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Speaker 1: The story of America is written in the hands of

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Speaker 1: its workers, past, present, and future. This Labor Day, we

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Speaker 1: celebrate their spirit, their sacrifice, and their triumphs. The fruits

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Speaker 1: of our labor starts right now, only on Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Fruits of our Labor. A Labor Day

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Speaker 2: special at Real America's Voice. All this weekend, we celebrate

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Speaker 2: a long weekend in commemoration of Labor Day. Now, we

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Speaker 2: all know what the word labor means, but what is

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Speaker 2: Labor Day really all about. Well, Labor Day is a

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Speaker 2: federal holiday on the first Monday of September that honors

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Speaker 2: and recognizes the American worker. In the late nineteenth century,

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Speaker 2: labor unionist began to propose a day set aside to

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Speaker 2: in eighteen eighty two. An alternate theory suggests that PJ. McGuire,

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Speaker 2: a vice president of the Federal of Organized Trades and

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Speaker 2: in Toronto. Oregon was the first state to make Labor

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Speaker 2: Day a holiday in eighteen eighty seven. By eighteen ninety four,

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Speaker 2: thirty states had Labor Day holidays, and it was later

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Speaker 2: that year that Congress passed a bill to make Labor

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Speaker 2: Day an official federal holiday. However, that was just for

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Speaker 2: federal workers, and they encouraged others to strike to get

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Speaker 2: had to contemplate September's Labor Day versus a May Day

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Speaker 2: that also celebrated labor, but that day had connotations with

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Speaker 2: the Haymarket affair in Chicago in eighteen eighty six, in

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Speaker 2: peaceful tone. Many of you know that Labor Day is

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Speaker 2: considered the unofficial end of summer, as many fall activities began.

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Speaker 3: Around this time.

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Speaker 2: So unfortunately summer may be over, but as we enjoy

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Speaker 2: American worker and his or her contribution to our great nation.

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Speaker 2: Our American economy certainly saw total stagnation during the pandemic,

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Speaker 2: as for most of us unless we lived through the

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Speaker 2: There was a sense of panic and hysteria, and we

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Speaker 2: has rebounded from that. An industrial might has begun to

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Speaker 2: to energy to cars. Today, I want to focus on

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Speaker 2: in Florida that produces delicious mangoes and other fruit vriietitles.

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Speaker 2: In the medical profession, I speak with a chemist and

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Speaker 2: And finally, I speak to the CEO of Laredo Oil,

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Speaker 2: make great strides and innovations to be profitable. It's important

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Speaker 2: Will we be able to be energy independent and access

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back with the Secretary of Labor, Lori

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more story celebrating the American worker.

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Speaker 1: Right here on Real America's Voice. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: fruits of our labor. Only here on Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the fruits of our labor. To kick

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Speaker 2: off this special it felt appropriate to have the current

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Speaker 2: we are fighting to re establish American innovation and dominance.

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Speaker 2: Secretary Lori Chavezdrimer was sworn in as our thirtieth Labor

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Speaker 2: Secretary in March and has dedicated two decades of her

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Speaker 2: on the Agriculture, Education, and Workforce Committees. Madam Secretary, thank

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Speaker 5: Thanks Bo, I'm glad to be here.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Madam Secretary, When you think of Labor Day, what

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Speaker 6: Well, when I think about my first job, I was

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Speaker 6: And then as you develop your careers over time, you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Madam, I was about sixteen, about the

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Speaker 3: Just since you've been sworn.

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Speaker 6: In, well certainly celebrating Labor Day. One of the things

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Speaker 6: then really honor the American worker. Under this administration's leadership,

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Speaker 6: But I think about our alignment. I think about our welders,

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Speaker 6: the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of this country. There's

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Speaker 6: nothing better than that, especially Darien Labor Day.

