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Cincinnati Type and Print Museum - Charles Dickens Christmas Event · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Eighth five. Here fifty five KRC Detalk Station, A very
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  Speaker 1: very happy Monday for you, despite of the fact we
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  Speaker 1: don't get Brian James this morning Money Monday's Brian James
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  Speaker 1: taking a day off. I am so pleased bring back
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  Speaker 1: to the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Something I learned
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  Speaker 1: from this man, Gary Walton, that we do have a
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati type in print museum, and it's way more than
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  Speaker 1: the museum. Gary Walton, welcome back man. I understand you
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  Speaker 1: got a big event going on this weekend. It's good
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  Speaker 1: to have you back on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's crazy to be back on the show. And
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  Speaker 2: I do want to talk about the event. But the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing I want to talk about is the
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  Speaker 2: last time we were together, we were mentioning about how
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  Speaker 2: we are training adults with disabilities. I'm happy to say
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  Speaker 2: that we have three individuals who have done extremely well
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  Speaker 2: and our goal in this coming January twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 2: is placing them on a real job in the printing industry.
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  Speaker 2: And this is just the beginning of many, many, many
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  Speaker 2: adults of disability actually finding real work and be able
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  Speaker 2: to make a living for their family. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: first thing I want to tell you back, that's just
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  Speaker 2: really exciting. We're having a great time with that, and
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  Speaker 2: so that's crazy. But the second thing I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: bring to your attention is December fourth, fifth, and sixth
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  Speaker 2: at the Museum, totally free from ten am to three pm.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to celebrate Charles Dickens the Christmas Carol and
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  Speaker 2: make people were this book was really incredible. Up to
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  Speaker 2: that time, nobody really celebrated Christmas. But when this book
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  Speaker 2: comes out, all of a sudden, the whole Christmas tradition
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  Speaker 2: starts generosity and then giving of gifts multiplied by a
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  Speaker 2: factor of ten after this book's come out. So this
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  Speaker 2: book is really important for our society and realizing where
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  Speaker 2: we have come today and how we celebrate Christmas today
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  Speaker 2: and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting the concept that you just
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  Speaker 1: brought up. Now, I think everyone's familiar with a Christmas Carol,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Dickens book, you know, and if you aren't a
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  Speaker 1: good person in life, and you don't, you know, take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of your resources and help those in need, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to eternal damnation. I was like, holy cow, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize that was in store for me. So Dickens
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  Speaker 1: applied sort of Christian principles about helping fellow man and
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  Speaker 1: turn it into a it's not a consequence free environment.
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  Speaker 1: You got some serious consequences headed your way. You don't
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  Speaker 1: act that way. So did it transform Christmas in a
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  Speaker 1: positive way in the sense that, oh, that's right, I'm
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  Speaker 1: supposed to give to those in need, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: tithe or do my fair share. Don't rely on the
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  Speaker 1: state and its workhouses. No, you have to personally engage
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  Speaker 1: in that conduct. But then coupling it with the idea
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to be saddled with the chains and
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  Speaker 1: the and the peril forever, really did an effective job
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  Speaker 1: of marketing for charity.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, absolutely. And when you come to the museum,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna actually print chapter five, what he called Stage
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  Speaker 2: five of the Christmas Card, which is the best chapter.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the ending. Yeah, so you actually print
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  Speaker 2: as any doom and I'll take that home with you.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna print Marley's speech that he gives about how
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  Speaker 2: he should have been more involved with the community and
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  Speaker 2: so forth. And then you also print some Christmas wrapping paper.
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  Speaker 2: We got to press set up where you print this
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  Speaker 2: big piece of Christmas wrapping paper. So it's a fun event.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be cookies, beat and so forth, and just make
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  Speaker 2: peopleware again of how important printing is to this city.
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  Speaker 1: Printing. And this is what I learned from you, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: because I was not aware that Cincinnati is like the
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  Speaker 1: epicenter for the printing industry, an industry that is still flourishing.
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  Speaker 1: And whether or not you're in those that he helped
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  Speaker 1: out from the disabled category, there are jobs in the
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  Speaker 1: printing industry. And I wasn't even aware of the need
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  Speaker 1: for printing in the electronic or the electronics business with
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  Speaker 1: these circuit board printing that you do. Yes, that was
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  Speaker 1: an eye opener.
