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"Dodge Brothers Started this All" (Monday, April 27, 2026, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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  Speaker 2: He should be ashamed of yourself rating that jewort said
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  Speaker 2: steal me.
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  Speaker 3: A day.
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  Speaker 2: You know Max is gonna get mad at pleas.
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  Speaker 4: For work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 5: Drops a kid to scoos eying Jinder.
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  Speaker 6: All the josue no one that Joe's has smiled.
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  Speaker 7: He only as boy.
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  Speaker 2: He's got gas? Is that what they say about babies?
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  Speaker 8: I want to be Oh, look at little Joey's smiling.
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  Speaker 2: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I mean to put that in your head,
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  Speaker 2: but too late. Four three four eight eight two four
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  Speaker 2: two one seven. That is the phone number.
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  Speaker 8: Once I tell you what went on last night, you
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  Speaker 8: can join in the prey and tell us how it's
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  Speaker 8: impacting you where you are. Clark was hanging on the
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  Speaker 8: line when we had to run to the news. I
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  Speaker 8: still have this story of the Dodge brothers and Henry
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  Speaker 8: Ford really almost the original sin in this whole thing
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  Speaker 8: from my breakfast table to your radios in a moment.
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  Speaker 8: But Clark, what brought you to the phone before we
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  Speaker 8: went to the news.
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  Speaker 9: So let's see Joe. Early in the first hour, you
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  Speaker 9: did talk about they were protecting the jobs and their's
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  Speaker 9: jobs that Americans won't do.
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  Speaker 2: Right the illegals.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, when you pay people to set it home, don't
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  Speaker 9: be all like surprised when it's hard to get them
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  Speaker 9: to go to work. That's the thing number.
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  Speaker 8: One, especially the ones that didn't sit sit at home,
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  Speaker 8: like Congresswoman Sheriff Phillis in Florida, who was at five
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  Speaker 8: million dollars in COVID money she she stole.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Now, the thing number two, there's only one job that
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  Speaker 9: Americans won't do, and that's voting sufficient numbers to keep
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  Speaker 9: Democrats in power.
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  Speaker 8: Well, seven seven thousand dollars per vote in Virginia. The
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  Speaker 8: money is out there.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, well I wonder how much of that went to
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  Speaker 9: printing vote So apparently it's expensive to print ballots. Huh
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  Speaker 9: filled in ones?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 9: Now history, you had this Henry the second guy. I
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  Speaker 9: don't know what was that eight nine hundred years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one ridden me of this turbulent priest.
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  Speaker 9: Four nights hopped on a boat across the English Channel,
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  Speaker 9: and uh, they rid him of a turbulent priest. Well,
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  Speaker 9: let's see what fifty years ago, the Tato lobby Ampa murders.
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  Speaker 9: Did uh, Charlie Manson ever actually kill anybody, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not getting into that prior patch. But that was
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  Speaker 8: always his defense, which you know, long before rico charges existed.
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  Speaker 8: It was always his minions.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he sent people to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Now they go to prison for life. Yes he did.
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  Speaker 9: Now it looks like to me that we're averaging once
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  Speaker 9: every eight months the Democrats, the left send somebody to
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  Speaker 9: kill Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: This started the Republicans.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, they don't want to break tradition and bust a filibuster.
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  Speaker 10: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: We're in trouble, hey, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: What if? Well ten seconds for what if?
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  Speaker 11: What if people on the right every time say I
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  Speaker 11: don't know George or rather not in Georgia Carville. Every
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  Speaker 11: time Carville went on a ramt trying to send somebody
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  Speaker 11: to kill the president. What if somebody on the right
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  Speaker 11: suggested that, you know, somebody ought to go to thirteen
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  Speaker 11: thirteen Crazy Street, Ugly bald Grasshopperville and put a couple
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  Speaker 11: rounds behind Carville's ear.
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  Speaker 9: What would their response be on the left.
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  Speaker 8: In the right, oh no, the righteous indignation would be
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  Speaker 8: elbow deep Clark.
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  Speaker 2: It would be like, this is the kind of violence.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't Jim Jordan say, we need to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: this kind of violence, and we do. We do. This
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  Speaker 2: is French style terrors.
