while. And I just recently went on that. I mean, you know how tiny that pill is. It's a crust or it's like a pinprick. Yeah. It is like five milligrams. It's the lowest dose. I think it's five milligrams. But it's absolutely amazing what that does as far as your. your numbers are concerns. I mean, it's with that tiny, tiny, tiny bit of a pill. It's the most out of all the statins that are out there, and there's probably a dozen of them if we added them all up, it's the most potent. On a milligram per milligram basis, you get the best cholesterol owing with Crestor. Yeah, and then I stopped, folks, I stopped drinking pop and all that kind of stuff, sugar and that kind of stuff. And my sugar was just slightly out. I'm right at the, I'm on the borderline, to quote Madonna, I'm on the borderline. And they said, well, you know, it just ticked up slightly. It's still below six, but it should be maybe a little bit lower than that kind of stuff. So they put me on the lowest dose of metformin. And before I took it, true story, who did I call and who did I ask about? This guy right here who explained it all to me. And then I looked, there's a lot of positive things that it does outside of what it's prescribed for. I mean, it's really something. So I just thought I'd let you know. I listened to you. I listen to you. Well, it's nice somebody does. Not a lot of people do. But that's enough. You know, that's about all I should take. Because, you know, I'm healthy for the most part. I'm honestly blessed at this point that I don't, I don't want to take a bunch of prescription stuff. But this stuff is more preventative, I would say, than anything. Yep. Yeah. And like I said, you've got the beginning stages of what they refer to as metabolic syndrome. Which probably 70, 80% of Americans do. It's just part of getting old and having the diet and the habits that we have in this country. It just develops. And if you don't treat it, and if you're not proactive with it, it will eventually, over time, become diabetes, type of diabetes. How does that good RX card even work that you were talking about? So many people say, well, if you put it on good RX or whatever, the price comes down, why is that? I mean, it's not a prescription card.

You know how you go to the doctor? Let's see if an office visit and you get the statement, you have the explanation of benefits from your benefit provider. And the doctor billed 120 or 150 for the offices. And it says your cost is 65. And then they deduct, you know, your co-pay or whatever. Sometimes, you know, if it's a preventative, it might be free. And so it's the same thing with us. To maximize what we're getting on insurance, because insurance, almost nobody today doesn't have some type of insurance. So nobody, when I first started, I worked for Farmore. That was my first job. And they catered at that time, 80% of the people were paying cash. They had no insurance that picked up their prescriptions other than they could turn. And once you hit your deductible, your 80-20 deductible, you could turn in your prescription expenses and your insurance would reimburse you. 80% of the cost. But, you know, only 20% had a copay card where you came in and paid $5 or $10 or whatever. So now it's the complete opposite. It's 95% of the people have some type of a copay, you know, prescription card. And so all the chains, you know, everybody else, it's just like the healthcare industry, they charge an astronomical rack rate price. because they know they're only going to get reimbursed what the insurance wants to. So you're trying to do it to maximize your reimbursement. What good RX is basically doing is saying you as a consumer who is paying cash and not using an insurance, we will give it to you for the same rate that we would buy it for for Blue Cross Blue Shield or whoever, Anthem or whoever. So you're getting the insurance company's price is basically what it comes down to. And anybody can get a good RX card for free, right? Just go right online. Go to Go to www.com. You can put in your drug, your strength, the quantity you want. And I would tell people, if you're buying something on a GoderX card, and you go to GoToDarX.com, you look at the quantity. At the very last one, there's something called custom quantity. You can put in whatever quantity you want if you click that. So I always do your supplies, and you will save a lot more if you buy a year at a time. If you buy, let's see by 90 days or 100 days worth of Resuvastatin 5 that you're on, it might come up, you know, $12 or $15. But if you put in 400 tablets, it might only come up $35. And it's just so I, I'm on about, I'm on a lot of medicine. Unfortunately, I ate myself into diabetes, but. But now you're skinny. Well, I worked hard at it. I tell you, it didn't, it took me a long time to get the diabetes. I earned every bit of it. But yeah, I mean, I got on a GLP. I've been on four or five of the different GLPs since they came out. I'm on Manjaro now. And they're phenomenal drugs. They're absolutely phenomenal. One in ten people in this country, I just saw a stat is now taking a GLP. And we should probably get it up to four or five people out of every 10 in this country. Because it will change disease states. You will see people get healthier. You're going to see people that nobody in this country. Oh, I'm not going to see nobody. Probably 95% of the people in this country that are fat or overweight.

don't want to be. They would love to be skinnier, but just metabolically and with our diet and everything with our culture, it's very difficult. And I struggled with it since I was a young kid in elementary school. I started ballooning up after first grade. And nobody wants to. With the GLPs, it's almost impossible to be heavy after you start taking one. I think I've lost. At my height, I think, was up to about 285. I'm down to around 215 now. And my numbers, you know, my A1C is under 6, my cholesterol, all of it. I mean, the numbers are phenomenal. They're great drugs. I wish you, they're stupid expensive. Although Trump RX and a lot of the stuff he's doing is bringing the cost down substantially over what it was, because before that, if you wanted to buy them, even on a good RX card, because there's no generic, you were looking at $13,400. Now with these new programs, these new bridge programs that the seniors are getting, because it's typically not, if you're not diabetic, they don't cover it for weight loss. But they've got that bridge program where I think you start out at around $150 a month. The longer you stay on it, it progresses up. It might go up to $250 or $300 a month, which is still a decent amount of money. But if you're getting yourself healthier and your health is getting better, your weight is coming down, you're getting your diabetes under control, you're probably going to live longer, you're going to have a better quality of life. There's a lot of things out there now that the orthopedes are worried. Because if you start getting people in their 30s and 40s to lose all the weight, by the time they hit their late 50s and 60s, they're not going to need nearly as many hip replacements and e-replacements. So there's a lot of long-term benefits to that class of drugs. But the same thing with the cholesterol drugs. When they first came out, they're really expensive. Now they're cheap. They do a good job at arresting cardiac, you know, development, cardiac blockage development and things like that. They're not 100%, but it's better than what. It's been one of the only things we have that works really well. And they're cheap. So, I mean, if you can tolerate it, why not give yourself that advantage? I was reading where they said how expensive these, what the shots are that people are taken. For the people who have type 2 diabetes, it's necessary for them. Then people started taking them because they were overweight. But they're saying it's expensive. And if Medicare would cover it, it could be the end of Medicare. But the price is coming down. But they also said there's the other side of it. that if more people got on them like you did it might save medicare because a lot of the procedures that people need wouldn't be necessary because they would all their numbers would be in line they would be healthier as they got older

Yeah, my one neighbor, I was talking to him. He's an engineer, and he said he read an article that the airlines are actually finding out that the average weight of their loads now is decreased because so many people have lost weight. The average weight of a passenger has gone down the last couple years. So they're burning less fuel and things like that. And that's just an economic advantage. The health advantages to them are tremendous. For the right person, if you're tall and skinny, you don't need to be on a GLP. Right. But if you're, you know, if your body mass index, your BMI is over, you know, 30, 32, you're going to get tremendous health benefits from getting on one and dropping the weight and getting, you know, getting yourself in shape. Especially if you start to exercise and combine it with exercise and modify your diet a little bit. It's almost hard not to modify your diet because you just don't want to eat. I took my shot. I think it's once a week. I think I took mine Saturday. I don't think before 1 or 2 o'clock today I even ate anything. Really? Some water or stuff like that. You're just not hungry. I never eat because I'm hungry. I only eat because I maybe I want to eat. Stand by. Hang on. Back with Richa Pharmacists. Some of your calls ahead. Ron Verb News Radio 570 W. QVN.

transform your bathroom. News, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN. All right, bank, a rich pharmacist, so you think a lot of people are on these, what Trump calls them the fat shot. Well, I mean, if you're taking it for weight loss, that's what it is. I mean, you're using it to reduce the amount of body fat, so that's not a bad thing to call it. And like I said, nobody, how many people you know that are overweight want to be, do you think are happy that they're overweight? Not a one. Exactly. It's just very difficult. You know, if it was easy, everybody would be skinny. It's hard. It's really hard because I tried it most of my life. And you yo-you-up and, you know, because it's the lifestyle change you have to make. The GLP makes the lifestyle change for you because you just can't eat. And if you do, if you start to eat within a couple bites, you fill up. And the only bad thing is, is I love food. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love food. And you just can't enjoy it as much because you just can't consume nearly as much as you used to. And a lot of times you look like, you know, this time of year, there is nothing better to me that a good steak on the grill and some corn on fresh corn on the cop. There's a little Mennonite farm, Catulpa Grove farms out in Columbia, phenomenal corn. It's like eating candy. I used to be able to eat probably four or five, six years of corn. If I get one or two and maybe half a steak now, I'm done. And I love it. I love it, but it's just, there's not that enjoyment of having this fulfilling big meal anymore because you're done halfway through, not even halfway through it, a third of the way through it. But on the other hand, you're not, you know, I'm not 60 pounds heavier than I used to be. So you lost weight and all your numbers got in line. And that's the whole thing. With type 2 diabetes, it's almost exclusively weight driven. If you drop the weight, I think Drew Carey, if you remember, Drew Carey probably what, 10, 15 years ago was diagnosed, dropped all the weight and you got his diabetes in control. Mm-hmm. And that's something. So, you know, I would tell people, you know, if you look into it if you can afford it. You know, it's definitely worth giving it a shot because it will, if you can tolerate and you're successful with it, it's going to improve your quality of life. It will prevent long-term problems that you're going to have. Huge. Yeah, the Medicare, you're not going to see the Medicare savings in five years, but 10 to 15 years down the road, you can see substantial decreases and the cost of providing, you're not going to be doing the hip replacements, the knee replacements. A lot of, you know, the treating the diabetes, the dialysis, get rid of the diabetes. Just the amount that we spend on dialysis in this country is astronomical, and it's terrible. I mean, if you've not able to go through dialysis, it's a horrible, horrible way to live your life. You prevent that, and you're saving billions and billions of dollars. So there's a lot of benefits to them. And you think a lot of people are on it already. The latest I saw, I think it was on CNBC last week. They said the estimate is one in ten Americans are taking a GLP right now. I can tell you what we sell every day. I mean, we're going to probably have to buy a bigger refrigerator. We've got a big full-sized refrigerator. Probably going to need another one because we're running out of room to put the things. Isn't that something? And so the price is coming down as time goes on, right? It would get less expensive. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I think, Ozempic, I think, goes generic in a year or two at the most.

