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Hey everybody, and welcome to the Friday wrap up on Streamline Solopreneur. I'm your

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host, Joe Casabona, and here's what's on my mind for September 11th, 2026.

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Well, it was iPhone week and iPhone Duo was announced by Apple. I've wanted a foldable

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phone since I tried the Samsung Galaxy fold back in 2019. I even bought the Motorola

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Razor last year to try it kind of as a secondary phone test, the form factor, see

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what Android has been up to. And the form factor was okay, but I knew I wasn't trying

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the best phone,

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uh,

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in the foldable market at least because I wasn't willing to spend 1800 bucks on a

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secondary phone. And so the truth is, my first real foldable experience will be with

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iPhone Duo.

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apple finally announced

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the foldable on Wednesday of this week. We've known if, if you follow Apple News

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and Apple rumors like I do,

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you, you know, this has been rumored for a long time.

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I'm kind of a sucker, so I like upgrading my phone every year. And, and the reason

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is I always want the best camera and the best battery. And so if I could

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kind of finance the phone

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and pay a, a set monthly payment

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for the ability to upgrade it every year with zero a PR, no additional cost to me

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that was worth it.

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But all of that seems to be changing with the iPhone duo. There's a bunch of things.

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Apple got rid of the iPhone upgrade program and now has the Apple upgrade program,

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but the phone is also

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starts at $1,999. The one I'm getting is $2,100.

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so it's more expensive, right? And so I'll likely pay for it over two years to keep

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my monthly payments the same, which means I may not be upgrading next year. I could

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buy the phone outright if I really wanna buy

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the next one next year. And maybe since I know that I can start saving a little extra

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every month or in, in the weeks moving up to it, and, and I'll be able to sell the

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original iPhone duo. But

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I suspect for a bunch of reasons, I'm, I'm gonna keep this phone for two years.

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I'm already not going to get the best camera this year, right? Because it's not as

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good as the iPhone 18 Pro. It is, I think, comparable to the 17, which is what I

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currently have. But there's no telephoto lens, there's also no action button and

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no fast charging. So

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I am,

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uh, doing a lot of trade-offs from the pro that I currently have to get the duo.

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But I think the bigger screen that fits in my pocket will be worth it. The nano technology

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on the screen that causes little to no glare is exciting. The fact that it works

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with an Apple pencil is awesome. And so I am willing to sacrifice some of those things,

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especially 'cause like I realized in the last couple of years, I don't really take

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that many pictures.

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I will

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take pictures sometimes, and if they're going to be the same quality as what I currently

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have, I'm fine with that. I'm not posting anything on social media. So these pictures

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are largely for me to be viewed on the phone anyway. And so

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I am very excited. I can't wait to pre-order this phone on October 16th.

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I always appreciate Mkb HD's videos and his hands-on with iPhone duo is really good.

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So I will link that

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in the description.

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now if you, are you an Apple nerd? Do you have something on your mind?

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Have thoughts about the iPhone duo

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uh, let me know over@streamlinedfeedback.com. You can write in or leave a voice note.

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I might even play that voice note on the show. Alright, let's move over to recommended

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reading.

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And,

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this is an episode of Ditching Hourly by Jonathan Stark.

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Nick

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Rich Meyer. I think I'm saying that right, the damn rules.

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after last week's

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newsletter and episode,

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reader Garrett wrote in and recommended this episode of Ditching Hourly by Jonathan Stark.

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And I loved it.

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Nick kind of walks through doing things that don't scale and focusing on impact,

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and that stuff really resonated with me. So I would recommend the episode.

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This is in recommended reading because I ordered Nick's book, the Damn Rules, which

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should be delivered today. So, really excited to read that.

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something that really sold me on the book was that it's like in, it's, it's it

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embossed and engraved. It's, it's like kind of letter pressed. They spend a lot of

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time on the cover

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kind of to show right, do things that are slow, that you can't do fast, that don't

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scale. And I, I really enjoyed that part.

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So that is the recommended reading slash listening for this week.

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Okay, something fun.

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everything you can see the official teaser. This is the,

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surprise documentary that was announced at the Telluride Festival earlier this week.

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And,

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I don't know how much fun this is versus chilling.

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but I'm, I'm really excited for this movie. If you don't know about Elizabeth Holmes

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and the story of Theranos, I recommend you check it out. It's wild. It it, I I listened

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to the audio version of John Car Ru's book, bad Blood, which is a deep dive into

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Elizabeth Holmes and the company

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Theranos.

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I, I did this in 2019, and apparently 2019 was very influential on, on today's newsletter

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and episode. But,

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it, it, it reads like a work of fiction

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because the stories are so outlandish and the things that she got away with and the

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people that she fooled,

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just wild.

