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00:00:59.980 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

00:01:01.820 on the Red Apple Podcast

00:01:04.200 Network.

00:01:06.340 It is the

00:01:07.760 Anthony Cumia Show. I hope

00:01:10.020 everyone's doing well

00:01:11.340 Sunday evening,

00:01:14.080 of course, per usual.

00:01:16.440 And I

00:01:17.340 am in Las Vegas,

00:01:20.320 Nevada. Wonderful,

00:01:22.040 beautiful Las Vegas.

00:01:23.840 And I got to tell you, I don't like this city.

00:01:30.760 It's, I don't know.

00:01:33.720 Some people complain that it's just pure commercialization.

00:01:40.200 Now, it kind of always has been, but the casinos, the hotels, the restaurants are all about just fleecing the people for as much as they possibly can.

00:01:52.320 And it is no more of those classic accommodations and all of the other wonderful things they give you for coughing up so much money.

00:02:07.520 And they've increased the price of everything, but the amenities and all the wonderful things you would come to Vegas for are gone.

00:02:18.060 They're gone.

00:02:18.560 I think it was the end of a casino when Bobby De Niro's character was talking about Vegas and what it has turned into and how, you know, they used to know your name and you'd get comped.

00:02:34.500 And it was just a whole different story.

00:02:37.620 And now I don't know what to make of this place.

00:02:40.560 every time i come here it only takes a couple of days before i go yeah get me the hell out of here

00:02:48.600 how about just get me the hell out of here so uh i i'm here until tomorrow so uh you know i i lugged 0.73

00:02:57.520 all the equipment to vegas in my room and here i am doing the anthony cumia show for everyone out 0.59

00:03:05.600 there in my little room at the Plaza Hotel. Not quite, you know, one of the more upper crusty

00:03:16.280 hotels either. It's kind of vintage. Is that one way to put it? Vintage? Classic? Something like

00:03:24.480 that? And for people that do hit the blackjack tables and baccarat, I tried baccarat for the

00:03:33.720 first time because it sounds fancy um and then when you when you realize what the game is you

00:03:39.660 see that uh it's not fancy it's not like uh something out of a james bond movie where he's

00:03:45.800 in monaco or somewhere it's a terrible get you might as well just flip a coin it's pretty much

00:03:52.200 flipping a coin hey uh i think i will get closer to nine and then you don't and they take your

00:04:00.980 money away and blackjack i don't know maybe i have a a misconception of the game of blackjack

00:04:10.000 every time i come back to vegas or atlantic city or what have you and i think that i was doing

00:04:18.120 better last time because i come here and i just i cannot get anything started the dealers just

00:04:28.320 pull these amazing hands out of their derriere as they say you know you're feeling all good about

00:04:36.520 your 20 and the dealer's showing a six and uh lo and behold five cards later you're still trying 0.89

00:04:45.320 to do the math and figure out what she has and they're uh taking your money away just sweeping

00:04:51.000 your money away with a 21 so uh that's what i've been doing it's um ah it's just exhausting

00:05:00.460 and the trip you know you got to get on a plane do i sound like i'm just bitching and complaining

00:05:07.620 uh because i am i'm venting people you know how uh you you we we uh take phone calls here on this 0.85

00:05:14.840 show and allow you to bitch and complain i'm doing that right now it's my turn today and uh the the 0.86

00:05:23.860 air travel uh just another thing another thing where the amenities uh have been taken away at 0.97

00:05:32.680 every turn the prices have gone up um and if you want to spend less and go to a discount airline

00:05:40.160 Well, good luck. Good luck to you.

00:05:43.880 Because either you're delusional or you do not own a phone with YouTube on it

00:05:49.920 to watch the videos of people acting, I don't even know what to do anymore. 1.00

00:05:58.460 They get on airplanes and decide that, that is the place for me to act like a complete idiot 0.99

00:06:07.120 and hold up all the people, get thrown off the plane. 1.00

00:06:12.660 Some of them sit there.

00:06:13.780 They won't even listen to the flight crew,

00:06:16.160 and they tell them to get off the plane.

00:06:18.900 They sit there, and then they go,

00:06:21.360 well, we'll have to deplane everybody.

00:06:24.560 And you've got 100 or so people groaning

00:06:29.020 and then yelling at the person

00:06:30.520 because it's not going to end well.

00:06:33.340 They're not just going to go, okay, you could stay here.

00:06:36.180 Everyone else can get off and we'll just fly you privately.

00:06:40.000 You're going to jail.

00:06:41.740 You're getting arrested and going to jail.

00:06:44.500 An airplane or an airport is a terrible, terrible place to pull what I call shenanigans, shenanigans and hijinks.

00:06:55.740 Yeah, and then, you know, everything else that goes along with it.

00:07:00.680 The time difference.

00:07:02.520 Yeah, it's like, what is it here?

00:07:03.960 Five, quarter after five, it's all light out.

00:07:06.620 I don't like that either.

00:07:07.860 I'm getting grumpy.

00:07:09.300 I'm getting grumpy in my old age.

00:07:11.800 But we do have some people on the phone.

00:07:16.280 I wasn't on the air last week because of a wonderful Easter, Easter Sunday.

00:07:23.260 And we got some phone calls.

00:07:25.300 People want to talk.

00:07:26.980 And let's talk to Bobby on the Upper West Side.

00:07:31.200 bobby what's up my friend hey so so i i was a working musician and i played at caesar's palace

00:07:39.940 in 1975 and it was so great i made money and i i before this was before all the all the um

00:07:51.840 the digital um money thing so i so i went to the post office i went to the post office and i made

00:08:03.220 money orders out to myself and i sent them home to connecticut and in in caesar's palace there

00:08:11.720 were like really good food it was really cheap actually and i'm i'm i shook i shook hands with

00:08:21.860 um joe lewis the famous boxer that the because they had him there as a greeter so i was there

00:08:29.560 for 10 weeks i made money and now it has all changed from what i've been told it's it's just

00:08:38.580 It's like not, it's not what you would want to, it's not where I would want to go work now.

00:08:46.060 No, work or play or anything, really.

00:08:50.640 I don't want to get so down on Vegas, but it's just not the same anymore.

00:08:55.040 Yeah, and we, our band, we were on what was called Cleopatra's Barge,

00:09:01.700 and it was right next to the northern entrance of caesar's palace and we we played six nights a week

00:09:13.700 and it was one of the easiest gigs i ever had and i made money and we were all happy and i walked

00:09:21.940 i walked to work um the flamingo was across the across the boulevard and i was in a um

00:09:30.480 a motel King Arthur's Court and it was like an efficiency like we I had a kitchen and so I bought

00:09:40.540 my own food and and I worked and I made money it was like beautiful and one of the one of the

00:09:48.580 things I loved was to see what the strip looked like as the sun was coming up it looked so

00:09:55.460 ridiculous and i yeah i would take i would take walks i would take walks in the desert

00:10:02.400 and it was some holes well well just look bobby i i would i would love to just go on and on about

00:10:11.180 old school vegas i i appreciate your call um and uh have a great uh rest of your your evening

00:10:18.900 You know, I like that he's calling about the topic we're talking about, Vegas, and how it's changed over the years.

00:10:27.040 But, yeah, I don't think we need an entire soliloquy about the wonders of 1970s Vegas.

00:10:34.680 I bet the mafia was really, really entrenched in Vegas back then when he was playing gigs and whatnot.

00:10:43.340 but uh you know i guess it's a it's kind of a um controversial thing to say but man the mob knew

00:10:52.000 how to run uh this city man did the mob know how to run las vegas because now i don't know what is

00:10:59.860 big corporations um yeah foreigners you know they've come here and taken the uh american 0.88

00:11:09.540 aspect out of 0.99

00:11:11.400 out of Las Vegas

00:11:13.160 I mean all your dealers

00:11:15.360 I think since I've been here

00:11:17.540 on this trip

00:11:19.440 I think I had one

00:11:21.140 regular guy

00:11:23.420 dealer you know the guy that

00:11:25.520 tells you the old war stories

00:11:27.160 like our previous caller you know

00:11:29.540 they got all the great old stories

00:11:31.860 about Vegas and how

00:11:33.740 it used to be and then you know

00:11:35.860 you're having some fun

00:11:36.840 and then oh they bring over

00:11:39.340 and yang you and uh she gets up and just starts scooping your chips away 1.00

00:11:47.780 and uh no more fun no more fun at the table when chang uh uh stands there no like no rapport

00:11:58.080 no fun no conversation it's just hear your cards and uh you lose i like talking with the uh

00:12:08.000 the dealer and and and the people at the table with you but um i don't know that is just a uh

00:12:16.400 gone that whole thing that whole vibe of vegas and they got you know they got some cool stuff the

00:12:22.580 the big sphere you could go see the wizard of oz in the sphere i don't come here for that 0.80

00:12:29.060 i come here to uh sit my ass in a chair and gamble all right just getting started a lot more to go

00:12:36.740 and your phone calls, and we must talk about Swalwell. 1.00

00:12:43.860 Oh, my God, is he in some trouble, and it's hilarious, good, hypocrite, 1.00

00:12:50.680 another Washington hypocrite. 1.00

00:12:52.340 All right, back in a moment. 0.98

00:12:54.220 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:13:00.520 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:13:06.740 the anthony come here show uh live from las vegas um kevin's got something to say about

00:13:15.020 vegas we'll go right to the phones here kevin long beach what's up

00:13:18.980 hola oh he dropped uh you quitter you're a quitter how about sondra sondra from new jersey

00:13:30.240 what's up oh hi anthony i wanted to tell you i went to las vegas once and i'll never go back

00:13:36.180 I hated it there.

00:13:37.540 How long ago?

00:13:38.860 Oh, I would say about four years ago.

00:13:41.740 All right.

00:13:42.520 I hated it.

00:13:43.820 My husband had like a business meeting there, and I went along with him.

00:13:47.420 You went from one building to the next.

00:13:50.200 It was just like cold and not warm.

00:13:54.180 I just didn't like it.

00:13:55.420 It wasn't for me, and I don't gamble, so that's not fun.

00:13:57.720 I don't want to spend my money going.

00:13:58.700 Yeah, there's no reason to come here if you don't gamble.

00:14:02.320 I know.

00:14:03.040 I never understood that one.

00:14:05.280 So I was so glad to leave and come home, and I'll never go back.

00:14:09.060 But what I wanted to say to you is yesterday I went into the city to have my nails done,

00:14:14.500 and then we do lunch after that.

00:14:16.060 But the two people that work in the salon that I went to were at Grand Central Station when it happened.

00:14:23.140 They had a duck.

00:14:24.600 Yeah, there was a big – was that the machete attack?

00:14:29.840 Yes.

00:14:30.100 Yeah.

00:14:30.480 Yes.

00:14:31.180 We're dealing with machete attacks.

00:14:33.700 That's where we are now in New York.

00:14:36.160 Exactly.

00:14:36.920 So, well, maybe you're better off there.

00:14:39.100 But the point I'm making is I never realized how frightening when I saw they were telling me how they were hiding and they were terrified.

00:14:47.120 You don't know it until you're in it.

00:14:48.900 And then I'm looking at my computer this morning, and lo and behold, something similar happened at Chick-fil-A in New Jersey.

00:14:56.960 So, Anthony, what's happening?

00:14:59.480 No matter where you go, you never know who's going to be the next target.

00:15:04.520 This guy went behind the register, shot, you know, shoot, shot people.

00:15:08.580 I mean, this is really getting out of control.

00:15:10.880 And I don't know.

00:15:12.200 We just talk about it, but nothing gets done.

00:15:14.440 Exactly.

00:15:15.160 Nothing gets done.

00:15:16.780 And it's a lot worse than it used to be in this context.

00:15:21.360 People, you know, there were murders forever.

00:15:24.900 There's reasons that people murder other people.

00:15:28.340 and sometimes they're not completely insane.

00:15:34.220 You know, you walk in on your wife.

00:15:35.640 She's with a guy.

00:15:36.560 You're a little angry.

00:15:38.400 Right.

00:15:38.820 Something happens.

00:15:40.040 But this is so random.

00:15:42.680 The violence is so random.

00:15:44.720 Like, you could be leading a good life.

00:15:47.120 You could be a good person.

00:15:48.200 You don't have enemies that want to kill you.

00:15:50.860 Right.

00:15:51.600 But now that doesn't even matter.

00:15:53.580 You're just a random person walking down the street,

00:15:55.880 and you got to worry about getting hacked by a machete i mean oh god what what what kind of

00:16:03.400 cities because it's not just new york um are we are we living in and working in that you have to

00:16:09.940 worry that you're a commuter and someone's going to break out a machete and and again in these

00:16:15.780 large cities you're not allowed to protect yourself i if someone's coming at you with a

00:16:20.980 machete it would look exactly like that hilarious scene in indiana jones where he just pulls a gun

00:16:26.660 out and shoots the guy with a big sword and walks away uh but they don't even allow you

00:16:32.280 to protect i have my pepper spray i have my pepper spray will that work i don't know then

00:16:37.900 you got a blind guy waving a machete around so i was worse i don't know yeah it's like a lawnmower

00:16:44.320 flying around the train station.

00:16:47.320 Sandra, thank you, dear.

00:16:49.900 Yeah, I definitely wanted to touch on that

00:16:53.020 because, you know, you listen to Zoram and Danny,

00:16:55.660 you listen to any mayor of a large, blue, crime-ridden city,

00:17:01.460 and what do you get?

00:17:03.740 Oh, it's safer than ever.

00:17:06.780 Our crime numbers are down, our violent crime numbers,

00:17:10.560 our gun numbers, this, that.

