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Red Apple podcast Network.
Speaker 5: We are at the midway point in the week, my friends,
welcome to the Wednesday edition of both Earls Rush Hour.
Speaker 1: If you.
Speaker 5: Well have been hungry for news, this is the place
to get it. And some of that news, my friends today,
is somewhat amusing. Other aspects of the news are simply
tragic and tragic. I asked Carlos if he wouldn't mind
just checking to see what we had in the library.
For a musician, a songwriter and artist that I absolutely love.
I've interviewed him twice over the course of his career.
I interviewed him when he was at his twenty fifth
year in the music business, and I interviewed him again
last year. That artist being William Robinson Junior, Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 1: Who.
Speaker 5: Is in the news yesterday. There are other things in
the news, some of which make me laugh. Others like
there's a story, let me find it. Oh, the story
that made me laugh last night. I'm sorry, and I
shouldn't laugh. But the first thing I did, it was involuntary.
An involuntary laugh emitted when I read the headline last
night from the New York Times, Trump administration plans to
send migrants to Libya on military See, you're looking strange
because I guess you didn't hear this story. That's why
you have to come here, folks, if you all of it.
If you because I will tell you the stories that
you missed. If they just don't think worthy enough on
the MSM to spend a lot.
Speaker 1: Of time with.
Speaker 5: Human rights groups have called conditions in the country's network
of micro detention sensors horrific and deplorable. Yes, again, last night,
the news broke into Trump administration is planning to send
migrants to Libya on a military flight. The Trump administration
planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on
the US military plane, according to US officials, another sharp
escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal
challenges and intense political debate. The nationalities of the migrants
that are going to be sent over to Libya not clear,
but the deportees could be leaving as soon as today.
For all we know, they are already in the air
with a destination of Libya. The decision to send deportees
to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict,
and human rights groups have called conditions in its network
of migrant detention Census horrific and deplorable. The Libyan operation
falls in line with the Trump administration's effort to not
only deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally,
but to send a strong message to those in the
country illegally that they can be deported to countries where
they can face brutal conditions. Writers earlier reported the possibility
of the US deportation flight to Libya. The planning for
the flight to Libya has been tightly held and could
still could still be derailed by logistical legal or diplomatic obstacle,
and it goes on from there. So what do we
hear it so far? Rwanda, Libya. Of course, our beautiful
allies in El Salvador have agreed to help. I thought
there was an Asian country that was interested in coming
on board too. Another headline that brought smiles. Although, if
I'm going to be one honest and I am with you,
I don't agree with this move, but it doesn't matter.
It still brought smiles to my face. Voice of America
will carry One American News programming. The Voice of America
will carry programming from the right wing TV network One
American News. According to a post or an extrom Carry
Lake Lake, a senior advisor to the US Agency for
Global Media, the government body that oversees Voice of America,
announced that the Agency agreed to provide news feed services
to Voice of America as well as to the Office
of Cuba Broadcasting and Radio de Marte, which distributes news.
Speaker 1: Into communist Cuba.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Miss Lake says that her role as senior advisor doesn't
give her editorial control, but she can ensure that their
outlets have reliable and credible options as they work to
craft their reporting and news programs. Charles Herring, the president
of AN, confirmed to The Washington Post set the programming
they're sending up as free of charge to the Voice
of America. Lake's announcement was met without rage the Voice
of America staffers. Please Voice of America staffers, raise your
hands and all identify yourselves with your outrage.
Speaker 1: Please do that.
Speaker 5: VAY is not to be the voice of the Left
America nor the voice of Right America, said Steve Herman,
the chief national correspondent for VOA USA, and GM cannot
dictate that VOA run AO in content. There would be
a violation of our firewall and our charter, which are laws.
He is not the only one. There are a few others.
We'll see how this all plays out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's gonna go to court. Oh yeah, yeah, we have that.
Oh we're gonna get to a lot of sound bites.
In fact, my friends, I have a new story here.
This one didn't bring smiles. But just how deep this
problem is. Oh, you know another problem I want to
talk about today too, Newark. What's happening at Newark Airport?
Speaker 1: Newark?
Speaker 5: Now, supposedly there are no delays today. I've been seeing
this stuff about Newark Airport, Chucks U Schumer up all
upset about Newark Airport, and I've just been like, yah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
delays at Newark Airport. What else is new? And then
I saw the sound bites from our Transportation secretary who
actually knows what he's doing, Sean Duffy, and he's talking
we have those, so he was talking about that. And
then I looked into what has happened at Newark Airport
and I was astounded. It wasn't just another hole hummer
And this all goes back to what was Pete Boudajek
during his entire time in his Transportation secretary. But we'll
get and all that. No, no, no, The other I
was talking about was this operation that Pam Pam Bondi
and Cash Pattel both talked about ten and eleven. Now, folks,
this goes a few minutes, but this operation was kind
of deep. And this was the announcement today from US
Attorney General General Day Pam Bundy.
