The Dom Giordano Program

Dungeons & Dragons & Disney

2 - Has there been a more anticipated year than 2025, in terms of politics and talk radio? 205 - Dungeons & Dragons has gone woke this late in the game? 210 - What is the best way to approach immigration? 220 - More on immigration and your calls. 235 - We play audio of a Disney IT employee breaking down after learning he is losing his job to cheaper foreign worker and the fact he has to train him if he wants his severance. 250 - Lightning Round!

Duration:: 53m
Broadcast on:: 31 Dec 2024
Audio Format:: other

We're live in 2025! The Sharpest Rides is bringing in a new year with their new year at New Deal's Celebration. They've got over 900 Sharp pre-owned vehicles waiting just for you, from luxury, to sedans, to rugged SUVs, sporty coups, and reliable trucks. All at unbeatable prices. The Sharpest Rides is not just about selling cars. They're here to deliver an experience that you'll never forget. With award-winning financing options, don't make sure that you drive off in your dream car without breaking the bank. Whether you're a first-time buyer or a seasoned shopper, they got you covered. But hurry, because these new year deals won't last forever. Visit them today at the SharpestRides.com to browse their massive inventory, or to stop by in person at 2250 South Sea Home Street in Inglewood to see why their Colorado's most trusted name in pre-owned vehicles. New year, new ride, at the Sharpest Rides. Affordable, sexy, sharp. When you have a furnace emergency, don't hesitate. We'll bring the heat, and we'll bring it in a hurry. Through snow and ice, brothers will not keep you in the cold. And fussy furnaces, they're one of our specialties. 303-451-5057. On web at brothersplumbing.com. Captain Morgan, the official spice rum of the NFL. The NFL season is where legends are born, on and off the field. Some are last-second plays that turn the tide and change a team's destiny, while others are a friends who follow the captain within them to make a regular get-together into the stuff of legends. So grab your crew, grab a captain and cola, and make it a story to remember, because legends start when you follow the captain. Visit followthecaptain.com for more info, and please drink responsibly. Once again, visit followthecaptain.com for more info, and please drink responsibly. Captain Morgan, original spice rum, 35% alcohol by volume. Captain Morgan Run Company, New York, New York. [MUSIC] >> Tom Giordano, on talk radio 1210, WPhD. In Philadelphia's talk radio 1210, WPhD, WPhD, WGL HD3. Philadelphia, from the Cheerio Volo Studios, where relationships matter. Always live on the free Odyssey app. It's Dom Time now, Dom Giordano. [MUSIC] >> All right, it is Dom Time. Welcome in everyone, 855-839-1210. By any account, I was thinking about this yesterday, but I waited till the last day of last show of this year. This was the most consequential, energized. What could happen next year that we've ever seen? Even on the weekends, that's when Trump was shot, for example, July 14th. And this radio station was in the middle of the most pivotal state, in the most pivotal election, the differences of what will happen or wouldn't happen are unbelievable. What would be second place? Do you remember another year, particularly, we talk radio in the center of it. Or the talk radio was around, where it was this consequential. Where there was this much energy, this much stuff. A lot of it, Trump driven, that we haven't seen anything like this. But then Biden contributing to it, by that early debate, and then dropping out, then Harris, given the first female black, the slash South Asian woman, to get the nomination, then all the controversy over walls, and JD Vance, to some degree. And all that backdrop going on, even day to day, some of the events that happened. A lot of them right here in Bucks County. Presler making Bucks County the target, now he's on to Chester County, to flip it red. Then, the problems we had with people showing up, wanting to put their male in ballot there, in Levitt town and other, whatever the other polling place was, and being told, no, you couldn't do it. Then when the judge ordered it, yeah, well, you're going to wait eight hours or more. Remember that part? Then Marceglia, not even the presidential, really. It was more the Casey McCormick race jumping into the ring and saying, I don't care, President, and all that. What are you going to do to me, essentially? Bucks County played such a pivotal role. The nonsense of the Montgomery County guy with the Mr. Softy truck taking it to prison for prisoners to vote. The usual stuff, Philadelphia was a bit more subdued this time, I think. And just the importance of Pennsylvania, it was all right here. I can't quite think of another year, 2020, the aftermath of 2020. All the back and forth over that, and then Pennsylvania Supreme Court being key. Even that, though, pales in comparison to the whole year and what was going on here, the tension around the, even the primary. Even though at a certain point Trump put it away, there still was a lot of back and forth. All right, phone lines are 855-839-1210. Woke is not over. Woke is what I threw away and also Project 2025 and 2024. Dungeons and Dragons. And what I was still teaching, maybe we want a little bit overboard, but we thought that Dungeons and Dragons at that point was really playing around with stuff, with some kids that may or may not have been disturbed, shouldn't be playing around with. But Dungeons and Dragons still out there causes controversy with a rule change over identity. Some character traits have been divorced from biological identity. A New York Times report says. And Dungeons and Dragons, apparently, is going the non-binary route. They say that races are now species. New York Times and the beloved Game Dungeons and Dragons, which recently marked its 50th anniversary. This irks some loyal fans. Some character traits have been divorced from biological identity. A Mountain's Wharf is no longer inherently brawny and durable. A high elf, no longer intelligent and dexterous by definition. A