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Episode #3941 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive November 2004 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 2: It's Phil Hendry from our Radio Hall of Fame show,
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Speaker 2: and we have another Radio Archive Hour for you from
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Speaker 2: November of 2003. This is the first character we ever
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Speaker 2: did on our show way back in the summer of 1990.
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Speaker 2: But in this instance, he's with us in America. It's
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Speaker 2: Raj Phaneen. He's moved his family here. They have a
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Speaker 2: wholesale clothing business. They're doing very well in the carpet
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Speaker 2: cleaning business, whatever it is he's doing, along with some
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Speaker 2: of his relatives. But he is saying one thing. He's
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Speaker 2: saying the cool thing about being a Middle Easterner now
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Speaker 2: is When people see me, they back off because who knows,
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Speaker 2: things may go kaboom. That's what he said. In fact,
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Speaker 2: he has the same thing that Dr. Jim Sadler has.
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Speaker 2: He can just look out the window in traffic and
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Speaker 2: people kind of hit the brakes. Anyway, here he is,
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Speaker 2: Raj Fadine.
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Speaker 1: Mr. Fadine, are you there?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I had a little bit of an
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Speaker 2: engineering difficulty. Immigrants, you were saying, have had a difficult time.
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Speaker 1: What, sir?
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Speaker 3: Well, immigrants have had a difficult time. Fortunately, it's not
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Speaker 3: that difficult for me.
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Speaker 1: Now, you're from Egypt originally?
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Speaker 3: This is correct. Because of where I'm from originally, there
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Speaker 3: is a reputation that people from the Middle East are
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Speaker 3: not people that you dismiss as you dismiss the Mexican
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Speaker 3: or Chinese or.
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Speaker 3: Immigrants from different parts of the world.
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Speaker 2: Are you saying that being an immigrant from the Middle East,
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Speaker 2: people may think twice about harassing you or challenging you?
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Speaker 3: Yes. I can give you an example.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: My family and I, I have a wife, a two-year-old son.
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Speaker 3: My wife is pregnant with another child.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. We love to go to this promenade, to
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Speaker 3: go shopping, to see a movie. We know that when
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Speaker 3: we go to a restaurant, we know that they are
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Speaker 3: going to find us a table immediately, even if there
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Speaker 3: is a line, because they know that to be rude
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Speaker 3: to a person from the Middle East does not carry
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Speaker 3: certain risks.
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Speaker 2: That's an interesting statement, being rude to a person from
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Speaker 2: the Middle East carries certain risks.
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Speaker 1: I think I know what you mean, but tell me
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Speaker 1: what you mean.
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Speaker 3: You see, the people of this country, the people of America,
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Speaker 3: there's no consequence when you threaten, for instance, a Mexican.
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Speaker 3: There's no consequence when you threaten the Canada man or
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Speaker 3: the China man. But in the back of the minds
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Speaker 3: of America, there's not a consequence when you threaten a
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Speaker 3: man from the Middle East, a Muslim man. when you
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Speaker 3: threaten a Muslim man.
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Speaker 2: Well, I want to ask you, are you saying that
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Speaker 2: if I were rude to you in public or wherever,
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Speaker 2: you would consider a.
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Speaker 1: Violent act against me?
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Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
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Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: If you just shut your mouth, I'm trying to say...
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Speaker 3: What did you say? Just to shut your mouth for
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Speaker 3: a moment.
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Speaker 1: Generally, that's considered a rude statement.
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Speaker 3: No, the Middle East people who come to America, Americans
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Speaker 3: now know they cannot be rude to them to get
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Speaker 3: their kicks, to have fun without consequence. There is no consequence.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but Mr. Fennin.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was driving on a freeway not long ago,
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Speaker 3: driving on a freeway, not two weeks ago, there was
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Speaker 3: this man who was driving. I don't know, he looked
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Speaker 3: as if he was a very fast car, a sports car, right?
