Reader Interview, Part V: Rick McPherson
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Rick is a 61-year-old maintenance technician at a Steel Mill in Butler, Pennsylvania. He is married with four children aged 40 to 28 and three grandchildren. He's a 35+ year union member and a lifelong Democrat who considers himself left-leaning but disenfranchised by both parties. In our conversation, we talk about the pros and cons of unions, what the politics of his steel mill are, what he thinks of Biden, and the way his world has changed in the last 20 years.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and we are now at part five, fifth and final Tangle reader interview. |
| 1:14.0 | And today on the show, we have Rick McPherson from Butler, Pennsylvania. Rick, thank you so much for being here. Thanks, Isaac. I appreciate the |
| 1:19.4 | opportunity and look forward to speaking with you. Yeah, I'm really excited for this one. So as we've |
| 1:25.2 | been doing on the, this, you know, I totally invented this series on the fly. It still |
| 1:30.5 | doesn't have a name five episodes in, but I'm trying to formulate some kind of format. And what I've |
| 1:36.5 | come up with is just reading to our listeners what you put in your form when you submitted for |
| 1:43.6 | the interview just so everybody, you know, |
| 1:46.1 | has the, uh, comes in on level playing field. So I'm going to read really quickly what you wrote, |
| 1:51.4 | just so everyone has a little taste of who you are and then we'll jump right in. You said, |
| 1:55.9 | I am 61 years old. I'm a maintenance technician at a steel mill in Butler, Pennsylvania. I'm married |
| 2:02.4 | with four children, ages 40 to 28 and three grandchildren. I am a 35 plus year union member and a |
| 2:09.3 | lifelong Democrat. I consider myself left-leaning, but I must add that I feel disenfranchised by |
| 2:14.5 | both parties. I love your newsletter and keep up the good work. Thank you for the compliment. |
| 2:19.3 | So look, let's start with the gig. |
| 2:21.3 | How did you end up as a maintenance technician |
| 2:24.3 | in Butler, Pennsylvania? |
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