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George Borrello | 06-26-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: George Burrello, our state senator from Chautaqua, Chautauqua, where I
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  Speaker 1: spent a summer as a seven year old and lost
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  Speaker 1: almost all my clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Time in Chautauqua too, did What haven't you been?
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  Speaker 1: My parents rented a house near the big amphitheater there,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful spot. Unbeknownst to them, there was a big organ
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  Speaker 1: in that amphitheater and someone was practicing it, usually very
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  Speaker 1: late at night. But you know, actually I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: my time there, Senator, but I did lose a number
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  Speaker 1: of my items from the day camp, and my mother
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  Speaker 1: is still very upset about this. If you find a
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  Speaker 1: blue windbreaker from nineteen seventy seven, please call me.
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  Speaker 3: Is a Star Wars wind breaker?
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps it was, No, I wish it were. But it's
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  Speaker 4: a beautiful area there. Forty nine years ago, yeah, about.
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  Speaker 1: Forty almost forty nine years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, would
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  Speaker 1: have been forty nine years ago. But a fun fact
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  Speaker 1: also from the Jamestown area, Lucille Ball, Correct's correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, In fact, we have the National Comedy Center in
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  Speaker 3: downtown Jamestown. It is an amazing place. If you have
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  Speaker 3: not been to Western New York, go to Jamestown go
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  Speaker 3: to the National Comedy Center and every year in early
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  Speaker 3: August we had the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival with a
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  Speaker 3: list comedians. We had Jerry Seinfeld, actually this year Jerry Seinfeld,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Sebastian Mescalco. A list comedians in the little
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  Speaker 3: community of Jamestown, New York. It's an amazing place.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: One of my freedom two fifty the decisions that made
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  Speaker 1: America features was on Lucille Ball because she was an
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  Speaker 1: incredibly smart businesswoman.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So, first, when she was still married to Desi Arnez,
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  Speaker 1: they decided to create a production company to create I
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  Speaker 1: Love Lucy, and then that was kind of sold to
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  Speaker 1: see so, in other words, she took control of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they got divorced, she became the first
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  Speaker 1: woman to run a real studio in Hollywood, and that
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  Speaker 1: studio was responsible for, oh, a couple of little things
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  Speaker 1: like Star Trek Mission Impossible that no one else would
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  Speaker 1: have produced.
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  Speaker 6: She remaned the name of the company, does he loop right?
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  Speaker 4: Well she is dead, yeah, nineteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 5: You're not going to murder anyone today, right? You murdered
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  Speaker 5: Linda yesterday?
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  Speaker 6: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very proud of the fact that we immediately corrected it.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't even go to commercial break.
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  Speaker 6: I accidentally clashed my head and I said, she dead.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, he's a murderer. I'm telling you sadly.
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  Speaker 1: She is suffering from an incredibly rare disease that is incurable.
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  Speaker 1: We certainly are praying for her. But yes, I apologize
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  Speaker 1: once again. She's one of my favorite singers and for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, I guess I thought she had passed away.
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  Speaker 1: But Linda Rossid is still with us and makes she
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  Speaker 1: get better.
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  Speaker 5: Well, listen, today's our last day here Earth Wind and Fire,
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  Speaker 5: and I just want to say good morning to everyone.
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  Speaker 5: It's been an incredible week filling in for SIT and
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  Speaker 5: friends said, thank you for trusting us with your audience.
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  Speaker 5: Anytime you need to take off, we're ready to take
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  Speaker 5: over again.
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  Speaker 4: Well you know, there you go. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: One of the big things that people are talking about
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  Speaker 1: here in New York City this morning is this decision
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  Speaker 1: by the city to freeze the rent which look obviously
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  Speaker 1: rents are very high in the city. We're not being
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  Speaker 1: I do believe there's time for compassion. But if you
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  Speaker 1: think this is compassionate to the tenants, anything longer than
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  Speaker 1: this one year. You're being very foolish. Their rent wal echeck.
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  Speaker 6: You know what would be fair?
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  Speaker 7: And I'm telling this that every business person out there,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, I understand you know, uh, the socialists
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  Speaker 7: want to play the violin that. Oh say you were
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  Speaker 7: doing something for you? All right, you want to reduce
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  Speaker 7: the rents, you want to reduce price increases. Well, why
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  Speaker 7: don't you reduce the real estate taxes to compensate for
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  Speaker 7: not being able to raise the.
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  Speaker 4: Rents and the water charges are going up?
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  Speaker 2: John, hit the nail on the head.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what.
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  Speaker 5: Don't increase the expenses and lower the rent It makes
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  Speaker 5: no sense.
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  Speaker 6: Low.
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  Speaker 7: If you want to lower the rents, will lower the rents,
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  Speaker 7: lower the real estate taxes.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean it makes sense, right, of course, this
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  Speaker 6: is common sense. George Burrello.
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  Speaker 7: You you're a state senator, but you're a businessman too.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, you know, New York City's unique, right,
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  Speaker 3: You've got this huge amount of people in a very
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  Speaker 3: small space essentially, and rents are high. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a supply and demand thing. But what you're doing is
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  Speaker 3: you're you're basically saying we're gonna limit your ability to
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  Speaker 3: care for these properties, to do the upkeep that you need.
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  Speaker 3: And also as you as you said, John, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of other expenses here, uh, and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: them are burden burdens on the property owners. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, look at you want to know who the
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  Speaker 3: worst landlord in New York City is nitscha, Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The New York City Housing Authority is the worst. It's
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  Speaker 3: a slum lord, the biggest slum lord in the city.
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  Speaker 3: So what's being done about that? And you're gonna drive
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  Speaker 3: more people out of the private property business, And that's
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  Speaker 3: what they want. They want to confiscate property. This is
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  Speaker 3: the socialist agenda. And you do that by death, by
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  Speaker 3: a thousand cuts. We're not gonna let you make money.
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  Speaker 3: We're not gonna, you know, do let you do the
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  Speaker 3: things you need to do. We're gonna convert your buildings,
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  Speaker 3: uh to all electric at huge expenses. So you want
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  Speaker 3: to save you want to make a rent more affordable,
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  Speaker 3: let's not. Let's not make everybody convert their buildings to
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  Speaker 3: all electric, which is gonna be a huge cost.
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  Speaker 1: Us apply and demand if you want the price of
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  Speaker 1: something that where demand isn't isn't elastic. I mean, people
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  Speaker 1: are gonna want to live in a house, right or
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  Speaker 1: an apartment. That's not gonna change. You have to increase
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  Speaker 1: supply that period. And you're not going to increase supply
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  Speaker 1: by raising the costs and all the regulatory barriers, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the only people who really have
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  Speaker 1: the money in the capital to build more are the
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  Speaker 1: higher end builders. So what you do is let them
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  Speaker 1: build more, because then the higher end now will become
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  Speaker 1: a little less expensive and although and it will trickle down.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way that works. If you tell everyone, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll let you build in New York City, but it's
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  Speaker 1: got to be two hundred dollars a month round, I
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  Speaker 1: know it's gonna build.
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  Speaker 5: I have a different take on this whole thing here.
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  Speaker 5: I think that the socialists are playing the cards right.
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  Speaker 5: I believe that wealthy people should play their cards now right.
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  Speaker 5: The pr card, the public relations, the public not only
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  Speaker 5: the public relations card, the human the human side of
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  Speaker 5: a billionaire, of a multi millionaire.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you want few buildings.
