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Houston Remembers 9-11; Oil, The CIA, and Forever Wars; Houston Inventor Opens Access to Pinball - TPN 9/13/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of September 13th, 2026. And this is
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Speaker 1: what's on the People's News. 25 years since 9-11. Houston remembers.
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Speaker 1: The People's News on 9-11. Oil and forever wars in
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Speaker 1: the Middle East. Houston Inventor helps with a game for
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Speaker 1: the disabled. All that and more on the People's News.
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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Gallington. This is the People's News, and the
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Speaker 1: People's News starts now. Images, sounds, and feelings seared into
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Speaker 1: our minds 25 years ago on September 11, 2001. When
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Speaker 1: America was attacked, it brought the world to a standstill immediately.
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Speaker 1: as coordinated suicide attacks by Islamic terrorists hijacked four commercial planes.
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Speaker 1: Two hit the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New
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Speaker 1: York City, a third hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.,
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Speaker 1: and a fourth crashed into a rural area in Pennsylvania
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Speaker 1: after passengers took over the plane from the terrorists. Close
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Speaker 1: to 3,000 people, including the 19 hijackers, died in the
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Speaker 1: immediate attack. No one in the North Tower of the
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Speaker 1: Twin Towers survived, and even people on the ground died
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Speaker 1: as the towers collapsed. Airports across the country and the
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Speaker 1: world were shut down. The world would change forever, and
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Speaker 1: people united together as they never did before. It's been
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Speaker 1: 25 years, and the city of Houston remembered the day
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Speaker 1: in a gathering Friday. They gathered at Lauren's Garden at
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Speaker 1: Market Square Park, dedicated to Lauren Cassuzzi Grancolas, a Houston
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Speaker 1: native who was killed aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on
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Speaker 1: September 11th. Houston Mayor John Whitmire had a few words
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Speaker 1: about the day to the People's News.
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Speaker 2: Sad moment in our country's history. It's unimaginable what families
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Speaker 2: have gone through. Sad day for our nation, but we
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Speaker 2: get to it by coming together and leaning on one
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Speaker 2: another in our faith.
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Speaker 1: We heard from others who voiced their words on the day.
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Speaker 3: First name is Ray, last name is Gutierrez. I'm with
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Speaker 3: a company called Houston Construction Services. My background, I've been
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Speaker 3: involved with city government for 30 plus years.
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Speaker 4: How did 9-11 affect you?
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Speaker 5: It impacted everyone to the core.
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Speaker 3: I think the key was that we weren't prepared for
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Speaker 3: the onslaught of what really happens in the world elsewhere,
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Speaker 3: but not here. How it impacted us, without a doubt,
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Speaker 3: it fractured our structure as we are as.
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Speaker 1: Americans, right?
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Speaker 3: And of course, I'm Hispanic, so I was born here.
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Speaker 3: So the idea is that all those things that we
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Speaker 3: have inherited have really been faulted by this, I call it, this.
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Speaker 6: Issue with the....
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Speaker 3: People that had their own way of living.
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Speaker 4: And your business, how did it affect you at all?
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, it affected me. I used to have 75 employees.
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Speaker 5: I downsized.
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Speaker 3: I had to overcome the obstacle of, I'm a small business,
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Speaker 3: so having to overcome an obstacle of being able to support, right?
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Speaker 3: During that time, it.
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Speaker 1: Was burdensome.
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Speaker 3: So most of the industries were shut down. for a
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Speaker 3: period of time, and it's hard to overcome those obstacles.
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Speaker 4: Just give me your name.
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Speaker 6: We want to participate.
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Speaker 5: Too, sir.
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Speaker 7: My name is Ian Sachs, and I'm here. I'm friends
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Speaker 7: with Larry Catuzzi, who lost a daughter on 9-11 on
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Speaker 7: Flight 93. And we're here to support him and help
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Speaker 7: with the ceremony and all the feelings that everybody has today.
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Speaker 6: On 9-11, a lot of people, it's been 25 years,
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Speaker 6: which I, you know, it.
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Speaker 4: Goes so fast, but we still remember what happened that day.
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Speaker 7: That is correct, and that's why we're here.
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Speaker 6: How did it affect you, besides your family member, and
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Speaker 6: on 9-11, how does it affect you on this day still?
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Speaker 7: We all felt a deep sense of loss and a
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Speaker 7: support for our country and knew that they could come
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Speaker 7: back and take care of what needed to be done.
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Speaker 8: I'm Stuart Rees, I'm the Consul General for Australia here
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Speaker 8: in Houston.
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Speaker 4: So how's 9-11 affecting you and the country?
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Speaker 8: I was working on a farm at the time, a
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Speaker 8: family farm in New South Wales and I remember waking
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Speaker 8: up pretty early in the morning and switching on the.
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Speaker 9: News and It was all over the news in Australia.
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Speaker 8: Of course, it was like, how is this even possible?
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Speaker 8: It was something that nobody had really ever considered before.
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Speaker 8: And for Australia, it meant a great deal for us.
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Speaker 8: Our Prime Minister was in the USA at the time.
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Speaker 8: He was, I believe, in New York at the time,
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Speaker 8: John Howard. And that was the first time we'd actually
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Speaker 8: enacted our ANZUS treaty with the US. And we were
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Speaker 8: determined from that day on to stand by the US
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Speaker 8: in no matter what it took to bring those that
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Speaker 8: were responsible for it to justice.
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Speaker 9: How long did it take him to get back? Sorry?
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Speaker 4: How long did it take him to get back from
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Speaker 4: the States?
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Speaker 9: Look, I don't recall, you know.
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Speaker 8: I know he was probably staying... in the USA for
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Speaker 8: a couple of extra days because, of course, all of
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Speaker 8: the airline traffic came to a complete halt during that time.
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Speaker 4: Did that change the policies or politics in Austria?
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Speaker 8: I think it made us more determined to be a
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Speaker 8: really good partner of the US.
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Speaker 1: At that time. Four of the living former presidents of
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Speaker 1: the United States were on hand for the 9-11 anniversary
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Speaker 1: ceremony in New York. Also on hand was New York
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Speaker 1: City Mayor Zoran Madami, who, in the days before, released
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Speaker 1: the long-withheld documents on post-9-11 air quality. Thousands of toxins
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Speaker 1: were released into the air following the 9-11 attack. Advocates
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Speaker 1: and 9-11 responders have been asking to know the truth.
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Speaker 1: Documents show that past administrations, Democrat and Republican, sat on
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Speaker 1: the details of the toxins released into the air. Comedian, activist,
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Speaker 1: and TV host Jon Stewart has been advocating for the
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Speaker 1: release of the documents for years. He spoke at the
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Speaker 1: announcement of the documents.
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Speaker 5: We put it up there. I'm going to walk everyone
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Speaker 5: through the user agreements. First of all, thank you to.
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Speaker 10: The mayor and to his office for getting this done.
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Speaker 10: I want to be fair to the city. If you
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Speaker 10: look at the Harding memo, they didn't find out, they
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Speaker 10: didn't recognize... that the air that everyone was breathing in
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Speaker 10: downtown Manhattan was toxic until October of 2001. So to
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Speaker 10: be fair to them, they only buried that information for
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Speaker 10: 25 years.
