The Ron Verb Show - Full Broadcast from Wednesday, 07/22/26

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coverage with those weather cameras where you could actually see, you could physically watch that, hey, this is, you could see the tornado right there on television as it was happening live. As it was happening live, as you would see it on the east side, if you will, heading towards Gerard. And it was right there. I mean, live on television. And you just sat back and he said, this is unreal. Because we just went through this, what, in less than two weeks? And here we go again. And just to watch the progress of this as it moved somewhat rapidly and going really down, what, 422 for the most parts. It was just great coverage by our television station, WKBN, and Paul Wetzel. So they did an excellent job on that. And there was obviously some damage in the areas where it went. But the strange part, and that's a weird thing about tornadoes, is that the sun was shining out our front door. We didn't even get any rain. So the sun was shining, and you could look over, and you could see dark skies, and you could see what they were, the television coverage, but, I mean, we didn't suffer any rain. Not to my recollection, I don't think it's, it even rains. So it was like, wow, how interesting is that. But it's unbelievable that that happened for a second time in two weeks. But there you have it. Is somebody messing with the weather? Is somebody messing with the weather? Or is this just a case that you have these people that say, hey, see, we're telling you this is global warming. It's screwing with the weather patterns. That's why you've got all these extreme conditions anymore. It's global warming. Get used to it. That's why you have areas that are hotter than they've ever been. And that's why you have all this crazy weather that's going on. It's global warming. And that's what some folks say, some scientists say. Others disagree with that. So I guess we don't know for certain. A lot of people have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're scientists or they know. We can all have opinions on it. But there's always those people that say, boy, the weather's awful strange. Look at how hot it's getting in some of these areas hotter than it's ever been and all this kind of extreme weather. And that's what global warming's all about, or so they say. So there you have it. Yesterday's adventure sitting right there, eating a slice of pizza with my wife. when these sirens are going off. So, let's see. There you have it. I want to talk to you about El Presente. I got in a discussion with G2 last night on a program. And for those of you that listen on a regular basis,

I must confess, I mean, I think that this is a disaster what's going on as far as Trump ends Iran. I think it's just an absolute disaster that he should have never done in the first place. He should have never got involved in this in the first place. I mean, it was a mistake from day one. Now, do you just continue on with this and knowing that it was a mistake from day one? Do you just continue to stay the course despite the fact that it's a mistake? Here's the problem. You're seeing oil prices go up, gas prices go up. I mean, what is just stifling everything and everybody? Inflation. I mean, it is just out of control. You hear communities talk about why they need more money because a fire truck costs so much more. A police car costs so much more. And you know it's true, just like you take a look at what they say your house is worth now. This is all inflation. Inflation. Well, your house is worth this much, and that's what we're going to tax you on. Have you priced vehicles these days? I mean, it's ridiculous what they're looking for some of these. Not that you can't find a good deal on some new cars, depending what you're looking for. You can get like your Chevy tracks and that kind of stuff. There's still some affordable stuff out there on the lower end, the affordable ends. But if you look at a lot of other stuff, it's pretty steep on the price. So everything you look at from housing to cars. Your electricity is doubled. Gasoline's back at four bucks a gallon. Your property taxes keep going up. Groceries keep costing more. I mean, all the stuff that you need. Who doesn't need electricity? Electricity is doubled. It's doubled in price. The cost of your electricity is doubled. Natural gas has gone up. Groceries have gone up. Like I said, gasoline was down. Now it's back to $4 on average. Insurance has gone up. All this stuff has gone up way beyond single digits, double digits. I don't think anybody's income can keep up with it. And it affects your savings, whether you're, no matter what age you are, it can affect your savings, your retirements, your stock portfolio. Hey, look, I got this much money, but it doesn't buy as much as it used to buy. Well, because of inflation. And I was disagreeing, I guess, with G2 yesterday saying, I don't see any end in sight to this situation. I don't see any end in sight. As they say, what do they say is the definition of insanity doing the same thing again and again and expect different results? So let's just keep on bombing. Let's bomb them some more. That would bring him to submission. Let's bomb this stuff now.

And, you know, we've heard all along they're close. They want to make a deal. I got him on a rope. Trump was saying, and that didn't materialize. Well, we got this 60-day moratorium. Well, that didn't materialize. And now we're going to bomb them some more Iran, and then we'll get them where we need them. Well, what if that doesn't work? So is there a possibility that these people were underestimated that they're pretty well dug in and they're not going to give in? Just a thought. I mean, it could be a major mistake, but I do know this much. It's going to just continue to add to inflation. I have hard time getting nitrogen, which is for fertilizer, for farmers, other chemicals as well. I mean, a straight was open. We didn't have any of these problems prior to them doing this now. These problems just continue to go on as far as energy. We're draining our reserves or strategic oil reserves. China's doing the same thing, so we're tapping into all our reserve oil and using all that to try to keep prices low. Well, what do you do when you're at these critical levels that they're talking about that the oil experts were talking about you'd be hitting in July and August as you continue to drain it? Then when you stop draining it, now what do you do? Now what happens to prices? Just something to think about as inflation continues. I think to increase. I just think we're all becoming poorer as a result of this. We're all getting poorer every day. Everything's getting more expensive. No one's income keeps up with it. They continue to stay the course on this, and it's just not a good scenario. Comments 330-729-99-77. 33072997. I don't know if the right thing is just to say to Israel, hey, you're on your own. We're done with this. You're on here. Hey, Ron. Are you done with your monologue? If you're the first caller, I've got to think about that for a second because if you're the first caller, if I've done with my monologue, it means I've got to talk to Bubba Ginoosh. No, no. I'm just, I was waiting until you're done for many about Trump. Yes, yes, I am done at this point in time, and I'm not a cheerleader for Trump as you are. I'm a realist. No, no. Yes, I'm a realist. I'm a cheerleader for the United States of America. Hey, did you hear the, did you hear the compliment that was paid to you last night? No. You didn't hear it? No. Are you ready for this? I'm going to share some top secrets radio gossip with all of you. Do you know the caller I'm asked more questions about than any other caller? There's two, and you're not one of them, but there's two callers I'm asked more questions about than any other callers, any of them, when I'm not sitting here in the studio. Okay. Can you guess who those two are? No, but you were saying somebody said something nice about me. Yeah, but can you guess who those two are? No, I cannot. I thought you were visionary. I thought you were like psychic. No, you got buddies that give you wrong information. So come on, tell me about somebody said something nice about me. I'd like to hear you that. Yeah, two callers that I know that I get asked about more than any other callers on this broadcast, any of them. I mean, they're neck and neck.

Go on. Say who it is. We'll take a guess. I'm not. I can't guess. I don't know what it is. Come on, take a guess. Oh, my God. No, it's not God. How about G2 is one of them, huh? He's one of them, yes. So now you're 50-50. So I feel like I'm playing Jeopardy or some game with you or maybe. The other one's JJ. There you go. Now, see, I said, did I not say you've got psychic abilities? Yes or no? No, that's... Did I know? Answer, answer the question. Did I not say, I think you have, like, psychic abilities? Yes or no? I don't know. You said that. Yes. Yes. And you said, I don't know who they'd be. And I said to you, there are two callers. I'm asked more questions about than any of the other regular callers. And you said, I don't know. And I said, I know you know because you're like psychic. And here you go. And those two callers are G2 and JJ. I mean, I'm asked more questions about J.J. the liberal and G2 than any of our other regular callers. So yesterday. JJ, the liberal, said to G2 in a discussion with G2, he refers to G2 affectionately as Vladimir Putin. He said, I would rather listen to Bubba Gnuch than you. How about that? How about that? I mean, I didn't agree with him, but I thought that was a compliment to you. Why did he say that? Well, I was just saying he said that, and I thought it was a big compliment to you. I didn't say I said it. He said it. Yeah, but did you ask him why? Well, there really wasn't time. They were in a big argument with each other. I mean, it really wasn't time to ask him because he was on fire last night, and G2 and him were really getting into it. So I couldn't interrupt him and say why, but I said, oh, there's a compliment. I'm going to tell Bubba Gnush when he calls that J.J. the liberal says he would rather her Bubba Gnuch and G2. And I thought to myself, boy, I sure wouldn't. But that might not be a compliment. Right? Well, why wouldn't it not be a compliment? I don't, I don't believe in his views. There's nothing to do with his views. He was just saying, I mean, I would perceive it as a compliment. Oh, okay, then, good. I mean, I thought it was a compliment. Well, you seem awful sensitive today. I'm not sensitive. No, you're sensitive today. You seem like... You're formatting on the radio, and I'm trying to get... I'm trying to get to the point. Get to the point. Let me share something that you don't know. Okay, yeah. So... They had a meeting with the President of Lebanon. Standby. Let me do my commercials and I'll come back to you. Just hang in there for a second. Call us online standby. Ron Furb from the Kingdom of Mahoning, News Radio 570. KBN. Hey, Ron, Ferb. I'm going to go check in with Mike Leonard. He's out of Bernard. Towns News, Weather, and Talk Station, 570. WKBN. All right, go ahead with your insights. Okay.

The president had a meeting with the president of Lebanon. And he worked out, he worked out something to help him get control of this country, get Hezbo Allah out of it. You know, Hezbo Allah? You're echoing so much. Get close to the phone. What are you on the toilet? No. No, no, no. I'm not in my situation with it. Anyhow. I said he had a meeting with the president of Lebanon. Oh, yeah. Okay. And they worked out a deal where he can help them control their country and get Hezbollah out of there. Okay? So that's huge. Well, we'll see. What's that? And then... I said, I said, we'll see. It's a giant mess. I'm telling you, I don't think there's a lot of options here. And... This was a miscalculation on his part. And this rests at the feet of Donald J. Trump, the guy I voted for it. I still support. And it's a mess. And the economy's a mess as a result of it, and it might get a lot worse. Listen. What? Listen, you're making the world safe, Ron. I don't know. I don't necessarily agree with that. Okay, man. That's fine. Okay. Well, sounds like you're angry. Yeah. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. See, he seems like he was just, like, angry with me. But he's like, I think he's, I think he's a Trump cheerleader, in my opinion. Well, I still don't know why. I heard that conversation you had on with G2, and I keep telling myself, I keep asking myself, who's to gain? China has sucked up a lot of fuel and stuff, and is storing huge amounts of it. Well, no, no, no. China has an even larger strategic oil reserve than we do, and they're tapping into that. At the same time, China is cutting down on consumption. So China has cut down on consumption and tapping into their strategic oil reserves, which are larger than ours. We have been tapping into ours. We're at a level, a low level that we haven't seen since, I think, 1985. So we're going through ours. Well, what happens? when you're done drawing off of this stuff, I mean, to keep prices down. Now what's the next move? And that's where these oil experts say we are in July and August here, that that's what's coming. And you could see much higher prices for a barrel of Earl, as they say in Texas, and for a gallon of gasoline. And that creates inflation. Go ahead. Well, it's China. China's going to gain because... Right now, they're all saying that Iran is the centerfold of all that is so bad in the world. When actually, who are the people that are picking them up? It's China. China's going in there probably flying stuff in and out of there all the time. And they're just waiting to take over the world's commerce, and Trump helped them with all the damn tariffs. The problem being is G2 wants to think that this guy who, if you take a look at his record of being a businessman, isn't all that great. Matter of fact, it's pretty sad. Well, listen, he's done okay because he's wealthy and he's got a good brand and all that kind of stuff. But forget all of that. I'm more interested in what he's doing as president. I make this, I say this to you.

