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"Democrazy" (FTTxJT Thu 092426 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the kids.
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Speaker 4: To school and on the way. Joe has everything he
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Speaker 4: dreamed of, all the.
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Speaker 3: Treasures that he needs.
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Speaker 5: No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims.
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Speaker 6: To please you. Thank you for letting us be of
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Speaker 6: service to you this morning. Danny writes in, for those
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Speaker 6: who are joining us in progress and have never heard
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Speaker 6: of such a thing as the first things, here's what
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Speaker 6: I do. I tell you what went on last night.
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Speaker 6: I chopped them up into easily digestible gummies so that
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Speaker 6: we can discuss the side effects as they hit you.
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Speaker 6: Sort of like Ken Kesey, only without the LSD. So
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Speaker 6: I want to know how the news of the day
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Speaker 6: is impacting you where you are at 434-882-4217. That's how
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Speaker 6: you get to us that way. Or you can text
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Speaker 6: message to that. That is a very popular way. Danny
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Speaker 6: used that text message line listening to us on WTAR
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Speaker 6: out of Norfolk, which sadly, Danny, I hope some of
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Speaker 6: you like Scott and others have. They transition to the
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Speaker 6: stream and are listening now. So if you're still there,
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Speaker 6: Danny's like he said nine years. What kind of cost
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Speaker 6: would that have been if there hadn't been a pro
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Speaker 6: bono legal foundation to stand up for the Southwest flight attendant?
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Speaker 6: Mark makes National Right to Work Foundation. Mark, what you know,
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Speaker 6: what do you say to Danny when you talk about
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Speaker 6: that kind of impact? A regular person without a group
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Speaker 6: like yours wouldn't be able to fight that fight, would they?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I won't– I mean, suffice to say that
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Speaker 7: the legal costs involved in that effort when you had
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Speaker 7: a jury trial and you went through that process, the
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Speaker 7: seven figures come with a couple of commas. So not
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Speaker 7: decimal points, but commas. So, yeah, it's something, but ultimately–
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Speaker 7: That case sets the table and establishes a precedent for
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Speaker 7: other workers who would be similarly situated who can go
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Speaker 7: back and say, hey, I want the same relief. And frankly,
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Speaker 7: the case we won on behalf of all the government
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Speaker 7: employees back in 2018, another case we probably talked about, Joe,
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Speaker 7: I'm sure we have, the Janice Biasmi case that came
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Speaker 7: out of Illinois.
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Speaker 6: Yes, that's big.
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Speaker 7: I mean literally one– yep. One state employee with the
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Speaker 7: courage to stand up and fight against his union for,
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Speaker 7: you know, he didn't ask for their support, didn't want it,
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Speaker 7: didn't like the politics that they were promoting or the
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Speaker 7: ideologies they were promoting, and he had the courage to
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Speaker 7: stand up. We did get to the U.S. Supreme Court
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Speaker 7: with that case, and that case has now provided protection
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Speaker 7: for every government employee in America at any level of government.
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Speaker 6: That is such a good point on that. Mark makes
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Speaker 6: national right to work foundation important. RTW.org is the website.
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Speaker 6: Hang on a second. A big case. Teamsters kicked out
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Speaker 6: by truckers. Film at 11. And when you've got a
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Speaker 6: world where Teamsters and truckers don't get along anymore, Jimmy Hoffa, hey,
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Speaker 6: we can find Jimmy Hoffa's grave now. He's spinning so
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Speaker 6: badly in it. Here are our first things. You know,
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Speaker 6: there's an upside to everything. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said
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Speaker 6: conveniently after the first hour or so of Chairman Xi's
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Speaker 6: visit to the United States and President Trump that China
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Speaker 6: and the United States have agreed to extend their trade
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Speaker 6: truce through January 10th of next year. Besson announced the
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Speaker 6: extension of the Busan Agreement, which was set to expire
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Speaker 6: November 10th. Meanwhile, four Republican senators and see if there's
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Speaker 6: any commonality in these names. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Lisa Murkowski,
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Speaker 6: and Todd Tillis are all pressuring the president, saying that
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Speaker 6: the different divisions of the cabinet haven't followed through on
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Speaker 6: their support of Taiwan. The senators say the State Department
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Speaker 6: has not yet obligated $ 300 million to in foreign military
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Speaker 6: financing approved by Congress for Taiwan. The Defense Department has
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Speaker 6: not obligated another $ 1 billion through the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative,
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Speaker 6: also approved through Congress, and they point to the administration's
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Speaker 6: decision to hold up $ 14 billion in foreign military sales
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Speaker 6: to Taiwan. A federal judge in Washington, D.C. is questioning
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Speaker 6: whether the Trump administration provided due process when it barred
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Speaker 6: Judge Timothy Kelly said maybe they were wrongly decided, referring
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Speaker 6: to two cases that were used as precedent, Cheryl v.