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Speaker 5: And I just want to.
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Speaker 10: Say that the people that made them uncover that and
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Speaker 10: made it be released to the public are the people
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Speaker 10: that are standing today Behind me, they're the ones on
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Speaker 10: the till.
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Speaker 5: They are first responders.
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Speaker 10: They are families of loved ones that were lost. They
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Speaker 10: are legislators. They are legislative aides. The city began covering
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Speaker 10: their ass three weeks in, in a memo. The memo
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Speaker 10: is entitled Legislative Alternatives to the Fiscal Responsibility for 9-11.
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Speaker 10: These people had to fight, sick and dying, For years,
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Speaker 10: and I'm not saying that the information may have changed
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Speaker 10: the outcomes, unfortunately, for their families, but I guarantee you
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Speaker 10: it would not have been the struggle that it was
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Speaker 10: to get people to recognize that what they all knew
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Speaker 10: and what we all knew who live in downtown Manhattan
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Speaker 10: is that there was poison in the air and on
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Speaker 10: the ground and in the windowsills and in your air conditioners.
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Speaker 10: and covering your pets and your clothes, and it stayed
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Speaker 10: there for months.
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Speaker 5: Everyone knew.
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Speaker 10: And now it's very clear that the city knew as well.
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Speaker 10: And rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage
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Speaker 10: that that would cause to its citizens and to the
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Speaker 10: people that were down there, they instead covered it up
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Speaker 10: to get back to business as usual. But unfortunately, after 9-11,
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Speaker 10: Business will never be usual again.
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Speaker 5: And so.
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Speaker 10: I just want to say that the people that are
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Speaker 10: standing up here are heroes. They are, and it's not
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Speaker 10: just about the past. It's not just about going into
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Speaker 10: the files and re-litigating how we all knew what we
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Speaker 10: knew was there. It's about the future. And people like
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Speaker 10: Ben Chabot, who is a giant.
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Speaker 5: Pain in the ass. And I say that in the
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Speaker 5: best of ways. He is the best of us. Never
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Speaker 5: open his emails.
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Speaker 10: I cannot stress that enough.
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Speaker 5: You will be reading for hours.
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Speaker 10: This is about making sure these guys like John Feel
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Speaker 10: and Gail Brewer and Nadler and Maloney, they've done a
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Speaker 10: great job at making sure all the first responders that
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Speaker 10: were down there, they all understand their sicknesses to get
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Speaker 10: in the program.
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Speaker 5: But residents of this city, students that.
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Speaker 10: Were down at ground zero that were brought back to
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Speaker 10: do that, they need to sign up for the program.
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Speaker 10: We've lost three times as many people to 9-11-related illnesses
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Speaker 10: as we did on 9-11, three times as many, almost 10,000 people.
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Speaker 5: There's more work to be done so far, and it continues.
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Speaker 10: So thank you very much, and I just want to
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Speaker 10: say what an honor it is to be standing with
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Speaker 10: just giants.
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Speaker 1: Over the years, many first responders have died of complications
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Speaker 1: from the air quality after 9-11, but were denied benefits.
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Speaker 1: This year, the many who have died of complications of
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Speaker 1: the aftereffects of 9-11 were remembered along with those who
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Speaker 1: died at the towers that day. We look back on
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Speaker 1: some of the archives of previous 9-11 stories heard from
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Speaker 1: the People's News. This story is from the 20th anniversary
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Speaker 1: of 9-11. We talked to Paul Hartshorn, Jr., with the
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Speaker 1: Association of Professional Flight Attendants, who represent over 26,000 flight
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Speaker 1: attendants with American Airlines. We talked to him about what
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Speaker 1: 9-11 means to those who lost their lives on that
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Speaker 1: tragic day.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 11: You know, obviously, it's kind of, it's hard. It's a
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Speaker 11: 20-year anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, you know,
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Speaker 11: and speaking for the flight attendants union at American, you know,
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Speaker 11: I will say that we are, you know, recognize the
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Speaker 11: 25 flight attendants between the four flights as our nation's
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Speaker 11: first responders.
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Speaker 9: On that day.
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Speaker 11: The flight attendants on board American Airlines Flight 11, United
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Speaker 11: Airlines Flight 175, Flight 77 at American, and United Airlines
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Speaker 11: Flight 93, you know, they all played a part in
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Speaker 11: notifying air traffic controllers, flight service management at their airlines,
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Speaker 11: and the world below about this epic attack that was unfolding.
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Speaker 11: You think back, you think about on flight 11 on
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Speaker 11: American Airlines from Boston to Los Angeles, you had flight
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Speaker 11: attendant Betty Ong on the phone letting American Airlines reservations
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Speaker 11: in North Carolina know what is going on.
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Speaker 9: In another cabin on that.
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Speaker 11: Same aircraft, you had Amy Sweeney who had a 12-minute
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Speaker 11: conversation with her flight service manager at the Boston airport
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Speaker 11: in the crew room.
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Speaker 9: Telling them not only what was going on, but.
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Speaker 11: Providing crucial information about the identity of the five hijackers
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Speaker 11: that were on board the aircraft. And that information would
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Speaker 11: later be used in the investigation to identify those hijackers.
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Speaker 11: So crucial and valuable information. On Flight 77 from Washington
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Speaker 11: Dulles to Los Angeles, you had Flight Attendant Renee May,
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Speaker 11: who was also able to make contact with American Airlines
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Speaker 11: flight personnel on the ground. let them know what was
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Speaker 11: going on just minutes before that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon.
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Speaker 11: And then also on the United Airlines flights, you had
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Speaker 11: flight attendants back then.
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Speaker 9: Robert Fangman, I believe, was one who was able.
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Speaker 11: To contact his San Francisco crew scheduling from the air
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Speaker 11: en route from Boston to Los Angeles to supply them
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Speaker 11: with crucial information about what's going on. So we look
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Speaker 11: back on this 20-year anniversary and really are focusing today
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Speaker 11: on and all the heroes involved, but really the first responders.
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Speaker 9: That were on board the aircraft that day.
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Speaker 11: You know, their resiliency, their focus, their heroism, their bravery
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Speaker 11: are the reasons. And they provided us with the strength
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Speaker 11: to get back on board the aircraft when the airports
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Speaker 11: reopened shortly after 9-11. So, you know, it's a tough day,
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Speaker 11: I think, for everybody. It's definitely difficult. We, as flight attendants,
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Speaker 11: speaking for the flight attendants, you know, we had to
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Speaker 11: get back on the airplane to do what we do best,
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Speaker 11: which is keeping our skies.
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Speaker 9: Safe, along with our pilot colleagues. So we will never.
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Speaker 11: Forget these 25 first responders who paid the ultimate price, and,
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Speaker 11: of course, everyone who died both in the airplanes and
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Speaker 11: on the ground that day.
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Speaker 12: Interesting.
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Speaker 4: A lot's changed since 9-11 also.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I know in the airline industry, it's taken
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Speaker 6: 20-plus years to come back.
