Saturday Morning Open Phones HR2 6-6-26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six AWTVN. This is Saturday Morning open phones. I'm your host,
Sachary swarts Els here as usual guiding the ship. The
number to call in has always six foot four eight
two one nine eight eight six six foot four eight
two one WTVN. I'll throw some things in there along
the way. If you agree or disagree, feel free to.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Call in.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I want to address something that Marco Rubio said about Cuba.
He's a Secretary of State obviously if you don't know,
but Marco Rubio used Cuba's Independence.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Day not too long ago, long ago.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Excuse me to deliver a rare direct message to Cubans
and Spanish accusing the islands communist leaderships leadership of causing
the country's deepening blackout crisis. The Secretary of State said
leadership claims from the US oil blockade is to blame

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our smoke screen, arguing that decades of eruption and mismanagement
have left Cuba without reliable electricity, food, or fuel. I'm
not saying that Cuba.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Did a great job or Castro did.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
There were some human rights issues, to say the least,
but what Rubio is saying is just is just a lie.
The island had fueled was running the best it could,
like it always has, despite American embargo, sanctions and the
hundreds of assassination tips on Castro. To say though, that

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right now that Cuba doesn't have fuel because.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Of the literal blockade of.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Cuba by america's ridiculous. It's not some sort of a
smoky truth or something. It's just a flat out lie.
There is no factual ambiguity. If you block all fuel
coming to Cuba, Cuba is not going to have fuel.
Decades of corruption and miss management, as Rubio has said,

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has left Cuba without reliable electricity, fuel or food. There
has been mismanagement. But when you sanction and embargo a
country for sixty years, it's gonna make it a little
bit more difficult for those people to get on with
their lives.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Have they done a great job?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Again, there's some issues there, human rights issues, to say
the least. You don't have the same free speech there
as you do here. I wouldn't protest the government there.
There's a lot wrong, but there's no reason to exaggerate things.
Why would Rubyo lie on purpose? This isn't even a
smidgeon of truth and a statement at all. Because the

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people of Cuba are just going about their lives. The
government of Cuba is no threat to the American people.
What I'm saying is that there are people who who
represent them, us Marco Rubio. They lie and they exaggerate things.
There's no reason to exaggerate things. Un experts say the

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oil blockade is an unlawful energy starvation. Rubio is the
son of Cuban immigrants.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Uh he was.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
His parents had lived in Havana, and his parents came
to the United States, and so he has a emotional
direct tie with the Cuban people. And I completely understand that.
Here's another thing, Rubio and at President Trump is offering
a new daily relationship directly with the Cuban people through

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a proposed one hundred million dollar package of food and
medicine to be to be distributed through the Catholic Church
or other trusted entities rather than state entities. So we
have blockaded, we have embargoed, we have sanctioned that island
for sixty years. We blame it on them and the
poverty that they have there, not that we had any

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hand in it, of course, And now we want to
give them one hundred million dollars. So are we responsible
at all for the poverty in Cuba?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
A little bit?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
A little bit, and now we want to give them
one hundred million dollars to help the Cuban people.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Are you okay with this?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Are you okay with taking our tax dollars and helping
a Cuban people one hundred million dollars, not to us,
not to the American people, not to build more hospitals
in rural areas, not to fix roads, not to help
the American people, but help the Cuban people. Because if
we take that same money that was going to Cuba
and we spend it here, then you get accused of,

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say it with me socialism. We give billions to multiple
countries and not too many people get upset by it.
But if anyone asked, hey, why don't we spend some
money on America, you get blasted by some Democrats and
a lot of Republicans that you're socialist and you just
want to let people or try to help people not

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work so they can leach off the government or whatever.
Cuban's top democrat or sorry, diplomat in Washington RIVERA I
can't say names, is open to aid in good faith,
but has received few details from the Trump administration, while
the Trump administration openly talks about invading Cuba and the

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CIA warns that the windows for negotiating is closing again.
I don't know what the issue with Cuba has been
for the past sixty or seventy years. I understand they
are copynist dictatorship. I understand Fidel Castro wasn't the greatest
person in the world. But we have blockaded and again

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embargoed them to such a We've hammered them to such
a point, and then we turn around and blame them
for how their country has ran or their lack of resources.
Would you don't allow another country to trade with other
countries and barter with other countries or exchange money with
other countries, and you basically make them an isolationist nation.

