The Dom Giordano Program
Stuck Between a Rock and a Voting Place
2 - Scott Presler joins the show to give an update on the mail-in ballot situation in Pennsylvania and the disparity of sign-ups between Republicans and Democrats. How about Luzerne County putting boulders in front of voting precincts in order to protect those sites? Democrats have become the party of the rich and no longer represent the working class. How close will the margins be this election thanks to his efforts? 215 - Dom’s Money Melody! 220 - Winner? 230 - Local Teamsters President, Bill Hamilton, joins us today to discuss the Longshoremen's strike. Why such a pushback against AI? Bill details the difference between safety concerns and automation. Where does Bill stand on the use of tariffs? He also details the difference between using tariffs to boost the economy and to punish other countries? Will this union strike affect the Teamsters' demands? 250 - Lightning Round!
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W.O.G.L.H.T.3, Philadelphia. From the Cheerio Volo Studios, where relationships matter, always live on the free Odyssey app. It's Dom Time now. Dom to your dyno. All right, it is Dom Time, 855-839-1210. It's Dom's money melody coming up. You got the side question. National Coffee Day was just the other day. An acquired taste, a person, a place, or a thing. Well, he's more than an acquired taste. It was easy. Remember when he started out-- I don't know how many years ago that was. We're going to do this big cleanup. We're going to pick up garbage and trash in tough places in Philadelphia. Who is this? Scott Prezler guy, I think. What the heck's going on here? And people flocked to it. Maybe not right in the beginning, but after a couple of times, they did. And then he turned to voter registration and checking on the system, shall we say. And he has become a phenom. Every day that goes by, it gets greater. Scott Prezler joins us for an update on what's happening here in Pennsylvania. Scott, welcome back. Scott, when was the point you shifted from the cleanup to the voter registration? Well, thank you for having me back. That's what people really don't know, is I've always done voter registration. My first job was helping to elect Governor Greg Abbott in 2014. It just wasn't until the cleanups that I hit mainstream media. And then people were like, oh, he also does voter registration. And I just want people to know that no, I have been focused on registering voters for the last decade of my life. This is nothing new. And I think we're finally seeing the fruit of our resolve. So Scott, what do you have to report? What's the latest today? Actually, we have a lot of news to cover today. So after constant pressure yesterday on the Pennsylvania Department of State, they finally released the voter registration data at like 4.30 PM. And by the way, it's never that late. It's always 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock. So in the last seven days, the Democrats had a net loss of over 5,000 voters. The Democrats only picked up 7,000 voters while Republicans picked up 12,000. This is the third week in a row since the Taylor Swift endorsement of Kamala that Republicans have outregistered the Democrats statewide by over 4,000 every single week. And furthermore, Lusern County, you know, the county that still has a backlog of thousands of voter registration applications, thousands of mail-in ballot request applications. They went from plus 83 Republicans to now plus 410. So our efforts in Lusern County are continuing to pick up steam. And I want to give a special shout out to Bucks County. You know, this year we have flipped Bucks. We have flipped Lusern. And whereas four years ago, the Democrats had 15,000 more registered Democrats in Bucks County. We now have 2,500 more registered Republicans than Democrats in Bucks County. It's shocking. And you have a nice touch on Twitter with Lusern County saying, get busy processing this. Why are you putting those boulders in front of your headquarters? Yeah, so the manager for Lusern County for election security has put boulders. Lusern County, your money is going to boulders for election security. And so I wrote them and said, OK, I don't know what a boulder is going to do, but how about some more staff? Yeah, I mean, the mismanagement going on is truly incredible to watch. Hey, Scott, report here to something that's happening that you have gone into neighborhoods like this. I first met you in person in Harrogate, bordering on Kensington, inquired a day in deep blue Philly, working class voters, black, Latino, white, are shifting toward Republicans. And they say, when you get to the poorest subsets of neighborhoods, that's where the increase is the greatest. Yes, yes, we're seeing this. And you know what? I want to give a shout out. There's a woman named Tatiana who is working for the Trump team in Kensington of all places. And she has told me anecdotally she goes, Scott, entire Hispanic working class neighborhoods are shifting to Republican and Philly. And she told me that months ago and seeing that today from the Inquirer shows me that all of the work that the PAUP, Trump Force 47, early vote action, all of us working together, we truly are changing the game, even in blue areas like Philly. But furthermore, it shows me something more important. The Democrats have become the elite. The Democrats are