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  Speaker 8: But I must tell people what's going on in the
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  Speaker 8: world this morning, Clark, So you have a good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Keep doing it. Four three four eighty two four two
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  Speaker 2: one seven.
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  Speaker 8: Our first things this morning, President Trump had an attempt
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  Speaker 8: Maicula getting upset. But he rushed the stage at the
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  Speaker 8: correspondence dinner where the President was sitting and was tackled
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  Speaker 8: and has been taken into constandy by the Secret Service. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 8: the King of England, seeing this, made sure security was
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  Speaker 8: Tom Tillis, Republican Senator from North Carolina, says that now
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  Speaker 8: that the Department of Justice has lifted their investigation into
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  Speaker 2: From the Dodge Boys. Oh, those Dodge Boys.
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  Speaker 8: It's been an ad staple for the ram people. Were
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  Speaker 8: they now stillantis? Which still sounds like something you need
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  Speaker 8: penicillin for the so stillantis? The Dodge Boys proudly will
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  Speaker 8: wheel out this idea of these renegade brothers, the Dodge Boys,
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  Speaker 8: as part of their advertising trope whenever they feel like
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  Speaker 8: there's they've become too corporate to euro trash, whatever you
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  Speaker 8: want to call it. No, we're the Dodge Boys imagery
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  Speaker 8: of cowboys and horses. And the Dodge Boys actually are
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  Speaker 8: two fellows who really put us into this crony capitalist spin.
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  Speaker 8: They were not entrepreneurs who invented their own way of
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  Speaker 8: making hemispheric heads for their cars. They were actually minority
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  Speaker 8: shareholders of an automobile company called Ford, and they sued
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  Speaker 8: Henry Ford.
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  Speaker 2: You know what.
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  Speaker 8: They sued Henry Ford for paying his employees too much
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  Speaker 8: and charging too little for his automobiles. I kid you,
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  Speaker 8: not kid you not. Nineteen sixteen, Ford had been selling
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  Speaker 8: so many Model Te's you would have thought they were Mustangs.
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  Speaker 8: They had sixty million dollars in nineteen sixteen, which was
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  Speaker 8: actually real money back then in surplus, and they were
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  Speaker 8: the dominant auto manufacturer, though certainly not a monopoly.
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  Speaker 2: There were lots of other people making cars.
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  Speaker 8: They were just charging more, and they weren't as well
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  Speaker 8: put together by a workforce that really enjoyed working for
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  Speaker 8: Henry Ford. But the Dodge Boys felt like their dividends
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  Speaker 8: weren't high enough, so they sued to force Henry Ford
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  Speaker 8: to lower the cost of his employees, lower the wages
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  Speaker 8: he was paying his employees to match what all the
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  Speaker 8: other other car companies were doing. Because the court trial
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  Speaker 8: was based on the idea that Ford Motor Company, as
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  Speaker 8: a publicly traded corporation, had a fiduciary responsibility to its
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  Speaker 8: shareholders first, and the court agreed. Michigan Supreme Court affirmed
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  Speaker 8: reversed the injunction against Ford, and affirmed the dividend. The
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  Speaker 8: court held that directors must act primarily in the interest
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  Speaker 8: of shareholders, with holding dividends without valid corporate justification is
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  Speaker 8: an abuse of corporate discretion, and large expansions of manufacturing
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  Speaker 8: were within the board's discretion if they served the corporation's
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  Speaker 8: profit making objective. Now, this is a court saying that
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  Speaker 8: if you own a publicly traded company, and this goes
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  Speaker 8: into ESG, this all ties into what they did with ESG.
