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May 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 21, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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By the way, you know, last week we're trying to come up with a uh official song to help Mrs. Clinton out and her uh campaign.
She had that website up there.
Mike, see if you can find baby got back real quick.
People might have missed this on Friday.
We played it.
Uh Ed found it up there by Sir Mixelot.
Let me know, uh, Mike, when you've uh found that.
If you don't let me know, I won't know that you've found it.
And I'll sound like an idiot here waiting for you to find it, asking you to play it.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the cutting edge.
It's in the profit system.
That's where Ed said it was.
All right, good, good, good, good.
Well, we got progress trying to find it.
800 2828.
He's got it.
282.
800-282-2882 is a phone number if you want to be in a program.
The email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
We're trying to find trying to help out Mrs. Clinton last week, trying to find a uh the song.
She went on her website asking her uh her um well her supporters to to choose help kind of find a campaign.
So it's very important part of campaign.
And we suggested this song.
I got a new idea now.
I got white impressionist Paul Shanklin working on it, but this we've decided to pull back.
Uh this was this was my suggestion.
Okay, that's uh that's enough.
You get the idea.
Uh the uh the song's called Baby Got Back.
It's from uh mid-90s.
Uh and uh the opening line, in case you misses, I like big butts.
And we figured that was that might not really we don't uh it would it would maybe conjure up some sympathy for Mrs. Clinton.
So white impressionist Paul Shanklin is uh working on a version of Stand By Your Man.
We're gonna put a little line out there about baking cookies.
And uh when uh white impressionist Paul Shanklin gets that done, uh, we will then talk about a couple quick questions.
Uh think about this now, folks.
Uh two rhetorical questions.
Well, actually not rhetorical.
I mean, you can try to answer them seriously.
I asked the staff here uh in a little test, and they actually started trying to answer these things seriously, which cracked me up because the question needs no answer.
Question is this why is it okay for agriculture and other businesses to have cheap labor and and even uh support illegal immigration to get it when it's not okay for Walmart to have cheap labor.
The same people that tell us we got to have this cheap labor, it's a great, it's the only only thing that's gonna keep America great.
Uh the same people targeting Walmart for destruction because they don't pay enough, and their health care benefits are not high enough.
What's the difference?
If cheap labor is the key to our continued greatness and growth and prosperity, then why harp on Walmart?
Another question.
Have you ever noticed that there was no global warming crisis when Bill Clinton was president?
Now, seriously.
Oh, there was.
I mean, we still had the activists out there, and they were on television, they were making noise about it.
We got to do it.
But from the from the highest levels of government from all these governors, there was no pressure ever applied to the Clinton administration to do anything about it.
Have you noticed that during the 90s there was no doom and gloom?
We were not treated to a daily dose of apocalyptic news stories.
We were not told that the earth was ending, the polar bears were not stranded on melding glaciers.
All of these lies, these it was not there.
It did not happen.
There was some talk about it, but the EPA under Clinton didn't regulate carbon emissions.
There was no talk about polar bears and the rest.
So it it leads me to conclude that as far as the Democrats are concerned, they want people to think global warming is a Republican policy.
They are the all I'm I'm illustrating it in this fashion to try to drill home the point that global warming is every bit as much a political issue as anything else is to the liberals.
It's not a science issue.
You cannot have science if the word consensus is anywhere in the deal.
Consensus of science scientists say science is not up for a vote, uh, as we've mentioned time and time again.
Had there been this crisis of global warming, when Clinton was president, Gore was vice president, they would have actually done something to stop it, right?
That's trying to get you to think about these things in different ways.
Um you know, another thing, the Democrats, and this latest stunt by Pelosi saying that the immigration bill, she's not going to move it forward in the House unless she gets 70 Republican votes.
She doesn't need 70 Republican votes for it to pass, folks.
She needs five.
She needs Well, she actually, she doesn't need any Republican votes if she can keep her own party in line.
And she's not going to be able to, because all those new conservative Democrats that were elected last November, they're not.
So she needs 70 Republican votes.
And the Democrats want Bush to surrender in Iraq.
The Democrats want Bush to sign this immigration bill.
Just rather than wait for Hillary's coronation and get total credit for passing it.
Why don't they?
I mean, if they really believe in this.