Once again, I voted for the guy, and I wouldn't vote for Harris or Biden if I had to do it tomorrow. But I think that this is a major mistake. Can I support somebody? And at the same time, say, this is a major mistake. And I think that he was snuckered into it, and we are all paying a dear price. Yeah, I agree with you. I understand that concept totally. But what it would bother. He's continuously going on, and it's just going to, with his attitude towards other countries, I mean, take a look at that summit. Nobody really wanted to talk to him because, well, he's the neighbor that comes in a bad mouth to everybody. He don't want to work with anybody. I am the President of the United States, and I'm God, and I don't care about anybody else's feelings. They had that forest fire up there in Canada and in Minnesota. And he's saying, well, we better put some tariffs on these people because they can't control it. Well, that makes no sense. Tariff seems to be a thing that he thinks he can control. When in turn, Canada is going to say, well, the hell with the United States will deal with somebody else. And guess who that else? China. China is in the breadth right now of taking over the world economy because of this guy here that you voted for, and mind you, this Republican voted for him the first time and halfway through his first. shot of being a president. I wanted what in the hell I was thinking. All right. Stand by, please. Stand by. I'll get back to him momentarily. Call us in the line. Stand by. Ron Furb, News Radio 570, WKVN. News Radio 570, WKVN. Columbus residents and City Council District 7 can help decide how $1 million in public funding will be spent through the city's participatory budgeting program. A community meeting is set for tonight where people can suggest projects like park improvements, better street lighting, safer crosswalks, or more green space. The ideas will be put to a public vote later this year with the winning projects receiving funding. Residents who cannot attend the meeting can still submit their ideas online. And in the meantime, a nearly $1 billion aircraft manufacturing facility is coming to Springfield. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine helped announce the new Electra Aero Factory at Airport Park yesterday. The Virginia-based company is planning to build a plan to produce its EL9 ultra-short hybrid electric aircraft at the new site, creating roughly 2,000 jobs. Construction is expected to start next year. I'm Brady Hopkins. Listen on the free I Heart Radio app for all your music, news, talk, and sports radio. Podcasts to download the app. Free never sounded so good. Hey to Z. Hey, guys, it's Ryan. I want to tell you about my new pastime, Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has been around for over a decade delivering the most fun you can have online. Play social casino style games for free, anytime, anywhere. So sign up at chumbac casino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Trade screen time for race time at Virginia International Raceway. August 21st through 23rd, IMSA's Michelin GT Challenge brings some of the coolest cars to VIR for an unforgettable family weekend. Explore, meet drivers, see racecars up close, and experience the thrill of racing from every corner of the track. It's more than a race. It's a memory waiting to be made. Kids 12 and under get in free. Get your tickets at VIRFam.com. That's VIRFAM.com.

On News Radio 570, WKVN. All right, back to it here. Good afternoon, 335. Perfect day here on Wednesday, July 22nd, with 72 degrees. It's just perfect out there today. All right, so you voted for Trump the first time, and you say you did not vote for him the second time? No, by halfway through his first time being president, and I wonder, what is this guy doing? He's not helping out you, me, or our kids, or our grandkids, or our great-great-grandkids. All he's doing is helping himself. I mean, just take a look at how much money this guy's made. So you're telling me, though, you voted for Biden or Harris? Oh, I voted for Biden when he went in the first time. The second time I voted, when I found out that Trump was all pushing on it, I voted for Harris just because of the fact that I didn't think that Trump was not so... Oh, my gosh. I mean, in all seriousness, did you have to hold your nose? And, I mean, listen, as bad as you might think Trump is, he's a lot better than Harris. Good God. I don't, well, you see, that's the point. A lot of people will stay with a Republican only because they're Republican. Well, no, she's just stupid. Well, I understand that. But, see, I don't blame you. I'm not mad at you. I accept the fact that you think Trump is okay. And I don't. I take a look at what he's done. More than 98% of his things he's been involved in, if it hadn't been for his dad's money, he wouldn't be where he's at. I mean, how would you like to get out of college and get a million dollar? Here's a million dollars. Go do something. And then when you screw it up, he gives you another couple million to straighten it out. Well, that's exactly what happened to me. Oh, my goodness. And why are you sitting there talking to me? You mean to tell me your dad didn't do that for you? What kind of father did you have? You mean to tell me when you got out? I had a great father. I loved him very much. But he didn't give you a million dollars and tell you to be on your way? No. Go out and make it. I made mine. Oh, okay. I never made the million.

And neither did you. Listen here, loser. All right, so you didn't vote for him to second time. Here's my dilemma. I voted for him every time, and I'd vote for him again. But just because I disagree with him on this one issue doesn't mean I don't like some of the other stuff that he's done and he's far better. I can't vote for these people. Let's think... You put tampons in men's bathrooms. It's you can wish yourself pregnant or wish yourself a woman or any of that craziness, that that, that, that, that wokeness, we can't say ladies and gentlemen and all of this craziness that they stand for on the social agenda, let alone their economic agenda. Don't forget, Biden created all this double-digit inflation with his policies, and I'm, but I'm man enough to say Trump is making it worse. with this situation in Iran. Remember, before the war, we had gased down about 250 a gallon. Prices were going down. Imagine where things would be right now if he never engaged in this situation. We'd all be better off. You're right. We'd all be better off. Right. He decided he had to have a war. Exactly. With a country that is the 11th most powerful military and is showing it yet today that they still have it. Why? because the country of China and Russia have been feeding a military equipment all along. I don't know if that's the case. I just think that they're dug in and they're not going to raise a white flag. like they think they should have already. I mean, I feel I've been deceived by some of the stuff that the president's been saying, they want to make a deal, they want to make a deal. He was been saying out week after week after week, and there's never been a deal, and we got him right where we want him, and then this 60-day ceasefire, and there's nothing going on there. It appears to me that... They don't want to make a deal. It appears to me that they have control of the strait. Remember that straight was open before this war ever took place. You didn't have any of these problems that you're seeing now, or we'll see after this is over with as far as the straight is concerned, correct? Well, yeah, you're absolutely correct, and it's going to take better than a year to 18 months. Not two years to get everything straightened out. But who put us in this mess? Trump. With all this stuff that he's... that you say he's doing for the country. He didn't lower the gas prices. The economy did. Who is the economy? You, me? My wife, your wife. We are in the economy. Here's where you're wrong on oil prices. He did help lower the oil prices by expanding drilling offshore and on federal lands. All the stuff that Biden prevented. and the regulations that Biden put in, he got rid of him. So he did very much increase drilling, and he knew that if he increased the oil supply, oil prices would come down. And they did come down as a result of it. I mean, if he would have never done this, I bet you'd be at $2 a gallon for gasoline if he would have never done this, or certainly $2.25. You would have been, gas would have been much cheaper, and I think your groceries would have been less expensive. Inflation was going in a downward direction.

This was a stupid move. And my question is, do you just continue on, if this was a mistake from day one, do you just continue down this road with no end in sight? Well, it kind of looks like Vietnam, don't it? You know what? It does. It does. The thing of it is, okay, so we take the restrictions off. Go drill, baby drill. How long is it going to take for them to drill? Get that oil out. where it can be turned into gas and diesel fuel. You're talking to three years. Well, you're also going to happen in six months. You've got to acknowledge that all the stuff that I learned about oil that I never thought I would know. I'm almost like T-Boon Pickens. I've learned so much about oil. The type of oil that we have is a light crude, and our refineries are made for heavy crude, and you need heavy crude for diesel and jet fuel. and light crude is good for gasoline, but most refineries can't, we export a lot of the oil that we take out of the ground because we need the other type of oil. So it's all kind of tied together to a certain extent. I mean, you follow what I'm saying? Oil just as an oil. There's different. I understand. And what you're saying, because I've, over the years of educated myself on that by looking it up and paying attention. But what I just don't. why people want to back a person who claims, oh, I put in hundreds of thousands of pools. He never put him in. He had contractors do it. Right. He never put him in. He just put out the money out there. Right. And then when it was all built and done, he had it for a few years. He had to get rid of it. Yeah. They couldn't hold it. So how many times did he file for Chapter 11? 13 bankruptcies. Yeah. But that's a businessman right there. Yeah. The art of the deal is more so the art of the steel, and that's how I look at it. All right. But the Bitcoin, the Bitcoin thing, too, is you want to buy into his Bitcoin company? Okay, so we've got to start off with the least amount. You've got to spend $100,000. Out of that, $100,000, you've got to pay X amount of dollars in percentage. for the paperwork. And then every month or every six months, you get a bill for looking at it and saying this is how much your Bitcoin is worth. Yeah, I must confess. If you don't keep adding to it, it's going to get less and less until finally get involved. I don't know anything about that. All right. Are you having a lovely day today, old timer? Yeah. Yesterday was kind of scary. I was absolutely thinking about you because of the way that tornado was going, and then I got thinking, no, you're over on that rich side. but things that wasn't so bad. Yes, absolutely. Yes, yes. Thank you for thinking of me. I was sitting right there when, like I said, eating a slice of pizza when my wife said, there goes the tornado sirens again. I mean, the most effective warning system is those tornado sirens. I mean, if that is the most effective way of alerting everybody of, hey, be concerned. Look to the sky, you know, pay attention.

I think one of those, on top of the sirens, I was here when it came through Niles. Oh, yeah, so was I. And so the thing of it is it got me is I could walk into my house and look at it, and there was no weather. All of a sudden now, in the past 10 years, they finally got it in their head when this stuff comes in. We're going to take every channel we got in the surrounding area, and we're going to give you a weatherman to tell you where it's going and what's going on. And I will tell you this much. And all sincerity, Paul Wetzel does the best job of anybody on 27. There's no question. I think his whole crew is exceptional in fact. They walk well together, and they talk together, and they don't talk in language. You and I, well. I can understand. I know you can more than understand it. Well, you know, I am a college graduate. Oh, from where? The University of Akron. I tell you. Well, right on. Right on. All right. University of life. Yes. Yeah, the school hard knocks. All right. I've been knocked hardened a lot. Okay. Have a wonderful day. What was on the pizza? Pepperoni. Oh. I don't really well with my gallbladder. I know. I know it's the worst thing for you, but it was delicious. Hey, it's good hearing your voice. I appreciate it. I'm telling you, folks, there's something about that guy I like. You know, there's this guy that calls me from Fifth Avenue, and we disagree, but I enjoy talking to him. And that guy, too. There's just something about that guy I find pleasurable. You're on the air. Hello, Ron. Thanks for taking my call. Got a couple articles I want to share I got today. All right. Oilprints.com. Goldman Sachs, Orange Oil could hit $120 a barrel as Middle East Ward drags. They're talking before the end of the year. Oil is going to go to $120 a barrel. That'll make gas around $6 a gallon. And there's another front opening up. Saudi Arabia has ports on the Red Sea. So they can take their oil and tankers up to the Suez Canal and ship them through the Mediterranean to the rest of the world. And the hoodies have been threatening. They're going to bomb the tankers. They called the tank headquarters, and two of them turned around. And they were born for China and India. They made U-turns. So we got another problem in the oil as with the Red Sea. and the hoodies. Trump suggests he could restart Yemen bombing campaign in response to red seed blockade. So a lot of trouble ain't getting better. Yes. I agree. I agree with you. I mean, I am in total agreement with you as far as... This could, I don't see it getting better. I don't see there is an easy way out of this, in my opinion. I just don't see there to be an easy way out at all. And it just, it's, it was a mistake from the very beginning. And he knows it's a mistake. He knows he thought it would, he's been lied to and misled by Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel. He knows it.

