Speaker 1: Live from vall Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America. It's
Speaker 1: Tony Katz Today.
Speaker 2: I think it's a weird little bit of timing that
Speaker 2: they would have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Making an announcement
Speaker 2: at the same time the Vice president is speaking about
Speaker 2: the economy. Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, Good to be here, guys,
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for being a part of the show.
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Speaker 2: and on Facebook Tony Katz Radio. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 2: Taking to the podium to discuss autism safety. Now I
Speaker 2: should preface I am not one of the people who
Speaker 2: believes that any specific vaccine causes autism. I am somebody
Speaker 2: who is more than willing to listen to what people say.
Speaker 2: Those who have been in charge of the public health
Speaker 2: who have limited these conversations, I consider them to be
Speaker 2: the enemy. I have faith in the American people to
Speaker 2: be able to decipher and discern. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: that's the only people I can have faith in. I
Speaker 2: have faith in my conversation with my doctor because that's
Speaker 2: who I've chosen as my doctor. I also have faith
Speaker 2: in vaccines and with my own children, we absolutely broke
Speaker 2: up those vaccines. We change the schedule. There were too
Speaker 2: many things happening at one time. We thought it was
Speaker 2: too much for our kids. We didn't want that, and
Speaker 2: we said, we want to do this one vaccine at
Speaker 2: a time. We have to come back every two weeks.
Speaker 2: We come back every two weeks. You know what our
Speaker 2: doctor said sounds great and quite literally she wrote out
Speaker 2: the schedule and we were like, that's what we want.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Nobody was getting into a hysteria at the time.
Speaker 2: We were parents and this is what we wanted. It's
Speaker 2: our kid. Let us have open, honest conversations at all times.
Speaker 2: Let's send it over to the Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Speaker 3: I want to thank our partners, the Department of Justice
Speaker 3: and FEMA, our state and local law enforcement partners, the
Speaker 3: Rochester Area Artism Association, and the members of the autism
Speaker 3: community who joined us today. Your experience and partnership are
Speaker 3: essential for us getting this right. The Department of Health
Speaker 3: and Human Services, and partnership with DOJ and FEMA, is
Speaker 3: launching the first ever national Autism Missing Person initiative.
Speaker 2: Okay, I do not know what this is at all.
Speaker 3: Resident A Trump is made Improving the lives of people
Speaker 3: with autism and their family is one of his top priorities,
Speaker 3: and today we are acting on that commitment. When an
Speaker 3: autistic child or an adult goes missing, every minute matters.
Speaker 3: Approximately half of autistic individual's wander from a safe setting
Speaker 3: at some point wandering. It happened during sensory overloads, with anxiety,
Speaker 3: or when someone seeks some kind of new adventure or
Speaker 3: new experience. The consequence can be deadly. Eight autistic people
Speaker 3: die following wandering incidents each month, and drowning is a
Speaker 3: leading cause of death associated with wandering.
Speaker 2: Uh well, eight, I must admit I should have seen
Speaker 2: this one coming about the wandering. It's it's it's a
Speaker 2: solid it's a solid point. Eight autistic Americans die every month.
Speaker 2: Did I hear that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Did I miss that? Does that number seem like insanely high?
Speaker 2: And I could have people who live with with this family,
Speaker 2: et cetera, say, oh, you have no idea, because it's
Speaker 2: very possible. I have no idea. It's a shocking number.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go back a little bit and and
Speaker 2: and see if I if I have that.
Speaker 3: Right, it's a death associated with wandering UH. Children with
Speaker 3: autism is a leading cause of death associated with wandering UH.
Speaker 3: Children with autism are a hundred times more likely to
Speaker 3: drown the neurotypical children. We have a responsibility to do better.
Speaker 3: An autistic sorry about that.
Speaker 2: That's his phone. His phone quacks when it rings.
Speaker 3: When an autistic person goes missing, responders need to move immediately.
Speaker 3: They need to know how the person communicates, what risk
Speaker 3: they face, and where to search first, including nearby bodies
Speaker 3: of water and other high risk areas. The public also
Speaker 3: needs to know quickly when it could help make a difference.
