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"Labor Day Postmortem" (FTTxJT Tue 090826 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at the steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leads for work when the sun comes up, drops.
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  Speaker 4: A kid to school, don't know where.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 6: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 7: whatever day.
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  Speaker 8: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Shaking it off. There's a societal feeling after Labor Day
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  Speaker 7: weekend that you have that fugue that you really can't
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  Speaker 7: put your finger on, can you?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, yeah. Way to pick them up, Joe. Good job.
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  Speaker 7: Happy good morning, everyone. Don't you feel bummed out? No,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's the day, and a lot of societal
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  Speaker 7: experts will tell you it's the days getting shorter. It's the,
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  Speaker 7: you know, now school's kind of back in. It's the
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  Speaker 7: last real holidays until Thanksgiving. So it seems like there's
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  Speaker 7: a long road of you know, just grind it out
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  Speaker 7: four yards in a cloud of dust stuff. That's why
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  Speaker 7: you have to. And I did years ago. I can't
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  Speaker 7: even put a finger on when it became my business model,
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  Speaker 7: if you will, the programming philosophy of my show is
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  Speaker 7: I don't get all bent out of shape about the
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  Speaker 7: holidays and and these landmarks and all these other things
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  Speaker 7: because there's way more time spent in the interims. You know,
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  Speaker 7: you've got, what, 20, 30 holidays a year and 334
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  Speaker 7: other days doing other things. It's just the way I am.
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  Speaker 7: It's not dismissive of holidays. I love them. They're wonderful,
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  Speaker 7: but they're a moment and they cause tumult. I will
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  Speaker 7: confess to you that holidays tend to annoy me sometimes
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  Speaker 7: because it gets in the way of the everyday stuff
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  Speaker 7: that you and I try to do and just make
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  Speaker 7: sense of it all. And they're important. I'm not denying that.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just saying that it throws a spanner into the works.
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  Speaker 7: It's takes bandwidth away from the planning of the stuff
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  Speaker 7: you need to hear about each morning. That being said,
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  Speaker 7: there are important ones coming, but it's why people are
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  Speaker 7: kind of, you know, if you have to interact with
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  Speaker 7: other carbon life forms this morning, cut them a break
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  Speaker 7: a little bit because they're having that post-Labor Day.
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  Speaker 2: Moment.
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  Speaker 7: Give them that. Bring them a cup of coffee or tea,
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  Speaker 7: whatever their beverage is. By the way, Canadian Club, as
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  Speaker 7: far as I can tell, not distilled in Canada, so
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if it's part of the tariffs that
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  Speaker 7: were applied as of one minute after midnight today. The
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  Speaker 7: retaliatory tariffs hit the marketplace, covered $ 27. 6 billion worth of U.S. imports,
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  Speaker 7: or roughly about 5% of what goes up and comes down,
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  Speaker 7: ranging from 15% to 50%. Targeted products include steel and aluminum,
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  Speaker 7: dairy appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, plastics and electronics.
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  Speaker 7: Of that community, the dairy producers are the ones who
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  Speaker 7: get hit the hardest. Oil prices climbed to a six-week
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  Speaker 7: high on Labor Day, with Brent crude just falling short
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  Speaker 7: of $ 100 a barrel, $ 97. 52. was where it settled in
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  Speaker 7: after reaching $ 97. 93 a barrel. President Trump is on his
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  Speaker 7: way to Texas to headline both nights of the Republican
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  Speaker 7: Party's first ever midterm conventions. He'll give keynotes in both
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  Speaker 7: the opening night and closing night, as well as speeches
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  Speaker 7: by many of the notable Republicans running for re-election or
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  Speaker 7: leading into the midterms and J.D.