the party of the rich. The Republican Party is the party of union workers and working class Americans. And we are there for the forgotten American people that are just struggling to get by. And I think this Inquirer story really shows the change that's occurring. Yeah, I knew about in South Philly. You know about that, too. There are certain Trump zones in South Philly. But this is in the heart of desperation that people are moving toward this. And your efforts to get them registered across the state, Scott, do you have any knowledge? There's a Democrat now, Burns, Frank Burns, in Johnstown running against the Republican because the Republican is a business type, bringing in Afghan refugees. He says to take away jobs from native sub-Johnstown, which is a pretty desperate place. Yeah, I'm not aware of that phrase. I do know in shalvaroy, where they have shut down a factory that's shutting down 300 Washington County jobs, and that we're bringing in all of these immigrants. Look, at the end of the day, this is America first. This is the people of Pennsylvania. I don't care what color you are, what creed you are, whatever. If you were here in America, and you're a citizen in Pennsylvania right now, my allegiance is to you, that you, your family, you should be the priority, period. And I'm not gonna apologize for that, and there's nothing wrong with that. And I think that's why we're seeing so many people turn to the Republican party because it's evident. Kamala and the Democrats are going to prioritize the rest of the globe. The Republican party is gonna prioritize you at the American citizen. But there is one breaking story that I really wanna cover briefly, Don. President Trump is coming to Butler for his triumphant return at the site of the assassination attempt at the farm show in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Now get this. Tell me if you think this is the coincidence or not, Don and Dan. That the Pennsylvania voter registration application for online by the Pennsylvania Department of State, that website is undergoing maintenance and will be unavailable for voter registration on Saturday, October 5th from 6 p.m. of the rally starts at 5 p.m. Until 12 a.m. that day. Do you guys think it's a little interesting that they would choose that day of all days to do site maintenance for voter registration when all the eyes across the globe are gonna be on Butler County, Pennsylvania? I don't know. - I am not the conspiracy guy, usually. - Oh, I am, man. - I see, I saw fishing this here. - Take that bib off. You can't have that saliva. - Oh, this one. - Wow, yeah. - But Scott, you're-- - Of all the days, Don, you don't think they could have chosen any other day than the time you get that return to the site of the assassination attempt? - They ought to be doing it at 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Sunday. - Yeah, I know, yeah. - All right, well, Scott, we're on this because maybe we can get people to push back and say, no, you can't do it at that point. Explain to listeners why that's critical and what you do, and Butler's probably gonna have 20,000 people there I would assume. - Oh, it's gonna be 80,000 people. This is objectively an iconic moment in history that a president who was shot in his ear who survived an assassination attempt is returning to the very place that he almost died. And he's returning triumphantly to be there for the people that he hopes to represent and win this November. That is so iconic and epic. And this is, I wanna be clear, this is election interference. The Department of State is engaging in election interference by scheduling this maintenance on Saturday the 5th during this iconic rally that is going to get attention from around the globe. And if they truly, if Governor Shapiro wants the automatic voter registration and wants everybody to get registered to vote, then I'm certain that they would have no problem by scheduling the maintenance for a time that people probably are gonna be less likely to use the website between the hours that may be 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. I think that's a pretty reasonable thing to ask. - What's your goal now with the staff of 40 and everybody else, and you're right, something this iconic and how well known you are, how many people do you think you can register there at Butler and Scott, I wanna underline for listeners because you've made this point. You have all these people that are our voters and they donate, they go to rallies and it's shocking and yet they're either not registered or they don't end up voting. It's incredible. - Yes, well, real quickly, let's touch on some of these groups for a second. 2020 was decided by 80,000 votes, right? We have 80,000 truckers in Pennsylvania alone. A lot of truckers are driving on election day. We get a mail in ballots, they vote, we win. Our beautiful Amish, we have 90,000 of them. Governor Shapiro and the Democrats are waging a war on religious freedom, small businesses, dairy, raw milk, school choice, you name it, we are courting the Amish vote in a way that hasn't been seen before. We engage that community, we win. We have 800,000 veterans and we saw on stage last night during the vice presidential debate that Tim Walz admitted to his stolen dollar, admitted on national television that he lied. He called him a misspoke, but we all know that means he lied. And so our veterans don't take kindly to stolen dollar. And last, we have 930,000 hunters in Pennsylvania. 