December 19, 2024 • 29 mins
Can government spending get any more outrageous? Join us as we tackle the perplexing world of political maneuvering and fiscal irresponsibility, featuring a spending bill that could bring the government to a grinding halt. Highlighting the absurd $3 million allocation to monitor molasses, we'll question the efficiency—or lack thereof—of how our tax dollars are spent. As we reflect on the political landscape, we explore the ongoing leadership vacuum and the ripples of Donald Trump's influence even before taking office, comparing today’s shutdown threats with Newt Gingrich’s strategic brinkmanship in the 90s.
Shift gears with us as we reminisce about the evolution of holiday gifts, from the era of pre-digital ingenuity to the tech-driven present. Remember the chaos of Black Friday shopping before the internet streamlined our wish lists? We'll journey through the toy icons of the 70s and 80s—from the brain-teasing Rubik's Cube to the groundbreaking Atari console—that defined childhoods before cheat codes and digital shortcuts were even a thing. It's a nostalgic look back at a time when creativity and problem-solving were at the forefront of gift-giving traditions.
Finally, we tackle the hot-button issue of labor unrest with a look at the Teamsters Union's strike against Amazon. With Amazon's recent wage increase to $22 per hour, complete with competitive benefits, what more do today's workers demand, and how does this reflect the broader expectations of Gen Z entering the workforce? We'll dissect Amazon's business practices and the union's push for better working conditions, considering the impact on holiday deliveries and the broader economic landscape. Let these insights simmer as you savor the festive season, pondering the balance between corporate responsibility and labor rights.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What you just said is one of the most insanely
idiotic things I have ever heard.
At no point in your rambling,incoherent response were you
even close to anything thatcould be considered a rational
thought.
Everyone in this room is nowdumber for having listened to it
(00:22):
, is now dumber for havinglistened to it.
You don't know what that oughtis, mr Trash.
I'd show you, but I'm too old,I'm too tired, I'm too fucking
blind.
If I were the man I was fiveyears ago, I'd take a
flamethrower to this place.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Do you understand the words that are coming out of?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
my mouth.
You want answers.
I think I'm entitled.
You want answers, I want thetruth.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You can't handle the truth During this holiday season
.
The truth shall always set youfree.
This is Tim.
It's got to find law in themind Ramblings of a Gen Xer.
Have to talk about this newspending bill.
Have to talk about a few otherthings going on in Washington
right now.
The craziness in Daddy's home.
Oh, donald Trump is alreadycontrolling and pulling the
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strings and he's not evenpresident yet.
Why?
Because there's a large void inleadership right now in
Washington.
Because Lord knows and maybeLord is the only one that knows
what the hell Joe Biden's doingor what the hell Joe Biden's
even up to.
It's a craziness.
We're also going to talk aboutthe Amazon strike at the
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warehouses going on across rightnow the US during this busiest
season, and why the teamstershave got it wrong this time.
Oh, so as as the governmentshut down.
Oh, we also want to talk aboutsome of the greatest christmas
presents.
Uh, that gen xers probably knowand love, some things that you
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probably remember getting andseeing in christmas.
Oh, it's, it's, it's, it's just, it's just one of the.
It's just one of those things.
So the Republicans finallystepped up a little bit, like a
little bit before.
Some of the house.
Republicans are now workingwith president elect Trump on a
package, but the governmentshutdown right now is is is on
the horizon and it's not a badthing If you go back to the days
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of Newt Gingrich as, as youknow, leading the house, he
actually shut down thegovernment a couple times under
Bill Clinton and then helpedbalance the budget.
But we don't want to talk.
We don't want to talk aboutthis and, of course, like I said
, former Speaker of the House,newt Gingrich, he knew what to
do.
So we have to get a billtogether by 1201 on Saturday or
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everything's going to beshutting down.
Nothing, nothing really shutsdown.
But you know, we we like tohave that, that dramatic effect
that Democrats like to use.
The world is ending everything.
With the Democrats, the worldis ending.
So right now, democrats arekind of balking a little bit
because Doge, with the Vic andthe Elon, came up and basically
saw this 1500 page bill and said, ok, we have.
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You know where in this worldwould you sign a contract that's
1500 pages long and not havethe opportunity to read and only
have 16 hours to read it?
Dumbfounding.
One of the things I loved wasthe $3 million that was going to
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go to someone to monitor theperson that's monitoring
molasses.
Yes, that is correct.
They had a provision in thebill that they were going to
spend $3 million on a monitor tomonitor the person monitoring
molasses.
Yeah, we kind of need that.
We need that a little bit.
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I mean, I don't know why, andall these subsidies and all this
pork that's in there, that it'sjust literally dumbfounding
that we see all this and it'slike, okay, you, you want us.
Why can't we just pass astraight spending bill, make it,
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make it, make it real easy,make it simple, make a bill that
runs until, you know, untiltrump is president, and kind of
go and kind of go from there.
Why do we have to have you know, all all this pork thrown in
for, for, and it's all, not all.
I'm sure I'm not going to casta wide stroke, but the majority
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of it seems to be for democraticpet projects.
Why?
I mean cause someone, I mean I,I.
I am having this dramatic pauseto say soar, but I'm thinking
to myself.
There's no one there to answeryou.
Tim, just pass a short-termspending deal that funds the
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government through an extendedperiod of time, maybe till after
Trump takes presidency.
Let's not have this bill fullof all this normal government
pork and normal governmentspending.
And, like I said, elon Musk andDoge is doing their job and
they're not even in there yetBecause of the fact that it's an
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unmitigated disaster.
And I love it, because peoplewill say, like, well, there's
provisions in the bill that have$100 billion for disaster
relief, another $10 billion infarm aid.
Do you remember when we had the$10 billion?
Remember when we had all theaid to the farmers and then it
turned out that all the aid tothe farmers only kind of went to
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the African American farmers.
Did we forget about that?
Yes, of course there are goodthings in the bill.
Of course, there are also a lotof bad things in the bill and
also a lot of things that arebasically just sending the
government on a spending spree.
And that's what the Americanpeople voted against.
