AM Show Hr 3 | A Closer Look At The Longshoreman's Strike

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Baseball legend Pete Rose has passed away. Rose was one
of the greatest hitters in baseball history and holds a
Major League Baseball record for all time hits. But Pete
Rose never made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame
because he was banned for life for betting on games
while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Rose later admitted to
betting on his own team's games, but said he never

(00:35):
threw a game and never bet against his own team.
Rose played in the majors for twenty four years. Pete
Rose was eighty three years old.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
And here comes the main't attraction and they're on their feet.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Rose walking toward the play, the most famous number fourteen
in a history of this game, and trying to make
history right here in the first inning tonight. About a
couple of times shall kicks an he fires Rose, Wayne
len Down.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Las Deth number forty one ninety two, A live drive
single in the left center field, a clean base enter.
That is pantemonium. I'm here in River Prints Stadium, the
fireworks exploding over her head. That such an empty dugout

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has emptied. The applause continues Unabata Rose completely encircled by
his teammates at first base.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Joe White an emotional scene here at the ballpark.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I want to be a base bows.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
With Muffis.

Speaker 7 (01:44):
You own the baseball card. I wont to be the
guy that wins the game and gives the round him
out my name. I won't to stand and watch the
bowl sail across.

Speaker 8 (02:02):
The longshoreman strike shutting down all these ports, first time
the union has been on strike since nineteen seventy seven.
This is one of those things that nobody was paying
attention to. Myself included why would we It's not natural

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to wake up and go hope the longshoremen show up
to work today, and then all of a sudden, everything's
going to change, and it's the only thing anybody's gonna
be able to talk about. Women are going to talk
about the product that they ordered, that they rely on.
Whatever that could be beauty, health, medical, sanitary, all sorts

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of things that women and Tim Waltz rely On'm not
gonna be able to get not the first day. It'll
take a little while because many things are stocked, but
it will also set off a panic which will exhaust
the reserves overnight. There are economists have an entire set,

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an entire vocabulary to describe this type of behavior because
what this becomes a disruption in the supply chain that
is accelerated because people, in anticipation of what's going to happen,
they now behave in irrational ways, but they're rational to
that person. Everyone sprinting out of a crowded movie theater

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when smoke starts rising is irrational in that you're going
to get people hurt, but it is rational to that
person at that moment to flee as fast as he can.
The problem is everyone acting in their own best interest
can sometimes or what seems to be their own best interest,

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can sometimes not lead to the greater good. It would
be better if everyone would agree to slow down. Since
we're on the subject, and since I've been spending some
windshield time of late, which I thoroughly enjoy.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's good from AVP.

Speaker 8 (04:24):
If you're that guy on two ninety as we're heading
up there and going into I guess that's going into Brenham.
If you're that guy when it's clear from a mile
before that we're narrowing down to one lane and that
lane is on the left, and you can see the

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cones up there in a curved pattern, a V pattern,
to push everybody into the left lane. If you are
that guy, that is that moves into the right lane
and guns it all the way up to the front
in hopes that there'll be an eighteen wheeler because they
can't close the gap fast enough, or some weak woman

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that'll let you in. If you're that guy, I hope
you get gout or the piles, or both both. I
hope you get the piles. And while you cannot touch
your bum to the bed from the pile, so you
have to sleep on your stomach, I hope that your

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gout is so bad that you can't touch your big
toe to the bed. But now that you're over on
your stomach and your big toe is excruciatingly painful. If
you've never had gout, you can't appreciate this. I hope
that that's so bad that you need your wife to
put a pillow under your shin to elevate your foot

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high enough that it doesn't touch the bed. But if
you ever so much as moved, you're going to accidentally
push your toe.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Ah, and that's gonna hurt.