Wait, if this is such a great bill, wait, put it off till Mrs. Bill Clinton's in the Oval Office and get total credit for this great piece of legislation.
What is it telling you about what they really believe in?
Though we hear all this terms about uh well, the will of the people.
The people spoke back there in November in those elections.
We got to get out of a rock.
They can't get the votes to get us out of a rock.
They would have them if of the will of the people was as they say.
I want you to listen to this headline from the French news agency.
Gay flamingos pick up chick.
A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, according to a British conservation organization.
Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family.
We are talking about two birds here.
Carlos and Fernando, the gay flamingos, had been desperate to start a family, even chasing after other flamingos and their nests to take over their eggs at the wildfowl and wetlands trust in Slimbridge near Bristol.
But their egg-sitting prowess, that would be Carlos and Fernando, the two gay flamingos, their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the greater flamingo nests was abandoned.
See, what's the meaning of that?
These gay birds are better than the hetero birds.
The hetero birds abandoned their kids, and here come the gay birds, the gay flamingos rolling in right to take over, sit on those eggs, and give birth.
The couple.
Listen to the way this is written.
We're talking two birds.
The couple, uh, together for six years.
Second time that's been referenced in the story.
They want a medal what?
The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.
Uh gay flamingos are not uncommon, it says here.
You know, we're writing about these animals like their people.
Never forget, here in West Palm Beach, well, over there in West Palm Beach.
There's a zoo.
And the zoo had a tiger.
Tiger's name was Tony.
Really clever, original.
Tony died.
They spelled it T-O-W-N-E-E, but and he was a beautiful cat.
I saw pictures, but he died.
He passed away.
They, in the Palm Beach Post now, they ran an obituary of Tony the Tiger.
And he and his partner.
Well, his wife, whatever, I don't think he's mate.
And they talked about where they first lived, and then Tony and his mate moved to this place, and then they after got tired of living there, they moved on to this place, and they moved again.
They ended up Palm Beat.
What'd they do?
Call Mayflower and say, hey, I'm Tony the Tiger, and I got Mrs. Tony, and we're moving, and we need to come get our furniture.
This is just I don't know, this stuff amuses me.
I have to take a quick time out here, ladies and gentlemen.
Coming up, Salon.com, Deborah Dixon really excoriates Barack Obama's wife Michelle.
Just mad as hell at her for betraying the sisterhood of feminism.
She says it had to be hard for the high-achieving candidate's wife to give up her career, and I'm in a feminist fury about it.
She had she had the world right in her grasp, and she's going to do anything she wanted if she quit the gig at the hospital to become his official hostess in her mind.
And she is livid about it.
Well, you hear some of the stuff in this, and you will understand previous comments made by me about feminists in a well in an increasingly clear light.
Sit tight.
Getting some email from people out there not quite sure that I was telling the truth here about the problem down in uh the Florida Keys, Big Pine Key involving the uh hef bunny.
They found a new rabbit down there.
They uh the there's a uh well, I don't know if they found a new one, but they they they yeah, I guess they had they found one that was unnamed, and they named it after him.
Uh the actual name, the Latin name for the rabbit is Sylviligus Palustris Hefnari.
And so it's it's called a hef bunny.
And it's in danger of being uh wiped out.
Uh the medium-sized dark brown, where am I reading the AP, the uh medium-sized dark brown cotton tail hef bunny with a grayish white belly was put on the federal endangered species list when the population in the Florida Keys was estimated at 200.
Uh and and the big problem we we in Florida have a problem with this.
And w the what's what's wiping out the hef bunny are pussy cats.
Fearal cats, fearal and stray cats, uh are wiping these things out.
Wildlife officials plan to uh begin a program next week to trap these uh these uh fearal pussy cats and these stray pussy cats, hoping that keeping a predator away will mean that the population of the heft bunnies uh will grow.
Not making this up, we'll link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com on the website.
Here's d uh Dave, Dave in Indianapolis.
Dave's nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Giga Ditto's from Indianapolis, home of the 500 and the world champion Colts.
Yes, sir.
And I saw something very you'll be interested in this.
Uh Peyton Manning showed up for recent minicamp for the Indianapolis Colts and found out that three veterans didn't show up, and he went to the coach Tony Dungeon.
You give me their names and numbers, and he called them and two of them showed up.
And this is considered to be a good sign he's still hungry.