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Speaker 11: I mean, I think everything changed after 9-11, right? We
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Speaker 11: saw different security measures. Our training changed about how to
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Speaker 11: approach the different situations. And there was a lot of
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Speaker 11: pain and a lot of heartache for a lot of labor,
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Speaker 11: a lot of union workers throughout the airline industry. I
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Speaker 11: don't think really any airline got away unscathed or any
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Speaker 11: airline worker, I will say. It was a tough, tough
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Speaker 11: battle after 9-11 right up through, I would say, 2011
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Speaker 11: when they started, you know, robustly hiring again. And then,
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Speaker 11: of course, we see a different shadow on the industry
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Speaker 11: here with the COVID-19 pandemic, different approach, still devastating to,
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Speaker 11: you know, some union families, not as bad as horrible
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Speaker 11: as it was after 9-11, but definitely some congruencies there.
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Speaker 11: So we're just, once again, we find ourselves trying to
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Speaker 11: make sure we dig out of this hole and make
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Speaker 11: it safe for our passengers to return to the skies,
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Speaker 11: make them feel safe, make the environment as safe as
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Speaker 11: possible for everyone so we can get back to doing
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Speaker 11: what we love and not having to worry about any
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Speaker 11: sort of job security.
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Speaker 1: That was an interview from 2011 with Paul Hartson, Jr.,
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Speaker 1: with the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. We asked Ms.
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Dennett, daughter of Daniel Dennett, who was the head
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Speaker 1: of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Group in the 40s,
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Speaker 1: which was what was about to become the CIA. She
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Speaker 1: is an investigative journalist, author, attorney, who has investigated her
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Speaker 1: father's death in Saudi Arabia. She is an expert in
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Speaker 1: the Middle East, and she gave her view on 9-11,
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Speaker 1: and where we are with the Middle East today.
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Speaker 12: Actually, well, I'm sad like everybody else, but I.
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Speaker 13: Am thinking of all the people who have died since.
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Speaker 12: Those records have finally been released about what was left.
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Speaker 13: On Ground Zero.
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Speaker 12: And I'm remembering the New Yorkers that were clamoring to
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Speaker 12: get them released. And finally, we have a mayor that.
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Speaker 13: Came through.
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Speaker 12: And I haven't seen them yet, but I look forward
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Speaker 12: to looking at them. I have a legal background, and.
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Speaker 4: I'm aware of.
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Speaker 12: Individuals who have not been able to get their full
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Speaker 12: medical records. I've done medical malpractice work. So that's part
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Speaker 12: of my thinking today. Of all the people that died,
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Speaker 12: three times as many people died.
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Speaker 13: Afterwards, and.
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Speaker 12: Some are still trying to get their records. I don't
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Speaker 12: know the full volume of it, but yeah. Because that's
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Speaker 12: a tragic story, too.
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Speaker 6: One of the things you're talking about is important is
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Speaker 6: the ashes that came out that were months after the
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Speaker 6: towers had fell, the people that were affected by that,
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Speaker 6: and not knowing what, you know, you had a bestest
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Speaker 6: and everything else in those towers.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And nobody really knew what all they were getting, you know,
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Speaker 6: from the firemen that went in along with officers and
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Speaker 6: individuals that were just in the area.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that too. I mean, how horrific is that? Yeah,
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Speaker 13: go ahead.
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Speaker 12: Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt.
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Speaker 14: Why was it such a tough to get those records out,
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Speaker 14: get the information out, because people have died from the fumes?
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Speaker 12: Well, part of it was because of the concern about liability,
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Speaker 12: because there had been orders to go back in, you know,
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Speaker 12: right away. Shortly afterwards, Whitman, the EPA person, was saying
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Speaker 12: it was safe when it wasn't.
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Speaker 13: And now we know.
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Speaker 12: That they knew, that officials knew that it wasn't safe.
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Speaker 13: I mean, how can you do that? It's beyond comprehension.
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Speaker 12: Plus, there's a lot of questions about what was in
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Speaker 12: the rubble. And I would like to honor the now
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Speaker 12: I don't know tens of thousands of people who want
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Speaker 12: a new investigation this is not just you know putting
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Speaker 12: down truthers so to speak I mean I want to
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Speaker 12: honor all the very brave people who feel that as
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Speaker 12: citizens They need to question the official story. And there's
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Speaker 12: now a big clamor to get Congress to reopen the investigation.
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Speaker 12: So I want to honor them. And by the way,
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Speaker 12: if you want to call me a gold star family person,
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Speaker 12: I lost my father right at the end of World
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Speaker 12: War II in a mysterious plane crash. And I never
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Speaker 12: knew him, and so I have a feeling for all
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Speaker 12: the people that lost loved ones during this tragic 9-11.
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Speaker 6: What happened afterwards is also important because we had– you
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Speaker 6: might talk about that a little bit because right after
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Speaker 6: we went into Iraq for the first war, and then
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Speaker 6: we went again a second time.
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Speaker 14: The political landscape of the Middle East changed after 9-11,
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Speaker 14: I would say.
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Speaker 13: Yeah. Funniest thing, huh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Right.
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Speaker 12: And I remember Wesley Clark, who was then a NATO commander,
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Speaker 12: saying a Pentagon official came up to him shortly after
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Speaker 12: 9-11 and showed him a document that said that they
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Speaker 12: were going to– get rid of seven, well, get rid of,
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Speaker 12: you know, basically overthrow seven countries in five years. And
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Speaker 12: all those countries had one thing in common.
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Speaker 13: Can you guess what it was?
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Speaker 6: Oil?
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Speaker 16: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Oil.
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Speaker 12: That's right. And the last country listed was Iran. So
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Speaker 12: if one, I can go back, but, you know, these
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Speaker 12: are Middle Eastern countries, and Somalia, I believe, was one
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Speaker 12: of them, too. But yeah, Iraq was definitely there. I
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Speaker 12: believe Syria was.
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Speaker 13: On the list, Lebanon.
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Speaker 12: Anyway, yeah, the Middle East has been in turmoil ever since.
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Speaker 12: America's role has been very problematic, if I could put
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Speaker 12: it mildly. So yeah, we have to examine it from
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Speaker 12: that point of view. Because as I write in my book,
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Speaker 12: Follow the Pipelines, I wrote a book that focuses on
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Speaker 12: the role that oil and pipelines have played in all
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Speaker 12: of the major Middle Eastern wars. And I got into
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Speaker 12: that because my father was head of counterintelligence in the
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Speaker 12: Middle East for the Central Intelligence Group, the immediate predecessor
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Speaker 12: of the CIA. And He was looking at the role
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Speaker 12: of the Saudi Trans-Arabian Pipeline. And he had been visiting
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Speaker 12: Saudi Arabia and then had written about it in a
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Speaker 12: report and in a letter home, which I was able
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Speaker 12: to get copies of both. And it was very clear
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Speaker 12: that this pipeline was not only a huge investment, it
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Speaker 12: was going to have a huge impact on the world.
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Speaker 13: And it did.
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Speaker 12: It eventually got built. In 49, my father died in 47.
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Speaker 12: In between then, the president of Syria, his last name
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Speaker 12: is Kuatli, was overthrown.
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Speaker 13: This was the first CIA coup.
