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Commie Cancels Puerto Rican event, CEO Crotty, Car on Train Tracks · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politweek dot.
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  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez Communist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 4: This is America, Richiev. You're on the air with the
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  Speaker 3: Open Phone in America segment. First, I want to start
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  Speaker 3: off with a migos. We've already seen so much this week,
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  Speaker 3: just getting warmed up. Tuesday night, we had a jam
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  Speaker 3: packed UH primary election right in six different states across
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  Speaker 3: the country. On Monday, we saw escalating tensions overseas with
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  Speaker 3: the US actions against Iranian targets as the uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the peace talks hang in the balance. Pretty serious stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about why you need steady leadership from in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion, from El Trompito and Pete Hegseeth and the
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  Speaker 3: rest in times like this. Then Wednesday brought us New
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  Speaker 3: York City Mayor ma'm Donnie's on ma'm donni dissing the
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  Speaker 3: Puerto Rican community as this office announced they'd be canceling
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  Speaker 3: the Graycie Mansion pre Puerto Rican Parade reception. Obviously, this
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  Speaker 3: sparked a backlash from notable Puerto Ricans all across the
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  Speaker 3: Tri State area, all across the country, including OG recording
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  Speaker 3: artist and music producer Frankie Cutlass, influencer my big sister
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Talk and the unlikely alliance from Democrat Congresswoman Nidia
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  Speaker 3: Venaskaz and along with you know, thousands of other people
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  Speaker 3: who eventually got the mayor to the backtrack, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sort of.
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  Speaker 4: I got a report on that. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: There are questions tonight if an annual event that happens
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  Speaker 2: before the Puerto Rican Day Parade will be held at
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  Speaker 2: Greasy Mantrack.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a mainstay for decades Newsports.
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  Speaker 6: Melissa Russo is in the newsroom with the latest on
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  Speaker 6: the confusion here.
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  Speaker 5: Melissa Gilma City Hall today was trying to clean up
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  Speaker 5: concerns that Mayor Mamdani had possibly snubbed the Puerto Rican community.
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  Speaker 5: His riff with some Puerto Rican leaders over upcoming democratic
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  Speaker 5: primaries deepened with legendary Congresswoman Ndia of Alaska is saying
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  Speaker 5: she no longer takes Mayor Mamdani at his word.
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  Speaker 4: Oh oh, shots fired. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Nitia is one of those og congresswomen in New York.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, you know, a tongue in cheek description
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  Speaker 3: of her. I don't know the niece or the granddaughter
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  Speaker 3: of l Castro. Right, that's probably something I would say
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  Speaker 3: AOC in thirty or forty years.
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  Speaker 4: That type of thing. You know, that's her politics.
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  Speaker 3: And you wouldn't think that you see somebody like that,
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  Speaker 3: taking exception with Zoron Mumdani. But maybe even Zoron Mamdani
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  Speaker 3: is too far to the left even for Nidia of Alaskas.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead play the tape.
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  Speaker 5: At last year's Puerto Rican Day Parade, Congresswoman Nidia of
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  Speaker 5: Alaskaz was by Zoran Mamdani's side, supporting him for mayor.
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  Speaker 5: As this year's parade approaches, the retiring congresswoman telling Politico
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  Speaker 5: today she no longer takes Mayor Mom Donni at his word.
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  Speaker 5: The Alaskaez feels betrayed. The mayor recently broke a promise
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  Speaker 5: to support Congressman Adriano Espayat for reelection and also back
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  Speaker 5: to a DSA primary challenger over Antonio Renoso, who was
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  Speaker 5: her preferred candidate in District seven.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm just before we get to her, hither the Espayette.
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  Speaker 3: I've already shared some of my own disdain about this guy.
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  Speaker 3: This is not somebody I like. And it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that I agree with Zoramumdani. It just means that's sometimes
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats, you get one that's really bad and one
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  Speaker 3: that's evil. Which one you go with, that's up to you.
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  Speaker 3: It's a roll of the dice played the Congressoman.
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  Speaker 5: Velaska is telling NBC Telemundo in an interview today she
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  Speaker 5: was disappointed to hear the mayor's office was breaking a
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  Speaker 5: forty year annual tradition of hosting a big pre Puerto
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  Speaker 5: Rican Day parade party at Gracey Mansion. Community members set
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  Speaker 5: an email sent by a Mom Donnie staffer sent a
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  Speaker 5: message of disrespect.
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  Speaker 7: We feel disrespected.
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  Speaker 4: We are all very disappointed.
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  Speaker 5: In that email obtained by News for, Alvaro Lopez from
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  Speaker 5: the newly created Mayor's Office of Community Engagement told parade organizers,
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  Speaker 5: as mentioned in our call, we will not be hosting
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  Speaker 5: a reception at Gracey Manson, adding that he wanted to
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  Speaker 5: prioritize celebrating the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in the
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  Speaker 5: company of his mans any working class New Yorkers as
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  Speaker 5: possible to.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on a second working class. You know, that's code
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  Speaker 3: for Marxism, Right, working classes, meaning we don't.
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  Speaker 4: Like the billionaires, the billion day class don't.
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  Speaker 3: Or what about the retirees, right, people that own property,
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  Speaker 3: that pay taxes. No, they don't like those people either.
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  Speaker 3: Sad to say.
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  Speaker 5: Today, Mayor Mom Donnie told us that email was wrong
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  Speaker 5: and that the event would happen.
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  Speaker 3: How convenient, mister Mayor, of course. Oh it is a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I messed up. Oh I don't know what they're
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  Speaker 3: talking about. What do you know about, sir?
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  Speaker 2: That email is an accurate We are incredibly excited to
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  Speaker 2: host that reception at Gracie Manchond. This is a moment
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate the contributions to Puerto Ricans and New Aurecans
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  Speaker 2: to our city. And it's a weekend that so many
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers look forward to, and I'm.
