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Speaker 4: Attention dittoheads, Attention bow scouts.
Speaker 5: Goosed by the pseudonym most Nerdly.
Speaker 6: It's time for the soul of excellence.
Speaker 7: He is a radio host.
Speaker 6: Here in your The Rush Hour is on the air.
Rush Rush Now. Here's James Golden.
Speaker 8: Welcome my friends to lee Monday audition of both the
Rush Shower. Glad you're here and help you stick along
for the visit of this afternoon. For the full ride
as it were, telephone number eight hundred eight for eight
nine two two two. If you want to be part
of the program this afternoon, that telephone number again, eight
hundred eight four eight two. It's ROBERTA. Flack Day. ROBERTA Flack,
who won back to back Grammys for her Record of
the Years as New York Times passed away today aged
eighty eight, and they did a very long story on her.
We were just talking about ROBERTA. Flack last week and
we played some of her music and I said, you
know how much we love you, ROBERTA. Flack, And of
course had no idea. Do you know what today is?
Today is also the anniversary, speaking of ROBERTA. Flack of
when Killing Me Softly went number one on this day
in nineteen seventy three. So wow, and we will of
course be playing some of the music of the beloved
recording artists ROBERTA. Flack on today's program. There's a lot
of talk about jobs, federal jobs, Elon jobs, Trump jobs,
the old Steve jobs, company jobs over at Apple in
the news and of course the email. So where do
we start. Let's start with this one. Because Trump manufacturing
win Apple, which many of you have contributed to the
success of Apple. Apple is now the company. Apple is
now pledging to spend half a trillion dollars inside the
US five hundred billion dollars, hiring over twenty thousand people.
Apple announced plans this morning to invest more than five
hundred billion dollars in the US, hire twenty thousand people
over the next four years, with expansion and construction planned
from coast to coast. The new jobs will focus on research,
R and D, research and development, silicon engineering, software development AI.
They're going to greatly expand their chip and server manufacturing
capabilities here in the United States. You know, Tim Cook
has been speaking with Donald Trump on a regular basis,
somewhat regular basements. Apple CEO Tim Cook said an announcement,
We're bullish on the future of American innovation. We're proud
to build our longstanding US investments with this five one
hundred billion dollar commitment to our country's future, and this Trump.
Donald Trump met with Tim Cook last Thursday in the
Oval Office. Then Trump got so excited he revealed the
plans prematurely, saying on camera that Cook is investing hundreds
of billions of dollars. I hope he's announced it. I
hope I didn't announce it. But what the hell. All
I do is tell the truth. That's what he told me.
Now he has to do it right. So he did
it today. And Axios actually had the co founder of Axios,
who I've spoken with on occasion. He's a nice guy,
he's a great guy. Anyway, Axios did a piece on
it on why it's so important today and let's just
listen to uh to that. Uh yes, yes, yes, Mike Allen.
You can find Mike Allen cut eight of colors Mike Allen,
co founder of Axios, on why this this is a
big deal.
Speaker 9: Couple of announcement this morning which just pops six am Eastern.
All the details are up the Weed story on Axios.
This is a landmark story for a couple of reasons.
One the effort by the President to bring manufacturing back
to the US.
Speaker 10: This is a massive commitment to that.
Speaker 9: And as we say in our story, this gives Trump
the leverage to say to other companies, Apple can do this.
Apple is bringing these jobs into the US.
Speaker 10: Apple is investing in the US. Why can't you? Why
won't you? And the statement out.
Speaker 9: This morning from Apple CEO Tim Cook talking about being
bullish on the future of America, talking about writing an
extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation. So
that's one bucket. Two, there's an incredible footprint for this.
This is all across the United States, and it's part
of the big story that Acxios has been telling that
it's no longer just the coast where some of these
big investments are the swing states of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, Nevada, Red States, the massive investment that you
were talking about in Texas, a big innovation lab in Michigan,
So a footprint all across the country.
Speaker 10: And third, if you look at how the US is.
Speaker 9: Going to have a sustained recovery, it's going to be
about building things, making things, doing that more in the US.
Speaker 10: This is a big step toward that.