report in the New York Times explains. And Wizards of the Coast, the Dungeons and Dragons publisher owned by Hasbro, has endorsed a trend throughout role-playing games in which players are empowered to halt the proceedings if they feel uncomfortable. Oh my god. It's got Dungeons and Dragons, Tom. Yes, I know. That's why I mention it. Because when I was teaching high school, that was a premier type of thing. And there was a lot of controversy over it. As I said, I don't remember anybody really doing anything. But it seemed to be not something that was necessarily going to enhance your life. And the kids that were doing it were a little not to stir. But they weren't exactly in the mainstream of too much. Now, not that I think it's the same thing. I just want to go on the record, though, my antagonism to things like Lord of the Rings. I don't know if that's offensive or not, Henry. I can't stand all that stuff. You don't like the, how would I put it? Like, I'm blanking on the word right now, but the fantasy kind of, yeah, that doesn't. Yeah, the preoccupation with it, not that it's dangerous or anything. I just think the Dungeons and Dragons started off for me, though. There was a real threat or a sense of it then. And now they've gone, if you feel uncomfortable, you can get out of this. In a board game, really? Yeah, I know. Yeah. So, woke is not going to go away that easily. Bud Light, we've talked about this, and Dan's in the camp, I think, when it comes up, hey, isn't it time just let this go? People have not. Or they just found cheaper beers or just as cheap that they sort of like, so they're not going back to Bud Light. But by and large, the woke thing is on the run. And it started to Peter out after George Floyd's summer. That's when they all got on board. But there are still spasms of it, like Dungeons and Dragons. Go figure, why would they be going down that path? Well, maybe it has, bro. There's somebody new, and they figured this will spice things up, or they just didn't like it was male dominated or something, which I think it still is. All right, we want to get you in before the final get still got it. I mean, it's still got to be male dominated, but also, like, one of the things like part of the game, like you can be so many different things, and if you take, you know, whether it's an L for the dwarf or whatever, like, and all those inherent abilities that they may have, you're just kind of wiping away. So what's the point of even picking characters using your imagination and things like that? That's what I would suggest by this. That's what they're complaining about. And again, this whole woke thing is not going to go down easily. But on the first day, Trump is going to take action on the transgender part. And again, I've said many times getting into the bathroom issue and a million other things is going to be more difficult. But the area where you win every time is not having biological males or formerly biological males playing in female sports. You saw what happened this year with the volleyball situation. Those women now have the option. They transferred to other places. They have a lawsuit against their own school that the player was on. The other schools are a file suits against them. We talked about that. Thank God. They didn't make it to the finals. They didn't do anything. But it was a much different world with Leah Thomas. Those women were essentially threatened with their careers. If they spoke out, if they did anything, you know, by now Paula Scamlin, seeing Riley Gaines be able to do it, became enamored with it, spoke out, and now she's the chief point person in Jersey for Scott Presler. So things are moving on that front. It doesn't mean, now where did I see today, so I want today, there was a headline. There's somebody male that is going to be, I don't think it was golf. It'll come to me, the sport, where you're seeing another incursion and you're going to see a big battle over this. They're going to lose every time. Even if they get the person to play, people are not going to accept this. And politically, dying on that hill was what Democrats did. That was the surprise issue in addition to the usual laundry list. In the last election, they don't know what to do. They don't want to be accused of deserting people that they feel are going to be discriminated against. No one's doing that, they're just saying, "Stay out of female sports." Okay, 855-839-1210, you get a line AT&T and Verizon Wireless. All you have to do is just push pound 1210. This is cut eight. Here's Ron DeSantis, who's great on these things as far as drilling down right to the point. Here's what DeSantis said in the middle of this HB1 visa controversy. HB1 visas, would you support allowing more HB1 visa immigration to the United States? I'm sure there's a lot of counties saying like rural Florida, who would love to have a qualified doctor, no matter where that doctor is from. The problem is, the way that has been implemented, they will bring in people in technology from from other countries who work for lower rates than what Americans work for. And so I don't support undercutting American wages and the HB1 program has been used to do that. You kind of, when people would say, "Hey, why not just have people that are credentialed coming up?" I was like, "Yeah, why not?" But the way it's operated, I think, has lowered wages for Americans, and that's what you don't want. If it's an addition for the economy that benefits the American people, that's one thing, but if it's displacing an American worker, that's not good. Well, that's what it is. He kind of couched it there at the end. It's clear to me. Didn't we see in the last election? And what Vivek Rama-Swami, maybe Musk, they're talking to America. The macroeconomy, "Oh, this is going to grow American," all that. Tell that to the micro. Now what Biden, they kept on saying how good the economy was, right? But the average person was saying with inflation, "That's not doing me any good." You can say that all that you want, whether that's true or not. That's another argument. Well, it's the same