Speaker 6: Already today, we are proud to announce the results of
the FBI's Operation Restore Justice initiative. This historic, unprecedented nation
nationwide operation led to the arrest of two hundred and
five child sex predators. Unbelievable in just five days. This
was an incredible operation done in conjunction with the FBI
and our prosecutors. Two five children and their families now
have a chance to heel these are online predators. Think
about this. Five one hundred and fifteen victims, victims children
in five days we were able to help. This kind
of work takes a toll on the FBI agents and
the prosecutors who are doing this every single day. They
are working tirelessly online, dealing with the dregs of our society,
the worst of the worst, the people that hide behind
a computer and target our young children every single day.
Speaker 5: Now she goes on from there, we can we can
just two hundred and five arrests of child predators in
five days. They've rounded them up. Cash be told came
on after a Pambandi very quickly. This is what Cash
had to say, our children.
Speaker 7: If you harm our children, you will be given no sanctuary.
There is no place we will not come to hunt
you down. There is no place we will not look
for you, and there is no cage we will not
put you in. Should you do harm to our children.
The prioritization of this administration in general, Bondy has made
it abundantly clear to child predators you will be hunted
down and you will be prosecuted. And that is a
refreshing thing to hear for the men and women who
do this work tirelessly. And it's also an acknowledgement of
the safety that we look forward to bringing America two hundred.
Speaker 1: And five in five days. Hmm.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of pervs out here, three hundred
thousand missing children. H Robert Kennedy Junior last week talked
about this, said the government, Joe Biden's administration was complicit
in child trafficking, human trafficking children. Hmmm, I say, hmm.
H James Golden Surly nineteen seventy seven. The Eggles go
to number one on the United States of America Singles
charts with this when it was their fourth number one
hit here it won. They also won the nineteen seventy
seven Grammy Awards for Records of the Year with this.
Speaker 1: They won it the following year nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 5: But the Eagles, one of their most famous and they
have a lot of famous says this may be I
don't know this is definitely one of them. Hotel California,
James Golden, Surly. Whatever you do, keep it right here,
do not go away.
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The Rush Hour with James Golden, entertaining and informative on
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Speaker 2: They don't make the money off other countries like this,
and they were making We had a trade in balance,
we had a deficit, or they had a surplus another
way of saying it of more than a trillion dollars.
Think of it more than a trillion dollars. And because
of one hundred and forty five percent, that's the only reason.
But because of they have now one hundred and forty
five percent, there there's no trading. You can't trade with
one hundred and forty five percent. We are therefore making
in a certain way, I guess one point one trillion dollars.
In other words, we're not losing one point one trillion
dollars a deficit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what's hip. Donald Trump talking about China. By
the way, he's teasing a major or nonnouncement that supposed
they either happen tomorrow, Friday or on Monday before they
take before he's off on a new trip. Birthday today,
Heavenly birthday. American trumpet player, brass player Mick Gillette. Mike Jillette,
just an amazing, amazing player with Tower of Power pass
away of a heart attack in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 8: Mike Gillette, that's him.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Tower of Power. James Golder is thirdly. Okay,
we promised you. I promised you. I did, Yes, I did,
to talk about this thing at Newark Airport. So the
story I have two stories, one from NBC, the other
from Ceiling, and their stories abound. I just picked too
that I started reading. The Ceiling story begins this way.
Air traffic controllers in Philadelphia were guiding planes to Newark
Liberty International Airport in New Jersey last week when communications
suddenly crashed. Dead air that think of dead air.
Speaker 1: Approach?
Speaker 5: Are you there, one pilot asked the controller. The controller
stopped responding. United Airlines flight nineteen fifty one from New
Orleans to the Newark Hub tried to radio the controller
five times before finally getting a response. United nineteen fifty one.
How do you hear me? The controller asked. According to
air traffic control conversations recorded by the website liveatc dot net.
I got you loud and clear for at least seconds.
For at least ninety seconds a minute and a half,
controllers lost the ability to see planes on radar and
to communicate with the pilots. Nothing for ninety seconds in
one of the busiest air spaces in the world, Newegenston asked.
