Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty. How do you like
Speaker 1: my garbage truck?
Speaker 2: This truck is an honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: That is Donald trumk Donald Trump in a garbage truck
Speaker 1: yesterday in the Orange Vest. And that was that alone
Speaker 1: before he did his rally in the Orange Vest which
Speaker 1: we're about to play from. Was well, we got this text.
Speaker 1: Many of them like it. That garbage truck routine was
Speaker 1: one of the best political stunts I've ever seen. That
Speaker 1: was good and well pulled off, good idea. I think
Speaker 1: it landed it in every way. I would agree, regardless
Speaker 1: of the origin of the garbage phrase and apostrophes and
Speaker 1: gaffs and or senility or whatever, if it creates enough
Speaker 1: wind to blow this ship across the ocean, that wind
Speaker 1: is real. It doesn't matter if the origin was funky.
Speaker 1: It's one of the great gaffs in political history. Now
Speaker 1: the media went out of its way to do the
Speaker 1: whole It's a cliche. If you're into this, once you
Speaker 1: become aware of it, it becomes so obvious and an omnipresent.
Speaker 1: But the whole Republicans pounce. Usually they use a different
Speaker 1: version of Republicans pounce, They word it in a different way.
Speaker 1: David Muir ABC News last night actually led with I
Speaker 1: think it was the first words out of his mouth,
Speaker 1: Republicans pouncing today on comments by Joe Biden. So if
Speaker 1: it had been the other way around, it would been
Speaker 1: Donald Trump calls half of Americans trash, and then you know,
Speaker 1: put the Republicans in the position of defending that. If
Speaker 1: a Democrat says it, it's Republicans pouts. They don't have
Speaker 1: to defend that. The Democrats don't have to defend it.
Speaker 1: It's just the way the Republicans are trying to use
Speaker 1: something right. The discussion is about, indeed, the evil Republicans
Speaker 1: and how they're trying to exploit something usually unfairly. A
Speaker 1: more direct and concrete example the headline for Days and
Speaker 1: Days and Days, Trump holds racist rally at Madison Square Garden, right,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Not and then when Biden says what he says,
Speaker 1: Republicans pounce, attempting to exploit Joe Biden's gaff that's funny
Speaker 1: how you look at those things the sum total. In
Speaker 1: the New York Times of Politics yesterday, at rallies, Harris
Speaker 1: stresses unity as Trump attacks Biden's garbage comment. So Trump's
Speaker 1: attacking a comment, they're not having to defend it. Well,
Speaker 1: Harris is just stressing unity. Oh who's against unity? It's
Speaker 1: just it's it's it's amazing how far they're willing to go.
Speaker 1: It's oh, sorry, dropped my water bottle. Okay, right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so it remained closed. You got to do
Speaker 1: an endorsement deal with that water bottle. That's amazing it
Speaker 1: stayed closed. Anyway. So Trump does a rally last night.
Speaker 1: He leaves the garbage vest on and starts talking about it.
Speaker 1: At the rally. I'm in this beautiful plane.
Speaker 2: I'm enjoying myself, have a wonderful suit on.
Speaker 1: And one of my people came in.
Speaker 2: He said, sir, you know, the word garbage is the
Speaker 2: hottest thing right now, the hottest thing out there. Sir,
Speaker 2: would you like to drive a garbage truck?
Speaker 1: Listen to the crowd reaction to that, and what a
Speaker 1: great setup. The word garbage is the hottest thing right now.
Speaker 1: Don't need to explain the whole thing. He knows all
Speaker 1: the people in Marina are completely aware of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fantastic. And then he tells this story, I climbed into.
Speaker 2: The truck, but he so, I said, how the hell
Speaker 2: do you get into this truck?
Speaker 1: It's way up high, it's a big way. This was
Speaker 1: a beauty. I said, you didn't have.
Speaker 2: To buy it that big, right, you have to get
Speaker 2: it that big? And I said, man, this is bad
Speaker 2: because now I have all the cameras or all what look,
Speaker 2: look at all the fake news there were most of them.
Speaker 2: So I said, man, if I don't get up there,
Speaker 2: this is going to be very embarrassing.
Speaker 1: He's stupid people.
Speaker 2: They'll say, he's cognitively and physically appeared. So look, so
Speaker 2: the stairs, the first stair is like up here.
