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"AFD or BFD?" (FTTxJT Mon 090726 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are here live because, well, what else would
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  Speaker 2: you do on Labor Day? But labor, right? Aren't we
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  Speaker 2: supposed to celebrate the things that make America exceptional? Our
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  Speaker 2: work ethic? Isn't that... What? No? It's about barbecue? Noun
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  Speaker 2: or verb? I mean, it's important. It's how you know
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  Speaker 2: what part of the country you're in. Pop or Coke?
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I know some pops who have too much coke, but
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  Speaker 2: that's a whole other matter. Really a blight on my
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood where I grew up. But otherwise, we are here
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  Speaker 2: for your Labor Day. And it is because many of
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  Speaker 2: you just don't get to have the whole day off.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe some of you at least get to have some
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  Speaker 2: of the time off. Maybe that's, you know, that's your
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  Speaker 2: update is that you get to take a little time
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  Speaker 2: to yourself. It's not a full day of work. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you just go in and you throw a couple of
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  Speaker 2: switches and then you head on back to the ranch,
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  Speaker 2: something like that. I mean, that's fun if you can
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  Speaker 2: do that. That's a little bit of some time off.
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  Speaker 2: But many of us, I mean, this is prime earning time.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that the phrase the service sector used
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  Speaker 2: to be all the rage in the day. But I
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  Speaker 2: think we're all in the service sector, aren't we? Isn't
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  Speaker 2: it all the service sector? Aren't we all part of
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  Speaker 2: a workforce that is working for someone else? All right,
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  Speaker 2: but you're still serving some position, aren't you? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: get the professionals. I understand that. But you're all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: finding some customer to serve somewhere, aren't you? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the point of it all is to find a
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  Speaker 2: customer and serve them. And the hard bit, of course,
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  Speaker 2: is figuring out who that customer is. You, you need
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  Speaker 2: to know what went on because, you know, the world
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  Speaker 2: doesn't take Labor Day. So there's lots to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously the horrific crash videos and things like that circulating.
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  Speaker 2: Amazon cargo plane crashed and caught fire yesterday afternoon after
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  Speaker 2: overrunning a run whale landing at Miami International Airport on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon. authorities shut down the airport, which threw a
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  Speaker 2: spanner into a lot of people's Labor Day weekend travel.
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  Speaker 2: Emergency crews responded to the scene. It was a Boeing
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  Speaker 2: 767 cargo aircraft operating as 21 Air Flight 7598. It
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  Speaker 2: had arrived from San Juan, Puerto Rico, when it overran
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  Speaker 2: the runway about 2 in the afternoon, according to the FAA.
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  Speaker 2: According to local officials, Sunday afternoon, at least five people
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  Speaker 2: were killed. They were not identified. War with Russia at
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  Speaker 2: the moment looks to be continuing into the winter, according
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  Speaker 2: to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Sunday, after he exited meetings
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  Speaker 2: with U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff in Kiev. Zelensky both gave
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  Speaker 2: upbeat assessments of the talk, but neither announced any breakthroughs
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  Speaker 2: ending the war with Russia. Billions in Iranian funds apparently
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  Speaker 2: are still flowing through U.S. banks, according to a report
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  Speaker 2: through the Treasury Department that was posted in the Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal on Saturday. Treasury Department has identified $ 9 billion
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  Speaker 2: in potential Iranian shadow banking activity that occurred in 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered unauthorized settler outposts
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  Speaker 2: on the West Bank to be dismantled. Sources said outposts
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  Speaker 2: consist of prefab caravans and houses and small numbers of settlers.
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  Speaker 2: Netanyahu reportedly has said if they don't dismantle them, they
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  Speaker 2: will not be accessible to government funding for their outposts
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  Speaker 2: and their efforts. And leave it to the NFL to
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  Speaker 2: steal the headlines on college football's opening weekend. Major football news.
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  Speaker 2: The National Football League owners announced that Roger Goodell will
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  Speaker 2: remain their commissioner through the 2030 season. They gave him
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  Speaker 2: the four-year contract extension Sunday. The move extended the 60-year-old's
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  Speaker 2: tenure to 25 years. Financial terms were not disclosed, but
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  Speaker 2: according to reports, it's heavily performance-based.
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  Speaker 4: Every state is home to significant historic sites that tell
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  Speaker 4: the American story. But not every site is telling that
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  Speaker 4: story honestly and fairly. That's why the Heritage Foundation created
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 2: this morning as we gather it up for a Labor Day.
