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Speaker 1: This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome aboard, Thanks for tuning in on this Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 3: Well tomorrow we.

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Speaker 2: Will be at Mattz and down there in the north

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Speaker 2: wing of the convention center there at the ExpoCenter, both

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Speaker 2: near the escalator and also right you know, off to

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Speaker 2: will be off to your left. But looking forward to

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Speaker 2: getting down there and be a little bit of work,

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Speaker 2: getting that boost set up, and looking forward to talking

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Speaker 2: to us many of you that can stop by, Invite

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Speaker 2: you to stop by and talk to us about what's

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Speaker 2: on your mind. Tell us you know what's going on

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Speaker 2: in your life, how the economy is affecting you, how

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Speaker 2: your business is doing, and so on. I'm very curious

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Speaker 2: to find out what's going on. We got a story

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Speaker 2: we want to talk about real quick here. Nebraska seeks

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Speaker 2: truckers to haul after massive wildfire. Truckers willing to haul

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Speaker 2: hay for cattle rescued from Nebraska's largest wildfire are being

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Speaker 2: sought and offered a stipend to offset high fuel prices

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Speaker 2: after a blaze that has so far towards more than

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Speaker 2: eight hundred thousand acres. Now, it's bad enough that in

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Speaker 2: the West we have been having drought conditions, water right issues,

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Speaker 2: I think, and probably some interference from the EPA, but

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Speaker 2: we've had drought conditions there to where cattlemen out there

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Speaker 2: are having to actually provide feed for their herds out there,

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Speaker 2: which means that they've had to cut back on their herds.

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Speaker 2: We have herds out there in the United States in

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Speaker 2: the West that are at nineteen fifty levels. Now, since

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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty, the population of the United States has doubled

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Speaker 2: in size. And so when you have basically the same

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Speaker 2: amount of supply and have twice the amount of demand,

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Speaker 2: of course meat prices are going to be up. That's

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Speaker 2: why there's been a lot of imported beat until we

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Speaker 2: get that situation now with these grasses out there and

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Speaker 2: these areas being torched by this wildfire.

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Speaker 3: And I tell you what, if you.

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Speaker 2: Look at the pictures, you see these stories from time

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Speaker 2: of these movies from time to time where there's some

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Speaker 2: sort of an apocalypse or something and these people are

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Speaker 2: running away from a fire and it's all burned, a

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Speaker 2: wall of fire and smoke behind them. Well, this is

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Speaker 2: literally what's going on out there. You can actually I've

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Speaker 2: seen some aerial views and pictures of that, and there

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Speaker 2: is just a complete, you know, a straight line across

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Speaker 2: going through the prairie there, going across the grasslands because

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Speaker 2: you know, the winds are pushing the fire and the

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Speaker 2: flames and so on, and of course you don't you know,

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Speaker 2: different than what you had in California in January of

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Speaker 2: last year, where the reservoirs were emptied and they didn't

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Speaker 2: put water in the fire hydrants. You know, smart move

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Speaker 2: on the part of Governor Newsom and the mayor out there,

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Speaker 2: the real smart move. But there are no fire hydrants

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Speaker 2: out on the prairie. There's no fire hydrants out on

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Speaker 2: the grass ranges. So any water that comes is going

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Speaker 2: to have to be helicoptered in. They're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: try to douse those fires. But it is moving pretty

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Speaker 2: good pace, like I said, already torched eight hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: Relief efforts are for displaced branchers in cattle are being

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Speaker 2: coordinated by the Nebraska Transportation Associated Trucking Association, the State

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Speaker 2: Department of Agriculture, Nebraska Cattlemen, and other local groups. Nebraska

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Speaker 2: needs trucks to transport donations of feed and supplies for

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Speaker 2: more than thirty five thousand cattle displays and thousands of

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Speaker 2: acres lost to wildfires since active still active as of

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Speaker 2: March the twentieth. So this has been going on, and

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised that this hasn't caught as much attention as

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Speaker 2: it should. I guess with the war and with Iran

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Speaker 2: TSA folks not getting paid there and all the different

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Speaker 2: news that have been that this is going to kind

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Speaker 2: of overlook. But this is, quite honestly, my friends, a

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Speaker 2: serious situation. According to Kent Grisham, Nebraska Transportation Association, Trucking Associations,

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Speaker 2: I should say we have deployed our Nebraska Trucker's Care Fund,

