United Auto Workers Strike + Mike Opelka Serves as 6pm “Closer”
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4:
- Rich has to leave the show early to attend a charity dinner with listeners—so, Mike Opelka hosts the final hour of the show!
- Despite an inability to prevent illegal migration along the U.S. Southern border, the Biden Administration has announced it will grant “legal status” to 470,000 Venezuelans who entered the U.S. unlawfully. You can read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/09/20/border-influx-migrants-biden/
- On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington to meet with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Later in the day he spoke with President Joe Biden in the White House.
- The Consumer Product Safety Commission has released six songs to remind young Americans to adopt safety procedures which will lead to longer, healthier lives. Some of the topics include wearing helmets while on bicycles and regularly checking their smoke detectors.
- Lauren Fix—automotive expert and analyst—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. According to reports, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis are holding their ground in negotiations which could lead to an expansion of labor strikes within the automotive industry. You can find her work here: https://carcoachreports.com
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| 0:00.0 | Now this is perfect. This is actually perfect. This is the right music. Well done boys. It is the |
| 0:08.0 | Ziole show and I am walking in from the bullpen like Mariano Rivera in the heyday of the New |
| 0:17.4 | York Yankees. Not like the current Yankees. Dear God, they got to be playing Suicide as painless |
| 0:23.2 | point for their season. But it is Michael Palka. I am here to to wrap things up. I'm the closer |
| 0:30.0 | today as Ziole is doing some charity work during God's work helping out our friends from the Travis |
| 0:36.3 | Manion Foundation and dining with some very generous people. So thank you to everybody who |
| 0:43.6 | opened up their wallets on every level for what this station does to support the Travis Manion |
| 0:50.0 | Foundation. It is a very, very honorable thing you do. And charity is important. I really think it |
| 0:57.2 | is. So Rich, thank you, thank you, thank you. I want to make sure we don't overdo the things that |
| 1:05.7 | Rich covered. But I also have to expand on some of the things he was covering. And in about |
| 1:12.3 | 25 minutes, we're going to reach out to my buddy Lauren Fix who you hear with me pretty much on |
| 1:19.6 | the weekends. She is the car coach. And if you were watching Fox or Newsmax in the last couple of |
| 1:26.4 | days since the United Auto Workers Strike was happening, Lauren was everywhere because she knows |
| 1:33.4 | all the presidents of all these car making companies. And we'll get the update from you |
| 1:39.4 | from Lauren for you. And we'll talk about all of that. Rich was talking about the border in the |
| 1:44.8 | last half hour of the show. And I kind of think it's important for us to expand that a little bit more. |
| 1:51.3 | The border situation, and I grew up my unsupervised years as an adult from 18 to 30. Let's say 30. |
| 2:01.6 | Yeah, 18 to 33. I was in Texas. I lived in Texas, visited the border. I know the |
| 2:08.5 | border, the border towns, the border people very well. And they're some of the finest people on |
| 2:14.4 | this planet. People you would want to have a beer with. So what this administration is allowed |
| 2:19.2 | to happen to those towns along not just the southern border in Texas, but New Mexico and Arizona. |
| 2:25.0 | And even the Godforsaken land of California is just wrong. They are destroying economies and |
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