And now he's looking for a way, I think, to save face and get out of this as opposed to just saying, pack it up and tell Israel you're on your own. Because, I mean, he created this mess, he being Trump. And all this crazy weather we're having, it could be man doing it, and it could also be God judging our country. Somebody's words we've been doing to. You know, God judges nations, too. Yeah. All right. I think we're heading for serious times. So do I. I mean, I'm concerned about it. I can't be like Bubba Ginoosian and Trump cheerleader. And I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. But I don't see an end in sight to this. This idea, oh, we just keep bombing more and more and more. And it's not working. It hasn't worked to this point. And see, I would go back and say this to you. That's a whole other part of the world. They don't think like you. They don't live like you. They don't think like you. And they don't necessarily want what you want. And we think that they should be thinking like us and what we want. But they don't think like that. You've got to call a different religion. Right. And you think that they're falling in love with... America, as you continue to bomb this country of 93 million people? Who knows how many innocent people were killing, too? Right. I mean, it's just, it's interesting. I don't see an easy way out of this, and I'm with you. I certainly hope I'm wrong, but oil could go easily to that or higher. And so an oil price and your gasoline prices and then inflation will really, really be out of control. And that makes all of us poorer. You follow what I'm saying? I feel as though I'm getting poorer every day. Your truckers might stop going up down the highway. I'm getting poor every day because your 401k or your IRA or your savings doesn't buy what it bought just a short time ago. It takes more dollars to buy stuff than it used to. So all that you work for as far as your investments and your savings are buying less. And if... inflation goes up even more as a result of this goofy situation. You become poor. My electric costs have doubled. My property taxes are out of control. You know, I have politicians that could care less what they're doing. to the productive taxpayers. You follow me? I have politicians that could care less about the problem that they're creating for everybody with property taxes. They could care less. I have a library system in Mone County that could care less what people think and are very arrogant. I have property taxes going up with reevaluations because we're saying your house is now worth this and they'll go up even though you didn't vote for anything.

I have this MRDD asking for an exorbitant levy, and if that passes, your taxes would go up even higher. My electric costs have doubled, the cost of my electricity. My natural gas costs are up. My food prices are up. An airline ticket is up and cost. My gasoline prices are up every time I fill up a vehicle. My insurance costs are up. I haven't even got through it all. I could go in with the cost of medical care, and there's so much more that have been double-digit increases. So who can keep up with all of this craziness? I agree. So everyone's getting poor. And it's like, does anybody give a damn about this at all? You're a great watchman. You're doing a great service for the community. I respect you highly. And I respect you, and I thank you for your call. And I do. All right. News Radio 570W. QBN. I'll have to get into some of these people that submitted letters to replace George Santos to be in Austin Township trustee. I've got to get to that later in a broadcast at some points because it's like, gee, when you look at that list, and there's only one or two on an entire list that would actually be qualified to really or do a good job or step into that job. I'll be right back.

Your one stop for advertising? Call 8-4 News Radio 570, WKBN. All right, and Ron, Verp from the Kingdom of Mahoning here, 355 on a Wednesday afternoon, and you're on ear. Yes, Ron, I think a lot of you guys are just never been in a fight before. All right? Sometimes you're in a fight. I've been in a hundred of them. Well, you've got a fight. All you got. And you got it, you know, even if you lose, you don't give up. And that's what Trump's doing. What's Trump is doing? Trump is cleaning up the mess that Jimmy Carter and every president since Jimmy Carter left behind. All right? Iran has been a bully. They've been getting away with it till Trump. What he will do is he will pull out the lights out defense on it, which I've seen. Ed McCluskey, the legendary basketball coach, due at Farrell in 1972, when they were in the playoffs and they were losing 38 to 18 at halftime. And McCluskey switched the plays around, put in the lights out defense, and the other team scored two points in the third quarter, and Farrell scored 20. So they went from a 20-point deficit to a two-point deficit in one quarter. That's how quickly it happened. And that's what you're going to see now. You're going to see Trump is going to start taking out bridges and power plants. And we'll see how tough they get when they have no lights because lights are out. Well, we shall see. I mean, it hasn't worked to this point. He's been telling you all along, oh, they want to make an agreement. They want to make an agreement. He's been telling you that for months now. Well, you know, he says stuff all the time, right? But it's half-time, Ron. It's halftime, and how many cities have they bombed the United States? None. Every of our aircraft, if they shut down, out of the thousands of the shorties we run. Not many. How hard did they hit us? Well, we hit them pretty hard, and they won't give up because the IRGC is hated by their own people. They have no choice but to fight to the bitter end. So we've got to just completely take them out. And send that country back a thousand years. That's all we have. We shall see if that happens. We shall see. We shall see. We'll say the B-52s haven't come out yet. Yeah, we shall see. It hasn't worked at this point in time, and you could be paying a lot more. You could be a lot poorer as this goes on. I want justice. All right. We shall see. Church is out. All right. I got to pause. We'll be right back.

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approximately 340 million barrels in the strategic oil reserve. That's the most recent. In 2006 March, President Trump ordered the release of 172 million barrels. That's before that other figure. You know, to keep the oil prices lower, artificially lower, a shell game, in my opinion. Oil prices would be 13, the gasoline would be either 13 to 20 cents higher without that slight of hand move. long can that go on, taken from the Strategic War Reserve, millions and millions of gallons a day? How low does it get? You know, those are things, people want to, there's a cost to this war, and I understand everyone says, go, go, go. But all the ramifications, now, that oil has to be bought back if you want to get up to 50, 70, 80, 100, who knows what, when it's time to buy the oil to replace it, is it going to be cheaper? going to be more expensive per barrel. I'm guessing it's going to be more expensive. Buy a lot. It's really hard to say, but I mean, the reality is we keep tapping into it. China has lowered its demand for oil. You know, they've changed some things, I guess, in China, and they tapped into their strategic oil reserves, as we have done here. So the prices that you're seeing are... supplemented, I guess, by these reserves. Well, what happens when you reach these low points when you can't tap into it anymore and you get to the real price of where oil is as a result of this mess? I mean, that's what I'm concerned about. I mean, I don't see a good way out of this. This idea is, and listen, I hope I'm wrong. This idea that we had just continued to bomb them and do the same thing and expect different results. Well, I hope it works and it brings them to sign some type of agreement, and this thing will be over and a stray to be open. But why hasn't that happened yet? Because we've been bombing a living hell out of them all along, right? Right. And by the way, we're going to need a 37 billion more for the military or 40 or whatever it is. In addition, that's all on their credit card. And for you folks that are always waiting for a balanced budget or against the deficit, keep that in mind also. You know what, Ron, I think one of the big problems with President Trump, who I agree with on a lot of things, and by the way, other presidents have released oil, too, so it's just not him. But he has... particular to have a yes men around and draining the swamp. Well, sometimes you have somebody in the swamp that knows these issues inside not, Iran, Iraq, that spent their whole life in the State Department or elsewhere studying the culture, the people, how to handle them. And he has a lot of yes men. Do you think anyone told him, Mr. President, this is a bad idea? If they did, they were thrown out of that Oval Office real fast, I'm guessing.

And he didn't take, you know, it's not always you want to have a yes man. You want to have somebody to tell you the opposite. No, this is a bad idea. It's not going to work up. And I don't think Jared Kushner is that person. I don't think he spent his entire young life studying issues of Iran, Iraq, and the Middle East, so forth and so on. So I think President Trump brought that on himself, a lot of it, because he has yes men, and no one told him, no, this is a bad idea. He doesn't like to hear no too much. I would, listen, I would agree with that. As I say, I voted for him. I wouldn't vote for Kamala Harris or anything. But this was a bad move from the very beginning. So do you stay the course knowing that it's a bad move? I mean, I'll say it again. I think he was snuckered into this by Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel. I think he thought this would be easy and over with already. None of that has been true. And... They continue to say, well, we'll just do this now, and this should bring him to their knees. And what if that doesn't work, then what are you going to do next? I mean... And that's not good about Ukraine. We're using so many of our weapons there between there and over the Middle East, you know, the stockpiles and weapons are going down and down and down. He was going to have Ukraine fixed it. I think a month is what he said at that time. And I, like you say, I bet it before I agree.

Two rain reasons I think it wasn't well-planned out, didn't understand the culture, didn't understand the people. And here we go, five months later, billion dollars a day for the war, straight to Hormuz. Nothing's better. Everything is worse at this time. And Ron, if the war is over today or tomorrow, what you will not be, do you think oil is going to flow and prices are going to come down after everything's been bombed to smithereens? open. You think that's going to happen the first day at the war is over? I think it takes time. I think it takes time. All right, Ron. I want to give you an eye on that captain on that strategic oil reserve. Remember, people, I would like to see us win and get out also, but the price you're paying is very... Yes, I mean, see, there's a problem. And who knows where you're heading with this? I mean, it's... I have an idea that unless you go win with Grand, I mean, I don't know any war that's been one, maybe smaller scrimmishes by bombing only. But, yeah, I hope they don't put Grand troops in. But, yeah, it's not... How's that bumming working out for you so far, you know? Not so good. All right, Ron. Thanks. Thank you. News Radio 570 W. Kvian. 413 on a Wednesday afternoon. Gorgeous day. It's 69 degrees. Boy, it's getting chilly out there. You're on the air. Boy, I don't know why you guys are talking so bad about Trump. Listen, I told you guys that I've got my table, you know, I've put wearing a new spare sunglasses, so I'm seeing things differently. He's, you're just treating Trump. You're not giving him a chance. This is, come on, wait, wait a minute, folks. Like six years. Come on, you're going to give him another. Wait a second, folks. JJ the Liberal had some type of medical treatments, and now he's JJ the Trumpster. So you're calling me, JJ the Trumpster, saying you're upset that we haven't given him a chance? I want to make sure I understand. I just want you guys to hear what you guys sound like. We've got to give him a chance. Like Bobby Ginoos said, you knew this back in, 06 or 2008 or something, you knew this was going to happen. We've got to give him some time. That's what it is. You guys got to give him some time. You guys are being crazy. You guys are probably the ones who think about that men can have babies. You're the ones that probably think that, you know, you can go into the men's room and you've got a tampon available. I mean, you guys are, I'm kind of, you know, I want you guys to hear it from your voice. That this is what it has done to me, that little procedure that I had to take, Ron. This is what it did to me. And normally I don't see my side. I'm thinking how you guys do. And that's, you know, that's pretty damn scary right now. I mean, we do know, and I hope you, I think you do know, Ron. Is it to hear it in your voice? Do you know that this is not good, right? I think it's a disaster. I mean, everybody talks about them coming to bomb and you're not going to do that. But do you know that economically... Economically, yes, it's a disaster. There have been so many professors, so many people that are writing, so many military people that said, that's what you do. You don't go fish on fist anymore because it's just, it's not going to work.

Too much money, too many deaths, so on the surface, it's going to be misleading people to say, thinking that our elections are rigged. When he won in 2020, or he lost in 2020, it was a rigged election, but 2016 and 2024, I didn't hear a peep. So if we rigged that election in 2020, why did we rig it in 2024? You guys didn't understand where, can you, can you grasp what I just said? I might. If we did it in 2020 and we know that he was going to get an office in 2024, you're damn right. I'm going to rig election if I worked in it, I did it before. Why didn't I do it then? Because we're not rigging the elections. I'm really worried about it because he's not representing any of us. I told you months before, Ron, that you can still support somebody, but you have to give me credit. Ted's always asking me credit. I do this, I knew that. I'm the one that told you that you can still support somebody, but say, this is wrong. You took my lead. I'm taking ownership for that one. And I appreciate that, and I respect you for that, because I have to get a lead on you. But Jesus said, you're going to. And then Bob Gunner, she must be doing terrific. to give him a little bit more time, whoever's called him. We're only down 3818 at a half time. That's not thinking properly because either you guys are making a crap load of money. And I'm on the outside looking in because I'm a Democrat or whatever, but this is not good. He does no, his note, and I told you before, too, he had no, after he bought them, he did not have any plan C, plan D. I mean, come on. I mean, either he's part of this problem or he's in on it. Because it doesn't seem to bother him. Do you know that there's that outbreak of that lettuce, Ron? That was a person who owns a company that gave Trump a million dollars the last election. And the Elon Musk and them lowered the regulations on checking that type of stuff, the vegetables and everything. The public says we're getting better fish. Okay, do you ever get sick on? Wait, I want to make sure I got this straight, JJ. You're saying that the explosive diarrhea that people are suffering is because of Trump?