Speaker 1: I was like, so, I had the adrenaline going, and
Speaker 1: I made it. I don't hear many politicians do that self,
Speaker 1: deprecating about age, weight, his hair thing, the way he
Speaker 1: does for all his vanity and everything like that. What
Speaker 1: he talks about. I hope it's not windy, you know,
Speaker 1: I got that whole hair thing going, or talking about
Speaker 1: the vest that they said it makes you look thinner. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's unquestionably a vein of hanger running through our politics
Speaker 1: right now. But who's laughing, who's having fun? Where's the
Speaker 1: actual joy? I don't think it's commless peeps. Oh, I
Speaker 1: mean about fascists and Nazis. I watched this video like
Speaker 1: twice last night. When he drops that S bomb, he said,
Speaker 1: I look at that first step and I said S.
Speaker 1: Everybody behind him threw back their heads in laughter, right right,
Speaker 1: because it's real. I always remembered the one that made
Speaker 1: the biggest impression. This was way back in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: when he showed up to the big motorcycle rally in
Speaker 1: a limo and his suit, and he did the opposite
Speaker 1: of what every single politician my whole adult life is done,
Speaker 1: where they put on the motorcycle vest that somebody bought
Speaker 1: for him and they ride in on her life if
Speaker 1: they know how to, or on the back of one
Speaker 1: if they don't, and you know, to be part of
Speaker 1: the crowd and their genes that are obviously brand new.
Speaker 1: He showed up in his suit and he said I
Speaker 1: like motorcycles. I like limos, and the crowd howled with laughter,
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, that is a good one. I know,
Speaker 1: I know it's I was watching it just loving it, laughing.
Speaker 1: I laughed out loud like it was a comedy routine,
Speaker 1: like five times watching his setup to the whole Orange
Speaker 1: Vest thing, and I thought, man, there's so many people
Speaker 1: that just hate him so much. There's no way they
Speaker 1: could possibly enjoy this on any level. It's an odd comment,
Speaker 1: but I've read a couple of my favorite thinkers making
Speaker 1: the same comment, and that is when we know the
Speaker 1: result in retrospect, it's going to be so obvious how
Speaker 1: we got. Oh yeah, absolutely in either direction, which is
Speaker 1: a head scratcher. Yes it is. It doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: but either one wins. You could say, well, of course
Speaker 1: half the country hates Trump, always has. He's never gotten
Speaker 1: above of forty eight percent. Of course he lost, or
Speaker 1: the other way around, inflation, she's a dunce, etc. With
Speaker 1: no track records running on a fourth Obama term, nobody's
Speaker 1: going to vote for that. Of courtine, fun and laughter
Speaker 1: was on Trump's that's obvious that he pundit who said
Speaker 1: otherwise is right. So we'll just all find out together,
Speaker 1: I hope Wednesday morning. Back to Biden's what is the
Speaker 1: comment we got it there, Michael, the short version there
Speaker 1: Biden garbage I see flowed out there is his supporters.
Speaker 1: You can hear the apostrophe. Yes, my headphones must not
Speaker 1: be working. Didn't sound like an apostrophe to me, as
Speaker 1: Charlie she Cook of National Review tweeted out last night,
Speaker 1: I listened to it again. I think I heard an umlot.
Speaker 3: Garbage I see flowed out there is his supporters.
Speaker 1: Oh, anyway, whether this apostrophe or not, I was watching
Speaker 1: one of my podcasts last night, this Democratic strategist, and
Speaker 1: he said, he said, I'm sorry to say this to
Speaker 1: other Democrats, but we all know it's true. Whether he
Speaker 1: meant it in that context or not, that is how
Speaker 1: he feels about Trump supporters for real. He thinks they
Speaker 1: have the garbagetic definition of a gaff accidentally saying what
Speaker 1: you really believe? Right. And Mark Alpern, who talks to
Speaker 1: so many people, he said, every Democrat I know in
Speaker 1: government feels that way about Trump supporters. They just do
Speaker 1: so it. You know, if you have that level of
Speaker 1: contempt for that voter, how does that sort of thing
Speaker 1: not come out? You know, I'm a reasonably bright guy,
Speaker 1: but that had escaped me. That is beautifully, simply, powerfully true.
Speaker 1: The reason it landed so fertilely is that it confirms
Speaker 1: what is true, even if the old man misspoke. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't portray a candidate as a racist, fascist, sexist
Speaker 1: monster Hitler fan, but exact as followers from the accusation
Speaker 1: of being evil. I understand the people who support them
Speaker 1: are actually nice people. No, that math doesn't work. No, no,
Speaker 1: you can't have Hitler packing arenas, but distance put distance
Speaker 1: between Hitler and the people who are following him. It
Speaker 1: just yeah, it does not work, right' the good Germans argument.
