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Hello.
Oh, yeah.
Hi, it's me, Harrison.
Ford.
Harrison Ford.
Hi, Harrison.
Hey.
Fuck.
Do I found a friend?
Not really.
Why?
Been taking a break.
A little break away from the organics, if you know what I mean.
I've been re-embracing chemicals back to our roots.
We're all chemicals.
Did you know that?
What do you mean by organics?
All right, you got me.
I'll come right out and say it.
I've been laying off pot for a while.
Just to clear my head, you know.
How's that going?
I've been bleeding a lot from my eyes.
So that's an improvement.
That sounds terrible.
Oh, not really.
I was bleeding from my nose, too.
But I solved that problem fast.
How?
I got a couple of condoms stuck up there.
You've been starting condoms?
Why?
Because eating them was cramping my style.
Yeah, I know, but for what purpose?
It was the only way I could stop my eyes from bleeding and get higher.
So what you're saying is you've been smoking that synthetic pot instead of real pot.
Look, I told you I've been laying off the pot for a while.
So yeah, I've been doing the synthetic stuff instead.
But why synthetic pot?
Isn't it dangerous?
What part of condoms, Tide Pods, and rat poison?
Don't you understand?
I feel young again.
I feel young enough to sign on to another ticket movie.
But isn't that Liam Neeson's franchise?
Oh, please.
Like he invented the strong, quiet type who gets pushed too far and have to take matters into his own hands.
Hello?
Is anyone there?
Oh, yeah.
Hi.
It's me, Harrison.
Harrison Ford.
Well, yeah, we know Harrison.
Who is this and why do you have my daughter?
I don't have your daughter.
Is this Panera Bread?
Because I just leaked millions of customer records.
I've been compromised.
I didn't know you were a regular at Panera Bread.
If you're looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money.
But what I do have are a particular set of skills.
Skills I have acquired over a very long career.
If you let my daughter go, that will be the end of it.
I'd also like to order the Lentil Kiwa bowl with cage-free egg.
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Hey, you know, FDR said we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Trump said, when you're already 500 billion down, you can't lose.
Hey, you know, the white powder that caused the police to close the Port Authority terminal?
That happened.
Did you hear about that?
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It's a New York joke.
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Sounds like a good idea.
More unicorns and fairy dust, right?
That's what the right wing is going to say.
Hey, Americans simply aren't ready to accept easily understood medical bills.
This needs to be done incrementally over a period of several dead generations.
You know, if only Hillary Clinton were president right now, I bet she'd tell all those oligarchs to cut it out.
Mark Zuckerberg says everybody's Facebook data most likely has been stolen.
Everybody's.
Great.
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Question, who do you want to see win?
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Jeff Bezos or Donald Trump?
Trick question.
They both already won.
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Oklahoma teachers are riding the wind of the West Virginia teachers' victory, and they're striking.
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So it's the opposite of an unselfish thing.
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Is it real?
Is it a hoax?
Can they prove it?
Hey, what do you say?
We just rushed to judgment before the investigation anyway.
What could go wrong?
Plus, Sinclair Media has taken a lot of heat for being pro-Trump and forcing their news anchors to repeat a script that is pro-Trump.
Well, guess who made that happen?
The answer just may surprise you.
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I bet it won't.
But it will some people.
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Barack Obama calls in.
Chris Christie.
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Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm here with Ron Placone.
Hey, Jimmy.
So we've all seen this video, right?
So there's this video of Sinclair Media, and they're all repeating the same thing, right?
So Deadspin put this together.
So let's play it because it's pretty awesome, actually.
So let's watch it.
Hi, I'm Fox San Antonio's Jessica Headley.
And I'm Ryan Wolf.
Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities.
The El Paso Las Cruces communities, Eastern Iowa communities, Mid-Michigan communities.
We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CDS4 News produces.
But we also have one-sided news stories.
Plaguing our country.
The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.
More alarming, some media outlets publish the same fake stories without checking facts first.
The sharing of biased and false.
False news has become all too common on social media.
We are going to be some media outlets.
Unfortunately, for some reason, and this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely funny.
This is extremely funny.
I'm watching their faces.
Everyone has a different face as they say it.
There was a woman a little while ago.
She was like, anyway, this is awesome, right?
I wasn't kidding.
You know, the lesson to be learned here, Jimmy, is that when Sinclair broadcasting points a finger, they get three syndicated fingers pointing back at them.
That's right.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Wayne Newton's doing the news.
I don't know if you saw Wayne Newton.
Wayne Newton's doing the news.
Where is that?
That's Fox 28.
That's awesome.
The way Newton's doing the news.
So Deadspin put that together.
And that's from one media giant, Sinclair.
And they own a lot of local TV stations.
And then they tell their people what to say.
So this isn't the first time it happened.
But here's the article from Deadspin.
This is the concourse at Deadspin.
It says how America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media.
Now, I just watched that from Deadspin.
So they say from this article, this is from the Deadspin.
This is Timothy Burke.
He says you might remember Sinclair from its having been featured on John Oliver's last week tonight last year, or from its requiring in 2004 of affiliates to air anti-John Kerry propaganda, or perhaps because it's your own local affiliate running inflammatory terrorism alerts.
Or required editorials from former Trump advisor Boris Ephiston.
He of the famed Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jewish people.
Sinclair also owns Ring of Honor Wrestling, Tennis Magazine, and the Tennis Channel.
I didn't know that.
The net result of the company's current mandate is dozens upon dozens of local news anchors looking like hostages in proof-of-life videos, trying their hardest to spit out words attacking the industry they've chosen as a life vocation.
Now that any of it, not that any of it matters to Sinclair, which, with the help of a friendly federal government, is about to swallow up another 40 television stations, increasing its reach and its lead over competitors like Hearst and Scripps.
So this is the narrative that's been going around is that this is bad, but they leave out the cause of this problem.