Speaker 8 (06:01):
But I hope that if you are that guy, that
your sixth wife divorces you so you have no one
to put a pillow under your leg and hold it
up high enough. No worse, I hope you don't have
any pillows. I hope you don't have any pillows. You know, ramon,

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pillow is one of those words that you would really
rather nobody ever say, because so many are going to
get it wrong. And milk. I can't understand why people
cannot say that word right. That is a word that
people and I can't. I can't just abide them getting

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it wrong. It really gets on my anyway. So you
got this, you got this strike that portends to shut
the country down, and the Commerce secretary, who's this If
ever there was a job for the Commerce secretary? This

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is it has no idea not paying attention to it.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Fox News.

Speaker 9 (07:07):
Nearly fifty thousand unionized dock workers from Maine to Texas
began walking off the job at midnight, just as their
contract with the ports expired. So Port employers, represented by
the US Maritime Alliance said they proposed a nearly fifty
percent wage increase to the International Longshoreman's Association in addition
to improvements to healthcare and retirement plans. But it was rejected,

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and the union president says it isn't enough.

Speaker 10 (07:33):
The office that we had, it didn't work out there.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
And I just told them so long, goodbye. I'm go
with my members.

Speaker 10 (07:40):
We're always willing to sit down when the right numbers hit.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
They know what the number is.

Speaker 9 (07:45):
DOC workers are also striking over fears that automation could
be taking their jobs away. There demanding a total ban
on automated cranes, gates, and container moving trucks used for freight.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
We are in negotiations jail for about fair contract, fair
contract in a contract not filled with the automation, and
women wouldn't been in any machine around anyway.

Speaker 9 (08:11):
The ports shutting down are responsible for about half of
all US imports and billions of dollars in trade per month.
The JP Morgan analysis predicts this strike could cost the
economy more than five billion dollars per day, but President
Biden says he does not plan to intervene in this strike,
and his Commerce secretary doesn't seem too concerned.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Listen, where are the issues most prominent?

Speaker 8 (08:34):
Where have you been kind of focused?

Speaker 5 (08:35):
In hearing on what would happen if the strike goes
let's say longer than a week.

Speaker 9 (08:43):
Again, I have not been.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Very focused on that.

Speaker 9 (08:47):
Okay, Well, New Jersey's sport director told Fox Business that
six ships have already anchored offshore after failing to make
it into the port before it shut down, and that
number guys is expected to reach thirty five if this strike.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
That they were four years ago.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Michael Barry so I was raised as a middle class KIDLFG.

Speaker 8 (09:09):
Today, the Astros play the Detroit Tigers in the playoff
wild Card Series and Jordan is in the lineup.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I didn't pronounce it overly. Mexican. It's not Jordon. It's Jordan.
If you're friends with him, it's Jordan. For you, it's Jordon.
Jordan is Jordone really is Jordan for Mexican's He's not
Mexican's Cuban. Same thing.

Speaker 8 (09:51):
That's one of my favorite jokes, actually to refer to
somebody from a Latin American country as Mexican, and then
when someone corrects you to say same thing.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
You know what's funny.

Speaker 8 (10:03):
The people from countries other than Mexico never find that
as funny as.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I feel like they should. That's too bad.

Speaker 8 (10:08):
Really, I enjoy good redneck humor. Why do other people?
You know, when you're that worried about being offended? See
days like today or where the designated hitter is perfect.
He got a Kirk Gibson enemy walking up Burri like
your back's all busted up. You can't even you ever

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seen the documentary on Kurk Gibson walking up there to bat?
He can't. He shouldn't even be at the stadium. He
should be on the operating table. And he comes out
there and he's getting his hands ready and he rubbing
a dirt on and getting his bat and lo and behold,
what does he do but launch a golf shot in it?

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And then and you can see him when he's tugging
to give to pump his fist. You can see even
doing that is aching. But the adrenaline is just coursing
through his body. So your don is playing today and
he will be batting second in the lineup.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
What a lone can you imagine? Al tuove than you're done.