Speaker 3: America already has as much of this infrastructure as it
Speaker 3: needs to make this work. Now we need to put
Speaker 3: that infrastructure to work. JHADS and DOJ and FEMA will
Speaker 3: build on existing Missing and Endangered Personal Alert capabilities, and
Speaker 3: FEMA is the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System of
Speaker 3: IPAWS to develop up a national framework for qualifying artism
Speaker 3: related incidents.
Speaker 2: Now, I must admit this is interesting and I look
Speaker 2: forward to seeing kind of how this gets put together.
Speaker 2: What I really am interested in is I want to
Speaker 2: know from the political left. What about this approves that
Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is a terrible human being and
Speaker 2: unfit to be HHS secretary. That's all I'm ever told. Now.
Speaker 2: I will be clear. I don't like his politics. I
Speaker 2: was opposed to him being HHS secretary. I didn't want
Speaker 2: a guy with this leftist history being that close to
Speaker 2: the Oval. I said it. What do I think of
Speaker 2: him as AHHS Secretary? I think it's been admirable, truly,
Speaker 2: I think it has been admirable. Oh he cut the
Speaker 2: number of vaccines. No, he did not. They took a
Speaker 2: look at the schedule. They got with experts and said,
Speaker 2: we are putting too many things on there. Maybe our
Speaker 2: recommendations should be more in line with reality. And they
Speaker 2: changed the recommendations. They didn't change what you could do
Speaker 2: for your kid. They just didn't. That's not what happened.
Speaker 2: A food pyramid that actually talks about, you know, food,
Speaker 2: that recognizes that we've got it upside down, that recognizes
Speaker 2: that are absolute insanity about carbs. Maybe is an issue.
Speaker 2: Maybe we don't need every day those things, but we
Speaker 2: need to have things like beef because protein is good.
Speaker 2: Protein matters. A steak is all right for you. Okay,
Speaker 2: you don't have to run over a bear in the
Speaker 2: middle the street. Whatever it is he did, and all
Speaker 2: we're gonna get rid of red dye this and yellow
Speaker 2: dye that. And he got cheered in this Maha project
Speaker 2: make America Healthy again, has connected with moms. Now he's
Speaker 2: also inspired the ire because of the glypha sates. Now,
Speaker 2: I will tell you that on that subject, I claim
Speaker 2: I have subjects of expertise. I have subjects where I
Speaker 2: know deep on glyphasates. These are pesticides or herbicides. Really
Speaker 2: the issue here, and I again don't claim an expertise.
Speaker 2: What people will tell you is we're harming our own
Speaker 2: food supply, We're killing ourselves. We're putting these things are
Speaker 2: banned in other countries. We shouldn't allow it. I question
Speaker 2: whether we're discussing the idea of the glyphosate, consider the
Speaker 2: product roundup in our private lives versus what is done
Speaker 2: to keep food supply safe and are we measuring that properly?
Speaker 2: So when there was an executive order moved forward on
Speaker 2: glyphasates and the production of glypha states in the US,
Speaker 2: I did not get worked up by it. But the
Speaker 2: Maha people lost their heads about it. If I understand
Speaker 2: their argument, the argument this is bad for you, we
Speaker 2: shouldn't be having any of it. My argument is a
Speaker 2: destroyed depleted food supply is disastrous for us, and one
Speaker 2: has to have products ready to protect against that. That's
Speaker 2: my take. So nothing that you know, It's not like that.
Speaker 2: There haven't been people who have had questions about what's
Speaker 2: going on. It's that in the overall, I think that
Speaker 2: he's been good a plan to I work with regarding
Speaker 2: autistic children, autistic adults. If they should wander, how we
Speaker 2: engage protocols to go find them. Honestly, I'm a little
Speaker 2: shocked we didn't have it already, Really I am. I
Speaker 2: am surprised we didn't have it already. But don't worry.