And it's a great drug. I mean, are there newer ones coming? I just read this morning, the next one that Lilly comes out. Ozympic works on GLP, plus another site that it blocks, and the new one's going to work on GLP, that site, and glucagon. And they're seeing, I think, within, I forget how many months it was, but I want to say like 10 or 15 months, you're seeing a 20% weight loss. So if you've got somebody that's 250 pounds, that's 50 pounds. that you drop. If you go from 250 to 200, you're going to have a much healthier life. You're going to breathe easier, less pressure on your legs and all that kind of stuff. You're going to be, now you're not to get it as winded going up the steps. I mean, you're just, your quality of life, I can just tell you, because my quality of life today is way better than it was six, seven years ago when I first started taking a GLP. It just tremendously better. You feel better. I feel probably as good now as I did when I was in my 20s and 30s. I mean, a little wear and tear because I'm going to be 59 years old. So, I mean, you know, there's something bending down, obviously. It's used to being getting ups even harder. But compared to what I would be, you know, even what I was just five, six years ago, it's made a tremendous difference. Just what they want, people living longer. Well, what they're going to do is make you work longer now. That's how, you know, unless they fix Social Security, you know, it's going to be able to afford to retire. Yeah, with this inflation. It's crazy. So, now what's on your minds? Well, if I could give kudos, you know, I think we focus so much on the negative. And like today, I had one of the, just a fantastic customer service experience. And you forget about all the neat little places in town that you can go to. We have a tendency to focus on the big boxes. You go to Walmart or you go to Target. You go to Home Depot and Lowe's. But I've been cutting a lot of woods. So my neighbor had a big branch go down. I like to cut wood, split wood, burnwood. I love a fire in the winter. stack it up. So I've cut probably about two and a half cords, cut and split and stack, two and a half cords of wood. Now, wait a half, because I got a break from my headlines. But before I do, remember this, just remember this. Nothing attracts ticks more than a wood pile. Just keep that in mind as I'm talking, all right? Okay. Then we'll come back, and I want to hear the rest of this. That's true, folks. Back in a minute. News Radio 570, WKVN, we'll call ahead. News Radio 570, WKVM. Gary Siders Jr. is requesting that the court have him evaluated to determine if the father of 16 children is competent to stand trial. Siders Jr. is one of four adults facing charges after the children were found living in deplorable conditions in a 12-by-12 room in a home in Vinton County. The Boardman School Board meets tonight, and it's expected. Members will vote to approve a new labor agreement with the Teachers Union. Members of the union voted last week with 86% approving the new deal. The previous contract expired in June. And the Red Cross is desperate for blood donors. National agencies declared a blood crisis with a critical need for the universal blood type O, both negative and positive. Donors can find a location nearest them at Red Crossblood.org. I'm Brian Engle.

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 dependable services. Plumbing. Hey, this is Ryan Crest here, and I have discovered a fun to escape from the daily grind Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has hundreds of social casino style games. It's all free to play anytime, anywhere with daily bonuses. So get to Chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. We're prohibited by loss. See terms and conditions. 21 plus. Now, Ron Verb. On News Radio 570, WKBN. Back to it, 335 on a good-looking Monday afternoon, July 27th, 85 degrees. You're fearless leader Ron Verb on News Radio 570.2. And all I'm saying is be careful when you stack that wood up because ticks are attracted to wood piles. Now, my wife, are you ready for this, Rich? Here's the advice. She says, a walk into woods will attract more ticks than a wood pile. I learned that in my tick class. She actually took a class. She's taking classes, and one of them was all about, one of them had part of it was about ticks. And she said, I always heard a walk in the woods was worse, and it is. So there you go. Well, the other thing I would tell people is if you come inside and you find out a tick has bit into your skin, after you remove it, call your doctor because I think you only need two or three days worth of treatment with doxycycling. as a preventative, and you won't get Lyme disease. It'll kill the organism that causes Lyme disease. So if you get that, I'd call your doc up, tell them to put you on doxycycline, we'll give you two, three days, and you'll never get Lyme disease. Okay, so wait a second here. So you wanted to give a confidence. And anyway, so I cut the first court I split by hand with a wood mall. I was a little tired, so I got one up to my mother-in-law's got my father-in-law's old wood splitter brought it home. And I'm cycling this thing, and it'll go, the splitter will go forward or not back. And I look in the control mechanism, there's a bolt that fell out. So I pull the other bolt out, and I'm looking at it. It's a hexagonal turn-in machine screw or something. I can't. I'm thinking, like, what size is it, whatever? So I run up right here in North Lima. You've got Krauss True Value Hardware, John Krause's place. And I walk in with this bowl, I said, John, I know you probably don't have anything. Hold on. Takes me right back, finds the size. There's a little measuring thing, finds the size, goes to a bin. This is it right here. I think it was like 94 cents later. I walked out of the store, fixed my machine. I'm thinking, what are the odds you could go into Home Depot or lows or a lot of these places? You go, I used to live in Howland. There's a little store in the corner of old 82 and 46 Andrews Shopping Center. Another fantastic little place. You know, Krause, they have the Lionel Trains. They're probably the best Lionel Train collection in the United States where you want to collect Lionel Trains. Just all these neat little businesses. Where you're going to go in, you're going to get good customer service. You're probably fine stuff that you can't find other places, unique little items that you need. And that's the thing that I think, unfortunately, is starting to die in our community. It's the little mom and pop shops that used to be around that just, you know, the kids don't want to take them over in a lot of cases or the owners die and go away. You'll see bakeries or see. How many times you read an article in The Vindicator where somebody...

50 years in business and they shut down because nobody wants to take the business over. Right. I was thinking handyman hardware in my neck of the woods in Austin. Handyman's another great store. They used to go to when I was over my in-laws and we needed stuff. So, you know, before you just go rushing into these, to the boxes, try some of the little local guys. Price-wise, they're usually competitive. Oh, yeah. You might be, you know, five or ten, 15 percent more. But, you know, it would have cost me more in gas when I paid for the bolt to run up to Home Depot. And, you know, you walk in, and the owner's right to Harry takes care of you. They just do, they just provide great service. And patron, you know, if I could encourage people, patronize local businesses, locally owned businesses if you can. Or at least give them a shot. You know, most of the time you're going to have an experience that's better than what you're going to find at all the big box stores. Now, I leave you with this because this was emailed to me. And I'm just reading it. This is a special meeting agenda, July 28th. That's tomorrow, incidentally. This is for Poland Township, okay? Yeah. All right, Poland Township. And it says here, let's see, approve, you know, call to order, pledge of allegiance, roll call, approve previous minutes. Line item number five, township resolution, if needed. Resolution 26-23, a resolution determining to proceed with the submission to the electors of the question of levying a tax in excess of the 10-mill limitation. Yes, so they want to collect your inside millage. Township resolution, Resolution, 26, a resolution determining to proceed with the submission to the electors of the question of levying attacks in excess of the 10-mill limitation. What does that mean? I think what they're trying to do is, my take on that is the 10, well, in excess of the 10-mill limitation. So 10-mills is the inside millage amount, correct? Yes. They're guaranteed to get as 10-mills. So they want to put on an additional levy, it sounds like, or a renewal that's in excess of the 10-mills. Yeah, I don't know what that means. It's either that or they don't want to give up to 10-mills. All of these entities, all these government entities right now can say they do not want to take the increase they're going to get from the inside millage. They can say, nope, we choose not to have that until Ralph Meacham, take it off their tax bills. Don't assess the increase on the inside millage. This is on the current reappraisals. On the current reappraisals, basically, you're saying that that's the... that's the part that will go up without you voting on it. Each entity has the ability to say we don't, we're not going to take it. To give the taxpayers some relief, whether that's Austin Town Township, Boardman Township, whether that, who's ever in that pool. Yeah, because that first 10 mills, if your house went up, let's see your house went up 20%.

That first 10 mils isn't exempt. So you're going to see the amount you pay on that first 10 mils of your property valuation, which is about half because I think my millage is around 20, I think, or ballpark. But anyway, that first 10 mils is going to be taxed higher. You're going to get assessed on the new value on that first 10 mils. The political subdivisions, school districts, townships, villages, cities, county can all say, let the taxpayer keep it. They can tell Ralph don't assess these people that increase. I think Dave Thomas may have gotten that put in. And like I said, I went a week and a half ago to the South Range Board meeting, and I told them that, and they said, yes, we are looking at whether we can afford and to not take that increase. We are definitely going to look into that. They didn't say they were promising not to, but they were at least going to look into it. I'll be curious how many people actually exercise that option. It's the right thing to do, but it's definitely the right thing to do. Here's the problem. If nobody goes and asks them to do it, they're probably not going to do it. But if five people show up at that poll and trustees meeting tomorrow or village, whatever it was, and say, we don't want our taxes to increase. We're expecting you not to increase the millage, not to take the increase on the first 10 mills. If people start showing up and demanding that and say, you know, if you do, I'm going to support whoever's running against you in the next election. Because, God forbid, a lot of these public elected officials could not keep that job, that elected position, and suck at the public trow. I got to play a clip. I think I sent it to you the other day, Ron DeSantis, eliminating property taxes. It's a short clip. Let me see if I can bring this up. All right, thanks, Rich. Take care of calls. News Radio 570, Doody. Listen to this. This is from... Graham Benzinger's show, I guess. Listen to this. It's a clip from Ron DeSantis, if I can bring. What are you looking to do with property taxes? Well, we're looking to give people relief from the high cost of living. I mean, we've had a major inflationary period in American history, one of the most inflationary, groceries, all these things. Who knows what's going to happen with oil? The one thing we control is tax. And so in Florida, local governments get property tax. We don't get at the state. We've got a plush rainy day fund. We've paid down half our debt since I've been governor. I've got all this great stuff. We're doing great. Local governments, when I became governor, we're taking in $32 billion. Now they're taking in $60 billion. So the revenues almost doubled in seven years. Why? Because they're assessing the values higher. And the values have gone up. And so we're saying, okay. If you're a Florida resident and you're homesteading your property, that's your primary homesteaded residents.