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Speaker 2: Well, speaking of the president, there have been some economic

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Speaker 2: What are some of the successes and how will that

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Speaker 6: Well, certainly with the trade deals and the tariff talks,

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Speaker 5: So what have we seen?

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Speaker 6: Tens of trillions of dollars be invested back into the

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Speaker 5: Grow the workforce.

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Speaker 6: We've seen the success of the One Big, Beautiful Bill

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Speaker 6: that they can choose to continue to work. The President

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Speaker 5: So my part of the equation.

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Speaker 5: So I work with our state partners.

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Speaker 6: Community colleges, technical schools, centers of excellence where private businesses

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Speaker 6: how does the Department of Labor's mission assist in that.

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Speaker 6: We want to protect the way journey, We want to

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Speaker 6: to protect those as well. So, you know, this is

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Speaker 6: for every single day, and that's just mortgage paying jobs

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Speaker 6: so they can protect their families and provide for them.

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Speaker 4: I think Micro called it sweat equity, which I thought

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Speaker 5: Great wet equity. Nothing better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you were the daughter of a teamster, but

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Speaker 2: and then became a small business owner. What is the

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Speaker 2: had to tread some rather tough waters in recent years.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, you know we've seen in past administrations where you know,

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Speaker 5: What I want to.

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Speaker 6: Do, and certainly on the same page as the President,

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Speaker 6: is to be an ally for our American businesses. You know,

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Speaker 6: when we are at together at one table, we can

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Speaker 6: grow the economy, grow the American pie. So it's large

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Speaker 6: enough where we don't have to battle, we can actually

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Speaker 6: do was bring business and labor together, and that's why

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Speaker 5: Back, the golden age is back.

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Speaker 2: By American higher American Well, Madam Secretary, is our time

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Speaker 4: What should Americans be thinking about?

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Speaker 6: Americans should be thinking about that they have a president

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Speaker 2: So nice to hear that the American dream is achievable. Well,

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Speaker 2: Secretary shob Is Dreamer, thank you so much for your

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more story celebrating the American

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the fruits of our labor. The first

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Speaker 2: alex thank you so much for letting ustuff by Tropical Acres.

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Speaker 2: You have an amazing property here for all the cultivations

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Speaker 2: I understand that that's why you started this business in

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So I grew up here in South Florida.

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Speaker 7: Me actually until I was in high school. So, like

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Speaker 8: My grandparents would give them to me and my sister,

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Speaker 2: So well I understand that Florida is the number one

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Speaker 2: competition and how does that work in your business?

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Speaker 8: So I would say at this point you can say

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Speaker 8: it's competition because it's mangoes, right, and so if somebody

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Speaker 8: is looking at it from a perspective of, you know,

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Speaker 8: price on mangos, we can't compete with foreign prices for

445
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Speaker 8: for fro mangoes because you know, tremendous difference in in

446
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Speaker 8: in labor costs and uh and just production costs in general,

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Speaker 8: right to grow them overseas.

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Speaker 7: But our product is so different and distinct from what.

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Speaker 8: Is produced overseas that we've been able to separate ourselves

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Speaker 8: here in Florida. Now we're a little industry relatively speaking,

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Speaker 8: compared to the you know, the importers from overseas. But

452
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Speaker 8: the product is a much higher quality product, very very

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Speaker 8: different from what we find a mercery stores.

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Speaker 7: So tell me what that's like.

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Speaker 2: It's it's sweeter, just a just a better the Yeah,

456
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Speaker 2: bit of varieties, lots of varietal selection for one thing,

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Speaker 2: and flavor profiles that you won't find in rosery store mangos.

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Speaker 8: People are surprised to learn that there's mangos that have

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Speaker 8: citrus flavor, coconut flavor. Really yeah, we've got a we've

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Speaker 8: got a pina plata mango, a cotton candy mango, a

461
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Speaker 8: sweet teart mango. As crazy as it sounds, you know,

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Speaker 8: these mangos actually do have a lot of really unique

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Speaker 8: flavors that you never thought mangoes could.

