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"MEGA: Make Employment Great Agan" (FTTxJT Mon 090726 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works hard to steal me up.
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  Speaker 3: He's down here every day.
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  Speaker 1: Including holidays. He's for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 3: Drops a kid to school and all the world. Joe
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  Speaker 3: has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 5: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 6: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. As we celebrate Labor Day, you and me,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you don't have to go to work, but given
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  Speaker 1: that my job is what I was gifted to do
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  Speaker 1: on this earth, why wouldn't I do it on a
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  Speaker 1: day that the government tells me is a holiday?
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. I mean, there's plenty of people in the
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  Speaker 1: labor world that should be celebrated. My father-in-law being one
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  Speaker 1: of them. Not so much others. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: individuality we lost. Tina writes in listening to us on
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  Speaker 1: our flagship station in Western Albemarle at 101.1 FM. She says, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: just like the internet, whenever the media wants to stop
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  Speaker 1: talking about something, They drop the Nazi word in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, it's the four-letter word that ends
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  Speaker 1: all conversation, all coverage. We don't have to cover this
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  Speaker 1: movement in Germany because we've now compared them to Nazis.
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  Speaker 1: And the danger in this, Tina, is that the more
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  Speaker 1: we do this, the less we remember what the actual
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  Speaker 1: Nazis stood for, racial purity. Really only driven, and this
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  Speaker 1: is a little fun fact that you don't get out of, sure,
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  Speaker 1: they exterminated Jews by the baker's dozen over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. They were doing it because they needed
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  Speaker 1: a villain. And like Robespierre did in France and Lenin
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  Speaker 1: did in Moscow, you pick the middle class who in
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  Speaker 1: Germany in the 30s were mostly Jewish. And sadly, as
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish community was blamed for the Black Plague 500
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  Speaker 1: years earlier, And they had to flee most of Europe
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  Speaker 1: except the Polish Empire. The Polish Empire said, you guys
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  Speaker 1: aren't dying of the plague? Awesome. You guys come live here.
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  Speaker 1: And ironically, that's how the Jewish population became so large
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  Speaker 1: in what became Germany. But they were the middle class.
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  Speaker 1: They were the mom-and-pop shop owners. They were the people
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  Speaker 1: who had money and were able to do services for
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  Speaker 1: people like you and me on a Labor Day morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on the phone. We'll get to you in a moment,
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  Speaker 1: but we do need to traffic in some first things
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Of course, we're speaking about this because a
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  Speaker 1: far-right party, as depicted by the media, the Alternative für
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  Speaker 1: Deutschland party, has led to a majority or at least
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  Speaker 1: a political power block in one state in Germany, Saxony-Anhalt
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  Speaker 1: is the name of the state, and they will be
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  Speaker 1: able to dictate or at least they need to make
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  Speaker 1: agreements so that there is a governor in that region.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone is saying that they are far-right Nazis who
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  Speaker 1: want to get rid of all the non-Germans. in the community.
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  Speaker 1: Ulrich Seidman said, no, this is a rebuke of the
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  Speaker 1: government of Friedrich Merz, who he called their greatest campaigner.
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  Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the world, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said talks
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  Speaker 1: with U.S. envoys, Steve Witkoff et al., visiting Kiev, left
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  Speaker 1: him Positive in the idea that there might be an end,
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  Speaker 1: but not before the winter, he told the press. Frightening
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  Speaker 1: scene in Miami as an Amazon cargo plane crashed and
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  Speaker 1: caught fire after overrunning a runway Sunday afternoon. Five crew
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  Speaker 1: members were killed and they have not been identified as
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  Speaker 1: next of kin. It had flown in from San Juan,
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. Billions in Iranian dollars or rials were flowing.
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  Speaker 1: I guess billions was, what, a couple hundred thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 1: You have to really account for the currency exchange in
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  Speaker 1: this story. The Treasury Department identified $ 9 billion in potential
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  Speaker 1: Iranian shadow banking activity. Well, that's serious money. Then that's
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  Speaker 1: like gazillions of rial to equal $ 9 billion U.S. dollars.
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  Speaker 1: apparently went through the banks. Wall Street Journal is reporting
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  Speaker 1: it as an expose when it's actually just reporting on
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  Speaker 1: something the Treasury Department said, hey, we just found this.
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania this week for the 25th anniversary. Finally saw some
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  Speaker 1: attacks on the United States and a piece, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was on 60 Minutes, on what's going on in
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  Speaker 1: I'm a radio guy first, but we'll write up much
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 14: He says he's got a deadline.