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  Speaker 8: Because ESG the leftists invented a way around that by
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  Speaker 8: inventing fake money, fake value, that investing in climate change
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  Speaker 8: nonsense that was going to actually cost the shareholders' money
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  Speaker 8: was somehow a value, a value to the community, and
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  Speaker 8: therefore within their fiduciary responsibility, as laid out in this
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  Speaker 8: nineteen sixteen court ruling where the Dodge Boys sued saying
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  Speaker 8: that Henry Ford was paying his employees too much and
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  Speaker 8: use the fact that the company was flush with cash
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  Speaker 8: and had surplus to invest in its business for their
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  Speaker 8: own greed. So I want you to think about that
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  Speaker 8: before before you buy your next Ram pickup truck. This
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  Speaker 8: company was born by these two guys said, we'll show them,
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  Speaker 8: will show them. Will go start a company that pays
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  Speaker 8: employees much less and charges much more to make us
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  Speaker 8: much more profit because the courts were on their side now.
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  Speaker 8: And this is sort of one of the beginnings of
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  Speaker 8: this whole idea of prevailing wage minimum wage.
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  Speaker 2: But think about that for a second. An American company.
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  Speaker 8: Sued and lost because they were paying their employees too
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  Speaker 8: much and charging too little for the product. And everyone
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  Speaker 8: who says, oh, the Supreme Court. Everyone loves to flog
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  Speaker 8: court rulings when they fit your narrative, right, whether it's
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  Speaker 8: Oliver Wendell Holmes and three generations of imbeciles are enough,
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  Speaker 8: or the Michigan Supreme Court siding with the Dodge Boys
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  Speaker 8: over Henry Ford. Partially because, to be fair, Henry Ford
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  Speaker 8: was a bit of a jerk and therefore a lot
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  Speaker 8: of people in Michigan didn't like Henry Ford personally, so
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  Speaker 8: when he wound up in a courtroom, there were judges
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  Speaker 8: who were friends with politicians who didn't like Henry Ford. Therefore,
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  Speaker 8: because Henry Ford was way more popular in Michigan at
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  Speaker 8: the time than well Donald Trump certainly, although I don't
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  Speaker 8: think Henry Ford ever went to a predominantly black church
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  Speaker 8: and spoke to them and didn't get shot at, by
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  Speaker 8: the way, Donald Trump goes to a predominantly black church
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  Speaker 8: in an all black neighborhood and doesn't get shot at,
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  Speaker 8: gets into a room full of journalists and does get
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  Speaker 8: shot at, saying, but.
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  Speaker 2: This is so when you say, how did we get
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  Speaker 2: here to this place?
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  Speaker 8: And I don't know who Henry Ford's lawyers were, but
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  Speaker 8: this judicial overreach.
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  Speaker 2: Begins us down this path.
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  Speaker 8: Where the company, the employer, doesn't have that do you, Oh,
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  Speaker 8: you must make profits for the shareholders. Well, yeah, but
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  Speaker 8: how do you do that? And I wish I had
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  Speaker 8: been a lawyer for the company, because we would have
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  Speaker 8: pointed out that the dominant position we had in the
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  Speaker 8: marketplace was because we were charging less for vehicles that
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  Speaker 8: we were making on our assembly line, and our assembly
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  Speaker 8: line workers were making more than the guys who are
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  Speaker 8: hand making cars out of you know, polished teak. And yes,
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  Speaker 8: you do have a responsibility as a corporate manager to
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  Speaker 8: make profit for your shareholders, but at some point you're
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  Speaker 8: also supposed to, you know, concern yourself with the customer.
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  Speaker 8: And that's where we lose it, because the customer of
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  Speaker 8: American industry should have been the end user, not the shareholder.
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  Speaker 8: How many companies fall apart in this day and age,
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  Speaker 8: there's a question for you, pose on it at four
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  Speaker 8: three four eight eight two four two one seven, stumble
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  Speaker 8: and struggle because they're not so concerned about the consumer,
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  Speaker 8: the customer that's in the store as much as they
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  Speaker 8: are with the customer that's on Wall Street. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: you know, faster than you can say astro Zeneca, I
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  Speaker 8: mean too soon. What about an insurance company? What's where
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  Speaker 8: is their most deviation?
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  Speaker 8: it's just the beginnings of baseball season. It's the beginnings
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  Speaker 30: He got invited to the Ravens camp. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 30: that later, okay, this week, but he did. He was
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  Speaker 30: Hey, we're pleased this morning to have a thirty nine
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  Speaker 30: year ven.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't mind I say.
