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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the president wants to bring in the National Guard
to DC, he'll deal with crime, and the press wants
to make sure that you know that crime is actually
down DC. Well, okay, fine, So there were six hundred murders,
say in DC last year. This year there's only four
hundred and ninety. That's still four hundred and ninety murders.
(00:22):
That's really terrible, even though crime is down.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Did you hear me say the dreg Because I was
literally going to talk about something else at the beginning
of this hour. I had on my POS something else,
and then I looked up and saw Trump speaking and
cash Betel speaking and started doing some data dump and
decided I want to talk about this instead.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
See, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I had a he had left that talk back just
minutes ago. I had a previous talkback ready to go
because you were talking about, Hey, you're going to do
this other subjects.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So I was like, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So did the other talkback have to do with the
other topic?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
No, oh okay, it was just an evergreen talkback that
I could use almost oh oh okay.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So I was like, okay, I'll get ready to play that.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Then you looked up and you saw the screen and
you're like, hey, I may talk about this. I was like, well,
you're going to talk about it, I'm going to play
this talkback now.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well in that case, I may just go do the
other topic instead. That's funny, just because you know, I'm
an a hole just like you are. So if you're
going to do that, then I always go back and
talk about Stern. I was gonna talk about Howard Stern
for a for a segment because I find the whole
Howard Stern thing fascinating. But let's get since this is
top of the app this is like top of the
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news right now, let's do it. So he's announced that
he's placing the the Metropolitan Police Department in DC under
federal control.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals,
roving mobs of wild youths, dragged out, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people. And we're not going to let it
happen anymore. So let's think about that. Quote. Our blank
has been overtaken by just fill in the blank. Our
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blank has been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals, roving
mobs of wild youth utes, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people,
and we're not gonna let it happen anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
All right, Well, just.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Denver, Aurora, San Diego,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, where we live. We
let's see, Uh, we leave Wyoming, We'll leave Missoula, Loonsuit,
come down Phoenix. Uh. Now, let's go back up and
we did Texas. Oklahoma's okay, we just did Denver. We'll
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do Denver and Aurora, and then we'll go to Chicago, Detroit, although.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Troy is not quite as bad as you used to be. Detroit.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Then we'll come down and we'll do Cleveland, Cincinnati, Oh, Memphis.
Memphis is horrible. Memphis is absolutely atrocious. Now let's move
over to Hotland and we'll do hot Lanta, Miami Dade County.
Then let's kind of come up the coast. Let's do Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
We'll do New York, Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I we'll leave Portland, Maine alone. Right now? Am I
leaving anybody out? Anybody else want to be on the list.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm sure there's somebody out there or somebody.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
In fact, just for the hell of it, let's do
Let's do Cortes Colorado or Sterling.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Craig.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll do Craig. Well, we always, we always ignore. Craig
gets kind of up out there, out of the way.
We'll do Craig. So let's let's send the National Guard
in or federal troops in, either way, and let's clean
up the cities. He vowed that we're going to take
our capital back. We're going to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What's you going to do? Get rid of?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Congress is going to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam,
and squalor. Oh, so, I guess the House and the
Center are gun. Under the authorities vested to me as
President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section seventy
forty the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and placing
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DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. This is
another liberation day. He also NACI's going to deploy the
National Guard to help restore order, blaming the city's Democrat
dominated local leadership for turning it into a sanctuary for
the criminals.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
But they turned our nation's capital into a sanctuary jurisdiction.
That's the other thing. We have to get rid of
sanctuary cities as quickly as possible. We're going to do
it too. We have to because it's sanctuary for criminals
releasing illegal alien gang members onto the streets. In twenty
twenty two, nearly seventy percent of criminals arrested in Washington
went unprosecuted.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's not going to.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Happen with the group we have standing a side and
standing behind me.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I doubt it will either. I doubt it will either.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Let's see if this is a little Uh no, I
don't want to do that one. Let's find over here. Uh,
this one's probably pretty good. Oh yeah, this might be
pretty good.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Right here, just stand A lot of you tend to
be on the liberal side.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He's in the Brady briefing room. So he's standing where
Cream Jean Pierre, remember her. Let me circle back, now
that was Jen Sackey, would circle back, uh, Cream Jean Pierre.
Just so you know, I don't know, I don't know.
So he's talking to the reporters and.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
A lot of you tend to be on the liberal side.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But you don't want to get You don't want to get.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all
know people and friends of yours that that happened. And
so you can be anything you want, but you want
to have safety in the streets. You want to be
able to leave your apartment or your house where you
live and feel safe and go into a store to
buy a newspaper, buy something.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And you don't have that now.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that
of Bogata, Columbia, Mexico City, some of the places that
you hear about as being the worst places.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
On earth's much higher. This is much higher.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
The number of car thefs has doubled over the past
five years, and the number of car jackins has more
than tripled. Murders in twenty twenty three reached the highest
rate probably ever. They say twenty five years, but they
don't know what that means because it just goes back
twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Can't be worse.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people. And we're not going to that it
happened anymore, We're not going to take it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, where Matt as hell? And we're not going to
take it anymore. What I find now. He went on
to reference the brutal beating of the Department of Efficiency
staffer Edward big Ball's courts stem he thwarted this, remember
that he thwarted a carjacking attempt last week. He also
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referenced the murder of Mike gil that was an official
in Trump one point zero that was killed during a
carjacking spree last year. Trump said, as you know, I
lost a very good person a while ago. He was
shot waiting for his wife. He was in the car,
They robbed his car, they shot him, they killed him
like there was nothing to it. Every American, he says,
as a constitutional right to be able to access and
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petition their government in safety. That's an interesting twist on
the right to be able to access and petition your government.
