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"Relationship Therapy" (FTTxJT Tue 090826 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again. First Thing Today by
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Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Taunt Media Network.
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Speaker 2: Joe works at the steel mill, he's down here every day.
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Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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Speaker 3: kids to school and on the way.
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Speaker 4: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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Speaker 4: he needs.
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Speaker 3: No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims to please you.
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Speaker 5: Bless you for letting us be of service to you
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Speaker 5: this morning. Asking the questions, sometimes the questions you didn't
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Speaker 5: even realize needed to be asked. Like, why do we
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Speaker 5: have such a bad relationship between labor and management? Why
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Speaker 5: does anyone have a bad relationship? I got this text
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Speaker 5: message during the news, joining us in progress, last segment
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Speaker 5: we got talking about Labor, obviously, now in the wake
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Speaker 5: of another Labor Day and a bunch of Democrat governors
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Speaker 5: telling us how great the labor movement is, which is fine.
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Speaker 5: But we have a dysfunctional relationship. We have two spouses,
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Speaker 5: management and labor, both with their own cadre of friends
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Speaker 5: who go out with them, metaphorically speaking, on poker night
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Speaker 5: and girl's night out and whatever, and whispering to them,
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Speaker 5: your spouse is just awful. You should hate him. And
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Speaker 5: rather than working on making the relationship work, we just
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Speaker 5: hate each other. We coexist because maybe I don't want
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Speaker 5: to give up half of what I've got in the
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Speaker 5: divorce settlement, But you tell me that the relationship between
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Speaker 5: the community writ large, and I'm not saying that there
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Speaker 5: aren't individual instances where you work for somebody who really
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Speaker 5: is great to work for and you really appreciate it
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Speaker 5: and they give you all the support you need to
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Speaker 5: be successful. That's awesome. Way too many people in the
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Speaker 5: United States have fallen prey to relationships that aren't that good. Therefore,
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Speaker 5: we need to fix that. And we need to, on
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Speaker 5: an individual basis, treat these relationships like relationships. And that
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Speaker 5: means management, too, because management can be bad just as
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Speaker 5: much as labor can be bad. And in both cases,
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Speaker 5: what winds up happening is it costs the people who
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Speaker 5: know us our friends, the consumers, quite a bit of money.
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Speaker 5: Because that seems to be the only way we can
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Speaker 5: settle our differences is buying each other expensive gifts at
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Speaker 5: the end of the weekend fights. But we can go
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Speaker 5: into that a little bit further if you like, but
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Speaker 5: we've got lots to get into. Canada tariffs, the counter tariffs,
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Speaker 5: took effect at one minute past midnight this morning. Duties
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Speaker 5: will cover $ 27. 6 billion of U.S. imports ranging from 15%
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Speaker 5: to 50% with individual rates matching the corresponding U.S.
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Speaker 1: Tariffs.
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Speaker 5: The products include steel, aluminum, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp
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Speaker 5: and paper, plastics, and electronics. Oil prices climbed to a
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Speaker 5: six-week high. Brent crude came to just under $ 100 a barrel,
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Speaker 5: but it gave the press a a chance to use
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Speaker 5: the phrase $ 100 a barrel.
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Speaker 6: $ 97.
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Speaker 5: 93 was the apex yesterday. President Trump will headline both
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Speaker 5: nights of the first-ever midterm Republican National Committee convention. He's
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Speaker 5: scheduled to give the opening night's keynote address on Wednesday
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Speaker 5: and return for closing remarks Thursday. President Trump Monday in
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Speaker 5: a post-truth social video connotating Labor Day, vowed that Republicans
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Speaker 5: he said, happy Labor Day to all, including the radical
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Speaker 5: left lunatics, communists, and Democrats who will do anything possible
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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 9: Text message here from Janice.
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Speaker 5: Janice, I appreciate you tuning in this morning because it's
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Speaker 5: a controversial idea, but it's important, I think, is the
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Speaker 5: idea of this relationship tending. And I know you're out
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Speaker 5: in the Inland Empire out listening to us on KMET,
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Speaker 5: and I appreciate it, but All across, I think it's
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Speaker 5: an important thing because if you think about your friends
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Speaker 5: who have good jobs, oh, I love where I work.
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Speaker 5: It was an awesome business. It's because of the relationship
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Speaker 5: they have with the employer. And we treat this relationship
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Speaker 5: like it's different than any other. You have friends, you
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Speaker 5: have spouses. Boyfriends, girlfriends, little of both, I don't care.