thing here. The economy will be booming with all these geniuses coming in from all these countries. Yes. And because they're willing to work for less and/or be deported, if necessary, if they're not willing to work staggering hours for less, not because of their ability, that's going to displace hundreds of thousands, potentially it already has, of Americans. That's not what we want. That American that's displaced is more important than some spreadsheet saying how great things are. Well, I've got that. What did the bushes of the world and the Clintons of the world? What did they say about NAFTA and all that, the debate with H. Rossboro and everybody else? Well, this is going to enhance the macro. And what did it do to all these towns where their industry was there? That's where the job was. That's what kids grew up and that's what they went to, et cetera. It made them tank towns. Trump coming along in 2016 appealed to them that he was going to stop that. And he did, by and large, renegotiate, push back on this rhetoric that tries to restrain it a bit. That's the micro. It's the average American feeling the pain of this stuff as a, quote, elites move forward. Isn't that the same thing here? Isn't that what we're trying to avoid? All these lectures about how much better America will be, how is that the case when we're displacing American workers? And it's obvious that's what they're doing for the reasons that I told you. Can't get away with it. Can't be sanctioned. I know we're coming into another holiday, but as we come out of that, this is still unfinished business. So what's the best way to approach this? Look, Elon Musk is still at Trump headquarters in Florida working Trump over, I'm sure, talking with him and all the rest of it. Hard to know Trump's opinion of Musk is he enamored of this or is he putting up with it because it was potent to help him get elected. But the bottom line is there has to be, through every channel that I have, when we bring on these guests and when you start to get them back on now, cabinet members, representatives of one sort or another, no, this does not fly. The MAGA base is opposed to this, which I think they are. They get this picture and Roberta Ben-Salem put it well today when I've been saying the same thing that we have a critical mass of Americans who are the best in the world. We're a nation of plus 300 million. I'm not sure if it's 3, 25, 3, whatever the number is when you count illegals and everything else. And out of that, we have significant numbers of people who can do these things that are world-class. We don't need this. Why do you keep saying that you do? Because you want to undercut them. So what do you have to resort to? You have to insult all Americans. It's not an insult to say how poor the public schools are in the big cities or how deficient some parents are with the, you know, pushing their kids forward to get an education, etc. That's fine. But there's another America and it's big of people that dream big, the American dream still alive, hardworking, all those things. And it's an insult to try to diminish them. We've got to win on this one because I'm not signing up to be part of an operation that continues this HB-1 stuff at the level we see it now or enhances it. No, it's not what it's about. There's got to be a way to do this though without a civil war. Steve Bannon saying we're going to punch Elon Musk and we're going to rip off his face if he doesn't just go and study this. Now Steve, he studied it and he has a different opinion on this that's wrong. And the way to do this is the grassroots, the base which Trump usually defers to to make it clear in every way that they can that they're not supportive of this. I realize the holidays coming up and also this might be a little bit post, but I want this settled before the inauguration day. Don't forget too, on inauguration day, talk radio 1210 out there at the NAC, the Newtown Athletic Club and I'll be there at the magic moment. I had the honor of doing that before in 2016. We gathered together to watch the swearing in and all the things that go with it and then you can react together. There's nothing like doing that, you know, getting a sandwich, a drink, sitting there together, watching it as people exchange. It's a club, it's a prestigious club, talk radio 1210. So mark that one down, hope to see you there. The last event we did there was unbelievable. Alright, get in, hit me on the side too. We had Anthony call in today and in the beginning he was a little bit defending this. He really wants merit in people coming into the country. We do too. But the bottom line is do we need legal immigration at this point? I'd say no. We don't need it. Pause. I would put a definitive time limit on it so we don't slide because immigration ultimately is part of our American fabric but a year or two with no legal immigration, country's not going to suffer from that. It's time to recalibrate all this stuff. I mean, isn't that a lot of what the election was about? And suddenly we're on the defensive here with Elon Musk, more of a fake Ramaswami, insulting, sleepovers. I still can't. He got wound up, you know, and he's looking for something to put in one category. He said we need more Olympian math and tutoring and fewer sleepovers. Anybody going to run out the streets? That's right, sleepovers are the problem. Sleepovers. 