081324 Steve Laffey

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Neighbors. Good to have you here. I was gonna say
ladies and gentlemen walking to the program, but according to
Delta Airlines, that's offensive. I did this story briefly yesterday.
I don't know if you saw this. I put it
up there, you get your comment on the Delta's top
DEI officer has said gate announcements will no longer use
the phrase ladies and gentlemen because if you say ladies

(00:23):
and gentlemen in the passenger area, please, we have an
announcement that's offensive. Evidently it's part of an equity push,
and if you say ladies and gentlemen, you're not being equitable.
And I know a lot of people, a lot of
fery viewpoints, and I've never met one that I know of,
there's ever offended by being called ladies and gentlemen. As
matter of fact, I have friends of walk in and say, hey, gentlemen,

(00:44):
how are you doing? And I'm like, we're the gentlemen.
We're definitely not gentlemen, but ladies and gentlemen. According to Delta,
their top DEI officer has said that's no longer going
to be used at the boarding areas for gate announcements
because it's not it's not inclusive. I'm not making I'm
not making this up. This is a real live story

(01:06):
out there. The officer of Senior Social Impact Officer is
Kyra Lynne Johnson, and she says Delta is now trying
to quote boldly pursue equity, which has impacted every level
of the company, from its hiring practices to the language
it uses at its gate announcement. We're going to take
a hard look at our gatehouse announcements, you know, like

(01:28):
we say welcome, ladies and gentlemen, and we have questions
that we have to ask ourselves. Is that as gender
as inclusive as we want it to be. Some of
our legacy language exist in the employee manuals as well,
and it doesn't send a message of inclusivity. You know,
Delta is a great airline and start dinking around with them.

(01:51):
It's offensive to say ladies and gentlemen. Who would have
known you woke up one day and ladies and gentlemen,
which is usually a very respectful thing. Now it's offensive
of at least in the Delta Airlines world. All Right,
wealkome to the program. Everybody, Steve Laughy usually with me on
a Wednesday. He joins me today on a Tuesday, because
he's got some travel plans for tomorrow. Steve, Good morning,
Happy Tuesday, Sir, Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So great to be to say yes. Tomorrow. I have
a very exciting day. I fly to Boston where my daughter,
Sarah Grace laughing, one of my three daughters and six children,
who has stayed four cancer unfortunately, goes undergoes an enormous
treatment starting on Thursday. She was at the children's hospital,
singing as she does to other kids, and one of
the charity people with Jimmy Fund heard her, went back

(02:35):
and find out who she was, came back and tomorrow
night she sings the national anthem at the Boston Red
Sox game Live. You got a TV set at four
oh one your time in Mountain time. But if you're
in the six on one and my wife and I
and a bunch of people from New England will be
there to see this amazing event. She had a beautiful voice.

(02:57):
She's suffering from cancer terribly. She can't even open her
right eye to do this. Gyster yesterday, we're a patch
like send Bad the Sailor or something, she laughed. But
to all these trials if you're having a bad day,
I think of Sarah Grace laughing and pray for because
she's always in a good mood and she's singing tomorrow night.
It's amazing. So anyway, but not to us in the world.
But that's what I'm doing tomorrow, which is more important

(03:19):
than just about anything, taking care of my children like
you do with yours.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Tomorrow night, four oh one, Mountain time. If you watch
the Red Sox game, watch the national anthem, and does
Sarah Grace laugh? You're going to sing the national anthem,
And that's awesome, that's really cool. And we'll be praying
for her. She starts a new round of cancer treatment
the next day, so we'll be praying for her along
the way. And know a lot of my listeners like
to pray. They let me know they're praying, so I
feel free you pray for Sarah Grace as she goes

(03:44):
in this new round of cancer treatment. All right, Steve,
let's get down to the business of the radio business.
And first of all, are you flying on delta? I
gotta ask you, because they're not gonna address you as
ladies and gentlemen tomorrow, right, are you flying delta?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
No? I'm actually on United on the way out in Southwest,
which I usually do Southwest when I go domestically mostly,
I will tell you United and made the most improvement
of any airline in Southwest is falling like a rock.
But I mean, there's still very nice people there, but
they don't even try in Denver to get you on
the plane. But United does. And you know you did
away with that red important person Lyne too, so that's good.