Speaker 8: Yes, and of course it is being credited with his rightly,
so with the relationship that he has developed with President Trump. Okay,
so over the weekend. You know this, folks, And you
also know that I do not gloat when people lose
their jobs, and I don't go into shadden freud open
shaden Freud moments when people lose their jobs, even if
said people or person has said negative things about your
host on the air, which in the case of one
of the people in the news a few years back,
four years ago, but Joy Reid has lost. This show
was read out and read out is out now at
PMS NBC. And that's not the only show this guy,
cape Hart New York Times, he was a did a
little show over there. They booted him as well. Today,
Lester Holt said that he's stepping down from their nightly
news anchor role. He sent a memo out. They gave
him the dignity of announcing his own departure, for which
is is that's the dignified way to do it. He
made the announcement that he was stepping away from his
role as the anchor he took over when Brian what's
his name got in trouble for all those things that
he said that weren't true. So you don't remember any
of that stuff. Yeah, we'll have to school you about
Brian O'Brien and the lies there.
Speaker 11: We can't today, it has to be Saturday. We have
a lot of other stuff to play.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we got a lot of this stuff to do,
so we'll do that later anyway. So also Aimon Moliadeen,
who show I never saw in Katie found whose show
I never saw, along with Jonathan K. Park who I
most of the time reading the New York Times. Boys,
he just he's another rabbit anti trumper. So they're all
out at PMS NBC. And then, of course, as I said,
Lester Holt, sixty five years old, announced it in a
memo sent to his staffers. He sat in after Brian
Williams got busted for a lot of how shall we say,
theake news reporting, and I like Brian. Brian Williams wasn't
a bad guy, by the way, but Lester Holt did
say he's going to be staying on for the Dateline
show and he's going to be expanding his footprint with that,
devoting his full time at NBC to that. Now. Joy Read,
obviously the reaction after she was let go has been
in certain quarters on social media joyous and in other
quarters of the media sad. But I must say, looking
at the platform X it is overwhelmingly joyous, no pun intended.
And joy Read was on another show, was one of
her girl I didn't catch the woman's name who showed
she was on a zoom show today and uh, this
is of what joy Read Uh had to.
Speaker 12: Say my show had value and that.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry that she was crying.
Speaker 12: Then what I was doing head value, head value, And
in the end, I'm sorry, I'm not I try not
to cry on TV, and I take this kind of
like me on TV. So I apologize and then and
then it kind of and then it mattered. I said
Karen is there and she's been texting me as well,
and so what I will just say is that in
the end, thank you.
Speaker 8: Gave her.
Speaker 12: Where I land is that the moment that I of guilt,
that I felt that I went hard on so many issues,
whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a
young baby or a mom or dad that was killed,
or when we opened up people's eyes to the fact
that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black
folks that or went hard for immigrants who've done nothing
but come to this country like my parents did and
try to make a life and defended them, or whether
we've talked about what the president is doing that is
subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty,
you know, defending books that people find inconvenient. You know
the Nicolehanna Jones put into our spirit that we need
to understand sixteen nineteen as the real founding of this country,
whether it's talking about any of these issues, and yes,
whether it's talking about Gaza and the fact that we
as the American people have a right to object, to
have a right to object to little babies being bombed.
And where I come down on that is I'm not sorry.
I am not sorry that I stood up for those
those things because those things are of God. And you
know I'm a church girl too, and those those are
the things that I was taught were of God. And
so I'm not sorry. I'm just proud of my show.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Uh So that was Joy Reid today, respondling
after her show was terminated by the folksover at PMS
and BC James goldand snurglely the beautiful ROBERTA. Flack. It
takes us in this, of course, the the duet that
set off a partnership of duets with Donnie Hathaway Revert
of Flight The Closer and Donnie Hathaway The Closer I
get to.
Speaker 6: Use over and over again.
Speaker 8: I'll try to jem myself in the week could never
be more than grids.
Speaker 13: And all the one.
Speaker 10: Side It was.
Speaker 13: Where you make Me.
Speaker 8: Written by him to me time Fly.
Speaker 6: This is the Rush Hour with James Golden, la.