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  Speaker 30: That because it just shows that, you know, he's pretty loyal.
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  Speaker 30: Bud Foster's with us, who is the the co host,
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  Speaker 30: Pail Defense Foundation that Joe talks about every weekday. And
• 29:30
  Speaker 30: but it's good to see and with everything that happened
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  Speaker 30: last week, of course I seen four and.
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  Speaker 2: Five times a week.
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  Speaker 30: It was after everything happened last week, and with Babcock
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  Speaker 30: stepping down, at my first thought was, all right, we
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  Speaker 30: got to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: Butt about it.
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  Speaker 30: But were you surprised that with Babcock resigned his position, I.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was. It was mixed.
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  Speaker 7: I've kind of felt like Witt was kind of coming
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: to his end, kind of at WIT's end, so to speak. Yeah,
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: no pun intended, But you know, just with you're seeing
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: this across the country right now, there are several prominent
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: athletic directors are stepping down, and it's just the landscape
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: of college athletics right now. And really, what's so to
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: say that I could see it coming. But at the
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: same time, I did not know that. I know his
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: contract ran to twenty twenty nine, and I thought maybe
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: somewhere in between now and then. But with the new
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: president going to be taking reins, I think it just
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: I think Wit is just aligning himself with the you know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: with the with what the process that the university is
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: going to go on. If they're going to hire a
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: president first and then hire an ad you know, I
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: am not for sure how that process will go, but
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: usually I think that's that that would probably be the case.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: But you know, all I can say is this, I'm
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: We've been very fortunate to be associated with with He's
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: been here twelve or thirteen years. He's taken great care
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: of me personally, you know, and I'm very grateful for that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 29: Uh.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Since my retirement from stepping away from from coaching, I've
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: been his kind of special assistant. Now this will be
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: year seven going into that, but that role. But you know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: he's done so much for in my opinion, for our
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: athletic department. And I know he gets hit hard because
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: the football program hasn't had the success that it's that
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: it once had, and but you know, all of our
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: other sports have have won conference championships, have have been
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: in national uh you know, been invited to national parties
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: so to speak, and that type of thing. You know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: But uh, I just uh, he's just been good for
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: the institution.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: He's good people.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: He's done it the right way, He's done it with integrity.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: He's always treated his coaches fairly.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: And uh, you know, he always thought of the student
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: athletes first, and and uh, you know, he's had a.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Great career here.
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: He's had a great career period, but really was a
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: great a d in my opinion here and you know
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: it's going to continue to show because he was involved.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: Obviously I was on the committee, the search committee to
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: hire James Wranklin. But in the end, you know, Witt
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: did all the negotiation with with the agents and doing
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: all those behind the behind the scenes work that need
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: to be done. And you know that's going to come
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: back that he's going to be a guy that really
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: re established Virginia Tech football and you know, and and
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: and that's deservedly so.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: But had a great career.
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: You know, I wish him the very best and I
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm I'm thinking he's probably gonna plan on
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: staying right here in Blacksburg and living out the rest
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: of his life hopefully.
• 32:41
  Speaker 30: But yeah, because I go ahead, No, I'm just gonna
• 32:44
  Speaker 30: say he becomes an emeritus a d and so he's
• 32:46
  Speaker 30: not even Blacksburg anytime soon.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: In the fact, he was born in.
• 32:49
  Speaker 30: Erisonburg and his dad coach baseball at JMU. You know,
• 32:53
  Speaker 30: he's been a Virginia guy for quite some time. So yeah,
• 32:56
  Speaker 30: it's exactly true. But you know, you said something I
• 32:58
  Speaker 30: want to touch on that. Let you talk about it too,
• 33:00
  Speaker 30: because the James Franklin, James Franklin was so meticulous in
• 33:04
  Speaker 30: his accepting the job. There wasn't a t not crossed
• 33:08
  Speaker 30: or and I not dotted from James Franklin what he did.