He's still at one Super Bowl wasn't enough.
He will have many more in his time before he retires.
I think that's probably true.
I just called about a couple of things.
Now the first thing is that Indianana, when we call our senators Lugar and Bye, don't seem to want to either answer the phone or they'll hang up on you if you want to talk about the immigration issue.
That's because you want to talk to us.
They're being inundated, that's why.
They don't have anything to tell you.
Exactly.
And the other thing is that Mike Pence was on the garrison program here in Indianapolis today and said according to what he has been able to discern is the fact that the illegal immigrants do not have to pay, do not have to go back to Mexico only if they apply for citizenship.
If they don't apply for citizenship, they can stay as long as they want.
Right.
And that's see, and that's what I was telling you on Friday.
This whole talk discussion of citizenship is a ruse.
Once this law, if it were to be signed into law, is signed into law, they are legal.
Exactly.
The word here is legal.
Citizenship is being used to distract people.
But you're right.
They don't have to go home if they don't want citizenship.
And there's no assimilation required to be a part of the American public.
So you're exactly right about that.
No assimilation is not the point.
Uh Frank Carlsbad, California should be, but it isn't.
Carlsbad, California, you're next, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
I'd like to make a couple of points on immigration bill.
Um number one, uh, there's no talk about economic cycles.
Uh this country does have recessions from time to time.
In this bill, there's no provision to uh cut back on guest workers.
We only have recessions during Republican administrations, and there's not going to be another one of those.
Right.
Uh in our lifetimes.
But that has to be considered another thing.
Uh there's an assumption that Latino Americans back amnesty, and the negative impact of illegal immigration falls directly on the Latino community.
I think a good many, maybe even the majority of Latinos, uh probably would be opposed to amnesty as long as the immigration laws were enforced equally for all groups.
And uh why?
Because you think they they they want to avoid being stigmatized with the uh the illegal you're talking about the the ones that apply for citizenship here legally?
Well, competition for jobs, uh how high housing costs are.
Well, but they no, no, no, no, no.
See, the the Latinos here illegally, they're not doing jobs or legally.
They're not doing jobs American people won't do.
No, but legal Latinos are probably opposed to uh amnesty.
Finally, I'd like to comment on the Z Visa plan.
Uh according to the Z Visa, there's really nothing that would prevent companies from laying off their American workforce and hiring uh Z visa holders uh like the coal miners in in Kentucky.
They could all be laid off and and the the new uh guest workers could be employed in the coal mines.
Uh you know, what what would Senator McConnell think about that?
I mean, he has to consider his own workers.
Uh and finally, uh, one more point.
Illegal or amnesty labor is not really cheap when you consider the the ancillary cost.
The health care education, it's really expensive.
that's paid for by us.
Exactly.
It comes out of our cheap.
That's why this is a redistribution of wealth programs.
Two and a half trillion dollars is the long-term cost.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
All right.
Well, I um I don't I don't know if John Sweeney Neboys would sit by and let the uh coal miners just be uh, you know, sent back to the log cabin uh and replaced by the uh illegals.
And it, you know, we're gonna reach a point where the illegal is going to refuse to do certain work, too.
You know, you talk about cycles.
And wait till that happens.
Wait till we get protests and the illegals demanding better jobs.
So then the Democrats, okay, well, we got they're refusing to work, and we need cheap labor, so let the release the felons from jail and hire them.
And uh we'll deal with the uh illegals uh uh later on.
Tom and Rapid City, South Dakota, you are up next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Ah, hello, Rush.
You're a true patriot.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
I was just gonna mention that uh Kennedy and Bush are throwing a complete sham over on the American people with this immigration bill.
There's uh I mean bringing La Raz into the meetings.
It's uh just like back in 86.
Um the Border Patrol said the influx of immigrants was tenfold when the word amnesty was brought up.
Now again, the word amnesty is brought up.
Um this bill's not going to be passed, and they know it.
And um nothing's gonna be done with the border.
And same old, same old something's going to happen.
I guarantee something something's gonna happen somewhere down the line.
Not not maybe this bill may not may not pass, but something something is going th this is this is a situation that uh uh uh actually the status quo is better than the bill that is being offered today.
But at some point this is gonna have to be fixed.
And the area that's gonna have to be fixed is border security.