And I say, I find it interesting because he's talking
about the District of Columbia, the seat of the federal
government carved out specifically in the Constitution, and Congress was
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given authority over that district. And then the Congress decided, yeah,
we don't want to mess with it. You know, we're
we're too busy. We gotta we got fundraising, We got
wine parties to go to, we got cocktail parties to
go to. We got travel, we got cotails.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
We gotta.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We got to travel to Tahiti to make sure everything
in Tahiti's okay. We got to travel to you know,
Bali Island to make sure everything's okay in Bali. We
got to travel to Paris to make sure that you know,
Macrome's really married to a woman. We got to travel
to the UK to make sure that we can adopt
the kind of you know, socialized medicine has screwed the Brits,
So we gotta, we gotta do all that stuff. And
of course we got to go to you know, Kiev
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to make sure everything's you know, punky Dorian Kiev. So
they decided they had too much to do, so they
passed the Home Rule Act and said, we'll let you establish,
you know, a home rule. You can elect a mayor
and a city council, and you have your own police
sparkman blah blah blah, and you know, don't bother us
at me and won't bother you. And then it went
into a hell hole on probably my very first trip
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to d C. Back in the dark ages. There were
literally areas around the White House that you would come
up off the Blue line or the Orange line, either one,
and you would think you walked into some ghetto, into
some you know, you thought you were in Gaza. That's
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how bad it looked. Except the buildings weren't blown out.
But in terms of just the drug addiction on the streets,
the homelessness on the streets, the thugs on the street,
everything just made you think, I'm not sure. I you know,
I kind of wanted to go over and walk and
see the lighthouse, but I'm not really sure. I wanted
to walk the three blocks from you know, this metro
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station over to do that. That's how bad it was.
Here's that's what I find fascinating about what Trump does.
He takes now, how long this will last. I don't
know how effective it will be. I don't know. He
clearly has the statutory authority to do so, that's in
the Home Rule Act. But I think there's a larger
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thing at play here, and I think this is a
lot of what Trump does. I don't know whether they
can be embarrassed or not, or whether they're even capable
of feeling embarrassed. But if you're a member of the
United States Congress and you know, for decades now, Washington
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has gone through kind of these ups and downs where
it really was, as I said on my very first
trip back in the dark Ages, it really was a
hell hole. I can tell you that during my tenure
in DC, it really was quite enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It was nice.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now, there were still parts of southeast DC that I
would try to avoid. But you know, since they built
the new stadium for the Mats, and you know, I
don't wonder how they're doing compared to the Rockies, since
you know, all of that's being redeveloped, it's it's not
quite At least during my five and a half almost
six years there, it really wasn't quite as bad as
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it was on my very first trip there. And now
I think it's kind of beginning to integrate again, much
as the entire country is. Because sitting over here in
my stuff is an article from Dragon Workplace violence is
on the rise in the United States, new study reveals.
Well get into the details of that in a minute,
but let's go back to Trump's strategy. Congress should be
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embarrassed by this, but they're not. The one thing that
he said in that short SoundBite that I think is
the most important.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
They turned our nation's capital into a sanctuary jurisdiction.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
We have to get rid of sanctuary cities as quick.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I think he's pointing out to Congress. This is what
happens if you look at any sanctuary city, major city
across the country. I'm sure it's true in some smaller
cities too, but you look at any of the larger cities. Yes,
sanctuary status does what it brings about all this crime.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Quickly as possible.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Going to do it too, we have to, because it's
sanctuary for criminals, releasing illegal alien gang members onto the streets.
In twenty twenty two, nearly seventy percent of criminals arrested
in Washington went unprosecuted BINGO.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
That is astonishing.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
If that figure is anywhere near correct, seventy percent of
criminals or of alleged criminals arrested never prosecuted, then there's
an awful lot of illegal arrest going on. Or you have,
which I think is the latter about what I'm about
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to say is that you have a typical Soros type
prosecutor who wants this criminal activity. They want the detegration
of US society. And that gets to my point about Congress.
I think one of the things that Trump does is
he takes these kinds of issue that are so relatable
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to every American. And I don't care if you've never
been to d C or not. Your perception of DC
is that it is a hell hole crime pit. And
whether that's justified, you know, on some level it's justified
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when it comes to murders, for example, or it comes
to you know, assault and batteries, you know, property crimes,
is probably true. Otherwise it may not be quite as
bad as it's portrayed to be, but nonetheless it's bad.
I think he takes those issues and he throws him
out there and he does something like, you know, okay,
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we're going to federalize the MPD, the Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We're going to federalize that.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You know, that raises the hackles of Democrats because they
have no capacity to be embarrassed. They only have the
capacity to be pissed off. So rather than joining with Trump,
I mean, I can't wait to see what Democrats say
later in the day about this, because I'm sure they'll
be offended by it. That's what he's attempting to do.
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I will point out that you're not doing your job
of oversight, which the constitution requires. You have abdicated your
responsibility to Mayor Bowser and her police department and the prosecutors,
and they're not doing anything. You know, the Attorney General
of DC is not doing squad not prosecuting crimes. So
here's what I'm going to do. So it's like he
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lobs the bombs into these you know, huge issues and
then steps back. Now, I think that Pambondi and Pete
Hegesth will obviously do what the Boss says. And if
the Boss says, I want you to federalize this police department,
they'll go in and do that. Meanwhile, Democrats are going
to start screaming about it. And why will they scream
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about federalizing the police department as opposed to saying the
President is right about crime, so let's do something to
fix crime. You know, the easiest thing they could do,
the easiest thing they could do to solve crime, would
be to carve out I said this last week. Carve
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out say from just the Supreme Court building in the
Library of Congress, maybe up to K Street down maybe
to C Street southwest and southeast, and carve out a
rectangle that goes all the way maybe across Memorial Bridge
over to Arlington National Cemetery. Take in the Lee House,
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bring in the Pentagon, bring back all of that, put
that in the take you would technically take the Pentagon
out of Virginia, put it into the District of Columbia.