• 33:12
  Speaker 30: But I wanted you to expound on the fact that, yeah, Witt,
• 33:14
  Speaker 30: I know you had a lot to do with it
• 33:16
  Speaker 30: being on the committee, but but but Witt really sewed
• 33:20
  Speaker 30: that thing up. And with the the new launch of
• 33:23
  Speaker 30: the two hundred and twenty nine million fundraising, getting James
• 33:26
  Speaker 30: Franklin was a real coup.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: With you know, and I hate to say this, but
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: you know our athletics department we were kind of handcuffed
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: a little bit because of our financial situation that has
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: nothing to do with Wit. It has something to do
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: with you know what, what we were afforded across campus,
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: and you know, our fundraising area has done extremely well.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: I think we can improve on that though. But you know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: we we were handcuffed and Wit really did tremendous job
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: with the resources he was given. But I will say this,
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: I give him so much credit for step being up
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: to the plate in front of our board of visitors, uh,
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: to make the you know that, to really force their hand,
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: to make a commitment to are we going to be
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: involved and be a major player as as this next
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: landscape of college athletics moves forward, because you either have
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: to be all in or not. And you know, Virginia
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: Tech and college football needs Virginia Tech to be all in.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: And this community needs Virginia Tech football to be all in.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: This region needs Virginia Tech to be So went Went
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: recognized that, and and and and James recognized that.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I know this.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: That was part of the agreement with the James kind
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: of the twenty third hour that you know, there was
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: obviously you know, rumors about whi's future and uh, you know, James,
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: we we made that work out signed and signed it
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: on the dotted line. So to speak with doctor sands
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: that and our board of visits that you know, he's
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: going to be involved with the hire or the search
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: of the next athletic director, which I think that's important
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: because I think today the most notable person on your
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: campus probably right now, particularly in a power forward is
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: probably your football coach. I mean, you think about you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: who's who's the president or the a D at LSU
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: right now? You know, yeah, everybody knows.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Who the head football coach is. It sounds like it's
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Governor Landry.
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: In Virginia Tech, you know. And but those guys need
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: to be aligned. And James is such a forward thinker,
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: and I think that's the next hire and hires that
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: we need to have. I think, in my opinion, as
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: we can as college, as universities, as athletics continue to evolve,
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: we need to be able to evolve, and we need
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: to have forward thinkers in my opinion, in those positions
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: and and be aligned together as we move forward.
• 35:52
  Speaker 30: And I'm gonna I'm gonna definitely make this, Uh, there's
• 35:56
  Speaker 30: no there's no way you're throwing your hat in the
• 35:58
  Speaker 30: ring right to become a Virginia Tech.
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: That's all I got to say about that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: That's all I got to say about that.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: Hey, Bud, But I've got a question, And Mac and
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: I have kicked this around a few times though, you
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: know that the landscape of college athletics. I mean, there
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: was a story over the weekend that the kid from Miami,
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: Carson Beck, is going to take a pay cut for
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: being drafted to the Arizona Cardinals. And is there a
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: peril that college football? Can you know, kill the goose
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: that laid the golden egg? Get you know, spend too
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: much money, run out of advertisers, because I always worry that,
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: you know, these colleges now are putting themselves out there
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: where we're seeing professional teams struggle to you know, have
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: money to pay players.
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm you know, this is what's happening in college
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: athletics right now is non is not sustainable, and we've
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: got to get a grip on it. And I'm for
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: compensating these these student athletes, particularly in the revenue sports.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: Uh they and this is it's a full time job
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: to be a college student athlete. And but by the
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: same token, there needs we need some regulation, We need
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: a governing body, and and and and the however it
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: gets into a super conference or whatever it be, you know,
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: the powers that be.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: We need to get uh.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: I have a commissioner, in my opinion, or at least
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: a governing body that can can you know, we abide
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: by can be you have to be a rule follower
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: and those type of things. So uh, but we do
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: need to get it under control. And I think we're
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: making progress. But it's where it's like the tortoise.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, before the.
• 37:41
  Speaker 30: Air he listened to the athletic director, the new one,
• 37:46
  Speaker 30: but still got a he's still got a job at
• 37:48
  Speaker 30: Tech Bud Foster. So but thank you, have breakfast, I'll
• 37:51
  Speaker 30: talk shit, I'll talk to you. Thank you man Man Susan.