Speaker 7: Clearly James Golden known popularly as Posnerly.
Speaker 6: This is the Rush Hour with James Golden.
Speaker 5: Is this a Luigi ha Yes, lou yes, yes, eat
Luigi MANGIONI eat.
Speaker 14: The CEO's because you push people too far. And when
you push people against the wall and they have nowhere
to go, they're going to push back. And right now
the one percent is taking advantage of the masses and
we are just sitting and being complacent and taking it.
It is time for us to say no, we outnumber
the billionaire blood suckers. We need to make them afraid.
Right now, he has twenty, but the Gatti need to
have one hundred, because again, you push people too far
and they have no where.
Speaker 6: The backs are up against.
Speaker 10: The wall, they're going to lash out.
Speaker 14: So these CEOs to get off of their greedy, selfish,
greedy juice, take and take and take and take in
from us, and then nobody is going to be wanting
to shoot them down in the streets. If I if
I wish for you to go shoot your step into
the sun, I want you to be gone.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I want to be gone?
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yes, he's a selfish You want to like a Luigi,
you want Luisi?
Speaker 14: Ye fish, He's a selfish, greedy bastard who is just
sucking the humanity out of the world.
Speaker 10: And we need less elaws and more Luigias.
Speaker 8: Yes, you have friendly liberals, my friends protesting demanding death
for people they don't like. The beautiful music of a
Vertterfly continues as we celebrate a life legacy of amazing
that's beautiful performances and musicianship from the one and only
were Better Flack passed away earlier today, James Goldin sternly
with you here the Elon Musk haters, as you just
heard from that young protester out there, and now Trump
backs Elon. So over the over the weekend, the big
story was Elon Musk send out an email to the
federal workforce asking them giving them, hey, tell us what
you did last week and respond within two days days
or get fired. And people went ballistic. It is even
republicsan Republicans went ballistic ballistic. Today Donald Trump was asked
about that while he was.
Speaker 6: With Macron.
Speaker 8: From Franks on an official state visit from mister Macron
and during the in the Oval office where the press
was let and he was Donald Trump was asked about
the Elon Musk email. So, yes, it's a minute, I
think we have time. Let's get to it real quick.
Speaker 16: From Communications, there is an email telling employees to do
five days of.
Speaker 3: The last free agency has been told people to ignore.
Speaker 1: You about the last email that was sent where he
wanted to know what you did this week? You know
why he wanted that, By the way, that great because
we have people that don't show up to work and
nobody even knows if they work for the government. So
by asking the question tell us what you did this week,
what he's doing is saying are you actually working? And
then if you don't answer, like you're sort of semi
fired or you're fired because a lot of people are
not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to
find that's how badly various parts of our government were
run by it, especially by this last group. So what
they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working
for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working?
And you know, where's all that? Where's the money?
Speaker 12: Guard?
Speaker 1: We have found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud
so far.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and a lot more to come. Keep it right here.
Postings Rush Hour.
Speaker 7: James Golden, known popularly as both nerdly.
Speaker 6: Is this is the rush Hour with James Golden.
Speaker 8: And now, Ladies and gentlemen, a word from Trump hater
Mark Cuban.
Speaker 6: Mark Cuban no friend of Donald Trump. I think we
could say he's a pretty fair critic.
Speaker 8: Right here.
Speaker 4: He is going after Democrats saying that they can't sell
their own message.
Speaker 5: Democrats can't sell Donald Trump can sell. You know, if
you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said you
can sell these for fifty cents, they would hire fifty
people to decide if they really to try to figure
out how to do it, and then would not know
how to sell a dollar bill for fifty cents. If
you gave it to Donald Trump and say, sell this
dollar bill for two dollars, he'd figure out a way, right,
He'd tell you that two dollars bill is.
Speaker 10: You know, is huge.
Speaker 9: Okay, So to your point, named Kayleie, they're going to
have to sell this right ultimately, and they're going to
have to convince people that it's effectually what they're doing.