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  Speaker 6: He says there's no overtime.
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  Speaker 18: He said there's something important that he needs right now
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  Speaker 18: that's unspecified.
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  Speaker 6: He says he knows a foot in a long week, but.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, there's a part of Labor Day I want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we make very clear. You know, we've talked
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  Speaker 1: in the past in the abstract that I want to
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  Speaker 1: make Americans great again, that America will become great when Americans,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I'm talking about the five or so
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  Speaker 1: percent that show up on television and create this narrative.
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  Speaker 1: You and me, you know, we're cool. because we get
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  Speaker 1: up and we respect and we go to work and
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  Speaker 1: we understand. But we also need to make sure that the,
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  Speaker 1: what's the right word, the employer class, the bosses, and
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  Speaker 1: this is unfortunately, I think, a fruit of centralization. The
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  Speaker 1: more you centralize an economy, the further removed from the
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  Speaker 1: inventor of the company, the maker of the things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: are the employees and those who are seeking to manage them.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a chain of radio stations or, you know,
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  Speaker 1: burger joints or whatever it is, if you started the
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  Speaker 1: company and you're sitting there in, let's say, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he passed, so maybe it's, you're sitting in
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio and you're the grandson of the founder of
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  Speaker 1: a company or the guy who took it over at
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  Speaker 1: least when the radio station owed you money, and now
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  Speaker 1: you've got this big chain of operations around the country,
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  Speaker 1: who's running them for you? And what is their buy-in?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's the ladder that leads to people not feeling
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  Speaker 1: like their employment is fulfilling, that they're living up to
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  Speaker 1: the gifts that God has given them. And it's a
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  Speaker 1: failure of leadership. And I know it's an easy pinata
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  Speaker 1: to hit, but bosses have a job too. A boss,
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  Speaker 1: an employer, whatever buzzword you want to use, has to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that his staff, their staff, has all the
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  Speaker 1: tools necessary to be successful. And that includes a clear
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  Speaker 1: business model of what it is they're doing. One of
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  Speaker 1: the great treaties of what continues to be, and sadly
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  Speaker 1: we turned it into a funny movie that became an archetype,
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  Speaker 1: that we actually pretend that what goes on in the
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  Speaker 1: cubicle farms of America is less and less like what
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  Speaker 1: happened in office space. And I'm really, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a tangent, I'm happy for Gary Cole In his position,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of the NCIS with Gary Cole
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  Speaker 1: taking over in the Gibbs position. But I'm glad that
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  Speaker 1: before his acting career was done, Gary Cole got to
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  Speaker 1: play one non-doofus. I mean, it was everywhere. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even when they brought him in on the West Wing,
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  Speaker 1: he was cast as the dumb vice president that nobody
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  Speaker 1: wanted around. And, you know, he was a bingo Bob.
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  Speaker 1: And he was basically playing just a slightly more erudite
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  Speaker 1: version of the guy he played in Office Space. Poor guy.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to talk about typecast in a bad way.
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  Speaker 1: But we need fewer guys like Gary Cole's character in
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  Speaker 1: Office Space. And the reason it sticks is because we
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  Speaker 1: have too many people like Gary Cole in Office Space.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to understand who our customers are. And
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  Speaker 1: our employees need to know who our customers are and
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  Speaker 1: why are they important to them. One of the things
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  Speaker 1: that drove me out of Burger King was even in 1984,
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  Speaker 1: the employees were like, this is a BS job. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Somebody is going to drop five bucks on
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  Speaker 1: your hand for some food. I think that's important. And
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  Speaker 1: I was I was considered weird. I guess I still
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  Speaker 1: am all these years later.
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Clark's on the line with us on this Labor Day morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, sir. How are you doing this Monday?
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  Speaker 19: Laboring away, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you.
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  Speaker 19: So let's see. Nazi. You know, the left likes them
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  Speaker 19: some N-words.
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  Speaker 17: I've been noticing that.
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  Speaker 1: Funny that.
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  Speaker 19: They can't use one. They'll pick up another one, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Any epithet in a storm, you know, so that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the conversation ends because we've dropped the N-bomb on you.
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  Speaker 13: There you go.
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  Speaker 19: And I guess narrative, that's an N-word.
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  Speaker 17: They don't use the word.
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  Speaker 19: They use the narrative. And the Ted Baxter wannabe on
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  Speaker 19: the American News Network news break.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 17: Now, I know, Joe, I'm not going to blame that
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  Speaker 17: guy because he's only following Zaldas and reading what's wrote
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  Speaker 17: down for him. But this is the third time the
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  Speaker 17: Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene. You know,
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  Speaker 17: if communist ideologue federal judges would quit overstepping their bounds—
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  Speaker 17: The Trump administration wouldn't be asking the Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 17: step in.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and if the Supreme Court, if the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: would actually step in, then we could stop asking them to.
