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00:01:30.700 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

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00:01:35.080 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:01:39.360 The Anthony Cumia Show.

00:01:41.680 Another Sunday evening.

00:01:43.620 I'm glad you've joined me.

00:01:46.560 And lots going on.

00:01:48.580 And, boy, especially if you're in that New York area, you've got the big Long Island Railroad strike.

00:01:55.040 And tomorrow, boy, I do not envy you.

00:01:59.360 I do not envy you, people.

00:02:01.660 I made that commute for many, many years during my various radio jobs in New York City out from Long Island.

00:02:10.380 And I will tell you, there is nothing that is good about it.

00:02:15.580 There's no, like, oh, that one's a breeze.

00:02:17.860 Oh, I drive myself.

00:02:19.000 It's easy.

00:02:19.500 Oh, I take the train.

00:02:20.840 I take a bus.

00:02:21.920 I carpool.

00:02:23.160 None of it is easy.

00:02:25.600 It is all just terrible.

00:02:28.420 Everyone dreads the commute from Long Island to New York City and then back home again.

00:02:33.540 So with the Long Island Railroad taken out of the mix, it just makes everything else that much worse.

00:02:40.280 They're not talking.

00:02:41.920 That's the last update I got.

00:02:44.140 They don't even have scheduled talks between the union and the MTA.

00:02:52.220 So good luck.

00:02:54.600 And you know they do that on purpose.

00:02:56.820 They start the strike on the weekend, and they give people something to think about.

00:03:01.580 Oh, it's going to be terrible.

00:03:03.540 Oh, it's going to be awful.

00:03:05.140 And then they don't even talk about it because they know that the first day,

00:03:09.360 Monday is just

00:03:11.540 going to be awful and it's going to give them

00:03:13.580 a little extra pull

00:03:15.260 people are going to say

00:03:17.000 pay these guys

00:03:19.260 there aren't many

00:03:21.120 commuters

00:03:23.100 people that work in New York City

00:03:25.260 that care about

00:03:27.480 the business end of it 0.98

00:03:29.320 they just want to get their ass to work 0.98

00:03:31.820 and then get back home 0.98

00:03:32.940 you guys

00:03:35.040 I do not envy you

00:03:37.280 all the best and godspeed as they say i did want to talk about this this was a big story

00:03:47.780 last week and you know i mean the way stories go it could be the huge huge story of the week

00:03:57.360 and then the next week it's kind of just gone people aren't really talking about it anymore

00:04:02.640 It's this Chud the Builder thing.

00:04:05.860 Dalton Etherly is his real name, Dalton.

00:04:10.320 Because just calling him Chud, that seems silly.

00:04:15.660 And this definitely isn't a silly circumstance that everyone's dealing with.

00:04:24.540 I'm definitely not going to get into the is he right or wrong about this.

00:04:31.100 You know, everyone has their own ideas about this guy and what he's been doing.

00:04:36.560 If you don't know, I don't know what rock you've been under, 1.00

00:04:39.240 but obviously he's been walking around and dropping N-bombs on black people 0.97

00:04:45.580 as he walks through certain cities, towns and whatnot. 0.93

00:04:51.980 A lot of racial epithets and racially based insults.

00:04:58.180 And his take is, I'm just trying to show that we don't have freedom of speech 0.99

00:05:03.540 and that if you say certain words, you will get your ass handed to you. 0.99

00:05:12.140 Some people think that's perfectly fine. 0.99

00:05:14.940 Other people don't think you should pay with violence or your life in some circumstances

00:05:23.320 just for uttering a word.

00:05:25.100 So that's pretty much what's been going on.

00:05:27.540 And this guy Dalton, he carried a gun and bear spray.

00:05:34.480 And whenever anyone would get so offended at what he's saying to the point where they felt they ought to hit him,

00:05:41.360 he would use the bear spray on him.

00:05:43.160 And last week, he felt that somebody started beating on him, actually throwing punches at him.

00:05:52.020 And he pulled out a gun and shot the man that he said was assaulting him.

00:05:58.480 It's all alleged at this point.

00:06:00.840 We really don't have all that much information on this.

00:06:05.780 It's very sparse.

00:06:08.720 I haven't heard any witnesses.

00:06:11.920 I've heard from him.

00:06:13.380 There's an audio recording of Dalton speaking to the cops because he inadvertently shot himself while he was trying to shoot the offended gentleman that was punching him, all alleged.

00:06:31.260 So he talked to the cops, which if there's any lawyers listening, you know what I'm going to say.

00:06:38.840 What are you doing?

00:06:41.140 What are you doing?

00:06:42.280 I don't care how right you feel you are in a circumstance, a legal situation.

00:06:50.240 You don't say anything.

00:06:52.600 You do not say a word to anybody.

00:06:56.960 Lawyer.

00:06:57.820 That's what you say, lawyer.

00:06:59.880 I want to speak to my lawyer.

00:07:02.940 Because even if you're saying things that you think are advantageous to a case

00:07:09.480 that you are definitely going to have in the future,

00:07:13.500 they can turn things around.

00:07:16.100 The prosecution can take anything you say,

00:07:18.480 can and will be used against you in a court of law.

00:07:23.040 That's very important.

00:07:24.700 Not only it can or it might or this, it will.

00:07:29.420 Well, I didn't say anything that doesn't make me look anything but innocent.

00:07:34.880 Oh, really?

00:07:36.220 How about that?

00:07:37.200 because the prosecution has a completely different take on what you said,

00:07:41.540 whether it's your alibi, your excuse for doing what you did,

00:07:45.680 how you did it, why you did it.

00:07:47.500 All this stuff can and will be used against you in a court of law.

00:07:52.920 So keep your trap shut.

00:07:57.280 Also, the self-defense aspect of this whole thing,

00:08:00.760 because this is really what it's all about.

00:08:02.960 uh dalton i believe will try to say this was self-defense in a court and once you do that

00:08:15.240 you're pretty much saying you did it that's the whole thing of a self-defense case yes i shot this

00:08:25.020 guy but here are the circumstances and here's why the law is on my side and this was self-defense

00:08:35.760 so if your self-defense case caves in on you you pretty much confessed to the the murder or

00:08:46.360 wounding as it was in this case he didn't kill the guy that was attacking him so a self-defense

00:08:55.020 defense case is tricky.

00:08:59.520 You have to have

00:09:01.240 a number of criteria

00:09:02.740 that come into play.

00:09:05.880 You cannot have been

00:09:07.380 the aggressor.

00:09:10.580 You must have

00:09:12.120 absolutely felt that your life

00:09:14.740 was in imminent danger

00:09:17.560 of being taken.

00:09:19.920 There are other ones, too,

00:09:21.540 that are very important

00:09:22.980 to the self-defense, to that defense, the self-defense defense.

00:09:31.840 But from what I'm hearing, a lot of people, their opinion is that he doesn't have a chance in hell,

00:09:40.060 all based on what he was doing, not just on that day, not just when it happened,

00:09:47.360 but his record of being a provocateur and one of these guys that walks around

00:09:53.900 trying to piss people off until they take a swing at him or do whatever.

00:09:59.120 He's made a lot of incendiary comments on social media.

00:10:05.180 He has said things to the effect of the only way this ends

00:10:08.820 is with somebody of color being dead on the ground in front of me.

00:10:14.600 So, you know, all of these things are going to be taken into consideration. 0.98

00:10:19.300 And I'm certain the defense is going to try its best to keep these things out,

00:10:24.480 saying that what he said and what he was doing online and on social media doesn't have any relevance to the circumstance that led to him shooting somebody.

00:10:38.260 It doesn't matter what he said.

00:10:40.100 What matters is what transpired between these two men on that day, at that moment.

00:10:48.600 And saying that somebody's speech, what they're saying, is a valid reason to resort to physical, hands-on violence.

00:11:04.460 That's a very emotional thing.

00:11:07.820 This whole case is very emotionally charged.

00:11:10.780 You have the race angle in there.

00:11:12.840 You have the First Amendment, the Second Amendment's in there.

00:11:18.160 So emotion, while it's supposed to not have a place in a courtroom,

00:11:27.340 you're dealing with evidence and facts and what happened,

00:11:33.820 not how you feel, the emotion that this brings out in people.

00:11:40.820 So you have to pretty much be of the mindset that if someone says something to you

00:11:48.340 that you find offensive, you have a right in some way, shape, or form

00:11:53.880 to physically harm that person.

00:11:58.320 And that starts this case off.

00:12:01.660 Again, in a self-defense case, you, as the person that used the weapon in self-defense, can't be the instigator.

00:12:16.160 You can't have started it.

00:12:18.580 Now, does verbally offending someone fall into that criteria of starting the problem?

00:12:27.240 That's what's going to be argued.

00:12:29.460 I don't think it rises to the occasion.

00:12:33.040 I think the law dictates that you can say things.

00:12:37.180 There might be consequences. 0.84

00:12:39.120 You could get punched in the face. 1.00

00:12:41.680 Most people would say, yeah, that guy deserves to be punched in the face. 0.99

00:12:46.040 But legally, does that person have a right to punch you 0.99

00:12:50.880 after you've just said something that offends you?

00:12:53.980 That's the big, big part of this because that's what started.

00:12:58.740 The whole thing between these two men that ended with Dalton shooting the guy.

00:13:04.760 So we'll talk about that a little more next after the break with your phone calls.

00:13:11.780 I hope we have the phones fixed.

00:13:14.460 800-848-9222 when the Anthony Cumia Show continues.

00:13:20.300 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:13:22.680 Entertaining and informative.

00:13:24.760 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:13:29.600 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:13:36.020 It's the Anthony Cumia Show, and as I look at the phones,

00:13:40.580 boy, a lot of people wanting to comment on the Long Island Railroad strike.

00:13:45.380 We'll get to the Dalton Chud the Builder Etherly story and your comments on that.

00:13:54.240 But, yeah, let's go to Kevin in Long Beach.

00:13:56.560 Kevin, what's up, man?

00:13:58.740 Yeah, how you doing, Ant?

00:14:00.160 Good. 0.99

00:14:00.960 The only Chud I know is a bad 80s movie called Chud, 0.99

00:14:05.260 which was an acronym for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. 1.00

00:14:09.060 We all remember that one.

00:14:11.760 Terrible.

00:14:12.540 Okay.

00:14:13.420 Yeah, okay.

00:14:14.320 About the railroad strike,

00:14:15.660 I was talking to a disgruntled ex-employee in a bar a couple of weeks ago,

00:14:19.880 and he told me these stories that were incredible.

00:14:22.880 But, you know, the conductors start at $59,000 to $62,000 a year.

00:14:27.980 But with the automatic overtime, whatever that is,

00:14:31.020 they can make up to $100,000 a year.

00:14:35.160 Engineers, $120,000 to $160,000 a year.

00:14:41.380 The unit is fraught with Medicaid ripoffs

00:14:46.240 and phantom back pain and disability ripoffs.

00:14:49.620 And do you remember those guys from like 10 years ago

00:14:51.720 that were stealing the copper wire?

00:14:53.560 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:14:54.560 use it they pay off the guy who ran the yard that watched it and they would use the railroad trucks

00:15:01.840 to bring it to the scrapyard i mean these guys i mean this union is so corrupt it's unbelievable

00:15:07.240 wow sounds like old mafia stuff yeah i mean i i mean how much money is enough with these unions

00:15:14.920 you know what i mean i don't know you know if you if you bash the unions you get people uh pissed

00:15:21.760 at you if you're with the unions you get people pissed off at you it's uh i i think overall i

00:15:30.020 think unions were a great thing many years ago when the workers were being taking taken advantage

00:15:36.140 of by management and and the bosses and uh it had a place but i think like anything else it it built

00:15:43.520 up to such a powerful thing all these unions are very powerful and um you know absolute power

00:15:50.640 corrupts absolutely so that's what we're kind of sitting on now are a lot of corrupt uh very

00:15:57.540 powerful and uh unions that get their way yes and the politics that got into it how much money they

00:16:05.780 give these uh like hokul and everybody else right right the unions pay the politicians to do what

00:16:13.420 they want uh the politicians to do it's one hand washes the other and uh you know we see a lot of

00:16:19.780 that but like i said you say that to a union guy and you're like oh what's the matter with you

00:16:24.020 enough for the worker so no way you can't win for losing kevin hey but the father was an old

00:16:32.120 union man from way back and even he got frustrated at what it turned into you know just a money grab

00:16:37.300 you know yeah yeah a lot of corruption in there all right buddy thanks man uh you know it's it's

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00:17:22.380 And they

00:17:24.020 can do things. They can deliver

00:17:26.180 votes, money,

00:17:28.620 merchandise, whatever

00:17:29.940 it is.

00:17:32.220 That's when you'll get the people 1.00

00:17:34.040 with their greedy little mitts 1.00

00:17:36.060 in there. 0.99

00:17:39.600 Unbelievable.

00:17:41.300 Lenny. Lenny from

00:17:42.480 Bethpage New York these are all train stations by the way what's up they are now we don't have

00:17:49.360 to worry about crossing the uh tracks but still you know what Long Island as you know we pay

00:17:55.200 tremendous taxes oh yeah Hochul puts in Hochul puts in congestion pricing raises hundreds of

00:18:01.720 millions people are not paying for the railroad people aren't paying for the buses they're jumping

00:18:07.760 with a turnstile, they say that's $800 million.

00:18:11.180 That's $800 million.

00:18:12.840 She gives $8 billion to Mamdani, and now she can't pay the workers? 0.57

00:18:18.160 Yeah, she gives $8 million to Mamdani,

00:18:20.900 who then the next day goes on social media

00:18:23.060 and starts talking about how amazing he is

00:18:25.540 that he took care of the budget deficit. 0.99

00:18:28.320 What a lion sack this guy is. 0.99

00:18:32.540 Oh, and she is too. 0.98

00:18:33.880 So she gets $8 billion, which she doesn't have. 0.78

00:18:36.420 she takes from the pension fund and this right and she gives it to him this communist socialist 0.65

00:18:42.620 and he brags about it but meanwhile she puts in all these congestion prices she's raised millions

00:18:48.720 and they let people jump the turnstiles go on the buses for free yeah i can't pay the union i'm not

00:18:54.760 a big pro-union guy at all right but if you're going to do all that stuff pay the workers you

00:19:02.040 You know what it's going to do?

00:19:03.440 You know what they're going to do, though?

00:19:05.180 They don't take a hit on that.

