You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak four. Good
morning, Hey, it's most of your your cool ass down beat here today,
any Batles, Mike's froid JJ's here. We mentioned Kevin's coming back from
Italy. Today, we got correspondence from this psycho somewhere over the Atlantic,
and I think he's approaching the deepest point of the Atlantic. He is listening.
This nut not only is just reaching out to us because he knows we're
awake. He somehow has it been able to find himself smart enough to stream
our show on a plane. Show's easy to stream though, thanks the iHeart
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Should download the iHeartRadio app. Just look up ninety seven the free You can
listen anywhere, including right over the deadliest portion of the Atlantic Ocean, which
Kevin is approaching. He is listening, he said, I feel worse about
my chances at safety after hearing the Jardians Lady, because we did have a
cameo from the Jardians Lady singing a song about Kevin successfully traversing the Atlantic Ocean,
or hoping to do so. He said, Rise's been a little bumpy.
Danny reassures him with it's just turbulence. You're fine, but it was
interesting. If you're on the plane, you're not privy to the information that
we have. Because I'm actually looking at a flight tracker and there are a
lot of red words on this talking about American Online flight two thirty nine.
There's a lot of information about things. I look, Kevin's listening, so
I don't want to. I shouldn't read this. He shouldn't know this.
Look, we can't. We can't deny our our audience of top tier content
just because one man might find take objection to yeah, exact, So let's
not. Let's let's do the right thing here and sure share your info with
with the larger group. The truth is, he's on the plane, he
shouldn't know. You know how many engines are down to right. We know
that because we have flight trackers where we can tell the sort of thing,
but they probably prevent that info get and released, and that certainly Captain's not
gonna come out and say it. Look it does say here at the bottom.
Passengers are probably gonna be fine. Okay. So that's all, Kevin,
That's all you need to know kevio Let sweet Roxy sleep. It seems
like also in his flight path if you if you look, not only is
he one of the deepest parts of the ocean, I mean he approaching.
He's not over the deepest yet, he's in front of him also near one
of the coldest parts. Because when you're flying between two countries that are green
on the map and the one directly above you is white. Yea, I'm
assuming that's he's coming up on some white nation, a white nation that is
covered in frozen water otherwise known as ice, and the water around that,
that ice, that giant ice island is probably incredibly cold. Yeah, yeah,
that would be tough. He's a survivor though, even know, if
things go south, he's going to be like one of them polar bears clinging
to a you know, the block of ice. The hell this guy get
on there? But he's on there, and that's the most important thing.
You're still alive right now. If Roxy wakes up, you may want to
just say whatever you gotta say, though, anything you want to say,
just in case you're not like, not like an official goodbye, no,
no, I agree, but maybe exactly do what we all should be doing.
To the people that we're closest to every day exact but especially now.
There's a very wise person who once said to a enjoy your every minute while
you have it. And according to flight Aware, we might not have all
that many minutes left. They changed things out as quick on this world.
So enjoy your every minute while you have it. If you have a window
seat, don't look out toward whatever wing you're next to him. I'd say
that to him, because there's gonna be a lot of darkness and silence and
smoke and maybe smoke. That's why they put four engines on that thing,
big dog. I don't need them all, No, just need one in
the According to this it's blinking, but you have one. You're good,
aren't you? Glad you tuned in? keV? Oh, good morning,
Kevin. That's probably the most important thing in the world. Let's stood up.
Look, I ain't lie the most more than the world's maths are tied
one to one. The boys are coming home, unlike keV. The MAVs
are still in this series. Unlike yeah, yeah, we'll get to We'll
get to MAVs in about twenty minutes Sports at seven. But for now,
I have for the most important thing in the world, a law change,
if you want to put it as such. And this affects us, you
know, so obviously this gets text around real quick. But there's a great
chance this affects you someone you or someone you live with or friends. I
mean, it affects a lot of people. Thirty million people deal with these.
I think it's one in five Americans are either under one right now or
have have been in their employment lives. And yeah, something big happened over
I guess yesterday, Yeah, yesterday. So the FTC, the Federal Trade
Commission, essentially banned non compete agreements non competes do I mean, there's different
ways a look at this, you know, and depending on where you get
your news, it will be you know, pumped, absolutely pumped your direction
in whatever way most benefits that people are providing your news, I suppose.