We think that should be excluded. Now, that's about 30% of the overall property tax revenue if you just did it on day one. So it's got to go on the ballot in November of 2026. And it would be something that would be phased in, most likely. But we could get to a point very quickly in Florida where 90-some percent are not paying anything. And eventually we'd phase in the elimination. So it can be done. And if we don't do anything. They're going to have $84 billion in revenue in 2013. So that's 12, 13 years to go from 32 to 84. So when people will say, you can't do it, you're not going to have any services, just ask them, did we not have schools in police in 2019 when they were taken in $32 billion? Of course we did. Now, give them inflation, give them population growth, give them a couple percent just for kicks on a Saturday night. That takes you at about $46 or $47 billion. It doesn't take you to 60. So how would you want to do that? Maintain the growth of these governments or give Floridians really historic property tax relief. There you go. There's the philosophy that you don't see and you don't hear in Mahoning County. There is Ron DeSantis in Florida talking about property taxes. It's a philosophy that you don't hear from elected officials in Mahoning County, and it is what our problem is. When you're taking a look at local property taxes, what were you taking in a few years ago and what are you taking in now? The amount of money has changed dramatically in this community. And as that money continues to increase, we continue to grow governments as opposed to saying, do you really need that much? You can't function on slight increases from where you were 10 years ago? When you listen to Ron DeSantis, that guy is just absolutely visionary. So in November on the ballots, as a Florida resident, you can be homestead exempted. I mean, just think about that. Do you hear that philosophy from anyone in Mahoning County? Do you hear it from your Mahoning County commissioners? Do you hear it from your trustees? Do you hear anyone like you hear Ron DeSantis whose prime focus is on the numbers in the taxpayer? As he said, the only thing we in government can do to assist the individual would deal with taxes and lowering taxes for people. And we still have more money coming in, but we're not taking this gross amount of money from them. What an outstanding governor that guy is. It would make a terrific president. Why? You know, there's things about Ron DeSantis. He's a lawyer. And he reads. Before he makes a decision he reads, he's a lawyer and he reads. He educates himself so he knows what he's talking about. He doesn't accept what he's told. He actually reads. And you could see that when it came to COVID and what was going on with the COVID situation, why Florida State Open. And when you hear him talk about what a refreshing outlook it is. when he's just talking about where they're going. Ron Furb News Radio 570 W. Kian, and you're on the air. Yeah, so the Poland Township meeting agenda, I don't know what conclusion to draw from it other than it sounds like they are broke. Why do you need to go in excess of a limitation on a levy? Now, according to Rich, that might be...

The inside millage. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. Let's see. Well, let's see. Who would know? Eric Ungaro would know. So Eric Ungero, Poland Township trustees, should call the program and explain that. Let's see. Well, let's see. There's Eric Ungaro, Frank DeMaine. He's vice chairman. And Edwards, Kempers, trustee. Mm-hmm. Any of those people? I mean, they're there with Poland Township. Perhaps they should call and explain this to the residents of Poland Township. So this is a special meeting on the 28th. And it's a fair question to say, what does that mean? Resolution 2623, a resolution determining to proceed with the submission to the electors of the question of levying attacks in excess of the 10-mill limitation. I don't know what that means. But they can explain it. Yeah, Thursday they had some kind of emergency meeting, but I didn't go to that, and I don't even know if the audio is out there or the video or anything. So that's what makes me think it's a bigger problem. I don't know. Eric Engerro always seemed to be very Pat and Garrow like his father. I mean, Pat and Garrow was an outstanding great mayor. I think Eric Enger has some similar qualities to his dad. Perhaps he'll call and explain what that is about. Yeah, that would be good. So any of you out there that know Eric Ngerro tell him to call the program and explain this and give them the phone number, and perhaps we'll find out, as opposed to speculates. How's the signature drive going these days to get rid of property taxes? Yeah, it's going good. I've already printed out 500 petitions for the Canfield Fair. I went and bought a lot of pens today, you know, for the event. So getting all my volunteers in order. So, yeah, we're ready to collect at the Canfield Fair and the other pop-ups that we do. And we have a new signing station in Lisbon. Frontier's Unlimited. So for people who are out in Lisbon. So, yeah, it's going good. Do you think they'll make the amount of signatures they need by the deadline? I would think we could. I mean, we just need to double what we have, you know, so I think we could. Because you want a pad and there's a substantial pad so that if ones are... Yes. I mean, you don't want to just have the, here's the bottom line, you want to go substantially above that to make sure that you have the pad there that's needed to have the... Right. Some breathing room, I guess, is what I'm saying. Yeah. I think Brian Thomas Massie would feel comfortable submitting $600,000. But less than that, I don't know. But we'll see. We've got to do it. It is. So anybody out there that wants to help can just go to our website, ax.org.com and, you know, download it and get 10, 20 signatures for us. Even Brian Thomas Massie knows that you're doing the best job around. I mean, you are really doing the best job. I've gathered these signatures. And here's the bottom line. You can see, did you hear that Ron DeSantis clip I played? The difference, the mentality of Ron DeSantis, who's embracing. getting rid of property taxes in Florida, versus a mentality around here on what you hear from all of these people here who don't even want to double the homestead exemption for a poorest senior citizens. It's unreal. So as they continue to get all these increases, substantial increases, they seem to be able to find a way to spend it all.

Well, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. But, I mean, they did the owner occupancy. I think Lombiana Trumbull and Mahoning all did the owner occupancy. I think Erie County was the only county that did both. So I don't know. I thought Lake County did both. No, Lake County only did one. They voted against Commissioner no. They wouldn't do both. Really? Yeah. I got to get him back on. I just got to make a point to call him. Yeah, yeah, having it back on. Appreciate it. Keep up the fight. She's doing great work. News Radio 570, WDKBN. I mean, there's somebody who just spends a lot of time champion this cause. You can't help but sit back and admire her in all she does. Denise, you're doing a great job. Gather no signatures. Hey, it's Ron Verb from the Kingdom of Mahoning. Stay tuned. Your one-stop radio 570 WKBN. 354. It's 85 degrees Monday, July 27th, News Radio 570 WKBN, and you're on the air. Hey, Ron, when G2 said that inflation was up only 2.21%. My girlfriend had just walked in the door, heard what he said. And she said, that guy on the talk show you listen to needs to start going to the grocery store. Well, I tried telling him, Matt, listen, it was exciting. I really, I just disagreed with what G2 was saying because he's doing the same thing that the Democrats did when Biden was in office. Would you agree when we had all this inflation and they were trying to act like it was not as bad as it actually is? And they were trying to statistically try to tell you how good it is and we don't realize why you don't feel it's so great. You remember those days. Well, he was trying to do the same thing that the Democrats were doing, and it's just nonsense. Well, you know, Ron, gas is only $4 a gallon. It's off. It's high of five-something. Well, I don't care. It's still higher than it was a 250 a gallon before the war started. I'm with you 100% on that. I mean, that was not registering with me at all from a standpoint of as a consumer. I'm with you. And I'm with your girl. I guess I'm not with you, Frank. I'm with your girlfriend. I got enough girlfriends, so I got a couple to spare. You want one? No, I got a wife. That's all I need. Okay. Hey, I don't know where G2 gets his numbers from, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation was actually down four-tenths of a percent for June, seasonally adjusted, but it's still up 3.5 percent for the past 12 months. And also, we both know government understates the rate of inflation, so the true inflation rate could be double 3.5%. Now, as far as the stock market, another down day, here's the headline financial news on one website. Dow up...

S&P 500 and NASDAQ lag in final hour at start of big week for Decker earnings and waiting on the Fed's interest rate policy. And another one says stock market only briefly rallies on Iran war pause. It used to skyrocket when there was any hope of the war ending. The market, I think, is realizing this is all bull crap. Let me quote you from George Orwell, 1984. He said, wars are not meant to be one. They're meant to be continuous. So, you know, all these multibillionaires can make even more money on funding both sides of the war. And if I said to you, I'm not optimistic when it comes to this entire situation when it comes to the economy. I mean, this whole time we've been tapping into the strategic oil reserves as China has done. China's cut back consumption. China's cut into theirs, which is larger than ours. So we've done all of this to try to keep the price of oil and gasoline down. But guess what? We're running out of that option because we're depleting all the reserves. So all of these oil experts that everybody was poo-pooing are saying, hey, you got a serious problem coming here in August, end of July, August, because you're not going to be able to tap into this stuff. Very much longer. Stand by, Frank. All right, hang on. Back with Fort Lauderdale, Frank. Other callers in line standby. Ron Verb, News Radio 570, WKB. Hey, good afternoon. Glad you tuned in. Finding great candidates to hire. Bubba Wallace here from 2311 racing. You know what's slower than a pace car? Waiting at the car wash. That's when I fire up Chumba Casino. It turns those slow minutes into fast fun. With new games every week, you'll never get bored. Next time you're stuck in the slow lane, speed up with Chumba. Play now at chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, Ford, where prohibited by law, 21 plus, terms and conditions apply. A money talks investment coach, John Arnold Studios. This is 570 WKBN Youngstown, an I-Heart radio station, guaranteed human.

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This war has gone on for five months. Let's say we had another $224 billion in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That would mean the war could go another seven months before we hit tank bottom and that prices would go up. G2, what Trump should have done is not depleted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at all. He should let the American people know what the true costs of this war and not release the oil so oil prices and gas prices would stay down. Now, you know... In the Democrat primary races, it was a clean sweep for every candidate endorsed by Zohran Mamdani, who's now the most popular politician in the Democrat Party. But the biggest reason establishment Democrats lost is because their opponents rejected the pro-Israel pro-Zionist messaging of the establishment. Now, for example, I don't know. I wonder if the economic message isn't, I just can't see those folks winning anything. You've got to admit the people that are getting the nod with the Democrats are really, really deeply troubling with their economics. And you certainly don't agree with it. I mean, I find it terribly disturbing. Well, you know what? The reason why the establishment Democrats lost in their primaries, politicians taking money from corporate packs. from Wall Street, and private equity firms, from crypto, from AI, and from Israel-only lobby money. I think that's the real reason Israel lost big in the Democrat primaries. And not just the Democrat Party, but all voters except for right-wing Republicans are tired of big money controlling Washington and state governments. Yeah, but when is it going to change? I mean, if you're saying that Republicans and Democrats are guilty of taking money for campaign contributions and cutting deals that aren't in your best interest, that's been going on for as long as I can remember. Well, that's what the big change was. All these establishment Democrats taking big money from Israel and APEC and Wall Street, they lost. What Democrat voters want is the same as every American. Affordable housing, affordable rent, affordable food, and affordable gas. But you're not going to get that through socialism. You're not going to get that through the Zohran Mamdani agenda. It just doesn't work. It's not going to work. If you think that's the answer, it's only going to be worse.