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  Speaker 4: One of them.
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  Speaker 5: City Hall sources say one reason for the confusion is
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  Speaker 5: that instead of hosting an expensive party with a who's
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  Speaker 5: who guest list of community leaders, Mam Donnie is trying
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  Speaker 5: to engage with more grass roots New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 4: City hold on more grass roots new Yorkers.
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean that may Or Mom Donnie is just
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  Speaker 3: looking to deal with the political people. Doesn't care about
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  Speaker 3: your rank and file, average run of the mill new Yorker.
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  Speaker 3: He wants the people that are union connected, people that
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  Speaker 3: are Democrat connected, people that are activists full time.
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  Speaker 5: That's what it sounds like to me, he sources, saying
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  Speaker 5: they're planning a smaller lunch to mark the occasion instead.
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  Speaker 2: Are you looking to shift the theme to be more
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  Speaker 2: of a working class oman? I think we're always looking
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate working class New Yorkers and this.
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  Speaker 4: There he goes again, what is working class?
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  Speaker 5: This is an opportunity to do that once again, may
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  Speaker 5: Mum Donnie's saying he will be hosting a pre Puerto
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  Speaker 5: Rican Day reception at Gracie Manchin. But we are hearing
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  Speaker 5: that that reception might look a little different than the
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  Speaker 5: one that community leaders are used to over the yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Over the last thirty and forty years. You know, what's
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  Speaker 3: what bothers me about this is how disingenuine this man is.
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  Speaker 3: He is just a disingenuous person. He's a fake, phony fraud,
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  Speaker 3: he says, turning lies to you and his hand on
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  Speaker 3: his heart, and he could care less about you or
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  Speaker 3: the truth. And sadly, a lot of people just you
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  Speaker 3: know the I guess they put it to the side.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they're like, look, I like his policy so much
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  Speaker 3: and I can deal with the character flaws, or I
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  Speaker 3: like his policies so much that you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: that stuff is minimal. You know, people say that that's
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  Speaker 3: how we look at Trump. I don't agree. I think
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  Speaker 3: most people like Trump's policies, and most people actually like Trump.
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  Speaker 3: It's the handful that doesn't that has really kind of
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  Speaker 3: got their panties in a bunch, so to speak.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, that's that one.
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  Speaker 3: Then we've got oh my gosh, this woman, she drove
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  Speaker 3: her car all the way up the train tracks of
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  Speaker 3: an elevated overhead train station. Her GPS said turn left,
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  Speaker 3: and she took it literally and onto the light rail.
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  Speaker 3: Only in twenty twenty six do we see things like
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  Speaker 3: this happening Familia.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's wild.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, We've got primaries, We've got Double Take Sprinds their
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  Speaker 3: Pratt versus the Democrat Karen. We've got this guy next week,
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  Speaker 3: the guy with no shirt with the Nazi tattoos in
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  Speaker 3: the Porta Potti controversy and all that.
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  Speaker 4: He's coming up next week.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be action packed, especially our interview coming up
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  Speaker 3: with Jessica Krotti.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be interesting as well.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of radios, I'm going to be at the talk
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  Speaker 3: media conference known as Talker's twenty twenty six. I'll be
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  Speaker 3: speaking at Hofstree University at that conference this weekend. Check
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  Speaker 3: out Talkers dot com talkersmag dot com for more information
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  Speaker 3: about the magazine's annual conference.
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  Speaker 4: Don't want to miss it. I don't want you to
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  Speaker 4: miss it.
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody will benefit from from the listener side
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  Speaker 3: to the broadcaster side.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is something you don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Miss, so to discuss I want you to keep it
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  Speaker 3: right here as we continue, because there is more to
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  Speaker 3: come straight ahead.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Richvelddesk.
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  Speaker 1: This is America, this is America.
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  Speaker 4: He's brown, he's bald, and he's breaking it down. Oh
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  Speaker 4: he's still has some what's his day, Rich veldes.
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  Speaker 3: In America, rich beald Deesk, keeping your company, and I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about some of the things that are
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  Speaker 3: changing in society, things that are changing in life. AI
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  Speaker 3: is changing the game and just about everything. We're seeing
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  Speaker 3: how different things are when it comes to how we
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  Speaker 3: consume everything. Right, we had a conversation not that long
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  Speaker 3: ago with Michael Harrison about how radio has become audio
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  Speaker 3: and how audio has become video. So there's so many
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  Speaker 3: changes going on, and I wanted to look at things
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  Speaker 3: from multiple perspectives. Right, You've got the folks in DC
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  Speaker 3: saying we have to make sure that AM radios remain
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  Speaker 3: in cars, which is a huge thing. It's probably the
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  Speaker 3: safest thing in the event of an emergency. But for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the world consuming all of their fun stuff,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's regetong or classical music or whatever you like,
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  Speaker 3: podcast and streaming radio, it's all happening through smartphone, smart devices. Alexa,
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  Speaker 3: you name it. You're probably watching me on one of
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  Speaker 3: those right now, So I want to talk to somebody
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  Speaker 3: who knows exactly what's going on. Jessica Krotti is the
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  Speaker 3: CEO of Sea Crane Radio. This is a fifty year
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  Speaker 3: old company or more that's been in this country, rocking
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  Speaker 3: and rolling in the radio space, and they're bridging the gap.
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  Speaker 3: They're stepping into the leadership role that they've always had
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  Speaker 3: in getting us more as we go into the streaming generation.
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  Speaker 3: Jessica Krotti, welcome.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Rich mich pleasure. Yeah, it's good to have you in studio.
