WEBVTT - Drone Drama Continues - December 13th, Hour 1 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:02.720 All right, thank you Scott Shaddon, Thanks to all of 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.720 you for being with us. Right down our toll free 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:07.440 telephone number you want to be a part of the 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:12.080 program at eight hundred nine one Sean if you would 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.800 like to join us. I can't help it. I cannot 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.880 help it. I am obsessed with why we don't have 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:26.560 answers about these drones now? Now they're flying over New Jersey, Connecticut, reports, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:31.960 New York, and even Pennsylvania. We had drones, apparently, according 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.919 to reports, Pentagon has not disclosed the possible origin multiple 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:41.120 drones spotted forty nine in a day last Sunday. Here 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.479 we are it is November eighteenth, was the day of 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:48.720 the first spotting. What's today the thirteenth? We nearly a 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.600 full month in and you know twenty however, many days 0:00:53.640 --> 0:01:00.639 into this quote phenomenon, the Pentagon, the FBI, Biden Harris 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:06.200 may Orcis, nobody has a single answer about the origins 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.240 of these mysterious drones. You know, the only answer we 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:14.920 got is from this idiot National Security advisor John Kirby, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.559 and he just brushed the whole thing off and even 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.600 basically suggested, you know, don't believe you're lying. Eyes don't 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.959 believe the videos, don't believe eyewitness testimony. Look, you can 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.840 say a lot of things about people from New Jersey. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.160 I have a lot of friends in New Jersey. However, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.440 all these people and all these videos and all these pictures, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:36.600 I don't think that. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:37.600 I don't think they're lying. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.320 I think there's one or two things going on here. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:47.840 Either the government doesn't know where these drones originated, from, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.320 where they were launched from, who's operating them, what their 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.640 capabilities are like, are they surveillance drones or are they 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.240 drones that have a military payload of some kind. Do 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.360 they represent a clear and present danger to the country? 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.920 But you know, now the Pentagon and John Kirby, you know, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:08.680 is the only thing they're saying. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.000 We have not been able to. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:15.040 And neither have state and local law enforcement authorities, corroborate 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:21.720 any of the reported visual sightings. Why so, are you 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:26.240 suggesting that all of these these people, all of these photos, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.040 all of these videos are one big lie because I 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.519 don't believe you. I don't believe the people that lied 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.000 about the Chinese fire balloon. I don't believe the people 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.120 that for four years lied about Joe's cognitive state. I 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.880 don't believe the people that lied and said the border's 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:50.120 secure and the border's been closed, when our eyes showed 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:55.160 us something very differently. And now we have terrorists, cartel members, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:03:01.320 gang members, murderers, rapists, more fentanyl than ever before, other 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.920 violent criminals all in the country. So I just, you know, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.320 a saving for somebody who wants to, you know, buy 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.680 a bridge that doesn't exist somewhere, but you do have 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.120 the I think he's an idiot, but Governor Murphy even saying, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.400 oh yeah, they're highly sophisticated and as soon as you 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.000 put eyes on them, they go dark, all right, So 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.720 even the governor, even all these elected representatives in New 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.480 Jersey either they've been bamboozled also into what a mirage 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.440 or imaging. Here's here's why I'm suspicious. It's one or 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.880 two things here. It's either they don't know, and that's 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.800 the scarier scenario for me. And it's the scarier scenario 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:51.000 because if the United States of America since November eighteenth 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.240 and it's December the twelfth, doesn't know what the hell 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.360 is going on, and we're describing drones the size of 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:03.800 school buses that make very loud noises and like the 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.720 sound of a Harley Davidson engine, and that they're flying 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:13.720 at low altitudes and they're flying over sensitive areas and 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.440 they don't know. That is the scarier scenario to me. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.719 If they really truly don't know, now, they may end 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.800 up being nothing. It may end up being something that 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.760 they themselves are involved in, and maybe they want to 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.599 keep it top secret. I can't imagine any scenario where 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.839 they would be flying these things over populated areas though 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.440 no reason at all whatsoever. There are places the government 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.720 tests such things as this, usually in private, top secret. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:49.120 You know. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.960 Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat, he's saying these drones, but we've 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.719 been saying, should be shot down. He said this in 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.680 an interview. He said intelligence analysis is needed on the 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.000 drones and that the US US to act more aggressively 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.200 against the sightings that have been reported. We should be 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.600 doing some very smart intelligence and analysis and take them 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.560 out of the sky, especially if they're flying over airports 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.800 or military bases, and by the way, reports of both. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.200 They should be shot down if necessary, because they're flying 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.320 over sensitive areas. He's a Democrat Connecticut. He's not wrong. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.600 Now they're flying in his state. Also, the mayor of Belleville, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.880 New Jersey, telling Fox News that a drone had crashed 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.480 in his area. Anyway, the guy's name is Michael Melham. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.239 I was interviewed by Harris Faulkner, my colleague and friend 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.000 of Fox and he reported that a drone had crashed 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.680 in the vicinity of his town. On my way here. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.320 I was on the phone with my Office of Emergency 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.400 Management team and we now have guidance from the state, 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.560 and that guidance has two different things. First of all, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.120 there is a down drone in our vicinity and we 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.600 were told to call the bomb squad in our county. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.200 And second, our fire department has been instructed to make 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.120 sure that they wear hazmat suits. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.839 He didn't elaborate. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.000 Newsweek has a report on what sounds like the same 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.240 drone crash they reported Quota drone has crashed into the 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:22.480 ground in New Jersey amid a repeated you know, reported sightings. Again, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.000 we do have pictures and videos on top of the 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.320 sidings of these unmanned flying devices along the East coast 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.839 and a police scanner report. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.560 We'll play it later in the program. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.400 At of Morris County, New Jersey indicated a drone had 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.040 crashed in the area on Friday morning, with one officer 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.599 reporting that more remote controlled aircraft were spotted in the 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.039 sky around the scene of the crash. By the way, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.839 eighty plus percent of these drones come from China. That raises, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.239 you know, my eyebrows. And all of this news comes 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.919 after a surge in these sightings. It has baffled apparently 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.640 law enforcement. The FBI has no answers. Law enforcement has 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:09.279 no answers. And then we have a pull on denial 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.600 by Biden's by Biden's own national security advisor, there's no 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.000 evidence at all that this is any of this is true. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.200 Well then are you are you accusing the people in 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:26.640 these that have these videos of being liars, because that's 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:31.840 what they're saying here. You know, he said, it's rampant speculation. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:36.960 He goes upon review of available imagery, it appears many 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.400 of the reports of sightings are actually manned aircraft and 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.640 are being operated lawfully. We have no evidence at this 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.800 time that the reported drone sidings pose a national security 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.680 or a public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.000 But the keywords there are no evidence at this time. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.400 But the fact is, he's basically, you know, downplaying it 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.080 denying it, and I find that part and the lack 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.280 of urgency, the most infuriating part of it. I want 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:14.720 a definitive answer. We deserve a definitive answer now. If 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.360 they don't have the capability of getting a definitive answer, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.640 that scares me even more because I know we have 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.360 the technology and the ability to do it, and or 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.560 the just flat out line to us, and that pisses 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.720 me off. But it's certainly better than the alternative, and 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:36.679 that being that they don't know. Multiple mystery drones spotted 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.840 flying over the New Jersey Naval Weapon Station, according to 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:45.679 ABC News, Multiple instances of drones entering the airspace at 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.880 a Navy weapon station in New Jersey. According to officials, there, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.560 concerns continue to grow over widespread drone sightings in the region. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:09:00.160 Naval Weapon Station EARL, located in Coltsneck, New Jersey, that 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.600 they were aware of the sightings in the region. They 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.080 continue to closely coordinate with federal and state agencies to 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.960 ensure the safety of their personnel and operations. We can 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:15.120 confirm multiple instances of unidentified drones. Will somebody tell Kirby 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:20.880 in the Biden White House entering the airspace above the 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:25.720 Naval Weapons Station Earl. According to Bill Addison, public affairs 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.880 officer at the naval station, the base remains prepared to 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.960 respond to any potential risks, leveraging robust security measures and 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.560 advanced detection capabilities. And by the way, Senator Andy Kim, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.240 who was sworn into office just this week, spent Thursday 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.560 night in hunter in A County which is next to 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.080 Somerset County, where he said he saw dozens of drones 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.599 in a two hour period. As John Kirby suggesting he 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.880 is lying, people deserve answers, he said to reporters after 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.760 his visit to the county. We don't need conspiracy theories 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.160 or conjecture. We need assurances that the people charge with 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.880 keeping us safe are on top of the issue, and 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.520 a line of communication so that the people feel their 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.080 government is taking it seriously. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:15.679 Is not wrong? 