The April twenty eighth outage impacted information coming from radars
located at an FAA facility in Westbury, New York, where
air traffic controllers used to manage flights heading to Nowark.
Control over the airspace was transferred to Philadelphia in July.
The radars are now operated using a remote line. This
store is described as a long extension cord, which was
the result of a failure of copper wiring that trancemits
information to Noork. Similar outages have happened twice before, one
of the busiest airspaces in the country. Air traffic control
can't see, can't talk to any of the planes. Oh
there's more, and believe me, I'm going to get to it.
James Golding on the fastest hour in media, Don't Go.
Speaker 4: Away, The Rush Hour with James Golan on the Red
Apple podcast Network.
Speaker 1: The Rush Hour with.
Speaker 4: James Golden entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 5: The Daily Mail has the exclusives today. Smokey Robinson responds
to sexual assault allegations with blistering blistering three word response.
Iconic singer Smoking Robinson raged, I am I am appalled
when asked by The Daily Mail about claims that he
sexually abused multiple housekeepers. The Motown Legend eighty five then
began mumbling incoherently after being contacted by phone Wednesday morning.
He did not sound well, but Robinson became lucid again
a few seconds later, ending the call by saying, I
can't speak about this right now. Robinson was hit by
a civil lawsuit Wednesday containing a slew of lurid lurid
lurid claims against him and his wife. The wife supposedly
yelled at the housekeepers and did other things and left
him alone on purpose with them so he could. I'm
not gonna get into all the graphic nature of these allegations.
I love Smoki Robinson. I hope this is none of
this is true. I will just note for the record
that I am appalled is not the same thing as
saying I didn't do it. I'm not guilty. It says
I am appalled. I'm appalled. I am appalled. I am
appalled that this is in the news.
Speaker 1: I'm appalled they have accused me of this publicly. I'm appalled.
Speaker 5: My image has been ruined. And I'm eighty five years old.
I'm out on tour. He's by the way out on tour.
He was in New York fiftieth anniversary of the Quiet
Storm album. That's he's touring them ound that is a theme.
Speaker 1: But again, I am appalled.
Speaker 5: It isn't quite the same as.
Speaker 1: I'm not guilty.
Speaker 5: Not the same as I didn't do it, Not the
same as are you.
Speaker 1: Breaking kidding?
Speaker 5: Not the same as it never happened, Not the same
as they're making it up. I love you, Smoky. I
hope none of this is true. Why the fifty million?
Somebody better care about what they're saying. Fifty million, I mean, damn,
that's a lot of They say that. One of the
women said that she left evidence on her face multiple time.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to get into the I can't. It's
just it's smoky, I can't do it, all right, So
before the break. We just were talking about the Newark Airport, right, So,
air controllers lose contacts out of Philadelphia going into North
trafficking for a minute and a half, Scott Bessett, I mean,
I'm sorry the Sean Duffy said it was thirty seconds,
Transportation Secretary. But regardless, there were at least fifteen to
twenty planes actively that they lost touch with, apparently for
between a minute and a half. It affected the air
controllers so difficult. This is what it says in the story.
No crashes occurred, but at least five FAA employees took
forty five days of trauma leave afterwards. There's a thing
in their contract where they if they undergo traumatic experiences,
they can take off time, go see a shrink, go
get their heads back. Now that may sound odd to us,
but you think about it. These people, these people work
under incredible stress. We already know that. But then to
be out of contact with planes, everything goes dark for
a minute and a half. I'm telling you that has
got to be traumatizing for these people, unbelievably traumatizing. Forty
five days. You can quibble with it, but that's what
the union got. But it is a traumatizing event. Now again,
one of the reasons this happened is they're dealing with
the system. Let me put it to you like this.
If you have Comcast, or you have AT and T,
or you have some of the other streaming companies streaming companies,
and they have come to you with an offer and
wired your house with streaming and said, okay, why don't
you wire up get digital? And most of you in
this vast and never growing listening audience have a far
better connection to get your streaming media. Then apparently air
controllers do keeping track of America because incredibly dent air traffic.
They're using copper wires. You probably at home are probably
on fiber fiber optic cable, and you think about that,
the government is still using copper wire, which is technology
from not only the last century, the early part of
the last century. Here is Jake Tapper cut one and
then cut two. Please, Jake Tapper was an interviewing Transportation
Sean Duffy on these delays.
Speaker 9: This is an infrastructure problem, right, and we've known this
infrastructure problem has existed for a very long time. The
last administration knew it. No one has done anything so
for Newark. Specifically, we're going to rebuild the communications system
at Newark. I thought it was going to be eight months,
six months. We're pushing to do it faster. Hopefully this
summer we get that done. But the key is always safety, right.