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Speaker 5: You have relationships. Yet somehow we've been told over time
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Speaker 5: that your workplace is not that kind of relationship and
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Speaker 5: you shouldn't treat it that way. And I think that
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Speaker 5: hurts both sides. I think employers need to understand they
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Speaker 5: have a relationship with their employees that needs tending. My
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Speaker 5: sister has a collegiate degree in human resources, and she'll
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Speaker 5: be the first one to tell you that. That part
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Speaker 5: of our problem is we don't tend to the relationship
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Speaker 5: the same.
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Speaker 1: Way an.
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Speaker 5: Interpersonal one would. But what is it? You work for someone.
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Speaker 5: You work with someone. Ah, there's a difference. You feel
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Speaker 5: different when you say you're working with somebody. You feel
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Speaker 5: like there's a choice. You feel like there's a buy-in.
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Speaker 5: There's a feeling that there's a two-way street. And if
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Speaker 5: the industrialists of the early 20th century hadn't been so
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Speaker 5: bad about understanding this, we wouldn't be crippled with the
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Speaker 5: union movement or Marxism, I believe, because Karl Marx, in
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Speaker 5: his effort to seek fame and fortune, wrote his screed
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Speaker 5: after watching the factories of London burn. belch out product
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Speaker 5: and watch the farm kids walk in and work 20-hour
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Speaker 5: days and things like that. Sun up to sun down,
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Speaker 5: that's how they were raised. But if we turn around
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Speaker 5: and tend the relationships between the people who work for us,
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Speaker 5: and I'm not saying this is something President Trump needs
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Speaker 5: to sign an executive order or anything like that. I'm
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Speaker 5: saying this is, again, another one of those, it's you
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Speaker 5: and me here. If you employ people, make sure that
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Speaker 5: you are treating them like they have chosen to be
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Speaker 5: in a relationship with you and that you recognize its importance.
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Speaker 5: And the same goes true if you work with somebody.
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Speaker 5: And we should all be striving to find those people
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Speaker 5: we want to associate with. And that's where American exceptionalism
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Speaker 5: grows from. That's the sticking place. is that we worked
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Speaker 5: for people we believed in, and therefore we worked hard,
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Speaker 5: and all those dictatorships around the world that just ordered
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Speaker 5: people into their factories couldn't keep up with us. Because
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Speaker 5: we chose what we did. And this is an offshoot
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Speaker 5: of that. You've heard me say this before. But we
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Speaker 5: have to tend that relationship, and we haven't. Like I said,
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Speaker 5: we're that spouse, we're that couple that fights constantly but
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Speaker 5: won't break up with one another because we understand that
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Speaker 5: maybe your dad's got a lot of money and you
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Speaker 5: have a successful business. So I don't want to lose
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Speaker 5: access to your money and you don't want to lose
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Speaker 5: access to my family wealth. So we were, quote, stuck
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Speaker 5: with one another to torture the metaphor just a little
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Speaker 5: bit further. And so we fight and we storm out
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Speaker 5: and we sleep in hotels and we come back and
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Speaker 5: we make up and it costs us a fortune to
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Speaker 5: make up. And we treat each other badly and then
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Speaker 5: we have to apologize. And again, it costs us money
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Speaker 5: to make up. Why don't we do it better? And
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Speaker 5: I'm not saying couples therapy, but there needs to be
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Speaker 5: that moment of realizing what does in most social couples matter?
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Speaker 5: a lack of what? Communication. And these massive, massive companies,
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Speaker 5: and I'm not saying they're all bad. I look at
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Speaker 5: massive companies like Walmart. They do a pretty good job
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Speaker 5: of empowering their managers. They have a relationship with the
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Speaker 5: regional people, and there's no perfect. You might know somebody
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Speaker 5: who had a crappy experience managing a department at Walmart
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Speaker 5: or working at Walmart. That's fine because it's going to happen.
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Speaker 5: The bigger you get, the more likely that's going to happen.
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Speaker 5: But we have to be ready as a country to
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Speaker 5: address this relationship between the worker and the employer. Because
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Speaker 5: if we constantly view it like it's combat or a
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Speaker 5: football game and there's going to be a winner and
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Speaker 5: a loser at the end, we're all going to be
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Speaker 5: the losers at the end. Well, some of us will
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Speaker 5: have gold in our hands. And so, you know, we
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Speaker 5: James Luck, good morning, sir.
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Speaker 1: How are you? doing?
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Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Joe, and you're exactly right. It has
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Speaker 5: have a great morning james thanks joe you too.
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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 14: Remiss to remind that.
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Speaker 5: You can call that number or you can text message
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Speaker 5: that number. Joel writes in, the woke DEI has screwed
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Speaker 5: up the medical industry. We're talking about the relationship that
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Speaker 5: we should have with those people we work for or with.
