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Wicked Radio 10-17: RIP Ace Frehley, No Kings But Yes Communists?, & Illinois Gov's Poker Win · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: You gotta always start off with the positive. Right you
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  Speaker 1: get it can set your mindset right. You gotta look
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  Speaker 1: at it the good way. Admit it to Friday. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a weekend on our hands. It's right over there.
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  Speaker 1: You can see it, you can smell it. We're so close.
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  Speaker 1: That's great news. We're gonna talk about what else is
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  Speaker 1: going on this weekend. Yes, we're gonna talk about the
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  Speaker 1: no Kings protests. If you're worried about this at all,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you should be for a couple of
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  Speaker 1: different reasons. First of all, it's losing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: steam already, and the second thing is who's behind it.
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  Speaker 1: They're losing power. Trust me on this one. Gotta tell
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  Speaker 1: you though, so bummed out last night as we lost
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  Speaker 1: another rock star. We're losing too many rock stars. And
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  Speaker 1: I think I've said this before. I was huge rock fan,
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  Speaker 1: huge kiss fan, Hugh J. Speerley fans. You can tell
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  Speaker 1: by the shirt. I didn't see this one coming. We're
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  Speaker 1: losing too many rock stars, which is a thing that happens,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and it's always sad. It's that's their lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not being replaced by new rock stars coming out.
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  Speaker 1: They're out there, but they're getting no promotion. No record
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  Speaker 1: labels are promoting them, and we need them. It's a
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  Speaker 1: massive if you want to look at it this way,
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  Speaker 1: rock and roll is a master, massive part of our
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  Speaker 1: freedom culture, if you want to look at it that way,
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  Speaker 1: not just being a fan. And we need it because
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  Speaker 1: if we don't have it otherwise, you have this asshole
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  Speaker 1: that's playing the Super Bowl and that's all we're left with.
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  Speaker 1: So al ripace freely, and we also have a story
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  Speaker 1: just to lighten things up at the end of this one,
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  Speaker 1: going to test all of our poker face uh detection
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  Speaker 1: skills because the governor of Illinois, JB. Pritzker, Big JB. Pritzker,
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  Speaker 1: who happens to be a billionaire by the way, so
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  Speaker 1: it's not that surprising on this end. He apparently won
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  Speaker 1: get this one point four million dollars in a poker
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  Speaker 1: game in Vegas. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a free country, it's his right, and he is
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  Speaker 1: a rich guy. But his explanation raises all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: red flags and it's just fun to poke fun at.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see about that, all right. Let's get right
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  Speaker 1: to it first, of all, welcome to your Friday Extra
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with me. As always, more and more of
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  Speaker 1: you I see you. Thanks for following, downloading, sharing, watching
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  Speaker 1: the replay, whatever you like to do. Thanks, I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: it as always. And the Wicked Radio live stream is
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  Speaker 1: always right here and whatever platform you're like, it's there.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I just got to talk about this,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not. At first I thought, when I talk
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  Speaker 1: about this, this is just gonna be a personal interest.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nobody's gonna care because I'm a fan. But
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  Speaker 1: it's bigger than that because the amount of outpouring of
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  Speaker 1: support from people of all different walks of life. The
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  Speaker 1: news coverage is scott and that's just an entertainment channels,
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  Speaker 1: but mainstream news coverage the news of Ace Freely Kiss guitarists,
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  Speaker 1: solo guitarists, solo artist passing yesterday at the age of
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  Speaker 1: seventy four. Boy did that make waves? And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I always tell you it is like something positive in
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  Speaker 1: dark times, and maybe that's the positive and the takeaway
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  Speaker 1: on this is that that guy made such an impact.
