The Patrick Madrid Show: November 20 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick and Cyrus focus on the challenges surrounding minimum wage and the struggles faced by restaurant workers. Patrick gets Cyrus to share his personal experiences from over a decade in the industry, highlighting the difficulties of surviving on tips and low hourly wages. Patrick also discusses California's recent rejection of Proposition 32, which proposed an increase to the state's minimum wage, and examines its potential impact on small businesses and working families. Linking the conversation to biblical teachings, Patrick reflects on the moral implications of labor practices. This engaging discussion covers fairness, economic realities, and the importance of treating workers with respect.
- Julieann – Who brought the wicker basket? (00:38)
- Prop 32 fails: Californians reject raising minimum wage to nation-high $18 per hour (07:48)
- Janet (email) – 3 restaurants closed because they couldn’t afford the minimum wage increase (25:40)
- John - Another factor in minimum wage is that large business can handle a wage increase but the small places can't and go out of business (27:00)
- Terri – I waited tables in the 80’s and had a wonderful time (32:27)
- Richard – The problem with raising minimum wage is that kids think they are entitled to more money than they are worth (46:36)
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio. |
| 0:20.0 | I didn't even hear that. is that i'm bad man no you're not you're cyrus i know |
| 0:27.7 | the difference 888 914 9149 you can call the number we have lines available 888 9149149 here's an |
| 0:36.3 | email that came in from julian and she says what i've always wondered |
| 0:41.1 | when this subject comes up is dot dot dot who brought the wicker baskets if you know please tell me |
| 0:46.9 | your fan julian hey that rhymes well i'll do my best julian and i think it's a really simple answer |
| 0:52.9 | she's referring to my commentary a few |
| 0:56.4 | minutes ago in the first hour of the program of what I refer to and others too refer to as a |
| 1:03.4 | hermeneutic of suspicion. Hermeneutic is an interpretive principle or what's your methodology |
| 1:09.8 | and interpreting things? |
| 1:11.3 | And I talked about how in many circles within the field of biblical studies in the last, |
| 1:20.5 | I know, going back well before the time of Vatican II, this idea that such things as miracles or Jesus saying, upon this rock, I'll build my |
| 1:31.0 | church, for example, that there's no way that that really happened because, let's say, the church, |
| 1:37.2 | ecclesia in Greek, that was way too systematically theological that Jesus never would have |
| 1:42.8 | used that word. It was added to the text |
| 1:44.9 | by a later redactor, things along those lines. None of these things are true, but for the longest |
| 1:51.7 | time, they've held great sway in many circles of biblical studies. And in the case of the |
| 1:59.2 | miracle of Jesus, multiplying the loaves and the fish to feed thousands of people, |
| 2:03.7 | that too, if we were talking about the hermeneutic of suspicion, it would fall into the area of, |
| 2:09.0 | well, Jesus, you know, he didn't really work a miracle, that's too pious, that's too mystical, |
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