30% of hunters are not registered to vote. Tim Walz, the man running to become your vice president, just said guns are the problem. He said that guns are the problem. Kamala and the Democrats will come after our second amendment rights and after our hunting rights. And if you're a hunter, if you're a firearm owner, then you must register to vote at your current address. Go to vote.pa.gov and do that today because you can't do it on October 5th because of the Department of State doesn't want you to register during that day. But my goal, Dom and Dan, is I'm setting a goal of having 500 new registered voters during that Butler rally, which will be 160th of what we need in just one day to win those 80,000 votes that 2020 was decided by. Each one of these rallies is consequential. Our team will be there and one last announcement. We now have 50 paid staffers across Pennsylvania with early vote action. Wait a minute, we just talked with you in 30 minutes ago, it was 40. What the heck's happening here? No, babe, we got 50. We got 50. Listen, they cannot stop this train. After last night, after seeing JD Vance show why President Trump chose him, seeing the level that he would be able to articulate a positive vision, that he was calm, that he was an America first agenda. I mean, people were so fired up. My phone has been blowing up nonstop and we now have 50 paid staffers at earlyvoteaction.com. Earlyvoteaction.com. Scott, keep us in the loop. We're gonna see you. Now, Al Schmidt is dodging me on a set of a local TV things. We were all glad-handing and bro-hugging and everything else. I don't know why he won't come on. I got Henry and Dan on it. Maybe we gotta put Prezler on this. - I'd love the opportunity. Thank you, thank you, gentlemen. - Nice to see you. (laughing) - Oh my God, 501 fell swoop. Yeah, that is kind of curious when the Butler rally, which will be iconic. Tell me if you're going to that. That is a far piece from here. What is it, 300 miles? I'd have to calculate. I think Pittsburgh is 400 away. If people are going to that, this is from our area. - Five hours, 12 minutes, apparently. - Five hours, 12 minutes, oh man. - That's a long drive. - I think the 1210 copter should be deployed for this. All right, 855-839-1210, yeah. And we're not even getting a response from the great Al Schmidt, right? - We got one last week that said he was unavailable. I'll circle back. - Oh, tell me. - Literally, you know, since they're doing maintenance at midnight on a Saturday, I'll be sitting at home in the dom dome and I can tape the interview right there Al. We got to ask these Republicans, are they going to say something about this? Where are they? Why does maintenance have to be done 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. on this Saturday night, October 5th? Oh, you know, we don't have guys that want to come in. Well, what do companies do that really need to be up and running? Don't they do that at two o'clock in the morning? - I'm the anti-conspiracy guy. Dan balances this out by being an extreme conspiracy person. - Do we mind on the moon, Dom? - But this, Estelle Schmidt, that, yeah. This smacks of, yeah, well, we're going to cut this down. We don't like this. Let's do the maintenance set. Kind of maintenance, so they need to be doing it. 855-839-1210, you get in, hit us on the side question, but right now, it is time for-- - Uh-oh, where's my name? - It is time for-- - There it is. - It's Dom, money, melody. ♪ So the money gone ♪ - All right, you win today. You're getting a pair of tickets to a night on the Bayou, celebrating Credence Clearwater Revival on October 11th at the Zlock Performing Arts Center. We love that spot. We've done speaker series, Air Ridge and I. It's on the campus of Bucks County Community College. Dan, what's the backstory? - Yeah, Dom, today we're talking about acquired tastes. And for the past two hours, Henry and I have been bouncing around. Who are we going to do? Frank Zappa was one of the answers at one point. I was going to do Rush. But we settled on this '90s singer that Henry believes is an acquired taste. I've liked her for a long time, but Grammy award winner, big, big name here. Doing what might be. I'm playing it today because yesterday we did Billy Corrigan covering a song and it was terrible. And it kind of almost compared to Taylor Swift's worst cover of all time, "Plate on Money Melody." This might be up there too. We're looking for the cover artist today, Dom. Take a listen covering Fergie. Here you go. ♪ What you're gonna do with all that junk ♪ ♪ All that junk inside your trunk ♪ ♪ How I'm gonna get, get, get ♪ ♪ You drunk, get, you love me ♪ - Covering Fergie. - Oh my God, yeah, yeah. ♪ What you're gonna do ♪ - Soon I'll be covering Barrowski. - You know what, I said it's Fergie. This is when she was still at the Black Eyed Peas, I think. So they're covering the Black Eyed Peas here, yeah. Looking for the cover artists today, Grammy award winner, really big name that Henry thinks is an acquired taste. Particularly because of some of the vocal stylings that she pulls out in some of her songs. - Yeah, and also sometimes they just can't get into her songs so I'm not in that mood. - There's always a mood for this person. - All right, 855-839-1210, hit us with that. You're off to the lock and we'll get your answer to the side question. Nobody better than Scott Presler. This Inquire article at 2.30, we'll get into it with Bill Hamilton. The head of the Teamsters really across much of Pennsylvania. And talk about the longshoremen. Part of me says this is gonna be bad for people, but politically, how does it play out? Biden, I'm not gonna do anything. I side with the union. Okay, all that straight ahead on Talk Radio 12. (upbeat music) Dear Autumn Leaves, you won't be covering roads alone this season. Toyota's lineup of cool, colorful vehicles is ready to ride by your side. 