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  Speaker 1: And if you were a fan, or you love rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll and you love rock stars and you love
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  Speaker 1: that that you're not alone. But this hit me out
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  Speaker 1: out of the middle of nowhere, and it's that thing
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  Speaker 1: we go through. I first felt this when we lost
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  Speaker 1: Tom Petty a few years ago. What was that five
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  Speaker 1: years ago? I can't even remember. It's like when the
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  Speaker 1: second generation of rock stars, you know, and I'm gen X,
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  Speaker 1: When we start to lose those ones, man, that hits
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  Speaker 1: you hard. And we've always lost them early, right, always
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  Speaker 1: going back to Buddy Hawley and Eddie Cochran and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, all of them, all the stars,
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  Speaker 1: John Lennon, all the stars we lost early, but there
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  Speaker 1: was always something else coming up behind them, always somebody
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  Speaker 1: else inspired by them. Doesn't it seem like there's a
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  Speaker 1: lack of that now. We've always lost rock stars, but
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  Speaker 1: where are the new ones? Like this would have been
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  Speaker 1: made a lot better by new rock and roll coming up,
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  Speaker 1: but where is it? I said this when they announced
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  Speaker 1: Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl. We're left with things
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  Speaker 1: like that because record companies and producers and you know,
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  Speaker 1: people who will actually fund artists, they're not supporting rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll anymore. And I said this in the intro.
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  Speaker 1: I really believe this I think rock and roll as
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  Speaker 1: a as a means of entertainment is a massive part
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  Speaker 1: of our culture. It's a massive part of freedom Western
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  Speaker 1: culture America. It goes hand in hand with it. If
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  Speaker 1: we don't have that, if we don't have new rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll coming up through the ranks and supported and
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  Speaker 1: loved and appreciated, we're really missing something in our country. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it goes beyond that, So you know, I hope to
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  Speaker 1: god we have more of it. But this one hit
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  Speaker 1: me out of the middle of nowhere yesterday, because if
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  Speaker 1: you're a fan, you had known this a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. They said that ha'st freely had a fall
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  Speaker 1: at his house. But the joke with Kiss fans was
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  Speaker 1: he was always falling down on stage, just always has been.
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  Speaker 1: He's always been kind of a mess anyway, plus always
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  Speaker 1: kind of tipsy, especially when they're wearing platform boots. So
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't surprising. But then canceled a bunch of tour
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  Speaker 1: dates and you're kind of concerned. And then yesterday somebody
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  Speaker 1: sent me, as soon as it broke, the TMZ article
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  Speaker 1: about him being on life support, and I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: damn it, because TMZ whether or not whether or not
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  Speaker 1: you're even into that, or celebrity news, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: they usually get things right. They usually so that looked bad,
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  Speaker 1: and he did pass the age of seventy four from
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  Speaker 1: a brain bleed. We all know Ace Freely if you're
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  Speaker 1: of my generation, you're born in nineteen you know, late
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  Speaker 1: sixties or nineteen seventy older. I posted it on x
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  Speaker 1: here a little while ago, teasing what's coming up in
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  Speaker 1: the live stream. Everybody, every kid I know, had that
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  Speaker 1: poster on his wall and it was just so impact
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  Speaker 1: and it looks a lot like this. We know him
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  Speaker 1: as a player, but there's a lot more. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of that goes to how huge Kiss was in their heyday,
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  Speaker 1: Massive massive, and the costumes and the TV shows and
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  Speaker 1: the cartoons and all that crab absolutely, but more that
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  Speaker 1: what carried them through was the music and him. It
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  Speaker 1: is an inspirational guitarist. And I'll say this and it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like Bologne at first, and I'm just being a
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  Speaker 1: fanboy here. It really does. But you look at the
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  Speaker 1: reaction from people that you like, other bands, other musicians,
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  Speaker 1: all different genres. You look at this today and you
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  Speaker 1: tell me I'm wrong. Ace Freely, was that hurts to
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  Speaker 1: say now, the most influential guitarist of all time. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll stand by that. The most influential guitarist of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Not the most technically perfect, No, absolutely not. There's nobody
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  Speaker 1: who's ever picked up a guitar that has inspired other people,
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions and millions of other kids to pick
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  Speaker 1: up a guitar, including me. I can't see it right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I have a whole room for guitars. Nobody has
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  Speaker 1: inspired more people, and you can see that proven by
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  Speaker 1: the amount of people reaching out and just bummed out
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  Speaker 1: about it. Now, any current modern day rock artist you
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  Speaker 1: know of is bummed out about this, and it said
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  Speaker 1: how much he meant to them Rock obviously, metal, but
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  Speaker 1: all different genres. The most influential of all time. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about technical perfection either. You know, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be a master musician to be able to appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Even technically perfect guitarists or chiming in saying this guy
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  Speaker 1: was just something else because he was so unique and
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  Speaker 1: so inspirational. You know, they had battled back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: but I read a couple of years ago Paul Stanley,
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  Speaker 1: also of Kiss his book A couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he had this section I'll never forget talking about
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  Speaker 1: Ace Freely and he said, why was he so inspirational?