Speaker 2: The left is gonna be upset with this. This is
Speaker 2: gonna be something Trump bad because that's all they've got.
Speaker 2: I will be very surprised if both sides of the
Speaker 2: aisle could say this is a good idea. More to
Speaker 2: get to I've got Vice President JD Vance and his
Speaker 2: talk about the economy coming up. This is Tony Katz today,
Speaker 2: the Vice president. His name is JD. Vance. You've seen
Speaker 2: pictures he is in Middletown, Ohio. Every time I hear Middletown,
Speaker 2: I grew up in a place called Middletown, New Jersey.
Speaker 2: I go, oh, there is more than one Middletown. It's Middletown.
Speaker 2: Of course, there's more than one Middletown. Tony Tony Katz,
Speaker 2: Tony Katz today and he was surrounded by a factory
Speaker 2: folk talking about the economy. At least I thought he
Speaker 2: was talking about the economy. I thought I had it
Speaker 2: all right, that he was talking about the economy. But
Speaker 2: then I hit play, and I didn't hear him talking
Speaker 2: about the economy. I'm like, why isn't he talking about
Speaker 2: the economy anymore? Let me try it again. Is it playing? Ah,
Speaker 2: that is too bad. I had it all cueued up
Speaker 2: and everything all right. I'll try another way now. The
Speaker 2: Vice President's take on the economy certainly different, very often
Speaker 2: than mine, especially when you consider that the Vice President
Speaker 2: has discussed things as wild as not being the reserve
Speaker 2: currency of the United States. I should take that back,
Speaker 2: not being the reserve currency of the world, that the
Speaker 2: United States should not be the reserve currency. I think
Speaker 2: that's a huge mistake. His view of America's future different
Speaker 2: than mine economically. Let's take it to him, and let's
Speaker 2: hear what he had to say as he is addressing
Speaker 2: this crowd.
Speaker 4: Of Middletown, Ohio. This is a great day to be
Speaker 4: right here in southwestern Ohio. And you all know my story.
Speaker 4: I look at what you all are wearing, and I
Speaker 4: remember my pat Ball going to work in an outfit
Speaker 4: not all that different and come into this very place
Speaker 4: to work for nearly forty years as a welder at.
Speaker 2: What was then Armco Steel.
Speaker 4: And I can't help but think about the last time
Speaker 4: a James Vance stood in this very place. He had
Speaker 4: spent nearly forty years as a welder at Armco Steel,
Speaker 4: now of course Middletown Works of Cleveland Cliffs. He was
Speaker 4: not an educated man by any means, but he was
Speaker 4: a brilliant one. He was a complicated man, a man
Speaker 4: of faith who never.
Speaker 2: Went to church.
Speaker 4: He was an alcoholic since middle school, but he quit
Speaker 4: cold Turkey as a grandfather. But if he was a
Speaker 4: complicated man on the inside, he was a man with
Speaker 4: very simple ambitions. He didn't want to get rich. He
Speaker 4: had no desire to build a business. That's not who
Speaker 4: my Paball was his American dream. Was well fed kids,
Speaker 4: a car engine to tinker with.
Speaker 2: He loved to build out cars, a.
Speaker 4: Lukewarm cup of coffee, never cold, never hot, and of
Speaker 4: course a donut from either Central Pastry or Milton's Donuts.
Speaker 4: That was his American dream.
Speaker 2: Let's not forget that he has skilled even when I
Speaker 2: disagree with him, he's skilled. Know the local places, understand it,
Speaker 2: show your connection, show your roots, that sticks with people,
Speaker 2: that sticks with people hard. And also would I would
Speaker 2: say that one of the places where he is correct
Speaker 2: is that this whole concept of the American dream, it's
Speaker 2: not always about getting wealthy. It's about choosing a course
Speaker 2: and sometimes less is more, the uncomplicated life, it's a
Speaker 2: good life. Just give me the little simple pleasures. Allow
Speaker 2: me to afford the simple pleasures. I'll take care of
Speaker 2: the rest, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: I went to Central Pastry today because of course I
Speaker 4: had to go get an ugly donut while I was
Speaker 4: in town, and the ladies behind the counter they said,
Speaker 4: you've lost way too much weight. What's going on? And
Speaker 4: I said, well, I don't.