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  Speaker 5: Lower the rents a little bit and write it off,
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  Speaker 5: write it off. Because it's legal to do that. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I bought a truck cost me around ninety thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 5: I was gonna sell it. Instead, I'm gonna donate it
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  Speaker 5: to one of WABC's advertisers who does a lot of
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  Speaker 5: good things there.
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  Speaker 2: What's the name cars for Kids?
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  Speaker 5: Right, I'm gonna call cars for Kids, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: donate the truck.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm gonna write it off.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 5: It's simple. So let's hit them back harder than they
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  Speaker 5: hit us.
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  Speaker 1: You make a good point, but not everyone has the
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  Speaker 1: income to write off, you know that.
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  Speaker 4: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm talking about them, talking about the big guys,
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  Speaker 5: the guys.
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  Speaker 6: Listen.
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  Speaker 5: You got a Mott Haven in the Bronx. You know
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  Speaker 5: they built that up tremendously. You have like seventy eight
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  Speaker 5: thousand apartments and they're all empty. Why because the rents
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  Speaker 5: are too high. People in that area can't afford it,
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  Speaker 5: and the gentrifiers haven't gotten there yet. The socialists have
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  Speaker 5: not gotten to my right. So those landlords should lower
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  Speaker 5: the rents, make them affordable, rather than four thousand, charge
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  Speaker 5: two thousand and write the rest off.
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  Speaker 1: I have an even more capitalist idea Fernando and Senator
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  Speaker 1: Barella and John. I think you know, one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that's incredibly valuable about a city like New York City,
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  Speaker 1: and there's very few other places like this anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: this country, is you have massive potential foot traffic by
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  Speaker 1: your retail property. And I know Amazon is taking over
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things, but foot traffic is even more
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  Speaker 1: valuable because of that. If I had that kind of
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  Speaker 1: money to invest in new buildings and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: one of my great public relations move would be to
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  Speaker 1: have lower rents but for the tenants, for the people
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  Speaker 1: living there, but for retailers. I can say, listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: guaranteeing you a large building where there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of foot traffic to your store, and make
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  Speaker 1: my money back with the commercial rep You know what.
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  Speaker 2: Just write the whole thing off.
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  Speaker 5: Give them, give them businesses that give them boldegas, give
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  Speaker 5: them supermarkets that they can come in and shop to,
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  Speaker 5: give them restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: You know what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 5: You donate to causes where people steal eighty percent of
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  Speaker 5: your donation. You know there are organizations not for profits.
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  Speaker 5: You donate one thousand dollars, they use eighty eighty eight
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  Speaker 5: hundred dollars for their expenses, and they spend twenty thousand
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  Speaker 5: on what their mission is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about a free market thing that's happening
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  Speaker 1: without any socialism, that is also helping our consumers this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the price of oil, where we just
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  Speaker 1: briefly dip to the sixty eight dollars a barrel level.
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  Speaker 4: All the way. I mean, almost half of what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Just a couple of months ago, a month and a
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  Speaker 1: half ago, whatever it was when we were at one twenty.
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  Speaker 1: And the national average for one gallon of gas now
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  Speaker 1: at three dollars and ninety cents. That's thirty five out
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  Speaker 1: of the last thirty six days it's gone down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't like these speculators when they drive the price up,
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  Speaker 1: but they've been driving it down fast. And July fourth,
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  Speaker 1: next weekend, I think we're going to see a handle
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  Speaker 1: much lower than three ninety by fast enough.
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  Speaker 5: They're not lowering fast enough, and the President is right
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  Speaker 5: in saying that they're not lowering.
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  Speaker 2: It fast enough.
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  Speaker 1: But it is lower. We can at least we have
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  Speaker 1: good on that. And you know, this is not free.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot of people say freeze the prices.
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  Speaker 1: If frozen the price at four, we'd be stealing money
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  Speaker 1: from our own people right now.
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  Speaker 4: So let it keep going down.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you think it's going down fast enough is a
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  Speaker 1: different argument, but definitely we're talking about But still, look
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  Speaker 1: where at sixty you know, we're probably gonna get back
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  Speaker 1: down to sixty eight in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 4: This is a good development.
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  Speaker 1: And even though Iran attacked once again, what did we
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  Speaker 1: all say when the when the agreement was made, not
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  Speaker 1: if Iran will break it, it's just when they'll break it.
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  Speaker 1: And they attacked a commercial ship in the Strait of
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  Speaker 1: horn Moves yesterday afternoon. Going into the evening, oil shot
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  Speaker 1: up briefly, but then they.
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  Speaker 7: Thought that let's get distrained. We straightened it that last
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  Speaker 7: night at five o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: You did good.
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  Speaker 7: The truth is that it's not day probably a single
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  Speaker 7: you know, and we had Katie mcfallin on last night.
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  Speaker 7: It's probably a single individual that had an extra drone.
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  Speaker 7: You can't eliminate. It wasn't a massive attack. It was
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  Speaker 7: one drone, one cargo ship. There's always gonna be how
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  Speaker 7: do you say.
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  Speaker 6: It in the Brooklyn Show? You a schmuck or schmuck.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's always gonna be a schmuck somewhere that has
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  Speaker 7: one drone left.
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  Speaker 6: And what's the start of coms?
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  Speaker 1: Does this all the time, by the way, one person
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  Speaker 1: fires a rocket sometimes and that's it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and you're never gonna you can never get one
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  Speaker 7: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, you know, one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 6: But you know what happens.
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  Speaker 4: The markets agree with you too.
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  Speaker 6: They forged the price of will the dollars up two
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  Speaker 6: dollars right back down. You know how much money that is?
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  Speaker 6: Two dollars.
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  Speaker 2: They messed up your prediction.
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  Speaker 4: They messed up from time nothing to my going back.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, but but this is what it is. So I
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  Speaker 7: tell all people that kneeling in the markets, don't panic
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  Speaker 7: over nonsense.
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  Speaker 6: Guys. You know, stuff happens, and stuff is always gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the markets are always worried about something. But you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: if you go to the gas, if you go to
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  Speaker 1: the gas pump in most of the I mean down
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  Speaker 1: to three seventy by me. And I told you if
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  Speaker 1: you asked me about a mid grade yesterday for an now,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't do mid grade, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Thee Yeah, yeah, I don't know you cheese.
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  Speaker 1: I texted you yesterday and I think I said it
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  Speaker 1: was only four oh six for mid grade at my stations.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you shop around for gas, you drive a mile
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  Speaker 5: to save a gallon.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 7: I know those people that drive two miles spend twenty
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  Speaker 7: cents in in extra fuel, but they saved twelve cents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's Jake.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, I got I have principle where I live.
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  Speaker 4: I actually had.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, you know, Jake, I've gotta confess I do
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  Speaker 5: the same thing I should have gotten.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta I know where the.
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  Speaker 5: Cheapest gas stations are, and if it's three four miles
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  Speaker 5: away from me, I still go.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't do the psychologically ten.
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  Speaker 5: Cents that you spend on let's say twenty gallons, it's
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  Speaker 5: two dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, No, what I what I do is
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  Speaker 1: something similar to that, which is, I know the cheapest
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  Speaker 1: gas station in my neighborhood, and I make sure that
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  Speaker 1: when I'm near that area anyway. For another thing, that's
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  Speaker 1: when I fill up, no matter how much. So even
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  Speaker 1: if I have only a quarter of a tank left
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  Speaker 1: to fill up, I'll go.
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  Speaker 5: Then you don't drive that much you know what, I
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  Speaker 5: follow the lead from the cab drivers. The cab drivers
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  Speaker 5: know exactly where to go and when to go and
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  Speaker 5: when to go, and they do their thing the right way.
