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The Gist

We're Going Into Labor

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Have blue-collar workers fallen for a Republican bait-and-switch? On The Gist, journalist Steven Greenhouse sets aside globalization and turns to the domestic forces suppressing wages and hammering workers: Republican-backed anti-union laws, a feeble response from Democrats, and cultural amnesia around the labor movement's achievements. Greenhouse is working on a follow-up to his 2008 book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. For the Spiel, the photos of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.4

It's Tuesday, December 20th, 2016, from slated to just dimike pasca.

0:12.9

So is it a Skitsoid Pandora Station, a poorly organized CD bin at Goodwill or the weirdest

0:19.7

lineup of acts off the main stage at Coachella?

0:22.9

Well, you have the Electric Light Orchestra, Yes Journey, Tupac, Joan Baez and Pearl Jam.

0:29.9

They don't share much, but they will be in the same class for the rock and roll Hall of Fame

0:35.1

induction.

0:36.6

It was Tupac who said, Let the Lord judge the criminals, and if I die, I wonder if Heaven's

0:42.3

got a ghetto.

0:43.3

And it was Yes, who said, In and around the lake mountains come out of the sky, and

0:47.7

stand there.

0:49.9

Similarly, it was Joan Baez, who said, Need some of that vagueness now.

0:55.9

It's all come back to clearly.

0:58.1

Yes I loved you dearly, and if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I've already paid.

1:03.3

And it was the yellow who said, I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor, don't

1:07.3

bring me down.

1:08.8

But let us all remember, and in fact gather, and harken to the words of Pearl Jam, Eddie

1:15.3

Vetter, who intoned, He got me, he ends shows with that one, that's the big encore,

1:33.0

and it always gets me.

1:34.5

The acts are just so disparate.

1:36.5

It would be as if the baseball Hall of Fame inducted in the same year, Kangriffy Jr.,

1:42.0

Mike Piazza, the hip hop group third base, a box of cracker jack, the CIA source, Curve

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