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Speaker 3: He wanted to come into my lane, and he was
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Speaker 3: moving through traffic. But when he looked at me, and
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Speaker 3: he saw that I was a Muslim man, I could
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Speaker 3: see he put his foot on the brake. He backed away.
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Speaker 3: And he, you know, eventually got in the lane behind me, where,
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Speaker 3: in fact, he belonged. But I was excited to know
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Speaker 3: that this was a smart American, not one who was
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Speaker 3: out there, you know, asking to try....
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Speaker 2: Do you take pleasure in making Americans afraid? Because you're
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Speaker 2: a Middle Eastern. I'll tell you why I ask you that.
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Speaker 2: If you were to strike the same fear into people, say,
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Speaker 2: at an airport, you would never get on a plane.
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Speaker 2: They'd never let you on a plane.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but the other side of this argument is that
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Speaker 3: would be then is profiling.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
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Speaker 3: Because I've not done anything wrong.
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Speaker 1: No, but wait a minute.
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Speaker 3: I've not done anything wrong.
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Speaker 1: But you want to look intimidating. You want to strike fear.
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Speaker 3: You know you are speaking to me of problems. The U.S. authorities,
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Speaker 3: I'm not interested in their problems. They cannot profile me.
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Speaker 3: But of course I am aware. People see me, or
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Speaker 3: my wife, or my child. They are not so eager
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Speaker 3: to push us around because we are Middle East.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hold on for a minute.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: Because I want to bring up something that you talked
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Speaker 2: to my producer about. We're talking with Raj Faneen. He
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Speaker 2: is a businessman. What is your business, sir?
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Speaker 3: We own the clothing business. We have apartments.
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Speaker 1: You have some real estate?
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Speaker 3: Yes. Sure, yes. We have the export-import, you know.
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Speaker 1: Okay, the export-import business?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: You told our producers a story off the air that
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Speaker 2: almost verged on a little bit of bad taste.
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Speaker 1: I mean, having to do... With your son?
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Speaker 3: No, it's not that.
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Speaker 1: Well, did you use your son to make people afraid?
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Speaker 3: No, no, no. Please shut your mouth. I was with
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Speaker 3: my wife.
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Speaker 2: Sir, when you say that you'd like me to be quiet,
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Speaker 2: that's fine, but to tell me to shut my mouth
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Speaker 2: is considered rude.
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Speaker 3: But please let me say, I was with my wife
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Speaker 3: and my son. We were drinking these snow cones. And
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Speaker 3: we were playing this game where my son would say, Daddy,
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Speaker 3: I dare you this, Daddy, I dare you that. I
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Speaker 3: said to my son, well, I dare you to do this,
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Speaker 3: I dare you to do that. I said to my son, well,
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Speaker 3: I dare you to put your backpack on with it
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Speaker 3: facing front and to go into the store to see
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Speaker 3: what the man does. Because this is the way it
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Speaker 3: matters in Palestine, to wear a backpack. And my wife
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Speaker 3: sat in the car so we could see this, to
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Speaker 3: have this cold stone creamer.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: You told your son to put a backpack on the
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Speaker 1: reverse way.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Because it looks the way the suicide bombers look in Israel?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: And you did this for fun?
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Speaker 3: No, no. My son doesn't have a bomb.
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Speaker 1: But you wanted to make it look like your son
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Speaker 1: had a bomb.
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Speaker 2: So he put his backpack on reverse, walked into this store,
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Speaker 2: and you wanted to see the reaction of the man?
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Speaker 3: Yes. You could see that this work in this country,
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Speaker 3: look as he was going to.
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Speaker 3: To defecate in his pants, you know, and so this
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Speaker 3: is what... To.
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Speaker 2: Me, that's the height of bad taste he is a child,
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Speaker 2: to make it appear he's a suicide bomber.
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Speaker 3: But this is the reason why my Americans are going
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Speaker 3: to treat me with more respect, because to disrespect a
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Speaker 3: Muslim man is to risk a certain consequence. You see?
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Speaker 1: And this has made your entry into American society easier?