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  Speaker 2: So listen.
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  Speaker 5: Cab drivers should be listening to WABC every morning so
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  Speaker 5: that they get the latest on gas prices, on oil prices,
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  Speaker 5: so that they get the latest on who's here.
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  Speaker 2: In the studios.
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  Speaker 5: You know they I guarantee you that they are so
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  Speaker 5: happy that thunder, I mean, earth, wind and fire are
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  Speaker 5: here this week.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, we're.
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  Speaker 5: Turning over the studio to sit again.
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  Speaker 4: Stay.
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  Speaker 1: Senator George Morella is with us as well in studio,
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  Speaker 1: and Senator, you know, we had you on the phone
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago to talk about the Republican
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  Speaker 1: Party in the state where you're one of the spokesmen for.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, Fernando and I talked about something just
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  Speaker 1: off the year before the show started, which with some
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  Speaker 1: of these socialist candidates winning these congressional primaries, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is very frightening, especially this Daria V. Chevalier, who
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  Speaker 1: says she wants to wipe her hands with the American flag.
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  Speaker 1: She's viciously anti Semitic and I'll say that Sid would
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  Speaker 1: say the same. I know he would say the same.
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  Speaker 1: Could somebody like Andreano Spai who lost this primary, would
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  Speaker 1: you know, just as a political expert like yourself, Senator Burrello,
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  Speaker 1: should he run as an independent in the general election?
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  Speaker 6: Do what doing?
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Cuomo?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and as a Republican I love to see him
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  Speaker 3: do that because that'll split the vote and put it
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  Speaker 3: in the hands of the Republicans. So, okay, give them
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  Speaker 3: a chance for Republican strategy. But look, it was not
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  Speaker 3: just congressional candidates. Yeah, we had candidates in the Senate,
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  Speaker 3: in the Assembly.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I know people, everybody focuses on DC and and
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  Speaker 3: and Congress, and certainly it's very important, but your everyday life,
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  Speaker 3: it's far more impacted by by what happens in Albany
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  Speaker 3: than what happens in Washington. And the people that were
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  Speaker 3: that won these primaries in a very low turnout, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, very low, you know, ten percent of the
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  Speaker 3: registered Democrats in some cases. So and by the way,
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  Speaker 3: this is from the party of you know, voter suppression
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  Speaker 3: and you know so, but yet they're they're they're making
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  Speaker 3: decisions on one in tent of their of their voters.
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  Speaker 1: You know, making a which this day afternoon in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the summer is a form of voter suppression
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  Speaker 1: by Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: And that and by the way, that was when when
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  Speaker 3: Democrats took control, that was one of the things they changed.
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  Speaker 3: They moved the primaries from September to June, and and
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  Speaker 3: then also having to collect signatures on petitions. Uh in
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  Speaker 3: you know in February and March, which where I live,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's pretty darren cold.
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  Speaker 1: September eleventh, the day of the attack, was a primary
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  Speaker 1: day here in New York. People forget that they had
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  Speaker 1: to redo it, but yes, it used to be in September,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: and it was a little bit more in people's minds
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: and conscious people were art it's school, kids were at school.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, the regular day, day to day stuff. Where
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: you represent. Let's get a little bit more local, because
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: all politics is local. You represent said we you know,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: we made our jokes about to talk on my Missy
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: clothing and Jamestown.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: All what I mean.
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: You know, beautiful country.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful country. You have a lot of celebrities
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: who own property around there and things like that. But
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: and that's great maybe for some some things, but what
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: are the major economic issues there that that that might
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: resonate for for everyone us around the country. I mean,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: this is our chance to kind of tap into a
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: non city type of politics and economics.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: You know, most of New York State is rural. The
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: number one industry in New York State, believe or not,
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: is agriculture. People think it's financed, but it's actually agricultures. Yes, yeah, well,
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: you know, grapes. So, you know, our concerns are like
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: everyone else, the loss of population, the fact that our
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: children are leaving. You know, I speak a lot at
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: schools and I speak to you know, your government that
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Buffalo area.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: So I mean, I mean how many people were in
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: Buffalo forty years ago and how many are now?
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot less.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Well, and I'll tell you this. You know, the the
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: the population loss state in general, but it's been particularly
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: hard in upstate New York. You know, and people still
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: there's no jobs there. That's really not true. We have jobs,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: we don't have we don't have people have the skills
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: to fill the jobs that are open. We need more
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: people that are in the trades, you know, people that
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: are there welders and plumbers and carpenters. There's a severe
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: shortage of these, and we're trying to push back in
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: the sense of trying to get kids into the stem
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: and steam. Look, I come from a family of plumbers,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: my father and my grandfather. You know, I didn't want
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: to go into the plumbing business. My grandfather, my father,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: they wanted me to go to college. We've been telling
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: kids that from now for forty years. And look what
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: we have now. We have a shortage of people in
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: the skilled trades. And you know, Microw talks about this
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: all the time, you know, and we don't have so
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: we have jobs, but we're telling people is don't go
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: to work. Don't go to work. It's okay, you can
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: live off the tax payers. The biggest expense I spent
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: ten years in county government. I was also a county
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: executive of Chautauqua County before I was a senator. The
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: biggest expense by far for county government, which is property
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: property tax payers, is welfare. It's Medicare. Excuse me, it's Medicaid.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: It's the fact that we have the safety net in
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: New York State. People doesn't what they understand what that means,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: so the federal government limits you to five years of
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: being on welfare. After five years, the federal government will
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: no longer fund it. Then we go into states like
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: New York that have what they call the safety net,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: which means forever you can live on welfare, multi generational
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: families that have been on welfare. Imagine somebody who you're
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: trying to tell a kid to go to work who's
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: never seen his parents or grandparents work. That's the problem
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: that we have, and that's a problem, you know, particularly here.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I want to hit I want to hit on so
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: a couple of things, both good news and bad news.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: The thing about the children leaving, now, this is something
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: that is very much one of the undercurrents of the
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: whole migrant crisis thing. People are asking me all the time,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: what is somebody Somali's going to Minnesota and Maine for well,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I used to work in Maine. Fana is going to
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: make fun of me bang or Man I lived and
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: work there. That is an aging population. The children are leaving,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: and you better believe that there are businesses and even
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and government people as well who are well. They might
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: be illegal, they may not be, but it's least it's
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: warm bodies coming into our population. Is there a is
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: there something like that going on? But before you answer
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: that question, Buffalo, to answer John's question, the population is
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: less than half of what it was in nineteen fifty.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: So it's half less than half.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: That's a big dumb And we also lost you know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: that used to be a steel city as well, like Pittsburgh,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of stills, car industry and those all those
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: all left.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: But Buffalo is having a lot is still having a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: lot of a business resurgence because the electric power there
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: is relatively cheaper because of Niagara Falls. So first the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: bitcoin miners plowed into Buffalo, bought vacant buildings and put
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: bitcoin mining servers into a lot of buildings. Now, because
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of AI, Buffalo is seeing a tremendous I mean, I
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have some classmates of mine in high school who are
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: buying every building they can buy in Buffalo.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Same thing in Cleveland. So there is hope, right, there's hope.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: That well there was until they passed an AI moratorium
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: here you know, at the end of session. Okay, you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: here's no other you know, so AI is the new boogeyman. Okay,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Data centers they don't want data centers. Now, who's they?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: They are, quite frankly, the socialists, the people on the
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: left that are in charge. You know, we passed this
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: moratorium because we don't have enough power. Yeah, we don't
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: have power because we have horrible energy policy here in
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: New York State. We don't enough power because you know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: we've shut down reliable baseload power. So who's the new
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: boogeyman data centers? Yeah, and so so all all those speculators,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: we've basically outlawed their ability to employ people, to create jobs.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: You know, there's there's a talk of a data center
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: in my district this that could create one hundred and
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: twenty five high paying jobs in a very poor rural area.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: It's going to provide needed funding to complete a major
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: water project, and it's gonna be transformational. But right now,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: if the governor science is more to warm, it's gonna
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: you know, that's it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be done.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And State Senator Bauh, you know who is paying the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: money in these anti data center campaigns, China.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: China's right.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: That's the part that you know, you know, look at
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: over the years, we've had a lot of useful idiots
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: here in the United States, and the new useful idiot
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: is the one who's who's standing up and rallying against
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: these things. And by the way, you know, I'm not
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's pro I'm not trying to be
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: a pro data center, but i am pro growth. Also,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: we don't have the ability in New York State forces
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: down the throats of our rural communities all these boondogle
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: green energy projects, wind and solar and battery storage. We
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: have the Office of Renewable Energy Siting o RES, which
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: can come into a community and just roll over local opposition,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: local zoning laws. They can they can cancel rollover DC regulations,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: you know, wetland regulations. Because you know, that's the crisis
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: that we're trying to address here, which is again it's
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: just an investment scam, is what it really is. But
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: yet with data centers, which are a much smaller footprint,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: which are going to create much more economic impact, we're
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: going to shut those down. That's the hypocrisy.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Out of all money, Fernando, this is I mean that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you're the people that you're always so much in connection with,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the podego owners, the cab drivers and things like that
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: they may this is a world that they may not
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: be able to really truly understand as far as like
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: these data centers and the fact that if we don't
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: get the power, we're not going to have the gas
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: station or the food coming from. You know, agriculture is
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the number one and those pdegos need to get those
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: fruits and vegetables from somewhere.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: They do and listen, we're always shopping around for where
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: to where where we can buy stuff for less? Right, Uh, Jamestown?