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Speaker 6: Knight and Karen v. Trump. Maybe they were wrongly decided,
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Speaker 6: as the administration has argued. Maybe they weren't. But as
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Speaker 6: a district court judge, I have to apply them. President
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Speaker 6: Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the
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Speaker 6: G20 summit in Miami this December, Secretary of State Marco
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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 6: So the questions come in, Mark makes right to work.
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Speaker 17: He says there's no overtime. He said there's something important
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Speaker 17: that he needs right now that's unspecified.
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Speaker 6: He says he.
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Speaker 4: Knows a foot in a long wheel.
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Speaker 6: Precedent setting, maybe Teamsters versus Truckers. Truckers kick out Teamsters.
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Speaker 6: Film at 11. The spinning of John Gotti's, wow, of
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Speaker 6: Jimmy Hoffa's body has given us an opportunity to seismically
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Speaker 6: locate what exit from the New Jersey Turnpike he's actually. Seriously,
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Speaker 6: call the folks, the geologic USGS. Find out where there's
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Speaker 6: some seismic activity going on in New Jersey. And we'll
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Speaker 6: be able to finally find Jimmy Hoffa's body spinning in
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Speaker 6: his watery grave. The idea of truckers versus teamsters. But
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Speaker 6: Mark Mick's National Right to Work Foundation. Mark, you have
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Speaker 6: to go back. And, of course, this email is indicative
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Speaker 6: of it. Sharice writes in, you know, come on, Joe,
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Speaker 6: the unions have performed purposes before. Are you going to
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Speaker 6: tell me that the robber barons of the Industrial Revolution
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Speaker 6: didn't deserve and cause in a lot of way the
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Speaker 6: union movement? I mean, Mark, is this just the inevitable
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Speaker 6: swing from, you know, one side being abusive to the
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Speaker 6: other side? Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Indeed. And, you know, Joe, history, the historians rate that
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Speaker 7: narrative of, you know, the late 1800s, early 1900s, and
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Speaker 7: they would call it the imbalance in the market system.
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Speaker 7: Capital has this huge power and labor doesn't. And I
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Speaker 7: suspect that that's true. But here's what I would say
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Speaker 7: to that. You know, people say, well, there was a
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Speaker 7: place for unions. I believe there was a place for unions.
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Speaker 7: There is a place for unions and there will be
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Speaker 7: a place for unions. But there's no place for force.
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Speaker 7: When you add the compulsion and the force on top
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Speaker 7: of the power that you can have. It makes him
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Speaker 7: completely unaccountable, and that's the reason for the decline in
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Speaker 7: organized labor's density across the country. There's a couple reasons,
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Speaker 7: but I would say the biggest one is when you, Joe,
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Speaker 7: are given the opportunity, you're given the monopoly privilege of saying,
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Speaker 7: I can tell Mark whatever I want to do, I
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Speaker 7: can do whatever I want with Mark's money, and he
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Speaker 7: has to pay me every month to basically do whatever
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Speaker 7: it is I want to do, and if he doesn't
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Speaker 7: pay me, then he can't work. I mean, that accountability
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Speaker 7: is the secret. that Samuel Gompers talked about. Samuel Gompers,
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Speaker 7: the founder of the American labor movement, known as the
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Speaker 7: father of unions in America, in his final speech in
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Speaker 7: 1924 in El Paso, Texas. And I pointed this out
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Speaker 7: to Sean O'Brien and Liz Shuler and Mary, the FDIU president,
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Speaker 7: in a testimony in 2023 in a Senate committee where
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Speaker 7: Mark Wayne Mullins and Sean O'Brien almost went to fisticuffs.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I remember that hearing. Yeah. It was good radio.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, go back and look at that testimony. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 7: And I told– I said, look, go back and look
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Speaker 7: at the speech. It's in your archives at the AFL,
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Speaker 7: and you'll see it. And Gompers realized that if they
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Speaker 7: decided to use force and legislative power and privilege, they
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Speaker 7: would destroy the union movement. And that's exactly what's happened today, Joe,
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Speaker 7: is that the disconnect between rank-and-file workers and union officials
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Speaker 7: is growing wider and wider all the time. And it's
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Speaker 7: on issues of politics. Believe it or not, the United
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Speaker 7: Auto Workers Union has endorsed Muhammad Abdul El-Sayed in the
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Speaker 7: Michigan Senate race. In fact, they did it last year
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Speaker 7: in June. So basically a year and a half ago,
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Speaker 7: they endorsed him. And just today, I started reading something
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Speaker 7: about how El-Sayed says that cars are bad. He's literally
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Speaker 7: running for the Senate in Michigan, and he says that
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Speaker 7: cars are bad. And UAW endorsed him.
