October 4, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- California's Crumblin!
- Garth Brooks accused of rape
- The port union strike ends
- Government schemes
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong and Getty, and
he Armstrong and Getty. Here's the pitch.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Swinging a fly ball to right field, pretty well hit
freelick back at the wall, he jumps.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's gone hate hate.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That peyt Alonzo with the most.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Favorable home run of his career. Pups as fast as
he round second. He's a three run homer. He's given
the Mets a three to two lead.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
They all pour out of the dugout.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So the Mets took out the Brewers and go into
the next round of the playoffs. Mets Phillies and is
a West Coast guy. That's going to be a highly
annoying series. In the amount of coverridge. It's going to
get in the in the news if it's the only
baseball teams that matter.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So when that home run was hit, the Mets were
trailing by two.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I believe in the ninth inning.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Down to their last out or close to it anyway,
I haven't checked, but yeah, dramatic home run by the
polar Bear, the hero Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
All I know is if you got New York play
in Philadelphia. I already saw it this morning on the
cable news. It's going to be if you're a baseball
fan of any other team, it's I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Only slightly less annoying than New York Boston, but almost.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It turns out that sometimes cops beat a guide to
death just because it's something cops do, and it ain't
because white people are out hunting black people.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I had forgotten until I saw the picture because they
didn't mention it. If I hadn't been looking at the TV,
I wouldn't have known it that there's three black police
officers that beat that poor guy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
To death and got convicted yesterday.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Horrifying, horrifying, But it's it's not politically useful to tear
down civilization, so it's not getting much attention.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Can it be a racial thing? Obviously?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But is it automatically obviously a racial thing if the
cop is white and the guy is black who dies
or gets abused?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Uh? No, obviously not no. And if you're a libertarian thing,
sad case.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
If you're a libertarian, it ain't good news either that
everyoneants to walk cops because I got such an attitude
about things, or willing to beat somebody to death because
they're just sick of dealing with crime or whatever happens.
But anyway, Yeah, if this had been white cops, obviously
it would be an endless, endless story. Could have been
exactly the same circumstances with the exact same motive in
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their mind that made them do something awful. But it
would be the president to be talking about it. Kamala
Harrison'd be talking about it anyway, just because to Shell, yeah,
I think you hear what we're laying down. You're picking
up on what we're putting down.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So Jack and I were talking about what we were going
to talk about this segment. It wasn't that, it was
what's to follow, and we realized, hey, come on, now,
it's a California's crumbling. You want to start with Adam
Yamagucci on CBS Evening News last night.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Sure, this is a good one.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Forty five thousand people experiencing homelessness in the city of
Los Angeles. Nearly half of all Americans living on the
streets are here in California. Whether it was roughly one
shelter bed for every three people who needed one last year.
Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You don't solve anything by clearing an encampment and just
moving them to the next street. I remember when yeah
you do.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah, you make that street or that park or that
schoolyard or whatever inhabitable by the tax paying citizens.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You have absolutely accomplished something.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well. First of all, I remember when it first started
saying half all the homeless people in California. We got
a fair amount of pushback, at least on the text
line that can't be true.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's not true. Look at these statistics.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Now mainstream media is caught up to the fact that
it's just a fact half the homeless people in America
are in one state, California, because of policy, and it
didn't used to be that way.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What changed?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And don't give me the rents high that's why people
are living under bridges and doing meth because that's a
stupid way to look at it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, here's the headline for you. Out of Beautiful LA.
After spending five hundred and fifty million dollars, over seventy
percent of La County's Project Home Key homeless rooms are vacant.
They are vacant, They're not being used when it comes
to getting people actually housed. They spend the money, but
they don't care about the people. That's because the point
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is the money.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, yeah, for some people it's a money grab it
say it's to the homeless industrial complex. But for the
because I know people like this who feel this way,
why are you unwilling to accept that there is a
certain part of human nature. There are enough people that
given the opportunity to just be high and drunk and
live on the street, are willing to do it. Why
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do you think some societal cause had to make them
do that? And you can't accept that there's certain chunk
of people that want to live that way. I don't
understand why that damages your psyche to accept that that
they seemed to need in the past because they couldn't, right,
because you'd starve to death or freeze to death.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You can't now because there's so many handouts.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Are we talking about the actually mentally ill, physically handicapped,
those who have had one medical build that wrecked them
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, of course, not, absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
You've got to separate those different sorts of people out
to solve the problem instead of making it worse and
worse and worse. Gavin Newsom presiding over California, which is crumbling. Michael,
I got a cup your guitar. I should tell this
story before we move on to another version.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I was. I'll be vague about this, but I was
around a woman the other day who was telling the
story of how she was.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Running the streets for a while.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And her thing was she'd hook up with a different
homeless guy because she was homeless guy. She was a
homeless girl. She couldn't have been very old, because you're
not very old now, but she was running the streets.
She'd hook up with different homeless guys to get booze
and drugs because they were they would supply it for her,
and she got beat up constantly, raped constantly, but for
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the booze and drugs they would and they would just
panhandle in the morning until they got enough money and
then be drunk or high all day long. Why would
you ever hand money to these people who are living
this lifestyle? But so many of you do. I see
it practically every day.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yeah, I have to see a piece about a county
in Colorado. I don't remember the name of it, but
they launched one of those handouts don't help campaigns and
have completely reduced the number of panhandlers and beggars on
the streets. They got the word out. Look, these people
are junkies. They want drug money. That's what they're doing. Anyway,
California is crumbling. A couple of headlines worth take a
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quick gander at Gavin Newsom's maximum deception on California's minimum wage.
These stats are out there, are undeniable. He's trying like
crazy to spin them by manipulating the statistics. But California
is down a net fifty four hundred fast food jobs
this year. President, employees are working fewer hours, Automation is growing.
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It has done terrible damage to people who made money
doing that. Now I'm intentionally not using the term made
a living doing that because starter jobs have never been
intended to support a family or make quote unquote a living.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And the idea that.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You need a living wage that a father of three
can flip burgers and support his kids since when should.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Have made it clear or maybe it's obvious that if
you don't live in californ you one of the reasons
you should pay attention to this is one lots of
policies at start in California, go to your state. And
two the current person tied to be president of the
United States is from California, Senator from California, then vice
president and claims this is a model for the country.
(08:16):
I don't think Trump and Vance have done a good
enough job of tying California to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
And let me do a little political math for you.
So you have Gavin who's a very bright guy. I mean,
he understands what's happening here. It can't possibly have escaped
him because it's so obvious. But he will lie to
the very people he's claiming to help, even though it
damages them, and he knows it will damage them because
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he can stay in power and continue the two way
hoes of money back and forth with the public employee unions.