00:19:06.620 What do you think?

00:19:07.020 The NTA, the city, the state, anyone's going to have to dig out of their pockets?

00:19:12.660 It gets passed on to the consumer.

00:19:15.420 And when you say consumer, as far as public transit goes in New York City,

00:19:18.980 you're talking about the few suckers that are actually paying to get on these platforms 0.78

00:19:26.080 and trains and buses and whatnot. 0.95

00:19:29.260 And instead of enforcing.

00:19:32.640 New York is second.

00:19:34.640 California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, all blue states.

00:19:38.600 Yeah.

00:19:38.940 People leaving.

00:19:40.040 And they say, oh, our population doesn't go down. 1.00

00:19:42.720 But all the taxpayers are leaving and illegal immigrants are filling their spots. 0.99

00:19:47.400 And they're not paying. 1.00

00:19:48.580 They're jumping turnstiles.

00:19:49.840 They go on the bus.

00:19:50.580 If the bus driver gives them any guff, they start punching the bus driver. 1.00

00:19:54.360 How stupid can we be? 1.00

00:19:56.200 I live on Long Island. 1.00

00:19:56.980 Pretty stupid, Lenny. 1.00

00:19:58.340 How stupid can we be to stay here? 1.00

00:20:02.620 Yeah, well, you're talking about yourself. 1.00

00:20:04.860 I ducked out a couple of years ago. 0.99

00:20:07.520 I'm an idiot, but I'm here. 0.99

00:20:09.440 And you went to South Carolina, and I love South Carolina. 1.00

00:20:12.140 I go there all the time.

00:20:13.020 A beautiful day today.

00:20:14.220 I was throwing the Frisbee around with the dog.

00:20:16.100 Just one of those picture-perfect afternoons.

00:20:20.300 Love it. 0.97

00:20:20.840 Nothing like a red state.

00:20:22.580 I hear you.

00:20:23.460 I hear you, Lenny.

00:20:24.260 Yeah.

00:20:24.600 Thanks for the call, brother.

00:20:26.060 Be well, and good luck.

00:20:28.340 good luck with all that as they say because that's uh you know he brings up a good point

00:20:36.740 though if they kept their books in order if they made sure things were taken care of bills were

00:20:43.280 paid uh law enforcement made sure that everybody getting on these transportation modes were paying

00:20:50.740 and make them a viable option to the commuter.

00:21:00.760 Because it's not, oh, take the subway, take the bus, go screw.

00:21:07.820 There's no way people want to get on these things.

00:21:11.440 If you made it more pleasant, by pleasant I just mean not getting feces thrown at you

00:21:16.920 or getting shot or stabbed.

00:21:20.440 Make it more pleasant, and you might get more people using the system,

00:21:25.140 and it would pay.

00:21:27.120 It would actually pay.

00:21:29.200 But no, they don't do that.

00:21:32.240 They keep it the way it is.

00:21:35.020 It's a mess.

00:21:35.920 They don't want to do what has to be done, and they lose money.

00:21:38.840 And then when MTA employees want to raise, they don't have it.

00:21:44.500 They've got to dig.

00:21:45.240 They've got to dig into the taxpayers' money, the pension funds, everything else.

00:21:51.060 So good luck.

00:21:53.040 Good luck, people of New York.

00:21:57.340 Here's Dan.

00:21:59.540 Dan's in Utah.

00:22:00.760 I guess Dan got out of New York.

00:22:02.200 What's up, Dan?

00:22:04.900 Yeah, like you, I left New York.

00:22:06.940 Hello?

00:22:07.660 Yes, good man.

00:22:09.980 Yeah, I left New York like 25 years ago when Bloomberg was in office.

00:22:13.960 I hated it.

00:22:14.700 I moved to Texas and Utah.

00:22:17.180 I remember that strike about 20, 25 years ago.

00:22:20.160 It was the MTA, though.

00:22:22.120 So I just started hitchhiking home.

00:22:24.500 I printed up a few signs cursing the MTA, hitchhiked up to the 59th Street Bridge,

00:22:29.480 then over the bridge, and up to Astoria.

00:22:31.740 I never got home faster.

00:22:33.500 They're in unions now. 0.55

00:22:35.120 They hold the city hostage.

00:22:36.960 That's a ballsy move, and not many people could do that, especially today.

00:22:41.460 No one wants to pick up a hitchhiker.

00:22:44.400 And if you are hitchhiking, you don't know who's picking you up.

00:22:49.520 So, you know, if you're a big, burly guy.

00:22:51.600 Everyone was sympathetic.

00:22:53.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:22:53.860 If you're a big, burly guy, that's not a problem. 0.97

00:22:56.280 If you're a little dude or a wavy woman.

00:22:59.520 I love it when you talk guns, too. 1.00

00:23:00.940 Yeah.

00:23:02.280 Yeah.

00:23:02.800 All right, Dan.

00:23:03.300 Thank you, man.

00:23:03.980 I'm a big guy, and I've got my guns.

00:23:05.540 There you go.

00:23:06.400 Well, I'm not in New York.

00:23:08.460 That's a tough thing to get is a gun in New York.

00:23:12.320 So I'm looking at the phones.

00:23:13.720 and there are more people chiming in.

00:23:16.060 They want to talk about Dalton Etherly, Chud the Builder,

00:23:21.380 and he's locked up.

00:23:23.500 I guess they gave him a million and a quarter,

00:23:27.100 $1,125,000 or $225,000 bail.

00:23:33.920 And we'll talk about that next.

00:23:38.160 Where are you going?

00:23:39.060 Don't go anywhere.

00:23:40.480 The Anthony Cumia Show continues.

00:23:42.240 it's the anthony cumia show entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network

00:23:49.520 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

00:23:56.800 it is the anthony cumia show and uh talking about a few things this evening one of which is

00:24:04.180 chud the builder dalton earth or etherly and uh his uh what i guess is going to be a self-defense

00:24:12.060 case he's locked up he's uh they they put a over a million dollars bail on this guy and that brought 0.96

00:24:19.640 up a bunch of um discussions if i could call them that on social media uh bitch fests whatever you 0.72

00:24:27.200 want to call it because uh people said it was way too much for what he did and he's being uh 0.74

00:24:36.880 persecuted because of his attitude, his mindset, his ideology,

00:24:44.940 things he said in public, more so than the crime he committed, allegedly committed.

00:24:51.720 There have been people that have actually killed other people

00:24:56.660 and been released on less bond than over a million dollars.

00:25:02.040 um carmelo anthony stabbed a young man at a sporting event killing him from initial reports

00:25:11.280 i mean the trial hasn't happened yet but uh there hasn't been anyone that's come forward to say that

00:25:16.400 the dead uh young man did anything to deserve being killed uh that day and uh carmelo anthony

00:25:26.400 While he initially got a million-dollar bail, they lowered it to $250,000,

00:25:33.220 of which you only need $25,000 cash.

00:25:37.680 He got that through a GoFundMe-type money-raising platform.

00:25:46.480 And he's home with his parents, playing video games, and awaiting trial.

00:25:53.400 Well, then you get Dalton Aetherly, who didn't kill somebody.

00:26:03.360 Yes, he's allegedly committed a crime.

00:26:07.140 He shot somebody using a firearm and commission of a crime.

00:26:11.380 He's got a bunch of charges on him.

00:26:13.780 But mathematically, again, taking the emotion out of it, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

00:26:21.440 what is to say that he deserved over a million dollars bail

00:26:28.520 and this Carmelo Anthony guy that stabbed an innocent young man

00:26:33.180 for what seems to be no reason whatsoever

00:26:37.360 is out on much less money.

00:26:43.080 So that's been a big thing too.

00:26:45.600 Self-defense is everybody becomes a self-defense law expert when things like this happen.

00:26:56.340 I remember the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin case, which was a self-defense case.

00:27:08.560 Trayvon Martin did not have a weapon.

00:27:12.820 Zimmerman did.

00:27:14.600 And the jury came back and said, yeah, he was justified in taking the life of Trayvon Martin.

00:27:24.960 At that moment, Mr. Zimmerman felt that his life was in imminent danger of ending.

00:27:32.240 The story went that Trayvon Martin was beating Zimmerman's head against the sidewalk.

00:27:40.720 And Zimmerman felt he was going to lose consciousness.

00:27:45.860 And then what?

00:27:47.400 Does his gun get compromised?

00:27:50.780 Does he keep getting his head bashed against the sidewalk until he's dead?

00:27:54.860 So he was able to convince a jury, his lawyer was able to convince a jury,

00:27:59.360 that Zimmerman felt his life was in imminent danger of being taken.

00:28:05.760 And they said, yep, that's self-defense, all right.

00:28:09.940 I don't know how this case will go.

00:28:14.100 Like I said, we don't have a lot of the info on that.

00:28:19.200 Will Dalton Etherley's lawyer be able to convince a jury

00:28:23.800 that he felt his life was in imminent danger of being taken?

00:28:29.980 Or will he just go with a judge?

00:28:32.120 I think going with a jury on a case like this is nuts.

00:28:37.680 You don't know what you're going to get.

00:28:39.320 And the prosecution is going to try to load up a jury with people that are 110% emotion.

00:28:47.840 That's it.

00:28:49.560 We don't want you looking at the laws.

00:28:51.980 We don't want you looking at the facts, the evidence in the case.

00:28:55.900 We want you to sit in that jury box from beginning to end of this case and think nothing but how awful a person this is,

00:29:03.420 the terrible things he said and regardless of evidence or law you want him put in jail because

00:29:10.280 he's a terrible person that is what happened and it happens we saw you know very uh recently

00:29:17.160 some members of the oj simpson jury from back in the 90s came forward and said oh we we felt

00:29:24.960 oj did it we just felt we needed to send a message that um uh the the judicial system had

00:29:35.240 been systemically racist for so long that we had to blah blah blah so uh the last thing a defendant

00:29:42.400 wants is an emotional jury sitting there um and that's what the prosecution is going to want to

00:29:49.280 putting that jury box so you you go with a bench trial with a judge hopefully it's a sensible judge

00:29:56.920 he does know the law that's why they're up there um and then see if you could not convince the

00:30:05.800 judge so much as show evidence so that when he renders a decision it is based on the law

00:30:13.440 I think that's his best chance.

00:30:18.120 He's already been tried, convicted, and executed on social media.

00:30:23.420 And then there's location.

00:30:27.500 People go, oh, yeah, well, self-defense, this is self-defense and this isn't self-defense.

00:30:34.120 Where are you?

00:30:36.020 What state are you in?

00:30:37.840 What city?

00:30:38.900 What township?

00:30:39.940 What county?

00:30:40.660 it all matters

00:30:43.140 a lot of these places have different laws

00:30:45.680 and different criteria

00:30:47.760 for self-defense

00:30:49.500 some states like

00:30:51.560 the wonderful California

00:30:53.520 and New York

00:30:54.540 and all these liberal

00:30:57.580 Democrat blue states

00:30:59.160 for the most part

00:31:00.020 they demand

00:31:02.700 that you

00:31:04.380 withdraw

00:31:05.820 retreat

00:31:07.460 you have an obligation

00:31:09.600 under the law to try to find a way out of the danger you're in.

00:31:15.940 Uh-oh, I feel my life is in imminent danger.

00:31:19.960 Let me look and see if there's an exit here.

00:31:23.280 Other states, smart states like South Carolina,

00:31:28.660 that isn't an obligation.

00:31:32.100 You have the right to defend yourself.

00:31:35.780 There are laws that are called stand-your-ground laws and castle doctrine.

00:31:43.800 And these mean that you, as an American citizen, have the right to defend yourself.

00:31:51.120 Deadly physical force can be used to respond to a potential deadly threat.

00:32:00.320 So where you are is a big thing, and that matters.

00:32:04.540 So that'll come into play.

00:32:07.780 The other thing is how it played out.

00:32:12.120 You can dispatch somebody that you reasonably feel was going to kill you.

00:32:19.020 And it is self-defense.

00:32:21.700 If that scenario continued for another 30 seconds and the person who 30 seconds prior,

00:32:31.360 you could have dispatched completely legally.

00:32:36.840 Let's say they turned around and started running away

00:32:39.820 and you shot them because seconds earlier

00:32:44.140 you felt your life was in danger.

00:32:47.160 Well, that might not necessarily be self-defense anymore.

00:32:50.140 That could be murder.

00:32:52.720 That's how quickly self-defense changes into murder

00:32:59.180 or reckless manslaughter.

00:33:04.640 It changes by the second.

00:33:10.540 Do you know someone could start, in certain areas,

00:33:13.940 someone could start a fight with you and hit you

00:33:20.220 and you have a weapon on you.

00:33:24.900 You start by fighting.

00:33:26.560 You hit them back.

00:33:27.640 It's a regular fight.

00:33:29.180 You feel you're losing the fight, and you think,

00:33:32.820 I might have to go to lethal force.

00:33:36.060 And the person goes, all right, all right, enough.

00:33:39.440 You now can't do anything.

00:33:41.800 That person is controlling the fight at that point,

00:33:47.060 and you don't have the right to use deadly physical force anymore.

00:33:54.140 That's how quickly things can change.

00:33:56.020 So, again, we don't know.

00:33:59.800 We don't know what was happening at that moment.

00:34:04.660 From what we've seen, it looks like Dalton was walking around doing his thing,

00:34:10.260 dropping end bombs.

00:34:11.320 He was coming out of a court to deal with a prior incident that he had.

00:34:18.580 He was out on bail for that.

00:34:20.540 Doesn't look good.

00:34:21.420 and then he uh he saw a group of uh black gentlemen and they started yelling toward him

00:34:30.480 this is what he said started yelling toward him he uh asked them if they like his suit

00:34:36.580 he was wearing a suit for his court appearance and then uh one of the guys walked up to dalton

00:34:43.180 because uh he had had it he didn't think joking around was what he wanted to do with this guy

00:34:48.960 He wanted to hit him.

00:34:50.860 And Dalton, I think, had asked him something to the effect of if he was chimping out.

00:34:56.700 And the guy said he has PTSD.

00:34:59.540 He's apparently, so he says, a veteran with some mental issues.

00:35:06.220 He has quite the criminal record.

00:35:08.820 I don't know how that comes into play in a self-defense trial.

00:35:11.360 And he walked up to Dalton and punched him and body slammed him,

00:35:17.960 at which point Dalton pulled out his gun and shot the guy.

