Teamsters President Sean O'Brien | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #536

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for your. support today's guest is the president. of the International Brotherhood of. teamsters he's a fourth generation. Teamster himself and he's from. Boston I'm really excited about spending. time today with Mr Shawn. [Music]. O'Brien I'll sit and tell you my story.

shine on. me and I will find song. [Applause]. sing I never been in a union I don't. think what about sag after you did some. acting oh yeah that's right I had to get. in Sag after one time yeah so I guess I. was in that Union we try to I used to. work at a pach a joint and uh one guy.

was getting fired and we're like you. can't fire if you fire him you got to. fire all of us you know great that's. what it's all about and the guy he just. fired all of us yeah and he was right. actually Mr Wayne he was the owner and. he was right dude we was horrible. workers we was drinking and and just. deep frying everything in there um. should that shouldn't be a terminable. offense attitude we we needed you uh. Sean O'Brien you're president of the. Teamsters Union right yes sir is that.

the term yes it's International. Brotherhood of teamsters okay and what. is a Teamster well Teamsters started out. traditional trucking truck drivers they. were horse and Buggies back in the day. and then evolved into Trucking and then. we've evolved into we represent. everybody from airline pilots to. zookeepers and everybody in between so. it's not just a trucking Union our. largest employer is United pel service. representing 3 40,000 teamers Nationwide. and United Parcel Service yeah UPS okay. UPS you know we do all the uh provide.

all the transportation needs for Motion. Pictures trade shows public sector uh. we're pretty diverse in LOD junion 1.3. million members Nationwide and and in. Canada in the Teamsters Union yes sir. and so they got so it was a team of. horses that's why the name is yeah hor. and Buggies yeah yeah yeah they had. teams uh pulling horses and Buggies. we've been around since 1903 okay so you. can see how transportation and uh has. changed over the years but um you know. it's a great organization four I'm.

fourth generation Teamster yeah oh so. you're and are you the first president. of your family that was ever in yeah. yeah all my uh family members just rank. and file members went to work every day. I started out uh in a construction yard. in Boston a rigging company hauling. cranes around and I just moved up the. ladder became a shop stward then became. uh a business agent for local 25 in. Boston and uh just kept moving along. nice dude yeah and a union is what a. union is you know we we represent.

working people we make we collectively. bargain uh for our members we make. certain that we protect them in the. workplace uh process all their. grievances but more importantly organize. workers throughout the country that want. to be unionized and uh we've been very. successful doing that and we just want. to represent working people we know 1.3. million right now hopefully we'll be two. million in the near future amen and yeah. cuz I know unions are responsible for um. the work week right right so Union 40.

hour work week uh look the unions have. set the bar uh even non-union people. benefit when we're when when you. organize and you know we've organized in. every industry but we're responsible for. over time we're responsible for the. 40-hour work week we're responsible for. the weekend uh lot of lot of people. don't know that you know so um you know. God thank you well but if we do have to. work the weekend we're g to get double. time yeah you know I mean yeah and now. didn't they just make a law that it's. going to be over it won't get taxed well.

that's a campaign promise from uh. president Trump I believe oh so it's. just it's not a so you know as you know. promises sometimes don't come to. fruition so but but it is recorded so. we'll use it against whoever said it how. pivotal is um our unions in the American. industry look we built the middle class. we Built America unfortunately as you. know once big business gets involved. private Equity of the world or there's. big money to be made everybody forgets.

they get amnesia on who actually is. responsible and there was such a decline. in the 80s because you know politicians. uh put in some bad regulation I mean I. could speak for the teams as they passed. Trucking deregulation and if I if I. could put the numbers to it we had. 400,000 members alone just in the. freight industry and when they passed. Trucking deregulation we lost 400,000. members companies went bankrupt uh and. Pension funds took a hit so what. happened though like what when they you. say deregulation what do you mean mean. by it well you know the whole industry.

was regulated so every company had rates. that they had to adhere to okay had to. follow a certain set of rules and then. once deregulation passed it was a race. to the bottom and you know unfortunately. that that hurt us over three or four. decades and now there such a uh there's. such a uh opportunity because there's so. much corporate greed out there where. these white CER crime syndicates known. as Corporate America I just all they. care about is the bottom line of their. balance sheet and you know know we've.

been fighting hard for the last four or. five years to expose how greedy these. CEOs these corporations are but also how. corruptible the political system is you. know it's funny um you know before you. always had Democrats fighting for. working people and you know Republicans. now we kind of see a switch where. working people feel like number one. they've been left behind by the. Democratic party two um you know the. Republicans say they want to be working. class represent the working class they. have an opportunity to do it um but you. know I think we've got a huge.

opportunity to organize and we've been. exposing them and we've been fighting. and you know our biggest our biggest uh. opponent right now is Amazon and we're. GNA crush him oh because Amazon my mom. drives is an Amazon worker is she yeah. so she's an independent contractor she. drives to them yeah yeah she yeah she. delivers stuff for Amazon so so I'll. tell you the difference right okay you. look at our UPS drivers we just. negotiated uh the largest collector. bargain agreement UPS is the largest. teams to contract and the country and. they're a very difficult company to deal.

with however our drivers are direct. employees our members are direct. employees of ups and once you're through. a four-year progression as a driver. you're making almost $50 an hour free. full medical and a pension that you. could actually retire off of and Amazon. hides behind an independent contractor. model where they pay their drivers about. 1950 to $20 per hour that's the. difference oh yeah asking me for all. what we're do yeah yeah yeah yeah well.

as she should yeah you know she brought. your ass into this world you got to pay. the Tariff yeah you don't you don't want. to piss your mother off believe me I got. a I got a strong Irish Catholic mother. who brought up her three younger. brothers in a housing project in Boston. and she had three just like me oh and uh. you know she's the toughest toughest one. I know that's the only person I'm afraid. of or really to be honest with you. really in Boston yeah it's like oh some. women in Boston dude I got a yeah but my. mother's like patting a python you know. you given moment she's going to we's a. life a but I love and respect her and oh.

for sure she's the best and if a mouse. goes missing around her oh yeah yeah. yeah well you know you get the head nod. the problem you know you get the head. nod from my mother it's like she she'll. go oh nice head nod done you're done. that's it you're done yeah yeah it's. like someone put a hit on. you yeah my mother uh yeah she delivers. for yeah I don't know how many hours a. week she works but she delivers for. Amazon how hard is it to get a group of. workers to unionize like at a company.

that's already like pre-existing like. that well we're doing it right now like. so Amazon hides behind this [ __ ] um. independent contractor model so they'll. third- party leasing arrangement with a. company probably what your mom's working. for and um they try and say that they're. not employees we just want a big case in. uh California where it's called Joint. employer where it's a masquerade where. Amazon controls the other company Amazon. dictates the rules Amazon dictates who. where you buy your vehicles and.

everything else but they don't take any. responsibility when the [ __ ] hits the. fan so we actually uh won that case. recently um and we're organizing all. over the place but what we're doing is. we're striking for recognition we're. going in there getting the majority of. authorization cards signed by folks like. your mom and then we just strike them. and hold them out and it's working we've. got because of that Victory we had with. exposing Amazon with the independent. contractor scam we get the potential to. organize your mom and 300 other thou.

300,000 other people wow so we we're. we've we've allocated tremendous funding. to do this uh and look Amazon the one. thing about the Teamsters Union and us. we're not good-look clearly right well. but you know we don't we don't have the. some cultures we don't have yeah we. don't have the Deep Pockets but we got. we've got you know fight we've got. intestinal fortitude and we're not. afraid we're not afraid to lose cuz. we're supposed to lose anyways right. when you're not afraid to lose you got. nothing nothing to lose yeah and and.

it's important because we we set these. industry standards negotiating these. contracts so people like him mother. people that aren't organized will see. the value of becoming a union member and. look there's always people that have. something to say no matter what you know. you know you're doing great you have a. great show you tremendous success. there's going to be someone that is. jealous and doesn't you know just wants. to attack you yeah and and we're trying. to change that philosophy we're trying. to change that um image and look we're. out there just want to help people we. want to take on schoolyard bullies and.

we want to put them on their knees you. know oh I hope I hope you take the. kneecaps off some of these perverts dude. yeah you know that's how I really feel. and also a lot of these like a lot of. the tech industry came along and just. because they're an app or they're a. website they act like they're not an. employer I guess oh that's the biggest. scam in the world you got Uber you got. Lyft uh you've got Google you've got all. all these tech companies and the sad. part is you know these politicians that. claimed be out there fighting for work.

and people bought and [ __ ] sold by. these companies it's disgusting I love. it because it my my job is and again I'm. wearing the shirt right cuz we are. [ __ ] fighting with everybody yeah and. we have to because you know the we have. to be someone's conscience and and. that's we're going to be their. conscience these big big tech companies. yeah H how does the teamsters afford. attorneys and stuff to be able to fight. those battles like well we you know we. have members pay dues so you know the. do's the du's money obviously uh uh.

finances a whole operation and you know. we are financially secure we have 400. million dollars in a strike and defense. fund uh which means that we can strike. and you know we can support a long-term. strike but also defend against any. threat to the organization that all. comes from uh Do's money um hell yeah. and and you know that's how we afford it. and it's like newsies you ever seen. Newsies I won't tell anybody I don't. tell anybody we saw it but we saw it but. it was about a strike want to admit.

it yeah it's like a it's like a couple. of those you know ABC after school. specials you watch but you don't want to. admit you watched and liked. them yeah oh yeah go we're supposed to. have we're supposed to have a big tough. attitude as teams to so oh for sure dude. speaking of strikes and stuff recently. they have so right now the uh the long. shorman are striking right they are on. the from the top of main I think to uh. uh the foothold in Texas okay and what. is that about it's about you know it's. like anything else you know the long. show and provide goods and services so.

uh imports and exports coming in they. work in the they work in the ports and. the docks like James J bradock like that. absolutely and um you know they worked. their contract expired uh uh La the. other night um but they they've their. last contract was settled in October of. 2018 so you know they worked through the. pandemic there's long shman that lost. their lives there's long strowman that. you know can never go back to work. because of the ill effects of covid but. they were out there in the trenches you.

know providing goods and service when. supply chain was basically almost coming. to a stop and all these Shipping Lines. like every all these big corporations. benefited trem them being there yeah and. it's like you know let's let's reward. the people that made us a success let's. reward the people that provided goods. and services this country let's reward. the people that uh risk their lives and. the the safety of their families to go. to work so that we all have everything. now it's their time their contract. expired these Shipping Lines are making. you know gazillions of dollars and you. know they want what's due to them and.

you know it's funny you see this. criticism online and you know social. media is great but it's all it's just a. lot of fake shit's on there and it's I'm. I'm reading it this morning and looking. at it this morning and um you know. they're attacking the long shaan for. striking you know people are saying well. they're going to drive up inflation. they're going to they're going to cause. all the supply chain. problems they are but you know do you. want these greedy corporations to keep. making millions upon millions of dollars. but the biggest threat right now is. artificial intelligence to the long.

shoreman if you look what they're doing. in the ports in. China you know everything's automated. there's no jobs these are these are. semi-automated at least yeah these are. Legacy Legacy industries that you know. provide there 130 industry where provide. middle class jobs to people and you know. they're getting attacked because people. are getting a little inconvenience well. you know what a little inconvenience. maybe it'll maybe he'll give some. support to these workers and you know. hold the people accountable that caus. this strike everybody says oh the Ila. strike. no The Shipping Lines that don't want to.

protect the jobs that don't want to. reward these people that made them a. success chose to strike themselves right. right they chose it right they could. have made a yeah everybody says they're. the one striking no it's this other. group that's not choosing to pay not. choosing to come to the table not. choosing to share um like the yeah like. you said not choosing to share with the. people that have made made it happen. yeah you know they're making billions. upon billions of dollars you know so I. mean it's like you know there's not not. a a whole lot of sympathy from us uh as.

far as corporations and and these. Shipping Lines go and so is that a lot. of what the Ila strike is over it's uh. it's obviously the fears of automation. you know it's fears of automation's. everywhere I mean that's a huge huge. threat to the Ila but also I mean look. you know everybody's saying you know. there's people criticisms on online and. and and oh the long sh make $140,000 a. year that might be true but when you. start out you're starting out $20 per. hour right and you look at $20 an hour. today would that get you and then you.

know if they're making 140,000 they're. working 70 80 hours per week so you know. there's not a whole lot of you know. quality time at home of your family they. have to work and $140,000 is a is a. great income but you put two kids you. got College you've got a mortgage it. doesn't go a long way so you know it's. time that you know we we we close that. gap between you know the CEO's pay and. and in this case the long Shan's pay. yeah yeah I think cuz what I don't.