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They voted against having allthis pork, they voted against
all these pet projects and allthese shadow projects and all
these other things that aregoing on, because we know we're
underspending, we know we'remassively in debt.
Elon Musk, at one point in timethey asked Elon Musk, you know
there's also subsidies in herefor electric vehicles and Elon's
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like we didn't.
You know, the subsidies forelectric vehicles were pushed by
General Motors, not Tesla.
Elon was very succinct about it.
He even said that, at the endof the day, we don't subsidize
gas stations.
So why are we subsidizingcharging stations?
And the fact that we spent $5billion on what?
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Three charging stations?
I mean, that's that's.
I'm not a mathematician, butthat's, that's pretty bad to me.
That's that's.
I think that's horrible.
And one of the things I findhilarious about this is the
lawmakers decided to givethemselves a $66,000, $66,000,
$6600 raise excuse me, whosecurrent salaries are $174,000,
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because they need a 3.8% raisebecause of the cost of living
increases.
Uh, okay, okay, I mean it's.
It's crazy.
It's literally crazy.
Some of the shit that's in thisbill and, like I said, you're
going to have people like thewall street I assume he's the
New York times are going to belike well, you know, there's
healthcare in here for children.
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There's disaster rate.
Oh, and the other thing that Iloved it, that was also when the
bill is, congress can opt outof Obamacare.
They don't have to have it.
They don't have to have itwhatsoever.
I mean that's a crazy.
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And there's even a provisionfor a new stadium site for the
Washington commanders.
I mean, donald Trump evenposted this is a Democratic
giveaway.
But you're going to have certainsegments of the liberal media
that is just going to, theirheads are going to explode.
You're like, look at all thesegood things that are in the bell
, we're also not looking at thatdebt number, are we?
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We're not looking at that debtnumber that just keeps rolling
along, that just keeps going.
And I just you know, we need toget the debt under control.
You need to stop.
You need to stop the spending.
Like I said, this is a 1,547page bill which was dropped on
Tuesday evening and basicallysaid you have 16,.
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You have 16 hours to go throughthis and and and and basically
say yes or no.
And I laugh at it because ofthe fact that it's like you're
never I mean you're never goingto get this passed.
What they need to do,republicans need to do, is just
all come together and pass astopgap bill that is just
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Republican-authored and willnever do it because we have such
a razor-thin majority andJohnson, to me, is incompetent
at times but literally what youjust need to do is look at it
and say you know what?
Let's just pass a stopgap billthat is face value, just a
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literal stopgap bill to fundthat is what is currently on the
agenda, that is currently needsto be paid for, and go from
there.
Why can't we just do that?
And I love it because Demleaders are complaining that the
GOP is breaking theirbipartisan agreement.
And I love Akeem Jeffries andthat's being extremely facetious
, because I think he's a moronand he's just.
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He's everything that we havewanted to get away from from the
last four years.
Everything it's just crazy wehave wanted to get away from
from the last four years.
Everything.
It's just crazy, it's justinsane.
It's insanity at its finest.
There's healthcare provisionsin here.
There, there's funds toreconstruct the Francis Scott
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key, virgin Baltimore.
Shouldn't Baltimore be payingfor their own bridge?
Shouldn't states be paying fortheir own bridge?
Why't states be paying fortheir own bridge?
Why do we always have to have?
Why does the federal governmentalways have to hand out money?
Oh, because the states, mainlythat.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh, baltimore, that's that's one of those liberal
cities.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I hear Baltimore is very nice in the summertime.
Just look out for the gunshots.
Oh, it's Christmas time,there's no need to be afraid.
I want to talk about some ofthe.
I was thinking about it as akid growing up in in the
seventies and the eighties andyou know there there were.
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There were just these.
There was gifts that you gotthat were just fantastic, that
you, that you loved, and it wasone of those things that you
know.
You go back into the days ofyore and you looked at some of
the things that parents had todo, especially in the 70s and
80s.
There was no internet.
Well, there was internet, butit was more used for government
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practical purposes, also knownas frame relay We'll go into
that one day if you wanted towhich was founded actually in
World War II.
Most people don't know that.
I'm going to break the news toAl Gore.
I always loved Al Gore, theinventor of the internet.
He didn't invent the internet.
The internet was invented inthe 40s as a frame relay system
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to use to drive communications.
But we're not going to get onthat during World War II.
I'm not going to get into that.
But you didn't have the internet.
You didn't have Amazon, whichis going on strike We'll talk
about that too but you didn'thave all that.
You had to go to the stores.
You literally had those bigsales on Black Friday where you
saw the mobs, you saw the peoplethat were clamoring to get in
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there to get that next great bigtoy that everyone had to have.
There was the fights, there wasthe brawls, there was the
tackling, there was everythingthat was going on.
You had to push forward andsally forth to get that Teddy
Rock spin.
I was thinking what.
You know when I was a kid, youknow when, when I was a kid, you
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know what was like the big, thefirst couple of big things.
In what year did it?
Did it come around?
And the first thing I can thinkof that every, everything that
everyone wanted, and that wasback in 1978.
Yeah, that was a long time agoand that's how long this has
been around.
It was hungry, hungry hippoppo.
Everybody wanted Hungry, hungryHippo and of course, all it is
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Is four plastic multicoloredhippos that you eat marbles as
fast as you possibly can andwhoever gets the most marbles
wins.
But it was that fun game youcould play with friends.
It was a game you maybe playedfor like 15-20 minutes Next
thing.
You know you're chuckingmarbles at each other, but it
was the must-have commercial.
I was a must-have gift.
You saw that commercial.
You're like, damn, I need thatfucking Hungry, hungry Hippo.
I really, mom, I need Hungry,hungry Hippo.
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And parents are like you put iton your list.
And I was like, yeah, I don'tknow what the hell you're
talking about, but you look atit and it's a staple now in the
family game room since it wasbasically launched, like I said,
1978.
Then, finally, then I wasthinking that things started
getting technical and they gottechnical early, those technical
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gifts.
And the first thing that comesto mind to me is 1979, the Atari
it was.
You know you think about it nowthat Atari sales in 1979 were
$415 million.
Think about that $415 million.