00:35:25.760 Did Dalton instigate this?

00:35:29.100 You can't say he instigated this last week,

00:35:33.740 that the guy he shot saw a video online of Dalton from last week

00:35:39.080 saying horrific things to people and at that moment said, 0.99

00:35:44.160 I am going to punch this guy if I ever see him. 0.67

00:35:47.380 And then he saw him and regardless of what Dalton did 0.99

00:35:51.140 or didn't say at that moment, decided he had seen enough

00:35:55.540 and walked up and punched him.

00:35:58.840 That isn't legal.

00:36:02.100 It's not reasonable.

00:36:03.040 You're not allowed to do that.

00:36:05.160 and that will absolutely come into play i know a bunch of people are very very offended

00:36:14.760 by what dalton was going around saying

00:36:17.960 but again that just does not give somebody the right to walk up and hit somebody because you

00:36:26.980 were offended uh i recently had a uh an instance in new york city i was in new york city at a

00:36:36.200 comedy club and some guy put a camera in my face it starts yelling uh horrific accusations at me

00:36:43.640 and uh i didn't like it so i uh reached over and i grabbed the glasses off of his face and

00:36:52.720 threw him on the ground i figured it was a measured response to what was going on uh is

00:36:59.540 it is that legal i don't think so i don't know uh would you do it probably you get a lot of armchair

00:37:09.560 lawyers that go well no i know not to do things like that if you're a guy and somebody's mouthing

00:37:17.420 off into your face right in front of you you know sometimes you just you feel like you got to

00:37:25.640 defend your your honor at some point and a lot of us would do that but this guy walking up to

00:37:34.720 dalton and if he hit him first even if dalton was saying horrific things about him legally

00:37:41.760 that doesn't bode well for him.

00:37:46.660 He should actually be up on charges, too.

00:37:49.120 I know he's not, and again, I think that's all emotional.

00:37:52.400 But this has a lot of emotion,

00:37:55.400 and facts and evidence might not play as big a role in this

00:38:00.040 as we would like to see.

00:38:02.780 If you do like the fact that we have a fair judicial system,

00:38:07.980 we hope to.

00:38:09.140 We hope that's the case.

00:38:10.260 blind justice you know go on the evidence weigh the evidence evidence uh but that's just not

00:38:17.280 the way it really works it's how it's supposed to work it'd be nice if it worked that way

00:38:22.740 but uh it's just not the way it works the i remember the casey anthony trial where she was

00:38:30.260 accused of murdering her daughter a very young toddler baby daughter they found the body

00:38:39.680 It was pretty much a skeleton and there was duct tape that was around the skull, around the mouth area, whereas it looked like the baby before it had skeletonized had had the mouth duct tape closed.

00:38:59.960 That was it.

00:39:01.520 There wasn't any DNA on anything.

00:39:03.680 uh it was down the street from casey anthony's house and i watched the whole trial fascinating

00:39:12.600 and at that point at that point in time these late night uh crime shows on cnn and all the

00:39:21.420 news channels had these uh pundits these these uh analysts and crime experts and they would talk

00:39:29.620 about the case what happened in court that day and i tell you there were so many people especially

00:39:36.080 women who were convinced she was going to prison for murdering her daughter i know she did it you

00:39:43.800 could see it in her face who else could have done it all that and as we know casey anthony was

00:39:50.880 acquitted not guilty and everyone lost their mind how could she be not guilty it's right down the

00:39:59.260 street from her house there was no kidnapping this it was duct tape that yeah there was no

00:40:06.640 evidence that could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that uh casey anthony killed kaylee

00:40:14.820 her daughter none no evidence so you have to okay you can't just go well i think she seems that way

00:40:23.480 she was partying while the girl was missing she did yeah it doesn't prove murder so uh 1.00

00:40:31.440 that was an emotionally charged case it involves a baby geez you women go nuts and they were like 1.00

00:40:39.120 no she's absolutely guilty uh that happens you know if they would have gotten a jury 1.00

00:40:45.100 of women emotional like that mothers themselves and maybe uh casey anthony would have been

00:40:53.420 convicted you just can't tell and in a case like this with dalton judd again it's it's racially

00:41:03.460 explosive and uh a a the racial makeup of that jury will be the single most important thing if

00:41:15.360 they go with a jury trial the single most important thing in this case any evidence witness testimony

00:41:21.920 throw it away

00:41:22.960 the most important thing will be 0.96

00:41:25.820 the racial makeup

00:41:27.280 of that jury

00:41:29.300 and you know if it's

00:41:31.960 not you could get like 1.00

00:41:33.820 some liberal white women in there 1.00

00:41:35.700 because they seem to hate men 1.00

00:41:37.920 anyway

00:41:38.360 but

00:41:40.180 that's kind of

00:41:43.920 where he stands at this point

00:41:44.980 I think he's got a bail

00:41:48.000 hearing

00:41:49.760 or they might lower his bail but

00:41:51.700 But I don't see anything good happening for this guy

00:41:56.360 because no one wants to be the person that did anything good for this guy.

00:42:03.060 You're stepping on a landmine if you do that.

00:42:07.680 So we'll see.

00:42:10.400 We'll see.

00:42:11.260 It will be self-defense, though.

00:42:12.980 It will be a self-defense trial.

00:42:14.720 I don't think he wants to go with the I didn't do it angle.

00:42:19.580 We all know he did it. 1.00

00:42:21.700 And talking about it in plain English, he was stupid for doing this. 1.00

00:42:28.720 You're sacrificing your life for what? 1.00

00:42:32.220 You know, make a point like that in that way and not too smart.

00:42:38.460 Back in a moment.

00:42:40.240 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:42:42.620 Entertaining and informative.

00:42:44.700 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:42:46.640 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

00:42:54.100 the anthony cumia show we were just uh talking about dalton uh etherly uh chud the builder

00:43:04.160 you know he's kind of in a jam uh let's talk to scott venice florida scott what's up man

00:43:10.960 anthony how are you doing tonight good good thank you um i don't want to debate you know

00:43:16.620 So whether what he was doing was right or wrong, I think he has the right to say whatever he wants.

00:43:21.620 My point is this.

00:43:23.280 Excuse me.

00:43:24.340 As a concealed carry guy, I carry everywhere, every day.

00:43:27.900 Yep.

00:43:28.720 I purposely do not put myself in a situation where I might have to use that.

00:43:35.860 Yep.

00:43:36.440 Do you know what I mean?

00:43:37.480 I know exactly what you mean.

00:43:38.940 I've said this a number of times.

00:43:40.840 The best way to get people to de-escalate a situation is by having a gun on you.

00:43:49.140 Because if you're smart, if you're sensible, if you're a rational person,

00:43:53.920 the last thing you want is any type of conflict or confrontation

00:43:58.600 while you're the one holding the gun.

00:44:01.860 Exactly.

00:44:02.440 It is a last option, no other choice, my life is in danger

00:44:07.600 or my family life is in danger.

00:44:10.840 But to go out and yell that kind of thing, it's like if you're in the woods

00:44:14.220 and you see a rabid grizzly bear, you don't run up to it and poke it with a stick.

00:44:19.640 You kind of back away from it slowly.

00:44:22.320 You know what I mean?

00:44:23.480 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:24.380 You're asking for this to happen.

00:44:27.740 Yeah.

00:44:28.900 The best thing he could have done if he wanted to do this was do it without a gun on him.

00:44:35.700 It sounds odd coming from me.

00:44:39.080 I am a champion of the Second Amendment, and I believe an armed populace is a courteous and safe populace.

00:44:51.680 But in this case, yeah, you're being a provocateur.

00:44:55.200 Your job is to go out there and agitate people.

00:44:58.440 You don't want to have a weapon on you because you're now taunting people to put you in a situation

00:45:07.100 where you might have to use that to defend yourself.

00:45:10.480 And even if it's legitimate that somebody was trying to kill you

00:45:14.620 because of what you say,

00:45:16.820 you're not going to squeak right through the court system

00:45:20.260 because of what you were doing in the first place.

00:45:23.220 So not a good look.

00:45:24.840 Why didn't he hire himself a bodyguard?

00:45:27.380 If this was this important to him about getting out your freedom of speech?

00:45:32.240 Yeah.

00:45:32.400 uh they they have some of these long run they have some of these people that walk around and

00:45:38.220 they they they're just annoying people and they have bodyguards and they're annoying and you want 0.96

00:45:44.800 them to get hit because you know they're pain in the ass but uh yeah this guy i don't know i don't 0.99

00:45:52.140 i just don't think he was thinking ahead with you know the car the possible consequence because he 0.99

00:45:59.340 When they told him a one and a quarter million dollar bail, he didn't look like a guy who was like, good, I'm making a point here.

00:46:08.760 I'm sacrificing myself for the greater good of free speech.

00:46:12.140 He looked like, oh, Christ, what did I do?

00:46:15.200 What did I do to my life?

00:46:16.900 And the irony of the fact that he's named after the world's most famous movie bouncer does not escape me at all.

00:46:24.340 Yeah, I don't know.

00:46:26.160 We'll keep an eye on it, see where it goes.

00:46:29.340 Thanks, Scott.

00:46:31.040 Appreciate the call.

00:46:33.340 Isn't that nuts? 0.86

00:46:34.800 Just crazy.

00:46:36.920 I don't know what we're going to do.

00:46:40.400 We're a very tense nation, aren't we?

00:46:42.840 Aren't we a very tense nation?

00:46:45.480 Take one more quick call about Matt Bronx.

00:46:51.920 What's up, Matt?

00:46:54.320 Hey, Anthony.

00:46:55.620 So pretty much with regard to the Long Island Railroad strike, you know, I can't say that I'm sympathetic to the public sector unions.

00:47:04.140 I think they're, on the whole, they're rather greedy.

00:47:08.500 They have a sense of entitlement.

00:47:11.520 And they really don't take into consideration that, you know, again, you know, that, you know, while it is critical that, you know, people have the ability to move around, that, again, city budgets are constrained. 0.93

00:47:25.160 You know, and municipal budgets are constrained these days, you know, with all the immigrants coming in, and you still have to run civil, you know, essential services. 0.70

00:47:34.720 And I'll give you an example of how, you know, people feel entitled when they belong to these municipal unions, labor unions. 1.00

00:47:42.040 If you remember about a decade ago, yet the NYPD SSDI fraud case, we had literally hundreds upon hundreds of retired FDNY and NYPD cops and firefighters.

00:47:56.680 They were getting publicly funded pensions, retirement pensions, and they were also fraudulently applying for disability benefits in federal governments.

00:48:07.900 Yeah. It's very much a welfare mentality that these people have. And, you know, because, you know, when you really think about it, what are the police with their free medical, a free dental, a free pension?

00:48:20.840 They kind of remind me of gun-toting welfare recipients, but they really don't really take into consideration the fact that working people who have to pay the taxes, people in the private sector who are privately employed, they work as hard, if not harder, than people in the public sector unions, and ultimately, it's their pockets where the money's coming from.

00:48:44.360 Yeah, but I agree with some of what you're saying, but look, if you get a job in a union and you spend years in there, you expect to get what was promised to you.

00:48:55.760 It's not like you're coming up with something and saying, I want this out of nowhere.

00:49:00.860 These are entitlements.

00:49:03.420 It's, you know, using the word entitled.

00:49:05.340 These are entitlements that are due these employees.

00:49:09.060 So it's hard to tell them no and sound like you're just being unbiased.

00:49:20.800 I don't know.

00:49:21.600 It's a tough situation.

00:49:22.780 Thank you, Matt.

00:49:23.780 Again, it comes down to the money coming out of our pockets and going into someone else's.

00:49:32.280 And, you know, I said it earlier, unions have been around for quite some time.

00:49:39.400 Some of them are good.

00:49:40.320 Some of them are corrupt. 0.68

00:49:41.140 Some of them have been unbelievably corrupt and related to La Cosa Nostra.

00:49:50.420 So, you know, it's part of what we have to, I guess, live with, deal with,

00:49:57.120 part and parcel with having a job.

00:49:59.280 I don't know.

00:49:59.780 Back in a moment.

00:50:01.280 Don't go anywhere.

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00:50:04.760 Entertaining and informative.

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00:50:11.540 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:50:14.040 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:50:18.080 The Anthony Cumia Show.

00:50:21.240 And welcome back.

00:50:23.660 Checking out Game 7, Cavaliers and the Pistons.

00:50:28.580 I guess the winner goes on to play the Knicks.

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00:53:22.240 And Dole predicts

00:53:25.320 Checking out

00:53:28.420 Movies

00:53:30.580 What was the big story

00:53:33.320 About movies

00:53:34.540 This past week

00:53:36.500 Well

00:53:37.180 We all know what that was

00:53:39.660 Don't we

00:53:40.840 The Odyssey

00:53:42.280 Yep

00:53:43.840 The Odyssey

00:53:45.640 A big

00:53:46.720 I mean this is a tale as old as time itself

00:53:50.460 isn't it Christopher Nolan

00:53:52.760 is making the movie

00:53:55.480 Matt Damon's in it

00:53:56.800 and

00:53:58.080 people aren't happy with the casting

00:54:01.280 it's not too happy with

00:54:03.460 the casting of what's

00:54:05.580 what's going on

00:54:07.220 in the Odyssey

00:54:09.400 it's not

00:54:11.720 true to the

00:54:12.720 book the tale the story

00:54:15.060 and there have been some

00:54:17.520 some people

00:54:19.400 guessing i guess there's rumor of certain people that are going to take certain roles

00:54:26.100 uh the the funniest one is uh elliot uh what the hell's his name the little trans kid

00:54:35.760 elliot page ellen page was a young woman now is elliot page a twinkish waifish young man

00:54:48.700 and rumored to be playing Achilles,

00:54:54.740 who, if you remember the movie Troy, was Brad Pitt.

00:55:04.420 And that was fantastic.

00:55:06.700 That was a great casting.

00:55:09.020 Very, very believable.

00:55:11.180 Not like Elliot Page,

00:55:14.640 because I really don't see that ever happening.

00:55:18.700 But then there's other ones, you know, Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman on Earth.

00:55:23.960 And she's going to be played by an African-American woman.

00:55:29.360 So this, this really has people up in arms saying why.

00:55:34.960 It's a Greek story.

00:55:39.700 It's ancient.

00:55:41.840 These characters have been fleshed out.

00:55:44.740 Everyone knows what they're supposed to look like.

00:55:47.480 And people are, they do a lot of whataboutism.