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  Speaker 2: We're actually working on getting a printing press out of
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  Speaker 2: Denmark where you'll be able to come to the museum
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  Speaker 2: and we'll be actually printing solar anals right there in
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  Speaker 2: front of you, so you can take them home and
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  Speaker 2: hook them up to electric wires and actually start collecting
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  Speaker 2: solar energy for free.
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  Speaker 1: That's wild. So obviously in the future there's a special
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  Speaker 1: kind of paper those have to be printed on it.
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  Speaker 1: I presume you're not going to strow a piece of construction.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, just we're gonna be printing on a thin plastic,
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  Speaker 2: but can literally printed on anything paper, plastic, would metal,
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  Speaker 2: The substrate doesn't really matter. The important thing is the ink.
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  Speaker 2: All the magic is in the ink, and the ink
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  Speaker 2: is would have all the magic. And so that's why
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  Speaker 2: we can actually print this on a traditional printing press.
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  Speaker 2: These are not super duper modern presses. These are traditional presses.
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  Speaker 2: So anybody in Cincinnati who has a printing press can
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  Speaker 2: print electronic devices.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is amazing. With the magic ink, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So the keys the ink. How about learn something else
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  Speaker 1: today in the morning show. Since a type in print museum,
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  Speaker 1: you're open throughout the year though, so visitors can make
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  Speaker 1: arrangements to go. And I know you love to have
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  Speaker 1: like tour groups with you, maybe senior groups or school
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  Speaker 1: children groups of schoolture to come in and see the museum.
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  Speaker 1: That can easily be arranged.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, correct, And you do want to go on our
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  Speaker 2: website and make an appointment because we have to get
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  Speaker 2: things set up. But we now are official merit badge
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  Speaker 2: for the Boy Scouts. You can learn your get your
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  Speaker 2: graphic arts Merit bad but coming a museum in one day.
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  Speaker 2: We do have homeschoolers lots of homeschoolers come and then
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  Speaker 2: we try to where they are in their training, try
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  Speaker 2: to bring the lesson that we're going to be teaching
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  Speaker 2: that day towards what they're doing. So if they're into
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  Speaker 2: writing books, you know, we'll actually print a book. If
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  Speaker 2: they're into packaging, we'll actually have them create a package
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  Speaker 2: and actually make the package themselves right there, So we
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  Speaker 2: tailor make each tour for the group that's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic, And I see that you have an internship program
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  Speaker 1: there at the at the type of pri museum. Tell
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  Speaker 1: my listeners about that, because I keep going back to
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  Speaker 1: the whole idea that there are jobs out there that
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  Speaker 1: don't involve a four year college degree and they're good
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  Speaker 1: paying jobs and their career opportunities, and right there, you
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  Speaker 1: have an intern ship program to help you achieve your
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  Speaker 1: career goals. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: So the interim program that we have is for working
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  Speaker 2: at the museum. However, starting next year, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be working with a few of my printing bodies and
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  Speaker 2: saying would you like to stay, and I know they're
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  Speaker 2: going to jump at it, have an inter and come
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  Speaker 2: work for you, because, like I said, there's a shortage
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  Speaker 2: of graphic ards people, so I know they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be up for it. So yes, we do this thing
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  Speaker 2: now called walkings, where people can walk in after they
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  Speaker 2: have the chores, say you know, I want to work
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  Speaker 2: in the industry, and then we connect them up with
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  Speaker 2: a company, and I try to connect them a company
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  Speaker 2: close to where they live, because I don't believe they
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  Speaker 2: should be traveling forever, and then get them place. And
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  Speaker 2: so this year four individuals who walk in the door
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  Speaker 2: are now working in the printing industry.
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  Speaker 1: That's all outstanding. Any possibility of working with vocational schools,
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  Speaker 1: I know that seems to be a big push going
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  Speaker 1: to vocate as opposed to traditional high schools. You can
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  Speaker 1: go to one of like the Diamond Oaks or the
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  Speaker 1: Scarlett Oakes types of schools they had when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid, and a lot of people chose that as
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  Speaker 1: a career path. And we're working a long time before
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  Speaker 1: I was because I went to a four year college.
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  Speaker 1: But can you partner up with maybe that as like
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  Speaker 1: a class course that high school kids could take.