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Speaker 3: Well, this story, this is bad for a Muslim in
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Speaker 3: this country. It's not true about this. That's just those people... Mr. Penn, Mrs. Robbins,
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Speaker 3: we don't mistreat America because America is afraid that we
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Speaker 3: are mistreated as we will make this terrorism.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you've got a thick accent, sir, and I'm trying
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Speaker 2: to understand you, but the gist of what you're saying is.
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Speaker 3: No, we are not mistreated. I'm not saying America mistreats
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Speaker 3: these Middle Eastern people.
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Speaker 1: You're not saying we mistreat Middle Eastern people?
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Speaker 3: No, because Americans do not dare to. Because we have
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Speaker 3: shown that you don't treat Muslim men, Middle East men,
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Speaker 3: with disrespect. All right.
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Speaker 1: Do you have family here?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
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Speaker 1: And where are they?
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Speaker 3: They are there in San Francisco. And this also plays
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Speaker 3: into what we're saying. But my brother moved to San
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Speaker 3: Francisco with his wife, his two daughters. And I confess...
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Speaker 3: We did this thing, what we thought was funny, to
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Speaker 3: watch the action of Americans.
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Speaker 1: What was it?
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Speaker 3: Well, we went to this Golden Gate Bridge, you know.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: And we took pictures and the different pictures of the
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Speaker 3: Golden Gate Bridge. Americans think this is a terrorism. You know,
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Speaker 3: to me this is funny. And it also is important
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Speaker 3: because then Americans are not going to....
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Speaker 1: All right, wait a minute.
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Speaker 2: You went to the Golden Gate Bridge with your brother
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Speaker 2: and his family to take pictures of the Golden Gate
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Speaker 2: Bridge because Americans think that's what terrorists do, and you
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Speaker 2: thought that was funny.
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Speaker 3: Yes, because, you see, Americans, they get nervous.
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Speaker 1: And what possible fun can you get out of this?
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Speaker 3: Because you're not listening to me. It's to let the
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Speaker 3: American people know that to be rude or to be
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Speaker 3: disrespectful of a man from the Middle East carries great risk.
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Speaker 2: To be rude or disrespectful of a man from the
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Speaker 2: Middle East carries great risk.
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Speaker 1: All right. 1-800-449-8686. He's got a very... It was difficult
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Speaker 1: for me to understand him, but.
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Speaker 2: His point is this. You may talk about Mexicans this
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Speaker 2: or that, but Middle Easterners, you don't get rude to
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Speaker 2: them to their face because.
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Speaker 1: And it sounds to me like he's using 9-11 as
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Speaker 1: the tacit threat. Now, he mentioned.
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Speaker 2: that he put his son's backpack on his son backwards
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Speaker 2: so that the backpack was in the front.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly the way the suicide bombers in Israel.
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Speaker 2: look like. And he sent him into a store so
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Speaker 2: him and his wife could get a laugh. We're talking
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Speaker 2: with Mr.
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Speaker 1: Raj Fanin. He's an Egyptian immigrant here in the United States.
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Speaker 1: He is a clothier.
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Speaker 2: The family owns real estate. They're doing very well here.
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Speaker 2: And he says Americans treat him very well. But one
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Speaker 2: of the reasons why they do is because Americans don't
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Speaker 2: dare mistreat a Middle Easterner for fear of, quote, the consequences,
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Speaker 2: end quote.
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Speaker 1: It's the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 5: The Phil Henry Show. Shock and awe meets your radio dial.
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Speaker 5: The Phil Henry Show is back.
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Speaker 1: Raj, hold on here for a minute.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Raj Phaneen, a native of Egypt. He's an immigrant. You
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Speaker 1: call yourself a.
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Speaker 2: When I say you're an immigrant, I say that with
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Speaker 2: the greatest of respect. You come from the Middle East,
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Speaker 2: which you say is a plus, because people are intimidated
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Speaker 2: a little bit by Middle Easterners. Before we get to
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Speaker 2: a couple of phone calls, I wanted to ask you,
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Speaker 2: don't you want to be a good neighbor? Do you
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Speaker 2: want to influence people through fear?