Well, you know what, the surveys that I've seen. I mean, I'm not, don't misunderstand me. I do think that's the economic message that is that is resonating with a lot of people. I don't disagree with you. A lot of people are sick and tired of the special interest getting their ways. And Joe Baggedon, it's being ignored. And a lot of people are concerned with the economics that are going on. So it resonates with a lot of folks in the Democrat primaries. But I don't know that that message will win on a national level. Because it's, it is, it's socialism. It's, it's such a far left turn. And it just doesn't work. It just doesn't work. The surveys I've seen, the Democrat voters. understand that. They're not pro-socialists. They're a small wing of the party, the Bernie Sanders and the Elizabeth Warren wing. They know that socialism is bad. But those are the people that are winning. Look at Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders and the people that they're backing all stand for that far left agenda. the only politicians that are addressing the concerns of the American people. Yeah, but they're offering solutions, which is socialism, which doesn't work. I understand what you're saying, listen, I don't disagree that economically speaking, that's, listen, I'm straightforward with you. Economically speaking, I think we're in for difficult times ahead. I mean, I mean, I, I, voters are telling people like Zohran Mamdani, if you get elected and you start implementing socialist programs, you are not going to get campaign contributions from us. We're going to start voting for somebody else. But that's his agenda. And listen, their agenda is a socialistic agenda, and they're back with the crazy. They're back with the crazy social agenda as well. They're right back with the men can have babies and the transgender, all the nonsense on a social agenda. They're right back to that and right back with socialism. I mean, under no circumstances would you ever be better off. It's resonating with some people, but because, and I'm the first to sit here and say to you, I don't think economically things are looking good. I think things will get worse, not better. And. I'm straight. What do you do if you're Republican? The Republican establishment agenda is a war agenda. Well, what do you do? What do you do? What do you do? Well, let me put it this way. I will always vote for the agenda that acknowledges men can't have babies. I can't vote for the Democrats based on their social agenda. I can't vote for them based on their socialism agenda.

And I also can't vote for the Democrats because they did create much of this inflation before Trump took office. On the other hand, Trump had things going in the right direction until he went into this war. So I can also sit here. Do you know how many people get upset with me because I'm not a Trump cheerleader? that I don't support this war situation and I'm not cheerleading Trump and they get upset with me? Well, I think this was one of the dumbest damn moves he could have possibly made. Can you imagine how the economy would be, folks, if he never went down this road when gas was 250 a gallon, when inflation was coming down? Everything that he accomplished went in reverse because of this war, and it's getting worse. And as this continues to go on and they try to figure out how to get out of this, Do you just declare victory and leave, or what do you do? Remember, the straight was open and all this stuff. We didn't have these problems prior to this war taking place. And now there appears to be no end in sight, no easy way out of this, and there appears to be nothing but higher prices around the corner. And I think that will, that, I don't, I don't know what. This is what I'd like to say to the Trump cheerleaders that are telling us how great the economy is. An economist wrote recently, every recovery reaches a point where the official statistics no longer reflect realities. Politicians point to stock market records. Economists celebrate another quarter of GDP growth. Then you look at Main Street where people actually creating jobs are closing their doors. Small business bankruptcies continue to climb at an alarming pace. Total bankruptcy filings reached more than $310,000 for the first half of this year, a 12% increase. In consumer bankruptcy filings also continue rising. When you look at foreclosures, when you look at defaults on auto loans. I'm with you. I mean, people don't pay attention to this stuff. Defaults on auto loans, foreclosures, bankruptcies, what you're saying. They're all on the uptick. Delinquencies on paying credit card bills. The amount of people that are using credit cards for their bills, you just heard ABC talking about the people that are tapping into their savings for groceries. There aren't any good economic signs that are going on right now at all, and it can get a lot worse as far as energy. If you don't have cheap energy... And it's not just oil. Frank, electricity up here has doubled. The cost of electricity is doubled. So you throw that into the mix. Natural gas has gone up. You have gasoline gone up. Well, we're more and more getting away from cheap energy that's eating up more of your income. And then with all this other inflation.

I can't see anything good going on. I wish I could say, I think things would get better a month from now. And I don't see that as long as this situation goes on. Do you? No, and I'm with you, Ron. Commercial bankruptcies increased 14%. Regular Chapter 11 bankruptcies surged 37%. And Ron, like you said, these numbers do not reflect a booming economy. No. They describe an economy where small business owners are struggling to stay alive. Well, don't you remember with Biden? When they kept saying, we don't understand why people aren't happy that we're telling you the numbers, everything is going great. And they didn't understand how people weren't getting at. And I'm thinking these people are lunatics. I mean, they're so out of touch with reality. They don't see what's going on out here. Well, Ryan, small businesses are the backbone of a healthy economy in the largest job creators. Small businesses employ nearly half the American workforce. And small businesses run on cash flows. They can't issue stocks, bonds, or borrow money at reasonable rates, but customers are not spending as much. struggling with record credit card debt, like you said, interest rates rising, insurance premiums are doubling, and suppliers are demanding higher prices. Right. And small businesses are the main leaders in technological innovation. Technological innovation is the main driver of productivity. Well, you take a look at just if you have a household. Take a look at shingles are made from oil and it's an oil-based product. So if you've got to put a new roof on, you think it hasn't gotten more expensive because of oil? Sooner later, you've got to shingle your house. We talk to Bob Dieter all the time. He tells you about all these price increases happening on furnaces and air conditioners. Well, it's getting to the point where people are taking loans out to replace their furnace or their air conditioner. Taking loans out to re-roof their house. I mean, is it just the basic maintenance stuff or delaying it all together? It only gets worse. And then you throw in, like you said, insurance and groceries. And then if you get gasoline prices or diesel prices ticking up or the fuel for jets. ticking up there's nothing good going on i mean i there's just nothing good and i i'm supposed to sit here and say trump's got everything under control trump's a genius on this stuff no no this is a mess right now i'm not going to be like the democrats and say oh things are going great they're not going great economically a lot of stuff is getting worse not better because of the decision he made

Well, Ron, I'm going to wrap it up by saying SpaceX's stock falls to a new low. Micron and other chips stocks fall as China steals the spotlight. Listen to this. No, no, no, no, Frank, here's what I was expecting you to say. Okay. I expected you to say, Ron, I'm going to wrap it up by saying this. What's that, Frank? I love you, Ron. All right, see you, Frank. Okay, bye now. You're on here. Bye, Ron. Uh-oh, it's JJ. I'm sorry, it's JJ the Trumpster. Geez, his call always comes after I'm being critical of Trump. Now that he's got that psychological adjustment, he's no longer JJ the liberal. He's JJ the Trumpster. And I just got done saying some negative things about Trump, and now you're on the line. P-R-U-M-P, Trump, Trump, Trump. I'm a cheerleader for him now. You're on the Trump train? Yeah, Trump train. Trump train. No, it's it, I went to, I was kind of curious. I was listening to talk to, I'm not only taking a few moments because I remember that last Friday, that young lady that calls in all the time was complaining about us all being on the phone for too long. No worry about her. No, no, no, no. No, no worry about it. I thought she was in actually very entertaining when she calls in, but I kind of wondered when she was waiting on the phone for like an hour. I've waited on the phone for an hour now. The thing is when she had the opportunity to talk about anything that she wanted to, she talked about us being on the phone for too long. You get it mean? Yeah. So if I was like, well, tell me what you want to talk. I want to talk about. I want to hear her. But she was just talking about us being on the phone for talk. I just thought it was kind of, you know, you kind of step outside of something and look at it and go, you know, but I understand her point, and I'm going to try to make it quick. But the thing is that I understand. I've never been a supporter or a big, you know, about the transgender and gay and lesbian and this and that. Right. You know how I feel about it. I believe that they. They have the right to walk down the street and to have their day and so on and so forth. I'm not going to... Stand by. Right. Stand by. I'm coming back with JJ the Trumpster. In a minute. News Radio 570 W.K.E. and 422 in the afternoon.

Hello, it is Ryan, and we could all use an extra bright spot in our day, couldn't we? Just to make up for things like sitting in traffic, doing the dishes, counting your steps, you know, all the mundane stuff. That is why I'm such a big fan of Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has all your favorite social casino style games that you can play for free anytime, anywhere, with daily bonuses. So sign up now at chumbac casino.com. That's chumbac casino.com. 570 WKBN. All right. All right. Wake up, Ron. Pay attention. All right. So go ahead, JJ. I just, and so I would, I would March. for them to have the right to be able to speak their minds, but I'm not going to walk down the street with holding a flag. So that's how I stand with that kind of stuff. But we're concentrating on things that social agendas, which are very, they're very small thing compared to, like you were stating at the end there, that cost of living, the food prices and gas and just overall things. And I believe the only way, and now everybody's going to get very mad at me, and I don't know why I'm saying this because I'm a Trump supporter. I think the only way for us to actually end this war is if Trump no longer is in charge. And only for the simple reason is this, is that I think the damage has been done. As far as not just him, them dealing with Trump, but Trump dealing with them. It's almost like that you need a first kind of... space, you know, actually speaking for whether, I think, like you said earlier, I think someone like Ron DeSantis might be a kind of a person that I would look into a little bit more of his policies. I would even think about voting for him if he was going to still continue to work toward things that I'm, I feel strongly about. So necessarily doesn't have to be a Democrat, but I really believe that maybe we need something, a big change like that. And again, it's not ousting Trump, so to speak, but somebody who can... You're talking about... You're talking about the next election. I get what you. Well, not even just that. Not even just that. And, you know, he's the governor of Florida. But really, it's like you even say, and I've said it to you before also, that, you know, to continue to do the same thing time after time and expecting a different outcome is futile. And so I think that maybe we put a different face on the whole, the war itself and have somebody on their side that thinks that they can actually maybe deal with somebody who's not going to be. on the social media all the time and is not going to, you know, speak before things are even finalized. You know, I, that's the only thing I'm thinking is the only common denominator is Trump. Well, here's a shocker, though. Here's a shocker. I hope that we, I hope that I'm wrong and Trump is rights. I hope, I sincerely hope that he's done this bombing and he's paused it and he's. And there's talks that are going on because they're sick of being bombed or their back is to a corner and they can reach some type of agreement. I hope that happens. I will applaud it if that happens if he's successful and that is the case. But if that isn't the case, then tell me what's the next move. I mean, if that doesn't happen, and I hope that happens, I hope I'm wrong and I'd be relieved to see that happen. But if it doesn't, now what do you do?