Speaker 1: If you're familiar with that part of history. Anyway, this
Speaker 1: I still say, And I got to work through my
Speaker 1: memory banks. I mean, maybe somebody said something stupid in
Speaker 1: the Lincoln Douglas debates that I've forgotten, But I think
Speaker 1: this may be the most impactful gaff in presidential campaign history.
Speaker 1: And as I've heard other people say, so, is it
Speaker 1: still a mystery why Kamala doesn't have Biden on the
Speaker 1: campaign trail with him? Oh? Yeah, Oh, I tell you
Speaker 1: what is a mystery? Unless you had more to say
Speaker 1: on that thing. If I got him, he's handed out
Speaker 1: candy to babies for Halloween. I mean, he's not eating them.
Speaker 1: That's what got to me. Eats babies. That's my headline.
Speaker 1: Please walking dead, some beats babies. But if you get
Speaker 1: a mic in his face, he's gonna say something that's,
Speaker 1: you know, a forty eight hour news story. So you
Speaker 1: got to keep on mind I go away from him.
Speaker 1: They should lock him up. Yeah, it's gonna be more
Speaker 1: than forty eight hours. People are going to be talking
Speaker 1: about that waiting to vote on Tuesday. I guarant freaking
Speaker 1: tee it. Speaking of mysteries, why the hell does Donald
Speaker 1: Jay not have Nicki Haley out campaigning for him. I
Speaker 1: think it's that, you know, there are many aspects of
Speaker 1: Trump's personality that are awful, awful, and he wins despite
Speaker 1: many aspects of his personality. I think this is one
Speaker 1: of them where he's just so petulant about the fact
Speaker 1: that she ran against him, because it makes no political
Speaker 1: sense whatsoever. She's saying nice things out there even at
Speaker 1: this linked date, and and she said the other day
Speaker 1: she hasn't talked to him since June. They haven't had
Speaker 1: a conversation since June. She's made clear in interviews that
Speaker 1: she's willing to go out there and campaign for him,
Speaker 1: and he won't do it because he's petulant, because he's child.
Speaker 1: They furnish the campaign with a list of dates that
Speaker 1: she'd be willing to travel in do campaign events. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she is the perfect emissary to the undecided suburban woman,
Speaker 1: and because of his petulance, he wont to utilize. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The whole argument that I keep hearing from strategists on
Speaker 1: MSNBC and CNN as they're trying to get the Nicki
Speaker 1: Haley voter. Kamala Harris is trying to get the Nicki
Speaker 1: Haley voter in the suburbs, those people that you don't
Speaker 1: send Nicki Haley out to get the Nicki Haley voter.
Speaker 1: What's what's the best way to appeal to the Nicki
Speaker 1: Haley voter? Maybe with Nicki Haley and she wants to
Speaker 1: do it, but because you're a child, you won't let
Speaker 1: her go out there. Tell you what if we end
Speaker 1: up with President Kamala, Oh shutter runs through everyone on
Speaker 1: this Halloween. Yeah, that's the sound right there. But if
Speaker 1: we end up with President Kamala, this will be his
Speaker 1: Hillary didn't go to Wisconsin. Ah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's a good one, one hundred percent. It will live
Speaker 1: in infamy. It's embarrassingly dumb to not have Nicki Haley
Speaker 1: in the suburbs of Detroit today. Sure, yeah, yeah, giving
Speaker 1: you talk about permission structure, giving all those people who
Speaker 1: like Nicky Haley women the permission structure to vote for Trump.
Speaker 1: But she is so articulate as a prosecutor of Kamala's
Speaker 1: inadequacies and a grudging supporter of Trump's. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's ella fantine idiocy on Trump's part, sorry,
Speaker 1: and born out of just childish emotions. Struck. It's it's
Speaker 1: very it's very magning. On the other hand, the dump
Speaker 1: truck gag is one of the funniest and best political
Speaker 1: uh stunts I've ever seen in my life. It's perfect.
Speaker 1: It was really good. What do you think of it?
Speaker 1: Text line four one five two KFTC. How do you
Speaker 1: like my garbage truck?
Speaker 2: This truck is an honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Up charge shuttles under this ball, but DoD dropshon Can
Speaker 1: Hernandez get to the back before the flow he dodges?
Speaker 1: There are coal flows in a ground ball left side
Speaker 1: will be with another break for away grand blead side rizzle.
