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Speaker 4: He is a radio host at seventy seven WABC here
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Speaker 5: The Rush Hour is on the air, Rush Rush Now
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Speaker 6: Yes, the tariffs are on the table for discussion today,
the tariffs that have affected and will be affecting the
auto industry. We will, of course speak about those things.
This phony scandal that they keep trying to blow up
and pump wind into over the signal app and the
text chat there that's still around lingering looking for a home.
Of course, it has a home on the mainstream media,
but it doesn't have a home with most Americans.
Speaker 1: I believe most people could like me, don't care.
Speaker 6: At some point, it's like, after what we have witnessed
through not just the Biden administration, but the Obama administration
before that, before that, the Clinton two terms, It's like, please,
this is not a scandal. Try as you might. There
is another story I'd like to speak about, though. It
came to me very right before the show began, and
in order to put this in the context that I
would like to put it in, I want to play
two pieces of audio that we've had hanging around here
from the last few days. The first is Congresswoman Lord
de Rosa on Donald Trump's executive order concerning the Department
of Education. And this was I think either Tuesday of
this week or Wednesday. Here's a representative DeRosa.
Speaker 7: Destroying public education in the United States. That's what this
executive order means. It's the dream of every family to
me make sure that their child has the best of
an education, to realize their dreams, their aspirations. It was
my parent's dream for me, and it's the dream of
every parent around the country. And what this administration is
doing is cutting off that American dream and saying, yes,
education is for millionaires, billionaires. Their kids will be well
taken care of. Elon musk kids will be taking care
of Donald Trump's kids and lend the mcmann's kids. But
the millions of kids in the United States that will
suffer because they have pulled public education. Ninety percent of
our children are in public education today. It is a shame,
it's a scandal to destroy public education in the.
Speaker 6: United Yes, yeah, that's what they're doing. Discroy, Okay, yeah,
if you buy into that now. Of course, what she
fails to mention in that is people the rich people
that she's naming like, they most of their kids attend
private school their parents can afford to send them there,
so they pay tax dollars for public schools while at
the same time paying out of their own pockets for
their children to attend the schools of their choice. That,
of course, never comes up in the conversation. Now, CNN
did their sympathy piece again, this was earlier in the
week on some of the layoffs that are occurring at
the Department of Education. And by the way, the Department
of Education handles the money, We're going to get to
that in a moment. They handle the money, They handle
student loans, which has been horribly mismanaged. They collect tax
dollars from you, the taxpayer, then they redistributed how they choose,
and you know, with all sorts of strings attached, et cetera,
et cetera they have. It is an agency that's been
staff with bureaucrats, not educators, but bureaucrats, and a lot
of the money that is spent, the overwhelming amount of
that budget did not go to educating any children and
went to propping up a bureaucracy. But here was CNN's
report on the Education the Department of Education bureaucrats that
were leaving their jobs.
Speaker 4: Employees for the Department of Education today were given just
thirty minutes to return to their office for one last
time and pack up all of their things. The employees
were given carts like these to wheel out their belongings.
We saw homeless employees also with suitcases and boxes, carrying
out their remaining belongings, and many of them streaming out
of this office behind me with tears coming down their face.
Now they were greeted with a small crowd of colleagues
former colleagues who wanted to show their support and this
heavy moment, and many employees we talked to express that
they're worry not only for themselves and their future, but
certainly for the nation's students.
Speaker 8: I feel devastated, you know. I've been working at the
department for thirty five years to come March the twenty
six and I feel that I had to. I was
pushed out to retire, and it feels devastating to me,
you know, you know, coming here and packing up my bags,
you know, and not knowing when I'm gonna get a
next paycheck. You know, it's you know, it's devastating.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you know it is you know, like
packing up my bags like and you know, like, yeah,
I've been working like you know, in education, you know,
like for thirty five you know years, like you know,
like I've been like like educating like you know for
thirty five you know years, and all of a sudden,
you know, it's like you know, I come into work
like you know, and then you know, like my job
you know, is like gone, you know, and so you know,
I don't know how much educate people, you know, without
a job, you know, without without you know, having like
you know, I've been here like thirty five years, you know,
like I've been like you know, like I've been here,
you know, and not like I'm you know gone like
like like just like that, you know, like that it's
not fair, you know, you know, cause you know, kids
are not going to be like, you know, educated, like
you know, if I don't have a job, you know
what I'm saying. You know, you do know what I'm saying. Yeah,
you do, right, you could dig it right, Okay, So
I got this report from the wonderful, Gracious, lovely, beautiful
intellect shoewly Gifted Princess of Policy Princess Diana, And I've
read it. I said, this cannot I cannot believe what
I'm reading, But yes I can.