Speaker 2: Have a Central Pastry in Washington, DC.
Speaker 4: That's what's going on.
Speaker 2: My Papa.
Speaker 4: It's funny. He voted in every election. He loved this country,
Speaker 4: but he did not care for politic Now. Back then,
Speaker 4: he said that Democrats were the party of union men,
Speaker 4: so he usually voted Democrat. But he thought way too
Speaker 4: many politicians were just plain old corrupt, and he was right.
Speaker 4: All he asked for from his political leaders is very simple.
Speaker 4: He asked that his taxes be reasonable. He asked that
Speaker 4: his community be safe. He asked that our politicians ensure
Speaker 4: that there were good jobs for men and women who
Speaker 4: were willing to work for them. And he asked that
Speaker 4: America never be asked to be the policeman of the world. Now,
Speaker 4: he was my grandfather, I called him Papa, and he
Speaker 4: toiled in this very place to give our family the
Speaker 4: little extras. Like I said, for nearly four decades.
Speaker 2: Your papa said, I don't want America to be the
Speaker 2: placeman of the world. Who am I to say? He
Speaker 2: didn't say it. I wasn't there everything else I can get.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting one. Wonder if there's some poetic license there.
Speaker 4: Now, very honored because the welders of this facility made
Speaker 4: me this incredible, beautiful artisan plaque to commemorate me coming here,
Speaker 4: and those of you who don't know, Papaul was a welder,
Speaker 4: so it's particularly meaningful for me and for all the
Speaker 4: welders behind me and in front of me.
Speaker 2: Thank you all means.
Speaker 4: A great deal. But Papaul was a welder in this
Speaker 4: place for forty years, and today his grandson stands here
Speaker 4: as the Vice president of these United States. It's an
Speaker 4: amazing thing.
Speaker 2: It is a great countrict. Don't forget it. Even when
Speaker 2: I disagree with the man, it's still pretty great.
Speaker 4: And I'm here with a message from the President of
Speaker 4: these United States. The future of America, the future of
Speaker 4: the United States, the future of our homes and communities
Speaker 4: is going to be built right here in Middletown, Ohio.
Speaker 4: My papa hated the politicians who ignored this place. He
Speaker 4: hated the people who saw this as the place of
Speaker 4: the past. He hated the people who forgot about this
Speaker 4: town when they should have been fighting for this town.
Speaker 4: And the unfortunate reality is that they came from both
Speaker 4: political parties, and they spent the last forty years telling
Speaker 4: you it didn't matter if we made things right here
Speaker 4: or whether we made them in overseas. Countries, they said
Speaker 4: it was irrational, sentimental, old fashioned to want to preserve
Speaker 4: the things that make the United States of America special.
Speaker 4: What we really needed, they said, was to compete and
Speaker 4: have complete market integration with every nation of the third world,
Speaker 4: places where you could pay wages at pennies on the
Speaker 4: dollar but didn't have to give your workers health care
Speaker 4: or good benefits in the process. And any time somebody
Speaker 4: dared to put an option school in front of that
Speaker 4: set of ideas, anytime they said, you know what, we
Speaker 4: need to put tariffs or tough immigration policies to stop that,
Speaker 4: those people were called backwards, they were called wrong.
Speaker 2: The message resonates again, don't think because I disagree that
Speaker 2: I don't understand. I'll make my arguments and you'll agree
Speaker 2: or disagree. We'll still be friends. The argument is that
Speaker 2: we should make good things, and we should make them.
Speaker 2: Here I argue that we can make all the BioMed
Speaker 2: and all the tech, we don't have to do so
Speaker 2: by foregoing making the basics. But if you now want
Speaker 2: to make an argument that tariffs are good policy without
Speaker 2: recognizing the financial issues they creates, and that's a level
Speaker 2: of unseeriousness. There are no solutions. There are only trade offs.
