Speaker 1: Are the teamsters affiliated with the mob or were they ever?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure back in the day, the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, Yeah, eighties,
Speaker 2: there's no more organized crime. There's there's no organized crime
Speaker 2: in the team scision.
Speaker 1: In Pashasha Shush show. Uh, welcome to Tosh Show. I'm
Speaker 1: your pilot, Captain Dan Tosh with me Eddie Gosling. Hello, Dan,
Speaker 1: You guys are in capable hands today. If you look
Speaker 1: out your window, you'll probably see another car. Give him
Speaker 1: a honk, let him know you're a toshakle. Two toshakles. Toshakles.
Speaker 3: That should be the thing.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: Oh man, what am I doing with my hair? I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what I'm doing my hair. Nobody asked, but uh,
Speaker 1: I just haven't gotten it cut in so long. I'm
Speaker 1: scheduled for Tuesday next week. So that's big. That's big.
Speaker 1: I had a great week. I went out to Palm
Speaker 1: Springs as I do every year, for the Indian Wells.
Speaker 1: Did they say Indian Wells anymore? Would you say Indigenous Wells?
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. The tennis tournament it was great now. Sadly,
Speaker 1: Djokovic had gotten knocked out in an early round, so
Speaker 1: he wasn't there when I went. I was gonna heckle,
Speaker 1: I was gonna boo, but he had he had took
Speaker 1: the cowards way out and lost in the first or
Speaker 1: second round. I believe I took my father in law
Speaker 1: and my mother in law. My father in law was
Speaker 1: it was like it was like bringing my grandma. Didn'tan wells.
Speaker 1: It was it was cold. I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: was in the fifties. In the evening session, he's bringing
Speaker 1: a blanket from the Airbnb. I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: supposed to take blankets off the property, but he did.
Speaker 1: He's he's bundled up. I'm taking photos of him just
Speaker 1: half asleep. He's like, I wasn't sleeping. I was a cheering.
Speaker 1: I'm like, looks like you were half asleep there, buddy.
Speaker 1: It was it was fun. Went to a Nobu one night.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: They have a Nobu restaurant at Indian Wells and it
Speaker 1: overlooks Court too. Now, if you sit right on the
Speaker 1: edge those seats, which I do every year, you get
Speaker 1: to watch a match. This year there was a little
Speaker 1: mix up. Pete. Pete messed it up. He doesn't he
Speaker 1: doesn't admit it, but they're like, oh, we got you
Speaker 1: close to the window, and close to the window you
Speaker 1: can't see anything. That doesn't matter anyway, long story short,
Speaker 1: they kick some people out and we got to move
Speaker 1: over to the window. And then I ordered my drink.
Speaker 1: Had had an alcoholic beverage, Eddie. This is big. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some passion fruit margarita. It's delicious.
Speaker 3: Are you hooked?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I have it once year. That's my drink.
Speaker 2: You're hook buddy.
Speaker 1: I drink one drink a year. That's great that I
Speaker 1: actually look forward to. That is Draper. Draper was on fire.
Speaker 1: Didn't really Nobody could really hold a torch to him.
Speaker 1: I saw Alcarez. Gosh, when you look at Alcarez's thighs,
Speaker 1: it's hard not to be impressed. You're like, that is
Speaker 1: those are some Those are some strong legs and quick
Speaker 1: as a cat too. And guess what else made the
Speaker 1: Jumbo Tron the big screen. That's that's your dream, you know.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't for the cool reason like where they
Speaker 1: go around, you know, show the celebrities. No, they had
Speaker 1: no idea. It was me. They were just zooming in
Speaker 1: on my daughter. There you go, Yeah, she was doing
Speaker 1: something funny. It was. It was making everybody laugh. She
Speaker 1: was taking a yogi. You know what yogis are. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're disgusting. But anyway, she was putting yogi's on my
Speaker 1: lip and then biting him off. And then next thing
Speaker 1: I know, we're on the big screen. I'm like, listen, guys,
Speaker 1: I have to I have to do this yogi thing
Speaker 1: or she's gonna start screaming during points you don't else
Speaker 1: said it. Eddie went surfing in Palm Springs you believe it,
Speaker 1: not even near the ocean. Now. We went to the
Speaker 1: Palm Spring Surf Club. Pierre came out for the day. Brian,
Speaker 1: my friend from Sunny Day Coffee. He came with me
Speaker 1: and and Lochlan. Lachlan Patters say. Lachlan was he was struggling.
Speaker 1: That was fun, always watching him panic. It makes me laugh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we surfed the wavepool, you know, put on
Speaker 1: the slab setting, getting fun little barrels. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: that wave can actually hold you down under water for
Speaker 1: quite some time. I didn't. I didn't get any bad holddowns,
Speaker 1: but uh, Pierre had a couple. It made me it
Speaker 1: always be Pierre got sucked into the machine at one point.
Speaker 1: That was a stare he got. He got to He
Speaker 1: said that I distracted him because the waves coming like little,
Speaker 1: these old three wave sets, and and he uh was
Speaker 1: getting in position, and then I started messing with him.
Speaker 1: And anyway, next thing I know, he's getting sucked into
Speaker 1: this machine and his boards banging around. He was he
Speaker 1: got really scared and I was crying laughing. Might have
Speaker 1: been my favorite part of the day, not even surfing,
Speaker 1: but just watching him get swallowed by a huge machine,
Speaker 1: eaten by the machine. He was so scared. Oh god,
Speaker 1: it was funny. Yeah, that was cute. I enjoyed my life,
Speaker 1: you know, get out there, spend time with the family,
Speaker 1: do stuff like that. I don't get these people that
Speaker 1: want to be the hardest working person in show business.
Speaker 1: That's that seems like a horrible way to live. I
Speaker 1: didn't get into the show business because I have a
Speaker 1: good work ethic. Eddie, do you ever have a real job?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 1: What kind of job did you have?
Speaker 3: I always say I audited at a meat plant, like
Speaker 3: they're a meat production company, and I would audit the
Speaker 3: orders to make sure they were in the margins. What
Speaker 3: you just said, words, Well, That's what I did as
Speaker 3: an auditor at a meat processing.
Speaker 1: To see if they were in the margins.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: If you ordered a bunch of cheese and there was
Speaker 3: like it was outside of the plus seven percent, they
Speaker 3: wanted to make it too low, you'd bring it over and.
Speaker 1: Payer basket to stop Eddie. I mean that you couldn't
Speaker 1: have described. How long did you work there?
Speaker 3: A couple of years?
Speaker 1: While you worked there a couple of years? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just you just kept them in the marching. Were you
Speaker 1: good at your job?
Speaker 3: I mean if it was out of a margin, I'd
Speaker 3: highlight it and put in a basket.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you don't know if you were good.