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Speaker 2: which is a charitable outreach of ours, as a stipend

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Speaker 2: for truckers to help defray the really high cost of

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Speaker 2: diesel right now. He described the apocalyptic scene in which

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Speaker 2: the cattle from grazing areas and the fire zones two

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Speaker 2: safer areas. These herds are now all mixed. They've gotten

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Speaker 2: moved into penn Is because there's no fresh grazing land

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Speaker 2: in the area left until it grows back. Grisham said

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Speaker 2: in his comment and his statements, that's why we have

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Speaker 2: to have such a huge commodity that we've got to

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Speaker 2: get hauled in right away because of these cattles have

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Speaker 2: got to get fed. The state has issued emergency oversized

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Speaker 2: Nebraska to transport feed to stricken areas. Now most of

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Speaker 2: this is going to be hauled in there on flatbeds.

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Speaker 2: So again, if you're interested in this, I'll post this

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Speaker 2: on my Facebook page because there are some links in

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Speaker 2: here as to who you can contact, where you can

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Speaker 2: get the information and if you want to participate. What

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Speaker 2: they talk about, which is authorized a twelve foot maximum

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Speaker 2: width of the trailer of what is being transported load

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Speaker 2: at height no more than fifteen point fifteen feet six

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Speaker 2: inches or fifteen and a half feet maximum load trailer

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Speaker 2: length of fifty nine and a half feet fifty nine

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Speaker 2: feet six inches. Truckers are being sought to haul hay

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Speaker 2: feed and fencing materials as well. Going on further into

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Speaker 2: the story, on a regional basis, we need trucks, Grisham said,

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Speaker 2: we need flatbeds, and we need them to pick up

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Speaker 2: primarily hey at designated places because we have thousands and

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Speaker 2: thousands ahead of cattle that are stranded with nothing to eat.

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Speaker 2: They talk about the fuel stipend here in the details.

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Speaker 2: Stipend offers fifty cents per mile up to five hundred

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Speaker 2: miles per trip. The fund has pledged in initial five

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Truckers willing to haul goods must we register

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Speaker 2: with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture. There's a link in

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Speaker 2: this story to that, so when you go to my

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Speaker 2: Facebook page, cleverly named Kevin Gordon, you can get this

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Speaker 2: information and hit those links. What they're talking about is

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Speaker 2: the payments require photographs of pick up locations and date,

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Speaker 2: photographic proof of drop off location and date, round trip mileage.

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Speaker 2: Grisham noted the NTA remains committed to working with the

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Speaker 2: state and others in the relief efforts. Now, as we've

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Speaker 2: seen in some of the stories that we've covered, here

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Speaker 2: in America's struck a network that some of this falsification.

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Speaker 2: You get some of these photoshop things that indicate that

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Speaker 2: somebody is picking up a delivery someplace, and then they

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Speaker 2: act as though that they've gone to another place and

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Speaker 2: photoshop that to make an indication that they've delivered it

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Speaker 2: there and in the meanwhile have stolen these trucks or

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Speaker 2: these trailers. We've seen that in some of the stories

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Speaker 2: that we've covered on this program. So I hope that

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Speaker 2: there is some sort of a verification at the site

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Speaker 2: where somebody where you're picking, where people are picking up

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Speaker 2: the supplies, and that there's a check off there in

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Speaker 2: terms of a person who is authorizing that or notarized

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Speaker 2: or something, and then once those deliveries are made at

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Speaker 2: the specified location, that there's some sort of a notarized

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Speaker 2: statement or something that is done to make it official.

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Speaker 2: Because if this is all being done electronically, you know,

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Speaker 2: you can, like I said, you know, and what we've

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Speaker 2: seen in the past, you know, people can photoshop stuff

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Speaker 2: to indicate that, well, here's the picture of me picking

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Speaker 2: this load up, and here's the picture of me delivering this,

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Speaker 2: and here's some fake you know, receipts that that I

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Speaker 2: spent and we're turn those in and see if I

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Speaker 2: can get paid for that. I hope that doesn't go on.