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  Speaker 3: How's it feel to be in the York City?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: I love New York. The energy here is just unmatched.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know that's why I always bother the producers
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  Speaker 3: and the engineers and say I need a little more window, right,
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  Speaker 3: because I need to make sure I get the feel
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  Speaker 3: of the city, because there is like an infectious energy
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  Speaker 3: that really comes with being in the city that you
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  Speaker 3: just really maybe Tokyo, nobody really can compare. No, and
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  Speaker 3: you're not getting robbed in Tokyo, right, and getting robbed
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  Speaker 3: around here. You gotta be very careful. Yes, Well, welcome
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  Speaker 3: and it's good to have you. I want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about a multitude of things. Number one, how does a
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  Speaker 3: pretty girl from California like you end up becoming the
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  Speaker 3: CEO of Seacrane Radio.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, quite the journey. So I started actually with
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  Speaker 8: the company in my early twenties as customer service and
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  Speaker 8: so in the ranks.
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  Speaker 3: Like Drake said, we started from the bottom that we.
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  Speaker 8: Hear it is exactly how that went, and spend a
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  Speaker 8: lot of time in it. And then when the owners
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  Speaker 8: of founders wanted to retire and opportunity presented itself to
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  Speaker 8: be able to buy the company and then become a CEO.
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  Speaker 8: So it was a long trend shin over many years,
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  Speaker 8: culminating to now where I feel like I have this
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  Speaker 8: much of what I need to know to really be
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  Speaker 8: fully effective as a CEO, But every day a new
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  Speaker 8: challenge get to learn on the fly. It's kind of
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  Speaker 8: like swimming in the deep end.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that. Having started a couple of companies myself,
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  Speaker 3: I've realized it's a lot more fun starting them and
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  Speaker 3: growing them than running them. Yes, yeah, it's hard, especially
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  Speaker 3: something established like Seacrane that's been around. You guys have
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  Speaker 3: been doing it, you've kind of perfected it. Now you're
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  Speaker 3: building new things that you can perfect. Yes, talk to
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  Speaker 3: me about what that transition is like. I guess from
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  Speaker 3: the business perspective, right, you were started in customer service
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  Speaker 3: major way up the ranks. What was that like? You know,
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  Speaker 3: how many friends did you lose along the way? How
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  Speaker 3: many new friends did you make along the way?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so that's so interesting. I think motherhood probably had
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  Speaker 8: more of an impact on that part than the business side.
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  Speaker 8: Now maybe I'm seeing some of the business side of that,
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  Speaker 8: where your friendships change and you have to seek out people.
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  Speaker 8: I've been so fortunate to have people in my life
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  Speaker 8: that have mentored me and given me knowledge, from the
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  Speaker 8: founders to my manager at the time, to different people
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  Speaker 8: i've met like you and Michael Harrison, and just different
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  Speaker 8: relationships I've been able to build. I have a very
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  Speaker 8: good group of girlfriends that have been with me for
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  Speaker 8: many years. My writer dies that I think have known
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  Speaker 8: every version of me and still are anyway. So I
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  Speaker 8: feel really blessed in that regard. And then I have
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  Speaker 8: an amazing family and so the support there is pivotal.
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  Speaker 8: And then I have my faith and so without that
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't do any of it. So I think that
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  Speaker 8: all of those things have played a role in where
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  Speaker 8: I am now. I've definitely lost some people along the way.
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  Speaker 8: I think I've outgrown versions of myself where maybe that
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  Speaker 8: was our only connection was who I was in that version. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: And so we've just and not in a way of like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: you're a bad person or I'm a bad person, more
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  Speaker 8: of we're just different now and we don't have the
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  Speaker 8: same goals and we're not going the same places. And
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  Speaker 8: so it was a natural completion, I guess, of the relationship.
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  Speaker 8: So I think that's what life kind of is, right
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  Speaker 8: that journey.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think more so when you become the CEO,
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  Speaker 3: you were once one of the gang, yeah, and now
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  Speaker 3: you're the boss, and now it's like that part is hard.
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  Speaker 8: Not gonna lie, that part has been harder than I
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  Speaker 8: I don't know that I spend leugh time maybe even
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  Speaker 8: thinking through that part, because that part even just from
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  Speaker 8: a respect portion of like well like getting a yeah,
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  Speaker 8: and like how does that look? And then I think
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  Speaker 8: too the previous person, you know, we had very different
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  Speaker 8: leadership styles and understanding what my own style is because
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  Speaker 8: I didn't necessarily have that well defined because I didn't
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  Speaker 8: have that, and so that has been big. I've spent
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  Speaker 8: a lot of time. I've invested heavily in myself with
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  Speaker 8: mentorships and different programs and to really uncover some of
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  Speaker 8: that of like how do I want it to look?
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  Speaker 8: Because I think sometimes too, there's a prescribed method that
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  Speaker 8: people say, oh, like, I'm now very leary of people
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  Speaker 8: that are like, do these ten steps and it'll work
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  Speaker 8: for you. Because if you have that, I'm like, I
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  Speaker 8: already don't believe you, because I don't think that any
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  Speaker 8: situation is that cookie cutter. Certain things, yes, are kind
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  Speaker 8: of tried and true and apply, but I think when
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  Speaker 8: you take into consideration how old the organization is, the
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  Speaker 8: people that are already there, Like if you take a
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  Speaker 8: holistic view and then who am I as a person,
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  Speaker 8: who is the team, then we can have it look different.
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  Speaker 8: I also think one of my biggest learnings husband that
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  Speaker 8: I work for them versus that they work for me,
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  Speaker 8: and that mindset I think is important when I'm viewing things,
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  Speaker 8: and so it gives a different perspective of what my
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  Speaker 8: role is as the leader and I also work for
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  Speaker 8: the customer. So because without both of those, like, I
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  Speaker 8: really don't have anything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I always tell people. People tell me, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you have a great show, it's really big, this and that,
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  Speaker 3: and I say, you know, that's funny because without someone
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  Speaker 3: sitting across from me, I'm talking to a microphone by myself. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Without an audience, you don't have a show. And that's
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  Speaker 3: so true in business. Without customers, you don't have a business.
