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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Now, if you go down the seaport, South Boston, I mean, you go down the seaport and look, development's great for an area, but But it's going to be developed with the intent that people that are from there don't get forced out. They can afford to live there. The gentrification that Boston has seen over the last 10 years is crazy.
If you went to South Boston 25 years ago, where I used to report to work every day in South Boston, and you took a snapshot of the waterfront. There was nothing down there. Matter of fact, 1995 or 96, I was working rank and file. We were building a crane because they were getting ready to build a hotel right in the seaport, which wasn't the seaport that we know it as.
And I remember saying, why are they putting a hotel here? Who is actually going to come here?
I mean, we'd back in our cars, our vehicles to go to work and we'd have to look to make sure someone wasn't sleeping in the parking lot that you'd run over. That's how... how it's changed. But who would think that South Boston right now, I mean, they're getting $4,500 a month for studio apartment. And it's not people our age renting them.
It's 25, 26-year-olds that mommy and daddy are paying for them to live in the city. So it's changed dramatically. I mean, it's still a beautiful, clean city. The politics are crazy. They're far left on a lot of issues. And
you know i think people are more concerned with social issues than they are the economic issues right now well that's kind of the nicely put that's exactly what i'm trying to describe it got the city got a lot richer and nicer in some ways but crappier in other ways yeah the social issues are important right i get it and everybody should be able to have their own opinions on
Whatever those issues are, I mean, I think you and I probably have the same opinions on a lot of the social issues. But from what we do every day as representing working people and people in general is we want to make certain that people have the economic resources to buy a modest home, to afford tuition so their kids can go to school, and to plan for a very modest retirement.
That's not compromised by debt. And unfortunately, the Boston politics or the Massachusetts politics have taken a road down this social justice warrior path where we're not so concerned with the people on Main Street. We want to make sure that we're fighting these social justice issues.
Issues that do not put food on the table, do not keep gas prices normal, do not compromise people when they go into the grocery store. So a lot has changed, I think, as a result of this election. And look, this election was a perfect example of it. Think about the Democrats. And again, I'm a Democrat. Think about their whole narrative through this election. It was all social issues. Okay.
Our members who I know intimately, and look, some of them don't agree with me, some of them don't agree with our policies, and that's the beauty of living in America, right? You can have disagreements, you can have difference of opinions, but by talking to our members, we knew the concerns were,
The prices at the gas pumps, the prices at the grocery stores, and the ability to afford a home and maintain and keep that home. Exactly. And then you get into, you know, the issues are important. I get it, the social issues, but... I've got to live. I've got to put food on my table. And it was never so proven in this past election that the social issues are important, but they don't matter.
What matters is people, especially the working class, being able to make ends meet. Well, exactly.
No matter what. And, you know, the Democratic Party, and I've been very critical of them, and I'm going to continue to be very critical of them because I think it's important that they listen for once. They haven't listened in 20 years. Because they think they own you? They think they own everybody.
You know, instead of... When I have a conversation with you and I don't agree with you, my goal is to not get you to agree with me, but I want you to see that because I have a difference of opinion that it's not going to destroy a relationship and there's going to be many issues that you and I may be able to embrace together and maybe make some change. Right? This party, once you go against them...
They get so vindictive. The party, the Democrats now are acting the way that they used to accuse the Republicans 20 and 30 years ago. And they basically become that Republican party that they despised. Intolerant. Fell in love with corporate elitists. Well, I know. Right? Don't want to listen to their constituents. Right. They want to dictate how people should vote and how people should think.
And that's a problem. And I'm watching all this media, and I'm done with mainstream media. I am done with it, especially after the way it affected us during this election. You watch CNN. You watch MSNBC. That narrative was so scripted. And forget whether you're a political person or not, if you are Joe Q. Public or Jane Q. Public watching that coverage during the election, It was rigged.
It was scripted. And part of being an American is you should have the ability to listen to opinions and form your own and make your own decisions. That Main Street media has proven one thing, they are not relevant whatsoever. Oh, I know. And that's part of the problem. I mean, we've got to do a reset, Democratic Party especially.
I'll give you a perfect example. This is hilarious. And, you know, I think you know me by now. I call balls and strikes and I'm going to say what's on my mind regardless. So you're trying to the Democrats are trying to court us to endorse Joe Biden in January. And Joe Biden has been a good president for us, labor. Has he done everything we wanted? No, absolutely not.
Again, you get into, we fixed your pension. Great, thank you. Your first order of business, you shut down oil drilling, you shut down pipelines. I got 7,000 members that lost their jobs immediately, the keystone. So I started pointing out some of that stuff to them, which I was quiet about in the beginning. But you're out there jockeying for our support and they want us to endorse Biden in January.
All of Labor did. And I'm like, no, we're not doing that. We've got to talk to our members. We're going to make sure where our members are at. So we go through this whole winter getting pressure from people in the Democratic Party. And we stayed the course. No, we're not. We want to interview the candidates, which we've never done before.
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