00:55:54.760 They go, well, what if you got a white guy to play Martin Luther King?

00:56:01.640 And everybody starts that never-ending argument that goes nowhere, ever.

00:56:08.440 But, you know, I think stories should be consistent with,

00:56:12.620 If you're doing something from a book or a previous movie,

00:56:20.380 you should stick to the writer's image of what these people were.

00:56:25.900 If you want to make a little artsy-fartsy movie and change things around, that's fine.

00:56:32.120 Go to it.

00:56:33.180 But you might not sell as many tickets.

00:56:36.300 And I, for one, believe the only reason this is being done

00:56:40.080 is to cover the criteria that the Academy has put in place

00:56:45.860 for the past few years that puts restrictions on your casting.

00:56:54.480 They tell you who you need to have working in your crew,

00:57:00.080 who you need to cast as main characters and secondary characters. 0.77

00:57:05.420 And this is ridiculous.

00:57:08.140 This is directly interfering with the art of filmmaking.

00:57:13.980 So I guess Devon Franklin and Jim Giannopoulos,

00:57:20.400 he's the academy governor at the time,

00:57:23.060 and this Devon Franklin, just an activist,

00:57:27.000 headed the task force that developed the proposed

00:57:29.420 representation and inclusion standards.

00:57:33.480 raise

00:57:34.700 that's what it's called

00:57:36.720 for best picture eligibility

00:57:38.540 these standards were announced

00:57:41.300 in 2020

00:57:43.340 as part of the Academy

00:57:44.720 Aperture 2025

00:57:46.940 initiative

00:57:48.140 they were inspired by the British Film Institute

00:57:51.680 that way 1.00

00:57:53.420 you know it's a loser if it comes from Britain 1.00

00:57:55.740 the way they've been lately 0.99

00:57:56.720 diversity standards used for UK funding

00:58:00.040 and BAFTA eligibility

00:58:02.160 adapted for the Oscars.

00:58:08.240 The Academy consulted with the Producers Guild of America

00:58:11.000 before doing this.

00:58:13.700 Now, why should anyone have a say

00:58:18.420 in who you put in your movie?

00:58:22.160 Especially for a period piece,

00:58:25.200 something of legend or something from the olden days

00:58:29.420 where you knew damn well there were going to be people of a certain race,

00:58:34.240 religion, certain background, skin color, whatever it is.

00:58:39.480 Why throw a glaring distraction into a movie

00:58:44.060 that you're already trying to suspend disbelief

00:58:46.540 because it's supposed to be from a time where they didn't have cameras

00:58:52.840 and you're watching this movie

00:58:55.900 and now this glaring distraction comes up

00:58:59.500 and you go, oh, wait a minute.

00:59:00.880 What?

00:59:01.800 That's really the Queen of England? 0.97

00:59:04.300 And it's a woman from India.

00:59:08.360 So I don't agree with the criteria that they put 1.00

00:59:13.580 in order to get an Academy Award.

00:59:16.800 Now look, Christopher Nolan's making this giant epic movie.

00:59:22.200 You don't think for a second

00:59:23.920 he would love to see it nominated for Best Picture or win the Best Picture Academy Award?

00:59:31.460 And I've heard from people on social media that go, oh, he doesn't care about that.

00:59:35.080 Oh, really?

00:59:36.680 They only hold a giant party every year for people that, what, don't care if they win

00:59:43.620 or not?

00:59:45.060 It's everything to them.

00:59:47.400 It's recognition for their work.

00:59:50.160 it's more money that the movie makes

00:59:53.420 because it's a Best Picture Academy Award winner.

00:59:57.840 They care.

01:00:00.020 And if they want to make a movie

01:00:01.380 and they want to cast an entirely white cast, 0.76

01:00:07.600 they're not going to be eligible to win a Best Picture Oscar.

01:00:14.480 Or some of the other roles.

01:00:15.960 It's like, well, one of your lead characters has to be a minority.

01:00:20.160 or a marginalized person, transgender, gay,

01:00:26.920 40% of the crew has to be marginalized, minority, or women. 0.97

01:00:33.880 This is so intrusive to the art of filmmaking or anything else. 1.00

01:00:41.240 Anything else.

01:00:42.060 Tell an artist what he has to paint.

01:00:45.280 Tell an amazing artist that wants to paint a scene.

01:00:49.400 Nope.

01:00:50.160 In order for you to hang it in our gallery or sell it or get it recognized, 0.98

01:00:56.020 you have to paint a certain amount of people of a certain color or racial background. 0.94

01:01:04.640 Does that seem like a good way to get the best art out of people? 0.91

01:01:10.760 Nope, I'll answer it for you.

01:01:13.120 Nope, it doesn't.

01:01:15.580 Not at all.

01:01:16.760 so uh i think christopher nolan was put in a position where he had to do this not that he

01:01:26.640 wouldn't want to or he doesn't mind it because i think he's pretty liberal as far as they go and

01:01:34.820 he doesn't he thinks that if you even bring this up you must be a horrific racist and that has

01:01:42.120 nothing to do with it it's a historic um mythical piece and and the characters have been fleshed out

01:01:51.160 by uh the writers the the history of it so we'll see we'll see how it does i'm sure it'll do a lot

01:02:00.580 of it'll get a lot of money and do very well but uh why have this type of controversy oh it's so 0.74

01:02:08.720 stupid all right back in a moment it's the anthony cumia show entertaining and informative 0.96

01:02:15.760 on the red apple podcast network 0.99

01:02:18.180 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:02:25.500 the anthony cumia show thanks for tuning in um on the uh continuing a little bit with the movie

01:02:38.140 thing in the Oscars, the Academy, putting all kinds of conditions on motion pictures

01:02:46.540 to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, Sonny Hostin, oh boy, The View, you know, 0.99

01:02:55.880 one of the gals from The View, she opened her yap about the casting of a black woman

01:03:05.180 as Helen of Troy, who in all of the previous iterations of the story

01:03:10.760 and different translations, interpretations, 0.79

01:03:13.660 has always been a fair-skinned white woman. 0.89

01:03:19.720 Now, it might not bug you that it's a black woman. 0.94

01:03:23.340 I don't think it's that big a deal.

01:03:27.200 It's just such a traditional, historic, cultural story.

01:03:35.180 that you would think people would want to adhere to the way it was originally depicted.

01:03:41.160 But that is not the case.

01:03:43.980 But Sonny Hostin, she's going to let us all know a little bit about history.

01:03:50.000 That's clip AC7.

01:03:52.460 This idea was also explored in a book called Black Athena.

01:03:56.680 I think people should read it, which argues that classical Greek culture is heavily indebted to Afro-Asiatic and Near Eastern roots.

01:04:04.340 I actually taught Greek mythology to eighth graders, and so I covered this.

01:04:10.180 So people that are saying that Helen of Troy could not possibly be played by a black woman

01:04:16.280 don't know history.

01:04:17.540 But what is in that?

01:04:18.780 So it's history.

01:04:20.400 It's fact.

01:04:22.100 This is all mythical stuff, by the way.

01:04:24.540 A lot of mythical, magical stuff going on.

01:04:27.860 and uh if it's black athena the book that she's pushing i'm going to assume it's bias

01:04:34.340 i'm going to assume they're already going into it with uh an idea of of what they're trying to get

01:04:40.600 at sunny hoston i taught greek mythology oh god imagine that class imagine the nonsense coming

01:04:50.340 out of her yap as a teacher and because she was a teacher she knows that Helen of Troy

01:05:00.800 was black so I could always depend on the the gals of the view can't you Sandra my dear from

01:05:13.540 New Jersey what's up oh Anthony I was just thinking about you as you were talking

01:05:19.560 saying that, yeah, I was thinking, gee, I haven't spoken to him in a long time.

01:05:24.380 I hope he takes my call.

01:05:25.960 And you did, and I'm so happy.

01:05:28.380 So, yeah.

01:05:30.040 So I was thinking, you know, you were speaking earlier about the virus,

01:05:33.300 the Hunter virus.

01:05:34.640 Yes.

01:05:35.240 It's very interesting.

01:05:36.020 It's interesting to me.

01:05:37.300 I have a young adult daughter, and she listens not to WABC but to other stuff.

01:05:43.520 and she spent time with me last night and she was very very concerned about this virus and it's okay

01:05:52.220 to be afraid I'd rather she'd be afraid than not then today I had dinner with a friend she's a

01:05:58.620 lawyer and she doesn't buy it at all she thinks it's another gimmick like maybe the COVID thing

01:06:05.100 well that wasn't a gimmick it really happened but you know what I'm saying she thinks it's all

01:06:09.280 political and they're going to try to scare us and then so i heard today on wabc a doctor i don't

01:06:17.380 remember which one it was speaking about what what did you just say never mind you continue

01:06:25.240 okay okay he was saying how 38 percent of these people will die from this that's a lot and so

01:06:32.780 i'm a little bit afraid but i didn't cower to the covet thing i never took that vaccination

01:06:39.180 and i wouldn't do it with this either but what no that's that's good that's good you did that

01:06:46.080 let me let me let me just say something because you you brought up what was it 30 38 percent you

01:06:51.100 said yeah that's what i heard today on the radio yeah see see they they try to scare you with

01:06:56.920 numbers like that i believe that the the the rate of fatality for hunter virus is 38 if you get it

01:07:06.280 you there's a 38 chance of you dying from it that doesn't mean anything because the odds of getting

01:07:15.340 it are so small that it's not like covid where everyone was getting it this is not a disease

01:07:22.760 that you could transmit by sneezing on somebody.

01:07:27.280 You need to inhale dried-up rodent feces from a rodent that had the Hunter virus.

01:07:36.800 This is primarily in a lot of the Indian reservation areas of the American Southwest.

01:07:45.120 If you look at people that have died of the Hunter virus, aside from what's-his-name's wife there,

01:07:50.740 the actor that recently died, you realize that a lot of people that have died from this

01:07:59.060 are people that live in poverty on a lot of these Indian reservations in the Southwest.

01:08:07.600 So the odds of getting it are so small. 1.00

01:08:11.080 So you take that 38% and they run around, scare you with that.

01:08:15.400 But you're not getting it.

01:08:17.240 You're not getting it. 0.69

01:08:18.080 Your niece isn't getting it.

01:08:19.200 Your granddaughter isn't getting it.

01:08:20.740 they're trying to scare everybody with this new disease.

01:08:27.020 I'm glad you said that because you made a very good point now,

01:08:30.280 and I'm going to share that with my daughter.

01:08:32.420 There you go.

01:08:34.100 Share that with your daughter.

01:08:35.320 Her name is Hiawatha.

01:08:37.520 Don't worry.

01:08:38.560 It's not a problem. 0.90

01:08:39.700 She's going to get Hunter virus.

01:08:41.920 Thank you, Sandra.

01:08:43.840 Everyone's scared, see?

01:08:45.340 I saw an article in the paper, an article.

01:08:48.320 Isn't that funny?

01:08:49.260 No, I saw you post.

01:08:50.740 In the old days, we used to see an article in the paper.

01:08:54.540 I saw a post, and it was about Ebola.

01:09:00.040 Ebola.

01:09:01.500 Uh-oh, they found Ebola somewhere in Africa,

01:09:05.360 and that's just a horrifying disease.

01:09:10.160 And they always love putting the symptoms in the stories,

01:09:14.920 bleeding from the eyes and ears and mouth and uncontrollable diarrhea.

01:09:21.920 And, oh, it's just terrible.

01:09:24.360 What they don't tell you is that Ebola is one of the hardest diseases to spread amongst people.

01:09:35.540 A lot of them, a lot of people that get it are in these out-of-the-way African villages.

01:09:42.240 and they can't live long enough with ebola to spread it they they can't get enough people with 1.00

01:09:52.300 ebola to leave an area go to another area and spread the ebola amongst those people that's how

01:09:59.200 lethal it is and uh the people are very sick they don't travel when they have ebola they just lay

01:10:06.380 there and uh suffer and then expire uh so the the chances of getting ebola going in uh the united

01:10:16.560 states or really any civilized western nation is so ridiculously slim but it doesn't stop them

01:10:24.440 from trying to scare you and i don't know what the fear factor is why they try so hard to scare

01:10:31.640 uh americans and and europeans with with this stuff uh i guess maybe like like covid to try to

01:10:42.300 maybe uh affect elections keep people home when people are home they're a lot easier to control

01:10:49.500 and uh propagandize than when they're out living a life talking to other people

01:10:55.960 and i think that's a big part of uh big government and other entities that want to scare people and

01:11:04.460 control them the less real face-to-face communication you have with people the

01:11:12.600 better it is for uh people that want to grab onto as much power as they can uh you know you could

01:11:20.380 talk about how we have the ability to speak to each other online but you don't even know who

01:11:23.900 you're talking to you don't know what what if people are saying if it's even true false half

01:11:32.460 truth complete uh garbage uh being out and about living breathing the air talking to real people

01:11:42.280 that's something a lot of uh a lot of people that that want to grab up power 0.76

01:11:48.840 they love that

01:11:51.280 they love that

01:11:52.500 they keep you

01:11:53.940 strapped to your chair

01:11:56.560 in your house

01:11:57.820 scrolling, staring at a screen

01:12:00.340 and scrolling

01:12:02.080 doom scroll

01:12:03.220 doom scroll more

01:12:05.040 alright, back with more of your calls

01:12:08.000 and a lot more of the Anthony Cumia show

01:12:10.360 next

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01:12:14.100 entertaining and informative

01:12:15.940 on the Red Apple Podcast Network

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01:12:25.660 the anthony cumia show and uh i guess over the weekend what was that yesterday they had

01:12:34.620 the unite the kingdom rally in uh england choleod england yes uh tommy robinson was a

01:12:45.960 big part of that getting that together and it uh it was pretty much hey we don't like what's going

01:12:52.260 on in our country our once great kingdom seems to be invaded by a lot of uh outsiders people that

01:13:01.160 don't um really appreciate or care for the english traditions customs heritage history 0.99

01:13:10.560 and they seem to be really into committing some horrific crimes,

01:13:18.340 especially against British women.

01:13:22.700 A lot going on over there. 0.95

01:13:25.200 So Tommy and a bunch of other people, they call them right-wing, horrible people.

01:13:31.780 How do you say that?

01:13:33.840 The guy's just saying, we are letting in people that are destroying the fabric of England.

01:13:42.580 And there are so many videos that you can watch of oldie-time England.