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  Speaker 2: And there's plenty of news going on. in the world.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to make sure we download and uplink
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  Speaker 2: it all for you this morning at 434-882-4217. I want
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  Speaker 2: to get into the German elections. And again, there's reality, fantasy,
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  Speaker 2: and then what the press reports. And just because somebody
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  Speaker 2: is a conservative... You know, it's the same paradigm that
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  Speaker 2: says a conservative in the United States, like you or me,
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  Speaker 2: is the same guys who were writing under the white
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  Speaker 2: sheets 150 years ago. It's not true, but it makes
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  Speaker 2: a nice story. Not so much a nice sandwich, though.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a little mustard, a couple of slices of tomato.
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  Speaker 2: You might be able to make a sandwich. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a little dry. However, Bob... Moscow was ringing
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  Speaker 2: in right at the end of our first things, though,
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  Speaker 2: so I want to find out what's got him going.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps this visit of Witkoff's to Kiev there, Bob Expat,
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  Speaker 2: living in Moscow this morning. Good morning, sir. How are you?
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  Speaker 11: Good morning. You really blew my mind this morning.
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  Speaker 2: How so?
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  Speaker 11: You understand Labor Day... Labor Day is not about us labor.
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  Speaker 11: Labor Day was invented way back when for all the
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  Speaker 11: women in labor were supposed to celebrate it because they're
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  Speaker 11: trying to increase the population.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right. Well, I mean, that's a good story, too.
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  Speaker 2: I think it has more to do with the AFL-CIO
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  Speaker 2: than a midwife, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 11: I know, but I just thought I'd put a little
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  Speaker 11: humor in your Labor Day morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there's always room for that.
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  Speaker 11: As a pharmacist, I worked almost all the holidays, so
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  Speaker 11: I understand what it's like. So we don't get the holidays,
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  Speaker 11: same as you don't get the holiday work.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're professionals, we work. But here's the thing, and
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  Speaker 2: this was the point I was kind of getting at,
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  Speaker 2: just brushing past it because we had our first things.
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  Speaker 2: We can poke around a little bit more. We've lost
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  Speaker 2: this idea of serving a customer. We think, okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a farmer and I sell everything to Cargill or whoever
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  Speaker 2: or Smithfield. So are they your customer or is it
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  Speaker 2: the end result of the customer? Because there are plenty
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  Speaker 2: of middlemen and humanity has made the phrase middleman a
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  Speaker 2: dirty word. But are you serving the middleman who then
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  Speaker 2: moves your product to the consumer and And are they
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  Speaker 2: the customer? I mean, this is part and parcel of
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  Speaker 2: why I feel like the country has lost its economic equilibrium,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't think we really understand what it is
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to be doing or who we're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be serving. Very true.
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  Speaker 11: And that's something that's interesting, like here in Russia and
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  Speaker 11: other countries around the world, including the United States, We
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  Speaker 11: still have these little mom-and-pop shops and mom-and-pop markets, and
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  Speaker 11: they do quite well because of their customer service. You know,
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  Speaker 11: they're small shops. You know the people, the guys selling prodos. Hey, Bob,
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  Speaker 11: how's it going here in Moscow? Because I always go there,
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  Speaker 11: and he knows who I am. So they carry on
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  Speaker 11: the conversation, and he's lost that with the big change.
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  Speaker 2: The question, though, and this goes into the bigger abstract,
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  Speaker 2: is how do they come to be this mom and pop?
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the difference between, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: of the organized European economies versus the American, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: can hang out a shingle and try whatever I want. Sadly,
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  Speaker 2: now when that doesn't work out for you, we jump
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  Speaker 2: in and let the government save you. But the concept
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  Speaker 2: is you can hang out your own shingle. Can they
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  Speaker 2: do that in Moscow?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, gosh, yes. There's a lot of these mom-and-pop shows,
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  Speaker 11: shops all around. And I think in Europe and a
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  Speaker 11: lot of countries, the difference is the big guys don't
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  Speaker 11: get significant price breaks on merchandise. It seems to me
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  Speaker 11: that everyone pretty much pays the same price.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So you're really going the difference is the customer service.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: So if they can pay the same as like the
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  Speaker 11: big W in America and the world, if they can
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  Speaker 11: pay the same price as what they pay, they can
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  Speaker 11: get better service because they can sell it at the
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  Speaker 11: same price the big chains do or a little bit more.
