Tosh Show - My Teamsters President - Sean O’Brien

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

Daniel buckles up for a conversation with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien about driving trucks, fighting with congress, and all things Boston.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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podcasts. Are the Teamsters affiliated with the mob or were they ever? Well, I'm sure back in the day, the 50s, 60s, 70s. 80s? Yeah, the 80s. There's no more organized crime. There's no organized crime than the Teamsters Union. Tosh Show.

Tosh Show. Tosh Show! Tosh Show! Tosh Show for show! Uh, welcome to Tosh Show. I'm your pilot, Captain Dan Tosh. With me, Eddie Gosling. Hello, Dan. You guys are in capable hands today. If you look out your window,

you'll probably see another car Give them a honk. Let them know You're a tachycal 2 Tachycals Tachycals That should be the thing. I like that. Oh man. What am I doing with my hair? I'll tell you what I'm doing with my hair. Nobody asked but I just haven't gotten a cut in so long I'm I'm scheduled for Tuesday next week.

So that's big. That's big. I had a great week. I went, uh, out to Palm Springs as I do every year for the, uh, Indian wells. Uh, do they say Indian wells anymore? Did we just say indigenous wells? Doesn't matter. The tennis tournament.

It was great. Now, sadly, Djokovic had gotten knocked out in an early round. So he wasn't there. Uh, when I went, I was going to heckle. I was going to boo, but he had, he had took the coward's way out and lost in the first or second round, I believe I took my father-in-law and my mother-in-law, my father-in-law. It was like, it was like bringing my grandma.

Didn't even was it was, it was cold. I'm not going to lie. I was in the fifties in the evening session. He's bringing a blanket from the Airbnb. I don't know if you're supposed to take blankets off the property, but he did. He's, he's bundled up. I'm taking photos of them. Just half asleep.

He's like, I wasn't sleeping. I was a cheering. I'm like, looks like you were half asleep there, buddy. It was, uh, it was fun. Went to a, uh, nobu one night. Nice. They have a nobu restaurant at Indian Wells and it overlooks court too. Now if you sit right on the edge, those seats, which I do every year, you get to watch a match. This year

there was a little mix-up. Pete messed it up. He doesn't admit it, but they're like, oh we got you close to the window. Close to the window, you can't see anything. That doesn't matter. Anyway, long story short, they kicked some people out, and we got to move over to the window. Oh, nice. And then I ordered my drink.

Had an alcoholic beverage, Eddie. This is big. Yeah. Some passion fruit margarita. Oh, it's delicious. Yeah? Are you hooked? No, I have it once aita. Oh, it's delicious. Are you hooked? No, I have it once a year.

That's my drink. You're hooked, buddy. I drink one drink a year. That's great. That I actually look forward to, that is. Draper, Draper was on fire. Didn't really, nobody could really hold a torch to him. I saw Alcares.

Gosh, when you look at Alcares' thighs, it's hard not to be impressed. You're like, that is, those are some, those are some strong legs. Quick as a cat too. And guess what else? Made the Jumbotron. The big screen. That's it. That's your dream.

You know, and it wasn't for the cool reason, like where they go around, you know, show the celebrities. No, they had no idea. It was me. They were just zooming in on my daughter. Oh, there you go. Yeah. She was doing something funny.

It was, it was making everybody laugh. She was taking a yogi. You know what yogis are? Oh yeah. No, they're disgusting. But anyway, she was putting yogis on my lip and then like biting them off. And then next thing I know, we're on the big screen. I'm like, listen, guys, I have to, I have to do this yogi thing.

Or she's going to start screaming during points. You know what else I did, Eddie? No. Went surfing in Palm Springs. You believe it? In the desert. Come on. Not even near the ocean.

No, we went to the Palm Springs Surf Club. Pierre came out for the day. Brian, my friend from Sunny Day Coffee, he, uh, he came with me and, and, and Lachlan, Lachlan Patterson. Right. Okay. Lachlan was a, he was struggling. That was fun.

Always watching him panic. It makes me laugh. Uh, but yeah, we, we surfed the wave pool, you know, put on the slab setting, getting a fun little barrels. Believe it or not, that wave can actually hold you down underwater for quite some time. I didn't, I didn't get any bad hold downs, but, uh, Pierre had a couple. It made me, it always, Pierre got sucked into the machine at one point.

That was hysterical. He got, he got too, he said that I distracted him because the waves come in like little, these little three wave sets and, and he was getting in position and then I started messing with him. And anyway, next thing I know he's getting sucked into this machine and his boards banging around. He was, he got really scared and I was crying laughing.