So he is damaging the very people he claims to
help to get elected over and over again.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And it's evil. It's absolutely evil.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
The most needy among us are the victims of his policies,
speaking of which is incredible lack of wisdom. God, there's
a picture of him. He just makes my skin crawl. Uugh,
I predicted this drill, baby drill in his hair. Partly
I predicted it, and I'm bringing this up to pat
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myself on the back, but also because I just love it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
It took like two days for a federal judge to
block that new California law restricting the use of deep
fakes and deceptive humor or whatever the law said in California.
Newsom said, the other day, I just signed a bill
to make this illegal in the state of California. You
can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election
communications that contains materially deceptive content, including deep fakes. Immediately
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labeled the anti parody law.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
If that law was going to stand, would you apply
it to ads for props in the state of CALIFORNI
you are, which are incredibly deceptive?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah, the ballot propositions. Yeah, indeed. So I love this
from our friend Katie Grimes. Screw the first amendment, Newsom said,
as he signed Assemblyville twenty six fifty five. Blah blah blah.
Not really, but he was probably thinking it. Am I
going to be arrested for making a joke about Newsom?
She asks, So there's immediately a lawsuit filed by the
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Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute on behalf of Christopher Coles, known
as mister Reagan, the creator of fabulous satirical political videos,
and the judge essentially said, are you kidding me with
this crap?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, that's a brief summary of the.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Decision, but yeah, as predicted, please, I can't you know what?
I wish I had the wording of the law in
front of me. I probably do. It's a bit of
a long piece here, because the law talks about deceptive
content that could mislead voters or help or hurt someone's
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electoral prospects, so it clearly clearly covers humor.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's the point of political humor.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
So anyway, it was gratifying to see that he was
spanked and sent home to Mama immediately by the first
federal judged.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Even glance at the law unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Well, thanks to judges, California is crumbling less than it
would have been without them.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's insane that half the homeless people in the entire
United States, a country of three hundred and thirty million people,
half the homeless people are in one state. We didn't
think that would be possible.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
And as the show's been based out of caln Unicornea
since the nineties, we have been stating quite plainly that
people flock to whatever precinct or state has the most
attractive services for them. And man, we used to get
hammered for that. The activists would say, that's a lie,
that's a lie. Nobody does that. But now it's so obvious.
(12:06):
There are people who are on TV all the time
doing interviews. Yeah, I came from Nevada because I heard
it's a lot better in California, or maybe they were
in a red part of California. They say, yeah, I
came to Santa Cruz because it's so great to lay
around to do drugs.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well, if you drive around many of the big cities
of California, it looks like half the homeless people in
America here.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's not like it's hard to find right Well.
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Speaker 3 (13:42):
So this happened yesterday in California, Garth Brooks accused of
rape sexual assault in lawsuit filed by his hair and
makeup artist, a woman just being called Jane Rowe states
that the multiple Grammy award winning gazillionaire allegedly raped Turn
a hotel room during a work trip where she felt
trapped and alone with Brooks. In addition to sexual assault
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and battery, Brooks, who's now sixty two, but this happened
back when he was fifty nine, I guess, is also
accused of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Hey take a look at.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This, Huh talking about owner? Uh does he suppose he
has his.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Cowboy head on? I'm not picturing him with his cowboy
head on.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Talking about sex and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe, regularly
changing his clothing in front of her and centering her
sexually explicit text message you better have those if you're
claiming that. According to the complaint in the case, the
suit alleges these incidents happened in twenty nineteen. As I said, so, uh,
you know this has happened with people before that. I
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would have never guessed would do that sort of thing,
And it turned out it really looked like they did
do that sort of thing. Oh with Garth Brooks, though,
I just his He's been around for so long and
so high profile and so wealthy, and and just can't
I can't imagine that at fifty nine he decided to
start acting like this just seems unlikely.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Here is his statement.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
He says, quote, for the last two months, I have
been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic
tales of what my future would be if I did
not write a check for many millions of dollars. It's
been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.
Hush money. No matter how much or how little, is
still hush money in my mind. That means I am
admitting to behavior I am incapable of ugly acts no
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human should ever do to another. And Brooks says, filed
the lawsuit accusing the woman with whom he had previously
worked of attempting to defame and extort him, and alleges,
as he said in a statement, that she has repeatedly
threatened to file a lawsuit accusing him of terrible things
if he didn't pay millions dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
If you were in this situation and innocent as you
obviously would be and innocent. Would you and your lawyer said, look,
she's saying X number of dollars and it goes away.
Would you pay it or would you? Did you fight it?
Just on principle, I think you have to fight it.
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I think you have to too, But I can see
how a lawyer would convince you. Look, you fight it,
and it all comes out, and a certain percentage of
people are gonna believe you did it no matter what.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And it's my cause this much more money my counter argument.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And I only can you know offer this through years
of experience in observing this sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
The lawyer said would say, this will put it behind you,
and I would say, no, it probably.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Won't, right, Yeah, it won't firm that life.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
God, there's somebody I don't remember who, a high profile
person who listened to their lawyer in one of these
types of stories and wishes they hadn't. The lawyer doesn't
necessarily have your best interest at heart. They just they
just look at the law on dollars and cents. Lawyers
are weird the way they look at the world. They have,
you know, I guess it helps them do their job,
but they have no ability to understand like culture or
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meaning or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Only law, money, law money, or.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Just the idea of you will make a tacit confession
to doing something you find abhorrent and sickening, and we'll
take care of this for you. And I think it's
difficult to for some attorneys anyway to understand.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't care what it costs me.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
What I hope I am going to make clear what
kind of person I am and what kind I'm not.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
What I hope didn't happen, which could come out, is
if you had consensual sex, like you had an affair going,
and then they turn out to be the sort of
person that claims, you know, like what happened with Kobe Bryant,
who I think thought he was having consensual sex with
somebody who wanted to have sex with an NBA player,
but then claims rape and then you got then you
got a big problem. Or Major league pitcher Trevor bowo
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oh y has just been living a nightmare because of
a predator predatory one.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah it happens. Oh god, dang it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
What a horrible situation speaking predatory that whole dock workers strike.