01:13:49.880 You know, not even crazy long ago, the 80s, it looked like a great place to go and visit.

01:13:57.080 I wanted to go to England so bad for so many years, and I could never swing it, you know.

01:14:02.360 and now I wouldn't even want to go.

01:14:05.260 Why would I want to go?

01:14:06.800 I could just go to Times Square, New York, 1.00

01:14:08.740 and see a bunch of people that are here illegally 1.00

01:14:11.600 picking people's pockets and wearing stupid costumes 1.00

01:14:16.560 to take pictures with kids and rob their families. 1.00

01:14:20.340 So that was going on, and man, there were a lot of people.

01:14:26.200 I mean, that crowd was huge.

01:14:30.200 and i think we're being led to believe that that's the minority that the people that want

01:14:40.860 a return to the traditions of your country and your people are the minority because the

01:14:49.740 politicians speak and the entertainers they speak and it's all uh how everyone loves this

01:14:59.840 Oh, do you know, white Brits will be the minority within five years.

01:15:06.700 And they're like, that's a great thing because diversity and this and that.

01:15:10.860 You go, how?

01:15:12.400 How are white Brits supposed to hear that and go, oh, jolly good.

01:15:19.220 How?

01:15:20.460 Why would you expect that? 0.98

01:15:22.980 And then why would you give them crap for going, no? 0.92

01:15:28.940 We don't want that. 1.00

01:15:30.260 I like an England where white Brits were the majority 0.99

01:15:34.700 and we didn't have people that are becoming a majority in this country 0.96

01:15:42.320 that don't understand some of the most basic of human laws,

01:15:48.880 just being human beings, civility, respect.

01:15:55.780 How are you supposed to cheer that on?

01:15:58.940 And the second you don't cheer it on, you're a problem.

01:16:03.100 You pick up a sign that says England first, rally, unite the United Kingdom.

01:16:10.760 They throw you in jail over there.

01:16:13.280 They arrest you.

01:16:15.780 You make a social media post that you have a problem with the influx of people from third world countries.

01:16:25.140 You go to jail.

01:16:26.920 Well, it's not, we feel we have it bad here as far as speaking out and being called racist or sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, all those things.

01:16:42.380 Well, it's rare anyway that you will be arrested for those views.

01:16:48.940 You can be canceled.

01:16:50.900 You can have your life completely destroyed.

01:16:53.960 But you won't be sent to jail.

01:16:56.920 Uh, that to me is amazing.

01:16:59.820 So you have to have people like Tommy get up there and, uh, go, uh, unite the kingdom.

01:17:07.280 And, and it seems like the people that were into this are, uh, great, great numbers, great

01:17:13.840 numbers of, of English people that, uh, want what a return, I guess, to better days.

01:17:21.040 It's so hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube, is what they say.

01:17:28.720 I think the UK is even further gone than we are here in this country.

01:17:34.080 There's no going back.

01:17:36.080 We just got to hope for a way forward that is less of what we have now and more of traditional America with its traditional values and our connection as Americans.

01:17:56.000 I often talk about Americans being connected by more than just the borders around the country.

01:18:03.120 There was a time, it didn't matter who your neighbor was, you could barbecue, have your neighbor over, and you could commiserate, talk about some of your similar ideology.

01:18:17.180 You could have differences of opinion on things, but for the most part, just being American, you had enough in common that you could have a discussion, laugh about things.

01:18:26.760 now there are people that despise your american values and your american traditions they want

01:18:36.200 them eliminated and uh i don't know i i don't think there's a way of turning that back

01:18:42.440 which is terrible uh you you talk about what could can the president do what could our elected

01:18:50.940 officials do nothing they're protected by some of the very laws that protect us and things have

01:18:58.420 gone too far and there's really no turning back sad it's very sad you got to find a little enclave

01:19:05.640 of people that think like you and hope that lasts a few years other than that you know who the hell

01:19:14.140 knows other than that let's go to uh maybe sal sal in jersey what's up sal good evening anthony

01:19:23.860 how you doing buddy good good anthony i want i want to bring up two points number one sunny 0.99

01:19:29.080 hofston is doing exactly what communists did in foreign countries she she rewrote history 1.00

01:19:34.800 concerning this crap about black athena she makes up her own history 0.90

01:19:39.480 yes a lot of entertainers these days do that they bring up uh things they they talk about it like 1.00

01:19:49.260 it's gospel and if you uh have a differing opinion you are a horrible racist right and the second

01:19:57.180 point i want to make is my former hometown of bayonne was a beautiful bayonne new jersey was 0.98

01:20:02.180 a beautiful apple pie town that was chock full of muslims and that's going to happen all over the 1.00

01:20:07.180 country god forbid if we don't put our foot down and react swiftly and firmly yeah if i mean it's 1.00

01:20:15.640 doesn't it seem like we're uh past the point of no return i mean it's not completely i don't want

01:20:22.200 to sound paranoid but i don't see how you turn back unless we could start really bodily throwing

01:20:30.620 people out of this country people that are considered citizens now this sounds terrible

01:20:36.300 doesn't it oh my god anthony what are you advocating for uh yeah some people need to be

01:20:43.680 removed from the country uh they they got in here under some type of ploy uh some type of uh loose

01:20:52.800 end and and uh they're they're detrimental to the way this country works and and the way

01:21:01.540 It has worked for many years.

01:21:04.160 And again, traditions are important.

01:21:08.060 Culture is so important.

01:21:11.320 People united under one flag, one ideology,

01:21:16.300 and I don't mean one single ideology as far as things like religion go.

01:21:20.280 That's fine.

01:21:21.240 But that we live in a country that has certain rules, certain standards,

01:21:27.760 and that the American people have agreed to this.

01:21:31.540 And we like it that way.

01:21:33.840 And there are people coming in from the outside that are undermining that at every turn.

01:21:40.220 And we're supposed to not only not complain, but celebrate it.

01:21:44.340 We need to clap and cheer them on as they destroy everything we hold dear.

01:21:52.160 One more thing. 0.99

01:21:53.820 When my people came to America from Italy, there were so many Italian immigrants that were bodily thrown back to Italy.

01:22:00.420 They were sent back. 1.00

01:22:01.300 Why can't they do the same thing with these Muslims? 1.00

01:22:03.720 I don't know. 1.00

01:22:04.520 I don't know.

01:22:05.360 It's a terrible thing.

01:22:07.060 We'd be terrible, terrible people if we did that.

01:22:09.460 I don't know.

01:22:10.500 We're so self-sacrificial.

01:22:13.440 I don't know why.

01:22:14.680 I don't know where the guilt comes from, Sal.

01:22:16.360 I don't have any.

01:22:18.080 All right, buddy.

01:22:19.220 Thank you for the call there, Sal.

01:22:21.740 It's Sal.

01:22:23.520 He knows about the Italians coming over.

01:22:26.880 My grandmother.

01:22:29.660 It's what it is.

01:22:31.300 And I have to hear all the time about, you know, the Italians, when they came here,

01:22:37.040 they weren't considered Americans and they weren't considered white people

01:22:41.880 and they weren't considered and this, that and the other thing.

01:22:44.700 It's like there is a history, a great history with Italian, the Italian people in Italy

01:22:53.620 of amazing accomplishments.

01:22:58.680 Architecture. I mean, you look at some of the amazing buildings and architecture that Italians have contributed to.

01:23:11.320 Worldwide, by the way, not just in Italy.

01:23:15.280 Science, physics, engineering, the space program, Enrico Fermi, the atomic bomb.

01:23:28.680 Splitting of the atom. 0.68

01:23:31.000 Italians have contributed so much. 1.00

01:23:34.680 And then because years ago a bunch of Italians came over to America 0.92

01:23:39.440 to make a better life for themselves,

01:23:41.340 and you're trying to equate them with third world people 1.00

01:23:45.620 that came out of stick houses. 0.97

01:23:51.000 And you're trying to tell me that it's the same thing? 1.00

01:23:54.560 Oh, yeah, Italians. 1.00

01:23:56.080 oh yeah just like somalis just stop just stop unbelievable smatch him you make me sick get off 0.90

01:24:10.340 my phones oh goodness gracious let's go to uh bonk gianna brooklyn new york what's up

01:24:22.420 good evening i so much enjoy your your street cred you got a lot of street creds

01:24:30.900 thank you dear and you're just a real man you're not just uh ideological

01:24:35.840 we try to say something you deal a lot with these these hip hip these things that are 0.93

01:24:43.100 hypocritical hypocrisy yes hypocrisy not hypocrisy hypocrisy yes you know what for me you know it's 0.92

01:24:56.180 so much hypocrisy okay we got sanctuary cities to protect whom to protect the illegals but then in 0.78

01:25:03.100 england the people who've been there who are native can't have sanctuary in their own place

01:25:08.760 and have a voice?

01:25:09.760 And also, what about this Mondami guy?

01:25:12.760 Mondami, baby.

01:25:13.920 Yeah.

01:25:14.400 What is he doing, man?

01:25:15.760 What is Mondami doing?

01:25:17.540 He champions socialism.

01:25:21.060 Socialism.

01:25:21.700 Well, capitalism is just the regular way of doing business

01:25:25.120 we always did all these years.

01:25:27.040 You grow some food, you sell it.

01:25:28.960 You make something, you sell it.

01:25:30.540 That's capitalism.

01:25:31.540 They didn't have to write an ideology.

01:25:34.800 Who did this? 1.00

01:25:36.340 Two Jews. 0.99

01:25:37.220 Karl Marx and Engels

01:25:39.640 they made this whole socialist

01:25:41.880 castle in the sky

01:25:44.200 that's what we want to reach

01:25:45.860 for social 1.00

01:25:47.300 hey my dummy hates Jews 1.00

01:25:49.620 he's a freaking socialist hypocrite 1.00

01:25:51.900 because why is he championing 1.00

01:25:54.060 Karl Marx

01:25:55.140 it makes me a chance baby

01:25:57.320 I would love to confront him on that tip

01:26:00.160 oh oh

01:26:01.660 did you just curse 1.00

01:26:03.340 I think she said the S word

01:26:05.500 But thank you, Gianna.

01:26:07.860 Boy, she's a firecracker.

01:26:10.460 Oh, boy.

01:26:14.260 Yeah, you know, communists, socialists, it's all the same thing.

01:26:19.240 And Gianna was right as far as capitalism goes.

01:26:21.800 It's just the way people did business before there was a term for it.

01:26:27.380 I like that.

01:26:28.800 I would like to have that.

01:26:31.140 There are two ways to do it. 0.99

01:26:32.580 I could smash you over the head with my club and take it. 0.99

01:26:35.500 or I can work out an even trade. 0.99

01:26:40.460 I have something you like.

01:26:41.700 You have something I like.

01:26:42.820 We'll trade that, and that is doing business, supply and demand, all that.

01:26:50.320 And, yeah, that's the way things have worked.

01:26:53.300 The communist thing, the one guy in the cave goes,

01:26:56.900 hey, everyone, give me everything you have,

01:27:00.340 whether you have a lot of it or a little of it, I'll take it,

01:27:02.980 I'll keep it in my cave, and then I'll dish it out to you evenly.

01:27:07.520 You'll all get the same thing.

01:27:10.240 And then I'll be sitting up here with all your stuff,

01:27:12.800 so I'll be able to just have everything.

01:27:15.320 I'll eat well.

01:27:16.960 I'll have all the furs, so I'll be warm.

01:27:19.760 I'll have the magic rock that makes the fire.

01:27:22.640 But I'll make sure each and every one of you get exactly the same little piece of food,

01:27:28.460 little piece of fur little you know i'll i'll come down and make the fire for you because we

01:27:33.760 can't trust you with fire but that's that's socialism that's communism as opposed to hey i

01:27:40.180 like that fur i'll give you my wife for it maybe that wasn't a fair trade but uh that's how things

01:27:47.600 worked back in the old days folks um so we were talking about uh england and and this um unite

01:27:55.760 the kingdom that tommy robinson and stuff they're they're working with a prime minister over there

01:28:02.620 keir starmer this guy you know i think about the past prime ministers of england and uh some of

01:28:13.320 them were a little goofy some of them were very powerful others not so much and this guy i mean

01:28:21.400 he's just watching watching a once great nation a kingdom the sun never set on the british empire

01:28:32.300 and uh just watching it go right down the tubes and lambasting anybody that has a differing

01:28:40.740 opinion and this clip right here shows you all you need to know about what what kind of person

01:28:47.480 he is and uh his strength his willingness to stand up for his country and what's it this guy

01:28:55.200 is so confused uh ac5 uh let's hear cure it transphobic to say only women have a cervix

01:29:05.820 well it is uh something that uh shouldn't be said it is not right but andrew i don't think

01:29:13.520 So Rosie Duffield should not have said that. Can you explain to people watching why she should not have said that?

01:29:18.340 Well, Andrew, I don't think that we can just go through various things that people have said.

01:29:23.360 Rosie Duffield, I spoke to Rosie earlier this week and told her that conference was a safe place for her to come, and it is a safe place for her to come.

01:29:33.500 Oh, it's a safe place.

01:29:35.460 So a safe place for a transgender person is a place where you don't say such horrible things 0.95

01:29:43.140 as only a woman has a cervix. 1.00

01:29:46.560 You need to be a woman to have a cervix. 1.00

01:29:49.900 That, for some reason, is alarming and not safe. 1.00

01:29:55.980 All of a sudden, you've turned that space into an unsafe space for a transgender person. 1.00

01:30:01.580 And Kier wouldn't even say whether women are the only people with a cervix 1.00

01:30:11.640 or if a man can indeed have a cervix.

01:30:18.140 You should not be able to run for dog catcher if you can't answer that 1.00

01:30:25.660 with a definitive yes, women are the only ones that have a cervix. 1.00

01:30:33.680 If you can't definitively answer that with a resounding absolutely positively yes, 0.99

01:30:41.680 you don't deserve to hold any office representing any people

01:30:47.340 responsible for the lives of people. 1.00

01:30:51.060 if you are that screwed up in the head 0.99

01:30:54.320 that you can't answer that question 0.99

01:30:56.540 and you think it would make people feel unsafe.

01:31:01.940 A scientific fact,

01:31:06.120 not a theory,

01:31:08.860 nothing that has a question to it. 0.99

01:31:13.220 Men have prostates. 0.99

01:31:15.780 Women do not. 0.91

01:31:17.520 Women have cervix. 0.79

01:31:18.860 Men do not. 0.91

01:31:20.420 absolutely every single time for millennia.