Might've been my favorite part of the day. Not even surfing, but just watching him get swallowed by a huge machine. He was so scared. Oh God, it was funny. Yeah, that was cute. I enjoy my life. Get know get out there, spend time with the family, do stuff like that. I don't get these people that want to be

the hardest working person in show business. That seems like a horrible way to live. I didn't get into the show business because I have a good work ethic. Eddie, did you ever have a real job? I did. What kind of job did you have? I always say I audited at a meat plant like they're a meat production company and I would audit the orders to make sure they were in the margins. What? You just said words. Well that's what I did as an auditor at a meat processing to see if they were in the margins. Yeah if you ordered a bunch of cheese and there was like it was outside of the plus 7% They wanted to make without too low. You'd bring it over and put a basket. Just stop Eddie

I mean that you couldn't have described. How long did you work there? A couple years while I started. You worked there a couple years? Yeah, you just you just kept them in the morning. Were you good at your job? I'd be if it was out of margin. I'd highlight it and put in a basket I don't know. You don't know if you were good. Did you ever, how much did you get paid? I mean, enough to have an apartment in San Antonio. You think it was over $20 an hour or over $10 an hour? Over 10. Not over 20?

Nah, maybe around 15. Did you have to have a college degree for this job? Oh no, you just had to know shotgun. He was a bass player in a band and his mom worked there. Oh. Literally that was it. And you worked band and his mom worked there. Oh, literally that was it. You were, and you worked there for two years. Yeah.

And how, and when you quit there, what did you go to? Just comedy. Full time. That was, you went from, from that auditing this meat packing place to comedy. Yep. Do you think you're the only person that's gone that route? From the Pelly brothers? Yeah, I do.

See, I always think that one of the keys to my stand-up was that I never actually had a real job. So I never quit something that provided me any, quote, stability. Right. So I wasn't leaving anything on the table. I always admired people that like went into comedy that had a like like an actual job. Oh yeah, when you hear like this guy used to be a lawyer or a donker and they leave that profession to become comics, I'm like what is happening? Well, your job. I mean I just can't imagine having the confidence to go from that to be like, you know what,

I should entertain people. I really took a leap. I can't believe I'm leaving all of this. Good stuff, yeah, yeah. I've always been fascinated with people that have quote real jobs. I don't really have any blue collar people in my life. When I was growing up, it was all, it was all white collar.

And that, that probably doesn't surprise anybody when they look at how fancy I am. I tell you what, what confuses me about blue collar is a, they're really not collar people, right? For the most part, they're more in tees. T-shirt. They're the crew neck boys. Crew neck boys? But without blue collar workers, this country would fall apart.

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So hang on, because it's going to be a fun ride. Cue the music. ["Paw Show Theme"] Listen to Potter Rebellion on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. ["Paw Show Theme"] Paw Show. Breaker breaker, do you copy? radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Breaker breaker. Do you copy? My guest today is from Boston, AKA Beantown, AKA my favorite city to

shit on that I secretly love. He is the general president of the one of the most powerful unions in this country. Protecting the hardworking men and women, trucking up and down the roads, keeping our shelves stocked, our tanks full in our economy humming Please welcome Sean over. How's my intro awesome first question? Do you believe in ghosts? I'll put it this way There's been people put on this earth. I believe to haunt my life daily. I mean probably the best answer I've ever heard 100% agree with that. I'll be honest with you. I almost believe, it's almost, a majority of the people put on this planet were here to do just that to me.

You grew up in Boston. I did, yes. Oh man. I mean, if you were to write Boston and then show a photo of some, it is you. You are Boston. Am I that handsome? I mean, it's a compliment.

I mean, we are a good looking city. No, no, no, you're not. I mean, you's a compliment. I mean, we are a good-looking city. No, no, no. You're not. I mean, you look like you could take a two-by-four to the neck, and it wouldn't bother you. You know, I do have failing surf. Are you a softy? Yeah, you know, I like long walks in the park, and I'm an Aries. Did you grow up fighting ever?

I always tell people, I mean, I grew up, I have two brothers. My dad was a big guy, a well-respected guy, and we were always taught, and my mother brought us up pretty much. She grew up in the projects in Boston, raised her three younger brothers. She is the toughest O'Brien. She's probably one of the toughest women

I've ever met in my life, very classy, but she always made certain that two things. One, that you have two brothers and you always got to protect each other and have each other's back, and I expect that if one of you is in a fight, both of you is better, all three of you is better be in that fight. So we were always brought up to stick up for each other.

Was violence promoted? No, but was it an occurrence? Absolutely. I get it, and it's not, I mean, it was probably technically, some of those circumstances were probably wrong but I mean I just fled Fled conflict my entire life like nope time to leave here

I think my mom would be like if your brother's getting beat up just run. I don't Better than better than both. I guess my mother my mother used to say if your brother comes home with a black eye You both better come home with a black eye. Yeah, no, my mom would be like, well, he wasn't fast enough, was he? And listen, it's not like I grew up, you know, I grew up poor, I lived in St. Louis as a kid. I just didn't have it in me.

I just wasn't that kid. I didn't know how to fight. I didn't have it. And my dad wasn't, you know, he wasn't, he's a big man, he's six foot, he's mean to people. My mother had a presence of being six foot five, and she's about five foot two. Yeah, no, my mom was sweet,

I'm not gonna knock my mom on how she raised pussies, but she did. Have you, you still live in Boston? So I live in Boston when I'm home, but primarily I live in Washington, D.C. because that's where my day job as the international president of the team just takes me. So you like D.C.?