Speaker 1: Did you ever? How much did you get paid?
Speaker 3: I mean enough to have an apartment in San Antonio?
Speaker 1: Do you think it was over over twenty dollars an
Speaker 1: hour or over ten dollars an hour?
Speaker 3: Over ten?
Speaker 1: Not over twenty, No, maybe around fifteen. Did you have
Speaker 1: to have a college degree for this job? Oh?
Speaker 3: No, you just had a no shotgun. He'd be a
Speaker 3: bass player in a band and his mom worked there.
Speaker 1: Oh literally that was you and you worked there for
Speaker 1: two years? And how and when you quit there? What
Speaker 1: did you go to just comedy folks. That was you
Speaker 1: went from from that auditing this meat packing place to comedy. Yep,
Speaker 1: you think you're the only person that's.
Speaker 3: Gone that route from a Pelly Brothers, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: See. I always think that that one of the keys,
Speaker 1: uh to my stand up was that I never actually
Speaker 1: had a real job, So I never quit something that
Speaker 1: provided me any quote stability, so I wasn't leaving anything
Speaker 1: on the table. I always admired people that like went
Speaker 1: into comedy that I had a like, like an actual job.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. When you hear like this guy used to
Speaker 3: be a lawyer or doc and they leave that profession
Speaker 3: to become comics, I'm like, what is happening?
Speaker 1: Well, your job? I mean, I just can't imagine having
Speaker 1: the confidence to go from that to be, like, you
Speaker 1: know what I could I should entertain people.
Speaker 3: I really took a leap.
Speaker 1: Well all this good stuff. Yeah, yeah, I mean I've
Speaker 1: never I've always been fascinated, uh with people that have
Speaker 1: quote real jobs. I don't really have any blue collar
Speaker 1: people in my life. When I was growing up, it
Speaker 1: was all it was all white collar and that that
Speaker 1: probably doesn't surprise anybody when they look at how fancy
Speaker 1: I am. I tell you what what confuses me about
Speaker 1: blue collar is, Hey, they're really not collar people right
Speaker 1: for the most part. They're more in tease. They're the
Speaker 1: crew neck boys. Boy. But without blue collar workers, this
Speaker 1: country would fall apart. In today's guest, oh this guy.
Speaker 1: This guy cares more about the working class than anyone
Speaker 1: I've ever known. Enjoy Pasha, break or breaker? Do you copy?
Speaker 1: My guest today is from Boston aka being town ak
Speaker 1: my favorite city to shit on that I secretly love.
Speaker 1: He is the general president of the one of the
Speaker 1: most powerful unions in this country, protecting the hard working
Speaker 1: men and women trucking up and down the roads, keeping
Speaker 1: our shelves stocked, our tanks full, in our economy. Humming,
Speaker 1: Please welcome Sean over. That was mantro awesome. First question,
Speaker 1: do you believe in ghosts?
Speaker 2: I'll put it this way. There's been people put on
Speaker 2: this earth I believe to haunt my life daily.
Speaker 1: I mean, probably the best answer I've ever heard one
Speaker 1: agree with that. I'll be honest with you. I almost
Speaker 1: believe it's almost a majority that people put on this planet.
Speaker 1: We're here to do just that to me. You group
Speaker 1: in Boston I did. Oh man. I mean, if if
Speaker 1: you were to write Boston and then show a photo
Speaker 1: of some it is you.
Speaker 2: You are Boston. Am I that handsome? I mean it's
Speaker 2: a we are a good looking city.
Speaker 1: No, you're nodding. I mean you look like you could
Speaker 1: take a two by four to the neck and it
Speaker 1: wouldn't bother you.
Speaker 2: You know, I do have failing sir.
Speaker 1: Are you a softie?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, I like long walks in the park
Speaker 2: and I'm on aries.
Speaker 1: Did you grow up fighting?
Speaker 2: Ever? I always tell people, I mean I grew up.
Speaker 2: I have two brothers. My dad was My dad was
Speaker 2: a big guy, a well respected guy, you know, and
Speaker 2: we were always taught and my mother brought us up
Speaker 2: pretty much. She was grew up in the projects in Boston,
Speaker 2: raised her three younger brothers. She is the toughest O'Brien.
Speaker 2: She's probably one of the toughest women I've ever met
Speaker 2: in my life. Very classy, but she always made certain
Speaker 2: that two things. One that you have two brothers and
Speaker 2: you always got to protect each other and have each
Speaker 2: other's back. And I expect that if one to use
Speaker 2: in a fight, both use better be and all three
Speaker 2: is better be in that fight. So we were always
Speaker 2: brought up to stick off for each other. Was violence promoted? No,
Speaker 2: but wasn't an occurrence. Absolutely, I get.
Speaker 1: It, and it's not. I mean, it's probably technically some
Speaker 1: of those circumstans this was probably wrong. But I mean
Speaker 1: I just fled, fled conflict my entire life, like, Nope,
Speaker 1: time to leave here. I think my mom would be like,
Speaker 1: if your brother's getting beat up, just run. I don't
Speaker 1: better than better than both of you getting.
Speaker 2: My mother used to say, if your brother comes home
Speaker 2: with a black guy, you both better come home on
Speaker 2: the black guy.
Speaker 1: No, my mom would be like, well he wasn't fast enough,
Speaker 1: was he? And listen, it's not like I grew up,
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up poor. I lived in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: That's as a kid, I just didn't have it in me.
Speaker 1: I just wasn't that kid. I didn't know how to fight.
Speaker 1: I didn't have it. And my dad wasn't you know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't. He's a big man. He's six foot he's
Speaker 1: mean to people.
Speaker 2: My mother had a presence of being six foot five
Speaker 2: and she's about five foot two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, no, my my mom was sweet. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna knock my mom and how she raised pussies, but
Speaker 1: she did have You still live in Boston.
Speaker 2: So I live in Boston when I'm I'm home, but
Speaker 2: primarily I live in Washington, d C. Because that's where
Speaker 2: my day job as the international president of the Teams
Speaker 2: This takes me.
Speaker 1: So you like d C.
Speaker 2: I've been there three years. I love the city. The
Speaker 2: people were Uh, it was tough to adjust to the
Speaker 2: people down there because you know, I was brought up
Speaker 2: in an area where you're pretty direct. What you see
Speaker 2: is what you get. And when you are dealing in DC,
Speaker 2: whether you're dealing with politicians or whoever, you know, they'll
Speaker 2: say one thing and do another. So I had to
Speaker 2: kind of navigate through. I remember the first three weeks
Speaker 2: down there, I'm like, I hate this fucking place. Why
Speaker 2: did I take Why did I take this job? But
Speaker 2: it's like anything else, you learn to adapt to situations.