855-839-1210, get in with Dom here and make that call before the end of the year on Talk Radio 12. Looking for a financial institution that has fewer fees, better rates, and gives back to the local community. As one of Colorado's largest credit unions, Belco offers great rates on products like our free-boost interest checking and lower rates on loans, including our home equity choice line. Bank virtually anytime, anywhere, through our online banking and our mobile app. Becoming a member has never been easier. Visit belco.org or stop by any Belco branch. Membership eligibility required, equal housing opportunity, all loan subject to approval and short by NCUA. Belco. Banking for everyone. From big upsets to game-winning drives, the NFL playoffs are better with FanDool. Because right now, new customers can bet $5 and get $200 in bonus bets guaranteed. That's $200 in bonus bets win or lose. The FanDool app gives you everything you need for live bets, same game parlays, and so much more. Plus, when you win, you'll get paid instantly. Just visit fandool.com/sportsfan to join today and get started with $200 in bonus bets. That's fandool.com/sportsfan. Make this playoff season unforgettable with FanDool, an official sportsbook partner of the NFL. Must be 21-plus in present in Colorado. First online real moneyweights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued is now a throwable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. Sportsbook.fanDool.com gambling problem call 1-800-522-4700. This podcast is brought to you by Kleenex lotion tissues. You can't predict sick days, but with Kleenex lotion tissues, you can be better prepared for them while helping keep your skin healthy. Whether it's a surprise sneeze or a stuffy nose, it's always good to have something gentle on hand. Kleenex lotion tissues moisturize to help prevent skin irritation while you're battling those unwanted cold and flu symptoms. It's extra care when you need it most. I mean, why not have one less thing to worry about when you're not feeling your best? For whatever happens next, grab Kleenex. You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. How can you find amazing candidates fast? Easy. Just use Indeed. Stop struggling to get your job posts seen on other job sites. Indeed, sponsored jobs help you stand out and hire fast. With sponsored jobs, your post jumps to the top of the page for your relevant candidates so you can reach the people you want faster. And it makes a huge difference. According to Indeed data, sponsored jobs posted directly on Indeed have 45% more applications than non-sponsored jobs. Plus with Indeed sponsored jobs, there are no monthly subscriptions, no long-term contracts and you only pay for results. And listeners of this show will get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at indeed.com/listen. Just go to indeed.com/listen right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Indeed.com/listen. Terms and conditions apply. Hiring? Indeed is all you need. Is your team at work feeling a little disconnected? Maybe the work flows not flowing? Try Confluence by Atlassian. Confluence is the connected workspace where teams can create, organize and deliver work like never before. In Confluence, teams can whiteboard their vision for any project, easily create or access the relevant pages and resources they need and discover important contexts they might not even know they need. Plus, AI helps teams jumpstart brainstorms, organize information and connect workflows. So teams can move efficiently and create alignment with ease. In fact, with Confluence, teams can see 5.2% average boost in productivity in one year. So if your team lacks confidence, try Confluence. The connected workspace where teams can do it all. Set knowledge free with Confluence. Learn more at Atlassian.com/Confluence. Let's A-T-L-A-S-S-I-A-N.com/C-O-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E. All tech. Alright, down to your dano show and idea. Just come to me during the break. I was reading our buddy Johnny Z. Happy New Year to everybody at Mulligans and the whole family. When I said that, oh, it's going to be an even better summer at the summer White House. Mulligans. It's got Prezler in town. We may have to have a lottery, Henry, for seats there. We may have to start doing that right now. People claiming their seats. Oh, man. This early? Oh, yes. I mean, last year, we had a couple of, well, when we had Kelsey Grammer there, literally we had to bring him in through the back door, and it got to be just, well, the fire marshal just set up. What the heck? I mean, it was... You've been to Mulligans, right? I haven't, no. Oh, okay. This summer, you'll see what I mean here. It gets to be pretty ferocious, and you want to be sitting at the bar. When Bob Kelly comes this year, which I know he will, people at the bar are going to be pushing in there because he's going to jump up and yell drinks for everybody at the bar. It's a tradition. It was not suddenly these people are all scrambling because it's not, and everything else to be there. You say free anything. People call running everywhere. Oh, man. Like he had $100 bills he was throwing around, he just jumped up out of his seat in the middle of the interview. We want to make that an occurrence with every big guest that we get there, you know, we screen that. Give out money, I'm afraid. Yeah, but Kelsey Grammer, he just couldn't ask for a better big star, all the stuff to talk with him about the beer, and then the fact that he is more conservative or more libertarian conservative. It was really funny, and just the way the guy, what an actor, just the way he was nestling his French fries in his hand, as he was eating, you know, I was imitating him. He just, it's like a Shakespearean actor with a French fry. He's a really good actor, not just a comedic, but really, and really smart guy. So we hope to have him back. We're working behind the scenes on it. We might also ask, who would you like to have a puret mulligan, so people go nuts, the stuff that they, Johnny Z said, Scott Prezler, delivered bang. This year he might have, he might make that to sleep over a headquarter, so he'll be there registering. Pulling it on now. Yeah, exactly. We'll do something. You'll like it, I think. It's quite a spot for us. They even have the summer White House t-shirts available there. I think they still have some. All right, here's one of the big, I mean this guy actually sang in a green leisure suit. I don't know if he was doing Tom Jones or not. It is the earl of Tech Coney, Earl, who were you when personating there? Um, I was doing Tom Jones. Tom Jones. I told Dan, I still haven't seen Tom Jones appear yet. You know, that's the ultimate guest. You mentioned Tom Jones up on the bar at Mulligan's. That's it right there. That's what we need. But I am getting a plaque on my stool where I always sit every time. I told you, right there, it's reserved for the earl of Tech Coney. We know where he sits. Got his name on him. Get more stools. There's going to be more people this year. Right there next to the door so that my waitress can hit me every single time. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I heard Tom Jones in the background. Yes. Go ahead, Earl. I saw something on Twitter the other day, which I thought was rather profound. If we're bringing in all these H1B visas because these people are so much smarter and better than us, why don't they just take the jobs and just fire the people that are taking the jobs out? Why do we have to train them if they're that smart and they're that good? Shouldn't they already know how to do the job? I mean, if I go and I tell Henry, I'm a better producer than you, you know, I'd kick him out of the booth and I'd start producing, but if I have to go in and he has to show me how to produce the show, well, then how can you know that I'm actually better at Henry's job than Henry is? Henry, if you could pull that from, I didn't get it today, sadly, but we'll play it to Earl's point before the end of the show, the Disney guy breaking down in tears who had to train these people for weeks, Earl, to your point. If they're so world-class, these would be petty things for them to do. Yeah, it's like, yeah, just let me sit down. I'll do it. That's exactly right. Oh, yeah. They're not world-class. I remember when that story broke, you know, three or four years ago, you know, seeing it, you know, in the conservative newsfeeds where, you know, Disney employees are, you know, hot training. Yes. Very placements. I remember reading those stories and it's like, I thought it was just Disney, but to my point from yesterday, but you notice how the quality of Disney has gone down. And to my point yesterday, they're not working to make an American product, they're just making a product to get paid. And that's right. By the way, too. And not that I'm negating, well, not all these people are from India. But somebody just hit me on Twitter and said, well, you know, how can they connect to America that easily? The national sport is cricket. I mean, is that that going to say, well, that's pretty close to baseball. I don't think so. But if you read some of the news stories, other countries are doing the same thing where they bring in cheap labor. Saudi Arabia is building some megacity out in the middle of the desert. I think the city is actually like 100 miles long and maybe 50 yards wide or something like that. It's supposed to be some mega future city. And they're having problems because they're bringing in low-cost workers, they're living in a little shanty town outside of this new city that's being built. And there's all sorts of problems with these workers. It's like the old black and white film Metropolis where we're building all these bright, shiny cities are bringing in all these workers and they just live out on the edges and they're not allowed in. They can build the cities, but they're not allowed to actually live in the city and interact with the citizens. And we're doing the same thing here where we're bringing in people and it's akin to slavery. I mean, they're volunteering. We're paying them. But other than the fact that, you know, they volunteer and then we're paying them, there's no difference between this and slavery. Well, you can't be deported. That's always hanging over their head. That's why you work 80 hours. And again, Earl, I think any reasonable person. You prove to me you have not even an Einstein, but just something that might be very hard. Maybe the eye test, et cetera. Okay. There's one, two, three people every year, maybe in America, I would like to take that challenge. I'll even put up my own money. I'm going to find somebody that can beat that person in America. That's how sure I am. Well, the deportation isn't anything new. My father told me a story. There was a fill it up your roofer who used to bring in immigrants from Poland to go and to work for his company. And he would hold their passports. If they acted up, you said, you know, I'm going to turn you in. I'm going to get you deported. And no, this was happening in the 1960s. That better not be up on the roof with those guys from Poland. So what's your side? Who do we leave behind in 2024? She keeps coming up all year, especially toward the end of the year. I would say beyond say, I mean, I'm expecting her to, you know, maybe show up at ABCs at Dick Clark, New Year's Rock and Eve, get paid for $20 million. Walk up to the stage, go to the mic and say, happy new, turn around, walk away. Not even saying. I got you, Earl, thank you. That's a great one. All right. Well, she's country now, anyhow, though. All right. So it's 855-839-1210. I'll be off tomorrow, by the way, Lou Page sitting in. But back on Thursday and Friday, and we'll see how this turns out before the end of the week. Again, don't have to cut ties with Vivek and the Elon Musk. It's not Civil War, but they can't win on this. It defies the very definition of MAGA. All right. Let's talk about the good stuff. Ring in the New Year, just like we did in 2024, but the best seafood for your party, or bring wherever you're headed tonight or the next few days with you. And that means get to Captain Chucky's and see everything they have to offer. I wonder how much it can stock up at Captain Chucky's. We all know Captain Chucky's is known for their fantastic crab cakes at Wild Caught Golf Shrimp, the soups as we get into colder weather. Captain Chucky's is teaming up, though, with some of the family-owned businesses in our area with great products. Captain Chucky's and Marciana's Bakery of Philadelphia have launched their newest invention, the Bang Bang Crab Cake and Cheese Specialy Bread, available exclusively for now at most Captain Chucky's locations. They also have a taste of Philly in section in most stores that carry the following family-owned items, stocks, pound cakes. Everybody loves them. Marciana's specialty breads, pierogies, from