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If you calculate that intoday's value, you're talking
$1.8 billion.
That's how popular that Atarisystem was.
And if you were lucky to getthat Atari because the Gen Xers
will remember this back in theday you could only play video
games or basically pinball andsome simple other games in the
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arcades.
You know, with Space Invadersand Asteroids and all those
things that came out, you canonly play on the arcades.
This was something that was putout, sold by I believe it was,
I believe it was WarnerCommunications at the time that
they literally had to.
You could literally play thosegames that you saw, and not to
the point that you look at themnowadays and go, wow, look, how
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awesome they are, but youliterally could play this shit
at home.
Pac-man was the big one thatcomes to mind for me, as always,
you always had to play Pac-Man,and then you had Donkey Kong
and then everythingMan, and thenyou had Donkey Kong and then
everything else and you had theColecoVision dropping in.
So it was one of those momentsin time that if you were the kid
that got the Atari, damn, youwere literally something special
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.
You were something that you andyour friends were like damn, I
got the freaking Atari.
And then I found it funny andwhat I think was kind of weird
that you went from thishigh-tech item, this high price
tag item like I said, that ithad $415 million in sales just
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at the end of the year at 79.
You roll into 80.
And this was the craze at thetime and, like I said Gen Xers
remember this you went from thishigh tech item to the next big
holiday gift being in 1980.
It was a Rubik's Cube.
And now the Rubik's Cube wasinvented in Budapest in 1974.
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A lot of people don't know thatWith the sole purpose of helping
students understand threedimensional problems, but in
1980, it became the must haveChristmas item.
Over 100 million Rubik's Cubeswere sold.
I don't even remember.
I don't even remember how mucha Rubik's Cubes cost.
To be perfectly honest, I haveno freaking clue, but it's just
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nuts to think that that was the.
You went from an Atari to aRubik's cube.
Now listen, I'm not going tolie to you.
I never could figure thatfucker out.
That thing befuddled me foryears and you, literally how
many times did you sit there andtry to figure it out?
Can't figure it out?
Left I go right.
And then you got smart, and socertain people tried to
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literally remove the littlestickers and put them together.
Then you found out that if youtook a butter knife, you could
take the pieces off and movethem and put them in different
areas.
You could literally take apartyour Rubik's Cube and then
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rebuild it.
But this was the ingenuity ofkids.
We weren't burdened by thethought process of well, if we
can't do it in the game, we geta cheat code and then we're fine
.
No, no, no, we had to figureshit out, and sometimes, when
you couldn't figure it out, youhad to figure out shit the hard
way.
And sitting there and literallytrying to put stuff together, I
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mean that was crazy to me, thatwas insane.
And, like I said, you literallywent from this bastion of
technology that we didn't reallysee this big technology thing.
But you know, it's funny, I wasthinking about this also in 1980
, because I was thinking aboutone of the other games or
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something that I got, and thegentleman will remember this.
The Mattel Handhold footballgame came out on the Christmas
of 1980.
Not the green one, but thelittle white one, and that was
the closest that you could getto a video game football system
until you really hit big withthe Intellivision, which the
Intellivision came out about1979 as well.
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But you really had to be richto get the Intellivision.
But that made me laugh becauseI still have mine.
I still have my original whiteone.
And then the Mattel ProFootball 2, the green one no, I
wasn't rich at the time.
And then the uh, mattel profootball to the green one.
No, I was, I was, I wasn't richat the time.
And then you know what you, whenyou got into the likes of like
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81 to 85, you had those I don'twant to call them niche gifts,
but I want to call them giftsthat that, you know, were that
just that just kind of not cameout of left field.
But you know 81, it was.
You know you had the GrayskullCastle.
Anyone remember the again?
If you had the Grayskull Castle, you were living large 83, you
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had the.
I mean I guess you would callit the craze, the frenzy that
year over two things and thatwas Care Bears and the Cabbage
Patch Kids.
The Cabbage Patch Kids youliterally had to fight to get
back in 1983.
If you were able to get aCabbage Patch Kid for Christmas,
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you probably didn't have anyhair left in your head because
somebody was trying to pull itout while you were grabbing that
last one on the shelf, becausesomebody was trying to pull it
out while you were grabbing thatlast one on the shelf.
The same thing with the CareBears.
I mean the Care Bears explodedand you had so much going on
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that you know parents were.
I mean, thank God the internetwasn't around then, because you
probably would have been payinglike thousands of dollars or
more for a Cabbage Patch Kid.
And then the following year youhad the Transformers, which
dropped big.
You know, they had the OptimusPrime, the Transformers and
Optimus Prime toys.
But it wasn't until 85 where youhad the likes of Teddy Ruxpin.
Everyone loved Teddy Ruxpin.
Teddy Ruxpin was this bear thatwas almost animatronics.
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Its eyes moved, its mouth moved, but at the end of the day you
basically just put a tape in theback of him and he just
mimicked to the tape.
Now, what you, of course, youwould do as a kid, you would,
you would take, you would takesome other tape you take, you
would take your Van Halen 1984and you would put it in the back
of your Teddy Ruxpin and let'ssee if he sounds like David Lee
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Roth.
Yeah, and then the one Iremember, probably you know, and
then I started getting olderand this was like in around 1986
, you know the.
But the big thing I remember in86, the must have if you were,
if you were an old or startingto get older, was the laser tag
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and you had these cool guns.
You had these cool laser tagguns.
And then you had the vest, notthe vest, but you literally had
the strap-on chest piece thathad the sensor.
Years down the road you couldget the hat and other things and
you could get the rifle.
But the original laser tagsystem if you've ever seen it
before, I mean it literallylooks like something right out
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of Star Wars.
It was one of the coolestfucking inventions you could
ever have, because you ranaround.
You had the little tiny scopeon the bottom, the back of the
gun.
You ran around, you could shootyour friends in the dark, you
could shoot them in the light,you could shoot them for like
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what seemed when you were a kid.
It seemed like 100 yards away,even though they probably only
worked about 25, 30 feet fromaway each other.
But it was just so awesomebecause you know what.
You were literally LukeSkywalker, your Han Solo.
You had that laser in your hand.