Uh and to stop this influx coming in.
That's gonna have but you've got you got all kinds of political pressure uh even against that.
So I don't know.
But don't look at don't don't don't cave on this and don't give up on it.
Uh this is this is what life is about here.
These are the there are there there are powerful forces on both sides of this uh trying to accomplish things, and the and the people on the left are trying to destroy the traditions, institutions, as many of them as they can that made the country great, and and they want to rebuild the country in their um in their own image.
And since we have freedom, political free, they're free to try.
Uh, but they don't get a free pass.
We oppose them.
We're trying to educate as many people as possible to understand exactly what they're doing.
Uh and and they are used to getting away without that kind of scrutiny because they have their little monopoly with their buddies in a drive-by media.
They don't have that now.
And it's uh part of the reason they're so they're rage, hatred, and all this.
That's uh it look at it.
All this stuff is out there.
It's clearly visible.
I don't mind pointing it out each and every day, but it's it's so obvious what's happening.
It's like it's like the uh the global warming bill, uh the global warming issue.
It was never a problem when we have a Democrat in the White House.
Do you realize it's never a problem?
Never a crisis.
Yeah, you had the activists and the scientists out there wailing and moaning about it, but you didn't have this degree of urgency, fatalism.
The earth is gonna end the polar bears are dying.
This is these are this is such typical liberal tactical behavior.
And Democrat Party, it's a campaign issue.
It's uh, I guess uh Clinton and Gore win the White House for all these years.
We had all these years to start doing something about carbon footprint.
Clinton Gore didn't talk about reducing carbon emissions.
They weren't talking about all the dangerous destructive hurricanes.
Whenever we had these weather irregularities, we didn't have governments and governors and so forth going bonkers over, oh, we're not doing enough, we've got to do we don't none of the world was not mobilized on this.
The little well, some of the world, well, the European Socialist Community was, they had their little meetings down at Rio and so forth.
But the Clinton administration didn't do diddly squat.
So the you know, global warming is a Republican policy.
This is the the thing that gets conveyed Uh, is that somehow Republicans are responsible for this Republican behavior, the Bush administration is not taking it seriously, Bush administration won't fix it, blah, blah, blah.
It's nothing but pure political issue.
There's no genuine science here.
Our climate is too complex for any modeling to get any kind of a handle on it.
The vanity that we have to think that the way we live our lives by trying to improve our lives, improve our standard of living is destroying the planet is absolute bunk.
We'll be right back.
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All right, here we go.
I've been talking about this for most of the day.
Michelle Obama's sacrifice, a big long piece at Salon.com.
It had to be.
It's by Deborah Dickerson, who is in a feminist fury over uh Michelle Obama giving up her job at the hospital there in Chicago to go work for her husband's campaign where she's going to be nothing more than a glorified hostess.
Here's how the piece begins.
You knew it had to happen.
Damn it all, Michelle Obama has quit her $215,000 a year dream job and demoted herself to Queen.
Though the party line is that she's only scaled back to a 20% workload, I doubt her former co-workers will bother alerting her to many staff meetings.
She's traded in her solid gold resume, her high octane talent, and her role as vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago hospitals to be a professional wife and hostess.
And that just is death that just that's that's distasteful.
It's a true feminist.
Now the energy and drive at Hatter up jogging before dawn in a gratifying day of work and family will mainly be spent smiling for the cameras.
Just as we watch curvy, healthy-looking singers and actresses like Lindsay Lohan became anorexic, two blonde hoochies before our very eyes, so now we're in danger of having to watch the political version of that process.
Michelle Obama destined to be the Lindsay Lohan of American politics.
At any day now, Michelle Obama's handlers will have her glued into one of those Sunday go-to-meeting Baptist grandma crown hats while smiling vapidly for hours at a time.
When of course she's not staring moonstruck a la Nancy Reagan at her moondoggy god husband who's not one bit smarter than she is.
All right, you got another liberal here taken out after after the magic Negro.
Do you hear this?
This guy's nothing more than a doormat.
She she that's truly bitter.
These are angry women.
I'm telling you, these militant feminazes are angry.
At her moondoggy god husband who's not one bit smarter than she is.
My heart breaks for her.
Just thinking about it.
Being president will be hard.
So will being first lady for the brilliant Michelle.