I've been there three years. I love the city. The people were, it was tough to adjust to the people down there because I was brought up in an area where you're pretty direct. What you see is what you get. And when you're dealing in D.C., whether you're dealing with politicians or whoever, they'll say one thing and do another.

So I had to kind of navigate through. I remember the first three weeks down there, I'm like, I hate this fucking place. Why did I take this job? But it's like anything else, you learn to adapt to situations. And I think living down there, being from where I'm from with the personality that I have, it's gotten a lot better. It was a tough adjustment at first. living down there, being from where I'm from with the personality that I have, it's gotten a lot better. You know, it was just, it was a tough adjustment at first.

I love DC too. I mean, as a city, I love Boston more. I always say I like New York more, just because it's a bigger fan base, I sell more tickets, so I lie to those people. I sell them, I love them more. But the reality is, if I had to live in a city, I'd live in Boston, but not year round, that's nonsense. Yeah, Boston's I mean Boston's a great city not because I'm from there. It's a small city with a big presence

That's pretty and it's clean. Yeah, very clean. It's clean Now the people I could do without but fair enough that that's that's how you want to live Do you want to live in this clean city with no people? Oh, you know, you're talking You attended UMass I did how many of the other 600 colleges within the city did you apply to city with no people. Oh, now you're talking. That's a home run, right? That's a home run. You attended UMass. I did. How many of the other 600 colleges within the city did you apply to?

I didn't apply to any of them. And matter of fact, I got a great story about how I ended up at UMass. So I was recruited to play football for the University of New Haven. I was a great high school football player, but I'm not a huge person. So my potential, I reached my potential.

So I wasn't going to go to a division one school. I was a running back and a linebacker and sometimes an offensive lineman, sometimes a long time, whatever they needed me to do. I got recruited by a division two school that gave me a full scholarship. So I ended up going to university New Haven for about a minute and it just didn't work out.

It was awful. So I ended up leaving there. And so my father picked me up and he was like, Hey, you know what? It's a, it's tough. Sometimes you're going to make tough decisions. And I'm like, this is great. Like my father's supporting this decision. And next day he says to me, what'd you do today?

You loser. Did you go get a job? Oh, and I'm like, Oh my God. So I was like, yeah, that was, that was something going, I'm going to go, and I was in the union at the time, so I'm like, I may be going to the union, maybe I'll just go on the Marine Corps. So I was going to go talk to a recruiter to go

into the Marines. And all of a sudden this guy in a station wagon pulls up and I'm in the, standing on the corner, aimlessly thinking about my life. It's 18 years old. And the guy looks up at me and he says, aren't you supposed to be playing football at University of New Haven?

What are you doing? It didn't work out. He's like, I coach football at UMass. I'm like, really? He goes, I think I graduated high school with your mother. His name was coach Kent. Okay.

Coach, you want to go to UMass and play football? I said, yeah, sure. I'll do, I'll give it a shot. So I walk home and I gave him my phone number. So I walk in and you know, there's my mother and father sitting there and my father's like, what'd you do today?

I go, well, I was going to go join the Marine Corps. I said, but funny thing happened. Uh, coach Kent pulled up in a station wagon. I'm going to UMass Boston to play football. He's like, how are you going to do that? You didn't even apply. The phone rings. My mother's like, Jim Kent, Charlestown High?

I was in UMass playing football the next day. So to your question, I didn't apply to one school in Massachusetts. That's pretty great. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, whole American dream. And how did that football career end?

It went great. I mean, I started as a freshman. But I knew I always had a passion. And I always did well in school. But I didn't want to be in school. Like, I didn't, I wanted to be out working. Like, I loved the union because it was around me my entire life for generations. I loved my father's friends.

I loved, you know, the old timers. I loved going to union meetings. And I knew like I want, and I worked in the union in high school. I worked in the theater district in Boston. We used to unload and load Broadway shows. And it was great. And I just loved the camaraderie. I loved the passion that people showed

going to work every single day. But more importantly, I loved the loyalty that I was taught about the organization. So I knew this was just a short stop for me and I knew that I wanted to be in the Teamsters Union. And now you're the president of that union that you once idolized. You're a lot like Mark Zuckerberg in your career Minus the net worth I gotta be honest with you. No one has ever compared me to fucking Mark

I'm just saying you know drop out of high school boom big dreams I love doing shows in Union cities to be honest with you like if I'm in Chicago of course Oh, is it you go to a Taylor Swift show show, you obviously understand the just bells and whistles. They're incredible what they're doing. Me, I'm going out to a microphone, that's it. But yet still at union shows, it's like, Pete, knock it off, don't touch that fucking stool. That's somebody's job to bring that stool out there

and set that, sure I have to pay a little more at that venue, but God do I love it. You probably make a lot more at that venue. I mean, it's because it's a better market. Right. I mean, it's usually the best markets that have those. You were in Boston recently, right? Mm-hmm, I do, yeah.

What did you perform in Boston? I don't know if that's that bad. The Orpheum. Orpheum, yeah. Those are all team sets. Of course, no, I love it. I worked on those theaters in high school. Ah. But they were Broadway theaters.