I don't want people to fly. I'd rather have them
delayed or canceled. I'd rather have it takes six months
than two and a half months to build out the
communication system because I want people to get from point
A to point B safely. And again, if they have
to wait for a flight, I prefer that then something
else going wrong with their flight.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not saying that what's going on right now
is a problem created in the last one hundred and
six days.
Speaker 1: Obviously, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 5: But and Taper will say, Okay, we know you guys
didn't create this problem, which brings us to the second cut.
But I just want you to think about that, because
what they have done, folks, the reason that Nework got
so backed up. They cut the number of flights. Then
you have this loss of air traffic controllers. They say,
after twenty percent of them. After this incident, the union
says they didn't walk off the job.
Speaker 1: But also.
Speaker 5: The administration, it seems to be saying. A United Airline
CEO Scott Kirby says that the controllers FAA controllers walked
off the job. They didn't walk off the job. They
would traumatize. Their equipment failed and that's why they were off.
It was a union thing they needed. It was whatever.
Sean Duffy had more to say about this. Let's check
in an interesting pay attention.
Speaker 9: Everyone shocked that the systems so old and antiquated, but
it wasn't shocked Joe Biden. Sean wasn't shocking too. Pete
puta judge. They knew we had an old system. They
saw the GAO report saying it was about to fail.
And so the largest infrastructure package mark that ever known
to man in the history of the world, the infrastructure
bill under Joe Biden one point two trillion dollars. They
sent only five billion dollars to fix air traffic control,
and of the five billion dollars, Pete Footage judge spent
less than one billion dollars to fix this problem. Instead,
he was focused on racist roads and changing the name
of cockpit to flight deck or airman to aeronaut stupid stuff.
And so now as the Trump administration has come in.
It was shortly after dca IF Martha I started digging
into the FAA and realized it wasn't just one small
part of the infrastructure. It was the whole infrastructure that
had to be built brand new. And so I've developed
a plan. I've talked to the President. He's signed off
on the plan. We now have to go to Congress
and say, you know, listen to Congress, this is imperative.
This is really critical infrastructure. Let's get the money to
build this brand. It's going to take time. It's going
to take, you know, three or four years to build it.
Speaker 5: I had forgotten all of these changes that Pete Budda
Jay was. Yes, we're not allowed to use the term cockpit.
What could possibly Why do you think they changed that
term Carlos cockpit? Why was the term to flight deck?
No idea, None of us have any idea. What's so
bad about the term cockpit?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I was changed, and he focused on the rose
racist roads roads that were and he did all the
stuff that that Transportation Secretary Duffy said that that Pete
Boudja was focused on. He was focused on and apparently
not focused on the failing infrastructure. They had a warning
was going to fail on the air controller side of
life in the United States of America. It's pretty freaking disgusting. Okay,
let's quickly switch gears and deal with Scott Bessant. Scott Bessant,
we wouldn't we. I don't know whether we would get
to all these Let's start with number three. Stenny Hoyer
jumps in hearings, these hearings today, Scott bessen took it
like a champ.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10: Let me ask you a broader question. The President's been
talking about recession and procession, the acceptance of a recession
in the short term.
Speaker 1: You believe when in session? Now, do you believe recession? Uh?
Speaker 11: Congressman, I believe in data, and there is nothing in
the data that shows that we are in a recession.
As a matter of fact, the jobs report has surprised
to the upside.
Speaker 10: The job report, of course, less than the average for
the Biden administration last well four, enough for that.
Speaker 5: We got to just two. Girl interception, No, we're not
in a recession. All right, Let's jump to five and
get Representative Velasquez, who just insists I don't think this
woman really understands answers. She's from New York, New York
congress Woman, I don't she may not master anyway you'll.
Speaker 12: Hear it specifically, which countries are you close to striking
deals with?
Speaker 11: I'm sorry, Congresswoman, but that would not benefit the United States.
Speaker 12: No, no, no asking you a question based on the
statement that you may on CNBC.
Speaker 11: And I am telling you that it would be detrimental
to the interest of the United States for me to
answer that question.
Speaker 12: Why would that be detrimental because the negotiations may still
be in the process as we speak, as we are
not at the end of the week yet, I am
sure that you you, through your question, would not want
to compromise you as to go reclaiming my time. Secretary
Business then goes into a press conference and claims that
there are negotiations going on, and then the next day
there's no negotiations going on. So why would you want
not answer my question? And that would be considered detrimental
to the American people, to the American economy.