They completely ignore the cause of the problem.
They're pretending that Sinclair broadcasting all of a sudden decided to use all its power to help Donald Trump to force fascism on us.
The only reason this is allowed to happen that we're having monopolies, even on the local news level, is because of Bill Clinton and the Democrats.
The reason why Sinclair is able to buy up all these local news stations is because Bill Clinton was in the pocket of big media and he passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which got rid of all the regulations on ownership of media.
And we used to have lots of ownership in media in the United States.
Like, hey, you couldn't own, you can own a newspaper, but you couldn't own two newspapers and a radio station and a TV station.
And you can only own one of each.
And now you can own unlimited, which is why AM radio is completely right-wing.
There's no lefty talk on the AM radio.
Nope.
Even in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, which you would think at least 50% of the people here would lean left.
It's Los Angeles.
You would think 50% of the AM dial would be lefty talk, or at least a quarter of it.
And then, or maybe 10%, 0% is lefty talk.
So that is not the media meeting the needs of the people.
That is the media forcing its corporatism on you.
And who made that possible?
Not Sinclair Media.
They didn't make it possible.
The Democrats, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, the neoliberals who were funded by the Koch brothers.
The Democrats.
Hillary Clinton's husband.
At the same time, she was calling black kids super predators.
Bill Clinton was deregulating Wall Street.
And that's not just me saying it.
Here's Ring of Fire.
Here's Ring of Fire.
They're saying the same thing.
They don't give us anything of substance.
It doesn't.
So he's talking about, he's lamenting how bad the media is today, news media, and he says it doesn't give us anything.
Here he says.
It doesn't give us anything of substance.
It doesn't help further the conversation of America.
We're not learning anything anymore.
And that's the problem.
And it is because of the media.
They're not reporting on the important issues.
And again, you want to lay blame for this on someone?
That blame has to go to Bill Clinton, who 20 years ago signed that Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Yep.
Yeah, and that bill was just kind of pushed through like behind closed doors, had no resistance from either political party.
So I go back to this article where he says the net result of the company's mandate is dozens.
No, the net result of the Telecommunications Act, Deadspin.
It's weird that they would do this.
They would put together this awesome video, then they would write a story about it and leave out the cause, which is why we got Donald Trump because no one wants to look at the cause.
And so now they're looking at this through a media lens that says only Donald Trump is the problem.
Isn't that awesome?
The only thing that this article talks about is how bad this is because they're pro-Donald Trump.
This is bad.
It's been bad like this since 1996.
We used to have 50 giant media companies in America.
Now we have six, which is why you have no diversity of opinion, which is why you never hear an anti-war voice in the media except here.
And they're throttling us like crazy.
No one is, it's crazy how people's hair is on fire over this.
And no one's talking about the problem, which is neoliberalism, which was instituted by Bill Clinton when he turned his back on the Democratic base and got in bed with Wall Street, the Koch brothers, the military industrial complex, Wall Street, and the media giants.
This is the result.
No one is talking about this.
Have you seen anyone else anywhere?
Everyone's talking about that video, but no one's talking about the causes.
Have you seen anything?
Yeah, no one's talking about just the past homogenization of media that we've seen as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and how dangerous that is and how we should learn from the past.
I mean, there was that incident in the Dakotas years ago where a train derailed and poisoned gas was released into the atmosphere.
And because all of the radio was like syndicated in from elsewhere, they were like, well, the weather outside is sunny and blah, blah, blah.
They're looking at a weather app or an online communication device, whatever.
Meanwhile, there's poison gas in the air and there's no one on the media to tell you about it because they're not in the town.
I remember that.
I remember that story that there was this emergency and normally the news stations would get it out to the people, except there was nobody local running the news stations.
And so they couldn't get that information out to the people.
It defeats the purpose of local news when it's not, in fact, local news.
So everybody wants, so the way, and correct me if I'm wrong, Ron, but it look, and that's great work by Deadspin.
And then they leave out the most important part: how we got here, why this is happening, who's really to blame, and how we can fix it.
This isn't some plot by Sinclair Media.
This was a plot by the Democrats and Bill Clinton to allow this to happen.
They're just taking advantage of the rules.
This is the way the rules are set up, which is why you only have three radio stations in the whole goddamn country.
You got Clear Channel.
Well, now they call it.
It's the same capital because that's that Matt Romney's company bought it.
And then there's CBS.
CBS Infinity.
Is that another one?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember when I was still touring in nightclubs, and I would go to radio stations, and you'd go in, and it was always one of three stations.
It was going to be CBS, Infinity, Clear Channel, and now I can't even think of the other one.
That was it.
And you weren't allowed to talk about the war.
Nobody will let you talk about the war when I would go on radio.
And you couldn't talk about Howard Stern.
It was funny.
So here, so again, this isn't the Russians doing this.
This is us doing it to ourselves.
We did this.
Bill Clinton, the Democrats did this.
This isn't the Russians.
Our problem isn't external.
Our problem is right here in this goddamn country.
And MSNBC, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, want you to think the problem is Donald Trump.
This happened freaking 20 years ago.
22 now.
Oh, and you talk to people that were like in radio back then.
And they all lost their jobs.
Yeah, they're just saying we were all just carefree because we had a cool president that played the saxophone.
Then one day we all lost our jobs.
And we lost it.
Like, literally, we all lost our jobs.
Yep.
Well, here's what Edward Armuro would say about it.
Cassius was right.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Good night, and good luck.
We did this to ourselves.
We heralded Bill Clinton and his neoliberalism and his economy of innovation.
So this is Ed Markey, who was instrumental in writing the telecommunication.
He's a Democrat, instrumental in writing that bill.
He was the leading author of the bill.
And here he was giving a speech in 2014 bragging about the success of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Wow.
Here he was.
He's giving a speech in the Library of Congress.
