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Lee Blackman

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45 total appearances

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Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

There's no paint on the side. It's all sheeting and it's all translucent ink. This piece of equipment is called a squeeze roll applicator. The machine is set to a specific brush and that will directly apply the sheeting to the piece of metal.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

What he's doing now is he's pasting out the horizontal measurements for the line of copy. He knows how far from the bottom these letters are going to be, how far from the top, and he's setting all that up. He's going to hand lay every one of these letters individually. It tells you the exact distance from one letter to the next, from the edge of the sign coming up to the first letter.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

What he's doing now is he's pasting out the horizontal measurements for the line of copy. He knows how far from the bottom these letters are going to be, how far from the top, and he's setting all that up. He's going to hand lay every one of these letters individually. It tells you the exact distance from one letter to the next, from the edge of the sign coming up to the first letter.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

What he's doing now is he's pasting out the horizontal measurements for the line of copy. He knows how far from the bottom these letters are going to be, how far from the top, and he's setting all that up. He's going to hand lay every one of these letters individually. It tells you the exact distance from one letter to the next, from the edge of the sign coming up to the first letter.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

So you know everything down to the spacing of the font. You know the spacing, the different size fonts, and that determines too, you know, bigger sign, bigger font, smaller sign, smaller font. These letters can only be off an eighth of an inch. It's not a whole lot of leeway.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

So you know everything down to the spacing of the font. You know the spacing, the different size fonts, and that determines too, you know, bigger sign, bigger font, smaller sign, smaller font. These letters can only be off an eighth of an inch. It's not a whole lot of leeway.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

So you know everything down to the spacing of the font. You know the spacing, the different size fonts, and that determines too, you know, bigger sign, bigger font, smaller sign, smaller font. These letters can only be off an eighth of an inch. It's not a whole lot of leeway.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

These signs right here are ready to go, whether it's going to a specific project on a specific road or whether it's what we call a division where it's going to go to a specific DOT division.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

These signs right here are ready to go, whether it's going to a specific project on a specific road or whether it's what we call a division where it's going to go to a specific DOT division.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

These signs right here are ready to go, whether it's going to a specific project on a specific road or whether it's what we call a division where it's going to go to a specific DOT division.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

A sign manufacturing plant, this is just one of the many plants that we have. All these plants are different industries. The other ones that I have a hand in are the metal plant down in Anson County, woodworking and upholstery up at Alexander. Optical plant we have over in Nash.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

A sign manufacturing plant, this is just one of the many plants that we have. All these plants are different industries. The other ones that I have a hand in are the metal plant down in Anson County, woodworking and upholstery up at Alexander. Optical plant we have over in Nash.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

A sign manufacturing plant, this is just one of the many plants that we have. All these plants are different industries. The other ones that I have a hand in are the metal plant down in Anson County, woodworking and upholstery up at Alexander. Optical plant we have over in Nash.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

The other general managers have a wide variety of plants that they look after, whether it be janitorial, laundries, sewing plants.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

The other general managers have a wide variety of plants that they look after, whether it be janitorial, laundries, sewing plants.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

The other general managers have a wide variety of plants that they look after, whether it be janitorial, laundries, sewing plants.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

We also do a lot of work for any tax-supported entity within the state of North Carolina.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

We also do a lot of work for any tax-supported entity within the state of North Carolina.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

We also do a lot of work for any tax-supported entity within the state of North Carolina.

Freakonomics Radio
Highway Signs and Prison Labor

If you pay taxes, and I'm a taxpayer in the state of North Carolina, I want everybody to be as frugal with my tax dollars as they can be.