00:17:12.060 and then you go what the hell am i watching what the hell am i reading about and then you read

00:17:19.600 about stabbings and machete attacks and look i don't have to tell anybody out there who uses

00:17:27.440 machetes that is not a um that is not something that has been used for many many years for uh

00:17:37.800 violence in new york city you know there used to be the switchblade back in the 50s the juvenile

00:17:43.480 delinquents would have the switchblades the west side story um and then we started getting a lot of

00:17:53.680 people from south america central america mexico and uh their preferred weapon is a blade a knife

00:18:02.940 or a machete you start getting people from um uh sub-saharan african nations the middle east

00:18:10.400 they love a good hasan chop remember that bugs bunny hasan chop it's that's what you get now

00:18:18.920 walking around new york city a bugs bunny cartoon hasan chop and uh it's a type of

00:18:27.660 it's it's the randomness of it it's the savagery of these attacks that are happening on the

00:18:36.000 citizens of large cities run by democrats they love their sanctuary city they love letting

00:18:42.260 violent criminals out with no bail oh this person will put an ankle monitor on this mental patient

00:18:51.120 uh violent murderer and then you know they'll pay attention to that yeah they they're so good

00:18:58.020 at obeying the rules uh and that's what they do a lot of these activist judges we've seen them in

00:19:04.080 action where they just let these people go uh right back onto the streets with the people the

00:19:11.080 people that are living and working in these cities it is uh unbelievable and like sandra said what

00:19:17.940 what's happening is anyone doing anything are we going to uh fix these problems no it's it's a

00:19:27.420 story for a few days maybe if it's a story at all and then uh it goes away the machete attack was

00:19:35.140 big it was a huge story in uh in the news for a day for a day and then we move on to something

00:19:42.380 else. And any idea of solving the problem goes right out the window. It doesn't seem like

00:19:49.680 anyone in power really wants to do it. And I don't understand it, how these judges and prosecutors

00:19:57.960 and the brass in the police department, I know there are plenty of good cops out there that want

00:20:04.880 to do their job to the best of their ability, but the mayor and the police commissioner hold them

00:20:12.180 back they don't allow them to do the job they need to do uh in order to curtail some of this

00:20:19.580 violent crime put cops in the the train stations oh there's not that many there are there are a lot

00:20:29.260 of cops put them in the train stations put them in some of these train subway stations in uh the

00:20:35.760 bad neighborhoods as i like to call them the bad neighborhoods but uh yeah a police presence

00:20:42.480 there was a mayor a few years back named rudy giuliani he did that he said uh we're gonna

00:20:51.180 flood the streets with cops and they will make arrests uh who do you think's jumping turnstiles

00:20:58.640 people that don't want to pay uh on their way to work no they're troublemakers they're

00:21:06.420 troublemakers and uh violent criminals and mental patients there's a lot of nut jobs out there

00:21:12.480 and zora memdani thinks you could just uh send social workers to take care of them

00:21:19.380 oh and that uh jail you know rikers island shut it down and what release all of them into the wild

00:21:26.640 it's uh it's the people that are supposed to be in charge and they're just brazen

00:21:36.000 incompetence you know if you have a job and somebody um gets killed because of your

00:21:43.900 irresponsibility you pay for that we just recently saw a police officer that threw a cooler

00:21:51.160 at a guy that was stopped for drugs and he went to speed off on a scooter

00:21:57.620 and the cop threw a cooler at him and he died.

00:22:02.360 He crashed his little scooter and he died.

00:22:04.440 And the cop's getting three to nine years, I think.

00:22:07.560 And, you know, I don't agree with it, but that's what's happening these days.

00:22:11.960 They will lock you up unless you're a judge.

00:22:16.200 Then you could quite literally, through your own incompetence,

00:22:19.340 have people killed because you release a murderer back out on the street

00:22:23.120 and there's no accountability.

00:22:27.200 How about gross negligence resulting in death?

00:22:30.440 How about that?

00:22:31.600 All right, folks, look, we're going to take a quick break.

00:22:35.580 I see all the phones are lit up.

00:22:36.940 We'll take your calls back in a moment.

00:22:40.120 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:22:46.420 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:22:49.340 It is indeed the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:22:55.840 And right back to the phones, Mike from Bayside, Queens, has a little experience with Las Vegas.

00:23:02.300 I'm broadcasting live from the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

00:23:06.960 Mike, what's up, man?

00:23:09.060 I got a Vegas story for you.

00:23:11.060 And first and foremost, that judge that gave that cop a three to nine, he gave a murderer three to nine.

00:23:17.680 And the guy, a double murderer or something

00:23:20.100 The guy got out in 18 months, he murdered again

00:23:22.220 So his liberal

00:23:23.380 His little, you know, it's just

00:23:25.980 Criminal and that's going to be a spot

00:23:28.100 Hopefully Donald Trump or somebody just

00:23:29.680 You know, gives him a pardon, that guy

00:23:31.720 Because I don't want that cop going to jail

00:23:33.080 Oh my god, well Mike, you know

00:23:34.660 The judge is an activist judge

00:23:38.280 It's a judge that does not

00:23:40.280 Like the police

00:23:41.100 It's a judge that said

00:23:42.880 We need to make an example

00:23:44.840 Of this officer

00:23:46.400 that is injustice you're not putting someone in prison so that you can make an example of him

00:23:52.700 you're doing that um out of uh it's a just sentence someone does something bad and the

00:24:02.960 sentence fits the crime this guy was doing his job i don't think he ever thought throwing a cooler

00:24:08.480 at this scale was going to kill him uh if this cop was even if he even even even if he did

00:24:16.480 think that the cooler was going to kill him the guy you know the guy could have went on and killed

00:24:21.180 people that day or whatever like you know what i mean right right but i don't think it's a great

00:24:25.200 murder definitely yeah like this this cop could get out if they let him out today there is zero

00:24:31.500 chance that he's going to go kill another person he's not going to go out and murder people you

00:24:37.260 You know what's the scary thing, Anthony?

00:24:38.860 Maybe after five years of jail, he will turn into a murderer.

00:24:42.000 But you know what I mean? 0.87

00:24:42.740 It's just so sick.

00:24:44.160 Yeah, they put him in the murder training facilities.

00:24:47.540 Yep.

00:24:48.160 Anyway, go ahead, Vegas.

00:24:50.160 I've been a fan of you since forever, and I was going to ask you a question about radio beef,

00:24:56.560 but more importantly, when I was 18 years old, I went to Vegas with my late dad,

00:25:01.380 and he was in the convention right before I went to college.

00:25:05.920 The day before I went to college, he took me to Vegas for a week just to go with him on business.

00:25:13.660 And he wasn't even involving me with his convention.

00:25:16.240 He was like, but the first night, he handed me a $100 bill.

00:25:19.600 He goes, come with me.

00:25:20.300 We'll go to the PAL station.

00:25:21.440 We were at the Mirage.

00:25:22.720 He's like, I'll show you how to play craps.

00:25:25.460 So mind you, he shows me how to play craps.

00:25:28.040 We won like five Gs, and he lets me keep roughly half of it.

00:25:32.040 And I was able to be in Vegas for a week.

00:25:34.340 And I learned a lot about, like, you know, back then you'd see a thing, steak and egg dinner or breakfast for $0.99 or steak and egg dinner for $1.99.

00:25:43.160 And I'd go there with $100.

00:25:45.120 I'd go there to have my $1.99 meal, which was garbage, but I'd still lose $100.

00:25:51.900 I learned about, you know, really what the $0.99 breakfast is about.

00:25:55.980 It's about getting you in there and then you're going to lose money.

00:25:58.040 but uh my my takeaway with the with the gambling now is it's all about spreadsheets and making

00:26:03.600 money and they could care less about the end user the problem gambler the person uh that yeah it's

00:26:10.180 not um yeah not only that mike let me tell you the whole uh casino is is different uh years ago

00:26:19.240 you'd go in and it was tables blackjack craps roulette all the games and uh you know you could

00:26:26.960 find so many different uh uh tables like you want to play blackjack five dollars the 15 dollar

00:26:35.460 minimum 25 50 they were all over the place you know you you're not you don't you didn't bring

00:26:41.300 that much money you sit at the five dollar table you know and and now there are the hotel i'm

00:26:47.860 staying at three three blackjack tables in the entire casino because they've figured out that 1.00

00:26:55.300 But those stupid-ass machines, the ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, bang, bang, bang, bang. 1.00

00:27:00.740 Those are the ones that make them the most money. 1.00

00:27:04.120 Believe it or not, they're not making as much money on table games as they make on these ridiculous video slot machines

00:27:10.240 where they sit in front of there, these 90-year-old people on oxygen, putting their kids' inheritance in there.

00:27:20.120 And that's how they make money.

00:27:22.060 So if you're a gambler, you're a guy, yeah, you want to play blackjack,

00:27:26.640 it's not for you anymore.

00:27:28.900 Yeah.

00:27:29.400 Anthony, I have a little cabin up in Monticello in the Resorts World Catskill

00:27:32.940 up there.

00:27:33.860 They used to have a sports book.

00:27:35.920 They had it for like three or four years.

00:27:37.700 A couple of nice employees there.

00:27:39.060 I'd go on a Sunday morning, you'll bet the football games.

00:27:41.940 It was a nice time.

00:27:42.960 And then they closed it.

00:27:43.980 And when they were about to close it last year, I said to the staff,

00:27:46.980 where I got to know a couple of them, I said, what's going on?

00:27:49.540 How could you close this?

00:27:50.280 How could a sports book not be making money, and why would they close it?

00:27:54.640 And the sports book manager looked me in the eye.

00:27:56.840 He goes, Mike, you see that bank of slot machines right there?

00:28:01.340 That makes more than this whole area does.

00:28:04.720 And they don't got to employ four people, you know, 24 hours a day,

00:28:08.720 and they don't have to do no exposure.

00:28:11.640 Yeah, it's just robots.

00:28:13.420 It's all greed.

00:28:14.740 It's all greed, Mike.

00:28:16.180 Yeah, it is.

00:28:16.680 Thanks for the call, man.

00:28:18.260 I got to shove.

00:28:19.600 Huge fan of you, bro.

00:28:22.240 Thanks, man.

00:28:23.260 I can't hang up on Mike.

00:28:24.560 Have a great day.

00:28:25.740 Take it easy, my friend, because you've got to click the continued thing.

00:28:29.380 There we go.

00:28:30.480 Thank you, Mission Control, back up there in New York.

00:28:35.120 Yeah, it's, you know, there's so many changes over the course of the years.

00:28:41.260 And, you know, I think people from the previous generation are constantly saying,

00:28:47.780 well, it was better.

00:28:48.700 it was better when we did this and it was better uh but there is some validity in that you know

00:28:54.860 it's not just people looking back through rose-colored lenses or um remembering things

00:29:02.360 differently it uh it's true there is just this element of greed that is it involves everything

00:29:11.160 now there's no customer service try to get a hold of uh of someone on the phone to discuss

00:29:20.820 an issue you're having with their product it is impossible and now with ai you're not even talking

00:29:29.600 you know to a a recording or putting in the the uh number number two if you want to talk about

00:29:35.840 your account and then eventually you'd get a live person even that is done you're never getting a

00:29:42.720 live person you get these ai voices they don't tell you they're ai either they try to sound like

00:29:49.620 real people and uh that's who you talk to and and they use ai they get the info that they think you

00:29:58.740 might need but why why would they why would they go that route why wouldn't they have a real person

00:30:06.620 because it costs money it costs money they don't care that you're not happy with their service

00:30:12.440 they don't want to hear it now quite literally a robot is listening to your complaint how does that

00:30:21.160 make you feel oof it is um you know the future uh looked pretty amazing a few years back with ai and

00:30:31.400 autonomous robotics and self-driving cars but uh oof we're starting to see really what uh what the

00:30:40.600 deal is pretty crazy uh kevin kevin long beach he's back what's up man yeah sorry about that

00:30:48.520 Yeah, there's so much CCP money in Vegas, too.

00:30:53.160 Yeah, China.

00:30:54.360 They've got the corner of everything. 1.00

00:30:57.180 Yeah, that's something that I didn't think about saying, but it's true. 0.90

00:31:03.400 China. 0.89

00:31:04.800 Well, like our entire country is pretty much bought by China, but Vegas, yeah.

00:31:10.520 And, you know, Chinese China isn't really known for giving two craps about what the people think or what they want or giving them amenities.

00:31:23.840 And they're by the book.

00:31:26.180 Is it profitable kind of people?

00:31:29.640 Yeah.

00:31:29.900 All right.

00:31:30.640 And if I can go back to the crime thing, you know, it's all the crooked judges put there by Biden and put there by all the way back to Clinton and Obama.

00:31:40.160 They put in the full-world judges with the express purpose of it coming to this.

00:31:44.820 Yeah, that seems to...

00:31:46.720 And the downgrading of crimes, especially New York.

00:31:50.340 New York takes attempted murder and immediately makes it an assault.

00:31:54.440 Yeah, attempted murder is just an assault now.

00:31:57.040 And then they go out and they say, look at our attempted murder rates have gone down.

00:32:02.680 It's amazing.

00:32:03.880 You're just fudging the books.

00:32:06.720 Exactly.

00:32:07.240 That's all they're doing.

00:32:07.740 And Matt Walsh did a really good, intense study of this.

00:32:11.600 And it's like 60% of all the judges hired in the past 15 years are black, female, liberal judges.

00:32:20.600 Yeah, they think. 0.54

00:32:22.300 They're all suffering from the same toxic empathy, you know.

00:32:25.900 Oh, I feel so bad for them.