Speaker 17: And there's such a dearth of fresh ideas. I'm just
struck he's exactly right, you know. Chuck Schumer thought that
he came up with the general thrust of the twenty
twenty six message as outlined in Politico, and it was
about the Reconciliation bill going through Congress, and here's it
here it is the Republican goal is to give billionaire
buddies a tax break, and have you the American people
pay the cost. That's twenty sixteen, Bernie Sanders. I mean,
we've heard this before. They need something fresh. It's the
same old tired talking points.
Speaker 8: Indeed, roberta Fla, this I was telling Carlos, I ask,
himates is this in the library's common This is.
Speaker 18: My favorite Christmas away. Roberta Fla is just not the
same twenty fifth cry you way.
Speaker 8: Of last December.
Speaker 14: You left home last September.
Speaker 8: Celebrating is just the music of roberta flat.
Speaker 2: We were one, so now you're move.
Speaker 4: We were once that.
Speaker 18: Special blend me and new when love was true.
Speaker 8: Love was mouterfly to born on February tenth, nineteen thirty seven,
and then's just again. Just fourteen days ago we were
actually playing for music to.
Speaker 6: Celebrate her birthday.
Speaker 19: Listen, but that's all gone. Line and in this space
where we made line writing in my lonlabs, you're in
my mamay, so.
Speaker 8: I feel your pleasons.
Speaker 19: If I reached don it's lying on fine.
Speaker 8: She began tinkering with the piano. Was a young child,
sitting on her mom's lab in the Methodist church, she
started tinkering one of herself. A Sunday school teacher, ended
up paying for Roberta Flick to take lessons. They bought
a ramshackle upright piano from a junkyard, which the family
restored and painted green. By nine years old, Roberta was
playing Shelpon. At thirteen, she accompanied the church choir handles
Messiah Roberta Fly on both nearly espresh hours. This afternoon,
We're gonna get to some telephone calls. I do want
to hear what people have to say. I want to
take one or two other sound bites really quickly. First,
so you heard Donald Trump explaining why this email was sent.
There is a lot of controversy around this elon Musk email.
Trump backs Musk as he royals federal workforce with demands
and threats. And that's the headline from the AP today.
There has been a lawsuit filed already spearheaded by State
Democracy Defenders Fund. They call the threat of mass firing
is one of the most massive employment frauds in the
history of the country. While actually what's going on is
the fraud is being exposed so you already have lawsuit.
Donald Trump is saying workers who don't respond to e
elon Musk email risk being fired. What he's doing is saying,
are you actually working? If you don't answer, then what
we're talking about ghost employees. In cases, then federal employees
who don't return to the office will be placed on
administrative leave. Today was the day that federal workers are
supposed to actually show up at their jobs. Imagine this.
We are now living in an age where people are
being begged to come to work while you're while the
government is paying paychecks for these people, you have to
beg some of them, beg them to come to work
and not and so you get the kind of reactions
that you do cut for Carlos, the kind of reactions
to this on CNN, of course, with that Brianna woman,
this is one of the interviews that she ran first.
Speaker 17: Tell us about this email and what it was like
receiving it, and what you all have talked about after
getting it.
Speaker 16: Sure, I got this email Saturday afternoon about three pm,
and I felt absolutely infuriated getting this email with a
demand within forty eight hours to provide a response. And
what I did within the last week or face termination.
This is clearly an attempt from Elon Musk to harass
and bully and intimidate the federal workforce, which is part
of his broader plan to gut the federal workforce and
privatize public sector services to ensure that corporations like his
own can get more profit. And that makes me really
angry my coworkers as well.
Speaker 8: Well, yes, Carlos, sorry sorry, sorry?
Speaker 11: So is this It sounds like in my head, it
sounds like the equivalent of your Like, you're in a
job and your boss says, I need you in tomorrow
at five to do this, this, and this, and you
said and you said to him, I don't know, we'll see,
and then he says, no, I need you at five
or you're fired. And then you get upset because you
don't want to go there at five, and because he
fires you for something you don't want to do, even
though it's your boss that signs your checks that help you,
you know, live whatever life you're living.
Speaker 8: Yes, you see, Carlos, you have it exactly right. She's
extremely angry. How dare Elon Musk, who as is a
government official now working with DOGE for government? What efficiency?