It had the awesome laser sound.
There was literally nothingbetter than that than in 1986.
Now, if you were a younger kidin 86, you had the my Buddy and
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the kid sister, and also you hadthe my pet monster.
The my pet monster was not asmuch of as crazed as it was back
in 83 with the care bears, butit was.
It was pretty.
It was it was pretty.
It was a pretty interestingthing, Cause basically it was
just a monster that was chainedup in a box.
Oh yeah, some of yeah, some ofthe things in the 80s probably
wouldn't fly right now, in this2024 atmosphere.
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2025 is going to be a lotdifferent, but these were gifts
that just made you excited.
One of the best gifts I keepforgetting about and I still
have, and it's something that Icherish to this day and I was
really young when I got.
It was in 1973.
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It was the Evel Knievel stuntcycle.
Evel Knievel, of course, was anicon at that point in time, for
you know doing his jumps andbasically crashing you take the
one where he jumped overCaesar's Palace and almost
destroyed his entire body but hehad become a cultural icon and
any time he had a watch on WideWorld of Sports, he had to do
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something like that.
You stopped what you were doingto watch it, and it was always
on a Saturday afternoon at 4o'clock, even going back to when
he tried to jump the SnakeRiver Canyon A lot of people
think he tried to jump the GrandCanyon.
It was the Snake River Canyon,but that thing was just beyond
awesome, and I still have mine.
You put him in the launcher, youcrank him up, you crank him up
as much as you can, and then youshoot him off on his way.
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He did stunts, he did flips, hewent flying over with the
greatest of ease, and then, afew years later, you were able
to get his van so you could pullit.
You know you get the stuntcycle van so you could pull it.
You know you get the stuntcycle van so you could pull
everything, and then you wereable to use the van as a ramp to
complete your greatest jumpsever.
That was probably one of thebest gifts, if not the best
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gifts as a kid, that I've gottenduring that holiday season, and
, like I said it, it wassomething that you, you, you
just wanted to have, you, just,you just wanted to have in your
possession, because it was acool.
You would spend hours outsidecreating these, these, the,
these, the, these processes orjumps in your brain, and you
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were just like you know whatwhen you were a kid back in the
seventies and eighties.
Your imagination is what youhad Imagine, though there was a
real Scrooge, and it's calledthe Teamsters Union as it
launches a historic nationwidestrike against Amazon and make.
They're making Amazon pay in theprice.
The Teamsters have been tryingto Amazon been trying to
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unionize Amazon facilities fortrying to uh unionize Amazon
facilities for years.
They represent now about 10,000, uh workers at Amazon across
the country and basically whatthey've done.
Now they are shutting downseven facilities in Illinois,
new York, atlanta, san Francisco, south Carolina uh, excuse me
Southern California, uh, and,and they're basically all these
plants are participating in thelargest strike against a
trillion dollar company.
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And of course, the Teamsters,who don't understand the thought
process of bad press, are doingthis directly before Christmas,
like six days before Christmas,and they're you know and listen
.
Unions, I believe, have theirpurpose, have their purpose.
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I believe unions serve theirpurpose, especially during the
labor issues back in the 20s and30s and 40s, even going into
the 50s.
I understand that, but I thinkcompanies now have an
understanding that you need topay your employees more.
Now maybe I'm biased because Iknow people that work at Amazon
and I understand that.
Now I think one of the biggestissues that Teamsters have is
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that Amazon is basically tryingto use third-party drivers and
they've been trying to do thatfor a while now, which basically
the Teamsters are saying areillegal and subject to multiple
unfair labor practices.
Why?
Because the fact that you'regoing to go, you're going to
outsource some things.
People have been outsourcingthings for years and that's the
issue.
If you've worked at Amazon,listen, the work is hard, it's
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demanding, but Amazon has alwaysbeen known for paying a fair
wage.
They have these programs whereyou literally can go up through
the Amazon system and move fromdifferent departments and
literally better yourself.
They have a very good programin reference to higher education
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, going back to school.
They are very competitive withprice.
But of course, the union wantsto negotiate a new contract for
higher wages, better benefitsand a safer work condition.
Amazon is not known for beingincredibly unsafe.
I mean, that's what I don't get, and I love it because the
Teamsters president, seanO'Brien, said if your package is
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delayed during the holidayseason, you can blame Amazon.
Insatiable greed.
We gave Amazon a clear deadlineto come to the table and do the
right thing by our members.
They ignored it.
Maybe they ignored it becausethey don't recognize you as a
governing power of theseemployees, because of the fact
that you only have a portion oftheir workforce.
I love it.
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Amazon fulfillment centersacross the countries will have
primary picket lines set up bylocal union members.
Basically, this is what theTeamsters are saying.
Amazon is one of the biggest,richer corporations in the world
.
They talk a big game abouttaking care of their workers,
but when it comes down to it,amazon does not respect us and
our rights to negotiate forbetter working conditions and
wages.
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We can't even afford to pay ourbills.
That's what we refer to as.
Watch this inflation which wascaused by wait for this, the
Democrats.
I love it.
Right now, amazon has mentionedthat team members are already
afforded competitive pay,immediate health care, 401k,
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match growth opportunities,adding to the company's average
base salary was increased inSeptember to $22 an hour.
That's insanity to me that youjust increased.
They just on their own,increased the wages to 22 bucks
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an hour.
Now, not that that's like youknow, there's great shakes, but
that still was almost 40, that'sactually over $45,000 a year
for working at Amazon, I mean,and a lot of these jobs are
entry-level positions, so it'snot like so you, that's what I
love.
People who want entry-levelpositions want to make like
$100,000 a year.
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I thought it was funny thatthey were talking about the
hiring managers did.
They did a survey and like sixout of seven said they wouldn't
hire Gen Z employees because ofthe fact of their, of their
demands for people that do nothave any work experience.
And, of course, the union iscomplaining that we are fighting
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against a vicious union bustingcampaign.
Yeah, this is.
This is just like back in theday when you had the union
busters coming in there withtheir billy cubs breaking heads,
trying to get people back towork.
Oh my god, people do not knowtheir history.