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  Speaker 9: Vance.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump on Monday vowed that Republicans would win the
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  Speaker 7: November midterms in a combative message for the holiday. He
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  Speaker 7: said to his Truth Social account, Happy Labor Day to all,
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  Speaker 7: including the radical left lunatics, communists, and Democrats who will
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  Speaker 7: do anything possible to destroy our country. New York City
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  Speaker 7: Mayor Zorhan Mamdani announced Monday that he will attend Friday,
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  Speaker 7: September 11th, remembrance ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the
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  Speaker 7: terror attacks. His predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, said on Newsmax, having
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  Speaker 7: lost friends there and being very close to many of
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  Speaker 7: the families, it offends me that he is coming. A
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  Speaker 7: wave of Houthi rebel attacks in Saudi Arabia on Saudi
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  Speaker 7: Arabian forces Tuesday wounded more than 70 people in ignited
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  Speaker 7: fires at several oil facilities. It's an escalation of conflict
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  Speaker 7: and a renewed conflict between the ally and the Iranian-backed
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  Speaker 7: rebels in Yemen. And state media in Iran on Monday,
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  Speaker 7: that's the New York Times, said a ballistic missile with
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  Speaker 7: new capabilities is ready to be rolled out. Those were
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  Speaker 7: our first things this morning. And I'll tell you something
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  Speaker 7: I've I did another weekend's worth of yard work, plus
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  Speaker 7: we're getting packed up for our trip to Shanksville for
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  Speaker 7: our special broadcast Thursday and Friday from the Flight 93 Memorial,
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  Speaker 7: getting all sorts of things laid in there. And I
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  Speaker 7: realized yesterday we were in the studio for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us do what we do for
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  Speaker 7: you each morning. And part of that is by going
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  Speaker 7: our 9-11 coverage. We're going to be in Shanksville for
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  Speaker 7: the 25th anniversary and some emails questioning that. Why am
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  Speaker 7: that comes out of there. But We'll get into all
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  Speaker 7: of that. You're welcome. Claptrap is one of my favorite
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  Speaker 7: chew toy a little bit to me. At 434-882-4217 this morning.
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  Speaker 7: But I was just struck and fascinated. Dude is going
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  Speaker 7: to be in court this morning. It's an eighth grade dropout.
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  Speaker 7: That in and of itself is not it. Unique occurrence.
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  Speaker 7: I imagine he is not the only eighth grade dropout
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  Speaker 7: that's going to be inside a courtroom this morning. But
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  Speaker 7: this guy, now 22 years old, named Malone Lamb. See, Amish?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's kind of an Amish name, isn't it? Well,
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  Speaker 7: I know living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 7: families named Lamb. Anyway, so this Malone Lamb, he's 22 now.
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  Speaker 7: But back before he had even become old enough to drink,
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  Speaker 7: he had organized an Ocean's Eleven scam. But instead of
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  Speaker 7: having to do all the work, like build fake casino
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  Speaker 7: vaults and things like that, they just figured, oh, it
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  Speaker 7: will just call people who are invested into cyber coins, bitcoins, etc. Now,
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  Speaker 7: what fascinates me about this is that It would be
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  Speaker 7: easy for me to envision cryptocurrency investors as being somewhat
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  Speaker 7: more tech savvy than what these kids were able to
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  Speaker 7: pull off. Now, understand, at the time of this crypto
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  Speaker 7: heist in 2024, none of these people were over the
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  Speaker 7: age of 21. And they called multiple victims, stole thousands
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  Speaker 7: of Bitcoin from multiple people. But the one that stunk
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  Speaker 7: out is Victim 7. And understand, Lamb is in court
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  Speaker 7: today about this. This happened in August of 2024. When
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  Speaker 7: they called Victim 7, and they had a very sophisticated,
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  Speaker 7: they used telephones. sophisticated telephone phone call in which they
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  Speaker 7: read a script. And then they had someone else use
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  Speaker 7: a telephone. They read a script. And what they managed
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  Speaker 7: to do, and maybe I'm sensitive to this because I
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  Speaker 7: nearly ruined the technology at the station because I was
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  Speaker 7: just a little too smart for my own good on Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Notice my batteries were dying very quickly in my laptop.