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and, and so really interesting. I also listened to the subsequent podcast and followed

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Elizabeth Holmes trial very closely.

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spoiler alert, she was found guilty and is sentenced to, I think 35 years in jail.

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this documentary is about the days before she goes to jail. She's apparently very

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charismatic and can win over even strong detractors,

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but she's also committed incredible fraud and put people in physical danger

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in pursuit of being the next Steve Jobs. And so, I'll be very curious to see what

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we learn. I read an an,

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I think it was an Axios article about the movie.

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and, and it, it's really a look into

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what makes her tick and does she really believe the things that she says.

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So that is the

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something fun. I guess. It's fun 'cause it's a movie.

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so,

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I am,

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I'm excited to see it.

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All right, something to help with your systems.

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Uh,

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calling this audio splitter, separating audio by Clap

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almost on a whim on Monday, I decided to do a 30 days of podcast notes over on my

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other podcast, the streamlined podcaster for September, which is International Podcast

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Month. Now, I still help people with podcasts and, and around their content systems,

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but,

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I maintain this podcast largely to keep using rss.com.

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who for whom? I am an evangelist and I want to test all of the features. And I thought

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this would be a fun project. But the

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thing about this is because I decided on September 7th to do this,

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I had to backdate seven days, right? Because I wanted one episode per day for the

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month of September.

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So I had to batch, and I definitely need to batch for sure. I'm not recording these

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episodes one off each day.

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And so I, I decided I would only do this if I could make it as easy as humanly possible.

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And so here's what is happening all in a Claude skill.

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I record a bunch of episodes in a single recording. This is like five to 10 episodes

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in a single recording clapping between each one.

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I upload the audio to Claude, the file name includes the episode numbers that are

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included in this range, and then Claude separates and numbers the episodes based

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on the claps in the waveform. That was incredibly surprising to me. Then it will

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transcribe each episode and create the title, something like Topic. And then in bracket

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day, whatever of 30 days of podcast notes,

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it'll create a simple description with my required links and a disclosure that AI

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wrote it. That's going to be at the bottom of every description that AI fully wrote

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this description.

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then it uploads it all to rss.com using my,

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rss.com Claude skill, which has a, a script, an API script

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that Claude wrote.

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and it'll schedule it on the day that corresponds with the episode number. So if

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it is episode 11 like it is today, as I record this,

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it will schedule it on September 11th and 12 will be scheduled on September 12th,

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so on and so forth.

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I will review everything before publish, but it's very, very light touch for me.

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I record these episodes and then everything else happens in the background. I'm very

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clear

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with the audience that these are messy voice notes that are not edited. I leave the

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mess up in, I make it really clear. And so I, I wouldn't do something like that for

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this show, which is edited and a little more polished.

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But this process has been working out really well. I've recorded and scheduled 15,

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probably in about an hour total, where all, almost all of that was talking, right?

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each episode is between two and seven minutes long. And then I run the Claude skill

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and if, you know, if there's like little idiosyncrasies I need to fix, but

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it's just, it's been a really great experience. And so I am excited to see,

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because I started this on September 7th, I will go till October 7th, which means

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the October episodes will kind of be a retrospective on this project and how it went.

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So that is the something to help your systems really impressed by this computer task

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that Claude is very good at.

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Alright, so,

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that's it for this episode. I do wanna close out, you know, I wanna recognize that

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this episode's coming out on September 11th, but before I get to that,

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if you need help with your systems, if you are doing everything yourself and you

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want to take things off of your plate,

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but you don't want to hire a team or rely too much on AI to do the actual craft for

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you,

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I can help you out. Let's schedule a free 25 minute coaching call over at streamlined

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fm slash clarity. That's

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streamlined FM slash clarity. There will be a link in the show notes. So,

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today is nine 11. I wanna close out on,

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I saying my, one of my favorite speeches is, is maybe not right, but,

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one of the most poignant to me. It's from the Flight 93,

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Memorial, and it's from George W. Bush. It was for the 10 year anniversary

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of nine 11. I grew up in New York.

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I was in high school. I knew I had friends who lost parents.

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commemorating this and remembering to,

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honor those we lost on that day is very important to me.

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and so I wanna close out with this.

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but thanks so much for listening, and until next time, I hope you find some space

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in your weekend.

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He added the whirl little note,

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nor long remember what we say here,

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but it can never forget what they did here.

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So it is with Flight 93,

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for as long as this memorial stands, we will remember

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what the men and women aboard the plane did here.

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We'll pay tribute to

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the courage they showed,

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the sacrifice they made,

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and the lives they spared.

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The United States will never forget.