Speaker 1: And here's what I got.
Speaker 6: It was a social media post put out by the
US Department of Education, you know, like the one like
you know that you know, it was like supposed to
be you know, educating the kids, like you know, like
you know, American kids, like supposed to be you know,
people like being there like they're five years you know,
trying to like educate kids. You know what I'm saying, ED,
that is not erectile dysfunction in this context. Maybe another context,
ED is that means this Department of Education ED is
revoking waivers that allowed colleges and universities in California and
Oregon to divert federal Trio funds. Trio Trio funds, though
were meant for low income students, first generation college students,
and individuals with disabilities, they diverted that money to illegal
immigrants that program. Those waivers have now been revoked under
the Trump administration. So this is what your Department of
Education was doing with your money. I want you to
understand that we're talking California and Oregon, California. Yes, that
means Los Angeles, by the way, population of Los Angeles.
That would be a tenny. Oh yeah, population low income.
Who would those people.
Speaker 9: Be.
Speaker 6: Would they be some of the NEPO babies from Hollywood?
Perhaps not? I don't think so. They would be your
average you know, how do they like to say? Many
of them would perhaps include people of color, people of color, colored,
I mean people of color, colors, color people would be
color people. People of color would be many of them.
And the Department of Education under Joe Biden Kamala Harris
had allowed waivers to take funds away from low income
people of color, people.
Speaker 1: People of color, some of them, many of them.
Speaker 6: To take money away from people of color, low income individuals,
first generation college students, students who came from impoverished backgrounds,
never had anybody first one in many cases, first time
in the family that they get a chance to go
to college in America, Americans first time ever going to college.
They took those monies from them, from the people of color,
from the low income people, from the first generation college students,
and from individuals who had disabilities. Think about that, disabilities
that could mean anything from suffering from autistic from any
number of disabilities that are out there. They took the
money and gave it to illegal immigrants. And you want
to tell me, ladies and gentlemen that it is Donald
Trump Linda McMahon that are destroying education in this country
really by actually giving the states more control of the
money and by cutting down on the bureau aquacy and
putting that money in the classrooms.
Speaker 1: The rush hour is on the air.
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Speaker 6: Before I get to a terrorists, before I get to
any of this other stuff. It's from It's in Tennessee. Harry, welcome.
How are you welcome? Harry.
Speaker 1: I'm good, Bob.
Speaker 6: I saw your comment. You have to you have to
tell me this comment.
Speaker 10: The Democrats have gone from burning crosses to burning tesslas.
Speaker 1: That says it.
Speaker 6: All, Harry, Yes, sir, it says it all. Democrats have
gone from burning crosses to burning teslash.
Speaker 11: Harry.
Speaker 1: I'm so ad you listen. Thank you wanted to get
that in. Thank you very much so.
Speaker 6: Since we're on phone phones, Harry, thank you, says we're
on phones. Let's go to South Carolina and to speak
with Mike, Mike, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 11: How you doing well? I spoke to you briefly on Saturday.
I have to call another Saturday. I talk music. You know,
there's so much stuff going on in our country with
Elon and the riots and demonstrations, and Maxine Waters with
her rhetoric, and the other one Jacqueline whatever her name
is whatever.
Speaker 1: Everyone we talk about Jasmine jazz would be Jasmine. Okay.
Speaker 11: And you know what, people too out listen to some music.
It's good for the body, mind, spirit and soul. And
a shout out. He's probably awful. A shout out to
Rich I grew up not too far away from but
he was from.
Speaker 1: Keep doing it. Appreciate the call so much, Thank you
very much. Uh.
Speaker 6: Let us check in with Sean in Connecticut. How are you, Sean? Welcome?
Speaker 10: Okay, Hi bo, thank you for taking my call. I
wanted to talk to you about miss Rosa, the Laura
out of New Haven, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, okay, so have the purple hair fame?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, so she she was. She's a congress woman.