Speaker 8 (11:15):
I gotta tell you, I know it's gonna make people mad,
and I'm okay with that because it's the truth. And
you should know that I'm being honest with you. I
want the Astros to win, no questions asked. I want
the Astros to win. But I have nothing but respect
for aj Hinch and I don't care if that makes
you mad or not. I know it's gonna make people

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mad because I've said it before and people get mad.
Aj Hinch is not the villain here. Aj Hinch is
not a bad man. Aj Hinch is a aj Hinch
knows baseball, and he knows more about baseball than almost
anybody you're ever gonna meet.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
And what was the other guy's name, Jeff what? Luna? Yeah,
Luno Luno or Luna Luna lu. I can't remember how
it's pronounced. But you know where he ended up.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
He's working for Dan Friedkin and they have bought a
soccer team, a European soccer team. That guy you talk about,
very few people have the processor. Very few people are
walking around with a computer on top of their shoulders
with the processing capability that that guy has. There's intel

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inside that right there. On a big level, when you
can transition from baseball to soccer, it really doesn't matter
because you are in a billy bean way looking at
the game on a whole different dimension that most people
will never understand and they're going to question it. I'll
never forget. I will never forget. Jimmy Johnson comes in

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and he's made the ty of herschel Walker to the
Minnesota Vikings, and he has to stand before the press
and answer the questions. There's a documentary on this. I
think it's thirty for thirty. Watch it because you'll be
amazed how.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
He was trashed for that.

Speaker 8 (13:21):
And he could have simply said, a hw bunch of
idiots for every player I sent there that they cut,
I mean sorry for every player I got. On the
seven players, you're saying you got a bunch of scrubs
in exchange for herschel Walker. That's what I wanted, scrubs
so I can cut them because for everyone I cut,

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I get a first round draft pick. Herschel Walker ain't
worth seven first round draft picks, and that's what I
just got. But I can't tell you all that because
I'm playing my cards. So I'm just going to hold tight,
and in a couple of years this team will have
been turned around and you won't believe what just happened.
But for now, yeah, yeah, for now. Sports writer who

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knows nothing. Cannot understand the dimension I'm operating on. Tell
every right to everybody, what an idiot I am. That's
Richard Justice a few years ago telling the with the
Tombstone article. That's Richard Justice pooh pooing the Astros that
it's the end of their season and they go on
to win the World Series. Richard Justice is one of

(14:30):
those far left liberal sports reporters who thinks he's something
special and wants the Kamala Harris Is to win him.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I'm not a fan. What's that.

Speaker 8 (14:40):
They got to the world That's not the year they
want it, Okay, mister know it all?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Oh, they got swept by the White Sox. Well, how
did the White Sox do this year? Let me check.
Let's see.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
According to Chad Nakanishi, the White Sox had the second
worst record of all time forty one wins one hundred
and twenty one losses, the most losses by any team
in the modern era. The only team that ever had
more losses in a season was eighteen ninety nine's Cleveland Spiders.

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The White Sox owner penned a letter to the fans
saying this season's performance was completely unacceptable and the varying
reactions and emotions from our fan base are completely understandable. Well,
thank you for validating the fact that we can be
angry at how bad your team is.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
We really appreciate that.

Speaker 8 (15:41):
Let's go to Jeff on the black line.

Speaker 11 (15:46):
You know you really are working those names.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I heard you which one.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
But.

Speaker 11 (15:52):
That's the Spanish names. But I agree with you. I
laugh because you know you're giving it your best shot
when you do that. But listen what I called about
real quick, because you're going to have to open up
the discussion on this long shoreman thing.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (16:10):
As a truck driver, Michael, I understand, and you know
it already got automated trucks. And yet when I had
the restaurant, I didn't want a union because I didn't
want my employees telling me how much I had to
pay them, and they didn't know whether or not I
had that kind of money in the budget, and so

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forth and so on. So I've been on both sides
of it. But I'm like your brother, your deally departed
love brother. I love what I'm doing. I really do.
I'm sixty eight, Michael, and this is how I see
myself wrapping it up. God willing. I want to go

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out of here. I love being outside. I love what
I'm doing of how I do it. But I am
concerned the illegal immigrants. I know Walgreens would love and
I don't mean to put them on the spot, but
any trucking company, I know they would love to pay
somebody a whole lot less money than they're paying me.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
How much do they pay?

Speaker 11 (17:15):
You can do what I do right? At thirty dollars
an hour?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Do you get? Timing?