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Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandul.com. Gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. 10. (upbeat music) (speaking in foreign language) That is exactly right. All right, let's hear the tune, Dan, and we're looking for the cover artist. ♪ Don't you hang up on a ♪ ♪ Filthy and bent on a ♪ ♪ Carrying, maybe sharing all that money ♪ ♪ Got to be wearing ♪ All right, let's see as bad as Taylor, so. I kind of like the Taylor Swift. It's in a acquired taste. I'm not hearing her do that. Oh, wow, yeah. Turn the corner on Taylor Swift. Just picturing her doing that with a great M&M. I wonder what M&M thinks about it. Let's go to John in college, Bill. All right, John, who's covering that song? I was pretty bad, but it sounds like Alanis Morissette. Oh, boy, that is great work there. Oh my God. ♪ It's like rain ♪ You know, there should be, Dan, a quiz show on TV who's covering that song. And then they bring out the person who covered it, something like that. Oh, I like this idea, yeah. It's got a concept. It sounds like a new Fox show after "Mass Singer." Yeah, who covered it? It wasn't Rudy in there one time? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, and John walked off. Oh, God. Wait, isn't "Mass Singer" kind of who covered it? Well, I guess, yeah. Yeah, I guess it is, and it's all about it. But I like the more direct show. You bring out a contestant, sit him down, like what's that song or whatever they do, where they play the first couple of notes, but instead do cover songs, I like it. Yes, yeah. Yeah, but a lot is more set. She won the 1996 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Huge, huge artists, one of the Rolling Stones. 500 greatest artists or songs of albums of all time. She's on all those lists, Tom. But Henry thinks she's an acquired taste. Yeah, you just played the big radio hit. We had a dig deep here. (laughing) All right, let's go to Robert and Ben Salem, who's not an acquired taste. Hey, Robert, good afternoon. Hey, John, Dan, it's good to talk to you guys today. You asked the difference between Trump and Vance, and I think the best answer is Trump is a macro guy, and Vance is a micro guy. Trump's visionary, Vance appears to be the technician, and they're always gonna do better in a debate, and I really like his stock rise in JD Vance, I think. He's impressed me more than I thought he would. I'll leave with that. Well, that's a good point, but you know what? Trump is a guy that gets branding, gets the nugget. He can't spew out in a debate a few nuggets in addition to the macro or go after David Muir. I just think that was a big lost opera. That would have been a great moment for him. I think he wanted to, but he would, I think his handlers told him, please don't, because they didn't wanna see him get really angry or anything like that. But I think Vance is a lot better, and I really think Vance is, I think the biggest loser last night was Kamala, because Vance was pounding her, and Walks did nothing to defend her. Yeah, that's exactly right. That was the smartest thing, Robert, that we talked about. It's not about beating up on walls. He's just there as a human vehicle. It's attaching Harris to all this stuff. Right, right, right. But my answer to the side question is jazz, and I think it's something that happens as we get older, because there's very few young jazz fans, but my favorite is Stanley Jordan, and if you don't know who that is, if you saw the movie Blind Date with Bruce Willis, when they, early in the date, when they were in the sound studio, the guy that was recording was Stanley Jordan. Played six instruments, wrote, he was an amazingly talented guy, and jazz is the perfect music to play when you're getting together with friends and you're doing something, 'cause it doesn't intrude on what you're doing, but it sounds really good in the background. - I fully endorse this answer from you, Robert, because I don't know what it was, but it was like right when I turned 30, it's Alexa, played jazz. Every time I get home making dinner, it's jazz is in the background, and I love it. John Coltrane's become one of my favorite artists. I never cared about John Coltrane when I was younger, but you're right, completely acquired, too. - Yeah, good stuff, Robert. I have no, I have to admit, acquiring for that, I guess I haven't given it enough time. No, I can't-- - Well, I think one that you could relate to would be, it took you, well, I don't know, because you're an Italian grown-up in South Philly, but Frank Sinatra, as a young kid, you're not a huge Sinatra fan, it's kind of jazzy standards, right? - Yeah, I guess there's some that-- - And then as you get older, you were expecting to appreciate it. - Yeah, exactly, well-- - Even