00:32:27.680 They think that we're looking at them like in the movies. 0.98

00:32:31.480 She's, you know, the fat, sassy black woman judge up on the bench, and she's dispensing justice, and she's fair, but don't try to get one over on her. 0.96

00:32:45.660 And that's not what it is. 0.98

00:32:46.500 These are activists.

00:32:47.880 These are people that are letting violent criminals out onto the streets.

00:32:52.180 And I don't even know what the endgame is for this.

00:32:55.920 Like, why would you want to do that?

00:32:57.980 Sowing chaos.

00:32:59.580 Like, I don't even get that.

00:33:01.480 What is the upside to releasing violent murderers out on the street?

00:33:08.360 I don't get it, man.

00:33:10.320 No, and you've got to impeach these judges.

00:33:13.360 But Trump tried to do that with his Justice Department, but he can't even get it started.

00:33:18.740 You're not allowed to touch them, man.

00:33:21.640 They're untouchable.

00:33:23.560 And Congress and Senate are very afraid to go impeach the judges, even crooked ones like they are now, you know?

00:33:29.820 Yeah.

00:33:30.340 Yeah. Well, also, with how divided we are as a country, the right, the left, Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives,

00:33:37.320 the second you try to impeach a judge, especially if you're a conservative and you want to get rid of one of these activist liberal judges,

00:33:47.120 the party will turn around and say, oh, look at them. 0.75

00:33:50.760 They're Nazis. They're trying to get rid of this wonderful judge.

00:33:55.460 I've never seen the country this divided.

00:33:57.620 I've never seen the people so willing to look self-destruction right in the eye and say, hey, come on in.

00:34:06.460 Come on in.

00:34:08.400 It's astounding.

00:34:10.260 It's like out of spite they will destroy the country because I don't really see any reason to let violent murderers out on the street.

00:34:19.780 If anybody listening has an answer to that, give me a call because I haven't been able to figure out what the upside to destroying this country is.

00:34:31.560 All right, Kevin, thank you, my friend.

00:34:33.820 Yeah. 0.84

00:34:34.700 What the hell?

00:34:36.500 What's the upside?

00:34:39.580 Yeah, so I'm in Vegas.

00:34:42.700 It's not fun.

00:34:44.760 I just want to go home.

00:34:47.700 Chris, Bethpage, what's up?

00:34:49.360 get the vegas calls out of the way and move on to something else in a moment what's happening

00:34:54.440 oh anthony two things so while i was on hold you were talking about the crime thing and uh i've

00:35:00.720 been taking the subway for 40 years and i've seen everything and in fact the place where the

00:35:06.680 stabbings were held with the machete i'm there every morning during the week that happened on

00:35:12.140 the weekend yeah grand central that's a very busy area i take the seven train and i transfer for the

00:35:16.840 four and the five and it's a busy area now to be fair i gotta say i've been seeing a lot more

00:35:23.040 cops down there but during the week i guess on the weekend they weren't down there but uh

00:35:27.940 i have been seeing more and more cops down there oh yeah granted a lot of them on their cell phones

00:35:32.640 unfortunately a lot i looked at i look and i see them on their cell phones and they're looking at

00:35:37.500 and sometimes i'm like dudes what are you doing i mean you're here i get it your presence but

00:35:43.760 you got to be looking around and i do it a lot i look around and you know i hate to say it if i

00:35:50.120 see a nut down there like this machete guy i uh i i will tell a cop i'll go up and tell a cop i go

00:35:58.880 listen there's a crazy guy down there and i'm always trying to like i said i've been doing it

00:36:03.020 for 40 years i've been taking it and i'm very um aware of what's going on but anyhow that really

00:36:08.900 disturb me that whole slashing and the ages of the people that they slashed too by the way were

00:36:14.840 in their 70s yeah they're elderly you know yeah crazy stuff man but you you make a great point

00:36:21.980 too about the cops the cops can be at a place but if they're not paying attention and doing their

00:36:28.920 job uh people are going to get hurt before they can react uh it's their job they should not be

00:36:36.420 standing there on their phone as just a regular guy walking around on the streets of new york

00:36:42.120 new york i don't look at my phone my phone stays in my pocket i do not want to take my concentration

00:36:49.120 off what's going on around me for a second when i'm walking on the streets and i will look forward

00:36:55.400 i'll look side to side i'll check reflections in the windows of the buildings see who's behind me

00:37:02.260 because you don't know they've released so many nuts out there that you don't know there doesn't

00:37:10.540 have to be a reason that someone wants to crack your head open anymore they're just out there

00:37:15.480 trying to commit violence against people and you have to be on your toes constantly and react

00:37:23.740 react to it if i see someone walking toward me that looks sketchy i will give them a very wide

00:37:30.740 birth i will go to the other side of the street i'll go to the other side of the sidewalk they

00:37:36.240 will never get within arm's reach of me and people have to realize that and start doing that

00:37:42.580 yeah no anthony and the thing just getting back to the phones very quickly

00:37:47.760 listen no phones that's it you have your little uh they have the little walkie talkies on their

00:37:54.160 shoulder you know what i mean that's how you communicate with other people take away the

00:37:58.080 phones when you're at work you know i work down on wall street i'm not allowed to be sitting at

00:38:02.620 the desk with my phone my boss comes around he's like what are you doing i mean really i'm just

00:38:06.980 saying you're a cop no phones i mean and that's a big thing and i know it sounds you know you know

00:38:14.600 but but i see them do it it's very frustrating and i like these guys they're all nice guys i

00:38:19.360 talk to them all the time they're the nicest guys in the world they mean well and their presence is

00:38:24.100 there but then i hear about this subway i always take i hear about this crazy slashing and i'm like

00:38:30.960 you know where were they where was it you know they ended up shooting the guy by the way but

00:38:35.880 yeah i'm thinking like somebody definitely was down there with like looking at his cell phone

00:38:40.760 and not paying attention no doubt you know it's it's not out of the question and and you see this

00:38:46.640 happening a lot you know how many man hours are are wasted because we now have phones that aren't

00:38:53.940 just phones they're you know everything your whole world is in there and um especially people

00:39:01.240 like cops you know i wouldn't want my pilot on a flight during takeoff or landing let's say because

00:39:08.400 they do look at all kinds of things uh during the flight when the plane is just flying itself

00:39:13.660 but during takeoff could you imagine a pilot or the first officer just scrolling just doom

00:39:19.460 scrolling through instagram uh these are jobs that that you cannot do that you just can't stand

00:39:27.140 there as a cop when you're supposed to be looking out for dangerous criminals in these cities and

00:39:33.600 be scrolling through your phones and texting people and you know and that's what they're doing

00:39:37.760 it's not official business they're on instagram they're on youtube uh x whatever uh all right

00:39:45.160 chris thank you man uh there goes chris yeah you know it's uh when when the smartphone first

00:39:55.060 came out uh another miracle another miracle of modern technology and you start wondering well

00:40:05.240 i wonder how this is going to affect society is this going to be something good or something bad

00:40:12.520 And while it has the potential for a lot of good, it also has the potential for a lot of bad. 0.65

00:40:21.380 And I think as far as wasting time, energy, and resources of the working Americans, it's been terrible. 0.98

00:40:31.500 It's all people do.

00:40:33.860 And look, I'm guilty.

00:40:34.960 I'm not being one of these people that are preaching and saying I'm not guilty.

00:40:42.520 of doing some of the same things wasting time i should be doing something and i'm just scrolling

00:40:49.720 uh not getting the sleep i should be getting because i'm scrolling it's terrible it is a type

00:40:57.720 of uh addiction i i really believe that it is a type of uh addiction that people have you you can't

00:41:05.720 go a minute without it and you could tell because sometimes have you ever put your phone somewhere

00:41:11.800 Maybe you're taking a video and you wonder where your phone is.

00:41:17.340 You're using your phone for something else than just scrolling and you want to scroll during the time you're taking a video or your phone is on a tripod or you're recording something with it and you're like, where's my phone? 0.98

00:41:32.140 That's how addicting these stupid things are and how much of a waste of time, energy, and resources they are. 0.95

00:41:38.840 But, you know, can't put the genie back in the bottle. 1.00

00:41:43.060 All right.

00:41:43.680 We will be back in moments.

00:41:45.060 Stick around more of the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:41:48.100 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:41:54.380 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:42:00.680 The Anthony Cumia Show coming to you from the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas.

00:42:07.100 and uh boy i just cannot wait till tomorrow when i get back home i love home i love just being home

00:42:17.200 i don't know maybe uh maybe the years the years under your belt make you appreciate home

00:42:25.780 i miss the uh the girlfriend i miss the dog not the same person stop it don't make jokes

00:42:34.960 you know you become set in your ways and um years ago getting a getting all your buddies together

00:42:44.740 and going to ac or vegas or the bahamas uh it was great it was a lot of fun and then you do reach

00:42:54.980 this point where you're like ah not only do i just not have the the wherewithal to be here

00:43:02.480 the energy um and it's not like a a lack of energy you know you need a a rascal scooter

00:43:10.460 or anything it's just the energy it takes to be in a place like vegas or ac i don't know

00:43:19.120 i just think i'm done with it if it was if it wasn't for the gambling there'd be no reason to

00:43:24.620 come here and then you know i live in south carolina and they don't have online gambling

00:43:30.700 uh it's the one thing you know uh lindsey graham i guess he he while he loves a good war

00:43:38.120 he does not like you being able to bet online so uh it makes a little difficult so if something's

00:43:47.200 going on in vegas or ac i'll be there i'll go but the the second i get there i'm like yeah

00:43:54.360 What am I doing?

00:43:55.920 I don't know.

00:43:57.320 I don't know.

00:43:58.660 Maybe it's just me.

00:44:00.340 Roberta, the Isle of Staten.

00:44:02.720 What is up?

00:44:04.900 Hi.

00:44:05.800 Hi, Ed.

00:44:06.300 I was just coming back from a tribute show for Alba.

00:44:10.020 It was really good.

00:44:10.940 And I heard you talking about Las Vegas.

00:44:13.900 So I had a story.

00:44:16.620 Years ago, they had these Atlantic City bus.

00:44:18.840 They used to go all the time to Atlantic City, like seven days a week.

00:44:21.500 Oh, the Jitney.

00:44:22.060 The old jitneys that you would take.

00:44:25.000 No, no, no.

00:44:25.660 This is a bus from Staten Island.

00:44:27.720 Oh, from Staten Island.

00:44:28.840 Okay.

00:44:29.980 On September, they used to take a bunch of us to the airport to go to Las Vegas.

00:44:35.620 So I wound up getting stuck there on 9-11.

00:44:40.500 And it was very strange because, I mean, you know, it was okay until that happened.

00:44:46.600 But I sort of had predicted it the day before.

00:44:50.520 Wow.

00:44:50.960 I had called up a radio show saying that, you know, there was a pretty bad suicide bombing in Israel.

00:44:57.740 So I called up the show, like I'm calling you, and I said that if we don't do so, help them, it's going to happen to us.

00:45:04.740 And sure enough, I was, that night, I heard the commotion, and boom, it happened.

00:45:10.680 And, you know, I had worked in the World Trade Center building for a couple of years.

00:45:14.260 It was nice.

00:45:16.100 It was so horrible what happened.

00:45:17.980 Yep, it was nice.

00:45:19.520 And I heard it was, but it was dark.

00:45:21.720 So I said, I thought to myself, well, it couldn't, you know, it was dark in Las Vegas.

00:45:25.180 Three hours a while.

00:45:25.820 So I said, it couldn't be many people there because it was dark.

00:45:28.780 And sure enough, it wasn't dark in New York.

00:45:31.700 No.

00:45:31.980 Yeah, three hours later.

00:45:33.340 We all know.

00:45:33.960 No, it was really a terrible story, but.

00:45:37.540 Yeah.

00:45:38.200 Yeah, anyway.

00:45:39.540 Thank you, Roberta.

00:45:40.660 Have a great rest of your evening. 1.00

00:45:43.180 uh you know the girls that used to call the ona show when we were shock jocks just amazing

00:45:49.800 now you know the lovely roberta that is one thing about vegas i will say there are um 1.00

00:45:56.060 some attractive ladies that walk around in the the little black dresses and whatnot and 1.00

00:46:02.000 some of your cocktail waitresses are are a nice eye candy but uh you know again well 0.97

00:46:09.780 What are you going to do?

00:46:13.080 Let's go to, well, Matt.

00:46:15.980 Matt from the Bronx.

00:46:17.280 We could start a bit of controversial discussion.

00:46:21.080 We'll get out of the Vegas thing and start talking about other things.

00:46:24.500 Matt, what's up?

00:46:25.160 What's on your mind?

00:46:28.660 Yellow.

00:46:29.920 No?

00:46:30.940 Not there.

00:46:32.240 Is he sleeping?

00:46:34.240 People actually fall asleep.

00:46:36.480 They call up the show.

00:46:37.860 I go to them on the phone.

00:46:39.780 and you hear him snoring or breathing i never understood that but whatever uh you want to talk

00:46:48.760 about the the war this this war with iran uh is so confusing i've never seen something

00:46:59.740 happening that that should be of paramount importance to everybody and no one really

00:47:09.060 knows what's going on and i understand things like the fog of war i get it we're not supposed

00:47:15.980 to know everything there are certain things the government has to keep under under their hat for

00:47:21.480 a while um but i mean this we don't have any clue between what what is true or false what are

00:47:33.860 blatant lies or just people don't know what's going on they're they're talking uh out there uh

00:47:40.880 behind as uh they say and uh it's very uh it there's a little bit of fear and anger there

00:47:51.080 i'm kind of pissed that uh this is going on we don't really know why uh we don't know

00:48:00.500 how it's supposed to end um when if it's going to end so i want to talk about that a little uh

00:48:10.100 when we come back from from this short break we'll be taking because you know i want to see

00:48:16.240 if anybody else because i've been paying close attention it's not like i i don't uh read the

00:48:21.740 news watch the videos and even i don't know what's going on so for people that where it's not their

00:48:29.200 job to go on the radio and discuss current events they must really not know what the hell's going on

00:48:36.880 so uh we'll take your calls if you uh if you have a comment about the iran war and um you could

00:48:45.940 tell us what the hell is going on there that would be greatly appreciated all right don't go anywhere

00:48:52.880 We'll be back in moments.