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  Speaker 31: I'm doctor Susan Reem of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
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  Speaker 31: When I speak with my patients, I urge them to
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  Speaker 21: Now I'm urging you.
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  Speaker 27: We depend on our drinking water supply daily, but where
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  Speaker 27: You to get to know your local water source so
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  Speaker 28: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, How would
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  Speaker 4: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who got.
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  Speaker 5: His first job for extra spending money about to help
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  Speaker 28: Who's in between jobs and sometimes goes to bed hungry
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  Speaker 4: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
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  Speaker 4: to get something to eat. Or a retiree who fell
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  Speaker 6: Had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
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  Speaker 28: I am the one in aid Americans who struggle with hunger.
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  Speaker 18: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
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  Speaker 1: Mh Amaze your friends here in the first Thing Today
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  Speaker 1: by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: And that's weird. Where's the there's supposed to be an
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  Speaker 4: Damer.
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  Speaker 2: That's his to the souldiers on the Bitter War.
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  Speaker 23: He's to the wall that mass their names.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first free in the morning coffee to you.
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  Speaker 23: Oh yeah, I wanted to take a moment when last
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  Speaker 2: Hanging out with us in the morning.
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  Speaker 8: And you might be driving around Chattanooga right now saying
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  Speaker 8: who is this guy? Where did this come from? I
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  Speaker 8: appreciate everyone. Eleven fifty am wgo w AM had a
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  Speaker 8: great time visited station. A few weeks back. On our
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  Speaker 8: way to Dallas, went up to Lookout Point, and you know,
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  Speaker 8: somebody had suggested broadcasting from up there. I'm like, see,
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  Speaker 8: I love see. I love places like Lookout Point. I
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  Speaker 8: don't like traversing to them. I have this weird bit
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  Speaker 8: of acroaphobia. I love being in tall places. I love
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  Speaker 8: sitting by the window and airplanes, I love doing all this.
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  Speaker 8: Don't make me climb stairs to get to it, though,
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  Speaker 8: if I.
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  Speaker 2: Can see it. Oh boy, it's just this weird thing.
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  Speaker 2: Once I'm there, I think as cool as anything. It's
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  Speaker 2: the it's the transition from down there to up there
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  Speaker 2: that can be a little daunting for old Joey there.
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  Speaker 8: But it was so cool up there. It was beautiful
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  Speaker 8: spot over the river and just a neat town. And
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  Speaker 8: looking forward to having a great time there with our
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  Speaker 2: And thank them for welcoming me into the.
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  Speaker 8: Fray there, and I appreciate you have four three four
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  Speaker 2: It was one of those things.
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  Speaker 8: It was weird because our friend put us on k
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  Speaker 8: wham the mighty nine to ninety in Memphis, and we've
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  Speaker 8: been to Memphis as well. That's a town that's had
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  Speaker 8: its days. I can understand why the Democrat mayor of
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  Speaker 8: Memphis is sitting down with the Trump administration saying what
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  Speaker 8: can you do to help reign in the crime. And
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  Speaker 8: it's a city that, just like so many others, you know,
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  Speaker 8: gets caught up into the trappings of being there's paper
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  Speaker 8: mill and all of these things that move out because
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  Speaker 8: you overplay your hand.
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  Speaker 2: And we all do it. We all overplay our hand.
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  Speaker 8: We all think we are that in a bag of chips,
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  Speaker 8: and so the peril of overplaying our hand is just
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: like I asked Bud Foster in the last segment, college
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  Speaker 8: football probably going to overplay its hand. Airlines overplaying their hands.
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: Got this text message on the subject of the airlines
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  Speaker 8: all asking for bailouts, the small ones, the quote, budget ones, Frontier, spirit, Velo, etc.
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  Speaker 2: He said.
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  Speaker 8: Marquise writes in Joe, what do you mean the government
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  Speaker 8: has an easy fix for this? You never elaborated apologies.
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  Speaker 8: You don't need to give the airlines big money.
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  Speaker 2: What you need to do is look at the.
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  Speaker 8: Landscape and how the portage gets sorted and you know,
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  Speaker 8: the fewer big carriers that you have, the more difficult
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  Speaker 8: it is for a budget airline to be useful or
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  Speaker 8: utilitarian to a traveler.