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What do you think is going to happen. It's just
going to get worse for the people. There are sanctions
and blockades have done nothing but make it worse for
the people of Cuba, and they already live under a dictatorship.
Everything we have done has not hurt the governmental leaders
in Cuba because they're fine. They're living high on the hug.

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It's only hurting the Cuban people, and for some reason,
probably because of proximity, we have allowed this to go
on for sixty or seventy years, however long it's been.
And apparently, as Donald Trump said, after he's done with Iran,
he's going to invade Cuba. And again, if somebody can

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just tell me why we are so hell bent on
ruining that island or making it worse for the people
on that island, I would like to know. If the
regime change took place in Cuba, would that be a
bad thing and they could be opened up and they
could be more cap Sure, it might be great, but

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you can't choke somebody for forty years, sixty years, seventy
years and then complain about the way they're breathing. And
it's not just the Trump administration, it's every administration. It's
just the absurdity of the system of how I see it,
We spent so much money and so much time and

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so much effort on Cuba that it's it's just bewildering.
And maybe there is a point of history that I
don't understand, or there's something that I'm not getting, because
it can't get worse at El Salvador. It can't get
worse than some places in Honduras, and we don't care
about that. It's just that island ninety miles to the

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south of US. Zachary sorts six to an WTVN. We'll
be back with your calls six Han WTVN. This is
Zachary Swartz. This is Saturday morning, open phones, and I
promise I will get back to the calls momentarily. But
this is from the AP and it's just been bothering me.
It's just another example, another day of how for the

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most part, the government I think hates you and the
majority of people in power don't care about you. Quote
a new final rule from the Trump administration. It doesn't
matter if the Trump administration could have been Biden, could
have been Obama.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's all the same kind of thing when it.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Comes to this will require most medicaid beneficiaries between the
ages of nineteen and sixty four to prove they work,
complete community service or participate in a work program to
win benefit. To win benefits like it's a lottery to win,
not just to get benefits. If you need them now,

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you have to win them. The rule established establishes that
standard tests must be used to implement the statutory work requirements,
including clear exceptions for eligibility determinations, exemptions, verifications. It's state
reporting requirements. This is part of the Big Beautiful Bill.

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It was passed by Congress. Another bill passed by Congress
last summer used for the work requirements to partially pay
for its three trillion dollar price tag. The Congressional Budget
Office estimated that nearly five million people will lose their
Medicaid over the next decade as a results, including many
who are already working. So if you need Medicaid and

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you're not working, you could lose it. If you are working,
you could lose it.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Because we passed a bill.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's three million dollars and we need to save some money.
So the way to do that is to take people
who are in need and make life harder on them.
Since the Nixon administration, people losing healthcare and access to healthcare.
It's as American as apple pie. Here's an idea, the infrastructure,

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free college, free doctor visits that we pay for, say
in Israel, how about we do that here?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Why do we have to.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Do that for other countries but we can't do it
here in the United States? Does anybody here's some other
things that we fund that people used to get mad
at that they're not mad about anymore. Does anyone remember
the big campaign issue during the twenty twenty four election, people,
especially on the right, we're furious over the funding of Ukraine.

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Anybody who with no new money to Ukraine. We're just
wasting money. And this war's already over and we shouldn't
be spending any money in Ukraine. No more money to Ukraine.
It was a massive campaign issue, especially for Trump. Eddie
got back at office and continue to fund Ukraine and
no one has said anything about it. So I guess
who cares about that? How about we take some of
that money and put it into medicaid?

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Is that okay?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
How about the billions we give to already wealthy companies,
the billions we give to Microsoft, to Apple. Apple is
a trillion dollar company. We give them extra billions every year.
We give billions to Tesla for no reason. And like
I said that, Elon Musk, the guy's worth eight hundred

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billion dollars. Just like the data center. He could sink
or swim on his own from here on out. He
doesn't need our tax money. Even with the data centers
for Meta and other country or companies here at Ohio,
they're going to be paid zero taxes. And out of
all of that, our government has decided what we need

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to do to make up for this loss money is
to make it harder on people on Medicaid, make it
harder on people on SNAP, make it harder on you, because,
like I said, the overwhelming majority of people in our
government are elected officials. Republicans and Democrats do not care
about you.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
They don't.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
They'll say nice things, though, act in certain ways in public.
Most of them just want to get reelected because it
pays well and they only have to work one hundred
and sixty days a year and they get free government
health care that nobody else can have.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Except for them.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
And that's our fault because we keep reelecting them. What
is so difficult to understand about health care in this
country For some people to help me understand, I just,
for example, universal healthcare.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's cheaper. It would literally cost less money than what
we spend now with.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
The horrendous private health insurance companies that we have. There's
no entity in this country that has brought more heartbreak, pain, misery,
death and loss on the people of this country than
the health care industry in America. None that people refuse
to fix it in our government. In fact, our government