Because what's the way out of this mess? Because he started it. People get upset with me, but he's the one based on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel, but he's the one that made the decision to engage in this. There wasn't a vote of Congress or anything like that. He took this on. Now, how do you get out of this mess? And if you don't get out of it, what do you do when you hit tank bottom? What do you do when oil prices very easily could go or gas could go from $4 to $5 or more because of the situation we're in? There isn't a way that you don't take 30 million barrels off the market of oil. You got some that you lost with Russia now because of Russia and Ukraine. You got less 20 million because of the situation. going on as far as Iran is concerned. But even if you say, oh, it's not 30 million, let's say it's 25 million, whatever. How do you, a day? How do you function when you take that amount of oil out of the system? Because I know supply and demand means prices go up because supply, you know, the supply can't keep up with the demand. And that's the reality. And that's where we are right now. Right, and then open you have to think about our weaponry. We're getting low on our weaponry, and I don't even like to hear that because that gives them, you know, some ideas. Again, I don't know how the truth of that is, but, you know, again, if we're shooting things and doing things that aren't necessary, then, you know, that's kind of, you know, that's scary in itself. But you're right. When do we, when is, I always say when is enough enough enough? Well, no, what's the exit strategy? I mean, what's the game plan if you bomb them and now it doesn't work this time? Now you go back to bombing them. Okay, listen, I hope it brings the agreement you want. But if it doesn't, what do you do? How do you get out of the mess that you started without destroying the economy, not just of this country, in large parts of the world? There are things that you can have deep recessions. and depression deep recessions and depressions you can have stock markets that go down and take years to come back up you can have oil prices that can go up in a blink of an eye very quickly 50 cents a gallon or more because of demand and lack of oil it's just there's nothing good about this i wanted to succeed too, because if I'm sitting here saying, well, I don't want him to succeed so we can win the election November, that's foolish. I would rather have him in for another two and a half, three years and deal with him and myself and have him be successful because him doing those things and we all become successful. So I got to go. I can't leave in the eager at the door.

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That doesn't make sense. It blew my mind is what it did. It blew my mind. That doesn't make sense to me. I would question those numbers because property taxes, for the most part, property taxes are local. All right, so they go to your school system, your police department, your fire department. They stay local. So it's dispersed out to the entities. I mean, I would question that number. Here's the number I would be interested in. How much did we take in in property taxes 10 years ago? Okay. I mean, how much, and I'm just interested in, like, let's just say Mahoning County, where I reside. How much did we take in 10 years ago in property taxes? How much did we take in seven years ago in property taxes? And then I want to see, once we had that initial big reappraisal spike, the year before that, how much did we take in? In property, Texas, after that huge spike, the first one, how much were we taking in the next year? and then I want to see after this latest reevaluations how much we're going to take in now. Those are the numbers that are going to be interesting because it's like how much did it increase from one year before the reappraisals, the first reappraisal to the following year? What was the increase as far as revenue taken in in property taxes? And that might be eye-opening because that's the number I want to know. And I'm going to find that number out. I'm going to ask so. You just gave me something. to work on because I agree with that that would be a good finding right there. That would be very... I'm going to actually call Meacham and ask him. I want to know in Mahoning County, what was that number before the first giant reappraisal? How much were we taking in in property taxes a year? And after the reappraisal, how much were we taking in? And then... this next one, how much more we'll be taking in? Because I think we're taking in a substantially larger amount of money after that reappraisal. Without a doubt. And all of a sudden, we're spending it all? All of a sudden, I mean, something about it doesn't make sense. And I'm not saying that fire trucks don't cost more. Police cars don't cost more. Benefits and employees don't cost more. But outside of that, where's the rest of it going? Exactly right. Exactly right, Ron. Okay, well, that's why I would like you to find out that number. I'm going to do that. We're talking about everything being more expensive, people losing their houses and everything, and I agree with that. But when you go past the Racino over the weekend, you can't find a parking space. Isn't that something? Have a good day. Thank you. Isn't that something? I mean, make no mistake. I mean, there's plenty of people still out and about all the time. But see, you usually don't see people that are struggling.

So it's, I'm just in touch with it. There's just no way that you can't be paying twice as much for your electric bill. $4 for a gallon of gas. Your insurance has gone up. Your groceries have gone up. The necessities of life have gone up. And it's you're in a good spot when your wages have not. kept pace with that inflation and your savings have declined. I don't care who you are. There's just no way that that's a good economic scenario for the lower middle class, the middle, middle class, and even the upper middle class. It's just not a good scenario. You're on here. Yeah, hi, Ron. Hello. It's me. So I had a couple of points that I wanted to make it, and one of the things was about Mitt Forman, I thought you might find interesting. But in the meantime, what was listening to everybody else, I would love it if you would sometimes ask Frank, because he does sound like a very intelligent guy, and also he seems to have done pretty well under capitalism. Yes. I would love to know his opinion of the Democratic Socialism stuff. I think his goal today was just to explain it and why people are going in that direction. I will ask him about that. I suspect he's not a fan of it, just based on capitalism. But here's my point with that. I don't think it does any good to say to attack the people that are voting that way. I think you better figure out why they're voting that way. And I think many of these younger people feel that the system has failed them. And to a certain extent, I understand what they're saying. They're saying, hey, wait, we're doing things and we're working, but we can't afford to buy a home or a rents are too high. Health care is too high. Automobiles cost too much. I mean, look at the world that they're getting versus the world you had when you were their age. And I understand why they're pissed and their outrage based on this inflation. I get it.

I get it too. Interest rates were 17% when we bought our second house. Not even 6%. We'd have given anything to have 6%. But anyway... But wait a minute. You're talking to Carter years. And Jimmy Carter... And listen, I was around at that time, and you're right, we were happy to get a 6% interest rate. A refinanced to get one. But that changed with Reagan. And gasoline. And gasoline, depending upon whether we were out or even, every other day, we could get gasoline. Well, that's true. Not just any time we wanted to pull up. I mean, we've kind of been through, but, you know, I don't recall people complaining. Oh, no, they were complaining. I mean, you probably wasn't great, but. No, they were complaining. I remember they were complaining. But here's the rub on that. You would agree, based outside of those Carter years, and Reagan fixed that with a big recession. It happened, too. But you would agree that, for the most part, during your lifetime. Because I was alive too. You didn't pay much attention to inflation because it wasn't that noticeable. Inflation was usually 1% or 1.5%. It wasn't very big. So it wasn't that noticeable until it became that way as a result of COVID and the Biden policies. And now this war with Trump. Now inflation is double digits. And now it's very noticeable because of how much everything is costing. It wasn't that way before... COVID and Biden and Trump. Right. Well, here's the thing, though. What I do remember, because I was old enough to kind of understand, is when they used to calculate inflation, they included food, they included everything they don't include anymore. That's true. So they used to include that. So if it was 5%, it was 5% across the board. Now, then they quit including it. So it looked like inflation went down. But it really didn't. They just didn't include everything they included before. So it's been kind of a screwed up measurement ever since. I mean, we can see it in the grocery store and everything. It's not an accurate measurement is what you're saying. And incidentally, you reminded me as something else. It's just like the unemployment statistics. Once you were done collecting unemployment, you vanished. It doesn't mean you were employed. You just were no longer counted. So those numbers were inaccurate too.

They never reflected the reality, and I would always say, how do you fix a problem if you don't really know how serious the problem is because you've cooked the numbers? Well, it's like, and it's like the... the murder rates and the other, you know, criminal things that seem to go down, but then Chicago doesn't report and California doesn't report, and they don't report it or they, you know, lower it down. So, yeah, everybody cooks the books to make their rates look better. Well, I just, and not to go off on that tangent, but Frank did say something about... He thought that the Socialists were gaining traction because the traditional Democrats were using money that they were getting from donors and the Socialists didn't like it and that. And let me tell you, I think that's way far from the truth because from what I hear, and I've heard this for a while, that the traditional Democrat, the Democratic Party is broke. I mean, they're broke. They're not getting the donors, they don't want to take a chance because they got burned with Kamala Harris. They're not getting the USAID kickbacks that they used to get. And if you recall, during the last midterms four years ago, Sam Bankman freed, the fraudster who ripped all those people off. including Tom Brady, he was donating millions to the Democratic Party to help all of these people get elected. So they don't have him and they don't have USAID. Right. And they are hurting because they are fighting against... Right. You're talking about campaign contributions, and I agree with everything that you just said. I think Frank was talking about... lobbyist. My impression was Frank was talking about, here's what I concluded. No, he's talking about lobbyists in general saying that you can't tell much of a difference between Democrats and Republicans because they take all this money from lobbyists and they don't often represent Joe Bag of Donuts. They're representing special interest and a lot of people are getting fed up with that. I think that was the gist of what he was saying. He was talking about all the lobbyist money that's coming in and they get represented and the people are forgotten. And I think that's a legitimate point. Both Republicans and Democrats, he's saying. Right. And they may not be getting the grassroots money because there's a lot of their, you know, their donor or, you know, donate donors, like I said, weren't. aren't paying or they're they too have have problems okay okay that all aside this is going to be interesting to you since she just started on that torment okay my mother was in her 80s well and she developed probably in her I don't know late 60s or 70s diabetes not a big shock because her mom I just want to emphasize something I don't have diabetes at all I just want to bring down my number no no I'm just saying

But she did, I could tell, you know, she did, and so her mother did. But she is to take MET foreman. Okay, she was one of nine children. And it was very interesting to me because, as we're talking about it, and I'm asking, I mean, she was always really on top of things. Never signs of dementia or anything. And the same with her sister, which was two years younger, who was doing the, learn the computer thing and emails. And she still is very on top of things. She's in her 90s. Gotcha. But then she had her oldest sister who developed dementia and went pretty downhill pretty fast. And so I started, I asked her, I said, was Aunt Helen a diabetic? Okay, because we just went straight to that. And she said, no, she didn't take anything. And I said, and the other, well, what about Annie Annie? Because she was, he developed dementia, went downhill pretty fast, died with dementia. And she said, no, she wasn't either. I go, well, what about Uncle Johnny, who lived to be 90? Oh, yeah, he was diabetic. So he was taking that. I said, what about Uncle Andy? Oh, yeah, he was diabetic. Interesting. All the ones that were diabetic and taking some kind of medication for it or on the edge or whatever, none of them developed dementia. The ones that were taking it did. Isn't that interesting? So you've got all of the... So I was on this little quest. Then, when I would meet up with somebody who I would talk to, like, I used to, in Pennsylvania, I used to live where there were a lot of retirement homes and that. And I was always getting stuff off shelves for old people. And they start talking to you and everything. And if they were really on top of things and really with it, I would say, can I ask you a personal question? Are you a diabetic? And they'll say, oh, I'm type 2. I started taking meds. I saw people that I met that I've known for like 30, 40 years who are in their 80s. And they were still on top of it. I said, Kenny, are you a diabetic? And he goes, oh, type 2, I started taking meds about 10 years ago. Everybody that I asked. who seemed to be an 80-year-old or whatever on top of their game, I asked them, and they were all taking some kind of medication like that. So I watched, I thought, well, that's real interesting because I had a mother-in-law who developed dementia, and she, I mean, really, severe dementia was not...