She lives in the city of New Haven. She's uh
lived in a nice mansion over by Yale campus.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 10: If you took a quarter mile drive over the hill
over into another area of the city where it was
mostly a black neighborhood, high in crime, poverty, mhmm. But nevertheless,
she had children, and her children did not attend public schools,
and and and her husband who is who is Jewish
her last name. You never hear her or him speak
out against the uh, you know, the stuff that's going
on with the anti Semitism and UH and the like. So,
I mean, she has a lot of nerve to say
what she does says. And my feeling is, as long
as she can keep inner cities children in poverty, is
that's their goal.
Speaker 1: As far as thank you, thank you, Sean, thank you.
Speaker 6: As long as they can keep dependent people dependent, they
can always cry to be the saviors of the people
that depend on them. So, while she's saying, who is
going to destroy education? Who has destroyed education in blue
city after blue city, in blue cities all over America?
Which party runs it? Which party has presided over the
failure of public schools for as many decades as we
can remember, It will be her party. James Golden Snurley,
when we get back, we have some other news that
broke today and my good friend Ed Shay is going
to join us. We'll explain all of that.
Speaker 7: Rush.
Speaker 5: It's the rush hours with those nerdla on the Red
Apple Podcast network Ed.
Speaker 6: Welcome, my friend, how are you, James.
Speaker 12: It's a bittersweet day. Thank you for inviting me. And
you know, as a member of Johnny's team, we knew
this day was coming. I mean we saw sort of
the decline in the memory over the past couple of years,
and the last engagement he did was up at the
Foxwoods Casino and of course when John sang it was
absolutely heavenly you know, goosebump time when he had to speak,
you know, you know, he got to the point where
he was introducing, for instance, his drummer of forty two years,
he would have to have a sheet of paper in
front of him. So again it's a sad thing, you know,
that memory loss as you get into your guy, your
eighties and your nineties, and John would have been nineties.
So fortunately I will be on the last two dates,
which are right here while Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and out in
Bergen Pack which I heard has already sold out at
the Bergen Pac Center. In Eglewood, and you know, us
musicians were rather jaded. We've seen it all. We've played
with everybody. I can't tell you. We would rehearse John
with the local orchestras for maybe two hours. Some orchestras
like Atlantic City Bang, we knocked it off in an hour,
and then John would work with just a rhythm section.
And I've never seen musicians hang around. Usually when that
final note is done, they're either hitting a restaurant or
just hanging out, or if you're in Atlantic City or
walking the boardwalk, they would stay to listen to John
just do his vocal warm ups with the rhythm section
and go through bits and pieces of you know, my
foolish Heart or Misty or once photographs with him. And
I told you before, James he was the most generous,
the kindest human being in the world. So it's going
to be a tough last show doing that, you know.
I mean I worked with him originally. I think it
was February or January of nineteen seventy at the Latin Casino,
and I would remind John, you know, this is when
we did two shows at night eight and eleven for
seven days, and I just watched him on a repeat
of You Know Me TV this past Sunday doing a
live tribute of Richard Rodgers years ago from the Hollywood
Ball with Davidson and the Lennon Sisters, and he sang
Johnny one note and he held on a one note
and it was like, God, I can't wait to see
John to ask him about that performance. But you know,
I tend not to do it because I don't think,
you know, he remembers everything. And listen, don't ask any
more of my glasses are right now, James, because I'll
be looking all over for five pairs of dollars toward glasses.
So but John is just it's been a great journey,
and of course I'm going to miss him, and I'm
going to miss the guys, and I'm going to miss
all the local musicians that I've met in you know,
Los Angeles and Las Vegas and Boston and DC. You know,
if they don't if we don't know each other's names,
there's always hugs. It's always that that camaraderie of making
great music and again after the job, just doing our
big social hang with the rhythm sections. So yeah, it's
we knew it was coming and it's still it still
leaves a little empty hole in your hall, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then let's celebrate for a moment.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 6: How many? How many icons in this industry? How many
people can say that they have spent seven decades of
their life, seven decades on the stage performing and still
have it and still have the have the voice, still
have the magic. Johnny Mathis has been performing since the
nineteen fifties.
Speaker 12: Yes, well, to answer your question, there's no one right now,
because of course we lost Frank Sinatra, and then Tony
Bennett went into his nineties and John was the last.
And I always felt bad that he never got those
Kennedy Center Awards. You know, I don't think John was
ever invited to that. And you're talking about the fifties.
I often think when I was having dinner with John
and the guys when they give us catering. I can
remember being on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey with
my mom and dad, and my dad had this little
Sear silver tone AM radio, you know, the worked on batteries,
and I would hear Johnny singing and Pat Boone and
here I am dining with this guy and then backing
him up. It yeah, no, that this is the end
of this era of the saloon singer, the night club singer.