It's the fault of a person who knows Trump that got – he didn't have to – he didn't have to follow the regulations. So there's – Well, wait a minute. I thought – It happens to a lot. It happened to a lot of Democrat politicians. But this is – this is – you guys always complained about Clinton making money or Obama making money after they get out. How did they do it? One thing, they do $100,000 lectures. They write books. But I don't know anybody that's gotten a billion dollars. I would be a fool to go, wait a second. It's my dad, the person I respected and loved probably other than my wife and my son, more than anything I respected him. If he even did this, I would be, hey, pops, man, what's going on with you? Because I got to stop you. You're killing people. I appreciate you guys being, you know, supporting him. That gives you guys some, I even said it to Arjujit, or whatever his name is, Vladimir Putin the other day. But I respect Bubba Gnus more than him because Boba Gnish is really genuine. He's way off, but he's genuine. I can give him a least kudos there that he, that guy's who he is, but R2T2, he's going to smoke up a rear end. Wait a minute. When you challenged him, you're challenged him, you were so cool. You challenged him a couple times he was like, he's not like me. But wait a second, his name is an R2D2. It's G2. It's G2. It's R2 D2. No, it's, it's G2. It's G2, and you're being disrespectful when you call him Vladimir Putin. Well, that's good. But by him implying, and you guys say, oh, I'm so sensitive, by implying that the person I voted for is permitting people to rape children and murder children, I think I have the opportunity and the right to call you Vladimir Putin, and that's being nice. Quite frankly, you guys have to date me enough that, you know, been threatened by people and they, come on, man. And I've still come back and still tried to just deal with you guys. And if I can say that, when I go to my grave, at least I can say, I fought for everything. That I didn't rule over like my wife wants me to. Oh, we're worried about our son and me. They're going to hurt us. I told him if the first person gets on our porch that I don't know is half of them is going to be across the street. I'm not worried about that anymore. But I'm worried about it all taking you, Ron. I'm actually worried about you. I'm actually worried it to her, Baba Ginoosh. But it's us. It's me, the Democrat. It's the lunatic. If I'm the lunatic, then I'm the lunatic. It's getting old now. I mean, if you're telling him, calling people stupid. He didn't want everything to do with Spain, but he stood up to when Spain was getting their time in the sun. And what do you do, how to stand up there? Get in the photograph. My God, talk about a narcissistic individual. Come on, man. There are things that are you starting to do right. I agree with you. But did he veer up because there's either something going on and not, he's a war criminal, Ron. I don't care what anybody would say he's a war criminal. I don't like the Hamas. I don't like those already. But he's doing the exact thing to you what Trump wants to do by taking out their infrastructure. People will not be able to drink water. People will die. You might as well go over and shoot them like Nick wants to do. My God, they have a right to live too. And Papa Genuci says all the time how they don't have to honor agreements full. He said he read the crime and he must have read it upside down because it says that they have to honor agreements, especially with people of other faiths because it does a disrespect to them. Why would they do that? And the only reason why they're bombing again and they're breaking the world is because soon as Israel finds out about it, they bomb limited.

And that's part of the contingency there. You don't Bob Lemon and we'll – that's where they're doing the little things that we're fighting over this deal. I'm sure – whenever I hear the word deal, it's like nails on a chalkboard. Because we had a deal, and you're this great person. We would have made that deal by now. And if not, then going and you're killing people that have been around before we have to resisted our own ancestors existed. It's quite frankly beyond me. We don't have the right to do that. We have the right to have our freedoms and our liberties and to be able to speak our peace and speak to do it. But we have the right to have our government that we can trust them at least a little bit. And quite frankly, I would rather deal with a rattlesnake. A couple rattlesnakes did to deal with what's going on now. One, I don't talk about my son very much, but you know he eliminated any type of assistance toward people that have autism. My son's already on the real bad. We come around to find out about this kind of stuff. And it's just that I don't want a pity party or anything. But listen, those are things that are given to us that we tell my son. Stand by. Stand by. Well, listen to this. The recent- Tyler Reddic here from 2311 racing. Another checkered flag for the books. Time to celebrate with Chumba. Jump in at chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. No purchase necessary. VTW Group. Boyd were prohibited by law. CTNCs, 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. Trade screen time for race time at Virginia International Raceway. August 21st through 23rd, IMSA's Michelin GT Challenge brings some of the coolest cars to VIR for an unforgettable family weekend. Explore, meet drivers, see race cars up close, and experience the thrill of racing from every corner of the track. It's more than a race. It's a memory waiting to be made. Kids 12 and under get in free. Get your tickets at VIRFam.com. That's VIRFAM.com. News, weather, and talk station 570 WKBN. All right. Are you done? I'm sorry, Rob, but that's the point is, listen, I don't want anything. I take care of my family. I don't ask for anything. You know, it's just to take it away from people. Then you guys want people to have, you want our society to be good people, people that are, you know, they honor our liberties and they treat everybody with respect. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, and you know that he said, look it up. He said people like my son. We'll never be able to play baseball. We'll never be able to take our own bath. We'll never be able to wipe themselves and never be able to fall in love. You never be crappy that is? Why? He's our help person and you're not going to help my son. You're thinking some kind of vegetable. Well, he's not. I don't know anybody to be pitying on me. There's people that are a whole hell a lot more soft than I am. Way bad. They don't want to kill themselves every day. Me, I just go back to smoking cigarettes after eight years. This is what it did to me.

And my white tails, no, I don't. JJ, don't because you're going to get, they're going to come knocking at the door. We don't have these freedoms anymore. And I just told them, I said, babe, if I don't say something, I haven't threatened anybody. But if I don't speak. I'm not going to go to my great much, speaking wrong, whether, you know, people don't like it or not. Amen, don't. Never fear your tongue. Never fear your tongue. Of course, you know, you taught me that. Yes. I was always that way anyway, but you reinforced that, be. Yes. I wasn't doing the wrong thing, even though I agitated you. You always told me that. Yes. That's why I consider you a friend to be honest with me. Yes. The president isn't, buddy. Neither is R of G2, neither is Nick. They're not being honest. They're not being honest with themselves. I don't expect, listen, if Biden was doing this, I told you, if Biden was in, do you think I'd support him? You think that I put my, being a father and being a husband and being an American and being a friend and all those kind of things more than wanting to see. I don't understand it. And listen, I don't. I care about you people, but why would I want to be miserable as long as you're miserable? If you're happy, I want to be happy. I don't even know what you disagree. Why would I want to be unhappy to make you unhappy? Come on, people. So me's going to call right now, and they're just going to just say their things that I'm some kind of crazy person. Well, you know, like, yeah, I am. Remember, I just said some talk treatment, buddy. So I appreciate you listening, but it's been really bothering me. And, you know, but I have to give you again, kudos because you're not turning on those guys that we're your callers that have been around a whole heck of a longer than I have. But you were a man. You were being honest, and I have to give you respect no matter what we disagree on. You get that above everything. You're honest, man. Thank you. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for calling, incidentally. All right. You're on here. Thank you for calling, incidentally. You're on here. Yeah, that was weird. I'm going to change the subject a little bit here. Unless you want me to keep talking about Iran. No, go ahead. Okay, so the Clarity Act. Probably going to be passing next week. Donald Trump agreed to some ethics provisions. Basically, the Clarity Act is going to allow digital assets in our country to actually have rules and regulations. And it's going to prevent the president, the Congress, Senate, and anything like that, from owning these, just like they've been doing and trading stocks and becoming rich off of insider information. So for the listening audience, why is this even important? Well, it's going to allow us in our country to do a couple things. One, it's going to do some bad things and some good things. One, it's going to allow us to print a whole lot more money, which is going to allow us to can further down the road. That's one of the bad things, but it's going to prolong the misery that we're all going to be having because everything gets more expensive and inflation is going to go through the roof again, but at least we'll be able to print dollars into ad nauseum. So that's one thing. The other thing is...

it's going to allow us to finally have rules and regulations for digital currencies that the government can't control. Because what's everybody talking about? We all have money for everything that just keeps throwing in the wind, pay for this, pay for that, no repercussions. You keep having more money. It's nominally you have more. But like you said earlier, you still feel like you keep feeling poorer and poorer every day of the year. If you knew how much, if you would have known Ron how much money you have now when you were 20, You'd have thought you would be driving around in a yacht somewhere, and you would be the richest person in the world. But what happened? Your dollar keeps buying you less and less. So that's going to keep happening because what's going to happen with this Clarity Act, we're going to have something which called stable coins, which are already in use, but it's going to allow banks and major corporations not only hold them but use them. There's a caller who called it a long time ago. We always used to use the phrase, why do cars have brakes? Stand by, yes, standby. Back with Alec in a minute. News Radio 570, Doty Kimi. Ron Verb here tonight till 6 from the Kingdom of Mahoning. News Radio 570. WKVN. Columbus residents at City Council District 7 can help decide how $1 million in public funding will be spent through the city's participatory budgeting program. A community meeting is set for tonight where people can suggest projects like park improvements, better street lighting, safer crosswalks, or more green space. The ideas will be put to a public vote later this year with the winning projects receiving funding. Residents who cannot attend the meeting can still submit their ideas online. And in the meantime, a nearly $1 billion aircraft manufacturing facility is coming to Springfield. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine helped announce the new Electra Aero Factory at Airport Park yesterday. The Virginia-based company is planning to build a plan to produce its EL9 ultra-short hybrid electric aircraft at the new site, creating roughly 2,000 jobs. Construction is expected to start next year. I'm Brady Hopkins. 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. A to Z dependable services, plumbing, septic, heating, cooling, and one-day baths. Highways are still accident-free this afternoon. You're dealing with road construction, closing the northbound lanes on I-680 between South Avenue and Route 193. That's for pavement work scheduled through next summer. You also have various lane restrictions for paving repairs on 680 between the turnpike and 224. See a crash. Give us a call. 330305-1159. I'm Mike Ross from the Total Traffic Center. This report is sponsored by Dell Technologies. Back to school starts now. Get long last year. Now, Ron Verb. On News Radio 570, WKBN.

