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Speaker 2: The WR Saturday Morning Show. Here's Larry Minty, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Coming up this week on Saturday Morning, we remember a

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Speaker 2: hero from Staten Island staff sergeant Michael OLiS. He died

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Speaker 2: in action saving others in twenty thirteen, and now he

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Speaker 2: will posthumously be awarded the Medal of Honor by President Trump.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk with Michael Ollis's sister Kim. CNN's Joe Barelli,

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Speaker 2: former minority leader in the New York City Council, is

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Speaker 2: here to talk about ZURINMM Donnie's disastrous handling of last

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Speaker 2: week snowstorm. Rich Demiro from rich on Tech tells us

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Speaker 2: about Amazon's Alexa upgrade, and career advice expert Greg g

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Speaker 2: and Grande. We'll talk about AI's effect on the job market.

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Speaker 2: But first let's talk with Kim OLiS Loshivo.

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Speaker 3: I want to see you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we love you every day.

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Speaker 2: YEA, let's do this man, Yeah yeah, bring them all.

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Speaker 5: Down, certainly?

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Speaker 3: Will Okay?

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Wow. You could tell Trump loved that too. And that

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Speaker 2: person that was yelling. We have on the phone right now,

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Speaker 2: Kim Alice Locchiavo, sister of staff sergeant Michael alis Kim,

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Speaker 2: What came over you? To describe that moment?

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Speaker 5: Oh, just such validation. I was just so happy finally

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Speaker 5: that this country was recognizing the acts that my brother

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Speaker 5: had had, you know, put upon us for our freedoms

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Speaker 5: in this country. Thirteen long years of finally the federal

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Speaker 5: government finally actually saying, wow, thank you so much for

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Speaker 5: for helping us stay safe and helping us have the

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Speaker 5: freedoms and the choices that we have. And to me

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Speaker 5: that that was really like the most the profound and

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Speaker 5: exciting moment of my life for my brother. It's the

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Speaker 5: least that we could have done for him.

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Speaker 2: It was wonderful and through you, we were all able

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Speaker 2: to share that moment. That's what was so wonderful about it.

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Speaker 2: Did something just overtake you the moment and what you

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Speaker 2: were just talking about with your brother? Or is that

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Speaker 5: I think it's a little bit of both, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think. I mean, he's on my mind every single day.

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Speaker 5: You know, my family and I we work so hard

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Speaker 5: to make sure that we're living like him every single day.

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Speaker 5: And my children and you know, I'm a teacher, so

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Speaker 5: I'm constantly reinforcing Michael's actions to the world around me constantly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just told the story of how he died,

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Speaker 2: but I guess more importantly is how he lived. Tell

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Speaker 5: Oh, he was such a kind soul. He was a

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Speaker 5: helper since he was a little boy. He was full

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Speaker 5: was since he could walk. My dad was a Vietnam vet.

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Speaker 5: He you know, he looked up to my dad talked

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Speaker 5: about Vietnam. He played the role of a soldier from

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Speaker 5: the time that he could walk. Would be coming home

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Speaker 5: and he would he would just play Army. It just

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Speaker 5: he fled green. That was that was his life. That

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Speaker 5: was his passion. I think that was his purpose on life.

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Speaker 5: And he was he was such a gift and he

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Speaker 5: would constantly help people as he you know, became a

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Speaker 5: He people parked on the street, people in accidents on

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Speaker 1: That he could.

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Speaker 2: Well, you can tell from the story here, the story

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Speaker 2: When you heard the story, I guess you weren't surprised

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Speaker 5: We were just, yes, not surprised at all. Obviously a

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Speaker 5: little disappointed. He had received the Audio Murphy Medal in

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Speaker 5: June of twenty thirteen, and his his you know, bosses

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Speaker 5: to be sent home earlier, and then it was just

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Speaker 5: getting delayed. They were pushing him off all summer long.

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Speaker 5: So yes, we were not surprised. We knew that it

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Speaker 5: a little bit of jealousy and you know, sadness, but

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm sure you were devastated. But when you

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Speaker 2: And I can't believe they've waited this long to honor

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump winning re election and to do this for

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Speaker 2: your brother, and in a way, your support of him,

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Speaker 2: your love of him, has paid off because he got

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I agree. I think he's a leader of action.