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: You know, it's not... This is not a message that.
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Speaker 3: Is a message that I can, you know, understand, because.
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Speaker 1: Well, what's to understand, rather than make your neighbors afraid?
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Speaker 3: No, I come from Middle East. I come from Muslim country.
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Speaker 3: And the way that we deal with the problem of
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Speaker 3: our neighbor is to let them know, I'm a Middle
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Speaker 3: East man, you're not going to... you know, to intimidate me.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if this American, when you say, do
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Speaker 3: I want to be a good neighbor? I am a
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Speaker 3: good neighbor. But you will remember that you will not
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Speaker 3: be rude to me because I'm not a Mexican.
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Speaker 2: No, you seem to intimate that Mexican people get pushed around.
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Speaker 3: But the... They let themselves be governor. They let themselves
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Speaker 3: be pool boy. They let themselves be taco boy. This
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Speaker 3: kind of thing. This lady lived next door to us
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Speaker 3: in her town hall. She asked my wife, move your car.
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Speaker 3: Move your car from the back wall because she could
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Speaker 3: not move her car. And I went to her and
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Speaker 3: I said, I'm a Middle East man. Now you want
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Speaker 3: to ask me to move my car? And she said,
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I must have the wrong house.
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Speaker 1: No, she didn't.
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Speaker 3: Yes, she did, because she knew. Oh, yeah? She knew.
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Speaker 3: You don't... We're very proud people.
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Speaker 1: All right, hold on. 1-800-449-8686. Elizabeth, go ahead. You're on
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Speaker 1: the Phil Hendry Show with Raj Fanin.
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Speaker 6: Hi.
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Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 7: I have a few things I'd like to say. Number one,
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Speaker 7: if this guy were my neighbor or came in to
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Speaker 7: see me or saw me on the street or whatever,
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Speaker 7: and if he were rude to me... I would be
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Speaker 7: rude right back. I don't care what country he is.
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Speaker 3: Be careful.
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Speaker 7: Hey, I'm not scared of you. And you come from
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Speaker 7: a country where rudeness is a way of life. Well,
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Speaker 7: you know what? You're now in America where rudeness is
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Speaker 7: not a way of life. And you should be very
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Speaker 7: thankful that you can come into this country and own
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Speaker 7: real estate and a business. and everything else, and be
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Speaker 7: able to speak the way you speak without being afraid
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Speaker 7: of losing your head. I grew up in a military family.
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Speaker 3: I traveled through Egypt.
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Speaker 7: They were extremely rude, and not just to Americans, but
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Speaker 7: to anyone. So I'm not afraid of you.
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Speaker 3: You want to treat me as a Mexican. You can't
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Speaker 3: do this.
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Speaker 7: I'm not rude to Mexicans either, but I'm rude to
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Speaker 7: anybody else. I don't care what nationality they are. If
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Speaker 7: they're rude to me, I will be rude back. And
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Speaker 7: you're telling me to shut up? You shut up.
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Speaker 3: I'm asking you to shut your mouth so I can finish.
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Speaker 7: You shut your own mouth.
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Speaker 3: No, but please shut your mouth so that I can finish.
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Speaker 7: No, I'm not going to shut my mouth. That is
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Speaker 7: a rude way of asking me to please be quiet
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Speaker 7: so you can make your point. So you need to
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Speaker 7: be a little bit more polite to me if you
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Speaker 7: expect me to be polite to you.
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Speaker 3: But do you see how you're afraid? I can tell
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Speaker 3: in your voice. It quivers like you're a child.
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Speaker 7: I'm hardly a child. I'm just so angry at you
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Speaker 7: right now that I am just trying to hold back
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Speaker 7: my anger.
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Speaker 1: Let me jump in here. Mr. Fennine, first of all,
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth makes a very good point.