And this is from the description underneath the video on YouTube that they put up.
It said, speaking from the Library of Congress, where the 1996 Act was signed in the law by President Bill Clinton, Markey reflects on the 1996 Telecom Act, which helped replace a monopoly system with competition.
War is peace.
War is peace.
This is what, I'm not kidding.
Innovation and consumer protection.
So it helped replace a monopoly system with competition, innovation, and consumer protection.
I don't even know what they're talking.
Because they broke up ATT, which, by the way, it's back.
Senator Markey explains the 1996 Act was a success because it was technologically neutral and unleashed a revolution of data, information, and accessibility for our nation.
I'd have no idea what he means by any of that.
I think he thinks because now people have the internet and somehow we wouldn't have the internet without the telecommunications act.
We have a monopolies providing our internet right now.
Maybe he's thinking we made radio so bad and unlisten, illistenable, that people needed to make entertainment on other platforms.
I think that's what he means.
Maybe that's what he means.
Listen to what he says.
This jack off.
And that's what she was talking about here tonight.
Our phone network is moving away from traditional technology to IP, to an internet protocol.
Yet the tenets of the 1996 Act, promoting competition, expanding consumer choice, spurring economic growth, are as relevant and vital today as they were 18 years ago when President Clinton signed the bill into law.
So he's lauding that as look at all this competition we now have in telecommunications, meaning phone.
There's four, what is there, four carriers?
There's not competition.
We have, again, almost everything in the United States is monopolistic.
And he's trying to tout the success of breaking up ATT.
So now we have ATT, Sprint, Verizon.
Is there another one that's available?
Is there T-Mobile?
T-Mobile.
Yeah, T-Mobile.
So that's four I can think of.
Maybe there's five providers.
That's how many internet providers there are.
And you're still, I don't have a choice of internet provider at my house.
Go ahead.
Right.
Well, even that aside, it's still such a stretch.
He's just like, we gutted media ownership and now you have a cell phone.
You're welcome.
What?
No.
Yes, that's what he's saying.
That is what he's saying.
Watch, it gets worse.
There have been some critics of the law suggesting that the 1996 Telecom Act was written about old rules, about an old network.
They have suggested the bipartisan work we put into that bill no longer applies to telecommunications networks of today.
But if it was just a bill about the old phone network, we would have simply held the bill signing in front of a phone booth or at a telephone switching center.
But we didn't.
He's bombing.
Instead, we signed the 1996 Telecom Act Here in the Library of Congress, the American Shrine of Knowledge, of Accessibility for Everyone.
This is in 2014.
He's acting like this thing was a huge success.
Do you see how he's lost?
He's talking about it like it was this great gift to humanity, the Telecommunications Act.
Here we go.
To the information which they needed.
So today, because of the 1996 Act, volumes of information extend beyond the stacks of the books in the Jefferson Library, beyond the walls of this great building, and into the homes and the schools of every child in America, where they live, where they go to school.
Today, kids growing up in Malden, Massachusetts can read the works of Jefferson on their iPad.
The 1996 Act.
That's just what you said.
That's why we have iPads.
We made radio really bad, and now you have an iPad.
So TV is completely horrible.
Your local news media has been completely gutted.
Your AM radio is completely right-wing.
Your FM dial is completely automated.
There's only three radio companies.
There's only six TV companies.
And he's lauding this as an unbridled success, a gift of information to humanity.
That's Nisa's neoliberalism.
And these are their cheerleaders.
This is a Democrat.
This is a Democrat.
Now you know why we got Trump.
The future then, the 1996 Act, is the future today.
The 1996 Act is the future tomorrow.
He's still screaming about how great it is.
This is a Democrat.
It embraces and embodies the principles which are central to guaranteeing that we have an ongoing revolution in technology and accessibility within our society.
It embraces what principles, Ed?
The principle of monopolies?
The principles of no local control or ownership of media?
You mean that?
Well, those are the principles.
This is black, the war is peace.
That's what this is.
This is war is peace.
This is Orwell right here.
That's Ed Markey, Orwell.
When people in Washington talk about job creatives, they are talking about all of you.
You are the reason that innovation and investment will continue to drive our economy into the 21st century.
No, I'm guessing he's speaking to media companies there.
I don't know who the audience is there for this, but I can't imagine anybody else would show up feeling good about it unless you own a giant media company.
Yeah, but even they are not giving him any laughs.
This joke tanked.
This is like a joke.
This is like a comedy routine he's giving.
It's black is white, up is down, in is out, war is peace.
Yeah.
That is why I have partnered with you over the years to ensure that we continue to drive this agenda.
And that's what she was talking about.
Yep.
So that's the part that when they talk about this, they talk about it in scaremongering because Trump.
It's bad because Trump.
No, it's been fucking bad since 1996, Dead Spin and Think Progress.
And everyone else who's going to talk about this, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hanks.
And I guarantee T you, they are not going to talk about this.
And they're not going to talk about what an Orwellian figure at Markey is.
Bill Clinton, Al Gore.
I went on, there was a speech they gave out.
There was an hour-long signing ceremony that Al Gore and Bill Clinton did in this same place where he is right now.
And I was, there were so many, or it was one, it was like a play written by Orwell.
These guys in their $5,000 suits in a big library talking about how they're helping people while they're literally laying down plans to screw over everyone and make everything worse and make Trump possible.
Trump's not possible without this guy's work.
But I'm sure we can find some more people who are more, you know, people with more power than a senator.
I'm sure Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon, me.
Hey.
Damn it.
Why does Barack Obama always call me while I'm stretching my socks?
Hello.
Hey, Jimmy, buy my books and pre-order the ones that haven't come out yet.
Okay, bye.
Wait, wait a minute.
Now that you've interrupted my private time, I got a question for you.
No problem, Nimrod.
I got an answer for everything under the sun.