though all his music sound the same. - Yeah, it's the voice, though. I can tell the quality of the voice, it is different, you know, it's noticeable. Then there's my way, and nobody should be allowed to sing it, other than Frank. All right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10, you get on board, coming up momentarily. We're gonna talk about the head of the Teamsters. Scott and I were talking about this article in Deep Blue, Philly, "The Inquire Now." Working class voters are shifting toward Republicans. A lot of them are Hispanic, but they go into the poorer the area gets, the more that are saying, "What the heck inflation?" They're seeing what it's doing to them. Now, with this strike, with Longshoreman, and Biden's on record, he's got nothing to lose in this. He wants his cred to be the working class hero, the union working class hero. He's gonna stick with the Longshoreman. And the demands are preposterous, at least what they're saying now, and what they're making is hard to believe, at least in New York and Jersey. I gave you the stats. So we're gonna ask the head of the Teamsters about this, and how does that shake out? I just saw a poll out though, indicating that in the Cook Political Survey, which has bias, that Trump loses advantage over Harris on inflation, the tariff policies on popular in swing states. I'll say this about it. I don't believe that. I think that Trump, for a Republican, gained greatly if you remember in 2016. We're not gonna do unending wars, and we're gonna go after these American businesses that are playing a game of getting the American brands and moving to Mexico and playing this game. So would people really say, "I trust Kamala Harris more on inflation." They're buying the argument that Trump is gonna cause bigger inflation with tariffs. No, he's not. They'll be limited. It's mainly a tool to keep American businesses in line. And to try to keep the Chinese in line a bit. If we had widespread tariffs, I mean, really all over the place, then yeah, that would be a problem. This is gonna be very limited. It's punitive. And that's exactly what we ought to be doing in limited circumstances. I'll see what the head of the Teamsters thinks coming up about tariffs, automation, but mainly this strike and this inquire article, which says again, inquire. The deeper you go into desperate neighborhoods in Philadelphia, the more you're seeing people turn to the Republican Party. And think about this. I don't even know how that's happening given how bad the Republican Party is in Philadelphia. They might be the worst in any city in America that I know of. Vince, you can come on, Vince Fennerti, get out of that bar over there in Bridesburg or wherever the heck it is. Pick up a phone. Tell me otherwise. Are they out there? Are they out there mining this breakthrough by Donald Trump? No, they're not. And yet it's still happening. All right, phone lines are 855- - It's just your point. I know why in the great interview you had with Scott too. Beach chair says over on Twitter. You're always at Dom Show 1210, tweet the show. I said this before, I followed Scott for years pre-Twitter ownership win. Donald Trump and JD Vance, when they owe a huge debt to Scott Price, they're not the GA GOP, definitely not the GOP. He should have been recognized with the prime time slot at the convention. - Absolutely. I don't know what's going on there. We went through that before, why they didn't embrace them even more. I get it. But damn, we got to get on these Republicans. I don't know which Republican representative we can get fired up to say. You mean to say, you guys are not going to demand to the media to say, isn't it curious that they want to do this maintenance in the middle of the election of our lifetime in the epicenter of the election during the very time that Trump will be speaking in Butler with Scott Pressler and others there? Can this not be done at some other time like midnight on Friday night or midnight on Saturday night? Why does it have to be during that time? If you want us to buy into the election and we got to get passed, not buying into this at some point, then help us out here and don't do things that are suspicious. Pretty simple, isn't it? All right, Bill Hamilton straight ahead on Talk Radio 12 Tap. All right, big issues, big guests that were coming to your call. Bill Hamilton came on the show last week. He is a president of the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters representing 96,000 Teamsters in the Pennsylvania area. President, busy guy, the Joint Council 53, Eastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, presidents of the storied local 107 in Philadelphia and international, Eastern Regional Vice President since 2008. How does he do so much? Yes, it's a lot of titles. Only one VP thing in here and I called him the VP on Inside Story. I should have said, I think I said president. I said the leader of the Teamsters. I didn't have a card in front of me, Bill. So we had him on because of the Teamsters and this whole idea of Trump and the breakthrough, the polling even in his survey here in Pennsylvania, wanted to get somebody on. The longshoremen are allergic to Henry's and treaties to come on. Hey, Bill, welcome back to the show. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me, Tom. I appreciate it. Well, look, I realize the overall, we're taking macro since you're not the president of the longshoremen. But Bill, some of the wages, particularly in New Jersey and New York that I've read out, I'm not saying that's all, to be asking for 77% over six years and the tone of the head of the union will cripple you. Tell me what your thoughts are. How effective is this? Well, Tom, I obviously don't speak for the ILA but we support there. And I think that the public and what's been fashion and to be honest with you, during negotiations and when I'm actively in negotiations, I won't come on and make comments until we're done to deal either. So I don't blame them for not publicly making comments or telling their side of the story. But I can assure you that this was done and adjust and writes this way because they announced two weeks ago they were gonna do this. They didn't just pull the plug at the last minute and take these people on strike. And we support their efforts because a lot of the things that are being said about wages and benefits and that are, some of that may be true. I can't speak on the exact content of it, but I can tell you one thing. The AI part of it is something that's real and affects all workers, teachers and ILA people. Okay, let's talk about that because I don't know if it surprises you or not. I am deeply concerned about automation and a lot of jobs. Tuck across and of all people was the champion of saying, "This is one of the real issues we're gonna face." But you know, Bill, I don't know that their kids, for example, are gonna go into the same profession or they're gonna be able to stretch this out for the next 20 years. These businesses have to use a certain amount of automation. - I don't disagree with you, Dom, but when it comes to automation and safety, they're two separate items. And I think you can have AI and you can have portions of your workforce affected by AI. But when it comes to operating cranes and trucks and wireless and autonomous vehicles, that creates safety concerns. I mean, they're proposing national trucking automated VIT tractor trailers on the road. That's a killer. And cranes without operators, who would wanna work on the ground with an AI operated crane? Well, you got people unloading and loading underneath you. There's a safety issue here that's not being addressed. And that's a big concern to workers in a dangerous business. - I would agree with you on that now. Newsome just vetoed a bill in California. Don't know if you saw it, that would help get AI under control. Any thoughts on that? - Yeah, I think Newsome's an idiot for doing it. - Good, well good, I'll get you on record. Look, this automation thing, particularly on loading docks and the lake. And it's a curse of the, I am the biggest opponent of the driverless car and driverless, huge trucks on the highways. That's gotta be bipartisan to stop that. I'm never gonna be believing that's okay. - And you're absolutely right, Dom. And I think the longshoreman's concerns are not just wages and benefits. They say a lack of commitment from the employer side to address some of these issues prior to entering a contract. Once you enter a contract for the next three to five years, whatever they negotiate, you're locked in with that being able to talk about it. And this stuff is coming at us way too quick to ignore. So it has to be addressed prior to entering into an agreement. So they have an avenue to address, especially the safety issues that it's gonna concern. - Now, when you and I talked the last time, we talked to about your membership and I hope you heard on Inside Story, I gave you a shout out because we were so glad you were willing to come on. And I said we sparred on some of it. But the facts are, I think that Trump has broken through. We could argue over how much. I don't know if you saw the inquire of all places today talking about working class voters across the board, mainly Latino bill, that are going to the Republican Party. And for my money, the Republican Party leadership in Philadelphia to put it analytically suck. So they're not doing it. There's a movement here, Bill, that's moving away from the Democrat safety net. I didn't see the article down. I was on a train actually, but it is concerning. It is concerning as a Democrat. It concerns me that a large portion of our minority community is somehow not saying that the working people of the world, not everybody should be Democrat, I agree. I'm very bipartisan when it comes to labor and people that support us. So it is concerning and something that the Democrats need to address. - Bill, one other area too. Trump and the way that he talks about tariffs, now he could be more precise because it may be hurting a bit. Are you a fan of, let's say, tariffs, maybe they're more of a threat than actually being out there, like John Deere. You're not gonna be John Deere America. And then go over the line in Mexico and then keep that brand going here. - That's not good for America, not good for workers. What do you think of the use of tariffs? - Well, I think the use of tariffs as a weapon is one thing. The use of tariffs to support the economy is something completely different. If you're gonna threaten a company that they take their stuff overseas and you're gonna tax it if they come back because they're actually moving American jobs out. That's a different commodity than just putting tariffs on imports from certain countries because that