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Speaker 7: So they're very loan fiber. We're not stringy at all,

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Speaker 7: most of them.

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Speaker 8: Uh, there's a few that we grow that EPs or fiber,

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Speaker 8: but that's usually for specific ethnic roofs that desire that. Otherwise,

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Speaker 8: like if you're looking for a fiber free mango with

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Speaker 8: excellent texture, ninety percent of what we grow qualify and uh,

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Speaker 8: you know, so that is also another you know, separation

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Speaker 8: what you find at the grocery store.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes all our mangos are fresh picked.

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Speaker 8: They're picked at by hand, Yeah, by hand and so like,

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Speaker 8: and they're picked when they're supposed to be a lot

475
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Speaker 8: of the imported mangoes from overseas are not. They're picked

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Speaker 8: actually immature.

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Speaker 2: So you're getting a really watered now product getting it which,

478
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Speaker 2: as you said, is tough people that come the price.

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Speaker 2: But I'm curious in terms of like the tariffs that

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Speaker 2: have come in and in tariffing other countries with what

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Speaker 2: we're importing from them, has that helped your business at all?

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Speaker 7: I don't know. I can tell you this.

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Speaker 8: I feel like we've separated ourselves as an industry here

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Speaker 8: in South Florida from foreign exporters so much that what

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Speaker 8: happens with regards to you know, whether the tariffs have

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Speaker 8: an impact on that or not, is almost you know.

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Speaker 8: And yeah, like we it's I think we're get in

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Speaker 8: good shape no matter what, and we feel optimistic about

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Speaker 8: what we're producing. But yeah, I mean, certainly, well, it's

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Speaker 8: it's very hard to compete on price with these these exporters,

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Speaker 8: and you know we we've dealt with it, and.

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Speaker 7: You sustain business. Who are your customers?

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Speaker 8: Our customers are regular people. We actually just sell to

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Speaker 8: the general public. So we have a fruit stand on

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Speaker 8: site and anybody can come up during our hours of

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Speaker 8: course and buy the fruit while we're in season, while

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Speaker 8: that stand is open.

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Speaker 2: Alex, I think one element of your business that I

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Speaker 2: find very compelling and I think our viewers are really

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Speaker 2: going to be interested in, is your passion extends beyond

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Speaker 2: just the business. But you want to educate a new

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Speaker 2: generation of mango growers.

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Speaker 7: How do you do that?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 7: How many people the employee here?

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Speaker 2: Because I know it's a very small operation, but how

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Speaker 2: are you planning on educating that next generation?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, great question.

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Speaker 8: So, yes, we're not very big and we don't have

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Speaker 8: a lot of employees. We do have a website that

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Speaker 8: offers a lot of information about mangoes and some of

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Speaker 8: the other fruits we grow, and it tells people a

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Speaker 8: little bit about their history and about all the traits

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Speaker 8: of the varieties and how they grow and everything.

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Speaker 7: But from a public education perspective, I've given.

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Speaker 8: Talks around the state to various tropical fruit clubs and

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Speaker 8: societies over the last decade, and we've just recently started

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Speaker 8: the Florida Mango Festival last year. We just had the

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Speaker 8: second festival ever this year, and that's a collaboration between us.

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Speaker 7: And other growers to educate the general public about.

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Speaker 8: The amazing number of varieties of mangoes that can be

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Speaker 8: grown here, just right here in our state, and about

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Speaker 8: the difference between locally grown mangoes boarded varieties. And we're

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Speaker 8: hoping to continue to ignite this excitement and passion. And

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Speaker 8: mangoes have experienced kind of a renaissance in Florida in

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Speaker 8: the last thirty years, and we want that to grow

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Speaker 8: and we want more people involved in them. Fortunately, mangoes

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Speaker 8: are actually one of the crops that is actually expanding

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Speaker 8: an acreach in Florida, So they're now thousands of acres

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Speaker 8: of mangoes and they continue to grow according to the

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Speaker 8: surveys done, and that's exciting. We have more people out

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Speaker 8: there in Florida growing mangoes every single year coming online,

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Speaker 8: and that's awesome to see.