00:48:55.660 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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00:49:40.380 thank you for uh tuning in and uh i guess we should start talking about uh eric swalwell

00:49:49.120 oh boy oh boy we'll get to the iran uh war phone calls uh in a bit but uh breaking news i guess

00:49:59.920 eric swalwell suspending his campaign for california governor uh his statement i am

00:50:08.380 suspending my campaign for governor to my family staff friends and supporters i am deeply sorry

00:50:16.160 for my mistakes in judgment i've made in my past i will fight the serious false allegations that

00:50:25.840 have been made but that's my fight not a campaigns um what are the false allegations

00:50:34.140 I mean, we are seeing some real debauchery that has come out of this guy's camp in his whole history, it seems. 1.00

00:50:47.520 It seems this guy was always a piece of garbage. 0.97

00:50:51.020 If he was just a regular guy, you know, he's just a regular working guy, you could do stuff like this. 1.00

00:50:57.920 you're garbage and you know you people might not like you but you might not lose your job over it 0.98

00:51:05.940 but when you take an oath of office uh that's a little different that is a little different and 1.00

00:51:15.140 uh he there seems to be some pretty pretty accurate uh allegations being made i've seen

00:51:27.440 photos and videos uh some of the other things they're saying now is that uh he he hired an

00:51:36.360 illegal brazilian nanny he's now under investigation for hiring a nanny from

00:51:44.420 brazil without authorization why would you need a brazilian nanny um to come up and and take care 1.00

00:51:55.500 your kids maybe maybe because brazilian women are are very attractive and you want to have sex with 0.99

00:52:02.880 them is that it eric uh congressman eric swalwell dealing with a growing pile of legal headaches 0.99

00:52:10.520 you could call it that he's now being investigated by the department of homeland security

00:52:15.500 can you believe it uh new complaints allege swalwell employed a brazilian nanny

00:52:22.740 whose work authorization may have expired according to news sources what's more the 1.00

00:52:29.420 gubernatorial candidate allegedly didn't exactly follow the rule book when it came to paying her 1.00

00:52:35.840 the au pair amanda raisa baros barbosa amanda barbosa allegedly stayed on the job while getting

00:52:45.400 paid in a way that may have sidestepped labor and immigration laws uh now the department of

00:52:52.640 homeland security is looking into it and uh you know this is just another thing piled on top

00:52:59.200 how this guy never got thrown out of congress for the fang fang allegations is beyond me

00:53:08.420 you you are uh in a a seat of power in the united states you were elected into a seat of power 0.72

00:53:18.860 and you have a sexual relationship with a legitimate chinese spy not alleged spy 0.89

00:53:27.800 not someone who might have been a spy this is a classic honeypot a classic uh uh you know

00:53:36.820 back in the during the cold war when they would make movies about the cold war that's what would

00:53:42.380 happen you'd get a an attractive girl someone who's the type of the person you're trying to

00:53:49.520 get to uh get information from and then they they have a relationship and the guy starts blabbing

00:53:57.420 all kinds of state secrets he did that i mean how the hell did he keep his job and now

00:54:06.640 uh he's he's given up uh suspended his campaign has anyone ever come back from a suspended

00:54:14.480 campaign i don't think so so he's uh suspended his campaign but i i mean shouldn't this guy be

00:54:21.320 thrown out of congress shouldn't it just be enough is enough the sex allegations are um classic

00:54:29.920 Because this guy has been spending the last, I guess, 10 years making all kinds of accusations against Donald Trump and his supposedly sexual misconduct and stuff that's way worse.

00:54:52.100 There are allegations against Donald Trump that are like crimes against humanity.

00:54:59.340 And this guy was right up front with all the rest of them.

00:55:02.960 Is it always the way?

00:55:05.040 Doesn't it seem it's always the way with these people that they just as they're pointing and accusing people that they are the ones they are projecting what they do?

00:55:22.100 Uh, here's, uh, Mr. Eric Swalwell making, uh, a statement about some of these allegations

00:55:30.780 of sexual misconduct.

00:55:32.720 Uh, let's listen to, uh, Congressman Swalwell.

00:55:36.460 A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations.

00:55:39.380 I thought it was important that you see and hear from me directly.

00:55:44.180 These allegations of sexual assault are flat false.

00:55:47.920 They're absolutely false.

00:55:49.620 They did not happen.

00:55:50.640 they have never happened, and I will fight them with everything that I have.

00:55:55.280 They also come on the eve of an election, where I have been the front-runner candidate for governor in California.

00:56:01.480 I do not suggest to you in any way that I'm perfect or that I'm a saint.

00:56:05.980 I have certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife,

00:56:12.500 and to her I apologize deeply for putting her in this position.

00:56:16.980 I also apologize to you if in any way you have doubted your support.

00:56:20.660 I love the other girls' positions, you put them in.

00:56:22.660 But I think you know who I am.

00:56:24.980 For over 20 years, I have served the public.

00:56:28.000 As a city councilman, as a member of Congress,

00:56:31.660 and as a prosecutor who went to court on behalf of victims,

00:56:35.180 particularly on behalf of sexual assault victims.

00:56:39.080 That's who I am and have always been.

00:56:41.240 this weekend i'm going to spend time with my family and friends and i appreciate those who

00:56:48.120 have reached out to me to show support and i look forward to updating you very soon

00:56:52.840 imagine i'm going to be spending time with my family

00:56:59.780 imagine the pissed mist floating around that house how angry his family is

00:57:07.340 about uh about these allegations and then he goes on and says you know it's all false all right

00:57:14.680 hey look everyone has a right to um defend themselves come out and say these things

00:57:21.160 didn't happen uh you just better hope there's there's no evidence that it happened and it

00:57:27.980 seems like there's a propensity of evidence against um eric swalwell he he seems to have

00:57:36.420 really gone out there and uh and uh had some some sexual um issues with some of the women he's

00:57:48.240 worked with in his life he's being accused of everything from just uh misconduct all the way

00:57:56.160 up to uh rape there were allegations of rape and uh he's gonna have a tough time but this is what

00:58:06.000 But, you know, he says on the eve of an election, you know, trying to make it seem like, hey, you know, they're they're putting this on me because they know I'm a front runner for governor of California, those terrible Republicans and MAGA people.

00:58:21.200 And that's what they did to Trump.

00:58:25.700 That's exactly what they were doing to Trump. 0.84

00:58:28.440 after his first term, all these women come forward and accuse him of sexual misconduct and rape

00:58:37.940 and some of the most horrible sexual crimes you can imagine where children are involved.

00:58:43.720 And none of it, none of it comes with any credible proof against Donald Trump.

00:58:53.780 allegations made by people that have an axe to grind with trump political of course

00:59:00.280 even the non-sexual stuff the loan he took out against mar-a-lago and then they're gonna

00:59:07.940 put him in jail for that he's a convicted felon they used the judicial system to try to keep trump

00:59:15.980 from ever running for dog catcher never mind uh the president and well ha ha we all saw how that

00:59:23.320 worked out uh but then you get a guy like this where there seems to be some pretty credible

00:59:30.400 allegations against uh eric swalwell and uh you know they'll just go on and say no

00:59:37.180 didn't happen he's done though let's be real he is absolutely done skeet nothing he could do to

00:59:45.960 come back from this i don't think anyway um 50 50 of his colleagues have come forward to say

00:59:53.700 he should drop out of the uh the gubernatorial race in california which as we know he just uh

01:00:00.960 just announced that he will not be running for uh governor of california so um his his political

01:00:09.560 career is done let's be honest how do you come back from this and it's just starting

01:00:14.560 There are more and more women coming forward saying that he was very, at the very least, very inappropriate with them.

01:00:27.260 And this had been rumored for quite a while, too.

01:00:30.500 This isn't something that came out of nowhere.

01:00:34.160 I remember watching Internet provocateur Alex Stein.

01:00:40.080 and he was following eric swalwell down the sidewalk in dc and he's going off on him about

01:00:47.440 fang fang and the type of sexual contact he had with fang fang um i believe i can't i don't even 0.96

01:00:56.640 i don't even know i've been in radio this long how to describe it but it's a dirty it's a dirty 0.97

01:01:01.980 sexual act and swallow looked at alex stein and and cracked a little grin a little smile 0.98

01:01:09.880 And when I saw that, I was like, oh, yeah, this guy's filthy. 0.99

01:01:13.400 He's just filthy. 0.98

01:01:14.500 He don't even care. 0.99

01:01:15.800 He's smiling.

01:01:17.080 You know, most people would be embarrassed or angry or something. 0.88

01:01:19.880 And he cracks a smile at Alex Stein when Alex Stein brings up some filthy sexual proclivities of Eric Swalwell.

01:01:28.980 So, all right, your calls and a lot more coming up.

01:01:32.240 Stick around.

01:01:33.520 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:01:39.780 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:01:46.600 The Anthony Cumia Show.

01:01:48.540 Got a few topics on the burner right now.

01:01:52.120 The Iranian war.

01:01:54.840 It's a war, right?

01:01:56.720 Are we just going to call it a war?

01:01:58.960 People have died.

01:02:01.440 Expensive equipment explodes.

01:02:04.660 Yeah, I'd say it's a war.

01:02:07.540 So we're talking about that.

01:02:08.920 We're also talking about Eric Swalwell, the up until very, very recently, the gubernatorial candidate for California.

01:02:20.480 He just announced he is suspending his campaign and also talking about Vegas and I don't know, other places that people go to where it's just not not what it used to be.

01:02:34.020 But I want to stick with Eric Swalwell here for a little bit.

01:02:37.220 he uh he's got so much going on and this is also part of his legal problems uh eric swalwell finds

01:02:48.300 himself in more legal crosshairs if he or his team disparages one of his accusers of sexual

01:02:55.040 misconduct her husband warned on saturday night oof adam parkamenco is married to ali samarco

01:03:05.260 and he said on social media he wished the congressman's family well and hopes he gets

01:03:10.900 the help he needs that is a horrible thing you could say that right there instead of going yeah 0.99

01:03:18.120 this piece of garbage i'd like to clock him in the head or you know what a degenerate when you 0.98

01:03:23.920 say i hope i sure hope he gets the help he needs it's the worst thing you could say because swalwell 1.00

01:03:30.660 can't even come back and go shut up i don't need your your sympathy it just it's a bad look

01:03:37.740 but if eric swalwell or his attorney makes a single statement that disparages my wife 0.95

01:03:43.700 keep my wife's name out your mouth i will be filing a lawsuit against him parkamenco went on

01:03:53.220 i've already made it clear that uh if he believes anything i've said is untrue

01:03:58.100 he should sue me immediately oh boy so uh he warns swalwell that he should be very careful

01:04:06.520 about what he chooses to say before calling on him to resign from congress so marco is one of

01:04:14.080 the four women who on friday made sexual misconduct allegations against the candidate

01:04:18.400 his political career is now on life support and uh his campaign is in a free fall as we know now

01:04:25.800 he has suspended that campaign but this is uh this is bad in a report published by cnn

01:04:34.060 samarco alleged that swalwell had sent her inappropriate messages on snapchat 0.58

01:04:40.840 in 2021 including here you go unsolicited nudes

01:04:48.220 oh there are nudes somewhere on the internet of eric swalwell and i assure you these will make

01:05:04.160 their way out into various social media platforms and we will have to see a naked eric swalwell

01:05:13.280 my god uh also swallow would go for jogs in her neighborhood and ask her to come downstairs from

01:05:22.260 her apartment to chat it made me feel gross and uncomfortable she said of the nudes i didn't ask

01:05:31.300 for that unsolicited nudes oh by 2021 wasn't everyone over that are people still doing that

01:05:42.600 knowing that, you know, oh, no, Snapchat's okay.

01:05:47.880 They just delete.

01:05:50.840 You can't save them.

01:05:52.900 What?

01:05:54.160 What do you think is safe online?

01:05:57.720 What do you think is secure when you're taking nude pictures of yourself

01:06:02.720 to send to ladies that don't want them? 0.89

01:06:06.080 You think she's not?

01:06:06.980 And you're in a position of power.