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has decided for decades to make it worse and harder
on the American people. Let's make it worse for the
people to save money so we could spend it in
other countries. It's not really America. First, to help me
understand why people have decided that this system and the
problems we have with it is something we need to

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keep the same way or exacerbating. Are you telling me
it's an impossibility to change. We have to keep making
things harder on people who need assistance year after year.
Why are people in this country some of them just
content as could be about any of this. This should

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bother you, that should upset you, that should make you
really really mad. I was talking about Cuba before the break.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Cuba has for.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
All of it's it's communists, it's a dictatorship, and it's
an evil government, etc.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Et cetera.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Cuba has a higher life expectancy, they have a lower
child mortality rate, they have lower malnutrition depths. You're telling
me that an island that has been embargoed, sanctioned, and
blockaded from trading with Every country on Earth has found
a way to be better at healthcare and these things
than we can.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
The greatest country.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
On the planet can't compete with Cuba and a lot
of aspects in healthcare. This is the best we can do.
We can't do any better. In fact, we're making it
worse day by day, year by year, and so many
people in this country just go along with it because
of the nationalistic talking points put forth by our government.
Help me understand anyone out there that can hear my

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voice in the state of Ohio, help me understand what
I am missing.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Back to the article.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Here, GOP officials argue that work requirements are needed to
root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program,
and they will only target the able bodied people who
should be.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Working but choose not to. I say that's bs.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
It is only being put into place to try and
save money as to be seen as saving money actually
and calling it fraud, waste, and abuse.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Back to the article.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
The work requirements that have to begin on January first,
twenty twenty seven. The new rule gives some states some
flexibility in determining who is exempt from work requirements, but
many of these exemptions have already been defined in the law.
For instance, states will be able to define who is medically.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Frail, not your doctor. The state will.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
The state will decide if you are medically frail, not
your doctor, but they will need specific verification requirements in
place after a year to verify the presence of a
condition or diagnosis and that condition or diagnosis significantly impairs
the individual's ability to comply with the community engagement requirement.

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In other words, the government again will decide if you're
medically frail, and if you aren't, even if your doctor
says so, you're kicked off Medicaid. Mamet Oz said, this
is our path to prosperity for the American people. It
is a way to preserve our precious Medicaid program for

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those who benefit from it. Mamet Oz, the snake oil
salesman who lost an election to a guy who couldn't
formulate a sentence him RFK Junior are doing their best
to make everything worse when it comes to healthcare in America.
You want to ban SSRIs, you want to talk about

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how vaccines are bad. No one likes odds. RFK Junior
is a complete idiot who admits to eating roadkill cutting
off dead raccoon's penises to expect him. Later he said
that not me doesn't believe in germ theory, admitted his
big announcement about Tilana and autism on a podcast and
needed some more research to verify. So what he did

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is he lied about that, and that's who's running our
health departments. Get somebody explained to me why we cannot
do better in this area in the United States and
why we need to continually make things more difficult for
people on Medicaid or Medicare or SNAP or any other
benefit program. Back with your calls on six to ten WTVN,

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SIXTHN WTVN. I'm Zachary Schwartz. Thank you for touting in
Ella's here as always guiding the ship. All right, Line seven, David,
good morning, How are you.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Hey? Good morning. I'd like to answer a few of
your questions. You asked an open ended question regarding Cuba
and Ukraine and some other issue. Number one, did you
know the United States is based upon the rule of
law in the Constitution, I would hope so.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
So the people that are elected into congressional positions take
an oath. Are you familiar with the oath?

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yes, I mean I can't say dum, but yeah, I
can go ahead right now.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
In the Constitution it says we the people, right, not we.
The Ukrainians, not we, the Israelis not we, the Cubans,
we the people. So the oath foundation is based upon
in agreement with the elected person to represent the people
that are law buying citizens in the United States. Do

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you agree?

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Okay? So how do you expect Congress to give American
tax dollars to Ukraine? How is that possible? Is that
honoring their oath or breaking their oath? It's breaking their oath? Right,
So let me share with you that particular law. It's
eighteen USC. Code eight. That's Oath of office violation. It's

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misappropriation of government funds. All right, that's number one. Number two.
You want to talk about us going into Iraq, in
Cuba and Vietnam and Korea, Well, guess what's wrong with that?
That's outside our jurisdiction according to the oath of office.