Some really great perspective on how much sympathy we ought
to have for those poor workers who are going back
to work. Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
McDonald's announced today it will begin offering the chicken Big Mac.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's like the original Big Mac and contains roughly the
same amount of beef.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Wow, it is an interesting thing, inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I like a big Mac, but it doesn't taste anything
like a hamburger. Like if you weren't told it was
a hamburger going in, and so they had you take
a bite of it and you said, what what? What
arena of food is this in? I don't know what
you'd guess. I wouldn't guess hamburger, Katie.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I'm a huge fan of this idea because I used
to order the mcchickens with Big Mac sauce.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And it's a game changer. Oh really? Oh yeah, wait
a moment. Wow, so you you'd hit the mcdee's with
a special order.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah? Uh was this formerly big Katie Green? Oh yeah, okay,
I could slam some mcchickens. You know, do you only
know you as thin hot Katie? So sorry I shouldn't
say that. I'm hr Oh, I appreciate it. I'll help
you file the lawsuit but uh, I'm practically Garth Brooks.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, I was just gonna say out Garth. Oh no, no, no,
that's no no, I will not join in that. So
that is not funny.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
But so back in the day you would eat, you
would eat like that. Oh yeah, I used to love
fast food. Did you know somebody at the McDonald's or
did you just because I've never liked made a special
order a McDonald's in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
No.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I just really enjoyed Big Max, and I really enjoyed
mcchickens and thought the saw, hey this, this would be
a good combo ahead of the times.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I really like the flurry in the fries. Is there
a way you could put that in a bowl or something?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
They probably should have They should have hired you and
their their products innovation department or whatever. R and D
clearly clearly well, speaking of big business, this guy won.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting
a TAF holly on you go ahead. Taf holly means
I have to go back to work for ninety days
after cool you off period. Do you think when I
go back for ninety days those men are going to
go to work on that pid it's going to cost
the money, the company's money.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
To pay the salaries.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, go one from thirty moves an now and maybe
the eight they're gonna be like this, who's gonna win
here in the long run, You're better off sitting down
and let's get a contract and.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
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 (20:41):
That's amazing that you would say that out loud and win,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But you would say that out loud, that oh, we're.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Gonna, we're gonna we'll we'll slow walk our job and
will pretend we're hurt. That's that will be like this,
he grabs his neck like faking injury, and.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We'll cripple you. You have no power over. He's saying
to the world, to the president, to the country, we.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Can do whatever he want. I got a million dollars.
I make a million dollars a year on the books.
As Joe pointed out yesterday, who knows how much off
the books.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I got a big yacht. I'd drive a Bentley. I'll
do whatever that f I want, you get it.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I will christ I heard an authority on labor law
and history talking the other day about how reminiscent this
is of the teamsters prior to the deregulation, and I.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Think was the eighties early eighties. Don't quote me on that, but.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
The trucking industry was so tightly controlled by the unions
and the laws were shaped by union serving politicians. So
you couldn't start a trucking company. Yeah, you couldn't start
an independent trunking company.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Certainly it was up until about nineteen eighty because I
was a teamster in eighty eight. I was a teamster
for a couple of years, but those days were passed.
But still it was. The perks were unbelievable. I mean,
the insurance I had as a teamster was ridiculous. I
was loading boxes. I mean, you're the lowest monkey job
that can be. I was in the back of a
freak car, a trained freight car, loading boxes in the
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middle of the night. But I had one hundred percent dental,
no deductible starting day one.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I mean, it was just amazing.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Wow, it's too bad you've got good teeth. I mean,
you really could have taken advantage.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I was young and healthy, and I didn't take advantage
of any of that stuff. Yeah, that's terrible anyway.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
So with that much money and power flowing through the
trucking industry back in the day, it attracted organized crime
because there was so much money flowing there, and so
the teamsters was completely mobbed with the trucking industry in
general was completely mobbed up during that period, and everybody
knows it. Asked Jimmy Hoff if you can find his bones.
But anyway, this Long Sherman's Union fight bones is very
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much the same. All of this commerce is flowing through
on the East Coast at least it's like fifty thousand people,
and the West coast has a different union. But anyway,
a couple of respectives I thought were just terrific. Rich
Lowry in the National Review, it's the processing gate that
shook the US economy. Eight PM terminals in the Portomobile
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Alabama use a semi automated gate to process trucks without
union labor. And this supposed outrage is one of the
reasons the International Longshoreman's Association went on strike. Never mind
that the gate has been in operation for years and
is more efficient and safer to checking admit trucks than
a human. The strike is a war on automation as
much as a push for higher wages.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That is what the media missed completely because they only
talked about the hourly wage, and the point was there.
The long shoremun in trying to stop automation from happening,
which is bad for all.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Of us, right right.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Machines don't pay taxes, said the president of the local
union in Mobile. Yeah, well, neither do wheelbarrows or iPhones.
We still use them as tools to make any number
of tasks easier and less time consuming. Harold Daggett, the
president of the union, is pledged to wage an unceasing
war on automation, famously makes a million dollars, lives in
a New Jersey mansion, giant yacht, et cetera. No word
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on whether he insists that he and his family hand
wash their clothes and dishes or employ a laundress and
personal dishwasher in order to foreswear.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Reliance on labor saving devices. Good one.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Yeah, and it just talks about how technology is constantly changing.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
You have to embrace it.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
We're getting whooped by China, the Netherlands, Singapore, Essentially everybody
who began automating in the early nineteen nineties, and how
this is such a choke point on everybody else in
the economy.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, right, if you're gonna go with the logic of
you pay a human a lot of money to do
a job that a computer could do, so the human
does not need it at all, well, then how do
you not extend it to just.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Making up jobs?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You have a person outside the building who you know
writes down the color of people's shoes every day and
gets eighty dollars an hour.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Well, except they don't actually have to write down the
color of the shoes, as I'll get to in a moment.
But a couple of other perspectives, this time from the
Wall Street Journal. President Biden had threatened the US Maritime
Alliance with legal action this week if they didn't give
in to further union demands. My administration will be monitoring
for any price couching activity that benefits foreign ocean carriers.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
He said in a statement.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
It was a direct threat to Maersk and other ocean
carriers if they added a surcharge because of the disruptions
and expenses from the ILA strike.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So one myth.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Exposed by the strike is that unions need more economic
and political power because they help the working man the
union behind the strike. The ISLA helps some workers at
the expense of countless others. Starting with the astounding fact
that there were fifty thousand or so ISLA strikers but
only twenty five thousand or so port jobs. Once again,
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there are fifty thousand strikers, there are only twenty five
thousand jobs.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Wow, that's right.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Only about half of the union members are obliged to
show up to work each day. The rest sit at
home collecting container royalties negotiated in previous ILA contracts intended
to protect against job losses that result from yes innovation.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
So this strike only lasted what four days?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But how bad a job did the mainstream media do
of covering this since they really only talked about the
hourly wage?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Right, Well, they run everything through the filter of a
ideology and b the upcoming presidential election. You know, you'd
be a lot better at your job if you'd stop
that in particularly all right, but there's more. You should know,
what a deal for those favorite few who do show
up to work. The twenty nineteen to twenty report of
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the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor laid out the
reality and I quote the absolute control of the International
Longshoreman's Association over hiring the port for over sixty years
has not only led to a lack of diversity and
inclusion in waterfront employment, but also the prepare situation of
criminality and corruption. Residents near the ports can't get hired
because the union control quote. Meanwhile, those are who are
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connected to union leadership or organized crime figures are rewarded
with high paying, low show or no work special compensation packages.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Again, this is the.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Commission of the New York Harbor in a report that
came out just a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
More than five.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Hundred and ninety individuals continue to receive over one hundred
and forty seven million dollars in outside salaries not required
by the industry's collective bargaining agreement for hours they do
not even have to be here at the port. Such
positions were overwhelmingly given to folks connected to organized crime
figures or union leadership, and particularly.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
The history of organized labor is so much of this,
where the wages are insane, the benefits, no show jobs,
all that sort of stuff, and you can't get the
job unless you're connected somehow, you know a family member
or a friend or whatever. So it's not like it's
open to everyone to even get these jobs.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Right right.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
You know, I left out the fact that Kamala Harris
also made unmistakable noises about I'm on the side of
the union and I will hurt you if you don't
give into their demands, and they more or less split
the difference between the fifty percent offered pay raise in
the seventy seven percent that was demanded.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Do you feel like he long Sherman won this, Oh.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they the deal they have now
is completely mobbed up and based on how much power
very very few people have over the nation's commerce in
a way that is utterly unpalatable in a free market.