(04:23):
But I'm on United, but I'm not un Delta, which
is what are people? I mean, I call people, sweetheart.
I'm never going to change. No one has ever been offended.
I thought it was my son, Sarah, and you know,
then I picked up the phone it was it was Peter,
my thirty four year old son, calling and said, hey,
sweet probably how you do it? He's like laugh at
his head off. Yeah, I don't think you should. Really,
I said, oh, I couldn't tell from that from when

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I was getting out of the show who it was.
But no, people, nobody minds this stuff. Nobody cares. Why
is Delta appealing again to the less than one percent
of the people who think they should be called they
or them or whatever rather than ladies? And gentlemen noising girls, Joe,
let's get ready to fly. That's even normal. But why

(05:06):
would people get away from normal when they're just pissing
off excuse me, kicking off seventy of the people in
America when they do it and only pleasing.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. It also is a good airline. But
anytime you have an office called the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
and Social Impact Officer, I've actually makes pretty good money.
I do have a question though, if if you're supposed
to have an entire office called Diversity Equity, Inclusion and
Social Impact Officer, you have a whole office devoted to

(05:36):
diversity equity inclusion, why is it offensive that we say
if someone was a diversity equity Inclusion higher, like you
know President Biden said about Kamala Harris, he's going to
choose to be chosen because he said, diversity equity inclusion
is on display starting with my VP. That's a quote
from the President. So they form an office. You can't

(05:56):
call someone a DEI higher.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, Parmasul the famous black economists that said, and I'll paraphrase,
this is insulting, Like it's insulting to these people how
do people who are black walk around Harvor to walk
around with jobs at the federal government and then people
see them and not think, oh, they got their job
because of some whatever for actions now been outloaded you.

(06:22):
But I mean, it's not good for them. They're plenty
of talented people who are Asian American Black Americas. Just
let's go to Martin Luther King and let's just forget it,
because I'll tell you the truth. No one cares anymore.
It's over. Why are you still replaying something to the
nineteen which really never existed? And what you did in
the meantime, folks Democratic Party when you rose to the

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occasion to include all this stuff and naked now it's
DEI you hurt black families. Go do the statistics of
how many black families were intact in nineteen fifty nine
and how they were joining the middle class versus today?
Someone did? People have done these studies and what they
find is that they destroyed the middleical, they destroyed the
black family.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah uh, And I'll move to change topics here. But
I'm one of the people.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
I disagree with her. I think a legal interpretation, but
I've always felt horrible for Katanji Brown Jackson. Uh, because
President Biden didn't say I'm going to find the best
jurist out there. He said, I'm going to find it's
got to be filled with a black lady. And I'm like, well,
maybe she's the best jurist. Why don't you just call
her the best jurists the best possible candidate. And I
always felt horrible that she was identified that way, as

(07:30):
opposed to what she has accomplished to get to that level.
It was not I felt bad for her. All right,
let me. You sent me a headline. I want you
to unpack this for me. In the moments we have left,
China loses a record fifteen billion dollars of foreign investments.
And then there you sent me another headline that China

(07:51):
loosens the grip with the weakest fixing fixing the economy
since November. What's happening in China? Is China fall on
the p over there? Give me your interpretation. What are
we reading here?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, China is falling apot and thankfully so because they
went to a one dictator rule and the guy's making
all the decisions. But to this specific one and how
it relates to the two Republican candidates running for president
and vice president. It's that China wants a week dollar
and getting their weeker dollar and planning for a week
of dolls so they can short term export. More right,

(08:25):
what's happening. Capital is fleeing kindly as China and moving
to other countries. So they're losing all their investment and
it's gonna continue. First of all, they don't have any
young people. They don't have any babies, you know, so
that's a whole demographic problem. But people are fleeing communists China.
In fact, I don't know if anybody's playing the visit
time is China. But one of the things that actually