Speaker 2: And and you know, I think living down there, being
Speaker 2: from where I'm from, with the personality that I have,
Speaker 2: it's gotten a lot better. You know, it was just
Speaker 2: it was a tough adjustment at first.
Speaker 1: I love d C too, I mean it's a city.
Speaker 1: I love Boston more I always say I like New
Speaker 1: York more just because there's a it's a bigger fan base.
Speaker 1: I sell more tickets. So I lie to those people.
Speaker 1: I sell them I love them more. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: if I had to live in a city, I'd live
Speaker 1: in Boston. But not year round. That's nonsense.
Speaker 2: Yep, Boston. I mean Boston is a great city now
Speaker 2: because I'm from there. It's a small city but a
Speaker 2: big presence that's pretty and it's clean, very clean, clean.
Speaker 1: Now the people I could do without, but fair enough
Speaker 1: that that's that's.
Speaker 2: How you want to live in a clean city with
Speaker 2: no people.
Speaker 1: Oh, now you're talking right, that's a home. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: attended U MASS.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: How many the other six hundred colleges within the city
Speaker 1: did you apply to?
Speaker 2: I didn't apply to any of them, to be honest.
Speaker 2: In matter of fact, I got a great story about
Speaker 2: how I ended up at U MASS. So I was
Speaker 2: recruited to play football for the University of New Haven.
Speaker 2: I was a great high school football player. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not a huge person, so my potential. I reached
Speaker 2: my potential, So I wasn't going to go to a
Speaker 2: Division one school. I was a running back and a
Speaker 2: linebacker and sometimes an offensive lineman, sometimes alongside whatever they
Speaker 2: needed me to do. I got recruited by a Division
Speaker 2: II school that gave me a full scholarship. So I
Speaker 2: ended up going to University of New Haven for about
Speaker 2: a minute and it just didn't work out. It was awful.
Speaker 2: So I ended up believe in there, and so my
Speaker 2: father picked me up and he was like, hey, you
Speaker 2: know what's it's tough. Sometimes you're going to make tough decisions.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, this is great, Like my father's supporting
Speaker 2: this decision.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: And next day he says to me, what'd you do today?
Speaker 2: You losa? Do you go get a job?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my god. So I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that was something going. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: And I was in the Union at the time, so
Speaker 2: I'm like, ill, maybe go to Maybe I'll just go
Speaker 2: in the Marine Corps. So I was going to go
Speaker 2: talk to a recruiter to go into the Marines, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, this guy in a station wagon
Speaker 2: pulls up and I'm going to standing in the corner
Speaker 2: aimlessly thinking about my life. It's eighteen years old, and
Speaker 2: the guy looks up at me and he says, aren't
Speaker 2: you supposed to be playing football University of New Hand?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? It didn't work out? He's like,
Speaker 2: I coach football you Mass. Mike really goes like Dick,
Speaker 2: I graduated high school. Your mother. His name was coach Kent, Okay, goes,
Speaker 2: you want to go to your Mass and play football.
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, sure I'll do. I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 2: So I walk home and I gave him my phone number.
Speaker 2: So I walk in and you know, there's my mother
Speaker 2: and father sitting there, and my father's like, did you
Speaker 2: do today? I go, well, I was going to go
Speaker 2: join the Marine Corps, I said, but funny thing happened. Uh,
Speaker 2: Coach Kent pulled up in a station wagon. I'm going
Speaker 2: to you Mass, Boston to play football. He's like, how
Speaker 2: are you going to do that? You didn't even apply
Speaker 2: the phone rings. My mother is like, Jim Kent Charlestown High.
Speaker 2: I was in your Mass playing football the next day.
Speaker 2: So to your question, I didn't apply to one school
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: It's pretty great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The American American.
Speaker 1: Dream and how that football career end.
Speaker 2: It went great. I mean I started as a freshman,
Speaker 2: but I knew I always had a passion and I
Speaker 2: always did well in school. But I didn't want to
Speaker 2: be in school like I didn't I wanted to be
Speaker 2: out working like. I loved the union because it was
Speaker 2: around me my entire life for generations. I loved my
Speaker 2: father's friends. I loved, you know, the old timers. I
Speaker 2: loved going to union meetings, and I knew, like I
Speaker 2: want and I worked in the union in high school.
Speaker 2: I worked in the theater district in Boston. We used
Speaker 2: onload and load Broadway shows UH, and it was great,
Speaker 2: And I just loved the camaraderie. I love the the
Speaker 2: passion that people showed going to work every single day.
Speaker 2: But more importantly, I love the UH loyalty that I
Speaker 2: was taught about the organization. So I knew this was
Speaker 2: just a shortstop for me, and I knew that I
Speaker 2: wanted to I wanted to be in the team stage union.
Speaker 1: And now you're the president of that union that you
Speaker 1: once idolized. You're a lot like Mark Zuckerberg in your career,
Speaker 1: minus the net worth.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honestoring, no one has ever compared me
Speaker 2: to fucking Box I'm.
Speaker 1: Just saying, you drop out of high school, boom, big dreams.
Speaker 1: I love doing shows in Union cities, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, Like, if I'm in Chicago, of course you
Speaker 1: go to a Taylor Swift show, you obviously understand the
Speaker 1: just bells and whistles. They're incredible what they're doing. Me,
Speaker 1: I'm going out to a microphone. That's it. But yet
Speaker 1: still at Union shows it's like, M pete, knock it off.
Speaker 1: Don't touch that fucking stool. That's somebody's job to bring
Speaker 1: that stool out there instead that That's sure, I have
Speaker 1: to pay a little more at that venue, but god
Speaker 1: do I love it.
Speaker 2: You probably make a lot more at that venue.
Speaker 1: I mean because it's a better market, right, I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's usually the best markets that have those.
Speaker 2: You were in Boston recently, right, M I do?
Speaker 1: I am?
Speaker 2: What did you? What did you perform in Boston?
Speaker 1: Is that bad?
Speaker 2: Those are all team since?
Speaker 1: Of course? Now I love it.
Speaker 2: I worked on those theatas in high school. Ah, but
Speaker 2: they were Broadway theatres. They were either Broadway of Music.
Speaker 2: Now there's been such a shift with comedy.
Speaker 1: Uh, that's that's It's so easy comedy like it's that
Speaker 1: you don't bring anything to show up, do a show.
Speaker 1: Explain what the president of the Teamsters does besides challenge
Speaker 1: senators from Oklahoma to fights.
Speaker 2: That was that was unfortunately a defining moment in my career.
Speaker 1: Because it was certainly it was certainly a highlight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what it is. It's just like we
Speaker 2: talked about earlier. You enabled your grown you don't let people,
Speaker 2: you don't let people shot on you, you don't let
Speaker 2: people try and bully you.