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Speaker 5: We are very much my family. We're leaders of action,

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Speaker 5: We're doers. My parents always told us to serve other people,

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Speaker 5: He's a man of feeds, not words, just like my

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Speaker 5: brother's for Trump Company in the Army was is the

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Speaker 5: purpose was deeds, not words.

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Speaker 2: Are you looking forward to going down there and meeting

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, we're thrilled. We're excited or nervous all the fields

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Speaker 2: Are we going to hear that again once you finally

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Speaker 2: meet Donald Trump that kind of excitement, Well.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure I'll be a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'll be a.

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Speaker 5: Little bit more.

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Speaker 2: Oh please don't, please don't. We would love for you

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Speaker 2: to represent New York and Staten Island and to be

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Speaker 2: up there and just be as effusive as you were

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Speaker 2: on the phone, because everybody trusts me would understand.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: That was wonderful and I'm so glad we got to

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Speaker 2: talk about your brother, and please would love to talk

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Speaker 2: to I have your Back.

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Speaker 5: You have to plug his book. We have a book

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Speaker 5: by Tom Slayo CLT. I have your Back. It was

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Speaker 5: published last year in Martin's Press is a publisher and

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Speaker 5: it's been selling out.

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Speaker 2: Really, I have your.

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Speaker 5: Story of Michael.

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Speaker 1: Can you have your back?

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Speaker 5: Tom Solao?

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Speaker 2: And where can you buy it?

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Speaker 5: You can buy an Amazon, Bornes and Nobles, you can

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Speaker 5: go right to the publisher at Selfsey Martin's Press. It's

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Speaker 2: Kim Ola Soshivo, sister of National Hero and soon to

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Speaker 2: be Medal of Honor recipient. When we come back, Rich

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Speaker 2: DeMuro from rich On Tech has some tips if you're

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Speaker 2: thinking about running out and getting a new TV for

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. That's next on Saturday morning. Back now

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Speaker 2: to the w R Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. Well, if your dog ever gets lost, there's

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Speaker 2: new technology that can help find him or her. Rich

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Speaker 2: DeMuro from rich On Tech explains, Good morning to you rich.

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Speaker 2: So what are the tips on buying a great television

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Speaker 2: by the way, at a great price?

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I cannot believe the prices I'm seeing

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Speaker 3: right now. I was in a TV store and I'm

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Speaker 3: talking a ninety eight inch TV for under two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was mismarked. That's how cheap it was.

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Speaker 3: I mean, still expensive when you think about TVs. People

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Speaker 3: are buying him for five hundred dollars now. But first,

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Speaker 3: let me just back up. So Super Bowl is this weekend.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of people want to upgrade for

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Speaker 3: the first time. It's going to be streaming in four

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be on Peacock this year, not to be

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Speaker 3: like last year. And the big difference is Peacock you

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Speaker 3: was on to be for free. So that's number one.

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Speaker 3: streaming service like YouTube TV, you'll be just fine. You'll

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Speaker 3: the air you can do that. So Larry, when it

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Speaker 3: the cheat code is mini LED. If you see that

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Speaker 3: I have the high sense. They also have the U six.

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Speaker 3: problems with that TV. Everyone that comes over says, I

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Speaker 2: You know, one big tip that I've found out from

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Speaker 2: is to measure your wall space first.

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Speaker 3: That is a good one, because here's the thing. It

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Speaker 3: You remember when these things first came out. Forty two

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Speaker 3: but my mom always said growing up, you can't sit

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Speaker 3: a different technology. Now you actually can sit a lot closer,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it gets silly, it gets ridiculous. I think people

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Speaker 3: I went from a fifty five to is sixty five,

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Speaker 3: They want Bigger is better. We live in America, that's

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Speaker 2: So Amazon is now rolling out this new Alexa Plus.

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Speaker 2: Is it that much superior to Alexa before.

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Speaker 3: It is much better, much more natural, understands your commands

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Speaker 3: So think of it as Chat GBT now infused into Alexa.

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Speaker 3: So if you want to get this, it's free for

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Speaker 2: Well, New York City Mayor Zor and Mom Donnie is

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Speaker 2: And let me start Joe by congratulating you. You are

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Speaker 2: No, no, but you do take on liberals left and right.