the pierogi kitchen of Roxborough, Chef Matt's T-line pies, Derby's Philly-famous claims casino, and also Vera Pasta Company of Westchester who produce Captain Chucky's own line of pasta, including their three different raviolis. They have their own lobster, bangin' crab, and finally, the shrimp, scampi ravioli and their own jarred plush sauce. Check out their website for availability and with the holidays approaching. If you didn't do it in 2024, make a B-line and get those downrolls, my favorite. People love it. There's a location near you. Just go to WeLoveCrapCakes.com. You'll find out all the details, all those locations, just a tremendous product that people love. WeLoveCrapCakes.com. If you're headed to the shore, don't forget Captain Chucky's is there, too. Go to Captain Chucky's at the shore. One more item to remind you of. Captain Chucky is out with his first kids' book, Captain Krabby's Castle of Friendship and Love, and it's a beautifully illustrated book with a cast of characters like Captain Krabby, Ollie Octopus and others, all around a great lesson for kids teaching friendship and love. And guess what? Captain Chucky gives back all the proceeds from this book available at the Captain Chucky stores goes to Shriners Hospital. It's a win, win, win, great product, great people giving back another big year in 2024. Don't forget when you go to your local Captain Chucky's Captain Krabby's Castle of Friendship and Love. And it's a dime time to watch for 2025 Disruptors. That's what a lot of these competent members are going to be and I think most of them are going to get through. I may be putting up on the next day or so. Which one had a four or five is the most likely of the ones that have been talked about that maybe it won't happen? I think Pete Hexeth has moved into, not a short thing, but probably the most likely out of the three or four that are going to be contentious. I'll be putting that up. Here's a little bit, we were talking with Earl though, Henry was able to plot this. Here's a little bit, and I'm coming to your calls, the Disney IT guy talking about what it was like to have to deal with your replacement, training your replacement, even though there was no question about the quality or whatever these IT guys were doing, it's just they wanted to undercut them and for weeks they had to train people or not get their severance. Here's what he said, "I walked into a small conference room with about two dozen highly respected fellow IT workers. The Disney executive made a harsh announcement to us all. All of you in this room will be losing your jobs in the next 90 days. Your jobs have been given over to a foreign workforce. In the meantime, you will be training your replacements until your jobs are 100% transferred over to them and if you do not cooperate, you will not receive any severance pay." I was completely silent during this meeting thinking how this was going to affect my co-workers. How was it going to break news to my family and pay all of our expenses? I would soon be living on unemployment. Later that same day, I clearly remember going to the local church, pump and sail, and it happened to tell the kids, "I couldn't buy any of that year because of my job." But being turned over to a foreign worker, I started to think, "What kind of an American I was becoming?" Was I going to become part of ruining our country by taking severance pay in exchange for training my foreign replacement? How many other American families would be affected by the same foreign worker that I trained? The first part of my 90-day period was focused on capturing all that we did with our jobs. We all felt extremely humiliated when the foreign worker sat next to us and watched everything that we did. The final period of the 90 days was the most disgraceful and demoralizing as we had to watch the foreign workers completely take over our jobs. And we came to grips that the upcoming Disney jobs promise didn't exist. Then finally on January 31st, 2015, we were ordered to turn on our company badges, laptops, and then ushered out the door. How can we be that everybody that hears these stories about Disney and the like from the barbers of the bankers are completely shocked? Yet our lawmakers continue to debate the topic and take no action. All right, we got the point of this guy here. I'll thank you for the reminder of that. Keep that one on for Thursday, Henry. This Disney, that was one of the major ones that people first saw this that became public, that became kind of blatant. And that's what's at stake here, undercutting Americans, many of whom, to Earl's point, these guys are such whiz kids. Why do they need so much training then, more than the American? Mark in the Northeast on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Mark. Hey, Merry Christmas, Harry New Year. Thank you, Mark. Same to you. I completely agree. We probably need to take a five-year hiatus on immigration, kind of like we did after the 20s and the 30s, but assuming, you know, and this may sound a little counterintuitive, but assuming that we need to hire these foreign workers in general, not specifically the H1B, but all foreign workers, all of these work visas, assuming that we can't find any Americans to do these jobs as the argument always goes. I'm thinking, if you have to hire these foreign workers and bring them in, you have to pay them. You're required to pay them at least double the average wage of an American. That is a great point. And we'll see that they won't do that then. That's exactly right. Precisely, precisely. And again, Mark, you know, we're in the holiday lull here, but I don't want a civil war. We've got too many big fish to fry, but we can't lose on this one. It just distorts exactly what the Trump message was. What would you leave behind in 2024? I'm going to say vegans. All right, I think I know some that are very good people. Henry, you don't have any vegan or vegetarian in you, do you? No, not even a little. Okay. Well, I'm a vegetarian, at least by my standards. Now, maybe a pescatarian because I'll be having seafood tonight. So