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  Speaker 2: And go back to our story about the Dodge Boys
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  Speaker 2: and their.
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  Speaker 8: Precedent setting lawsuit that said paying your employees more and
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  Speaker 8: charging less for your product isn't helping the shareholders, and
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  Speaker 8: gosh darn it, that's.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: What we expect you to do. So where is that
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  Speaker 2: tipping point?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you don't know. In each case it's different. But
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  Speaker 8: my concern, like with college sports, is you know, the
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  Speaker 8: advertising revenue drives up, just like it did with newspapers,
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  Speaker 8: and then you say, well, how are we going to
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  Speaker 8: cut costs when you've.
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  Speaker 2: Grown past where your utility is And newspapers never wanted
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  Speaker 2: to admit where their money went. Their money disappeared with
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: the classified ads. The classified ads were a cash cow,
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  Speaker 2: were all profit. You paid a couple of folks minimum
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  Speaker 2: wage to do data entry right out of college, or
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  Speaker 2: even college interns in some cases not even being paid
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  Speaker 2: at all to do to write.
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  Speaker 8: The entries into your classified charge.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Depending on the size of the city, you wouldn't believe them.
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  Speaker 8: There's several thousand dollars for an obituary notice in the
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  Speaker 8: New York Times, like, why would it cost a lot
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  Speaker 8: of money? I'm not going to gain anything out of it.
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  Speaker 8: My dad, who was who had that in his will,
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  Speaker 8: he's he's not going to become more popular if he
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  Speaker 8: pays one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: For an obituary. But it was cash. It was all cash.
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  Speaker 8: It was all profit because it didn't require the salary
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  Speaker 8: of a reporter that you're putting into harm's way to
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  Speaker 8: go allegedly get a story. But ego kept the newspapers
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  Speaker 8: a from addressing Craigslist when it started, and b admitting
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  Speaker 8: that's where their money was going. It's the same thing
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  Speaker 8: happens with the corporations who say people aren't listening.
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  Speaker 2: To the radio.
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  Speaker 8: The hell they say, people are listening to radio more
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: than ever. And every time there's an EBB and flow,
• 50:57
  Speaker 8: people in this industry get creative and come up with
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  Speaker 8: new kinds of content for you to tune into. We
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: used to call it programming, Now it's content because you know,
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  Speaker 8: we all have to invent our own words. But how
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  Speaker 8: responsive to your customers are you? And who are your customers?
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  Speaker 8: That's the key thing. So in the airlines you can
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  Speaker 8: lift some regulations. You can look at how the portage
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  Speaker 8: at these airports are.
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  Speaker 2: Being doled out. Because one of the problems.
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  Speaker 8: With Frontier and Spirit and some of these other airlines
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  Speaker 8: is they.
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  Speaker 2: Have really bad schedules.
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  Speaker 8: They can only get in early in the morning or
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  Speaker 8: out late at night, you know, twelve hour, fourteen hour layovers.
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  Speaker 8: So it becomes do we fly that or we drive
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  Speaker 8: whatever is your choice. You look at it and say, well,
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  Speaker 8: it is cheaper, but we have to spend twenty hours
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  Speaker 8: at the airport, or they make us go rent a
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  Speaker 8: hotel room down the street from the airport and come
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  Speaker 8: back in the morning. When are connecting flights about to lead,
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  Speaker 8: how are the airports making sure that everyone gets in
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  Speaker 8: and out and they have you know, some access serving
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  Speaker 8: the customer. Who is the customers the customer the shareholder
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  Speaker 8: or is the customer the guy who's seating in seat
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  Speaker 8: you know, row twenty nine, seat B.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 8: Capitalism, it's not with an O, it's with an A.
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  Speaker 8: It's the moving of capital, but it's the free access.
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  Speaker 2: To the capitol.
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  Speaker 8: Like if you're a fundraiser for a major American university,
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  Speaker 8: You're not the customer. The customer is the student and
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  Speaker 8: the student athlete and the people who go to these
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  Speaker 8: football games.
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