Speaker 2: Is it a good one? That's the question we should
Speaker 2: be asking. But now you know the direction he's going
Speaker 2: in this speech. You are the forgotten man. That's the
Speaker 2: revival here he's having. And I haven't forgotten, and I
Speaker 2: still eat my donuts just like you. From the place
Speaker 2: down the street, visiting where my grandfather worked. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: his papa worked for forty years a company. Matt, I
Speaker 2: know you. This is what This is well crafted and
Speaker 2: well done by the vice president. This is Tony Kats today.
Speaker 2: Three more things, Tony Kats, Tony Kats today. Guys, good day,
Speaker 2: good day, weird day, weird day, good day. Maybe it'll
Speaker 2: be good weekend. I only hope for your sake. What
Speaker 2: are three more things? Well, these are things that should
Speaker 2: be front page news, but because of all of the
Speaker 2: front page news, it doesn't make the front pages. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you this Iran thing. Iran warns of a devastating
Speaker 2: response to the US sanctions. Sure, sure they did. This
Speaker 2: is the same old boring crap. You are a boring
Speaker 2: group of people. You Iranian islam as zealot freaks. But
Speaker 2: the thing that was interesting was the Iranian president Posesskia,
Speaker 2: who was speaking the General Assembly of the Islamic Association
Speaker 2: of the Medical Society of Iran, quote, it is better
Speaker 2: to end the war today when we are in power
Speaker 2: and dignity in the whole world, acknowledges our victory and
Speaker 2: empathizes emphasizes that America, contrary to all regulations, attacked our schools,
Speaker 2: hospital and infrastructure and has hated in the world. I
Speaker 2: couldn't care less if we were hated in the world
Speaker 2: or not. Am I the only one. You hear this
Speaker 2: all the time. The left ones to talk about it,
Speaker 2: and you'll see people on news how America's just we
Speaker 2: don't care. We don't care. As we saw from the
Speaker 2: World's Cup. That's what your leadership says. The people once
Speaker 2: they get here, they're like, this place is amazing, The
Speaker 2: people are amazing, the food's amazing, the beauty is amazing.
Speaker 2: This place is amazing. That cannot be undone from the
Speaker 2: World's Cup that the people saw and they liked what
Speaker 2: they saw, and they would love for that to be
Speaker 2: where they lived. These European nations and these aslam As heellescapes,
Speaker 2: they want to talk about us being hated. You murdered
Speaker 2: fifty thousand people in Iran. You stone gay people to death,
Speaker 2: women can't walk outside without approval. Who cares if you
Speaker 2: hate us? We're right, you suck. What Why is this
Speaker 2: such a weird thing as a society. Your society is
Speaker 2: bad and our society is good. Our society could be better,
Speaker 2: but your society will always be terrible. Nobody wants it, nobody.
Speaker 2: No one's got into you, man. Nobody wants what you've
Speaker 2: got to sell. Anyway, Let's get back to this. In
Speaker 2: the meantime, he states, does the president of Iran. Some
Speaker 2: people are sitting outside the circle because they do not
Speaker 2: know the state of the government, the state of the parliament,
Speaker 2: and the state of the commanders. They make comments and
Speaker 2: analysis even though they have not experienced any suffering or hardship,
Speaker 2: and then they talk about the cost. They do not
Speaker 2: find a single clause in this agreement that indicates a commitment.
Speaker 2: All commitments are related to the other party. He's talking
Speaker 2: about an agreement with us, a peace agreement with us.