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  Speaker 3: So what's the biggest I guess, challenge or lesson that
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  Speaker 3: you've learned from a challenge in this transitional period from
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  Speaker 3: coming from the bottom and now being the CEO.
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  Speaker 8: I think the biggest lesson I've learned is authenticity is key.
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  Speaker 8: So the more I can be my self and understand
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  Speaker 8: what that looks like, the better off everybody is versus
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  Speaker 8: trying to be who somebody else is or was. I
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  Speaker 8: think that's probably the biggest lesson. The other thing is
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  Speaker 8: that before.
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  Speaker 3: We go to the other one, let's talk about that one,
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  Speaker 3: because I think that that's a really wise statement. And
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  Speaker 3: from what I'm hearing, right, you're saying to be yourself,
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  Speaker 3: But how did you get there? I guess you were
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  Speaker 3: trying to be somebody you thought you were supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be Yeah, and it didn't work right, Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so seven. Well, now it's been ten years ago.
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  Speaker 8: Before I said yes to buying the business. I hired
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  Speaker 8: a life coach, and I wanted to make sure I
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  Speaker 8: wasn't doing it for the wrong reasons. I wanted to
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  Speaker 8: make sure I was really saying yes because I wanted
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  Speaker 8: to do this, versus I was worried about not having
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  Speaker 8: a job. My mom also worked there at the time,
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: making sure all these people stayed employed because it was
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: pretty much like, well, we're not going to continue or
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: we are kind of a situation, and so that gave
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: some clarity. And then from there out of that hiring
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: mentors and going oh, and then noticing the things when
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: they weren't working, and going well, why isn't that working
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: while you're trying to do this thing this way because
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: that was what you saw, but you're not bringing yourself
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: into this situation of like, well, how do I want
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: it to work? And when people started asking me that, honestly,
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: it was terrifying. When people are like, well, what do
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: you want these reports to look like? Or how do
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: you want to see this information?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, you didn't want to say you
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't know, and I was like, I don't know,
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: Like what should I even look at? What should I
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: pay attention to? And some of that knowledge that you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: this person who's done it for thirty years has but
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: maybe also doesn't work for me because the way my
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: brain processes information or the way that I have different
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: maybe priorities or ways I like to see things in
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: order to potentially get to the same conclusion possibly or not.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: And so those things were I think those were the
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: things where it was a lot of a lot of
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: hard lessons. Also things where you're like, oh, this is
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: what I should be doing, because that's what how.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Do you arrive in that place? Right? Like you say,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: this is what I'm supposed to do or this is
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: what I'm supposed to say?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: What?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: What was it? Books that you've read? Yes, and and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: then you tried it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: You're like and people yeah that are telling you like
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: this is what you know this person paid attention to
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: and why And then you try it and you're like,
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: well okay, but I still still listen a great outcome.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: So then you're like, okay, well what do I need?
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: And then I think too, for me, I really like
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: to empower people. Like my favorite part of being in
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: leadership is creating an environment where people can thrive and
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: really like are are pumped to come to work and
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: like excited to be there, and I can find kind
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: of what lights them up, and then that lights me up.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: And then this kind of stuff lights me up, Like
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: I love people. I love the interactions and the relationship building.
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: And so it was it was kind of curating a
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: little more of what's on my plate versus this stuff,
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: some of the stuff I'd still been doing, and so
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: trying to get more of that off my plate of
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: like accounting work, I think, I don't think I find
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: it so suckling wants to do that right, and like,
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: but there are people, yeah, and there are people that do,
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: and so finding the people that do that get lit
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: up about solving. So like Marisol she is amazing and
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: can get like these things so dialed. And then I have,
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: you know, this person Rosa who's so good at some
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: of these things, and she gets lit up on this thing,
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: and so like, how can I get more of that
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: stuff funneled her way? And then seeing where like they
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: are drained and going, okay, how can I get rid
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: of some of that stuff off theirs and is there
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: anybody else that actually would love that? I think that's
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: kind of more of my job. You're kind of like
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: this orchestra leader and going oh, well, this person over
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: here has this strength and this person over here and
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: then being told too, like well, you know they have
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: to have all of these things and their job description
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: should do this and that, and it was like, well,
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: you know, when you're a small company, it doesn't always
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: look like that because people wear a lot of hats,
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: and so kind of offloading some of that of my
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: own expectations of like how it should look right because
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: you've read books and you've listened to podcasts and you've
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: done that, watch TV. Yeah, And I think the other
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: part was acknowledging that I'm a single mom and a
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: woman and that looks different. And so a lot of
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: the information that's provided is from men that have a
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: way fell home that doesn't work, and so that is
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: a very different dynamic yeah than mine, And so just
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: acceptance around that and going oh okay, so then your
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: support system needs to look a little different in order
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: to and then if that's not what you want it
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: to look like, you know, if you don't want to
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: work eighty hours a week cause you actually want to
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: spend time at your kids events and do so what
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: does that need to look like? But we still want
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: to have some outcomes, and so I think empowering the
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: team is probably the quickest way I've found to get there. Yeah,
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: and so those are those are some of the areas
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: I think that from a leadership.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Standpoint, making it your own.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the time though too. You know, you can't just
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: come in and like kick down the door. And because nobody's.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Saying like the timing of learning those lessons are implementing them.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: It's like time spent and like it's a process. You know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: It's not like you're going to go in and know
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: all of that, right, you have to go through the
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: failures and the successes to get there.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Tell me that we're on with Jessica Crotty. She's CEO
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: of Sea Crane. It's a radio company. They make crank radios.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: They make all sorts of radios. As matter of fact,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: they make a Wi Fi radio, which is amazing because
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: if you want to listen to this show This is
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: America with Rich Valdez, you can listen to that anytime
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: you like, right on one of those cool sea crane
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: c see Wi Fi three radios, So make sure you
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: cop one of those, and we're going to have a
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: discount code for you in a little bit from Jessica.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: You got to stick around, Jessica. This is very cool,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I think, right, because you're an innovator, you're a tech person,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: you are a CEO, and you're a leader. And there's
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: so many hats in and of those right there that
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: you're wearing. Right, You're a mom, you're a person, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: how do you to I guess the aspiring people, right?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: You know, I have two daughters. One is going to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: be twenty one in a couple of months, one that's
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: going to be twenty five next month. And you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: what's your advice to them and their generation? Maybe they
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: want to be CEOs, maybe they don't. What do you
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: say to them when when they look at things and
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: they go, well, I'm here and I make minimum wage,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: or I'm here and I'm in the big city, or
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I'm here, I'm in the sticks, and how do I
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: get to there?