Speaker 1: You would have destroyed that. There's no doubt that you
Speaker 1: would have won the fight.
Speaker 2: Look, you know what, here's the thing. And I've actually
Speaker 2: become friends with Mark Wayne Mullen, and you know, he's
Speaker 2: a big strong he's a cauliflower is.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just depends on how serious you take
Speaker 1: the fight. If the first part you go for it,
Speaker 1: take out what you're willing to do to win exactly,
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at. You know, you go to a
Speaker 1: kneecap right away, cauliflower ear be damned, by the way,
Speaker 1: do you ever think of a million years Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: would be the one to break up a fight that
Speaker 1: you were in. I mean, how how's a bizarre world where.
Speaker 2: You like, like that was like and yelled at by
Speaker 2: your grandfather. You know, it's like, you know, Thanksgiving, Denny
Speaker 2: has spilled something at the table and you Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: you know, and look, that was the first sentate hearing
Speaker 2: I was ever in and you know, so I was like,
Speaker 2: I was like, look, I just went I wouldn't let
Speaker 2: this guy shoot on me in my neighborhood. I'm certainly
Speaker 2: not going to let him do it here. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that was pretty fun.
Speaker 1: Did you ever drive an eighteen wheeler all the time?
Speaker 1: What I mean all the time? How ill I still
Speaker 1: do it?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Still?
Speaker 2: I still like him when I every once in a
Speaker 2: while I'll be in an event and there'll be a team, subtractor,
Speaker 2: trow whatever. In my fact, I'm still on the senioriti
Speaker 2: list of my company that I went to work for
Speaker 2: at eighteen Shaughnessina Hearn and I went back a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, and I wanted to show people that
Speaker 2: I'm still capable of doing the work, because you know,
Speaker 2: when you're talking to people and you know, you know,
Speaker 2: I've got to advise millions of members and I've got
Speaker 2: to give them advice on why they should accept the
Speaker 2: contract or why they should reject the contract. I want
Speaker 2: to make sure that those people that I'm working for,
Speaker 2: the one point three million members, they know that I
Speaker 2: can do their job if I have to. Still, so
Speaker 2: there's a credibility factor that goes along with that. But
Speaker 2: I love driving trucks. I mean I tell people all
Speaker 2: the time. When I was in school, everybody would say,
Speaker 2: I want to be a doctor. I want to be
Speaker 2: a lawyer, you know, I want to be the president
Speaker 2: of I Saints. I'm like, I want to drive a
Speaker 2: truck for the team's reunion.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be Lincoln Hawk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm wrestling oh Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that was mind.
Speaker 2: You'd be like you'd be going out of a bull Hurley.
Speaker 1: What percentage of truck drivers are Teamsters?
Speaker 2: Probably twelve thirteen percent. Yeah, I mean, UPS is our
Speaker 2: largest employer. We have three hundred and forty thousand members
Speaker 2: there out of one point three million. And by the way,
Speaker 2: our union is just not truck drivers. I always tell
Speaker 2: people wear airline pilots to zookeepers and everybody in between.
Speaker 2: So me being a truck driver, yeah, I'm very familiar
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Know, Wheels is the majority of what the teamsters.
Speaker 2: Well, no, we represent every mode of transportation. We represent
Speaker 2: railroad workers. Train engineers are affiliated with us. The track
Speaker 2: men that fix the tracks and keep the infrastructure rolling
Speaker 2: their teamsterairs. Then you go into the airline divisions. We
Speaker 2: have pilots, we've got flight attendants, we've got ground transportation,
Speaker 2: we've got mechanics. We represent fifteen thousand members in Hollywood
Speaker 2: throughout the whole country that work on the sets as teamsters.
Speaker 2: So my dad was a transportation coordinator that ran all
Speaker 2: the movies for our local union in Boston, Local twenty five.
Speaker 2: That's what he did for a living. So I know
Speaker 2: the industry.
Speaker 1: Well, when you say you jump behind the wheels is
Speaker 1: to kind of show people that you can still do it.
Speaker 2: What do you know, I'll tell you why I do
Speaker 2: it because people, I wear a suit and tie to
Speaker 2: work every single day. I might one day be talking
Speaker 2: to a Senate hearing where I'm defending workers rights and
Speaker 2: I'm lobbying to get things done on behalf of American workers.
Speaker 2: Next I may be, you know, in a worksite at
Speaker 2: four in the morning talking to rank and file members
Speaker 2: and when they look at me, because you know, you've
Speaker 2: got the demographic our union, you get the eighteen of
Speaker 2: thirty five year olds. They may not know what I did.
Speaker 2: They may think I'm just some lobbyist. Right, so when
Speaker 2: I'm talking to people, when they kind of get well,
Speaker 2: how do you know you could do my job? And
Speaker 2: I would pull up the video and said, I just
Speaker 2: did this last week.
Speaker 1: You don't need a video, you needed a short sleeve shirt.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna think you're just a lobbyist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you never know. You know, well, I've been
Speaker 2: accused of being a politician recently, and I'm not a politician.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one to swallow. What's the starting pay?
Speaker 2: Ish, No, I'll give you the best example. You UPS
Speaker 2: part timer getting hired, part timer, part timer getting hired
Speaker 2: off the street to load nonload trucks with the hope
Speaker 2: and dreams of becoming full time, which there was a
Speaker 2: path to a career. A UPS part timer right now,
Speaker 2: starting today, will make twenty one dollars per hour, and
Speaker 2: then we'll get free health care and a pension, and
Speaker 2: our UPS drivers make almost fifty dollars an hour.
Speaker 1: Fifty the drivers make it fit.
Speaker 2: At the end of this contract, they'll be making fifty
Speaker 2: dollars close to fifty dollars an hour forty nine something.
Speaker 1: What's the longest haul you're illegally allowed to do? How
Speaker 1: long can you drive?
Speaker 2: It's like ten hour shifts. Okay, so you usually six
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty miles a day. Oh. Nice, of
Speaker 2: those cabs, they're beautiful now. I mean they've got sleep
Speaker 2: of berths and everything else.
Speaker 1: And our truckers masturbating in the trucks.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, I've never had the urge
Speaker 2: to rough up the suspect while I was driving or working.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair. But as a comic. When I first started,
Speaker 1: I was driving, you know, twenty year old. I was
Speaker 1: driving black Honda Civic ninety one. If anybody ever saw it,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance I was doing it. I drove
Speaker 1: across this country constantly, but I can't stay awake. I
Speaker 1: fall asleep, so I would occasionally. You know, edge, I guess,
Speaker 1: is the term you know, you get excited that keeps
Speaker 1: you awake for a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's like, so does edge me? And you would actually
Speaker 2: finish No edging.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of that. Kay, You get to the
Speaker 1: edge and don't go over because if you go over
Speaker 1: the opposite head, if.