Speaker 11 (17:22):
Everything? Over eight hours every day, every every day of
eight hours time and a half double time? If I
work over five days, you know, if I get into
that sixth day, everything is double time. So it's a
six figure job, and I love it.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
Thirty bucks an hour if you dot forty hours, that's
only fifty a year.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
So you're doing a lot of overtime.

Speaker 11 (17:49):
Yeah, we do. We average twelve fourteen hours a day. Yeah, yeah,
now every day?

Speaker 8 (17:57):
Yeah, okay, so you never have you were then formably
you're probably at fifty or more.

Speaker 11 (18:03):
No, no, no, no. As a matter of fact, we
have a guarantee that even if we did let.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
Jeff the oldest moment come up, the worst vice president
in the history of our.

Speaker 11 (18:15):
Christ mit the Michael Mary.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
We can't afford four more years of this. Every single night,

(19:06):
the Haitians hunger.

Speaker 12 (19:07):
Strikes Appleby's closed show, the hig streets watching waiting.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh, they're licking their chops and hungry.

Speaker 12 (19:19):
Force me. They already ate the geese. They ready pond
even eight of their beaks. Haitians are wild hunting and
packs in the neighborhoods and parks. They want to get
fatter when they feast on beasts. Its beasts to bray.

(19:41):
You're hard.

Speaker 13 (19:46):
Oh here they come, Watch.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Out boys there too, you up?

Speaker 13 (19:52):
Oh here they come headcan eaters. Oh here they come,
Watch out boys climb chew you up wall. Here they
come heater cap eaters.

Speaker 12 (20:13):
They eat the dogs too. They really like blues Clues
and watching last Siek. He's like watching got me every cliffs,
puppies and platters or wine riners are fine. Bubo Saint
Bernard lecks hes.

Speaker 13 (20:35):
Oh here they come, Watch out boy, don't chew you up?
Oh here they come head of dog eaters. Ooh, here
they come, Watch out boy, don't chew you up? Wo.
Here they come head of dog eaters. Man, they can't

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eat dogs love dolls. I ain't e bod of cats fits,
but I don't eat man. We gotta stop them Haitians
for reading family passages, eating jails and parks.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
They done cleaned down the parks.

Speaker 13 (21:20):
We gotta do something about these petties.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
I don't know if you saw this story, but I
think Richard Gear came out against them eating gerbils and
he said that is not their highest and best use.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, he got black balled. Jeff on the black line.

Speaker 11 (21:36):
Hey, if you know what I was trying to hold off? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Go ahead, excuse me.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
I'm gonna I'm gonna play you a clip here, and
I'm not trying to be adversarial.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
We just have conversations. We're friends here. We can we
can do this.

Speaker 8 (21:53):
I can tell even though I've never met you, I
can say friend, hold on, I want you to I'm
gonna turn your mic down, okay, and I want.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
You to listen. This is her old Jay Daggett.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
He is the International Longshoreman's Association President. Want you listen
to what he had to say? That's clip number six
oh nine from GYM at ten oh five am Central Standing.

Speaker 10 (22:11):
But today's world, it's changing into the future. They're not
making millions no more. They're making billions and they're spending
it fast as they make it. I want a piece
of that for my men, because when they made their
most money was during COVID, when my men had to
go to work on those piers every single day, when

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everybody stayed home and went to work, not my men.
They died out there with the virus. We all got
sick with the virus. We kept them going from Canada
to Maine, at Texas, Great Legs, Puerto Rico, now the Bahamas.
Everybody went to work during COVID, nobody stayed home. Well,
I want to be compensated for that. Now, I'm not

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asking for the world. They know what I want. They
know what I want. If they don't, no, then I
have to go into the street and we have to
fight for what we rightfully deserve. These people today don't
know what the shrike is. When my men hit the
streets from Maine to Texas, every single port a locked down.