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Speaker 5: And that the ownership isn't very communicative. This email comes
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29:21
Speaker 5: because this one's got needles out for me. Pretty big talk, Joe,
29:25
Speaker 5: for a guy who stole company secrets from his employer
29:29
Speaker 5: and then went across town to start a competitor. He's
29:34
Speaker 5: got an LOL emoji there and a link to one
29:38
Speaker 5: of the news stories about Joe. when we launched our
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Speaker 5: flagship station and how it was portrayed that I, you know,
29:45
Speaker 5: in the court proceedings and legal matters and everything else.
29:50
Speaker 5: Guilty as charged, I'm not going to sit here and deny,
29:53
Speaker 5: you know, what has been accused or anything like that.
29:56
Speaker 5: But it is a great example, personal example, of the
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Speaker 5: end of a relationship that had grown perhaps too incommunicative.
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Speaker 5: And that's a shame because it was going to be
30:14
Speaker 5: a great thing. And it still is a great thing.
30:16
Speaker 5: It could have been greater. But it is what it is.
30:21
Speaker 5: And that doesn't mean relationships don't end. But Joel's point
30:26
Speaker 5: about the diversity, equity, and inclusion issue government mandates, and
30:32
Speaker 5: I think government mandates, all designed to get politicians to
30:37
Speaker 5: look good, are part of the reason we have still
30:41
Speaker 5: a struggling employment workforce relationship scenario, because the more the
30:48
Speaker 5: government comes in and presumes guilt until proven innocent, the
30:53
Speaker 5: more businesses are going to be less communicative with their employees.
31:01
Speaker 5: And it just becomes self-consuming. It's like Martin Luther King's
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Speaker 5: point about violence begetting more violence. An employer behaves badly.
31:15
Speaker 5: And a congressman says there ought to be a law.
31:18
Speaker 5: So they pass a law, which then dampens and sticks
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Speaker 5: government in between the two spouses, the two paramours in
31:28
Speaker 5: this relationship. So now, You have somebody's best friend, and
31:34
Speaker 5: that best friend changes. So sometimes it's his best friend.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes it's her best friend, depending on who gets elected
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Speaker 5: into the majority. Is it the business owner's spouse's best
31:49
Speaker 5: friend that's in between the couple getting in there saying, yeah,
31:55
Speaker 5: you don't need this. Let's go out and watch the ballgame.
31:58
Speaker 5: Come on, go have some fun. You work really hard.
32:00
Speaker 5: Just go out and have a ballgame. Deal with it later.
32:05
Speaker 5: You know the type I'm talking about, right? Or it's,
32:11
Speaker 5: you know, he's a jerk and he doesn't care about you.
32:13
Speaker 5: Let's go out to insert whatever it is, you know,
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Speaker 5: ladies night, Chippendales, whatever it may be. But there's always
32:22
Speaker 5: now the government is that third wheel. Another way to
32:31
Speaker 5: look at it is the arranged marriage of some of
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Speaker 5: the subcontinental cultures. I don't love you. I'm just told
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Speaker 5: I'm supposed to be here. The government has assigned me
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32:52
Speaker 5: attention friend decides, you know what, let me break up
32:57
Speaker 5: this relationship. And then I'll have you 100% of the time.
33:01
Speaker 5: And all I have to do is buy you lunch
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Speaker 5: and dinner and you'll hang out with me, which is
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Speaker 5: really how the government sees itself in this play out
33:13
Speaker 5: of this dysfunctional relationship between business and the workforce. And
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Speaker 5: we're not going to get it right until we fix
33:22
Speaker 5: it because we're going to keep playing patty cake with
33:25
Speaker 5: tariffs and things like that rather than saying, hey, are
33:28
Speaker 5: we paying a reasonable bit? Because what is the story?
33:37
Speaker 5: Some people say it's apocryphal. Some say it's Lee Iacocca
33:40
Speaker 5: telling his own story, blowing his own horn. But one
33:43
Speaker 5: of the things Lee Iacocca said was key in getting
33:47
Speaker 5: the federal government to save Chrysler was that Chrysler would
33:53
Speaker 5: put the AFL-CIO, the team's– the Teamsters chief, on their
34:00
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34:03
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34:07
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34:11
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34:16
Speaker 5: to sit on the board of Chrysler so that they
34:19
Speaker 5: would go back to their rank and file and say,
34:22
Speaker 5: I looked at the books. They ain't lyin'. And, you know,
34:28
Speaker 5: they could close and we all could lose our jobs
34:31
Speaker 5: and some of us. But it had reached that point
34:35
Speaker 5: because over the decade prior, maybe two decades, you know,
34:39
Speaker 5: the two sides just sat in separate rooms not speaking
34:43
Speaker 5: to one another. Chrysler not saying, hey, here's what it
34:48
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34:55
Speaker 5: to insert other people, other family members. Now all of
35:05
Speaker 5: a sudden you have to be worried about your aunt
35:08
Speaker 5: and uncle on Wall Street or your siblings on Wall
35:18
Speaker 5: Street who want a share of your money because they've
35:22
Speaker 5: invested in it. They've lent you money. Now you've got
35:26
Speaker 5: your cousin who is invested in your company and you
35:29
Speaker 5: owe him something, doesn't mean it doesn't work. It just
35:33
Speaker 5: means there are more people you have to communicate with.