Speaker 2: You get then fall, what do you get distracted and
Speaker 2: you end up going over?
Speaker 1: Listen? Isn't that? Are you telling me that some truck
Speaker 1: drivers haven't been distracted before at the wheel? I listen.
Speaker 1: I can't speak for that, but that's it's still the
Speaker 1: horn this way or yeah, yeah, it's still a rope.
Speaker 2: There's a rope. But there's also this new this new
Speaker 2: fad where they put actual train horns under the hood
Speaker 2: scarify everyone have a valve down here and you pull
Speaker 2: it and it's great, like you're going through a nahbhood.
Speaker 2: You don't like people you just hit that.
Speaker 1: Could I learn to drive a truck?
Speaker 2: You know what's funny? We just had this discussion on
Speaker 2: our way over here because my girl from partner thinks
Speaker 2: she's a great driver. I could going through cones out
Speaker 2: a twenty five f you watch, because I could even
Speaker 2: drive a track to trailer. I'm like, oh sure, but
Speaker 2: yeah to your question, absolutely you could.
Speaker 1: How long is it?
Speaker 2: What's the what's the It's like anything else. It's a process.
Speaker 2: Some people learned quick. Some people takes a lot more time.
Speaker 1: Okay, without being sexist. Okay, I need you to do
Speaker 1: this without being sexist. How why are you already laughing? Sure?
Speaker 2: How that's sure?
Speaker 1: How much harder is it for women to be a
Speaker 1: good truck driver than a man?
Speaker 2: I think women a better truck dround sun I do.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. Okay, because number one, unlike yourself driving,
Speaker 2: they're not going to masturbate while they're driving.
Speaker 1: You don't know that.
Speaker 2: I can know that, you know, But seriously, it's proven
Speaker 2: women are smarter than men.
Speaker 1: Smarter, sure, and they're.
Speaker 2: More focused on tasks. Let's let's be realistic. And I've
Speaker 2: got the attention span of a mosquito, and you know,
Speaker 2: easily distracted. I check probably three boxes of A D
Speaker 2: D ADHD O CD whatever. Women focus a lot more
Speaker 2: better than men, I think, And iither argue with that.
Speaker 2: I think I think they would to your question. I
Speaker 2: think they'd get through a.
Speaker 1: Correct Okay, I've had I'm not going to I'm going
Speaker 1: to be sexist. Probably then I've had tour buses, uh
Speaker 1: for twenty years that have driven me around this country
Speaker 1: to perform I've had one female bus driver and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh so excited about it, and it literally I thought
Speaker 1: every night when I went to close my eyes and
Speaker 1: end of my I'm gonna die. She couldn't, she couldn't
Speaker 1: back the bus into anything. It was Pete vouch for me.
Speaker 1: It was horrendous, it was terrifying. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: just we just had one bad apple, Pete.
Speaker 2: We got to that's like having one bad date.
Speaker 1: All that I've had a lot of. Are my tour
Speaker 1: bus drivers teamstairs or no?
Speaker 2: No, but give me the names and we'll see what
Speaker 2: we can do.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know. I don't know what that meant exactly.
Speaker 1: How about the fact that truck drivers are not allowed
Speaker 1: in BUCkies? What do you think about that?
Speaker 2: What a BUCkies? You don't fucking know what BUCkies I
Speaker 2: don't know what BUCkies?
Speaker 1: And BUCkies is like the biggest, the nicest. They started
Speaker 1: in Texas, the largest gas states, and they have the
Speaker 1: cleanest bathroom.
Speaker 2: Why don't I know about this? And they?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you go in there. They have everything.
Speaker 1: They have a beef jerky section, They've got, I mean,
Speaker 1: anything you could ever want. My parents like go to
Speaker 1: BUCkies like it's an amusement park. They just love a
Speaker 1: bucky anyway, they I think you need to get on
Speaker 1: that they don't allow eighteen wheelers.
Speaker 2: Support a nationwide protest over that.
Speaker 1: I would, especially since I've never been yet. Although I
Speaker 1: do own a Bucky's truck at my house, like a
Speaker 1: little pickup truck that they got my son. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna throw it. Well, I will if if they don't
Speaker 1: change their their ways. Have you driven one of these
Speaker 1: semis that can drive itself yet?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You guys have a name for those people that want
Speaker 1: those trucks on the road. Yeah, okay, Gavin Newsom, Oh,
Speaker 1: how dare you? How dare you come into this office?
Speaker 1: By the way, you ever see those photos of him
Speaker 1: with his ex wife sprawled out on on this like
Speaker 1: gaudy rug the Trump Junior's wife now right, it's Trump
Speaker 1: Junior's wife now, but he used to be married to her,
Speaker 1: and there's a photo spread of them laying like. It's
Speaker 1: just it makes you hate everything about California. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I forget that he looks like Bradley Cooper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, little, he's like a little Bradley Cooper ish Matthew nice,
Speaker 2: Matthew McConaughey, mcconnie, A little bit better than looking like
Speaker 2: you look like a young You look like a young
Speaker 2: Kurt Russell.
Speaker 1: God damn it, that's a compliment, young Kurt Russell. Do
Speaker 1: you worry about AI and everything taking over business?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Is the biggest threat to everything in this country.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you are worried about it.
Speaker 2: We're fighting automation. The good thing about being under a
Speaker 2: union contract you get to negotiate terms and conditions of
Speaker 2: automation AI. What's scary is when it, you know, especially
Speaker 2: out here. I mean you've got Silicone Valley, right, huge
Speaker 2: huge supporters of technology, whose huge supporters of automated vehicles.
Speaker 1: My friend got stuck in a parking lot in an
Speaker 1: autonomous vehicle for like fifteen to twenty minutes, and he
Speaker 1: didn't he didn't even care. You just thought it was
Speaker 1: funny just doing laps around the parking lot. He couldn't
Speaker 1: get out.
Speaker 2: Not to fall back earlier, but just think about the edging.
Speaker 2: You could do it at a time.
Speaker 1: You know you don't have to edge. And no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ed if you're in a way. Moo, right,
Speaker 1: who's edging? I'm giving that camera the money shot. You
Speaker 1: ever driven in one of those?
Speaker 2: No? I look, so I'm the guy. I'm that guy
Speaker 2: that I will walk twenty miles in bay feet before
Speaker 2: again in something that's going to destroy working people like
Speaker 2: I don't even go into If I'm in a supermarket
Speaker 2: and there's align with their.
Speaker 1: You don't do self checkout, I will.