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Speaker 2: that is the most concerning thing that he's going to

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Speaker 2: keep doubling down on insanity, that he believes what he

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Speaker 2: ran on. I guess we were all hoping he would

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Speaker 2: see reality once he got in. That ain't gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think the first dose

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Speaker 1: of that is actually going to hit him very soon

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Speaker 1: with the city budget, because twelve billion dollars, you know,

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Speaker 1: mayor Adams, whether you like it or not, you know,

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Speaker 1: he faced like two billion dollar gaps, three billion dollar gaps.

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Speaker 1: You can eliminate those gaps by you know, small cuts

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Speaker 1: and spending reprogram complained at that time about how you know,

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Speaker 1: quote unquote devastating those cuts were twelve billion dollars is

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Speaker 1: a real amount. No voodoo magic, no budget dance is

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Speaker 1: going to actually address that. And this mayor who ran

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Speaker 1: on a platform of free stuff for everyone, is actually

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Speaker 1: going to be, you know, an austerity mayor who has

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Speaker 1: to make significant cuts, who might have to have hiring freezers,

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Speaker 1: who might have to even have layoffs if things don't

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Speaker 1: get yet yet better. But that's the mayor he's he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have to be, whether he likes it or not,

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Speaker 1: because the math is the math, whether you're a democratic

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Speaker 1: socialist or a moderate Democrat or anyone.

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Speaker 2: All right, enjoy your time with Al Jazeera. Joe Burrelli,

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Speaker 2: Managing director Chartwell Strategy Group and former Minority leader of

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Speaker 2: the New York City Council. Coming up, Career advice expert

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Speaker 2: Greg GM tells us the one thing that you never

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Speaker 2: want to hear from a boss.

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Speaker 1: Here's Larry Minty with more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Amazon and other major companies are cutting thousands of jobs.

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Speaker 2: Is AI to blame. Let's ask career advice expert Greg

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Speaker 2: G and Grande Greg. It's fascinating. Amazon and a lot

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Speaker 2: of other big companies are announcing big layoffs and a

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Speaker 2: lot of people are assuming that's AI related. Is that

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Speaker 2: if that's true, is it just Amazon and other big

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Speaker 2: tech companies or is it affecting other jobs and entry

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Speaker 2: level jobs?

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Speaker 4: For sure, it is more widespread than what we hear

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Speaker 4: about in the headlines. Lots of big public companies have

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Speaker 4: to make public announcements about their layoffs, and certainly a

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Speaker 4: company like Amazon is going to make lines, whereas one

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Speaker 4: of the tens of thousands of other companies that no

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Speaker 4: one has heard of. Even if they announce internally that

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Speaker 4: they're going to be conducting layoffs, no news organization is

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Speaker 4: going to pick it up. But many companies have been

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Speaker 4: trimming their resources. And it's only partially due to AI

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Speaker 4: and the you know, the advancements and technology certainly a

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Speaker 4: contributing factor. That's uh that no one would dispute that,

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Speaker 4: but it's it's there are other factors as well. Every

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Speaker 4: successful company, in order to sustain success, has to constantly

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Speaker 4: evaluate the marketplace and how they are deploying their capital.

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Speaker 4: Their financial capital and their human capital. Are they built

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Speaker 4: today for what the challenges and the opportunities and the

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Speaker 4: marketplace are today and for the next three to five years.

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Speaker 4: And if they haven't done that in the last five years,

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Speaker 4: well how they were built five years ago not be

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Speaker 4: how they need to be built going forward. So companies

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Speaker 4: go through this rigorous process of looking at their layers

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Speaker 4: and spans of control and how they're structured internally, and

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Speaker 4: what their hiring needs are going to be, and where

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Speaker 4: they're investing in teams, and so you get periodically these

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Speaker 4: kind of major organizational announcements of layoffs, partially due to

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Speaker 4: AI and the advancements and capabilities of technology, but just

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Speaker 4: partially due to all the other market factors.