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  Speaker 7: And so I downloaded some of the cleaning software, crap
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  Speaker 7: cleaner and all that stuff. And I'm usually pretty good
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  Speaker 7: of just asking it to do certain things. Go through here,
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  Speaker 7: look for registry, but they've changed. So it's not so
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  Speaker 7: easy for you to just say, let me see where
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  Speaker 7: my registry is behaving badly or anything like that. Now
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  Speaker 7: you just have to accept that it said, yeah, we
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  Speaker 7: found a bunch of things in your registry. Do you
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  Speaker 7: want to fix it? And I hemmed and I hawed
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  Speaker 7: and I hit yes. And then the start menu and
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  Speaker 7: the settings access on my Windows software went away. You
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  Speaker 7: don't realize how important stuff like that is until you can't, like,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, work on the volume controls or find
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  Speaker 7: any of your software. And I spent about four hours
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  Speaker 7: that I didn't have yesterday going back and forth with
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  Speaker 7: people who are like, oh, no, just do this. And
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  Speaker 7: I must have been told to just do this 20 times.
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  Speaker 7: And in each case, it didn't work because for some reason,
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  Speaker 7: I'm the only owner of this computer. It doesn't think
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  Speaker 7: I'm the administrator. Tell me that's ever happened to you.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, most of us work in places where we're
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  Speaker 7: using some company equipment. So you understand. All right, that's it.
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  Speaker 7: but I'm the company now. How does my computer not
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  Speaker 7: know that I'm the administrator? There's no one else in there.
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  Speaker 7: But apparently they have to be told, okay, in this instance,
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  Speaker 7: I'm the administrator. It's a very weird hierarchy. So anyway,
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  Speaker 7: my little sidetrack into technology made me sensitive, perhaps, to
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  Speaker 7: what happened to Victim 7 in this cyber scam. Rather
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  Speaker 7: than come up with some non-fungible token or some other
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  Speaker 7: exploit that they could try to get onto this guy's computer,
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  Speaker 7: they used this new invention called the telephone. And after
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  Speaker 7: the second telephone call in which they committed fraud, the
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  Speaker 7: first phone call, Lamb said he was a Google representative. saying, hey,
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  Speaker 7: we just saw that somebody tried to break into your account.
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  Speaker 7: We caught it, but we want to make sure you're okay. And,
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  Speaker 7: of course, victim seven went in there and said, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: all my Bitcoins are still here. It's great. And then
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  Speaker 7: a second telephone call came saying that they were from
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  Speaker 7: Gemini Crypto Exchange, which they did happen to know was
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  Speaker 7: his crypto banking business or one of them that he
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  Speaker 7: dealt with with his Bitcoins. saying that there was a
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  Speaker 7: malware attack at their company. I don't understand. This is
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  Speaker 7: how the economy is. No, it's not you. It's us.
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  Speaker 7: We had a malware attack, and it was trying to
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  Speaker 7: get into your crypto wallet, sir. So Victim 7, after
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  Speaker 7: these phone calls, is high tech. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 7: like sending a postcard to someone saying, hey, you need
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  Speaker 7: to check your passwords. So he gave these two folks
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  Speaker 7: access to his Google Drive passwords and what to your
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  Speaker 7: wondering eyes should appear but a big zero where 4,100
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  Speaker 7: Bitcoin had been laying just moments earlier. He was a
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  Speaker 7: long time crypto investor and It reminds you that these
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  Speaker 7: are folks who are supposedly the tech-savvy ones, and you
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  Speaker 7: know what they got done in with? A telephone. And
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  Speaker 7: it's a reminder that all the software and all the
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  Speaker 7: hardware in Christendom doesn't make up for the foolability, failability,
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  Speaker 7: or just enthusiasm, the... false sense of security that one
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  Speaker 7: gets in that one bit of the computer system that
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  Speaker 7: is the most breakable, the part that I refer to
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  Speaker 7: as the liveware.
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 7: So we're talking about going off to Shanksville for the
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  Speaker 7: Flight 93. I know I said I love you.
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  Speaker 6: I know you know it's true. I'm not to put
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  Speaker 6: the phone down. You do what we love.
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  Speaker 4: One's standing in the highway.
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  Speaker 6: Two more at the door.