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  Speaker 11: But you know the quality, you know that the vegetables,
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  Speaker 11: the fruits are fresh. You never have to worry about
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  Speaker 11: getting a bad one. And if you do get a
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  Speaker 11: bad one, they take it right back and they'll replace
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  Speaker 11: it and sometimes give you two for you having to
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  Speaker 11: come back to replace it.
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  Speaker 2: What about other things besides grocers? I mean, everyone loves
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  Speaker 2: to talk about Zorhan Mamdani and his government grocery stores,
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  Speaker 2: which seems, you know, and I'm flashing back to that
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  Speaker 2: late 80s CNN report out of the collapsing Soviet Union
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  Speaker 2: where they went into a Moscow grocery store. It was
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  Speaker 2: completely bereft of food. And the clerk was like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, just tell me to be here at 6.
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  Speaker 2: I was here at 6. I'm going to get a check.
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  Speaker 2: And it was really, I guess, you know, this was
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  Speaker 2: the end of the Soviet Union. This was as Gorbachev
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  Speaker 2: was trying to reform these kind of things. But what
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  Speaker 2: about the other professions? You know, can... Can a guy
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  Speaker 2: just start an auto repair shop or does the, what
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  Speaker 2: did you remind me, the Trabant dealer lock everything up
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  Speaker 2: like they do here in the United States now?
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  Speaker 11: At least here in Russia and even Germany, there's still,
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  Speaker 11: because my friend lives in Germany, there's still lots of
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  Speaker 11: independent shops. Yes, you've got the chains and everything else
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  Speaker 11: and the franchises, But you have the mom and pop
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  Speaker 11: shops that are smaller and they provide much better service.
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  Speaker 11: And usually the quality and the portions are better.
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  Speaker 2: Can they get access to the, you know, like, you know, if,
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  Speaker 2: if I want Hager slacks, I I'm a Lyndon Johnson
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  Speaker 2: fan and I like my Hager slacks with a little
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  Speaker 2: room in the, you know, where the, And the big
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  Speaker 2: box store has a deal with Hager to sell only
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  Speaker 2: their slacks at big box store X. And what was
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  Speaker 2: happening and why a lot of the mom and pops
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  Speaker 2: don't like the big boxers is that they'll cut a
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  Speaker 2: deal with, let's say, a tractor company, green, red, blue,
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  Speaker 2: you pick your color. And then you can't find those
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  Speaker 2: tractors anywhere else because the market has been closed to
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  Speaker 2: at least a specific, you know, maybe the riding mowers
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  Speaker 2: or the, you know, maybe not the big heavy. Not
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  Speaker 2: that way?
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  Speaker 11: No, at least in Russia, it's not that way. And
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  Speaker 11: I know a lot of European countries, it's not that way.
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  Speaker 11: It's more of an open market. You don't have exclusivity
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  Speaker 11: like what you do in the United States. And that's
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  Speaker 11: rigging and causing prices to be much higher in the
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  Speaker 11: United States than other parts in the world. I mean,
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  Speaker 11: Apple phones, you can buy in almost any place. You've
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  Speaker 11: got local shops that sell the phones, video equipment, TVs,
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  Speaker 11: all the name brands. You know, they all can get it.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 11: Whether they're getting it in India.
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  Speaker 15: Yep.
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  Speaker 13: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, 434-882-4217 is the phone number. Now that we've
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• 28:39
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• 31:23
  Speaker 2: pivot to this election in Germany that took place over
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• 31:41
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• 32:41
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  Speaker 2: So the Christian Democratic Union split off opposing the Eurozone.
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• 33:26
  Speaker 2: AFD shifted to Closed Borders Citizenship Matters Party, which the
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• 34:16
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• 34:24
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• 34:34
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• 34:38
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  Speaker 2: The word nationalism in and of itself is not the
• 35:09
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• 35:12
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there were Ugandan nationalists under Idi Amin, not
• 35:24
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• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the word nationalist, especially around Germany, AP, the headline, German
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Chancellor Faces Pressure After Far-Right AFD Party. And that's another
• 35:48
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• 35:51
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• 35:57
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• 36:02
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• 36:16
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• 36:28
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  Speaker 2: German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz was facing pressure this morning after
• 37:03
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• 44:09
  Speaker 2: in Germany? And I said, did you ever think you
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  Speaker 2: killed all the funny people?
• 44:16
  Speaker 18: Germany was having trouble, what a sad, sad story.
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  Speaker 7: Needed a new leader to restore.
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  Speaker 13: Its former glory.
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  Speaker 11: Really?