This is it, James. But it's it's been just a
wonderful experience. And you know, you're so attuned to the
whole music industry that you would reach out to me,
you know. I mean, one day, you know, you could
be talking with Omar Hakem about doing a funk date,
and you know, then we can be talking about Johnny Mathis.
And of course john did two albums with Tom Bell,
Its Sigma down at Philly, Yes, Yes, Yes, and we
had that great hit with Denise Williams too Much, too Little,
too Late. And he was just a beautiful guy. You know.
He did a couple albums in Nashville. I mean he
he never let grass grow under his feet. He was
always looking a little something to do. And for years
we used to open with the Philly International medley Stone
Stone in Love and I forget the other tune, but
it was like, what a great opening, you know, I
felt like, well.
Speaker 6: I hope it would stopped looking Listen to your heart
because he did that on the Oncoming Home album and
it was a Tom Bell arrangement and it was awesome.
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, yes, and you know, hopefully on our last
two engagements we still do fetch you by golly Wow.
And for years he did you make me feel brand new,
and he always gave Tom a plug. He said, you know,
it's famous Philly producer Tom Bell. And I would whenever
I could get through to Tom, I would let him know, Hey, Tom,
your name was mentioned. Oh yes, mister o'shay.
Speaker 1: Yes, so it.
Speaker 12: You know, James, it's just been wonderful. And like I said,
it's going to be a tough final note on that
May eighteenth at the Bergen Pac you know, just packing
up the music for the last time.
Speaker 6: Maybe we'll be able to speak with you after the
show or before that show, and I want you to.
I want to thank you so much for spending some
time with us today and this and we will talk further.
Speaker 1: You know, I got nothing but love for your ed.
Speaker 12: James. Listen, I'm honored and keep up the great work
that you do. And God bless you, and thank you
so much for inviting me into your into your world
and letting my voice be heard around the world with
w ABC Radio. Thank you, James, thank.
Speaker 6: You, thank you so much. Appreciate you ed Shay, Ladies
and gentlemen. He's out working with Johnny Mathis, who again
today has announced his retirement the head show schedule for
the rest of the year, that they're not going to
do it. They're going to stop after the May show
and it ends at bergen Pack. Interestingly enough, that's that's
it for Johnny Mathis performing. That show already sold out,
so humph, Yeah, the great Johnny Mathis. All right, let's
get to some things I want to get to really quickly.
This signal business is still going on. We got to
hand it to Doug Collins. Doug Collins is absolutely prints
dealing with Caitlin Colin over at CNN.
Speaker 1: This is that exchange.
Speaker 13: Do you believe that a mistake was made here though,
to have this conversation, to add a reporter and to
have it on an unsupported, unclassified group setting.
Speaker 9: Kaylen, I've just told you, I've just answered the question.
I wasn't part of it, and you know, I'm not
going to speculate more than what the President's already talked
about and those have been involved and talked about.
Speaker 1: But would love to talk about the veterans.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and I do have questions about the veterans. But
given what we saw with the group chat and how
this was used. You are a member of the cabinet.
You obviously know these other members, several of them who
are in there. Is this typical for the cabinet to
have conversations over signal? Is this something that you use?
Speaker 9: Well? Kaylen As send you and Dally. Do I want
to talk about the VA I have a question as
via secretary is cabinet. I want to ask you because
I've been co curious about this because my job is
to take care of veterans and I would like to
know why CNN is hostile to veterans, especially one in
Florida where you just had a five million dollar defamation
suit taking a fence at a veteran who is trying
to help people. In fact, one of your employees actually
said we're going to nail him. I have a question
for you, Kaitlin, is that employees still employed? Are you
really concerned about veterans? So if we don't want to
talk about veterans now, you want to talk about everything else.
I'd like to hear from CNN as the Veteran Cabinet secretary,
why CNN seems to have a problem with veterans.
Speaker 13: Well, mister Secretary, respectully, my question was about whether or
not I was a member of the cabinet. We use
this and respectfully, I'm conducting the investigation and I do
have a lot of questions for you on veterans affairs,
but I don't think.
Speaker 1: What you want to do.
Speaker 9: What you want to do is cabinet answered. And if
you want to continue this like this, that's fine. But
they're VA inloyees who are working very hard. They are
veterans who get their care from the VA, and they
get their benefits from the VA. And it does mean
no good to spect it on something that I've already
asked an answer. So I've asked and answer your question.