01:31:26.920 That's how that needs to be answered, Kierre.

01:31:31.260 Not with this, we don't know, maybe.

01:31:36.580 We shouldn't even talk about it.

01:31:38.460 That was my favorite.

01:31:40.140 All right, back in a moment.

01:31:41.560 Stick around.

01:31:43.100 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:31:45.500 Entertaining and informative.

01:31:47.580 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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01:31:56.980 the anthony cumia show let's go to uh danny over there in california oh boy how you doing over

01:32:06.320 there danny i'm doing fine anthony because i'm listening to your show i love it uh the problem

01:32:13.300 the problem could be solved you just end legal immigration i notice it's a topic that nobody

01:32:19.240 wants to talk about but that's simple you end legal immigration these invaders come in legally

01:32:25.120 every year over a million of them and they have family unification that's a law where they can 0.63

01:32:30.080 bring the whole tribe in once they get here and uh that's the whole answer but i i'm going to give 0.88

01:32:35.660 you what the problem is the saudi arabians and the communist chinese have bought off the politicians 0.92

01:32:40.820 in america most of the politicians and the corporate people and also in europe too they 0.89

01:32:47.820 They've bought off, the Saudi Arabians have bought off the Europeans, most of the politicians, most of the corporate people. 1.00

01:32:53.660 That's why they're building giant mosques in London and Paris and Rome and everything. 1.00

01:32:58.820 So that's the whole answer. 1.00

01:33:00.160 You just stop legal immigration and you get the illegals out, but they want them here. 0.92

01:33:03.620 The truth is Saudi Arabia, China, poured billions of dollars into Western civilization, and they want to really marginalize the conservatives, the people. 0.98

01:33:16.120 So you'll have nothing.

01:33:17.040 You'll be talking in a phone booth.

01:33:19.660 That'll be your political roundup.

01:33:22.400 You'll have 10 people in a phone booth.

01:33:23.740 You'll be outnumbered, and that's what they want. 0.76

01:33:25.780 You have communist mayors, foreign-born in New York City now, federal judges are foreign-born. 1.00

01:33:32.080 You get rid of that legal immigration. 1.00

01:33:34.100 And, Anthony, I got a special friend here for you. 1.00

01:33:39.500 He's a big fan of yours.

01:33:41.080 Come over here, Steve.

01:33:42.300 Hey, it's Steve from Manhattan, man.

01:33:44.120 What's up?

01:33:45.320 Hey, Steve from Manhattan.

01:33:46.640 How are you, sir?

01:33:48.260 I'm doing great.

01:33:50.560 And my friend Danny over here, I told him about your show.

01:33:53.920 We're out in California right now. 0.94

01:33:55.340 California is a dump. 1.00

01:33:57.060 They're going to have that female woman, Raymond, running for mayor in Los Angeles. 1.00

01:34:04.260 She's born in India. 1.00

01:34:06.100 She's a communist. 1.00

01:34:07.100 She's a Muslim. 0.97

01:34:08.080 So we're going to have Muslim-born communist mayors in the two biggest cities in America. 0.95

01:34:12.900 And that's just the beginning. 0.96

01:34:14.660 They'll be everywhere.

01:34:15.980 That's what they're doing. 0.67

01:34:17.500 And as far as the legal, as far as what Danny was saying about the legal immigration,

01:34:22.080 how many of these Republicans do you see that are constantly going,

01:34:25.160 we like immigration, but as long as it's legal, no. 0.63

01:34:28.720 No, unless you're pulling people from, like those farmers from South Africa, 0.99

01:34:33.520 yes, bring them in.

01:34:35.340 They're hard workers.

01:34:36.340 They understand values that we have in civil Western societies.

01:34:41.340 How about Germans? Great engineers, smart. Those are the people that we want coming over here legally.

01:34:52.060 If you have illegals and legal immigrants and they're both from the same pot, what's the difference a little paperwork makes? 0.99

01:35:01.640 Oh, he's a legal immigrant, but he's still a burden on the country, doesn't want anything to do with our ideology or traditions. 0.99

01:35:10.300 No, I don't want legal immigration either, quite frankly. 1.00

01:35:14.420 Well, I agree with you, but unfortunately, the third world is a role over America. 1.00

01:35:18.820 They're taking over all the cities. 1.00

01:35:20.820 Last year, when you brought up the South Africans, the Afrikaners, the Boazos, the white South Africans, 0.80

01:35:25.680 Trump wanted to bring 50 in, 50, and the leftists and the communists went nuts in this country.

01:35:32.360 So you know it's a racial thing with these cities.

01:35:35.580 And by the way, those were real refugees.

01:35:39.500 Those were people who were in danger of imminent death, and 50 of them. 0.99

01:35:46.740 And the crap that Trump got for saying he wanted to bring them over, actual refugees. 0.99

01:35:53.340 And, yeah, it's all racial, it's all political, and it's all bull, my friends. 1.00

01:35:58.860 Thanks for the call.

01:36:01.620 I've got to move in a little bit.

01:36:03.840 But isn't that crazy?

01:36:05.060 uh there's a topic here i wanted to bring up and we'll probably carry it over uh after the break

01:36:12.900 but um danny wants uh to fund the the new york city public libraries now on the outset that

01:36:25.000 looks like yeah okay what's wrong with that there's nothing wrong with that i get it the public

01:36:31.060 library quaint no real enemies it's not a controversial topic but uh my point on this

01:36:40.860 would be and i'd be curious as to see what uh the people think about this do we need public

01:36:48.940 libraries at this point in 2026 i know i sound like a uh what a nazi book burner no they had

01:36:58.560 What do I sound like? Somebody that doesn't want an educated public? No, there is information available at your fingertips at any moment, day or night. You don't need to wait to go to the library to get any bit of information you want.

01:37:20.020 so are libraries still something that we need

01:37:26.380 or is it just so traditional

01:37:29.380 and it's been looked at for so many years

01:37:33.740 as this I don't know a temple to knowledge

01:37:38.100 that is that the only reason we're holding on to it

01:37:43.820 sentimental reasons

01:37:46.540 nostalgia, the fact that they used to be where people went to get educated.

01:37:53.480 You go to school, but then you'd go to the library.

01:37:57.420 I need to study.

01:37:58.640 I need to go to the library.

01:38:02.060 Is it the circus?

01:38:04.500 Dated, old, ready to wrap it up, pull up the tent stakes and move on?

01:38:11.600 Or is it something that people still want to go to?

01:38:14.720 We'll play what Mamdani said about it next.

01:38:20.880 And, yeah, I want to hear from you guys.

01:38:25.000 800-848-9222.

01:38:27.840 Back in a moment.

01:38:29.520 Don't go anywhere.

01:38:32.540 Yeah, more of the Anthony Cumia Show when we return.

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01:38:38.880 Entertaining and informative.

01:38:40.960 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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01:38:55.500 Thanks for hanging in there with us.

01:38:58.980 And by us, I mean me.

01:39:00.880 We appreciate it.

01:39:03.880 Yeah, I was just talking about Mamdani wanting to fund the public libraries.

01:39:10.840 This is something everyone could get behind.

01:39:13.340 What's wrong with a library, for God's sake?

01:39:17.460 It's not like free buses.

01:39:20.280 That would be a catastrophe.

01:39:23.540 It's not like these social programs and alternatives to the police department,

01:39:30.660 letting criminals out.

01:39:32.280 These are controversial things.

01:39:34.680 You want to fund a library.

01:39:36.500 That sounds nice.

01:39:37.780 Everyone likes it.

01:39:38.560 Everyone can get behind it.

01:39:39.600 My take, though, is are we are we past needing library?

01:39:47.220 I don't know. Let's listen to Danny here. AC4.

01:39:51.500 It is time we stop asking our libraries to justify their existence.

01:39:56.600 It is time for us to expand what New Yorkers can expect from core government services.

01:40:02.080 Earlier this week, we released our executive budget.

01:40:04.720 In doing so, we spoke of how a budget is a reflection of the vision we have for the city.

01:40:09.600 of what we choose to materially support, what we choose to let wither.

01:40:13.920 And our executive budget reflects a clear set of choices.

01:40:17.020 City Hall believes in our public library system.

01:40:20.280 We are funding our public library system.

01:40:23.200 And instead of fighting to maintain the same floor year after year,

01:40:27.320 we will see how high we can raise that ceiling.

01:40:30.200 Our executive budget baselines $31.7 million in new permanent funding

01:40:35.640 across all three of New York City's public library systems.

01:40:39.600 yay 30 almost 32 million dollars for three libraries uh all right that's about 10 million

01:40:55.660 each uh for what just ah more books uh revamp of the card catalog

01:41:08.920 learning uh teaching the kids the dewey decimal system is that even still a thing

01:41:17.640 i cannot tell you the last time i was in a library as uh the not too sharp kids in school

01:41:25.300 used to call it i'll see you at the library all right uh my my my point is are they needed

01:41:34.040 do we need buildings with books in them so you can go there and and go through you know maybe

01:41:42.760 the card catalog the dewey decimal system get your book and uh sit down in the library and read

01:41:51.060 is that needed i can understand some people needing it maybe some people that don't have

01:41:57.680 a good home life a student in school has a maybe rambunctious parents and uh they can't

01:42:05.280 get their studies done but i mean what percentage is that and and is an entire library needed for

01:42:14.300 for that uh and and look the the the phone for how for how big a problem the cell phone has been

01:42:24.640 the iphone the smartphone that has been over the course of the years the problem it's turned into

01:42:31.580 uh there are some good things and that is that any any bit of information you could possibly need

01:42:41.680 want or imagine is right there right there i've uh taken to um looking up uh things

01:42:53.640 in the the category of physics uh i watched oppenheimer and was just fascinated with

01:43:03.500 the atom atomic energy for military and civilian use how does it work you just go like how the

01:43:11.380 hell did someone figure that out who was the first one to split an atom how did they know

01:43:19.480 uh that a chain reaction was possible all these things and and with a swipe of my finger and and

01:43:27.740 typing in some words the answer was given to me and then i could look at videos and and see

01:43:37.300 uh videos about these subjects and and i learned a lot i learned more than i could ever learn in

01:43:49.020 school about that physics and and atomic energy and uh elements both natural and man-made

01:43:58.800 and it was fascinating to me if i had to go to the damn library i just never would have done

01:44:07.260 it i would just be like oh how does that work i don't know i don't know i wonder and i never would 0.97

01:44:15.620 go imagine what a pain in the ass it is to have a question and then have to figure out how to answer 0.88

01:44:23.980 it in a building with billions of pages of information in it i could just ask grok or 0.97

01:44:33.600 any other ai the question then i get the answer and i now have the answer so i have the ability

01:44:39.960 to go deeper into the topic and learn actually learn things so my question is uh what the hell

01:44:53.540 good are libraries in 2026 charlie in manhattan what's up anthony first of all the uh get from

01:45:05.320 hell uh what's his name man donnie uh he's going to use the library as a means of indoctrination

01:45:12.820 oh i'm sure there'll be prayer rugs on the floors and um kirans all over the place uh oh i'm certain

01:45:20.640 of it oh yeah not only that you go to the library today with the exception of the 46th street library

01:45:27.520 on fifth avenue there is no such thing as a quiet library if you go to a library you want to sit

01:45:34.560 there and do research or you want to read whatever it is that you might want to do there's no quiet

01:45:41.440 it's a community center it's a community center and it's mandated in spite of the fact that it's

01:45:50.060 mandated as a library we are living in a how should we say a revised reality reality where

01:45:59.240 the library no longer is a place to go where you can be find a place that's quiet the environment

01:46:05.960 is quiet and conducive.

01:46:08.180 Charlie, you bring up a great point there 1.00

01:46:10.840 because I was being naive and stupid again 0.99

01:46:13.620 thinking of, what, books? 0.97

01:46:15.680 They need more books.

01:46:16.900 That $10 million for each one of the three libraries

01:46:19.960 are going to be put to some socialist programs.

01:46:25.720 It's another cover-up.

01:46:27.380 Oh, we're giving money to a library.

01:46:28.960 No, you're not.

01:46:30.160 They're indoctrination centers.

01:46:32.220 They're prayer rooms. 1.00

01:46:34.700 They'll have prayer rooms in there for Muslims.

01:46:38.280 And, yeah, it's just another way to to get taxpayer money to use for his agenda.

01:46:43.900 I don't put it past the the get from health. 0.98

01:46:48.540 He is a fraud. 1.00

01:46:51.620 And I think those people that decided in their stupidity to vote to him are having second thoughts because he's not he's not a mayor for the people. 1.00

01:47:04.700 I find it amazing that he has the gall, he has the camaraderie, not to make some kind of comment or some condemnation of the activities that have been going on in the city in the last few days, where he feels that he's above it all. 0.99

01:47:23.340 And I'm a communist Islamist.

01:47:28.660 Well, did you see, Charlie? 0.99

01:47:29.920 I don't like Israel. 1.00

01:47:31.220 I don't like Jews. 1.00

01:47:32.180 I don't like. No, I don't like these people. Why? Do you know anything about the history? 1.00

01:47:39.220 Charlie, did you see he he balanced the budget? It was amazing.

01:47:46.380 They had a deficit, billions of dollars, and he was on social media congratulating himself, saying, look, I brought a balanced budget.

01:47:57.080 He borrowed $8 billion from Hochul, but who cares about that?

01:48:05.040 That's down the road. 0.68

01:48:06.540 This guy is a fraud, and New York deserves him because they elected him. 0.62

01:48:13.660 Charlie, thank you, my friend. 0.98

01:48:15.660 Oh, my God.

01:48:16.780 What are you going to do?

01:48:18.700 But, yeah, I didn't even think of that, that money for the library.

01:48:24.360 I must go in.

01:48:27.080 to a New York City library next time I'm there.

01:48:31.060 I'll record it and put it up on YouTube

01:48:33.600 because I have to assume it doesn't really resemble a library.

01:48:41.040 I have to assume it's not a place you can go into and quietly study.

01:48:47.180 I'm going to try to pick a topic that I want to learn about

01:48:51.640 and go through whatever you need to go through to find a book

01:48:55.860 and bring it to a table and see if I could read and learn something.

01:49:01.040 Now, I know damn well I could do it a thousand times faster on my phone.

01:49:06.640 But let's just see.

