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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 10-7-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the morning on 710WOR,
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  Speaker 2: the voice of New York.
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  Speaker 3: Glory, hallelujah, I have one victory I can declare right
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  Speaker 3: here on the most listened to morning show and talk
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  Speaker 3: radio in New York City. Larry, Curtis, Natalie, and our
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  Speaker 3: magnificent listeners everywhere. As much as you lampooned me, Larry,
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  Speaker 3: because I know you were basically... having a good belly
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  Speaker 3: laugh at my expense, when I held the hand of
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  Speaker 3: Mayor Zoran Mondami.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you read that completely wrong. You read that
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  Speaker 2: completely wrong. I wasn't having a belly laugh at all.
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  Speaker 2: I felt good that you came out. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that it happened. And it explained a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: It explained it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, after yesterday, between you and Jimmy Failure and so
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  Speaker 3: many people making fun of me here on the floor
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  Speaker 3: of iHeart.
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  Speaker 2: I would never. I would never make fun of true love.
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  Speaker 2: I would never, ever make fun of it. It explains
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  Speaker 2: a lot. It explains why you'll never attack them. But
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  Speaker 2: now I get it. And I would do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I would do the same thing for the one I love.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Larry, put one up on the board.
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  Speaker 3: As a result of my self-sacrifice in getting that vaccine
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  Speaker 3: while holding hands with the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, his hands were not sweaty. Everybody who's
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  Speaker 1: asked me that.
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  Speaker 2: They were soft. Yeah. How'd they make you feel?
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  Speaker 1: No calluses like mine. Yeah, he had soft hands. But
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  Speaker 1: put one up in the victory chart.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Remember, the idea is to encourage people to get
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  Speaker 3: their flu vaccine.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie, our producer... Got her flu vaccine yesterday. Thank you, Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: You are so welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she.
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  Speaker 4: I was there for my annual physical.
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  Speaker 1: I had a list of vaccines that I needed.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll back up for a second. So you were
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  Speaker 2: there for your annual physical. You were going anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but I had a choice.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you had a choice to cancel or not? I
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  Speaker 2: had a choice of like 10.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you might not get an appointment for another
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  Speaker 3: six months if you cancel.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, everybody always wants to cancel that appointment, but
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh gosh, I'll never get in again.
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  Speaker 4: But I had a choice of about 10 different vaccines
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  Speaker 4: I could take yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, no, you know what? Curtis told me
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  Speaker 1: I should have a flu shot.
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  Speaker 2: She is such a suck up. She's an amazing suck up.
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  Speaker 4: Then I thought to myself, if I do it right now,
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to hold anybody's hand when I'm doing
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  Speaker 4: it because I'm here all alone.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Natalie, for that tactical air support, even if
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  Speaker 3: you embellished it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. You know how she lasted this
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  Speaker 2: long for so many hosts?
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  Speaker 1: Just there. Exactly that. I enjoyed that embellishment.
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  Speaker 3: But I just want to let everyone know the flu
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  Speaker 3: goes everywhere. Uh, in Japan where I have guardian angels,
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  Speaker 3: 37 straight days of rain, they never had a worse
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  Speaker 3: flu season. And you know, they're, they're all masked up
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  Speaker 3: all the time anyway. So they're flying back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have a open, uh, communication and travel
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  Speaker 3: with the Japanese. So you better believe as they land
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  Speaker 3: in America, some of that's going to spread. And the
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  Speaker 3: vaccine you get this year was created for the flu
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  Speaker 3: from last year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here, let me go through exactly how they do that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, very good.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor, doctor. Yeah, it's been explained to me a million
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  Speaker 2: times when I go to do a story on it.