Give everything else back to Maryland. Give everything else back
to Virginia. Well, I actually I think everything's already been
given back to Virginia. But give everything else that's left over.
You might have to take part of You might have
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to go across the Anacostia River and take part of
where Saint Elizabeth's Hospital used to be, where John Hinckley
used to be housed for a while, because they're converting
some of that into homeland security offices, So you might
have to go into part of that. But give everything
else back to Maryland, and then keep that sliver that
you know from the Pentagon over to the Supreme Court
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and the Library of Congress. Make that the District of Columbia.
Get rid of all the residential areas that you possibly
can and turn the district into the federal district, which
the Constitution calls for, and then tell Congress you control
that we'll create a federal you know, I know the
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phrase sounds scary, but we'll create a federal police force
for the District of Columbia under the control of Congress,
and it will be about as effective as oh, maybe
the US Capitol Police. Yeah, but at least the responsibility
will now be put where it belongs, and that's on
the United States Congress.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Michael, If you keep chasing squirrels, you ain't never gonna
get the rabbits.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't want the rabbit. I want the squirrel. I'm
hunting for the squirrel. The squirrel is what keeps all
of you coming back to this program all the time.
We know, we know the stats. Yeah, I'd like to
share some of those with you sometimes as we can
do that.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
One.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
One in three employees surveys said they'd witnessed physical altercations
in the workplace in the past five years, up twenty
five percent from last year. According to some HR company.
A disturbing fifteen percent said they'd actually been the target
of workplace violence. That's up twelve percent from last year.
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The overwhelming majority of workers, ninety percent said that higher
ups looked at the door.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Need to do more.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
To address their safety concerns. Among the thirteen percent of
respondents who said they feel unsafe at work, things like
toxic workplace culture, concern of violence, and fear of retaliation
were the top contributing factors. Are you fearful dragon?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Every time I see you?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You should be?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
These finding underscore that safety is no longer just a
compliance requirement, but a cultural imperody. Yes, let's see. When
asked if they felt comfortable in their own abilities to
de escalate a threat in the workplace, employees answered different
across generational lines, fifty eight percent of boomers, fifty four
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percent of Gen xers saying they felt prepared to de
escalate a physical threat, compared to only forty seven percent
among millennials, and then forty one percent among gen zers. Whims,
let's talk about Stern. I really do want to talk
about Starn for a minute. So I was a I
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was a drive by consumer of Howard Stern in his
early days. If I happened to be somewhere where I
found you know, a station with Kerry Stern, then I
might listen to it in the car for a while.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But I wasn't. I wasn't a die hard.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It wasn't like, you know, a Rush baby that would
take every opportunity you had to, you know, make sure
that you had a way to listen to Rush before
you could, you know, get this podcast or whatever. Always
listening to Rush Stern not so much. But when he
announced or he didn't announce, But when it started hitting
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the trades that his contract with Serious xem that he
may not take it, that they may offer him an extension,
they'll offer him some money, but he may not take it.
He may move on. Then I started getting interested about why,
and I don't think it's I do think it's always
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about the money. I was going to say it's not
necessarily about the money, but it's always about the money.
And I don't think that they are going to necessarily
offer him the kind of money that's going to keep
him around. But then when you start reading the trade magazine,
you start finding out that there was a decline in listenership,
There was a decline in he is streaming in his
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podcast on the YouTube page, it was dropping off precipitously. Now,
all of this, I guess you could say maybe started
back in I think was it six he went to
satellite Somewhere in that timeframe, wasn't it ish?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, yeah, somewhere.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think I was back in Colorado the time when
he did that, And I think I think he thought
that he would be free, no FCC finds, no program directors,
no language restrictions. He could say anything. But I think
sometimes being able to say anything can actually be backfiring.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I think I think.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Now let me ask you, Dragon, were you a stirt aficionado?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
No, I wouldn't say that, But it was fun listening
to and watching the show because he would do crazy
and outlandish stuff, you know, throw bologney at strippers butts,
and have a guy come in and fart on air,
and everybody try and smell and trying to figure out
what he ate to make that smell that he farted.
So it was just that that crazy, outlandish radio that
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just seemed fun and way outside of what anybody else
was doing.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And what I find fascinating about what came up in
your brain to describe why you watched him tells me
everything I need to know. About you today, I said teenage,
not just even then, but it's true today you would
do this.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
You would do the exact same thing today too, probably.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, and you probably missed doing kind of that a
little bit, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Down on the third floor.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Oh of course. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I would argue that what made him so observant, No,
I don't mean that he was observant. That what made
us observe him was the tension because he was pushing
the line, he was towing the edge of what was allowed,
and he would work within the boundaries, but he would
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always fight the boundaries. And I think that's what gave
the show the fire. And there were consequences to his words,
which at times made those words dangerous. And anytime, whether
we want to admit it or not, we get humans
get a certain thrill out of danger, even if it's
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fake danger, like writing a roller coaster. Roller coasters are
extremely safe, but we get that thrill of what we
perceive of as that danger. But then we behind the paywall,
that all disappeared because now he's not risking anything, so
now he was free. You know, as I've said here,
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the only word I want to be able to use
on air is bull the bull s word. I don't
care about using the F bomb or anything else, but
you know, I think bolt s word is very appropriately oftentimes.
I perceived that once he was able to do that,
and he continued to do it, and I think even
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more so, it became not rebellious, he became indulgent. There
was no longer any danger. So when there's no longer
any danger, there's no longer any edge, you're not walking
over to the edge. And then people are listening thinking, oh,
he's going to go across the line that disappeared. And
then because it's now behind a paywall, you lose all
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the people that listen over air, all the truck drivers,
the guys that might be listening on a transistor radio
in a warehouse, retail clerks, contractors who would you know,
catch the show on the you know, on their commute
to work. So the paywall narrowed the reach and then
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slowly started narrowing his cultural footprint. He didn't stop being
great because he went to satellite. He stopped being great
I think because he went universal and there were zero limitations.