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If we are to represent Americans, if I'm the congress member,
is it possible to send American troops to Vietnam, or
to Korea or to Iraq? Or to Ukraine or to Iran.
That's an oath of office violation. It's outside the United

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States's jurisdiction. You don't speak for me and I don't
speak for you. But the fact is the Constitution and
the oath had been forgotten about. Okay, here's another issue.
We have Islamic people that have come into the United States.
Do you know what happened in nineteen fifty two where

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the McClaren Act was passed. The mcceren Act prohibited Muslims
from entering in the United States period. They couldn't get jobs,
they couldn't buy property, they couldn't enter the United States
the mccaeren Act of nineteen fifty two. Now in nineteen
ninety two, guess what happened. The mccaren Act was repealed

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by a bunch of cars people for what reason, I
don't know. So here's my point. If you're in a
mosque and you are solicit it's called solicitation to commit violence.
If you look it up, it's eighteen US Code three
seventy three solicitation to commit violence. That is an actual crime.

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Now inside their Quran is over one hundred places where
it says kill the Infidel literally kill the person, don't
arrest them and bringing the court because they violated a law.
They just institute a plan of their own to harm
innocent Americans, innocent French people, innocent English people, innocent Irish people.

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And so if the FBI and the Department of Justice
were to use eighteen USC Code three seven three solicitation
to commit violence and have imands arrested like today, guess
what would happen. You would have three thousand mocks shut
down immediately. You would have eight million Muslims arrested and

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deported immediately. And that would be a good thing for
Americans because over five hundred Americans have been directly killed
by these people who call themselves Muslims. And you know
what's really interesting. After attack happens, have you ever heard
one single Iman rebuke the attackers say that is against

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the law, that's something wrong you've done, You've hurt innocent people.
Have you ever heard one single Iman.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's not that you're wrong, that is a that is
an issue, David I have. I went long, so I
got to get other people on the line.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
That issue of people who are Islamic not calling out
other people who are Islamik who have done something horrible
in the United States has.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Been a talking point for a long time. I can't
quantify it. I can't not quantify it.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's it's it's one of those things that you hear
about and it just kind of passes and it becomes
part of the lingo and and things of that in
the United States, and and some criticisms against people who
are of the Muslim faith. I know people of the
Muslim faith, and they're they're good, honest, Uh, nice human beings.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right, rantsome lied three, Good morning, sir.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
It just kind of.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Passes its are you brother, how are you being?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm all right? How about yourself?

Speaker 6 (23:29):
I just wanted to give you guys an update. I
had the trip of my lifetime just a lot of
weeks ago. I got to fly to Colorado to see
my nephew graduates from the Air Force Academy.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Oh that's right, how'd that go? That's really cool?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
It was.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
It was just wonderful, Zach. I mean, uh, we don't
really understand. You know, I'm a civilian. I've never served
in the military. Most of my family has never served
the military. I had an uncle that tried to get
into the army, and he did that for a while
and became Mclumbus police officer. You know, be honest with you,
high school's plumbs about the best we do in our family.

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But my brother was able to be a college graduate,
and my sister in law is a college graduate, and
then both their kids are college graduates. And then Jared
is of course, he is the military guy. So I
made him a promise four years ago that I was
living in Denver at the time, I worked for an airline,
and I told him, if you graduate from military school,

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you know, Air Force Academy, which is a big honor,
I will be at your graduation. Well four years went
by so quick, can't believe it. And so I went
out there and got to stay with my brother and
my sister in law in a home that they rented
in Colorise Springs. They had had a parade, they had

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got to walk all over the campus, and then they
had a commencement thing where you know, he changed his
rank from being a cadet to a lieutenant. So every
graduate of that class of twenty twenty six nine and
two of them all became lieutenants in the American Air Force.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Just amazing time. Jdvans was our main speaker at the stadium.
They did it at the football field. They're on campus.
After the graduation, they threw up their caps. Now, I
want to share this with your listeners because I wasn't
unaware of some of these things, but because I don't
have the military background. But what they do is they

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put every year they graduate, they put like money in
these caps, these white caps you see him wearing on
their uniform. So he since he's twenty twenty six, he
put a twenty dollars bill, a porter and a penny
inside of it. And what they do is they when
they say, you know, you're graduated, they throw up their