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: How far is Jamestown? Senator from from New York City?
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: New York City.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a I'll be finding out in a few.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Minutes because IM gonna be I'm oh, you've been in
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the city.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I've been in the city here, but I do actually
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: drove this trip, but it's a it's a good six
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and a half seven hours. It's it's a long way
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: from New York City, and again, New York's a huge state.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: When you listen to w ABC on the radio, the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: drive is much shorter it is, and I've got I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: have the app on my phone so i can listen
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Probably by the.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: End of Brian kill Neeeds Show, you'll be you'll be
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: back home something like that. But no, that's a that's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: an important factor.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Look, you know, Judge Weinberg has entered the studios.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: All rise the Judge.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: I have his seat, favorite Senator, how are you?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're on, You're on, judge, Judge, we were just
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: talking about this rent freeze decision.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: Totally illegal, totally illegal.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: And but hey said, no, I mean all jumping around.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: I mean, uh, the the only person on the board, Judge,
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: tell us about the person on the board.
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: The person on the board is a the way the
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: board is constituted, you have representatives from landlords, from tenants
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: and so called independence. And what happened was a number
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: of Adams people resigned. Mundommie packed the board with his people.
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: They were forced to resign.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: That hurt. That that may.
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: That may, that may may not be. But but let's
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: let's be clear. They did resign and Mondomie did pack
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: the board. So what happened was he had this one lawyer,
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: her name was Christina Smith, she's the landlord representative, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: she said that this was an unfair practice. They never
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: looked at the conditions that the landlords were facing, that
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: this was a hardship to them. They never did what
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: they had to do lawfully, that this whole process, in
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: fact of hearing the vote last night, it was all
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: it was all fix is all nonsense. It's all charade.
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: It was a predetermined result, and she does not want
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: to be part of this charade or this.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Right now, let me ask you before you came, what
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: I said was if the city wants to reduce rents
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: or reduce increases, then then you should reduce real estate taxes.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Of course they're doing the opposite now increasing real estate tax.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: Your but listen very carefully because your answer something. Because
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: the Housings are from Mondomie's made perfectly clear. She's anti landlord,
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: anti capitalists. She wants to seize the private properties. What
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: they've done is they created the sham Commission about so
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: called bad landlords.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: So what they're gonna do.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: What they're gonna do is gonna use this. Do you
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: have more kinds of finds? Drive them out of business.
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: They can't make their expenses, they will abandon the properties
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: and the city will take it over. Now, let me
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: ask you a question, bad landlord, what's the worst landlord
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: than the housing said?
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: That exactly happened to be a husted when it comes
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: acidic capitalist, and I don't like having a board. I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: don't even like the board in the first place, even
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: if it's stacked with better people. I don't like the idea.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: But the free market decide. All right, we're gonna take
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: a break right now. This is the last day of
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the Cats and Company takeover of Sid and Friends in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the morning. We're gonna make the most of it. We
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: have a lot of really great guests coming up, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we are going to continue to show you why it
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: is not compassionate.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: To have the government so called freeze rents.
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: And Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: Apple Podcast Network.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: A lot of news going on again today. We're you know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned Venezuela, which was, of course a huge
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: top story and can remains that. Those twin earthquakes on Wednesday.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: By the way, one of the picture former picture for
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the Mets was in the worst basically placed you can
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: possibly be when an earthquake happens, Osemhia. He was in
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: an elevator. You really don't want to be in an
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: elevator when there's a massive earthquake.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: But he marrived his life.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it turned out okay for him, relatively so,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: of course. But right now the death tolls something around
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: three hundred, a little bit, but there are still thousands,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: thousands missing. There's going to be a lot of humanitarian
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: aid requests and discussions about what's going on in Venezuela.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And you know what, Venezuela's lucky that the United States
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: has its hands around it right now, because it's going
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to make it a lot easier.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: The United States has his hand its hands around any
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: disaster around the world.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: But even before this has asked the fact that we
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: extradited Maduro the the illegal dictator of Venezuela.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I can't say that enough.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I can't stand when the mainstream media calls him the president,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: like he was elected by the electoral college or something.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: He was.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Never call him the president, Yeah, the dictate, Yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Why don't we just call him el Hefe or you know,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the patron or whatever you want to call him.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: But he was not a real legitimate leader.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: And uh so, the United States is a little bit
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: more involved in Venezuela than it would have been a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: couple of months ago. And I think that this is
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: something that could end up saving lives. The fact that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we're there now, there's not as many hoops to jump
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: through to get the aid to get there. And America's
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: allies a number of countries that are very good at
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff setting up field hospitals will have
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: an e your time getting there. So there is a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: blessing something, a blessing involved with you.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Know, the Venezuelan community here in New York, predominantly in Astoria,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Long Island City, that general area.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You know, we are here at WABC.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Whatever you guys need, just reach out and we will
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: support whatever efforts you have.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and make it clear, you know, come on Fernando's Show,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: No Excuses at six pm, come on my programs at
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: any program here and let us know what is needed.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Because a lot of people we hear about him. What
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: do I send money? Do I send supplies?