And they got a better deal than the one they
have now, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Our ports are operating at the technology of the fifties.
Listening to a transportation expert who was on MSNBC yesterday,
This was an MSNBC expert they had on, said, we're
working or running our ports basically the technology the fifties.
We're the slowest of unloading of any docks anywhere in
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the world. With your big countries and we're falling further
behind and this isn't going to fix it.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Obviously.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Now, as a kid, I knew through my teenage hears
I guess a guy who was mobbed up in Chicago,
Liand I didn't know it at the time, but in
retrospect is so obvious. He you know, he had name
straight out of the Sopranos, and he had a what
is clear to me now a no show job more
or less on the waterfront of Chicago. I'll be a
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little vague about it, but I spent a fair amount
of time around him and his circle and some family
type relationships, and I could never figure out exactly what
he did for a living, and he never seemed to
be at work, and he had plenty of walking around
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money and was a little.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
On the flashy side.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
He was also a hell of a likable guy, very happy,
go lucky, I mean, a lovable guy. But as a teenager,
I was mystified at exactly what was going on there,
And now in retrospect it's so obvious. But yeah, so yeah,
these guys, they don't they don't have to work most
of the time. They make a hell of a lot
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of money.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
And and America begs on its knees to please let
up the rest of us. The other three hundred and
forty million of us continue to make a living and
buy products that at amounts, you know, prices we can afford,
and please don't cripple us. Because you said you will
cripple us.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I will give you.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
This is not a story of the brave working man
standing up for his rights people.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
That's why I don't get why all of the media,
both sides.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Trump and kamalav Fox and the other channels want to
be super sympathetic to the hard working man just trying to,
you know, do his job and his family. Why don't
they get into the details you just gave us and say, look,
we're all getting screwed by this. Anybody else got a
job where you make this kind of money for showing
up half the time?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
No, you don't.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
There's a lot of money and a lot of votes
in heaving union support and it is invaluable.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Apparently, man boy, anybody who thought that this sort of
thing was of the past, I guess we got a
lesson this week, didn't we? In particularly in particularly we
did is right? Seventy six foot yacht. That's gotta be
a nice yacht. Oh my god, that's a huge boat.
What's our buddy Dave's boat? Is that like forty five?
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I think?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Yeah, he lives on it. Yeah, so it's like another
one of those.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Wow, he'll probably text me as soon as we get
done with this.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
We got a lot more on the way to day
with us.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh boy, we got something good for next hour.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Joe Biden just asked about the govern's response to uh,
the storm of North Carolina. Compare his answer with some
of the people who live in North Carolina and what
they're saying. Oh boy, Also today we'll get to that
hour three.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
North Carolina, of course an American state full of decent people,
and we care about it for those reasons. But it's
also a swing state, and all of the undecided voters
in the swing states are getting the focus of zillions
of dollars worth of politics and political ads and attention
and speeches and the rest of it. And I came
across this bit of humor the other day about the
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undecided voter.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Nancy, I'm so thirsty. Should I drink water? Guzzle the
gasoline straight out of the nozzle. I'm so thirsty, and
I haven't had a liquid in four days. Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Google says that one ounce of gasoline is fatal to children.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I'm not a child.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Is that something I should take into account?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
The GPAs says that you're left, should.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Do that or go off the bridge.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Don't do that. I did you ever go off the
breed before? Maybe it's a quicker ring. What's wrong with you?
My doctor's call? Hello, I'll need more time to think.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Nay.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Should I have them give me a massive breast and plant?
Or should I have them cut off both my arms?
Is that something they offer? There's no Hi, what can
I get for you?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Because she's at a fast food drive and it turns
with terror to her passenger.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I don't know what to order. The undecided voter.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Now, that's funny that we would have this today, because
I've always felt that way about the undecided voter, just
like you must be bone stupid.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No, I disagree, But I was listened to.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Uh uh, what do they call focus group thing yesterday
on a zoom call with a whole bunch of political analysts,
and they had undecided voters on and that's not what
they sound like, And like, I.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Don't quite understand them.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
But they all came off as perfectly capable, reasonable people.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Just for some reason.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And like I said, I can't quite figure out the
psychology of it. But for some reason, they aren't locked
into an ideology, which sounds like a good thing, but
they haven't crafted a worldview. They've managed to become like
a forty year old mom or you know, a fifty
two year old guy or whatever, it's succeeding in the world,
smart enough, enough candlepower, but they just haven't crafted a worldview,
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which again escapes me.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, it's it seems very odd.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I try to understand it, but it's not they're not
lacking information that It didn't seem like they were lacking
information or like I said, intelligence, They just don't have
a if we had more of this in America would
be better or less of this in America. Mu, they
just haven't done that, pardon it for some reason, And
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I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Know what that is.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Yeah, yeah, I've run into various stripes of it, and
I could accept. You know, if you're busy with the
other parts of your life and you're not paying attention
to politics, and in fact, you don't really pay that
much attention to what government schemes work in which don't,
And you've kind of accumulated a worldview, as Jack said,
or kind of a mental scorecard of Oh, I've heard
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that promise before.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It seems very foreign to me. But obviously those people exist.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
There wasn't one of them. And I've been calling on
decided voters morons for years. How do you feel now
you believe there wasn't one of them that I would
have described as obviously dumb or even I wouldn't even
have called them low information. They seemed like they had
plenty of information. They they're just weighing everything without like
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again a framework of the past or anything for some
reason right there.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And we've discussed this in a variety of contexts in
recent months especially, but there's a disconnect between elections and
policy and results in people's minds.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
They don't connect those things. They act as if they're independent.