So he sends an email to the workforce. Hey, tell
us what you did. Tell us within two days. You
don't have all your fingers out two days or risk termination.
Just tell us what you did last week. He's not
saying it. Tell us what you did. And as the
President of the United States said, the executive said, we
want to know. We want to see and see who's
not responding to the email, because there is a fear
that some people being paid these may be ghost jobs,
people not showing up at all.
Speaker 20: So they want people to respond, tell us what you did.
This really makes me angry. It makes me so angry.
And you know, he just wants to get the federal
workforce something. He greedy, something he can have, something he
can get people in the private sector and make.
Speaker 8: More profit profit profit profit. And you also then have
articles like there's an article I won't spend any time
on it now because it will take too long, about
the displaced federal workers, people that have lost their jobs,
and how difficult it is because some of the jobs
that they do are so how shall we say, not
mainstream jobs, so they're having a different, different time. That
is by the ap today, fired federal workers hunt for
new jobs but struggle to replace their oldenes. You know
where we didn't see these articles when the federal government
was demanding that business owners shut their businesses due to COVID. Nope,
you wanted Jim sorry, close it down. How am I
going to make a living? Screw you when you're living,
Just close it down. And this happened not just Jim On,
so many other people in COVID lost their jobs. Government
didn't give a damn. They just told them to do it.
How you make out in life is your business. And
the press, these same people that are now writing all
these articles, they're these same interviewers over at CNN. They
weren't interviewing people, well, gee, how are you going to
make a living now that the government mandata that you
closed down your business? We didn't see these kind of
We didn't see all this concern. And then you have
this Congressman I didn't put this in today from the
senator from Utah demanding compassion. And there's nothing wrong with compassion,
but basically it's like, where was all of this when
the government was mandating people shut their businesses down because
of faulty claims that what they were doing was science
evidence based and it was not anyway. I want to
get to a few calls, so let's break early because
I want people to be able to weigh in on
these things. People want to come in on misread leaving
PMSNBC and some of the other things in the news. Again,
ROBERTA was Donny Hathaway.
Speaker 12: And you.
Speaker 19: Why did you have to.
Speaker 6: What was it just a line.
Speaker 8: Where it's a load.
Speaker 18: If you had the change, I wish that you would
tell me.
Speaker 8: So don't leave me hanging on the promises.
Speaker 10: You've got to let me.
Speaker 12: Rush.
Speaker 4: This is the rush Hour with James Golden SNAr Lab.
It's the rush Hour with James Golden.
Speaker 6: Goes by the pseudonym most nerdly. Now yours James Golden.
Speaker 3: From SNBC has now canceled and fired Joy Reid. Interesting, right, No,
they were so excited and congratulated her on her in
DOUBLEACP Awards, but now she's fired. This just goes to
show how this regime has blackmailed and threatened job because
right now we're in a crisis in this country.
Speaker 2: But we know who you're loyal to.
Speaker 3: You're loyal to a king, right you don't want to
report on that, now, do you?
Speaker 2: Joy?
Speaker 3: Reid was fired for speaking the truth and sharing her opinions.
And now our First Amendment rights are being because mains
media doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of King Trump.
Speaker 8: Shay, you can't leave today without acknowledging it. In a
year two thousand, twenty five years ago, Carlo Santana won
eight Grammys for the Supernatural album an Amazing. He hadn't
had a Grammy our top ten album rather in over
eleven years, and then this one just busted out. Let's
add to the telephones of shallow we Brad has been
waiting very patiently since almost the top of the show,
and thank you for your patient is Brandon upstate, New York.
How are you?
Speaker 15: I'm doing great. I wanted to share a story about ROBERTA. Flack.
So in Greenville, New York, I worked at a tractor
dealer and this was probably about two thousand and seven.
This woman comes in with sunglasses and came to with
somebody else and the woman said I want to buy
a tractor. And we said, okay, whose name are we
putting it in? And she said, oh, it's ROBERTA. Flack
and we didn't. It was like, is this really Alberta Flax.
We're there on the computer and we're like looking up
pictures of her because we were trying to verify it
wasn't fraud, and it was. This is really cool. I'll
never forget that meeting with her.