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Speaker 2: But anytime there's a tragedy, you know that there's always

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Speaker 2: some crooks out there that are trying to game the

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Speaker 2: system and penalize the people that are doing the good

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Speaker 2: work and making things work even more even worse. You

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Speaker 2: see this out in California when you had some of

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Speaker 2: these looters going into these homes and after they've been

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Speaker 2: devastated by wild and by the fires in the Palisades,

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Speaker 2: trying to go in there steal stuff and get off

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Speaker 2: with you know, just nasty stuff. I mean, if people

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Speaker 2: go in and you pick through what's there and try

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Speaker 2: to steal some stuff from them again, you know. And

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Speaker 2: whenever you have a tragedy, you know, have a tornado

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Speaker 2: this on my Facebook page if you're interested and if

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Speaker 2: you are able to be involved. Coming up, we've got

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Speaker 2: some interesting program in Georgia which I hope some of

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Speaker 2: these other states adopt and adopt quickly. I'm Kevin Gordon,

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Speaker 2: I saw this story and this is very interesting. In

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Speaker 2: terms of government in Georgia, Governor camp let me see

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Speaker 2: Governor Brian Kemp down there is suspending the motor fuel

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Speaker 2: you listening, Mike DeWine from Ohio, are you listening. Why

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Speaker 2: don't we do a little suspension of the excise tax,

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Speaker 2: the state gas lean tax on gasoline and diesel during

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Speaker 2: these times.

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Speaker 3: Well maybe Mike de Wine might do it.

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Speaker 2: But little Randy Andy down there in Frankfurt. You know,

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Speaker 2: you get a liberal that gets a hold of a

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Speaker 2: lot of money, they're never going to let that go. Well,

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Speaker 2: they'll let that go to some of their fake organizations

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Speaker 2: You have to drive a little bit different on ice

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Speaker 2: Seven hundred WL w im Kevin Gordon, this is America's

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Speaker 2: struck a network talking about these January new home sales

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Speaker 2: that I keep hearing the drive by media and as

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Speaker 2: Russia Lumba used to call them. But even on some

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Speaker 2: of these programs that I watch on Fox, there's kind

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Speaker 2: of like drive by comments that people drop at the

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Speaker 2: end of a segment, just kind of that's the last

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Speaker 2: voice you hear, and that whatever they say that's negative

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Speaker 2: on this administration or what's going on in the economy

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Speaker 2: is what sticks in people's head. But I want to,

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Speaker 2: you know, go through these numbers and show that, you know,

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Speaker 2: what they're talking about is really not as dire as

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Speaker 2: they are saying. Sales were against We finished off with

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Speaker 2: eleven point three percent lower than in January twenty twenty five. Well,

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Speaker 2: what you know, they don't give us any context in

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Speaker 2: terms of what happened in January twenty twenty five. And

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Speaker 2: as memory serves me and I actually went back and

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Speaker 2: looked at it, January twenty twenty five was kind of

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Speaker 2: a mild month. And so if you have mild weather,

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Speaker 2: then people are going to get out and be looking

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Speaker 2: for houses and stuff like that, or for major purchase

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Speaker 2: and get out and about. But when you've got these

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Speaker 2: winter storms like we did in January of this year,

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Speaker 2: of course you're not going to get out much. And

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Speaker 2: of course you're going to see a fluctuation there. But

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Speaker 2: of course that doesn't you know, you can't have journalism

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Speaker 2: when you're talking about certain things trying to affect the economy,

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Speaker 2: especially when you're trying to talk down the economy. This

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Speaker 2: count is based on signed contracts, So people who were

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Speaker 2: out shopping when mortgage rates were at the lowest than

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Speaker 2: they are today. The average rate on a thirty year

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Speaker 2: fixed loan hover between six to six point two during

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Speaker 2: that January. According to the Mortgage News Daily, it is

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Speaker 2: currently at six point three six percent.

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Speaker 3: Now I've got.

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Speaker 2: A note here as far as the mortgage is concerned,

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Speaker 2: they're talking about perplexing. The sharp drop in sales came

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Speaker 2: during a period when and this is another story, the

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Speaker 2: mortgage rates hovered near a three year lows, a thirty

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Speaker 2: year fixed rate at six point one zero percent. Now

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Speaker 2: we've talked about on this program, how a couple of

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Speaker 2: percentage point, well, a couple of tentsive a percentage point,

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Speaker 2: half a percentage point, or even a full percentage point.

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Speaker 2: What that does in terms of the amount of sales

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Speaker 2: and a number of people that are out in the

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Speaker 2: market looking and again I emphasize the fact that our

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Speaker 2: mortgage rates are two and a half two to two

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Speaker 2: and a half percent higher than they are in some

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Speaker 2: of the more western developed nations. Especially over in Europe.