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You know what's gonna happen, I'll tell you. First week,
be all over the news every nine boom boom. Second week,
guys who sell cars can't sell costs because the cars
ain't coming in off the ships. They get laid off.
Third week. Malls are closing down. They can't get the

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goods from China. They can't sell clothes, they can't do this.
Everything in the United States comes on a ship. They
go out of business. Construction workers get laid off because
the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in,
the lumber's not coming in. They lose their job. Everybody's

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aid in the long showman now because now they realize
how important our jobs are. Now I have the president
screaming at me. I'm putting a taff Harley on. You
go ahead, taf Holly means I have to go back
to work for ninety days after cooling off period. Do
you think when I go back for ninety days, those
men are going to go to work on that pier.

(24:20):
It's going to cost the money, the company's money to
pay their salaries. Well, they go one from thirty moves
an now and maybe they eight. They're gonna be like this,
who's going to win here?

Speaker 3 (24:30):
In the long run.

Speaker 10 (24:32):
You're better off sitting down and let's get a contract
and let's move on with this world. And could today's world,
I'll cripple you. I will cripple you, and you have
no idea what that means.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Nobody does. I'll cripple you. Do you think he means
he'll cripple Jeff.

Speaker 11 (24:50):
That's a hell of him. Yeah, that's a hell of
a motive.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
You know.

Speaker 11 (24:55):
That's not to throw it way off, Michael, but I
leave Osama. Ben Lawton thought that same thing too, that
he would cripple the American economy.

Speaker 8 (25:07):
But lat.

Speaker 11 (25:11):
Well, I mean, it's a little on the dark side, Michael. Listen, Mine,
you know, I wanted to throw it out there real quick,
like you say, it's how you formulated. I've been on
both sides. I'm no big fan of unions, not at all.
I don't like the organization that protects the lazy guy

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and he ends up getting the same pay I get
even though I'm busting my ass. But at the same time,
I was an essential worker out there too during COVID.
I know what he's described and there, you know, Min
and Michael, I think there's a balance. Just like they've
discovered the electric card, the total electric ain't the answer

(25:57):
that the hybrid in the middle is somewhere in the
middle there. But I'd like to hear from other guys.
I mean, I'm just one guy.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
Mike hold On, Pete Rose, well not today, you got
corn pop was a bad dude. The Michael Berry Show,
half a mile.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
From the Cannyfare.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
How the rain came pouring down.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Me and boys.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Standing there with a silver half of round. He had
to pull off a fishing rod.

Speaker 8 (26:30):
Stopy just baggs. Yesterday with the storm record heat?

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Did you know that?

Speaker 8 (26:38):
I heard Terry Smith said on the wind record heat yesterday,
why are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 3 (26:48):
No, I'm not saying that there's no punchline. It was
hot as hell yesterday.

Speaker 8 (26:56):
My buddy Michael Robinson Aggie Palmer said that the fall
heat is worse than the summer heat. Me and uncle
Jerry and Michael and his electrical guy Jason, we're having
We had about a half a beer each last night,
and he made that statement and we all kind of looked.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Over at him, were like what. And he had a
whole theory on it. It's a dryer.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
Heat hits you on one side of you.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Heat it was. It was kind of convoluted, to be honest,
But then.

Speaker 8 (27:34):
I thought, who am I to criticize this guy's goofy
theories on how hot it is when I sit in
the air conditioning all day and he's up in people's
attic all.

Speaker 11 (27:44):
Day and.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
It's hotter up.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
There than it is anywhere else. And then this morning
I hear record heat and I think, well, he was
out his face with some bur because he had been
out in it all day, and I thought, well, maybe
there's something to the fall he. I will tell you
this because I've been spending time in Austin again, which
I hadn't done, not on this level, since I was
in law school thirty years ago.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
I will tell you that I find.

Speaker 8 (28:12):
Austin's heat to be more bothersome than Houston's heat because
it's a dryer heat. So when somebody from Arizona talks
about it being hot, or if you say I was
out in Arizona, man, it was so hot, and they'll
say it's a dry heat. If you've never been in

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the dry heat, you wonder why they say that, because
they say it with such conviction, as if you're supposed
to go, oh, yeah, it's a dry heat. It's not
until you're in it. There is something about the heat
in Austin that bothers me way more than the heat here,

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and I think part of.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
It is, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
It feels like a dry heat, it feels like a
more oppressive heat.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
And I'll give you an example.