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Speaker 12: Why? Because he objected to the pipeline running through Israel,
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Speaker 12: the newly created state of Israel. That happened in 48.
23:52
Speaker 13: So there was a coup.
23:56
Speaker 12: And then there was a coup in 1953 against the
24:01
Speaker 12: Iranian leader, who was also a nationalist, like Kuatli was,
24:07
Speaker 12: and had nationalized the oil, which is a big no-no.
24:15
Speaker 12: A big no-no if you're part of the 1%, you're
24:20
Speaker 12: not liked. And then we've just got It was Afghanistan.
24:26
Speaker 12: They went into Afghanistan in 2001, claiming that it was
24:31
Speaker 12: Osama bin Laden that had masterminded this. That's been thrown
24:36
Speaker 12: into question. And look at the loss of life there.
24:42
Speaker 12: How many soldiers were killed in both Afghanistan and Iraq?
24:47
Speaker 12: And they thought they were avenging 9-11. There used to
24:50
Speaker 12: be Banners outside, for instance, in Iraq, I believe, that
24:57
Speaker 12: hung banners to the entrance of the major cities like Tehran,
25:03
Speaker 12: showing the towers, the twin towers. That was not why
25:08
Speaker 12: the troops were sent into Iraq. And it's not why
25:12
Speaker 12: they were sent to Afghanistan. I lay this all out
25:14
Speaker 12: in my book, and I've got maps. I've got 12 maps.
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Speaker 12: There was a pipeline that was going to run, take place,
25:22
Speaker 12: the natural gas and oil of the Caspian Sea and
25:25
Speaker 12: run from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
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Speaker 13: It was called TAPI.
25:32
Speaker 12: And there was a State Department official who said that
25:39
Speaker 12: the war happened so the energy could flow south. And
25:46
Speaker 12: that's in my book. And with regard to Iraq... In 2003,
25:53
Speaker 12: one of the major cheerleaders for the war in Iraq
25:56
Speaker 12: was Benjamin Netanyahu, then finance minister. He very much wanted
26:02
Speaker 12: Bush to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein. And the
26:07
Speaker 12: plan was to put in a guy named Ahmed Chalabi,
26:12
Speaker 12: who was living in exile. They were going to put
26:16
Speaker 12: him in, and then he favored reopening a pipeline between
26:22
Speaker 12: Iraq and Haifa, Israel. It had been closed during the
26:26
Speaker 12: 1948 war. And he boasted soon after that soon the
26:34
Speaker 12: oil will be flowing to Israel. And it didn't happen
26:37
Speaker 12: because Ahmed Chalabi was discredited. He was the guy that
26:42
Speaker 12: came up with the fiction of weapons of mass destruction.
26:45
Speaker 12: So he was discredited. I think Netanyahu still wants that
26:50
Speaker 12: pipeline to be open. Meanwhile, he has big plans for
26:54
Speaker 12: running an energy corridor up the Mediterranean coast. That will
26:59
Speaker 12: tap into $ 500 billion worth of oil and natural gas
27:04
Speaker 12: off the coast of Israel and Gaza and Lebanon. Netanyahu
27:11
Speaker 12: has tried to make sure that definitely the people of
27:16
Speaker 12: Gaza cannot benefit from the oil that is rightfully in
27:21
Speaker 12: natural gas off their coast. There were two previous invasions
27:25
Speaker 12: before the one in October 23 to prevent them from
27:32
Speaker 12: getting it. And the argument was that the proceeds, the
27:36
Speaker 12: revenues from the oil would go towards feeding terrorism. Well,
27:40
Speaker 12: that's not what the Palestinian people wanted. They wanted economic, uh, independence. And, uh,
27:47
Speaker 12: Yasser Arafat at the time was just thrilled to hear
27:50
Speaker 12: about the discovery off the coast of Gaza. He said,
27:53
Speaker 12: at last our people can have some autonomy. Uh, at
27:59
Speaker 12: any rate, then of course there was the civil war
28:03
Speaker 12: in Lebanon. I was there at the beginning of it.
28:08
Speaker 12: I was a reporter for the Beirut daily star English
28:11
Speaker 12: language newspaper. And, um, that that civil war would last
28:16
Speaker 12: 15 years. And in the end, what was it all about? Well,
28:22
Speaker 12: the main factor is the Lebanese government headed by Christian
28:28
Speaker 12: Maronites who allied themselves with Israelis. They wanted to get
28:32
Speaker 12: rid of the Palestinians who had become radicalized and lived
28:37
Speaker 12: mostly in southern Lebanon.
28:40
Speaker 13: So it achieved that.
28:44
Speaker 12: And they got Arafat out of there and they came
28:49
Speaker 12: down hard on the Palestinians who had been politicized. Many
28:56
Speaker 12: of them were refugees from 1948 when Israel expelled 450,000
29:02
Speaker 12: Palestinians and I think 150,000 fled to Lebanon.
29:06
Speaker 13: And now we have Iran. And even though.
29:11
Speaker 12: Trump thought he could do the same thing in Iran
29:14
Speaker 12: as he did to Venezuela. And in Venezuela, he was
29:18
Speaker 12: very clear.
29:19
Speaker 13: We want the oil.
29:20
Speaker 12: Well, in Iran, the whole issue, according to him, was
29:26
Speaker 12: to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power or having
29:32
Speaker 12: the bomb. And we all know that that preventative measure
29:37
Speaker 12: had been taken earlier by Iran. see, I think it
29:42
Speaker 12: was Obama actually who did that. Anyway, I listened carefully
29:48
Speaker 12: to see if he ever mentioned oil. And in one
29:52
Speaker 12: guarded moment, unguarded moment, two months after after the US
29:59
Speaker 12: started to go to war in Iran, Financial Times, I
30:04
Speaker 12: think it was, a reporter asked him if he was
30:08
Speaker 12: interested in Iran's oil, and he said, oh, well, that's
30:11
Speaker 12: my favorite thing, actually, getting the oil of Iran. He
30:14
Speaker 12: said that stupidly, because that's a no-no, because the whole
30:22
Speaker 12: reason the oil thing has been hidden is because oil
30:27
Speaker 12: is still the fuel of the military. And all the
30:30
Speaker 12: great powers are all vying against each other, all trying
30:34
Speaker 12: to get control of oil, keep it from other people,
30:37
Speaker 12: and protect it militarily. And that's what we're in. The
30:41
Speaker 12: subtitle of my book is Fall of the Pipelines, Uncovering
30:46
Speaker 12: the Mystery of a Lost Spy, that would be my father,
30:49
Speaker 12: and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil.
30:52
Speaker 12: And it's more deadly now than ever. Because now they're
30:55
Speaker 12: all looking for natural gas for data centers. How's that
30:59
Speaker 12: a long-winded response? I'm sorry it went on so long.
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Speaker 6: No, I just said, before I let you go, you
31:06
Speaker 6: mentioned oil and you mentioned Keystone, the Keystone pipeline again.
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Speaker 16: Yes.
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Speaker 13: Trump's going to reopen it. Yes. That's all he wants
31:17
Speaker 13: to do.
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Speaker 6: Oh, he wants to do it, but how would that
31:21
Speaker 6: be possible if the Canadian government's not wanting.