understand is at what point is Tech. value valuable to us as a society it's. like do you want like I don't want to be. a society that there's 11 people. watching some robots do stuff that's. what it feels like we're headed towards. it feels like at a certain point you. would stop some technology because it. doesn't it kills your Society it kills. like the part of you that goes to work. the part of you that comes back that. supports your family that um gives. inspiration to your kids because they. see their parents working it's like it.

it it's almost crazy to me sometimes how. we keep pushing our our society towards. advancement if it's not if we'll no. longer be a society then does that make. any sense yeah it's a society. convenience that's the problem you know. and and and people don't realize the. consequences of Technology at sometimes. you know I mean look to your point you. know you're a product your environment. if if you have a hardw worker mom and. dad that get up every day and go to do a. middle class job that's that's what you. want to do that's what you want to. Aspire to do this technology um although.

you know we we know technolog is coming. we know technology um is relevant we got. enough in in certain certain Arenas but. there's still there's still a lot of. value to to the best computer in the. world that's that's a human's brain and. you know your instinct and and you know. there's got to be an opportunity even if. technology comes in to a certain extent. to create jobs as a result of Technology. those people you reference watching.

robots well at some point in time the. technology gets so good that those 11. people will be out of a job as well so. it's like come on let's slow this thing. down let's figure out an opportunity to. keep these jobs and give people an. opportunity that may not have an. opportunity to go to college that may. not have the ability uh to be proficient. in technology but have a great work. ethic and got a moral compass that wants. to go in and give a hot day's work for a. fair days pay so you know that's the. stuff we've got to look at and you know. as a country we're so short cited on the.

damage of technology I mean when you. talk about autonomous vehicles do you. want a commercial vehicle 80,000 pounds. going down the street next to your. family of four with no human driver. present yeah some guy just yeah in indie. or something he has a joystick iPad or. something yeah he has like a Xbox. controller or something yeah and there's. like a catastrophic accident I mean you. know and then then you check the guy's. browser you know you don't really don't. want to look at that yeah he got some. other windows open you know want abely. he's got VR goggles on over there.

looking at past P Diddy potties stuff. like thatan he's over there smoking out. of his own nut sack over there a lot of. perverts over there in India and all. over the globe I'm not trying to single. them out I'm perverted but um what was. something I was going to ask you about. oh oh uh so well I recently yeah. recently we had Bernie Sanders on and he. talked about a shorter work week and. about giving proceeds from automation to.

the workers because they're the ones who. have gotten us to that point as well. yeah I mean look there's a there's a. there's a Bernie's the best I I love. Bernie I think he's a little mad at me. right now uh he's yelled at me in a. couple Senate hearings that flared up um. but you know he is truly uh committed to. Working Class People there's no doubt. about it um you know we we're as a. teamer organization you know we we. negotiate contracts based on 40 hours. per week but there are some you know. industries that would like a 32h hour. work week paid 40 hours which you know.

that's that's that's going to be that's. going to be a tough fight moving forward. um you know my thing is we got to. protect preserve and improve what we. already have right now right and um. right because once you start giving away. some hours get back you never get it. back you never get it back right here it. says Senator Bernie Sanders chairman of. the senate committee on uh health. education labor and pensions announced. that this Thursday he will introduce. legislation to establish a standard. 32-hour work week uh Sanders said moving. to a 32-hour work week with no loss of.

pay is not a radical idea today American. workers are over 400% more productive. than they were in the 1940s and he means. that the output is because also of. automation but automation is taking the. people's jobs so then it's like it only. makes Fair sense to compensate the. people who are um whose jobs are being. taken right yeah and you know that's. that's obviously a great justification. for it but the reality of it is most of. our members have to work 50 or 60 hours.

a week and have to have overtime so you. know that's that's that's an issue that. I think we'll be dealing with down the. road but there is no doubt that we. should be fighting to create jobs as a. result of Technology being implemented. not destroy them yeah Bernie's the best. I mean he is hilarious he's very he's. very entertaining man he's very. entertaining I know you had an issue uh. with um ma ma malosi what was that Mark. Wayne Mullen Mark Wayne Mullen we'll get. to it in a second and we'll def. definitely we'll put up a um we'll put.

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know do you feel like yeah I think it's. it's important to know that it's not the. long Shan's fault that they're on strike. it's a shipping company's fault yeah and. you know this this you know this the. media is so out of whack at times in. creating these scenarios saying that. this is a political stunt uh versus one. party versus the other their contract. expired two days ago it just so happens. it's in an election year um and look. this strike could end real quick if. these greedy Shipping Lines just give.

the members what they deserve and what. they demand and it'll be over we also if. you think about it it's like you always. hear like the term the shipping AIS or. the shipping air you don't hear like the. teamsters AIS you know what even [ __ ]. side are people on like to to be on the. side of just these just people that have. so much you know and at a point it's. just obvious greed yeah I don't think. it's unbelievable man and it's. unbelievable that our country starts to. feel like that's that's the side it's on.

I mean it really feels like even just as. a regular person like nobody is support. it's it's all a shame a lot of times it. feels like I mean everybody knows that. like these the lobbies are so big now. that um that they control so much but. it's like at some point you would think. there would be a break for the common. man you know well that's what we're. trying to do I mean that's why we've. been working so hard if if you see what. we're doing all over the country with. the UPS agreement and high of bush. record record agreements negotiating.

strong contracts um we are trying to. close that disparity right now we got a. big battle going on with United Airlines. right which you know we're we're telling. all these politicians I don't know if. you saw my statement the other day stay. the [ __ ] out of our business let us do. our thing and and I always say to people. the neighborhood I grew up in which had. a lot of conflict in it if there were. two people fighting in the middle of the. street and you had nothing to do with it. keep walking it's going to end some. point one way or the other and and. that's that's the struggle but our whole. focus on on what we've been doing as a.

union and look I'm a fourth generation. team so I love this [ __ ] Union it's. giv me everything in my entire life um. the one thing that we need to do is is. advocate for for working people and you. know what people say why should I join a. union why should you join a union. because we're going to get you better. wages we're going to get you the best. benefits but more importantly we're. going to we're going to demand respect. in the workplace and we're going to. fight for you day in and day out and. look the United uh the um uh Ila right. now that's all they're doing that is all. they're doing they want respect yeah and.

to your point there's no Harris Harris. however you say it yeah princess or. something listen just take a look at us. whether it's y La the teamsters you know. we're not royalty man we're not Roy I've. been a Boston they got some definitely. you see a broad out there wearing a uess. jersey you know what I'm saying so. [ __ ] yeah we've got a lot of us from. Boston have [ __ ] faces for radio it's. definitely oh you see a lot of yeah yeah. a lot of yeah a lot of [ __ ] women. that are just [ __ ] vaping and just.

giving hand jobs or whatever but it's. okay that's don't forget don't forget. the tube top with the. C-section brother oh dude that's the. team that's the new Teamsters logo God. forbid no we've got listen the teamers. UN we got some of the finest hardest. working women and they're the strongest. no I'm joking yeah and look let them. [ __ ] play baseball again dude you. know what I'm saying that's what I'm. saying absolutely I would love to see if. the union had a league oh it' be nice. wouldn't it do you guys have a team a. baseball team yeah well we it's called. the Red Sox but I don't know if they're.

any good right now oh yeah they they. didn't make the playoffs did they no. they didn't damn no but actually screw. you guys youve had guys have had so much. luck dude I can't believe make that much. money selling cheese and stuff what all. do they have over there craft bring it. up craft Goods no craft actually started. it's a unionized paper company oh it is. yeah so it's out of Boston or Worcester. which is you know probably 45 miles west. of Boston uh the crafts are actually. very good in the community uh in Boston. but that's uh that's not not the the. same family oh it isn't no oh damn this.

every time I've That's crazy cuz every. time I'm cheering against Pats I'm. always yelling like [ __ ] launchables and. [ __ ] and I didn't even realize. cables I thought it was the same guy. it's not no no no no no no no they're. very good they're very good in the. they're very good in the community oh. yeah ah yeah I didn't know I got a yeah. I filled out some comment cards on some. of these websites too I got to go back. and take back clean up especially when. they had Randy Moss yeah was really. heavy on the keys back then oh how funny.

was he yeah oh he's great dude dude I. went to a fishing tournament one time. and um I should tell this story but I. should but I will and so went to a. fishing tournament one time Randy Moss. put on a fishing tournament this when he. was with the Vikings and you and you got. put with like some fishermen and stuff. and you would go out it was in Min. Minnetonka Minnesota on the lake and I. stayed up all night drinking right and. so I get out there and I I'm like I. think we're going to be there for 30. minutes or whatever you know like I'm.

fishing with my grandparents or. something and they're like yeah it's a. 6h hour dang and I'm like oh dude and I. had like the wh like I had to go to the. bathroom so bad you know and um and so I. at some point they're like we'll just. pee off the side of the boat but I don't. have to pee you know I had to [ __ ] do. a union job you know and so uh at some. point dude I just had to literally have. them troll a little and just hang myself. off the side of the boat and and just. did you have any dude wipes for you oh.

they didn't even have dude wipes in oh. man that must have been awful I just had. to kind of hold my legs open and let the. water go through fast like it was like a. redneck uh. bedet oh God but thank god dude and uh. we didn't catch anything I couldn't even. pull a fish without having to go to the. B like the second something would tug on. there I was like I had damn 40 in the. Live Well you know you think do you. think it had anything to do with what. you were drinking the night before 100%. what were you drinking Jagger. Meister it was and it was disgusting and.

it was God I just I still can't I can't. believe that whoever whatever company. sentenced Jager Meister on Humanity oh. terrible that's ter that's terrorism you. know I we don't want to say it out loud. but it's terrorism um the dock worker. the who's their leader over there their. um Harold daget yeah that guy's a. freaking that guy's awesome dude he's. he's taking some heat he's taking some. heat good let him take some heat dude. that guy is [ __ ] awesome you know the. good thing about what play this video.

real quick sorry I interrupt you Sean I. just want to hear the dag it welcome to. dagot stand dude this guy's a gangster. it's changing into the future they're. not making millions no more they're. making billions and they're spending it. fast as they make it I want a piece of. that for my men cuz when they made their. most money was during Co yeah when my. men had to go to work on those peers. every single day when everybody stayed. home and went to work not my men they.

died out there with the virus we all got. sick with the virus we kept them going. from Canada to maina Texas Great Lakes. Puerto Rico now the Bahamas everybody. went to work during Co nobody stayed. home well I want to be compensated for. that amen I'm not asking for the world. they know what I want they know what I. want and if they don't well then I have. to go go into the street and we have to. fight for what we rightfully deserve.

[ __ ] yeah these people today don't know. what a strike is. right when my men hit the streets from. Maine to Texas every single port will. locked. down you know what's going to happen. that's good I'll tell you and what so. yeah when when they and when he says a. lockdown what what's that would affect. everything right yeah the ports are just. shut down there's nothing coming in or. out and you know we we we represent a. lot of members uh that you know we we we. haul off the ports we the ports deliver.

to warehouses where it's separated load. on trucks we delivered so it's going to. have an impact but you know what it's. you know a little it's a short-term uh. pain for long-term game for these guys. and he's 100% accurate I mean look we. get paid to fight we get paid to fight. for our members and that's what he's. doing um look he's a character uh have. you spoken to him so I I I haven't but. um I deal with the leadership around the. country um that's the only General. president I haven't met. that we deal with you know I know all.

the other General presidents around the. country from all the other respective. Union uh unions and um I haven't met him. I mean the good news is he's he's so. public right now it's it's keeping the. [ __ ] away from me to be honest with you. yeah huh I've been taking a lot of it. lately but I'm good either way you know. I'm good but uh no he's look he's he's. got a he's got the right fight yeah yeah. sounds like it sounds like they got the. right guy doing it you know cast the. characters he's you know Straight Out of. The Sopranos you know oh oh yeah I. [ __ ] hope they find some bodies in. his yard oh hopefully they don't yeah.

yeah you're right and I shouldn't say. that sorry Harold I don't know I don't. know what he's into you know what I'm. saying but yeah yeah that's what I'm. saying is dude they gotta it it's just. it's a that's one of the things that. starts to happen is it's like if you. don't think that automation there's no. there's no effect to it right. then it's just there's a human cost to. that there's a human cost to look when. you're going into a grocery store now. right everybody's running to these self. checkouts I I refuse to do it I don't.