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Speaker 2: Saying shut your mouth is an idiom in our country
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Speaker 2: and in our language that is rude. You may say,
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Speaker 2: may I say something? Could you be quiet for a moment?
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Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: You don't understand.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm trying to tell you that the phrase, please
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Speaker 2: shut your mouth, is rude.
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Speaker 3: But you won't shut your mouth.
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Speaker 7: But he didn't say please. All he said was shut
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Speaker 7: your mouth.
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Speaker 3: No, but you won't shut your mouth. You continue to.
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Speaker 7: Well, no, I'm not going to shut my mouth, because
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Speaker 7: I don't want to listen to anything you have to say.
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Speaker 3: Why don't you shut.
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Speaker 7: You're rude, and you know what? Go back to your
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Speaker 7: own damn country.
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Speaker 3: Why don't you shut your mouth and listen to him?
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Speaker 7: No, I'm not going to shut my mouth. You're being
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Speaker 7: a polite boy, and then I will stop speaking.
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Speaker 3: This is typical of Big White Cracker Lady.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean big white cracker lady?
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Speaker 7: What makes you think I'm white?
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Speaker 3: You're kidding, right?
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Speaker 7: No, I'm asking you, what makes you think I am white?
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Speaker 3: Because you won't shut your mouth.
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Speaker 7: Oh, that has nothing to do with it. For your information,
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Speaker 7: I have Cuban heritage in me, and I'm not going
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Speaker 7: to shut my mouth because you think I'm white. That
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Speaker 7: is a racist comment, and I don't think how you
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Speaker 7: can expect anybody to be polite to you when you
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Speaker 7: are racist.
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Speaker 3: But you might be Cuban, but you talk like Big
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Speaker 3: White Cracker Lady. Yeah, white faculty. You know what?
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Speaker 7: Go back to your own damn country and learn how
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Speaker 7: to speak English.
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Speaker 3: Why can't you shut your mouth to listen to me?
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to shut my mouth.
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Speaker 1: Please don't say shut her mouth. It's a rude phrase, Mr. Fanin.
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Speaker 3: He knows it's rude.
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Speaker 7: Anybody who has a business in our country needs to
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Speaker 7: be a little bit more polite. I pity the people
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Speaker 7: that he deals with.
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Speaker 3: You're Cuban. You're not American.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I am American. I was born in the United States.
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Speaker 3: If you're Cuban, then no one is afraid of you.
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Speaker 3: I would like to hire you to clean my home.
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Speaker 7: I didn't say anybody. You know what? That is such
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Speaker 7: a misconception. Nobody's afraid of anybody because of their race.
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Speaker 3: But you are a Cuban lady. You're afraid of.
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Speaker 7: Somebody because of the way they project themselves.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 7: Maybe you project yourself as a... threatening person and that's
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Speaker 7: what frightens them but you know what you can come
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Speaker 7: up to me and say I'm not going to back down.
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Speaker 3: But you won't shut your mouth I'm.
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Speaker 7: Not going to shut my mouth why should I shut
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Speaker 7: my mouth this is my country I was born here
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Speaker 7: and I have every right to say what I.
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Speaker 3: Want to say if you're a Cuban lady you can't
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Speaker 3: clean my.
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Speaker 7: Home I was born in the United States I am
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Speaker 7: an American.
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Speaker 2: Can you clean my home okay is that a statement
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Speaker 2: that you are making sir to provoke this lady I
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Speaker 2: am saying to.
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Speaker 3: You, I'm Middle East man. You can't push me around.
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Speaker 7: You're a Middle East idiot.
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Speaker 3: Because if you push around Middle East man, you know,
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Speaker 3: things go kaboom, you know. Oh, boy, buddy. So are
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Speaker 3: you threatening me?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, is that a threat?
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Speaker 3: No, it's not a threat, but you know that this
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Speaker 3: is a.
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Speaker 7: That's what you're saying. If I'm pushing you around, then
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Speaker 7: you're going to threaten me by going kaboom?
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Speaker 6: Well, guess what?