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Speaker 6: To be a U.S.
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Speaker 16: Senator.
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Speaker 7: That's the disconnect I'm talking about, and that's why they're
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Speaker 7: down to 5.9%. And most of those people, I think
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Speaker 7: the statistic, Joe, is that only 6% of the active
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Speaker 7: union membership in America has ever voted to be in
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Speaker 7: the union. These are contracts like in the automotive industry
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Speaker 7: that go back to 1937 and Walter Ruther and the
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Speaker 7: sit-down strike.
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Speaker 6: So you just wind up, if you get a job
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Speaker 6: at Ford, you're in the union. You don't get a
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Speaker 6: say in it. That's amazing.
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Speaker 7: That's right.
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Speaker 6: So tell us a little bit, you know, Mark makes
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Speaker 6: on with us from the National Right to Work Foundation.
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Speaker 6: Jordan Cottrell is the fellow from Richmond that led this
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Speaker 6: unanimous vote to decertify the unions. Talk about somebody who's listening,
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Speaker 6: who's maybe feeling that way, who's felt, you know, boxed
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Speaker 6: out or boxed in into a situation. Talk about the
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Speaker 6: courage that Jordan screwed up, you know, and, and I
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Speaker 6: mean that, you know, screw it to your, what's the expression,
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Speaker 6: screw up your courage to your, now I'm forgetting it.
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Speaker 6: All right. So I've ruined it. But talk about the
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Speaker 6: courage he needed to, to start this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And this is, this is what's special about people like
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Speaker 7: him is they, they decide that they want to take
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Speaker 7: action and they research how to do that. And fortunately, uh,
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Speaker 7: He found us. We didn't find him. He found us.
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Speaker 7: And he found us, I think, if I remember the
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Speaker 7: timeframe here, he found us on the internet, called in
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Speaker 7: and said he wanted help and got an attorney. And
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Speaker 7: we provide that representation for free. We kind of helped
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Speaker 7: him say, this is how it's going to work. Here's
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Speaker 7: how you have to do these things. And so he
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Speaker 7: went back to his workmates and said, let's try this.
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Speaker 7: He got them to sign the requisite number of signatures
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Speaker 7: to trigger the election. And then, you know, the team
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Speaker 7: sure didn't block it, but they completed it. And then
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Speaker 7: the NLRB looked at the results and certified it. But
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Speaker 7: basically the intake for us, people find us on the internet.
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Speaker 7: And when we do shows like yours, Joe, and we
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Speaker 7: talk about it, they find out that they can go
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Speaker 7: to the website nrtw.org and they have a whole bunch
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Speaker 7: of information. They can actually do this themselves by the
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Speaker 7: things that are on the website, the letters and the
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Speaker 7: petitions and all the things that are set up there.
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Speaker 7: for them to exercise their opportunities here.
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Speaker 6: Mark, by the way, it's nrtwc.org for the National Right
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Speaker 6: to Work Committee. Mark, appreciated, as always, his efforts on
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Speaker 6: behalf of those who are at the other end. And
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Speaker 6: it's the same thing with all things. This is why
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Speaker 6: liberty is important to human expansion and human prosperity, because
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Speaker 6: what worked last year isn't necessarily going to work this year.