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  Speaker 1: What the Supreme Court keeps doing is taking a pass.
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  Speaker 1: And part of this I do put on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and as much as we love our, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: civil rights chiefs, I'm going to lay in her lap
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of this because I just don't believe
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  Speaker 1: they're asking the right question. I think they need to
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  Speaker 1: present this to the Supreme Court as a civil rights issue,
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  Speaker 1: as a voting rights issue, because if, let's say, enough
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  Speaker 1: people vote to make a black man's vote like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, three-fifths is valuable, just pick a number
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  Speaker 1: out of the air. It couldn't be any historical reference.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a civil rights violation.
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  Speaker 19: Well, when they diminish the power of your vote and
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  Speaker 19: my vote by making up bogus votes, they have impinged
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  Speaker 19: on our civil rights.
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  Speaker 1: You and me, we should be on the Supreme Court then.
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  Speaker 17: Well, you got John Roberts.
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  Speaker 19: Again, only following up to Aldous. We just don't know
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  Speaker 19: who's giving them to him.
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  Speaker 1: The AP.
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  Speaker 19: Called the Nazis far right. Now, I think you said
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  Speaker 19: it earlier. National German, National Socialist German Workers Party is
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  Speaker 19: where that contraction came from.
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  Speaker 9: It's right there in the middle.
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  Speaker 6: What's that word?
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  Speaker 20: Socialist.
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  Speaker 19: So when the AP computer considers socialist on the far right.
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  Speaker 19: It kind of tells me how far left they are,
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  Speaker 19: doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: From where they're sitting. Oh, yeah, they're all the way
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  Speaker 1: over there on the right. We can't even see what's
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  Speaker 1: further right than them, like conservatives or anything. It's the
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  Speaker 1: way they hide. They wave the red flag so that
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  Speaker 1: you don't see what's going on behind the red flag,
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  Speaker 1: which is nationalist socialism going on here in the United States.
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  Speaker 19: Well, it fascinates me, you know, Mass murder, genocide, it's
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  Speaker 19: all good with the left until there's pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. And then it's the right one. Interesting. So they'll
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  Speaker 1: support it. They'll stand by. They'll look the other way. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're just trying to organize for us, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: They never told us what was real.
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  Speaker 25: Iron and coal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're waiting, pal. I don't understand why nobody really
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  Speaker 7: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Funny that. Anytime somebody promises that they're going to look
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  Speaker 1: out for you versus, you know, I was listening to
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  Speaker 1: one of our ministries on our flagship station over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and it was talking about the second mile. And
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting knowing that our friends in
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  Speaker 1: State College would be picking us up for the holidays
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  Speaker 1: this morning in Leitner. Again, great to be back. Great
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  Speaker 1: but he's the guy. But I thought it was interesting
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  Speaker 1: thinking about that, and then I hear this minister say,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Reese, talking about the second mile and Jesus' command
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  Speaker 1: to the Israelites, the Jerusalem residents who were ordered by
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  Speaker 1: a resident of Jerusalem carry a Roman officer's stuff for
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  Speaker 1: a mile. We're only required to carry it for a mile,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and they could walk back to whatever it was they
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, hold it, aren't you fighting these guys?
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  Speaker 1: the guys who are going to kill you soon. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, you know, it's on you. Do that for
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  Speaker 1: someone else. Give of yourself that second mile. And I
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  Speaker 1: know the phrase, especially in State College, the second mile
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  Speaker 1: has been tainted by the Sandusky mess, which fascinated in
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  Speaker 1: reading the recanting of one of the key witnesses in
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the case. Because Sandusky always, he wouldn't take a deal immediately.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, part of what tore Penn State University apart
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  Speaker 1: football-wise was that Jerry Sandusky wouldn't take the deal and
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  Speaker 1: just say, fine, I'll go get help. He kept maintained
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  Speaker 1: and maintained and maintained. He didn't do it. And you
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  Speaker 1: guys listening to us on WRSC this morning, you know
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  Speaker 1: there was no bigger fundraising event. Town and Gown is
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  Speaker 1: what they called it in State College when I was there.
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  Speaker 1: Do they still call it that?
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  Speaker 10: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 1: But the biggest town and gown events... Were second mile fundraisers.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it was black tie galas or golf tournaments. It
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  Speaker 1: was red carpet. It really was.