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Speaker 7: You can play that game. Where do you live so
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Speaker 7: we can have this out?
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Speaker 3: My son wants to know, if you're Cuban, what does
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Speaker 3: Babalu mean?
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Speaker 7: Are you.
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Speaker 2: Look, sir, we're having a conversation here if you keep
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Speaker 2: your son out of it. Elizabeth, I'm going to move on.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your call. I can understand
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Speaker 2: the lady's indignation. I would ask you to refrain from
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Speaker 2: the phrase, shut your mouth. It is considered rude.
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Speaker 1: Here is Judy. Judy, go ahead. You're on The Phil
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Speaker 1: Henry Show.
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Speaker 6: Yet i think it's just that i have to tell
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Speaker 6: you that is the rudest man who had disrespected everybody
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Speaker 6: in america and yet he claims.
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Speaker 3: To want our respect no matter what.
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Speaker 6: Could be respected but he will get respect that no
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Speaker 6: man is an idiot i don't know if it was absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Right but you see you will not shut your mouth
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Speaker 3: to listen to what i'm saying i have said i'm
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Speaker 3: middle east man i'm not threatening.
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Speaker 6: Anyone You are not, you are threatening all of us
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Speaker 6: because you think in your silly mind that we are
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Speaker 6: disrespecting you. You are doing things to provoke and disrespect us.
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Speaker 7: But we are.
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Speaker 6: Americans and we don't retaliate and do what you do.
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Speaker 2: Judy, hang on for a minute. I'm going to take
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Speaker 2: a break, but you'll be first up when we come out.
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Speaker 2: We have Raj Faneen on the line. He's an Egyptian
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Speaker 2: businessman who says it's different for Middle Eastern immigrants because
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Speaker 2: people do not dare... insult or mistreat them. There are
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Speaker 2: certain risks. Now, I'm hearing a guy threatening. He just said,
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Speaker 2: you disrespect us, things go kaboom.
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Speaker 1: You heard that.
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Speaker 5: The Phil Henry Show is back.
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Speaker 1: Mr. Fennine, Raj Fennine joins us.
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Speaker 2: An Egyptian businessman. You say you're in the real estate business.
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Speaker 2: You say you also have clothing.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Mostly wholesale clothing. business as well as different
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Speaker 3: entrepreneurial pursuits. But I wanted to say that the Middle
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Speaker 3: East man is not a bad man.
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Speaker 1: No, but you want him to look like a bad man.
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Speaker 1: I've got a caller hanging on.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no. Just please shut your mouth and let
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Speaker 3: me say this.
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Speaker 2: No, sir, don't tell me to shut my mouth, and
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Speaker 2: I want to go back to this caller. Judy is
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Speaker 2: on the line.
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Speaker 3: But I want to make this point.
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Speaker 1: All right. right, Judy, go ahead.
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Speaker 6: Yes. I want to say just one more thing to
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Speaker 6: this man.
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Speaker 3: You are an absolute.
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Speaker 6: Disgrace to every Muslim in this country that is working
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Speaker 6: hard and living a nice life in the American country.
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Speaker 6: You're a disgrace, sir, to every Muslim that is doing that.
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Speaker 6: And they are not like you. Thank heaven.
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Speaker 3: Could I ask you a question? What? You... Look... If
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Speaker 3: I say to you, for instance, Judy, do you have
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Speaker 3: a daughter?
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry. We have a lot of interference. I can
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Speaker 6: barely hear you.
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Speaker 3: Do you have a daughter? Do you have a little girl?
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Speaker 6: Do I have what?
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Speaker 3: A daughter.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I do, and my niece is married to a Muslim,
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Speaker 6: and let me tell you, he does not go around
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Speaker 6: disrespecting Americans. More does he try to intimidate or threaten them.
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Speaker 6: He is a very.
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Speaker 3: Nice person, and you're a disgrace to the Muslim race.
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Speaker 3: I would say to you, please don't have your daughter
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Speaker 3: act like a field slut. In front of my son.