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  Speaker 2: This is how we're going to roll.
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  Speaker 19: All right.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: All right. We get the point. And the Associated Press,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you, these these folks are having
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: a field day. With this AFD party. And of course,
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: this is to hide. the realities. Remember, Nazi on this
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Labor Day morning is important to be noted that was
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: first and foremost a party, a political party that existed
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: during World War I. I tempted to say it actually
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: existed before World War I, but it certainly existed during
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: World War I. when the little corporal with the weird
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: mustache was, you know, getting gassed in the trenches. So, first,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: we need you to stop pretending that Adolf Hitler invented... Now,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: you can make the case that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: The political party, the Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany... saw
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: this guy give some speeches. And, you know, theoretically speaking,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: some party elder, some mucky-muck in the party saw the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: guy give a speech and then said... I mean, you
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: got the first sort of mainstream African-American who was articulate
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: and bright and.
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: and clean and nice looking guy.
• 46:31
  Speaker 13: I mean, that's a storybook, man.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: And then they wound up losing their party to him
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: and his boys, Goering and Goebbels and Himmler. Or was
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: he a creation of it? That's where, because we have
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: this zeal to just create villains, we will retell the
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: story of Darth Vader over and over and over again
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: We'll tell you why the Joker reigned terror on Gotham City.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: But we won't spend five seconds giving you the actual
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: political timeline of the Nazi party. We just wheel out
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: the red flags with the little symbol in the middle
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: every time we want to say something is against our ideology.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: And here's the fun fact. They're hiding behind those red
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: flags the real ideology of the people who didn't need
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: brown shirts. They had white sheets in this country. Adolf
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: and his boys copied our Jim Crow laws. This is
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: a historic fact. To write their final solution, they just
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: scratched the word Negro out and wrote Jew in. Is
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: any of that happening in Germany right now? Alternative für Deutschland, AFD,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: has won the majority or an elective, and again, in
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: the parliamentary procedure, you have a big enough block where
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: you get to control the government because the government, whoever
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: wants to be the governor of, what's this called?
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: Ahold?
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  Speaker 11: No.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: What's the region? Saxony-Anhalt. So the state, like we have
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Georgia or Connecticut, they have little regions. Saxony-Anhalt had a
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: regional election and Alternative für Deutschland, I should know how
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: to affect the accent better. My mother spent 20-some-odd years
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: working for Bayerische and Haiputuken und Wechselbank. I can say that,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: but I can't say Alternative für Deutschland. That's the name
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: of the party. They didn't win a majority, but they
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: won a large enough block that whoever is going to
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: be the governor of this region is going to have
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: to get their okay. Ulrich Seigmund said after the votes
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: were counted, Voters have sent a signal that things cannot
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: carry on like this, he said, borrowing lines from Mayor
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Zorhan Mamdani. He said that a very good campaigner for
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: us in this election campaign was Friedrich Merz.
• 50:06
  Speaker 16: They.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: They are winning because they're speaking to people who are
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: feeling like the majority parties in Germany aren't listening to them.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: And I received one email as this election result came through,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: and I wanted to bring this one into our conversation
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: because I think, you know, as a regular listener maybe,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: maybe you're just one of those folks who gets us
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: on the holidays out there in State College, and it's
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: fun to be back there. Years and years ago, was
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: it 98, 99, 2000? It was the last time I
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: was in State College. But it's good to be back
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: on RSC out there. So if you don't hear us
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: all the time, you may not have heard this point
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: of order. That the socialists... Love to point to other socialists,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: but this email that came in just rings so true
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: because we talk frequently about the permanence of the Republican
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: and the Democratic Party, that they face no challenge from
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: other parties. And Michael writes in from Connecticut. He says, Joe,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: you're always talking about wanting third parties. Well, here we
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: have one in Germany. How do you feel now? I
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: feel like the far left of the left wing in Germany,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: because even the conservatives in Germany would be leftists considered
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: to us, decided that a population that had been told
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: that all these social programs were going to be theirs
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: and then watch them get given to people who aren't citizens,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: so to say, What's up with that? This is exactly
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: what happened in. It was at Saxony. Got to be
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: careful with that word this morning. Is the same thing
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: that happened in New York City. Including the congressional races.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Because you have a population that keeps getting told, we're
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: going to take care of you. And when they fall
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: short of that, as history has proven time and time again,
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: the more government promises to do for people, the more
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: they fail. And the more likely it is that the far,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: far left is going to wind up taking over.
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