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WaPo: “We can’t be everything to everyone” (Thursday, February 5, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 5: Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning, as we take our four hour misadventure into
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  Speaker 1: the trials and tribulations of the world around you so
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  Speaker 1: into all of that this morning while you are looking
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  Speaker 1: the other direction, while you were going through pages of
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  Speaker 1: redacted documents, the President of the United States and the
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  Speaker 1: Chairman of the People's Republic of China had a long
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  Speaker 1: phone conversation, what we didn't get an announcement? Why why
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  Speaker 1: weren't we informed President Trump? You know, And there is
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  Speaker 1: a certain style to the way the president announces this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and Caroline Levitt much credit to this
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  Speaker 1: Susie Wiles as chief of staff, because the president is,
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  Speaker 1: if anything, as a style point, everything all the time,
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  Speaker 1: all at once, like that sci fi comedy movie. Everything
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  Speaker 1: all the time, all at once. This is what he
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  Speaker 1: should have done in the first administration. But he would
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  Speaker 1: stop every time the press would mischaracterize something he did,
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  Speaker 1: and he would turn around about face and do you know,
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  Speaker 1: five six days in the Rose Garden trying to explainify himself.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know who it is. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller or Susie Wiles. I from what I'm told,
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  Speaker 1: Wiles is the one that keeps him on point. And
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  Speaker 1: she's got the list and she's like, here are the
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  Speaker 1: eighteen things we're going to do today, mister President. We've
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  Speaker 1: got twenty four hours. I think we can squeeze sixteen
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  Speaker 1: events in here. And the press is wearing down. It's
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  Speaker 1: only been a year and the press is wearing down.
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  Speaker 1: I can only imagine what it's going to be like
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth year, Caitlin Colin will be doing documentaries
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  Speaker 1: about the great Trump presidency. All right, maybe that might
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  Speaker 1: be a bridge too far, but you get my point. So,
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  Speaker 1: while everyone's talking Epstein documents and the artist formerly known
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  Speaker 1: as Prince of York, the President's on the phone with
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  Speaker 1: Chairman she the vice presidents talking rare earth minerals and
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  Speaker 1: substantive things, things that will make it better for American workers. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: less aid needed for the unemployed of America because we
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  Speaker 1: will have fewer of them, more competition, lowering prices. These
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  Speaker 1: are the things that go on. And meanwhile the esoterica,
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  Speaker 1: Oh hold it, We've got an interview with Bill Gates.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Gates says, is a so unredacted version of First
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  Speaker 1: Thing Today by Joe Thomas. Here are some of the
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  Speaker 1: stories we are following, so you know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have thrown down the gauntlet regarding the funding of
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  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and
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  Speaker 1: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats want mandatory body cameras,
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  Speaker 1: tighter warrant requirements, and limits on how agents can use
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  Speaker 1: masks to cover their identities before they will even discuss
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  Speaker 1: a full year of DHS budget funding. President Trump and
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  Speaker 1: the aforementioned conversation with Chinese Chairman Shieshin Ping discussed the
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  Speaker 1: situation in Iran, where Steve Witkoff is on his way
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  Speaker 1: to have a conversation, and the US administration working the
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  Speaker 1: Beijing regime to isolate Tehran. They also discussed trade and
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  Speaker 1: Taiwan and President Trump's upcoming visit to Beijing in April.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a moment to say, wait, what now,
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  Speaker 1: he did post to truth Social after the call. The
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  Speaker 1: relationship with China and my personal relationship with President she
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  Speaker 1: is extremely good and we both realize how important it
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  Speaker 1: is to keep it that way. Meanwhile, the nuclear talks
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  Speaker 1: between Iran and the United States will move to Oman,
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian foreign minister announced yesterday tensions between the country
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  Speaker 1: remain high. US President Trump meanwhile send a blunt warning
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  Speaker 1: to Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatola Ali Jameni ahead of the talks.