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  Speaker 10: So, you know.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, this program will have concluded by the time
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: the second plane hit the World Trade Center tower and
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: it will have been over for her. an hour and
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: change before the plane came down in Shanksville. But our
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: point to being there on Thursday and Friday is to, again,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: highlight to you and all that you can gather with
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: you that this is a uniquely American event. Where civilians,
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: as we did in 1775 and six and seven, took
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: up experience. those who sought to do us harm, those
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: who sought to usurp our independence and our liberties, even
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: in sacrifice. And I know that on September 11th, there's
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: going to be a lot of ceremonies. We're going to
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: come 830 that morning. you know, we normally would be
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: at our friends at City Elders, but we're going to
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: be live from the Flight 93 Memorial this Friday. And
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: there'll be, you know, observances beginning around 8.30, so we're
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  Speaker 7: going to tap in to some of that, the Bells
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  Speaker 7: of Remembrance. I have not in person seen the memorial.
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  Speaker 7: I was last in Shanksville on the fifth anniversary of
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  Speaker 7: the attacks when there was still just a chain link
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: fence where a parking lot had been, and it was
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: a makeshift memorial, which I understand that the National Park
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: Service and the developers of the memorial worked into the
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: memorial that's been built, which I think is neat because
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: for many years, that was the only way anyone could
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: pay homage to those folks. I've checked the schedule. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: don't see the Westboro Baptist scheduled to be there, which
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: means I won't be accosted or told I'm going to hell.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: I'm not bringing my kids, but they're all much older now,
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: and I think they're immune to it. But when they
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: were like four years old, being told you're going to
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: hell because of your father is a little bit damning. So,
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: you know, pardon me if I'm still salty 20 years later.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: But some of these things you hang on to. There's
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: going to be an afternoon ceremony if you're coming to
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: Shanksville at the Wall of Names. There's a luminaria ceremony
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: on the 12th where people will be lighting candles for
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: the memory of those who are on Flight 93. There's
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: apparently also a chalk portrait display On one of the
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: walkways there, one of the artists, local artists, had created
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: these chalk drawings of all the folks who are remembered there.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: And I'm just curious. I've looked to see how it's
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: built in. Being there on the fifth anniversary, you could
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: still see the physical scars of the crash into the
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: tree line and all and how they've managed to work
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: all that in. uh, to this memorial is interesting. I'm
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: also 20 years. Hence one of the things I noticed, uh,
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: the folks who live in and around and work in
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: the Shanksville area, um, already within five years of it
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: had sort of, uh, I can only compare it to
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: the look in the eyes of those who live in Bethel,
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: New York. Um, who every August are descended upon by
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: all the folks who come to reenact Woodstock. And they
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: didn't ask for it. They didn't plan for it. Nobody
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: held meetings. Nobody voted to make them the focal point
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: of this kind of stuff. And they accepted and they're
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: kind and they're open-hearted about people. But in the back
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: of their heads, it's like, this weekend again. And it's
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: going to be worse than ever. And they're just trying
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: to get through and trying to find jobs in mining
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: towns that don't mine anymore. And the economy ain't great
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: there in western Pennsylvania still to this day. So it's
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: a tough go. And a lot of folks, you know,
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: gird up their loins and understand the tourism that comes
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: around this ignominy, this place in history that they didn't
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: ask for. but we'll accept our visitations and all. So
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  Speaker 7: if you go to Shanksville this September 11th, tip generously,
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  Speaker 7: buy that extra cup of coffee, buy one for the server. Say, hey,
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  Speaker 7: buy yourself a cup of coffee as well. They're working
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  Speaker 7: very hard to live through a marker in history. They
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: didn't ask for there. And that was one of the
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: things I was struck by 20 years ago, the first
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: time we went to Shanksville. Kareem is hanging on the
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: line with us there. I was asked if any celebrities
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: are announced yet. I imagine Governor Shapiro will be amongst
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: the speakers. I've been told that Tom Ridge is.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: No, because he passed. In any event, they're expecting Governor
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: Shapiro perhaps even Senator Fetterman to be there at these events.