Speaker 1: Nobody at first. Freddy Freeman on one too in the
Speaker 1: center field of baser Tabo runs the score. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: take advantage of the bad defense from New York in
Speaker 1: the air to left center field. Judge on the run,
Speaker 1: dead's sprinting out of the track that's over his head.
Speaker 2: Send a score, Freddie Freeman for the play, and this game.
Speaker 1: Is gonna turned upside down? Was that me in the outfield?
Speaker 1: That was me as an eleven year old in the outfield?
Speaker 1: The error after error compounded by mental errors by the Yankees.
Speaker 1: They were If it was a high school team, there
Speaker 1: would have been a serious chewing out of the defense.
Speaker 1: That was awful. You fifth inning turned the whole game
Speaker 1: and won the series for La last night. You often
Speaker 1: here in Super Bowls, World Series, or whatever, it's a
Speaker 1: shame either team has to lose. That wasn't a shame
Speaker 1: Yankees had to lose. They sucked. Nobody's ever sucked like
Speaker 1: that in one inning ever in the history of the
Speaker 1: World Series. That was the all time suckiest suckage ever
Speaker 1: in the World Series. That's correct. It's been confirmed by
Speaker 1: baseball historians. The only appropriate response, of course, torches city Boss.
Speaker 3: This has really been sideways here in the last half hour.
Speaker 3: It's been going on for at least thirty minutes. The
Speaker 3: initial calls came in about thirty minutes ago. Reports are
Speaker 3: four to five hundred people inside of this Nike flagship store.
Speaker 3: It's a Jordan flagship store in downtown La at Broadway
Speaker 3: in six. You can see thirty minutes later there are
Speaker 3: still tons of shoes walking away. We're watching people going
Speaker 3: in and out. As you have mentioned, there have been
Speaker 3: a number of getaway vehicles waiting for the merchandise to
Speaker 3: walk out. They stuffed the trunks, they get in the
Speaker 3: car and they drive away.
Speaker 1: Well, we call it what crime if you want, I
Speaker 1: call it looting back, systemic racism or something. Oh boy, yeah,
Speaker 1: which brings us to what this stuff actually is. It's portrayed,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason by the media, is LA fan Dodgers
Speaker 1: fans rioted last night, their enthusiasm God blah blah blah blah. No,
Speaker 1: whenever there is a crowd, there are those who would
Speaker 1: exploit it to commit crimes and commit mayhem. We saw
Speaker 1: it in the Black Lives Matter rallies and marches. Some
Speaker 1: of those people were just out there marching in favor
Speaker 1: of what they thought was, you know, civil rights. It
Speaker 1: was actually in favor of Marxism. But the criminals and
Speaker 1: scumbags exploit that and commit crimes and we let them
Speaker 1: get away with it. Now, my whole life, I've never
Speaker 1: understood why we taxpayers have to put up with if
Speaker 1: our team wins, we let people set a bus on fire.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to cost a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollary play one hundred thousand dollars of tax paramony to
Speaker 1: replace a bus because you know, they get to do
Speaker 1: that for some reason. What the hell More From KABC Michael,
Speaker 1: it seems like.
Speaker 4: The celebrations definitely got out of hand last night, people
Speaker 4: doing donuts, even setting an MTA bus on fire. I'll
Speaker 4: step out the way because they're actually crews are here
Speaker 4: trying to actually toe that bus from the scene here,
Speaker 4: But there is debris all over the road here, and
Speaker 4: a spokesperson for Metro tells Ewen as sneeze, a bus
Speaker 4: operator and five people had to evacuate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, people who are probably fearing for their lives.
Speaker 1: In addition to the cost the taxpayers have to pay
Speaker 1: for the bus. We just put up with it because
Speaker 1: lawlessness is okay, I guess the celebrations got out of hand, okay?
Speaker 1: Is that what happened? It wouldn't be very hard to
Speaker 1: make it clear going forward in all cities that you
Speaker 1: don't do this, you'll spend so much time in jail
Speaker 1: or get hit in the head so hard with a
Speaker 1: stick or whatever it takes that you just don't do
Speaker 1: it because you don't need to do it. It's not
Speaker 1: That's what's happened. Is there's this weird belief that you
Speaker 1: need to have that happen. There's just no stopping it,
Speaker 1: and there's zero chance to George Giscones of the world whatever,
Speaker 1: prosecute the looters around right.