And if you want to strike andyour and your minimum wage was
basically put back up to 22 anhour, and done that by itself
(28:48):
for the company and you getimmediate health care, 401k
matching and higher educationassistance immediately, maybe
you need to look forward and alot of people did at the current
government in the situation andfind out why you can't afford
things.
And the thought processshouldn't be companies should
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just pay more.
The thought process should bemaybe government should be
paying less.
Oh, I want to wish everyone aholiday season happy.
We're going to say it again andwe're going to freak some
people out Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year.
This is Tim.
This is Get Off my Lawn theMatt Ramleys of a Gen Xer and
I'm out of here.
What you just said is one of the most insanely
idiotic things I have ever heard.
At no point in your rambling,incoherent response were you
even close to anything thatcould be considered a rational
thought.
Everyone in this room is nowdumber for having listened to it
(00:22):
, is now dumber for havinglistened to it.
You don't know what that oughtis, mr Trash.
I'd show you, but I'm too old,I'm too tired, I'm too fucking
blind.
If I were the man I was fiveyears ago, I'd take a
flamethrower to this place.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Do you understand the words that are coming out of?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
my mouth.
You want answers.
I think I'm entitled.
You want answers, I want thetruth.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You can't handle the truth During this holiday season
.
The truth shall always set youfree.
This is Tim.
It's got to find law in themind Ramblings of a Gen Xer.
Have to talk about this newspending bill.
Have to talk about a few otherthings going on in Washington
right now.
The craziness in Daddy's home.
Oh, donald Trump is alreadycontrolling and pulling the
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strings and he's not evenpresident yet.
Why?
Because there's a large void inleadership right now in
Washington.
Because Lord knows and maybeLord is the only one that knows
what the hell Joe Biden's doingor what the hell Joe Biden's
even up to.
It's a craziness.
We're also going to talk aboutthe Amazon strike at the
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warehouses going on across rightnow the US during this busiest
season, and why the teamstershave got it wrong this time.
Oh, so as as the governmentshut down.
Oh, we also want to talk aboutsome of the greatest christmas
presents.
Uh, that gen xers probably knowand love, some things that you
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probably remember getting andseeing in christmas.
Oh, it's, it's, it's, it's just, it's just one of the.
It's just one of those things.
So the Republicans finallystepped up a little bit, like a
little bit before.
Some of the house.
Republicans are now workingwith president elect Trump on a
package, but the governmentshutdown right now is is is on
the horizon and it's not a badthing If you go back to the days
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of Newt Gingrich as, as youknow, leading the house, he
actually shut down thegovernment a couple times under
Bill Clinton and then helpedbalance the budget.
But we don't want to talk.
We don't want to talk aboutthis and, of course, like I said
, former Speaker of the House,newt Gingrich, he knew what to
do.
So we have to get a billtogether by 1201 on Saturday or
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everything's going to beshutting down.
Nothing, nothing really shutsdown.
But you know, we we like tohave that, that dramatic effect
that Democrats like to use.
The world is ending everything.
With the Democrats, the worldis ending.
So right now, democrats arekind of balking a little bit
because Doge, with the Vic andthe Elon, came up and basically
saw this 1500 page bill and said, ok, we have.
(03:09):
You know where in this worldwould you sign a contract that's
1500 pages long and not havethe opportunity to read and only
have 16 hours to read it?
Dumbfounding.
One of the things I loved wasthe $3 million that was going to
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go to someone to monitor theperson that's monitoring
molasses.
Yes, that is correct.
They had a provision in thebill that they were going to
spend $3 million on a monitor tomonitor the person monitoring
molasses.
Yeah, we kind of need that.
We need that a little bit.
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I mean, I don't know why, andall these subsidies and all this
pork that's in there, that it'sjust literally dumbfounding
that we see all this and it'slike, okay, you, you want us.
Why can't we just pass astraight spending bill, make it,
(04:14):
make it, make it real easy,make it simple, make a bill that
runs until, you know, untiltrump is president, and kind of
go and kind of go from there.
Why do we have to have you know, all all this pork thrown in
for, for, and it's all, not all.
I'm sure I'm not going to casta wide stroke, but the majority
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of it seems to be for democraticpet projects.
Why?
I mean cause someone, I mean I,I.
I am having this dramatic pauseto say soar, but I'm thinking
to myself.
There's no one there to answeryou.
Tim, just pass a short-termspending deal that funds the
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government through an extendedperiod of time, maybe till after
Trump takes presidency.
Let's not have this bill fullof all this normal government
pork and normal governmentspending.
And, like I said, elon Musk andDoge is doing their job and
they're not even in there yetBecause of the fact that it's an
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unmitigated disaster.
And I love it, because peoplewill say, like, well, there's
provisions in the bill that have$100 billion for disaster
relief, another $10 billion infarm aid.
Do you remember when we had the$10 billion?
Remember when we had all theaid to the farmers and then it
turned out that all the aid tothe farmers only kind of went to
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the African American farmers.
Did we forget about that?
Yes, of course there are goodthings in the bill.
Of course, there are also a lotof bad things in the bill and
also a lot of things that arebasically just sending the
government on a spending spree.
And that's what the Americanpeople voted against.
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They voted against having allthis pork, they voted against
all these pet projects and allthese shadow projects and all
these other things that aregoing on, because we know we're
underspending, we know we'remassively in debt.
Elon Musk, at one point in timethey asked Elon Musk, you know
there's also subsidies in herefor electric vehicles and Elon's
(06:26):
like we didn't.
You know, the subsidies forelectric vehicles were pushed by
General Motors, not Tesla.
Elon was very succinct about it.
He even said that, at the endof the day, we don't subsidize
gas stations.
So why are we subsidizingcharging stations?
And the fact that we spent $5billion on what?
(06:49):
Three charging stations?
I mean, that's that's.
I'm not a mathematician, butthat's, that's pretty bad to me.
That's that's.
I think that's horrible.
And one of the things I findhilarious about this is the
lawmakers decided to givethemselves a $66,000, $66,000,
$6600 raise excuse me, whosecurrent salaries are $174,000,
(07:15):
because they need a 3.8% raisebecause of the cost of living
increases.