31:23
Speaker 14: To do it now?
31:24
Speaker 12: Well, that's a good question. This is probably why he
31:31
Speaker 12: is essentially committing economic warfare against Canada. I mean, if
31:40
Speaker 12: he had his way, he would occupy Canada for its
31:45
Speaker 12: abundance of oil and natural gas.
31:48
Speaker 13: So he has said.
31:49
Speaker 12: He's going to reopen it. Well, you've got a very
31:51
Speaker 12: good point. If the Canadians don't want to, then what's
31:54
Speaker 12: going to happen? Well, he's going to angle for it.
31:59
Speaker 12: So let's just keep watching. There was massive opposition to
32:05
Speaker 12: it because of concerns for the environment and obviously climate
32:10
Speaker 12: change leaking. So we'll see what he tries to maneuver
32:16
Speaker 12: during the last two years of his presidency.
32:21
Speaker 1: That was Ms. Charlotte Dennett, daughter of America's first master
32:25
Speaker 1: spy in the Middle East, who offers a fact-filled perspective
32:29
Speaker 1: based on decades of research into the role of big
32:32
Speaker 1: oil in fomenting the endless wars in the region. Her
32:36
Speaker 1: eye-opening book, Follow the Pipelines, Uncovering the Mystery of a
32:40
Speaker 1: Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game
32:43
Speaker 1: for Oil, which links big oil's covert and overt wars
32:48
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33:23
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33:29
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33:34
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Speaker 17: 20,000 people are expected in Dallas today and tomorrow for
33:44
Speaker 17: a first-of-its-kind Republican midterm convention. Both President Donald Trump and
33:50
Speaker 17: Vice President J.D. Vance are expected to attend the two-day event.
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Speaker 17: University of Houston political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus says Texas
34:00
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34:03
Speaker 17: He sees the convention as a gift to Attorney General
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Speaker 17: Ken Paxton in his Senate race against James Tallarico.
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Speaker 18: The Paxton campaign has been lackluster when it's come to
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Speaker 18: public-facing elements. They've struggled in fundraising. This convention is a
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Speaker 18: shot in the arm for them. The Senate race in
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Speaker 18: Texas has become one of the most visible in America.
34:24
Speaker 17: The GOP is spending $ 10 million on television and digital
34:28
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34:32
Speaker 17: the convention is an opportunity to highlight accomplishments made by
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Speaker 17: the party since Trump returned to office. Politico reports that
34:41
Speaker 17: about 45 GOP lawmakers won't be in attendance for a
34:45
Speaker 17: variety of reasons. Rottinghouse believes the gathering will mobilize both
34:50
Speaker 17: Republican and Democratic voters in November.
34:54
Speaker 18: Republicans would prefer to run within the boundaries of the
34:56
Speaker 18: state's conservative identity. Instead, this Trumpapalooza makes Donald Trump himself
35:02
Speaker 18: the dominant political brand. That's useful for mobilizing the base,
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Speaker 18: but potentially problematic with independents and suburban voters.
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Speaker 17: He adds the party has lost the support of many
35:12
Speaker 17: of the groups that voted to put the president back
35:15
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Speaker 18: There's real breaks in their coalition with respect to things
35:19
Speaker 18: like data centers, flock cameras, how tariffs are landing in
35:23
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35:26
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Speaker 17: Dallas last hosted a Republican National Convention in 1984. when
35:36
Speaker 17: Ronald Reagan accepted the party's presidential nomination. I'm Freda Ross,
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35:49
Speaker 1: It's been decades since the passing of the Americans with
35:52
Speaker 1: Disabilities Act, and still, there's so much off-limits to people
35:56
Speaker 1: with disabilities. One was the simple fun of the game
36:00
Speaker 1: of pinball, but a Houston inventor has changed that. And
36:04
Speaker 1: if you can hear this newscast, you can go play
36:07
Speaker 1: pinball right now. John Moeller, in his triumphant return to
36:11
Speaker 1: the people's news, will tell you how.
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Speaker 15: Man, it's hot out here. And a good time to
36:17
Speaker 15: hang out in an air-conditioned arcade. Who doesn't like playing
36:21
Speaker 15: some old-school pinball? The only trouble is pinball is not
36:25
Speaker 15: accessible to everyone. But at the Game Preserve in South Houston,
36:30
Speaker 15: near NASA, and up in the woodlands, All their pinball machines,
36:35
Speaker 15: about 100 in all, are playable in the standard way
36:39
Speaker 15: or with a handheld adapter called the Advanced Flipper Control.
36:44
Speaker 15: If you're a wheelchair user, one-handed, have trouble standing, you
36:49
Speaker 15: can play pinball along with everyone else. The Advanced Flipper
36:53
Speaker 15: Control is about the size of a deck of cards,
36:56
Speaker 15: and it has two buttons. It plugs into the pinball
37:00
Speaker 15: machine and can be held in your hand or interlap,
37:05
Speaker 15: or you can still use the machine's paddle buttons. The
37:09
Speaker 15: irony is the inventor doesn't even consider himself a pinball player.
37:14
Speaker 15: James Austin is a technician who maintains the machines at
37:18
Speaker 15: the Game Preserve arcades. They say necessity is the mother
37:22
Speaker 15: of invention, and the advanced flipper control was born out
37:27
Speaker 15: of his necessity.
37:28
Speaker 16: I have a stroke, so I'm hemophilic. So I lost
37:33
Speaker 16: my right side. And I'm actually a repair person. I
37:39
Speaker 16: repair pinballs and video games. And so I could repair them, but.
37:43
Speaker 1: I needed some way to test them.
37:46
Speaker 16: So I was sitting around my shop one day and
37:48
Speaker 16: I was thinking, how could I make it where you
37:51
Speaker 16: could play pinball one-handed?
37:54
Speaker 15: And that's what I came up with.
37:55
Speaker 16: So that's the genesis.
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Speaker 1: Of the device.
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Speaker 16: If I hadn't had a stroke, I probably would have
38:03
Speaker 16: never thought about it, you know, to tell you the truth.
38:06
Speaker 19: Yeah.
38:07
Speaker 16: But, you know, I guess, I always say, well, I
38:10
Speaker 16: guess God gave me a stroke for a reason.
38:12
Speaker 15: You know? Yeah, yeah. I understand. Well, you're doing something
38:18
Speaker 15: with it, you know, so.
38:19
Speaker 13: Well, you know, that's.
38:20
Speaker 15: What I like to do.
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Speaker 16: So, and I didn't want to make it expensive, so
38:25
Speaker 16: I wanted anybody to be able to afford it. And
38:28
Speaker 16: I didn't make it complicated to install, so I A
38:32
Speaker 16: 10-year-old could install it.
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Speaker 13: That's how simple it is.
38:35
Speaker 12: To put in.
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Speaker 15: The advanced flipper control is also accessible in terms of price.