Speaker 2: I refuse to do self check out. It's so easy
Speaker 2: to steal, it's awful. Yeah, well, stealing is good, but
Speaker 2: the challenge is to steal while you're being watched, and
Speaker 2: if you're good at it, you're gonna get away, Joe.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, right, Hey, you go into a
Speaker 2: self checkout, like I've watched people like at home Depot.
Speaker 1: Home Depot self check out, that's really the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the thing. You have to go to
Speaker 2: this checkout kiosk. Nine out of ten times when you're
Speaker 2: fucking it up trying to pay for me, a human
Speaker 2: per a human comes over and works with you to
Speaker 2: get it out. So why shouldn't we just get rid
Speaker 2: of the automation because you're gonna bring the human in
Speaker 2: any ways.
Speaker 1: It don't make it doesn't make sense. Don't use logic
Speaker 1: with me, shying. Here's the problem with the home depot
Speaker 1: is now I'm supposed to write down the code of
Speaker 1: the bolts that I just took, and I have to
Speaker 1: put this ten digit code in when I get there.
Speaker 1: That that's complete nonsense. I just said, you love to
Speaker 1: stale to the self checkout. I don't know I was shot.
Speaker 1: I was joking. You can put those I never steal.
Speaker 2: When's the last time you needed a bolt? You personally
Speaker 2: needed a bolt?
Speaker 1: I mean constantly. I've been organized in my garage recently,
Speaker 1: and I'm putting all the bolts by the way. I
Speaker 1: couldn't want. I want to retire so bad so that
Speaker 1: I can just tinker like an old man. I was
Speaker 1: born to be a grandpa. Like that's my goal in life.
Speaker 2: Like what kind of tanker in would you do?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But right now I'm just putting all
Speaker 1: my nuts and my bolts. And I got an organizer
Speaker 1: on the guy. One of the workers bought me an organizer.
Speaker 1: Now I'm putting all the bolts everywhere.
Speaker 2: Like do you do your own home projects and everything?
Speaker 1: I know, but I like to I like to hire
Speaker 1: somebody because I like to pay it forward and that
Speaker 1: can do things better than me, and then I like
Speaker 1: to be their assistant for the day and they just
Speaker 1: get annoyed. But they think it's funny that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, I got a bolt, this will work.
Speaker 1: All they're surprised some of the power tools I have.
Speaker 1: You got a good garage setup or no.
Speaker 2: Yeah I got a good setup.
Speaker 1: Nice, I got a good side.
Speaker 2: We have sheds. We don't have garage.
Speaker 1: You have a shed shed? Oh I don't have a shed.
Speaker 1: Would you say that it's actually your business is getting
Speaker 1: better recruiting younger people, because I feel like people are
Speaker 1: less likely now to do like four year college degrees,
Speaker 1: where everyone thought that's what they had to do, and
Speaker 1: now they're realizing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean our generation, you're probably the same age,
Speaker 2: the same age, right, everybody was told they have to
Speaker 2: go to college. You don't go to college, You're going
Speaker 2: to be a rubbishman. Well, a rubbishment that work on
Speaker 2: the union contracts. I'm making almost three thousand dollars per
Speaker 2: week in some areas. They've got great healthcare, they've got
Speaker 2: great pensions.
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be on the back of a
Speaker 1: trash truck, and nowadays you don't even get to hang
Speaker 1: on the back of a trash truck. They've got the
Speaker 1: stupid arms that lift things up, which I've always wondered,
Speaker 1: how are they really lining that thing up? Not that
Speaker 1: this is in your world, but I was just curious
Speaker 1: about that. Do those trucks just automatically stop and know
Speaker 1: where the trains is? How are they figuring out? Right now?
Speaker 2: Not right now?
Speaker 1: They don't truckers think long shoreman or assholes.
Speaker 2: No, no, we love the long showman. Okay, we love them,
Speaker 2: you know, I said this recently. So where we grew up,
Speaker 2: you're either going to be a team star, long shoreman, firefighter,
Speaker 2: a police officer, or a criminal, right or both? And
Speaker 2: and and the best yeah right, and the best part
Speaker 2: is a long shoreman. You know, it's a business that
Speaker 2: runs concurrently with with teamsters because you're bringing goods off
Speaker 2: of off a ship, put them on a truck and
Speaker 2: would deliver them. But it was funny all the kids
Speaker 2: and the long shoreman their characters. Hard workers put their
Speaker 2: characters right. And they're all related because they passed down
Speaker 2: their membership cards from generation to generation. But all the
Speaker 2: long shoreman kids in the neighborhood or wherever you were from,
Speaker 2: they all get the same ship for Christmas. And I
Speaker 2: could never figure out how they did that, you know,
Speaker 2: like they would get the same ship.
Speaker 1: For Christmas very where they got it.
Speaker 2: But that was back in the day. It's different.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, much different now. By the way, everybody's
Speaker 1: on the show gets gifts. Okay, do you ever wear glasses? Sunglasses?
Speaker 1: I got your parasite. These are tom for Do you
Speaker 1: buy expensive sunglasses or somebody that's like, oh, I'll lose them.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be.
Speaker 2: Because of my great union, we have an unbelievable vision
Speaker 2: plan where we get high end glasses as well for
Speaker 2: the prescription.
Speaker 1: Well here, these these are a little too uh like
Speaker 1: I don't know, like shooter range. For me, they're tom Ford.
Speaker 1: They're probably five hundred bucks. Okay, but I want you
Speaker 1: to have those.
Speaker 2: These are nice?
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, knowing how handy you are at home
Speaker 2: and you're into tools, I would think these are like
Speaker 2: welding goggles.
Speaker 1: Now let me see. We put them on me see look, okay,
Speaker 1: I won't lie to you if they if they look
Speaker 1: battles No, they're not bad. They looks scary.
Speaker 2: I like they work. Those those are you're a dead man,
Speaker 2: thank you. Now.
Speaker 1: I used to do a show on comedy Central green screen,
Speaker 1: and I would a lot of times shoot stuff at
Speaker 1: my house and I had my own green screen at home.
Speaker 1: And then this is some of my green screen. It's
Speaker 1: it's my version of the green Monster. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: just point you to have my green Monster there. If
Speaker 1: you hold this up like like if they I hold
Speaker 1: this up right now, they're gonna put a penis on
Speaker 1: it right next to my face. I know it.
Speaker 2: I know I'm not going to hold it up next
Speaker 2: to hold it right next your face.
Speaker 1: We'll put something nice. No, you know, you know? Do
Speaker 1: you know who Mitch Hedburg was. He was a comedian.