Speaker 8: It was awesome. Was she nice?
Speaker 15: The hobby farm probably somewhere and wind them or somewhere
in Green County. I forget exactly where it was, but
that was really cool.
Speaker 8: It was really ye Was she very nice?
Speaker 15: She was nice. She didn't she was pretty quiet. The
question that she was with did most of the talking.
I mean, you had she was very nice, but you
had to fish kind of for the information.
Speaker 8: Got it.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 8: Wow, great story, great story, and I'm glad that you
you held on to tell us about that experience. Brad,
thank you so much. Let's move down to the Bronx
in New York. You catch up with Nate. Nate, how
are you fairly well?
Speaker 21: So, basically, with regard to Dan Bongino, I think it's
actually a good idea that you have more non career
persons involved in the FBI and a federal law enforcement agencies,
because I want to remind the audience that the FBI
almost since its inception, has been a political police agency
that's pretty much been violating civil liberties, violating civil rights.
It has a long, sordid history of doing illegal activity
against political opponents. And again, that's their primary mission.
Speaker 4: Nate.
Speaker 8: If you're expecting me to jump in here with any
kind of how dare you? How dare you? Oh? No,
my friend, and speak truth, Nate. You said, since its inception,
I find it. I find it horrid that the name
on that building is the Jay Ed Gohoover Building. This
guy was one of the worst, most corrupt public officials
in American history.
Speaker 21: Your thoughts, Yes, I mean, you know, basically he has
a very checkered, checkered past. I mean you know, he
was a closet homosexual.
Speaker 8: He was all to me. I don't care about his
sixth life and his cross dressing. I care about what
he did this to civil liberties. And this guy, from
the inception of the FBI trampled on people's civil liberties quickly.
I'm going to give you the last word on it, Nate.
Speaker 21: And yes, you know, basically, with regard to another thing,
with regard to the New York City Police Department, you
see many of the same sorts of activity going on,
all right, I wanted.
Speaker 8: To focus on that thing. We got other people that
want to weigh in on joy So thank you. I
appreciate the call. Jackquilin in Brooklyn, New York, wanted to
grab you real quick. How are you, Jacqueline?
Speaker 22: I'm just fine, James. That good Monday afternoon to you.
I hope you're doing great. Thank you regarding You're very welcome.
Regarding joyless read. I don't like to add insult to
injury or put salt in wounds, but she's not sounding
like such a tough lady or a tough girl like
she had been previously. So you know, she her being
outspoken and her words and the things that she said
and the things that she did well that came back
to haunt her. So sorry about that.
Speaker 8: I see, Thank you, Jacqueline. Judith in Barrooklyn, New York.
How are you this afternoon, Judith?
Speaker 13: I'm feeling joy Okay? Yes, whoa Let me tell you
where is the love? No love here, my dear James.
I hated her joyless seed. I call it. Yes, you
know there is no value talk about her value. There's
no value in her uh toxic twisted, hate filled, dishonest
commentaries and to think that she was paid millions of
dollars for her dribble. Okay, and she's not the only one.
The next bunch of brainwaves are the people in a
View like the other. Joyless they are, you know, they
lower standards of media responsibility and that stupid woman. How
about loyalty to honesty and truth for a change, okay
instead of that twisted dishonesty stuff.
Speaker 8: I have no time you mentioned the View. There was
a story published on Friday that I missed until today
Morale Lowe at the View after host asked to dial
back Trump criticism. According to some sources, the fiery hot
at the View have faced pressure to dial it back
and it's led to tension in front of the cameras.
Speaker 18: Ah.
Speaker 8: Yes, things are changing in the media environment. My friends.
We'll leave you today with the music of a bird
fla This of course her big one, one of her
big ones, and of all things, today is the anniversary
of this song going to number one today? Did they anyway?
James Gold and May God bless and protect each and
every single one of you, your family, your loved one,
love and gratitude, and my friends, You're being with me
and allowing me to be with you. God willing, we're
back tomorrow.
Speaker 19: Until then, I bid you sing my life, killing me
softly with this song A play with their song