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: I say yes? More often, I think that a lot
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: of people hold themselves back because again, it doesn't fit
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: the boxes. That they've been told they need to check,
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: and so they say no to things, thinking like that's
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: not enough money or it's not whatever, instead of looking
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: at the value perhaps that it can have or the
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: experience that they want to have. I also think, do
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: all the things I did so many different jobs in
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: my life, but also at sea crane, and then where
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: can you bring value? Where can you add even if
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: it's just that experience with the customers. So one of
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: my kids is twenty five and he's looking at possibly
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: moving to Hawaii and his girlfriend's over there, and I'm like, yes,
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: you know, like never in your life again will you
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: be this free to do with the thing right, And
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: so looking back, if you're like your younger self and
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: you could go say yes and and do it and
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: do it afraid, I think that's probably the other big
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: thing is it's not ever going to be perfect timing.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: You're never going to have enough money when you're doing it.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: And I think it's it's doing it too when you're
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: terrified and going all right, well if I fail, I fail.
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: If I don't, then great, And then I think too,
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: for me again with my faith, I offer it every
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: time like I offer it over to God, and I'm like, hey,
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: you know what, this isn't mine. And I especially when
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: i'm this, because I have a tendency to do that,
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: and like especially when something's good, and then that's when
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: it's harder to be like this because it can you know, cyclical,
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: business is very cyclical. I've seen a lot being in
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: this business and it's going to do that. And so
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: knowing that you're writing it out, I think I remember
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: it was Tom Hanks saying this too shall pass.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: That's a Jesus quote and it's.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: Also and he was talking specifically about the good and
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: the bad and business right, and so knowing that, like,
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: none of this is permanent. So we have such a
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: finite amount of time on this earth, and so it's like,
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: how do you want it to look?
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: What do you want to spend it on? What's important?
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: And I think sometimes we get.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Really caught up in defining what's important and.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: The consumable side instead of understanding really it's the relationships,
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: the experiences, It's the people. It's that part. It's like,
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: so if you have time to go have an experience
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: with somebody you love, like that definitely should be like,
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: what do I need to do to get there. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: sometimes the vehicle is right, the business and the thing,
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: but sometimes too you love it right like, so finding
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: that thing that you really love and how can you
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: make money at it? I think is requires a journey.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: It's not always going to be like, oh, I love
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: this thing and like I know how to monetize it. Well, No,
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: you might have to go have a terrible job right
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: to learn how to do parts of business that you
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: don't love in order to get to that spot. I
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: also think consistency is really important.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Showing up the job that you don't like.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: No, not that so much. I think you know when
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: you need to get out, and sometimes we stay longer
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: than we should. But I think it's more showing up
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: even when you don't feel like it, because there's going
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: to be days where you don't feel like it. So yes,
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: exactly like that, because if you rely on I want
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: to feel like it all the time, like you are
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: not going to ever do much because you're not going
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: to feel like it some other time.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I think our feelings are one of our greatest enemies.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: What do you think I.
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: Think they can be I think they hold a lot
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: of information and I think as women a lot of
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: times we've learned to ignore them to an extreme, And
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: so I think there's there's a combination of things where
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: you get to pay attention of, especially when you're getting
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: a repeated feeling about something of what's here for me?
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: I think we have a tendency too to make them
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: bad or good, right, And I don't think they are.
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: I think it's information informative. Yes, And so if I
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: start as that, it's like, oh, I'm really angry, okay,
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: anger here we are at the table, what do you
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: have for me? Instead of reacting out of that space? Yeah,
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: it probably is. It probably is. And so yeah, I
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: think that there's a lot there with feelings. But if
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: you use feelings to decide your actions all the time,
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: like it's going to be a wild ride, right. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: think we see that a lot in the world where
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: people are just operating from feelings instead of information. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: I know for myself, I don't make great decisions here
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: or here from a feelings perspective if my emotions are
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: like on cloud nine and I'm saying, yes, I want
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: to do this thing, and then I get back to
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: here and I'm like, oh, why did I see?
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I feel like there's a tension that needs to be
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: managed between logic and emotion, and we live in between.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: And I think that you're right, you've got to be
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: there's a folk crum in the middle, and that's where
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: we need to kind of stay. Easier said than done.
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: Totally, totally, and I think the more you practice, like
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: you're right, it's a practice, and so the more awareness
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: you have around it. I think as a young person,
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: that would have been really useful, right to have more
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: information around like how do I get back to hear
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: where I'm a little more more balanced. I think some
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: of that is those people, right that are in your life,
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: of course.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: And I think we use people as inspiration. We use
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: events and relationships that we have that inspire us to
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: do different things. What's inspiring you lately and what's on
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the forefront of SCRANE and your journey?
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so I'm super inspired by my team. I have
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: some people that are really excited about some of what
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: they're working on. I can't give all the details right now,
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: but some of it's using AI as how can it
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: help with some of the problems related to radio or
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: some of the experiences that customers have. Some of it
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: is also people that have expertise that we can bring
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: in to support what we're trying to do as far
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: as development goes. And so sometimes things that feel really insurmountable.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: So for examples, parts are really challenging, especially after COVID.