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  Speaker 1: And he said you could sing those solos? He goes,
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  Speaker 1: it was just it wasn't technically perfect, but everything he
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  Speaker 1: added had this touch and you can recognize exactly who
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  Speaker 1: it is anytime you hear him play. Just a real
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  Speaker 1: sad thing. But you want to talk about rock and
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  Speaker 1: roll attitude, we always hear this with this term thrown
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  Speaker 1: out erroneously all the time. Rock star. That guy's a
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  Speaker 1: rock star. Often somebody that's not even you know has
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with rock. Most of it is attitude
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  Speaker 1: and not just playing. Just listen to this for a second.
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  Speaker 1: This was a quote from Ace Freely before that. It
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  Speaker 1: kind of saved here, And I think this epitomizes everything
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  Speaker 1: about rock and roll and why I say it's so
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  Speaker 1: important to American Western culture. This is Ace Freely a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I never set my sights low.
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  Speaker 1: I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations
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  Speaker 1: they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take
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  Speaker 1: that step to see what I was capable of doing.
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  Speaker 1: Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a
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  Speaker 1: creative field. Short does. But if you don't have the
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  Speaker 1: balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans
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  Speaker 1: and Kiss fans are the greatest in the world. Ace
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  Speaker 1: Freely Go Easy. That's rock and roll. That's what it
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  Speaker 1: is right there, and that's why we need it in
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  Speaker 1: our culture. And it's such a shame too, because I remember,
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  Speaker 1: was it last month, two months ago? I was talking
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  Speaker 1: about this where the Lincoln Center Honors are coming up
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  Speaker 1: here in December. They're gonna honor Kiss, including Ace and
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  Speaker 1: all the past members, and he's not gonna be there.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be posthumous, and just such a shame. They
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  Speaker 1: sent out a nice dedication to him. But man, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it again. You prove me I'm wrong. The
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  Speaker 1: most influential guitarist of all time. And you gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: that at first and go, oh, that's ridiculous. There have
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  Speaker 1: been better. Wait a minute, you know what everybody knows,
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  Speaker 1: A's Freely. We need more rock stars support them, all right,
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  Speaker 1: what else is going on this weekend? Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Do you? What do you do for it? What do
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  Speaker 1: you do for the No Kings rally, you buy a costume?
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  Speaker 1: Is there? You know? Do you where do you stop
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  Speaker 1: by and pick up your pre paid for, pre printed
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  Speaker 1: out protest poster. It's coming major cities throughout the land tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It's the No King's Rally two point oh. They had
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  Speaker 1: the first one and that was you know, that was something.
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  Speaker 1: It was the same old protesters you see at these
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  Speaker 1: rallies these days now. And I want you to look
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  Speaker 1: out for a couple of different things this. If this
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  Speaker 1: concerns you, and I think less and less people are concerned,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry about it for a couple of different reasons.
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  Speaker 1: It's disturbing who's behind it, sure, but I wouldn't worry
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  Speaker 1: about the impact of this thing, to be completely honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, And I may be wrong. We may be
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  Speaker 1: coming in here on Monday morning talking about the No
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  Speaker 1: King's two point oh rally and it changed the course
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  Speaker 1: of history and it was amazing and was impactful and maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but I really doubt it. First piece of information to
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  Speaker 1: back that up is this. So I looked at Google
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  Speaker 1: trends and as of last night anyway, I didn't check
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  Speaker 1: out this more. But as of last night, search for
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  Speaker 1: No Kings protests, no King's Rally, no Kings anything on
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  Speaker 1: Google Trends, which is usually pretty reliable of what people
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  Speaker 1: are talking about and chattering about. It's down as of
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  Speaker 1: last night close to forty forty five percent. That's one thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, But if you notice this too, remember the
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  Speaker 1: first one, and you heard all the celebrities a list
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  Speaker 1: celebrities as they like to call themselves, promoting this thing
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  Speaker 1: and that were showing up for it, and they were
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: telling you to get there. Have you noticed something this
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  Speaker 1: time around that there's less quote unquote celebrities urging you
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  Speaker 1: to go to a No King's Protest rally organization, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell it is. There's less of them. And also
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: they're going to the they're going to the bench. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, they're going to the b listers or people
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  Speaker 1: you haven't seen in a while, not just celebrities or
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  Speaker 1: actors or singers, politicians too. Here's the first one. You
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  Speaker 1: remember this guy, remember this Obama official, Robert Reisch Russia
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  Speaker 1: used to call them Robert Reich Shaw. He has a
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  Speaker 1: he has a little video message for you, punt, and ten.