Speaker 5: Hey, you guys see this today Arnold Hoarzenegger endorsed Vice
Speaker 5: President Harris.
Speaker 1: Although everything Arnold says sort of sounds like Kama.
Speaker 6: Kammara, let's get to the kamala Kama.
Speaker 1: Is the orient omelet. What does he say out of
Speaker 1: the the mont thermometer. I read that long piece from
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger, all the stuff about how government sucks and
Speaker 1: how much he hates politicians I really really liked. Then
Speaker 1: I didn't. Then I didn't quite get the turn toward
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris at the end. But boy, I read it
Speaker 1: and I had the same reaction. I was like, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: how did we get here? All right? Hey, we were
Speaker 1: just talking about the riot in La that happened. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this too good. Just real quickly
Speaker 1: before we get back to that, this is Ai Arnold
Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger bringing it all together twelve Michael.
Speaker 6: I was working in the lab the night when my
Speaker 6: eyes beheld from a monster from his slab begin to rise,
Speaker 6: and suddenly, to my surprise, then.
Speaker 1: It's okay. So that's what's going to be in the
Speaker 1: big T. Humanity is fire or the Internet to Arnold
Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger kind of be impersonated doing the monster mash. We're
Speaker 1: thinking it it might replace the need for human beings
Speaker 1: to work. But as it turns out, no, no, not
Speaker 1: so much. Anyway, back to anger. So there was riding
Speaker 1: in La last night after the World Series because the
Speaker 1: Dodgers won, and then somehow society decided many decades ago
Speaker 1: that if your team wins or loses, as you point out,
Speaker 1: you get to destroy a whole bunch of public property
Speaker 1: that taxpayers pay for, and then private property that insurance
Speaker 1: companies then cover and boosting up the price for all
Speaker 1: of us. And we just decided that's okay. I hadn't
Speaker 1: I knew what had happened in La I read about it,
Speaker 1: but I hadn't seen the picture. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the guys walking out of the Nike store with boxes
Speaker 1: stacked upon boxes of new shoes because why shouldn't they
Speaker 1: get to steal shoes because the Dodgers won. They'll just
Speaker 1: let them do it, I guess. And then all these
Speaker 1: cops gathered around all these people who are rioting, just
Speaker 1: letting them do it. I don't understand why. I'm a
Speaker 1: law and order guy freaking bring them down. I don't
Speaker 1: care what it takes. You don't get to do that.
Speaker 1: And then guess what, next time it doesn't happen because
Speaker 1: people realize that they don't put up with that anymore.
Speaker 1: And then the bus, the bus covered in spray paint,
Speaker 1: all the windows, bashed out, people on top of it,
Speaker 1: setting it on fire. Why in the hell would society
Speaker 1: put up with that? Tell you this NYPD cracked down
Speaker 1: good and arrested a bunch of people after the rioting
Speaker 1: and the anti Semitic riots that happened last year or
Speaker 1: earlier this year, I guess it was and lost and
Speaker 1: lots of those people sued for being maltreated or roughed
Speaker 1: up or what have you. In the city settled with
Speaker 1: him and wrote a ton of checks, and virtually nobody
Speaker 1: was prosecuted. I feel like I feel like as a libertarian,
Speaker 1: I feel like, if I'm trying to destroy a city
Speaker 1: bus that taxpayers paid for, a cop has every right
Speaker 1: to hit me in the head with a stick if
Speaker 1: he has to to get me to stop. After being
Speaker 1: ordered to stop, I don't stop. I continue to destroy property.
Speaker 1: Why why would society allow that? It's the overripe fruit,
Speaker 1: It's the good times create soft people, the absence of
Speaker 1: realism in the midst of affluence. I don't know however
Speaker 1: you want to characterize it, but yeah, we've completely lost
Speaker 1: the very basic principles of what keeps order in a society.
Speaker 1: And I'm not some sort of you know, right wing
Speaker 1: lunatic or anything like that. I want fewer laws, but
Speaker 1: just like good parenting, consistently enforced, study after study, shows,
Speaker 1: you know, in the field law enforcement, politics and policy
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. It's not the severity of
Speaker 1: a punishment that increases deterrence. It's the certainty of the
Speaker 1: punishment that gives you deterrence. And we have gone in
Speaker 1: exactly the opposite direction as a society. I would feel
Speaker 1: like there's almost zero chance I'm going to suffer any
Speaker 1: repercussions for doing any of that stuff in La zero smashing,
Speaker 1: screaming at Jews, whatever the case may be, looting during
Speaker 1: a BLM oh BLM stands for by large mansions, somebody say, oh,
Speaker 1: I get it anyway, Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: All right? Complete transition from anger to frighten scary Michael scary.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I expected the other sound, but that's
Speaker 1: a good one. I like that scary. How many tiny
Speaker 1: kit cats I ate last night? Good Lord, I'm not
Speaker 1: going well. At least you're not eating babies like the
Speaker 1: zombie President. I'm not going to tell you what this
Speaker 1: article is about, because I like this opening so so much.