(08:47):
is put up by the US State Department is that
you shouldn't go there because you could be arrested and
held for any reason at all that has nothing to
do with the rule of law. But yet people still
go to visit. I don't get this. So but we
take that as what countries do out of desperation, try
to weaken their dollar for their currency. Let's say, go on,
in this case, that's what happened, So let's move. Can

(09:10):
we move quickly to President Trump and Vice president candidate
advance saying they both specifically want a week dollar. And
I've said this before. I went and looked up on
a Google whatever AI site and tried to find the
major party candidate who wanted a week dollar, and I
could only find William Jennings Bryant don't bury me in

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across of gold speech in eighteen ninety six. He lost
to McKinley. Nobody wants to hear the word week dollars.
So picture you're sitting out in Ohio or some swing
state and you're one of the seven percent of the
people who don't know how they're going to vote, which
is kind of crazy, but that's who they're spending a
billion dollars on, right, And you hear week dollar? Does

(09:54):
that make sense that? Do you like the word week dollar?
Is that a phrase week dollar? No?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, I don't like that one. Bad bad meals.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's a bad vibe. So here are two people running
for president and vice president. I'm the Republican party who
want a weak dollar, which then gives you the second
thing that you think of, how many topics can Trump
and Vance leave the normal Republicans without people like me
saying like me saying I'm never doing that I'm not

(10:24):
voting to these people. For example, if you leave again
and say you want control over the Federal Reserve, you
want some control over the Federal Reserve. If you're old
enough like me, or educated a little bit, you think,
oh my gosh, that's Arthur Burns and Richard Nixon nineteen
seventy two. What happened after that? We've got no growth
in inflation. So just think about what happens on that policy.

(10:47):
If people start to think that the president United States
have some control over the federalies or policies, real interest
rates out ten and twenty thirty years. They'll rise because
people will be figuring, oh my gosh, they're gonna have
a week dollar, they're gonna have more inflation like we
did in the seventies, and their control will be very

(11:08):
short term. These are things that are another most Republicans
back to the normal days of pro life, strong national
defense and physical conservatives conservatives right, whatever that means the
Republicans anymore. But what those people are like abhoor the
phrase of control of the further Reserve. Some people like
me want to eventually end I reserve. My policies would

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be to get rid of their too dual mandate to
start and only haven't focused on inflation at zero. But
whatever it is, these things are now so far removed
from normal Republicans that you're going to suppress the vote
of Republicans and may lose the election over things like
this that Trump keeps saying and of course insulting the
governor of Georgia. Who so what if the person who

(11:51):
doesn't know anything about elections, you go about the governor
of Georgia. Here's what we know in the back I
haven't even looked it up. We know that he wanted
stricter voting, stuff like people make it harder for people
to vote, send them out to get registered, so we
wouldn't have illegal aliens and people who didn't deserve to
vote in Georgia vote. What happened. We remember that they

(12:13):
canceled the World Series in Georgia because of this, and
people hated him on the left wing because he was
like a racist or didn't want black people to vote.
And we also know what happened afterwards. The most amount
of people in the history of Georgia voted, So we
know that Governor camp did one thing right. And here's
the President Trump attacking him. Day after day a fellow Republican.

(12:34):
So it's like the third thing I could go to
ten of these. How much can we take to not
suppress the vote and enable missus Harris Vice President Harris
to actually win the election that she could never win? Like,
how many things is he going to do to let
Harris win the race? We talked about this last week?
Does he really want to win? Do they want to win?