And in answer to your question, yes, I prefer to stretch all my socks on mason jars.
At least I used to until I moved next door to the Cushners.
In that hood, you hire someone else to do that shit.
You pay someone to stretch your shocks on Mason jars?
Not usually.
But Jared's having a hard time financially.
So why not give the kid a break?
Like I always say, if you want real change, start in your own neighborhood.
It takes a village full of rich people.
You know, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote that you and George Bush will have to come together to use your, quote, credibility.
How does it feel to have your credibility lumped in with that of George W. Bush's?
And what a tremendous honor it is, Jimmy.
Okay, bye.
And you don't think that kind of mealy mouth neoliberal crap is why Democrats lost the White House, Barack?
Trump is now polling better than you did at the same time in your administration.
Believe you, me, it's hard getting money thrown at you wherever you go.
I've been trying to ease into post-presidential life, but making the transition into collecting huge checks and dealing with all my accountants, it's been difficult.
There have been some nights when I thought I couldn't go on.
Really?
Are you some kind of freaking idiot?
I'm rolling on the dough and never looking back, fucker.
Oh, okay.
That's not the half of it, Jimmy.
Me and Michelle, my wife, are about to sign a major deal with Netflix.
We're going to provide some fresh new programming.
You're going to be the producer for Netflix.
More like a hope-deucer, Timmy.
Here are some of the new Netflix shows I'll be producing.
Orange is the new hope.
House of Hopes.
Master of Hope.
The unbreakable Kimmy Hope.
And comedians and cars getting hope.
It sounds like you're just recycling somebody else's crap, kind of like you did during your presidency.
You're not concerned the public may resent you for screwing with their favorite shows.
Mount of Oregon Citizen Acts, like I said before.
If you like your current show, you can keep your current show.
If you like the characters, you'll be able to keep them too, period.
It sounds very inspirational.
Damn out it is.
For the first time, I'll actually have a platform where I can reach billions of people around the world and really do some good.
Isn't that what you could have done with the presidency?
That's hilarious.
Oh, you're not kidding.
Look, presidents can only inspire people to make a difference when they're out of office.
That's pretty sad, Barack.
Let me finish the sentence, Jimmy, while making shitloads of money from hedge fund managers.
So you think your Netflix show will get big ratings?
Once we had a bunch of swords and tips, they will.
One last question.
Will you use your platform to finally support single payer and end our seven illegal wars?
Swords and tips in 2020.
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Hey, Johnny, this is Harrison Ford.
I hope this is the right number.
You're the guy with the podcast with Yelling and that other guy, right?
We'll call in.
I don't know.
I'm tired.
Anyway, I hope it's you.
I've always liked you, Jake.
I've been filming what I assume will be the final installment of the Indiana Jones series right now.
Well, the final one with me, anyway.
After that, Steven Spielberg says it will keep going without me.
Not sure how many more religions there are on earth with holy thingies to make movies about, but whatever.
What do Zoroastrians worship?
A statute of a little dude or woman?
Maybe like, you know, Spanish fascists steal it because it can control the sun or some shit.
And I stopped them with a whip.
Boom.
There's an Indiana Jones movie.
This shit ain't really that hard, Teddy.
I'll talk to you late.
I'll talk to you late.
Hey, Jeff, it's Harrison Ford again.
I forgot the main thing I wanted to tell you.
Steven was interviewed and said that after I'm retired from the role, Indiana Jones might be a woman, or, you know, could be a woman.
I found that interesting, and quite frankly, I'm fine with it.
I'm not sure if he means, though, that I'm a woman now suddenly and it's like never addressed, or if this is like a whole trans deal.
I don't know.
Indiana Jones is now an 80-year-old trans woman.
Truly a metaphor for our age.
I think it's a great idea, though.
A female indie.
The more I say it, the more I like it.
I mean, I guess that was the idea behind Tomb Raider.
Question: What if Indiana Jones is a woman?
Answer, Laura Croft.
And now the Indiana Jones people are all like, you know what?
Fuck you.
We're doing that now for real.
Give us our shit back.
It's like when those Matt Damon secret agent movies came out, and they were all the action was all fast and everything.
And then they rebooted James Bond with Daniel Craig, and they were like, sorry, 007 is the iconic secret agent guy, and we're going to be stealing all that super fast karate chop shit.
LOL.
I love that.
Actually, I think the character works better as a woman, honestly.
First of all, a woman handling a whip, hot as shit, right there.
And the fedora.
Any man who wears a fedora anymore gets made fun of, right?
That's like the cool Twitter thing to make fun of fedoras and vaping.
On a girl, though, it's probably still cool.
Leather jacket, yes, please.
Can't have her afraid of snakes, though.
Obviously, any female action lead has to be cartoonishly and inhumanly devoid of fears and flaws of any kind.
That's a given, goes without saying.
Otherwise, women will get pissed off.
Definitely can't have her making any small bumbles or missteps for classic Indiana Jones site gag humor.
No way.
It'll still be good, though.
Some things will have to change.
Like, you know, a motorcycle chasing through a Middle Eastern bazaar would be tricky because obviously she would have to stop and have a respectful dialogue with the locals about the effects of colonization.
That would definitely affect the pacing of the scene.
She probably couldn't be called Indiana because of the harsh anti-abortion legislation that just passed in that state.
Probably would be called California Jones or West Hollywood Jones.
This is good, though.
These are good changes and well overdue.
In the first movie, she'll steal artifacts from museums in New York and London to return them to their native countries.
And there's a scene where a man tries to open the door for her, and she pulls out a revolver and just shoots them.
You know, like I did in Raiders to that scimitar guy.
Just shooting a guy.
What a great gag.
But now, you know, it's like, you know, against the patriarchy.
Anyway, these are all great ideas, Jimmy.
Thanks.
Thanks for them.