Speaker 2: So who's he talking about the IRGC. He's talking about
Speaker 2: those who are making a piece deal impossible. My point
Speaker 2: is you hear me say this. A lot we discussed
Speaker 2: We've gone through a gamut of things this week, guys,
Speaker 2: we discussed that. You know, on a matter of pr
Speaker 2: it hasn't been great for Trump, it hasn't. It has
Speaker 2: looked like the President has given up. He doesn't have
Speaker 2: the will to take on the Iranian regime. But while
Speaker 2: he's not engaged in the kinetic activity, it has been
Speaker 2: about the economic sanctions and it has been about the
Speaker 2: oil blockade. You'll just take them out economically, they will
Speaker 2: collapse because they're slowly collapsing. What we referred to with
Speaker 2: Major Mike Lyons our military analysts as the siege mentality,
Speaker 2: and that is clearly working. Even Axios others relaying the
Speaker 2: fact that two things are happening. Oil is getting through
Speaker 2: the strait because we're seeing oil move along the southern
Speaker 2: part of the Strait of Hormuz there or UAE and
Speaker 2: Oman on that coastline. The Iranians can't get to those
Speaker 2: tankers because they have their own issues. They either can't
Speaker 2: get to them because they can't see them because as
Speaker 2: Steven Yates pointed out, they've turned off their trackers. They
Speaker 2: don't have the technology to follow, they don't have the
Speaker 2: technology to engage any bombing or any more minds to
Speaker 2: put into the Persian Gulf. They don't have the technology
Speaker 2: anymore lined and we have done that to them. So
Speaker 2: this idea that they can't be taken on kinetically is
Speaker 2: not true. The idea that somehow they were going to
Speaker 2: be that easy to just wipe off the map. All right,
Speaker 2: a little tougher, but you should not have stopped for
Speaker 2: six weeks. Lord only knows where you would be right now.
Speaker 2: They can't stop the oil flowing through, And now we
Speaker 2: have outlets admitting that nearly seventy five eighty percent of
Speaker 2: pre war levels are getting through, which had us asking
Speaker 2: what why aren't oil prices down? And I've had people
Speaker 2: say to me, hey, listen, the price of the pump
Speaker 2: takes a while to come down. I didn't say the
Speaker 2: price of the pump. I'm talking about eighty six dollars
Speaker 2: a barrel oil. Why isn't it now seventy seven dollars
Speaker 2: a barrow? I didn't say twelve dollars a barrel. What
Speaker 2: I'm saying is what I'm asking here is if oil
Speaker 2: is getting through, when do we see the result. And
Speaker 2: I'm surprised President Trump has not been more aggressive about
Speaker 2: talking about this, and of course we've got his economic
Speaker 2: d Day in addition to these other things going on.
Speaker 2: I think this is all causing the siege mentality what
Speaker 2: it already transpired with the attacks, with the blockading of
Speaker 2: the oil, and they have no money. They're starting to crack,
Speaker 2: and they are saying this war should end so they
Speaker 2: can save face because they are in worse shape than
Speaker 2: they're telling us. This was an open statement of saying,
Speaker 2: we can't do this anymore. We don't have the capability.
Speaker 2: I'm not arguing that they might not have some drones left,
Speaker 2: or some missiles left, or do some damage to a
Speaker 2: base here or a base there. Remember we said this
Speaker 2: about when they threatened European cities. We said these exact words.
Speaker 2: That is a desperation move. There's the proof, there's the proof.
Speaker 2: You know who's gonna report on this? Us? It's just
Speaker 2: it's just us, guys. It's you, me, we and us.
Speaker 2: That's it. You think CNN and ms now or m
Speaker 2: snow or misnow or whatever the hell they call themselves,
Speaker 2: you think they're going to comment on this. They're going
Speaker 2: to report on this and say, hey, this is a
Speaker 2: real cracking here of the Iranian regime and of these
Speaker 2: two disparate groups, the so called leadership and the IRGC.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, I think that's real. But that was
Speaker 2: actually not my three more things. It wasn't of my
Speaker 2: three more things and my three more things. You have
Speaker 2: Starbucks cutting jobs, Starbucks laying off two hundred workers, and
Speaker 2: you say to yourself, Okay, they're laying off at two
Speaker 2: hundred baristas. Oh no, no, no, sorry, laying off over two
Speaker 2: hundred corporate workers. This is part of the turnaround strategy,
Speaker 2: cutting two hundred corporate roles. This indicates about one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty of the employee separations are associated with workers
Speaker 2: from its support team focused on designing and developing coffeehouses.