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I do I send you know, do I tell my
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: friends who do these kinds of relief work. It's important
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And again, just as we were saying yesterday, it was
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: so interesting John yesterday that we were hearing from so
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: many people. Many of our guests who were talking about
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly talked about this, how if you go to
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the in the public school system, today and even a
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: lot of the private schools, they teach our children about
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: how terrible America is, how horrible a country this is.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And at the same time, no one denies that we're
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the most charitable country in the world. No one denies
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: that we motivate and mobilize quicker than anybody else. And
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that is why this story is doubly important, because the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: United States people are so charitable, and we are so
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: willing to help, and we are able to do it,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and most importantly for Nanda, we have the means with
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: which to make that happen. It's not just a wish
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: upon a star. We have the Peace Corps, we have
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: these mobile hospitals that can be set up. We use
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the military for humanitarian aid all the time. The National
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Guard mostly does humanitarian aid. You know, for those of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you who think they're just they're just there to back
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: back us up in Iraq or whatever, that's not true.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: So it's it's you know, at the same day that
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: we're hearing about how much America is hated, and it
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: produces candidates like this Dariya Chevelia who hate America and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: want to wipe their hands on an American flag, like
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a napkin. We are reminded that this is a great country,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: charitable country.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You know what she's not.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: She's still not a shoe in. She's a shoe in
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: for the Democratic Socialist part.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: But we have a candidate, Colomo Williams, who's a Republican
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: running against her.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Okay, you mean in that county.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: If the Republicans get behind him, it's possible that he does.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: We had a big discussion last night.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: The Democrats have to get behind him, the common sense Democrats,
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: the black community has to get here.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Here's James Carville saying that the Democrats, if Chevalier does
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: win the general election, shouldn't see her in their caucus.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Here's James Carvill. Listen to this.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: You can you hear this?
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: Okay, come on, let's get real. And by the way,
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: two of them, I don't think are even Democrats just
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: shival lady. I don't They should not seat her in
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: the caucus for her views totally against anything that any
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: Democrat has. We believe in pluralism. She doesn't even believe
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: in interracial daty. I mean, I don't think there's a
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: place in the party. By the way, I'm not.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: Sure she wants.
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: She wants to be a Democrat.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: You've lost, James Carville, You've lost, You've lost them.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: No, I think James Carvill has lost it completely, has
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: lost that. He's right here, but he you know, you
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: notice the words he uses. He fools the people. I
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: want everybody to notice it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: He fooled. We won't shouldn't sit it in the caucus.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Doesn't mean anything, John Key, John is absolute.
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: The key is you don't let her take a seat
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: in the House of Representatives.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: But you can't.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: You don't have the right to do that. Actually, you
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: do have the right to You don't give me a break.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: The House has the right to not seat somebody we're
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: not qualified. The senator and the senator, yes, they don't have.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: To see somebody.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Listen, it's a pre exposure.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: If you're take an IQ test with some of these
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: people that got elected, I mean, are you going to
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: convince people.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: In that that seen him.
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: The fact is I would make the effort not to
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: see her. And by the way, that story, I don't
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: know if you folks have talked about it yet, but
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: there's a story I don't know the validity of which
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: is that there was foreign money went I into that
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: campaign coming out of general.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Have it right here.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I have the SoundBite right here now for him. And
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: we've been talking about Judge. To answer your question, we've
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: been talking about for money. And when we talk about
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: for money, uh, getting into our election is completely illegal.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: We've been thinking it's Connor or Iran or China. Well,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: it turns out this is a German Man, a member
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of the German government, explaining how they spent a lot
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: of money on New York's elections.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: Listen to this.
• 30:12
  Speaker 12: RLS NYC is part of the International Network, a Luxembourg
• 30:17
  Speaker 12: foundation with Oxmook stift on RLS. RLS is a Berlin
• 30:23
  Speaker 12: based foundation associated with Germany's Left Party, which is currently
• 30:29
  Speaker 12: the third strongest party in the national parliament, the Bundestag.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: So the third largest party in Germany is funding illegally
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: candidates as Democrats Socialist in New York City.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: You know what I keep saying, America is under attack
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: and we have to wake up.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: And it's attacking not just with bombs or with drugs,
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: but also with money.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: Let's find out what you do.
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: The FBI needs a separate division just to go after
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: these people and say enough is enough, because we're under attack.
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: John's right, and let's find out how this money moved.
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: Did she know about it? Did her campaign people know
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: about it?
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: Who's gonna invest wet that investigated? And look and not
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: a fact. You know, somebody very close to me investigated.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Act Blue. Okay. Act Blue was the big thing.
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: Hundreds of millions of dollars came in to get get
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: congress people elected, Democratic congress people.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: A person.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: You take a person that never that never ran for anything,
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: and she got thirty five million dollars for me blue.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Who's in jail?
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Okay, nobody's in jail. Okay, okay. But the FBI needs
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: a separate division. And we have to America. This is
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: a different kind of war that's being waged on America
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: and the people have to realize it and center Brella.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: I was at your event last night where you had
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: the Republican state chair people, and tell people what I
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: said last night.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: You tell well, first of all, you get you really
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: lit up the room. Thank you for being there. But
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: you know you ended with that we cannot demonize all
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: the Democrats. But you did say and I think this
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: is an important point is people came to this country
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: like our ancestors, your grandfathers. They came here to be
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Americans because they loved America. They came here for opportunity,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: you know, my ancestors. And this is the story of America.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't you know, prior to America, how
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: you were born was determined what your life was going
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: to be. Okay, not in America. It doesn't matter where
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: you were born, whether you have money, whether you have
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: the right last name, you can be a success. Okay,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: and you know, mister Catsmeatidiz, you're the perfect example of that.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: But we have an insurgency. That's what this really is.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: It's an insurgency here in the United States. And the
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: insurgency is those folks that are here because they don't
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: like America. And that's what you're seeing with some of
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: these candidates.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: And what happened was.
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: You weren't here the last few days after listen, Bill
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: Clinton was a pro America, loved America president. After the
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: next president after that, President Obama, next Democratic president, that's Democrat.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: That's that's where it started. That's where it started being
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: anti American. And we were talking about it the last
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: few days that seventy percent of the Democrats maybe more.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: I don't know. Loved America pre President Obama? And now
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: what is it?
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Down to twenty nine? And the number was even high?
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: Who loved America under attack? How is it under attack?
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: It's under attack by political means. But what's happening? Foreign
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: money going into our political system? Number two drugs, Yes,
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: they are feeding drugs and killing our kids.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not for profit, but to kill us.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: One hundred thousand dollars. One hundred thousand Americans died every
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: year in twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five.
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: I mean, stop already.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: It's like two Vietnam Wars every year.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no more than that.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just fifty nine thousand died in Vietnam.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: It's like a seven thirty seven going down every day. Yeah, okay,
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: So you got drugs, you got foreign influences in these
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: paid actors that that that create scenes, and all the
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: broadcasting companies broadcasted and America thinks it's their way of life.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: This is all making sense to me personally right now.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: It's coming together, and it's coming together here at the
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: sid Rosenberg Show, and it's amazing.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: You show, Earth Wind and Fire. Listen, this is coming together.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: The immigrants will create a new show like that. You know,
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: the influx, the influence, wind and fire.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Listen, and we'll start it in September.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Listen, the influx of immigrants, the influx of foreign money
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: all comes together and it makes sense.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: John.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: You know, all these illegal immigrants that came.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: During Obama and Biden and all of that, plus all
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: that foreign money coming in.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Now they're putting it to use with the people that came.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: Into the country.
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: Listen, all these schmucky Democrats that were attacking President Trump
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: for shooting down the Venezuelan boats that were bringing drugs
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: to America, Give me a brain.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: It is ridiculous, Give me a break. Ridiculous.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: Finally they got that boat has there's enough vetinol or
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: drugs to kill ten thousand.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Kids, oh more than that, and.