Speaker 8 (29:09):
Austin has had a lot of infill, a lot of
people moving in, and then of course the topography is
you get out. People want to be out there, out
off Mopak and there's some pretty pretty areas out there,
those hills, especially the tech money. That's where a lot
of those guys are going. But as you're driving along,
especially on the west side of town and you're north

(29:31):
south arteries Mopack particularly, there's some of those real pretty
roads that just kind of wander and there's those there's
those rock formations, and we don't have that in Houston.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
I really like that. You get that.

Speaker 8 (29:44):
Out in Northwest Texas area. I like that out in Amarillo.
There's a lot of that and it's just beautiful.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
But as I'm.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
Driving out in those areas, I notice that when the
road flattens out and straightens out, I see the heat
coming off the asphalt. I never see that here now,
maybe because you can't see far enough because the traffic
is so bad, And when you're out there like that,
you've got a little space to look around.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
I don't know. I may be wrong, I admit it.
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 8 (30:15):
My perception is the heat is more oppressive in Austin
than it is in Houston. And part of that is
if I can break a sweat, that's I'm cooling down.
When it's really hot, and you don't break a sweat,
it feels like you retain that heat. And I do
understand the biological process of why we break a sweat.

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So this segment mostly focused on heat and a comparison
of heat between Austin and Houston, with references to Arizona.
Now to the subject of the Longshoreman's Union.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
I am well aware that we have a a lot.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
Of longshoremen and other port related industry employees who listen
to our show. I'm well aware of that. You don't
have to keep telling me.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
I'm also well.

Speaker 8 (31:14):
Aware that I could suggest that every one of you
get paid a million dollars and that that would make
you like me more and probably not bother very many people. However,
that's not how I feel. I don't believe in a
government mandated minimum wage. I believe that the marketplace should

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dictate wages the marketplace and only the marketplace. Now does
that mean that most people will not get paid what
they'd like to get paid, Yes, it does, But there
are a lot of other factors at play that people
don't consider. Many people think about when they're in financial trouble.

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They think about how to earn more money. Really smart
people think about how to spend less money. Till and
Fertita used to have a show on called Billion Dollar Buyer,
and the reason I think it didn't take off to
the extent that it probably should have was because he

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focused on the part of the business that nobody's interested in.
He didn't focus on making more money. That's what people want.
The Instagram models, the Kardashians. Look at the money, Look
at the cars, Look at the hoes, look at the travel,
Look at the boat I'm on, Look at her pretty
toes up in the air, look at the beautiful water
in the white sand beaches. Every one of those people

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is going to be broke. It doesn't matter if they
making one hundred thousand, a million or twenty million. You
look at how many mc hammers And the only thing
dumber than those pants he was wearing was blowing through
ten million dollars back then in a year. And his
answer was, it's expensive to keep a posse. But when

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you look at how much cost is passed from what
they're asking for onto the consumer. Guess what Every American
is going to be affected by this union contract, every
single American. You won't know it. Part of what adds
or what adds to inflation is printing too much money.

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But the reason government does it is because it makes
people happy. Well, guess what else adds to inflation? An
increased cost of bringing products in. When you start saying
we demand that you not automate our industry.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
How come because we want to get paid.

Speaker 8 (33:49):
A bunch of money because they recognize that it would
save money to not have to pay them those wages.
And they're asking for seventy percent. So our business is
basically going away and we want to.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Make more money.

Speaker 8 (34:01):
It's not gonna happen. And I'm sorry it's not gonna happen.
It's not my fault. But I don't think everybody else
should have to pay for your raise.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
I just don't.

Speaker 8 (34:09):
There's a lot of industries that go under, and mine
will too. Right, I could be replaced by AI. It's true,
you can do it today.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
That's the struggle we all have.

Speaker 8 (34:20):
But nobody else should have to pay to support me
if they don't want to, because I'm in some union.
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