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: Consolidation of companies overseas results and fewer parts available. Sometimes
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: because things aren't as popular or things become more popular
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: like smartphones or automotive then all of the resources get
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: allocated that direction and not so much our direction, which
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: means end of life and figuring out alternatives. And maybe
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: the alternatives aren't as quality or aren't as good, so
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: then now we're building around that.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: And that happens in our industry. I just read that
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of people using silver for different AI components, chips,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: different things, and that may cause a run on silver
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: make it more expensive. So people are already planning on
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: how to use copper and other materials in lieu of silver,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: because if silver becomes too expensive, it defeats the purpose
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: of making that part.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, and so we're always up against that. So
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: that's exciting and inspiring. I think to the letters that
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: we get from customers, Oh yeah, those are my favorite honestly,
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: it's like person, you know, our team is so patient
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: and so kind and so genuine with people, and they
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: really have been given permission to take the time that's needed,
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: so we're not rushing, they're not on commissions, so they're
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: really there to take care of the customer as best
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: they can. And so those letters where it's like this
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: person took the extra time and they helped me do
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: this and now I can hear rich or I can
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: hear the station, or I was able to get my
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: favorite or I haven't been able to listen for this long,
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: and you guys solved this problem.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: And isn't that how this company came about?
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: Yep, Yeah, it was solving and getting reception behind the
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: redwood curtain as we call it, with them some big
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: am antenna, and that was how it was founded.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, the birth of a company. I can't hear the radio,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: let me fix it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: That's amazing. It's an amazing story. Kudos to the founder
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: because I think that that's truly how so many things right.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: They say that on necessity is the mother of invention,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: and it's it is true, but it's sometimes I think
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: you forget when you see a real story like that
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: of him saying I'm going to figure out how to
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: get these things and catch it right here. I think
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: that's that's remarkable. Before we close, I want you to
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: tell us what you can not the hush hush mush
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: mush top secret stuff like my buddy Curtis says, but
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: the stuff that you can share about what's on the
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: horizon and you know what's popping at sea crane.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: So we're working on a new wi fi radio for
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: all the people that really love podcasts. Our WiFi radio
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: can do a little bit, but it's really not great
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: at it. The new one is going to be great
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: to addit and some additional functionality that we'll be building
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: in that'll just make it a really better experience. We
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: also have someone who's developing an app so people can
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: program it a little easier, and that's in development right now,
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: and so that's been really fun to help them participate in.
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: And then our wind up radio always you know, all
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: of these are we're working on some of the Bluetooth
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: components so that we get a lot of people that
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: want to use it with their earbuds. All of ours
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: are just received right now, so we'll be moving towards
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: that in the future.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Now for people who don't know about the crank radio,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: because I think this is one of the best inventions ever.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: I am an old school radio guy, right, this is
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: even as young as I am. I love radio and
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: I do realize I was here in New York City
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: during nine to eleven and the TV stations all went out, yeah,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: because the big antenna on top of two World Trade
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: was many of the stations locally, and my friend Curtisliba
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: was on the radio as that was happening, and he
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: was one of the only people on the radio because
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: that tower happens to be in Jersey and it's fifty
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: thousand watts. And the moral of the story was radio
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: didn't go anywhere, and everybody was turning to radio to
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: hear what was going on and to date and people
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: some people may know, some people may not know that
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: certain radio stations with powerful signals are protected by the
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Department of Wholeland Security and because you're kind of required
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: to have a disinformation to the public in the event
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: at emergency. Because you can have a crank radio that
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: needs no batteries, a little bit of a solar panel
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: and I can hear what's going on, So talk to
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: us about this.
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so we've seen it over and over so North
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: Carolina recently with Helene Maui and the fires, California and
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  Speaker 3: Keeping your company again, trying to keep up with everything
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  Speaker 3: that's going on and keep you up to speed as well. Right,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: we still don't know the developments on Raoul Castro that
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: happened last week. And I was off last week, of
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: course for Memorial Day, and I did take some time
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: to meet with John McLaughlin, the President's Trump President Trump's
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: pollster MBB net and Yahoo's pollster to get his take on,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: you know, some of the primaries that were going on.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: And if you didn't hear that, you could see that
• 39:02
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• 39:04
  Speaker 4: Valdest dot com.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: But we've got President Trump's taking heat for all sorts
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: of things, right, I mean really everything. The Near Giants
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: quarterback Jackson Dart, he was in the hot seat because
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: he introduced President Trump at that event I was at
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: with the President and with Mike Lawler two Fridays ago.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable to see what's going on Lateland. It's
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: the warmer it gets. The less sense people tend to
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: make is what I can see. But anyway, there's some
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: big news coming out of the Middle East.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: There is yet another truce.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: This time it's Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: ceasefire with help from El Trumpito and Trumpitos. In all
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: this magnus to forty fifth and forty seventh president of
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: these United States.
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: Breaking today, Iron's terror proxy has below, rejecting a ceasefire
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: agreement between Israel and Lebanon that could be key to
• 39:57
  Speaker 11: a Trump broker peace deal with Tehran or sinew White
• 39:59
  Speaker 11: a score fan.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Peter Doucy is on the North Lawn with.
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: The latest, and Peter, a lot of people might be
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: shaking their heads to say, what does a designated foreign
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: terror organization even have a seat at the table?
• 40:08
  Speaker 12: Yes, exactly, John, And when President Trump looks at that
• 40:12
  Speaker 12: ceasefire that is very fragile, and also the ceasefire with Iran,
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: he's trying to reframe cease fire, basically saying that even
• 40:21
  Speaker 12: though missiles and bombs are still flying out of Iran.
• 40:24
  Speaker 12: It's all relative.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Line ceasefire.
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: Pretty much, say it is. It's a different part of
• 40:31
  Speaker 13: the world, you know.
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: I'd say that part of the world.
