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October 1, 2024 13 mins
Dock workers on strike
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thank God that the one bathroom is okay.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now I gotta I have to tell this story because
it makes me laugh. I actually just use Uh, there's
a I don't know, there's a couple of one holers
that we have in here. And by one holer, I
think you know what I mean. It's you know, a
single bathroom and as a locking door and all that.
Earlier today, Josh comes in and he says to me, dude,

(00:29):
don't use that bathroom on the right. You won't believe
what somebody did. I was like, what, And he's like,
come here, let me show you. So I walk in
there and I'm looking at what he and I go.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I was in there a little while ago. I think
everything's okay. So let me back up.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
What I did was I have a single basically a
single cup brew coffee type thing. It's an espresso machine
and it's near where I sit in the bullpen there,
and I brewed a cup of coffee without the cup
underneath machine. That's how it's been crazy today here.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Crazy. So I brewed a cup. I brewed a cup
of coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
With no cup in there, and didn't realize it until
the thing was completely finished.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
And it's sitting right by me. So there's coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Everywhere, I mean like all over the top of the desk,
and there's a tray, like the drip tray that is
underneath the spout and that accumulates the drips overtime and
it gets like a gummy kind of coffee build up
in it.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, I had taken that into that bathroom that Josh
was talking about, and so I started.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Rinsing that thing out and I used their lightsole wipes
in there. Well, I used it to end up wiping
it out because there was, oh my gosh, there's probably
a year and a half worth of build up in
that thing.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I didn't realize it was that bad.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
So I cleaned it all out and I threw that
into the trash can. And that wiping out coffee with
that thing looks like a dude wipe laying there with
all kinds of dodoo all over it in the trash can.
So so Josh goes in there and sees it and
he's just like.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Ah, it wasn't in the trash can. It was like
on the edge, and it was on the wall and
the side of the can. Well, yeah, it was like
resting right there. I mean, it didn't smear onto the
wall or whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
But but when I walked in there with you, I
was like, oh no, that was me.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
First of all, that was alisole wipe. That wasn't a
dude wipe.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
But it looked it appeared like somebody had taken a
dude wipe, and it was just it was gross.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Look you know what I did, dude, by the way
you walked away and I took it.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I wrapped paper towels around it and then put it
down in the trash can because I don't even want
somebody looking down in there going.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh my, why is wrong with these animals that work here?
Why would they do that? It's a good move.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
So anyway, I just those are the kinds of things
that I know people can relate to. They have all
kinds of dumb stuff that happens to them at especially
when you have public bathrooms there. But I can understand
why you would see that and be like, you know, yeah,
that was.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Wrong on so many levels.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I cannot believe the amount of people who passed away.
I remember earlier, I think it was last week, Maggie
Smith from Harry Potter, which I don't really know anything
about her. But clearly that's a big deal, you know,
the Harry Potter thing. I've never watched even one of
those movies, but I do.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I understand. I know that's a big thing. It's just
not my thing. But Maggie Smith passed away.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Then you have Chris Christofferson who was eighty eight, he
passed away.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Then you had.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
To Kimbe Matumbo who died of brain cancer at fifty eight.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
You forgot about Sergeant Taggart, Well I didn't. I still
have that. I didn't get to it yet.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
John Ash who is Sergeant Taggart from Beverly Hills Cop.
Then we have John Amos, who is the He was
in Good Times, he was in coming to America. Cleo McDowell,
Mister McDowell, mister McDowell, in coming to America. He was
also in die Hard too. Do you remember him from
die Hard too? So, yeah, he was, he was in

(04:22):
that as well. It's crazy all the people that are
passing away right now, just in bunches, and that.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Is it's a phenomenon. I'll never understand that it happens
in bunches like that. It is.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
It is bizarre to me how that continues to be
and they usually say threes, but clearly there's you know,
way more than that here, way more than three here.
And then of course Pete Rose last night passing away,
well we learned of him passing last night, which they
have not. They haven't said a cause with Pete as well.
And like I was telling, we were talking to Moegger

(04:58):
earlier from Cincinnati Radio Sports Radio, and it was like
the day before there was a picture taken with him,
and you know, some of the other Reds, they were
looked like.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
At an event.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Maybe he did not look like he was on death's
door right there. I mean he looked, you know, a
little bit whatever, but he didn't look like, you know,
it was death's door. So I was a little bit
taken back again. I know he wasn't like the picture
of health after he stopped playing we saw, I mean,
he was He's always been whatever.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
He's Pete Rose.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
So anyway, just crazy, all those different well, there's different
things tonight. I'm gonna watch the VP to debate tonight
simply because I know jd Vance is going to handle
Tim Walls. Get your popcorn ready. I feel like this
is going to be a slam dunk for for JD.
Tim's gonna try all of his stupid stuff. But uh,
Tim has done some dumb stuff in the state of Minnesota,

(05:53):
and so I feel like, you know, Tim's gonna be
able to just he's gonna hammer him on that, that
kind of stuff that guy cannot weasel him his way
out of that, in addition to all the other dumb
stuff that he's done too.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Is this going to change anybody's mind? No, I don't
think so.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't think that'll be especially when you look back
to remember when Pence had to fly on his hair
and it was like, that's the thing people remember from
the VP debate with with with Kamala, That's like one
of the things that only people most people don't really
remember this as far as the vice president vice presidential debate,

(06:31):
but the port strike.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
That is going on.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Now, let's go to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone lines.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Hey, John, welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Hey, how you doing Mark?