38:41
Speaker 15: The kit is $ 15 for an adapter and $ 20 for
38:45
Speaker 15: the flipper control. That's several times cheaper than many other
38:49
Speaker 15: accessible controllers on the market. The best part is that
38:53
Speaker 15: once the machines are fitted with adapters, then the same
38:57
Speaker 15: $ 20 controller can be used on all of them. Austin
39:00
Speaker 15: says you can adapt dozens of machines for a few
39:03
Speaker 15: hundred dollars. Maybe because of all the adaptations he's been
39:07
Speaker 15: making in his own life, Austin prides himself on the
39:10
Speaker 15: design flexibility of his flipper control. He's willing to adapt
39:15
Speaker 15: it to whatever are the user's needs, for use by
39:18
Speaker 15: the customer's mouth or his feet, or expanding it into
39:23
Speaker 15: a laptop box with oversized buttons to push on with
39:26
Speaker 15: the knuckles or the fists. Austin says he can 3D
39:30
Speaker 15: print customized controllers, like he did for a man in
39:33
Speaker 15: Wisconsin whose brain surgery paralyzed half his body, yet he
39:37
Speaker 15: was able to adapt his pinball machines with Austin's help.
39:42
Speaker 15: Austin even made a controller with a joystick, like in
39:44
Speaker 15: an aircraft. To him, it's all part of the fun.
39:48
Speaker 16: We were at a show in Chicago, kind of showing
39:52
Speaker 16: them off when we first built them. And kids come
39:55
Speaker 16: up and they pick it up. The controller is plugged
39:59
Speaker 16: into the jack.
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Speaker 1: In the machine.
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Speaker 16: They pick it up off the plunger. And they play
40:05
Speaker 16: with it like a game controller.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, right.
40:08
Speaker 4: And they use each button with a phone.
40:11
Speaker 9: With a phone, right.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, so I had a.
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Speaker 15: Little nine-year-old came up.
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Speaker 16: He picked it up and... I think it was Ghostbusters,
40:18
Speaker 16: and he fired it up, and he played it like
40:21
Speaker 16: a video game, and he scored like 9 million, 9
40:23
Speaker 16: billion points with it.
40:25
Speaker 9: Oh, great.
40:26
Speaker 20: So, I mean, and he said, I said, well, how
40:29
Speaker 20: do you like that? And he says, oh, I like
40:31
Speaker 20: this a lot better. It's more like a video game.
40:36
Speaker 20: makes it kind of like a hybrid.
40:37
Speaker 15: For them yeah right it's like new school and for normal.
40:40
Speaker 16: People another benefit if you're a beer drinker you can
40:44
Speaker 16: actually play pinball and drink a beer that's great you
40:49
Speaker 16: know people are using them lots of different ways but
40:52
Speaker 16: i primarily made it for my idea was a one-headed
40:56
Speaker 16: player but obviously it has a lot of other uses
41:00
Speaker 16: to it we had a guy that came in one
41:03
Speaker 16: night he uh I think when he was a kid,
41:06
Speaker 16: he lost his lower left arm in a lawnmower accident.
41:13
Speaker 16: And so he came in and he had his nine-year-old
41:16
Speaker 16: son with him. And so they got to play pinball together.
41:20
Speaker 15: He's been selling units to individuals and businesses in Texas, Chicago, Wisconsin, Florida,
41:27
Speaker 15: and other places on the East Coast. Austin brought its
41:31
Speaker 15: controller to the big National Pinball Expo in Chicago and
41:35
Speaker 15: had a good reception.
41:36
Speaker 16: I would like to see it become more ubiquitous around
41:42
Speaker 16: the United States and the world. I spent 12 and
41:50
Speaker 16: a half years in the Air Force, and I've been
41:55
Speaker 16: trying to figure out how to get it to the
41:59
Speaker 16: VA where they had pinballs in the VA hospitals. They
42:05
Speaker 16: could put it in there and the GIs that maybe
42:10
Speaker 16: have a problem could play.
42:13
Speaker 15: James Austin will be at the other big national show,
42:16
Speaker 15: the Houston Arcade Expo from November 13th through 15th. He'll
42:21
Speaker 15: be at the Game Preserve booth. Tell him your ideas.
42:24
Speaker 15: It'll be all ears. For the People's News, This is
42:28
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42:30
Speaker 1: With the addled 80-year-old in the White House, U.S. trade
42:35
Speaker 1: policy has now become just vanity, vengeance, and distraction from
42:41
Speaker 1: the Trump-Epstein files and from the disastrous war with Iran.
42:48
Speaker 1: There were trade talks between Canada and the United States,
42:51
Speaker 1: which broke down on August 21st because of last-minute changes
42:55
Speaker 1: on the American side. Steel, aluminum, lumber, and automobiles are
43:00
Speaker 1: the main targets of the U.S. 50% tariff. Canadians are
43:04
Speaker 1: hitting back with their own tariffs targeting states like Ohio
43:07
Speaker 1: and Texas. The pettiness continues to trickle down from the
43:11
Speaker 1: top as the convicted felon and his staff have been
43:15
Speaker 1: attacking Canadians in speeches and memes. The last one, in particular,
43:19
Speaker 1: was attacking their military. We talked to former police chief
43:23
Speaker 1: of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Evan Bray. He is also known
43:27
Speaker 1: as the voice of Saskatchewan.
43:30
Speaker 19: Sure, yeah, I mean, I think it's safe to say
43:32
Speaker 19: Canadians absolutely want to get this trade deal done with
43:35
Speaker 19: the United States. The United States are, without a question,
43:39
Speaker 19: the most single trading partner that we have, the largest
43:45
Speaker 19: trading partner. Most of our trade from all over Canada
43:48
Speaker 19: is done with the United States, has historically been done
43:51
Speaker 19: with the United States, and And we have, for all
43:54
Speaker 19: intents and purposes, always enjoyed a very good back and
43:57
Speaker 19: forth trade agreement. I think what has happened is President
44:02
Speaker 19: Trump has some concerns with some of the trade policies
44:07
Speaker 19: that are in place or some of the agreements. Keep
44:09
Speaker 19: in mind that the closest or most recent signed USMCA
44:15
Speaker 19: agreement was signed by President Trump back in his first term.
44:19
Speaker 19: but has some concerns with that, has some concerns with
44:22
Speaker 19: a couple of other things with regard to the security
44:25
Speaker 19: of the Canadian border, as he did with the Mexican border,
44:28
Speaker 19: and as a result, announced some tariffs. This was right
44:31
Speaker 19: at the start of his term. And since then, we've
44:34
Speaker 19: kind of been on this bit of a tumultuous ride
44:37
Speaker 19: that I would suggest most Canadians are not enjoying. It
44:41
Speaker 19: feels more like a political battle than anything, but it
44:44
Speaker 19: doesn't feel like it's doing anything good for Canadians or
44:48
Speaker 19: Americans through all of this. And so I think it's
44:51
Speaker 19: safe to say, generally speaking, most Canadians are hoping that
44:55
Speaker 19: we can finally get a deal inked at the table
44:57
Speaker 19: sooner rather than later because the costs are impacting citizens
45:02
Speaker 19: in both countries.
45:04
Speaker 6: One thing that the Americans, it seemed like the Americans
45:08
Speaker 6: were not in good faith because they seemed like they
45:11
Speaker 6: came up with, they tried to change the plan at
45:14
Speaker 6: the last minute, which it was not going to happen,
45:19
Speaker 6: you know, because it seemed like they were using politics
45:22
Speaker 6: as far as the trade agreement.