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  Speaker 19: And....
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  Speaker 1: Ironically, it began with an insistence, and you wonder sometimes
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  Speaker 1: if the university had just come across with Joe Paterno's salary,
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  Speaker 1: if any of this ever would have come to light,
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  Speaker 1: because it was just one young lady working for one
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of the Harrisburg papers was insistent that she wanted to
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  Speaker 1: know how much Joe Paterno was getting paid. It's a
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  Speaker 1: state-run institution, state-funded. We're paying for this microphone. And she
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  Speaker 1: FOIAed and FOIAed and FOIAed. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: in and amongst all the FOIAs came stories of allegations
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  Speaker 1: of sexual misconduct amongst the Second Mile, which was an
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  Speaker 1: adjunct because Jerry Sandusky was Joe Paterno's longtime defensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: the architect of Linebacker University, where, you know, for two generations.
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  Speaker 1: If you wanted a linebacker for your pro football team,
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  Speaker 1: you went and drafted somebody from Penn State all the
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  Speaker 1: way up through LeVar Arrington. So maybe if Penn State
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  Speaker 1: had just said, okay, here's what we're paying him and
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  Speaker 1: didn't make it a big deal that it was a
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  Speaker 1: human resources story, an issue that continues to dog me.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: If you're getting paid off of public money, even as
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  Speaker 1: a partial part of your compensation comes from public treasuries,
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  Speaker 1: then we are your employers, and we do deserve to
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  Speaker 1: know what somebody's paying you. It's like telling the board
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  Speaker 1: of directors of a company, yeah, we're going to pay
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  Speaker 1: the CEO this, but you can't. It's a human resources matter.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: It's covered under privacy. But the issue of Labor Day
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  Speaker 1: and the agency of bosses have triggered a few folks
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I imagine what we just talked about with
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  Speaker 1: the second mile. And the reason I bring up, though,
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  Speaker 1: the second mile is that this was saying to Christians— the
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  Speaker 1: the followers of this carpenter rabbi from little fishing village
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  Speaker 1: that do more than you're asked to do, do more
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  Speaker 1: than you're required to do. And not because it'll keep
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  Speaker 1: you out of trouble or it'll help the allies from
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  Speaker 1: winning the war. It's just what you do for your
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  Speaker 1: fellow man. And that's what's happened in the, communist, unionist world,
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  Speaker 1: if we may, on this Labor Day, wax economical, is
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: that we're not doing for each other. We're doing because
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to. We're doing because we're told to. We're
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  Speaker 1: doing because we're assigned to. And while the live action
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: role play looks like things are going on, we're truly
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  Speaker 1: not going to have the kind of prosperity we had
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  Speaker 1: in the post-war era. You know, one of the interesting
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  Speaker 1: in the story that becomes the film of Saving Private
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is the commander of this unit is a schoolteacher.
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  Speaker 1: Where's he got anything in his background that would say
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be this leader of men? Well, being
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  Speaker 1: most of whom probably want to be somewhere else. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're a successful school teacher, I think that requires
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  Speaker 1: a good bit of executive function. And our schools, as
• 36:34
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  Speaker 1: of the classroom. You think that has a role to
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  Speaker 1: play in why our educational achievement has declined so much?
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  Speaker 1: But being a boss, and we're going to use that
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  Speaker 1: word on Labor Day, is a different kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Too many businesses are ruined, probably more so now than
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  Speaker 1: in the old days when it was just the idiot
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• 37:42
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• 37:51
  Speaker 1: want to continue to climb the ladder, but we're climbing
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the wrong ladders. If you're good at being a boss,
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: Good bosses. It's Labor Day, and I know we can
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: get back into talking about the alternative, and I don't
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: want to try to affect this. How does it pronounce?
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  Speaker 1: Alternative for Deutschland party winning block in one state that
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: might give it the quote, governor's mansion, if you will,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: in their system. Everyone's lost their bowel control over it
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: because they're called by the media to be far right-wing nationalists,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: you know, citizenship, things like that. Oh, my gosh, closed borders,
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  Speaker 1: German jobs, things like that. My gosh, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: heresy of it. Ironically, you know, targeting the people who
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: target Jews, you know, so very weird, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of circular. But we can get back into that. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to finish this point about, you know, executive functions.