Imagine having to be in all your sentences with my husband and I. And you people wonder.
I guarantee you that I don't know how old this babe is, but she comes from the schooling of the modern era of feminization, which started in the late 60s, the early 70s.
I am in a feminist fury about Michelle.
I'm going to use her first name, she writes, to avoid confusion with her husband.
I'm in a feminist fury about Michelle feeling forced to quit, but make no mistake, I'm not blaming her.
Few could stand up to the pressure she's facing, especially from blacks, to sacrifice herself on the altar of her husband's ambition.
He could be the first black president, you know.
Also, she must be beside herself trying to hold things together for her daughters.
I'm blaming the world and every man, woman, and child, and border collie in it who helps send the message that women's lives must be subordinate to everyone else's.
Uh well.
Ms. Dickerson, I'm sure it's Ms. Ms. Dickerson, Deborah Dickerson.
Uh it is of the case in Michelle Obama's circumstance, but some women need a man to move ahead.
Some women, if you remove their last name, nobody would care who they are.
If if you if you if you take away certain woman women's last names, uh married names, nobody would care who they are.
And by the way, Hillary gets a big break later on in this story.
Hillary doesn't come in for the same treatment, the skewering that Michelle Obama is getting here.
While I'm not blaming Michelle, I am issuing a challenge.
This political and professional suite won't end until women refuse to step into the fire, disapproval be damned.
Senator Clinton can't do everything.
The rest of the of us women must stand our ground.
Mrs. Clinton can't do everything.
Mrs. Clinton's a pioneer taking the arrows.
I've a I th what has Mrs. Clinton done is asked and answered on this show countless times.
So here, we move on.
What can Michelle Obama do?
If Obama wins, she should go for it.
Take on a meaningful public policy role, all of Hillary Clinton's health care work just a lot more carefully.
Why on earth should such an accomplished woman just arrange white tie dinners?
Until then, she should become more outspoken, building on her husband's willingness to confront dysfunction in the black community.
A black mother can get away with uh what no one else could.
I don't I don't I don't know who this Deborah Dick Dickerson is.
Well what is this how about this?
A black mother can get away with what no one else could.
What in the world does that I don't even want to touch it?
What in the world could that possibly mean?
Oh, let's see.
Where did I lost my place here?
Ah, I just found my place.
Obama has chastised blacks for apathy for crime for equating achievement with acting white.
He's chastised for all that for allowing their neighborhoods to deteriorate.
Michelle's street cred as a church going round the way sister who made you know what is round the way?
I mean, that's that's she put that in quotes, round the way.
But really, is it it means in the hood?
You know, when I was young round the way meant it was just a synonym for round heels.
And that can't be what this means.
That can't no no no no no throw that out.
Um street cred is a church going round the way sister who made uh who made good makes her ghetto pass irrevocable.
Ghetto pass is her ability to operate as an insider.
Uh there will be no discussion, for example, of Michelle Obama whether or not she's black or black enough.
Most important, though, I hope Michelle will bring feminism to black women, writes Deborah Dickerson.
But even as I seek silver linings, I'm still sad for Michelle, as the Times reports, she expresses no regret about scaling down her job, where colleagues say that she excels at tackling thorny problems.
But this winter, after spotting a book on the Obama's coffee table, celebrating Mr. Obama's Senate victory, her own staff created a matching volume of her accomplishments for the coffee table.
Mrs. Obama wept when she saw it.
Now, say let me tell let me tell you what's wrong with this.
Let me and let me let me define this for you.
Feminism looks at male-female relationships as a competition.
And Michelle is losing the competition.
And his feminist babe, Deborah Dickerson is all well, she wound up about it.
And so if Obama's gonna get a book on his sceneage victory, boy guys, the staff not gonna let her go unnoticed.
She's gonna get her book on her own achievements, but right there next to his on the coffee table.
So they set up competitions here between people who supposedly love each other.
Um all in the name of a political movement known as feminism.
Tom's River, New Jersey.
Robert, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Your next.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
Hey.
Mega on and two dittoes from Tom's River, New Jersey.
Well, it's great to have you with us, sir.
Sir, um, I had a uh a discussion with one of my liberal friends over a few adult beverages and some fine hand rolled aromatic first and second hand smoke type cigars.