You're right, that is what it is. They don't connect
the policy to results, and so it's just wide open
to them who they and they still haven't made up
their mind.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
They need to hear more. What's more likable, what
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong and Getty, and
he Armstrong and Getty. Here's the pitch.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Swinging a fly ball to right field, pretty well hit
freelick back at the wall, he jumps.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's gone hate hate.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That peyt Alonzo with the most.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Favorable home run of his career. Pups as fast as
he round second. He's a three run homer. He's given
the Mets a three to two lead.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
They all pour out of the dugout.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So the Mets took out the Brewers and go into
the next round of the playoffs. Mets Phillies and is
a West Coast guy. That's going to be a highly
annoying series. In the amount of coverridge. It's going to
get in the in the news if it's the only
baseball teams that matter.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So when that home run was hit, the Mets were
trailing by two.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I believe in the ninth inning.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Down to their last out or close to it anyway,
I haven't checked, but yeah, dramatic home run by the
polar Bear, the hero Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
All I know is if you got New York play
in Philadelphia. I already saw it this morning on the
cable news. It's going to be if you're a baseball
fan of any other team, it's I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Only slightly less annoying than New York Boston, but almost.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It turns out that sometimes cops beat a guide to
death just because it's something cops do, and it ain't
because white people are out hunting black people.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I had forgotten until I saw the picture because they
didn't mention it. If I hadn't been looking at the TV,
I wouldn't have known it that there's three black police
officers that beat that poor guy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
To death and got convicted yesterday.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Horrifying, horrifying, But it's it's not politically useful to tear
down civilization, so it's not getting much attention.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Can it be a racial thing? Obviously?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But is it automatically obviously a racial thing if the
cop is white and the guy is black who dies
or gets abused?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Uh? No, obviously not no. And if you're a libertarian thing,
sad case.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
If you're a libertarian, it ain't good news either that
everyoneants to walk cops because I got such an attitude
about things, or willing to beat somebody to death because
they're just sick of dealing with crime or whatever happens.
But anyway, Yeah, if this had been white cops, obviously
it would be an endless, endless story. Could have been
exactly the same circumstances with the exact same motive in
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their mind that made them do something awful. But it
would be the president to be talking about it. Kamala
Harrison'd be talking about it anyway, just because to Shell, yeah,
I think you hear what we're laying down. You're picking
up on what we're putting down.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So Jack and I were talking about what we were going
to talk about this segment. It wasn't that, it was
what's to follow, and we realized, hey, come on, now,
it's a California's crumbling. You want to start with Adam
Yamagucci on CBS Evening News last night.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Sure, this is a good one.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Forty five thousand people experiencing homelessness in the city of
Los Angeles. Nearly half of all Americans living on the
streets are here in California. Whether it was roughly one
shelter bed for every three people who needed one last year.
Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You don't solve anything by clearing an encampment and just
moving them to the next street. I remember when yeah
you do.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah, you make that street or that park or that
schoolyard or whatever inhabitable by the tax paying citizens.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You have absolutely accomplished something.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well. First of all, I remember when it first started
saying half all the homeless people in California. We got
a fair amount of pushback, at least on the text
line that can't be true.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's not true. Look at these statistics.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Now mainstream media is caught up to the fact that
it's just a fact half the homeless people in America
are in one state, California, because of policy, and it
didn't used to be that way.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What changed?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And don't give me the rents high that's why people
are living under bridges and doing meth because that's a
stupid way to look at it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, here's the headline for you. Out of Beautiful LA.
After spending five hundred and fifty million dollars, over seventy
percent of La County's Project Home Key homeless rooms are vacant.
They are vacant, They're not being used when it comes
to getting people actually housed. They spend the money, but
they don't care about the people. That's because the point
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is the money.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, yeah, for some people it's a money grab it
say it's to the homeless industrial complex. But for the
because I know people like this who feel this way,
why are you unwilling to accept that there is a
certain part of human nature. There are enough people that
given the opportunity to just be high and drunk and
live on the street, are willing to do it. Why
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do you think some societal cause had to make them
do that? And you can't accept that there's certain chunk
of people that want to live that way. I don't
understand why that damages your psyche to accept that that
they seemed to need in the past because they couldn't, right,
because you'd starve to death or freeze to death.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You can't now because there's so many handouts.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Are we talking about the actually mentally ill, physically handicapped,
those who have had one medical build that wrecked them
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, of course, not, absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
You've got to separate those different sorts of people out
to solve the problem instead of making it worse and
worse and worse. Gavin Newsom presiding over California, which is crumbling. Michael,
I got a cup your guitar. I should tell this
story before we move on to another version.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I was. I'll be vague about this, but I was
around a woman the other day who was telling the
story of how she was.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Running the streets for a while.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And her thing was she'd hook up with a different
homeless guy because she was homeless guy. She was a
homeless girl. She couldn't have been very old, because you're
not very old now, but she was running the streets.
She'd hook up with different homeless guys to get booze
and drugs because they were they would supply it for her,
and she got beat up constantly, raped constantly, but for
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the booze and drugs they would and they would just
panhandle in the morning until they got enough money and
then be drunk or high all day long. Why would
you ever hand money to these people who are living
this lifestyle? But so many of you do. I see
it practically every day.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Yeah, I have to see a piece about a county
in Colorado. I don't remember the name of it, but
they launched one of those handouts don't help campaigns and
have completely reduced the number of panhandlers and beggars on
the streets. They got the word out. Look, these people
are junkies. They want drug money. That's what they're doing. Anyway,
California is crumbling. A couple of headlines worth take a
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quick gander at Gavin Newsom's maximum deception on California's minimum wage.
These stats are out there, are undeniable. He's trying like
crazy to spin them by manipulating the statistics. But California
is down a net fifty four hundred fast food jobs
this year. President, employees are working fewer hours, Automation is growing.
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It has done terrible damage to people who made money
doing that. Now I'm intentionally not using the term made
a living doing that because starter jobs have never been
intended to support a family or make quote unquote a living.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And the idea that.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You need a living wage that a father of three
can flip burgers and support his kids since when should.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Have made it clear or maybe it's obvious that if
you don't live in californ you one of the reasons
you should pay attention to this is one lots of
policies at start in California, go to your state. And
two the current person tied to be president of the
United States is from California, Senator from California, then vice
president and claims this is a model for the country.
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I don't think Trump and Vance have done a good
enough job of tying California to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
And let me do a little political math for you.
So you have Gavin who's a very bright guy. I mean,
he understands what's happening here. It can't possibly have escaped
him because it's so obvious. But he will lie to
the very people he's claiming to help, even though it
damages them, and he knows it will damage them because
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he can stay in power and continue the two way
hoes of money back and forth with the public employee unions.
So he is damaging the very people he claims to
help to get elected over and over again.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And it's evil. It's absolutely evil.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
The most needy among us are the victims of his policies,
speaking of which is incredible lack of wisdom. God, there's
a picture of him. He just makes my skin crawl. Uugh,
I predicted this drill, baby drill in his hair. Partly
I predicted it, and I'm bringing this up to pat
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myself on the back, but also because I just love it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
It took like two days for a federal judge to
block that new California law restricting the use of deep
fakes and deceptive humor or whatever the law said in California.