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Speaker 6: Sir, you are a disgrace and I am not even
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Speaker 6: going to honor that statement. You are a disgrace.
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Speaker 3: Period. You won't shut your mouth.
21:10
Speaker 6: You are an absolute disgusting disgrace.
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Speaker 3: You are afraid of me.
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Speaker 6: I am not afraid of you, you little jerk.
21:18
Speaker 3: If you see me sitting behind you in Anchorman, I
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Speaker 3: see the sweat trickle down your neck.
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Speaker 6: If I see you sitting behind me, I would say
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Speaker 6: hello if the occasion arose. And if we didn't make
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Speaker 6: eye contact, I'd ignore you.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but.
21:30
Speaker 6: Because you're not important enough.
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Speaker 3: To be afraid of. If I suspect that you're going
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Speaker 3: to be talking in the movie, I would say I
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Speaker 3: don't want you to talk like a field slut.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Do you understand what you're saying, sir, when you say
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Speaker 2: to a woman, is your daughter a field slut?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: Please listen to me and please shut your mouth.
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Speaker 1: Don't tell me to shut my mouth anymore. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to listen to you. Just don't tell me to shut
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Speaker 1: my mouth.
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Speaker 3: Sir, I am simply trying to establish for my family,
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Speaker 3: for my people. the Middle East people, that you will
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Speaker 3: not push us around like you push around these Mexicans,
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Speaker 3: like you push around these people here.
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Speaker 2: Not all Americans push around Mexicans. Maybe we don't have
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Speaker 2: the greatest track record when it comes to immigrants, but
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Speaker 2: by God, we've got a hell of a lot of
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Speaker 2: them coming here anyway, okay? And for you to say that,
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Speaker 2: you know, you're going to intimidate me by calling my
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Speaker 2: daughter a field slut, I'm going to tell you something.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to take that very kindly. Do you understand?
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Speaker 3: Ah, yes, but you'll be warned, you see.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean, I'll be warned?
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Speaker 3: You will know that the Middle East men I'm a
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Speaker 3: Middle East man, okay? I'm not going to... You're not
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Speaker 3: going to make jokes of me. You're not going to say, hey, look,
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Speaker 3: there goes this camel jockey into my face. So if
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Speaker 3: I say that your daughter is a field slut.
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Speaker 2: You don't say that my daughter is a field slut
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Speaker 2: to my face and get away with it.
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Speaker 3: No, but you... I have to establish... See, you won't
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Speaker 3: shut your mouth.
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Speaker 1: You won't... Don't tell me to shut my mouth. Let
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Speaker 1: me go over to Nicole. Nicole, you're on the Phil
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Speaker 1: Henry Show with Mr. Raj Fanin.
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Speaker 3: How are you doing? Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 4: Well, I just want to make a comment to this
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Speaker 4: Middle Eastern person that, again, this is America. And maybe
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Speaker 4: in your country you can.
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Speaker 3: Intimidate by threatening. No, I'm not.
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Speaker 4: I've dated Middle Eastern men, and you guys are a
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Speaker 4: bunch of swines. But anyway, hey, you guys have no respect.
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Speaker 4: You cannot earn respect in the state of California.
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Speaker 3: Once you go Middle East, you can't go back.
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Speaker 4: I'm actually married to a Mexican, and he's wonderful.
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Speaker 6: I think you're married to.
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Speaker 3: A Middle East man, and you think he's a Mexican.
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Speaker 3: Do you know the difference between.
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Speaker 4: A Mexican and a Middle Easterner?
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Speaker 6: It's about 13,000 miles.
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Speaker 4: You do not earn respect.
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Speaker 6: By threatening if you know i don't want to say
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Speaker 6: any kind of.
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Speaker 4: A threatening thing either your son if he ever came
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Speaker 4: into establishment and i am there wearing a backpack he's
24:04
Speaker 4: not only going to get his butt kicked by my
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Speaker 4: me personally But I'm also going to call the cops,
24:09
Speaker 4: and then we're going to call the FBI, and then
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Speaker 4: we're going to have an investigation.