Speaker 11: I do not understand, Despy you claim happy to say
there are negotiations going on. I'm not going to reveal
the deta.
Speaker 5: Okay, enough of that, you get to just let's move on.
Auntie Maxi cut seven, Auntie Maxi.
Speaker 13: Missus Secretary, did all the individuals working with DOGE who
were given access to Treasuries and cfpv's computer databases receive
all of the required clearances and security training before they
were granted access?
Speaker 11: Again, they were granted read only access at Treasury.
Speaker 13: There were two So let me just say, you can't
fillibus to hear. This is not the fillibus to playground.
And so what you did was you let these strangers
into our tras with access to all of the data,
all of the personal information, and you just opened the door.
Speaker 3: Why'd you do that? No?
Speaker 11: Man, they were treasury employees employees.
Speaker 13: Are you saying today in front of this committee that
all of them were treasure employees? That the twenty five
year old who's being identified, who worked for Elon Musk
was not allowed was allowed into the treasure?
Speaker 1: Was that person there that.
Speaker 11: He was a treasury employee, as was Krause, the senior
person on the dose team.
Speaker 1: Difficult people.
Speaker 13: There were dogs employees also, do you know that were
you aware that there were dog employees coming into our
treasure getting all of them, O.
Speaker 11: Treasure man, there is no such thing as a doge employee.
There were treasury employees.
Speaker 13: I tend to disagree with you based on the information
I had has intermation.
Speaker 5: Any okay, that's he's the head of the treasury, he hopes. Okay, oh,
quickly fourteen because Velasque says, we're not working on anything.
They're non negotiations.
Speaker 2: Fourteen very quick as an example, as one of the
highest tariffs in the world.
Speaker 14: We're not going to put up with that. And they've
agreed already to drop it. They'll drop it to nothing.
They've already agreed. They would have never done that for
anybody else but me. So we're going to put down
some numbers and we're going.
Speaker 2: To say our country is open for business, and they're
going to come in and they're going to pay.
Speaker 5: All right, really quickly. Cut fifteen, then right to the
break cut fifteen. Tell us a bit more about the
deal that you've reached for the hoofies.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not a deal.
Speaker 2: They've said, please don't bomb us anymore, and we're not
going to attack your ships.
Speaker 1: And where did you hear about that?
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where I hear the.
Speaker 1: Very good source. I could very very good source. Would
you say, Marco?
Speaker 2: I would say pretty good, right, j D A very
good source.
Speaker 5: Mama's and Paplas started three weeks in number one with
this one back in nineteen sixty six on this day, Monday, Monday,
the group was reported saying they all this song except
for John Phillips who wrote it, but it went big
for him. James Golden slurbly coming Back, Don't You Go Away?
Speaker 4: The Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple
Podcast Network The Rush Hour with James Golden on the
Red Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 5: He was twenty sixteen. Following his unexpected death, Prince held
the top two spots on the Billboard Album charts. The
Very Best of Prince was at number one, and this
iconic album from Prince, Purple Rain was at number two.
Most of his music was not available on streaming services
at the time, so physical albums were the only way
in many cases to buy Prince's music. And it it's
so big, Okay, thank you so much. We've got so
much that we did not get to. So there's of
course tomorrow, God willing, we're here and we'll get to
some of that. There's been one that I have been
waiting to play. I'm looking at the clock to see
whether I have time to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: It's a guy in Hawaii from California talking about gas
prices being lower in Hawaii than in California. The reason
Democrat taxation. We'll get to that. GOP senators are fearful,
my friends, fearful, fear Marjorie Taylor Green could cost them
the Georgia Center race. MTG is talking about running for
Senator against John Ossoff. That's a vulnerable seat supposedly, but
Republicans are frightened to death that if she she has
a good chance to win the primary, but they think
she would get crushed in the general election, just like
herschel Walker.
Speaker 1: I wonder what you think about that.
Speaker 5: Also, Democrats have Andy Bishaw's making noises he wants to
run for president. You know him, the kind, compassionate governor
of Kentucky who suggested that maybe a member of JD.
Vance's family ought to be raped. Well, that's it for
the day. I told you it's the fastest hour in
American media. May God bless protect teach in every single
one of you. Your family's, your loved ones, loving gratitude
for your being here with me, my friends, and for
allowing me to be with you, God willing. We are
back tomorrow for the Thursday edition of bos Nerdlei's Russia.
I tell them, my friends, I bid you, I do Bye.
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