Uh, okay, okay, I mean it's.
It's crazy.
It's literally crazy.
Some of the shit that's in thisbill and, like I said, you're
going to have people like thewall street I assume he's the
New York times are going to belike well, you know, there's
healthcare in here for children.
(07:37):
There's disaster rate.
Oh, and the other thing that Iloved it, that was also when the
bill is, congress can opt outof Obamacare.
They don't have to have it.
They don't have to have itwhatsoever.
I mean that's a crazy.
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And there's even a provisionfor a new stadium site for the
Washington commanders.
I mean, donald Trump evenposted this is a Democratic
giveaway.
But you're going to have certainsegments of the liberal media
that is just going to, theirheads are going to explode.
You're like, look at all thesegood things that are in the bell
, we're also not looking at thatdebt number, are we?
(08:23):
We're not looking at that debtnumber that just keeps rolling
along, that just keeps going.
And I just you know, we need toget the debt under control.
You need to stop.
You need to stop the spending.
Like I said, this is a 1,547page bill which was dropped on
Tuesday evening and basicallysaid you have 16,.
(08:44):
You have 16 hours to go throughthis and and and and basically
say yes or no.
And I laugh at it because ofthe fact that it's like you're
never I mean you're never goingto get this passed.
What they need to do,republicans need to do, is just
all come together and pass astopgap bill that is just
(09:07):
Republican-authored and willnever do it because we have such
a razor-thin majority andJohnson, to me, is incompetent
at times but literally what youjust need to do is look at it
and say you know what?
Let's just pass a stopgap billthat is face value, just a
(09:30):
literal stopgap bill to fundthat is what is currently on the
agenda, that is currently needsto be paid for, and go from
there.
Why can't we just do that?
And I love it because Demleaders are complaining that the
GOP is breaking theirbipartisan agreement.
And I love Akeem Jeffries andthat's being extremely facetious
, because I think he's a moronand he's just.
(09:55):
He's everything that we havewanted to get away from from the
last four years.
Everything it's just crazy wehave wanted to get away from
from the last four years.
Everything.
It's just crazy, it's justinsane.
It's insanity at its finest.
There's healthcare provisionsin here.
There, there's funds toreconstruct the Francis Scott
(10:15):
key, virgin Baltimore.
Shouldn't Baltimore be payingfor their own bridge?
Shouldn't states be paying fortheir own bridge?
Why't states be paying fortheir own bridge?
Why do we always have to have?
Why does the federal governmentalways have to hand out money?
Oh, because the states, mainlythat.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh, baltimore, that's that's one of those liberal
cities.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I hear Baltimore is very nice in the summertime.
Just look out for the gunshots.
Oh, it's Christmas time,there's no need to be afraid.
I want to talk about some ofthe.
I was thinking about it as akid growing up in in the
seventies and the eighties andyou know there there were.
(10:55):
There were just these.
There was gifts that you gotthat were just fantastic, that
you, that you loved, and it wasone of those things that you
know.
You go back into the days ofyore and you looked at some of
the things that parents had todo, especially in the 70s and
80s.
There was no internet.
Well, there was internet, butit was more used for government
(11:18):
practical purposes, also knownas frame relay We'll go into
that one day if you wanted towhich was founded actually in
World War II.
Most people don't know that.
I'm going to break the news toAl Gore.
I always loved Al Gore, theinventor of the internet.
He didn't invent the internet.
The internet was invented inthe 40s as a frame relay system
(11:39):
to use to drive communications.
But we're not going to get onthat during World War II.
I'm not going to get into that.
But you didn't have the internet.
You didn't have Amazon, whichis going on strike We'll talk
about that too but you didn'thave all that.
You had to go to the stores.
You literally had those bigsales on Black Friday where you
saw the mobs, you saw the peoplethat were clamoring to get in
(12:00):
there to get that next great bigtoy that everyone had to have.
There was the fights, there wasthe brawls, there was the
tackling, there was everythingthat was going on.
You had to push forward andsally forth to get that Teddy
Rock spin.
I was thinking what.
You know when I was a kid, youknow when, when I was a kid, you
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know what was like the big, thefirst couple of big things.
In what year did it?
Did it come around?
And the first thing I can thinkof that every, everything that
everyone wanted, and that wasback in 1978.
Yeah, that was a long time agoand that's how long this has
been around.
It was hungry, hungry hippoppo.
Everybody wanted Hungry, hungryHippo and of course, all it is
(12:46):
Is four plastic multicoloredhippos that you eat marbles as
fast as you possibly can andwhoever gets the most marbles
wins.
But it was that fun game youcould play with friends.
It was a game you maybe playedfor like 15-20 minutes Next
thing.
You know you're chuckingmarbles at each other, but it
was the must-have commercial.
I was a must-have gift.
You saw that commercial.
You're like, damn, I need thatfucking Hungry, hungry Hippo.
I really, mom, I need Hungry,hungry Hippo.
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And parents are like you put iton your list.
And I was like, yeah, I don'tknow what the hell you're
talking about, but you look atit and it's a staple now in the
family game room since it wasbasically launched, like I said,
1978.
Then, finally, then I wasthinking that things started
getting technical and they gottechnical early, those technical
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gifts.
And the first thing that comesto mind to me is 1979, the Atari
it was.
You know you think about it nowthat Atari sales in 1979 were
$415 million.
Think about that $415 million.
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If you calculate that intoday's value, you're talking
$1.8 billion.
That's how popular that Atarisystem was.
And if you were lucky to getthat Atari because the Gen Xers
will remember this back in theday you could only play video
games or basically pinball andsome simple other games in the
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arcades.
You know, with Space Invadersand Asteroids and all those
things that came out, you canonly play on the arcades.
This was something that was putout, sold by I believe it was,
I believe it was WarnerCommunications at the time that
they literally had to.
You could literally play thosegames that you saw, and not to
the point that you look at themnowadays and go, wow, look, how
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awesome they are, but youliterally could play this shit
at home.
Pac-man was the big one thatcomes to mind for me, as always,
you always had to play Pac-Man,and then you had Donkey Kong
and then everythingMan, and thenyou had Donkey Kong and then
everything else and you had theColecoVision dropping in.