And then the second shift, I think came with the money.
I'm and I'm not complaining good for him the five
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hundred million dollar contract. Huh, I'd be lucky you get
a five dollars contract here.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
But part of the other thing, too, is that when
he moved to Sirius, they gave him as several several stations,
so he was now the program director, he was the boss,
so there was no longer anyone for him to fight again,
no foil, there's no fight.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
There's no fight, right, yeah, because when that's that's what
And you and I have had a lot of conversations
with our program director about that very issue, and fortunately
we have a program director that understands that that is
so relatable to other people because they can't do it.
But if you and I were our own bosses, we
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can't make fun of iHeart exactly. Yeah, And I think too.
I don't know that I ever saw this with Rush
because Rush made a boatload of money, and not just
from his syndication but from his endorsements and everything else.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But a five hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I know people who make five hundred million they I
shouldn't say they make five hundred but they're worth five
hundred million dollars or they're billionaires. That changes people and
I think when you I think in radio in particular,
you know, they used to.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
We're called influencers.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Now we used to be called talent, and before that
we were called personalities. And I think the word personalities
is indeed the most app description of us. I mean
I think that, you know, I think corporate America changes
the what what they call us hosts different things simply
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because what we called him for so long, now we
need something new and clever, so let's call them talent.
Oh no, no, no, we've kind of beat that to death,
so now let's call them influencers. Well, I still think
it's personality. I think people listen to different personalities based
on their personalities, their perspective, how they present, the ability
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to make people think, laugh, cry, get mad, get upset,
get happy, all of those things. Because go back to
Stern for a moment.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
What was he doing.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
He built an empire by fighting everything. He had fight
the execs, he had, fight the politicians, he had, fight
the rival hosts, He'd fight everybody, and he was always
the underdog. And I think all that kind of disappeared
because once you become the top dog, no more fight
you've won. You don't have a boss anymore, you are
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the boss. There's a more battle, no more friction, there's
no more fire. And I think Trump broke his If
the move to sirious kind of took off the edge,
Trump just destroyed it because the guy that made his
name being the most politically incorrect man in the media
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suddenly became a skull, the hall monitor, a voice of sanitized,
elite approved opinion. And it wasn't just Trump that he
turned on the last time I listened to Stern, I
felt like he had turned on me. Now again, I
wasn't an officionado. I was just, you know, every once
in a while, as I have ceased doing I don't
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listen to any other personalities, talent talk influencers. I just
don't listen to anybody anymore. And I think Stern taught
me that lesson. And you know why, because I was like, oh,
I don't want to in any way have what he
does influence what I do.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Now I still listen to.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I obviously watched television and obviously watch the news because
that becomes one of my primary sources for the stuff
that I talk about on air. But when you start
calling Trump voters idiots, the unvaccinated, selfish. I think that
the other thing that occurred, and this is the point
I want to make, and then we'll take a break.
I think COVID changed him too, and I think he
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capitulated to the elites that said, you got a distance
six foot, you've got to wear a mask, even if
you're outside or inside your car. And he became a conformist,
the exact opposite of what he originally was, and so
everything died after that. He's one more victim of COVID.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Let's check in with Michael and Dragon to see what
their response is to Demi Lovado joining Joe Jonas and
the Jonas Brothers last night on stage to reunite for
a melody This is Me from Camp Rock. I'm sure
both of them watched that movie many many times.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Who's Jamie Lovado?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I think I know who Demi Levado is.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
What was the first name that she mentioned, Jamie Livado?
And then the Jonas brothers.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I have heard of the Jonah Okay, so I've heard
of both of those, the Jonas brothers. Aren't they both
the Jonas Brothers and Demie Levado are Aren't they both singers?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I can only infer from the Jonas Brothers that Dennie
la Vado could be a singer. Do I know of
anything she's been in or done? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And did they?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And alexis saying they appeared somewhere on something last night.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yes, some concert together to and reenact something that they
must have done years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
To I think I may have been having a bowel
movement at the time or something, so I.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
May have missed that much more pressing matter.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Absolutely more pressing matter. It's much like it's even still
in Drudge. I have a question for you, mister red Beer,
if you can pay attention for it, can you listen?
Can you listen to me for a moment as opposed
to talk?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Full Fuller stepped away, So.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Fuller's Johnson, Now you can talk to me, I suppose,
all right, So the Fuller brush man's left, and now
you can speak to me.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I like, Johnny's a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So this appeared on the headlines of the Daily Star,
which is like one of the you know, check out
line newspapers.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, what do they call those the.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Don't remember oasis worn to keep quiet about the dawn
on tour their visas are at risk.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Who's oasis?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Those are words that you strong together, that probably have
meaning to somebody somewhere, but not I.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Seriously, Well, all I can all I've discovered is I
think it's a I think.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I haven't think because I'm not going to waste any
brain cells on it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think it's a British rock group.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oasis is a band. Yeah? Oh you do that?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Pretty sure? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Oh? And they must be anti Trump.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
No idea, and we're gonna I shouldn't know what your
band's politics are.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Exactly that's exactly right. I like Springsteen's music. I'm sick
of hearing about his politics. I like Neil Young's music.
I'm sick of hearing about his politics. The only thing
I can tell you about well, I can't tell you
anything about their politics. But is Mick Jagger having another baby?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
He's eighty two years old, right, he's having another one.
It's not their to the kid. I'm not there, right,
So the president wants to bring in the National Guard
to DC, he'll deal with crime, and the press wants
to make sure that you know that crime is actually
down DC. Well, okay, fine, So there were six hundred murders,
say in DC last year. This year there's only four
hundred and ninety. That's still four hundred and ninety murders.