And I'm going to get to writing this and hopefully have something for you by Tuesday.
Take care.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm here with Ron Placone.
Hey, Jimmy.
And there's teacher strikes happening all over the place.
So we showed you what was happening in Kentucky.
We covered that, right, Leslie?
And West Virginia had a successful teacher strike.
And Michael Moore, by the way, got almost a blip of coverage.
Michael Moore talked about that.
Bernie Sanders had his income inequality town hall.
And Michael Moore brings up the success of the West Virginia teacher strike.
Let's listen to it.
This is a union.
This union brought down the state apparatus at 75% women in this union.
And they rose up.
And Bernie, I didn't see hardly anything in the corporate media about this on any of the networks.
Even some of the networks that we watch were, you know, Russia, turn the channel.
Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
My thing is not important about Stormy Daniels.
Yeah, no, no, Stormy Daniels and Doc.
Why?
It's like they're talking about Rachel Madows' set list.
That's her show list right there.
Russia, Russia, Russia, Stormy Daniels.
Am I wrong?
Yeah, for today and next week.
So isn't it awesome that Michael Moore will go on here and call out Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes, but he won't go on Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes and say that when he's on Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes.
That would be nice.
I like Michael Moore.
You know, I think he does great work.
I think he knows what's right, and he often expresses it.
It would be nice to see him really stand up against neoliberalism and stop coddling people at MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and really call them out.
Because that's what has to happen.
We have to have a real revolution, Michael, because playing Mr. Nice Guy, I'm still fun with the Democrats, which is what he does, doesn't work.
Look where we are.
Do you see how bad the country is?
Do you see what's happening to Flint?
Do you see half the country's poor?
So it's not working.
This idea to be the good soldier for the Democrats is not working.
So it'd be nice if he went out and said staff.
Because he's great.
Michael Moore's great, and he's an effective communicator, and he has the right ideas.
And I just want him to have to share those right ideas in the right places.
So here we go.
Junior, you know, whoever else, all the shiny keys to distract us.
That's what goes on in the media.
All the other things that they talk about.
And we should be seeing this.
This we should see.
We should know about the West Virginia teacher strike and the victory.
What an inspiration that would be around the country if you saw people in West Virginia do this.
They haven't had a strike like this in forever.
And they don't show this, Bernie, because what would happen if they did?
What would happen in a so-called conservative red state?
Teachers stood up and fought back and won.
Well, what would happen is you'd see more of this.
Oklahoma teachers.
Women are now the ones on the front lines in the war against neoliberalism.
And there they are.
You'd see a lot more of this.
So here's a news report about what's happening with the teachers in Oklahoma.
In Oklahoma today, teachers normally at the head of the class are walking out of it.
What do we want money?
From West Virginia to Arizona to Kentucky, thousands of educators have protested low pay and inadequate school funding.
You live month to month for that paycheck.
Amber Spradlin teaches sixth grade English in a suburb of Oklahoma City.
She's been a teacher for 13 years and makes about $34,000.
I don't know if you notice what she's doing.
She's taping together books that are so old they're falling apart.
Books.
They're science books, too.
That's not even what she teaches.
That's our, this is neoliberalism.
Just a small raise every year.
Which is about an additional $100.
So wait, you get an extra $100 a year.
Yes.
That's your raise.
That's our raise.
Isn't that nice?
Isn't that great?
Here's one more news report about it.
Making their voices heard.
Hundreds of teachers crammed inside the Oklahoma State Capitol for a second day.
Are we here for us or our kids?
They're there for the kids.
You're like, boy, wait a minute.
First of all, those teachers, they're money grubbers.
Am I right?
They just want more money.
No, what they're literally striking for is not, yes, they need to be brought up to a standard of living themselves, but they're striking for funding for the classroom, for books, for chairs, for desks, for supplies, for heat in the building.
And they're striking so that other people who are supports that work in the cafeterias, janitors, stuff, they also get a living wage.
That's what this is all about.
It's not just for the teachers.
They are now striking because they're defunding education.
Oklahoma's at a four-day school week because they don't have any money in the richest country in the world for school.
Walking off their jobs to press lawmakers for more money.
The governor signed off on laws granting educators 15 to 18% higher salaries.
But for some who haven't seen a pay raise in 10 years, they say that's not good enough.
Oklahoma's three largest school districts remain closed Tuesday to honor the out.
Husband and wife teachers Jay and Andrea Thomas say they work side jobs.
So this is a good report in a sense because it's going to highlight something that no one else is highlighting right now.
This is the AP highlighting teachers who have to work second and third jobs just to pay their bills.
But he missed the whole pig part about what they're really striking for.
Well, they offered him a 50% raise.
The teacher said that wasn't enough.
No, they said that wasn't enough because it doesn't fund the actual school buildings, the school supplies, and their support staff.
And they left that out.
So I'll put it in.
Okay, here we go.
Sometimes at the end of the month, we're like, oh, gosh, we have nothing.
And, you know, it's a way to provide for a family.
Jay doing whatever he can for extra cash.
My science says I have to leave early so I can sell my plasma.
Just, you know, got to have that extra funding.
He's not kidding.
Oh, I probably shouldn't turn here because...
Now I'm trying to finish trying to get my mortgage paid for this month.
Teacher Jennifer Rup has two extra side jobs.
The first cleaning her own school.
It's awesome, right?
Wow.
And no one in that state gives a about the education quality of their, I don't get, they all get to vote.
Everybody there gets to vote.
But again, maybe we have the Sinclair media there.
Maybe because of the Telecommunications Act, nobody gets hot.
So they're all told that these teachers are money grubbers.
Well, every day I vacuum as part of extra pay.
The second in retail.
I wasn't able to go to the Capitol because I have to work.
Three total jobs to pay the bills.
The governor has responded, saying the state's budget is tight and other programs need money too.