Speaker 1: It got me. Ever, use the office printer for your
Speaker 1: kid's homework assignment, or your own resume, or just the
Speaker 1: forms you needed for your dentist. There's not a chance. Ever,
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I've ever used the office printer for. Literally,
Speaker 1: I think the only thing I've ever used the office
Speaker 1: printer for is if I had to print out personal
Speaker 1: stuff and my printer's not working at home. You understand
Speaker 1: this is being aired? Correct anyway, continuing me on, ever
Speaker 1: scrolled Facebook Marketplace during an all hands a zoom meeting
Speaker 1: that's turned boring, or Twitter or whatever. Fair warning your
Speaker 1: employer may be paying close attention. The newest trend among
Speaker 1: big companies on the hunt for efficiency that need to
Speaker 1: pare down the workforce is firing people, busting them for
Speaker 1: seemingly minor infractions, but by the letter of your employment agreement,
Speaker 1: can result in termination. Oh so it gives them they
Speaker 1: wanted to fire you anyway, Well, they need to fire somebody,
Speaker 1: They need to fire people, and this gives them an
Speaker 1: out where they probably don't know you severance and stuff. Yeah, correct, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like the death penalty for parking tickets of Corporate America.
Speaker 1: There's this gal. She's the US director of Payhawk, which
Speaker 1: administers company credit card accounts and then watches for misuse.
Speaker 1: She said, Oh, we've had lots of requests for new controls.
Speaker 1: For instance, clients ask Payhawk to restrict when and where
Speaker 1: company cards work. Maybe you've got a lunch allowance can
Speaker 1: only be used on weekdays between eleven and two, can
Speaker 1: be used at Chipotle but not at Kroger whatever. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. They're developing a feature that sends real time
Speaker 1: spending alerts to corporate finance teams and allows them to
Speaker 1: instantly block suspicious transition transactions by employees. You know now
Speaker 1: that this is popping into my head. We're going to
Speaker 1: get something a private version of the social credit score
Speaker 1: that they have in China for companies, and so they'll
Speaker 1: have all your entry, exit keyfob information. They'll have everywhere
Speaker 1: you've gone, because you've got the company phone, every single
Speaker 1: place you've gone anyway, they'll have a database of reasons
Speaker 1: to fire you if they ever need to fire you.
Speaker 1: And then they don't have to pay a severance or
Speaker 1: anything like that or giveing any kind of are any
Speaker 1: of the rules that exist. They're out of it because
Speaker 1: they got this is how many times you were late
Speaker 1: coming in the door. This is how many times you
Speaker 1: were someplace you weren't supposed to be on company time.
Speaker 1: This is how many times you use the copier for something,
Speaker 1: and they'll have all of that. There'll be enough to
Speaker 1: fire you whenever they want. It's like the social credit
Speaker 1: score in China. I think you're absolutely right. A couple
Speaker 1: more quick examples. Meta fired employees for spending their twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars meal allowances on other items. Ernst and Young
Speaker 1: dismissed workers who watched multiple training videos at the same time. Ah,
Speaker 1: those idiotic corporate training videos that are merely so the
Speaker 1: lawyers can say it's not our fault, we trained them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they know they're pointless. But if they need to
Speaker 1: get rid of you, then they can say, well, you
Speaker 1: were supposed to watch it and you didn't, so we
Speaker 1: got to let you go. And in a true sin
Speaker 1: against humanity and decency, Target canned employees who jumped the
Speaker 1: line to buy the coveted Big Stupid cups ahead of
Speaker 1: the general public the coveted Stanley water bottles. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the whole you can give the finger to your boss
Speaker 1: and kick them in is junk, and they can't fire
Speaker 1: it because they're so desperate for workers. Phase of American
Speaker 1: commerce that's over man, that is over mind your peas,
Speaker 1: comma your cues. After a quick word from our friends
Speaker 1: that simply say, if I've got another scary work, please
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Speaker 1: Michael Katie, everybody think about what's your favorite scary movie?