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  Speaker 1: How many businesses, because they've promoted somebody past their point
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: of what's the Peter principle, your point of competency? into
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: a position just because you've been there longest. And I've
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: lived through this. I own a company. But I know
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  Speaker 1: damn well I'm not a great boss.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I am sort of in the radio world, not to
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: sound like I'm blowing my own horn. But I'm sort
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: of like what happened when Michael Jordan started coaching basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was better. I try very hard to
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: be better at showing people how to do what I do.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I am better at it than I
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: used to be. our local association of broadcasters sends me
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: interns and I feel obligated to actually teach them something.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: So that has helped me be a better teacher. But
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean I do all the executive stuff that
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: sometimes steps on toes but gets projects done. If projects
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: don't get done as fast as I would like, I
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: take the blame for that because I'm the one who
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: didn't do all the things necessary to get it done
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  Speaker 1: as fast as I wanted to. But there's an exchange.
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  Speaker 1: Believe me, I have some very raucous board of directors
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: meetings in my head about decisions I make. But I
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: know that one of my weaknesses is executive function. Being
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the boss. So I have a guy who's much better
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: at it than me, who's my general manager. And yes,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I used to work for him. And technically, in the
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: way we interact, I feel, you know, on the programming
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: side of my radio work, I do work for him
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: still because he's the one in charge of making sure
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: the trains run on time. But that's a different job.
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  Speaker 1: And you see this, whether you're a butcher, a baker,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: a candlestick maker, somebody is really good at cutting up meat.
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  Speaker 1: But can he run a butcher shop? That's where we are,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where this entrepreneurial lurch in the United States
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: has gone, is some people have in their nature the
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  Speaker 1: ability to delegate, the ability to put together the teams
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  Speaker 1: necessary so that delegation can happen. And some people aren't.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: And that's okay too, because not everybody, and this was
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  Speaker 1: what made America's economy exceptional. We established an economy through
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: the early 20th century that said, if you invented a
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: better mousetrap, then people would want to work for you
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: to make that better mousetrap because they believe in what
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: you did. If you invented a cure for polio, people
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  Speaker 1: would want to work for you. And maybe Jonas Salk
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: is not a good man to run a business. So,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: you know, he calls in, you know, the bears or someone. Oh, yeah. No,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to trigger you by using Henry Ford. The
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: ups and downs of the Ford Motor Company from, coming
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  Speaker 1: up with an idea that says we can manufacture these
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: things inexpensively so that the average American can afford them
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  Speaker 1: by using this assembly line. Then the unions get a
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: hold of it and it's all Johnny bar the door.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: And so We react to this organization. We want an
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  Speaker 1: organized society. And this is where AFD, the Alternative für Deutschland,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: comes in. Because the Marxists, the authoritarians, the leftists, when
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: they climb out from under their white sheets, want to
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: organize a society where you will be assigned to do something.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: And you will do it because, as we see in
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Beijing and Wuhan region and all the other states in China,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: you get three hots and a cot, basically. And you're told,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: show up here at six every morning. And it's dehumanizing
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  Speaker 1: for sure. But it goes on and on and on
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: because culturally, it's not a lot, but it's a life.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: And It's organized so they don't have to worry about,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: you know, do I have a job? They'll assign me something. They.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: There's always a they involved. I don't know. They'll assign
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: me to go somewhere. And you go there. And it's
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: dehumanizing and it's dispiriting, but it is an organizational flow
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: that keeps you from having to make any decisions. So
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: just watch out for that kind of corruption of your
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: own ability to follow your dreams because you might be
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: a really good engineer. You might be able to write
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: computer code like crazy. Could you start your own computer company?
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Could you run your own computer company? People slag Bill
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Gates all the time because Bill Gates wasn't actually an engineer.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: He was a sales guy. I think 90% or development
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: is the modern phrase for it. I think 90% of
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: American industry is led by the development guys, not the
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: people who actually invented the product. Somebody had to go
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: raise the money for their little startup computer company. Jobs
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: was a little bit more on the tech side. But
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: people wanted to work for Steve Jobs. And people did
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: amazing things for Steve Jobs. And if you compare Apple
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  Speaker 1: and Microsoft to this day, everyone says, oh, it's the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Apple cult. Well, the Apple cult was driven, and the
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: haters have to call you a cult. That's another four-letter
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: word they use. If everyone who works for you loves
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: working for you, it must be a cult. If people
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: who work for Apple are happy and they feel like
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: they're accomplishing things, then that's good news. That's good management
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: that a company that can be that big. Walmart. Walmart's
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: another great example. How many times and how many states
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: have they tried to start employee unions in Walmart? And sure,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Walmart will campaign saying you shouldn't do that. But Walmart
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: also comes across with all the support that renders a
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: union useless because it's better to not join.
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