Back to it, News Radio 570, W. KBian, we're on 434 in the afternoon. It's a perfect day, 71 degrees. And back with that, Alec. So just take it from the top again so people understand what you're saying. So everybody listening understands exactly what you're saying. So a stable coin is a digital dollar. It's one stable coin is $1 in the United States Treasury. They have to be backed. So if a company wants to mint a billion dollars of stable coins, they have to have a billion dollars in treasuries to back it. Well, what does everybody around the world want? Dollars. If you were in Iran right now, you want to hold dollars, but there's no bank in Iran where you can get dollars. With a stable coin in a digital currency, you can get it on your phone. have those dollars, the U.S. is going to print more treasuries. So that way we can keep pushing the dollar dominance throughout the world. It's just we're going to be printing more money so that we can kick the can down the road with our $40 trillion in debt. And just bear with me, by printing more money, does that create inflation? Well, that's the problem. When's it going to hit the fan, though? You know, at what point in time is... is that inflation going to actually rear its ugly head to the point where we're all being lied to, number one, on the inflation numbers. We all know that. So when you're the referee, when you're the Federal Reserve and you're controlling interest rates, but you're also putting out what the inflation numbers are, you can manipulate them a lot. Yeah, it probably will add more inflation, but it's going to keep the dollar dominant. And at the end of the day, if we lose dollar dominance in the United States of America, We lose everything. We have no manufacturing in this country. We don't produce anything. Right. You're talking about like the petrodollary and all that. I understand that. And I understand how important that is. But if you continue to inflate the dollar by making more of them, if you will. I mean, do you remember that old cartoon where the guy has a wheelbarrel full of cash to go get a loaf of bread? I mean, it's like that cartoon is becoming true because they've printed so many dollars. inflation cost caused as a result of government policy or the energy policies. So everything has gotten so expensive. As I said, again, everyone's savings is worth less. Everyone's retirement is worth less. Everyone's paycheck buys less. We're all getting poorer because everything is costing so much. And if Trump continues down this road that he's on, it's going to create more inflation, you're saying that this... What you're talking about creates more inflation. Well, what the hell you think a car or a house is going to cost or just surviving is going to cost? This is the bad part of this. Now, it depends on what time frame you're looking at this. And if you're looking at this in the next several years, well, maybe it's a good thing. If you're looking at this long term, your gallon of milk might cost you $48. But I have no idea where that time frame leads us to. The other part of this, though, is like the...

The doc usually always said, why do cars have brakes? It's not so they could stop. It's so they can go fast. Right now, there are no regulations in the United States for big banks or major corporations to hold digital assets like stable coins or bitcoin. So no companies hold them because it's only a liability. Once this bill is passed, there's rules of the road. So it's just like traffic lights and signals on the highway. So Bitcoin, you have seen in the past, it goes way up, and then it can crash back down. It's like a Ferrari running through the middle of town with no traffic lights. It can go real fast, and it can also hit a brick wall or another car and it T-bones. But with regulations, it actually makes it that much better. Now, what the stable coins are going to do is it's going to push U.S. finance into digital wallets. So, you know, like FDIC insurance on your checking account, $200,000. Well, if you have a stable coin, they are backed one to one with treasuries. So they are always solvent inside the bill itself for the Genius Act, which passed last year. Anybody who prints a stable coin. have it federally backed by Treasury. So your money's always there. You could carry as much money as you could possibly want in a digital wallet on your phone. Now, the only problem with that is it's still the U.S. dollar. We could all worry about what's on our phone, who's watching our phone. But what it also does, it allows you to own digital currencies, which are not controlled by the government and cannot be printed into infinity. So this is something that can... It actually slowly allow us to have some kind of fiscal responsibility moving forward. And once there's regulation, big banks, major corporations, they're going to be the first ones to move on this. It's not going to be mom and pop. So this is just something I'm trying to, again, I've talked about in the past. I'm just trying to give everybody a little insight to what's coming down the pipe, probably even next week when it goes to the Senate floor. And if it passes, it's already pat Congress. They're working on some verbiage because Democrats despise Donald Trump. So they wanted to have ethics provisions in there so that he can't get rich off of it. And, hey, you know what, I'm okay with that too. Donald Trump came out with his own, what we call a meme coin before the election. He made $6 billion on it one day. Now it's since crashed since, you know, that period of time. But what they don't want is politicians to be able to do those kind of things moving forward, which is a good thing. Regulations are always good. But it might make some sense for everybody to just know what's coming, understand what a stable coin is, understand what Bitcoin and digital wallets are, because this is the future. It's moving here. First they laughed at it, then they fought it, and now the government is accepting it. Because maybe, just maybe, if we own something in our country that can't be printed and wasted away by government officials, maybe we can actually have some fiscal responsibility moving forward. And that would be a good thing.

I would agree with that. I would, instead of a fiat currency, correct? Correct. So when you go to the polling library, you can do some research on the Clarity Act. You can sit in the back corner where it's he's a quarter inch. Yes. I keep, you know, and I keep going back to that, too. I have no other words. You just shake your head. These are the things that go on at your local level. Imagine the kind of fraud, waste, and abuse that goes on at the state. What goes on nationally in our country? I mean, it's the arrogance of this whole library group that is just... bewilders me. I mean, I am so bewildered by their other arrogance or how they despise the citizens of a community that say, we don't like this decision. We're taxpayers and we think we can fix this building. And it's like, we don't care. We don't want to hear that discussion. We don't want to have an open forum on it. You can talk three minutes and then that's it. I mean, it's the arrogance that you're getting like this woman that runs a library. Like it's what, she wants to be so insulated. She's almost like afraid to talk to the public or afraid to come on the program. Talk to the architect. Tell them why you think this is the right move and tell him why you think he's wrong and then have a discussion. And let's all listen to it. What are you afraid of? This is what your job is. This is what you get paid for. Why are you afraid to communicate? No, I got to hire a bunch of other people to do the communication. Even though I'm in charge, I don't want to be. I mean, it's so, it's so ridiculous from the library standpoint. I don't know how you go out in public, knowing that you're wasting your neighbor's money. I don't understand it. And then you have, like I said, you know, Bernie Sanders, I was referenced it. You know, he says crazy things. He believes it. And at least he'll, like, try to back himself up. If you're crazy, at least try to back yourself up and take on, you know, the debate. But to not even have a debate about it or to talk about it. But here's the worst thing about this. At the end of the day, it's like if you sign your terms of agreement when you go on a website or your iPhone, nobody reads the 17 pages. You just hit click so you can use it. Right. Everybody thinks, oh, I love my library. So guess what? At the end of the day, it's all the voters because they're all misinformed and they vote for this. And this is the repercussion from it. So, you know, sometimes it always, I hate to say it, but sometimes it takes a tragedy or maybe something really dumb to happen for people to wake up. I agree. But in this case, probably not, because most people don't care about local issues. It's really sad. I don't agree with that. I think people do care about local issues when you see what's going on as far as.

Well, they might say they care, but they have no idea. Here's why they care because they're being ignored and they're being treated like dirt. And it's like, when you start treating people that are the taxpayers like that, there's repercussions that there's fallback from it. Those are the people who call into your show. Those are the people you hear about that actually care. If you went to whatever grocery store you go to and you pulled 100 people. 99, maybe 98 of them would number one have no clue what you're talking about. And then if you explained it to them, 50 of them would be like, nah, I don't really know. I don't really care. Have you seen anything good on Netflix? I don't know. And they'd scroll through their phone like a zombie. That's the problem. Yeah, but here's the reality. Sooner or later, it catches up to them because all of a sudden they say, Well, wait a minute, I can't afford to live in my home anymore. Or why do I have to pay so much in taxes? Or what do you mean? What do you mean I'm going to lose my house because I'm buying in taxes? All these economic things catch up to people. Sooner later, you can only stick your head in the sand so long before it catches up to you. And it will catch up to you. Let me ask you this wrong. So let's say you start saying, I can't afford this anymore. Do you go through your life choices and say, I shouldn't have voted for that library increase? No, what you do is you hear the politician who says, Forget the big corporations. I want to tax the billionaires and take their money. We're going to have socialism. We're going to have communism. We're going to have communism. I'll vote for that so that somebody else could fix my problems for me. And this is what's happening. We talked about it before in New York City, Seattle, everywhere like class warfare. Well, that's what's happening. We've talked about it before. That's why the young people are voting for stuff like this, because if your salary goes up 1% a year, but the cost of homes goes up 10% a year, year after year, you can't buy them. But I'll be the first guy to say, and I think as a result of talking to you, I think the young person has a legitimate bitch to make. And how did we get here at this point in time? I mean, I sit here, and when I say it's a legitimate bitch, listen, I sit here and say, Every one of these politicians that are out there saying we can't cut government or we can't become more efficient. as Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida, we can't spend less each year, that they lack the ability to do that. Every one of them, every single one of them is making the problem worse. They are making the problem worse for people that are of all, whether you're a senior, whether you're a new person trying to buy a home, they're making it worse. Ron, I'm going to tell you something that you're not going to like. Okay.

The oldest boomers now just turned 80. When do we spend the most on somebody's health care throughout their whole life? The last two months of their life. Absolutely, yes. So we are going to be spending into oblivion Medicare, not alone, forget Medicaid. That's a complete disaster. And I'm going to tell you this. You're not going to like this because I know I've got disagreements with you in the path of it. But Social Security, that is not your money. You paid into it, but the money you paid in is not yours. Remember, and I had a conversation with a very kind woman the other day about all of this, Social Security Medicare, and she was receiving all of it. And she completely agreed. She's happy she's receiving it, but she sure wouldn't want to be the one paying for it right now. She likes the other end because don't take it away from them because they were promised it. No, no. See, I disagree with that. And just so you know, when I was young, I was hearing the same thing. It's not going to be around when you get old. Well, I'm here to tell you something. First of all, I support the idea of taking the cap off Social Security. You follow me as far as... If the guy making $150,000 is paying it on his entire salary, then if you're making $300,000, you should as well. We can solve the problem that way. I say this a million times. Keep Medicare at 65. Keep Social Security at 67. I'm against raising these ages at all because not everybody lives longer. Not everybody has an easy job. So let's keep it where it is. It's not a grand retirement. It's not a bunch of money that people are getting. And I just think that it's very salvageable. And it's a good thing. It will be there for you. When you talk about the money, the money I paid in, the vast majority of it went out to current retirees. I am not upset about that. I'm not pissed about that. It went out to people, my father's generation, my mother's people. That's okay. The only time that I was paying more in was when Reagan... put that buffer in there for the baby boomers to retire. It was Reagan to put that in. There was never supposed to be a surplus. It was not supposed to be that way, but to get all the baby boomers through, we have to have that surplus. And once they're through, supposedly, we don't need it anymore. So let's see what happens. I'm convinced Social Security will be there when you retire. You know what? Let me add. Here to run, it's a math problem. You can change the cap. You can change the limit. But you need working people to pay for those receiving it. And when you have less and less people paying in, that's called a Ponzi scheme when you need to have more people paying in than the people taking their money out.

That was Bernie Madoff. Right. But tap the brakes. If I just had my money, if I had my Social Security money, in an S&P 500 account, since I was paying into it, I'd have a lot more, but it's not my money. I pay it out to everybody who's collecting it. I don't get my money back. I have to hope that the government does the right thing when I retire to take it, that there's enough people still working. Hopefully they're not just all bots and AI agents that we figure out a way to tax. I have to hope that all the money I put in, I get to reap the reward to that. And guess what? I'm paying all that money now. I don't know what inflation is going to do to that dollar at that point in time and what it's even going to be worse. So I'm trading my time right now for some other retiree social security recipients money. Just as I did when I was your age. The exact same thing I did when I was your age. There were more payers than recipients. And now it has flipped. And now, again, you can go out. You don't have to work. You can be on Medicaid. You could do whatever. The politician will take care of you as long as you vote for them, and we will print money to keep it going. But guess what? And that causes more inflation. So the working person out there who trades this time for money, the dollar keeps getting devalued. And it's the younger generation who's going to fall deeper and deeper into... Problem. But here's my... And they're not going to be able to fix it. Here's my problem when I hear guys like you say that. There was a time when I was a younger generation, just as you are the younger generation, and you will become the older generation. What you're saying is nothing new. I've heard the same things. Everyone acts like when I was young. It was so easy to buy a house. Well, it wasn't that easy. I mean, you know, it depended what you made. I mean, everything's kind of subjective. Here's what you made. Here's what it cost. And a lot of people couldn't afford a home then. They didn't have 20% to put down. I could disagree with you more. They could. They didn't have the PMI on it or any of that. Now, just, well, stand by. Stand by a second. I want to talk to you about that. Back with him and more on News Radio 570. Kian. Ronverb 452. Wednesday afternoon from the Kingdom of Mahoning at 70 degrees.