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: Right now, it's mostly Flight 93 crew-related speakers, some former
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: United Airlines pilots and folks like that, leaders of the
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: families that are going to be speakers at this event. So,
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: you know, stay tuned, and we'll have full coverage for
• 34:52
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• 35:04
  Speaker 7: thank you for hanging on the line. What's on your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 22: Oh, there's a lot to pull from, but coincidentally, I
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• 35:13
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  Speaker 7: It's an interesting area. You know what I noticed living
• 35:19
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• 35:26
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• 35:40
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• 35:48
  Speaker 7: in Bethlehem and Philadelphia Jr. in Allentown there. But it's
• 35:54
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• 35:58
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• 36:02
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  Speaker 22: I can't tell you what feeling comes over me when
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• 36:22
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• 36:26
  Speaker 22: or 15 miles from the city I was walking. When
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• 36:35
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• 36:41
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• 36:43
  Speaker 22: But that's a good point, Joe. I'm glad that Bethlehem
• 36:46
  Speaker 22: Steel will be doing that. Did I hear correctly when
• 36:49
  Speaker 22: you were talking about Victim 7 from that phone scam?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:53
  Speaker 22: Lost 4,000 Bitcoin, over 4,000 Bitcoin in 2024?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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• 37:28
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 6: I am the coach.
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  Speaker 7: Here you go, Kareem driving through. But we still, for
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  Speaker 7: some reason, the amount of times the union.
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  Speaker 7: Leadership has failed the United States. You know, we love
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  Speaker 7: to hate on Congress people who have failed, you know,
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  Speaker 7: in their missions, in their campaigns. But I think there's
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  Speaker 7: a lot of instances where we could be salty about,
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  Speaker 7: you know, union leadership not exactly being, what's the word,
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  Speaker 7: truthy about what they were all about. But Kareem, you
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  Speaker 7: had a thought you wanted to share about This coming week, right?
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  Speaker 22: Joe, looking forward to this week. We come off the
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  Speaker 22: Labor Day in which we had, I don't know the
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  Speaker 22: final death toll, but all those worker strikes. We have weekends.
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  Speaker 22: We have benefits because of the actual bloodshed that people
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  Speaker 22: did protesting work. And for anybody who's listening who doesn't
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  Speaker 22: really know, they hear the stories, they don't really see
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  Speaker 22: the footage. Harlan County, USA is a documentary that came
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  Speaker 22: out in the 70s. And it's just about coal mining. And,
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  Speaker 22: you know, people look at coal mining in Kentucky and
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  Speaker 22: they think, oh, justified. Well, before justified, it was Harlan County, USA.
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  Speaker 22: I want to say it got an Oscar. I'm not
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  Speaker 22: really sure about that. But it goes through the difficulties,
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  Speaker 22: the strife of just a very small town going through
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  Speaker 22: trying to get rights. And but here we just celebrate labor.
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  Speaker 22: And then within the same week, we're going 9-11. And Joey,
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  Speaker 22: it comes and goes, but if we don't go to
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  Speaker 22: those small areas, if we don't go to Shanksville, if
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  Speaker 22: we don't go and buy the extra cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 22: and people, when you go, use cash. It saves a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of hassle.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 22: But we have this, Andy, even though that's the only
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  Speaker 22: reason you're there, I think it's kind of important, like
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  Speaker 22: I keep saying, three generations to forget. But, Joe, I'm
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  Speaker 22: looking forward. Trump's going to give us, I'm going to
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  Speaker 22: get off the phone shortly, but Trump's going to give
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  Speaker 22: two nights of speeches in Dallas. I understand there are
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  Speaker 22: still hotel rooms available for anybody who wants to go
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  Speaker 22: stay there.
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  Speaker 7: They keep asking me to go. They keep saying, you know,
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  Speaker 7: we have press credentials for you, floor passes. I'm like,
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  Speaker 7: I have this other thing you might have heard of.
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  Speaker 7: And you know what? There's an interesting thing. President Trump
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  Speaker 7: and September 11th have never really been a connected thing.
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  Speaker 7: Have you noticed that he never really ran on September 11th?