Speaker 1: Maybe you listeners, also, you can text us. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that later, because I think that's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do with my son, who feels like he's too old
Speaker 1: for trigger treating. But we thought maybe we'd stay home
Speaker 1: and watch a scary movie. So what's your favorite. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that coming up. Oh yeah, I came across
Speaker 1: an interesting piece of psychology journalism. If you're one of
Speaker 1: those people who really likes horror movies, I do slasher
Speaker 1: movies whatever. In fact, they relax you. Wow, Is there
Speaker 1: something wrong with you? Clearly the answer is clearly yes,
Speaker 1: So stay tuned for that probably next hour.
Speaker 7: So imagine being trapped underground in a coffin or a
Speaker 7: union you want to get out of very similar scenarios.
Speaker 1: This story is crazy and it is, among other things,
Speaker 1: an indictment of And we haven't talked about this, and
Speaker 1: I've come across example after example, but it's a little dry.
Speaker 1: The National Labor Relations Board under Biden is so in
Speaker 1: the bag for unions. I mean, it is a perverse law.
Speaker 1: What's the office. It's not a law enforcement a labor
Speaker 1: law enforcement agency. It's a labor law breaking agency. They
Speaker 1: are actively breaking the law. And this is from Hadley, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: It's co written by a man and a woman who
Speaker 1: work at the Trader Joe's in Hadley, and they write,
Speaker 1: apparently it's okay to unionize, but not get rid of
Speaker 1: our labor union. Here's the story. They both worked at
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's for ten years. In twenty twenty two, the
Speaker 1: story became the first in the company to unionize. They
Speaker 1: write both of us a post it, but we were outnumbered.
Speaker 1: Forty five of our fellow crew members voted to join
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's United, while thirty one of us voted against
Speaker 1: it and seven abstained. But the union wasn't what many
Speaker 1: of our coworkers expected. The officers basically selected themselves. Then
Speaker 1: they delayed negotiations with Trader Joe's while forfeiting our annual
Speaker 1: bonus retirement contribution. Amid growing discontent in the store, the
Speaker 1: two of us attended a bargaining session in February twenty three,
Speaker 1: which the union president invited all crew members to join.
Speaker 1: We were shocked at what we saw. We thought the
Speaker 1: union would focus on things that matter, like wages and benefits. Instead,
Speaker 1: union representatives negotiated over things like pronoun pins, which the
Speaker 1: company already provides. They demanded that Trader Joe's cover abortion
Speaker 1: and gender affirming care what the company pronoun pin. The
Speaker 1: company's response, the health plan already covers those things. Either
Speaker 1: the union negotiators were embarrassingly uninformed or they were playing
Speaker 1: a political game with workers as the pawns. Either way,
Speaker 1: our team deserved better. We wrote up what we saw
Speaker 1: at the bargain session and posted it on the break room.
Speaker 1: In the break room within hours, the union asked the
Speaker 1: store captain to take it down. He refused. When we
Speaker 1: showed up to the next bargaining session in April twenty three,
Speaker 1: only for our own union to deny us entry and
Speaker 1: ask security to escort us from the building. Why don't
Speaker 1: the people who have a legal duty to represent our
Speaker 1: interests want us to see what they're saying and doing.
Speaker 1: Our frustration kept building, so last November, we told our
Speaker 1: fellow crew members we were gathering signatures to hold a
Speaker 1: decertification election. We need the support of only thirty percent
Speaker 1: of the bargaining unit to force a new election. We
Speaker 1: thought this would be tough, since many of our colleagues
Speaker 1: told us they were afraid of the union and its
Speaker 1: reprisals and would sign only if we kept their names secret.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, unions are nothing but wonderful for workers. Yet
Speaker 1: by July of this year, forty six percent of our
Speaker 1: coworkers had signed our petition. We felt we had a
Speaker 1: real shot, especially since the majority of the crew members
Speaker 1: who initially voted for unionization have left. They didn't like it,
Speaker 1: they were unhappy, and they left. In July, we filed
Speaker 1: our petition with the National Labor Relations Board. Two months later,
Speaker 1: our hooks were dashed. The NLRB's regional director dismissed our
Speaker 1: petition on grounds that Trader Joe's is under investigation for
Speaker 1: unfair labor practices at our store. The company's accused of
Speaker 1: everything from having a quote overly broad dress code to
Speaker 1: giving one of our coworkers a quote negative appraisal. The
Speaker 1: union has also claimed that managers in our store made threats,
Speaker 1: though in our experience they did nothing of the kind.