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caps and then they look at local kids in the
community come onto the field and they collect those out
those hats and they about twenty bucks a piece. You
get five of those, some five or six year old
kids gonna have one hundred dollars before he gets out
of the stadium. It was I thought it was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, that's gonna make a kid's day, to say the least.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
But we right after he threw his tap up, there
was nine hundred two of them. The Thunderbirds flew overhead Michael,
I got a video of it. I'm gonna send it
to you.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Cool.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
And then the other thing I wanted to share with
you is our very own Vice President Vance, but was
the main speaker, did a great job. And Jared Ted
told me he said, uncle Ransom. He said, when I
go up and shake hands with the Vice president at
the you know, at the graduation, I'm going to say,
go Bucks. So so he said, he came back, came

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into this day. Of course, by this time I'm in
tears because I'm so freaking proud of him, you know, yeah,
and he goes, uncle Ransom. I talked to JD. Vance
about go Buck. I said, what do you say? He said,
go high Estate. So so basically I wanted to amend
the Vice president because he gave a wonderful speech, talked

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about our future and what's him and the President and
everyone else is trying to do. And then also he
shook nine hundred and two hands and saluted every one
of those military people. Took about three hours to do it.
I bet he needed his elbow wrapped around, you know.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, I would imagine.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, I'm glad he did it, I'm glad it went well.
I'm so glad that you were able to be there
for him. That's that's really, that's a memory for a lifetime.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Man.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Oh yeah, it was just for me. You know, I'm
sixty six years old. I've been around the world, you
know about it and seen communism, and I got my
own stories. But to see my relative, my my nephew
go through such a momentous thing and with the idea
that his whole life is going to be about. In

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these nine hundred and two cadets, their whole life is
about serving the country. Now, I know what you were
talking about this morning. I wanted to address David Man.
I love that dude. Man, he's got so many facts,
so much passion. The one problem that he doesn't realize
is that when he talks about the Constitution so much,

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that was with the framework of if you're God fearing country. So,
in other words, the constitution works if you're God fearing.
If you don't fear God, then the constitution doesn't work
because you do your own thing. And you can go
back to the Bible and look at slavery with the
Egyptians and Israel You're going to look at a good

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moral choice in the garden of Eden. When you don't
have God in the factor, it all, it goes to crap.
So you know, you know you hear me talk about
it every Weeksact that said right there in Proverbs twenty
nine to two, when the righteous or in authority, that
people rejoice when the people. When the unrighteous to an authority,

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the people mourn. What you're complaining about today, but David's
complaining about. What everybody has complained about is because we
have a lack of God in our country now. In
seventeen ninety eight, George Washington made a covenant. That's what's
something you should study about. Everybody will know this should
listen about the covenant that George Washington made with God

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because just like the Abrahamic Covenant. Why you know, you
may not like bb Vietnahu and I know there's several
people that call in and they hate Israel and stuff
like that. God made a covenant with him and he
doesn't break the covenant. God has not broken a covenant
with with the United States. But we have broken a
covenant with God.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
So I hear we are I'm super duper late.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I appreciate you calling in as always an I'm I'm
so glad you got to go to Colorado for the graduation.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
You have a great week.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
Okay, it's wonderful. Thanks for letting me share there.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, no worries.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Man, have a great weekend. We'll be right back on
six to WTV and open phones sixth AWTV and Zachary
Schwartz open Foodes. Thank you for tuning in in order
of how they have called. We'll get Mark the poet
in here. Mark, Good morning, sir.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Zach good morning, Good morning. Today's Today's poem, which is
not autobiographical, is dedicated to everyone who is in a
long term relationship and who has ever wondered if the
grass is greener on the other side of the fence,
if you catch my drift. The poem, which is not autobiographical,

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is rated PG. Thirteen. It's one minute and forty seconds long,
and it's called what holds a marriage together? What sort
of force will fasten a pair through thick and thin?
That will depend, of course, upon which phase of love
they're in. When nuptial buds first brightly bloom, The answer

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is simple, to capture the tie that binds the bride
and groom. It is the nightly rapture. And then As
tiny feet begin to toddle round the home, their presence
mitigates against the tendency to rome. But as the petals
slowly droop and dangle from the rows, one settles into

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the next phase of how a marriage flows. It might
be there's a thin facade of friendship and concurrence that's
predicated solely on each spouse's life insurance. It might be
that each partner simply longs for something new. There was

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a fleeting moment when I held this point of my mirror,
though revealed to me the meager chance I had to
find a mate. And thus I thought, my wife is
not so bad. She greets me with a kiss each
night and makes me eggs and ham. I weighed my options,