Newsom said, the other day, I just signed a bill
to make this illegal in the state of California. You
can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election
communications that contains materially deceptive content, including deep fakes. Immediately
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labeled the anti parody law.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
If that law was going to stand, would you apply
it to ads for props in the state of CALIFORNI
you are, which are incredibly deceptive?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah, the ballot propositions. Yeah, indeed. So I love this
from our friend Katie Grimes. Screw the first amendment, Newsom said,
as he signed Assemblyville twenty six fifty five. Blah blah blah.
Not really, but he was probably thinking it. Am I
going to be arrested for making a joke about Newsom?
She asks, So there's immediately a lawsuit filed by the
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Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute on behalf of Christopher Coles, known
as mister Reagan, the creator of fabulous satirical political videos,
and the judge essentially said, are you kidding me with
this crap?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, that's a brief summary of the.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Decision, but yeah, as predicted, please, I can't you know what?
I wish I had the wording of the law in
front of me. I probably do. It's a bit of
a long piece here, because the law talks about deceptive
content that could mislead voters or help or hurt someone's
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electoral prospects, so it clearly clearly covers humor.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's the point of political humor.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
So anyway, it was gratifying to see that he was
spanked and sent home to Mama immediately by the first
federal judged.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Even glance at the law unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Well, thanks to judges, California is crumbling less than it
would have been without them.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's insane that half the homeless people in the entire
United States, a country of three hundred and thirty million people,
half the homeless people are in one state. We didn't
think that would be possible.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
And as the show's been based out of caln Unicornea
since the nineties, we have been stating quite plainly that
people flock to whatever precinct or state has the most
attractive services for them. And man, we used to get
hammered for that. The activists would say, that's a lie,
that's a lie. Nobody does that. But now it's so obvious.
(12:06):
There are people who are on TV all the time
doing interviews. Yeah, I came from Nevada because I heard
it's a lot better in California, or maybe they were
in a red part of California. They say, yeah, I
came to Santa Cruz because it's so great to lay
around to do drugs.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well, if you drive around many of the big cities
of California, it looks like half the homeless people in
America here.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's not like it's hard to find right Well.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
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Speaker 3 (13:42):
So this happened yesterday in California, Garth Brooks accused of
rape sexual assault in lawsuit filed by his hair and
makeup artist, a woman just being called Jane Rowe states
that the multiple Grammy award winning gazillionaire allegedly raped Turn
a hotel room during a work trip where she felt
trapped and alone with Brooks. In addition to sexual assault
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and battery, Brooks, who's now sixty two, but this happened
back when he was fifty nine, I guess, is also
accused of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Hey take a look at.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This, Huh talking about owner? Uh does he suppose he
has his.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Cowboy head on? I'm not picturing him with his cowboy
head on.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Talking about sex and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe, regularly
changing his clothing in front of her and centering her
sexually explicit text message you better have those if you're
claiming that. According to the complaint in the case, the
suit alleges these incidents happened in twenty nineteen. As I said, so, uh,
you know this has happened with people before that. I
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would have never guessed would do that sort of thing,
And it turned out it really looked like they did
do that sort of thing. Oh with Garth Brooks, though,
I just his He's been around for so long and
so high profile and so wealthy, and and just can't
I can't imagine that at fifty nine he decided to
start acting like this just seems unlikely.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Here is his statement.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
He says, quote, for the last two months, I have
been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic
tales of what my future would be if I did
not write a check for many millions of dollars. It's
been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.
Hush money. No matter how much or how little, is
still hush money in my mind. That means I am
admitting to behavior I am incapable of ugly acts no
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human should ever do to another. And Brooks says, filed
the lawsuit accusing the woman with whom he had previously
worked of attempting to defame and extort him, and alleges,
as he said in a statement, that she has repeatedly
threatened to file a lawsuit accusing him of terrible things
if he didn't pay millions dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
If you were in this situation and innocent as you
obviously would be and innocent. Would you and your lawyer said, look,
she's saying X number of dollars and it goes away.
Would you pay it or would you? Did you fight it?
Just on principle, I think you have to fight it.
(16:10):
I think you have to too, But I can see
how a lawyer would convince you. Look, you fight it,
and it all comes out, and a certain percentage of
people are gonna believe you did it no matter what.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And it's my cause this much more money my counter argument.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And I only can you know offer this through years
of experience in observing this sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
The lawyer said would say, this will put it behind you,
and I would say, no, it probably.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Won't, right, Yeah, it won't firm that life.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
God, there's somebody I don't remember who, a high profile
person who listened to their lawyer in one of these
types of stories and wishes they hadn't. The lawyer doesn't
necessarily have your best interest at heart. They just they
just look at the law on dollars and cents. Lawyers
are weird the way they look at the world. They have,
you know, I guess it helps them do their job,
but they have no ability to understand like culture or
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meaning or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Only law, money, law money, or.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Just the idea of you will make a tacit confession
to doing something you find abhorrent and sickening, and we'll
take care of this for you. And I think it's
difficult to for some attorneys anyway to understand.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't care what it costs me.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
What I hope I am going to make clear what
kind of person I am and what kind I'm not.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
What I hope didn't happen, which could come out, is
if you had consensual sex, like you had an affair going,
and then they turn out to be the sort of
person that claims, you know, like what happened with Kobe Bryant,
who I think thought he was having consensual sex with
somebody who wanted to have sex with an NBA player,
but then claims rape and then you got then you
got a big problem. Or Major league pitcher Trevor bowo
(17:55):
oh y has just been living a nightmare because of
a predator predatory one.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah it happens. Oh god, dang it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
What a horrible situation speaking predatory that whole dock workers strike.