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Speaker 2: Their mortgage rates are down around three and a half

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Speaker 2: four percent, and here ours are up around six percent,

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Speaker 2: so it'd be more. It'd be very interesting to see

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Speaker 2: what activity there would be.

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Speaker 3: In the housing market.

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Speaker 2: We had that story a couple of weeks ago that

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Speaker 2: they said for every every every one percent drop in

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Speaker 2: the interest rate, five point five million people jump into

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Speaker 2: the market and try to buy a home. Of that,

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Speaker 2: one point five million are first time home buyers. So

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Speaker 2: if our mortgages were down, mortgage rates were down from

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Speaker 2: six percent to five percent, we would have five point

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Speaker 2: five million more people, including one point five million first

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Speaker 2: time home buyers. If our mortgage rates were down around

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Speaker 2: three percent, which is in line with some of the

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Speaker 2: European countries the western developed world, we would be be

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Speaker 2: a total of eleven million people in the market, including

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Speaker 2: three million first time home buyers. What would that do

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Speaker 2: to our economy? What would that do to the furnishings,

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Speaker 2: fixtures of durable goods so to speak, refurbishing, paint, carpeting,

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Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff going into when somebody buys

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Speaker 2: a new home. So again, if mortgage rates were lower,

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Speaker 2: that would be and you know, every time they talk

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Speaker 2: about a gasoline, or they talk about certain things, talk

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Speaker 2: about interest rates, how that affects and lower interest rates

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Speaker 2: stimulate the economy. Well, you know, if lion Jerry Powell

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Speaker 2: would get off his butt and do his job and

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Speaker 2: stimulate the economy the way they claim they're supposed to do,

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Speaker 2: we wouldn't have some of these issues that we do have.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what else is going on here, sales newly

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Speaker 2: built homes mark, Oh, oh, this other this is the

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Speaker 2: story over here where they talked about when they're talking

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Speaker 2: about the decline, they said, mark the biggest Now this

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Speaker 2: is it?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Now, the headline on this story was new home stag Hello,

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Speaker 2: new home sales plunge in January despite lower mortgages.

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Speaker 3: New I explained unexpectedly in January.

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Speaker 2: The biggest drop in thirteen years now again going back

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Speaker 2: to twenty thirteen thereabouts. However, down in the body of

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Speaker 2: the story, it says, mark the biggest monthly percentage drop

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Speaker 2: since the decline in twenty to thirteen. They give the

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Speaker 2: impression that the numbers are down to the twenty thirteen level.

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Speaker 3: But if you have a month like we had in.

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Speaker 2: January where sales new home sales were up twenty five percent,

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Speaker 2: and then you have a following month where there's very

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Speaker 2: cold weather and you hardly have any sales. That month

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Speaker 2: to month's number decreases. You go from a twenty five

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Speaker 2: percent increase to basically a flat percentage. Of course you're

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Speaker 2: going to have a percentage drop from the previous month,

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Speaker 2: but you had an outstanding month the month before. And

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Speaker 2: of course when you do it that way and.

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Speaker 3: Say this.

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Speaker 2: The biggest percentage drop is really misleading. So I wanted

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Speaker 2: to point that out. So when you hear that, because

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Speaker 2: some of these people are out there saying, well, we're

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Speaker 2: seeing decreases equal to twenty thirteen, well percentage wise, but

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Speaker 2: not number wise. Again, they try to twist the statistics

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Speaker 2: on you. There Again because of this, the people that

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Speaker 2: are trying to sell these new homes, the builders, are

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Speaker 2: actually reducing the prices. The medium price for a new

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Speaker 2: home sold in January was four hundred thousand dollars the median.

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Speaker 2: That means that the number of houses below that number

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Speaker 2: below that price and above that were even so just

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Speaker 2: as many houses were sold above that number as below

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Speaker 2: that number, which is incredible, four hundred and fifty four

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand, five hundred. That six point eight percent dropped

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Speaker 2: from the year before when those numbers were at four

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty thousand for the median home price. So again,

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Speaker 2: these builders have enough of a cushion that they feel

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Speaker 2: comfortable that they can reduce these prices down to try

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Speaker 2: to move the inventory. Now they do mention in here

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Speaker 2: that they went from nine months or eight months of

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Speaker 2: inventory up to nine point seven I think it is,

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Speaker 2: and so that'll take them a while to burn that off.