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  Speaker 2: Millions of people protested Trump's authoritarian agenda on New King's
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  Speaker 2: Day in June. On October eighteenth, I urge you to
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  Speaker 2: hit the streets again for No King's Day two point.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I haven't heard from that little little fellow
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  Speaker 1: in a long time, but he's out there now, and
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  Speaker 1: he used to be. They had the a lusters from
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  Speaker 1: the political side, from the swamp monsters. You know that
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  Speaker 1: the top notch swamp monsters were up for the last time.
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  Speaker 1: Now they gut guys like this. I thought that was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And from the celebrity circuit, you know, it's not Julia
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  Speaker 1: Roberts or George Clooney anymore. It's well, here's Genie smart Well.
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  Speaker 1: I always kind of liked, but she's a loon too.
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  Speaker 1: But this level kind of actress is promoting no Kings
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  Speaker 1: now this this time around, Hi, I.
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  Speaker 3: Urge everyone to try to find a No King's protest
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  Speaker 3: in their community, a peaceful protest, and join on October eighteenth.
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  Speaker 3: The current resident of the White House seems to think
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  Speaker 3: that he has everybody fool but he has made it
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  Speaker 3: abundantly clear that he admires dictators and wishes to be one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's high energy, isn't it Hi, I'd like you
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  Speaker 1: to interesting wording too. I'd like you to try to
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  Speaker 1: find a protest. All right, interesting enough, And we all
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  Speaker 1: know the joke. We've all said it now for months.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most obvious thing in the world. It's the
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  Speaker 1: most obvious line. But I'll say it again because it
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  Speaker 1: still works and it's still irrelevant, and you can use
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  Speaker 1: it for your friends at work that are going to
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  Speaker 1: this thing or support it. You know, you know, you're
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: at your computer type in a way and you hear
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  Speaker 1: them chattering about it. Oh yeah, I'm gonna go. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if the guy really was a king, you wouldn't be
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: able to have a no King's protest and you just
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: go back to type it away at work or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's that, But there's something else you can
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  Speaker 1: fight against on this if you care, if you care
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  Speaker 1: to even get involved. My advice, honestly is to let
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  Speaker 1: this thing blow by because I think it's going to
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: be low energy. I think it's going to be paid protesters,
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  Speaker 1: mostly old white Libs for the most part. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be impactful, but who knows. But here's
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  Speaker 1: something really interesting. Actually you should pay attention to on this.