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  Speaker 2: What they look at is the flu in the Southern
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  Speaker 2: Hemisphere because they have an opposite flu season than we do.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever flus are dominant there, that's what they make the
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  Speaker 2: vaccine for. And it's usually two or three. When you
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  Speaker 2: get a shot, it's for two or three strains of
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  Speaker 2: the vaccine. When there's a bad flu season, like the
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  Speaker 2: one you're talking about in Japan, they missed it. It's
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  Speaker 2: something that broke through. They didn't get their flu vaccine
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  Speaker 2: for the right flu strain.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hold on. I have KGO to.
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  Speaker 3: My international director coming in to have meetings about our
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  Speaker 3: international chapters. He's flying in from Tokyo. Are you trying
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  Speaker 3: to say everything I went through, holding the hand of
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  Speaker 3: the man, may have been for naught?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait a second. You love that moment. You said
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  Speaker 2: you were going to faint. We'll be playing again? No, no.
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  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: It's fine. All right.
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  Speaker 1: You might have to do it again.
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  Speaker 3: But I do want to pivot and shift because yesterday
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  Speaker 3: we just ran out of time.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great hour, 8 to 9. with Jimmy failure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you go to bed with him at night,
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  Speaker 3: nine to 12, you wake up with Larry and me
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  Speaker 3: in the morning at six.
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  Speaker 1: And Larry, you asked him about.
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  Speaker 3: Americans down on college education, this recent survey. He just
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  Speaker 3: brought his son up to a SUNY college upstate New York.
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  Speaker 3: You've had children in college.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie has two in college right now.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I have one in college. So We just started to
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  Speaker 1: get into it. It was so interesting. If you notice,
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  Speaker 1: I shut up.
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  Speaker 3: I was just listening to you and Jimmy failure, which
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  Speaker 3: is something I normally don't do.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd like to sort of.
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  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It was very interesting hearing his situation, your situation, Natalie's situation,
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  Speaker 3: and it really affects really most of America now because
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  Speaker 3: of what seems to be the shift in about the
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  Speaker 3: need to go to college, which when you and I
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  Speaker 3: grew up, Larry and Natalie, we were encouraged, got to
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  Speaker 3: go to college. You know, your parents, probably high school graduates,
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  Speaker 3: blue collar, you got to go to college.
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  Speaker 5: Now it seems like there's reverse osmosis. Yeah, I will
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  Speaker 5: tell you this. There's a reverse osmosis among the young,
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  Speaker 5: the ones that are going to go to college. You know,
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  Speaker 5: in our generation or the generation that comes right after us,
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  Speaker 5: it's still college is what you need to do.
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  Speaker 2: You need to get a good job. You got to
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  Speaker 2: go to college, you get a good job, you got
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  Speaker 2: to go to college. So that influences the kids that
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  Speaker 2: are coming up. What's really interesting. And it's what you're
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  Speaker 2: alluding to is that now, because there is this disenchantment
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  Speaker 2: on the future, a lot of it has to do
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  Speaker 2: with AI. They don't think the jobs are going to
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  Speaker 2: be there. And they don't think that the opportunities that
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  Speaker 2: their parents had will be there. And so they opt
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  Speaker 2: for other things. Some of them opt for just having
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  Speaker 2: fun and going and exploring and living their life and
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  Speaker 2: seeing the world at the expense of their parents. Others
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  Speaker 2: want to get into trade. Have you seen trade schools?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How their attendance has gone way up. Their enrollment is
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  Speaker 2: sky high. And it makes a lot of sense. You
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  Speaker 2: know you have a job. That's going to pay you
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  Speaker 2: six figures at a certain point in your life. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe more than that, depending on if you open a company,
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  Speaker 2: if you hire other people, then all of the sudden,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can be a multimillionaire. So they see
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  Speaker 2: that as a more likely path for them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had a conversation, young man who had
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  Speaker 3: graduated here in the city, aviation high school, technical high school,
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  Speaker 3: but high end.
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  Speaker 1: If you do five.