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Speaker 2: It's happened so many times in our history. I think

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Speaker 2: we every time it does happen, we forget that, yes,

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Speaker 2: there's going to be advancements in technology and in manufacturing

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Speaker 2: and in the way, for instance, cars are built and

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Speaker 2: every single and robotics, and every single times that happens,

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Speaker 2: it seems to be there is this feeling of doom

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Speaker 2: and gloom, like, uh oh, there's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 2: of people out of work, and it seems like the

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Speaker 2: marketplace always is able to catch up to the technology,

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Speaker 2: even though there might be a big hit. This is

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Speaker 2: as old as the cotton gin. You know, It's happened

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Speaker 2: over and over and over again. But this one seems

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Speaker 2: a little bit different. You talk to people all the time,

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Speaker 2: is it different?

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Speaker 4: You're right, Well, it feels different because the pace of

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Speaker 4: the change is far more rapid than ever before, and

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Speaker 4: the disruption because of the technology and how fast the

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Speaker 4: capabilities are growing. That's why it feels different this time.

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Speaker 4: And you go back years back. Even with just the Internet,

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Speaker 4: like twenty five years ago, it still took years for

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Speaker 4: companies and industries to adapt and really take advantage of

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Speaker 4: that capability, so it didn't feel like it was sudden

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Speaker 4: and overnight. And with AI, it feels like, wow, we

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Speaker 4: were just talking about AI and now it's disrupting everything.

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Speaker 4: It's because the capabilities are so great and happening so fast.

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Speaker 4: Let's think it's important.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just gonna say I think it's important

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Speaker 4: for people to understand that, you know, one of the

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Speaker 4: ways to think about how you can protect yourself as

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Speaker 4: much as you can and to avoid a layoff is

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Speaker 4: to really be in tune and and sync with what

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Speaker 4: are the priorities of the company, and how can I

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Speaker 4: make myself as indispensable as possible for what the company needs.

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Speaker 2: And wants to do?

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Speaker 4: Going forward and maintain visibility, be a champion of the

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Speaker 4: company culture and strategy. Be great at what you do,

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Speaker 4: and be visible, positive, and visible.

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Speaker 2: You answered the question I was going to ask. So

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Speaker 2: let's go to the Greg e mailbox. Here we go.

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Speaker 2: My boss recently said they were putting me on a

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Speaker 2: performance improvement plan outlining the things I need to do better.

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Speaker 2: I am new to the workforce and still learning, and

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Speaker 2: I am confident I can adapt and learn. But is

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Speaker 2: a performance improvement plan common for new hires who are learning?

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Speaker 2: Or is my job in jeopardy? Great question?

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Speaker 4: It is a great question, and the odds are that

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Speaker 4: this early career person is going to learn something new

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Speaker 4: that a performance improvement plan is really a misnomer. And

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Speaker 4: everybody talks about this privately. Everybody makes fun of the name.

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Speaker 4: They should change the name. Every manager, every HR person

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Speaker 4: a performance improvement plan. And I say this anecdotally, but

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Speaker 4: I bet statistically it's not far off. At least ninety

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Speaker 4: percent of employees who are put on a performance improvement

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Speaker 4: plan exit the company within that year, either voluntarily or

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Speaker 4: involuntarily what And that's because a performance improvement plan really

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Speaker 4: means the company is not happy with your performance and

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Speaker 4: they are documenting what they're not happy about and what

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Speaker 4: you need to do to improve in order to save

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Speaker 4: your job. Which is different from a normal development plan

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Speaker 4: that you might give to employees for how they can

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Speaker 4: learn and grow and advance their skills. This is we

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Speaker 4: have had discussions about you not performing well. Now I'm

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Speaker 4: going to document it, and if things don't change pretty dramatically,

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Speaker 4: you are likely to lose your job in the next

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Speaker 4: thirty sixty ninety days. That's the dirty little secret about

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Speaker 4: performance improvement plans.

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Speaker 2: Well, that was a surprise ending. Well, we'll talk more

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Speaker 2: about this. Greg Gi and Grande Career advice expert with

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Speaker 2: us every Wednesday at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Greg.

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Speaker 2: That wraps up Saturday Morning for this week. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 2: and thanks to Natalie Vaka and Peter Aerolano for putting

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Speaker 2: the show together every week. Have a great rest of

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Speaker 2: your weekend. This has been a podcast from WOI