Sean Spicer
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520 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Sean Spicer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Was not a good guy. No one should ever idolize that guy. But, you know, the government, you know, he was bought and paid for. And, you know, it... He hurt a lot of families, you know.
Literally.
Absolutely. And, you know, it's just funny because growing up, you know, in the 80s and 90s, you know, you had a front row seat, you know, to what was going on. Steve the Rifleman Flemmy? Yeah, yeah. Those guys are all not good guys, you know? Not good guys. And plus, they told on their own, hey, it's one thing if you want to be a criminal, like, hey, that's your thing.
I wanted to go to work, right? I want to provide for my family. Someone wants to be a criminal, give it 110%. When you get caught, don't tell on your family. Friends, don't tell on your friends and don't blame everybody else. Everything I've ever done wrong in my life, it's been because of me. Yeah, me too. I haven't blamed anybody. You know, it is what it is.
I always say, does anybody have a better bad idea?
No, I think...
You know, the modern world's difficult to navigate through, but like anything else, being brought up the way we were brought up with the values we learned growing up in the industries that we worked in, I think it's more valuable today to have that thought process of, you know, old school ways with modern society because, you know, everybody falls in love with anything that's convenient that doesn't take a lot of effort.
if that makes sense. Of course. Where we grew up where you had to provide a lot of effort to make changes and to actually be successful. And I think that's important. People have to understand the value of working hard, the value of maybe having some struggles in your life because it's going to make you the person you are further down the road. And you're going to actually appreciate things more.
So no, I don't think that's a hindrance at all. I think it's a strength, to be honest with you.
O'Shaughnessy and O'Hearn, I was a rigger. I was a steward. What does that mean? So a rigger is, you know, dealing with cranes, hoisting, moving heavy equipment, hauling heavy equipment around on tractor trails. Every day was different. So I always tell people, you know, what is a rigger? I'm like, well, it's like putting, you know, five pounds of shit in a two-pound bag and making it look good.
And that's what we did. Just got to stuff it in there. Like once, you know, for a Sunday, we could be hoisting air conditioning units by helicopter onto a building in Boston. And then the next day, we're moving a piece of art with a crane over the Museum of Fine Arts. And the next day, I might be hauling an oversized crane somewhere. So every day was different. You had to use your mind.
You had to use your common sense. And it was an apprenticeship program I went through. And I'm still on the seniority list today. We hold our seniority. So I haven't been there in 26 years. But before I retire, I'm going to clock in for a week just to get my six weeks of vacation. Like a true teamster.
And it was a funny story on how he passed away. So he was a man of few words. He threw compliments around like sewer caps, right? But he was a very proud man. He was very proud of his sons and everything else. And so he died. And, you know, typical, we go through his pockets, see where he stashed all his cash, like fooling around. And my mother went in a suit jacket of his, and he had a ticket.
to go see me get sworn in at the convention, never told anybody who was coming or anything. So it was pretty good, but he was a character. He was a type of guy, growing up, my mother raised three of us, three boys, and we're all very close in age. She raised her three younger brothers in the projects in Charlestown. And then she gets blessed with him as a husband and three of us.
Uh, it wasn't easy, but, um, you know, he was the type of guy you could go to him and say, Hey dad, I screwed up. He wouldn't scream and yell at you. All right, let's figure this out. Like he was always there that way where, you know, at times he would flip his lid, but, um, He was a man's man. He always taught us about loyalty, always taught us about integrity.
My mother was obviously the biggest influence in our life. So it was a great upbringing. Tough at times. I mean, a lot of tough love, not a lot of hugs. But at the end of the day, none of us ended up in jail, none of us ended up on drugs, and we've been pretty successful and lived a good life. So they did something right.
that's kind of gone now. Yeah. I mean, you look at, you know, take a snapshot of, Boston politics, 10 years ago, and go back even further, like 30 years, and see where we're at right now, it's a completely different landscape. Completely. Completely different landscape.
No, Rae Flynn, Tom Menino, Marty Walsh probably couldn't get elected today. No way, I agree. So, yeah, it's totally, totally different. You know, the priorities seem to have changed. And I think what changed in Boston, which is part of the problem...
that you see is that no one from boston that grew up in boston or in the boston area like medford where i'm from yeah everett somerville no one in cambridge no one that grew up there can afford to live there i know so what you have is you have all these transients and these people from the suburbs and out of state that grew up in rural areas their whole life now they want to be city people they move in here
And, you know, they're paying the high rents, they're paying the high costs, and they're basically controlling the narrative. And that narrative is not consistent with the Boston that I knew and that I grew up with. Boston was a blue-collar city that was very proud, very patriotic. Very. And now it's completely, you know, gone the other way.
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