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.200 Just give us a definitive answer, and if you don't 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.120 know the answer, take one of the damn things out 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.439 of the sky. What is so hard about this? This 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.760 is not that complicated. But I'm telling you it's either 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.160 one or the other. They either know and are lying, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.760 or they don't know, can't figure it out and are 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.600 just putting their head in their sand and the sand 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.160 and just you know, living in La La Land, you 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.600 know the idea that the White House, you know, is 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.559 security officials just dismiss it. I mean, we're talking about 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:57.319 politicians and every quote legacy media outlet reporting it. Marjorie 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.360 Taylor Green said, it's total bs. We're all in danger, right. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.800 I hope Marcherie's wrong on this one. The drone mystery. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.240 New Jersey homeowners are threatening to take matters into their 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.880 own hands if the government's not going to act. I mean, 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.640 they're putting people in a position where they feel that, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.680 you know, they're so frustrated with the lack of answers 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:23.760 regarding you know, the dozens of potential drone sightings and 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.960 sightings above their own homes. Now people are threatening to 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.280 take action on their own if the government won't start 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:36.439 providing answers. Have one real term in the Jersey Shore. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.920 Sharing a video on Facebook, he said he showed the 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:45.720 suv sized drones above Island Beach State Park, taken on Sunday. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.440 It's difficult to judge their size in this clip, anyway, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.120 he said. Dozens of suv sized drones in all directions. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.560 He said emerging at the same time, flying over the 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.280 ocean and heading in different directions. What do you think? 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.040 And he showed the videos of it. Look, you know, 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.760 something's going on. I don't know what's going Maybe it's nothing. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.600 Maybe it's our own government. But that would not make sense, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.720 would it. Maybe it's a dry run of an enemy 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.640 and they just don't want to want to tell us 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:19.280 the truth, you know, or they don't know. That don't 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.280 know part is the one that scares me the most. 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.000 Don't know part is the worst part. They don't know 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:31.040 part means that they are absolutely just incompetent. Beyond words, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.840 we've got a lot of other news to get to 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.199 interesting and we'll get into great specificity in detail with 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.880 Jim Jordan in the program later. But former January sixth 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.640 Committee chairman Benny Thompson said he'd accept a preemptive pardon 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.480 from Biden. There's a lot of talk of preemptive pardons 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.600 for people like Anthony Fauci and Liz Cheney and Benny Thompson, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:58.160 other Biden family members. Maybe even Biden will pardon himself. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.960 But we'll get into what they this This is something 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.480 really so wrong in what this committee did. We need 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:12.720 a prime time truth telling, you know, counter narrative and 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:17.200 let the American people the high level of lying that 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.640 went on about January sixth and what they didn't tell you, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.840 what they selectively edited out, and why has all of 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.240 this information gone missing? Apparently nobody knows where it is. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.520 Jonathan Turley wants to know why the FBI informants who 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.360 trespassed on the Capital property during the January sixth riot, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.920 why weren't they prosecuted? And this is a denial that 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.040 went on for a very long time. We'll get into 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.080 this with Jim Jordan as well, but we learned from 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.760 an IG report at the DOJ yesterday that they were there. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.800 In fact, we're twenty six confidential human sources another word, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.719 spies that were at the rally for the FBI in 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:02.720 January sixth, seventeen, entering restart stricted areas or entering the Capital. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.560 Three specifically deployed by the FBI to be at the rally. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.440 Two were paid by the FBI. What a shocker. They 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.000 didn't get arrested. They weren't authorized to break the law 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.240 eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn or number. If you 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.080 want to be a part of the program. We'll get 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.040 into all of this and much much more, Sow Petty, 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.800 you know, beyond the lunatics that have no problem, you know, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:33.000 praising and honoring the alleged assassin of the United Healthcare CEO. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.600 Now we have, according to foxnews dot Com, a number 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:42.240 of DC dining establishment waiters, waitresses, bartenders vowing to discriminate 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.160 against Trump officials by doing everything they can to make 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.560 their dining experience miserable. Maybe the owners of these fine 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:55.120 establishments should ferret out any of these Trump hating staff members. Anyway, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.240 food workers in DC have pledged to refuse service, cause 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.480 other inconvenie from members of the incoming Trump administration when 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.040 they dine out over the next four years. That means 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:11.720 bartenders servers in the Capitol telling the Washingtonian that resistance 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.520 to Republican figures in the progressive city was inevitable in 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:21.040 a matter of conscience. Well, you're pretty stupid if you 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:25.040 do that, with all due respect, but that doesn't surprise me. Now, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.680 if I owned a restaurant i worked again as a 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.160 bartender as I did, and a waiter whatever, I'd be 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.400 glad to have liberals come in and spend their money. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:40.720 You know why, because that makes me money. Back to 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.520 this story on foxnews dot com food workers in DC 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:50.960 pledging to refuse service and cause other inconveniences for members 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.480 of the incoming Trump administration when they dine out. I 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.320 did have an experience, a bad experience once years ago 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.120 for the sake of nice, although I have no reason to. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.400 I won't go into the graphic details, but some idiot 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.960 I went to a restaurant. It was a steak house. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.680 I had a stake that night, and a person that 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.440 apparently did serve me it turned out, went online. This 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.400 is early in the online era, and uh kind of 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:28.640 bragged about what they did to my food. Not exactly comforting, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.880 not a fun experience. And you know, the person got fired. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.840 There was a police involved, there could have been charges. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.160 I'm not going to tell you how it ended. It 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.240 ended with me being way more way nicer than I 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.920 should have, because it's pretty horrible that people do that. No, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.680 you remember the old story of who was it that's 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.680 spitting somebody's food and like bragged about it. There's some 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:02.280 famous person I don't remember. So, yeah, the bartenders and 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.199 people that work in the service industry work in restaurants 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:10.520 and they are now promising to shun certain officials or 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:15.120 employ other small acts of resistance against these figures who 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.880 quote take their power back. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:22.159 What does that even mean? How do you get power back? Now? 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.399 If I own a business and I worked in the 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.080 restaurant business, I've told the story many times. When I 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.119 tell my kids, they. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.160 Roll their eyes. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.000 But I was twelve years old washing dishes every Friday, Saturday, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.600 Sunday night in a very busy restaurant. You know, by hand. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.720 They didn't have dishwasher machine at that point. I mean, 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.360 most busy restaurants have the machines. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:45.240 That makes it much. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.359 Easier and probably makes the dishes a lot cleaner. I 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.199 mean that water would get pretty dirty and I just 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:55.000 keep going and just wipe them dry when it was done. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.520 But I was doing the best I could. It was 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:57.040 so busy. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.240 I had to move fast, and then you have to 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.359 scour these pots and pans, and I did it at. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:02.920 Twelve years old. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.320 I was paid like two dollars and fifty cents an 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.840 hour or something like that, and the owners were great. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.480 They were nice people, and uh, it was kind of cool. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.840 At the end of the night, me and a friend 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.480 of mine he at the time was the bus boy. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.960 We didn't have a Saint poly Girl beer or two 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.679 at the bar. We're only twelve thirteen years old, and 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.639 you know then we'd fly home on our bicycle and 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.359 it just was a different error. I mean, my parents 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.119 were working, they had no idea where it was. When 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.160 I got off the school bus, i'd you know, dropped 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.000 my bag and run out. And if I wasn't delivering papers, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.960 I had paper routes all the time. I hated them. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.200 And anyway, but I did like working in the restaurant 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.199 then before I was fourteen. When I was thirteen, this 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:52.040 guy Hans on Thanksgiving quit he was the chef. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.399 He throws me the apron. But you know, think of 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:56.040 what I learned. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.480 I learned how to cook steaks and burgers and food 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:06.800 froudy alblo and live stuff, lobster, what else, fetchini, alfredo, 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.440 spaghetti carbona. I learned how to cook all of that. 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.800 And you know, I learned, and I loved it. I'd 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.600 build up a big sweat. I'd have to move fast. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.560 I loved jobs. You have to move fast. And at 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.800 another point, I was a busboy in a very busy 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.920 restaurant and a waiter for a short period of time. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.800 I didn't love being a waiter. I loved being a bartender. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:31.160 That was fun. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.640 It was a very busy pub, had three separate dining 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.080 rooms and even later an outdoor dining room in warmer weather. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.199 And then they were known for their frozen drinks, and 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.639 they didn't have those drink machines that they have today, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.880 so you had to do everything by hand. Banana dakeries, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:55.400 melon dakeries, strawberry dakeries, peanut colatdas, Margarita's frozen margheritas, I mean, 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.119 and you had to move because you had the Usually 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.000 there were two bar tender, so you know, you had 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.000 to work the service bar, which is you know, getting 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.960 drinks to the customers in the restaurant. And then I'm 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.400 busy nights like Friday and Saturday, you know the bar 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.000 before five deep, and it was a long bar and 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:17.800 I'd run the whole night. It was great though. I'd 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.520 come home with a lot of money and I just 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.640 I love working there. So the idea that these bartenders 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.159 waiters somehow are going to get their power back and 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.040 are pledging not to serve Trump officials, well that would 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:37.480 be called discrimination. But that's a separate issue for another day. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.160 But you know, this person theoretically has power to take 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.560 away your rights, but I have the power to make 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.720 you wait twenty minutes to get your entree. They quote 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:51.720 this woman, Nancy, a fine dining bartender, telling The Washingtonian, 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.600 there's lots of opportunities for us as workers to feel 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.520 like we are getting our power back while not necessarily 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.960 ruining someone's life. Giving them a subtle inconvenience feels like 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.760 a little bit of a win for us. And she 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.760 said she would refuse service to certain Trump officials if 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.600 her employer tried to force her. She claims she would 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.679 quit on the spot. Well, if I'm the owner of 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.920 that restaurant, I want her to quit ahead of time. 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.960 Let's let's pass, go collect two hundred and get out 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.560 the door. Because your job is to give the best 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:32.520 service possible to people, your customers. I mean, for example, everybody, 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:34.679 I don't care what business you're in, You're in a 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:39.480 service business. And I've gone through this before. I would, 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.159 you know, try to explain to my kids when they 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:47.239 were young that everybody is in the service business. And 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.360 then I explain all the people that go into bringing 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:55.000 them whatever food they ordered. When we'd go to a restaurant, 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.520 somebody see you at a restaurant. Somebody comes and fills 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:01.240 your water glass at a restaurant. Then somebody comes by 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.520 a waiter and takes your drink order and goes and 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.600 gets your drink order and brings that to you. Then 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:07.760 when they go to the bar, the bartender makes the 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:13.080 drinks or the soft drinks, whatever you're ordering, and then 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.840 the waiter will will you'll order, maybe we'll order an 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:21.560 appetizer or appetizers, and then well, that order is brought 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.040 back to the kitchen, and then somebody will cook it 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:25.520 and they'll put it on a plate. 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:26.800 Then the waiter will bring it to you. 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.639 And then somebody will come usually a bus boy, bus girl, whatever, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:33.000 and they will take that plate and they will bring 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.480 it to the back to the kitchen, and they will 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:37.800 give it to the dishwasher, and the dishwasher will clean 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:41.800 that dish, and the same with the entree, same process, 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:44.639 and then when you leave, somebody's going to clean up 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:47.919 your table. Those are all people involved in serving you 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:51.240 in a restaurant. And I think that human beings we 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:55.520 have to provide services for other people. We're not designed 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.119 to be kings and queens. And I can't think of 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:03.320 a more boring, dull, you know, insane existence. Then you know, 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:07.040 having people you know, weight handover foot over you all day. 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:09.240 I just I couldn't imagine, nor would I ever want that. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:12.960 And you know, I don't care if you're if you 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.679 collect people's garbage, you're a garbage man. We're all pieces 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.040 of garbage according to Joe. But you know what a 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:22.679 service they're providing. If somebody is an electrician, a plumber 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:27.560 or contractor, if they're an architect, if they're a landscaper, 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:31.119 if they're a nurse, a doctor in orderly at a hospital, 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:35.040 I don't know if they call them orderlies anymore, nurse assistant, 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:35.919 I'm not sure. 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:40.000 If you're a lawyer, I don't care. 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:42.960 If you are a personal assistant, I don't think you 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:45.160 use the word secretary, flight attendant. 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.560 You can't say stewardess anymore, or a steward. I don't know. 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:53.480 Uh, it's hard keeping up with all these name changes, 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.960 I will say that, but you get my point. Everybody's 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:01.359 providing a service, and then grateful for people that provide 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:04.560 good service. Now, this is how stupid and short sighted 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:08.720 they are because if I get bad service, I do 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.840 tip well. Number One, I can afford to tip well. 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:16.200 And I just think of my father who waited tables 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:20.040 on a weekend to supplement his income. Every time I 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:22.880 go to a restaurant, and I just I just know 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:27.080 how important the money, the tip money that waiters and 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:30.880 bartenders and how important it is in their life. So 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:34.600 I've all my adult life I try to tip well, 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:38.840 and I just I feel kind of compelled to do it, 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:41.119 to be honest, and I worked in the industry myself. 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:43.439 I used to love it if somebody gave me an extra, 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:47.600 really good tip if you get lousy service. There has 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:51.000