So it was one of those momentsin time that if you were the kid
that got the Atari, damn, youwere literally something special
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.
You were something that you andyour friends were like damn, I
got the freaking Atari.
And then I found it funny andwhat I think was kind of weird
that you went from thishigh-tech item, this high price
tag item like I said, that ithad $415 million in sales just
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at the end of the year at 79.
You roll into 80.
And this was the craze at thetime and, like I said Gen Xers
remember this you went from thishigh tech item to the next big
holiday gift being in 1980.
It was a Rubik's Cube.
And now the Rubik's Cube wasinvented in Budapest in 1974.
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A lot of people don't know thatWith the sole purpose of helping
students understand threedimensional problems, but in
1980, it became the must haveChristmas item.
Over 100 million Rubik's Cubeswere sold.
I don't even remember.
I don't even remember how mucha Rubik's Cubes cost.
To be perfectly honest, I haveno freaking clue, but it's just
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nuts to think that that was the.
You went from an Atari to aRubik's cube.
Now listen, I'm not going tolie to you.
I never could figure thatfucker out.
That thing befuddled me foryears and you, literally how
many times did you sit there andtry to figure it out?
Can't figure it out?
Left I go right.
And then you got smart, and socertain people tried to
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literally remove the littlestickers and put them together.
Then you found out that if youtook a butter knife, you could
take the pieces off and movethem and put them in different
areas.
You could literally take apartyour Rubik's Cube and then
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rebuild it.
But this was the ingenuity ofkids.
We weren't burdened by thethought process of well, if we
can't do it in the game, we geta cheat code and then we're fine
.
No, no, no, we had to figureshit out, and sometimes, when
you couldn't figure it out, youhad to figure out shit the hard
way.
And sitting there and literallytrying to put stuff together, I
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mean that was crazy to me, thatwas insane.
And, like I said, you literallywent from this bastion of
technology that we didn't reallysee this big technology thing.
But you know, it's funny, I wasthinking about this also in 1980
, because I was thinking aboutone of the other games or
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something that I got, and thegentleman will remember this.
The Mattel Handhold footballgame came out on the Christmas
of 1980.
Not the green one, but thelittle white one, and that was
the closest that you could getto a video game football system
until you really hit big withthe Intellivision, which the
Intellivision came out about1979 as well.
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But you really had to be richto get the Intellivision.
But that made me laugh becauseI still have mine.
I still have my original whiteone.
And then the Mattel ProFootball 2, the green one no, I
wasn't rich at the time.
And then the uh, mattel profootball to the green one.
No, I was, I was, I wasn't richat the time.
And then you know what you, whenyou got into the likes of like
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81 to 85, you had those I don'twant to call them niche gifts,
but I want to call them giftsthat that, you know, were that
just that just kind of not cameout of left field.
But you know 81, it was.
You know you had the GrayskullCastle.
Anyone remember the again?
If you had the Grayskull Castle, you were living large 83, you
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had the.
I mean I guess you would callit the craze, the frenzy that
year over two things and thatwas Care Bears and the Cabbage
Patch Kids.
The Cabbage Patch Kids youliterally had to fight to get
back in 1983.
If you were able to get aCabbage Patch Kid for Christmas,
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you probably didn't have anyhair left in your head because
somebody was trying to pull itout while you were grabbing that
last one on the shelf, becausesomebody was trying to pull it
out while you were grabbing thatlast one on the shelf.
The same thing with the CareBears.
I mean the Care Bears explodedand you had so much going on
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that you know parents were.
I mean, thank God the internetwasn't around then, because you
probably would have been payinglike thousands of dollars or
more for a Cabbage Patch Kid.
And then the following year youhad the Transformers, which
dropped big.
You know, they had the OptimusPrime, the Transformers and
Optimus Prime toys.
But it wasn't until 85 where youhad the likes of Teddy Ruxpin.
Everyone loved Teddy Ruxpin.
Teddy Ruxpin was this bear thatwas almost animatronics.
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Its eyes moved, its mouth moved, but at the end of the day you
basically just put a tape in theback of him and he just
mimicked to the tape.
Now, what you, of course, youwould do as a kid, you would,
you would take, you would takesome other tape you take, you
would take your Van Halen 1984and you would put it in the back
of your Teddy Ruxpin and let'ssee if he sounds like David Lee
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Roth.
Yeah, and then the one Iremember, probably you know, and
then I started getting olderand this was like in around 1986
, you know the.
But the big thing I remember in86, the must have if you were,
if you were an old or startingto get older, was the laser tag
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and you had these cool guns.
You had these cool laser tagguns.
And then you had the vest, notthe vest, but you literally had
the strap-on chest piece thathad the sensor.
Years down the road you couldget the hat and other things and
you could get the rifle.
But the original laser tagsystem if you've ever seen it
before, I mean it literallylooks like something right out
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of Star Wars.
It was one of the coolestfucking inventions you could
ever have, because you ranaround.
You had the little tiny scopeon the bottom, the back of the
gun.
You ran around, you could shootyour friends in the dark, you
could shoot them in the light,you could shoot them for like
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what seemed when you were a kid.
It seemed like 100 yards away,even though they probably only
worked about 25, 30 feet fromaway each other.
But it was just so awesomebecause you know what.
You were literally LukeSkywalker, your Han Solo.
You had that laser in your hand.
It had the awesome laser sound.
There was literally nothingbetter than that than in 1986.
Now, if you were a younger kidin 86, you had the my Buddy and
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the kid sister, and also you hadthe my pet monster.
The my pet monster was not asmuch of as crazed as it was back
in 83 with the care bears, butit was.
It was pretty.
It was it was pretty.
It was a pretty interestingthing, Cause basically it was
just a monster that was chainedup in a box.
Oh yeah, some of yeah, some ofthe things in the 80s probably
wouldn't fly right now, in this2024 atmosphere.
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2025 is going to be a lotdifferent, but these were gifts
that just made you excited.
One of the best gifts I keepforgetting about and I still
have, and it's something that Icherish to this day and I was
really young when I got.
It was in 1973.