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: We shoot it down, and the Democrats say, oh, let's
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: put trumpet jail.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, give me a break.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: And guess where their funding is coming from some of
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: these drug cartels. You know again, it's it's you know,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: almost nothing is said.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: In China gang were funding the Mexican gangs to bring
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: the fetanoyl in and somebody. Historians say the Chinese were
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: getting even before the opio.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean you use by the way, you
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: know we joke around in here. You think that Jews
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: played the victim card a lot, or Black Spans. The
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Chinese government plays the victim card better than anybody. They
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: believe everyone has victimized them for hundreds of years and
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: that thus they have no moral obligations to anyone, and
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: that includes Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain, France and
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: John's exactly right. You know this isn't like the Miami
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: vice drug dealer of the eighties. The Chinese supplying this,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: They're not looking to make money off of this, They're
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: looking to kill us, exactly right.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: That's it now.
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: The Mexican cart tells are earning money business yea, Chinese, the.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Chinese and the killing business.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: And you know it's it's all kidding aside this and
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: you know this isn't anything new our founding fathers, but
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: even after that understood with the creation of some of
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: our fell apartments exactly the different ways that a country
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: can be attacked. It's not just with bombs and with guns.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: The Secret Service used to be very much involved in
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: combating counterfeiting because if you put counterfeit currency into into
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: an economy, you destroy that economy. I thought one of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the worst decisions, speaking of George W. Bush worst decisions,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: was putting the Secret Service under the under the auspices
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: of the Homeland Security Department.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: That was a terrible thing.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: The Treasury Department is not perfect, but compared to the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: other agencies in DC, it's pretty darn good. And I
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: wanted this Secret Service to remain part of Treasury.
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: That's what I still don't understand. I mean, I want
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: every American actor to know this. This IRS executive director
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: was the.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Name under Obama. Under Obama, Lewis Learning Lowist Learner.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: Tell the people what she did. She she never went
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: to jail, and she never spent and she never got fined.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: And I say you, I was running Larry Cutlers Show.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: It seem to see when the scandal broke, Lowis Learner
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: was deliberately going after right wing organizations that were legitimately
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: not for profit andwganizing them, taking away they're not for profit,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: their tax status, et cetera, et cetera. And it was
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: proven beyond a shadow of doubt that she was doing
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: this for political reasons. She and we thought at the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Cutlow Show. This is going to be a big ratings grabber.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: We thought everyone was going to pay attention. Well they didn't.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: She got away with it. She was never prosecuted. She's
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: fine and dandy now and she was just a tip
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: of the iceberg.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: John. There were a lot of other people that it was.
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: Worse about what happened with Loewis Lerner.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: She was born.
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: Before the Congressional committee, she read a statement saying how
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: wonderful she was and denying everything. Then when they started
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: to ask your questions, she took the Fifth Amendment. Now,
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: let me give you some basic Fifth Amendment law. As
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: soon as you give up any information, you say anything,
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: you've waived the privilege. And they never went after her
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: for contempt of Congress, and they should have.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Nobody on this panel takes the Fifth including for Nanda Mateo.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: We're going to hear from him when we come back
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: after this time.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I'm ready to explode. We should skip the commercial breaks here, Sid.
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: And Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple podcast Network.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: All joking aside.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Really, we have a lot of listeners who because the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Sit in Friends show in Israel is around lunchtime and
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: it's a good time to sit down. Israeli still sit
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: down and read a paper, listen to the radio. They
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: actually do that in that country. They don't eat at
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: their desks so much. It's not a thing. And Sid
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: met a lot of our listeners there, so he wasn't
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: exactly taking time off from WABC. But I'm here with
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: John cas Matteite's our owner operator for Nando Matteo, Judge
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Richard Weinberg, and our special guest today, State Senator George
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Verroh is also a spokesman for the Republican Party and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: state senator. We were just talking in the break. James
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Carbon might say.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: It's just three, it's just rad destractually, I might come out.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: But the fact is.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: These primary results are creating more traction for Jakim Jeffries
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and Senator Schumer to be replaced as Democrat leaders in
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the House and Senate, respectively. I don't think that that's
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: too far fetch. People might look at those guys and
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: say they're the old guard.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Well, there's no doubt about. First of all, Schumer has
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: had a target on his back for a long time.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: You know, AOC obviously wants that job. Of course, she
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: thinks she can be president. You know, she's not qualified
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: to run anything. But that being said, you know, look,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: the Democrat Party, on top of moving far to the
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: left and on top of becoming you know, socialist, is
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: also a huge and identity politics. It's about the color
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: of your skin. It's about what your religion is. It's
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: about your gender or your gender fluidity, which.
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: Isn't a thing.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: You know, this is what the Democrat Party to come about. So,
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer, you're an old, straight white guy. You're a
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: dinosaur in the party. You are an endangered species. And
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: now so and this is the stuff he's supported. Okay,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: he has been all behind this woke agenda, this DEI.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: He's pushed all of that, and now he's gonna become
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: a victim of.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: It, creating a monster.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: No, but what about Hakim Jeffries. He's a relatively young
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: African American man. Why is he a Fernanda? Why is
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: he under the gun?
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: You know how King Jeffries is like a follower. Really
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: he's he may be one day the Speaker of the House,
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: which you know, I really don't. I hope it doesn't.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Happen, God forbid. Got to learn that term.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: So why should he be so listen. My my take
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: on Hakeem Jeffries is he's very like insecure. He's lost
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: a huge chunk of his power here in New York City.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: It seems like if Zorn Mandami is really the leader
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialist Party here
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: in New York, and it's time for Jeffries and Schumer
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: to really open up for you know, for someone new
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: to come.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: In well as a Republican or mostly I'm not really
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a Republican operative.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: I'm certainly not an elected.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Official, but as a conservative, I would like for the
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: American people to see who the Democrats really are, and
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: the Democrats are not Truck. I mean, listen, Chuck Schumer
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: is one of my least favorite people in Congress. He
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: sat next he sat next city in my high school
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: graduation because I was did he elbow you no? But
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: back then, Chuck Schumer had the loudest voice, by the way,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: in DC. The man never needed a microphone. It's not
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: as loud anymore, thank god. But I'd really dislike him,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: his policies. I don't know him personally, so I'm not
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: going to say anything personal about it.
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: What we need to know about Chuck Schumer, is that
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: the Obama deal that he cut with Iran, which sold
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: out America, Western civilization, our allies in the Middle East.
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: He let it happen, right, He could have stopped it.
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: And the legislative process business is center knows is something
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: called being let off the hook. So when you have
• 42:33
  Speaker 9: enough votes to get something through, so he let you
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: vote the other way so you can go back to
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: your constituents. Look at me, I vote against it. The
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: fact of the matter is he was the leader of
• 42:42
  Speaker 9: the Democrats. He could have said, no, mister President, this
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: is a bad deal. It's bad for America, it's bad
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: for Western civilization. But Schumer went into the tank. Let
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: Obama cut that deal with Carrie, the worst deal. And
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: President Trump has to unravel that worst deal that threatens Western.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And judge there were some Democrats, including my congresswoman at
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the time, Kathleen Rice, who were courageous enough to say
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: that she basically lost her job because of it. She
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: stood up to Obama on the Iron Deals, she stood
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: up to Pelosi on getting new blood into the Democrat Party.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: She's she's not in politics anymore so.
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: Democrat, and nobody even knows her name. Anymore. I've forgotten
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: her name completely until.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was a yawning good why moderate Democrat.