They were either Broadway or music. Now there's been such a shift with comedy. They've had a, that's a big venue. It's so easy. Comedy is like, you don't bring anything. You just show up, do a show. Explain what the president of the Teamsters does besides challenge senators from Oklahoma to fights.

That was unfortunately a defining moment in my career. It, because it was certainly, it was certainly a highlight. Yeah, you know what it is? It's just like we talked about earlier, you enabled your grown. You don't let people, you don't let people shit on you. You don't let people try and bully you. You would have destroyed that. You would, there's no doubt that you would have won the fight. Look, you know what?

Here's the thing. And I've actually become friends with Mark Wayne Mullin and you know, he's a big, strong guy, he's got cauliflower ears. I mean, it just depends on how serious you take the fight. If the first person you go for it, take out a knee. What you're willing to do to win is the key. Exactly. That's where I'm at. You go to a kneecap right away,

cauliflower ear be damned. By the way, did you ever think in a million years Bernie Sanders would be the one to break up a fight? That you were in? I mean, how bizarre world were you like? That was like getting yelled at by your grandfather. You know, it's like Thanksgiving, then he'd spill something at the table

and you're, Jesus Christ, you know? And look, that was the first Senate hearing I was ever in. And, you know? So I was like, look, I'm, I just went, I wouldn't let this guy shoot on me and my neighbor and I'm certainly not going to let him do it here. So yeah, that was, that was pretty fun. Do you ever drive an 18 wheeler?

All the time. What do you mean all the time? How long? I still do it. You still? I still like them when I, every once in a while I'll be in an event and there'll be a team to track the tour or whatever. In my friend, I'm still on the seniority list of my company that I went to work for at 18,

Sean Acina Hearn. And I went back a couple of years ago and I wanted to show people that I'm still capable of doing the work because you know, when you're talking to people and you know, I've got to advise millions of members and I've got to give them advice on why they should accept a contract or why they should reject a contract.

I want to make sure that those people that I'm working for, the 1.3 million members, they know that I can do their job if I have to still. So there's a credibility factor that goes along with that. But I love driving trucks. I mean, I tell people all the time when I was in school, everybody would say, I want to be a doctor. I want to be a lawyer. You know, I want to be the president of the United States.

I'm like, I want to drive a truck for the teamsters union. I wanted to be Lincoln Hawk. Yeah, I'm I'm like, I want to drive a truck for the Teamsters Union. I wanted to be Lincoln Hawk. Yeah, I'm wrestling. Oh man. Oh yeah, yeah. That was my dream. You'd be going at it with Bull Hurley. What percentage of truck drivers are Teamsters?

Probably 12, 13%. Yeah, I mean UPS is our largest employer. We have 340,000 members there out of 1.3 million. And by the way, our union is just not truck drivers. I always tell people we're airline pilots to zookeepers and everybody in between. So me being a truck driver, yeah, I'm very familiar with, you know, Wheels is the majority of what the Teamsters. Well, no, we represent every mode of transportation. We represent railroad workers, train engineers

are affiliated with us, the trackmen that fix the tracks and keep the infrastructure rolling, their teamsters. Then you go into the airline divisions. We have pilots. We've got flight attendants. We've got ground transportation. What about Hollywood? We've got McKinsey.

We represent 15,000 members in Hollywood throughout the whole country that work on the sets as teamsters. So my dad was a transportation coordinator that ran all the movies for our local union in Boston, Local 25. That's what he did for a living, so I know the industry well. When you say you jump behind the wheel just to kind of show people you can still do it, what do you... No, I'll tell you why I do it because people, I wear a

suit and tie to work every single day. I might one day be talking to a Senate hearing where I'm, I'm defending workers' rights and I'm lobbying to get things done on behalf of American workers. Next I may be, you know, in a work site at four in the morning, talking to rank and file members and when they look at me, because you know, you've got the demographic, our union, um, is you get the 18 to 35 year olds, they may not know what I did. They may think I'm just some lobbyist, right? So when I'm talking to people and they kind

of get, well, how do you know you could do my job and I'll pull up the video. I said, I just did this last week. You don't need a video. You just need a short sleeve shirt. Nobody's going to think you're just a lobbyist. Yeah. Yeah.

You never know, you know, well, I've been accused of being a politician recently and I'm not a politician. That's a tough one to swallow. What's the starting pay ish? No, I'll give you the best example. Okay. UPS, part-timer. Uh-huh.

Part-timer. Part-timer. Okay. Getting hired off the street to load and unload trucks with the hope and dreams of becoming full-time, which there is a path to a career. A UPS part-timer right now starting today will make will make $21 per hour, and then we'll get free healthcare and a pension. And our UPS drivers make almost $50 an hour.

The drivers make $50 an hour? At the end of this contract, they'll be making $50, close to $50 an hour, 49 something. What's the longest haul you're legally allowed to do? How long can you drive? Well, it's like 10-hour shifts. Okay. So you're usually 650 miles a day. How nice are you drive? It's like 10 hour shifts. Okay. So you're usually 650 miles a day. How nice are those cabs?