And I think he dropped the ball on the carpet and fumbled one and actually slipped.
Yeah, be careful because every time a caller or listener thinks this happens, it doesn't turn out well for the caller or listener.
Be very, very careful.
It's I know it's tempting for callers and audience members to think they can do this better than I do.
No, no, I would never say that, Rush.
You are the essentially are.
You uh you were saying well, well, what what why did I drop the ball on the carpet?
Okay.
The whole illegal immigration thing is very i it it breaks down to one simple fact.
Illegals can't really join unions.
They pretty much have to have some some form of visa or citizenship to join unions.
Once they join unions, they can then scream and whine about a fair living wage, which in turn drives up union membership and wages, which helps get Democrats elected and enriches those fat cat Democrats.
It's a fumble.
It's a what?
It's a fumble.
I'm doing your Howard Coastella.
Oh, it's a fumble.
It's a fumble.
That was not, it's that that's Keith Jackson that did that.
That's right.
By the way, the woe-nelly guy.
You think this is just a trick disguise to boost up uh union membership?
I think it can't hurt.
I mean, you've got you've got what?
What'd they say?
400,000 um illegal aliens crossing the border?
If you're looking at a potential increase in membership of 400 large, little sopranos talk there, would you be into that too?
Well, I don't I uh yeah, but but I'm not sure.
You sure you have to be a citizen to be a member of union or just legal.
I think you have to be a citizen, but you at least have to have a green card or some form of the city.
You gotta be in a country legally.
Sure, absolutely.
Which is gonna Well, the uh union guys are out there saying they're not for this.
They don't think it's gonna drive wages down and so forth.
I suspect that there may be an element of what your fear is true.
But I have already stated this on previous broadcasts, and so I I really cannot agree with you that I dropped the ball.
No, I never said you dropped the ball.
I was saying my liberal friends dropped the ball by letting the cat out of the bag.
Roll the transcript back.
He didn't say me.
He didn't say oh, I take it back.
Uh my it's my hearing fault problem, it's not my fault.
No rush, I always got your back, buddy.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
You're very nice that I had a fun time talking to you.
We gotta take a quick time out here, folks, and be back and wrap it up.
Well, not wrap it up, but it's getting close to that time anyway, after this.
I don't know if the illegals are gonna join the unions, but I gotta tell you who is.
LA gang members are unionizing.
This from the uh Los Angeles Times and gangbangers out there finding a home in unions, as the unions are out there seeking new members shortly after his release in prison four years ago.
Julio Silva entered the apprenticeship program at the Iron Workers Union, local 433 in La Palma.
To his alarm, he learned that iron workers called all first-year apprentices punk.
He had been an East LA gang member, a drug user, and a car burglar in and out of jail in that world of punk was somebody's prison sex slave.
And so these union guys are calling him punk because he's a first-year union member.
But Silva, Julio Silva from the hood tried not to let it bother him.
The more he worked at his new job, the more his skills improved.
Iron work became the one legal thing he had done well.
It also paid $29 an hour plus.
Do you see where this is going?
Where do you think it's going, Mr. Snurley?
You tell me, where is this headed?
Where is this story from the LA Times headed?
The unions are rehabilitating gang members.
Only only the unions can help gangbangers.
Well, I the unions were in trouble because we're losing uh union membership, but we may have found a worthwhile social and and redemption organization to save LA from the gangs, and that's unions.
This guy Silva learned more in the union than ever in prison or ever in the gang.
Can he learn not to let this punk insult bother him?
And now, the more he worked, the more his skills improved.
Iron work became the one legal thing he had done well.
Wait till he learns how to make guns.
It also paid twenty-nine dollars.
I'm joking.
Don't gun don't I don't want to hear from gun experts.
That's not what the iron workers do.
I know.
I just I couldn't resist.
After uh Silva Sil Silva's first year on the job, the iron workers simply called him uh Julio.
They dropped the punk.
I never thought my history would allow me to have something more than seven dollars an hour, said Julio Silva, who's 37.
I I don't see this happening nowhere else but in the union.
It's given me the best opportunity of my life.
Sylvie, uh Silva is among a large and growing number of Southern California gangbangers who have joined building trade unions over the last decade as construction work has boomed.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's this?
I thought it was illegal immigrants that were joining construction trade.
Now it's gangbangers.