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Speaker 2: But if the weather changes, we have a better weather,

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Speaker 2: and of course the war ran wraps down and we

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Speaker 2: start seeing better prices. As far as energy is concerned,

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Speaker 2: those numbers of new home sales and the number of

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Speaker 2: traffic going through those will increase dramatically.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me coming out. Let me see.

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Speaker 2: On Monday they released this report US construction spending unexpectedly

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Speaker 2: falls in January.

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Speaker 3: And again they go through all this.

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Speaker 2: They talk about statistics, they talk about how much it

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Speaker 2: fell and where it fell and so on, But then

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Speaker 2: there at the bottom they said the fact that because

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Speaker 2: of the weather in January being unusually cold and in

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Speaker 2: certain parts of the country, of course, people are not

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Speaker 2: going to be out doing construction during those periods of time.

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Speaker 2: And what's interesting is I got a friend who owns

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Speaker 2: a construction company in the Greater Insane Northern Kentucky area,

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Speaker 2: and he primarily does a lot of work in Northern Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: And every time I talk to him, it seems like,

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Speaker 2: you know, they're on part of a set of record

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Speaker 2: for their business. And as a matter of fact, I

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Speaker 2: talked to him the night before last and I asked him,

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, are we just that much different?

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Speaker 2: Because as I, you know, look at different markets in

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Speaker 2: terms of you know, when I get these stories and

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Speaker 2: I look at, well, the Midwest or in this particular

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Speaker 2: city it's down this particular are we kind of the

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Speaker 2: exception of the rule? And he goes, he goes, you know,

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Speaker 2: we're not only the exception of the rule nationally, but

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Speaker 2: we're the exception of the rule because I mean, he's busy,

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Speaker 2: I mean, hes got more business than he can handle.

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Speaker 2: And he said, we're not only talking about an anomaly

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Speaker 2: in terms of the country, kind of anomaly for the region.

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Speaker 2: Because he said, something that's just fifty miles north of here.

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Speaker 2: He's got a friend has a construction company up there,

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Speaker 2: and he said they are really slow up there, so

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Speaker 2: these things are spotty and upon where they are in

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Speaker 2: the country depends on how that area is going to

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Speaker 2: do when they report these numbers. Coming up, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: about oil and gas prices. Also talk a little bit

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Speaker 2: about Trump Dot focus on faster projects and fewer grant programs,

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Speaker 2: trying to streamline those to get some of this construction

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Speaker 2: backlog done. I'm Kevin Gordon, America destruct a Network, seven

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Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about well, a bit about some

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Speaker 2: financial and economic issues, and of course I want to

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Speaker 2: reiterate to you, remind you that check out my face

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Speaker 2: Facebook page because I'm going to I will be posting

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Speaker 2: that story regarding Nebraska seeks truckers to haul hey after

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Speaker 2: massive wildfires and the devastation out there because these herds

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Speaker 2: have had to be moved and because they can't graze

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Speaker 2: on the on the grasslands out there, they're going to

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Speaker 2: have to be fed so a lot of that's going

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Speaker 2: to have to be transported in there. So I want

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Speaker 2: to remind you to check out my Facebook page and

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Speaker 2: if you miss any part of our program or any

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Speaker 2: of our shows, make sure you hit up that iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: app brought to you by our friends at Rush Truck Centers.

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Speaker 2: Trump Department of Transportation focuses on faster projects and fewer grants.

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Speaker 2: Deputy Transportation Secretary Stephen Bradberry on March the seventeenth outlined

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration's highway policy and funding goals as work

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Speaker 2: begins on the most surface on the next surface Transportation Bill.

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Speaker 3: Speaking at the US.

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Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce Annual Infrastructure Forum, talked about we're focused

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Speaker 2: on consolidation of grant programs, simplification of programs, and giving

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Speaker 2: more control over the projects and money to state and

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Speaker 2: local governments. Again, when you're talking about being closer to

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Speaker 2: the people, the state and the city and the county

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Speaker 2: levels are a lot closer to the people. And if

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Speaker 2: there's something going on there with a project, do you

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Speaker 2: know who to go to instead of having to talk

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Speaker 2: to some bureaucrat in Washington.

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Speaker 3: And this is the way things and it.