01:06:09.640 you don't think maybe someone might want to save this this guy eric swalwell is the king

01:06:18.300 of compromising himself between the chinese spy and sending out nudes he's saying please

01:06:27.200 please blackmail me unbelievable um the other accusations made more serious claims including

01:06:36.860 alleged rape the manhattan da's office in new york launched an investigation saturday

01:06:41.660 into the incidents since friday swalwell's campaign has imploded we all know that

01:06:46.240 and um he uh this is it's done it's done i'm trying to skim through this and see

01:06:54.740 i can't even begin to tell you the secondhand embarrassment i had watching him on cnn last

01:07:01.220 night parka menko commented i guess he's going out there and you know there are people that know 0.99

01:07:07.060 there are people that just know that this guy is a piece of garbage and when he goes out on the 1.00

01:07:12.280 news he makes statements on social media platforms you go like oh he's a lion sack he is a piece of 1.00

01:07:19.100 garbage so uh that's going on he's he's got a tough road ahead of him a road full of embarrassment 0.99

01:07:25.840 marital problems because this is a career ender this isn't like um you still have a political 0.98

01:07:35.840 career so you go to your wife and your family go look i need to hang on to this career it's in the

01:07:41.900 best interest of this family so we need to stick together and put on a strong face if he's done

01:07:47.880 politically what the hell ambition does she have to hang out what what what is the upside of her 0.99

01:07:55.900 hanging around she could divorce him take uh half his money and be done with him it's not like a 1.00

01:08:04.720 hillary clinton bill clinton thing uh so good luck good luck with all that what a what a mess 0.52

01:08:14.320 uh there it is let's talk to Joaquin in PA about what the hell is going on in Iran 0.55

01:08:23.680 Joaquin what's up yes Mr. Cumia good evening good evening his I believe his name is swallow

01:08:31.520 well isn't it swallow well well yeah he's probably going to do some pretty good swallowing but

01:08:38.480 anyway uh yeah you know something I saw a video clip of Marco Rubio I think it was um Joe Rogan

01:08:43.800 had put it out oh no no i'm sorry dan bongino and marco rubio saying that iran was on the verge of

01:08:49.160 building one of those missile defense dome systems and uh if they would have been allowed to continue

01:08:54.140 they were on the verge of actually you know being able to put this up there and then they would have

01:08:57.680 been pretty impregnable you know so the time to act would have been now and i think that you know

01:09:04.660 originally when they went and they took out saddam hussein in iraq they really i think they 0.93

01:09:10.340 deliberately did that actually to help foster the islamic you know take over of the world because 0.56

01:09:15.840 iran and iraq were natural enemies and if anyone should have been taken out at the time it should 0.99

01:09:20.020 have been iran not saddam hussein who quite frankly kept the muslims in check especially 0.98

01:09:24.820 in his country you know oh he ruled with that iron fist man yeah well you know something

01:09:29.780 allegedly christians and everybody else was able to live you know with a considerable amount of

01:09:34.800 freedom in that country you know without persecution yeah the uh what do they call it

01:09:39.720 the the devil you know or something like that like saddam hussein uh he he was not a nice guy

01:09:48.280 obviously uh and and the way he ran his country was not really what uh the free world uh enjoyed

01:09:55.860 watching but like what look at it now it's still in turmoil um he kept his people in check

01:10:05.420 i think the whole takeover of kuwait did that even happen was that even really a thing i don't even

01:10:12.700 know uh i want to suspect i want to suspect that they gave him a wink wink nod nod go ahead and do

01:10:17.880 it you know right right at some point he was our boy you know so uh i think they they used them to

01:10:23.280 the best of their abilities, but I still don't understand why they didn't take out Iran instead. 0.91

01:10:27.560 And, you know, as we have this Islamic takeover of the country, and earlier, you know, you were 0.98

01:10:31.900 talking about New York City. Well, you know, let's face it, at the history of every single 1.00

01:10:37.440 communist revolution or tyrannical authoritarian takeover, Islamo-fascist, you name it,

01:10:42.640 they all allow society to decay. They allow criminals to run rampant. They let them loose

01:10:47.360 on society. They don't prosecute them. Then you have this poor cop, Sergeant Eric Duran,

01:10:52.080 you know who winds up going to jail for doing his job and for trying to take out you know 0.93

01:10:56.180 a piece of crap really yeah comes right down to it and you know so all these cops now i mean 0.69

01:11:02.600 who really wants to be a new york city cop anymore you have you can't that's why they lower the 0.99

01:11:08.360 standards now and they probably are allowing people criminal records that get on the police

01:11:11.860 force because they're pushing all the the the you know qualified people out absolutely i mean

01:11:17.360 you know if you're friends with nypd cops retired cops as i am i know quite a few cops they will

01:11:25.660 tell you the same thing they don't understand how they're even recruiting anybody anymore

01:11:30.320 and it is they're not getting uh the top of the line recruits these days i got to take a break

01:11:36.600 joaquin but thank you very much uh yeah you know the the the physical shape a lot of these nypd

01:11:44.980 officers are in these days it's it's a joke they're fat they can't run uh you you should be

01:11:54.340 healthy and able as a cop back in a moment it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast

01:12:03.240 network it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network the anthony cumia show and

01:12:13.820 And it seems like every minute there's another Eric Swalwell story coming out.

01:12:20.660 This one, lefty billionaire Stephen Klubeck has dramatically cut ties with Eric Swalwell

01:12:28.680 and revealed he has kicked him out of his mansion.

01:12:32.360 I am no longer supporting Eric, Klubeck told the Post in an exclusive.

01:12:37.920 He said, effing tell everyone I'm a libertarian.

01:12:43.480 F you, Democrat Party, I'm a libertarian now.

01:12:47.060 The ugly breakup between the timeshare mogul and the Bay Area congressman

01:12:50.480 who pulled out of the governor's race late Sunday marks yet another stunning point

01:12:54.820 in Swalwell's cratering political career.

01:12:59.580 Woo! 0.99

01:13:00.360 If this guy wasn't such a rat piece of garbage his entire political career, 1.00

01:13:08.020 I might feel bad for him. 1.00

01:13:10.380 But I certainly don't.

01:13:12.440 He is getting back tenfold what he tried to put out there to screw over the president

01:13:19.260 and a lot of other Republicans and conservatives.

01:13:23.780 Following public allegations Friday of rape, sexual assault, and other sexual misconduct

01:13:27.780 made by several women who know or work for Swalwell,

01:13:31.060 the Bay Area congressman lost most of his endorsements,

01:13:35.000 and he's potentially facing expulsion from Congress,

01:13:38.640 and he's become the subject of criminal investigation.

01:13:43.240 Klubeck spent more than $1 million supporting Swalwell's candidacy

01:13:47.420 and the embattled congressman filmed his denial video Friday

01:13:53.020 from inside the billionaire's palatial Beverly Hills mansion.

01:13:58.860 Klubeck confirmed Swalwell will no longer be staying with him

01:14:02.000 and the billionaire allegedly honey trapper fiance

01:14:05.220 who has been accused of burglarizing the home of other rich old men in Los Angeles.

01:14:12.360 So his honey trapper fiancee has been accused of burglarizing the homes of rich old men in L.A. 1.00

01:14:23.480 My God, what a bunch of degenerates.

01:14:27.160 I have a lot of people who stay at my house, Klubeck said with a laugh. 0.82

01:14:31.600 I built a gorgeous place, my dream home.

01:14:33.600 I relish it, and I'm very generous.

01:14:37.340 I'm very thoughtful, and I'm very kind.

01:14:40.980 People that are all those things never have to say they are.

01:14:45.360 He would need to talk to his attorney to see if he could claw back the million that he gave Swalwell.

01:14:51.400 So once again, another one, another issue that is chasing Eric Swalwell.

01:14:58.840 My God, is he in Dutch. 0.57

01:15:01.900 A bit of a jam, huh?

01:15:03.600 uh let's talk to boof larry larry staten island what's up my friend

01:15:10.640 and they uh belated bonaparte square to you and your loved ones thank you sir

01:15:16.940 uh i'm calling about two things uh about this mondami uh after this guy here if you talk about

01:15:26.080 I get Oshita.

01:15:27.560 I really do get Oshita with this guy.

01:15:30.920 Here he has last week.

01:15:33.400 He brings down, he wants to put up, I think he took a platoon load of City Hall employees

01:15:39.360 and about three members of the NYPD down to Columbus, Ohio, to review what they call dialogue policing. 0.98

01:15:50.620 Well, what Stupid doesn't realize is we do it here in New York City already. 0.71

01:15:56.080 If you look, Anthony, on these demonstrations on the news, you'll see lightly colored members of the department with light colored coats, shirts, consistent with the climate, light colored. 0.97

01:16:13.020 Their mission, they're sprinkled into that demonstration to quell the situation, to dispel rumors.

01:16:19.460 So why he's bringing them down there for a dialogue, policing, is beyond me.

01:16:27.600 Secondly, Anthony, earlier in the show, you mentioned that Commissioner Tish and the mayor here are welcome to change the police department.

01:16:39.640 That's not true.

01:16:41.400 This guy here is already at war with her.

01:16:45.520 He's at war with the police commissioner, which is a big mistake in New York City.

01:16:50.380 She's very competent.

01:16:51.900 She was a sanitation commissioner.

01:16:53.740 She's been around the town.

01:16:55.920 And he is basically told her, listen, any progress, policies, procedures, et cetera, will come through my office and then go out.

01:17:04.840 So why do we need a police commissioner?

01:17:08.220 Why did he keep her as a holdover from Adams' administration?

01:17:13.500 I would think he would want his own guy in there.

01:17:17.380 Why do you think, Larry?

01:17:19.780 I think because the people he has out with and the socialists, they don't like the police.

01:17:26.040 He has to have some sort of control there with the police, with the city.

01:17:31.300 You have to have a police presence.

01:17:33.500 These people here will just destroy the town.

01:17:36.740 Yeah, interesting, because that makes sense, though.

01:17:40.400 You know, there's so many people that he's he could put in there that but they just hate the police.

01:17:46.380 And she seems like somebody is she listening to him?

01:17:51.900 Is she obeying Mamdani or is she kind of rogue?

01:17:57.800 Well, I don't think she's verbally rogue publicly in the press, et cetera.

01:18:03.180 But I don't know how you could tolerate this.

01:18:05.880 I don't know how anyone could tolerate this.

01:18:08.800 You don't understand one thing, Ed.

01:18:10.820 The number two person in New York City is the police commissioner.

01:18:15.900 They get higher ratings than the mayor himself.

01:18:20.060 So the police department has a lot of control over politics that goes on in the city.

01:18:27.120 God forbid there was a bad shooting, that affects the mayor.

01:18:31.420 It affects you for life.

01:18:32.720 yeah if they pull back you know you've seen uh times when uh nypd has the blue flu you know if

01:18:41.820 they got issues with contracts or with the mayor they just don't show up for work they take their

01:18:47.040 sick days all at once and and the city really starts feeling it and that reflects on the mayor

01:18:52.720 so uh i'm kind of surprised we haven't seen more of that um because it's just known i'm danny i

01:19:01.620 mean this guy has gone to the hospital bedsides of criminals before he ever says a nice thing

01:19:09.340 even about uh about nypd officers so disgusting yeah yeah the police know the rank and file 0.97

01:19:17.240 officers know this guy's garbage um and you know it's his first hundred days he's taken victory 0.94

01:19:23.780 laps and talking about how awesome it is what has he done larry what has this guy done in the first 0.98

01:19:29.920 hundred days that is benefiting new york city uh absolutely oh god uh and uh but the italian

01:19:38.780 people look it up we're non-italians look it up uh nothing nothing and i gotta tell you something

01:19:46.060 this sergeant with the cooler uh you know uh what goes around comes around yeah and the in the in

01:19:54.020 In the late 60s, early 70s, there was a judge called Colonel Bruce Wright.

01:20:02.880 You could walk out there, you could go to an arraignment, be arranged for a murder, second degree, whatever.

01:20:09.660 You're out the door.

01:20:10.360 Goodbye, bail, blah, blah, blah.

01:20:11.600 This judge today with this sergeant is like a comic copy of Colonel Bruce, Colonel Bruce.

01:20:21.520 The system stinks.

01:20:23.820 In New York City, we're a liberal town.

01:20:26.360 It's not going to change.

01:20:27.900 I feel so bad for my members of the service.

01:20:30.460 Oh, my God.

01:20:30.940 I say my members.

01:20:32.040 I was a member of the service.

01:20:33.720 I feel so bad for them.

01:20:35.500 The kids, what they're putting up with today.

01:20:38.380 It's terrible, man.

01:20:39.600 I love it.

01:20:40.180 I love hearing you calling and spell it out in plain English, Larry.

01:20:45.700 All right, my friend.

01:20:47.600 Take it easy.

01:20:48.320 Oh, we can't.

01:20:48.920 There we go.

01:20:49.560 There he goes.

01:20:50.380 There goes Larry.

01:20:51.800 No?

01:20:52.140 Maybe?

01:20:52.920 Right, there he goes.

01:20:54.420 Yeah, I mean, that's what's going on.

01:20:58.220 That's a resident of New York.

01:21:00.360 This isn't somebody from somewhere else.

01:21:03.780 Mamdani taking the victory laps

01:21:06.300 and trying to tell everybody how awesome he is.

01:21:11.460 I just saw a video recently within the past couple of hours

01:21:15.300 where he's crowing about his socialist Democrat,

01:21:24.460 socialist mayor of New York City.

01:21:26.000 I know there are many who use socialist as a dirty word.

01:21:30.360 We will not be ashamed,

01:21:32.620 standing steadfast alongside our trans neighbors. 0.99

01:21:37.020 So socialist, trans neighbors, letting criminals out.

01:21:42.220 No, the free bus thing has been one of the greatest jokes that this guy has come up with a hundred days in and they're already saying that there's no way in the first year of his administration that you're going to see these free buses.