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If you wanted to get into the trades, it was damn near impossible unless you had an uncle or knew somebody to get you in. It was damn near impossible to get into General Motors or Ford unless you knew somebody to get in. It was damn difficult to get a government job unless you knew somebody to get in. That was the reality of when I was young. Look how easy. It's not easy, but it's much easier today to get into an apprentice program and the trades and make a good living than it was when I was young. It's much easier to get, they're begging for a cop. and firefighters than it was when I was young. They're begging for mailmen much easier than I when I was young. There's a lot of opportunities that you have that are much better than they were when I was a young person. So when you keep acting like, It was so much easier when I was young. I still had to work. I still had to save. I still had to say no to myself, the disciplines that my father taught me, so that when I got married and bought a home, I had 20% to put down so I didn't have to pay PMI insurance. And you think when I signed that loan, that that isn't a nervous time to say, I'm agreeing to pay this amount for the next 20 years or 30 years? But I used my father's philosophy to be indebted as to be a slave, so I paid it off as quickly as I could by not doing a lot of other things. Now, I want you to bear with me because I want to talk to you about this. Do you have the time? Do you have the time? Sure. All right, hang on. All right, because Alec is a – I think he's a really smart guy. I'm just going to tell you. But I want to give him my scenario because it's always – these people always think, oh, it was easier for the generation before them. And I don't always buy that. I'll be right back. Stay tuned. If you're in a market for Arnold Studios, this is 570 WKBN Youngstown, an I-Heart radio station, guaranteed human. From EBS. Lindsey Davis, anchor of prime streaming weeknights on ABC News Live. Four U.S. service members killed in the Middle East last week, returned to U.S. soil in a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base. President Trump and top Pentagon officials attended. ABC's Louis Martinez says the solemn ceremony marks the escalation between the U.S. and Iran. What we've seen now is essentially a return to daily combat. And it's no longer a situation where Iran waits for the United States to attack. They have been carrying out daylight attacks ahead of... of any U.S. retaliation. So what we're seeing is a return down to daily hostilities. Austed Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife were back in court for his drug trafficking case. Maduro appeared at ease as he entered the courtroom without shackles, greeting spectators with good morning in English and waving at one of the sketch artists as he took a seat at the defense table. Judge Alvin Hellerstein promptly set a trial date for June 1st, 27, the date requested by both prosecutors and defense lawyers. Maduro's lawyers say they plan to file a motion to dismiss the case in September by arguing that Maduro and Flores are protected by sovereign immunity.

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So all I'm trying to say is, I'm talking with Alec, if you missed the beginning of our conversation, you'll have to catch it on a podcast. So all I'm saying is every generation thinks they had it harder than the one before them. And you're saying... And I'm saying to you, it wasn't easy when I was young. I mean, a lot of people couldn't afford a house then. They didn't make enough money. They didn't save money or they spent foolishly or whatever. So you had to make sacrifices to build verb manner when we build it. And when you sign that loan, you were on a hook for it. Sure. I mean, so what are you saying to? I'm not disagree with on that. I'm not talking about any outliers from, you know, the baby boomer generation or the outliers from the younger generation. I'm talking about the entire United States of America as a whole together. And I'm just speaking from a mathematical standpoint. If you take the correlation between what people made in the 50, 60, 70s, and what a house cost, what your groceries, your insurance, or child care, and you take that proportionately to what people are making now, to what a home cost. And I don't want people to call in, well, kids don't work hard anymore, or they just don't want to do those jobs, or they want a big house. Well, I'm sorry, most younger people, yeah, you want to live in a safe neighborhood. You know, you're not buying a house for $60,000, okay? You want to live in a safe area, which is the average home now. You can look online right now. I've seen houses with four by four inch pink tile in the bathroom, $400,000. Okay, you can't come out of school, $100,000 in debt. and try to buy that. And here's the other thing wrong, even the other generations before you. Their wife wasn't working in most of the scenarios. So, yeah, the husband, I get it. It was tough. Believe me, it's a lot easier now to do things sitting on your couch from your phone. I could book a vacation while sitting on my couch. You couldn't do that before. I've gone more places than my grandfather ever even do exist. I get that. I'm just talking strictly from a financial standpoint, which brings me all the way back to the origination of my phone call. It's because the money system. Everything comes back to that. When there is more money, it dilutes your dollar. And it's getting worse and worse. And there's no end in sight. So the only thing I'm coming back. And you understand I don't disagree with you on that. If you're talking about the debt deficit of the country and some of these dumb decisions making it too easy for people to sit on their ass and everything, I don't disagree with you on any of that, right? It's gotten exponentially worse, and it's not the younger generation who's done that, okay? I'm not saying that if they were older, they might not do the same thing, but I can only go by the facts and figures I see right in front of me.

And it's not the early 20-something, the 30-something-year-olds who are putting these into, you know, law and moving forward. The can is getting kicked down the road, and the older generation are the ones protecting themselves. I don't blame them one bit. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. But pause for one second. I want that there. I want that to be there for you. And the same concerns you had I had when I was younger as well. I want it to be there. I sit here and I say, listen, you with ad nauseum, you know, I want to beat my head against the wall because of the bull crap that takes place in this community. And I do mean in this community that isn't in other communities. And the reality is these people in politics today... that I rag on constantly are making this situation worse for you. So am I concerned about the senior citizen? Yes. But I'm also concerned about everybody in between, as you hear me talk about ad nauseum, to say, these people... are making it harder for young people to buy a home and get started with their life with the burden of property taxes. I mean, I look at my own home and what they were when I started and what they are now. And that's why I sit here and applaud and put on Dave Thomas. That's why I get these people with signing the petitions. We got more signatures. I can't think of any other radio host anywhere that's helping these people that get signatures for this constitutional amendments. I mean, I'm doing everything I can do to say these people, my commissioners, this library group, none of these people give a damn about the burden they're creating for young people to be able to buy a home. They are the problem. And I'm trying to stop it from growing and making it worse, not for you, but for people that are younger than you. And you've got to help me do that. I mean, I think in talking to you long enough... You've got to understand me from a personal standpoint, and I believe you do. Do you know deep down how pissed I am about this? Seriously, Alec. I know you are because you wouldn't have these people on if you didn't care. You just listen to random complaints all day long, and that would get terrible. You want to do something about it, and I can tell you're passionate about it, and everybody listening that frequently listens, learns so much that they would have never known because we really have no local news that isn't partisan. And this is how you actually figure out information moving forward. And this is what it takes for people to actually understand what's going on, try to get it fixed. It's just the problem is most people aren't informed enough, and they just don't care. And that's the sad truth of the matter. That is true. That's true. I don't know what it will take to move forward. But like Dave Thomas has said, too, you know, I don't want to be. Let me respond to that and then get your feedback.

This has just been my observation over the years, and the statement you made is 100% true. I watched it happen firsthand when these trade agreements were coming around when Perot was around, right? And NAFTA and GATT. And you're right. Most people, and I was bitching about him then, and I was 100% with Perot on it. Everything he said about stagnant wages, the sucking sound, ended up coming true. So people didn't pay attention to it. till they started losing their job. You follow me till their husband lost their job, till their kids couldn't find a job. You saw entire communities, including people in this community, and in Buffalo, entire towns wiped out, businesses that left, thousands of people losing jobs, and they lost their homes, and drug addiction went up, and crime went up, and communities lost their tax base. I watched it happen, and those people who didn't pay attention, guess what they started doing? Paying attention because it started affecting them. That's what it takes sometimes. Go ahead. And sometimes, though, sometimes it's too late, and the poo-poo's already hit the fan, and that's what happened. Because we had local politicians that weren't forward-thinking or forward-looking, and we had uninformed voters. And this is all the problem with, again, everything like I've mentioned, when you have money that's just going everywhere, and there's a trickle-down of your dollar for your time, it makes things very difficult. Of course, we could fix the politician. Of course, we could fix this bill or this or that. But at the end of the day, there are no consequences to a lot of these actions. There's no consequence to the politician who screws up, okay? They just get more money from their political fund. They win re-election. They sit there. They twiddle their thumbs. They hire their friends. And then we all have to pay for their exorbitant health care costs after they retire at age of 55. Right. Exactly. Instead of saying, do we even need this position? Did you listen? I just ask you. When I played that hour long, when I did that hour thing with Ron DeSantis' audio from Florida, did you happen to hear that at all? You know, I didn't get a chance to listen to that. Because I'm going to do something I don't like to do on a regular basis. I think I'm going to play it again. And I'm going to play it again, and people say, well, boy, he's the governor of Florida. What's that got to do with us up here? It's what he's saying in his philosophy and why things are better in Florida. Why every year in Florida they're spending less money than they did the year before, not adjusted for inflation.

So they're shrinking the size of government. So they're saying, like he said, we'll spend our tax dollars on putting another lane on I-4 because that will benefit people and benefit their life as opposed to hiring some cronies in some bullcrap position that's not necessary. Or he asks, he says, like in Broward County, why do they want to double the amount of money the school gets when the student population school has declined? You follow me? I mean, when you listen to what the guy says, you realize he's educated, he's a lawyer, he's educated, and he reads. My problem with the people that are running this community is, I don't think a lot of them are educated or they read. I really don't think that they actually sit down and read. You know, like when I have them, I'll never forget when I had the Fabiiani saying, well, what about these people? What about these? He was talking about everybody's problems except the taxpayer, the guy paying it. Oh, I understand, Ron. No, no, you really don't understand. You lip it and you say you understand. But you have the ability to fix it, do something about it. But you don't. You follow me? Talk is cheap. Deeds are precious. I'm so sick of these people saying they understand. No, you don't understand what you're doing. You don't understand what you're doing to old people. You don't understand what you're doing to young people. And you don't understand what you're doing to everybody in between. They don't get it. Would you agree with that, Alec? I do. And part of the problem is if you do get it and try to run for that position, you will be pushed out of your party or not welcomed into the group. So it's hard to even get elected into that position to even have your voice in a position of power where you can represent the taxpayer because you'll never get elected. And that is the problem because we have too many cronyisms around here. where we don't get politicians and I will say it's not all but you know for the most part we don't get things done because once you get in that position you get your nice benefits you get your nice new office and then you get a nice retirement and then your friends are taking care of like i said because they don't hear from the taxpayer because the taxpayer goes to work all day comes home tries to spend time with their family fix some things in their house, ride their bike, and maybe go on a vacation once in a while. And they don't have time to go down to the commissioner's office and try to get a meeting through nine layers of secretary to get the point where they don't really care. So that's the problem. There's just not enough people to overwhelm that to actually get it done. Because, again, if you ask 99 out of 100 people in that grocery store, if you ever pulled anybody, they wouldn't be able to tell you a commissioner, who their mayor is. who the governor is. I bet you some people wouldn't even be able to tell you who the vice president of the United States is at this point in time. Because we have an uneducated system. And the problem is all of their votes count the same as my vote and your vote and everybody else listening who's well educated. So what are we to do? And it's really getting tough and it's really making us all angry because just like he said.