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Speaker 2: Kind of takes out some of the overarching I guess

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Speaker 2: shenanigans going on as far as lobbyists in Washington pushing

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Speaker 2: certain projects in areas without the control or the approval

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Speaker 2: basically of the state, city and local authorities. So again,

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Speaker 2: but again, you know you're going to have some of

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Speaker 2: these cities that really are bad at managing money in

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Speaker 2: the first place. I saw a story last night where

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Speaker 2: words salid from a mayor of Albany. They had a

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Speaker 2: massive deficit, and she starts talking about, well, we're going

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Speaker 2: to appoint a committee, and the committee is going to

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Speaker 2: take a look under the hood. They're going to open

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Speaker 2: the cabinets, they're going to where else they say, we're

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Speaker 2: going to clean the closet, and some other things about

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Speaker 2: where they're going to look and develop reasons or how

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Speaker 2: this happened and hopefully prevent it from happening again, as

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Speaker 2: opposed to realizing what was done wrong and fixing it

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Speaker 2: because you know, you don't want to get rid of

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Speaker 2: some of your bureaucracy for crime out loud, those patronage jobs.

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Speaker 2: But again, shoving more of this back onto the individual

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Speaker 2: local levels is a good move.

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Speaker 3: Let's see a.

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Speaker 2: Central priority, he said, is further accelerating environmental permitting for

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Speaker 2: major projects. DO two is working with the White House

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Speaker 2: to shorten and simplify National Environment Policy Act reviews. You

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Speaker 2: hear that referred to as NIPA n EPA again National

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Speaker 2: Environment Policy Act, a longstanding objective of this administration. In trucking,

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Speaker 2: DOT continues to focus enforcement on illegal foreign drivers English

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Speaker 2: language proficiency violations and the motor carriers that employ such drivers,

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Speaker 2: efforts DOT views as a key to strengthening freight mobility.

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Speaker 2: The Department also is moving forward with a congressionally backed

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Speaker 2: update of air traffic control system. And again, as we

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Speaker 2: saw in that tragedy in LaGuardia, what was it early

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Speaker 2: Monday morning or actually Sunday night into Monday morning, something

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Speaker 2: needs to be done with our air traffic control system

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Speaker 2: and updating that again to prevent these strategies from happening.

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Speaker 2: On Capitol Hill, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves,

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Speaker 2: Republican of Missouri, aims to advance a part bipartisan bill

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Speaker 2: by April. It is unclear whether the Republican led chamber

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Speaker 2: will consider the legislation.

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Speaker 3: Around Memorial Day.

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Speaker 2: State or Senate Transportation leaders expect to advance their version

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Speaker 2: before the current law expires September the thirtieth. And see,

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Speaker 2: this is the thing with Congress. These bills get tied

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Speaker 2: up in committees, then they get sent to this committee

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Speaker 2: and then another committee, and then.

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Speaker 3: Brought to the floor.

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Speaker 2: If it doesn't pass during that congress, you have to

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Speaker 2: go back to square one the following congress. In order

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Speaker 2: to bring these things up. They need to do something

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Speaker 2: in terms of streamlining these things, because if something's a

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Speaker 2: good idea, if something needs to be streamlined, it needs

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Speaker 2: to be streamlined and stop this dilly dallion in Congress.

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Speaker 2: So again hopefully that will get done. But again top

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Speaker 2: priority of the Trump administration, you know, and you know

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Speaker 2: kind of a local level here in the greater Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Northern Kentucky area. I keep emphasizing the fact that back

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Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen they kept talking about the companion to

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Speaker 2: the brin Spnce Bridge, which is the bridge that goes

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Speaker 2: between Ohio and Kentucky that carries not only I seventy five,

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Speaker 2: but I seventy one and I seventy four across. You know,

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Speaker 2: who builds up who builds an end state where you

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Speaker 2: combine three different interstates and put them all over on

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Speaker 2: the same bridge going across the river. So anyway they're

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Speaker 2: going to do this Companion bridge, And back in twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 2: it was a priority for the area. It had to

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Speaker 2: be done right here, right now. We got to do this.