diagnosed or given medicine, given medicine for others, but not for diabetes. And she was pretty bad off. But one day I was watching Dr. Oz. And he had a guy on who was doing these studies. And what he said on that made so much sense. Make it quick. I'm sorry? You got to go quick here. I've got 30 seconds before my break. Okay. They always talk about the plaque in your brain that clears out at night. Well, the same enzyme that clears the plaque helps regulate your sugar and your insulin. So if it's busy doing that, it's not clearing out the plaque. So if you take metformin to help keep your insulin and your sugar good. then it's got the opportunity to clear out the plaque. Thank you. I'm not a doctor, but I am a thinker. Thank you, thinker. Back after this. You're one-stop for advertising. Call 8-4-0. Bubba Wallace here from 2311 racing. On the track, my car's look is everything. But today, I'm talking about more than just paint schemes. I'm talking about my favorite games at Chumba Casino. Check out exclusives like Stampede Fury and my own King Crock Theory. It's just as wild as my car looked in Texas. With over 200 games and new ones weekly, play for free at chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, voidware prohibited by law, 21 plus, terms and conditions apply. News, weather, and talk station, 570 WKBN. It's a Monday afternoon on News Radio 570 WKVN and Ron Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoning here at 455, 86 degrees, and you're on the air. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'm going to hear the show. I'm calling from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. Yes, sir. So I just want to let you know really quick. So I'm a big Trump supporter during the campaign last year or before. times in my yard on my car about making America affordable again and highly democratic areas I would be driving through and now I'm embarrassed that that's not that's not coming true talking to my neighbors that's well now hold the phone now tap the we'll just make america affordable well tap the breaks because you have nothing to be embarrassed about and let me tell you why for a second as critical as i can be a trump of this particular situation in iran okay for one second i don't think that i would have been better off if i voted for Kamala Harris or if joe biden was a candidate make no mistake they would have been a horrible choice. So I'm comfortable with my vote for Trump. I voted for him every time I could. I'm comfortable with my vote for Trump. In general, I like a lot of what he's done. This war is a disaster. And it's, in my opinion, I mean, I could be wrong.

But I think he was, as I said, bamboozled into it by Israel and by Benjamin Netanyahu. And I don't know how you get out of this. And I think it's going to create some major problems. So I think it's a big mistake, a big mistake. But those are my choices, and I don't regret the guy that I voted for. So don't apologize to your neighbors about anything. Just say, you know, just stay the guy. Who knows what had happened here? I'm very concerned about the economy, but hopefully I'm wrong, and he's right, hopefully. I hope things turn around, but unfortunately, you know, we talk about Democrats Medicare fraud or Medicare fraud. I'm sorry, but this war is huge fraud. It's a huge taxpayer fraud on all Americans. Well, it's costing us a fortune that we can't really afford right now, and the inflation is just, it's astronomical. But I can't sit here as a Trump voter. I can't be like these people that are cheerleaders. I've got to say, I don't agree with, I'm very deeply concerned where things are going, and a lot of people think, well, if you vote for Trump, you should support everything and everything you should do, you should check your brain at the door. I'm not about to do that. I can still, I wouldn't vote for Harris, but I think Trump made a huge mistake here. It was a mistake. Now, how do you get out of it? Yeah, me too. Thanks, man. Don't, you know, the alternative, if you think voting for Harris would have been better, it wouldn't have been. That would have been a total disaster. But, I mean, obviously this. I don't know. How do you get out of this situation? I mean, did he make things better or worse? He made it worse. We didn't have these problems in the strait. The straight was open. We weren't talking about fees and all this kind of nonsense. Now, how do you solve this problem? Well, we shall see. We're on Verb News Radio 570 WKBN. Back in a bit. Here's a harsh fact. 40 is 570 WKBN Youngstown, an I-Heart radio station, guaranteed human.

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I think they're backing up that claim with evidence prior to the incident, prior to the deaths of these children, and they're coming out in front of it and saying, here's the evidence that she was suffering from a problem. Here's the evidence. I think even on top of that, I believe that the father of the children, her husband, also has a civil lawsuit against the hospital as well. Severe storms sweeping through the Midwest, including a confirmed tornado in Wisconsin today. ABC News meteorologist Samara Theodore says the volatile storms are combining with extreme heat. This heat, no joke. triple-digit feel-like temperatures through the afternoon. Extreme heat warning from 112 in Cedar Rapids, New Orleans, 107 degrees. The extreme heat extends to the west as well. I will say out west, we're not even factoring in the humidity. This is actual air temperatures. 112 degrees this afternoon in Phoenix, 111 in Vegas, 99 in Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, in the northeast, things have been pretty quiet, fair, and lovely, in fact. I'm Michelle Franzen. ABC News. A to Z dependable services. Now, Ron Verb. On News Radio 570, WKVN. Heidi ho for 506, I should say in the afternoon. Welcome to Monday, July 27th, 86 degrees. Ron Verb with you till six tonight. A taste to Sean Hannity from 6 to 630, then Guardians baseball. The pregame takes over on News Radio 570, WKVN. On this Monday, a few calls. You're on here. Well, the Guardians did pretty good the first half. And I think the second half, I think if we win, I'd say I'd like to see them win at least 86 games. How's it been going lately? Not good. They've lost five in a row. That's not a good thing, is it? I know you're optimistic, Dick, from Dayton, but sometimes there's not a lot to be optimistic about it. It's been dismal. It's been dismal lately, but it seems to me they always do decent in the first half, and then they always... Yeah. This is almost like a... I'm hoping it isn't a repeat to where the second after the All-Star break gets down here. Yeah. You know, the thing of it is, too, you know, I think a lot of this, too. I think everybody was shocked about LeBron. Didn't you think so? Well, I was hanging on your every word. I was thinking he was coming back to the calves, and that wasn't the case. I know. So once again, I was led astray by my official sports prognosticator, Dick, from Dayton. Well, we've got to look for the guardians now, right? I guess so. Okay, have a good day. Thank you. You're on here. Ron. Yes. Okay. I got my opinion on the war with Iran, Iran won't quit until they want, they want blood. And I think they're getting a little bit of sympathy from some of our politicians and our news people over here as to supporting them. If we would gang up on them, this war would have been over a long time ago. Really? How's that? What does that mean? If we would again... Show them that they have no support, even in their own region. Well, I think that... They're getting some sympathy from the people, like the news people over here. I don't think that's... Listen, news people aren't cheerleaders. I don't think that that makes much sense at all. With all their respect. They listen to our news. I don't care what they listen to.

I don't think it's an easy mission. I mean, I think that they've been greatly underestimated. It is a country of 93 million people. I mean, and so, and it's at some of the, some good scientists, good programs. I mean, it's sometimes maybe we've got to take a look at our own strategy and say, was this a smart move and was this a good move? And we haven't done very good in the Middle East in general. Perhaps we should learn from that. They have their own way of thinking over there. Yes, they do. And you can't change somebody's way of thinking. That's why you can't mix some cultures. That's like when you come over here... They think differently than we do. They brought in 10 million people over here a few years ago. And they should have taken care of 10 million of American citizens that needed help. The Democrats and those protesters are out there. protesting everything but crime and drugs. They're protesting issues, like one or two issues. They're not supporting the country like they should. Well, we've got a share of wackos, that's for sure. And then 12, I'm living on Social Security from 12 years ago with nowadays prices. Well, how much do you get a month in Social Security? $2,500. I don't have any stocks or bonds or anything. I'm eating good, though, but it's tough. And when they raise the tax is 26% and give you 2% back, I mean, it doesn't make any sense. Right. Well, you're often forgotten, a guy like you's forgotten that these inflation numbers, which are double-digit and huge. I mean, whether it's your electric cost have doubled. Your gasoline is four bucks a gallon. Your food prices have gone up because of the cost of diesel transportation and everything. And your income can't keep pace with it. And I fully understand that. And then your property taxes keep going up. I get what you're saying. That's why I was ticked about him. supporting 10 people do you realize the money they spend yeah you better people and you wouldn't even need ice if you if you wouldn't have that 10 million people come in they wouldn't need ice you better answer the phone it could be your daughter calling all right thanks you're on here good evening Ron how are you here he is folks the one and only G2 well I tell you did you hear that last guy I did. I didn't fully understand the idea of who we would be going after ran with, like who we were going to gang up with. But, you know, if you look at where we are now in this situation, and you asked a moment ago, how do we get out of this? So there are clearly two choices. One, we simply withdraw. We take whatever the consequences of withdrawing are. Do you think we still have that banner Bush printed up, mission accomplished, and we get it back out? Oh, we could get that out. But here's the thing. Trump would do it in gold letters. Oh, we can't use the same banner? No, he'd need a new one. It'd have to have maybe some neon, a little gold. It'd have to be a bigger, bolder, brighter banner.

All right. What's that going to cost? What's that going to cost? What are you looking at? Neon or LEDs? Oh, I'm thinking you go back to old school neon, big transformer, lots of gas tubes. Yeah, you've got to make it retro. Fireworks? possibly some fireworks, but you don't want to have those mistaken for artillery shells launched if you're if you're withdrawn. All right, so let's go back, G2, sunny, in the line. All right, so you declare victory and leave. Go ahead. What are the options? And the other, well, I guess there is an option that is idiocy, which would be a ground invasion. Israel pushed for that really hard. They didn't get it. I don't think they're going to get it. I think that's basically off the table. I just don't think that's going to happen. You know, I don't think, no matter what they threaten Trump with, I don't think he's going to do that. So if you then say what's the third option, the third option is to drive on through the storm, right? It's to continue on. But there are some things that make sense and some things that don't. One thing that is absolutely essential in any plan that includes us continuing in this endeavor is that we isolate that country entirely, that their economic machine. be completely isolated. So blockading... Not just the strait, but their port south of the strait, which we blew up a couple of weeks ago, right? You remember when there was an attack on a port south? That wasn't an oil and gas terminal. That was really a cargo terminal. But it's been basically destroyed, and their control systems have been taken offline. And in any event, there's a blockade that could stop anything from coming and going. Nothing should be allowed to come and go into that port or into the strait, period. If Kuwait can't ship through the strait, neither can Iran. But then on the backside of the country by Turkmenistan and Pakistan and Afghanistan, there are rail lines and roadways over there. Some of those have been hit, but those have to be severed because whatever they're importing and exporting, they're bringing some of it through there. And that has to be stopped. So every rail line has to be destroyed. Every bridge has to be destroyed. I mean, if this is war and we're fighting it, well, then let's fight it. And then if you look at the Caspian Sea, you have to make sure there are no functioning ports anywhere in Iran or near Iran that they can get access to. You have to make sure they're not bringing anything down east of the Caspian Sea right through that channel. So basically, you've got a country that's experiencing horrible economic conditions, hyperinflation, they're having trouble with... supplying food and and other things. Unrest is growing. Now, I don't think there's going to be some kind of a revolution. I know everybody wants the Iranians to rise up. Well, forget about it. It's not going to happen. But you have a nation that is tremendously stressed right now. Now, the silliness is when people say Iran's getting stronger every day. You notice how nobody can explain how being bombed?