(00:22):
That's really terrible, even though crime is down.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Did you hear me say the dreg Because I was
literally going to talk about something else at the beginning
of this hour. I had on my POS something else,
and then I looked up and saw Trump speaking and
cash Betel speaking and started doing some data dump and
decided I want to talk about this instead.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
See, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I had a he had left that talk back just
minutes ago. I had a previous talkback ready to go
because you were talking about, Hey, you're going to do
this other subjects.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So I was like, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So did the other talkback have to do with the
other topic?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
No, oh okay, it was just an evergreen talkback that
I could use almost oh oh okay.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So I was like, okay, I'll get ready to play that.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Then you looked up and you saw the screen and
you're like, hey, I may talk about this. I was like, well,
you're going to talk about it, I'm going to play
this talkback now.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well in that case, I may just go do the
other topic instead. That's funny, just because you know, I'm
an a hole just like you are. So if you're
going to do that, then I always go back and
talk about Stern. I was gonna talk about Howard Stern
for a for a segment because I find the whole
Howard Stern thing fascinating. But let's get since this is
top of the app this is like top of the
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news right now, let's do it. So he's announced that
he's placing the the Metropolitan Police Department in DC under
federal control.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals,
roving mobs of wild youths, dragged out, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people. And we're not going to let it
happen anymore. So let's think about that. Quote. Our blank
has been overtaken by just fill in the blank. Our
(02:13):
blank has been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals, roving
mobs of wild youth utes, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people,
and we're not gonna let it happen anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
All right, Well, just.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Denver, Aurora, San Diego,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, where we live. We
let's see, Uh, we leave Wyoming, We'll leave Missoula, Loonsuit,
come down Phoenix. Uh. Now, let's go back up and
we did Texas. Oklahoma's okay, we just did Denver. We'll
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do Denver and Aurora, and then we'll go to Chicago, Detroit, although.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Troy is not quite as bad as you used to be. Detroit.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Then we'll come down and we'll do Cleveland, Cincinnati, Oh, Memphis.
Memphis is horrible. Memphis is absolutely atrocious. Now let's move
over to Hotland and we'll do hot Lanta, Miami Dade County.
Then let's kind of come up the coast. Let's do Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
We'll do New York, Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I we'll leave Portland, Maine alone. Right now? Am I
leaving anybody out? Anybody else want to be on the list.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm sure there's somebody out there or somebody.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
In fact, just for the hell of it, let's do
Let's do Cortes Colorado or Sterling.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Craig.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll do Craig. Well, we always, we always ignore. Craig
gets kind of up out there, out of the way.
We'll do Craig. So let's let's send the National Guard
in or federal troops in, either way, and let's clean
up the cities. He vowed that we're going to take
our capital back. We're going to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What's you going to do? Get rid of?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Congress is going to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam,
and squalor. Oh, so, I guess the House and the
Center are gun. Under the authorities vested to me as
President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section seventy
forty the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and placing
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DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. This is
another liberation day. He also NACI's going to deploy the
National Guard to help restore order, blaming the city's Democrat
dominated local leadership for turning it into a sanctuary for
the criminals.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
But they turned our nation's capital into a sanctuary jurisdiction.
That's the other thing. We have to get rid of
sanctuary cities as quickly as possible. We're going to do
it too. We have to because it's sanctuary for criminals
releasing illegal alien gang members onto the streets. In twenty
twenty two, nearly seventy percent of criminals arrested in Washington
went unprosecuted.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's not going to.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Happen with the group we have standing a side and
standing behind me.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I doubt it will either. I doubt it will either.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Let's see if this is a little Uh no, I
don't want to do that one. Let's find over here. Uh,
this one's probably pretty good. Oh yeah, this might be
pretty good.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Right here, just stand A lot of you tend to
be on the liberal side.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He's in the Brady briefing room. So he's standing where
Cream Jean Pierre, remember her. Let me circle back, now
that was Jen Sackey, would circle back, uh, Cream Jean Pierre.
Just so you know, I don't know, I don't know.
So he's talking to the reporters and.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
A lot of you tend to be on the liberal side.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But you don't want to get You don't want to get.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all
know people and friends of yours that that happened. And
so you can be anything you want, but you want
to have safety in the streets. You want to be
able to leave your apartment or your house where you
live and feel safe and go into a store to
buy a newspaper, buy something.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And you don't have that now.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that
of Bogata, Columbia, Mexico City, some of the places that
you hear about as being the worst places.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
On earth's much higher. This is much higher.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
The number of car thefs has doubled over the past
five years, and the number of car jackins has more
than tripled. Murders in twenty twenty three reached the highest
rate probably ever. They say twenty five years, but they
don't know what that means because it just goes back
twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Can't be worse.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people. And we're not going to that it
happened anymore, We're not going to take it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, where Matt as hell? And we're not going to
take it anymore. What I find now. He went on
to reference the brutal beating of the Department of Efficiency
staffer Edward big Ball's courts stem he thwarted this, remember
that he thwarted a carjacking attempt last week. He also
(07:26):
referenced the murder of Mike gil that was an official
in Trump one point zero that was killed during a
carjacking spree last year. Trump said, as you know, I
lost a very good person a while ago. He was
shot waiting for his wife. He was in the car,
They robbed his car, they shot him, they killed him
like there was nothing to it. Every American, he says,
as a constitutional right to be able to access and
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petition their government in safety. That's an interesting twist on
the right to be able to access and petition your government.