Why don't you answer mine? Are you still this person
still employed who said they were going to nail one
of my veterans, who you had to do a five
hanid dollar reward majury because of defamation and then you
settled the case.
Speaker 1: Answer my question.
Speaker 13: Respectfully, sir.
Speaker 1: I'm okay. That's good.
Speaker 6: We got it now now. Caitly did not having a
good run. This cut eight jonas from the White House
to with with Caroline Levett Press Secretary.
Speaker 13: And the first bombs will definitely drop. Does the President
feel that he was misled by his national security advisors
whoever it was that told him there was no classified
information in there, Now that he's seen.
Speaker 14: These messages, I've now been asked to answer this question
three times by the both of you, and I've given
you my answer. The President feels the same today as
he did yesterday. Okay, phil And I'm sorry, am I follow.
Speaker 8: Up on what you would?
Speaker 1: Just go ahead, Philip.
Speaker 3: I mean when I'm not taking.
Speaker 13: Your follow up, I'm a follow on something you just said, though, Caroline,
that's Caitlin regard for taking your follow up, Philip, go ahead,
I have.
Speaker 6: Called you, don't follow up for you?
Speaker 1: Now cut six. This is on the signal business needs
no setup from me. Just here it is.
Speaker 14: We are not going to be lectured about national security
UH and American troops by Democrats in the mainstream media
who turned the other cheek when the Biden administration, because
of their incompetence, left thirteen service members dead in Afghanistan,
and not a single person in the previous administration was
held accountable for that botched withdrawal. Joe Biden said, in fact,
it was a great operation. That is despicable. It's unacceptable
to this president, in this Secretary of Defense, the National
Security Advisor has taken responsibility for this inadvertent number being
added to the messaging thread. But above all, we take
the lives of our troops, safety, security, prosperity around the
globe with the utmost series.
Speaker 1: Well, there you have it.
Speaker 5: This is the rush hour win those Nerdley on the
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Rabbit Phones.
Speaker 6: Let's start with Santra in New Jersey because you called
two days that I didn't get you in.
Speaker 15: How you doing, Sandra, Oh, I'm doing okay, James. I
had a nice day. It's really nice outside. You know, James,
I was thinking about Mark Stein. How is he feeling,
How is he doing? I know you went on cruisers
with him in the past, and is he ever going
to come back on the show? Why I miss you too?
Speaker 12: I do well.
Speaker 6: I don't know about that. You know, Mark is so
busy and he's got so many things going on. I
haven't caught up with him in a long time, but
from I see his post on social media, I know
he was doing stuff he had that unfortunate row with
that lawsuit that was going on in DC, which was
totally stacked against him, and he really to mean this
was a no brainer. But this is the same I
believe it's the same DC court circuit that is doing
what they're doing with President Trump.
Speaker 1: But I will make inquiries. Sendra and thank you for
the question. Love it.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Liz and Yonkers, New York. Your
next how are you hi?
Speaker 16: I'm wondering about the skuy Goldberg from the Atlantic.
Speaker 15: How did he get his phone.
Speaker 16: Number under a cabinet member's name on every phone of
every cabinet member. I think it's sdonage. I don't think
that the Trump administration typed it in on purpose. Somebody
who put the phone list together. The context now you know,
there's a lot.
Speaker 6: Of interest going around mister Walls in this case. In fact,
I saw another Paul Sperry had a post. Yeah, And
I don't know whether this is something that I want.
Speaker 1: To believe or not.
Speaker 6: But this entire Jeffrey Goldberg, I mean thing and Walson
believing They're gonna be a lot of questions answered about
this over the next few days. I don't have the
answer to those questions. And like you, there are things
that I want to know. Thank you so much, Swammy.
And is that right Swammy in Brooklyn?
Speaker 12: Hell?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 17: Hey, Hey, oh my god, I love your show man.
I listen to it all the time. I know you
were short on time. I just want to say I've
been here forty four years. I'm still on a green card,
and it's amazing. Why people want to destroy this country.
I don't get it. I would like you to explain
it to me. Why they hate Donald Trump so much.
I'll hang up and listen to you.
Speaker 1: I love you, brother, Thank you, love right back.
Speaker 6: Why people hate Donald Trump is I will tell you
why the Democrats hate Donald Trump because of what he's
doing right now. Everything that these people have done to
build up impenetrable power, he is pulling the rug out
from under