Speaker 1: He died in the early two thousands. Yeah. Anyway, He's
Speaker 1: always had a bumper sticker of his that I loved
Speaker 1: and it said it's a joke. He had it's this
Speaker 1: I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
Speaker 1: It's a smart joke. It's a good joe. You'll you
Speaker 1: keep that.
Speaker 2: It's a classic nobody. God rests Mitch's soult.
Speaker 1: By the way, the funny thing about Mitch is is
Speaker 1: Mitch hedburg dot Net. He didn't have dot com. Might
Speaker 1: be the funniest thing about Mitch Hedburg here's a I
Speaker 1: don't have this trucker hat is my buddy sells mobile
Speaker 1: homes in Malibu, you know, two million dollars mobile homes.
Speaker 1: But this is his hat his company had. But no,
Speaker 1: it's a great hat, but it doesn't fit me because
Speaker 1: my head's too big.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great have like we are a mobile
Speaker 2: home that look like that.
Speaker 1: Well, that's just it.
Speaker 2: Could be like strange of danger, like there'd be some
Speaker 2: that's some guy coming out in a clouds food asking
Speaker 2: a piece of candy. This is crazy here.
Speaker 1: I don't know this escape. This is from my tour,
Speaker 1: the Great Nor'easter Tour. I did this in twenty fifty.
Speaker 1: Its just in Boston. It was everywhere. That's a sign.
Speaker 1: You give that to one of your kids if they
Speaker 1: escaped for so much.
Speaker 2: My oldest son is is trying to do stand up
Speaker 2: right now. He's just going to stand up.
Speaker 1: Well, by the way, the thing can't. Let's just throw
Speaker 1: all this on the floor. I don't like to show
Speaker 1: my desk. Don't scratch my desk, for God's sake, Sean.
Speaker 2: I feel like you're cleaning ship that you don't want anymore.
Speaker 1: Own, Sean. That's what I do every episode. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: the bit.
Speaker 2: Do you have like a car or something you don't want? No?
Speaker 1: I love my car. Just checking where are you at
Speaker 1: on electric cars?
Speaker 2: I don't like electric cars at all?
Speaker 1: I mean you don't think they're fun to drive.
Speaker 2: I have a drove one. Like. Look, electric cars, the batteries,
Speaker 2: all this shiit, they're gonna put people out of work.
Speaker 2: We're about combustible engines. We want that power.
Speaker 1: You know, I got power, got to hit eight hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five horse power.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you know you talked about, you know
Speaker 2: how you edged well driving a vehicle. Listen, one time
Speaker 2: I focus on one you it's the A D D
Speaker 2: kicking and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You're focused on your lasers.
Speaker 2: Right, so you know you think about your edging, right,
Speaker 2: you have this, you can't stop thinking about it. A
Speaker 2: powerful motive like just you're thinking about like a scene
Speaker 2: from Danny Zuko in Greece. Right, I'm racing, not grease lightning, right,
Speaker 2: all right, and that's gonna go. That's gonna get your
Speaker 2: juices flowing.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to stay away. Kill my hill.
Speaker 2: You're pulling a hill in a tesla, right, I mean.
Speaker 1: Is that I don't ride. I'm a Rivian man.
Speaker 2: All right, So you're a Rivian Uh huh even even better,
Speaker 2: thank you the fake version of a super rul. But anyways, right,
Speaker 2: so anyway.
Speaker 1: Japanese American American design.
Speaker 2: Pulling that big hill and you're not hearing anything. You're
Speaker 2: not hearing any engine combustion. How does that?
Speaker 1: How is that going to help you with the music?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we go, I'm rocking out the music. What
Speaker 1: kind of music do you listen to?
Speaker 2: I like church music? What now, I'm only knning. I'm
Speaker 2: a hot cosch listen. I love Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg's
Speaker 2: invest Well, okay, I listened to all the music. I
Speaker 2: listened to Van Halen Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 1: You know, that's all the music from Van Hammen to
Speaker 1: Snoop Doggs and everything in between. Did you like the
Speaker 1: halftime show at the Super Bowl this year, Jack Kendrick Lamar?
Speaker 2: It was good. It was decent there, all right.
Speaker 1: You care about Boston sports. Your whole life is still
Speaker 1: mad about it.
Speaker 2: I love it growing up, you know. I tell my
Speaker 2: kids this all the time. They're twenty three and twenty.
Speaker 2: They got the opportunity to see all of our sports
Speaker 2: teams win multiple world championships. They were born in two
Speaker 2: thousand and one, two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: His kids have it too good growing up.
Speaker 2: The only team that won the championship, National championship with
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics eighty five, eighty six, whatever it was
Speaker 2: with Larry Bird and that crew. Otherwise, our teams were
Speaker 2: awful until you know, the last decades.
Speaker 1: I have a theory that the next generation of Boston
Speaker 1: kids that went through all this winning, there're gonna be
Speaker 1: nothing but huge busies.
Speaker 4: Probably, yeah, manic depressants. Yeah, there's no doubt they've been
Speaker 4: winning too much. Let me prove to you that I
Speaker 4: don't hate Boston sports. I took my father, who's a
Speaker 4: diehard Saint Louis Cardinals fan, grew up we were we went.
Speaker 4: I took him to the World Series in two thousand
Speaker 4: and four against the Red soft This was this was
Speaker 4: the year you finally guys didn't fuck things up.
Speaker 2: Bucknuart Buck. I didn't let a ground ball go between
Speaker 2: his lifts.
Speaker 1: Well, the first game I took my dad, we had
Speaker 1: tickets to games three and four, and the first game, uh,
Speaker 1: we lost, and he was he was like, hey, thank you.
Speaker 1: You know, he grew up poor in Saint Louis and
Speaker 1: now he was at the World Series, and he thanked
Speaker 1: me for giving him like a dream come true to
Speaker 1: go see the Cardinals in the World Series. But he goes,
Speaker 1: this is not this is this is Boston's time. Let's
Speaker 1: let's sell the tickets for tomorrow's game.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: He was. He was right, and we found some Boston
Speaker 1: guys sold in the tickets and we stayed home and
Speaker 1: watch like, yeah, it's their time. As somebody that grew
Speaker 1: up in Florida and cheered for Florida teams, I've always
Speaker 1: I'm I've never hated Boston teams.
Speaker 2: You definitely have.
Speaker 1: I here's the thing, I'm gonna be honest with you. Sure,
Speaker 1: but whatever, I I hated Tom Brady, I never hated Belichick.
Speaker 1: I thought he was playing. Sure, I guess for if
Speaker 1: you're into giraffes, uh not my cup of TEA favorite
Speaker 1: favorite Patriot football player of all time?
Speaker 2: Go? My favorite football player had to be John Hannah.
Speaker 1: I was going Aaron Hernandez, No, oh, you kidding me?