And I say, I find it interesting because he's talking
about the District of Columbia, the seat of the federal
government carved out specifically in the Constitution, and Congress was
(08:11):
given authority over that district. And then the Congress decided, yeah,
we don't want to mess with it. You know, we're
we're too busy. We gotta we got fundraising, We got
wine parties to go to, we got cocktail parties to
go to. We got travel, we got cotails.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
We gotta.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We got to travel to Tahiti to make sure everything
in Tahiti's okay. We got to travel to you know,
Bali Island to make sure everything's okay in Bali. We
got to travel to Paris to make sure that you know,
Macrome's really married to a woman. We got to travel
to the UK to make sure that we can adopt
the kind of you know, socialized medicine has screwed the Brits,
So we gotta, we gotta do all that stuff. And
of course we got to go to you know, Kiev
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to make sure everything's you know, punky Dorian Kiev. So
they decided they had too much to do, so they
passed the Home Rule Act and said, we'll let you establish,
you know, a home rule. You can elect a mayor
and a city council, and you have your own police
sparkman blah blah blah, and you know, don't bother us
at me and won't bother you. And then it went
into a hell hole on probably my very first trip
(09:14):
to d C. Back in the dark ages. There were
literally areas around the White House that you would come
up off the Blue line or the Orange line, either one,
and you would think you walked into some ghetto, into
some you know, you thought you were in Gaza. That's
(09:35):
how bad it looked. Except the buildings weren't blown out.
But in terms of just the drug addiction on the streets,
the homelessness on the streets, the thugs on the street,
everything just made you think, I'm not sure. I you know,
I kind of wanted to go over and walk and
see the lighthouse, but I'm not really sure. I wanted
to walk the three blocks from you know, this metro
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station over to do that. That's how bad it was.
Here's that's what I find fascinating about what Trump does.
He takes now, how long this will last. I don't
know how effective it will be. I don't know. He
clearly has the statutory authority to do so, that's in
the Home Rule Act. But I think there's a larger
(10:19):
thing at play here, and I think this is a
lot of what Trump does. I don't know whether they
can be embarrassed or not, or whether they're even capable
of feeling embarrassed. But if you're a member of the
United States Congress and you know, for decades now, Washington
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has gone through kind of these ups and downs where
it really was, as I said on my very first
trip back in the dark Ages, it really was a
hell hole. I can tell you that during my tenure
in DC, it really was quite enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It was nice.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now, there were still parts of southeast DC that I
would try to avoid. But you know, since they built
the new stadium for the Mats, and you know, I
don't wonder how they're doing compared to the Rockies, since
you know, all of that's being redeveloped, it's it's not
quite At least during my five and a half almost
six years there, it really wasn't quite as bad as
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it was on my very first trip there. And now
I think it's kind of beginning to integrate again, much
as the entire country is. Because sitting over here in
my stuff is an article from Dragon Workplace violence is
on the rise in the United States, new study reveals.
Well get into the details of that in a minute,
but let's go back to Trump's strategy. Congress should be
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embarrassed by this, but they're not. The one thing that
he said in that short SoundBite that I think is
the most important.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
They turned our nation's capital into a sanctuary jurisdiction.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
We have to get rid of sanctuary cities as quick.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I think he's pointing out to Congress. This is what
happens if you look at any sanctuary city, major city
across the country. I'm sure it's true in some smaller
cities too, but you look at any of the larger cities. Yes,
sanctuary status does what it brings about all this crime.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Quickly as possible.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Going to do it too, we have to, because it's
sanctuary for criminals, releasing illegal alien gang members onto the streets.
In twenty twenty two, nearly seventy percent of criminals arrested
in Washington went unprosecuted BINGO.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
That is astonishing.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
If that figure is anywhere near correct, seventy percent of
criminals or of alleged criminals arrested never prosecuted, then there's
an awful lot of illegal arrest going on. Or you have,
which I think is the latter about what I'm about
(12:55):
to say is that you have a typical Soros type
prosecutor who wants this criminal activity. They want the detegration
of US society. And that gets to my point about Congress.
I think one of the things that Trump does is
he takes these kinds of issue that are so relatable
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to every American. And I don't care if you've never
been to d C or not. Your perception of DC
is that it is a hell hole crime pit. And
whether that's justified, you know, on some level it's justified
(13:38):
when it comes to murders, for example, or it comes
to you know, assault and batteries, you know, property crimes,
is probably true. Otherwise it may not be quite as
bad as it's portrayed to be, but nonetheless it's bad.
I think he takes those issues and he throws him
out there and he does something like, you know, okay,
(14:00):
we're going to federalize the MPD, the Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We're going to federalize that.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You know, that raises the hackles of Democrats because they
have no capacity to be embarrassed. They only have the
capacity to be pissed off. So rather than joining with Trump,
I mean, I can't wait to see what Democrats say
later in the day about this, because I'm sure they'll
be offended by it. That's what he's attempting to do.
(14:30):
I will point out that you're not doing your job
of oversight, which the constitution requires. You have abdicated your
responsibility to Mayor Bowser and her police department and the prosecutors,
and they're not doing anything. You know, the Attorney General
of DC is not doing squad not prosecuting crimes. So
here's what I'm going to do. So it's like he
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lobs the bombs into these you know, huge issues and
then steps back. Now, I think that Pambondi and Pete
Hegesth will obviously do what the Boss says. And if
the Boss says, I want you to federalize this police department,
they'll go in and do that. Meanwhile, Democrats are going
to start screaming about it. And why will they scream
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about federalizing the police department as opposed to saying the
President is right about crime, so let's do something to
fix crime. You know, the easiest thing they could do,
the easiest thing they could do to solve crime, would
be to carve out I said this last week. Carve
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out say from just the Supreme Court building in the
Library of Congress, maybe up to K Street down maybe
to C Street southwest and southeast, and carve out a
rectangle that goes all the way maybe across Memorial Bridge
over to Arlington National Cemetery. Take in the Lee House,
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bring in the Pentagon, bring back all of that, put
that in the take you would technically take the Pentagon
out of Virginia, put it into the District of Columbia.