01:22:00.700 and this was one of the cornerstones of his campaign every time he was on a talk show

01:22:08.440 fast free buses it's gonna be great and his first hundred days he's giving speeches and

01:22:15.120 he's telling people yeah well and we all knew the smart people knew right off the bat

01:22:21.600 the the kind of dummies figured it out when governor hochel said yeah we're not going to

01:22:28.540 start taxing people chasing more people out of new york state to fund these free buses so i don't 0.95

01:22:36.020 know where zoran thinks he's getting this money and now he came out himself and said yeah probably

01:22:43.940 not this year but we're gonna you know we have our our mission and getting the free fast buses

01:22:50.780 it is never going to happen i would i mean i'm in vegas i'm in vegas can i bet can i bet on new

01:23:00.260 york's free buses because uh it just is not going to happen uh but the dummies believe it

01:23:09.640 they they he uh he was on the streets of new york on the sidewalks of new york uh on the first

01:23:17.520 hundred days taking a walk just taking a walk around his his brisk pace and his shaking hands

01:23:25.380 with people that come up to him that voted for him and say he's doing a great job and he's

01:23:30.080 surrounded by security as well you know he's a mayor he's a mayor he's a controversial mayor

01:23:35.240 he should have protection i get it but we don't all have protection and most of his policies and

01:23:43.660 his administration's policies are making it insanely dangerous for new yorkers to walk around

01:23:51.560 the city like he he's demonstrating he's like this is how you get around yeah because the buses aren't

01:23:58.380 free he's telling everyone yeah walk you don't like it walk and then you see what happens at

01:24:05.840 grand central station we see what happens at the many uh subway stations around the five boroughs

01:24:13.040 it's uh it's a madhouse as charlton heston put it and this guy is taking victory laps

01:24:21.220 about his first hundred days it's uh it's it's disgusting quite quite frankly here is um mayor

01:24:31.340 memdani uh he's announcing he's hitting the wealthy with maximum taxes to convince the others

01:24:42.180 from uh from leaving i don't even know how this makes sense but uh you want to play that one i'm

01:24:47.880 not sure which number it is amidst being in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the

01:24:52.260 history of the world we already see an exodus of working in middle class new yorkers so i don't

01:24:57.260 have a hesitation in asking those who make the most amount of money in the city or the most

01:25:01.600 profits in the city to pay a little bit more so that everyone can actually stay in this city

01:25:05.800 it's also something not just about justice or or the ability for working class people to live here

01:25:11.900 It is also actually about ensuring that corporations can continue to attract the top talent to this city.

01:25:18.200 Because in a city where child care costs more than $20,000 a year,

01:25:21.460 I've heard from corporate leaders about how difficult it is for them to attract individuals who would work at their companies but want to raise a family.

01:25:28.300 Because you could be making $300,000 a year and you will feel that $20,000 a year

01:25:33.260 because of the fact that we have allowed for the absence of affordable child care to become reality here in this city.

01:25:39.040 free child care of course and then taxing the wealthy a little more so that other people can

01:25:48.420 live in new york when did it become a right for for people to be able to afford to live in a city

01:25:56.860 like new york why did this all of a sudden become a thing that is required no no we need to have

01:26:04.880 people that cannot afford to live here we need them to live here and you will pay for it through

01:26:11.740 your tax dollars oh it'll it'll get uh top tier employees for these uh wealthy companies will it

01:26:20.020 you tax the hell out of a wealthy or a successful company any company really in new york do you

01:26:30.000 think they're going to be able to pay for top-notch talent to work there they're gonna have to lower

01:26:36.280 the bar and bring people in that might not be as good as the people they'd be able to afford

01:26:43.180 to employ if you weren't taxing the hell out of them but he's got this insane communist ideology

01:26:51.560 that all he needs to do is raise the taxes

01:26:55.960 and it'll make everything better.

01:26:59.300 Even the wealthy that he's raising the taxes on

01:27:01.400 will look and go,

01:27:01.900 well, at least my money is going to allow this person

01:27:06.620 to live in New York City.

01:27:09.660 Does Beverly Hills have something like that?

01:27:12.920 Does Bel Air or Brentwood out in California,

01:27:15.800 do they have a program where the celebrities that live there 0.53

01:27:19.380 uh give their money away so that people that can't afford to live in these lavish

01:27:25.240 rich areas can live there oh everyone should be able to afford to live in bel-air i don't even

01:27:33.740 know if that's a good place anymore like beverly hills you think oh that's a nice place bel-air

01:27:39.020 ever since the fresh prince um i really don't uh that was the only that's the only indicator i had

01:27:47.180 at how wealthy the people in Bel Air were.

01:27:51.300 But New York City seems to be the only place

01:27:56.240 where the government tells you

01:28:00.620 that you have to pay for people

01:28:02.420 that can't afford to live there.

01:28:06.020 Sorry.

01:28:07.660 Move out of New York City.

01:28:09.480 Oh, well, we need employees

01:28:11.080 for the various businesses

01:28:13.000 and even the restaurants, you know,

01:28:15.640 people got to be able to...

01:28:16.460 No.

01:28:17.080 How about commuting?

01:28:19.100 How about you live in the suburbs?

01:28:22.160 And that's even too expensive.

01:28:25.620 But taxing the wealthy and the successful businesses is not the winning solution here.

01:28:36.320 So that people that could not afford to live in New York can now live in New York.

01:28:41.740 I don't know where he gets off with this.

01:28:43.620 And it's such a communist thing.

01:28:47.760 Democrat, socialist, or socialist Democrat, however he puts it.

01:28:53.200 It's communism.

01:28:56.040 Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit.

01:28:59.040 And that ain't nothing but plain old-fashioned communism.

01:29:03.940 Yeah.

01:29:06.460 Redistribution of wealth.

01:29:09.500 Something that never works.

01:29:12.300 Never works.

01:29:13.620 it's you know you get you get enough people in a room you have some wealthy people and

01:29:18.960 you make uh the wealthy people give the the others money and in no time at all the wealthy people

01:29:27.060 will have all the money back again it's just the way it works that's why this redistribution of

01:29:33.360 wealth and uh communism in zoram and danny's new york will just never never work out you can't have

01:29:42.940 free buses people need to pay it keeps the buses running you can't have a free subway system in

01:29:51.440 new york city that's the only way to finance it they jack up the fares on these things and still

01:29:58.200 they can't afford it because it's mismanaged all the money is so mismanaged and the other thing i

01:30:05.020 i brought up in the past is that when you when you have a fair or a toll or something that people

01:30:13.820 have to pay to use uh some of these methods of transportation it weeds out the bad element

01:30:22.860 when when people jump turnstiles to get into the subway system they are not the top of the line

01:30:31.200 people these are the people that if they commit violence in the subway they're the people that

01:30:38.520 were jumping the turnstiles so if you have cops there making sure that uh people are paying their

01:30:46.300 fares you're going to cut down on that if you have buses you know the buses in new york are bad enough

01:30:54.100 and people have to pay for them imagine they're free rolling homeless centers rolling uh sexual 0.90

01:31:02.820 assault uh buses that's what it would be your sexual assault buses loud obnoxious sleeping on 1.00

01:31:12.300 stinking the buses up that's what it would be a fare for transportation keeps the riffraff down 0.94

01:31:19.180 And this guy wants everything free. 1.00

01:31:22.120 Maron.

01:31:23.620 All right.

01:31:24.300 Back in a moment.

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01:35:56.060 how about that susan i was going to skip you and then i look you want to talk about eric swalwell

01:36:00.780 let's do it how about i want to talk about california and that um uh there's a big tidal

01:36:11.580 wave going on with uh steve hilton president trump and trump now uh just endorsed steve hilton

01:36:20.340 uh the republican candidate in this you know crazy rank thing what do they call it rank

01:36:27.380 i rank i just got rank voting uh but that um you listen and there's a way for all of us we don't

01:36:36.840 have to live in california he has a website and we have the opportunity as citizens to

01:36:44.420 i mean if we could get california with all the fires all the everything susan susan do you

01:36:56.320 honestly think a republican has any chance in 2026 california to become the governor of that state

01:37:06.220 It's over. It's like New York. They're they're like New York. It's impossible.

01:37:12.320 Ranked choice voting because they have so many Democrats and only a few Republicans.

01:37:21.980 Now, that's why the Democrats ganged up on this Swalwell creep, because they wanted to bring him out because he was up there.

01:37:32.620 And there is a chance.

01:37:35.680 Susan, I got to take a quick break, but thank you for the call.

01:37:39.780 I do not see it happening.

01:37:41.380 I cannot see a Republican being in there.

01:37:43.960 All right.

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01:38:36.400 and uh just going through uh social media seeing if there's any more alerts

01:38:42.740 for uh eric swalwell boy he is facing some uh it's going to be a rough road ahead for him

01:38:52.040 a very rough road ahead and uh boy that long line of uh politicians who uh try to get into office

01:39:03.320 you know he was he was running for governor of california up until a couple of hours ago and uh

01:39:10.040 the amount of the the number of politicians who have tripped over their own genitals on the way

01:39:17.840 to higher office is astounding it's just happened time and time again and you wonder why like what

01:39:27.980 you you're in politics there is a microscope on you why the hell would you risk it all

01:39:37.620 um i guess that's part of the degenerate behavior you're going to do things you're powerless to

01:39:45.140 stop yourself and i think the power goes to their head and they become of this mindset that they're

01:39:52.780 invincible they they cannot they got get away with it for so long that they don't think they're ever

01:40:01.040 going to have to pay the price for some of the things they've done and swallows in a jam i guess

01:40:09.580 was he the number one candidate i guess he was um at this point but that's over and to think a

01:40:20.240 republican to think of a republican being the governor of california it's it's something

01:40:25.820 you can't even conceive of i don't care if there's 10 democrats on the ballot busting up that that

01:40:33.380 voter base and one republican there california has just become a state that is synonymous

01:40:41.140 with liberal democrat and if if you think a republican could get in there look at new york

01:40:49.700 i don't think we'll ever see a republican governor or a republican mayor of new york city

01:40:56.420 in new york unless there's some cataclysmic event uh that changes that but you know mission

01:41:05.860 accomplished on the part of the the liberals the democrats the judges everyone else in power

01:41:13.400 that is used they've all used their offices and their authority and their power to make it

01:41:21.620 impossible for a republican to uh compete in in uh elections in in a lot of these states

01:41:31.720 these blue cities these blue states it just can't happen they brought in uh all kinds of 1.00

01:41:38.760 immigrants whether they're illegal or not um they give out their charity they they feed them some

01:41:46.880 breadcrumbs and tell them that the democrat party will save them they will give them money clothing 0.97

01:41:52.880 housing and they just make them dependent on the democrat party and an election rolls around

01:42:02.300 they they kick it up a notch you give them a little more food clothes shelter and uh the the

01:42:10.880 the dummies go to the polling places and they vote for these democrats time and time again

01:42:16.640 over and over and then for the rest of the year they're ignored they ignore them the goal of the

01:42:25.000 democrats at that point is just to bring in more democrat voters and if you don't think that is

01:42:30.700 what was happening under four years of of joe biden's administration whatever the hell that was

01:42:38.660 you know you see people talking about donald trump's mental um capacity and his uh mental

01:42:46.000 acuity uh these were the same people that were defending joe biden so whoever was riding or

01:42:54.140 driving the boat during that administration their goal was to bring in as many democrat voters as

01:43:01.180 they can as they could and that that was illegals crossing the border the unrestricted

01:43:08.200 influx of illegals that came into this country is literally criminal and again who's who takes

01:43:18.520 responsibility for that who pays some price for the damage done to this country the incompetence 0.99

01:43:28.760 the criminal acts perpetrated by these government officials that broke the law

01:43:37.880 and in doing so has put this country in such a bad place.

01:43:46.160 And just nothing, no responsibility whatsoever.

01:43:51.080 We're never going to see somebody pay the price for it.

01:43:55.040 the god knows how many illegal aliens that were led into this country during that administration

01:44:01.860 and then they relocate them or locate them to uh cities states cities towns counties

01:44:12.080 like they did in minneapolis minnesota with somalis and they have a guaranteed voter base

01:44:19.140 in these places they know damn well that the majority of of actual uh americans

01:44:27.540 uh can't stand their their platform their policies and they wouldn't vote for them

01:44:35.220 so instead of working with the american people coming up with policies that

01:44:40.940 the people agree with what they're supposed to do represent the american people they just

01:44:49.080 grabbed a whole bunch of people from other countries give them free stuff knowing that

01:44:58.140 they'll vote for them it's it's it's so criminal and nothing we could do about it have you ever

01:45:07.060 felt this way where where you really don't have any recourse in what's going on do any of you

01:45:17.100 listening to this program feel that we can vote our way out of the trouble this country is in right 0.88

01:45:23.100 now when everything has been tilted in the favor of democrats especially with illegal aliens being

01:45:33.320 brought in for four years unfettered and god knows what else is going on i mean we did see some

01:45:41.140 shenanigans if i may use such language uh in 2020 a lot of speculation a lot of people got in a lot

01:45:49.120 of trouble for speculating and to this day we don't know for sure there's enough plausible

01:45:55.060 deniability there so it gets frightening when you think about voting our way out of this when when

01:46:02.260 no one has confidence in our electoral system because they brought in ringers they brought in

01:46:10.160 people that they know will vote democrat and uh you know we saw what happened we see what happens

01:46:16.920 all the time in new york chicago chicago mayor mayor johnson is worse than laurie lightfoot

01:46:26.680 how the hell no one would have imagined that that people were so angry with the way laurie

01:46:36.160 Lightfoot was running Chicago you'd think a staunch Republican would have been elected as the mayor 0.91

01:46:43.040 of Chicago we're tired of uh young people in Chicago offing each other in record numbers

01:46:50.820 we're tired of the the looting that goes on and and the the lack of control that the cops have

01:46:58.680 these wait for summer it's already happening where they have these uh mobs going out

01:47:07.740 and and perpetrating violence vandalism assault murder and you got a mayor that will not do

01:47:16.360 anything about it and again it's because the city feels that they need to vote for a liberal

01:47:24.920 democrat in johnson's case i'll say it i mean i i haven't seen a more racist mayor than this guy

01:47:31.720 he will not do what needs to be done in his city and it's the citizens that are paying the price

01:47:39.000 and this is every liberal democrat city in this country has the same problems and they keep

01:47:47.180 electing the same people that have the same policies and nothing gets fixed nothing gets

01:47:55.520 fixed he makes excuses when someone asked him about the mob of of people that go out these

01:48:06.260 teen takeovers and these mobs of people what did he tell the uh member of the press that brought it

01:48:13.620 up hey hey don't use that language these are large gatherings his biggest issue with that

01:48:21.080 question being asked of him wasn't how do we stop the murder the the the assaults the vandalism

01:48:30.340 from hundreds of people getting together uh to to commit violence and crime hey hey it's a large

01:48:41.120 gathering that was his priority let's not make it sound like these youngsters are doing anything

01:48:49.660 bad well they are and they'll continue doing it because he continues to have the same policies

01:49:00.840 that do nothing so the same thing happens over and over and over and and you think for a minute

01:49:08.720 that the people might get slapped.