They're beautiful now. I mean they've got sleeper berths and everything else. Are truckers masturbating in the trucks? I'll be honest with you. I've never had the urge to rough up the suspect while I was driving or working. Okay. That's fair. But as a comic, when I first started, I was driving. You know, 20 year old, I was driving. You know, 20-year-old, I was driving. Black Honda Civic, 91. If anybody ever saw it, there's a good chance I was doing it.

I drove across this country constantly. But I can't stay awake. I fall asleep. So I would occasionally, you know, edge, I guess, is the term. You know, you get excited. That keeps you awake for a little bit. So does edging mean you would actually finish? No, edging is the opposite of that. Okay. You

get to the edge and don't go over because if you go over the opposite happens. But what if you get distracted and you end up going over? Listen, are you telling me that some truck drivers haven't been distracted before at the wheel? Listen, I can't speak for that but that's still the horn this way or no? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it still a rope't speak for that, but that's... Do they still have the horn this way or no? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it still a rope? There's a rope, but there's also this new fad

where they put actual train horns under the hood. Oh, that's to scarify everyone? You have a valve down here and you pull it, and it's great. Like, you're going through a neighborhood, you don't like people, you just hit that, and it's a warning. Could I learn to drive a truck?

You know what's funny? We just had this discussion on our way over here because my girlfriend partner thinks she's a great driver. She goes, I could be going through cones at a 25 feet wide. She goes, I could even drive a tractor trailer. I'm like, oh, sure. But yeah, to your question, absolutely you could. How long is it?

What's the, what's the, how long? It's like anything else. It's a process. Some people learn quick. Some people takes a lot more time. uh, takes a long, long time. Okay. Without being sexist, okay? I need you to do this without being sexist.

How? Why are you already laughing? Sean, how, how much harder is it for women to be a good truck driver than a man? I think women are better truck drivers than men. You do? I do. I'll tell you why. Okay. Because number one, unlike yourself driving,

they're not going to masturbate while they're driving. You don't know that. I can know that. You know, but seriously, uh, it's proven women are smarter than men. I'm smarter. Sure. And they're more focused on tasks.

Let's, let's be realistic. I mean, I've got the attention span of a mosquito and, um, you know, easily distracted. I check probably three boxes of ADD, ADHD, OCD, whatever. Women focus a lot more than other men. I think... I'm not gonna argue with that. I think they would, to your question, I think they'd get through a curriculum quickly.

Okay, I've had... I'm not gonna... I'm going to be sexist probably then. I've had tour buses, uh, for 20 years that have driven me around this country to perform. I've had one buses for 20 years that have driven me around this country to perform I've had one female bus driver and I'm like I was so excited about it and it Literally, I thought every night when I went to close my eyes and out of my I'm gonna die She couldn't she couldn't back the bus into anything. It was terrible Pete'll vouch for me. It was Horrendous It was terrifying.

That may have just, we just had one bad apple, Pete. That's like having one bad date. No, that I've had a lot of. Are my tour bus drivers Teamsters or no? No, but give me the names and we'll see what we can do. Okay. I don't know what that meant exactly. How about the fact that truck drivers

are not allowed in Buc-E's? What do you think about that? What a Buc-E's. You don't fucking know what Buc-E's is. I don't know what Buc-E's is. Buc-E's is like the biggest, the nicest, it started in Texas, the largest gas station. That explains it.

And they have the cleanest bathrooms. Why don't I know about this? And they, I mean, you go in there, they have everything. They have a beef jerky section. They've got I mean everything you could ever want. My parents like go to Bucky's like it's an amusement park. They just love a Bucky. Anyway they I think you need to get on that. They don't allow 18 wheelers. Would you support a nationwide protest over that? 100% I would especially since I've never been yet. Although I do own a Bucky's

truck at my house like a little pickup truck that they got my son I'd throw that away. I'm not gonna throw it away Well, I will if if they don't change their their ways Have you driven one of these semis that can drive itself yet? No, you guys have a name for those people that want those trucks on The road. Yeah, okay Gavin Newsom How dare you how dare you come into this office? By the way, you ever see those photos of him with his ex-wife sprawled out on this gaudy rug?

The Trump Jr.'s wife now, right? It's Trump Jr.'s wife now, but he used to be married to her and there's a photo spread of them laying, it makes you hate everything about California. But anyway, forget that. He looks like Bradley Cooper. Yeah. He's like a little Bradley Cooper-ish,

Matthew McConaughey a little bit. Those are better than looking like Elon Musk. I mean, I look at you, you look like a young, you look like a young Kurt Russell. God damn it, that's a compliment. Yeah. Young Kurt Russell. Do you worry about AI and everything

taking over your business? AI is the biggest threat to everything in this country. Okay, so you worry about AI and everything taken over your business? AI is the biggest threat to everything in this country. Okay. So you are worried about it. Uh, we're fighting automation. Um, the good thing about being under a union contract, you get to negotiate terms and conditions, uh, of, of automation, uh, AI.

What's scary is when it, you know, especially out here, I mean, you've got, um, silicone valley, right? Huge, I mean, you've got Silicon Valley, right? Huge, huge supporters of technology, huge supporters of automated vehicles. My friend got stuck in a parking lot in an autonomous vehicle for like 15, 20 minutes and he didn't even care, he just thought it was funny.