Some really great perspective on how much sympathy we ought
to have for those poor workers who are going back
to work. Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
McDonald's announced today it will begin offering the chicken Big Mac.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's like the original Big Mac and contains roughly the
same amount of beef.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Wow, it is an interesting thing, inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I like a big Mac, but it doesn't taste anything
like a hamburger. Like if you weren't told it was
a hamburger going in, and so they had you take
a bite of it and you said, what what? What
arena of food is this in? I don't know what
you'd guess. I wouldn't guess hamburger, Katie.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I'm a huge fan of this idea because I used
to order the mcchickens with Big Mac sauce.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And it's a game changer. Oh really? Oh yeah, wait
a moment. Wow, so you you'd hit the mcdee's with
a special order.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah? Uh was this formerly big Katie Green? Oh yeah, okay,
I could slam some mcchickens. You know, do you only
know you as thin hot Katie? So sorry I shouldn't
say that. I'm hr Oh, I appreciate it. I'll help
you file the lawsuit but uh, I'm practically Garth Brooks.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, I was just gonna say out Garth. Oh no, no, no,
that's no no, I will not join in that. So
that is not funny.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
But so back in the day you would eat, you
would eat like that. Oh yeah, I used to love
fast food. Did you know somebody at the McDonald's or
did you just because I've never liked made a special
order a McDonald's in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
No.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I just really enjoyed Big Max, and I really enjoyed
mcchickens and thought the saw, hey this, this would be
a good combo ahead of the times.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I really like the flurry in the fries. Is there
a way you could put that in a bowl or something?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
They probably should have They should have hired you and
their their products innovation department or whatever. R and D
clearly clearly well, speaking of big business, this guy won.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting
a TAF holly on you go ahead. Taf holly means
I have to go back to work for ninety days
after cool you off period. Do you think when I
go back for ninety days those men are going to
go to work on that pid it's going to cost
the money, the company's money.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
To pay the salaries.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, go one from thirty moves an now and maybe
the eight they're gonna be like this, who's gonna win
here in the long run, You're better off sitting down
and let's get a contract and.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
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 (20:41):
That's amazing that you would say that out loud and win,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But you would say that out loud, that oh, we're.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Gonna, we're gonna we'll we'll slow walk our job and
will pretend we're hurt. That's that will be like this,
he grabs his neck like faking injury, and.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We'll cripple you. You have no power over. He's saying
to the world, to the president, to the country, we.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Can do whatever he want. I got a million dollars.
I make a million dollars a year on the books.
As Joe pointed out yesterday, who knows how much off
the books.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I got a big yacht. I'd drive a Bentley. I'll
do whatever that f I want, you get it.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I will christ I heard an authority on labor law
and history talking the other day about how reminiscent this
is of the teamsters prior to the deregulation, and I.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Think was the eighties early eighties. Don't quote me on that, but.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
The trucking industry was so tightly controlled by the unions
and the laws were shaped by union serving politicians. So
you couldn't start a trucking company. Yeah, you couldn't start
an independent trunking company.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Certainly it was up until about nineteen eighty because I
was a teamster in eighty eight. I was a teamster
for a couple of years, but those days were passed.
But still it was. The perks were unbelievable. I mean,
the insurance I had as a teamster was ridiculous. I
was loading boxes. I mean, you're the lowest monkey job
that can be. I was in the back of a
freak car, a trained freight car, loading boxes in the
(22:09):
middle of the night. But I had one hundred percent dental,
no deductible starting day one.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I mean, it was just amazing.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Wow, it's too bad you've got good teeth. I mean,
you really could have taken advantage.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I was young and healthy, and I didn't take advantage
of any of that stuff. Yeah, that's terrible anyway.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
So with that much money and power flowing through the
trucking industry back in the day, it attracted organized crime
because there was so much money flowing there, and so
the teamsters was completely mobbed with the trucking industry in
general was completely mobbed up during that period, and everybody
knows it. Asked Jimmy Hoff if you can find his bones.
But anyway, this Long Sherman's Union fight bones is very
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much the same. All of this commerce is flowing through
on the East Coast at least it's like fifty thousand people,
and the West coast has a different union. But anyway,
a couple of respectives I thought were just terrific. Rich
Lowry in the National Review, it's the processing gate that
shook the US economy. Eight PM terminals in the Portomobile
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Alabama use a semi automated gate to process trucks without
union labor. And this supposed outrage is one of the
reasons the International Longshoreman's Association went on strike. Never mind
that the gate has been in operation for years and
is more efficient and safer to checking admit trucks than
a human. The strike is a war on automation as
much as a push for higher wages.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That is what the media missed completely because they only
talked about the hourly wage, and the point was there.
The long shoremun in trying to stop automation from happening,
which is bad for all.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Of us, right right.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Machines don't pay taxes, said the president of the local
union in Mobile. Yeah, well, neither do wheelbarrows or iPhones.
We still use them as tools to make any number
of tasks easier and less time consuming. Harold Daggett, the
president of the union, is pledged to wage an unceasing
war on automation, famously makes a million dollars, lives in
a New Jersey mansion, giant yacht, et cetera. No word
(24:06):
on whether he insists that he and his family hand
wash their clothes and dishes or employ a laundress and
personal dishwasher in order to foreswear.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Reliance on labor saving devices. Good one.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Yeah, and it just talks about how technology is constantly changing.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
You have to embrace it.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
We're getting whooped by China, the Netherlands, Singapore, Essentially everybody
who began automating in the early nineteen nineties, and how
this is such a choke point on everybody else in
the economy.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, right, if you're gonna go with the logic of
you pay a human a lot of money to do
a job that a computer could do, so the human
does not need it at all, well, then how do
you not extend it to just.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Making up jobs?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You have a person outside the building who you know
writes down the color of people's shoes every day and
gets eighty dollars an hour.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Well, except they don't actually have to write down the
color of the shoes, as I'll get to in a moment.
But a couple of other perspectives, this time from the
Wall Street Journal. President Biden had threatened the US Maritime
Alliance with legal action this week if they didn't give
in to further union demands. My administration will be monitoring
for any price couching activity that benefits foreign ocean carriers.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
He said in a statement.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
It was a direct threat to Maersk and other ocean
carriers if they added a surcharge because of the disruptions
and expenses from the ILA strike.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So one myth.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Exposed by the strike is that unions need more economic
and political power because they help the working man the
union behind the strike. The ISLA helps some workers at
the expense of countless others. Starting with the astounding fact
that there were fifty thousand or so ISLA strikers but
only twenty five thousand or so port jobs. Once again,
(25:53):
there are fifty thousand strikers, there are only twenty five
thousand jobs.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Wow, that's right.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Only about half of the union members are obliged to
show up to work each day. The rest sit at
home collecting container royalties negotiated in previous ILA contracts intended
to protect against job losses that result from yes innovation.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
So this strike only lasted what four days?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But how bad a job did the mainstream media do
of covering this since they really only talked about the
hourly wage?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Right, Well, they run everything through the filter of a
ideology and b the upcoming presidential election. You know, you'd
be a lot better at your job if you'd stop
that in particularly all right, but there's more. You should know,
what a deal for those favorite few who do show
up to work. The twenty nineteen to twenty report of
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the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor laid out the
reality and I quote the absolute control of the International
Longshoreman's Association over hiring the port for over sixty years
has not only led to a lack of diversity and
inclusion in waterfront employment, but also the prepare situation of
criminality and corruption. Residents near the ports can't get hired
because the union control quote. Meanwhile, those are who are
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connected to union leadership or organized crime figures are rewarded
with high paying, low show or no work special compensation packages.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Again, this is the.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Commission of the New York Harbor in a report that
came out just a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
More than five.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Hundred and ninety individuals continue to receive over one hundred
and forty seven million dollars in outside salaries not required
by the industry's collective bargaining agreement for hours they do
not even have to be here at the port. Such
positions were overwhelmingly given to folks connected to organized crime
figures or union leadership, and particularly.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
The history of organized labor is so much of this,
where the wages are insane, the benefits, no show jobs,
all that sort of stuff, and you can't get the
job unless you're connected somehow, you know a family member
or a friend or whatever. So it's not like it's
open to everyone to even get these jobs.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Right right.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
You know, I left out the fact that Kamala Harris
also made unmistakable noises about I'm on the side of
the union and I will hurt you if you don't
give into their demands, and they more or less split
the difference between the fifty percent offered pay raise in
the seventy seven percent that was demanded.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Do you feel like he long Sherman won this, Oh.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they the deal they have now
is completely mobbed up and based on how much power
very very few people have over the nation's commerce in
a way that is utterly unpalatable in a free market.