Speaker 2: And they decline the opportunity to relocate from Seattle to Nashville. Well,
Speaker 2: that's right, they move their HQ. That's right. Who in
Speaker 2: the world could stay in Seattle basically right now, it's
Speaker 2: the Seahawks and the Mariners. That's it. The only people
Speaker 2: staying in Seattle. I'm sure it's beautiful. I mean, not downtown,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure the countryside, everything else. You got to
Speaker 2: throw the water there in the mountains. Beautiful. Maybe, definitely,
Speaker 2: worth a visit. I would argue, definitely worth a visit
Speaker 2: to all those other places and then get out while
Speaker 2: you can. And one hundred and four are organizational changes
Speaker 2: resulting from a structuring plans now under the new CEO.
Speaker 2: That's Brian Nickel and i ccol And there's been this
Speaker 2: conversation about restructure that they have to redo things and
Speaker 2: rethink things in their stores and how they do business.
Speaker 2: All good businesses are always taking a look and saying, wait,
Speaker 2: is there a better way to do this? Is there
Speaker 2: a smarter way to do this? And that doesn't always
Speaker 2: mean staff reductions. We take a look at Red Robin.
Speaker 2: I mean that is a great story that Red Robin
Speaker 2: was crushing it as a as a not a fast causals,
Speaker 2: a casual restaurant that Applebee's, Friday's van and customer service
Speaker 2: reports were through the roof and everything was going terrific.
Speaker 2: And then somebody decided, hey, you know how we can
Speaker 2: make more money. Get rid of the bus boys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the servers were clear of the tables, get rid of
Speaker 2: the bus boys. And when they did, it took the
Speaker 2: servers more time to clear the tables. So the servers
Speaker 2: were not able to turn tables as fast as they
Speaker 2: used to. So therefore the restaurant wasn't able to turn
Speaker 2: tables as fast, so they served less people. Wait times increased.
Speaker 2: The servers, of course got angry because they had more
Speaker 2: work to do, and they were actually making less money
Speaker 2: because they had less tables. And boom was and scene
Speaker 2: as I was looking for and scene bus boys. They
Speaker 2: didn't see the value in bus boys. All they saw
Speaker 2: was a short term dollar. They didn't see the long
Speaker 2: term result, the value of the bus boy. We should
Speaker 2: be clear. Turning the table quickly, that's the everything. If
Speaker 2: you tell me, I'm I go to uh name the
Speaker 2: place and the wait is twenty minutes, I think most
Speaker 2: people in today's world except a twenty minute wait. If
Speaker 2: you tell me the wait is twenty minutes and the
Speaker 2: wait is twenty minutes, I'll say, okay, the wait was
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. If you tell me the wait is twenty
Speaker 2: minutes and the wait is thirty two minutes, I want
Speaker 2: to destroy everyone around me. What am I doing here?
Speaker 2: I'm living in hell. If you tell me the wait
Speaker 2: it is twenty minutes and the wait is only twelve
Speaker 2: and a half minutes, awesome. Oh, that's great. They're so
Speaker 2: efficient here and everything gets better, even better if there's
Speaker 2: no way the table's available because you're on it. Also,
Speaker 2: and no one ever discusses this. I have never heard
Speaker 2: a restaurant tour discussed this. That doesn't mean they haven't
Speaker 2: set it. I don't know about you. When I see
Speaker 2: the staff working to clean tables, I feel better about
Speaker 2: where I'm at. When I see them moving in concert
Speaker 2: to get things clean, to get things set, to get
Speaker 2: things moved away, and they're sharing that responsibility and everybody's
Speaker 2: working on it, I'm like, Yeah, they're on it. These
Speaker 2: people matter to them. That's good. So it's part of
Speaker 2: not only does it show an efficiency, which I like,
Speaker 2: it's part of the show, look at how committed they are,
Speaker 2: look at the orchestration of it, look at the working together,
Speaker 2: because the end goal means more for everybody. And I mean,
Speaker 2: if we want to engage. Really what capitalism is about.