01:49:13.080 Their senses might get slapped back in their heads

01:49:16.700 and they just keep voting for the same people.

01:49:21.840 Zoran Mamdani, a communist.

01:49:25.660 I don't want to hear Democrats, Socialists, Socialists, Democrat.

01:49:28.680 When you want to redistribute the wealth of the successful people

01:49:34.700 that are contributing to New York,

01:49:38.720 And you want to take their money and hand it over to people that look, sorry, you can't afford to live in New York, but them's the brakes, as dad used to say.

01:49:51.800 It's communism.

01:49:54.260 It has been proven in many places over the course of history that it does not work.

01:50:01.960 and some dummies decided they were going to vote for this guy and he won it's astounding

01:50:10.800 all right don't go anywhere your calls and a lot more coming up next as the anthony cumia show 0.56

01:50:16.920 continues it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:50:22.780 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:50:29.580 the anthony cumia show and uh we got some numbers out of new york as far as crime goes

01:50:37.080 uh since zoran mandani has been in been in uh new york city train bus uh and bus robberies climbed

01:50:44.820 21 from the same period last year and it only gets worse robberies are soaring in the city's

01:50:53.460 transit system this makes sense because like i said earlier if you instruct your police officers

01:51:00.920 to police the subway stations there will be less crime that is proven that is proven

01:51:09.280 unlike you know chicago mayor johnson saying that you cannot incarcerate your way

01:51:15.100 out of violence or crime yes you can you lock up the people doing it the crime will go down

01:51:22.280 amazing what an amazing take on something uh like that so we look at uh some of the other numbers

01:51:32.780 my link just got clicked don't you hate that you go to click on something something else pops up

01:51:39.920 uh muggings uh are up uh a 21 surge felony assaults now look at this this is what i talk

01:51:49.700 about when i say they're fudging the numbers because this doesn't make sense uh felony

01:51:57.540 assaults ticked down six percent in the same time period interesting you'd go oh that's that's good

01:52:07.420 misdemeanor assaults spiked up by 12 so felony assaults down misdemeanor assaults spike what

01:52:18.860 do you think that is do you think people assault other people to a level and then go I certainly

01:52:24.800 don't want that felony assault so I'm not going to hit you again I won't stomp on your head

01:52:31.160 while it's on the sidewalk I'm going to keep this a misdemeanor no that isn't there isn't the

01:52:37.620 sensible criminal out there that's gauging his assault based on what he'll be charged with

01:52:45.320 this is happening because they are taking the felony assaults and down at the precincts under

01:52:54.180 the direction of zoram and danny and the the brass in the police department who are being told

01:53:01.360 lower those numbers i don't care what you have to do so they're changing the felony assaults

01:53:08.820 to misdemeanor assaults that's why felony assaults down misdemeanor assaults are up

01:53:16.100 it's the only way that really works let's be honest here uh more homeless

01:53:23.360 um the nypd deployed 300 additional officers for train patrols in january 2025 to combat crime so

01:53:34.240 that was a year ago crime went down under the initiative but overtime cuts in february under

01:53:41.000 memdani reduced these patrols it's concerning because summer is coming indeed says uh former

01:53:49.800 mypd detective michael alcazar um again his priorities are so anti safety so anti nypd

01:54:06.000 he wants to to dole out free child care look that's a noble uh program it's a it's a noble

01:54:16.900 thoughtful thought but it's new york city and you have a five over five billion dollar budget

01:54:26.200 shortfall you got to make some cuts but you don't cut the overtime to the the the very

01:54:34.380 people that are protecting your citizens in the uh subways and the buses how do you get away with

01:54:45.260 that and then you're saying you're going to go do free stuff and you're going to

01:54:50.680 clothe illegals and house them in hotels and and and then he wants to uh he wants to cut that

01:55:00.860 budget deficit by removing the police from places they are sorely needed and not you know to hand

01:55:11.800 out bumper stickers not to shake hands with the public put on a show to protect your citizens

01:55:19.780 from getting murdered and assaulted in your uh transit system so that's you know that's what's

01:55:32.440 going on the numbers don't lie they're fudging the numbers and even the ones you know it's so

01:55:37.960 bad they can't even fudge them that the transit system is rife with violent crime great new york

01:55:45.700 we love it but uh silas is that how you say your name staten island yellow is that a silas

01:55:55.500 no want to talk about crime oh oh there you go no he's gone

01:56:01.420 you there sir no all right we lost him he's gone uh how about john john in joisey what's up john

01:56:19.960 hey man great show tonight thank you sir i'd like to make a few points about the police

01:56:26.380 if you would if you would and maybe you could give me your thoughts after i make these points

01:56:32.940 all right so i grew up in new jersey spent most of my life in new jersey spent a decade in the

01:56:41.440 state police and we always admired the nypd for their training very professional new jersey state

01:56:49.520 police very professional and virginia and pennsylvania so the problem now as a police officer

01:56:56.520 is as you know you got hokul and mandami new jersey's got mickey or mikey and and virginia

01:57:05.400 has spamburger well yeah in in new jersey they just made that a sanctuary state and in the

01:57:12.680 history of the state police they always there might be one colonel that wasn't but they always

01:57:18.820 usually take the lieutenant colonels

01:57:20.680 because the colonel retired. Callahan retired

01:57:23.080 19 years and he retired

01:57:24.940 and a lieutenant colonel stepped up

01:57:26.920 and what do you think Mikey

01:57:28.960 does? Takes somebody out of

01:57:30.980 retirement that is an openly 1.00

01:57:32.880 gay lesbian and appoints 0.99

01:57:35.100 her colonel of the state police. 0.99

01:57:37.940 Why?

01:57:39.600 What does that do for morale?

01:57:41.460 What does that do?

01:57:42.360 They say the Subaru's are coming.

01:57:45.360 What is that?

01:57:47.220 They say they're going to be patrolling 1.00

01:57:48.640 in subarus soon oh that's funny okay that's a little lesbian joke they love their subarus

01:57:54.860 i don't know what it is about them but they love their yeah man they love it so now virginia

01:58:00.920 virginia has another issue imagine the colonel of the state police having to go on facebook and say

01:58:07.160 to the the public what you heard we're not coming to confiscate your firearms 0.86

01:58:12.320 that's what the colonel's doing in virginia because spamburger is out of her mind too with

01:58:18.480 taxes and gun rights and these people are cut from the same cloth they they loaded up in virginia

01:58:26.080 and i mean it is a great little microcosm of what the entire country could be if enough of these 1.00

01:58:34.040 dimwits are in charge and the fact that they had a an immigrant from bangladesh 0.89

01:58:40.580 sitting in a seat of power in virginia that sponsored the bill the the assault weapon ban 0.99

01:58:47.440 bill is uh like the nerve of this guy you come from i mean when donald trump used crap hole 0.97

01:58:57.520 for a country um you know what he said bangladesh is a place that is it's one of the worst hells on

01:59:07.860 earth it's that terrible this guy comes here lives his life now as an american and wants to start 0.94

01:59:16.820 stripping americans of their god-given rights get out get out you don't deserve to live in this

01:59:25.340 country if you feel you could come here these are people that have no clue what it was like

01:59:30.520 to to live as a child in america seek customs american customs and the way we uh act with our

01:59:40.480 neighbors and the way we played as kids were raised by our parents all these things are so

01:59:46.460 important into growing up as an american an american that could speak to another american

01:59:52.400 and have this common bond that transcends just borders and this guy comes in and instead of

02:00:00.300 keeping his yap shut and and thanking god that he is in this country what happens yeah it's 0.56

02:00:09.600 disgusting hey but you know you know what else they did in virginia here what's that they they

02:00:13.980 if you go to the dmv website they're giving out driver privileges privilege cards to uh non-citizens

02:00:22.220 oh my god again they want them to vote that's the only thing going on in this country when it comes 0.84

02:00:31.200 to them coddling illegals they need the voters and they will do anything in their power no matter 0.98

02:00:39.080 how illegal it is to get them to vote Democrat, bringing them in from whatever crap hole they can. 0.99

02:00:46.440 Thank you, John, from Jersey. 0.98

02:00:48.500 Back in a moment.

02:00:50.500 Don't go anywhere.

02:00:51.800 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:00:58.080 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:01:03.020 the anthony cumia show and uh quite a few things on on the plate this evening uh we have a 250th

02:01:15.180 birthday of these united states of america and uh it's pretty amazing i recall as a child

02:01:23.860 uh the 200th anniversary the bicentennial and uh it was amazing it it really was an amazing time

02:01:34.200 every commercial on television was so american it was all about you know you'd watch a coke of

02:01:43.400 pepsi commercials uh automobile commercials and it was all flag waving and the bicentennial minute

02:01:51.040 they would have on tv and they give you a little bit of history about the first 200 years of of

02:01:57.060 this country there was a such a pride in nation when i was growing up and that bicentennial

02:02:06.260 really put the cap on it it was uh you know you get goosebumps at how patriotic people were

02:02:13.780 uh at that time i remember they had something amtrak had something called the freedom train

02:02:20.580 and it would go around the country and it would make these stops in various cities and you'd go

02:02:27.560 in and it was a museum a museum of Americana American history on a train and that's the way

02:02:36.640 things worked it was great it was a great time 50 years later we have the 250th birthday of the

02:02:47.160 united states and uh people don't really seem to care there isn't this build-up to the 250th

02:02:58.260 birthday of this country because we just don't have that feeling anymore that we're all americans

02:03:05.020 and what does america even mean it has just become lines on a map dump anyone inside the jagged

02:03:16.320 uh edges of the united states and they are now americans without any knowledge of america

02:03:25.260 without any ambition to learn english to assimilate and they are you know americans

02:03:33.560 people uh on the left especially will tell you uh they're just as much american as you are

02:03:39.160 Because they don't want to say what American is, what it means to be an American.

02:03:46.640 And that used to be something, and we took it for granted.

02:03:50.840 We knew.

02:03:51.920 We knew without having to say it.

02:03:54.420 We knew on Fourth of July, a block party, a barbecue at a neighbor's house, inviting some neighbors over, the conversations you'd have.

02:04:05.380 um just the pride the pride in nation it went unspoken and you just knew what it was

02:04:13.200 uh not anymore not anymore and you could kind of see it with the artemis mission

02:04:20.780 artemis mission uh uh 10 days took off from earth circled the moon as kind of a test run

02:04:30.720 testing equipment for a lunar landing in the future no one cared no one cared and you could

02:04:40.680 say well we have problems here on earth we got this that was the same thing that was being said

02:04:44.660 back back in the 60s about the Apollo program too we got starving people here we got a war going on

02:04:51.800 But there was pride.

02:04:55.540 There was a pride in what we could do as a nation.

02:05:00.200 It was an important part of being an American, very important part.

02:05:06.240 It united us.

02:05:07.420 We felt good about being Americans when we watched the Apollo program

02:05:14.480 and watched Neil Armstrong step out onto the moon.

02:05:18.560 It was like we won something.

02:05:20.280 we were all on the same team and then you know it's it's pretty miraculous to be able to send

02:05:26.640 four people around the moon even though we landed on the moon over 50 years ago uh it was still an

02:05:34.780 amazing thing and and there should be an element of pride in that nothing nothing people barely

02:05:43.320 knew it was even happening and then there's a whole nother subsection of this country 0.99

02:05:49.060 that is profoundly mentally ill 0.96

02:05:53.540 and insists that it never happened. 0.85

02:05:58.260 No one's been to the moon.

02:05:59.760 No one goes into space even.

02:06:01.440 There's no space.

02:06:03.060 I don't know what your GPS is running on.

02:06:09.040 Those are satellites that were put in orbit.

02:06:11.500 Some people don't even believe that happened.

02:06:13.580 But they're a minority of pretty kooky people.

02:06:17.460 But there's just no pride.

02:06:19.060 there's no pride in country anymore and with the 250th birthday of the country

02:06:24.820 uh it's supposed to be a big party and soren memdani goes yeah we're not doing anything in

02:06:32.820 times square you don't want to have a big america 250th celebration in times square

02:06:39.580 reminiscent of uh new year's eve a ball drop i guess they were going to do that

02:06:44.520 and the public will not be admitted now obviously there's a cost to it there's a security issue i

02:06:55.540 know that but we were told time and time again after terrorist events and especially after 9-11

02:07:06.300 And you you have to go on with your lives.

02:07:09.560 We have to remain being Americans.

02:07:13.520 We have to go out and celebrate.

02:07:16.600 We have to not worry, you know, be vigilant, but not be worried constantly that we're going to come under attack.

02:07:26.600 And for the 250th birthday of this country, of course, big cities, landmarks like Times Square would be a great place to celebrate the 250th birthday.

02:07:41.120 Be nice in July instead of January 1st to be in Times Square when it isn't freezing and have a big party there.