45:25
Speaker 4: Instead of trying to actually come up with a deal.
45:28
Speaker 19: Yeah, you know, I think it's safe to say both
45:30
Speaker 19: sides are probably playing politics, and I think that's part
45:33
Speaker 19: of the problem that we have is, you know, we
45:36
Speaker 19: don't know, no one has shown Canadians what the deal was, right?
45:41
Speaker 19: Here's the deal, here's why it broke down. There's lots
45:44
Speaker 19: of finger pointing going on, but there's nothing definitive that
45:47
Speaker 19: shows everyday Canadians what the problem is. And this is where,
45:51
Speaker 19: you know, a problem sparks on our radio station. We
45:55
Speaker 19: often will, we're a call-in talk radio station, so people
45:58
Speaker 19: will call in. And there's a lot of Canadians that
46:00
Speaker 19: are frustrated with our government, also a lot of Canadians
46:04
Speaker 19: frustrated with the American government. But what is constant is
46:07
Speaker 19: the appreciation and relationships that I feel most of us
46:11
Speaker 19: have on both sides of the border. There is a
46:14
Speaker 19: strong appreciation for the American people, for the country of America.
46:19
Speaker 19: And we're all kind of sitting here watching the politics
46:23
Speaker 19: play out. And while that's happening, cost of living is
46:26
Speaker 19: going up. We're seeing more tariffs being imposed that are
46:29
Speaker 19: hurting Canadians and Americans both. And so, you know, my
46:33
Speaker 19: hope is that we see the politics start to drift
46:36
Speaker 19: away and dissipate. And we can actually get to a
46:38
Speaker 19: point where we're back to being good friends with Good neighbors,
46:42
Speaker 19: good trading partners.
46:43
Speaker 6: And one thing also, I don't think Americans understand the Quebec, the.
46:48
Speaker 4: Bactrian, and French language.
46:51
Speaker 6: And that was part of copywriting and the importance of culture.
46:55
Speaker 6: And that was a sticking point also that came into play.
47:01
Speaker 19: Yeah, and again, we don't know the details of that,
47:03
Speaker 19: but I mean, Canada has two official languages. Now, you're
47:07
Speaker 19: getting me in Western Canada, and I would say the
47:10
Speaker 19: majority of Western Canada. tends to be mostly English speaking.
47:15
Speaker 19: And so even within our country, as I would say
47:19
Speaker 19: most countries, there's politics and Western Canada and Eastern Canada
47:24
Speaker 19: don't always have the best relationship. So there are some
47:28
Speaker 19: people out West where I live that are a bit
47:31
Speaker 19: cranky with Eastern Canada on some of the things that
47:34
Speaker 19: they're pushing and prioritizing in this trade deal that we
47:37
Speaker 19: think is counterproductive to getting it over the finish line. So,
47:41
Speaker 19: you know, you know, I think it's safe to say
47:43
Speaker 19: that none of us want to see an attack on
47:46
Speaker 19: Canada's sovereignty, but at the same time, I think there
47:49
Speaker 19: needs to be some willingness to, to sit down and
47:52
Speaker 19: discuss and understand like a good interest-based negotiation, understand what
47:57
Speaker 19: both sides are looking for, and then find a way
48:00
Speaker 19: to help each other meet their objectives.
48:02
Speaker 6: I thought, I thought I saw one, one thing that I, I, I,
48:06
Speaker 6: kind of understand with is giving up sovereignty, because in
48:10
Speaker 6: the agreement that I've heard, the United States was asking
48:13
Speaker 6: that they dominate any type of trade negotiation with other countries.
48:21
Speaker 19: Yeah, and I think that was one of the things,
48:23
Speaker 19: at least the messaging that we've heard through our federal
48:26
Speaker 19: government was, you know, Canada still wanted the ability to
48:29
Speaker 19: trade with other countries without having to check in, if
48:32
Speaker 19: you will, with the United States first. And there was
48:35
Speaker 19: some language proposed in the agreement that would reduce that
48:39
Speaker 19: free opportunity. You know, you're, we're going to come to
48:42
Speaker 19: terms on how we trade with each other, but Canada
48:46
Speaker 19: may want to trade with England. The United States may
48:48
Speaker 19: want to trade with India and, and both countries should
48:52
Speaker 19: be free to do other trade deals without having to
48:55
Speaker 19: check in with the other one. But it sounds to
48:57
Speaker 19: me like there was some prohibitive language in there that,
49:00
Speaker 19: that was part of the sticking point.
49:02
Speaker 6: I know you, I know you're in, you're in the
49:04
Speaker 6: province of Alberta and, in, you know, mostly farm country.
49:07
Speaker 4: And how is that going over? Because, you know, a lot.
49:12
Speaker 6: Of the farming there, a lot of farmers here, they're
49:15
Speaker 6: dependent on farming from Canada.
49:18
Speaker 19: Yeah, in fact, I had.
49:22
Speaker 19: Had a farmer on my show from Kansas, actually, this week,
49:26
Speaker 19: because we're keenly interested in that. We are very heavily agriculture-based.
49:30
Speaker 19: Oil is a big thing here. We also mine potash,
49:33
Speaker 19: which is used in fertilizers.
49:35
Speaker 5: Right.
49:36
Speaker 19: Our economy is heavily revolving around agriculture, as does parts
49:41
Speaker 19: of the United States. And so there are some real,
49:44
Speaker 19: I think, worries there about, again, we have other trading partners.
49:49
Speaker 19: We ship our grains to other parts of the world,
49:51
Speaker 19: our cattle and our livestock to other parts of the world.
49:54
Speaker 19: But no other partner is bigger than the United States. So,
49:59
Speaker 19: you know, there's no way we can say, well, then
50:01
Speaker 19: forget it. We're not going to work with the United States.
50:03
Speaker 19: We'll go somewhere else. You are too big of a
50:05
Speaker 19: partner for us and too important. I mean, the United
50:08
Speaker 19: States has historically for decades been our most important partner.
50:12
Speaker 19: So the goal is for farmers, for mining, for every sector,
50:18
Speaker 19: automotive sector, steel and aluminum, you name it. The goal
50:21
Speaker 19: is let's get to the table. Let's get a deal
50:23
Speaker 19: so both countries can benefit.
50:26
Speaker 6: What about the whole aspect of, you know, we talk
50:30
Speaker 6: about trade. But they also brought up the Keystone Pipeline
50:35
Speaker 6: coming back.
50:36
Speaker 1: Right.
50:37
Speaker 4: I thought it was dead in the water for a
50:40
Speaker 4: long time.
50:41
Speaker 19: I think a lot of us thought it was dead
50:42
Speaker 19: in the water. I can tell you our province would
50:45
Speaker 19: welcome that because we are an oil-producing province. And so
50:48
Speaker 19: the more infrastructure we can build that helps us provide
50:53
Speaker 19: our oil to other countries that need it in terms
50:57
Speaker 19: of kind of a partnership, I think that's a good thing.