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  Speaker 1: I would be very worried. Vice President Vance advocating a
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  Speaker 1: trade system involving price floors for critical rare earth minerals
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  Speaker 1: at a state department of function. He was keynote speaker
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  Speaker 1: of the Trump administration is proposing a concrete mechanism to
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  Speaker 1: return the global critical minerals market to a healthier, more
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  Speaker 1: denying any wrongdoing after one of its recruits was arrested
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  Speaker 1: forty six year old Camerou national, apparently had passed the scrutiny.
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  Speaker 1: The New Orleans Police Department offers and The Washington Post
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  Speaker 1: has laid off one third of its staff yesterday, including
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  Speaker 15: Hey hey, hey, easy there, Spanky.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them redapted. Thank you for letting us be
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  Speaker 1: of service to you, as we say, and that's not
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  Speaker 1: anway line. That's really our business model. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to pick up certainly in a world where the President's
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  Speaker 1: on the phone with Chairman She for hours and we're
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  Speaker 1: sitting down with Iran about nukes, but I'm sure the
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  Speaker 1: issue of their collapsing economy will be part of it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: all of this is going on, I want to pick
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  Speaker 1: up on a story that's not on its face sounding
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  Speaker 1: like it's a big deal, but it speaks volumes to
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of different stories that we delve into each
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  Speaker 1: morning for you so that you know what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And that is the layoffs at the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Post. Now the Washington Post and the New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: along with in some cases the La Times, have been
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  Speaker 1: considered the paper of record for many many the old
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  Speaker 1: Gray Lady paper of record. These were the places. If
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  Speaker 1: it happened, you read about it in these newspapers and
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  Speaker 1: that was okay. And the fall of it. And I
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  Speaker 1: think some of the statements made in the announcement that
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  Speaker 1: a third of its staff was just laid off yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: including its entire sports department in a city that has
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  Speaker 1: all the major league teams in it, including Major League Soccer,
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  Speaker 1: which is challenging a couple of the winter sports for predominance.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Murray, the executive director, said, and I quote, we
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  Speaker 1: can't be everything to everyone in the note that he
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  Speaker 1: sent to staffers there. And I thought that stood out
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  Speaker 1: to me because the gray hair and the go tee
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  Speaker 1: might be a dead giveaway. I'm not twenty years old
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  Speaker 1: I've been around a world where the newspapers were exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: The newspapers were everything to everyone. If you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: find out what new books were coming out, what movies
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  Speaker 1: were coming out, what happened on the field of play
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  Speaker 1: the night before. You could even in some cases read
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  Speaker 1: about your favorite radio hosts, TV hosts, and TV shows,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd get reviews of the weekly TV viewing, and
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  Speaker 1: you'd get all sorts of stories, never minding what happened
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  Speaker 1: in city council and the governor's office and that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. And yes, you would get investigative reports that
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  Speaker 1: would look into what was going on behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: that they didn't want you to see. And why does
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  Speaker 1: this not work anymore? That would be the question you
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  Speaker 1: should be asking. I think is the well, why doesn't
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  Speaker 1: that work anymore? I see the web search numbers. We
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  Speaker 1: don't only search for one thing when you and don't
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  Speaker 1: say this, because I'm not speaking about your specific search metrics,
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  Speaker 1: although if you want to give me a call, as
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  Speaker 1: an abstract, our search questions run the gamut, especially now
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  Speaker 1: that AI is involved and we're all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: We want to know, you know, did our favorite team
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  Speaker 1: win last night? Did we trade for some guy who
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even a great All Star when he first came
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  Speaker 1: into the league, and now he's got to be pushing forty.
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  Speaker 1: It's for the Wizards. Fans of that don't have a
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  Speaker 1: sports section anymore. So if we're the consumer of news
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  Speaker 1: and we are looking for things of variety, you know,
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  Speaker 1: varietal nature, we want to see what happened at the Grammys.