02:07:49.800 But, you know, Memdani. 0.99

02:07:53.860 Now, Muslims can put down prayer rugs and take up the entirety of Times Square to pray.

02:08:04.240 That doesn't seem to be a problem, security issue or an expense.

02:08:11.980 But is it just me or maybe, just maybe?

02:08:17.860 He doesn't want people celebrating America in in twenty twenty six on his watch as mayor in New York.

02:08:27.640 Is that so preposterous? Is that so out of the question based on his personality, his beliefs?

02:08:38.740 That he just doesn't want a big, rip roaring USA, America party in his city.

02:08:45.900 makes sense to me that he would do something like that and you don't have to look too far

02:08:53.980 to find people that will blatantly say it our old friend reverend al sharpton reverend al

02:09:04.060 i've been talking about reverend al since i think my first day on radio back at wbab on long island 0.71

02:09:13.020 new york and um he's been a clown for decades uh i miss the old fat rever now he would wear uh 0.76

02:09:24.440 track suits big fat guy track suits he had the james brown hairdo he had a giant medallion he

02:09:33.660 used to wear and he was loud i think the diversity is necessary in our city it was fun he's a fun

02:09:45.320 fat little guy you could laugh at now uh he's older he lost a lot of weight he dresses in a suit

02:09:53.200 his head his head kind of shrunk because he lost weight so he kind of looks like a 0.93

02:09:57.980 a raisin these days a california raisin and uh he's still the anti-american 0.97

02:10:09.080 jackass he's been for his entire career here's reverend al talking about the 250th celebration 0.98

02:10:18.700 of america and why black people should not be involved or celebrate this amazing listen to this 0.97

02:10:26.700 They're going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country July 4th, but that's not our celebration. 0.93

02:10:33.560 We were slaves then, and they celebrate signing the Declaration of Independence 1776.

02:10:44.120 We were not even emancipated until 1863, so I don't know what everybody getting ready for a celebration.

02:10:52.300 you know that it seems crazy for me to have on the birthday hat at your birthday party that ain't

02:10:58.980 my party in fact i'm thinking saturday when i do my address to the convention or calling for something

02:11:05.380 on uh on on july 4th uh like frederick douglas did why should we be celebrating that

02:11:12.980 we may need to do uh our own rally in philly or somewhere that day because that's not our

02:11:19.880 background not our background have you have you ever heard more divisive stuff come out of

02:11:30.340 a person reverend al he's been like this his entire career uh

02:11:37.200 there is there is a point where even if you look at america and its past misdeeds

02:11:46.640 um like slavery uh you have to look at the big picture and go yeah we got past that

02:11:55.560 we got past that everyone in this country has opportunity and has had opportunity

02:12:03.040 and freedoms equality for quite some time and to celebrate america's 250th birthday

02:12:13.120 is part of being an american and i think uh more people than not in the the black communities

02:12:21.200 around the country would look at that and go yeah i'm an american why shouldn't i celebrate

02:12:28.220 the the balls on reverend al to speak for black people and say uh we don't want to celebrate we 0.51

02:12:38.420 don't want to put your party hat on at your party it's not your country is that what we're being 0.98

02:12:45.620 led to believe that america isn't your country that things haven't gotten unbelievably better

02:12:51.540 over the course of of the years the 250 years of america you can't look at that and go wow

02:13:01.540 we have all come such a long way as americans and uh celebrate that but no more division

02:13:11.920 more nonsense and then wanting to spoil the the day the celebration for people in philly by

02:13:20.960 having some lame-ass march you're gonna get in the way of people that are celebrating 0.96

02:13:29.340 he is abominable he really is his entire career over the course of decades has been 0.99

02:13:37.440 crapping on this country and and making himself very wealthy off of being a racist 0.98

02:13:47.300 and being somebody that does not want peace doesn't want uh uh the country to be united

02:13:57.640 regardless of what uh your race is your religion division is all he has that keeps him relevant

02:14:07.060 and keeps the money coming in that's why he talks about you know maybe we'll maybe we'll

02:14:13.520 his new way of speaking maybe we'll have to do something in philly how much money in contributions

02:14:20.320 will you rake in if uh you you demonstrate against america's birthday how much money

02:14:30.020 revernell i ask you i ask you that how much money uh let's go back to the uh the phones

02:14:39.440 uh this is jay jay in jersey what's up really pleasure uh speaking with you sir uh there's a

02:14:47.240 bunch of topics you hit today that are just really juicy uh a couple that i wanted to hit on

02:14:51.440 one was uh mandani you know this this whole idea like that uh you know when you when you move to

02:14:58.400 the desert you expect it to be dry when you move to like bali you expect it to rain when i moved

02:15:04.000 to new york i kind of expect congestion and noise and not being able to afford everything because 0.75

02:15:10.380 that's how it is like it's such a stupid mentality to say i want to move to new york but i don't want 0.93

02:15:16.360 have to be congested right and i'm going to collect taxes it's just the whole thing anthony you make 0.92

02:15:22.560 such sense in so many different uh topics uh the other one uh is is this whole um 200 i remember

02:15:29.840 actually i i actually was born in india so i'm an immigrant but uh i love this country man more than

02:15:35.820 anything and i do remember being a kid i do remember being a kid also and remember on the

02:15:41.760 200th anniversary bicentennial they had a big boat a ship parade down down the yes the big

02:15:47.820 sailing ships were in new york harbor and it was amazing to watch amazing all the fire boats came

02:15:56.120 out and they were spraying red white and blue water yeah yeah across the that they uh dude i

02:16:02.200 swear to you right now i just got goosebumps thinking about that how beautiful right it was

02:16:08.760 And, you know, I was so lucky because my dad, he worked for the Port Authority.

02:16:13.780 He worked in the World Trade Center.

02:16:15.240 So I actually got to see it from, like, the 50th floor of the World Trade.

02:16:19.160 It was amazing.

02:16:19.980 But you know what's weird?

02:16:21.160 As you were saying that, I just realized, and this kind of does circle back to my buddy,

02:16:26.600 that that was 50 years ago, but that's exactly twice the distance from September 11th, pretty much.

02:16:33.940 Oh, wow.

02:16:34.780 Yeah.

02:16:35.800 You think that was 25 years ago.

02:16:37.880 And you think of the difference. Oh, my God. When we were kids at 25 and now.

02:16:44.420 And it's sad to say, man. I mean, so so I actually come from the state in India, which is the western state, which is Gujarat, which is where Mamdani's mom came from.

02:16:55.760 OK. And and it's interesting. And then they moved to Uganda. So he's from Uganda.

02:17:00.240 Right. Right. He's from Uganda. He was raised in Uganda.

02:17:02.840 Yeah, the history is that that state where I come from, where I was born, it actually has a heavy Muslim population and a Hindu population.

02:17:12.020 And, man, those two, they've been fighting for years. 0.84

02:17:14.720 Yeah, forever.

02:17:16.520 The whole Islamic fundamentalism affecting other religions is actually very familiar to Indians for years before it came here. 0.60

02:17:31.160 so when september 11th happened here and you know as a hindu born in india coming to the united states

02:17:38.820 seeing that i'm like oh man it's over here now too yeah it's it's pretty sad man you know how

02:17:45.320 unimaginable that was uh before it happened like i would watch the news and i would see

02:17:52.780 stories and reporters in tel aviv or um beirut uh and you'd see people walking around with rifles

02:18:02.100 like law enforcement walking around with rifles looking very military and all i recalled from

02:18:08.740 new york were beat cops they'd have the leather jacket on with the nypd patches the the old cop

02:18:16.440 hat the wooden stick and uh a revolver service revolver and i would think to myself i cannot

02:18:25.600 imagine what it would be like to walk around and see military people with guns at the airport or

02:18:33.100 on the subways and and then it happened and we're looking around and going we're just

02:18:40.880 this is a a step into another place we are no no longer the america we knew and remembered and

02:18:49.540 loved we are on a whole new course now and uh it hasn't been a good one that is for sure man

02:18:56.600 it's so sad i mean my dad came here to america with the dream and you know this place i don't

02:19:04.000 know if you remember anthony we didn't really have homeless back then either like they were

02:19:08.560 like nutty people i remember a few nutty people we had a guy called crazy john in uh in east north

02:19:14.860 port and he would have a shopping cart and his belongings were in it and he had a big uh one of

02:19:20.640 those sunflower things that spun in the wind and we called him crazy john it's like oh look here

02:19:25.680 is crazy john that was the homeless that was the entire homeless population crazy john and then

02:19:33.180 somehow i guess these liberal organizations figured out hey we can make money at this and

02:19:38.040 And it became this, like, it came industrialized.

02:19:41.280 Industry, right.

02:19:42.940 And the reason I know this is because I've seen plenty of homeless in India.

02:19:46.780 Like, India, you see poverty, I mean, poverty, man.

02:19:49.480 It's brutal.

02:19:50.680 It's like, it's a...

02:19:51.440 Yeah, that's a poverty that most people don't even know about.

02:19:56.000 Jay, thanks so much, bro.

02:19:57.940 I got to move on, but I appreciate the call, man.

02:20:00.460 God bless you, man.

02:20:01.120 Have a good one.

02:20:02.260 And we'll be back in moments.

02:20:05.380 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:20:11.660 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:20:17.900 The Anthony Cumia Show.

02:20:19.640 I want to thank everybody for hanging out with me this Sunday evening.

02:20:24.920 Always a great response on the phones.

02:20:28.280 And out here in Vegas, I've bumped into quite a few people that listen to this program.

02:20:32.960 and it is greatly appreciated and really uh really is uh elon musk getting into the eric

02:20:39.400 swalwell thing i just saw this on social media uh of course swalwell put out a statement that

02:20:45.180 he's suspending his campaign uh apologizing to his his family uh and supporters and say he's

02:20:53.280 going to fight these serious false allegations that have been made and elon answered that he

02:21:00.220 He goes, bro, you should definitely fight those fake allegations, 0.99

02:21:06.080 especially all the videos of you doing weird crap with hookers. 0.99

02:21:11.020 The videos are, you know, very, it's not a good look for a politician. 1.00

02:21:19.780 and these days again why would you allow somebody to video you making out with a sex worker a hooker

02:21:31.280 i believe allegedly uh on a bed there's a couple of other people in the room i don't know what's 0.82

02:21:38.940 going on i'm sure we'll find out but he uh eric swalwell leans over he's got his shirt kind of 0.81

02:21:44.780 unbuttoned his shoes are off and uh there's a a woman who is supposedly a prostitute you're a 0.98

02:21:53.000 prostitute uh and he he just starts making out with her by the way who kisses a prostitute 0.99

02:22:00.940 let's be real it's um i don't know it's a little uh weird a little strange but uh yeah musk 0.99

02:22:12.460 Elon Musk figured I'm going to get in there and speak my piece about this guy.

02:22:19.320 Over the course of the past couple of weeks, I had Easter off,

02:22:23.620 so I wasn't able to cover this when it happened, but I wanted to talk about it. 0.52

02:22:28.080 The birthright citizenship debacle in this country.

02:22:32.540 I don't know why this has been twisted and turned into what it is.

02:22:37.460 uh you do a little research and realize this was for slaves freed slaves were not considered

02:22:46.140 american citizens and their offspring wouldn't have been considered american citizens either so

02:22:52.380 they they made this birthright citizenship uh if you're a former slave you got kids they are

02:22:58.180 american citizens uh but it's been turned into anybody that comes here they load up planes of 0.50

02:23:06.260 chinese women pregnant uh there was recently a woman from jamaica on a plane on her way to jfk

02:23:14.400 and she had the baby on the plane this is how ready she was to give birth why the hell else

02:23:20.900 are you going from jamaica to new york city that pregnant but to have the kid and uh have it be an 0.88

02:23:29.240 american citizen and that's what this birthright citizenship is and the supreme court was hearing

02:23:34.600 it um because donald trump signed an executive order trying to get rid of this birthright

02:23:42.080 citizenship so of course the supreme court had to go over its legality and justice katanji

02:23:49.460 jackson of course kj uh had what could be the most ridiculous analogy uh ever made 0.99

02:24:01.440 Listen to this garbage. 0.99

02:24:03.320 And I was thinking, you know, I'm I, U.S. citizen and visiting Japan. 0.98

02:24:07.360 And what it means is that, you know, if I steal someone's wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me.

02:24:19.900 It's allegiance, meaning can they control you as a matter of law?

02:24:24.920 I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to, you know, under Japanese law, go and prosecute the person who has stolen it.

02:24:34.100 So there's this relationship based on, even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation in Japan, I'm still locally owing allegiance in that sense.

02:24:46.200 Is that the right way to think about it? And if so, doesn't that explain why both temporary residents and undocumented people would have that kind of, quote unquote, allegiance just by virtue of being in the United States?

02:25:03.900 you're american citizen because you're here in america that's what she was trying to sell

02:25:10.940 yeah the whole allegiance thing like if if you have an allegiance to another country

02:25:18.040 you obviously don't have allegiance to america and the whole birthright thing

02:25:25.800 throws that right in everyone's face but she's trying to explain that you have local allegiance

02:25:33.420 If you fall under some kind of legal jurisdiction for a country you're visiting, like your wallet gets stolen, you call the police in the country you're in.

02:25:44.640 And because they are working with you to deal with this crime, you have some allegiance that is the same thing as coming into a country, dropping a baby.

02:25:56.220 and now you're an American citizen

02:25:58.680 because you have an allegiance to the country you're in

02:26:02.520 just by being in that country. 0.92

02:26:04.780 It is so demented. 0.95

02:26:06.700 It is so crazy that that is a Supreme Court justice 0.66

02:26:13.040 trying to make an argument

02:26:15.260 for allowing women to come here and do that. 0.99

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