and and I was actually in a local. grocery store probably about a year ago. and it was like late at night and uh you. know my my I I was I forget why I was. going in there just got off a flight and. I got something real quick and there was. a an older lady standing there at the. register and I go to go to her she's. like go over there go to the automation. go over that one self checkout she was. working I go listen if I go on a self. checkout you're going to lose your job. she's like I don't give [ __ ] I don't. like this [ __ ] job anyway so was. probably something she's doing I'm like.

listen lady I know you might not like it. but let's think about the [ __ ] 30. other people that need a job that come. if I go there then I'm putting you out. of work I don't give a [ __ ] I'm like the. problem is it's like some people she's. like I'm only F you're not. on crazy elderly version what is it the. the golden Bachelorette oh yeah yeah I. haven't watched it but I have a I'll. confess I haven't either yeah and I. probably won't yeah yeah sure yeah yeah. you know but uh no it's just people. that's a good point you don't think.

about it no you don't and and people you. know disgruntled or that like that lady. might have been having a bad night you. know whatever it was but oh she might. have been out of Zen too dude yeah she. might have been yeah if you're yeah if. you're working at late Shi dude I put. you got to any put anything in your jaw. to get you through the night but the. problem is like she was in her L late. 70s and it just goes to show you like. hey if you got in a union you got a job. you got a pension you wouldn't [ __ ]. be working at 70 years old and and and. it's like yeah and it's like you know. you're pointing at you're pointing for.

me to go to a self checkout and I'm like. you're putting people out of work I. don't give a [ __ ] [ __ ] that it's like. you know she ran out of Paul Ms you know. what I mean yeah yeah yeah [ __ ] that go. Raiders she starts [ __ ] yelling yeah. yeah she probably spends all her money. on [ __ ] tattoos you know yeah like uh. marob Ros and [ __ ] scratch tickets. and [ __ ] you know yeah remember they. used to have those miles you would get. with the m Bros remember that oh yeah. yeah you you'd smoke 400,000 packs of. cigarettes to get a Camel Joe. jacket you got to of your funeral yeah.

they put you in that thing yeah you get. like a blender that said keep smoking on. the side of was like I remember growing. up in my neighborhood Pepsi did this. thing and remember that story that was. on [ __ ] Netflix the kid want a space. shut all yeah the K so I remember there. was a kid in my neighborhood that you. know he was so his kid kid's name was. Mike Lazaro and he was like crazy like. you know you you peel the cap off and. it'd be a prize I swear the kid had. Dentures by the time he was 15 he was. drinking so much Pepsi trying to SL yeah.

oh it was crazy yeah dude this oh yeah. what yeah what prizes could you get with. the marro miles bring up the prizes dude. we never look at this kind of stuff and. I think this is important just to know. back in the day you had to smoke your. way did they have like marro running. sneakers that is unbel there's no way. they had that fing crazy dude like a. gift ceric to like a lung transplant. Swiss army knife a neck brace who the. the [ __ ] wants a marro neck bre it like.

at that. like unbelievable hat. shirt marro ventilator yeah yeah that. marro thing like this we doing good you. know spark those commercials are awful. bring up the guy smoking through the. hole in his throat huh and this guy's. obviously from. uh yeah this guy's obviously from. Medford bring him up and there he is and. that used to be a man that's how bad. smoking can get guys I think that was my.

English teacher in high. school a i ow. you sometimes why dude I didn't never I. I remember there's this kid I used to. tell this story but there's this kid. that lived down the street from us is. fell Mario was his name and he was um he. was Italian I think or semi- Italian you. know and uh he used. to my brother something happened my. brother had to go away for the summer so. suddenly I was his friend like I was but. I was younger than my brother brother go.

to jail I don't know if he went to jail. but he went to a place where he couldn't. come back for about four months and. so I got so suddenly I'm friends with. Mary like the the the I would tag around. with them but I wasn't right there so. now I'm friends with this dude and he uh. I don't if this is like a union thing or. not but he would like he used to. defecate in his yard and make me bury it. right make me put it in the ground for. him subcontracted the workout that's why. I wish I known at the time because yeah. I did over probably I did at least 112.

burials for this dude right over about. over that stent over that third of the. year and and then actually years later. he died he drove a boat into an. embankment and uh I wanted to be a Paul. Bearer at his funeral and I even wrote a. letter to his mom and I was like I'd. love to put him in the ground one more. time you know yeah absolutely yeah yeah. and it wouldn't let me dude but if I was. in a union yeah. I mean it probably you could probably go.

after them for retro pay and [ __ ] yeah. that's what you know oh dude definitely. and the rose bush is in his yard. absolutely what are we even talking. about prize winning brother Jesus they. won yard of the month [ __ ] you. definitely needed a union back then bro. they won yard of the month and a leap. year dude Jesus Christ and that's big. work and that was me doing and that was. listen you contributed to that you. should be proud but it is true it's. gotten to the point where um. people don't even think about the people.

that are doing the jobs behind the. scenes you know and the um people that. are going in and clocking in dayto day. you know you look at like so we. represent UPS which is you know a. Fortune 500 company 340,000 employ very. successful company difficult company to. deal with and you know 53 or 54% of. those work as a part-timers you know. they work 4: in the morning till 88: or. noon till 4: or whatever the case may be. and they load and unload these trucks. and prior to us you know completing a.

sucess successful negotiation they were. making $15 per hour Nationwide you had. single mothers you know going to work. there um you know risking their lives. during covid they were the unsung heroes. of keeping supply chain moving and you. know it was a very very uh credible. argument that we had publicly but the. company recognized it and during. negotiations I'm going to say how. embarrassing is it that you're making. hundred million1 billion dollars with a. b and you have people that are on.

subsidized housing you have people that. are on welfare that work for you and and. I'll be honest with you like we push. real hard and part-timers start out of. $21 an hour the long-term part-timers. are being rewarded um they get full. medical full pensions so you know they. recognized you know um that they need to. take care of these folks and uh a lot of. pushing and prodding from us but at the. end of the day they did the right thing. by these part- timr and who are the. major groups that are pushing back. against you guys is it lobbies is it.

politicians is it just big business like. it's it's so I'll tell you it's it's a. combination of corporate America and I I. refer to them all the time as [ __ ]. white call criminals yeah right that all. they do is care about the bottom line of. the balance sheet money I say dude right. right right and so you know bleep out. yeah and just so you know that. nobody [ __ ] prostitutes right and. then you have uh um you know these.

politicians both sides Democrats and. Republicans I'll be honest with you I'm. I'm a Democrat but they have [ __ ] us. over for the last 40 years and for once. and not all of them but for once we're. standing up as a union probably the only. one right now saying what the [ __ ] have. you done for us yeah and I'm getting. attacked from the left you know and. we've given since I've been in in office. two and a half years we've given the. Democratic machine 15.7 million dollars. we''ve given Republicans about 340,000.

truth be told so it's like you know. people say the Democratic party is the. party of the working people they're. bought and paid for by big Tech that big. those big tech companies yeah Tech is. the new fossil fuel man that's what I. say right and you've got the Republicans. who are now saying hey we want to be the. workingclass party right and okay you've. got a great opportunity right now to do. that and the Democrats if 60% of our. members aren't supporting you the. [ __ ] system's broken and you need to. fix it stop pointing fingers at Shan. O'Brien stop pointing fingers at the.

teamers union look in the mirror I mean. I had a I had a heated debate with he a. discussion two weeks ago with Chuck. Schumer and it got [ __ ] ugly Chuck. Schumer is a piece of [ __ ] and it got. ugly because you know these politicians. you know the one thing I've learned they. [ __ ] walk in and they tell you I did. this for you okay great let me tell you. what you haven't [ __ ] done for us or. our members and we got into it pretty. heavy and I'm like you had no problem. taking $550,000 From Me 3 weeks prior to.

me going on the Republican National. Convention and then you want to be a. [ __ ] tough guy on Twitter or X or. whatever it is and throw [ __ ] out there. about me like whatever to support their. C to support the party support the. campaign the team the Teamsters Union. has historically endorsed a candidate. right right a presidential candidate and. this is one of the first times two times. we have't 1976 we didn't Endor in 1996. we didn't Endor okay so for the first. time in 30 years now that you guys. haven't done it again reason why we. didn't endorse in in 1996 Clinton.

because we endorsed him in ' 92 and look. he created NAFTA and it [ __ ] a lot of. our members over and we lost jobs as a. result of it so we couldn't we couldn't. assle and and you why would he do it. though why because who are they. beholding to they're not even though. they say we're beholding to working. people we're beholding the to to middle. class we're beholding to American worker. they're beholding to look all these. money and the next opportunity right cuz. you're not there a long time right and. you know the next opportunity it's like.

what's his name the guy that looks like. [ __ ] Bradley Cooper the governor of. uh a California Nome that guy is bought. and paid for by big Tech you know he had. the opportunity to protect the general. public and his constituents from AI from. autonomous vehicles from all this. [ __ ] that we talked about earlier. and we the union union men men and women. actually got him to stay in office as a.

result of that recall we went out and. worked hard for him and what's he do he. [ __ ] vetos all these protections. against artificial intelligence against. Uber against Lyft all these all this. [ __ ] and these are the people that. we were supporting like are you [ __ ]. me seriously so they're turning their. backgound you said you AR supp listen I. I can't speak for any other unions but. I'm going to speak for the teamst union. I represent 1.3 million members and and. you know we've set all we took over like. we want a return on our investment we. want to be like big business we make an.

investment we want a return and that. return with these politicians are. supporting our issues that's going to. protect jobs and promote uh unionization. throughout the whole country and you. know they've let us down they've let us. down and you know what I'm a person I. think probably to my own fault my mother. keeps saying you keep fighting with all. these [ __ ] politicians you're going. to get us all audited well that's okay. right AUD I thought kill but that's how. they do it that's they better they. better get up early you know can't kill. the Willing you know what I mean yeah. dude oh I'll take my own life now what.

you know what I'm saying I showed you. and I'll do it on the clock yeah I'll. I'll still be on the clock you bet dude. oh you'll think I'm clocking out for you. dude I'll be on double time yeah we'll. let nothing run absolutely yeah but I. mean it's just people got to step up. look California governor Gavin some veto. to teamers back bill that would have. effectively banned autonomous trucks in. the state wow yeah and you know how many. people there are in California but what. does it say assembly Bill 2 2 2286 would. prohibited the operation of autonomous. vehicles weighing 10,000 lb or more on.

public roads for testing transporting. goods or carrying passengers without a. human safety operator physically present. in the vehicle there should be somebody. in the vehicle anyway it's like cuz that. thing's also going to get hijack dude. you think MS13 is going to want a bunch. of carrots or whatever is passing. through they're GNA H they're gonna. [ __ ] shoot dude they sent one of. those little gypsy cruises with the uh. it had a um like a dotson B210 load up. dude this thing it was a little R2D2 but.

it was like a was uh it was kind of. aftermarket slightly you know and they. they had one of those rolling through. the hood one time with some ice creams. in it or something you could buy out of. it and 11 Brothers beat the [ __ ] out of. that thing so there's no what are they. even talking about dude this [ __ ] will. get hijacked so quick but then you're. going to have to put a gunner on the top. of the you know what I'm saying like. it's just getting weird bring that back. up please Trevon thank you bud um it's. important to note that 35 jurisdictions. including Arizona Nevada Texas. Washington and the District of Columbia.

have already authorized the testing of. heavyduty autonomous vehicles wow that's. what he that's what Newsome said. California Remains the only state to. actively prohibit these vehicles but. it's also a huge state where there's so. much agriculture and stuff and uh and. there's a huge Port over there as well. right yeah oh yeah la la Port Long Beach. you've got some big ports over there so. they're not on strike they're under a. different Union they're the I ILWU but. you know same same issues I'm sure. they'll be fighting the same battle down. the road but yeah this this this is this.

is the stuff that you know we're. fighting against and look these. politicians you know they they got to. realize that the constituents don't work. for them they work for the constituents. yeah and that's that's that's what they. have to be reminded of and there's a lot. of good ones that do a lot of great work. like you know we've got a great. relationship and and our goal is to try. and work by partisan because that's the. only way we're going to get [ __ ] done. right and you know there's been a line. drawn in the sand and our Focus has been. as a union mine as a leader is like look. we can [ __ ] agree to disagree on a.

lot of [ __ ] and we're going to but let's. agree on the stuff that we can and get. some stuff done in this country you know. get some real real Progressive you know. legislation that we can work together on. but you know the focus has been lost and. the whole system's a [ __ ] disgrace to. be honest with you oh yeah and it's time. to shake these pedophiles down dude. that's how I feel um what else does it. say on here the Teamsters Union issued a. statement criticizing new veto the vast. majority of Californians oppose unre. ulated unaccountable driverless cars and. trucks on the road dude yes there's.

already so. many yeah it's like because then if. somebody hits you what do you just you. can't even Sue any you're just what. you're like that guy hit me in the cops. like who and you're like ah [ __ ]. nobody why do they need cops what do. they need cops for yeah you can't ride. anybody up yeah I mean I mean that's. another thing Public Safety it's crazy. and it's it's like it's going to get bad. yeah it's going to get ugly and and. we're going to be a world of robots if. if people like us don't step up and hold. politicians accountable look I'll eat. beans man I'll do what I got to do for.

as long as it takes brother if there's. no yeah as long as I got I. guess candles I guess what else do I. yeah we'd have to have candles water. dude wipes dude wipes for sure you know. unless you're not eating you know unless. it gets that bad you're not wiping you. know what I'm saying save money on both. ends I hear you but yeah yeah I'm G to. have we're going to have to get some. stuff oh God that's why we get these. shirts made up you know yeah I'd love to. get one of those man you're going to. have one by the time I leave here today.