These good paying jobs are once reserved for those with family connections, as fathers recruited sons, but today beset by uh non-union competition and an aging membership unions have stepped up recruitment in minority enclaves where many young men have criminal pasts.
Now homeboy recruits homeboy.
Uh no one exactly knows how many gang members are in the building trades because the unions have stopped asking about recruits backgrounds.
Some unions uh even will allow a man to remain a member while in prison.
Well that's not unprecedented.
I like living, so I'm not going to make any further comments about union guys in prison.
Uh CJ in Portland, Oregon.
Welcome to the uh EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Yeah, thank you, sir.
Thanks for taking the time, Mr. Wimba.
And let me thank you uh for myself and my constituents on your dedication to us.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Saving America.
And uh I'll make this quick, sir.
I know you're uh probably have a lot uh a lot of things to say, but sir, I just wanted to mention that uh a while back I was working on a project down in Mexico City, and it was pretty hectic atmosphere we were in.
We were working on a movie, and you know, we were spending a lot of time out in the jungle, and when you're done in those kind of environments, you know, we didn't really know that many people, and trying to keep your passport and any of your valuables safe was a real chore, because you know you're staying in the in the jungle and you try and keep everything on you all the time, but it's not uh that wasn't always right.
Yeah, but that would be rainforest, by the way, a new term now for jungle.
Right.
And oh, one more thing real quick.
Uh not to get off the subject, sir, but you're always talking about the rainforest.
Yes.
Well, in my limited knowledge of physics and chemistry and science, if if uh wasn't there a while back, didn't we have the issue of uh uh having a huge rift or a hole torn into our atmosphere?
If that was the case and the heat rises, then then then uh and if heat rises, then wouldn't we we'd be actually losing heat out of that rift or that that hole at the end of the day?
Well that's a good point.
That's a good heat heat does rise, but it then sucks in the colder air off the oceans, and that's when you get thunderstorms and all that.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw that little thing there.
But anyway, sir, I was uh anyway, uh during sorry to get off on that tangent, but I uh during one period of time I work on this project, sir.
I got separated from my passport.
Well Well, why, whoa, whoa, separated?
You mean somebody stole it?
Yes.
Okay.
And well, I thought I tr I thought that maybe you know, because it was it was an uh an environment where we were trying to watch out for each other, and I was hoping that maybe somebody that I had known had picked it up.
Uh uh, because sometimes I was I'm not gonna I was sometimes I was in front of camera, so I couldn't I couldn't keep it in my possession.
So I are an actor?
Uh I don't know if I'd say that, sir.
Let's say I'm an aspiring actor that's been able to do so.
I have done some stunt work and um So you're a waiter then.
Uh well let's say uh let's say I'm an up and coming actor.
Uh okay, got yeah, I I I had let's just say I have uh I've had I've had the the rare opportunity to have uh been beaten up by people like C Thomas Howland uh and uh Roddy Roddy Piper in a few movies.
Uh so anyway, whole hey, you know, work work is work.
Now I I got a minute here, and I want to find out what happened to you when you lost your passport, you got it stolen.
Well, I got uh let's put it this way.
I had a uh I unfortunately uh I did get checked from my passport during that time period.
I got I'm a pretty good sized guy.
Uh I uh got beat pretty good by a bunch of guys who were packing AK 47s, make a long story short.
I got a pretty good whip in laid to me.
Uh I got thrown in a clink, and I had to literally sit there and bribe my way to get out of jail.
Just because you didn't have a passport.
Yes.
Well, you know what the moral of the story is that we've we've we've run through this.
You go down to Mexico, you try to move down there and live as uh as a non-citizen illegal you can't vote, you can't write letters to the editor, you can't join protests, you can't do you can't work.
Uh yeah, it's it's a it's it's a totally different two-way street.
I'm glad you c Jay, thanks uh thanks much for the call.
I've I uh I I have a ballpark idea of the movies that you have been in since you've told me some of the people that you've beat up or have been beaten up uh uh uh beaten up you.
Uh in the movie.
Great to have you on the program.
Uh final time out here, folks, will be back in just a sec.
Okay, folks, I have to go.
I gotta go do a morning update of video podcast, gonna review a couple movies.
We don't do that much, but a couple movies that uh you need to know about that'll be the morning update for the morning.
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