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Hey doing good?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Good? Hey, I just wanted to call in about this
port strike. I know you haven't even talked about it yet,
but I understand what they're doing. But the amount of
money they're wanting is ridiculous. I'm I'm not sure how
we handle it, because we definitely need our ports. But

(07:06):
the problem is they're asking for it a gotch darn
bunch of money.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Do you know what they asked for? Do you know
what they asked for?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I think they wanted a seventy percent raise.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, it was like seventy seven percent to be exact.
They were offered fifty percent from what I understand, and
so yeah, they were also saying some of those workers
and I'm I don't remember exactly which ones, because there's
like eighty well it's a lot, it's thousands and thousands
of them, because we're talking about from Boston to Houston,

(07:40):
and there are several parts we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
But the guys were some and some.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Of them are making upwards of three hundred thousand, and
if they get seventy seven percent rays, then they're going
to be easily over five hundred grand doing this doing
this work. And look, I'm not here to say they
don't deserve that or or what have you, but when
you're offered, from what I understand, based on what the
White House was saying, they were talking about forty percent.

(08:06):
But I think they were erroneous in that it was
they were offered actually like a fifty percent increase. And John,
thanks for the call. I appreciate it because I've got
some sound here. Actually, let's just do this. The American
Truck and his Trucking Association president and CEO. His name
is Chris Spear, and he was on Fox and Friends
this morning, and I grabbed some of the audio from

(08:28):
that show. But the first question, and there's some of
the Fox in front you can hear them in this
part of this, but they ask how this is affecting
the US right now?

Speaker 1 (08:40):
How is it affecting us right now? Cut one?

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Man?

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Wouldn't you and I like to have a fifty no?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
No cut one? We need cut cut one.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
These parties have not been to the table since June.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
So you know, the.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
President likes to say it's collective bargaining. Well, that's true
if they were actually at the table.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's the job of.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
The president and this administration to bring two parties together
when they can't reach an agreement to mediate. They're not
doing that. They're encouraging this strike by revoking the option
of kaf Hartley, you're encouraging this union to strike and
shut down this economy. When Arthur Southeast United States is

(09:23):
recovering from a natural disaster. This is the worst time
to have thirty six ports shut down our economy. So
if you're really, you know, looking out for regular Americans,
look out for the people that are digging out their
communities in North Carolina, not looking at the wealthiest pay
package that any union in the country has. We've heard

(09:44):
about corporate greed. This is union greed.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I think I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I uh, these may be jumbled, but anyway, the most
important part is this is Chris Spear, the American Trucking
Association president, and he was asked different things. I'm not
sure if cut one just played there, if it was
cut too.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
It was cut one. That was cut one.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay, So cut two, which I was just talking to
the caller about. They were offered fifty percent increase. They
want seventy seven percent plus a guarantee of no robots
or automation taking their jobs as well.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
This is cut two.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well let's take both, starting with pay. Look, just to
illustrate what greed really is here, You've got six figure
salaries in this union. You've got workers, including preen operators,
making over three hundred thousand dollars now seventy seven percent
pay increase, they're over half a million dollars. So if
you're that person down the southeast digging their community out

(10:45):
of the mud, you really think they care about somebody
whining about getting five hundred thousand dollars a year. This
is where this administration has parked this and putting everyone
else in jeopardy. This this is really a lack of leadership.
And if you look at automation, I mean they want
to move us back into the stone age. I mean
I said yesterday we may as well be moving this

(11:07):
fraight with donkey carts. I've got twelve thousand trucks each
day servicing boxes in New York, New Jersey, massive movement
of freight, and we need automation. We need these workers,
but we need automation to be competitive globally.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
American Trucking Association President and CEO Chris Spear, he was
on Fox and Friends this morning, of course, talking about
the port strike, and this is him answering why is
the current administration backing this cut?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Three? This is all.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
About endorsements and political campaigns. This is about union bosses
enforcing their will Daggett knows that he has got to
get a sweetheart deal here or he's out of a job.
So they're putting pressure on this administration. They've walked the
walk with unions, they've walked the picket line with EUAW
and not just the president, the vice president, the acting
Secretary of Labor. These guys are in the pockets of

(11:59):
big labors. So if you're USMX representing thirty six ports,
you've got zero incentive to come to the table if
this administration is brokery a deal, because they've already shown
their cards and you.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
This is something that I was saying as I was
watching this segment again. This was from Fox and Friends
this morning. Chris Spear, who is the American Trucking Association
President and CEO. I was saying to myself after I
heard them talking about being offered fifty percent and then
they want seventy seven percent, And then he goes on
to say, what wouldn't you like fifty percent? So on

(12:33):
and so forth. Why wouldn't they agree, I mean a
fifty percent increase, I mean, why wouldn't they agree to
that cut?

Speaker 4 (12:41):
For man, wouldn't you and I like to have a
fifty percent. Who wouldn't Who wouldn't they want seventy seven? Yeah, apparently,
so they're willing to shut the economy down in order
to get it. So, you know, we've heard corporate greed
from this president and vice president. This is union greed
putting the economy in peril because they want as much

(13:01):
money as they can possibly get.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Look, you can't fault somebody for wanting as much money
as they possibly can get. But they saw an end
coming to this current contract, and you would think that
they and they've been working on it. I guess for
a while, I where do you where in America? Where
anywhere can you go? I get a fifty percent raise

(13:25):
and I go no? Or I want seventy seven percent?
I am missing something here or either it is what
Chris is saying.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Again.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
That's Chris Spear, American Trucking Association President and CEO, and
that was from Fox.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
And Friends this morning.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
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