D you see that see we deliver results. not excuses yeah they deliver results. not excuses um take me through some of. the decision and what it was like behind. the scenes to make the choice not to. endorse a candidate well look the one. thing that we pride ourselves on uh when. we took over as Leaders was transparency. and inclusiveness right so when you have. 1.3 million members it's important to. make certain uh you understand their. perspective cuz that's that's who our. employer is that's who we work for. that's who gives me the opportunity and.

privilege to represent them and we went. through for the first time ever we. brought every single candidate in from. the beginning and you know we invited. every one of them from Dr Cornell West. all the way Don president former. president Donald Trump former President. Biden and then VP Harris and everybody. in between RFK who I love that guy I. love that guy that guy's awesome man he. is he's the best and we brought him all. in in a round table first time ever with. Rank and file members you know eight to.

10 of them from various parts of the. country various political affiliations. and we asked some specific questions. that were important to us and you know. at the end of the day we did we did we. did the meetings there then we did. polling uh straw polling you know in the. union halls and then we did a electronic. polling 1.3 million of our members QR. code where we had over 40,000 members. participate which is huge and then we. did you know scientific based polling. using the Democratic pollster that the.

Biden Harris campaign used and the only. poll that uh was favorable was the poll. we did the straw poll in the union halls. which was polling 44% Biden and. 38% uh Trump so the other polls were 60. 62% uh Republican um and so in favor of. trump in favor of trump yes even we we. sent the electronic poll after um you. know President Biden dropped out of uh.

out of the race look Biden's been. Biden's been great for unions working. people um but you know the reality of it. is you know he's gone he's gone he's. gone and you know again it's it's like. you know we've got to we've got to take. into consideration our members uh. opinions and I don't have the beauty of. lean in one way or the other I have to. represent both democratic members and. also Republican members and quite. frankly. uh when I spoke at the RNC that's when.

the attack started happening from the. Democratic left and the Republican right. wait so just to back up just so I'm. clear something and so a straw poll. means it means you go to the union halls. we have. 319 uh union halls Nationwide okay so. you actually have an inperson meeting. Town Hall where you get to uh where you. get to actually you know control the. meeting right you control the narrative. but our members get to vote in a secret. about it and you know when you have. meetings like that straw pole usually.

you can put your thumb on the scale and. flip it either way we thought we were. going to come out of there with you know. Joe Biden at 80% and the rest because. you know there y people coming in there. for the most part that show up there y. people that work on your staff and when. it only pulls 44% you know something's. wrong something's broken so that's why. we started doing extensive polling which. the unions are extremely Democratic. absolutely that's what you're saying. okay I see what you're saying now yeah. absolutely um. the team sech polling data shows members. backed Biden 44% to Trump's.

36.3% so that's more lopsided than usual. well we we would we were hope we were. thinking that it was going to be 80% uh. Biden because you know the people that. show up a union halls for Union meetings. and and any type of meetings are usually. your supporters are usually the people. that are going to vote or or F your. recommendations or whatever it is oh. yeah their children dress up like yeah. like uh plumbers and stuff for Halloween. and everything well we do check their. membership cards you know yeah yeah well.

some of them get in when they're 11 I'm. only kid I'm only. kidding um okay so at that point you. realize okay so things are a little bit. more there's people have different opin. there's divide there's a there's a. divide a so then at that point did you. make the decision to not support a. candidate or support no we we took all. the data MH and you know historically. the teamster Jun has never ever endorsed. a president presidential candidate till. after both respective conventions are. concluded okay so we we we asked to.

speak at the Republican and Democratic. obviously we spoke at the Republican and. then we didn't get invited to the uh. Democratic National Convention did they. get back to you did you see you as speak. yeah they never they never go back to us. they never go back to us um and you. email them or text them oh we called. them we we we sent the invitation we we. sent the request to speak at both. conventions at the same time and we. heard from the Republican National. Convention right away now look going in. there was like it wasn't easy it was.

like you know going into uh an. ex-girlfriend's house who family hat you. because of a bad breakup and. Thanksgiving and saying how you all. doing oh wow right it was it wasn't it. wasn't a comfortable feeling and um you. know uh but like I say everybody else. when we get the opportunity to highlight. American workers Andor teams have to do. it we're going to do it any all. platforms there are whether we're. welcome or we not and we wanted to do. the same at the Dem ratic national uh. convention we didn't get that. opportunity but you know so to get back.

to your point was after we did all the. scientific polling after we uh after the. conventions you know we have a general. executive board which are 24 uh leaders. from all around the country uh vice. presidents and president yes they they. make up the general executive board so. we presented all the polling data um we. had you know spirited uh debate and. dialogue very respectful um and at the. end of the day uh you know there were. three people that voted to endorse uh.

the Harris Waltz campaign and the. majority of the rest of the executive. board voted to uh not endorse and allow. local unions um and area joint councils. to go out and uh you know endorse. whoever they wanted and you know again. you get criticized no matter what you do. so uh but it was the right decision. because you know both candidates Harris. and president former president Trump you. know didn't answer specific questions of. what was important to us so you know.

like for example so which ones so it's. like our right to strike like right now. you see the Ila on strike we had the um. railroad workers when we first took over. two years ago they're under what they. call Railway Labor Act where Congress. can uh make a recommendation to. implement the contract under the process. and they did it and our our our members. weren't happy they did it under the bu. Administration and one of our biggest. goals moving forward because we've got. this campaign with United Airlines where.

they're under the same process we want. the right to strike and we can get the. right to strike through once we conclude. the process but a lot of times the. government will intervene and they'll. you know obviously implement the. contract so that was very important to. us look if if we're in the middle of an. rla negotiation and we want the right to. strike are you going to support us you. going to stop us wasn't a commitment. from both sides on that on either side. Republican or Democrat on either side on. that supporting your right to strike. that's crazy that's you know that's in. certain Arenas under the railway Labor.

Act Like airlines are under the railway. Labor Act railroads are under the. railway Labor Act Trucking industry. isn't most private sector that we. represent isn't so um you know we still. have the right to strike in other Arenas. but these are poor these are important. uh Industries for us so we didn't get. commitments on that you know one. candidate may have been stronger on the. proa you know uh you know obviously. supporting the right to organize. supporting Collective bargain agreements. we didn't get a strong commitment from. the Republic side on you know Ving. vetoing National right to work so uh and.

and again when you'reall face to face. with people and you're asking questions. and look we give the questions to all. the candidates prior right so it's like. [ __ ] prepare lie to lie to us tell us. what we want to hear right and when they. can't answer the question or they try. and go around you look we we're pretty. sophisticated now we're not as dumb as. we look and our members are certainly. not not dumb and yeah some of them are. on break or whatever a lot but still. yeah some might be on break you know I.

mean that's fine Brother third coffee. break of the day but earned thank God. for the unions yeah yeah you know but. you know they um they they didn't answer. the question so it's. like put the polling numbers together. put the inperson. interviews you know we did the right. thing we did the right thing by our. members no matter what and I'll defend. that all day long but you know the. problem is it's like the good news about. this whole situation is you see how. treacherous the far left can be and the. far right and I think it's [ __ ].

hilarious because you know don't. threaten us with a good time you want to. fight let's do it yeah you know and you. know we'll cut their money off we we'll. do whatever whatever it takes they're. going to have to earn it moving forward. they've done a lot of personal attacks. they've done a lot of attacks on our. members um and and you know we're ready. to go whoever wins either way you know. they're going to have to deal with you. they're going to have to deal with us we. control Commerce in this country [ __ ]. yeah dude and we're powerful and we're. not afraid to fight we're not we'd. rather just fight Corporate America.

instead of dealing with this other. [ __ ] which is a distraction you know. we we we've had politicians right that. oh we support you we support you when. we're doing the UPS negotiations you. know there were some high-profile people. that you know and Senators that you know. claim to be the working people the. schumans of the world and some others. we're pro Union we want to support. unions they wouldn't sign off on a. support letter for for for UPS workers. prior to going in these negotiations. wouldn't sign off of support letters you. know while we're striking these dsps uh.

where your mom works at Amazon so it's. like what does that tell you it means. you know they're afraid they're going to. get their c campaign contribution taken. away from Amazon and big Tech well don't. say one thing and do another be. consistent if you want to be in bed with. big Tech just tell us be transparent. like you'll always hear me say the one. thing I do and this is me probably to a. fault I always State my [ __ ]. intentions clearly I'm going to come. after you we're going to get x y Y and Z. for our members and if you don't you're. choosing to strike yourself so accept.

the consequences if you're going to. screw us over don't [ __ ] hide behind. false promises screw us over yeah you. know tell us you're going to screw us. I'm happy we'll figure out how we deal. with it moving forward yeah [ __ ] me in. the face don't [ __ ] me in the rear or. whatever how some people do it I don't. do it like that no no um no baby oil. here. yeah yeah dude yeah if only did he would. have unionized man um he definitely. violated every human resource policy and. procedure he probably wouldn't lasted.

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favor of politicians um in in in lie of. getting exposed I don't know if that's. true or not but I just wouldn't put. anything past any of these uh. organizations now what um so that was. why you guys didn't endorse a candidate. is there still the possibility for you. guys to endorse a candidate no we're not. going to endorse it we've made a. decision that we're going to stay out of. it um and you know see what happens. nothing would change that no nothing at. all nothing at all um look if we change. our position either way you know we look.

weak we're strong and and I'm strong. we're strong in opposition um you know. and there's people that people that. don't agree with it um and that's fine. that's great and and and the problem is. is like remember one thing everybody's. opinion matters right especially our. membership and I'll tell you I'm so. disgusted on you know the be with the. behavior of people like attacking each. other personally it's like. we're in the we're in the best country. in the world which we're provided the.

greatest freedoms in the world where we. can say and do whatever we want within. reason not breaking the law and not be. retaliated or retribute any retribution. against us in this whole process that's. complete opposite of what we stand for. and it's a [ __ ] disgrace people are. laughing at us around the world they're. laughing at is because we're not taking. care of our workers right not workers or. the communities I mean we're getting. involved in stupid [ __ ] attacking people. personally Uh Oh you mean union members. are no just the whole political [ __ ].

yeah oh yeah it's unbelievable. disgraceful that they would then want to. make you guys look bad it's it's crazy. yeah for workers not to get paid but. then you do have people that say well. these guys make so much money and this. and that but a lot of that you're saying. is just [ __ ] that's not the starting. out salary no it's not the starting out. salary and you know majority of our. members are working 50 to 60 hours per. week oh yeah you know life family. balance doesn't exist in certain. industries and we've been fighting hard. to make sure that we negotiate contracts. that you know limit overtime or Li limit.

people being forced to work and you know. people might think you know everything. is great in this country there's still a. lot of workers out there that are. hurting there's still a lot of people. that are hurting that are living week to. week paycheck to paycheck Oh indeed and. and and it's a disgrace and we're giv. money out left and right that you know. let's take care of our workers let's. take care of people that make it if your. workers's last name was Israel you'd. have all the cash you needed you know. that's for damn sure um but it is. unfortunate yeah my mom's out there. she's driving a [ __ ] catalytic. converter 30 Mi out into the desert to.

drop it off for you know delivering Auto. Parts sometimes and you know and it's. like and she's not even getting paid by. the per mile or whatever just you got to. think about all those things you know. and and who's making the money who's. doing all the work and who's making the. money it's easy yeah a big. muffler or whoever yeah whoever it is. dude new New York Amazon delivery. drivers join the teamsters in Surge of. momentum that's exciting hundreds of. Amazon drivers at a delivery station in. Queens New York marched on their bosses. today to announce they joining the. teamsters I think striking is fun if you.

have somebody out there with a drum or. something oh we get it all I mean we've. got strikes are awesome I mean the one. thing about strikes are two things when. you strike for recognition it sends a. strong message to the employer that you. know our members are united our members. are strong and they want to fight for a. contract and if you don't we're going to. withhold our labor I mean there's a lot. to be said about disruption yeah and the. and the positive effect on. and look it is what it is and um you. know it's not easy at times but you got.

to fight you got to stand up and it's a. great litmus test for us because we know. how strong the group is or isn't and. these Amazon workers I got to tell you. they have couraging conviction like I've. never seen and you know uh two two and a. half years ago you know we put this as a. priority we've got to organize Amazon. workers and we have been working you. know tirelessly around the country and. this is going to be a reality this is. definitely going to be a reality you. know why cuz once you shut you know uh. companies like Amazon down or you shut a.