raises the prices of consumer goods and products here. So I think there's a line to be drawn where some tariffs are good, especially when it can be used as a weapon to prevent jobs from leaving America. But tariffs generally on everything just as a mass production of a threat, I don't think that's a good idea. - All right, but I would argue, Bill, I'd make an exception. I agree with what you said here. With China, we got into such a bad position and that's bipartisan. Although, let's face it, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, they were the architects of NAFTA and things like that. Even though Republicans philosophically weren't good, that's when it really broke. What do you do about Chinese goods though? We get killed by this. - We do and there's gotta be a happy medium. I can't say that if you shut China's goods off altogether, I don't know if that would do the American consumer that much good, I think it would hurt the American consumer. And the long run, Dom, you may be right. In 10 years, it might have an effect. But immediately, people don't react to what's gonna happen in 10 years. They wanna know what's gonna happen next week to their consumer products. And I think it would have a negative impact to begin with. And I don't know if anybody has, either side really has the audacity to just completely touch China's economy out of the American economy. I don't know how productive that would be. - No, that's impossible at this point. But we gotta see president after president push back on them. I see them as the enemy. And that's what we're dealing with here. Bill, what's next for the Teamsters? Now that we've been talking with you a little bit during this election cycle, what's the next big thing for the people you represent? - Well, we're moving our biggest enemy right now to be perfectly candid as Amazon. They're running rampant over workforces across the country. They're hiding behind antiquated laws. They mistreat their workers badly. And it's been documented by both sides. And they've got a free reign in this country to keep growing, growing and growing and pay people poverty wages and fail to bring them up to standards and work them without any work rules whatsoever. People, you can't even go in and organize in Amazon today because the people aren't there for more than two or three months. They're turning people over like crazy. - Well, I would argue too, to your point, my resentment. They're not forced to follow the traffic laws. They park wherever they want. Even if there's a space there, they block streets and we know in Philadelphia, what can happen then? And it seems to be their coach to do that. - Yeah, it seems like they don't have any coaching. - No, I mean, they're coached to say, you don't dare park and spend 30 seconds pulling in and out. You just get out of your vehicle wherever you feel like, deliver stuff and tie up the world to your point. That seems to be the brand, the attitude. - That is the Amazon business model. They put pressure on people, they're employees and they're told to do so many stops no matter what and they have no recourse. And if they don't do the model, which is get it off that no matter what cost and no matter what damage you do to traffic or anything else. So there's really no parameters around Amazon's whole business model. - Bill, the Teamsters now, what happens if the strike goes on? Do you see a point where it intersects and it's harming Teamsters and their interest? - Well, we're absolutely gonna honor the pick of lines. We work in the same communities. We represent many food delivery groups. But I'm confident that this is gonna be a public type of argument, these companies and corporations that run these big shipping lines, they make a lot of money. They make a lot of money worldwide. They're not gonna allow this to happen for an extended period of time. They're gonna have to sit down with the union and negotiate in good faith and take care of some of these safety concerns. I don't think the money is the big issue that the am portrayed in the press. - Let me ask one other question, Bill. You don't seem like this type of guy. Look, God bless anything. I'm not gonna spend other people's money what they do. But the head of this union makes about 900,000 a year. He had a yacht. So it's hard for me to hear the working class saga when a guy's just selling his yacht the head of the longshoreman and has a Bentley. I don't know that those things go over so easily. - Well, I don't have that in front of you, I bet you do. But I can assure you that I don't make that kind of money. - All right, Bill. Well, thank you again. Thanks for coming on. Where's the website for all things Teamsters here in the area? Where do they go, Bill? - Teamsters, local107.com. - Thank you, Bill. Stay in the bullpen. It's gonna be a long strike. Thank you, Bill Hamilton. - Okay, Tom, thank you. - Tip of the hat to Henry Hare. Lightning round is next. Jump in with Dom on Talk Radio 12 tab. - The time has come for the final test. - We usually call us a lightning round. - That's right. And this lightning round is sponsored by Cherry Hill Volvo where they have ample inventory of brand new and beautiful pre-owned Volvos. Enjoy the luxury experience you deserve. They always go the extra mile for their customers because relationships matter at Cherry Hill Volvo. All right, Dan just handed me Talk Radio