Just doing laps around the parking lot, couldn't get out. Not to fall back earlier, but just think about the edging you could do in an autonomous. You don't have to edge in there. No, no, no. I'm not gonna edge in there. If you're in a Waymo? what couldn't get out not to fall back early but just think about the edging you could do it at a time You don't have to edge no, you know, I'm not gonna edge. You're in a way mo if right who's edging I'm gonna I'm giving that camera the money shot you ever driven in one of those no I ref looks I'm the guy I'm that guy that I will walk 20 miles and bare feet before I get in something

That's gonna destroy working people like I don't even go into if I'm in a supermarket and there's a line with 30 people. You don't do self checkout? I will, I refuse to do self check. It's so easy to steal. It's awful. Yeah. Well, stealing is great, but the challenge is to steal while you're being watched.

And if you're good at it, you're going to, you're going to get away with it. I'm joking. No, but here's the thing, right? Okay. You go into a self checkout. Like I've watched people like at Home Depot. Oh, Home Depot self check. That's real tough. Yeah, depot. A lot of home depot self check.

That's real tough. Yeah. But here's the thing. You have to go to this checkout kiosk nine out of 10 times when you're fucking it up, trying to pay for it. I mean, a human per a human comes over and works with you to get it out.

So why shouldn't we just get rid of the automation? Cause you're going to bring the human in any ways. Don't make it doesn't make sense. Don't use logic with me, Sean. Here's the problem with the Home Depot is now I'm supposed to write down the code of the bolts that I just took and I have to put this 10 digit code in when I get there. That's complete nonsense.

You just said you love to steal through the self checkout. I don't. I was Sean. I was joking. I don't. You can put those. I never steal. When's the last time you needed a bolt?

You personally needed a bolt? You personally. Needed a bolt? I mean, constantly. I've been organizing my garage recently, and I'm putting all the bolts. By the way, I couldn't want, I want to retire so bad so that I can just tinker like an old man. I was born to be a grandpa. Like, that's my goal in life.

Like, what kind of tinkering would you do? I don't know, but right now I'm just putting my nuts and my bolts and my... I got an organizer. One of the guy... One of the workers bought me an organizer and now I'm putting all the bolts everywhere. Like you do your own home projects and everything? No, but I like to hire somebody because I like to pay it forward and that can do things better than me.

And then I like to be their assistant for the day. And they just get annoyed, but they think it's funny that I'm... And you're like, hey, I got a bolt. This will work. I got a bolt this will work they're surprised some of the power tools I have you got a good garage setup or no yeah I got a good setup nice I got a good side we have sheds we don't have garage you have a shed shed yeah oh I don't have a shed would you say that it's actually your business is getting better recruiting younger people because I feel like people are less likely now

to do like four year college degrees where everyone thought that's what they had to do and now they're realizing. Yeah, I mean, our generation, you're probably the same age, we're probably roughly the same age, right? Everybody was told they have to go to college. If you don't go to college, you're gonna be a rubbish man.

A lot of rubbish men that work under union contracts are making almost $3,000 per week in some areas. They've got great health care They've got great pensions. I always wanted to be on the back of a trash truck and nowadays It's it you don't even get to hang on the back of a trash truck They've got the stupid arms that lift things up Which I've always wondered how are they really lining that thing up not that this is in your world But I was just curious about that do those trucks just automatically stop and know where the trash can is? How are they figuring that shit out?

Not right now, they don't. Do truckers think longshoremen are assholes? No, no, we love the longshoremen. Okay. We love them. You know, I said this recently, so where we grew up, we were either gonna be a teamster, longshoreman, firefighter, or police officer, or a criminal, right?

Or both. And the best, criminal, right? Or both. And the best, yeah, right. And the best part is Longshoremen, you know, it's a business that runs concurrently with Teamsters because you're bringing goods off a ship, putting them on a truck and we deliver them. But it was funny, all the kids in the Longshoremen, their characters, hard workers, but their characters, right?

And they're all related because they pass down their membership cards from generation to generation. But all the longshoremen kids in the neighborhood or wherever you were from, they all get the same shit for Christmas. I could never figure out how they did that, you know? And like, they would get the same shit for Christmas. I'm very aware of where they got it from.

But that was back in the day. It's different now. Oh, yeah, yeah, much different now. By the way, everybody that's on the show gets gifts, okay? You ever wear glasses, sunglasses? I do, yes sir. I got you a pair of sunglasses. These are Tom Ford, do you buy expensive sunglasses? Are you somebody that's like, oh I'll lose them,

I don't want them to be expensive. See, because of my great union, we have an unbelievable vision plan where we get high end glasses as well through the prescription. Look at you. Well here, these are a little too Like I don't know like shooter range for me. They're Tom Ford's they're probably 500 bucks, okay, but I want you to have those These are nice. Yeah, thank you

I mean look no one how handy you are at home, and you're into tools I would think these are like welding goggles no no no let me see the camera We put them on me see okay. I won't lie to you if they if they look bad. I'll Know they're not bad. Okay. They look scary. I like it. They work those those are you're a good man. Thank you No, I used to do a show on Comedy Central green screen and I would a lot of times shoot stuff at my house and I had my own green screen at home And then this is some of my green screen. It's it's my version of the green monster Okay, so I just want you to have my green monster.