DHL down or any company you shut the. ports down it sends a strong [ __ ]. message on look this is this is. important and these corporations need to. realize who's actually in charge and. it's not them yeah yeah I agree man I. long for the day that we that like. everybody just like all of these like um. Facebook headquarters and different um. Verizon whatever I don't care if my cell. phone doesn't work work dude you know I. don't want a cell phone anymore yeah I. know it ruins everything it's awful it's.

awful it's like we've ruined kind of. it's like we've let technology take away. so many things that were valuable to us. and then you see the effects of it on on. children and they don't know the. difference right um but then you see. some some countries like Poland who are. standing up for like whatever their. beliefs are as a country and like their. moral fortitude and uh and it's. interesting to it's interesting. sometimes I wish that we did more stuff. like that you know we started to realize. like hey just because this is a. technological advancement or because it.

makes things easier is it good for us. we' dummy down Society oh yeah you know. I mean look think about this you know we. talk about phones I used to be able to. memorize 10 or 15 phone numbers right. because I'd go to a pay phone and I'd. call someone and I didn't have the. number written down I'd have to memorize. it oh yeah right now I can't even tell. you I I'm lucky I know my own phone. number because all you do is just speak. into a speak into a a a a microphone in. your phone and call uh Theo Yeah Bang.

call you I don't even have to know your. number yeah call my bookie or whoever I. want a beeper let's get a beeper back. beeper let's put payones back in the. corner payones you home run pay the best. part about Fones was when you were on. one and some guy like a homeless guy or. whatever or like well trying to someone. trying to rob you can just hit them with. a. receiv that's true dude but it was never. long enough you it would get so it would. get an inch from there skull it be like. oh [ __ ] now he's going to hit me yeah. you like put in 40 more cents and you'll.

get like three extra inches of cord you. know and you could beat the guy you know. crank calls were the best from payones. huh payones were the best also because. well first of all you used to be able to. hide from people you could be like I. can't be there nobody could know where. you were they couldn't get in touch with. you at all times you share your location. you'd have to oh no I don't share my. location dude I don't either yeah I'm. not sharing my location dude. I would that's crazy with who I don't. even know who would yeah but I yeah.

that's crazy you're you're not going to. see me com in [ __ ] imagine your. parents tracking you like 25 years ago. on social media no I would have tied my. phone to a cat's back or whatever oh. yeah yeah let that b hit the streets. duct tape it to like the German. Shepherd's caller want to run around oh. it would be awful they track they 53. years old and and we we ran wild like. back in the day oh yeah and I couldn't. imagine my poor my mother we ran her. hard you know we ran her hard but uh I.

can't imagine like these [ __ ] idiots. put everything on social media now and. it's like really like we used to be able. to lie they rat themselves out all oh. yeah people rat they tell their boss. they can't come in and work and then. they're partying or something Buffalo. Wild Wings or whatever dude yeah we used. to you used to be able to lie to. somebody and they didn't know you were. lying oh what about that beautiful piece. of America that we lost the ability to. lie and not get caught oh yeah dude you. could tell a woman you were a lawyer or. whatever and she's like you're 11 and. I'm like who cares the defense rests you.

know but those were the days man you. could go into another city and uh yeah. you could just make up stuff you didn't. have to be a criminal forever if you. were online or something so much of the. fun is gone because a lot of the mystery. is. gone um but the last thing we if we lose. the like man it's just so crazy cuz so. much of the fabric of our society has. started to dissolve it's like you know. it's not as much of a Christian Nation.

anymore it's not we haven't stood up for. even and even if it's if it doesn't have. to be a religious Nation it should be a. moral Nation right and we don't protect. like we don't stand for things morally. like um business is just taken over it's. yeah like greed it's just it's gotten. how about people how about people you. know everybody talks about you know all. all this righteous [ __ ] right and. and a lot of it's some of it's good some. it's bad but you know recently uh I work. in Washington DC and there were people.

actively desecrating monuments and. lighting the American flag on fire now. regardless of what your position is on. anything going on in the world like. growing up one value that we had is you. respect that flag and you defend it with. everything you got yeah and I kind of I. I posted a picture of an American flag. on social media and and I'm not really. allowed to touch my social media you. know because like guys like will and. Brian my St my good people that are.

around me Chief of Staff they protect me. for myself because there certain things. I just drives me nuts but I post the. American flag and I wrote I will defend. and honor this till the day I die and. everybody else should we're in the. greatest country in the world I got. attacked like on this these private DMS. saying well Supreme Court said it's. legal to burn a flag okay so it's legal. to burn a flag because the Supreme Court. says it is a morally right yeah to. desecrate something so sacred so that.

that's where like I think we got to get. back to basics and say look I agree. let's [ __ ] cut this [ __ ] out. we're in the greatest place in the world. but we don't even but now it's almost if. you say America you say USA you're. suddenly a right you're far right you. know it's like if you put an American. like some people think the American flag. it's like it's been positioned by the. media that it's not even that it's not. our unifying flag anymore you know that. it's to for one party and they did that. on purpose and it's it's unbelievable.

it's sick and we took the Pledge of. Allegiance out of schools little things. that I think have an effect on on. yourself and your psyche in a positive. way to make you feel like you're part of. a group and when you don't feel like. you're part of a group anymore you don't. feel like you're part of the fabric of. America that it's not a real thing then. you start to only look out for yourself. and that's when uh I think things get. really scar well was so bad wouldn't. people be leaving here left and right oh. yeah all those people that said they. were going to leave or whatever and. they're leaving dude I wish they would. leave I I love this country and I I it's.

it's look do we do we have our flaws as. a nation we all we have our flaws as. human beings everyone of us look at the. Jets right yeah I know I know Jesus and. uh um but you know it's a great country. it it's it's something that people. should be proud to live here and they. should respect it and and the fight. isn't amongst ourselves you know for us. guys like me and our union members it's. like we were afforded freedoms because.

of that flag because of the country we. live in where the enemy is not ourselves. the enemy is Corporate American crooked. politicians that's [ __ ] easy yeah. it's weird when the enemy now is in your. country though that's the that's the. thing that's gotten different you know. we used it used to be that you would you. know your enemy was other countries or. the countries you had conflict with and. now it's gotten to be um that the en. are running our country or they are in.

debt to people um who are running our. country it's you know or our leaders are. in debt to to our enemies that's what's. gotten weird our leaders are in debt to. people who don't care about the morals. of this country you know and who don't. have any no and it's it's there's got to. be a solution to the problem though. that's what I hope brother I [ __ ]. hope dude I will [ __ ] chew the tires. off somebody [ __ ] brother I get I. [ __ ] hope that we can change things. dude you know and I think there's a lot.

of guys out there who can you know so. that phrase you just said chew the ties. off someone's [ __ ] so if I had an. interpret that in a Boston. interpretation what do you think that. would be oh. man I just give him a swift kick in the. nuts no I think it would be have yeah no. I'd put a canoli in there somewhere yeah. North End yeah the Italian section what. that one place it's so good has a green. on it's open all night oh the Bas yeah. you go in there and they got Mike back. in the back and he doesn't have he has.

he may still have a couple teeth I don't. know what there's an update you can get. online I haven't checked it nice tooth. yeah yeah and they're like tell him Mike. and he'll be. like I think that's bova's Baker that's. it bro that place is good dude I'm not. gay but I'll suck off one of those. canoli brother I'll tell you that you. know what I'm saying dude BLM dude those. things are good and bro you go in there. you can meet a lady they got some people. in there dude and the guy that works in.

there works with his ex-wife in there. they're in there running it all night. yep but yeah they got the guy in the. back who's still got he's got a you know. he's got a couple of Horsemen left in. the stable back there and every now and. then he there some thorough breads back. there oh every now and then he'll sound. off you know every now and then somebody. will you know what's good about that. place and every now and then yeah they. put him in a Vince will for Jersey back. there and he'll [ __ ] start rattling. around back day that place used to be. great because you come out of the bars. in fuel hall or North Station and that.

was the only place open and you know you. after drinking 35 beers it's a good idea. to [ __ ] eat a couple canoli and a. little tazoo but then you then you end. up in the corner and you end up [ __ ]. getting a fight argument it was like it. was like WWE after eating canoli and. Italian pastry it players. dude two guys beating the [ __ ] out of. each other with [ __ ] frost cheeks oh. was crazy one guy's got a [ __ ] Apple. K just slammed in his throat it's funny. I live I live right near there and it's.

still it's still open so I oh last time. I was there we went in there and yeah. it's so good dude God that place is good. Sal battery with a. canoli. yeah oh bro they got the best stuff in. there bring it up bring up their website. what's it. called uh yeah see what they got on. there see let me see some of the items. over there oh you got to go with the. Whoopi pie oh they got him they got him.

right there oh yeah. huh yeah some of those things oh they. got those little uh I mean from bruet. brother now my my son that you met today. he's a type one diabetic is he it's it. and he always tells this joke right but. like see that stuff right there on the. website it's pretty sad when that can. save his life oh W forget CPI that'll. save his life put a little kler in him. huh put a [ __ ] little bit of Boston. cream in his snout oh absolutely bring. him back to life brother that [ __ ].

sugar Nan homie that poor kid has. diabetes these politicians have [ __ ]. liabetes that's a good point dude oh I. hope you almost it's almost weird. because you're almost like will some. country come and rescue us but it's our. own country you know it's like that's. the part we got to rescue ourselves from. ourselves we do we do but it's it's. definitely greed is one of the biggest. things. um so with the with the country kind of. divided and even with the Union having. different views and politics how do you.

keep the union unified like how is it. tough to do or is it no I mean the one. thing the one thing that's important is. you know the inclusiveness of the Union. you know we're not a we're not a. dictatorship uh our leadership is um. something that's never been done where. we are out there uh myself and um you. know my general secretary treasur my. partner and all this Fred Zuckerman we. are actually out three four days per. week in work sites all around the. country we're not talking to leaders. we're not talking we're talking to we. are talking to rank and file members in.

every industry want we represent and. look this this political [ __ ] that's. going on right now uh the Pres. presidential race it's important but. what we do is represent workers that's. the most important thing so what do we. do to to to to keep them unified. negotiate the best contracts be out. there be visible be transparent be. inclusive uh but more importantly um be. honest with them you know you know um. you know the part part of the part of. the issue with um a lot of lot of.

situation we've been through over the. last two and a half years is and the. success we've had is because we've been. honest with our members and we've we've. empowered them you know we've empowered. them where they know we have their backs. we they know that uh if they want to. take on a fight okay we're ready to go. you know there's no if s of butts about. it yeah and should every worker be part. of a union do you think I think every. worker should be part of a union I mean. look think about it um you know we set. the tone Nationwide on air uh um you.

know industry standards and look. everybody should have health care they. don't have to pay for that an employer. is paying for everybody should have a. pension that they can retire on and. actually maintain their quality of life. while they're retired so yeah everybody. should have that that's the American. dream yeah and unions it would feel like. are especially disadvantaged because um. even because their health care costs go. up year over-year and those costs get. levied out to the members the members.

have to even if their salaries going up. the cost of the health care is going up. the same or is similar so it's it's it. all washes out you know like I was. reading the other day about there was a. union. 32bj I think it is. 32bj SEIU yes which has workers paying. 37% of their compensation of their. earnings. um for to healthare the members spent. what you're saying is the members spent. 37 million towards the cost of some of.

their premium that they pay in the. health insurance see with us we we that. no that 30% that 37% of their. compensation goes towards Healthcare yes. so they're paying a cost uh part of. their compensation towards their health. care we we we uh go into every single. negotiation the majority of our members. um in the big Industries do not pay. anything towards the premium um um the. employers we we demand that they pay the. full now there are some industries that.

pay you know certain percentage towards. it like public sector but we get the. ability to negotiate that you know we. get the ability to negotiate free health. care and stuff like that that's that's. important this day and age because again. you get back to Big Business you know. we're out there fighting for the best. benefits for our members Healthcare we. we want zero to low cost and who's. making all the money these [ __ ]. providers like you know the insurance. company Blue Cross Blue Shields of the. world you know the Kaisers of the world. and and you know they act like they're.

providing us all these great benefits. we're fighting for them and they're. actually a vendor to us so we some in. some instances we're we're investing in. our own demise in certain situations. right so you know we've tried to change. that narrative as well um but yeah it's. a disgrace that's a disgrace yeah and I. read an article that in New Jersey uh. police fire and teachers unions are. expecting a 20% increase in their.