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  Speaker 1: So you got b less b list celebrities, b lists,
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  Speaker 1: swamp monster politicians promoting it this time. It's a bad
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  Speaker 1: sign for them on the turnout, but who knows. Google
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  Speaker 1: trends are down for it. But this got revealed. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a post. This is from the New York
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  Speaker 1: City event of No Kings two point zero coming up
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow on Saturday. Now, I'm gonna, I'm gonna play this
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  Speaker 1: right and I'm sorry o audi only listeners, this is
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  Speaker 1: a visual. I'm gonna I'm gonna bring up a still
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  Speaker 1: shot for you and talk over it. Now, there's a
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  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of different uh sponsors and that they're
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  Speaker 1: calling themselves sponsors on this for this and they're all
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  Speaker 1: the typical I mean, just read from you, the l
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  Speaker 1: o P, the NYP, and you local a lot of
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  Speaker 1: unions by the way, climate defenders, Common Cause, Freedom, Socialist Party.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well that's interesting, okay. Also Third Act New York City,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the hell they are, New York Communities Change, New
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  Speaker 1: York Progressive Action Network, all right, you know, typical things
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  Speaker 1: you would expect. Whatever, that's fine, And again if you're
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  Speaker 1: audio only, I will just describe this. But for you
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  Speaker 1: visual listeners, you got to look at this. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bring up this poster right now because I zoomed
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  Speaker 1: in on all of these sponsors they call themselves sponsors,
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  Speaker 1: these organizations of the No Kings at least in New York.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to zoom in on what this one sponsor
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  Speaker 1: is and their logo which is right in there that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mention yet. Right there, if you could see it,
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  Speaker 1: next to something called fun and the People's Forum, a
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  Speaker 1: red one with the hammer and the sickle in the
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  Speaker 1: hammer around it is CPUSA CPUSA front and center as
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  Speaker 1: an admitted sponsor the No Kings rally, at least in
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  Speaker 1: New York. Had to look it up because people were
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  Speaker 1: telling me this was there, and yes, that is the
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  Speaker 1: Commune Party of America CPUSA. That's their logo. They're out
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  Speaker 1: there on their online socially saying they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: part of this thing in they're there, which is fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to me, not surprising, just fascinating that they're so outward
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  Speaker 1: about it. Now you've gotten in the same city. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a guy last night that was on the debate
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  Speaker 1: stage in a vowed communist. Some would call him a
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  Speaker 1: jie hottist Mamdani, who's gonna win that election. So you've
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: got that guy not hiding his fact that you know
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  Speaker 1: where his political leanings are at all. He used to
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: be a bad word. He used to be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a communist, but I don't want to tell anybody.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be hidden. Now they're loud and proud.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're putting their logo on posters. Where they used
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: to hide in the background before and just used to
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  Speaker 1: funnel money towards this kind of thing and organize it
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  Speaker 1: with their organizational skills. Now they're on posters for this
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  Speaker 1: confirmed CPUSA Communist Party of the USA as part of
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: the No King's rally. I'm sure throughout the country, but
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: at least we know for sure we have facts now
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: in New York City. So you're putting together a protest
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: that says no King, but yes communists. Isn't that fascinating?
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: So if you want to again this is this is
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: complete personal choice. I would just ignore it, let it
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: blow by, and let it die out because it's already
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: losing energy. But if you wanted to actually have an
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: argument with somebody about this and say no Kings, because
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: no one should be a king. Just say that. They well,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you don't want kings, but you're in favor of favor
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: of communists because the Communist Party of the America is
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: sponsoring this thing. They're a sponsor, and someone's gonna say, no,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: that's not true. This is about freedom and America and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: oh okay, well, just so you know, you can look
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: it up yourself if you want to engage in that. Me,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I just let it blow by. I think this thing
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: is going to go away. I think what you're going
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to see here is the same paid protesters. And one
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: of the telltale signs of that is pre made signs,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: like we saw it the first one, pre printed out,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: and they hand them out on the way out. If
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you dig a little deeper, people who look into this
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: thing find the same cell phone tracker check ins at
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: the same protest throughout the country. They actually can tell
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: that they're the same people that go to all the protests.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Are usually a sign that they're paid. And sometimes you
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: see the same exact protesters at all these things, which
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: means they're paid. And it's all phony and not as
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: big as you think it is. But that's one thing.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: It's what it is. But I would to take the
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: energy out of this thing. They're already taking it out
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: of the energy out of it themselves. I'd let it
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: blow by. But that's just me. Who else Again, I
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: may be wrong on money. We may come in here
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, that was like, oh boy,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: they're taking over. That was the biggest protest of all time.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: But I don't think so. Who knows. Before we go
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: into the weekend. Let's laugh at one more thing. It's
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: been some tough news. Let's laugh at this. So JB.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Pritzker speaking of No Kings, he's one of the organizers