But to my best understanding of this, and these were created basically to protect
company information, data strategies, secrets, things of that nature. And in
that regard, I think those there's certain there's certain smaller elements of the non
comp that I think are important, especially maybe in the tech world or finance
world, any world where you work you you deal with maybe proprietary data.
So if you left that company, you immediately don't just steal their ideas or
share strategies or secrets with a competing company a non compete what they've evolved into.
Unfortunately, and again this is my experience in my opinion, and you
will get varying takes on this out this this whole thing, depending on who
you ask, what it's done is is kind of been a tool to hamstring
workers to where it's not so much anymore about protecting secrets. And I'm talking
about the people that are making tons and tons of money. It now affects
people that are making minimal way. These things are in place for fast food
workers so that if you leave a Burger King and you don't like working at
Burger King anymore, there's people that are working under noncompete contracts that if they
left that Burger King, if they wanted to go work at Windy's and it
was within a five mile radius, yeah they can't. They can't, And
it's not so they don't. They don't steal from Burger King. The mystic
art of the flame broil, you know, Yeah, but that's you're exactly
right in the world where like high end economic jobs, tech, even banking
or whatever, it makes sense. But then smaller, lower paying regular jobs
kind of started sneaking these in as like boilerplate language. It's the tooth.
Whatever they sign on for, like you said, retail, hospitality, construction,
fast food, it don't belong. And the reason for this is is
it wields a certain amount of power over and that if they're in a situation
where they're not necessarily happy and they want to have a better outlook on life
and maybe work for someplace that's different, it kind of makes them think twice
because it's like, Okay, well if I leave, then I've got to
either wait. Depending on how long you're non competing, some of them are
up to eighteen months that I've been reading. Some people are not having to
not work in their field for eighteen months, and they're kind of being tethered
to these companies where there's really no competition for wages. There's no bidding wars.
It's like some say, you work for one company and another company goes,
man, I love what you do. We'll double your pay if you
come over here. You can't leave because if you do, then you're going
to have to sit for six months, a year, a year and a
half, maybe two years in some cases. So do you have enough money
in your bank to not work for a year? Yeah? Yeah, Or
here's what's happened. You remember you've heard this about our whole life. Well,
Frank had to take a job in another state, or we're moving because
of work. Well it's like, well, doesn't Frank work for a bank.
It's like, yeah, but he can't work at any banks in Dallas
because he left this one institution. So we're going to have to go to
another market. And costs are you know, involved in in a move.
And who wants to uproot your family and take your kids out of school just
because a noncompete prohibits you from doing your job, the thing that you were
trained to do and good at, in a city that you love being in.
And they're incredibly unfair in that regard, and they kind of hold their
employees hostage. Now, I in a way, it's almost kind of makes
a little bit of sense with the fast food or retail because these companies do
spend a ton of money. A lot of their expenses are in training,
so you're basically, you know, having to pay people to train them,
and you give them all of this knowledge and they work for two months and
then they leave, and then it's an inconvenience to bring in another person and
train that person for a month or two months or whatever to get them up
to speed on your protocols and your dynamic and all of that. And it
kind of it does make a little bit of sense. So you're not just,
you know, have this revolving door of people just training and leaving and
training and leaving. But hey, guess what pay your employees they what they
should earn, what their value is, and provide a workplace that is enjoyable
to be in. Then you don't have to worry about them leaving. And
that's the problem is because once they have you under a non compete, they
pretty much have you, Yeah, because they know your options are incredibly limited.
Anyway, it creates No, you're absolutely right, and I like a
measured response at it, and I agree with you. Yeah, but look,
the favor is more often than not tilted toward the bosses and the corporations
in this country. So yes, if one of the prices that they have
to pay is training and having trouble retaining, Yeah, that's not ideal,
but it does give more power to the worker and the little guy essentially is
what this does. And it will create a churning of employees. It will
give people opportunities and the you know, ability to seize opportunities when they're presented
to them, rather than just stay stagnated at the job and not take those
potential opportunities as they come, right, I mean not Cope's essentially trap workers
into their jobs and prevent them from using their skills to earn higher pay.