But Oklahoma Democrats counter that there are bills pending in the state house that could generate an additional $100 million a year in school funding.
The state's largest teachers union has not said when the demonstrations will end.
John Mona said.
Why isn't that something?
The teacher has three jobs.
Now, the problem is a lot of people in America think that's fantastic.
Who would that be?
The people who lead our country.
Here's George Bush being confronted with that same situation.
You don't have to worry.
You don't have to worry.
That's good because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute.
You work three jobs.
Three jobs.
Yes.
Uniquely American, isn't it?
I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.
That's fantastic.
That's fantastic.
That's how we feel about, that's how we feel in America.
That's fantastic.
You have to work three jobs just to keep a roof over your head.
Isn't that fantastic that you're doing that?
Uniquely American.
Uniquely what you can pull off When you demonize the idea of a minimum wage, uniquely American.
Uniquely.
Yeah.
You know, when you shit on working people.
Here's a picture of the books that they have in an Oklahoma class.
Look at the books.
Like, they're not embarrassed.
People are embarrassed about this.
Oklahoma legislators, the parents in Oklahoma aren't embarrassed about this.
We're spending $80 billion a year extra on bombs.
That was Sarah James Scarberry, a ninth grade teacher at Oklahoma's Heavener High School, shared this photo of English textbooks at her school.
There's the English textbooks.
That's what they look like.
Here's another one.
That's one of the reasons it's not over yet, meaning the Oklahoma strike.
This is a textbook from my daughter's class.
It's a history book, and the current president in it is George W. Bush.
We can do better, Oklahoma.
That's the book you had in your kid in the United States of America.
Like, what kind of third world country are we in?
Maybe we should get Lawrence O'Donnell to do a thing about getting books for kids in America because he doesn't forget desks for kids in Africa.
We need books for kids in America.
Class turned to page 200.
Excuse me, teacher.
I don't have page 200 because my spine collapsed on this book years ago.
It fell out at some point.
So the governor of Oklahoma says this: Governor Mary Fallon signed a measure giving teachers a $6,100 pay raise and then compared their demand for more education funding to, quote, a teenage kid that wants a better car.
Teachers want more, she told CBS News on Tuesday, referring to teachers rallying for higher teacher and support staff raises, as well as increased funding for education.
So this isn't just about teacher pay, but it's like kind of having a teenage kid that wants a better car.
And if that woman is able to get reelected, it shows you how broken our political system is.
I don't know.
I see some merits to her analogy, though.
I mean, I remember when I was a kid and I was in school, we always were talking about which one of us got to borrow the nicest history book from our parents.
And then the big thing was: what history book are you going to take to your prom?
That was the big thing we had.
That was super big.
So here's a little bit more background that you don't know about how horrible Oklahoma is.
Oklahoma's teachers are rebelling against a decade of tax cuts that triggered deep cuts in education spending, forcing about 20% of public schools to switch to a four-day week schedule and pushing average teacher salaries to the rank of 49th in the country.
Teachers haven't gotten a raise in Oklahoma in 10 years.
The education funding crisis in Oklahoma is so severe that the state is struggling to find and keep qualified teachers.
In fact, about a quarter of Oklahoma City's teachers leave every year.
And the state had to issue a record number of emergency teaching certificates, 1,917, for the current school year.
A growing number of students in Oklahoma don't have properly certified teachers.
Wow.
This is neoliberalism.
This is tax cuts create jobs.
Tax cuts create a booming economy.
Tax cuts are going to help you.
That's what this is.
Nearly 200 of the state's 550 school districts remain closed, according to a tally on the Oklahoma Teacher Walkouts Facebook group.
An estimated 30,000 teachers and educators had gathered at the Capitol on Monday, joined by hundreds of state employees.
Oklahoma is still dealing with a budgets crisis after lawmakers slash business taxes and top income tax rates year after year.
That's supposed to make your economy boom.
It's supposed to fix all the problems.
Tax cuts give people more money in their pocket and they pocket.
A round went into effect in 2009.
A tax cut round went into effect in 2009.
Then taxes were lowered further in 2012 and again in 2014.
The tax cuts were supposed to lead to an economic boom, but instead, they triggered a massive budget gap of about $1.5 billion each year.
So if you're one of the people who watch this show who thinks tax cuts equal jobs, this is another piece of the evidence that disputes that.
So if you think that and you're actually open-minded thinking person, you're supposed to change your mind when the evidence changes.
The evidence has changed.
Tax cuts don't create, if tax cuts created better economies and jobs, we would be living in the most booming, but we're not.
But by the way, Wall Street's booming, but not for the people.
Okay.
Teachers are demanding that state legislators come up with $3.3 billion over the next three years for school funding, benefits, and pay raised for all public employees.
On Monday, lawmakers didn't give an inch, and that made the teachers even angrier.
So that's when they showed up and they occupied the complete statehouse in Oklahoma.
And the state legislators, instead of trying to pass a bill to help them, sent all their legislative aides home for safety because the teachers were there.
You know how violent teachers are.
The group asked for a $10,000 average pay raise for teachers over three years.
$6,000 in the first year and then $2,000 for each of the following two years.
In 2016, a $6,000 average raise would have been enough to push Oklahoma from 49th to 28th in teacher pay.
But they didn't get it.
Okay, that didn't happen.
They're still 49th.
Oklahoma teachers are also asking for a $7,000 raise for school support staff.
So it's not just them.
Raises for all state employees and $200 million in school funding, a 5% cost of living pension adjustment for retired teachers and more funding for their health care plans.
So the teachers, you know, the ones who make everything possible in our society, they train the workers.
They train the people, getting them ready to go be workers.
The ones who are important, we're not taking care of them.
And they're like, hey, you have to start paying us like we actually matter.
You have to get us out of poverty.
I shouldn't have to sell my plasma when I'm performing a really important job.