Speaker 2: It is about everybody working in their own best interest
Speaker 2: and it creates the best interest of others. That's what
Speaker 2: the story I pencil is all about. But if you
Speaker 2: take a look at the bus boy and the server
Speaker 2: and the manager, if they're all working in tandem to
Speaker 2: get the table cleared and get the tables cleaned and
Speaker 2: then set for the next party to come in the door.
Speaker 2: Everybody wins. The bus boy is going to get paid
Speaker 2: and tipped out better, the server is going to get
Speaker 2: better tips and more tips because they were able to
Speaker 2: turn more tables. And the manager has a happier staff
Speaker 2: because they're getting paid and happier customers and less complaints
Speaker 2: to him or her. That's the win. Everybody was getting
Speaker 2: something different out of it, but by working together, they
Speaker 2: all got what they wanted. So is that altruism, No,
Speaker 2: it's not actually altruism, which brings us to a whole
Speaker 2: nother thing, which is the idea of group selection.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: David Sloan Wilson, who is a biologist and his daughter
Speaker 2: is the mayor of Seattle, the Communist mayor of Seattle.
Speaker 2: So I caught Brett always a professor. I can't remember
Speaker 2: his name right now. He was an Oregon professor out
Speaker 2: of Oregon. He was discussing this. He was talking about
Speaker 2: this that David Solon Wilson talks about this like group
Speaker 2: selection concept, which is the idea that the altruistic group
Speaker 2: will always outdo the selfish group. Right, that's altruistic group's
Speaker 2: outcompete selfish groups. And the argument is it's not exactly
Speaker 2: true because you could have somebody in the altruistic group
Speaker 2: who's really selfish and is working with this group so
Speaker 2: they get exactly what they want. It kind of blows
Speaker 2: up the theory. I look at this and say that
Speaker 2: the last thing in the world I'm asking anyway to
Speaker 2: do is be altruistic. What I'm asking them to do
Speaker 2: is be honest. So we can see where we have
Speaker 2: complementary needs. If we work together both in our own
Speaker 2: self interest, we both get what we want, even if
Speaker 2: those things are indeed different things. If I don't care
Speaker 2: what you get and you don't care what I get,
Speaker 2: that's better for everybody's that's the desire, that's the goal.
Speaker 2: And this all goes back to ipencil. If you want
Speaker 2: to look it up, look up Milton Friedman ipencil. It
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Speaker 2: Tony Kats today. So I just realized and three more things.
Speaker 2: I only got to two things. The other one is
Speaker 2: this Clancy trial, this woman who killed her three kids,
Speaker 2: and you've got women showing up to the trial to
Speaker 2: support Lindsey Clancy. You don't understand postpartum depression. You don't
Speaker 2: know how hard it is to have a baby. Whoa
Speaker 2: whoa whoa whao. This was more than postpartum depression. This
Speaker 2: is postpartum psychosis. That's claim. She murdered her three kids
Speaker 2: by sending her husband out to pick up dinner and
Speaker 2: then brought them down to the basement and killed them
Speaker 2: one at a time. And these women are showing up
Speaker 2: to show their love and support. I'm no expert on
Speaker 2: postpartum depression, which I know is real, Nor am I
Speaker 2: an expert on postpartum or postpartum psychosis. She did kill
Speaker 2: three kids, and there seems to be a bit of
Speaker 2: premeditation here. Well, the voices told her to do it.
Speaker 2: That is actually part of the defense. And there are psychiatrists,
Speaker 2: and there's a story, and she had even you know,
Speaker 2: texted her mother long before this happened. Hey, I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna do something really bad here after having
Speaker 2: the kids. And so there's a story here. Don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong, there could be a lot to this, but
Speaker 2: the idea that we just have to excuse it because
Speaker 2: you don't know what women go through. She killed three children,
Speaker 2: Can we remember that first? Please keep it here. This
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