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  Speaker 2: Already done, already done. Dimonos and yes, both Dominoes and Carlos.
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  Speaker 2: I've been to the museum, both of them have offered
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  Speaker 2: that when they're ready to graduate in the spring of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, that we'd helped get them jobs. So
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  Speaker 2: and I'm good friends with the instructors of those two schools,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, that's you know, I taught printing for twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years, so I have those connections with the education community,
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  Speaker 2: but also with the business community, and so it just
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  Speaker 2: all works out really well.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic. Now going back to I had two follow up questions.
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  Speaker 1: When people show up this weekend for the Christmas themed
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  Speaker 1: event in print chapter five of the Christmas Carol, which
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  Speaker 1: printer are they going to be using? Guys, you have
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  Speaker 1: a Gutenberg original type print press? Correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so Marley's speech. They will that on the
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  Speaker 2: wooden Gutenberg press, a replica of the of the fourteen
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  Speaker 2: to fifty press. Then they'll go in the back room
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  Speaker 2: and something called a show car press. They'll print the
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  Speaker 2: wrapping paper and then all the book. The book. They
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  Speaker 2: will actually print that on another type of a smaller
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  Speaker 2: version of a show card press. But we will also
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to show folks how type was actually created.
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  Speaker 2: So they will be given these molds and using our
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  Speaker 2: machine called the Ladlow and the inner type actually cash
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  Speaker 2: from hot metal type that before the MACS invented, everything
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  Speaker 2: was done with what we call hot type, which is
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  Speaker 2: a molten lead and then cooled down to actually make
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  Speaker 2: a type character.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the little individual letters of the alphabet that
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  Speaker 1: had to be stacked in a row in order to
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  Speaker 1: concrete the create the plate that was used in the
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  Speaker 1: printing press. I trying to get this a better understanding
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  Speaker 1: of what you were talking about with this molten metal.
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  Speaker 2: So all the way back to fourteen fifty, Yuhungberg invents
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  Speaker 2: mobile type. So you had individual individual letters, individual lets
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  Speaker 2: that be put together, yeah, and then tied together so
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  Speaker 2: they don't move. And then Upmartin Murgenthaler and William Ludlow said,
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  Speaker 2: why are we casting one letter at a time, Why
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  Speaker 2: don't we cast a line of type. So they made
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  Speaker 2: machines that you put the moles all together just like
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  Speaker 2: you're lining up the type. Now you're lining up the
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  Speaker 2: molds and you cast one line of type. So if
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  Speaker 2: you had a heading going across, that would be one
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  Speaker 2: piece of metal that you'd cast. And the beauty Beauty
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  Speaker 2: also is fresh brand new type so to print really
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  Speaker 2: well when you're using foundry type attendens to wear down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit and get old, and this is always
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  Speaker 2: fresh type. So the printing quality is much better when
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  Speaker 2: you're casting your own type.
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  Speaker 1: Now rather than for demonstrative purposes and historical purposes like
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen when you're printing to Charles Dickens
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five and the speech. Is that still a process
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  Speaker 1: that's used today, because it sounds very labor intensive? Is
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  Speaker 1: it still a very labor intensive process when I think
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  Speaker 1: about modern printers? I mean I go back to dot
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  Speaker 1: matrix and the current modern printers we have now it
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  Speaker 1: just zips things out. So is there still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of labor involved in the print industry.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there's still a lot of labor, even though AI
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  Speaker 2: has come into the printing industry, and so our presses
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  Speaker 2: today have a lot of AI technology and robotic technology,
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  Speaker 2: but you still need a human to run those machines.
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  Speaker 2: There's still a lot of handwork. Once it's printed, things
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  Speaker 2: have to be cut, folded, stapled, and so there's still
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  Speaker 2: a lot of handwork on that. And then also the
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  Speaker 2: Mac computer when it comes out and it makes it
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  Speaker 2: available to anybody to create images. Now, you'd think it
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  Speaker 2: would hurt the industry, but it did just the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody can create a green card, everybody can create
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  Speaker 2: a newsletter. So the volume of printing has actually gone
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  Speaker 2: up because of the computer. So we still and for
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  Speaker 2: every press that's running, there's got to be at least
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  Speaker 2: five computers feeding it with artwork and so forth, because
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  Speaker 2: the press is the day are so fast. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I just saw a video other day that I think
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  Speaker 2: Heidelberg has won that's going twenty two thousand copies in
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  Speaker 2: that hour. Oh that's just mind boggling. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: so they can really crank out the work really fast.