Healthcare premium premiums uh for. 2025 I mean that you know so you take a. wage increase that's you know you you. get a 5% wage increase right but your. health insurance goes up 20% right you. just lost money right right and why you. shouldn't be losing money no it's all. part of the same scam it's like yeah. okay we'll give you an increase but this. is going to be even higher than that so. we know we're going to get the money. back so think about this you get a. teacher that is responsible for. cultivating the Next Generation. educating that next Generation right.

yeah you get a firefighter that's. running into a burning building to save. your children and he doesn't have. healthare and you have a police officer. that's risking his life every single day. with zero support from communities now. except a Marone neck brace yeah right. and yeah yeah right exactly right and. you want them to pay more for the health. insurance are you out of your [ __ ]. minds it's literally going to get to the. point Sean where you're literally going. have to smoke for medical care it's. going to be like all right if you want. an IV it's 20,000 marro Point yeah yeah.

you want a TI andol you got to smoke a. [ __ ] cotton of cigarettes break them. off yeah it's crazy but full body like. just a full body Winston cast you know. just a full body Parliament cast you. know this cost 30,000 ton 100 miles. in God that must have been a boss my. grandmother my grandmother used to. smoke Taron 100s right and she had like. a 3-in Ash and you'd be sitting there.

I'd be like all right when's this going. to light the couch on fire hold no when. is it going to light the D van on fire I. didn't know where the [ __ ] D yeah I. didn't know D van the D van yeah W yeah. my grandmother called it a d van yeah. whatever it was yeah yeah they both. smoking butts you know they all smoke. through pregnancy right oh yeah brother. oh you'd see a kid be born he'd be you. know 4 oz bro you know what I'm saying. she'd put him in my grandmother put one. my brother in a curio cabin K was. craving like [ __ ] tab Tab cola dude. they had uh [ __ ] what was I going to say.

my brain's not working good today man. some days it's on some days it's off you. know it's Union you know what I'm. saying might be on your off shift but. hey it's but hey bro it's part of the. Union dude hey FMLA hey it knows it. knows no matter what that it's going to. it's going to be rewarded FMLA Friday. Monday Leave Act. yeah uh um what was what else was I. going to ask you um yeah why do every. why does every did we already ask this.

why does every worker need a contract. with their employer well because look if. you don't have a contract right and I. tell this to people all the time when. we're organizing work is because you. know we have these meetings with with. with groups that want to organize and. you always get people that don't want to. organize right they want to be friends. with the boss or they think that they're. being taken care of and I always tell. them look take a piece of paper write. down all your demands write down your gu. guarantees like I Sean O'Brien demand. for my boss and my boss will provide for. me 7% wage increase every year free.

health care job security respect in the. workplace and if you give that to your. boss that you're not organized you think. he's going to sign that absolutely not. there's no guarantees yeah right with a. Union contract you're guaranteed you're. guaranteed y wage increases you're. guaranteed medical you're guaranteed. retirement you're guaranteed holidays. you're guaranteed vacations it's simple. it's easy you know and that's the litmus. test hey if you don't believe us then. everything that you want write it down. as a contract you individually go give.

it to your employer and I guarantee you. one or two things going to happen he's. gonna laugh at you and then he's gonna. fire you damn and now in smaller. businesses might be different yeah. there's I mean look there's a lot of. smaller businesses that actually take. care of their employees that you know. we've had instances where you know. you've had a small business you know a. couple of people come to you and you. know you know and when you get into the. weeds deep down in the weeds you see. that you know these you know this this.

might not be a great opportunity for for. a union and or an employer that is. actually doing the right thing by by the. members that's the one thing that people. lose sight of is what we do as a whole. holds other people accountable so what. we get as a union May encourage these. small employeers to do the right thing. selfishly to keep us out right right so. we do set that bar pretty high um but. there's a lot of family-owned businesses. that you know that I know of especially.

in my area where I grew up where you. know they take care of their employers. you know I have a friend of mine Paul. nazaro who started his own business and. he sold it uh for a lot of money uh that. he probably never has to work again but. he's an example where he always took. care of was a small like tech company um. and when he left he had a he had an. employee that worked for 35 years on a. forklift G A $500,000 check wow just you. know stuff like that so there are good. stories out there but you know the.

majority of people you know that and. again I'll stand by I think everybody. should should have the ability to join a. union without without retaliation or. retribution and again but there are a. lot of good employers that small. businesses family run that have done. well and have rewarded the people so you. know it's it's not every employer is bad. because they're non-union yeah man I. used to speaking of forklifts I used to. work over I used to work at this place. we was gal izing clevis clamps or. something some [ __ ] I don't know I. got really bad sunburn doing it cuz we. had to Do It Outdoors or whatever cuz.

that we weren't unionized or whatever. but yeah we'd be out there galvanizing. [ __ ] in the Sun and uh and oh at lunch. sometimes um we would get real high and. like we would put each other on that P. on a pallet on a forklift and then put. it all the way to the top and get the. highest dude and just put him way up. there and leave him up there while we. went n. you guys definitely needed a union yeah. you know yeah was it was it the was it. the junior guy or the senior guy you put.

up the no it was his it was a low it was. a low on the totem pole guy it was me. did they drug test at that company uhuh. did they drug test at that company [ __ ]. no you but you knew people were on drugs. yeah so you didn't have to test yeah. yeah just you already knew it yeah it. was just kind of B was like a. prerequisite yeah I don't know if it was. or not but it was baked yeah that's the. one thing that we do when we stand by we. you know everybody's got to get drug. tested for the most part most of our. members too which is a good thing you. don't want you guys use. use usada who do you guys use I don't. even know oh you don't no usada no.

they're a big drug testing company um oh. one of America's greatest Mysteries is. the haa mystery right so we got to ask. about that you know um and what happened. to him right cuz he was the Teamsters. president he was he was well it was the. father and then Junior the father was an. icon um I mean he put the teamers on the. map um did you ever meet the father I. did no he was I was born in. 1972 he disappeared in. 75 um no but my my my uh I know a lot of.

people that did out of my local and. everything else and you know he he was. he was an icon he really was uh greatest. labor leader ever um and he put the. teams say and organized labor on the map. um and then he went missing right yep do. you think he's still alive or not I mean. it'd be 105 or something like that so I. don't know probably not he's getting. overtime if yeah he might yeah I mean. he's probably on the clock still you. know probably on the clock or yeah do. you think he's still on the clock that's. probably the appropriate term do once.

you become president did they tell you. what happened to him because he went. missing no one knows what happens to him. I mean that's the biggest mystery. there's all these theories that you know. you get killed by the mob there's all. these theories that you know he's buried. on the giant uh giant Stadium no one. knows I mean yeah you know all the. theories but but the one thing that is. like look he's gone but the work that he. did should never be forgotten I mean. that guy uh yeah he's buried under a D. Dons out whatever knows yeah probably. South Medford or something but yeah. there's always you're like we're not. digging up another.

dun yeah we got munchkins to make uh but. uh no I mean it's unfortunate what. happened but um you know back then I. mean you know the teamers it was it was. a a very controversial very influential. organization which I think today were. not as controversial but we just as as. as much influential and uh no I don't I. get asked this question all the time I'm. sure we had to but I'll tell you one. thing fascinating thing in my office um. in in I'm in the same office that he had.

and then his his son his son Jimmy Jim. uh James P Hoff James. P yeah uh definitely not his father um. you know was born on third base and. actually thinks he hit a triple to get. there yeah um you know great name. recognition right but uh in my office um. you have it was it's been all done over. but the one thing is there's a little. closet in my office that you know they. kept part of the history and you open.

the closet door there's a little closet. door on the hallway and there's actually. a two. rail uh taper quarter that's still there. so he used to tape record all his. conversations in his office and listen. to him you weren't you didn't even know. you were getting taped right so it's. actually still there it doesn't function. um but um you know it's funny uh but. Bobby Kennedy tells a great story and it. is true um you know there's no there's. no uh love loss between uh Jimmy hofa.

senior and Bobby Kenny's father actually. this is the if you see this that's. president haer at a senate hearing fing. off flipping off uh Robert Kennedy right. but uh Robert Kennedy Jr tells a story. how driving past our headquarters and. with his father he was probably 14 years. old he was probably 14 years old and. he's driving past his past our building. and his father his father had like a. vendetta against haa and he saw that he.

was in there like 9:00 at night working. the lights was on so he dropped Bobby. off and said I got to go back to work if. he's working this late he's preparing I. got to prepare so it was funny the story. but you know he was definitely an icon. and he made the team is what it is today. yeah you know I had a fallen out with. his son who um you know as far as I'm. concerned you know uh he he he he didn't. do was right towards the end uh the. union and um that's a great thing about. having a Democratic Union and does.

everybody's vote in the union count for. the same all our Rank and file members. vote yeah we're one of the only unions. where uh one voice one vote each each. one of our Rank and file members gets. the opportunity to vote on their. leadership and so now every Union member. can vote for also for any president that. they want or any election whoever's. running whoever's declared candidate. they can uh they can vote for whoever. they want so long most of the time we. run as slates so you'll have like the. Sha O'Brien slate all the like I think. we had it's the Oz the O'Brien zuckman.

slate um and we had our opponents last. time were membership slate or something. like that um and you know you run as a. slate a team team of 24 how often do you. have to run every five years every five. years yep so uh we ran in 2000 well our. election was in uh November of uh 2021. and we take over March uh of 2022 so. we'll have another election in November. of 26 and take over you know obviously.

get sworn in for another term hopefully. uh in March of. 2027 and do you have a campaign slogan. or did you have like a campaign slogan. no but I think yeah well we did yeah. bigger faster stronger and I say it all. the time you know we've got to be bigger. we got to be faster we got to be. stronger and we definitely have we. definitely have done that is the union. growing it's growing we've we've. organized just the teams to the loan in. two and a half years organized 50,000. new members. and we're organizing in in on in. traditional Industries but I know for a. fact you've probably never done this.

you've probably never smoked weed but we. are organizing in the Cannabis industry. where there's 425,000. W2 employees Nationwide Bud slaves they. call them a lot of people are calling. them yeah because they're not unionized. no and we have organized I think we've. got 20 hammocks we've got 2,000 of them. organized I think throughout the. throughout the whole country so they're. they're into they're into cultivation. uh there's workers that are in in. warehousing and then they're going to be. in distribution so all in our wellhouse. so what we doing there's 425,000 of them.

is that one of your largest growing uh. sectors it's well yeah sector the term. what is it it's divisions is that one of. the largest growing divisions we hopeful. it will I mean we're doing a lot of. things differently where you know once. this is. legalized Nationwide which I think both. candidates are supportive of legalizing. it um you're going to see in the safe. banking Laine a change where again these. companies can put money into actual. Banks you're going to see a a private.