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  Speaker 7: You know, a lot of presidents, they run, they speech.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump has never been, you know, he acknowledges the
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  Speaker 7: history of it. He acknowledges the impact of it. But
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  Speaker 7: he has always been sort of a live in the
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  Speaker 7: now guy anyway. But I just find it interesting that
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  Speaker 7: they would have scheduled this right up to September 11th
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  Speaker 7: and then get surprised when a lot of people are like,
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  Speaker 7: I got other places to be this week. So it's
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  Speaker 7: a weird scheduling for that. But it's very Trump-like to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I can fly to the Pentagon in a day, but
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  Speaker 7: not everyone can do that. So a lot of the
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  Speaker 7: media isn't going to be in Texas anymore. for this convention. So,
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  Speaker 7: you know, is it the tree falling in the woods?
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  Speaker 7: Is it a Newsmax exclusive? I don't know. But it'll
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  Speaker 7: be interesting to watch. On your point, though, about Labor
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  Speaker 7: Day and these small towns, I want to pick up
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  Speaker 7: on Bethlehem Steel and some of these industries that made
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  Speaker 7: America great in the first place. Because I think that
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  Speaker 7: there is something we can be learned, not just from
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  Speaker 7: the labor movement, but from the fruits of it, which
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  Speaker 7: is in a lot of cases that lost American manufacturing.
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  Speaker 7: But I'll let you get on with your driving. You
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  Speaker 7: enjoy the listening, and I'll get to monologuing here.
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  Speaker 22: Enjoy your show, Joe. Thanks for taking the call.
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  Speaker 6: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 4: And what does Baron Von Ruthless do? He starts monologuing.
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  Speaker 1: He starts monologuing.
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  Speaker 19: He starts like this prepared speech about how feeble I
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  Speaker 19: am compared to him.
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  Speaker 7: Well, first off, if anyone thinks that these are prepared speeches,
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  Speaker 7: you don't know me very well, do you? But in
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  Speaker 7: any event, but a point that just happened in conversation,
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  Speaker 7: there is an imbalance because we see Our labor relations
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  Speaker 7: as combat. We see them as a battle with a
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  Speaker 7: definable winner and a definable loser. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: lay this out here for you because it's bugged me
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  Speaker 7: for a long time. And I finally realized, because I've
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  Speaker 7: said for many, many years that employment enterprise is a relationship.
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  Speaker 7: And maybe it's because Americans view relationships as so transitory now,
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  Speaker 7: so much more so than we used to, that we
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  Speaker 7: don't do them very well. But you're entering into perhaps
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  Speaker 7: a relationship that's going to consume more of your time
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  Speaker 7: and attention than your social relationships, your marital relationships. But
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  Speaker 7: we tend to those much more ardently as we should.
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  Speaker 7: But your work relationships are still those. And I mean
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  Speaker 7: in both directions. As the Industrial Revolution was going on,
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  Speaker 7: lots of capital had to be invested into lots of
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  Speaker 7: facilities to build things. And nobody accepts that, that, oh,
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  Speaker 7: a rich guy built this. A lot of people spent
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  Speaker 7: a lot of money, and a lot of people became
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  Speaker 7: wealthy building this world. I like Lincoln's point. Labor is
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  Speaker 7: prior to and independent labor. Meaning you develop capital through work.
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  Speaker 7: You labor, you do something, you build a factory, you
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  Speaker 7: invent a manufacturing process. You perfect a style, a product
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  Speaker 7: of some kind. And because we have allowed over the
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  Speaker 7: 20th century is replete with people viewing the relationship rather
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  Speaker 7: than a relationship that you want to cultivate and keep
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  Speaker 7: special the way you would a marital one. We act
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  Speaker 7: like it's the war of the roses. And that we,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's a combat. And if I'm in labor,
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  Speaker 7: I want to win. And if you're in management, you
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  Speaker 7: want to win. And this is what is corrupting American
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  Speaker 7: business right now. We're like a toxic couple that just,
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  Speaker 7: you know, keeps storming out and sleeping on the couch
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  Speaker 7: or going to a motel and we come back and
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  Speaker 7: we We make up for a while, and then we
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  Speaker 7: have another big fight, and we storm out, and neither
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  Speaker 7: is ever happy with one another. And maybe we need
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  Speaker 7: that relationship worked on a whole lot more than we
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  Speaker 7: have been in the past.
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