You know, losing 20,000 targets, having your infrastructure destroyed, losing your ability to use your Air Force, your ability to operate on the water, your ports, your oil and gas exports, losing your ability to trade freely. Somehow that makes them stronger. It's preposterous, really. It's a silly point. But you'll see experts that make it over and over again all day long. So if we're not going to withdraw, then we have to go all in. Continuing to try to degrade the Iranian IRGC assets, of course, is an important plan, important part of it all. But that's not all of it. It's got to be that all the logistics that supply goods and material to that country have to be separate. And, of course, continuing to take out strategic military targets. You know, they've hit 20,000 of those by now, I assume. I don't know the actual number. I haven't looked at the actual number yet. But they've had, you know, the last, before they, MOU was signed, they were at about 13,000 attacks by the United States, 3,000 by Israel. I thought it was interesting that the Israeli finance minister said the other day that Israel shouldn't bother getting any more deeply involved in this just let the United States fight their war for them. That's just smart. Not smarter if you're on the other side of that trade where you're fighting their war for them. But, you know, that's water over the dam or under the bridge or past the mill wheel. We are where we are. How do we get out of it? And I think those are your three choices. If we try to do something in the lines of a land invasion, this is going to be cataclysmic. We will lose. massive numbers of people and we know we're really near trying to be prepared to do that we'd have to be building bases and moving huge numbers of soldiers in there support staff in their logistics hubs in there we'd have to build out infrastructure that would be significant just think about the hospitals in afghanistan and iraq this isn't uniform everywhere but One of the guys that was responsible for running a significant region of Afghanistan's health care system for the troops, right? I'm talking about the mash-type units, right? He said that every soldier on the battlefield that was wounded was no more than 17 minutes from a surgeon's knife. That's pretty incredible. In order to achieve that kind of infrastructure, in the country of this country of this size, I mean, we would have to build out a huge amount of infrastructure. So let's just set aside any kind of ground invasion. So your options are withdraw and take the consequences or finish the job but focus primarily on the economic attack because you're not going to bomb enough of the country to get them into submission purely through kinetic warfare. That's kind of where we are. And it seems to me that Trump is at that crossroads. We're not going to back out. He's got to keep going. for whatever reasons. I don't know if Israel would allow him to back out. I don't know what they would do to retaliate against him and his family if he did. But he's walked into this thing and he's got to finish it. And the impact on the midterms now is cast, right? Now, when we talked about inflation last week, what's happening now is that everybody's attributing all of the policies of the Democrat administration of four years to Donald Trump's 18 months and this war, which is, of course, preposterous.

When I looked at inflation the other day, I didn't look today, but Friday it was 2.11. Inflation numbers are very good. They have been very good. He got it down to just a little above 1% like a 1. I don't know, 3 or something. I can't remember now. So his inflation numbers have been very attractive. The problem is that with the inception of this war, of course, Straight got closed and immediately we saw gas prices go up. And then you've got infrastructure inside Russia being destroyed. So the price of diesel is going up is they've stopped exporting diesel. They've stopped exporting gasoline and jet fuel. You've got California destroying huge amounts of refining capacity inside the United States creating a national security issue. Now you got... Southwest Airlines shipping jet fuel from the Gulf Coast over to California because there are no more refineries over there and they're wholly dependent upon imports now. Even our military has a problem sourcing jet fuel now because of the policies of the Democrat administration that's destroying California. So you've got this problem with gas. It's being exacerbated, but nobody knows about California. Nobody knows about the loss of Russian infrastructure and exports. All they know about is the Strait of Hormuz, and that's, of course, all that the propagandists are talking about. So there's no question that Trump launching this war has caused a serious problem in disrupting 20%, 21% of the oil and get oil and some LNG and other things that flow around the world. That's a huge, huge impact. Some of that has been mitigated through increased production and change supply chains. But he created a real monster here with this, and now people are heaping everything on. We talked about the Strategic Petrolling Reserve on Friday, and of course the Democrats withdrew more than three times the amount of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve that Trump has in a war. The reason they call it strategic is because it's supposed to be there in the event there's a disruption in supply. But under the Biden administration, they drew down 244 million barrels of crude from there to offset their destructive energy policies. Trump's drawn down 68 million barrels. So there are more than three times what he's drawn down. And yet... They're blaming the run out of oil on Trump. Well, you know, look, he knew that the oil was drawn down by Democrats before he ever started the war. So I suppose in that way he deserves the criticism. I do think he believed he was going to get through this very quickly because I think he was duped into it, as you said, as we talked about at length in February and March. So, you know, it's a tough situation. We're going to come through it. I do find it interesting that people are paying so much attention now because there's a direct economic impact to them. in the form of gas prices, where, you know, we were at war for 20 years and nobody cared because they didn't pay for it. They put it on the national debt. They didn't write a check. And our casualty numbers were so incredibly low over 20 years' time. Hold that thought. No one knows someone who died. Hold that thought. Back with G2 in a minute. News Radio 570 to ODQVN. If you're in a... Bubba Wallace here from 2311 racing.

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started giving everybody uneasy feelings and then trumped the epstein thing and that really fractured the coalition and this iran war has really uh... put the coalition into crash out and so so we are in a situation where you've got both parties in real trouble somebody mentioned earlier that the democrats are tied on money i'll tell you how bad it is we talked about this this morning with some folks Their networking capital position for the Democrat National Committee is a negative $5 million. They have, call it, I think they have, say, $16 million in cash and $20 million in debt, or I can't remember the exact numbers, but I was astonished to find out they have a negative working capital number. They have more debt, short-term debt, than they have cash on hand. And, of course, they have, you know, a headquarters that they've mortgaged, but that's it. That's only one piece of the Democrat pie. Remember that the billionaires fund a vast array of nonprofits and businesses that are charged with engaging Democrat volunteers and Democrat voters. This organization, I call it the Hydra, and it's got a lot of heads. It's more than six. But it's, again, voter engagement, data analysis, volunteer engagement. It's messaging, huge amounts of messaging and media platforms, podcasts. It's a massive machine. That is usually consuming about $2 billion a year. They use that machine to keep everybody going. They start the day after elections on the next cycle. They don't waste a minute because they have this massive paid organization to do it. Now, the cutoff of USAID that the woman mentioned earlier, and the cut off of all these grants that were going out, you may remember that Lee Zeldin stopped $20 billion that had been sequestered in this bank, I think it was J.P. Morgan or something. I think it was Chase. I think it was Chayvorn. That was sequestered in a bank so that the Trump administration wouldn't find it, and it could be stolen after the election. And Lee Zeldin pulled that back. But the massive amount of money that has been pushed out through these NGOs, I think the woman mentioned Sam Bankman-Fried. We remember that we were sending money to Ukraine, and Volodymyr Zelensky was given at the San Bankman-Fried, who was donating it back to both Republican and Democrat lawmakers. Now, that was vastly going to the Democrat side, but also some of the more treasonous Republicans. Stand by. Stand by. Ron Verb, News Radio 570, WKVN. We'll come back with more right after this. News Radio 570, WKVN. The man police, a shot and killed North Royalton building commissioner David Smerick last Friday, made his first court appearance today. 69-year-old Edward Beseda is facing a first-degree felony charge of murder. The complaint states that honor about July 24th, 2026 within the city of North Royalton, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. You did purposely cause the death of another. Parma Municipal Court Judge Deanna O'Donnell set bond at $15 million and the case was bound over to Cuyahoga.

County Common Pleas Court. Beseda is accused of shooting Smirik three times inside the North Royalton City Services Building, leaving the gun on the counter and walking outside, where he was taken into custody. Latest on gas prices in Ohio, AAA says we're at 388 a gallon on average for regular grade statewide down just a tiny amount from yesterday. 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 Verb. On News Radio 570, WKBN. Back to it, 535. Ron Verb, News Radio 570, WKBN. Welcome to Monday. It's 85 degrees, and you're saying G2? Well, I was saying if you look at the Democrat side of this political spectrum, you'll see now, as we talked about just before the break, the DNC is short on money. But there are hundreds of organizations around the DNC that support it, PACs and NGOs, you know, nonprofits, and for-profit companies that do data voter engagement, volunteer engagement, and so on, and fund campaigns. So if you look right now at the DSA, the Democrat Socials America, this thing that this Zohran Mamdani is pushing, they're in the midst of opening 20 offices across the country. If you look at their funding, they say, well, the DSA is funded by dues, member dues, something like $5 to $15 a month, $20 a month, and that that's what's driving this growth. Now, here's the thing. We really don't know who's paying those dues. Is that really, you know, individual grassroots citizens, or is there a fund that buys, you know, a thousand subscriptions, a thousand memberships? We really don't know that. If you remember the Act blue thing where they would say it was individual donations, then we find out some retired person with no assets donated $150,000 in one election cycle. They're very good at moving money around like that. So it could be that you've got that happening, but I'm sure, certain that some of the 30s are out there funding this DSA thing. Now, here's the other part, though, those candidates are raising money separately. And if you look at who's funding the DSA candidates, It's billionaires. Now, you've got to ask yourself, why would billionaires fund politicians that say we're going to get the billionaires? And, of course, you know the answer. The answer is that none of these socialists actually have some sort of socialist, you know, utopian mind. What they're going to implement is tyranny. What they're going to implement is everything they implement every time they do. It is still hard to imagine how these... these people that support the socialist move and think somehow it's going to be better this time. But if you... So that's how this is working, right? The billionaires are funding it. The message sounds great. People are going for it. And you said earlier, we ought not be blaming the voter for supporting this lunacy. And in a certain way, I agree with you. Because if you go back to the New York election when Zohran Mamdani was running, his opponents...

were Andrew Cuomo, the guy that killed everybody's grandmother and locked down their cities, destroyed their businesses, hurt their kids. It's him, the guy that was on videos doing press conferences and tight t-shirts with nipple studs. I don't know if that's what you call him, but he had like nails in his, it's bizarre. You could see him through his shirts. And the other candidate was Curtis Sliwa, who may be a great guy, I don't know. But let's face it, Curtis Lee was more of a cartoon character than a series politician in terms of running New York City. So the billionaires that run New York City chose not to put in a candidate to fight Zohran Mamdani. They put in these two other guys that had no chance of winning. And Zohran Mamdani's pitch was the most America first pitch you could have. You're in distress. You have problems. I'm going to help you. And so... Like you, I don't entirely blame the voters, although I do find it quite silly, that they're turning to socialists not realizing either because they're ignorant of history or because they're just duped, not realizing what lies at the end of the path, Zohran Mamdani is leading them down, which is inevitably tyranny, fear, and crisis, right? Shortages, food, shortages, hunger, you know, dictatorship. I mean, that's where this goes. It goes to tyranny every time. So it's a fascinating landscape, and I think it's hard to predict exactly what's going to happen in the midterms. But I'm a little bit stunned at how confident some of the Republicans are, because I don't see it in their voter base. I don't hear it in their voter base, and I think some of them are simply ignoring what's actually going on. Interesting, because... Make no mistake. I mean, do you think that whether I, well, with my disagreement with Trump when it comes to this situation in Iran, do you think for one single minute I would vote for Sherrod Brown? Nope. No, I think you, you know, we got years to study him. I mean, I mean, he's a joke to me. He's been there forever. He supported all the lunacy that Biden supported. I mean, you know, men can have babies and tampons. All of this craziness, the open border. He was right there at Joe Biden's side. He is a flaming liberal. So this idea, you know, when it comes to midterms, when it comes to me, do you think I could vote for, even like I said to a guy earlier, my disagreement with Trump? Does that mean if I could do it over again, I'd vote for Kamala Harris? Absolutely not. No. Does it mean I'd vote for Sherrod Brown? Absolutely not. The Democrats aren't even an option for me because they've gone to this Democrat socialism or they're just lunatics when it comes to the social issues and their economic issues created a lot of this inflation.