Give everything else back to Maryland. Give everything else back
to Virginia. Well, I actually I think everything's already been
given back to Virginia. But give everything else that's left over.
You might have to take part of You might have
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to go across the Anacostia River and take part of
where Saint Elizabeth's Hospital used to be, where John Hinckley
used to be housed for a while, because they're converting
some of that into homeland security offices, So you might
have to go into part of that. But give everything
else back to Maryland, and then keep that sliver that
you know from the Pentagon over to the Supreme Court
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and the Library of Congress. Make that the District of Columbia.
Get rid of all the residential areas that you possibly
can and turn the district into the federal district, which
the Constitution calls for, and then tell Congress you control
that we'll create a federal you know, I know the
(17:05):
phrase sounds scary, but we'll create a federal police force
for the District of Columbia under the control of Congress,
and it will be about as effective as oh, maybe
the US Capitol Police. Yeah, but at least the responsibility
will now be put where it belongs, and that's on
the United States Congress.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Michael, If you keep chasing squirrels, you ain't never gonna
get the rabbits.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't want the rabbit. I want the squirrel. I'm
hunting for the squirrel. The squirrel is what keeps all
of you coming back to this program all the time.
We know, we know the stats. Yeah, I'd like to
share some of those with you sometimes as we can
do that.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
One.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
One in three employees surveys said they'd witnessed physical altercations
in the workplace in the past five years, up twenty
five percent from last year. According to some HR company.
A disturbing fifteen percent said they'd actually been the target
of workplace violence. That's up twelve percent from last year.
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The overwhelming majority of workers, ninety percent said that higher
ups looked at the door.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Need to do more.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
To address their safety concerns. Among the thirteen percent of
respondents who said they feel unsafe at work, things like
toxic workplace culture, concern of violence, and fear of retaliation
were the top contributing factors. Are you fearful dragon?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Every time I see you?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You should be?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
These finding underscore that safety is no longer just a
compliance requirement, but a cultural imperody. Yes, let's see. When
asked if they felt comfortable in their own abilities to
de escalate a threat in the workplace, employees answered different
across generational lines, fifty eight percent of boomers, fifty four
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percent of Gen xers saying they felt prepared to de
escalate a physical threat, compared to only forty seven percent
among millennials, and then forty one percent among gen zers. Whims,
let's talk about Stern. I really do want to talk
about Starn for a minute. So I was a I
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was a drive by consumer of Howard Stern in his
early days. If I happened to be somewhere where I
found you know, a station with Kerry Stern, then I
might listen to it in the car for a while.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But I wasn't. I wasn't a die hard.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It wasn't like, you know, a Rush baby that would
take every opportunity you had to, you know, make sure
that you had a way to listen to Rush before
you could, you know, get this podcast or whatever. Always
listening to Rush Stern not so much. But when he
announced or he didn't announce, But when it started hitting
(20:18):
the trades that his contract with Serious xem that he
may not take it, that they may offer him an extension,
they'll offer him some money, but he may not take it.
He may move on. Then I started getting interested about why,
and I don't think it's I do think it's always
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about the money. I was going to say it's not
necessarily about the money, but it's always about the money.
And I don't think that they are going to necessarily
offer him the kind of money that's going to keep
him around. But then when you start reading the trade magazine,
you start finding out that there was a decline in listenership,
There was a decline in he is streaming in his
(21:02):
podcast on the YouTube page, it was dropping off precipitously. Now,
all of this, I guess you could say maybe started
back in I think was it six he went to
satellite Somewhere in that timeframe, wasn't it ish?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, yeah, somewhere.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think I was back in Colorado the time when
he did that, And I think I think he thought
that he would be free, no FCC finds, no program directors,
no language restrictions. He could say anything. But I think
sometimes being able to say anything can actually be backfiring.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I think I think.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Now let me ask you, Dragon, were you a stirt aficionado?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
No, I wouldn't say that, But it was fun listening
to and watching the show because he would do crazy
and outlandish stuff, you know, throw bologney at strippers butts,
and have a guy come in and fart on air,
and everybody try and smell and trying to figure out
what he ate to make that smell that he farted.
So it was just that that crazy, outlandish radio that
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just seemed fun and way outside of what anybody else
was doing.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And what I find fascinating about what came up in
your brain to describe why you watched him tells me
everything I need to know. About you today, I said teenage,
not just even then, but it's true today you would
do this.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
You would do the exact same thing today too, probably.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, and you probably missed doing kind of that a
little bit, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Down on the third floor.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Oh of course. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I would argue that what made him so observant, No,
I don't mean that he was observant. That what made
us observe him was the tension because he was pushing
the line, he was towing the edge of what was allowed,
and he would work within the boundaries, but he would
(23:06):
always fight the boundaries. And I think that's what gave
the show the fire. And there were consequences to his words,
which at times made those words dangerous. And anytime, whether
we want to admit it or not, we get humans
get a certain thrill out of danger, even if it's
(23:27):
fake danger, like writing a roller coaster. Roller coasters are
extremely safe, but we get that thrill of what we
perceive of as that danger. But then we behind the paywall,
that all disappeared because now he's not risking anything, so
now he was free. You know, as I've said here,
(23:47):
the only word I want to be able to use
on air is bull the bull s word. I don't
care about using the F bomb or anything else, but
you know, I think bolt s word is very appropriately oftentimes.
I perceived that once he was able to do that,
and he continued to do it, and I think even
(24:09):
more so, it became not rebellious, he became indulgent. There
was no longer any danger. So when there's no longer
any danger, there's no longer any edge, you're not walking
over to the edge. And then people are listening thinking, oh,
he's going to go across the line that disappeared. And
then because it's now behind a paywall, you lose all
(24:32):
the people that listen over air, all the truck drivers,
the guys that might be listening on a transistor radio
in a warehouse, retail clerks, contractors who would you know,
catch the show on the you know, on their commute
to work. So the paywall narrowed the reach and then
(24:53):
slowly started narrowing his cultural footprint. He didn't stop being
great because he went to satellite. He stopped being great
I think because he went universal and there were zero limitations.