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  Speaker 3: Years, which you can do in that school in Queens,
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  Speaker 3: right under the seven train, You can go right into
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  Speaker 3: the field of airlines, maintenance, dealing with all the intricacies
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  Speaker 3: that an airplane needs to be able to fly and
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  Speaker 3: to do so safely. You could be making $ 150, 000 with
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  Speaker 3: five years.
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  Speaker 1: Aviation high school.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't even gone on a college yet or a
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  Speaker 3: junior college. So you're correct. There is such a limited
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  Speaker 3: number of the needed personnel. And we can't really bring
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  Speaker 3: in foreigners the way we used to so much is
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  Speaker 3: that we don't have enough Americans who are trained to
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  Speaker 3: do these jobs. And they're good paying jobs, too, with
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  Speaker 3: a good career.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot. My son, my oldest son, who
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  Speaker 2: is near 40, was working for a high-end company in
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco. He got to work at home because he
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  Speaker 2: was working on making all of their videos for them,
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  Speaker 2: but also in learning all this stuff about network security,
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  Speaker 2: how to keep your network safe if you have a business.
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  Speaker 2: Big company, huge company. All of a sudden, they laid
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  Speaker 2: all these people off because they figured out, Many of
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  Speaker 2: the things they're already doing can be done by AI.
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  Speaker 2: And so he was one of the first ones to
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  Speaker 2: get hit by that. And now he's trying to rethink,
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  Speaker 2: what am I going to do for a career? What
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  Speaker 2: should I do now? Because what he did, that's being
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  Speaker 2: replaced nationwide by AI.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. Right off the bat, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I live in an apartment up west side. locksmiths, well,
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  Speaker 3: they're not enough. I mean, people constantly locking themselves out
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  Speaker 3: of their pockets. And you know, if you call them
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  Speaker 3: after hours, oh my God, it's like triple the normal amount.
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  Speaker 2: Plumbers, totally.
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  Speaker 3: Electricians, just go right on down the line. All the
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  Speaker 3: things that our dads and our uncles grew up learning
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  Speaker 3: in vocational high school and ended up doing very well
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  Speaker 3: for themselves, sometimes getting a small business if they had
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  Speaker 3: the desire. It's come full circle. We just don't have
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  Speaker 3: enough of those skilled people. And you're not necessarily wanting
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  Speaker 3: to hire an illegal alien, you know, who is doing
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  Speaker 3: that work in Calejico in Mexico, who, you know, never
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  Speaker 3: had an apprenticeship. You don't know where they learned their skills.
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  Speaker 3: You know, do they know the difference between the red
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  Speaker 3: wire and the blue wire? So you are absolutely correct,
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  Speaker 3: but there can be a way to conflate the two.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there can be. And he's still trying. And in
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  Speaker 2: the meantime, he's got like four other jobs that he's
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  Speaker 2: put together, sewed together to make a living. But what's
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  Speaker 2: really fascinating is as many people that are getting into
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  Speaker 2: the plumbing and the electricians and all the trades, there's
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  Speaker 2: still a great need for it. I mean, have you
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  Speaker 2: ever tried to hire a plumber? I mean, I'll get
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  Speaker 2: to you in 10 days. No, no. There's water all
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  Speaker 2: over my floor. Can you get over here so.
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  Speaker 3: And the next reason we have to do this is
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  Speaker 3: to save the job that Natalie's daughter has because she
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  Speaker 3: works in a university.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, works in higher ed.
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  Speaker 3: And so if all of a sudden some of these
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  Speaker 3: universities start, if not just closing, but eliminating classes and
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  Speaker 3: opportunities for higher education, Natalie's daughter may be suddenly a
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  Speaker 3: lifetime resident of your basement.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. She is right now, but we do let her
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  Speaker 1: up on the second floor.
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  Speaker 2: You let her up on the second floor to visit?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 4: She is welcome for as long as she wants and needs.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure she would love to live somewhere else, honestly. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want to hear from our listeners. How can
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  Speaker 1: our listeners weigh in on this, Larry?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the same way they always can. Go to the
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