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: That's why people say I want to run for Congress
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: to make a difference. The leadership makes the decisions, and
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: people have to realize that the leadership makes the decisions,
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: and everybody goes down long for the ride. Otherwise, what
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: happened to Kathleen Rice happens to them.
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you're ex communicated from you don't get.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: And there's no such thing as a non religious person.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: The most religious people I meet every day are far
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: left Democrats who don't want to have a conversation, who
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: don't want I mean, I had much easier time growing
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: up in the South among evangelical Christians, and I do
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: talking to some environmental radicals or some of these anti
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Israel radicals who are.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Absolutely like religion. They're true, true believer. I'm a member
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: of their true remaining cult in the world. I gave
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: it the office. I know a cult.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I know it's a member of a cult when I
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: see one. And these people are like, absolutely crazy.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: They don't do business, do they for Listen, Jake, when
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: we had hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, landing in
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: New York City. Chuck Schumer was the head of the
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: US said it the majority. What did he do to
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: help the Adams administration? Right, what did he do to
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: bring funding to New York? What did he do to
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: help New York City? No one's asked that question.
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: He'll cover it up for the Biden administration.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, So if he covered up, you know what, he
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: doesn't belong in New York.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: City and state Senator George BURRELLO, he's still supposed to
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: be the Senator of New York State.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: Did he do anything for your districts, for your part
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: of the state.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Well, when it comes to these kind of things. Also,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: you start talking about the Miagrant crisis. You had literally
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: had people that were flown here on private jets by
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration. And then they go after you know,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: the governor Texas for putting some people on a bus.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: But that accounted for you know, I think the number
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: was thirty or forty percent of the total. Most of
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: those folks were brought here by the Biden administration. They
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: chose to come here, uh you purposely?
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: So, and where was Chuck Schumer just to stand at
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: the you know, at the tents of.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: The state and say stop, you're hurting our city.
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: They did the opposite. They stood at the bus come on,
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: we come on in, Come on in coffee, and here's
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: an extra coffee. Here's your phone, and here's yourself. Here's
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: your cell phone, and here's a credit card, and here's.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: A four hundred dollars room of hotel where you're gonna stay.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and let's not forget the nng o's okay,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: all these government into organizations that came in here and
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: created a lot of chaos. They told these folks, look,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: if they're not giving you cultural appropriate food, you throw
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: it back in their face. I mean, you know, we
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: we wasted. I can't tell you how many millions of
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: pounds of food that went to waste here in New
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: York State.
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  Speaker 6: We won't need it.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, if you walk by the Rooseveant Hotel just a
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: few blocks from the studio and you saw what was
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: going on there, they made it a third.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: World It was a disaster.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Also the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side of
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: some of these and by some of the hotel owners
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: were okay with it because with the COVID, you know,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: the COVID lockdowns. They wanted to make some of their
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: money back. I mean they just they twisted the knife
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: there in a way. We got to take a break.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: We got a lot coming up. In the next half hour.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from kat manor McFarland. We also hear
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: from Ari Fleischer, the former White House spokesperson, and Nana
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Mateo is going to remind us that he has a
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: show with six pm on.
• 46:53
  Speaker 10: No Excuses, Sid and Friends in the morning on the
• 46:58
  Speaker 10: Red Apple podcast.
• 46:59
  Speaker 7: Net work for disclosure purposes. He's been my chief of
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: staff in the last ten years. And George, we've been
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: talking about the FBI between the six o'clock hour and
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: the seven o'clock hour, and we said that America is
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: under attack. We have drugs coming in from all over
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: the place, one form of attack, another form of attack,
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: politics wise, money, foreign money possibly coming in affecting one elections.
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: But we're under attack in so many different ways than
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: we were thirty years ago, twenty years ago. And you're
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: with the FBI, you run the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation. Besides,
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: you talk to all law enforcement. Give us your evaluation, Johnny,
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: you can't be more right. And it's been going on
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: for years, this whole foreign influence of America. It goes
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: on a number of different levels. You know, you have
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: the campaigns. You know, they've been influencing campaigns with money,
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: not to say influence with voting, but money, and and
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: it's it's a it's an American problem on both sides,
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: you know. And the problem is the problem is, and
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna be real frank here, the politicians like the money.
• 48:19
  Speaker 13: They need the money. The way campaigns are run, money
• 48:22
  Speaker 13: is essential to get elected. And we see it here
• 48:26
  Speaker 13: and they don't. You know, they're not really keen on
• 48:31
  Speaker 13: attacking the money. I'm telling you right now because we've
• 48:34
  Speaker 13: experienced this personally and it has to be done.
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: We have to.
• 48:40
  Speaker 13: They're attacking us on money levels. Economically, they're attacking us.
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 48:44
  Speaker 13: New York City is a perfect example. The reason the
• 48:46
  Speaker 13: prices are so high in New York City is because
• 48:49
  Speaker 13: foreign money. I'll give you an example. I have a
• 48:52
  Speaker 13: son who's looking to change apartments in Manhattan. I was,
• 48:55
  Speaker 13: I was at open house yesterday. I was the only
• 48:58
  Speaker 13: English English weak in person looking at that apartment. And
• 49:03
  Speaker 13: that apartment, as of this morning, has gone up almost
• 49:06
  Speaker 13: one thousand dollars in rent in the bidding war on rents,
• 49:10
  Speaker 13: and it's foreigners that are pushing it up because they
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: come here with a lot of money. All the rich
• 49:15
  Speaker 13: foreigners are coming here. But that's good for you know,
• 49:18
  Speaker 13: that's good for economy. So you can't fight that. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 13: when it comes to elections, I'm telling you they are
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: influencing and and their influence in both sides that they
• 49:28
  Speaker 13: want us to kill each other and they and they're succeeding.
• 49:32
  Speaker 13: The hate is that the is running rapid right now
• 49:36
  Speaker 13: and they successfully pitted American against American. Yeah, it's and
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: it's we got to all wake up soon because you know,
• 49:45
  Speaker 13: writing everything is Democrat, Republican, Democrat Republican. No, we're Americans.
• 49:50
  Speaker 13: Nobody's voting American first. Everybody's voting party first because they're
• 49:55
  Speaker 13: trying to keep that power. And I don't know when
• 49:58
  Speaker 13: we wake up, but if we don't wake up soon,
• 50:00
  Speaker 13: I'm telling you we're gonna lose our country. And what
• 50:02
  Speaker 13: you guys are saying is true. We're gonna we lose
• 50:05
  Speaker 13: our country and they're laughing at us.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: George Bevanzailas, I wonder if you could help me dig
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper into this when you talked about
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: you because you mentioned the candidates needing the money because
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the way campaigns are expensive. But did you ever see
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: evidence of what I also think is going on here,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: which is, you know, a candidate gets all this money
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: and campaign funds, but the way that they can turn
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: that into personal funds is they hire friends and relatives
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: as their campaign staff. There was a Republican Tom Delay
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: who got nailed for this. He put his wife and
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: his daughter as his campaign chairman, so and paid them
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: ridiculous salaries. So this isn't just about oh, I have
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: an expensive campaign and I want to run a relection.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: It's also about lining their pockets.
• 50:41
  Speaker 13: Personally one hundred percent. And that's happening a lot. And
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: you know, and again we we gotta, we gotta have
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: gained the stomach to go against this. We have to,
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: you know, and like you, everybody's been saying, but saying
• 50:56
  Speaker 13: it all week here until somebody goes to jail, You're
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: not gonna stop it.