01:49:08.720 Because I guess what we would, are we assuming that not everyone has a phone,

01:49:12.300 just like not everyone has an ID, so that's why we can't have voter ID?

01:49:17.940 Because there's some people that don't have ID.

01:49:20.560 Is it the same thing with libraries?

01:49:22.080 everything is at our fingertips on the phone

01:49:24.940 but some people don't have phones

01:49:27.020 so we need these

01:49:28.340 multi-gazillion dollar buildings

01:49:31.080 full of

01:49:32.200 paper books

01:49:34.140 I understand you should probably

01:49:37.040 have them for historical record

01:49:38.940 I mean

01:49:40.360 a couple of EMPs

01:49:42.120 and all your information goes away

01:49:44.780 so I can kind of understand

01:49:46.980 wanting to have hard copies

01:49:49.260 of books in these wonderful

01:49:51.340 um beautiful architectural buildings but as far as them being useful for people in 2026 to go

01:50:02.880 into and learn from i don't i don't buy it anymore i i just don't see the value in that

01:50:10.760 i see a nostalgia i see a tradition but i just don't see the value in going in there

01:50:18.740 that archaic system of trying to find what you're looking for

01:50:24.000 when you have a magic device in your hand ready to go.

01:50:30.100 All right, don't go anywhere.

01:50:31.480 Where are you going?

01:50:32.220 We'll be back in moments.

01:50:34.380 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:50:36.680 Entertaining and informative.

01:50:38.440 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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01:50:48.740 the anthony comia show let's finish up the library thing with jay from connecticut jay what's up

01:50:57.120 hey i love your show hey listen i have a crazy thing here my mom was a librarian

01:51:03.980 okay i'm a voracious reader i work at the coast guard i read all the time

01:51:09.780 but i gotta agree with you man i've been the last time i went to the library in my hometown

01:51:14.240 it was and that was years ago it was a bunch of homeless guys hanging around

01:51:19.320 playing with computers nobody had a book in their hand i read all the time i order books online i

01:51:26.120 got hundreds of books in my house i think they're a monument they're like a pyramid like why do we

01:51:31.540 have them nobody's in there to read they're in there to be out of the cold yeah a lot of especially

01:51:38.900 the uh big cities you know new york city public library it's famous it's been featured in movies

01:51:45.540 and tv shows uh the big lions out front on the big stairs and what really is it like you said

01:51:53.360 the pyramids it's a sphinx it's a relic from uh an ancient time yeah i agree with you i i just

01:52:02.040 don't think anybody's in there i i the last time i was in a library which is a hundred years ago

01:52:08.020 um nobody had books in their hand they were all like computers doing you know logging on to some

01:52:14.700 weird site who knows yeah yeah just yeah nobody's taking books out anymore but p you can get a book

01:52:21.240 online you can buy books without you know i mean you can buy the book you want yeah that's i'm not

01:52:27.900 saying books are bad i'm not saying reading is bad it's a huge thing but we we do have um a way to

01:52:36.800 read books where we don't need the actual physical copy of a book anymore um and i don't see a

01:52:44.120 downside uh in that some people find books to be works of art i mean if you look at some of these

01:52:50.300 old book bindings and the way they were done and the the uh printing from old printing presses it

01:52:58.980 is a piece of history and i understand that part of it but you know i think these buildings are

01:53:05.260 being used for a lot different reasons and purpose than reading and studying and learning.

01:53:13.700 I agree.

01:53:14.560 I read every day.

01:53:16.060 I don't need to go to the library, and we're spending millions on basically it's get out

01:53:22.540 of the cold for people.

01:53:24.200 Yeah, I think he's turning them into shelters.

01:53:26.280 $10 million in the budget for three libraries.

01:53:28.880 Yeah, that's great.

01:53:29.420 $30 million.

01:53:31.440 Yeah, he's doing something.

01:53:32.900 I don't put it past them to make these homeless shelters like he has everything else.

01:53:39.120 Cool, man.

01:53:40.040 Hey, thanks, Jay.

01:53:41.540 Appreciate the call.

01:53:43.060 Oh, I can't hang up because there it is.

01:53:45.780 Thank you.

01:53:47.140 Oh, my goodness gracious.

01:53:49.360 Yeah, you know, I like reading.

01:53:54.120 I'm sure some people don't believe that, but I love it.

01:53:58.540 But I'm just the institution of the library.

01:54:02.900 Sorry, I had to blow my nose.

01:54:05.200 I sneezed.

01:54:07.560 There we go.

01:54:10.160 Ah, a clean nose.

01:54:14.680 This is amazing, because this kind of goes hand-in-hand with what we were just talking about,

01:54:22.660 the library and reading and learning.

01:54:25.660 this is a montage of teachers that are admitting that they cannot teach students

01:54:37.120 it's gotten to the point where they are incapable of of having a classroom with kids in it that

01:54:47.140 they have any influence over any authority over to tell them to sit be quiet we're learning here

01:54:56.440 this is a class uh it just that's a thing of the past that is a thing of the past this is um

01:55:02.820 ac6 these are teachers that are just admitting i'm leaving the teaching business it's uh

01:55:11.140 impossible check this out what are you going to do when they're all gone watch this i ultimately

01:55:16.280 decided to leave because i realized i needed an easier job no matter what i try to do they just

01:55:24.560 they it won't go through their heads called a parent today and i said just to let you know

01:55:29.400 your child has an f in my class because they come in and they don't do anything and then they start

01:55:34.060 screaming she hung up buddy why'd you struggle on this quiz what what was hard about what was

01:55:39.460 difficult and they look me dead in my eyes and they say i'll be honest i'm gonna read the passage

01:55:44.620 what do you mean you didn't read the passage school districts are trying to run like

01:55:51.240 companies with the numbers and it's it's not it's not the science of education today i walked out

01:56:00.740 of my job i did i have two hours left of my school day and i'm leaving because i'm so stressed out 0.98

01:56:07.900 the students behavior their lack of trying their apathy for school parents that don't give a shit 0.96

01:56:13.940 I was getting so many questions after I had just explained my directions. 0.98

01:56:18.480 Take out your yellow notebooks, turn to page 14, and the kids just stare.

01:56:23.740 They're crying because they're getting blamed for literally any and everything that children are doing.

01:56:27.600 Yeah, you could cut it off right there. 0.57

01:56:30.580 Ooh, a potty mouth teacher. 1.00

01:56:32.620 She's a regular potty mouth. 1.00

01:56:35.920 Yeah, these are teachers that are saying they cannot teach.

01:56:40.180 They got into the job probably with good intentions, being an educator.

01:56:46.740 Must feel nice, you know, when you've taught kids and they learn from you.

01:56:54.480 Your teaching style got them interested.

01:56:59.800 The subject you're teaching is something you're passionate about.

01:57:03.560 That's got to be great.

01:57:04.880 but it's turned into a it's not even as good as a babysitting job you're a corrections officer

01:57:16.540 i think a lot of these teachers are nothing more than corrections officers they go into these

01:57:24.420 classrooms and it's just sit down be quiet stop that uh there's fights the last

01:57:34.780 thing they want to do is actually crack a book

01:57:38.800 or have a discussion

01:57:41.500 about something. And the teachers are like, what am

01:57:46.820 I supposed to do? How long does it take before they lose

01:57:50.880 the passion to teach in

01:57:54.540 a lot of these schools? And even if

01:57:58.100 there are students that want to learn and the

01:58:02.660 teacher just goes god i just want to get to this one kid or the this group of kids in my class that

01:58:09.800 really want to learn and are interested the distractions and the nonsense going on is just

01:58:17.040 too much and here's the biggest problem they won't do anything about it they won't do one

01:58:25.580 thing about it i recall growing up there was something called expulsion you could be thrown

01:58:37.040 out of school for your behavior it was normally not because you were a dummy they would work with

01:58:44.820 dummies but disciplinary problems and the reason they did it was because uh they were preventing 0.91

01:58:53.840 other kids from learning and uh now like that one teacher said not the one that dropped the s bomb 0.94

01:59:01.840 but the one that said uh they don't want to learn the parents don't care that

01:59:07.300 you you have no recourse because there's no discipline because like the teacher said it's

01:59:14.180 run like a business they they get money they get money from the state and federal government for

01:59:21.720 every student that comes in every day i remember hearing that as a kid they take attendance and if 0.99

01:59:28.080 all the kids are there they're like yep good we get money for each one of your dumb heads every 0.99

01:59:34.740 one of the dumb heads we count we get money so they don't want to kick kids out of school it's 0.99

01:59:42.020 less money they don't want to suspend them or expel them they just leave them in there to do 1.00

01:59:51.180 the damage that they are doing to everything no discipline and then they they took away things

01:59:58.800 like detention and other disciplinary things that seemed to work when i was uh when i was growing up

02:00:06.980 so it's they're like corrections officers they run around uh just trying to keep the desk from

02:00:17.780 being set on fire or from one of the other students uh getting shanked maybe you don't

02:00:26.520 want another kid getting shanked in the cafeteria it is absolutely uh criminal and these teachers

02:00:35.800 are feeling it they don't know what to do oh are we 30 cool 10 okay i'm talking to our home base

02:00:45.740 We'll be back in a matter of moments.

02:00:51.420 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

02:00:53.780 Entertaining and informative.

02:00:55.880 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:01:00.620 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

02:01:03.080 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:01:07.280 The Anthony Cumia Show.

02:01:09.060 Let's go to William in Central Jersey.

02:01:11.800 William, dear boy.

02:01:13.040 Oh, dear.

02:01:14.200 What's up?

02:01:14.740 How are you, Anthony? Hey, dude, I am just flabbergasted at what this library is in Central Jersey. I go in there. There's like some kind of ethnic cooking show going on. The whole place smells like curry. Your nose is burning from crushed red pepper. There's a daycare center going on. They're teaching people how to plant gardens. And there's like 20 teachers in there, you know, engaged in tutoring.

02:01:43.420 You know, if nine times six is four divided by three, I'm like, oh, shut up.

02:01:50.700 And then there's a chest like a chest club going on.

02:01:53.720 I'm like, what do you do?

02:01:55.960 You know, you scream silence like it's not happening.

02:02:00.780 They've they've turned the libraries into community centers is what it seems like.

02:02:07.140 I I never knew that.

02:02:08.700 I went into this topic tonight, and I learned a lot because I thought it was going to be like it used to be, the library.

02:02:17.480 But these are now community centers.

02:02:20.220 The money being raised or taxpayer money going to these are for these community projects.

02:02:28.320 Wow.

02:02:29.260 Never knew.

02:02:30.360 You see kids doing flips and jumping off the tables.

02:02:35.100 I'm like, where the hell is the librarian?

02:02:37.460 I'm like, you know, it's just so crazy.

02:02:41.640 I'm like, I'm going to get the hell out of here.

02:02:43.880 You know, there's very rare, very rare you see where they, you know, they enforce that.

02:02:49.260 Like there's a silent room that you can close the door.

02:02:52.940 That's about it, Anthony.

02:02:54.960 I mean, that's what we all remember about the library was to shut your mouth, be quiet when you go in there.

02:03:00.640 It's the place you had to be quiet as a kid, which was difficult to do as a kid.

02:03:05.460 But now, yeah, it's amazing.

02:03:10.180 William, thanks, man.

02:03:12.340 Never knew.

02:03:14.000 We learned a little bit about the library today.

02:03:16.660 They're not libraries anymore.

02:03:19.140 How about that?

02:03:20.680 Oh, my goodness.

02:03:22.180 Let's see.

02:03:22.940 What else is going on here that I wanted to get to?

02:03:27.100 Oh, Los Angeles.

02:03:28.480 This is great.

02:03:29.580 Los Angeles has decided to stop performing pretextual traffic stops.

02:03:38.080 So the LAPD, I guess a civilian review board, whatever it is, they've decided that the cops shouldn't pull over cars for having taillight out, a cracked windshield.

02:03:59.580 No light illuminating the license plate, headlight out, not using a directional.

02:04:08.200 All these things that cops have used forever to pull people over.

02:04:15.640 First of all, for the actual violation, I get it.

02:04:20.120 You know, it's a blinker.

02:04:21.560 Who cares?

02:04:22.280 Well, it's a way for the cop to pull you over and see if you have a license,

02:04:31.140 registration, insurance.

02:04:33.340 And these are things I would think any driver would hope that other drivers have.

02:04:40.960 If they're unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured, that's all on you.

02:04:46.860 They don't care.

02:04:48.520 Oh, they'll go to jail maybe for a day.

02:04:51.860 They'll get a fine that they won't pay.

02:04:55.760 They'll have their car taken away.

02:04:57.520 They'll just buy another piece of garbage car.

02:05:00.180 No insurance, so you're liable when they hit you. 1.00

02:05:03.920 We see a lot of, we're talking illegal aliens tonight. 0.96

02:05:07.380 You see a lot of illegals that don't have any documentation, 0.93

02:05:11.760 but they're driving, and what are the politicians

02:05:14.760 in the Democrat cities and states doing?

02:05:16.980 Trying their best to get them a license.

02:05:19.840 Just give them licenses.

02:05:21.300 That's fine.

02:05:23.740 So they want to stop the cops from doing this because it was deemed, what?

02:05:34.320 What?

02:05:34.980 I hear, yes, racist.

02:05:38.320 Good job out there.

02:05:40.400 It was decided that if the cops pull over somebody for a minor infraction

02:05:51.140 or equipment problem, that if you then use that as a pretext

02:05:59.200 to saying license, registration, and insurance,

02:06:02.860 Studies have found that most of the people who get arrested from these pretextual stops are people of color. 0.99

02:06:16.880 Yep.

02:06:18.420 So using some kind of twisted logic, they figured that it must, it must be racist.

02:06:26.040 It must be that the cops are racist and they're trying to get people of color in trouble by pulling them over.

02:06:37.380 Now, I would think, silly me, I would assume that they're just finding anyone that doesn't have the proper documentation to drive a vehicle on the public roadway.

02:06:51.860 But see, I don't think like that.

02:06:54.360 I don't think that it must be racist.

02:06:59.940 Do you see what I'm doing here?

02:07:04.800 These pretextual stops also lead to major arrests.

02:07:11.620 People that are driving with felony warrants.

02:07:15.600 Yes, for things as crazy as murder, rape.

02:07:20.360 They're out there.