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Speaker 7: We want agriculture to survive and thrive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because I think people mostly associated for oranges. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: the orange business and of course sugarcane as well. But

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Speaker 2: I did realize how big mangoes actually were. Tell me

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Speaker 2: about this particular tree if you can, and what state

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Speaker 2: of development these mangoes are in right now.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely so.

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Speaker 8: This mango is called Ambrosia, and this is the only

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Speaker 8: one of this variety we have on this farm. It's

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Speaker 8: actually probably one of the few examples of this tree

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Speaker 8: in existence. This was a hybrid done by the Zill

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Speaker 8: Nursery in Boyton Beach, and they did a lot of

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Speaker 8: hybrids over the years. Gary Zill, it's a brilliant nurseryman

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Speaker 8: who looks down here in South Florida, and he bred

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Speaker 8: a lot of mangoes back in the nineties into one

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Speaker 8: of many awesome mangoes that we have here. But this

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Speaker 8: one's called the cambrosia, so you know, you see, it's

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Speaker 8: still got quite a bit of fruit. And I've picked

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Speaker 8: boxes and boxes of fruit off of this tree already.

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Speaker 7: But tropic lagers, every piece of fruit is picked by hand. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: you and your employees.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we don't know machines really, no, we don't have

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Speaker 8: any machine that will harvest the note for us.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 8: We have to go with intelligence, right, yeah, humans, I mean,

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Speaker 8: nobody has anything as far as I know, for a

560
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Speaker 8: little farm like us to to, you know, harvest the

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Speaker 8: fruit on our behalf. So actually myself and a couple

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Speaker 8: of my employees end up harvesting all the fruit, and

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Speaker 8: so we have to go out by hand pick them

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Speaker 8: with a picking pole like an old school. And we

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Speaker 8: have a lift that helps get me up into the

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Speaker 8: bigger trees because we have some very old trees here

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Speaker 8: that are very tall.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, they have to be picked by hand.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: Tell us finally, Alex, about the website where people can go,

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Speaker 2: because I understand that they can see what your actual

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00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: crop is like that particular day to ship out buss.

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Speaker 7: Is that right? Yeah?

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Speaker 8: So our website is Tropical Acresfarms dot com. We have

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Speaker 8: an online shop and the online shop section you'll be

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00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,239
Speaker 8: able to see what we're selling locally. There's also an

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Speaker 8: option to pre order a box of fruit as long

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Speaker 8: as we're still in season, okay, or at least approaching

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Speaker 8: season and so, but that pre order function is only fruit,

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry. The local pickup option is only for local customers,

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Speaker 8: but it does show shipping customers gives them an idea

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Speaker 8: of what's in season, so you can see every night

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00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 8: between eight and ten pm while we're still in mango season,

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Speaker 8: we post fruit to that website and it says exactly

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Speaker 8: what's going into each local pickup mix, which varieties are

586
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Speaker 8: in the box and bag, if you will, and you

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Speaker 8: can read about those varieties on our website if you

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Speaker 8: want to. There's a section about where you can click

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Speaker 8: and read about each variety.

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Speaker 7: Hi, Alex, thank you so much for coner.

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Speaker 2: You've got an amazing and amazing experience here and hopefully

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Speaker 2: you'll show us around here with sure.

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Speaker 7: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: an Alzheimer's expert and professor of neurology at Northwestern. Gentlemen,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining me today. And first

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Speaker 2: I have to say gokats to honor.

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Speaker 3: My alma mater.

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Speaker 9: Gokats.

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Speaker 3: That would be remiss.

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Speaker 2: Well, doctor Silverman, I want to start with you. You

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Speaker 2: you to develop it.