You keep working more, and you keep feeling poorer and poorer, even though you have more money than you probably ever thought you would have when you were, you know, 20 years old. And it just blows your mind. It makes you just shake your head. What are we doing and how does it get fixed? Somebody's got to come in almost incognito into a political office where they say one thing to get elected and actually go in and fix it. But guess what? Fixing things, just like fixing a house, sometimes you've got to tear things down to actually fix the problem. The problem is the voter sees you trying to tear it down at first. trying to actually rectify the issue and fix it moving forward. And they say, oh, you didn't fix it. Time to go. And then you're gone. And then your political party outcast. You get no money from your local party. And then there it is. We're right back to the same system we were at before. And the problems continue, continue, continue, because there are no consequences. When you say that, you just, you were reminding me of. I was looking at these, I don't know if you pay attention to this or not, let me find this for one second. These people that applied, you know, George Santos, of course, got a county job now. You follow me? I mean, he's, you know, so he's leaving as trustee, you know, because, you know, he got a county job. Okay, fine. So you got these people that put in their... letter to replace them as a trustee you follow me in the township and and i go through this list i'll tell you i'm i'm ignorant to that uh okay that story right there all right but but i but i go through and i look at all of these names you know and i and i read read read about him and i think to myself i don't see really any of them talking enough about the taxpayer You follow me? I mean, as far as the taxpayer and becoming efficient. So I go through all these names. And quite frankly, I'll be blunt with you. I think there's only two people on this list of 13 that are even worth considering. And obviously, obviously one of them is Dittsler because I'm here to tell you he was an excellent trustee when he was trustee in Austin Town. I mean, so, I mean. He's very smart. And the other one is probably Rapovey that was a councilman in Youngstown. I think those are the only two of all the people that are the, you know, I don't care that you, that you're a Kowan and, you know, this kind of stuff like, oh, I donated, you know, I was part of this organization or that organization. I don't care. That means absolutely nothing to me and means nothing to your ability to be able to do a job as a trustee. I mean, do you have an understanding economic sense?

of what's going on. And I only think, too, of all these people that applied have any abilities, really, and that would be Ditzler and Rapovie. The rest of them, I wouldn't want any of the rest of them. I don't care that you supported the dunk tank or whatever stupid thing like that. It's ridiculous. Well, they've been putting us all in the dunk tank, and I'll tell you, I would like a politician. I don't care what level you're talking about that does have higher political aspirations, because I want you to be the mayor, the congressman, the governor, whoever. When you're in a position, I want you to build a resume and do as good as you can so you can talk it up for the next position. Hold that thought. Back with him and more of your calls. It's Bill Wills with money. Ready to put a little spin on your day? Then check out Chumba Casino's new online social casino game, Ryan Seacrest 10K Ways. It's free and packed with 10,000 ways to play. Only at ChambaCasino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, Voidware, Prohibited by Law. CTs and Cs, 21 Plus, sponsored by Chumba Casino. This is the race fans wait for all year. EMSA returns to Virginia International Raceway, August 21 through 23rd, as the world's top GT teams and drivers battle for championship points on VIR's iconic road course. See Porsche, BMW, Corvette, Mercedes-AmG, Ford, and more competing wheel-to-wheel. Three days of racing, paddock access, and non-stop action. Secure your tickets now at racebIR.com. That's R-A-C-V-I-R.com. QKBN. I enjoyed my discussion with you. I won't keep you any longer. But we'll carry it on in the future, okay? All right. Now, all the boomers out there, don't be mad at me. Just think about where you're leaving the country. Right. I don't, I'm trying to say to you, though, things that things are where it's never been everybody thinks it's easier for the people before them my father made what made less money you know than i did but he kept more of the money that he was making and things cost a lot less so that so there's like a gauge on that but but i i mean you understand his house his house was smaller than a house i that i achieved he wanted his kids like the typical people of the time to do better than he did. He insisted that you got educated, as you did. But he also insisted, insisted that you knew how to roof the house, that you know how to fix the car, that you knew how to do things. It was a different time. You follow me, but I look at my children that are adults. They know how to fix things. They know to operate machinery. They're educated. And, and, and you, and they, they are, if your kids are better than you are, you've been a success. Would you not agree if you've, if you've, that,

That's right there. I think the ultimate goal for any generation is to have your kids do better off than you. And that's that right there in lies, I think, the point where I think we're starting to get to a point where some of these generations now, this one included, are starting to be worse than the one before. And I'm not talking about just financially. I'm talking about everything else, the morals, the ethics. the religion, everything. And that is all a problem that leads into everything we just talked about. So where is it falling off? We all have to do better. And I think, you know, society in itself has fallen apart in many ways, but there needs to be consequences for these things and there just aren't. Correct. Consequences to bad decisions that you make. I'm in total agreement with that. You have to, you have to own it. Your father had to look at you and say he achieved it because you've done better than he did. You know, I look at my own, in my own case, my own son that I work with, and it's the biggest joy of my life is working with him. But he's smarter. You know, he's just smarter. He's, he's just, he's just. I don't even know how to describe it. You know, he's just very intelligent. He's very, he's got a good, good standards. You follow me. Ethical standards, smartness, work ethic. And that's what you should want as a parent. I just leave you with that. And I think your dad would say the same thing about you. You follow me? I would say the same exact thing, and that's all you could want for your kids, too. I think that's a good point to end on, because we just covered a lot, and that right there ties it all in. That's correct. And I would like to see more younger people involved in some of these positions. You follow me in some younger thought guys like you. that's in these positions. I appreciate your time, and I thank you for it. News Radio 570, WDKBN, you're on the air. Hi. Good evening, Ron. How are you? I've had a fascinating discussion with Alec. I heard parts of it, yeah. I'm exhausted. Well, I need to take a nap. You're processing some big issues that have far-ranging consequences over long periods of time. But you heard what I was saying. Every generation thinks the one before them had it easier. And that's not always the case. You know, like, gee, my dad had it much easier than I did. No, you know, and then I think, my dad was lucky he lived through World War II. You follow me? I mean, it's like, oh, he had it much better. Well, no, he's lucky he made it through that and came out alive and didn't die as a young man and occupied a lot of his life. And then I look at my older brother, well, you know, you could have died in, you could have died in Vietnam, you could have got Agent Orange, you could have, I looked at what was going on during that time when he was young. You follow me?

When he was a young man, so is that, so today a lot of young people, well, you're not, don't have to worry about being drafted. You've joined a military if you wish there's a lot more opportunities in the trades and easier to get in a lot of these jobs. That's all I'm trying to say. It's not always, boy, the boomers had it made. Really? Tell Dan Rivers how he had it made when he was face down into damn mud in Vietnam when he was 20 years old. Tell him how lucky he was, okay? I'm done. Well, I mean, your points are out. There are certain elements of the way the world is now that just make life better for everybody, right? Okay, so that's true. Stand by, please. Stand by. Stand by G2 coming back with, I think, I'm hoping some great insight on this. Back in a minute, stay tuned. News Radio 570, WKVS. Columbus residents at City Council District 7 can help decide how $1 million in public funding will be spent through the city's participatory budgeting program. A community meeting is set for tonight where people can suggest projects like park improvements, better street lighting, safer crosswalks, or more green space. The ideas will be put to a public vote later this year with the winning projects receiving funding. Residents who cannot attend the meeting can still submit their ideas online. And in the meantime, a nearly $1 billion aircraft manufacturing facility is coming to Springfield. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine helped announce the new Electra Aero Factory at Airport Park yesterday. The Virginia-based company is planning to build a plan to produce its EL9 ultra-short hybrid electric aircraft at the new site, creating roughly 2,000 jobs. Construction is expected to start next year. I'm Brady Hopkins. Listen on the free iHeartRadio app for all your music, muse, talk, and sports radio. Podcast 2. Download the app. Free never sounded so good. A to Z dependable services, plumbing, septic, heating, cooling, and one-day baths. Construction delays possible in Canfield, 224 down to one lane in each direction over the Ohio Turnpike. That's for a bridge replacement projects scheduled through this fall. You also have road work in Friedrich Merz County on I-80 East between the state line and Beaver Valley Expressway. I'm Mike Ross from the Total Traffic Center. This report is sponsored by Red Pilled America. Has socialism ever worked? Now, Ron Verb. On News Radio 570, WKVN. Back to it, News Radio 570 WKVN. All right, go ahead, G2. So the battle between the boomers and the Gen Z folks, which has really reached a high pitch right now. There are valid arguments on both sides. Yeah, you know, the boomers bought homes that were run down and rebuilt them in their 20s and, you know, and did all the painting and the spackling and got, you know, put new bathrooms in and created wealth with their sweat equity, you know, with effort by making those homes better than flipping them, get into a bigger one. There was a...

There was a lot of work done. These people worked hard to do those things. At the same time, a lot of the younger people came out of their parents' homes and expected to live at the same level that they were accustomed to as their parents' children, which typically was not what happens. You know, you've got to go build a life. A lot of them were impatient. All those are legitimate complaints or points. But when the boomers start to talk down to these Gen Z folks and dismiss their concerns, that really is inciting a lot of this anger. You know, comments like, you think that history began in 2015 or, you know, these kind of comments, you're all lazy and stupid. They're not. On the Gen Z and the millennials, the younger millennial side, If you're at 18 to 39 age and you want to go buy a house, if you compare median incomes to homes, they're now much more expensive than they were. Well, they're bigger. Well, maybe they are. But it doesn't change the fact that you get into a market and buy a home today is much more difficult than it was 20 years ago. I'll say yes to that, but they are, in many cases, square foot wide, a lot of times much bigger. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison in many ways. But it doesn't matter, because if you want to get into home ownership, you can only buy the homes that exist. And if you're going to go buy a home in some places, I know one market that's really... I don't know why it's like this, but I know one market where the home that would have been purchased at two times median income 35 years ago is now six times median income. See, and that's the key is the relationship between your income because it's inflation and all this theft in the federal government has really distorted things. Yeah, but let me ask you this with the inflation. If you're a boomer with a home and you say, well, my home's now worth whatever, $500,000. Yeah. Okay, so if you sell your own, you get your $500,000. Well, if you're going to go buy another place, you'll be shocked at what a smaller place is going to cost you. You follow me? It's not like you've got all this wealth because if you're going to buy a, if you're going to go, you've got to live somewhere and it's going to cost you a boatload of money. to do something like that it's all it's all relevant let can i i want to just mention one thing while i still got on my mind and then you can take here's what i admire about like my daughters my daughter's uh generation if you will 28 28 9 year old okay they they they how how do i put this and i'm curious your reaction to it They don't put up with a lot of the crap from a lot of businesses. You follow me? In other words, their attitude is this business isn't going to be loyal to me and I'm not going to be loyal to it. You follow me? In other words...

I'm going to do the best job I can do for you here. But if there's a better opportunity here and they treat me better here, I'm leaving here and I'm going over here. I'm not going to be here for 30 years or whatever. I'm going to go over to this place. They don't put up with the crap. Do you understand what I'm saying? Absolutely. Someone was telling me the other day. For example, at a place where they worked at the air conditioning went out and it was hot as hell there? The people of my daughter's generation that age all left. They didn't stay and continue to work. They said, we'll come back when you fix the air conditioning and we can work in that environment. Till then, we're not going to be there. I mean, there's something about that I admire. Well, remember how it started. Companies displayed absolutely zero loyalty to their employees. Right. In return, the employees display zero loyalty to the companies. And so as long as there are jobs to go to where you can make the same or better income, as long as you have that economic freedom, that opportunity to maintain prosperity but still have a choice, that's great. And if you're maybe a nurse, you can do that because there's a high demand for nurses. But overall, there are some real problems in the job market for these people. And remember, we talked about this a thousand times. Before Donald Trump's first term, we went through three decades of falling wages. Right. All right. So home prices are going up in inflation and just the terms, and wages were going down. And that's because we imported... skilled, unskilled, and semi-skilled labor, right? And we rolled up businesses, which created fewer small companies. There's some structural changes in the economy that have given this Gen Z... you know, this generation, some really economic challenges. But I'm going to count as fast as we can. Right. I would counter that by saying, before you go that far, don't think that didn't affect the baby boomers, as Perra said, when they were shipping everything out of the country, and Perra said the sucking sound, and we had stagnant wages for 20 or 30 years. for the baby boomers we saw people lose their jobs their careers and so the company shut down and lose their homes and everything that was the boomers yeah oh this is stressed everybody but when you look at wealth accumulation the baby boomer generation has done very very well compared to prior generation some of it some of it has yeah not everybody look There are a lot of people who are in that baby boomer age. They're having a hard time keeping their homes because of property taxes. Right. They're on fixed incomes, but as a general matter, it was easier to buy a house 30, 40 years ago because median income versus meeting home price, the relationship was closer. And once again, my father took home 90% of what he made. Everything was lower.