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  Speaker 1: We don't necessarily need somebody to tell us what to
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  Speaker 1: think about it. The newspaper was everything to everyone, and
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  Speaker 1: so how does this fall from grace happen? It begins
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  Speaker 1: financially because of hubris. I think the publisher of the newspaper, Odysseus,
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  Speaker 1: was the one that made the determination that when Craigslist
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  Speaker 1: first started up, they wouldn't pay it any never mind
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  Speaker 1: where the newspaper. We don't online and classified, but we
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  Speaker 1: are jurjournalists. And what they missed, and maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: because they had too many newspeople running it, not business
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  Speaker 1: people running the newspapers, was that those newspeople, those investigative reporters,
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  Speaker 1: the folks who covered city hall, and all of those
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  Speaker 1: folks even the folks who wrote about TV and radio
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  Speaker 1: shows had to be paid by someone. The newspaper's failure
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  Speaker 1: to recognize their changing economics almost makes you feel like
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  Speaker 1: they were being rudnen by a government bureaucracy, completely blindsided
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  Speaker 1: by the fact that they're and incapable of admitting that
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  Speaker 1: the newspaper business was driven by classified You want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about being all things to what did Matt Murray say?
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  Speaker 1: Being every thing to everyone? And realizing when my father
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  Speaker 1: passed away, what the New York Times would charge for
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  Speaker 1: just an obituary. Holy cow, if that's what you're getting
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  Speaker 1: for an obituary. And I'm not even trying to sell anything.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to say, some dude is gone. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And he had it in his will that his obituary
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  Speaker 1: would be carried in New York Times. And my mother
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  Speaker 1: looked at the attorney and said.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, no, we are not, because I mean it was
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  Speaker 16: like a thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: For just a simple blurb, not with a picture or
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  Speaker 1: anything else. And keeping in mind that these classifieds were
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  Speaker 1: being filled by minimum wage entry level jobs. People at
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  Speaker 1: a typewriter just hammering away and the computer terminal just
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  Speaker 1: hammering away, hoping to move up into the editorial department,
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  Speaker 1: hoping to write nice prose about somebody. What's the movie
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  Speaker 1: O A Serendipity where Jeremy Piven plays an aspiring writer
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  Speaker 1: and journalist, but he's working writing obituaries for I think
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  Speaker 1: it was The New York Times at the time. But
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  Speaker 1: they missed the economics, the realities. They couldn't admit it.
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  Speaker 1: The arrogance of the journalists said, oh no, we don't
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  Speaker 1: need to worry about Craigslist, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: their classified revenue dried up and they had no money left.
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  Speaker 1: I'm amazed they've held on this long before, giving up
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they used to be everything to everyone
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  Speaker 1: and maybe now they just maybe they just don't want
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  Speaker 1: Yes they will, Yes they will. President Trump on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with Chairman. She text message from Nancy, who listens
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  Speaker 1: to us in San Antonio. I appreciate you this great
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  Speaker 1: station I found, Nancy apropol nothing. I found some old
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  Speaker 1: papers from when I first got into radio, and the
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  Speaker 1: FM sister station of the station where in San Antonio
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: was one of those target stations I wanted to work at.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Never got there, but it's nice to be in the
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  Speaker 1: riverfront city. So she asks why I keep referring to
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  Speaker 1: President she as chairman. She well, he takes that title,
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  Speaker 1: and is it intentional to make it sound like he's
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  Speaker 1: chairman Mao. He's the one who wrote his own little
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: reversion of the Red Book. So I'm just going along
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: with what he seems to want regarding his role in
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the Chinese expansion and the one hundred year march through
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: the institutions. Nan, I'm just I'm just a humble reporter here.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: This one takes message from Kareem who takes some screenshots
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: of our page, which is Joe Thomas in America, where
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: like I said, we've got some videos up there, and
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: he wants to know why we live stream through the
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: YouTube channel and allow for the what you the Twitter
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: feed and all of that to handle because you can
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: do text message feeds. And I see these shows like this,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: A friend of mine, Jerry Miller, does one out of Charlottesville,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: and it's very hard. You need to pay somebody to
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: moderate it. And I don't like moderators on a debate.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: And these streaming, unmoderated streaming things inevitably, within like five
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: minutes become like a Reddit post it board and somebody's
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: calling someone else a Nazi, and it just it doesn't