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Speaker 3: Take me through that process.

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Speaker 7: Sure, so.

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Speaker 10: There's been nothing for the treatment of ALS, and the

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Speaker 10: chemist to see which ones would be most appropriate to

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Speaker 10: continue and modify their structure, optimize them, and honed it

662
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Speaker 10: down to three different classes of structures. We then spent years,

663
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Speaker 10: maybe five years or more, modifying the structures of those

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Speaker 10: three initial what we call hit compounds to improve their properties,

665
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Speaker 10: and we ended up with three outstanding compounds, one of

666
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Speaker 10: which we thought was best that we named in U

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Speaker 10: nine after where it was discovered, and so at that

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Speaker 10: point then we started to team up with others that

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Speaker 10: would do screens for its ability to show in animals

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Speaker 10: what it can do. And we started first in an

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Speaker 10: als animal with my colleague hondai Usdenler at our medical school,

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Speaker 10: and she got really remarkable results with that, but found

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Speaker 10: that did it work not just in a single protein aggregation,

674
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Speaker 10: but multiple protein aggregations, and so we thought, well, maybe

675
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Speaker 10: this is a general protein aggregation inhibitor. Let's try another

676
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Speaker 10: neurodegenerative disease. And that's where doctor Bill Clein came in.

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Speaker 10: He's an expert in Alzheimer's and so we handed the

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Speaker 10: molecule over to him.

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Speaker 2: So, Doctor Silverman, before we move forward, because you just

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Speaker 2: touched on this, the original goal, in my understanding, was

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Speaker 2: to target protein pathways to stop als also known as

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Speaker 2: lou Geerg's disease, and usually it's one drug per disease,

683
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Speaker 2: but in this case you discovered that it was multipurpose.

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Speaker 2: How did you come to learn that and at what

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Speaker 2: point did you begin working with doctor Clin.

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Speaker 10: Yes, so that was at the point where we saw

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Speaker 10: that it not only prevented protein aggregation from the initial

688
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Speaker 10: mutation that we had used to screen compounds, but in

689
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Speaker 10: an additional mutation of a different protein, completely different protein

690
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Speaker 10: that is actually important in ninety five percent of ALS patients.

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Speaker 10: And when we saw that this thing could work in

692
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Speaker 10: multiple protein aggregations, we thought, well, maybe this is a

693
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Speaker 10: general protein aggregation inhibitor for nor degenerative diseases in general.

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Speaker 10: And of course Alzheimer's disease is the largest nor degenerative

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Speaker 10: disease problem. And that's when I contacted.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Klin and doctor Clin.

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Speaker 2: You come into the picture due to your research on

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Speaker 2: Alzheimer's disease. You looked at cellular and animal models and

699
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Speaker 2: you found that in U nine reduced toxic aggregates that

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Speaker 2: improved neuron health. Was this a Eureka moment or based

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Speaker 2: on what doctor Silverman was doing. Were you already optimistic

702
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Speaker 2: about it?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 9: I was pessimistic about it. Scientists are supposed to be

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Speaker 9: pessimistic than we are, So it was a persistent flash

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Speaker 9: of insight that Rick had. I remember a columnist a

707
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Speaker 9: long time ago said success depends on taking advantage of

708
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Speaker 9: your luck, and most people don't even know when they're lucky.

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Speaker 9: Rick paid attention and recognized he'd been very lucky to

710
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Speaker 9: see two different proteins associated with ALS being blocked by UNI.

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Speaker 9: It was very exciting, so I was glad that he

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Speaker 9: knocked on my door.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Clong, what's the process biologically?