Gold. I'll just say this. I'm not sure of the analytics here. Henry must have been involved. The most encountered phone numbers we have from, wow, 9/1/2010 to 2024. - Yeah, so what I put there, Dom is I got you two sets of data and I'm not gonna tell you much, but that first set of data is from the, when we switched the new phone system we've been keeping track. I put 2,000 in there, but it's only been about six or seven years. It's not all the way back to 2,000. I just needed a date there. - Oh, okay. Well, yeah, 1/1/20/21 is when I started here. - Yeah, so you have, no, the 21/1 is just, I wanted to get a number of, since the pandemic, because I think the world's trying to change since the pandemic, where are, what we have standing there, of who's called the most. So at some point tomorrow, I'd love to delve into this list with you. - Oh yeah. - So we have two lists we have one of, since we started keeping track of the phone system, who's called in the most. And we also have, since the pandemic, who's been the caller the most. - Ah, okay. And there's one here that, well, we're not gonna say anything more. This is talk radio gold tomorrow. Let's go to Richard in Summerdale. Hey, Richard, what's your answer today? - Well, I think classical music in particular opera. - So you think that's an acquired taste. You can acquire it, you're saying? - Yes. - All right, thank you, Richard. - I like Richard's answer. I think jazz is the better answer, though. - Yes, I think jazz could go down potentially, but not classical music. - Although, this man is proof of the finer things in life. I don't think there's any car, Dan. And you know, I know talk radio. In my experience, over 37 years, and across the country, I defy you to find another Joe of Exten. - Hey, Joe, good afternoon. - Ah, yes, hello, Dom. Good afternoon. Ever since I was honored with the title of Inhouse a Guru, I've embarked upon a course of pretentiousness by dressing in a dark blue suit, white dress shirt, ascot, drinking pipe, and the crowning point of my pretentiousness involves the acquired taste for caviar using chopsticks. - Hey, well, put together. - Thank you, Joe. - Before you let him go, I just want to reflect because he told us he was going to get fancy one time, because we were talking about how he was a corn-cob pipe, and he told us this one time. - Yeah, corn-cob pipe. I'm more sophisticated, a drinking pipe. - See, and now he's got that drooping pipe. - Oh, my goodness. On-brand, by the way, the wedding, most recent wedding we were at, they had caviar. I couldn't even go near-- - Oh, come on, you gotta try. If it's free, sit in there, you're not gonna try it. - I couldn't even go the other foods that were around it on that one table. I would not touch them, they were infected. - Oh, my God. - Just by the idea of the caviar-- - Oh, that's such a drama call you were. - Although, I have had octopus at a station event. - Yeah, I was fine with that. Yeah, the caviar though-- - Are you an oyster? - Good caviar is very good. - No, no oysters. - No oysters. - Oh, it's all mythical. - Yeah. - It's not go there. - No, it's not. It's a 100% scientific fact. It works every time. (laughing) - All right, let's go to Bill in Bucks County. Dan, I think his name is on here. That might be tomorrow's discussion. Hey, Bill, good afternoon. What's an acquired taste? - I don't know how to follow a acquired taste. (laughing) - By acquired taste is scotch whiskey. - All right, that's another thing I'm not acquiring, and bourbon even worse. Well, I had to drink that with Rand Paul. - You didn't like it? - It was almost like I was gonna spit it up there, and when we're doing the event with them. - I don't want you there, Dom, it's-- - It looked like paint thinner. That's exactly what it looks like. - Yeah, but you don't want the thing of, you know, I never really liked bourbon, but then Rand Paul gave me some, and I started to like, it's a nice story there. - The bourbon trail, you're going to one place, and you're gonna be drunk. The wine trail, you might be able to, you know, go to three or four places I'm thinking. - Yeah. - All right, let's go to Bruce in the Northeast, talk Radio 1210. Hey, Bruce, what's yours? - Hey, Dom, you know, speaking of Joel from Action. - Joe of Action has a new title in House Google. (laughing) Joe of Action himself is in acquired taste. (laughing) He has unique responses on the radio. - Oh, God, that is a great answer. All right, guys, we got about a minute here to put this together. Henry, give me a one or two, you really like it, right? - Yeah, I mean, Chris and Melvin kicked off the day perfectly with the chopsticks, and then I really loved that last answer there, Bruce in the Northeast, saying two bests. - I like that one too, I like the chopsticks too, so Dan, you may have to decide. - Man, my top three were jazz chopsticks and Joe in Exton. Your name's a show, Dom, you got to choose. - Yeah, you know, we could award Joe every day. You mean Bruce's call. - Bruce. - Sorry, Bruce is call of Joe of Exton. - Let's go with that. - All right, Bruce goes in the house. - Bruce is in the house. - Well, chopsticks and jazz were really insightful, but Joe of Exton, that's what people don't understand about talk radio. Lot of political talk, all that stuff, but it's a clubhouse. He's not an actor, he is a real guy. 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