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Speaker 6: And somebody is going to come along and build a
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Speaker 6: better mousetrap unless somebody legislates against the allowance of building
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Speaker 6: a better mousetrap. Joining us on the Newsmakers line now,
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Speaker 6: James Locke, our friends from JCSGold.com, a family business who,
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Speaker 6: you know, they, like the Walton family, treat their employees well.
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Speaker 6: So no union movement there. But they've seen it all from,
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Speaker 6: you know, back when Jimmy Hoffa was still running around.
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Speaker 6: in 1961. Good morning, James. How are you doing this morning?
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Speaker 6: I'm doing well, Joe.
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Speaker 18: And you bring up a great point there. A lot
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Speaker 18: of people think, and as you witnessed the other day
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Speaker 18: with the amount of shipping that I was doing, a
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Speaker 18: lot of people think that we have multiple employees and
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Speaker 18: we're such a big business. And we are a big
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Speaker 18: business in the fact that we can ship gold and
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Speaker 18: silver all across the country and we have clients in
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Speaker 18: every single state. Uh, but it's really just, it's really just.
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Speaker 6: Me and my brother and my parents.
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Speaker 18: Uh, so, you know, we could unionize and that would
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Speaker 18: be a really fun experiment to do.
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Speaker 6: Maybe I should try that. Awkward Thanksgiving dinner. How are
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Speaker 6: gold and silver doing this morning?
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Speaker 18: Uh, gold and silver are, uh, on a discount again today, uh,
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Speaker 18: continued from yesterday. Gold is down $ 36 down about three
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Speaker 18: quarters of a percent to a $ 4, 250, uh, Silver's down 1.5%
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Speaker 18: to $ 63.
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Speaker 6: 43.
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Speaker 6: back in the late 90s, early 2000s about victim shaming.
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Speaker 6: this idea that if you are critical of someone, you're
45:15
Speaker 6: victim shaming. Or that if you say, hey, I might
45:18
Speaker 6: have played a role in the bad thing happening to me,
45:22
Speaker 6: you're victim shaming. I believe that we have retarded our
45:28
Speaker 6: ability to grow as people when we can't look at
45:32
Speaker 6: things and say, hey, what were we doing wrong? And
45:38
Speaker 6: there are Millions of people who die every day, every
45:44
Speaker 6: month from fentanyl. And to play patty cake with a
45:49
Speaker 6: famous case. And the thing about these famous cases is
45:52
Speaker 6: not that it should care or matter to you what
45:55
Speaker 6: happens to Hayden Panettiere. But there's some teenager in your
45:59
Speaker 6: kid's high school that's going to overdose. Just happened here
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Speaker 6: in Charlottesville. Or are they going to be poisoned by fentanyl?
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Speaker 6: And here's why I think that we politically don't want
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Speaker 6: to say Kidd was poisoned at Monticello High School by
46:17
Speaker 6: fentanyl or Hayden Panettiere was poisoned by fentanyl. Because that
46:25
Speaker 6: brings the conversation back to why is somebody taking these
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Speaker 6: opioids that they don't realize have fentanyl in them?
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Speaker 12: Huh.
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Speaker 6: Okay, why are they taking them? Because they got hooked
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Speaker 6: on opioids.
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Speaker 17: Why?
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Speaker 6: Because they feel good. You can't say that, Joe. They're medical. Yeah,
46:46
Speaker 6: they take pain away. You become addicted to the feeling
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Speaker 6: you get when you're on these things. Opium. How many
47:01
Speaker 6: wars have we fought over poppy fields? Just saying.
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Speaker 19: Go look.
47:07
Speaker 6: Go look at how many different wars. Why is it
47:09
Speaker 6: that the symbol of veterans of World War I and
47:12
Speaker 6: World War II are a poppy flower on your lapel?
47:20
Speaker 6: Do we talk about the poppy fields of Southeast Asia?