And they got a better deal than the one they
have now, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Our ports are operating at the technology of the fifties.
Listening to a transportation expert who was on MSNBC yesterday,
This was an MSNBC expert they had on, said, we're
working or running our ports basically the technology the fifties.
We're the slowest of unloading of any docks anywhere in
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the world. With your big countries and we're falling further
behind and this isn't going to fix it.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Obviously.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Now, as a kid, I knew through my teenage hears
I guess a guy who was mobbed up in Chicago,
Liand I didn't know it at the time, but in
retrospect is so obvious. He you know, he had name
straight out of the Sopranos, and he had a what
is clear to me now a no show job more
or less on the waterfront of Chicago. I'll be a
(29:35):
little vague about it, but I spent a fair amount
of time around him and his circle and some family
type relationships, and I could never figure out exactly what
he did for a living, and he never seemed to
be at work, and he had plenty of walking around
(29:55):
money and was a little.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
On the flashy side.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
He was also a hell of a likable guy, very happy,
go lucky, I mean, a lovable guy. But as a teenager,
I was mystified at exactly what was going on there,
And now in retrospect it's so obvious. But yeah, so yeah,
these guys, they don't they don't have to work most
of the time. They make a hell of a lot
(30:18):
of money.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
And and America begs on its knees to please let
up the rest of us. The other three hundred and
forty million of us continue to make a living and
buy products that at amounts, you know, prices we can afford,
and please don't cripple us. Because you said you will
cripple us.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I will give you.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
This is not a story of the brave working man
standing up for his rights people.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
That's why I don't get why all of the media,
both sides.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Trump and kamalav Fox and the other channels want to
be super sympathetic to the hard working man just trying to,
you know, do his job and his family. Why don't
they get into the details you just gave us and say, look,
we're all getting screwed by this. Anybody else got a
job where you make this kind of money for showing
up half the time?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
No, you don't.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
There's a lot of money and a lot of votes
in heaving union support and it is invaluable.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Apparently, man boy, anybody who thought that this sort of
thing was of the past, I guess we got a
lesson this week, didn't we? In particularly in particularly we
did is right? Seventy six foot yacht. That's gotta be
a nice yacht. Oh my god, that's a huge boat.
What's our buddy Dave's boat? Is that like forty five?
(31:38):
I think?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Yeah, he lives on it. Yeah, so it's like another
one of those.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Wow, he'll probably text me as soon as we get
done with this.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
We got a lot more on the way to day
with us.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh boy, we got something good for next hour.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Joe Biden just asked about the govern's response to uh,
the storm of North Carolina. Compare his answer with some
of the people who live in North Carolina and what
they're saying. Oh boy, Also today we'll get to that
hour three.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
North Carolina, of course an American state full of decent people,
and we care about it for those reasons. But it's
also a swing state, and all of the undecided voters
in the swing states are getting the focus of zillions
of dollars worth of politics and political ads and attention
and speeches and the rest of it. And I came
across this bit of humor the other day about the
(32:34):
undecided voter.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Nancy, I'm so thirsty. Should I drink water? Guzzle the
gasoline straight out of the nozzle. I'm so thirsty, and
I haven't had a liquid in four days. Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Google says that one ounce of gasoline is fatal to children.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I'm not a child.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Is that something I should take into account?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
The GPAs says that you're left, should.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Do that or go off the bridge.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Don't do that. I did you ever go off the
breed before? Maybe it's a quicker ring. What's wrong with you?
My doctor's call? Hello, I'll need more time to think.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Nay.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Should I have them give me a massive breast and plant?
Or should I have them cut off both my arms?
Is that something they offer? There's no Hi, what can
I get for you?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Because she's at a fast food drive and it turns
with terror to her passenger.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I don't know what to order. The undecided voter.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Now, that's funny that we would have this today, because
I've always felt that way about the undecided voter, just
like you must be bone stupid.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No, I disagree, But I was listened to.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Uh uh, what do they call focus group thing yesterday
on a zoom call with a whole bunch of political analysts,
and they had undecided voters on and that's not what
they sound like, And like, I.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Don't quite understand them.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
But they all came off as perfectly capable, reasonable people.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Just for some reason.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And like I said, I can't quite figure out the
psychology of it. But for some reason, they aren't locked
into an ideology, which sounds like a good thing, but
they haven't crafted a worldview. They've managed to become like
a forty year old mom or you know, a fifty
two year old guy or whatever, it's succeeding in the world,
smart enough, enough candlepower, but they just haven't crafted a worldview,
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which again escapes me.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, it's it seems very odd.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I try to understand it, but it's not they're not
lacking information that It didn't seem like they were lacking
information or like I said, intelligence, They just don't have
a if we had more of this in America would
be better or less of this in America. Mu, they
just haven't done that, pardon it for some reason, And
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I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Know what that is.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Yeah, yeah, I've run into various stripes of it, and
I could accept. You know, if you're busy with the
other parts of your life and you're not paying attention
to politics, and in fact, you don't really pay that
much attention to what government schemes work in which don't,
And you've kind of accumulated a worldview, as Jack said,
or kind of a mental scorecard of Oh, I've heard
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that promise before.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It seems very foreign to me. But obviously those people exist.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
There wasn't one of them. And I've been calling on
decided voters morons for years. How do you feel now
you believe there wasn't one of them that I would
have described as obviously dumb or even I wouldn't even
have called them low information. They seemed like they had
plenty of information. They they're just weighing everything without like
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again a framework of the past or anything for some
reason right there.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And we've discussed this in a variety of contexts in
recent months especially, but there's a disconnect between elections and
policy and results in people's minds.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
They don't connect those things. They act as if they're independent.
You're right, that is what it is. They don't connect
the policy to results, and so it's just wide open
to them who they and they still haven't made up
their mind.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
They need to hear more. What's more likable, what
Speaker 3 (36:22):
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