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Speaker 3: On your family. And then we're going.
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Speaker 4: To deport your butt right back to your country for
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Speaker 4: some reason why you left and came to our country
24:21
Speaker 4: for better opportunities.
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Speaker 3: You call the cops on a little boy who's wearing
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Speaker 3: a backpack.
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Speaker 4: No, because, you know, when we call the cops on.
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Speaker 7: A backpack on a little boy, we're going to.
24:32
Speaker 4: Wonder why he's doing that. And when he tells us
24:35
Speaker 4: it's funny... Then we're going to investigate the parents because
24:38
Speaker 4: we think that's poor parenting.
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Speaker 3: What did he do that's wrong?
24:42
Speaker 4: You just said it's funny. And to instill a threat,
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Speaker 4: you know, or a guise of a possible threat, you
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Speaker 4: find that funny.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's funny. Look at this.
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Speaker 4: Hey, why did you come to our country?
24:58
Speaker 3: This is my country. No, it's not.
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Speaker 7: It's our country.
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Speaker 3: I'm an immigrant. Do you know that I can talk
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Speaker 3: to you?
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Speaker 4: Why did you leave Egypt?
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Speaker 6: Why are you here?
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Speaker 3: Because my brother... He's in business. He has a clothing wholesale. Nicole,
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Speaker 3: people see me. They look at me with respect and fear.
25:16
Speaker 3: People see your Mexican husband. They say, how much is
25:19
Speaker 3: the lettuce today? This is the difference.
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Speaker 1: Are you playing ping pong?
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Speaker 4: I have plenty of Muslim friends of Egyptian, Persian, and.
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Speaker 7: Iranian, and Egyptian, and Persian.
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Speaker 4: I have no, I've never looked at them with fear.
25:34
Speaker 4: I come up to them, and if they give me respect,
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Speaker 4: I give it right back to them.
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Speaker 1: Guys, I want to ask you a question. Nicole, hold on.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question. Are you playing
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Speaker 1: ping pong?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Why?
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Speaker 3: This is what I'm trying to say. I'm listening to Nicole,
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Speaker 3: but I'm also playing ping pong with my son because
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Speaker 3: I don't want Nicole to think that I'm hanging on
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Speaker 3: her every word, but I'm not disrespecting her. I'm just
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Speaker 3: slightly bored by her.
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Speaker 4: I'm not entirely bored by your level of intelligence, but
26:03
Speaker 4: you know what? I'm trying to hang on.
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Speaker 3: But I play ping-pong, you see. Well, I'm driving. You
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Speaker 3: don't have to drive. I have to play ping-pong, you see. So, anyway,
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Speaker 3: if I see you, I'll say, hello, Nicole. But don't
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Speaker 3: disrespect me.
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Speaker 4: I would never disrespect something of any person... on a
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Speaker 4: first basis intentionally. That's rude.
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Speaker 3: Listen to me. I'm going to say this to you.
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Speaker 3: It's going to mess your pants with fear. Are you ready?
26:39
Speaker 3: I'll cut you. You like that?
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what are you doing, man?
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Speaker 3: I'm playing ping pong.
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Speaker 1: What's the problem? You're talking to my callers and you're
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Speaker 1: playing ping pong. You're going into some Western I'll cut
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Speaker 1: you thing. Why are you playing ping-pong?
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Speaker 3: Ping-pong is very big in Egypt. What the hell do
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Speaker 3: you think you are, telling me not to play ping-pong?
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Speaker 3: Huge in Egypt. I'm getting nutty for a big tournament.
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Speaker 3: And if you tell me I'm not playing ping-pong, you
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Speaker 3: know what I say to you?
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Speaker 1: Oh, I know what you're going to say.
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Speaker 3: Man, I'll cut you.
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Speaker 1: Jeez, you almost sang that out.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: Okay, game, add in.
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Speaker 7: Later.
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Speaker 3: Later.
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