yeah, I could never be a pescatarian. No way. What I have to do is eat vegetables and fish. Yeah, that's that's where I draw. I'm not huge in a fish. How about crab cakes? I won't disparage the crab cake, but I'm not putting it on my plate. All right. Well, at least we're getting the shellfish, the shellfish. Not not into it. Okay. Anything with a shell, really. All right. Let's go to Drew and Upper Darby Drew. Happy New Year. Hi. Hey, I'm happy New Year. All you guys in the staff. Thank you, man. Hey, Tom, I'm with you on this visa thing. For me, essentially it's just America offering affirmative action out for the rest of the world. Like you hire scientists from Norway or something. There's probably at least 50 of the same person on the campus of Stanford with the same credentials. Why can't we just hire our own? They're just as good if not better. It's affirmative action for the whole world. Yeah. You know what? I think this could be maybe a short running, but it could be a TV series with some glitz and stuff. We bring in the person they want to come into the country. And then we have the American, or a few Americans on this, Drew, and we'll see what happens. Right. And the gentleman you had, who was just recently on the recording back in '15, that's the ultimate conflict of interest. He's training a foreigner for his job that he could do just as good as anyone else. And listen to the integrity of that man saying, "I didn't want to do this because how many more people are my harming by going along with this man?" That takes a lot of guts to be thinking that way. It really does. Exactly. I mean, it's just a bad, bad sequence of events and time, you know, as far as I want to see in the rear room here, or whatever the question is, no more drag queens in the classroom. All right. That is very good one in the classroom or libraries, whatever. But you know, as long as parents allow, as long as libraries allow an alternate to be in there and don't stifle them, these parents want to take their kids to this, go figure. All right. That's parenting. All right. It is the lightning round next. And here's how you get in. 855-839-1210, it is here something you'd leave behind in 2024. We've had some great ones all over the place. And again, if you ever have a side question, just hit me with an email or hit it on Twitter and I'll take a look at it. We have a nice stockpile, but we're always looking for a great one because it really introduces to all the people out there that maybe we wouldn't have heard of as much like coming up, Joe of extant. 855-839-1210. The time has come for the final test. We usually call us the lightning round. All right. I got to check this back now. People on Twitter, I'm not sure about this, but the current HP one has a current salary cap of $65,000 a year. This is a specialty position, but people here in the United States cannot do it. Should it pay the big bucks? No one else can do it, right? Ah, I got to look that up. $65,000. I'm sure there's some ways around that. I'm sure. I'm sure there's some loopholes. Yeah, but you see what the intent is here. It's not so much market value in these things. Even if they offer more to people around it, they still have the flexibility to undercut American workers then. In other words, Henry, they can say, well, it's only paying $65,000. Even if they're cooking up some deal behind the scenes here, how does that get checked on? Yeah. It gives too much wiggle room here on this. All right. The Joe of extant on talk radio 1210 Joe, Happy New Year. Hello, Dom and Happy New Year. For 2025, I would like to see them discontinue electing corporate bagger politicians from out of state, Phil Murphy, instead, electing politicians who are familiar with the people and culture of that state. I couldn't agree more and Republicans did it here too with Dr. Oz, you know, bringing them parachuting him in, but Murphy doesn't even know how to eat pizza the right way. How can you have a governor of Jersey? I have a comment. Yes, Joe. In support of your argument at the beginning of the program, America does have the best and the brightest, the Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Oppenheimer. Yes. Take that. Oh, you know, that's what I should ask. Who do we put in our Mount Rushmore that's going to match the rest of the world? That's not a bad list to start it with. Even though Dan would diminish the great Edison, I'm glad you did not. I would as well. Oh, there we go. Henry too. They're both in training. Must be a Greg Stocker quiz question. Tell me what you think of Tesla and tell me what you think of Edison. Oh, God. All right. Let me take one more here quickly, Andy, in Center City. Hi, Andy. Happy New Year. Hey, John. Happy New Year. I'm really a lecture show. I've been listening to you often on Saturday. I'm cleaning up the house for 2025. I would recommend. I would hope that in 2025, we finally leave Barack Obama behind. Yeah. Wow. I think I'm so tired of him. Yeah. This election really, really stopped him. I mean, he was one of the big losers of the election. That's right. Yeah. I think so. But I think if you look at his history for endorsing candidates, he had a losing track record. He endorsed Coronavine, who lost miserably. He endorsed Camilly, whatever her name was, and everybody, he's endorsed. He's got about a 10% hit rate. He's not very good. I hope we're done with him finally. The thing that I would like to comment on real quick, and then I'll go off because I know you're busy, I've been listening to you often on today. And I think some of the, I agree mostly with what you say, but some of the commentators have confused, have confused brains with brawn. So if you're a roofer, or you're a bricklayer, or you can do plaster work, that's a lot of manual labor. And I don't want to see those guys displaced, but when I worked in California 15 years ago, flying back and forth, I met some computer engineers, and I'll tell you where they were from. They were from India. Why were they from India? It's an English speaking country. They're highly educated. They're very technically competent, and