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Speaker 2: We don't care if there's tolls on it, whatever, We're

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Speaker 2: going to go through with this. Well, you know, again,

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Speaker 2: as I've talked about before, we got that stopped, and

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Speaker 2: they with the infrastructure built during the Biden administration, the

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Speaker 2: money was set aside. That money is there and they

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Speaker 2: still haven't overturned any shovels of dirt to try to

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Speaker 2: get that project. So how important was it back in

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Speaker 2: twenty thirteen according to these people back then, It is

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Speaker 2: absolutely amazing how how slowly some of these things happened.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk about oil and gas. I s is by

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Speaker 2: the way, West Texas Intermedia crued currently is at ninety

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Speaker 2: one dollars and eighty cents a barrel. That's up three

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Speaker 2: dollars and sixty four cents a barrel or four point

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Speaker 2: one six percent. Brent crude currently is one hundred and

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Speaker 2: three back, up over one hundred dollars yesterday. May recall

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Speaker 2: that it actually fell below one hundred dollars for that

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Speaker 2: day one hundred and three dollars and fifty three cents,

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Speaker 2: up three dollars and fifty nine cents or three point

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Speaker 2: five nine percent. Now, what's going on in the market again,

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Speaker 2: also talking about oil or gas prices, current national average

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Speaker 2: for gasoline around the country is three dollars and ninety

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Speaker 2: eight cents, and for diesel it's three dollars or five

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Speaker 2: dollars and thirty five cents. And again because of some

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Speaker 2: of the things going on with the diesel or the

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Speaker 2: heavy crude necessary in order to refine into diesel, those

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Speaker 2: are problems that are occurring and are hopefully will be

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Speaker 2: temporary and be fixed, especially as we get more oil

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Speaker 2: from Venezuela, which is more of that heavy crude. But

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Speaker 2: what we're seeing is a continuation of this roller coaster.

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Speaker 2: We saw the oil prices spike on Saturday when Trump

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Speaker 2: mentioned that forty eight hours if the straight up her

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Speaker 2: moves didn't open, the will be taking out the electrical

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Speaker 2: grid in Iran. Well, then there were some negotiations and

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Speaker 2: it was announced that they were moving towards negotiations that

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Speaker 2: dropped oil prices by up to eleven percent. The previous day,

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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden we get this conversation

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Speaker 2: from some of the people in Iran that there is

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Speaker 2: no negotiation going on, that's a lie, that's a misinformation

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Speaker 2: and so on, and so then those prices have crept

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Speaker 2: back up. But it appears as though that there are

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Speaker 2: ongoing caught talks back channel wise and right now the

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Speaker 2: question is who are we supposed to be talking to?

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Speaker 2: Do we know Phil Flynn and his Energy report titles

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Speaker 2: that who the heck is in charge? It appears as

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Speaker 2: though when the Ayatola was killed, it was a three

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Speaker 2: member committee or whatever that chose Iotola Junior to be

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Speaker 2: the new Supreme Leader. But nobody's heard from him. There's

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Speaker 2: rumors that he's dead, rumors that he's in a coma,

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Speaker 2: rumors that he's extremely injured, but he's not one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent that is for sure. Then there's this discussion of

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Speaker 2: that there's a three person panel that are in charge.

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Speaker 2: Some of the experts or some of the following death Iahtola,

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Speaker 2: they talked about that there's a three member the head

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Speaker 2: of the Parliament, the President of the Parliamentary Speaker, the

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Speaker 2: President of Iran and one other fella are supposedly the

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Speaker 2: people in charge, but then you've got the Republican or

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Speaker 2: the Iranian Republican Guard, which are kind of their own faction.

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Speaker 2: They don't know if we don't know if they're getting

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Speaker 2: their orders from the top, or if they're randomly doing

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Speaker 2: this to protract the war. And so as it shakes

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Speaker 2: out as to who the person that would be making

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Speaker 2: these determinations, it's funny that the person that is saying

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Speaker 2: the most that there are no negotiations going on is

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Speaker 2: the one guy that everybody is saying that everybody's talking to.

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Speaker 7: You.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine being in a position of where you're

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Speaker 2: the de facto leader of a country that they know

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Speaker 2: where you are and they can take you out at

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Speaker 2: any time, that if you negotiate with them in order

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Speaker 2: to end the hostilities, your own people will whack you.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of an interesting situation over there is

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Speaker 2: to you know who is in charge, how long they're

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Speaker 2: going to be in charge, and whether or not they

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Speaker 2: can rain this in. And it appears as though the

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Speaker 2: fraction the factions there are fracturing to our advantage, and

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Speaker 2: we'll see how that shakes out. Well, we're up against

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Speaker 2: clock here, folks stay tuned for ATI Radio. Hopefully we'll

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Speaker 2: have some good news tomorrow as well. I'm Kevin Gordon,

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Speaker 2: America's Truck and Network seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 7: News, Traffic and Weather. News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.

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Speaker 9: There's glimmers of a potential government shutdown ending deal