WEBVTT - California Prop 50 | White Collar Unionization 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:05.160 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:06.040 six forty. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:08.520 Cap on. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:12.640 AM six forty bill Handle. 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:17.520 It is a Monday morning, October thirteenth. The Cairo Peace 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.160 Summit is on its way right now. The President just 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:27.840 arrived in Cairo and his limousine Wistoma off the tarmac 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.560 and he's on his way to meet with twenty world 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:35.280 leaders as Hamas and Israel signed their cease fire, not 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.199 a formal peace accord yet, where all the terms have 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.519 been finalized. Now let's get local for a moment, and 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.040 this has to do with Prop fifty. Prop fifty is 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.840 the proposition that we're going to see in November next month. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.000 That's it. It's Prop fifty. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.200 And the governor put Prop fifty on the ballot and 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.040 there's a special election for one proposition. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.000 How important is it? It is a butte Okay. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:12.119 So here is sort of the underlying facts, the backstory here. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.959 Every ten years the. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.320 Census comes out with a population where people live in 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:27.759 California and other states, there is an independent committee that 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.720 decides what the district bounds are. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.920 Democratic. Well, just what redistricting does. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.160 What they do is they look at the map and 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.080 they look at demographic changes, and they go, Okay, here 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.119 is the district thing that we're going to do. It's 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.319 independent here in California. And the reason it's independent because 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.800 of the politics, because whoever was in charge, the Democrats 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.880 and the legislature would do a Democratic version and the 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.720 Republicans would do a Republican version just to take advantage 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.400 of the ability to redistrict. And it has to do 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.600 with how many congress people are sent. It's that simple, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.840 So are sent to Congress. So in California it's an 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:11.080 independent agency. I think it's four Republicans, four Democrats, and 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.200 a few independent people and politics, by law is not 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:24.720 allowed to be considered. Okay, that's California. Texas doesn't have that. Texas, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.400 the legislator can do whatever the hell it wants. The legislature, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.440 and what they just did is redistrict in the middle 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.200 of the census midyear because they're able to do that, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.360 and effectively, what they've done is create five new Republican 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:46.760 seats because they're able to draw the line around neighborhoods 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:54.680 and effectively bring purple areas all into a Democratic stronghold 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.959 and all the areas around that are now Republican based 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.160 that's what you can do with the redistricting, and Texas 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.960 just did that. Why did Texas do this because the 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.359 great leader in Washington said, I want you to redistrict, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.320 and the legislature said, you bet you, mister President, whatever 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.920 you want, we're gonna do. So they went ahead and 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.360 did the redistricting. Okay, that's Texas, you're gonna have five 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:26.040 more Republican congress people. Newsom looks at this and goes, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.120 wait a minute, if you guys do it, we're gonna 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.240 do it. However, there's a law that says you can't. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.560 There's a law that says the legislature can't redistrict. It's 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.800 this independent commission. And Newsom says, let's do this. Why 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.240 don't we put on the ballot a measure that undoes 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.120 that law and allow us to do what Texas does 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.760 so we can put democratic congress people, more Democratic congressmen 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:56.560 women up into Washington. There is Prop fifty. The people 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.240 in favor of Prop fifty, that's an easy one. Okay, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.000 we're fighting Texas. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.160 That's it. Fire with fire. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.680 The people against Prop fifty are arguing. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:09.760 It should be independent. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.640 How can you take this away from an independent commission. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.600 Are you going to bring this down to politics? And 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.560 when you ask them how about Texas? The answer is 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.440 it should be independent. We should not have the legislature 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.880 do this. We have an independent commission that is fair. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:33.160 But wait a minute, look what Texas did? Deflection, deflection, deflection. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.800 So now come, well, I just did my ballot and 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.640 I am in favor of Prop fifty. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.720 I mean I had no problem. I do not like what. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.719 Texas did, or if I did like what Texas did, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.000 we got to be able to do the same thing. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:46.839 No problem with that. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.360 So the people who are against Prop fifty are running 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.120 the ads saying fair and we need an independent commission 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.400 and we can't have the legislature involved. Okay, by the way, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.840 when they go to tech Texas, it goes the other 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:06.240 way naturally. Now, the anti the pro Prop fifty people, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.359 I'm looking at commercials and I'm going, what are you 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.000 guys doing. So one of the big commercials running is 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.960 they talk about this guy Munger who is put in 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.760 the majority of the money to kill fifty, that he's 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.839 against LBGTQ rights and he's a right winger. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.880 What does that have to do with ending? And he's 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:25.599 a bad guy. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.200 So if he puts money in and he's in favor 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.159 of if he's against fifty, therefore you have to be 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.040 in favor. I don't know why they just the message 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.520 is simple, Hey, Texas is doing this, we have to 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.719 fight Texas Prop fifty. There's the ad. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:44.320 There's the ad. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.359 If they're putting five Republicans up there, we have to 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.480 put five Democrats up there. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.839 That's it. What am I missing here? What I don't understand. 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.200 I don't get how how is it any different? 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.680 So Texas is doing it because they're defending themselves against 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:09.400 the Democrats, right, Okay, because it's now California, which had 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.800 a law, so it is different than Texas because the 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.200 people have already voted on it. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:14.640 Right. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.040 So if you can do anything based on defending yourself 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.119 against the other side, then no side is wrong. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.120 Texas wasn't wrong in what they did. No, you can't 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:25.440 at all. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:30.120 Okay, So you can't say California is defending itself against 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.920 Texas because Texas was defending itself against Democrats. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.160 I mean, it's all it's all the same. It's equally hypocritical. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.200 It made like the process of them doing it, and 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.520 therefore you stand on that or you don't. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.719 It's to your point. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:51.479 It is uh, Texas has allowed itself or allowed its 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.040 legislature to do this. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.120 California has not. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.720 Because Texas allows itself and did do this, the Republicans, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.520 which control the Texas legislature have given themselves a new advantage. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:06.280 Here we go. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:13.520 We have five new Republican congress people California, which passed 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.200 the law saying we can't do that. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.600 It's like it's now like an amendment for the California 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.720 they're trying to over there, overturning an amendment. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.320 That's right, they're overturning a proposition Texas did. Yeah, Texas 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.720 never had this, Texas never had an independence. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:29.920 They were allowed to do it. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:31.800 Yeah, of course they were. It's not a question if 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.600 they're not allowed to do it, it's all we can launch. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.920 It's wrong for Texas. I think it's wrong for California. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.040 I don't disagree. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.920 I think everybody should have independent commissions to take as 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.800 much of the politics out. The problem is the problem 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.000 is it doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.640 so you can't come to now we stop the progress. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:55.920 Oh yeah, absolutely, welcome to America. I mean there is 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.240 only politics, and so the pro Prop fifty people, Well, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.560 I'm pro Prop fifty only because you know what, I'm 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.760 not thrilled with the Republicans being in charge of Congress. Well, 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.480 I don't have a problem with the Republicans being in 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.480 charge of Congress. What I'm not thrilled with is President 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.640 Trump being in charge of Congress. That's my problem is 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.400 that we don't have a we don't have checks and 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:25.840 balances anymore, we don't have an independent judiciary. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.520 And owned by him now because yes, all he's got 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.560 to do is say something and you encounter that's correct. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.160 Well no, no, no, no, not at all what he says, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.440 you want the opposite. No, that's not true. That's absolutely 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.520 not true. There's plenty of what he says. I agree with, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.480 plenty of what I agree with. My problem is whatever 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.000 he says. The legislature, which is supposed to be a 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:52.360 different branch than the executive, does everything the president wants. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.200 The President says, you jump off of building. The Republicans 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.120 line up. They're pushing each other out of the way 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:00.640 to jump off the bill holding first. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:06.160 That's why California will do anything against Trump regardless. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.359 Oh yeah, even though they voted. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.800 For this, Well, California didn't. I mean it was overwhelming. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.720 California is an overwhelming blue state. But the point is 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.160 is that we're not talking about the California legislature that 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.000 hates everything. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:20.960 We're talking about the. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:26.040 US Congress and the Democrats hate hate Trump and the 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.360 Republicans love Trump. The only difference is that the Republicans 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.880 will take a bullet for Trump. The legislature there's no 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.280 independence at all. That's the problem I have. That is 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:41.320 the problem I have. Okay, now that we've told you 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.240 that Neil doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:44.320 is that right? 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.680 That is completely right. We will not look, we will 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.920 trying to be Trump. Now, No, we. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:56.360 Will know a great California tribes. California tribes. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:57.360 Let me tell you. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.520 What's going on with casinos and the tribe. Look how 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.920 late we're going because of you, Neil. Now, let's get local. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:05.360 Okay. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:10.920 The Indian tribes in California have a deal with California, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.800 and that is they have exclusivity for gambling. All right, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.480 that was given to the Indian tribes, started with the 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.640 bingo stuff, and now you've got a whole it's basically 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:24.480 Las Vegas. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:26.120 All right, we go there. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.480 As a matter of fact, Tim Conway has his birthday 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.559 party next week, which Neil and I and whoever else 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.520 is going to be there. And it's owned by an 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.360 Indian tribe and it's gambling. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.040 I mean, it's a full casino. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.880 So there are also card rooms you go to commerce 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.120 for example, these massive card rooms where you play poker 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.200 and you also gamble, and what the Indians, the tribes 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.400 have said, no, no, that's illegal because that's in violation 0:10:55.520 --> 0:11:00.640 of our agreement. And they've sued, and they have gone togslature, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.560 and they have gone crazy, and they've lost it every turn. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.160 They've lost every single time. So what happened was last 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:16.040 year Governor Newsom allowed them to sue the card rooms 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.840 over the claim that they have exclusive rights to offer 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.960 Las Vegas style gambling in the States. Now there's a 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.760 little crinkle here, a little wrinkle, and that is the 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:31.120 tribes are sovereign governments, so they couldn't sue private businesses. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.320 So they were not allowed to sue on that level. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.600 So Newsom signed a bill which gave the tribes one 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.040 shot to resolve their dispute in Sacramento. One shot go 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:46.440 to Court once and the Superior Court judge Lory Damrell 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.680 dismissed the tribe's case, saying, Nope, you have nothing here. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.000 Why is that because of the merits? Because you're right, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.320 because it's not fair, because every treaty the United States 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.720 ever had with Indian tribes was broken. And response to that, 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.040 here's what we're giving you exclusive rights to gambling. California 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.840 is a total non gambling state, except now it's opened up. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.680 And the I was always in favor, always in favor 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.160 of Indian tribes getting those casino rights because the way 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:21.920 the US government treated Native Americans is like beyond horrible. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.000 So I'm fine with that. I'm also fine with you 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.760 know the card halls, you know the card rooms. Why not? Well, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.000 what do the card rooms do? 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.960 They take away business from the casinos, don't they? 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.320 So it's over. And here's what the judge said. It 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:41.920 has nothing to do with the merits of the case. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.640 It's federal law controls this, and you're relying on state 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.400 law and you're relying on what the state can and 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:50.959 cannot do. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.720 That's not where you go. It's federal law that controls this. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.000 Thank you, You're done, chow baby, and Of course, the 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.240 card room industry applauded and went, just this is fantastic 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.679 and I love this. You can tell that someone has 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.480 hired a pr person to write this crap. We are 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.440 encouraged by today's decision. Fair enough, that's the California Gaming 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.560 Association president. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:14.520 Here's a fun one. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.200 Our member card rooms will continue to support good jobs, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:25.240 vital public services, local economies across California while upholding the 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:32.560 highest standards of integrity, accountability, and compliance. As people jump 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.160 off of the parking structures because they lost all of 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:42.080 their money in the card rooms, but we offer to 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.840 clean the pavements. We will press your wash the payments 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:51.920 every time someone's head hits the pavement after they commit suicide. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.520 Hey, you know what, go figure. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.360 The chairperson of the California Nation's Indian Gaming Association said 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.720 this outcome is especially troubling given it was a state 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.920 law and acted just last year that explicitly gave tribes 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.200 standing in state court, and the judge said, nah, federal 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:20.160 law controls here, and the tribe's lawsuit alleged that all 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:24.120 of those gambling halls throughout California. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.160 I think the biggest one is it in commerce? 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.080 I was just driving the station from my house in 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.480 Orange County the other day. There's a big sign going 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.720 along the five and those big sign in commerce as 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:41.080 the world's largest card room is there. I have no 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.320 idea I've been to. I don't think I've been to 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.920 a card room once or twice when I really I 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.800 was driving along the freeway and I really had to 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:52.080 pee and it was desperate, so I pulled in and Man, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.760 I'll tell you one thing. The people that go to 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.920 those card rooms, these are not people that go to 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:02.000 the Venetian in Las Vegas to gamble. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.320 Not quite. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.880 It's a real lorez is the type of clientele that 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:07.640 goes to a curry. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.520 Yeah, it's it's a pretty interesting group of people that 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:12.640 go to those card rooms. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:13.840 Yeah. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:19.640 So in any case, the the the tribes, of course, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.920 are appealing everything that's happening, and they're saying that those 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.880 card rooms are illegally offering card games blackjack and pie 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.680 goal poker that they now offer and that's cutting into 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.880 the tribes gambling revenues. Think about this, It all started 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:44.560 with bingo at the tribes at the inside the reservations. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.040 A quick word before we bail out of here and 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.840 go to. The next topic is on Friday, we do 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.720 Ask Handle Anything, and it's all about you recording phone calls, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.520 asking me all kinds of personal fun questions and I 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.920 don't know what they are, and it's all about humiliating me. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.400 That's the whole point of the process. And Neil chooses 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.960 the questions and we run them, we broadcast them, and 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.520 I hear him, you hear them for the first time, 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.080 and it's just great fun. So here's how you do 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.880 it during the course of the show, and it has 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.240 to be during the show, even starting at five am 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.080 with wake up call. You go to the iHeartRadio app, 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.440 turn on the just click onto the Bill Handle show 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.040 and then you will click on to the microphone in 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.840 the upper right hand corner. You click on that and 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.920 that starts the recording. You have fifteen twenty seconds to 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:41.760 ask ask handle anything, all right. So those are fun 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.200 and without you it doesn't work. So go ahead and 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.760 embarrass me and you humiliate me fair enough. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:47.640 All right. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.120 Now, let me tell you what's going on in the 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:54.760 world of commerce, business the workplace here in the United States, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:17:02.280 and that is unionization, white collar unionization. Now you don't 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.479 think of white collar jobs as being unionized, for example, 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:11.359 law firms. I mean, who unionizes a law firm? You don't. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:12.960 It's actually it's blue collar. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:17.560 It's your electricians, it's your plumbers, it's people that do labor. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.280 And I'm talking about union labor. We're talking pretty high 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.960 level labor. I'm not just talking about guys who dig ditches. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.040 I'm talking about and by the way, they have labor 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:30.360 unions too in the construction industry. Nope, we're talking about 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:36.960 unionizing jobs that heretofore were not unionized. Oh here's a 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.119 little factoid. Oh I love this. Okay, what was the 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.960 first union in the United States? Neil, any idea. This 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.920 is a it's not even a trick question. It's just 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:48.120 a historical tidbit. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.800 Was it cars? Cars? 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.159 No? No, no, it goes back further than that a 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:59.359 little bit. Seventeen ninety four? Really, yeah, yeah, it was 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:05.520 the word waners union guys who made Guys who made shoes, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.840 not cobblers. Cobblers, by the way, are repair shoes. Early on, 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.160 they didn't make shoes, of course at all, morphed into one. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:15.760 But it was the. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:21.720 Cord weaners union shoe guys who made shoes out of leather. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:27.080 New leather didn't repair. That was the first union that 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.280 it wasn't dangerous. It was just the unionized. That's all 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.560 they decided. You know why, why is the union created 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:39.160 better benefits, work conditions, better money. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:41.159 That's what unions are about. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:45.040 And therein lies a story that has to be told 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.720 about unions, and that is a little bit of the 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:48.720 history of the unions. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:49.439 Uh. 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:55.000 They are critical to any workforce and any economy. They 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.359 are the most dangerous for any workforce or any economy, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.840 and it depends on the historical cycle. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:04.040 Desperately needed. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.639 For example, in the late eighteen hundreds, because you had 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:15.560 the economy the Industrial Revolution, which wiped out the ability 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.920 of a workingman to make any money. I mean, the 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.520 robber barons took it over. And then you had the 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.520 economy swinging the other way back in the fifties, for example, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.920 where unions were insanely. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:28.600 Powerful, way too much. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:33.080 Today they very few people are unionized, but they're moving 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:34.240 into unionization. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:35.919 I'll explain what that is. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.200 And then there's a personal story or two I want 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:42.600 to share with you the unionization of America and the workforce. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:48.439 We are also unionized here at KFI, at least the 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:49.960 quote talent. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:51.119 I love they call us talent. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.679 I don't know where they ever came up with that concept. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.840 Talent anybody behind a microphone. We are members of sag AFTRA, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.439 you know, Screen Actors Guilt, which is not us, but 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:11.520 the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. We are artists, fantastic. 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:16.280 We're not just workers in radio, right, We're not just 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.400 people who put together things and are manufacturing. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.960 No, we are artists. We are artists. 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.480 The listeners ears are your canvas. 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:31.680 God, life is hilarious. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:36.719 Okay, We're gonna finish it up with the unionization of 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:42.080 white collar jobs. Employees at law firms and banks and 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.840 tech companies which we never heard about unionizing. Well, guess 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:52.359 what they're unionizing. And the reason is that jobs are 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:57.199 scarcer now AI is taking over. Entry level jobs are 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.680 basically gone. At tech firms, they don't exist. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:00.520 Uh. 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:05.240 And law firms, for example, new lawyers, well a research. 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:05.600 You don't know. 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.760 You no longer need researchers, so fewer lawyers are being hired. 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.000 I mean, it goes across the board. So what's the answer. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:17.960 Unionize and unions do two things. One Uh, they better 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:26.800 better benefits, better pay better work conditions, and they keep 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:31.200 you working. And herein lies the problem with unions. Unions 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:35.400 are either priceless or they can really screw things up. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.080 How powerful can unions be. I'm going to give you 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:43.360 an example. One of the most powerful unions that an 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:47.320 early union were the railroad rail employees railroad workers you know, 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.560 I'm engineers, the guys who run rail railroads, the engines, 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:52.960 and the caboosemen. 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.480 Now what is the caboozman. Well, if you look at any. 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:02.600 Of the the films deal with early trains or the 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:06.280 steam trains, and you see a caboose at the back 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.159 of the train, and the caboosemen they're the ones that 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.679 picked up the mail, for example, that were hanging on 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.240 this device, hanging on a hook, because that's the way 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:18.600 mail was picked up so the train didn't have to stop. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.560 There's a bunch of reasons you would have a caboose. Well, 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:27.679 you don't need caboose people anymore. So how powerful was 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:33.560 the union, Well, you didn't need caboose people anymore, but 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.800 they kept the cabooses and per the union rules, there 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:42.080 were caboozmen sitting in the cabooses that did nothing except 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:46.960 play cards. Actually it was a single caboose man who 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:51.320 would just sit there because the union rules, the negotiations 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:55.720 were there. Then it gets one better when the trains 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:58.600 no longer had cabooses. 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:02.639 And the union said, okay, they didn't mind. 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:07.600 But they still had caboose men who weren't on the cabooses, 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:13.199 who still got paid. That is a union, I'm telling you, 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:14.920 that is a powerful union. 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.399 So the point is it gets ridiculous. 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:19.480 On the other hand, look at the history of unions 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:24.359 when the workforce was working, when they had kids working 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:27.159 sixteen hour days, six days a week or six and 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.800 a half days a week, and you had, starting at 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.400 the modern day union starting in the late eighteen hundreds, 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:37.920 first one being the Ladies garment workers because women were 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:42.080 working in these sweatshops, so that became a powerful union. 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:44.880 And then you had the car the automotive workers, which 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.080 Henry Ford just did everything he could to break the unions, 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:53.879 even the point we're sending in goons to kill people literally, 0:23:54.480 --> 0:24:01.480 to attack union members with bats, with weapons in some 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:07.280 cases there were. It was horrific. The history of why 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:11.000 unions were needed today by the fifties, well, even get 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:14.200