But they would tell you a really important job is a Wall Street guy.
That's really important.
The teachers' demands add up to 3.5%.
That money Oklahoma doesn't have on hand.
The state needs to raise taxes.
Many politicians in Oklahoma City resisted giving in to the teachers' list of demands, but felt the pressure to do something.
In recent weeks, lawmakers have proposed a handful of bills.
One would have raised teacher pay about $5,000, but it didn't include more funding for schools or anything else.
That bill passed, but Not the bill to raise cigarette and oil taxes to pay for it.
The latest bill, which the governor signed into law last week, is the most generous yet, but the $447 million it would bring is still far too little.
Teachers have rejected that proposal, too.
On Tuesday, teachers seem determined to stay out of class as long as it takes to get lawmakers to take action, but doing so will be harder for some teachers than others.
While dozens of school districts, including Oklahoma City schools, have shut down indefinitely in support of the strike, others have not.
Teachers who work at schools that remain open are using sick days or personal days to participate in the walkout, and others are paying substitute teachers from their own pockets.
Wow.
That's the United States, richest country in the world, richest country in the world.
And I'm glad we have a teacher here on panel to talk about it.
Oh, no, she's busy.
Okay.
I'm sure Stephanie wants to talk about this, but she's busy.
Okay, so there you go.
That's the story.
Again, oh, teachers, again, this is the you want a pony.
Oh, you want you actually want to have books?
You guys want it.
That's that sounds like Hillary Clinton, the governor of Oklahoma.
You guys want a new car.
That's her saying, oh, you want a pony.
Yeah, and the teachers, you know, they were willing to meet them for the most part on the salary, but they weren't able to meet them on the other stuff, the classrooms and the other workers and so forth.
And just like teenagers, I mean, you know how teenagers are.
Teenagers are like, I don't want a car unless everyone in the neighborhood gets a car too.
That's how teenagers are.
That's how all teenagers are.
Right?
You know how teachers?
You know how kids do that all the time.
You take my keys and I'm not driving this thing.
All right.
So as Michael Moore said, I'm sure MSNBC is all over the story in the right way.
I bet.
I bet they are.
And you know what I say?
I say, thank God they're not because then we get to have a show.
But I'd rather be telling jokes.
I'd rather be touring and doing comedy.
Now we do theaters, but we still do clubs sometimes.
We do flappers.
I'd still rather be touring, doing comedy, and talking about this face to face with people because that's what's really fun.
I mean, this is fun too, kind of, but it's not really fun.
It doesn't even compare, in fact.
So, yeah, so I would, it would be, I would like to see Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O'Donnell cover this correctly.
I would like to see them make this the top story every day because this is what would change America, not Russia.
Russia didn't do that.
Russia didn't defund the schools in Oklahoma.
Russia didn't make teachers have to pay sell their plasma.
Russia didn't make them go to a four-day work school week.
You know who did that?
The call's coming from inside the house.
We're doing that to ourselves.
And people who want you to think about Russia like they're a problem in your life are fucking propagandists, and you should stop listening to them.
So guess what?
Big news, Rachel Maddow, mania.
She's the most watched cable news host in America.
Whoa.
So it just goes to show you that doing good journalism does not pay.
Because when she was doing good journalism, she was getting her ass beat by Sean Hannity with his Benghazi and Berther and all that other stuff.
And she decided to just be the left-wing version of Sean Hannity and do nothing but Russia, Russia, Russia stories.
And, you know, we've already showed you that Michael Moore, what he had to say about Rachel Maddow's story selection.
So here he is when he was talking about the West Virginia teachers union strike that didn't get covered on MSNBC, and this is what he said about it.
This union brought down the state apparatus at 75% women in this union.
And they rose up.
And Bernie, I didn't see hardly anything in the corporate media about this on any of the networks, even some of the networks that we watch were, you know, Russia, turn the channel.
Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
And I'm not saying it's not important.
Now you've got to outstorm me, Daniel.
Yeah, no, no, okay.
Stormy Daniels and Don Jr. and, you know, whoever else.
Who do you think he's talking about?
Who do you think he's talking about?
He's talking about MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Hayes.
That's who he's talking about.
All the shiny keys to distract us.
That's what goes on in the media.
All the other things that they talk about.
And we should be seeing this.
This we should see.
We should know about the West Virginia teacher strike and the victory.
What the inspiration that would be around the country if you saw people in West Virginia do this.
They haven't had a strike like this in forever.
And they don't show this, Bernie, because what would happen if they did?
Well, what would happen if they did is people would rise up against neoliberalism, neoliberalism that is paying Rachel Maddow $30,000 a day.
A day.
She gets paid $30,000 a day, probably more.
A day.
You know what's ironic?
It's the one thing her and Sean Hannity have in common is to get that number one spot.
They both shifted to the right.
Ah, where they were at.
So Rachel Maddow has dethroned Fox News with Sean Hannity last month to seize the title of most watched cable news host.
According to figures from Forbes, the Rachel Maddow show turned in the best ever performance with an average of, I would say, the worst ever performance with the highest ratings.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Again, we're equating the number of viewers with quality of programming.
And more people will tune in to watch a car wreck.
That doesn't mean it's great programming.
I used to refer to Rachel Maddow as the diamond in the rough.
Now when I see her on TV, I'm like, ooh, that was rough.
Yeah, ha.
So she beat him in all the, she's got, she beat him everywhere.
And in the demo and the whole thing, CBS top brand host Anderson Cooper ranked a distant 10th.
Wow.
Really?
That's cool.
But is there a better person to tell you about the struggles of everyday people than a member of the Vanderbilt family?
I wonder why he's number 10.
MSNBC has enjoyed a rating surge of late, thanks to its position as a progressive foil to President Donald Trump.
It's not a progressive foil to Donald Trump.
It's an establishment neoliberal attack dog for the establishment.