35:38
Speaker 5: And the only thing one can presume that when a
35:42
Speaker 5: relationship goes incommunicado is that there are things to be hidden.
35:47
Speaker 5: People don't like lying as a rule. So generally speaking,
35:51
Speaker 5: the best way to avoid lying is to avoid talking.
35:57
Speaker 5: And that's how we wind up here in our employment
36:00
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36:06
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36:11
Speaker 5: other factors that shouldn't be of consideration. Just tell the
36:16
Speaker 5: employees what it is. Why does it cost this? Why
36:21
Speaker 5: do we only have this much money? Because when... You
36:27
Speaker 5: look at the compensations, and then the Marxists come in
36:30
Speaker 5: and say, look at what CEO X makes for a living,
36:37
Speaker 5: much of it based on bonuses and profit compensations and
36:43
Speaker 5: Wall Street. Well, he's obviously not sharing that money with you,
36:48
Speaker 5: is he? And you start to feel like, well, I'm
36:55
Speaker 5: being abused in this relationship. And this is how we
36:59
Speaker 5: wind up here. The employees want more money than any
37:03
Speaker 5: place else on the planet pays their employees for similar jobs.
37:08
Speaker 5: So we wind up having more expensive goods. But now
37:13
Speaker 5: we also have a workforce with a chip on its shoulders.
37:17
Speaker 5: Is it making the products as well? I have people
37:20
Speaker 5: who say that, you know, especially in the automotive industry,
37:23
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37:27
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37:32
Speaker 5: whole thing has come apart because of this intractability, our
37:38
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37:49
Speaker 5: that has to heal. And more Congress people writing more laws,
37:54
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Speaker 12: Hi, I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have
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Speaker 1: First thing today by joe thomas on the talk media network.
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Speaker 5: Dan writes in, he says, Joe, your story about the
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Speaker 5: cryptocurrency heists is concerning to me because it again strikes
45:07
Speaker 5: that moment where we can't trust one another. If somebody
45:11
Speaker 5: calls me and tells me I'm from my cryptocurrency investment firm,
45:18
Speaker 5: what am I supposed to do? Verify. It's Reagan 101, Dan.
45:23
Speaker 5: It's trust but verify. A lot of these companies now
45:29
Speaker 5: in advance or a lot of these municipalities too will
45:32
Speaker 5: tell you, hey, we don't call you. What is the expression?
45:39
Speaker 5: I received this meme once. There was an IRS scam
45:43
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago. And it's like a screen
45:48
Speaker 5: cap of a SWAT team police activity. It says, public
45:54
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45:58
Speaker 5: call you at home to tell you you owe us money.
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Speaker 5: And it's just this picture of SWAT team going in
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Speaker 5: after that. And I'm sorry. I know if you work
46:09
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46:12
Speaker 5: house and that. It has to get pretty bad before
46:15
Speaker 5: we storm your house. But you have to appreciate the
46:19
Speaker 5: humor in it, don't you? I mean, I appreciate it
46:23
Speaker 5: when people send me up. But will your cyber investment
46:31
Speaker 5: firm call you and say, hey, there was a hack?
46:34
Speaker 5: Or will they email you and say there was a hack?
46:36
Speaker 5: And in either case, isn't it on you to say, Ah,
46:42
Speaker 5: let me check on that. Something doesn't sound right. That's
46:49
Speaker 5: all it takes. And that is the security because most
46:54
Speaker 5: of this stuff, believe it or not, is like, you know,
46:58
Speaker 5: I used to, there was a virus that went around
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Speaker 5: for a while. I called it the Amish virus because
47:05
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47:11
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47:13
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Speaker 5: file manager and remove this exe file. I forget which
47:23
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47:27
Speaker 5: you deleted it, I felt like I was having a
47:29
Speaker 5: flashback to that yesterday as I tried to repair our
47:33
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47:38
Speaker 5: managed to, once I realized that even though I'm the
47:41
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47:46
Speaker 5: need to tell it that I'm the administrator. Who else
47:51
Speaker 5: would be the administrator? But I still needed to tell
47:54
Speaker 5: Windows that I was the administrator before I could have
47:58
Speaker 5: it go check itself and before it wrecked itself. Because
48:03
Speaker 5: it was a mess. I let one of these... cleaning
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Speaker 5: softwares tell me that there were all these things that
48:12
Speaker 5: were wrong with my computer, duplicate files and things like that.