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Speaker 2: I know we're still talking thirty thousand foot here, but

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Speaker 2: what's going on in the brain that this drug is

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Speaker 2: targeting and how effective has it been thus far in

717
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Speaker 2: your research?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 9: Number one, it's been very effective in our blocking of

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Speaker 9: Alzheimer's neuropathology in animal models, and we would definitely want

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Speaker 9: to build on that as much and as fast as

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Speaker 9: we can. So it turns out that, like many of

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Speaker 9: these degenerative diseases, it's all about good proteins that have

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Speaker 9: gone bad, and this is the case for Alzheimer's as

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Speaker 9: well as ALS. It's a different protein in each disease.

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Speaker 9: But wouldn't it be fantastic if there's a shared mechanism

727
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Speaker 9: that leads to that good protein going bad in different diseases,

728
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Speaker 9: And that seems to be the case for ALS and

729
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Speaker 9: Alzheimer's because they're both affected and protected against by a

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Speaker 9: new nine.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Kleinman, My grandfather, who is now deceased, was diagnosed

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Speaker 2: with Alzheimer's years this years ago. The drugs that he

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Speaker 2: was given were aricept and respert al, and I don't

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Speaker 2: know if those are still used anymore, but my perception

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Speaker 2: is that most drugs are basically prescribed just to slow

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Speaker 2: down the effects of Alzheimer's. It's inevitable, but you're just

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Speaker 2: trying to slow it down. In you nine, from my perspective,

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Speaker 2: seems to do something different. Is that true? And would

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Speaker 2: you say it's a more promising drug?

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Speaker 11: Yes.

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Speaker 10: I think the drugs prior to this a really symptomatic

742
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Speaker 10: that they were targeting the symptoms of the disease and

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Speaker 10: there wasn't really a drug that slowed down or prevented

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Speaker 10: the disease from progressing. And so I think that is

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Speaker 10: really a really big difference with NY nine that we're

746
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Speaker 10: seeing that it actually can reverse problems that occur in

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Speaker 10: the neuron. And we need to check this out in humans,

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Speaker 10: but certainly in mice. We can take mice where nor

749
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Speaker 10: degeneration has begun already and after sixty days of treatment,

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Speaker 10: the neurons looked pretty much like healthy mouse neurons.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Silverwall were on the subject, since you mentioned mice,

752
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Speaker 2: explain what the status of testing is with respect to

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Speaker 2: ALS and Alzheimer's. I think I understand that you're a

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Speaker 2: bit farther along with ALS.

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Speaker 10: Correct, correct, Yes, So we the FDA has approved our

756
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Speaker 10: I n D to initiate clinical trials. We're in the

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Speaker 10: process of raising funds to start those clinical trials in

758
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Speaker 10: ALS for Alzheimer's. You know, the safety issue is the

759
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Speaker 10: same regardless of the disease, but efficacy needs to be continued.

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Speaker 10: And in Alzheimer's then we're well. Doctor Klein's lab is

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Speaker 10: working hard at getting additional data that would be comparable

762
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Speaker 10: to the data we have for ALS, so that we

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Speaker 10: can move it along in Alzheimer's as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, de Cloud lever you to chime in on this

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Speaker 2: and let me know and let our audience know. Would

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Speaker 2: you think in U nine and based on what your

767
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Speaker 2: lab is doing, is the most promising therapeutic drug out

768
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Speaker 2: there at this point in terms of reversing neurodegenerative diseases.

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Speaker 9: Well, there's drugs that are more advanced, so you know

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Speaker 9: that would be an unfair supposition. There are drugs that

771
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Speaker 9: are in clinical trials that have already received status from

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Speaker 9: the FDA to go ahead and check them out. So

773
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Speaker 9: I think it's a very exciting drug because it works

774
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Speaker 9: differently and it blocks really the build up of these toxins,

775
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Speaker 9: of these small soluble toxins. It's different from most of

776
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Speaker 9: the other drugs which target amyloid. You've probably heard of amyloid.

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Speaker 9: This is something that targets a precursor to amyloid, and

778
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Speaker 9: what it does is prevent it from building up in

779
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Speaker 9: a very significant sub biological pathway. So it's very exciting.