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: Ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: President Trump is big mad at the House of Representatives,
• 40:40
  Speaker 12: posting yesterday in a meaningless vote, the House voted for
• 40:44
  Speaker 12: bad Republicans and all of the Democrats to limit my
• 40:46
  Speaker 12: war powers right in the middle of my final negotiations
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: to end the war with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: Who would do such an unpatriotic thing. They know where
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: the negotiations stand. That vote is symbolic for now. So
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: the President is moving forward with plans to wear the
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: Iranians down with diplomacy or with war fighting until they
• 41:07
  Speaker 12: fork over enriched uranium, something President Trump claims they agreed
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: to until they didn't.
• 41:14
  Speaker 13: It depends on what day you're talking about.
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: They did agree, and then sometimes they agreed. The only
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: ones US and probably China are the only two countries
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: that have the equipment where you can do that.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I want to get it.
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: We have at different times, at different I mean, they've
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: changed your mind a couple of times, and.
• 41:32
  Speaker 12: About an hour and forty five minutes from right now,
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: President Trump is going to host an event about clean coal.
• 41:37
  Speaker 12: But we do expect some Q and A because we
• 41:40
  Speaker 12: typically get it from him.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: That's Peter Doocy with the Fox News Channel. And again
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: this fragile piece deal is in the works. President Trump
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: all but breaking his arm, patting himself on the back
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: for negotiating peace. I say good for you and Trumpet
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: that you deserve it, as does the world need this reprieve.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: But it opens the door for what exactly did El
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Trompicto do and say. And I think he gives us
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit of the insight into that and his
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: negotiations with Netan Yahoo, which are frequently the target of
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: much speculation.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Listen to this now.
• 42:14
  Speaker 13: Axios reported that you had a phone call with BB Netanya,
• 42:17
  Speaker 13: who the Prime Minister of Israel, in which you are
• 42:20
  Speaker 13: angry with him. You said that you efing crazy? What
• 42:22
  Speaker 13: are you efing doing? I helped you stay out of jail.
• 42:27
  Speaker 13: Is that true? Did you speak to him in those
• 42:29
  Speaker 13: childs I did? I always say angry.
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: I was a little bit perturbed at his u constantly
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: fighting with Lebanon. You know at some point a should
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: beb we got to step this, you got to stop it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: But I have a very good relationship. We've done well,
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: done well together. He always says we could never have
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: done it, but everybody knows that we could have never
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: done it without the United States. But we've we've I've
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: worked very well together. I like BB a lot, and
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: I've worked very well with him. We had a you
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: know where I'm a wartime president, he's a wartime prime minister,
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: very important part of the world, and I think we've
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: done very well. We've gotten along very well.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: And I think we've done very well.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course they've done very well. I mean, look,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: this stuff isn't easy. It's not easy to pull these
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: things off. And Trumpito is pulling it off. So I
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: always give him kudos. People try to say, oh no,
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: because the price of beef, and because the price of gas,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: and because of this and the people and the wars
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: and this, and that it's over. The people just love
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: to hate on Trump, and I just say, listen, we
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: can wind down this war, which looks like we're getting closer.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: We can slow things down for other countries in terms
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: of their growth with their aggression towards other people. Right,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: that's a good thing.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: If we can slow down putin, that's a good thing.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: We can focus on growing our economy domestically. These are
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: all good things. So I'm with you. I am with you, sir,
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: But I see that. Now let's continue. First, there was
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: a tunnel discovered in a home in California. Now they've
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: got a tunnel that leads right to a store in
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: a shopping mall.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable. Listen to this.
• 44:13
  Speaker 11: Wana that like well shocking new video shows across border
• 44:17
  Speaker 11: tunnel and Tijuana that likely connects all the way to
• 44:20
  Speaker 11: a well known street in San Diego. This tunnel is
• 44:23
  Speaker 11: about eight hundred and seventy feet long, twenty one feet deep,
• 44:26
  Speaker 11: and has operational infrastructure, including lighting and ventilation. Mexican authorities
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: found the tunnel while they were carrying out a search
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: at a residence looking for firearms and explosives. Officials say
• 44:39
  Speaker 11: that the property may have been used as a storage, logistics,
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: and trafficking center for weapons, explosives, and other substances. DHS
• 44:46
  Speaker 11: says it will conduct an investigation.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: So listen to this.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: A ton of cocaine like a literal ton two thousand
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: pounds were recovered in this bust with this secret US
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Mexico tunnel, The federal prosecutors are now charging four different
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: suspects with trafficking more than one ton of cocaine for
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, using a fake retail store
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: in San Diego as a front for this really sophisticated
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: tunnel that ran across the border all the way into Tijuana.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Isn't that wild. Defendants include two Mexican nationals and two
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Americans charge with conspiring to traffic drugs across the US
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Mexican border. And these suspects are now ranging an age
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: between eighteen and thirty two years old and face sentences
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: that could put them behind bars for a really long time.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: One of them greg Orio et Pifinio Hernandez Lopez.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: It's a lot of names.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: He also faces the charge of constructing, financing, or using
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: unauthorized tunnels, which is a crime that he didn't know that.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Agents from DHS, Homeland Security HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, the
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: investigative branch of ICE, and Immigration Customs Enforcement, they started
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: surveilling this San Diego store called Buy for Less, located
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: near the O Te Mesa border and back. On May
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: twenty ninth, the agents observed suspects gathering in three different vehicles,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: saw them loading up a truck with deep freezers, and
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: these freezers were filled with packages. San Diego County Sheriffs
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: conducted a traffic stop on the truck, where drug sniffing
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: dogs flagged the packages. They began searching the other vehicles
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: and voile La elicited drugs, so the cops confiscated a
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: total of more than two two hundred and fifty pounds
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: of cocaine, according to the United States Attorney's Office for
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: the Southern District of California.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: After these arrests, federal agents.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Searched the premises set at San Diego by for Less,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: where they found a five hundred and fifty one feet
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: deep tunnel by using a sophisticated hydraulic lift. According to
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: the complaint, the tunnel existed more than a thousand feet
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: to the US Mexico Border officials suspect that it continued
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: for another eight hundred feet into the Mexican city of Tijuana.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: This tunnel was about four and a half feet tall,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: operated using a rail and cart system. It was equipped
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: with electricity and ventilation. So if you were on your
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: knees in that four and a half foot space, you
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: could just kneel down on one of these little electric
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: go karts and.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: It would move you all around.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Isn't that wild? I think that's wild. This is how
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: they do what they do. Another thing that they're doing
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: in the world of drugs, they're using this veterinary tranquilizer
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: called xylazine and on the street it's known as trenk
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: because it is an animal tranquilizer. People are buying small
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: bottles of it and taking a little bit at a
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: time because they don't want to overdo it. And guess
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: what this stuff causes. Lesions, bloody sores where you'll have
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: open wounds all over your body. It's one of the
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: side effects of this drug. It's freaking wild, literally zombie stuff,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: and they call it trank.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: Check this out from CBS News.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Your GLP one medication costs six times more than it
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: has to.