48:17
Speaker 5: And I was dumb. I was trying to get my
48:21
Speaker 5: computer to not crash and my battery was hemorrhaging power.
48:26
Speaker 5: I didn't like that. So I went in to find
48:30
Speaker 5: out what programs were running in the background. They all
48:32
Speaker 5: have them. It's not like you can avoid getting some
48:37
Speaker 5: you know, little cookie inside your browser, and then all
48:43
Speaker 5: of a sudden, you know, some background software is running. So,
48:49
Speaker 5: you know, I went and I cleaned my willy off,
48:52
Speaker 5: and it's okay now. But in the process of doing so,
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Speaker 5: I deleted a couple of things, and I thought about
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Speaker 5: this old Amish virus thing, Story, Dan, which was you
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Speaker 5: had to delete this dot exe file. It was a
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Speaker 5: and a lot of people did it and it was critical.
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Speaker 5: You had to reload Windows onto your computer if you
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Speaker 5: could even get it rebooted because it was such a
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Speaker 5: root drive thing. piece of hardware, software, that deleting it
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Speaker 5: in some cases just rendered the computer junk because you
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Speaker 5: couldn't even get to the point of rebooting it enough
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Speaker 5: to get Windows to reload. It wasn't like you just
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Speaker 5: deleted Windows. You crippled its ability to even start. But
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Speaker 5: nobody had to write any code. Nobody had to, you know,
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Speaker 5: get a big computer up to, you know, CRISPR together
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Speaker 5: some code to send out to the world. No, it said, hey,
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Speaker 5: can you delete this file from your computer? And too
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Speaker 5: many of us went, okay. But I appreciate it, Dan.
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Speaker 5: You know, part of the problem is, yes, we trust
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Speaker 5: without verifying. So if somebody says, hey, I'm from your
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Speaker 5: cyber investment firm and, you know, we've had a malware
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Speaker 5: attack and it's, these are 18 year olds, 19 year olds.
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Speaker 5: And the sad part of the story really is what
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Speaker 5: kind of good things could they have been doing for
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Speaker 5: the society? rather than just trying to steal money. Obviously,
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Speaker 5: they didn't have any plan for the money because they
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Speaker 5: started buying Lamborghinis and half-a-million-dollar houses. That's not going to
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Speaker 5: set off a red flag. This 18-year-old just bought a
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Speaker 5: Lamborghini Countach. Couldn't be anything wrong with that. Just saving
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Speaker 5: up his money delivering newspapers, isn't he? So, you know,
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Speaker 5: Agent Hanratty was able to get the fraudsters, you know,
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Speaker 5: before they got too far. I don't know if the
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Speaker 5: guy got his money back, but he's in court today.
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Speaker 5: This lamb kid who is the, quote, mastermind of it
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Speaker 5: at the ripe old age of 20. But the other
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Speaker 5: side of this is how smart were these kids and
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Speaker 5: how misguided? You can't help but feel like at some
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Speaker 5: point in this story, you're like, what could you have
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Speaker 5: been doing with that intellect that made you this capable scammer?
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Speaker 5: What legitimate pursuit could you have been following that could
51:57
Speaker 5: have been a great boon to the society at large.
52:04
Speaker 5: Before we face up into the news at the top
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Speaker 5: of hour two here.
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 5: Hour two? How many hours are there?
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Speaker 13: Four.
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Speaker 23: What?
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Speaker 5: This guy goes on for four hours? What does he do?
52:18
Speaker 5: You should ask my wife what happens after 9 Eastern
52:22
Speaker 5: rolls around and I start laying into her. The worst
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Speaker 5: thing my wife can say to me in the morning is,
52:30
Speaker 5: did you see this thing on the internet? Oh, and
52:32
Speaker 5: then it's Johnny Barthador. You think I start monologuing when
52:37
Speaker 5: I'm talking with you? I don't have to worry about
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Speaker 5: commercial breaks or newscasts coming up when I start in
52:42
Speaker 5: on my wife at the kitchen table. But hang on
52:45
Speaker 5: the line. We'll get to you first thing when we
52:47
Speaker 5: come back from the news here on Joe Thomas in
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Speaker 5: the Morning.
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