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Speaker 3: That is exciting.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got a question for you both, because we

782
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Speaker 2: are focused on labor day. How much labor would you

783
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Speaker 2: say that you put into your research in total in

784
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Speaker 2: unine and how much more is going to be required

785
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Speaker 2: to get this drug into humans to begin making a difference.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Silver, I'd like to start with you.

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Speaker 10: Well, we initiated this project in maybe it was two

788
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 10: thousand and eight, and went through all the screening and

789
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Speaker 10: it was in twenty and twelve. I think that we

790
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Speaker 10: then started to work on modifying the structures and so

791
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Speaker 10: it's a long process for any drug. This is one

792
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Speaker 10: of the reasons it costs so much is because you

793
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Speaker 10: spend a long time developing them and then the drug

794
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Speaker 10: can go through clinical trials and after hundreds of millions

795
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Speaker 10: of dollars or more, it may not pass. And so

796
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Speaker 10: see there's no gain in those drugs, so we have

797
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Speaker 10: to you know, make up the loss in revenue by

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Speaker 10: charging when you do get a drug that is successful.

799
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Speaker 10: So say, we've been working on this now for what

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Speaker 10: seventeen years, and we're just beginning clinical trials once we

801
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Speaker 10: raise the funds.

802
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Speaker 2: And how about you, doctor clin, you think it will

803
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Speaker 2: be a long path still yet to go.

804
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Speaker 9: Actually, no, so the long path is hopefully behind us.

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Speaker 3: Good.

806
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Speaker 9: It's an answer to my wife's question, how come you

807
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Speaker 9: don't have a cure yet? And we started working in

808
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Speaker 9: this project in nineteen ninety eight identifying a new drug,

809
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Speaker 9: a new compound that we think causes Alzheimer's diseases, small

810
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Speaker 9: saw precursors to AMOY and then you've proved that they're there,

811
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Speaker 9: and then you diagnose them under different conditions, and you

812
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Speaker 9: test different antibodies and drugs, and you nine is doing

813
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Speaker 9: a remarkable job. So once you start to get as

814
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Speaker 9: far as we are right now, maybe it won't take

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Speaker 9: so long.

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Speaker 3: Well, we certainly hope.

817
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Speaker 2: So I hope it is very very soon because just

818
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Speaker 2: for the sake of I think everyone else there that's watching.

819
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Speaker 2: Everyone knows someone that's affected by Alzheimer's or even als

820
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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: So Doctor Silverman, Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Klin, thank you so much for all of the labor

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Speaker 2: that you have put into this very important research. I

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Speaker 11: marriage at comingling of mining and oil and gas technologies.

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Speaker 11: So my particular career prep path is I started as

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Speaker 11: a laborer in a gold mine when I was seventeen,

882
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Speaker 11: and after a few years of that, I saw a

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Speaker 11: guy with a very clean hard hat, and I said, hey,

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Speaker 11: I want that job. And he was an engineer. He's

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Speaker 11: a mining engineer. So I went back became a mining engineer,

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Speaker 11: and then onto petroleum engineering. Oil company came and said, hey,

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Speaker 11: we've got this shallow oil field. Eighty five percent of

888
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 11: the oil is still in this field. Can we mine it? Well,

889
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 11: they had a good thought, but they asked the wrong question.

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00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 11: In that process I came up with. It was I

891
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 11: guess an epiphany that you would use a tunneling technology

892
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 11: and drill holes up into the reservoir to drain it.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 11: Then I took that idea fifteen years later, raised seed

895
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Speaker 11: capital formed Laredo Oil and that was sort of the

896
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Speaker 11: genesis and the history of how Laredo Oil was formed.

897
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Speaker 11: And now we're thirteen and a half million barrels a day,

898
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Speaker 11: the largest oil producer in the world and natural gas

899
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Speaker 11: because of American creativity and ingenuity and pioneering of new technologies,

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Speaker 11: which is we're following that path first plowed by those

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Speaker 11: entrepreneurs and pioneers well.