Equity come out and try and buy up all. these all these uh uh smaller companies. where what we're doing is we're working. with a private Equity Fund uh utilizing. contributions from our Pension funds and. investments in our Pension funds to be. the buyer of them to to to be the buyer. of them let's go right and and obviously. uh you know organize within this. industry so there's 425,000. uh is it a conflict of interest so to be. an owner and no we're not an owner it. would be the private Equity Firm that we. invest in so it's it's not uncommon we.

do it all the time in other Industries. like would you still make the best deal. for your C we're going to make the best. deal because think about it a lot of. times in Pension funds and Health and. Welfare funds we make investments off. contributions because you know that's. what you're supposed to do right and. it's usually a pretty Dynamic asset. allocation you in invest in real estate. you invest in private Equity you invest. and stocks you uh uh invest in in bonds. and stuff like that so or infrastructure.

so think about investing in a lot of. times especially with private Equity you. know you're investing in competitors. non-union competitors that could. potentially put good companies out of. business so we're taking a different. look at it now and approach and say look. why don't we invest in the industries. that we actually represent and and. instead of investing in our demise we. invest in in areas where we can help so. for instance 30% of this portfolio will.

be dedicated towards uh uh cannabis. investment and the other 70% will be in. all kinds of other Investments right. we're hoping to raise a billion dollars. uh by January or February of 2025 and. that gives us the opportunity as well is. like if there's a distressed company out. there like a small business that's. unionized uh or even a big business like. yellow Freight who went out of business. because they couldn't get financing. because it was a greedy um private. Equity Firm known as Apollo if we had.

this fund up and running you know a. couple of years ago we could have bought. Apollo's position out at $600 million. restructure the company and actually. keep 22,000 jobs right so we're we're. doing creative Innovative stuff like. that as well you know um you have to oh. you have to because like I said we're a. lot more sophisticated and our members. uh uh deserve deserve you know the. Investments we're going to make on their. behalf and how and like you look at the. Cannabis industry for instance.

right if it doesn't get organized what. future do people have going to work. there so we organize them we negotiate. contracts that have health care that. have retirement benefits we're not just. creating a a a a job we're creating. careers for people right right. cultivation warehousing distribution I I. mean you know that's that's what we. should be doing yeah that's really. interesting yeah and I can't believe. that's one of the biggest growing that.

that's one of the largest growing um so. there they're saturated one of the. largest growing sectors for you. divisions they're saturated heavily with. with licenses Nationwide you know and. that's a good thing but their Capital. poor right now so they're waiting for. this you know legalization federally and. the safe banking laws a change and. you're going to see you know grab and if. we're not controlling that grab you know. the best interest of these workers are. not going to be at hand so we want to. make sure first and foremost that's what.

we're doing we don't we're not we're not. you know really concerned with you know. doing double digit return on investments. we're concerned on taking care of these. workers that work in this industry and. making certain that they have the. ability to have a career if they choose. but how crazy that it's even come to. that also that now in order to ensure. that the workers are going to be safe. you that the company that the. organization making them safe also wants. to be a vested interest in the like you. know what I'm saying skin the game you.

got skin of the game it makes sense but. it's crazy that you would that people. wouldn't just think yes we need to take. care of of the workers yeah well so. again you get back to corporate greed. you know you get back to bottom line of. a balance sheet uh before people yeah. it's unreal man and then there won't be. any more people it'll just be a robot. and some you know you know some I don't. even know just who knows you know some. Israeli lizard looking a Bitcoin. somewhere jerking off in a in a in a in.

a in a bank vault um one of your most. viral moments was uh you had a. confrontation with a. fella um from Oklahoma was he a senator. yeah US senator Mark Wayne Mullen Mark. Wayne Mullen and did you guys ever patch. that up because you guys almost you guys. almost uh did a charity fundraiser fight. right there in the uh. in the yeah we had two two Runnings you. know uh one I'm not sure people people I. don't know we had two Runnings like um I.

was testifying in a senate Herring uh at. the request of Senator Bernie Sanders. who I got a t a lot of respect for and. I'm a huge fan of um and this guy like. attacked me first what was he upset. about well he he so when you go into. these herrings and again like you we. have to submit like a 15-page brief. right so you give that 24 hours prior. and then you're going to condense that. in your testimony to about 2 and 1 half. to 3 minutes so I'm reading my testimony.

and you know usually have witnesses pro. and con on each side that's a and you. have you know the Republicans on the. help committee and the Democrats on the. help committee and I didn't I didn't. know this guy from a hole in the wall. and he had an issue with a different. union he owned a business of Plumbing or. pipe fitting company in Oklahoma and I. guess they um you know they picketed his. house he had 300 employees or something. so he took it very personal which you. know hey someone shows up your house. that is personal uh but the reality of.

it has nothing to do with me so he. started like attacking me on all this. stuff and of course being from Boston in. the neighborhood I'm like [ __ ] you dude. like whatever like you're a clown like I. just started [ __ ] on him he started. [ __ ] on me back right and poor. Bernie like I thought he popped a Nitro. he was like un enough on enough on. enough and uh so that was yeah it was. like you know what it was like it was. like you know you're sneaking in your. grandmother's house in high school cuz. you're drinking and your grandfather's. up screaming at you um but I felt bad. for him and then so that wasn't he bums.

a sip of liquor off he goes to bed. you're like this is a this is definitely. you got a Maro yeah I'm two point shy. right so um yeah this is Insider trade. so we get into this big exchange and. then I didn't know who he was it was it. was actually comical that was the first. time and then so after that of course I. start attacking him on social media and. he starts attacking me back and we're. going back and forth so then I have to. testify another Herring and he come in. and he [ __ ] he was all fired up you.

know cuz clearly I hit a few nerves and. uh he's like stand your butt up and I'm. like you stand your butt up I am [ __ ]. he goes you want to do this we'll do it. right now I'm like let's do it and um. and they didn't let y'all fight though. huh no it was like you know what it was. like you know I played a little bit of. hockey and it like I don't even think I. could jump over the boards anymore but. you know if I got over there and he got. over I mean it's it's on but you know um. it it and poor Bernie you know he's yell. yelling and everything else I saw that. clip I mean he was it he called me the.

next day he goes did you have fun I go I. had a [ __ ] blast to be honest with. you right and so then as time went on um. you know mullen's people and my people. were bumping into each other up at uh. Capitol Hill and they all determined it. would be in the best interest if you. know we sat down and you know try to air. out differences if we couldn't air our. differences whatever but you know he. challenged me to a fight like a charity. fight he's supposed to be an MMA MMA.

fighter and I'm like dude I I I walk to. work I'll just meet you at a park you. know yeah and we'll see what happens but. thankfully it didn't get to that on both. sides and for the best you know no I'll. be honest with you like I met with him. we agree to disagree on a lot of things. um but you know he's a sitting US. senator uh one of a hundred should be. well-respected people I get the. privilege of represent 1.3 million. working people you know we both probably. could have done things differently that. day but it was [ __ ] fun as hell it. was fun yeah it was good and it was it.

was great because you know you need some. of that [ __ ] cuz C-SPAN or whatever that. channel is is [ __ ] boring like I'm. lying to you yeah and you don't even. know what's going on on there you know. every now and then C span's awful it's. like it's like watching old people you. know hump and they're all yeah I mean. yeah if you've done. it no I haven't never done that yeah. never watched that. stuff look dude long as you're not. watching but maybe I'll watch the golden.

Bachelorette now or something you. know as long as you're not watching it. on the clock no no definitely no be in. the break room in the break room dude. the break room is always so much [ __ ]. fun dude I'll tell you this and I've. definitely stolen from my employers um I. used to work at the grocery right and I. was a checkout guy right we did stocking. and checking out and then I got moved up. to Checker and bag too dude and. um I got up and when i' go to important. Checker or.

bagger bagger is De uh bagger sounds a. little deviant yeah bagger is definitely. well I used to I used to if it was rich. people I would ring their items up a. couple times and then when poor people. came through I wouldn't ring their items. up but I'd remember like okay I got. three boxes of cereal so you were like a. modern day uh Robin Hood at Publix I. mean yeah I was you know it wasn't. anything big it was just some [ __ ]. Cinnamon Toast Crunch or whatever but I. definitely helped out here and there you. know did what you could cuz some. families they didn't notice it you know.

it's still it's still stealing but what. we used to do was when we go to break we. would walk down like our F whatever. aisle had our favorite food and we just. steal some [ __ ] right off the shelves so. that's I feel sorry about that I want to. apologize that place is called Dell. Champs I think went out of business and. then you think it went out of business. because of the employee pilfering or I. mean I don't know I didn't take much I. usually took Swedish Fish and [ __ ] no do. you like a banana maybe a little bag of. funions or something not one of the big. bags um but yeah it was just everybody. did it but see that's not a bad that's.

not a fair thing everybody does it you. just you just implicated all your. coworkers oh dude definitely all of them. Chad giddy all those dudes this one dude. uh used to come clock in go home he. worked for us for four months that's. funny like who is he people would come. to work and like where is he they came. at a piece of picture picture of one day. where is he this kid named Chucky or. whatever we like who is he and like your. employee you're going to rat him out I'm. like I don't even [ __ ] we never seen. that guy we don't know him to rat him.

out yeah dude but uh yeah working at a a. grocery store was fun do you see more do. you see the union growing now yeah. absolutely I mean we can joke about like. the breaks and all that stuff but unions. have proved they're the hardest working. most productive uh workers in the. country and I think this new. generation um you know that have an. appetite to fight and and they want to. take on the boss and you know that. they're very in tune with social media.

and I think there's a great opportunity. I mean when you see places like. Starbucks and chipotle and all these all. these you know uh industries that have. never been unionized where the young. workers that are 18 19 20 years old uh. demanding recognition demanding. representation in the workplace I think. the sky is a limit and I think um again. it's it sets sets the tone for you know. the next 10 or 15 years in the labor. Movement we definitely uh have seen. growth in the teamsters uh and and and a. lot of those Industries uh that have.

never been represented um you know. there's it's it's exciting times H yeah. know it definitely seems like it well. we're just I'm seeing as more big. businesses and things get become. conglomerates and stuff like that yeah. the last thing you have is um is it. almost seems like it's the last choice. you know and it's the best choice you. know you have to have somebody fight. against these groups for you uh this. article says this summer alone 10,000. workers organized with the teamsters for.

the first time at a wide range of. employers and traditional Teamsters. Industries like transportation and. delivery including DHL oh we were. already talking about that um yeah so. you do you think that uh oh it says also. including Amazon the American Red Cross. Costco and canis cannabis dispensery. Nationwide so it's um it's everywhere. yeah we are we're we're we're hitting. every single uh opportunity we don't. solicit we you know we we have targets. you know like Amazon because they're. such a a bad employer um but DHL like we.

represent DHL uh around the country some. places were unionized some weren't so. what we did is we just started striking. them for recognition oh yeah and we shut. them down uh at CVG which is the airport. in Cincinnati uh last December right. right during the busiest time for them. and what we did there there was 2,300. workers uh we got a firsttime contract. there for 13300 workers and the. remaining 1100 we got Cod check. neutrality uh which they didn't want to. give us but we said look no problem next.

December we're going to do the same. thing to you we'll shut you down and the. good thing for us once you have a Union. contract for the most part whether it's. DHL UPS UNFI Cisco any of those we have. what they call picket line protection so. we get to honor picket lines all over. the place so we can extend picket lines. at different locations and shut down. Industries Nationwide and again that's a. choice that an employer makes that they. shouldn't make and we've been successful. doing that so as a result of that dhl's. funny they are I think they are owned by.

the Deutsch post office I believe and um. I remember when they showed up with. those yellow trucks yeah they're off. Kansas City Chiefs what's going on yeah. so we you know we organize and we have. you know but there again they you know. they're a European company um and I met. with the CEO after we struck him and I. said he's like we want to reestablish. our relationship and I'm like okay give. us card check neutrality what is card. check neutrality it means they just. agree to once we get the majority of the. employees to sign cards we give them to. a third party arbitrator who decides the.

the validity of the cards and then if we. have the majority they sit down and. negotiate a contract with us there's no. there's nothing else mean validity of. the cards what do you mean like they. just they they the the arbitrator will. determine if we do have the majority or. not and we don't usually submit these. cards to an arbitrary unless we have 80%. of the cards so the cards mean people. saying sign up I want to join the union. got it okay so you know they'll. determine that and then they sit down. and negotiate a contract so we had a. meeting in in in Washington they sent.

these three what the CEO the lawyer and. the CFO and I went with our attorney uh. Fred Zuckerman on I'm uh general. secretary treasurer we sat down and they. like we want to reestablish the. relationship one guy had an English. accent and uh really [ __ ] aggravating. and you know it was like good a we'll. see about it yeah yeah yeah yeah all. that [ __ ] and um pisses me off well. we want to have a relationship I go well. the only way we can have a relationship. you give us Cod check neutrality and he. said yeah we don't we don't believe in.

that I'm like okay great meeting's over. I'm not going to beg for this go [ __ ]. yourself see you later yeah and then. like two days later our attorney on the. phone and their attorney like uh we. rethought this because we told them. we'll just shut you down every chance we. got and you don't want to be like that. but when they come in and then. especially you know they're not from. they're not an American company yeah you. know they could give two shits less. about us but you know we've. reestablished that relationship where. you know we've made them realize how. important their workers are and how. important a relationship is with the. teamsters so you know we've been.

successful there and you know look we'll. work with anybody but how how say in the. weed organization right say the people. that work in um and for Wei companies. how do they become part of the Union how. does a someone who's working somewhere. who feels like okay I'm not supported or. maybe I'm at a place that should be. supported how do they um approach you. guys to be hopefully potentially be part. of the Union they'll go to a local. they'll go to a local union like a team. local and they'll you know start at a.