Speaker 1: That guy was great on the field and off just
Speaker 1: loads of fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fuck Mary killed. You
Speaker 1: know the game.
Speaker 2: I've heard about it, never played it.
Speaker 1: All right, I give you three people. You have to
Speaker 1: f one, you have to marry one, you have to
Speaker 1: kill one. Here you go, Larry Bird, Tom Brady, Big Poppy.
Speaker 2: Larry Bird will probably you're marrying him. Marry Larry Bird.
Speaker 2: F Tom Brady, oh, and probably kill Big Poppy or Poppy. Yeah, an, listen,
Speaker 2: not because I dislike him. I mean that was the
Speaker 2: only choice left.
Speaker 1: I always worry about interviewing, uh, like powerful people like yourself,
Speaker 1: that that one day something's gonna happen and there's gonna
Speaker 1: be horrible skeletons that come out of your closet, and
Speaker 1: then they show us being all buddy buddy, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like, I didn't know that about him. Do
Speaker 1: you have any skeletons in your closet that I should
Speaker 1: worry about? There's my question.
Speaker 2: Conversely, I could pose the same question.
Speaker 1: To you exactly. I'm none any of that. I mean none, Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm an open book. I'll tell anybody anything.
Speaker 2: I mean. I think one of one of the clarifications
Speaker 2: that we got right out of the way is I've
Speaker 2: never played with myself. Always driving a track to trail,
Speaker 2: so you don't have to worry about the you don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about that coming out.
Speaker 1: All right, How would you fix America? Assuming you think
Speaker 1: it's broken?
Speaker 2: There's room for improvement with everything, and I think you
Speaker 2: can see it right now, and we've seen it in
Speaker 2: previous administrations. And for the last twenty years, there has
Speaker 2: been such a line drawn on the sand and there's
Speaker 2: been such an attack when people have difference of opinions.
Speaker 2: And I think, or the way I was brought up,
Speaker 2: that you can have a difference of opinions, but we
Speaker 2: should respect each other's difference of opinions, have respectful debate
Speaker 2: and dialogue and find solutions to problems. So I think
Speaker 2: that's the biggest problem right now.
Speaker 1: How does anyone win an election without being pro labor?
Speaker 2: I think people need to be transparent and inclusive, whether
Speaker 2: you're a pro labor or not pro labor. We want
Speaker 2: everybody to be pro labor. We want everybody to embrace
Speaker 2: American workers. But I think if you're going to be
Speaker 2: a politician running for any any office, you know what
Speaker 2: you say you need to deliver on and what you
Speaker 2: can't deliver on, you can't make promises that are unattainable.
Speaker 2: And I think summing that up, people that run for office,
Speaker 2: regardless of anything, need to have credibility.
Speaker 1: Do you have big aspirations down the road.
Speaker 2: I've met my biggest aspiration, I know.
Speaker 1: But are you going to go bigger? You're gonna swing bigger.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything bigger than this.
Speaker 1: You don't think you're going to run this country.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I could pass the background check
Speaker 2: to run.
Speaker 1: Let's be clear that that ship is sailed.
Speaker 2: You know, good point, Good point. I just threw you
Speaker 2: the biggest softball in the world, didn't I.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be You got the whole You figured life
Speaker 1: out good for you. Are you a happy person? I am?
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: I'm the happiest person in the world. I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 2: I wake up every day and I try to make
Speaker 2: a conscious effort not to complain about anything, and I
Speaker 2: do complain.
Speaker 1: Well, don't bottle that out.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I got
Speaker 2: a great Greek kids, I've got great partners. My mother
Speaker 2: is still with us, I've got two great brothers. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm living a dream to be honest with me. I'm thrilled.
Speaker 2: This time is trying, and I've got the best job
Speaker 2: in the world.
Speaker 1: All right, Sean, you've done everything. I appreciate it. Thank
Speaker 1: you for being on the show, and good luck fixing
Speaker 1: our country forever.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Psha. I want to thank Sean for being
Speaker 1: on the show and for keeping this country running smooth.
Speaker 1: I appreciate Also, if I if you would never have
Speaker 1: me killed, you think you could have me killed? Yes?
Speaker 2: Like that?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? Oh man, that's pretty neat. Anyway. How you doing, Carl?
Speaker 1: You look fresh, You got hair in front of you.
Speaker 1: It worked you in the union. You can't answer that, right,
Speaker 1: how long you've been in the union? Answer me?
Speaker 3: He's walked, Carl walked, strike, he's on strike.
Speaker 1: Jump Carl. Sorry, I startle you was pretty good? You
Speaker 1: didn't You didn't like that, did you? I hit the
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Speaker 1: plug music. Oh man, how's your bracket? This week's free
Speaker 1: plug is for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Not to be
Speaker 1: confused with Southern Illinois University, which is in Carbondale, but
Speaker 1: they don't include the town in the name of the
Speaker 1: school at that location. Anyway. Fuck SIU. Now they didn't
Speaker 1: make the NCAA tournament, but you know who did, SIUE.
Speaker 1: That's right, baby, the Cougars. Now you might be saying
Speaker 1: I've never heard of SIU. E Well, neither had I
Speaker 1: before the free plug. But with over twelve thousand students
Speaker 1: enrolled at ninety eight percent acceptance rate, whoa, they're turning
Speaker 1: no one away. You imagine getting that rejection letter. That
Speaker 1: is that is a bitter pill. It's only fourteen thousand
Speaker 1: tuition after financial aid? Is that a semester or a year? Year?
Speaker 1: They still have financial aid. I'm guessing that's drying up soon.
Speaker 3: Of their degrees are registered nursing.
Speaker 1: A lot of nurses. Twenty one percent of their degrees
Speaker 1: are registered nurses. The other registered sex offenders. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's you know, you don't have to be a registered nurse.
Speaker 1: It's good to register. It's like when you buy something
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, go to our website and you know,
Speaker 1: register your product. I was like, I never do that.
Speaker 1: But some of these nurses when they graduate, that might
Speaker 1: be something different.
Speaker 3: Notable alumni here Kathleen Madigan.
Speaker 1: Kathleen Madigan, funny comedian, graduated from SIUE. Kathleen's from Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. She just jumps over the river there.
Speaker 1: Goes to s i u E. A lot a lot
Speaker 1: of famous the lums, Bill Gates went there, drove through there,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You can say anything. Frank Sinatra took
Speaker 1: some classes there. I'm pretty sure Sharon Stone audited a
Speaker 1: class once there. Andy Garcia, Andy Garcia, no ship, Yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, he went there for a bit. S i
Speaker 1: u E. The Cougars s i u E. What's that spell? Success?
Speaker 1: Congratulations s i u E on one hell of a
Speaker 1: Cinderella run. See you next week