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00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 2: Mark in terms of labor and the economy. What would

903
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Speaker 2: that do? Would we become energy independent with such technology?

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Speaker 11: Would we be So we're about six million barrels a day.

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Speaker 11: Shy of becoming oil independent the United States, Even though

906
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Speaker 11: we're the largest producer in the world, we're also the

907
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Speaker 11: largest consumer of crude oil. And so would we become independent, No,

908
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 11: would be we would we be a lot closer to independence, Yes,

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Speaker 11: and significantly closer.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, with the recent conflict between Iran and Israel,

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00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: it kind of looked like potentially oil could be affected

912
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Speaker 2: by the strait of WARMUS and Iran blocking it. If

913
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Speaker 2: we use the natural resources we have, could it mark

914
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Speaker 2: possibly make the Middle East? I hate to use the

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00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 2: word irrelevant, but it could help our national security in

916
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Speaker 2: terms of making us more independent and not having to

917
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Speaker 2: worry so much about Middle Eastern oil.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely. So, those of us who remember the oil embargo

919
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Speaker 11: whatever was seventy three, seventy four, I was young pupp

920
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Speaker 11: but I still remember it. We got we had an

921
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Speaker 11: old clunker Plymouth and sitting there for three hours waiting

922
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Speaker 11: to fuel up. We all remember that. And and so

923
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Speaker 11: so oil's fungible. So even though we increased production in

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Speaker 11: the United States, with the fungibility of oil globally, you know,

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Speaker 11: making the Middle East irrelevant isn't a possibility. But the

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Speaker 11: domestic dependence on the Mideast, by adding domestic production is achievable.

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Speaker 2: Well, Mark, to close our time out here, you know

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Speaker 2: the specialist called the Fruits of our Labor. Tell me

929
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Speaker 2: what you hope the fruits of your own labor can

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Speaker 2: do for America.

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Speaker 11: So I'm a I you know, I harkened back to

932
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Speaker 11: you know, the Mitchell's and the Hams pioneers, entrepreneurs and

933
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Speaker 11: and creators of wealth. There's two buckets. There's those who

934
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Speaker 11: those who accumulate wealth, and then there's those who create wealth.

935
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Speaker 11: Since we're a low cost oil producer, we drive down

936
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Speaker 11: the cost of living for Americans large, so we create wealth.

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Speaker 11: There's something hidden in the ground that we take to

938
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Speaker 11: the ground, and it's a value to us as as

939
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Speaker 11: an operator and producer and society and our local government's large.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's fascinating stuff. Mark.

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Speaker 2: I've learned a lot from this conversation, and thank you

942
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Speaker 2: for all that you're doing and also helping generate wealth,

943
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 2: wealth creation for Americans and our economy every single day.

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Speaker 2: So thanks Mark for your time. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 11: Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I hope you have enjoyed this special The Fruits of

947
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Speaker 2: our labor. This Labor Day weekend, I really hope you

948
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Speaker 2: take a moment to enjoy the fruits of your own labor,

949
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Speaker 2: whatever industry that may be in We all want to

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Speaker 2: be able to provide for ourselves and our families and

951
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Speaker 2: keep our economy strong so that we can pursue our dreams.

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Speaker 2: Today I spoke with leaders in agriculture, medicine, energy, and

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Speaker 2: even the Secretary of Labor herself about American innovation and

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Speaker 2: the state of our workforce. So if you're off this weekend,

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Speaker 2: enjoy your well deserved break, and if you're having to work,

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Speaker 2: we value what you're doing to provide for yourself, your family,

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Speaker 2: and your community.

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Speaker 3: Happy Labor to everyone.

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Speaker 1: America's strength has always been in its people, the workers, dreamers,

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Speaker 1: and builders who make this nation great. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us on Real America's Voice.