So there's absolutely no way I can support him. Now, I do agree with Frank, who made an interesting point, though, and it is fair criticism. I do think we have a problem with Democrats and Republicans both. because they take all of this lobbyist money and they forget to represent the people and they're representing special interest. And in too many cases, that's true. This safe voting act should be done. I mean, I'm disappointed in the Republican Party, and if they do lose the midterms, they have nobody to blame them but themselves. They should have codified all this stuff that Trump did by executive order, and they haven't done it. They had the majority. They should have been a lot more proactive than they are. The SAVE Act should be done. I don't understand the foot dragon by all. the Republicans to support the Trump agenda? Well, they don't support it. It's not their agenda. It's not their donors agenda. It's not the countries that sponsor them as agenda. So they're career politicians, and you can't tell a lot of difference between them and the Democrats. No. No, I mean, they give different speeches. But in the end... You know, look at this. If you look at who really has representation in Congress right now, obviously India does. The H-1Bs, they're less under Trump, but the H-1B should have been done away with. You know, this is a three-year temporary visa, but nobody goes home. And there's no action taken to amend the law to make sure they go home. India has representation in Congress. The multinationals obviously have representation in Congress. You can't even get the Maha agenda moving. even though we know that everything in the center, most everything in the center of the grocery stores, poisonous, and we're getting drugs injected into our kids that are causing problems. None of that gets off the ground because the billions and trillions that flow through pharma and through big food and big ag. So they all have representation, right? The globalists have all the representation. Israel has massive representation. The Islamists have representation. You know, you watched Israel go after Thomas Massie, but they don't go after Ilhan Omar with that kind of investment. They spent $97 per Republican-registered voter in Thomas Massie's district, Israel and their allies to take him out. You think they're doing that with Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? No, they're not doing it there. They got rid of the guy that has the best voting record in Congress who voted with Republicans more than anyone else, nearly anyone else. Marjorie Taylor Greene was up there and a couple others. But, you know, that's who they went after. They have tremendous representation in Congress. You know, you've got all these different groups that are getting representation. Who's missing in that list? Oh, that would be us. So the American agenda is stalled because Republicans in Congress refuse to advance it. If they lose in the midterms, they don't care. So this is, this is tragic. But that Trump agenda, that America First agenda simply is not the Republican Party's agenda, and that's why they've fought us every step of the way. I mean, in many ways, the Republicans have been a huge disappointment. I mean, I hate to say this, but if they do lose the midterms, they brought it on themselves.

Yeah, they don't care. But here's the problem. I do, because it just means two years of nothing. It means two years of impeachment, two years of everything being installed, two years of the lunacy back, and that's what it represents. So I do resent it. I do, too. Resented. And I go back to say what you incidentally said initially, if I'm quoting you correctly, that you would have preferred that the Iran war never took place in the very beginning because you thought it was more importance to bring inflation down, do the American agenda, and win the midterms, which has more of an effect on my life than the Iran situation. Well, and save the country would be nice, right? Yeah, for a change. If the Republicans would have come at the big expensive bill and said, hey, look, we want to get these elements of policy through, but we're going to hold spending flat, no increase, it would have been a major victory for the American people. But they couldn't do that, so they had increased spending by $5 trillion over 10 years. You know, they just can't stop. They can't help themselves. It is a body beyond recovery. I don't know. You know, a Patriot called me a couple of about a week ago and said, hey, I've been thinking about it. And this person actually thinks does you just repeat what they're here on CNN. and said, I don't think we're voting our way out of this, are we? You know, and that's where a lot of people are getting. So you've really got three doors, right? You've got vote Republican for whatever clown is in that role. Vote Democrat or don't vote, and that's where you're going to find some problems. I think both the Democrat Party and the Republican Party are going to face the no-vote problem. Now, I could be wrong. Turnout will be very, very high among that 30 percent or group, right? These people are lunatics. They are very distressed. The DEI isn't being pushed in the universities. The third-grade teachers can't chase kids around the classroom screaming. Let me tell you about my sexual journey. You know, these people are unhinged lunatics, and they will turn out, no question. You've got the brand-loyal Republicans turn out without question. The evangelicals that support Israel, they're coming, right? Designists, they're all coming. But it's that average American, especially the 18 to 39s, who feel so abandoned and with good cause. And there are two sides to this boomer versus millennial or boomer versus zoomer argument. There are two sides to that. But let's not pretend that these kids don't have a valid argument. You know, we weren't facing $40 trillion a debt 10 years, 20, 30, 40 years ago. We weren't facing the risk of hyperinflation as we do now. It's not here now, but it could come. You know, so, and we weren't facing H-1B visas replacing everybody. Now, we faced offshoring of jobs, and we did nothing about it because, eh, we're all right. But the, so, so this door number three, no vote, that's the greatest threat in the midterms. Right. And because a no vote. The defender Johnson loses, he doesn't care. He gets the same pension now, no matter whether he remains in that role or doesn't. Right. No vote is a vote.

Actually. Yeah. Absolutely. In many ways. And it's sad because really the American first agenda, I mean, how can you be opposed to it? America first. If Trump would have stayed the course, I mean, gas prices were low, inflation was coming down. I mean, think of where we would have been right now if we would have never got involved with Iran. Think of where that. But not just Iran. That's right. He should have never gotten involved with Iran. And then there's another thing. That housing bill that just went through that nobody knows about. Explain it. They can't pass. They can't pass the Election Act or do anything to help the country. But they passed this thing called the Affordable Housing Act. Now, does anybody think that there's a bill in Congress that's going to make housing affordable? Does anybody believe that's possible? Well, we had the Inflation Reduction Act. Didn't that work? Exactly in the infrastructure bill where they spent no money on infrastructure. So this housing bill goes through and dumps hundreds of millions of dollars into all the consultants that were there under the Democrats to design, to redesign your community. So they're going to try to urbanize the suburbs. They're going to try to empty out some of the more rural areas, and they're going to take the adjacent rural areas and try to densify those. They won't necessarily be urbanized, but they'll be at least suburbanized. You know, they're going to develop plans where a municipality will identify all of the empty lots in its border, and the government will determine a plan for usage of that land. How is that the role of government? It was, by the way, in the Soviet system. The Republicans and Democrat, the Unipart, came together. 85 U.S. senators voted for the housing bill. 85. What else do they get a super majority on? They got a super majority in the House on the housing bill, not the Election Security Act, nothing that we want, absolutely refuse to do anything. They're about to go on their month-long recess, right? They aren't passing through the Senate. Trump's still waiting on confirmation of appointees. They're running 30. They're running sessions in Congress. From gavel to gavel, it's 39 seconds. But it's long enough to guarantee that Trump can't do recess appointments of his nominees. We're two years into this thing. And the Republicans in the Senate are stopping him cold on implementing his plans. And like you say, you can't get the voting, his secure election act. But we also had time to say, hey, we should merge Israel and America with the military. This NDAA, taking the spending to $1.1 trillion, and then hiding Israel inside that bill, what I mean is, even at Yahoo, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu said, hey, I don't want to be taking foreign aid from the United States anymore. And gullible people said, oh, look at that. They're going to be, you know, like, they're not going to, they're going to shut up the valve. But then everybody else started to look around, go, oh, no, what did they got planned? And here's what he had planned. So we called a congressman in Indiana and said write an amendment to the NDA, the National Defense Authorization Act. And in that, switch us from being...

recipients of foreign aid to be embedded in your defense budget. So now it's a $1.1 trillion black hole, and Israel is stuck in the middle of it. Now, there's going to be sort of a relationship manager or an Israel czar, somebody who's going to sit inside the Department of Defense or Department of War, and they're going to decide, they're going to make sure, let's say they're going to shepherd projects through and money through to make sure that enough is going to Israel. Now, what's that going to get us? You know, they're going to get access to all of our technology by law. They're going to get access to a bunch of things. They're going to be embedded in our procurement process. They're going to be building plants that we pay for. They'll profit from. This is an incredible win for Israel. How does it serve the American people? Well, it doesn't. And I've heard all the arguments about how it does. It's nonsense. We can buy whatever technology you want from Israel. We can sell them whatever we want. We have partnerships with lots of different countries. But none of them are hidden in this giant black money box. And that's what is. The Department of Justice, or Department of Defense, came out on September 10 of 2001 and said, we just lost $2 trillion, more than $2 trillion. The next day, the accounting department was destroyed, so we never got to the bottom of where that money went. Then they came out again. Most recently, at the end of 23, it said, yeah, we lost another $2 trillion. Can't find it. And you put Israel's budget in the middle of that black box where everything's hidden behind firewalls and secrets and, you know, classifications will never again know as the American people how much money we're shoving over there. And that bill will pass by a super majority, or at least a significant majority. No, and the Republicans in Congress refused to allow debate. Thomas Massie tried to bring this to debate, and the Republicans in Congress refused to allow it to happen. Spender Johnson specifically made sure this would never be debated publicly because they really hope that the normies and the gullibles that they don't know anything about this. You know, and then if you do have, well, we have a special relationship. Hey, look, we got a special relationship with a lot of countries. It doesn't mean perfect alignment of interests, and no country should be inside our Department of War like that. It's very troubling. Back with more, and we wrap it up in just a minute.

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