Speaker 1: The federal government told a little trader Joe's in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: You voted for a union. Now you can't vote it out.
Speaker 1: We won't let you. Wow. Not very many people know
Speaker 1: that's the way it works. Yeah. Interesting, Well the unions
Speaker 1: write them gigantic checks, you see, son, So I don't know,
Speaker 1: go work at the Whole Foods or something. Sorry, what
Speaker 1: scary movie should I watch? Stay tuned. It's hair. It
Speaker 1: was perfect part of the song before we get any
Speaker 1: you're thing real quick. I just saw the funniest political
Speaker 1: meme I've seen in a very long, very long time.
Speaker 1: And it's even funnier because it's from Tom Cotton, who's
Speaker 1: not known for funny. Not really. No, it's a picture
Speaker 1: of Trump serving up the French fries and then Trump
Speaker 1: sitting in the garbage truck, and Cotton says, the Biden
Speaker 1: Harris economy is so bad that seniors have to work
Speaker 1: two jobs just to make ends meet. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That is pretty good. So we're health
Speaker 1: nuts here. At the Armstrong and Getty Show. Everyone who
Speaker 1: listens knows, and we're a little concerned. On Halloween, you're
Speaker 1: gonna beating so much candy you're not gonna get any roughage.
Speaker 1: So we're serving up on behalf of Kamala Harris some
Speaker 1: delicious word salad.
Speaker 5: What I'm talking about doing right now is based on
Speaker 5: long standing work. It's not new, but as President of
Speaker 5: the United States, part of why it is important is
Speaker 5: it is a new approach to that job that brings
Speaker 5: my commitment to the work I am talking about and
Speaker 5: to being You cannot ever be burdened by other people's
Speaker 5: limited ability to understand who you are like, don't let
Speaker 5: their limited ability burden you about your own ability. You know,
Speaker 5: we also have the honor and the duty of excelling
Speaker 5: in every way possible, being able to see what is
Speaker 5: possible and not be burdened by other people's limited ability
Speaker 5: to see the same.
Speaker 1: She almost was going to go into the unburdened by
Speaker 1: what has been, but she's been mocked so much for
Speaker 1: that she knows that she shouldn't go there, so she
Speaker 1: does a different wording of that. That's wild. She has
Speaker 1: a weird way of speaking that doesn't necessarily make her
Speaker 1: dumb or anything like that, but she's got a weird
Speaker 1: parenthetical tangential way of speaking where she just has trouble
Speaker 1: getting to her points. I would say, if you are
Speaker 1: limiting your vision of what you can be by other
Speaker 1: people's opinions or something, she should not run for president. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: if she gets elected, if she ends up winning, I
Speaker 1: hope she can curb that to some extent, just because
Speaker 1: it would be better for the country if she could
Speaker 1: speak more directly about you know, if the S go,
Speaker 1: if the S hits the fan, which it very may
Speaker 1: well in the next four years. Did you see I
Speaker 1: saw the New York Times headline. I thought, Holy crap,
Speaker 1: I can't believe this is a headline. And then we
Speaker 1: just don't talk about this stuff. Some more headline in
Speaker 1: the New York Times. As I woke up this morning,
Speaker 1: as the chances of war with China increase, Hello, I
Speaker 1: mean hello, is right, And that's a heck of a
Speaker 1: sentence to throw off as just kind of a oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, is the chances with war between the
Speaker 1: United States and China, the two most powerful economies on Earth,
Speaker 1: the second, the first and third biggest nuclear arsenals on
Speaker 1: earth as the chance of war between those two countries increases.
Speaker 1: Are we not talking about this more? Are just so
Speaker 1: busy these days prior to the election. I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: into a look inside the China cabinet, one of my
Speaker 1: beloved futuretts. Here on the show, We've got a series
Speaker 1: of stories that make it utterly indisputably clear that China
Speaker 1: is fighting to surpass and suppress the United States all
Speaker 1: over the globe and raping the globe as they go.
Speaker 1: By the way environmentalists, they are unquestionably a potent force
Speaker 1: for evil, working as hard as they can as we speak.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a dangerous world to make as much
Speaker 1: of the world fall under their spell as opposed to
Speaker 1: the United States. Right awesome, through blackmail, debts, bullying, no
Speaker 1: strings attached to bribery, they're efficient, among other things. An
Speaker 1: hour three, we're going to talk scary movies in candy.
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