And that's what it should be. You know, you should be able to
move. Go just do something else. How about this one? Go start
your own business. Now I do here, I do hear that side of
Like, I work at Danny Bayless Industries, and you teach me everything you
know, and I learn how to make wacky parody songs that are funny,
and then I go and start you know, soroy music, and I just
have more money and more investment, and I crushed Danny Baylists Industries. I
mean that's sort of the picture painted for those who oppose this sort of thing.
But whatever, if you work here your place and you're like, look,
I know how this thing works, and I got a better way to
do it. I can do it cheaper and smarter and employ good people.
It's America, right. You should have the opportunity to do it, and
as per yesterday's announcement by the FTC, you now or soon at least,
will have the opportunity do them. I spoke with a friend of yours and
mine that is an attorney that works in this field and is pretty knowledgeable on
all things labor related, and he sent we were communicating yesterday about this,
and he said that the Federal Trade Commission is setting the effective date one hundred
and twenty days from now. Okay, this was after the vote passed,
but as a practical matter, it will be almost impossible to enforce non competes
after today. So I think what he's saying here is that if you are
working under a non compete and you want to violate it, leave your job,
go work somewhere else. If that other company is willing to take you
on and take that risk of a lawsuit, well, I think what he's
saying here is that number one, knowing that the writing is on the wall
and that this is going to go into effect, that what company is going
to spend more resources fighting something that is going to ultimately lose anyway. We've
seen been very close to a case with friends of ours involved that fought a
non compete before any of this ruling happened and one and one and by and
law. From what I understand is non competes are very hard to enforce anyway,
especially if you have a pretty good team that can go up against corporate
law and knows the ins and outs of this stuff. Because look, the
corporate lawyers, the bulk of their strategy is intimidation tactic anyway, and it's
this cease and desist or we're threatening legal action and you're going to be responsible
for all of the costs that we incur. It's kind of that. But
once you get into a courtroom and present your case, the judge and jury
or whoever is deciding on the outcome looks at these things for what they are,
and they're bs and there's a reason why they got voted out, and
there's a reason why they're going to be obsolete or completely gone in about what
six and four months. Yeah, and specifically I think in Texas, I
don't even know. I'll say it like I know the right to work thing.
Don't even know exactly what that means, but from what I understand in
Texas, they nearly impossible to uphold anyway prior to yesterday, sure, and
obviously prior to two months from now. When they are four months from now,
when it becomes official official, It's awesome, man, this is a
good day. Cal feel texting. One dude says, I won't to say
his name whatever, I'm an automatic door repair technician. We have five years
on our non compete, and another guy I didn't think say what he does,
but it is minus three years. So I wonder even when this is
just full steam ahead with the maximum amount, or maybe it's I don't know,
if five is just to scare you, maybe so you don't even think
about leaving, or three years, but those those essentially lock you into that
job, probably at whatever pay you're at, within reason. If you have
an annual increase in salary, fine, well yeah, because they know your
options are limited to there's. It takes away the competition, it takes away
your earning power. And I've sat in so many fing meetings when it's time
for a review or it's time for a raise, and you see, you
see what the company is generating revenue wise, and then you get the good
cop, bad cop, dog and pony show of yeah, we just had
a really rough quarter, and yeah, we're not gonna be able to give
you that that that two percent salary increase, which translates to I don't know
about fifteen dollars a paycheck, and you kind of just go all right,
because what are you gonna do? Yeah, no, nothing, You're locked.
And then you quit and then watch them line up ready to give you
the world estimate of the ban the ban of this not non competes again yesterday
announced from the FT the Federal Trade Commission could increase wages by three hundred billion
a year and it will impact nearly thirty million Americans, as you stated earlier.
Yeah, the thing is, man, that the way these things were
originated, to my best understanding is it feels like that it was the right
thing to do for company secrets, strategies, whatnot, but they used it
as a tool for evil. And you get rid of the non competes.