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It was the Evel Knievel stuntcycle.
Evel Knievel, of course, was anicon at that point in time, for
you know doing his jumps andbasically crashing you take the
one where he jumped overCaesar's Palace and almost
destroyed his entire body but hehad become a cultural icon and
any time he had a watch on WideWorld of Sports, he had to do
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something like that.
You stopped what you were doingto watch it, and it was always
on a Saturday afternoon at 4o'clock, even going back to when
he tried to jump the SnakeRiver Canyon A lot of people
think he tried to jump the GrandCanyon.
It was the Snake River Canyon,but that thing was just beyond
awesome, and I still have mine.
You put him in the launcher, youcrank him up, you crank him up
as much as you can, and then youshoot him off on his way.
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He did stunts, he did flips, hewent flying over with the
greatest of ease, and then, afew years later, you were able
to get his van so you could pullit.
You know you get the stuntcycle van so you could pull it.
You know you get the stuntcycle van so you could pull
everything, and then you wereable to use the van as a ramp to
complete your greatest jumpsever.
That was probably one of thebest gifts, if not the best
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gifts as a kid, that I've gottenduring that holiday season, and
, like I said it, it wassomething that you, you, you
just wanted to have, you, just,you just wanted to have in your
possession, because it was acool.
You would spend hours outsidecreating these, these, the,
these, the, these processes orjumps in your brain, and you
(23:41):
were just like you know whatwhen you were a kid back in the
seventies and eighties.
Your imagination is what youhad Imagine, though there was a
real Scrooge, and it's calledthe Teamsters Union as it
launches a historic nationwidestrike against Amazon and make.
They're making Amazon pay in theprice.
The Teamsters have been tryingto Amazon been trying to
(24:03):
unionize Amazon facilities fortrying to uh unionize Amazon
facilities for years.
They represent now about 10,000, uh workers at Amazon across
the country and basically whatthey've done.
Now they are shutting downseven facilities in Illinois,
new York, atlanta, san Francisco, south Carolina uh, excuse me
Southern California, uh, and,and they're basically all these
plants are participating in thelargest strike against a
trillion dollar company.
(24:23):
And of course, the Teamsters,who don't understand the thought
process of bad press, are doingthis directly before Christmas,
like six days before Christmas,and they're you know and listen
.
Unions, I believe, have theirpurpose, have their purpose.
(24:48):
I believe unions serve theirpurpose, especially during the
labor issues back in the 20s and30s and 40s, even going into
the 50s.
I understand that, but I thinkcompanies now have an
understanding that you need topay your employees more.
Now maybe I'm biased because Iknow people that work at Amazon
and I understand that.
Now I think one of the biggestissues that Teamsters have is
(25:12):
that Amazon is basically tryingto use third-party drivers and
they've been trying to do thatfor a while now, which basically
the Teamsters are saying areillegal and subject to multiple
unfair labor practices.
Why?
Because the fact that you'regoing to go, you're going to
outsource some things.
People have been outsourcingthings for years and that's the
issue.
If you've worked at Amazon,listen, the work is hard, it's
(25:36):
demanding, but Amazon has alwaysbeen known for paying a fair
wage.
They have these programs whereyou literally can go up through
the Amazon system and move fromdifferent departments and
literally better yourself.
They have a very good programin reference to higher education
(25:57):
, going back to school.
They are very competitive withprice.
But of course, the union wantsto negotiate a new contract for
higher wages, better benefitsand a safer work condition.
Amazon is not known for beingincredibly unsafe.
I mean, that's what I don't get, and I love it because the
Teamsters president, seanO'Brien, said if your package is
(26:18):
delayed during the holidayseason, you can blame Amazon.
Insatiable greed.
We gave Amazon a clear deadlineto come to the table and do the
right thing by our members.
They ignored it.
Maybe they ignored it becausethey don't recognize you as a
governing power of theseemployees, because of the fact
that you only have a portion oftheir workforce.
I love it.
(26:42):
Amazon fulfillment centersacross the countries will have
primary picket lines set up bylocal union members.
Basically, this is what theTeamsters are saying.
Amazon is one of the biggest,richer corporations in the world
.
They talk a big game abouttaking care of their workers,
but when it comes down to it,amazon does not respect us and
our rights to negotiate forbetter working conditions and
wages.
(27:02):
We can't even afford to pay ourbills.
That's what we refer to as.
Watch this inflation which wascaused by wait for this, the
Democrats.
I love it.
Right now, amazon has mentionedthat team members are already
afforded competitive pay,immediate health care, 401k,
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match growth opportunities,adding to the company's average
base salary was increased inSeptember to $22 an hour.
That's insanity to me that youjust increased.
They just on their own,increased the wages to 22 bucks
(27:45):
an hour.
Now, not that that's like youknow, there's great shakes, but
that still was almost 40, that'sactually over $45,000 a year
for working at Amazon, I mean,and a lot of these jobs are
entry-level positions, so it'snot like so you, that's what I
love.
People who want entry-levelpositions want to make like
$100,000 a year.
(28:06):
I thought it was funny thatthey were talking about the
hiring managers did.
They did a survey and like sixout of seven said they wouldn't
hire Gen Z employees because ofthe fact of their, of their
demands for people that do nothave any work experience.
And, of course, the union iscomplaining that we are fighting
(28:26):
against a vicious union bustingcampaign.
Yeah, this is.
This is just like back in theday when you had the union
busters coming in there withtheir billy cubs breaking heads,
trying to get people back towork.
Oh my god, people do not knowtheir history.
And if you want to strike andyour and your minimum wage was
basically put back up to 22 anhour, and done that by itself
(28:48):
for the company and you getimmediate health care, 401k
matching and higher educationassistance immediately, maybe
you need to look forward and alot of people did at the current
government in the situation andfind out why you can't afford
things.
And the thought processshouldn't be companies should
(29:09):
just pay more.
The thought process should bemaybe government should be
paying less.
Oh, I want to wish everyone aholiday season happy.
We're going to say it again andwe're going to freak some
people out Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year.
This is Tim.
This is Get Off my Lawn theMatt Ramleys of a Gen Xer and
I'm out of here.
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