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: in Chicago of this thing. He's the guy fight the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: mayor of the governor of Illinois who's fighting federal troops
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: going into Chicago. There's no crime here, there's no problem
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: at all. And he Trump being an authoritarian. Look, he's
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: absolutely useless. But Aby Pritsker is also a billionaire. It
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: happens to me, and there's nothing wrong with that. Well,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the story broke coming out of Illinois that he was recently,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: pretty recently in Vegas. Nothing wrong with that. And he
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: was at a poker tournament charity, he says, and he
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: won one point four million dollars. Again, no problem whatsoever
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: on that. In fact, I didn't think anything of it
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: until I saw his explanation of this, because you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: they kept on hammering him with this, with the questions.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: It's like, Governor, how did you manage to win one
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: point four million dollars? Here's his explanation. Now, I don't
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: know much about it. I like playing cards, but the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: most I've ever won is like a couple of hundred bucks.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I like blackjack. That's about it. But this seems to me.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't think anything of a razor red flag until
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I saw his explanation. This seems to me to be
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the worst polker face and explanation of all time.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: But you beat it, job, and I've explained this, or
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: at least we did in the statement. You know that
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I went on vacation with my wife and friends. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: was incredibly lucky you have to be to end up ahead, frankly,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: going to a casino anywhere. It was in Las Vegas.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: And I like to play cards, and so you know
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: that I founded a charitable poker match here in Chicago
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: called the Chicago Poker Challenge that raises millions has raised
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: millions of dollars for the Holocaust Museum here and particularly
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: to stand up for civil rights. That's much of what
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: the Holocaust Museum does. And so anyway, that's all I
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: can say about it. I mean I had had fun
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: doing it. I encourage people to come to the state
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: of Illinois and gamble in our casino.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I like that part of it where he actually says
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: because they have certain casinos a lot of states have
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: is where you can gamble.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He turned that around and he turned into but you know, listen,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I encourage people to come to Stale, Illinois and come
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: to our illegal casinos here and gamble all you want.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: You could win like I did. Here's the thing. First
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: of all, the highest stakes at a Vegas casino. I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: did some research. As you can imagine, this is just grok.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: But I thought it was fun because that seems like
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: an awful amount of money. That would be like record
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: setting to win that Eddie Poker tournament anywhere. Let's go
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to Vegas, for example. The highest stakes in Vegas at
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Caesar's where they allow a max of fifty thousand per hand.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: That's like the tops unless there's some sort of a
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: private deal where they bring in the whales like sorry.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: According to Grok, again, you need to have a starting
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: stack of ten million dollars to play a minimum two
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: hundred hours to win one point five million, and again
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: he won one point four million. There's a lot of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: stuff that's not adding up on this. Again, I didn't
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: think of anything of it until his explanation, because if
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you saw the video there he's kind of like he's
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: got that cheapest grinned and he's looking down and it
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: looks like liar face to me. You know, I don't know.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not a body language expert, but he seems like
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: he's full of crap, and it wouldn't surprise me. Something
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: fishy going on there. But sometimes you explain too much.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And that's an example of that guy. So you're gonna
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: have to make up your own mind. I don't know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: just something to laugh at all, right, sad day if
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you're into freedom and rock and roll and all that stuff,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: as we lost as Freeley. But again, I'll say it again,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and I think this is a call to action. I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: seriously mean this, rock and roll and freedom and that
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: attitude is a massive part of Western culture and freedom
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and we need it and we're losing it. We've always
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: lost rock stars, always young ages too. Ace was seventy
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: four and that's sad. But still, where are the new
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: rock stars? Where are they? When you see them, when
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: you hear them, when you find a new band, promote it,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: You find a new band in your local city at
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a club, support them, because we need rock and roll
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in our culture and we need rock stars otherwise, you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: know what, we're left with that asshole who's playing the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: super Bowl coming up. Nobody wants that. Bring the rock
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: because rock will never die. But they're not getting promoted
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: by any labels. They're really not or promoters. So it's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: gonna have be up to you and me to find
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the new rock stars because they're out there somewhere. They're
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: just not getting any love. And the no King's protest,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry about it. Let the energy draw out
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of that thing on its own. They're killing it on
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: they're killing it themselves. There's no energy to this thing,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: so who knows? Most important thing? Have a great, safe,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: free weekend. Enjoy yourself, enjoy your time, enjoy your family,
• 22:19
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• 22:22
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• 22:28
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• 22:31
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• 22:33
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