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: get anywhere. I just don't believe in what would the
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: right analogy be for what happens with a lot of
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: these streams. And I'm not saying you Kareem would do this,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: but inevitably people get on here to troll. So if
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas in the Morning is doing a live stream
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: on YouTube and it's got a scroll of messages, inevitably,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: you know the haters will just take over the board
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: and just ruin it for everyone else. So I'd rather
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: have somebody If you hate the program or hate me
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: politically or intellectually, or whatever it is you hate, it's
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: just call this call four three four eight eight two
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  Speaker 1: four two one seven, and I don't moderate it. You've
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: heard me answer the phone live on the air. I
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: don't know who it is, and I don't want to
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: know who it is because I want my reaction to
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: what you say to be important. So there are people
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: who are upset with the president because he had this
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: long phone call with Chairman She yesterday. And there's a
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: couple of reasons you would do it. Number one, I
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: don't think Chairman She is in the Epstein lists, although
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: there are heavily redacted parts, so I could be wrong.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: But more importantly, these two countries are the two superpowers
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: of the world. For all of the posturing in Moscow,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: they are not a superpower. They have a lot of oil.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: They are economically speaking, about as powerful as any Arab
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: country full of oil, like Saudi Arabia. So that being said,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: China for its ability to march millions of workers into
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: manufacturing facilities and pay them way less than most of
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the other industrialized nations pay them, give them this economic
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: power and their ability to claim what is it they
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: call themselves in the ecological world, Oh, a developing economy,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: A laughable and practically elected position that they hold in
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: the world. The world still views China as a developing economy,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure. I've been trying to trying for
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: a decade plus to pin down exactly what gives them
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that rating. Did Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger give them
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: that designation when Nixon went to China? What's the expression
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: only Nixon could go to China? I guess at that point,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: what was he gonna have to lose? But Trump's going
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: to China in April, and people are like, no, they're
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the enemy. They're the enemy. They're the enemy. They're gonna
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: they're building islands. They're building islands in the Pacific, and
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: they're gonna launch an air strike from these islands, and
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: they're gonna attack our allies, and and then and let's
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: never mind Taiwan. And but you have to be in
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: the room with these people, You actually have to be
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: in the room. And aalogously to our conversation about these
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: trolls that get on and try to just drop digital
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: andcendiary devices into people's web streams, I'd rather you call
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: me and have a discussion in the room with me,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: because I don't fear disagreement. And there are plenty of
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: people internationally who are flinching at the idea of Trump
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and She in a room together talking about trade deals
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: and this kind of stuff, because they realize the impact
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: that this has on all the other countries in the world,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: because at some point, much like the Washington Post, each
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: one of these countries, whether it be France or even Israel,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: is only a part of the pie, is only a
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: portion of it. And they've got their say, they've got
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: their things that they can do. Iran, for all their posturing,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: what is it. It's one point four million US dollars
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: for each one reale, which is why they're rioting in
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: the streets of Tehran. But you have to be in
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: the room and these two people talking to one another
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: in and amongst all the tariff talk and that kind
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: of thing, and the strategic reserves of rare earth minerals, which,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: by the way, as we head to news here, I
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: don't think the announcement of this strategic rare earth mineral reserve,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: plus our exploration of the rare earth minerals in Alaska
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and our deals for rare earth minerals in Africa, aren't
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: ninety percent of the reason that Chairman, she was on
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: the phone with President Trump yesterday. I'm sorry they told
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: me we ended too early there. That's bad on me.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I thought we had something to play in their sponsor
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: and thanking them for their support, but apologies for that
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: moment of silence. For you to consider your actions.
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