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: George.
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: You've been in law enforcement for over thirty years, you know,
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: retired plus after retirement.
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: Why, I mean, why doesn't anybody go to jail? I
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: mean I don't understand it.
• 51:15
  Speaker 13: That John, That that is something has baffled me for years,
• 51:19
  Speaker 13: and a lot of it is you know, you know,
• 51:22
  Speaker 13: I don't want to make excuses, but a lot of
• 51:24
  Speaker 13: it has to do with the prosecution. You know, you
• 51:29
  Speaker 13: can investigate all you want. If they're not going to
• 51:31
  Speaker 13: prosecute it, then you're wasting your time. We got to
• 51:34
  Speaker 13: get an appetite, like, for example, what's going on now
• 51:36
  Speaker 13: with the Medicaid fraud, the healthcare fraud that's been going
• 51:40
  Speaker 13: on for years, that's been now they finally have put
• 51:43
  Speaker 13: a really good fusion team together to go after that,
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: and we're getting a lot of results. They need to
• 51:48
  Speaker 13: do the same for the foreign influence of our country.
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: Oh well, well, I want to say, Judge Richard Weinberg,
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: you've been in law enforcement for one hundred years too.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, have you seen one hundred years?
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: But you look great.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I'm killing the people and making them older. That's what's
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: going on here on this.
• 52:07
  Speaker 9: I went yesterday seventy eight to one hundred.
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: Judge, Yes, sir, have you seen a significant decrease of
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: fraud situations going to.
• 52:18
  Speaker 9: Jail When my first job out of law squid is
• 52:22
  Speaker 9: a law clerk to federal judge and had an official
• 52:24
  Speaker 9: corruption unit. And you go into the office and you
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: see the pictures of all the politicians literally, George and John.
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: They had these people's pictures there, and they're always looking
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: at them to see if there's a way of making
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: a case. And as George points out, unless the US
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: attorneys or the state ags or the das think they
• 52:45
  Speaker 9: have a slam down case, they're not going to go
• 52:47
  Speaker 9: for it because they're worried about their win loss record
• 52:49
  Speaker 9: and they don't want to expend resources unless they know
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: they can they can win.
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: It's like the FBI in other day said to me
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: when they have that case situate with the former chief
• 53:01
  Speaker 7: of staff to the mayor, Eric Adams, is unless we
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: think we have a ninety five percent chance of.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: Convicting, we don't take the case, you know.
• 53:14
  Speaker 13: And that's something that's in the federal system doesn't like
• 53:17
  Speaker 13: they take chances, especially in the corruption arena, because if
• 53:21
  Speaker 13: you don't win, it works against you, then it's like, oh,
• 53:26
  Speaker 13: they're going after them because it's a politics. So the
• 53:28
  Speaker 13: you know what, yep, politician being a politicians become big business.
• 53:35
  Speaker 13: Do a do a net worth of a person before
• 53:39
  Speaker 13: they go in, especially in this city here with some
• 53:41
  Speaker 13: of these people, and then look at them. You know,
• 53:44
  Speaker 13: ten twenty years later, you know the money the may
• 53:48
  Speaker 13: and they're not making on their salaries, salaries.
• 53:52
  Speaker 9: In Congressman House, the Center. Look at the presidents, Yeah,
• 53:55
  Speaker 9: look at the presidence. How do these people walk out
• 53:58
  Speaker 9: of the presidency multimillion dollars.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: Except Trump who actually, after his first term was lost,
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: had lost money.
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: But the fact of the matter is this was camerack
• 54:06
  Speaker 9: cash cash cow.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Listen, politics is the most business.
• 54:10
  Speaker 7: Harry Truman, Harry Truman took the train back after he became.
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: Tro back.
• 54:17
  Speaker 9: He actually.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: He wasn't born.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: The David McCullough book talks also about how even after
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: he was president, he turned down lucrative offers Toyota offered
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Truman at the time. This is like nineteen sixty millions
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: of dollars to endorse Toyota, and he wouldn't do it.
• 54:31
  Speaker 9: And he wouldn't eve write it. Last he would't even
• 54:33
  Speaker 9: write a book to make money.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 54:36
  Speaker 13: Books They formed these foundations, yeah, right, foundations, retirement life.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Read all David mcculla's books. By the way, the Truman
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: book a very good one.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: Look, we also have tax laws.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: When Richard Nixon was vice president and lost the presidency
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: in nineteen six the election nineteen sixty, he donated, quote
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: donated his vice presidential papers, which, in my opinion, in
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: the public property.
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: He's doing it in his office.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: By he donated into the National Archives and wrote off
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty dollars five hundred thousand dollars and basically
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: never paid personal taxes almost ever again because of that,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: because that was his deduction carried over year over year.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are so many scams, Fernando. If it's
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: if we're electing, to believe me, the dirty people will
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: find dirty ways.
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: You know, Listen, there's a lot of very honest elected officials.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: You know, we have years right here, Sator.
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: Senator.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: By the way, all of the silverware has been counted,
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: set at a barrella.
• 55:30
  Speaker 14: You're in the clear.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: You're in the clear now.
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: So you know, listen, I ran for mayor of New
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: York City and I had to raise money, and to
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: be quite honest with you, I was very careful about
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: how I accepted money and who I accepted it from.
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: Why Because I have a lot more to lose personally,
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: I'm a very wealthy person. Not as wealthy as John,
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: but I'm wealthy and I've worked very hard my entire life. Right,
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: I don't have a high school. I never graduated high
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: school because I was working to help some want my family.
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: But a lot of the poor politicians like es Bayat
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: to name a few, and these people that run in
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: these poor neighborhoods, they need money and they're gonna take
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: money from whoever gives it to them. And if they
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: don't get caught, they got away with it. And most
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: of them get away with it. But you know, the
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: key to success when you're running for office is cash.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: It's money.
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: They take cash, they take bonds, they take food stamps,
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: don't take whatever you give them.
• 56:30
  Speaker 9: You have even worse system in New York City, and
• 56:32
  Speaker 9: now you have in New York State this so called
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: campaign financial laws, which most to make the system more
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: honest public. Yeah, it's awful, It's absolutely awful. New York
• 56:41
  Speaker 9: City is a to one, so you encourage people who
• 56:43
  Speaker 9: have no chance at all and have no message and
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: no intention to serve the people running e to one money,
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: which is exactly why after Curtis Sleeber made all that money,
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: all that deal, having all his friends and family on
• 56:56
  Speaker 9: the payroll when he ran for mayor, when he should
• 56:58
  Speaker 9: have gotten out of the race. Stop mont DOMI I've
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: announced that I'm running for mayor next time out.
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: I get some of that.
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: Speaking about Curtis, you know, rest in peace, Curtis, Sit
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: in company.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Have you underground, my friend? And with this show this week,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: you're done.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Last word to State Senator George Verrella, who has not
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: taken any of our money in the last few minutes.
• 57:22
  Speaker 9: That's exactly they paid for the cup of coffee I
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: did did.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's all any other campaign contribution. Last word to you, Well, look,
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: you know there is no doubt that that money influences
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: things in politics.
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: It has to.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: But the system is set up that way, including the
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: public campaign finance system. Okay, there are a lot of
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: people that profit at the at the expense the taxpayers
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: and the people, because whether the person wins or loses,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: they make profit. This was designed for consultants to profit.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: That's really what it comes down to.
• 57:51
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• 57:55
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• 58:19
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• 58:20
  Speaker 6: What the heck is going on here