If you hold this up, like if I hold this up right now, they're gonna put a penis on it right next to my face. I know it. I know it. I'm not gonna hold it up next to my face. Hold it up right next to your face. We'll put something nice. No, you don't have to do that.

You know who Mitch Hedberg was? I don't, sir. He was a comedian. He died in the early 2000s. Yeah? Anyway, I always had a bumper sticker of his that I loved. He was a comedian. He died in the early 2000s. Yeah, anyway He's I always had a bumper sticker of his that I loved and it said as a joke He had he says I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it It's a smart joke. It's a good joke. You'll keep that so it's a classic nobody God rest Mitch's soul

Mitch by the way, the funny thing about Mitch is, it's mitchhedberg.net. He didn't have dot com. Might be the funniest thing about Mitch Hedberg. Here's a, I don't have this trucker hat, is my buddy sells mobile homes in Malibu. You know, like two million dollar mobile homes. But this is his hat, his company hat. No, it's a great hat.

But it doesn't fit me because my head's too big. Yeah, it's a great hat. we saw a mobile home that looked like that Well, that's just a would be like strange a danger like there'd be some Some guy coming out in a clown suit asking Sean that's retro a piece of candy. This is crazy This is this is for my tour the great nor'easter tour. I did this in 2015. It's just in Boston It was everywhere. That's a sign you give that to one of your kids if they skateboard so my oldest son is is trying to do stand-up right now he's all stand up well by the way the thing let's just throw this on the floor I don't like my desk don't scratch my desk

for God's sake Sean I feel like you clean and you shit that you don't want anymore oh Sean that's what I do every episode okay that's the bit you got like a car or something you know what no want? No! I love my car. I was just checking. Where are you at on electric cars? I don't like electric cars at all. I mean, you don't think they're fun to drive? I never drove one. Look, electric cars, the batteries, all this shit, they're going to put people out of work.

We're about combustible engines. We want that power. I got power, I got 825 horsepower on a truck. I mean, look, you talked about how you edged while driving a vehicle. Okay, I said one time 825 horsepower. I mean look, you know, you talked about you know how you edged while driving a vehicle No, listen, listen, listen. I said one time I edged. No, listen, listen, listen. You focused on one thing. No, you talk, you talk. It's the ADD kicking in. I'm sorry. No, you're focused on your laser focused on it. OCD, OCD, right? So, you know, you think about your edging, right?

You had this big... God, I can't stop thinking about it. Big powerful motor like just... You're thinking about like a scene from Danny Zuko in Grease, right? I'm not... I'm not Zuko in Greece, right? Racing not grease lightening, right? All right, and that's gonna go that's gonna get your juices flowing I'm just right stay awake and I kill myself. You're pulling a hill in a Tesla, right? I mean exactly I don't ride a Tesla. Well, I'm a Rivian man. All right, so you're a Rivian Uh-huh, even even better. Thank you right the fake version of a Subaru. But anyways, right? How is a Subaru Japanese, Rivian, American, American-made designed?

You're pulling that big hill, and you're not hearing anything. You're not hearing any engine combustion. How is that? How is that going to help you with your engine problem? I'm listening to music. Ah, here we go. I'm rocking out to music. What kind of music do you listen to?

I like church music. What? No, I'm only kidding. Oh. I'm a hot cost. Holy cow, I believe you. Listen, I love Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg's the best. OK. I listen to church music. What? No, I'm only kidding. Oh. I'm a hot coach. Holy, I believe you. Listen, I love Snoop Dogg.

Snoop Dogg's the best. OK. I listen to all music. I listen to Van Halen, Snoop Dogg, you know? That's all the music. From Van Halen to Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg and everything in between. Did you like the halftime show at the Super Bowl

this year, Jack Kendrick Lamar? It was good. It was decent. All right. Oh. You care about Boston sports your whole life? Still care about it? I love that growing up, you know, I tell my kids this all the time, they're 23 and 20.

They got the opportunity to see all of our sports teams win multiple world championships. They were born in 2001, 2004. Right, these kids have it too good. Growing up, the only team that won a championship, national championship, was Boston Celtics, 85, 86, whatever it was, with Larry Bird and that crew. Otherwise, our teams were awful until, you know,

the last two decades. I have a theory that the next generation of Boston kids that went through all this winning, they're going to be nothing but huge pussies. Probably, yeah. Manic depressants. Yeah, there's no doubt, there's no doubt. They've been winning too much.

Let me prove to you that I don't hate Boston sports. I took my father, who's a die-hard St. Louis Cardinals fan, grew up. We went, I took him to the World Series in 2004. Against the Red Sox, yeah. This was the year you finally guys didn't fuck things up. him to the World Series in 2004. Against Red Sox, yeah. This was the year you finally guys didn't fuck things up. Buckner didn't let a ground ball go between his legs.