50:59
Speaker 19: So the news that we've heard lately that there's a
51:02
Speaker 19: renewed interest in getting Keystone back up has been met
51:05
Speaker 19: very favorably in our province.
51:07
Speaker 4: What about the Aboriginal community?
51:11
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think it depends, although I don't think in
51:14
Speaker 19: Canada there would be, judging on the route that they've
51:17
Speaker 19: got planned for it, there wouldn't be too many Indigenous
51:21
Speaker 19: communities that would be impacted. I think it was actually
51:23
Speaker 19: a bigger issue south of the border. So in the
51:26
Speaker 19: United States, it sounded to me like there were some
51:29
Speaker 19: more problems with that. We've got a couple of other
51:31
Speaker 19: potential pipelines being built. Both of them are meeting with
51:34
Speaker 19: some challenges now. in terms of Indigenous communities not happy
51:39
Speaker 19: with some of the decisions made. But Keystone itself, I
51:42
Speaker 19: don't think would be quite the same issue.
51:45
Speaker 4: Those pipes you're talking about are going west, am I correct?
51:50
Speaker 19: That's correct. Yeah, we're looking, they're looking at building one
51:55
Speaker 19: from a little bit of a northern point in Alberta
51:58
Speaker 19: where they do some of the mining of oil into
52:01
Speaker 19: the lower mainland of B.C.
52:05
Speaker 4: And fire, the fires might be a problem with that too,
52:08
Speaker 4: I would say.
52:09
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's true. The wildfires have been a big issue
52:12
Speaker 19: this year. So keeping in mind, once they get this
52:15
Speaker 19: project up and running, it'll probably be a year and
52:17
Speaker 19: a half until they can, you know, really kind of
52:19
Speaker 19: get things going. But so hopefully they've got the fire
52:22
Speaker 19: situation under control.
52:24
Speaker 4: Is Ontario a big sticking pot in all this also?
52:29
Speaker 4: I hear Doug Ford all the time.
52:32
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
52:34
Speaker 19: Doug Ford has been very, very vocal. I mean, part
52:36
Speaker 19: of the problem is many people in Canada feel that
52:40
Speaker 19: Premier Doug Ford, who's the Premier of Ontario, has been
52:42
Speaker 19: a bit of an antagonist in all of this because,
52:45
Speaker 19: you know, he's sticking up for his province, which, of course,
52:48
Speaker 19: has a huge auto sector. Automotives are a big part
52:52
Speaker 19: of industry there, as is steel and aluminum. And so
52:55
Speaker 19: as a result, he's been quite vocal representing his people.
52:58
Speaker 19: But other provinces that are pushing for Canada to, you know,
53:02
Speaker 19: not act out of emotion, but act out of, you know,
53:05
Speaker 19: let's be strategic. Let's sit down and find a way
53:09
Speaker 19: to work out a deal with our good partner who
53:11
Speaker 19: we've worked with for not decades, but centuries. I think
53:15
Speaker 19: there's been sometimes frustration that Doug Ford has fueled the
53:19
Speaker 19: fire more than he has quelled the flames.
53:22
Speaker 1: That was Evan Bray. He is heard on 980 CMJE
53:27
Speaker 1: in Regina. You can tune into his show or find
53:30
Speaker 1: out more by going to the station's website, www.cjme.com. In
53:38
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer news, the Houston Dynamo hit a snag
53:42
Speaker 1: Saturday night with a 1-0 loss to the San Jose Earthquakes.
53:46
Speaker 1: Despite the loss, they remain in second place in the
53:49
Speaker 1: Western Conference. San Jose took the lead in the 38th
53:52
Speaker 1: minute when Bo Leroux found Daniel Mooney injured. in the
53:56
Speaker 1: crowded box for the finish. In the National Women's Soccer League,
54:00
Speaker 1: the Houston Dash played Saturday night here in Houston at
54:03
Speaker 1: Shell Energy Stadium, where they lost 1-0 to the Utah Royals.
54:09
Speaker 1: Dash head coach Fabrice Gertrude had this to say about
54:13
Speaker 1: the loss. Yeah, played against a.
54:15
Speaker 21: Very good team, and we definitely just fell short. I
54:20
Speaker 21: think they definitely deserved the win. I think it was tough.
54:23
Speaker 21: I thought we played them Played them tight. I mean, look,
54:26
Speaker 21: we always got to regroup, see what we need to do. Obviously,
54:28
Speaker 21: some of it will be dependent on who we play
54:30
Speaker 21: and what we need to do. But yeah, I think
54:33
Speaker 21: the biggest thing is in order to score goals, you
54:35
Speaker 21: need to get in the box. I thought we got
54:36
Speaker 21: into the final third.
54:38
Speaker 1: Let's see here.
54:39
Speaker 21: Yeah, 40 times, but only 11 touches in the box.
54:42
Speaker 21: If you look at the last game, we got into
54:43
Speaker 21: the final third 75 times and we only got 16
54:47
Speaker 21: touches in the box. So we need to keep finding
54:49
Speaker 21: ways on how do we get from final third to
54:52
Speaker 21: into the box.
54:54
Speaker 1: Defender Avery Patterson added that the morale of the team
54:57
Speaker 1: is still high.
54:59
Speaker 22: I think first half was tough. We defended, I think,
55:06
Speaker 22: for the majority of it. Couldn't really get much possession
55:10
Speaker 22: under our belts. But I think that changed and our
55:13
Speaker 22: mentality changed in the second half. So I'm proud of
55:16
Speaker 22: us for adjusting to what they gave us. And we
55:21
Speaker 22: were higher up on the field. We were winning the
55:22
Speaker 22: ball in better spaces. getting better chances in the final third. And,
55:28
Speaker 22: you know, we prevented a really, really good Utah team
55:32
Speaker 22: for 89 minutes of a 90 minute game. So, I mean, yeah,
55:37
Speaker 22: I guess big or games come down to big moments and,
55:42
Speaker 22: and they, they took their opportunity. When are we going
55:45
Speaker 22: to score? Cause I think that's been the theme for
55:48
Speaker 22: us all season is you know, not underdogs, but comeback
55:54
Speaker 22: kids almost, because we've gone down like that a couple
55:58
Speaker 22: of times. And especially in the second half of the season.
56:02
Speaker 22: So it wasn't like a deflating huddle. It was more
56:08
Speaker 22: of like a, when we're going to get, when are
56:09
Speaker 22: we going to get a next goal? So that's probably
56:13
Speaker 22: what popped into my mind first. And I think that's
56:16
Speaker 22: probably what popped into everyone's mind. So again, I'm proud
56:19
Speaker 22: of of that mentality from everyone. Every game is going
56:23
Speaker 22: to be treated like a championship game. Um, yeah, it's
56:27
Speaker 22: win or die at this point. So, um, we don't
56:30
Speaker 22: have anything to lose. So, um, when a team has
56:33
Speaker 22: that mentality, I think they're super dangerous. So, um, yeah,
56:36
Speaker 22: we're going on the road, I think to Boston next. So, um,
56:40
Speaker 22: hopefully we'll, we'll be able to come out with three
56:42
Speaker 22: points there.
56:43
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56:47
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56:51
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56:55
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