That's all it is.
It's not progressive.
It's not Democrat.
It's not liberal.
It is, what is it?
A faux foil.
It's a faux foil.
I like that.
I like that too.
It's top three primetime hosts, Matt Al, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O'Donnell, have collectively branded themselves the resistance.
They're so strong at resisting, they won't even have a bona fide progressive on their goddamn show.
That's what fucking pussies they are at MSNBC.
They won't even have a goddamn actual progressive on their show.
Oh, I'm sorry.
They always have Noam Chomsky on.
They never have a bod, but they do have on Phil Donahue all the time who got the Iraq.
Oh, they never have him on.
Yeah, but they have Ralph Nader run on.
They never have him on.
They always invite Dylan Radigan back.
They get Dylan Radigan.
Oh, they never.
Oh, how about Thomas Frank, who wrote Listen Liberal?
They never have him on.
And they'll never have me on.
Ever, ever.
Not even Ari Melber.
The little red baiter that he is.
So you want to see Rachel Maddow's story selection?
This is from, I went, this is what she did on Wednesday of this week.
So it was the Oklahoma teacher strike was full-blown.
Here's what she talked about.
White House lawyers questioned Bolton about potential ethic issues.
That's the lead story.
And here's the rest of the stories.
You want to see what they were?
Former acting U.S. attorney gives first interview since leaving SDNY.
Flint representative upset with Pruitt using Safe Drinking Water Act money to pay staffers.
President Trump is under investigation, but not as a criminal target.
Alex Vanderwyn is the first person sentenced in special counsel investigation.
I'm shocked there's actually something regarding.
So there are two stories there that don't have to do with Donald Trump.
That is a big deal.
So that's two out of five, right?
Because the other one was about Bolton.
So there you go.
That's two out of five stories that don't have to, and that's a big deal.
Wow, she's really mixing it up.
Yeah, she's really biting her tongue.
Last time we did something like that for MSNBC, it was one out of 17 stories.
It wasn't about Trump Russia.
You're right.
You're right.
That's their normal.
Their normal is to have 17 straight Russia Trump stories.
So that's just, that's just from, I just decided, okay, I'll go to her thing.
And I tried to get go back.
They won't allow you to go back, like to look at what the videos were for Tuesday.
I don't know what they're still trying to pull over at MSNBC by making it hard to get to their videos.
They're resisting.
They are resisting.
Well, I like The Onion, the way they covered Rachel Maddow instead.
The Huffington Post will tell you she's the number one news.
Here's how The Onion covered it.
Fuming Rachel Maddow spends entire show just pointing wildly at a picture of Putin.
New York, enraged to the point that she was no longer able to form words, a fuming Rachel Maddow spent an entire episode of her show Thursday just pointing wildly at a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For the first segment of the program, the political pundit reportedly jabbed her finger at Putin's photo as her facial expression shifted from angry to sad, then back to angry, and finally to disgust.
When she returned from a commercial break, Maddow was already shaking her head indignantly, proceeding to alternate between gesturing impatiently at the Russian leader and pointing directly at the camera.
Sources later confirmed that the seething television host concluded the episode by sitting across from a guest who had written a book about Putin, which she grabbed out of the author's hands and slammed down on her desk six times in a row before shaking her head and muttering unintelligibly.
At press time, MSNBC sources confirmed that Maddow's ratings had reached an all-time high.
You know what's crazy?
If I didn't know that that was an article from The Onion, I would have just thought, wow, that's the most objective review I ever read.
Yeah, they just said what happened in her show.
That's what happens during her show.
Pretty much.
That's her show.
Number one news story, baby.
That's a number one news show.
Okay.
And now you know why people get their news from YouTube.
Now you know why people get their news from YouTube.
And thank God they suck so hard.
Because now I get to make fun of them.
And they suck.
And they suck.
And don't kid yourself.
And I don't ever want to be part of their club.
There's a lot of people at the Young Turks who do.
You know, they don't.
I'm sure that my mission in this show is to be the antidote of the establishment media, not to be accepted by the establishment media.
I do not want to be accepted by them.
Because if I am, I know I'm doing something wrong.
I don't want to go work for Jeff Bezos and not be allowed to tell the truth about war, the economy, Amazon, monopolies, horrible working conditions.
I don't want to work for Jeff Bezos.
I have a little bit too much integrity.
And I certainly don't want to work for Comcast because I have way, certainly way too much integrity for that place.
They fire people who are anti-war, like Phil Donahue.
And then people like Rachel Maddow pretend they're progressive.
She's a pretender.
A $30,000 a day pretender.
And I bet you she makes more than that a day.
I bet she's making close to $50,000 a day now.
A day.
That's your progressive hero.
She's going to fight back against the oligarchs.
She's not on your side.
Well, pretend is very accurate because, you know, what do her and Sean Hannity have in common and the fact that she seated John Hannity at number one, they're both the ultimate partisan hack against whoever's president.
In Hannity's case, it was Obama.
In Maddow's case, it's Trump.
So it's this illusion.
It's this fake little conflict that's about as real as professional wrestling.
And it's about as far from news as you can get.
And that's what it takes to be number one.
Rod, that was very well put.
I should have ended the segment right there.
But I'm going to run it by talking more.
And saying that what does Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow also have in common?
They called Roger Ailes a friend.
And now you know the rest of the story.
*laughter*
You know, it's been a while since Chris Christie insulted me.
I wonder what's wrong.
Hello?
I refuse to allow myself to insult a mealy mouth smitch like you.
Got it.
I've been making a great jump into early summer here, Jimmy.
I spent the week acting like a fucking diplomat or something.
I'm the wise man of experience now.
Don't have time for your little bullshit sessions.
I got my own little slot on ABC.
Heard it then.
Yeah, aren't they like the American motors of television networks?
Come on, you little punk.
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