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  Speaker 2: So we need more and more people creating the work
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  Speaker 2: to feed these machines.
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  Speaker 1: And keep them going, and the program be pivoting over
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  Speaker 1: to the other question. I have the program that you
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  Speaker 1: have helped these three men with I suppose flack of
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  Speaker 1: a better word, disabilities. They were autistic, correct.
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  Speaker 2: They're autistic men.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So there are career opportunities for folks out there
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  Speaker 1: who might think that there's not a career opportunity. I
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  Speaker 1: have a friend who's on an autistic spectrum. He's been
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  Speaker 1: working for a decade or more. I mean, he lives
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  Speaker 1: by himself self, sufficient's got a good job. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's on a higher spectrum and the autism scale, but
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  Speaker 1: definitely autistic he is. But I think it's so nice
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  Speaker 1: to know that there are industries out there that in
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  Speaker 1: spite of some struggles people may have, are still have
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  Speaker 1: that they still have career opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And the thing that I just love about these
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  Speaker 2: three guys, they're the happiest people in the face the earth.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we go into work, they're smiling, They're always
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  Speaker 2: thanking me for everything. It's just a joy. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: realize going into this, and I would have so much
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  Speaker 2: fun training them. I'm gonna be sad then they leave
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  Speaker 2: the ogs with you. Except with that, I think fab
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna keep on permanently. He's just he gives a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the tours now and we just love that.
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  Speaker 1: Not gonna let that.
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  Speaker 2: But the other I let that dad go. I love
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  Speaker 2: him too much. So yes, so very very rewarding. What
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  Speaker 2: I did, you know? Working at Cincinnati State, I trained
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  Speaker 2: over three thousand, five hundred people and that was great.
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  Speaker 2: But I find this way more rewarding to be helping
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  Speaker 2: the young man have a fulfilling career.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, going back to the point about Charles Dickens or
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. I think you're in the right wheelhouse there,
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  Speaker 1: my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, oh yes, yeah, think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, uh huh. Try to put it all together. Gary. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is that type of program continue throughout the year. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: someone's out there going, oh, you know, my son, my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: I think they'd be great at this, or are you
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  Speaker 1: going to continue offering it is on a sporadic basis?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, No, We're into educating the world and we're
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  Speaker 2: into creating people to go in the printing industry twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to seven. So anybody interested, give us a call,
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  Speaker 2: we'll sit down with you. Definitely. This is an ongoing thing,
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  Speaker 2: that is, and we're actually expanding. I'm hoping this year
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  Speaker 2: to build building number three and Building number four to
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  Speaker 2: give us more space to be able to do more training.
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  Speaker 2: You know. So my goal is some day to be
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  Speaker 2: able to have as many as forty individuals at one
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  Speaker 2: time being trained for the printing industry.
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  Speaker 1: Well to that end, there are opportunities for memberships and
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to well maybe support them Cincinnati type in Print
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  Speaker 1: Museum by maybe a little financial contribution this type of year,
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  Speaker 1: go to Cincinnati Print or type Print Museum, Cincinnati, Typeprint
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  Speaker 1: Museum dot org for all the details about the event
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  Speaker 1: this week and all that they do throughout the year
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  Speaker 1: to schedule deployment to do a tour that make it
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  Speaker 1: really easy for you. There's a little request for him
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  Speaker 1: you can fill out. Gary Walton Man. It's so great
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  Speaker 1: hearing from you again, and thanks for continuing the historic
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  Speaker 1: journey through the print industry and reminding my listeners it's
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  Speaker 1: alive and well and there are career opportunities out there.
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  Speaker 1: Keep up the great work. Gary. We'll have you again
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  Speaker 1: on the program again soon, I hope.
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  Speaker 2: Yes in January, when I tell you it's as story
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  Speaker 2: of those two men.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you already got an appointment here in the Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Gary.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, between now and then, if I don't see you
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  Speaker 1: or hear from you, have a very merry Christmas, and
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  Speaker 1: keep up the great work you and all the crew
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  Speaker 1: at the Type in Print Museum