And then the second shift, I think came with the money.
I'm and I'm not complaining good for him the five
(25:13):
hundred million dollar contract. Huh, I'd be lucky you get
a five dollars contract here.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
But part of the other thing, too, is that when
he moved to Sirius, they gave him as several several stations,
so he was now the program director, he was the boss,
so there was no longer anyone for him to fight again,
no foil, there's no fight.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
There's no fight, right, yeah, because when that's that's what
And you and I have had a lot of conversations
with our program director about that very issue, and fortunately
we have a program director that understands that that is
so relatable to other people because they can't do it.
But if you and I were our own bosses, we
(25:54):
can't make fun of iHeart exactly. Yeah, And I think too.
I don't know that I ever saw this with Rush
because Rush made a boatload of money, and not just
from his syndication but from his endorsements and everything else.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But a five hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I know people who make five hundred million they I
shouldn't say they make five hundred but they're worth five
hundred million dollars or they're billionaires. That changes people and
I think when you I think in radio in particular,
you know, they used to.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
We're called influencers.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Now we used to be called talent, and before that
we were called personalities. And I think the word personalities
is indeed the most app description of us. I mean
I think that, you know, I think corporate America changes
the what what they call us hosts different things simply
(26:58):
because what we called him for so long, now we
need something new and clever, so let's call them talent.
Oh no, no, no, we've kind of beat that to death,
so now let's call them influencers. Well, I still think
it's personality. I think people listen to different personalities based
on their personalities, their perspective, how they present, the ability
(27:22):
to make people think, laugh, cry, get mad, get upset,
get happy, all of those things. Because go back to
Stern for a moment.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
What was he doing.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
He built an empire by fighting everything. He had fight
the execs, he had, fight the politicians, he had, fight
the rival hosts, He'd fight everybody, and he was always
the underdog. And I think all that kind of disappeared
because once you become the top dog, no more fight
you've won. You don't have a boss anymore, you are
(27:52):
the boss. There's a more battle, no more friction, there's
no more fire. And I think Trump broke his If
the move to sirious kind of took off the edge,
Trump just destroyed it because the guy that made his
name being the most politically incorrect man in the media
(28:12):
suddenly became a skull, the hall monitor, a voice of sanitized,
elite approved opinion. And it wasn't just Trump that he
turned on the last time I listened to Stern, I
felt like he had turned on me. Now again, I
wasn't an officionado. I was just, you know, every once
in a while, as I have ceased doing I don't
(28:36):
listen to any other personalities, talent talk influencers. I just
don't listen to anybody anymore. And I think Stern taught
me that lesson. And you know why, because I was like, oh,
I don't want to in any way have what he
does influence what I do.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Now I still listen to.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I obviously watched television and obviously watch the news because
that becomes one of my primary sources for the stuff
that I talk about on air. But when you start
calling Trump voters idiots, the unvaccinated, selfish. I think that
the other thing that occurred, and this is the point
I want to make, and then we'll take a break.
I think COVID changed him too, and I think he
(29:20):
capitulated to the elites that said, you got a distance
six foot, you've got to wear a mask, even if
you're outside or inside your car. And he became a conformist,
the exact opposite of what he originally was, and so
everything died after that. He's one more victim of COVID.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Let's check in with Michael and Dragon to see what
their response is to Demi Lovado joining Joe Jonas and
the Jonas Brothers last night on stage to reunite for
a melody This is Me from Camp Rock. I'm sure
both of them watched that movie many many times.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Who's Jamie Lovado?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I think I know who Demi Levado is.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
What was the first name that she mentioned, Jamie Livado?
And then the Jonas brothers.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I have heard of the Jonah Okay, so I've heard
of both of those, the Jonas brothers. Aren't they both
the Jonas Brothers and Demie Levado are Aren't they both singers?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I can only infer from the Jonas Brothers that Dennie
la Vado could be a singer. Do I know of
anything she's been in or done? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
And did they?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And alexis saying they appeared somewhere on something last night.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yes, some concert together to and reenact something that they
must have done years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
To I think I may have been having a bowel
movement at the time or something, so I.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
May have missed that much more pressing matter.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Absolutely more pressing matter. It's much like it's even still
in Drudge. I have a question for you, mister red Beer,
if you can pay attention for it, can you listen?
Can you listen to me for a moment as opposed
to talk?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Full Fuller stepped away, So.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Fuller's Johnson, Now you can talk to me, I suppose,
all right, So the Fuller brush man's left, and now
you can speak to me.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I like, Johnny's a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So this appeared on the headlines of the Daily Star,
which is like one of the you know, check out
line newspapers.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, what do they call those the.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Don't remember oasis worn to keep quiet about the dawn
on tour their visas are at risk.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Who's oasis?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Those are words that you strong together, that probably have
meaning to somebody somewhere, but not I.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Seriously, Well, all I can all I've discovered is I
think it's a I think.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I haven't think because I'm not going to waste any
brain cells on it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think it's a British rock group.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oasis is a band. Yeah? Oh you do that?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Pretty sure? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Oh? And they must be anti Trump.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
No idea, and we're gonna I shouldn't know what your
band's politics are.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Exactly that's exactly right. I like Springsteen's music. I'm sick
of hearing about his politics. I like Neil Young's music.
I'm sick of hearing about his politics. The only thing
I can tell you about well, I can't tell you
anything about their politics. But is Mick Jagger having another baby?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
He's eighty two years old, right, he's having another one.
It's not their to the kid. I'm not there, right,
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