And it's not just income taxes, it's income taxes, it's fees, it's fines. Right. Go get a speeding ticket. You've got to take out a loan to pay the fine. They tack on, there's a small fine for the speeding, but they tack on fees and all the things related to completely unrelated things because the government can't stop seizing your money. So fees and fines and costs, and then these property taxes that are completely out of control. townships that never had income taxes now implementing income taxes because they can't tax your property fast enough. They have to find another way to come at you for a township. What are you doing with all this money? Oh, if you don't give us the money, we're going to take away your police protection. Well, wait a minute, where's the money going? We need more money. Stop asking questions. Well, you hear it with the guy with, you know, the county commissioner. In Mahoney County, who, you know, talked like he was one of the people. Now he's in office. He's like, hey, I can't cut any of the spending. This is all extremely important. We have to take more of your money. Why, you know, the minute he got his position in that seat. He flips his narrative to, I've got to take more of your money. So you've got taxes going up. You've got regulatory burdens going up. You've got inflation being driven by all this spending. Well, there's a huge part of the population that has made huge profits in their stock portfolios and even in their salaries from the $2.5 trillion dollar deficits we're now running. A lot of that money goes out and buys these lake homes. A lot of it's used in the fraud that's produced so much wealth redistribution, right? Just solace come in and steal $20 billion. Well, that's $20 billion they took from somebody. So I'm just saying it's a complicated argument, but you cannot dismiss the challenges of the generation that's looking ahead and saying, wait a minute, you told me to learn to code. Now you're telling me only Indians can code, and to get somebody who can code, you have to go to Bangalore or to Chennai, but you certainly can't hire an American from Case Western. Can't do that. You've got to go to Chennai or Bangalore. And now I've got to compete with this. So I'm going to take my computer science degree, and I'm going to go work at a restaurant for a while. I mean, this is, you know, you're dismissing the whole parts of people and replacing them with people from India. For what reason? Well, because they work for less, and once they get into a decision-making position, they have a very racist policy of only hiring Indians. So then we say, well, okay, Trump's going to take care of the H-1Bs. He comes in. He gets pressured by India and all of the tech companies, all the billionaires. He gets pressure from Israel, all these places, the H-1B stay. Well, they're going to say, wait a minute. You promised me you were going to deal with these things. I learned, you said learn to code. I learned to code. Now you're saying, I don't know, go to Hyderabad and code there. It's just.

There are structural problems that are creating real difficulty for people. You said, okay, well, you know, go do manual labor. Well, we bring all our carpenters from Honduras. You know, okay, we've got a shortage of skilled trades. Why aren't we educating the Americans at a faster rate? Why are we importing carpenters from Honduras? I was in a meeting where a company that needed carpenters was bragging about how they, rather than getting Americans, They got them from Honduras. They found a pipeline and started bringing people up, training them, and putting the work for less money than Americans would charge. Their argument was they couldn't find Americans to do the work, but you and I know that's not true. You can find Americans to do the work. You can't find Americans who can do the work at the price of a third world migrant. So you bring in 20 million people. and drive up the cost of apartments. So now these kids are saying, well, all right, I can't afford a house because it's gone from 3.2 times to 5.2 times my income. That's out. You know, I've got insurance and interest rates and these things to handle. So somebody go rent an apartment. Oh, look at the rental costs because we brought in 20 million people and the government began to pay the rent. So now that person... They're, you know, maybe, I don't know, some normal job. Now they're not just competing with other renters for that, for that rental unit. They're competing with the federal government who's putting foreigners in there. In the UK, in Ireland, they're removing Irish people from homes and replacing them with migrants. They're kicking them out of their homes and replace them with migrants. If they have any kind of credit issue, they miss a rent, payment, boom, they're out. In comes the migrant, and the government pays the rent. This is happening. So you've gone after the housing market, made it very expensive to rent apartments. You've made, you know, with regulations, the cost of cars has gone up dramatically. The cost of driving a car. And you could argue some of that's technology. I mean, we have cars now with airbags so you're safer in it if you get a wreck. We have cars where a backup camera is mandatory, which is probably a good idea for safety sake. There's more things on a car that do drive up the cost and a lot more technology in there. So they're more expensive. You can still buy a Chevy Tracks for $25,000,000, though. I mean... Yeah, but it used to be 15. And so... Right. So, you know, the kill switch is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Now, I know Thomas Massie had to be run out of Congress because he opposed the kill switch and other things. Yeah. Well, the kill switch means that I have to go write a check for a car that I have to pay for... an increase in technology so that the government can monitor my location and turn off my car. I have to pay for that because the government mandated it and the Republican Party refuses to stand up. All right. Now here's the argument, and I'm going to give you the argument and I'm going to give you the answer. Are you ready?

Yeah. Well, you're paranoid. The government doesn't care where you're going or what you're doing or they're not that interested in your business. In general, that's probably a pretty true statement. But wait a minute. Let's say. That was true, right? Until you're the Canadian truck drivers and you're at a protest and they say, we're going to cut off your banking and everything because we don't want you here and we don't like what you're doing. Then it does matter. You follow what I'm saying? When they say you're... Let me give you one closer to home. All right. Back in 2020 and 2021, parents saw for the first time what was happening in their schools. They had no idea. They assumed the schools were the schools they went to. They saw the grooming. They saw the pornography. They saw these bizarre lessons that are telling them the country is horrible. Their kids are horrible. This one's an oppressor. That one's oppressed. You know, this radical, woke ideology being drilled into their children finally got exposed. So they started going to school board and complaining. The... There's a bullet that comes out of the government on a regular basis, out of homeland, identifying the most critical threats. Yeah. They put parents going to school board meetings on there. So if you were a parent. AG2, don't forget Catholics, too. Oh, they got to Catholics. Oh, Catholics to go to Latin Mass. Yeah, yeah. Right? And, of course, white people, white people. Well, you know, the idea that they made nationalism a bad thing is a fascinating use of propaganda. You care about your country. You're loyal to your country. You want your country to do well? You're a troublemaker, G2. You're a bad person. So think about these examples. A Catholic going to a Catholic mass is driving a car there unless they're Amish, right? Or can walk. So all you have to do now is... is geo-fence that mass, identify all the phones in there, and then geofense all those cars in this next generation of technology, and you'll know who's at that mass and who isn't, and if you don't want them going to that mask, you can turn off their car. Right. And as goofy as all of this sounds, I mean, because you've got to admit if you're listening to this, you've got to say, this guy's a paranoid nut. But it happened in Canada with the truck drivers during the COVID protest. Well, in Australia, if they decided you were exposed, they would turn off your bank accounts. And put you in like a TB center against your will. The Army would come and pick you up and take you to a camp. Yeah. So this is real. It is happening. Yes, the federal government put parents going to school board meetings on a list of enemies of the state, and those people were beginning to be surveilled. They were being surveilled. So all this technology is designed. So anybody that is foolish enough to think.

That the Fourth Amendment was written by people who didn't understand the nature of government. That's just silliness. Stand by. We're watching you, G2. We know where you are on a satellite phone in an undisclosed location. We'll be right back. I heart radio. If you run a business, you know I'm- Hey guys, it's Ryan. I want to tell you about my new pastime, Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has been around for over a decade delivering the most fun you can have online, play social casino-style games for free, anytime, anywhere. So sign up at chumbac casino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by law. See terms and conditions, 21 plus. Entertain clients, reward employees, or enjoy a first-class race weekend with VIR's premium MSA hospitality experiences. August 21st through 23rd, enjoy exclusive viewing areas, premium amenities, food and beverage options, and access that puts you close to the action. Whether for business or pleasure, elevate your weekend at Virginia International Raceway. Explore and upgrade your tickets at VIRVIP.net. From the Kingdom of Mahoning, 554 News Radio 570-DOTY KBN, would it shock you if I said the following statement to you, G2? That it wouldn't surprise me at all, at all, if they're not surveilling you. Well.

I had a discussion with a group of people over the last three days, two, three days, about what we call compiling coincidences. Okay? Sounds very scientific, doesn't it? There's a compilation. There are concurrent coincidences popping up all over the place all the time. And you can tell when they're happening and when they're not. And the truth of the matter is, I don't do anything that would be worthy of surveillance, and yet I know I've been surveilled. And I'm telling you that if you went to school board meetings and you complained about the sexualization of the school environment, you were being surveilled, you were potentially being tracked. You may have been surveilled online. You probably ended up on a list if you did it more than a couple of times. So anyone foolish enough to say, I'm willing to trade my freedom for safety, we'll end up with neither. Because sooner or later, the oppression will grow. The economic burden of government is going to keep growing until people finally say they've had enough. And when you say you've had enough, that's when they will come for you. So, you know, it is just so naive and childish to think that government is somehow your friend. It is not. And, you know, to that end, they passed the NDAA today with a $1.1 trillion number on it in the House, not through the Senate yet. And with this Section 219, it integrates Israel into our military system, something that's... Never been done. People are all, no, no, no, again, they're not given them command authority. Well, they seem to be able to command Congress. I don't know. There's no other country. We're integrating into our system. What is the purpose of this? Well, we'll be more efficient. We don't need laws to make us more efficient. The military has a lot of ways to improve its efficiency. There's no law required. This is not in service to the United States. The fact that we don't have representation in Congress is going to make things worse until it gets to a point where that person thinks they're okay because the government's their friend is going to realize the government's not their friend, and they're going to wish they had something like a Fourth Amendment to protect them. So that passed the House? Pass the House, seven Republicans voted no. Chip Roy was one. Higman was one. Some great folks Timbershed, I think, voted no. Of course, Thomas Massie, who had to be removed from Congress because Israel got mad at him, voted no. I mean, why would you ever want that merger? That is so wrong. The reason you want that merger is that you now, rather than have to get foreign aid, the money that goes to Israel goes to the military budget, which has no... scrutiny, no oversight, no reporting. None of us will ever again know how much money Israel is getting once this passes. So you want that because you're either getting money from Israel or you're getting money from the defense industry that's going to use this connection to longer more money. That's why. We'll talk more about that perhaps tomorrow or Friday if we get time. But remember where we're going to start. Got it?

Until then, here's my suggestion. Turn off the satellite phone, throw it in a bucket of water, and get back in the bunker. Yeah, it's time to break out the Faraday bag. Have a great night. G2 on News Radio 570, DKVN. Stay tuned. The guardians are coming up next. Ron Furb from the King of Morning. Thanks for D. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 racing. Another checkered flag for the books. Time to celebrate with Chumba. Jump in at chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. No purchase necessary. VTW Group. Boyd were prohibited by law. CTNCs, 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. This is the race fans wait for all year. EMSA returns to Virginia International Raceway, August 21 through 23rd, as the world's top GT teams and drivers battle for championship points on VIR's iconic road course. See Porsche, BMW, Corvette, Mercedes-AmG, Ford, and more competing wheel-to-wheel. Three days of racing, paddock access, and non-stop action. Secure your tickets now at racebIR.com. That's r-A-C-E-V-I-R.com.