local level they they'll they'll go to a. local level talk to the Local Union uh. Local Union will either send in their. organize or we'll provide an organizer. for them they'll go out talk to the. workers establish a relationship. establish trust um and have them sign. authorization cards meaning they want to. join the union and especially in the. Cannabis industry I think we've gotten. more more card check recognition because. I think two things they know that you. know we can strike them for recognition.

and two they know that we have this. ability to uh you know make investments. in their businesses as time goes on once. this fund is created um and it's good. it's good for the industry because think. about it we're going to regulate that. industry right so if we don't organize. them you know the mom and pop that are. charging x amount and I I've never done. drugs in my life I don't even know I've. never smoked weed or anything else but. I've done them they're they're all right. yeah I mean I didn't do them because I. probably would have [ __ ] loved them.

but um you know I don't know but you. know you don't want to undercut each. other in this industry where it's a race. to the bottom so there there are a lot. of uh uh employers out there that have. welcomed Us in because of that reason. like we don't want to sell a gummy you. know 25 cents cheaper than the guy down. the street so you know we've actually. regulated this industry to a certain. point but the other thing too which is. very important in this industry is. continuity of employes employees right. so if you're providing employees with a. Union contract good wages good benefits.

you know there's not going to be a. turnover ratio right you know we first. started this uh organizing campaign we. were seeing you know 20 21 year old kids. that you know s they weren't they. weren't staling a banana they were. sampling the product right oh yeah and. theyd get they know fight or they leave. so you know we we've actually instilled. some stability um in this in this. industry just because they know there's. an opportunity and and they're they're. they're organized there's a contract and. you know there's a future yeah I think.

then you feel like you're part of. something AB which is the same thing. like in which goes back to our. conversation about America it's just. like feeling like you're a part of. something feeling like you know I think. it used to feel like your country was. unionized you know it definitely felt. like that when I was a kid and um and we. haven't catered to that you know and our. leaders haven't catered to that and our. decision makers haven't catered to that. um one last question uh wait so do do. the does the union also work with the. employer to do certain things yeah I. mean this times where we we have to work.

with each other on you know legislation. that benefits you know both our members. uh um in the company there's there's a. lot of common uh fights that we have to. work together on it's not it's not. always a l La line drawn in the sand um. and the good thing is it's like you know. a lot of political uh issues we have. coming up like you know certain issues. with reauthorization act and um you know. a lot of federal legislation will work.

with a lot of our larger employers uh. especially if it's more beneficial for. our members amen um so yeah we do work. we do work a lot with employers some. employers um you know you'll never be. able to work with they just you know. they just dig in and they want to fight. all the time but you know um we're ready. for it either way but we'll work with. anybody do you think you'll be able to. unionize Amazon workers oh without a. doubt we're going to be able to organize. them hell yeah without a doubt it's. going to be you know it's going to be a. battle it's going to be a fight but. that's where you know we're going to.

call on you know the Dems and the. Republicans and everybody involved that. say they are passionate and supportive. of these workers we're going to we're. going to call them out we're going to. we're going to expose them and we're. going to put them to the test and that's. that's what needs to happen good we're. going to be there we're going to be. their conscience I want to represent. your mother yeah absolutely I appreciate. it yeah yeah I I I think that'd be. awesome she likes to work hard that's. one thing my mom's always been as a. worker she likes to work you know it's.

probably her favorite thing to do. absolutely so so where did you get your. work ethic from probably from her I. guess you know it's funny it's like yeah. there's so many things that but I do I. do thank her for that actually a lot of. times it was like she was always working. but um yeah I I do have a strong work. ethic because of her yeah no it's uh. well a product of your environment you. know if you if your parents sat on the. couch smoke butts and drank beers. chances are that's probably what you're. going to do yeah you know I had the. ability growing up where I my father.

worked two three jobs uh and hustled his. whole life uh my mother the same thing. so you know we tried and still that uh. work ethic and and my two kids and and. my nephews as well um you know which is. important and that's I think we got to. get back to basics in this country and. uh you know I I think um we have the. ability to do it over the next several. years well and a worker should be able. to know if they're going to lock in with. a company they're like I'm going to be. here that I'm going to know that when I. get home from work every day I'm not. going to also wonder do I need to go.

back out to another job to pay for. insurance this month for my wife and for. my children and and then they're not. home to be home with their children and. so then the children grow up without. their parents around and so then they. run into all types of things so then. they're in therapy and they're out using. drugs or or they don't and there's no. sense of a family and it just everything. starts to um dissolve you know and it's. just and it definitely is there's a part. of it is greed at the top and a part of. it is that in a first world country like.

this in a country that has the highest. GDP in the world you would think that we. would also want the workers to be happy. and worrying about what's next always. isn't that you can't stress alone you. know can cause so much damage to someone. think about think about your personal. life my personal life when you're happy. in your personal life you're productive. yeah right you're driven same should.

hold true with with people that go to. work every single day the employer. should realize that if you have a happy. employee that you Embrace and you. respect they're they're going to work. that much harder for you right and you. reward more importantly um yeah reward I. think for sure sometimes it's you know. it's tough to be the certain type of. employer to everybody but. that they should be rewarded for sure. there's no doubt you know I mean you. talk about therapy when you're were a. kid I I just look back at my therapy was.

a wooden spoon over the head if we acted. up you know oh yeah oh my mother [ __ ]. that was good old days wasn't it oh dude. my mother would hit us like Teddy brusi. dude oh yeah yeah she would just [ __ ]. my mother had more hits on us than. Justin Bieber yeah oh my mother would. put on a padya jersey and just [ __ ]. tear into US dude just hitting triples. right off of my brother oh that's good. stuff yeah did you laugh when your. brother was getting beat I know dude. every now and then I chimed in dude I. shatter a wooden chair over that. freaking mixed breed you remember.

how remember how uh like growing up I. don't know how you grew up in your house. but we' be eating dinner my father would. work two a three jobs and you'd be. sitting there eating and we grew up in a. pretty modest house um very simple and. uh gol for bid you know you couldn't. poke the bear go for bid someone spilled. something at the table be Jesus [ __ ]. Christ and you'd start you'd be firing. your fork could be have Sparks on it. because you're want to get out of that. table because you don't want to feel the.

wrath you know what I mean it was awful. but those are the best times oh yeah it. was so much fun and part of what you're. talking about is a family being able to. sit and have dinner together right and. part of that was because like um yeah. because people are being compensated. fairly and a mom was able to be at home. sometimes and sometimes they weren't but. yeah and now we've gotten to this point. where it's like both F both parents have. to work and nobody and people aren't. even building a family unit anymore and. it's um and I'm not I don't mean that in. a negative way some people still are but.

people should be able to afford to do. that in a country that brings in this. much uh that produces this much it's. it's got to start to change there should. be a work family balance and look I'm. guilty as charg I went out to work and I. wanted to work 80 90 hours a week I. still do and I always did it with the. you know objective of taking care of my. family taking care of you know my kids. and thankfully my kids didn't end up. [ __ ] up over well I mean you know. maybe not completely but Sean looks like. he's Sean's all right Sean's good we'll.

see yeah we'll see Jerry's still out but. uh no you went to work to provide for. your family and now it's like you know. you made that choice now you don't have. a choice you know because it's just so. hard to make it yeah yeah we can. definitely do better and it starts with. the individual people and sometimes the. individual people can't do it by. themselves anymore because they don't. have the lawyers to back them up they. don't have the voice they need so the. individual people have to get together. and they have to unionize and that's. where you guys come in yeah you can't.

you can't survive as an American worker. not represented now that the the deck is. stacked against you you know and and you. know the average person look you want to. go to work do your job you know let us. fight for you let us take on the. Grievances at work you know don't bring. them home you know that's the beauty of. a union you know you don't have to you. you have the you know you have the. backing of a union you don't have to. fight with your employee make a call and. say Hey you know to your business agent. you work for me this is my issue this is. my grievance I have faith you're going. to fix it yeah you know right yeah you.

don't have to be take on all that stress. what do they lose by being a part of a. union what does a worker not a thing not. a thing not a thing not a [ __ ]. thing um before you go Sean and thanks. so much for your time I appreciate. thanks for representing people and. supporting people um and being a voice. for people and um yeah and and sharing. things so clearly with us today I think. that we've learned a lot is there like a. movie or a song like is there something. from the Drop Kick Murphy's or something.

from a movie or just something that like. really you feel like is like like has a. union [ __ ] feel to it for you ever I. mean one of my favorite movies all time. I knew I wanted to be a teamster truck. driver my whole life was Convoy that. poor guy just died this past week Chris. kristoferson but oh the drop kick Murphy. is the best Kenny Casey's a buddy of. mine um Chris kristoferson right there. he just passed away just passed away. people love him yeah yeah RH schola too. I guess he smart guy yeah wow and and he.

drove truck too well I don't know if he. drove it's just for the movie maybe. there was probably a teamer I'm sure. Teamster was driving it back in the day. that was filmed imagine nobody's driving. you don't have anybody to flip off if. they go by I know robot's going to give. it the finger what [ __ ] funny is that. yeah how you going to do that I know. it's crazy that's the last piece of. America we have dude yeah blow the air. hornn oh yeah and if you can't be a. six-year-old flipping off a trucker dude. I know well like picking your nose like. stuff like that that's crazy what is.

this country coming to where you can't. even flip off drop kick Mur is the best. Kenny case he's awesome yeah he's my guy. he is my guy he's a good friend very uh. very active in the SOA Community as well. oh is he which yeah Kenny casy I'm gonna. have to learn more about him yeah he's. he is awesome you know he's a character. too he is absolutely hilarious cartoon. character you know but but very very. committed to sobriety very committed um. to working people working class guy he. loves unions um real good friend wow I'm.

have to tap in with him I'll I'll have. to send him a DM or something yeah I can. I can hook you guys yeah it'd be cool. absolutely yeah people loved them from. up there that's definitely I mean people. get married to their music and buried to. it coming up to BOS shipping up to. Boston I was uh in The Departed yeah y. you were in it no no no no no no no no. no no that was in it that the song was. in it oh the music yeah yeah dude I'm a. Boston Bruins fan dude are we going to. sign that goalie or what huh we going to. sign that goalie or what oh ratl no who. uh uh Swan oh I don't know not that big.

of a he's in a big contract fight right. now he is oh yeah public too cam. NY Jeremy Swan there he is y yeah. [ __ ] sign him dude is he unionized. they are mty Walsh is representing him. right uh former Secretary of Labor he's. the head of the National Hockey uh plays. Association I love their coach man oh. yeah he's good well my my friends are. assistant coach Joe sacko oh yeah guy's. the best we all grew up together um yeah.

family best friends Joe's the best oh. that's cool dude right there there he is. yeah Monty's the best dude Joe sacko. that's cool mon just a [ __ ] M he's. hilarious too so where I grew up we had. about four or five guys make the NHL one. on my street Keith kachuck his two sons. play in the league TCA yeah they call. him the rat or no no that's the brother. no so the father was my age we grew up. on the same street and uh he's got two. sons that are in NHL right now Brady and. uh Matthew Matthew just won this Keith.

right there Matthew just won right yeah. yeah yeah what's Matthew's nickname oh I. don't know they call Keith big Walt oh. they do yeah me and him went to a UFC. fight uh not too long ago with Brian uh. we went U with Dana White it was. hilarious dude I was going to say cuz. you kind of look like Dana White Dana is. a good man yeah Dana is the best but oh. that's him that's the guy they call him. the rat something right what's his. nickname. Matthew yeah that kid is. hilarious so the mother's a long Shan.

keth yeah they call him the Rat King. dude we'll [ __ ] see about that. Keith's mother is a long shoran and. she's on strike I was with the sister. yesterday on the picking line she's a. long Shan as well and the father Keith's. father their grandfather just retired. retired a few years ago Boston fire. department great family wow the no the. Kachi kachuk kachuk y they're definitely. look I'm not saying they're they're. using extra letters sir oh yeah.

absolutely I'm not trying to snitch or. nothing with that you know so it is what. it is you got to fill the back of that. Jersey up you hey also in Boston [ __ ]. who knows how to spell anything yeah. yeah know listen we have a we have a. rule in Boston if it's any more than. three claps as a word you don't use. it oh just saying three syllables you. three clap. you know you got to sound it out that's. a nice rule yeah dude um wow Sean I.

appreciate it so much man um yeah thank. you so much for your time brother I. appreciate you sir thank you really. appreciate it was informative and uh. anything else that you think you need to. share I'm an Aries and I like long walks. in the park my friend all right all. right dude look long as you're back in. an hour absolutely all right now I'm. just floating on the breeze and I feel. I'm falling like these leaves I must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that.

ground I'll share this piece of mind I. found I can feel it in my bones. [Music].