they were working for the big boxes out there, like they were soft, and everywhere else where they paid slave wages, and they got the same slave wages. So I think we need to look at this carefully, because our education system, is not preparing these people to do into science, technology, engineering, and math. I differ with you, though, and here's where we differ, you know, across the board, the education system is pitiful, but given the number of Americans, and given, I think we still have two Americas, I think you have significant number of Americans who are still equal or better across the board in these fields, I'd have to see, do you need millions of them? Would we have that? That might be a stretch, but if it's hundreds, thousands, we have them. Well, I listened to it. I hope you would clarify the issue on coming into this country in the wage tax, because the engineers that I met weren't suffering with any wage tax. They were driving us a nice car. They were being paid. I'm checking on it. I got you. Thank you, Andy. Have a good new year. I got a run here. A couple of candidates here. Yeah, I think one of the stronger ones here was, let's see, Bill and Buck's County here with the planned obsolescence argument. Yes. I think we have gotten away from building things to last and instead building things to make a profit. So I really like his thinking on that. And then I like Joe and Exten's answer of out-of-state politicians. You know what? He's right. Like the people we elect should not be coming from Massachusetts or wherever, which is a different part of the country. They moved here just because, you know, oh, hey, I could win this seat. No, we need people who know the state, want to be in the state and have lived in the state the whole time. So I like those two answers. I would go with Joe on that. Yeah, the Phil Murphy, always the king of hair, the prince of hair always strikes me on that. So let's put that in. All right. Joe of Exten goes into the hat. Today, tomorrow, but we'll be plotting and planning for a great 20-25. Henry off to March 2, Lou Page will be sitting in. But Thursday, Friday, we round out the week and we'll get a winner with another great side question. Follow on Twitter, though, putting a lot of stuff up. And I'll run down to 65,000 a year, cap HB1. And I take Andy's point. I just believe we have enough Americans, despite the lagging number of Americans. Remember, it's just a few thousand against a few thousand. It's not everybody in this country versus some of these other countries. The math scores are abysmal when you look at the totality. We don't have to call out Philadelphia, Camden, and places like that, even some suburban schools. But we do have the best and the brightest. It's a simple fact. The debate will continue. Have a great New Year's. I'll tell you about the Conclave. Rather, Henry was right or dying. Oh, man. It's good. It's good. It's not great. No. I've maintained the whole time. It's a good movie. It's a Dan tactic. This is exactly what Dan does. Four stars. Good move. Four stars is good. Four stars is a lot of stars I'm paying for here. But remember, we got stiff the other day, so it's free popcorn in a soda and amper. And that'll make it more enjoyable. And gallows, Jim R.V., welcome on board in 2025. All right, Pat Callahan takes you to the next four hours. Talk Radio 1210, W.P.H. Day. Dana, weekdays 9 till noon on Talk Radio 1210, W.P.H.D. Hey, Fidelity. How can I remember to invest every month? With the Fidelity app, you can choose a schedule and set up recurring investments in stocks and ETFs. Oh, that sounds easier than I thought. You got this. Yeah, I do. Now, where did I put my keys? You will find them, where you left them. Investing involves risk, including risk of loss. Fidelity brokerage services LLC, member NYSE SIPC. Look, we're all human. We push pull doors, we blow on ice cream to cool it down, and sometimes we forget to check our blind spots. That's why the 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid offers class-leading advanced safety features. Like an available blind spot view monitor, which shows you a live video feed of your blind spots, because the Tucson Hybrid is made for humans who are just that human. Visit HyundaiUSA.com or call 562-314-4603 for details. All right, let's be real. If you're a content creator, blogger, or an entrepreneur just getting started, the last thing you want to do is spend hours building a website. You've got things to do. That's where Bluehost comes in. Their AI-powered design tool gives you pro-level WordPress sites like that. No coding, no stress. Just type in what kind of vibe you're looking for, and then boom, you got it. And you also get added features like marketing and e-commerce tools to help you build, grow, and scale your online business like a boss. And upgrading to Bluehost Cloud keeps your site running 24/7 with ultra-fast hosting, 100% uptime, and enhanced security. Always fast, never slow, so you can keep making that dough. It's seriously never been easier to build your website with Bluehost. If you've got the ideas, all you need is the platform. All you need is Bluehost. Head over to Bluehost.com and start building your dream website today. The Apple Watch Series X is here. It has the biggest display ever. It's also the thinnest Apple Watch ever, making it even more comfortable on your wrist, whether you're running, swimming, or sleeping. And it's the fastest charging Apple Watch, getting you eight hours of charge in just 15 minutes. Apple Watch Series X, available for the first time in glossy jet-black aluminum. Compared to previous generations, iPhone XS are later required. Charge time and actual results will vary. What is Dax? Are you tracking all our cars on Carvana Value Tracker on all our devices? Yes, Kristen, yes I am. While I've been looking for my phone for... In Dax's domain, we see all, so we always know what our cars are worth. All of them? All of them. Value surge trucks up 3.9 percent. That's a great offer. I know. Sell? Sell. Track your car's value with Carvana Value Tracker today. [MUSIC PLAYING]