Well the first game I took my dad, we had tickets to games three and four and the first game we lost and he was like, hey thank you. You know he grew up poor in St. Louis and now he was at the World Series and he was he thanked me Forgiving him like a dream come true to go see the Cardinals in the World Series But he goes this is not a this is this is Boston's time. Let's let's sell the tickets for tomorrow's game That's awesome. He was right We found some Boston guys sold him the, and we stayed home and watched it, and we're

like, yeah, it's their time. As somebody that grew up in Florida and cheered for Florida teams, I've always, I've never hated Boston teams. You definitely have. Here's the thing. You were envious. I'm going to be honest with you. You were envious.

Sure, but whatever. I hated Tom Brady. I never hated Belchek. I thought he was great. Did you like Gisele? Sure, I guess. If you're into giraffes. Not my cup of tea. Favorite Patriot football player of all time? Go. My favorite football player had to be John Hanna.

I was going Aaron Hernandez. No. Oh, you kidding me? That guy was great. On the field and off. Just loads of fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fuck Mary Kill. Do you you kidding me? No. That guy was great on the field and off. Just loads of fun. Fuck marry kill. Do you know the game? I've heard about it. Never played it. No. All right I give you three people you have to f1 you have to marry one you have to kill one here you go Larry Bird Tom Brady Big Poppy Larry Bird will probably uh, you're marrying him. Marry Larry Bird F Tom Brady. Oh

marrying him. Marry Larry Bird. F Tom Brady. Oh there you go. And probably kill Big Poppy. Poor Poppy. Yeah and you know it's not cuz I dislike him I mean that was the only choice left. I will always worry about interviewing like powerful people like yourself that that one day something's gonna happen and there's gonna be horrible skeletons that come out of your closet and then they show us being all buddy buddy And I'm gonna be like I didn't know that about him Do you have any skeletons in your closet that I should worry about there's my question? Conversely I could pose the same question you exactly I have none me neither. I mean none listen I'm gonna open book. I'll tell anybody anything. I mean I think one of one of the clarifications that we got right out of the way is

I've never played with myself. I was driving a tractor trailer. So you don't have to worry about that. That's the littlest thing in the world. You don't have to worry about that coming out. All right. How would you fix America, assuming you think it's broken? There's room for improvement with everything.

And I think you can see it right now. And we've seen it in previous administrations and for the last 20 years, there has been such a line drawn in the sand and there's been such an attack when people have differences of opinions. And I think, or the way I was brought up, that you can have a difference of opinions, but we should respect each other's differences of opinions, have respectful debate and dialogue, and find solutions to problems. So I think that's the biggest problem right now.

How does anyone win an election without being pro-labor? I think people need to be transparent and inclusive whether you're a pro-labor or not pro-labor. We want everybody to be pro-labor. We want everybody to embrace American workers but I think if you're gonna be a politician running for any any office you know what you say you need to deliver on and what you can't deliver on you can't make promises that aren't attainable. And I think summing that up, people that run for office, regardless of anything, need to have credibility.

Do you have big aspirations down the road? I've met my biggest aspiration. I know, but are you gonna go bigger? You gonna swing bigger? I don't think there's anything bigger than the team. You don't think you're ever gonna run this country? I don't know if I could pass the background check to run this country.

Oh, let's be clear. That ship has sailed. You know. Good point. Good point. I just threw you the biggest softball in the world, didn't I? You're gonna, you got the whole, you figured life out. Good for you.

Are you a happy person? I am. I'm the happiest person in the world. I gotta be honest. I wake up every day and I try to make a conscious effort not to complain about anything. And I do complain. Well, don't bottle that up. That's bad, too, Sean. No, but I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

I've got great kids. I've got great partners. My mother's still with us. I've got two great brothers. Look, I'm living a dream, to be honest with you. I'm thrilled. This time's just trying, and I've got the best job in the world. All right, Sean, you've done everything.

I appreciate it. Thank you for being on the show, and good luck fixing our country forever. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Thank you for being on the show and good luck fixing our country forever. Thank you, sir I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series Cancellation Island stars Holly Hunter as Karen a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled In the future we will

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That's pretty neat. Anyway, how you doing, Carl? You look fresh. You got a hair in front of you. It worked. You in the union? You can't answer that, right? How long you been in the union?

Answer me. He's walked. Carl walked. He's on strike. He's on strike. Jump. Carl up. Sorry.

I startle you. Sounds pretty good. You didn't like that, did you? I hit the table and you're like, whoa, I'm out of here. All right. Well Happy to have you back We got some plugs when a toss show store comm check it out get your Carl shirt Eddie's tour Check out his dates and come see me on tour. All right, hit the free plug music. Oh

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Is that a semester or a year? Year. They still have financial aid? I'm guessing that's drying up soon. 21% of their degrees are registered nursing. A lot of nurses. 21% of their degrees are registered nurses. The other, registered sex offenders.

Oh my God. That's... You know, you don't have to be a registered nurse. It's good to register. It's like when you buy something and they're like, oh go to our website and and you know register your product. I'm like, I never do that. But some of these nurses when they graduate that might be something different. Notable alumni here. Kathleen Madigan. Kathleen Madigan. Funny comedian.

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