Look, just when you make a new higher then you have them sign NDAs
to say or put the language in the contract saying that if I go to
another company. Then I agree that I will not share information. I will
not share documents or secrets or whatever a plan, your plan, I won't
do that. But to keep people from opening their own businesses, to keep
people from from going for a more a higher paying job, to eliminate the
competition as far as salaries and payment and wages and all that. That's it's
not very American if you ask me. It's a win for work worker types,
no doubt, and it's an l for big corporate types. I mean,
it just kind of is. It's one of those things too, which
is good. If you're divided on a group of people that could be divided
on politics, I don't see unless you are the head of a big corporation,
if you're an everyday working man, like you know, all of us
and most of the people that are listening to us right now, I don't
see how. I don't see how you would butt heads on this issue.
Now. It's a pretty common thing that, yeah, we want to I
want more earning power. I want flexibility. I want to be able to
leave my job if I'm unhappy and be able to take another job in the
city that I live in. Yes, but I'll say this. My mom's
in town and staying with me, and I told her this, I'm like,
and this affects me, you know, affects us, and it does
affect radio and television and a lot more people than you would guess. Obviously,
you apply it to yourself. Everyone does. I told her, She's
like, that sounds great, you know. But then once it, you
know, hit her that this is under this administration. I would imagine by
the time she has a twenty four hour news cycle, she'll have a list
of reasons why this is not fair and shouldn't be the case, which sucks,
you know. But look, the truth is, I've not done a
lot of research. I read the headlines and I'm like, it feels like
a win for workers. It definitely is a win for us in this job,
because yes, no could be supply and radio where you would have to
wait many, many months depending on how long years is to go do what
you do without bringing, yeah, without bringing you know, a political bias
into it. I'd love to hear the other side. I'd love to hear
how this is a negative thing. And I've yet to read anything outside of
the mouthpieces for giant corporations that really say anything against this that makes any sense
to me. The two I heard were sort of what you said, which
was, you know, a company spends all this time training someone, teaching
them, and then now that someone can turn their back on the company instantly
and then work and possibly and you know, they frame it as take that
proprietary information to their competition or start their own business and screw the people who
invest the time and money. And then which I agree with, which is
one of the downshops and not necessarily fair, but a lot of unfair things
happen, and it's always in the direction of the big guy, very rarely
the little guy, So I support that. And the other one is that,
hey, when you sign a contract, you should live by you know,
that's what you should do, and then you probably will hear the Hey,
I had a noncompete, much like the student debt relief. Hey,
I agreed to that, and I paid off all my things, so no
one else should ever, you know, get that deal. Even though it's
almost all interest rates. It's not actually the debt that you are paying,
it a loan that you got, you know, it's all this interesting crease.
So whatever, I don't know, I just know it affects us.
This is good news for us. It affects a lot of jobs. Here's
one only maybe my Twitter algorithm which expose him A bunch of wrestling fans.
We're like, oh my god, how does this affect wrestling and everything's wrestling
as we know, Daddy, And it does. Now if you have someone
on ae W that you like and they quit and they can't come to WWE,
now once this is through, they can. It just affects a lot
of random things that you think of that that will I think, I think
make everything a little bit better, but it should drum up a lot of
money, a lot of employee churn, and a lot of opportunities for employees.
It could end up, you know, being drawn out in courts.
It could end it could land at the feet of the Supreme Court. I
don't know. Yeah, I've read a lot of different things. But I
saw the Commission of the FTC or the chairman chairwoman in this case and she's
like, look, just read the law. This falls squarely onto us.
We have the ability to make this decision, and we did. Okay,
so we'll see. But anyway, I guarantee that effects either who's ever listening
or someone one degree away from me, because thirty million Americans affected by the
decision by the FTC to get rid of non competes just yesterday. All Right,
it's Danny and Mikey, no Kevy. He's in the air. He's
bringing his hot buns to Italian buns, sticky buns back to us right now,
and he'll be on the show with us tomorrow. Time to jump into
it, man, because that was technically the most important thing in the world
world, but the most important thing in the world in our world. So
you're fighting Dallas Mavericks, who became the first Western Conference team to get a
road win in these playoffs yet, and it was a damn good one.
Let's talk a little MAVs hoops and see what else we can get into next.
On the ninety seven, The Freak