47:24
Speaker 6: I mean, even the filmmakers behind The Wizard of Oz
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Speaker 6: understood the way to defend the Emerald City was to
47:41
Speaker 6: surround it with fields of poppies. I'm sorry, all the
47:46
Speaker 6: pollen dust knocked your ass out, didn't it? The messaging
47:53
Speaker 6: of opioids and the dangers, the perils. One of the
48:01
Speaker 6: real interesting sidebars of our midterm elections is the author
48:05
Speaker 6: of Dope Sick, you know, that Michael Keaton movie. Well,
48:08
Speaker 6: it was started as a book. Beth Macy, who wrote
48:13
Speaker 6: Dope Sick, is running for Congress against a guy who's
48:18
Speaker 6: probably in a district that's 30 percent more Republican. But
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Speaker 6: there are a lot of Republicans that like what she
48:26
Speaker 6: exposed in the opioid corruptions. and the over-applications. What she
48:35
Speaker 6: doesn't want to admit, and I wish I could debate her,
48:39
Speaker 6: is this was because of the Obamacare provisions that gave providers,
48:47
Speaker 6: let's use the word providers because insurance is so mean-spirited,
48:52
Speaker 6: gave people who were now in charge of your health care,
48:56
Speaker 6: the insurance companies, opportunity to say, no, you know what?
49:00
Speaker 6: I don't want to pay for orthopedic surgery. How about
49:04
Speaker 6: we do some opioid prescriptions, pain medication, and we'll give
49:10
Speaker 6: them some physical therapy. Oh, the boom of physical therapy
49:13
Speaker 6: and opioid applications. And I'm not, like many do, blaming
49:24
Speaker 6: the opioid. The opioid, just like the firearm, is an
49:31
Speaker 6: inanimate object. Fentanyl is... actually a legal substance in the
49:41
Speaker 6: United States. A lot of people don't realize it by
49:43
Speaker 6: the way we cover it. It's used in medical procedures.
49:54
Speaker 6: But when a drug kingpin has his minions whipping up
50:00
Speaker 6: black market opioids to sell He says, use that stuff.
50:08
Speaker 6: It's really powerful. Because, you know, that's just like anything,
50:15
Speaker 6: you know, more powerful cells. I can cut it more.
50:18
Speaker 6: Give me more powerful fentanyl. The Chinese are going to
50:21
Speaker 6: send me this stuff that's more powerful so I can
50:24
Speaker 6: use less of it to get the same results. Win-win.
50:28
Speaker 6: It's a straightforward business. It's the business that is preying
50:33
Speaker 6: on people's addictive cultures, just like Sports books and online
50:39
Speaker 6: gaming casinos preying on our weaknesses. And I don't want them,
50:47
Speaker 6: I don't want the government to try to ban them.
50:50
Speaker 6: I want them to, for us to find ourselves disinterested
50:54
Speaker 6: in it. The interesting thing is, you know, we were
51:01
Speaker 6: talking about Sealy and his Mesa Verde CBD oil relief
51:06
Speaker 6: for you. Like I said, three, four days, I was
51:10
Speaker 6: putting it topically on my wife's back. Huge bruise where
51:13
Speaker 6: she fell across the sash going into the shower. And now,
51:25
Speaker 6: you know, it's better and she hasn't used it at all.
51:33
Speaker 6: So you have to look at these things at what
51:36
Speaker 6: level and where are your addictions coming from? And this
51:40
Speaker 6: is what we don't do if we blame the fentanyl
51:44
Speaker 6: or we blame the opioid. There are applications for these things.
51:49
Speaker 6: What we're doing is we're misapplying them. We're applying them
51:55
Speaker 6: in places where perhaps medical treatment could be used to
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Speaker 6: relieve the pain rather than mask it, much in the
52:04
Speaker 6: way of our anti-psychotic drugs are over and misapplied rather
52:11
Speaker 6: than trying to actually do the hard work through mental
52:14
Speaker 6: health issues. And this is why I was triggered by
52:19
Speaker 6: this story about Hayden Panettiere, because there are millions of
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Speaker 6: people around the country who are dying, losing loved ones
52:26
Speaker 6: to fentanyl poisoning. But we don't want to call it
52:31
Speaker 6: that because it brings us back to Obamacare and how
52:38
Speaker 6: we've wound up in this world of overprescribing opioids in
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Speaker 6: the first place. Poppy flower, it's just a flower. It's
52:47
Speaker 6: like the other stuff is just literally a weed.
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