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and I chose to stay right where I am.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
The end mark thank you as always, I hope you
have a good week, and uh talk to you next Saturday.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
All right, Hey to you, and Ella, thank you, thank
you my friend.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
All right, Paul lled for good morning, sir.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Well you're you're right, Zach, I agree with you, and
good morning. By the way, it's about control, power, money.
If you look at Gaza, look at Lebanon, look at Syria,
look at Libya, look at Ukraine, look at Venezuela. All
those things. We use our military to try to control oil,
gas and people's food. Without energy in food, you don't

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have a country. And that's what we do. If Cuba,
if Cuba had huge oil and gas reserves, Cuba would
have been the fifty first state sixty years ago. You
know that that's been an honestly what we're doing.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, that's been.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
An ongoing thing again, so I don't mean to cut
that's been an ongoing thing for a long time. We
did that at Guatemala, where we over threw a demically
elected leader for a United Fruit Company so they could
get bananas and sugar if they had natural resources. We
used to take sugar from from Cuba until Fidel kicked
Batista out and he didn't let us do that anymore,

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and we weren't happy about it. But and this is
not to defend Castro, don't get me wrong.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
But go ahead, well, there's there's books written on it,
and you can look all this stuff up. But look
at GMO seeds. We go around the country. When we
went in Iraq, one of the things Paul Bremer first
did was make sure that they used GMO seeds and
got rid of all the seeds that they've used. They
got rid of seat world seed banks, push GMO and
to push our push our food on people. I'm telling

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you why we're in ran right now. It's all about
oil and gas Ukraine especially. It's not only their oil
and gas impossible where possible, but it's also all the
pipelines that cross Ukraine from Russia. Hungry gets her oil
from Russia, but they have to pay Ukraine for that service.
Now that we sign that contract with Ukraine, every time

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one hundred and fifty six barrels a day go to Hungary,
we get a piece of that.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Right.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
All this is back to oil and gas and power,
and they don't care about the little man. And you
and me ain't getting nothing from that. Brother, that's all
for the billionaire class. We don't so what you said before,
not worrying about the little people and people not being
able to get like needy people getting their needs met.
We don't care about that anymore. Yeah, matter of fact,

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they might if it was up to them. They put
them in a camp and just and gas them or
do something terrible because they do not care. So I mean,
I think I think.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
A lot of that is is the system's growing has
grown so big, and it's so I always use the
phrase the absurdity of the system, and I.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Always want to say I don't want to put it.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
And the framework is poor me, poor me or poor us,
because we keep electing the same type of people.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
But again, if you.

Speaker 7 (35:26):
Don't have it, if you're working hard, you don't have
a choice, right and you exactly and especially if you're
working hard and you work every day and you have
kids and you're exhausted, it is difficult to start writing
your congressman and making calls and doing and they kind
of count on that to let things slide.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Well, the problem how how if you wanted to run
for US representative from Ohio, how would you go about
doing that? Well, not the Republican or Democrat support, I.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Don't it would be very There's a few independent it's
here and there across the country that have that have
gained office. But even if you if you're against the
Republican or Democrat kind of paradigm there, you have to
join one of those parties because you won't have any
bat there's no way to nobody's going to fund you

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nobody's going to give you money because they think it's
a lost cause if you're not a Republican or a Democrat.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
You know, my friend of mine set a long time ago,
and it dawns on me more now. But they said,
is like, let's say you have to be a US representative,
has to be I think, what is a thirty five thirty?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I think it's whatever.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
Okay, everybody thirty five that wants to be a rep
they put their name in the computer and the computer
groc or somebody picks names out of a hat, and
those should be I would rather have a housewife, a
poor person, a truck driver, a doctor. I'd rather have

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somebody just out of the blue be my representative. Then
that's tied into all this nonsense that we put up
with for a long time. And what's so funny is
we try to like we think all these people are
our enemy. China, Russia, Iran, all these people, Cuba. You know,
communism nonsense. Well, everybody says communism doesn't work. Guess what,

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China's kicking our tiny They're over two times the economy
every year, they're beating us.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, they've made amazing advantage them.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
No, no, that's that's far.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
God.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
We can't beat we can't beat China anyway, Paul, I
appreciate it. Have a great week, law Man Michael. I apologize.
I didn't get to you. It wasn't on purpose. If
you call back next week, I will put you on
first thing. Thank you for tuning in for Saturday Morning
open fodes Ella, have a great day, great week, all
the things, and we'll see you next week right back here.