02:07:21.740 they find illegal guns on these people uh they get into car chases and they drag them out of the car

02:07:33.240 and arrest them it's all for a a blinker i love watching the videos they go you're arresting me

02:07:39.400 for a blinker nah not really pulled you over for the blinker are you being arrested because you

02:07:48.240 have a gun tucked down your pants you're a convicted felon and you have 12 warrants out for

02:07:55.200 your arrest but um this is their idea this is their great idea this is what your your

02:08:05.240 representatives in los angeles have decided is a great way to keep you safe

02:08:12.820 who is it keeping safe it's keeping safe the criminals that are driving illegally and perhaps

02:08:22.880 riding dirty with drugs or guns on them it's protecting them from any legal consequence

02:08:31.680 that they might face if they're pulled over for something as simple as the cracked windshield

02:08:37.160 Who is it not protecting the legal law abiding taxpaying citizens that elect representatives that they hope will will represent them and take care of their their safety out on the roadways and keep criminals away from them, keep dangerous people from having guns on them?

02:09:01.380 All the things that they profess to be so passionate about.

02:09:07.160 and that's what they think is a good decision.

02:09:13.780 I don't know how anyone stays in Los Angeles, just like New York.

02:09:18.980 I don't know how anyone stays in New York either, but that's another thing.

02:09:23.580 How about we hop in a plane and we fly from LAX to O'Hare Airport, landing in O'Hare.

02:09:34.120 Let's look at Cook County, Illinois, and see what's going on there.

02:09:40.020 Do you know their ankle monitor program that they have?

02:09:44.440 This is where they take people, and instead of letting them languish in jail cells,

02:09:50.240 because that's so cruel, they give them ankle monitors,

02:09:54.960 and then they set them loose like an elk.

02:09:59.240 They put something in their ear, and then they just set them free.

02:10:06.260 Well, these are supposed to be for people that are committing nonviolent crimes.

02:10:14.860 We used to hear about this.

02:10:16.480 Why should someone who was caught with an ounce of weed,

02:10:21.220 why should they sit in jail with real criminals

02:10:24.780 because they can't afford bail to get out of jail.

02:10:29.460 And everyone went, yeah, that sounds reasonable.

02:10:33.320 And what did they do?

02:10:34.720 They took the inch and we gave them an inch

02:10:40.780 and they took the proverbial mile.

02:10:43.580 And now some of the worst, most violent criminals

02:10:48.940 are being released with these ankle monitors

02:10:53.380 And there have been instances where they have committed horrific, violent crimes while wearing the ankle monitor.

02:11:02.980 How do you tell how do you tell the cops you weren't there and you didn't do it when you have an ankle monitor on while you're doing it?

02:11:13.360 So the best part of this whole thing is that Cook County ankle monitors.

02:11:17.640 eight percent of the people that are given ankle monitors are just gone literally just gone they

02:11:30.160 disappeared no one is monitoring this is the problem they call them ankle monitors and we

02:11:39.440 found out that no one is actually looking at anything that monitors where these people

02:11:47.440 are at any given moment so they leave the house they leave the the county no one's actually

02:11:55.240 looking at anything and uh-oh this guy's a wanted uh murderer a rapist robber and he just left his

02:12:04.480 house we just got a signal there isn't that they don't have anything it's the honor system with

02:12:13.520 people that have no honor but again this is chicago this is your mayor brandon johnson

02:12:22.260 this is your governor governor pritzker these are people that do want to do anything but protect

02:12:30.180 the people that are actually working productive people of illinois and the city of chicago

02:12:39.420 So let me listen to this, along with you, if I may, about this 8% of these ankle monitor convicts,

02:12:49.540 that are just, they disappear, AC2.

02:12:53.400 As of last month, 2,450 defendants were on the electronic monitoring system overseen by the courts.

02:13:00.580 590 of them, roughly a quarter, are awaiting trial for violent crimes.

02:13:05.180 And we learned today, 8% of the people on electronic monitoring are AWOL.

02:13:11.420 No one knows where they are.

02:13:13.240 The chief judge acknowledges it's a flawed system.

02:13:16.420 How concerned should the public be about those 8% of defendants who are AWOL?

02:13:23.660 Concern is a tough thing to define, right?

02:13:26.280 They're no longer where they're supposed to be.

02:13:28.800 They're no longer in their home.

02:13:30.120 Doesn't mean they're out committing crimes necessarily.

02:13:32.700 Some might be.

02:13:35.180 But they're actively being searched for right now by law enforcement.

02:13:39.320 Who is on electronic monitoring may surprise you.

02:13:42.540 210 defendants, 9% of the total, are facing an aggravated, unlawful use of a weapons charge.

02:13:49.040 Others are awaiting trial for being a felon in possession of a weapon.

02:13:52.940 And there are 21 defendants currently on EM who are charged with murder.

02:13:58.380 The chief judge acknowledged the numbers sound high.

02:14:03.080 Acknowledged the numbers sound high.

02:14:05.180 Oh, well, they're out there, but it doesn't mean they're committing crimes.

02:14:10.300 Yes, it does.

02:14:11.920 They committed the crime when they left with the ankle monitor.

02:14:17.700 Oh, my God.

02:14:22.600 These are the judges.

02:14:24.660 Just another broken cog in the machine of supposed justice in this country.

02:14:35.180 and Chicago, the worst offenders of having such a screwed-up judicial system,

02:14:48.020 that judge should have said, yeah, we're very concerned.

02:14:54.020 Concerned? Well, what does the word concern really mean?

02:14:58.880 Should we define the word before I say whether we should be?

02:15:03.260 You have people, criminals, running around.

02:15:07.960 You don't know where they are.

02:15:10.100 You had them.

02:15:11.560 You could have kept them.

02:15:14.200 But you let them go, and they're out there.

02:15:18.040 Yes, the public should be concerned.

02:15:21.640 There was a person on an ankle monitor that went out and shot a cop in Chicago.

02:15:32.320 This is what happens.

02:15:34.020 And he's just like, well, doesn't necessarily there mean they're committing crimes.

02:15:40.000 I guarantee they're committing crimes.

02:15:43.240 I would bet any amount of money that they are indeed out there committing crimes.

02:15:52.520 It's everyone involved.

02:15:55.420 i'll tell you aside from maybe the old school rank and file police officers 0.65

02:16:02.440 not the new batch of of uh women that are as wide as they are at all 1.00

02:16:09.260 taser taser taser and they're firing their gun uh not them old school cops coming up on 1.00

02:16:18.080 retirement they're the only ones that at some point in their career wanted to do the right thing

02:16:24.300 the the district attorneys the judges the the brass in the police department appointed by

02:16:34.760 brandon johnson or or laurie lightfoot they don't care they have an agenda and they make

02:16:46.180 no qualms about showing what their agenda is we will not lock up people that are the same color

02:16:54.680 as us it seems to be it call me crazy call me racist call me whatever you want but why aren't

02:17:04.600 they taking care of these issues why wouldn't you want to lock up violent criminals instead of

02:17:11.880 giving them an unmonitored ankle monitor and then just letting them work on the honor system

02:17:19.560 now you promise you're going to stay home you're not going to do drugs you're not going to go get 0.99

02:17:25.960 a hoe you're not going to clock someone over the head and steal their stuff all right we believe 0.98

02:17:32.600 you we trust you and and what continues to happen in chicago and a lot of these big democrat cities 0.98

02:17:43.780 what continues to happen crime crime crime the bodies pile up and all they talk about are these

02:17:51.700 new programs oh we're going to send social workers to this we're not pulling over people

02:17:58.620 for minor infractions because that would be terrible people would get arrested if they have

02:18:06.040 guns on them that they're not supposed to have or drugs on them they're got yeah no we can't do that

02:18:13.160 why ah it would really look bad for me because i'd be um you know my constituents are a lot like

02:18:21.560 me if you know what i mean and i can't really that's what's going on that's why it doesn't get

02:18:27.300 better and and chicago will just continue just like new york electing people that do not have

02:18:37.260 your best interest in mind if you're a criminal they have your best interest in mind if you're a

02:18:44.760 a legal law-abiding hard-working contributing member of society go screw they don't want

02:18:52.340 they don't want you safe

02:18:54.000 they don't want to make sure

02:18:57.000 you can take public transportation

02:18:58.900 that you're paying for

02:19:00.860 get on the red line

02:19:03.300 have a blast over there

02:19:05.160 in Chicago

02:19:05.720 oh boy

02:19:07.320 nope

02:19:08.740 they will not represent

02:19:12.160 you

02:19:13.760 they will not make sure

02:19:15.760 you as their constituents

02:19:18.440 that pay taxes

02:19:20.160 do what you're supposed to do

02:19:22.980 you know the difference between right

02:19:25.300 and wrong

02:19:25.920 everything that puts you

02:19:29.280 deeper into the category of a good

02:19:31.580 citizen

02:19:33.100 the less 1.00

02:19:35.440 they'll do for you and the more

02:19:37.200 they'll do for the people that wish to do

02:19:39.120 you harm

02:19:39.880 it cannot be argued

02:19:42.580 it's a big question as

02:19:45.260 to why but I think I spelled

02:19:47.180 it out alright back in a moment

02:19:48.880 it's the anthony cumia show entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network

02:19:56.720 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

02:20:04.020 the anthony cumia show and uh yeah it just seems like a lot of these uh

02:20:14.580 A lot of the powers that be in these these big blue cities, Democrat, liberal, socialist, communist, whatever you want to call it, just don't have your best interest in mind.

02:20:26.780 And you're the ones doing the work, giving the money.

02:20:31.340 And I don't know how they they have these agendas that aren't in your best interest.

02:20:40.020 And they keep getting elected over and over again.

02:20:43.120 this is frightening

02:20:45.880 remember the story about a week ago

02:20:48.760 there was a guy in Massachusetts

02:20:50.380 I think it was Cambridge

02:20:51.400 and he pulled a

02:20:54.860 rifle out and just started

02:20:56.460 randomly firing

02:20:57.940 on a street in

02:21:00.540 Massachusetts and

02:21:02.400 they arrested him

02:21:03.440 it turns out

02:21:06.640 he

02:21:07.720 was already a felon

02:21:10.920 for

02:21:12.280 shooting at cops before he had fired guns at police officers beforehand and uh they gave him

02:21:20.080 five whole years for that uh well it turns out that when he was released for the last time

02:21:29.600 before he decided to pick up a rifle and start firing it randomly in massachusetts

02:21:35.120 uh cambridge that um the prosecutor the police everybody had told the judge

02:21:44.740 that was on this case do not let this guy go what are you doing he is a dangerous dangerous person

02:21:53.820 it's only by the grace of god he didn't kill somebody he was firing a gun randomly very easy

02:22:01.040 to kill somebody that way so the fact that he didn't kill anyone on this last outing doesn't

02:22:06.000 make it any better he was firing a weapon uh in the streets randomly so listen to this judge

02:22:16.180 because this is your life she's she's weighing in the balance when when she's talking and saying

02:22:24.960 she's willing to take a chance, that there's a chance she's taking on this convicted felon

02:22:33.240 who was released from jail for shooting at police officers.

02:22:39.560 When she talks about a chance, what does she mean?

02:22:44.060 Let's listen to the clip first.

02:22:45.800 AC3.

02:22:47.120 Mr. Brown, I do realize I'm kind of taking a chance on you.

02:22:52.120 And, you know, when people stand up, experienced police officers, experienced probation officers,

02:23:00.360 and they tell me this guy is a danger to the community, then I hear that.

02:23:08.640 And it gives me, I can't look into a crystal ball and figure out what's going to happen once you get out.

02:23:15.820 But I do understand that I am taking a risk here.

02:23:19.700 taking a risk taking a chance think about what you do when you take a chance let's uh go to uh

02:23:28.160 vegas or atlantic city i'm taking a chance i'm taking my money and i'm putting it up here to

02:23:34.240 bet and if i win i get double my money if i lose i uh get my money taken away and i don't have any

02:23:41.660 money there's taking a chance what is she taking a chance on if i win this guy doesn't commit any

02:23:51.320 more crimes against humanity if i lose someone pays some random citizen pays with their life

02:24:02.120 their money uh uh whatever else they get ptsd for the rest of their life from being robbed or raped 1.00

02:24:10.960 she's taking that chance she thinks she has the right to bet the public safety

02:24:21.420 against the chance that this guy is going to stay all of a sudden stay on the straight and narrow 0.53

02:24:29.960 how dare she how the hell does she think she has the right to bet with the public safety 1.00

02:24:39.780 It's no skin off her ass. 1.00

02:24:42.720 She doesn't have a stake in the game. 1.00

02:24:45.620 She doesn't get fired or jailed if this piece of garbage goes out 1.00

02:24:51.880 and commits more crime and hurts people. 1.00

02:24:55.100 What chance is she taking?

02:24:57.540 Oh, I'm taking a big chance.

02:24:59.260 No, you're making the public take a chance that someone's getting hurt or killed.

02:25:06.700 why what's in it for you put the guy away for as long as you can if you can let him go

02:25:20.280 or you can lock him up lock him up there's no upside to letting these monsters

02:25:28.580 back out on the street. 0.79

02:25:31.200 No upside.

02:25:34.380 And she's going to, well, all right, I'm going to risk it.

02:25:39.320 What are you risking?

02:25:42.280 I would love it if judges were held accountable.

02:25:45.280 So many people these days are saying the same thing.

02:25:48.260 Why are these judges that let these people go

02:25:51.060 and they commit crime after crime until they murder someone?

02:25:57.740 Then they're like, well, maybe we should lock this guy up.

02:26:00.560 And they look into the past, and they see a parade of judges just like this woman willing to take the chance.

02:26:09.680 Oh, wow, what a hero. 0.85

02:26:12.360 Oh, look at her.

02:26:13.300 She's willing to put it all on the line.

02:26:16.300 You don't even get fired.

02:26:18.720 What other job can you screw up so badly that someone dies and you don't even get fired?

02:26:26.920 what other job there ain't one i'll fill you in there ain't one maybe actor if you're a alec

02:26:37.320 baldwin because he could still act i guess but other than that the nerve the nerve of these

02:26:45.960 judges i'll take a chance i'll risk it no we're the ones having to take the chance and risk it

02:26:52.980 when you let these animals back out on the street oh my god all right people we'll see you back here

02:26:59.440 next week um thank you for tuning in anthony cumia on x that's my x account um go there follow me

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The Anthony Cumia Show - May 18, 2026

The Anthony Cumia Show ｜ 05-17-26

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