(12:57):
It just seems to be no.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Before. If good Trump shows up and stays on his game,
then it will be all right. But if if anybody
defeats Trump, it's going to be Trump at this point.
And that's that's really funny. Funny, Yeah, it's it's he's
he can be his own worst enemy. Hey, real quick,
I think you heard me tease this. Coming up at
nine o'clock this morning, I have a New York Times

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best selling author by the name of Marien Callahan on
the program, and she's written a real fascinating book. I'm
diving to the excerpts of it. It's called Ask Not.
It's the proclivities of the Kennedy men and the destruction
they brought on women, And it goes back to I mean,
it's like generational of this family. So they talk about
John Junior, John F. Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, I mean, Robert F. Kennedy,

(13:42):
Robert F. Kennedy Junior. It's really bizarre. I'm not sure.
I know you've been a critic of Robert F. Kennedy
Junior's policies, but man, it's not just the policies. There's
some crazy stuff gone out of that family.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yes, it all comes from Joseph Kennedy, one whom they
have been the richest men in the world, who owned
the Chicago mart and you know, and abused women. I mean,
you can read other books about his abuse and I
guess taught his kids to do so. And so that's
always been a problem. Not with every Kennedy. I mean,
for example, there's a Patrick Kennedy who was a congressman,
who I took the church when he was sixteen when

(14:17):
I taught at Hotchkiss, who who seems to have risen
above that. He's out there, not a congressman anymore, his
son of Ted Kennedy and doing great things to stop
marijuana if if he can't in the country. But it
seems to inflected a lot of the Kennedys and it
comes from Joe Kennedy. I am definitely going to be
listening in at nine oh five this morning for the show.

(14:38):
But Robert F. Kennedy Junior, to get specific, because he's
the only one alive that we could talk about who
has these problems. In a sense, is a complete nut job.
And I've said this for I said this what I
say in the show. He'll never get on all the bouts.
He can't keep it together. Go back to the movie
Both Finger with everybody's ever seen it, keep it together.
He can't keep it together. He releases things about Himley

(15:00):
a beer in Central Park, really bizarre nature of what
he does, like playing tricks and called it half cops
come in. He doesn't do that. This would be almost
funny if he had done it when he was twenty one.
He was sixty three or roughly when this happened. So
there are things coming out. And of course we went
over his vice presidential pick, who we don't know who.

(15:20):
I can't name her anymore. She's not out there. She
just had some money we thought to her to get
him on the ballot. He's only on the ballot, like
seventeenth states. He's a nothing. Burger and it goes back
to all the other comments. So when he says something
decent about the national debt, we would better have someone
who doesn't have all these other weird things that we
could say, oh, that guy's really good on fixing the

(15:41):
national debt and then not get into you know, leaving
dead beers in Central Park or saying mister Chevez Yugoshavez,
who has killed a lot of people in Venezuela, destroyed
the country, was a great leader, and not his father.
His father and his uncle Jeff Roberts and John would
have loved the guy either or that the coch Burthers
should be killed. That was another position they should be killed.

(16:05):
So these things like we needed somebody, we needed someone,
we needed no labels to go through that, we needed
someone who could really handle the really important issues of
our time as a third party candidate like ros Baro
tried to do with them he dropped out and got
back in, and and not Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who
was a complete wat job.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah that no labels party are they on the how
many states are they on the ballot? Do they have
a candidate? Did they ever put anybody up?

Speaker 2 (16:28):
They and I know this for a fact. They were
really getting on the ballot of the stakes and then
decided not to. We're in a candidate, which seems to
be like looking at it now, like what were they thinking.
I think they spent I don't how much money, but
another fifty million they raised and spent another fifty million
to get this done advertisements. Now they're into like, let's
run some people for Congress. Where wouldn't it been better

(16:51):
to have one candidate on the ballot in twenty three
states that mattered, right, because they weren't and really going
forward on like three issues, the national death so communists,
China whatever, it would be right, fixing social security and
just that's it, and then you have that person maybe
not winning, but then changing everything for twenty twenty eight.

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They refused to do so. And I really don't know why.
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
I know they tried to get Mansion supposedly and Nikki
Hayley they refused. Maybe I'm sure there was somebody that
could have found to put on that ballad for their
name me. Yeah, Steve Laffey, I was going to nominate
you that if they had a convention. They didn't have one.
I was going to go, Steve Laffy, Lets just safe travels.
We've been praying for your daughter and trying to tune
into her singing and enter that new phase of cancer treatment.

(17:37):
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