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: The White House is warning Americans about a potentially lethal
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: cocktail of drugs known as trenk. Dealers are mixing fentanyl
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: with an animal tranquilizer called xylazine, and officials are now
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: reporting this in nearly every state.
• 48:34
  Speaker 14: It's completely incapacitated to It put me down for several,
• 48:38
  Speaker 14: well about two hours.
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: Thirty seven year old Chandler, who doesn't want his last
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: name used, is in recovery. He believes he was given
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: a mixture of fentanyl and another powerful drug called xylazine.
• 48:50
  Speaker 14: I later found out that they called it trank. It
• 48:52
  Speaker 14: was a terrible experience for me. I didn't enjoy it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 14: I didn't like it.
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized fentanyl mixed with xylazine
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: in all but two states, with the South reporting the
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: greatest increase of overdose deaths and Georgia deaths involving xylazine
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: have jumped from fifteen and twenty twenty to one hundred
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: and eighty three last year.
• 49:12
  Speaker 12: Xylozeine's cheap a kilo in Puerto Rico is three hundred dollars.
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: Dan Salter worked for the DEA for more than thirty years.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: What can you tell people about the effects of xylazine.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: That's used for large animals is not for human consumption
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Most of the time. When you cut Finland with xylazine,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have an overdose death.
• 49:32
  Speaker 15: Xylazine and fentanyl combined have been described as the deadliest
• 49:37
  Speaker 15: drug in the United States.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: Missy Owen and her husband run The Zone, a recovery
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: support organization in Marietta, Georgia. The couple has seen countless
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: lives cut short due to drugs, including their son, Davis,
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: who died at twenty from a heroin overdose in twenty fourteen.
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: Do you ever wonder what your son would say about
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: the work that you and your husband are doing.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, stop and think about that for a second.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: They lost their son twenty years old. It's heartbreaking. I
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: couldn't imagine losing the sun, and I couldn't imagine answering
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: a question like that.
• 50:10
  Speaker 15: Say Mom and Dad, y'all keep on going. These people
• 50:12
  Speaker 15: need you. And I don't want him ever to see
• 50:14
  Speaker 15: us not working hard to make a difference for people
• 50:18
  Speaker 15: that could have made a difference for him.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: As for Chandler, who struggled with a diction for years,
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: he says his life is now on a different path.
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: How are you doing today?
• 50:29
  Speaker 14: I have a piece of today that I've never known
• 50:31
  Speaker 14: and never experienced my entire life.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: You know, hope for the future in the face of
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: a growing crisis.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Wild stuff, very wild stuff. Trank TRANQ. Now in other news,
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: a seventy year old woman she inadvertently drove her a car,
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: a small hatchback one of those mas SUVs, onto the
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: Seattle Transit elevated overhead train and apparently she ends up
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: on the light rail and they were at a standstill
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: for a couple of hours.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: Wild right. She told the police that she witnessed what.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: She thought was her GPS just telling her to go,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: and she kept going until she was on the tracks.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Investigators and witnesses believe she entered the trackway at street
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: level near a street called Martin Luther King Way and
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: Walden Street, and then continued. The concrete embedded track initially
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: allowed her to drive on it before she continued on
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: it for nearly a quarter mile onto the elevated platform
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: going up a ramp. The transit company completely suspended the
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: one line, which is their train service between the stadium
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: and other stations that it runs to as emergency vehicles
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: had to come and you know, a crane had to
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: come in a back hoe and actually removed this car
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: from being on the train tracks. Again, just wild to me.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: You know, when I was a kid growing up, we
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: grew up on Avenue M in Brooklyn, and there is
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: the Avenue M Trains station, which wasn't far and that's
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: one of those overhead you know subways that go you
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: know when the subway comes up, and I'm just thinking,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: I never in a million years would have imagined a
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: car on the train tracks. Just absolutely wild. Anyway, Famdia,
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: that is a wild story. We're going to continue to
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: cover more wild stories. I've got a few other things
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: up my sleep, but I'm going to save some for
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: tomorrow's show. And I am absolutely looking forward to the
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: Talker's Conference that is coming up this Friday, the fifth
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: of June. I'll be presenting on one of the panels there.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Honored to be a speaker at that event. I was
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: a speaker last year at the Barrett Event. The Barrett
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  Speaker 3: Me is coming up this at the end of this month,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm looking forward to being in attendance there as well.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: It's a great networking opportunity for people in the media.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: And the point is, I love hanging out with radio people, right,
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• 54:50
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  Speaker 3: Use the expression there to salt the earth. That's how
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  Speaker 3: I feel about radio people. They don't get dressed up
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  Speaker 3: to come to work. They're very laid back, but they
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: do a good job at being humans for the most part.
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  Speaker 3: You know, every now and again you run across the
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