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00:01:00.100 It's the Anthony Cumia

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00:01:08.380 Yes, it is

00:01:09.800 indeed the Anthony Cumia Show. Another Sunday

00:01:11.920 after

00:01:13.240 one of the most tumultuous weeks

00:01:15.900 in

00:01:17.720 memory.

00:01:19.980 This has been a crazy

00:01:22.020 one.

00:01:23.360 That's what it is, doing a show once a week, boy, you sure build up a lot of stuff to talk about,

00:01:29.980 but, you know, you're chomping to get to it during the week, and then I wait until Sunday.

00:01:37.720 But we're here, we're talking about it, obviously the huge story, the Charlie Kirk assassination,

00:01:48.900 and what's been happening since then.

00:01:53.980 Obviously, the big story, that shock, that initial shock,

00:01:59.080 and everybody, the speculation.

00:02:02.140 Man, what we do when stuff like this happens in 2025 is astounding.

00:02:10.180 You could set your watch to it.

00:02:14.080 It's the initial news that you get, which I think at this point, everybody gets it from X.

00:02:23.500 Everybody. 0.97

00:02:25.400 I don't know one person, unless you are one of those boomers in an old folks home. 0.98

00:02:33.800 It's a retirement community. 0.99

00:02:36.060 I'm sorry, Tony, a retirement community.

00:02:38.080 If you're one of those people watching cable news, you're out of the loop.

00:02:48.400 Everyone gets their news from X.

00:02:51.040 It's just the way it is right now.

00:02:53.440 And the great part of that is you're getting the news as it's happening.

00:02:58.180 The bad part, no one knows what the hell is going on.

00:03:03.440 And within seconds of reading the news, they are experts.

00:03:10.720 Experts.

00:03:12.700 And this is with anything.

00:03:15.300 With the Charlie Kirk assassination, of course, everyone became experts on assassinations,

00:03:24.420 on rifles, snipers, ballistics.

00:03:33.180 It is astounding.

00:03:35.280 With the scroll of your thumb.

00:03:38.520 I've often said three scrolls of your thumb.

00:03:42.100 You have your phone, one, two, three.

00:03:45.020 There, I'm an oncologist if it's a story about cancer.

00:03:49.560 One, two, three.

00:03:50.980 I'm a pilot.

00:03:51.900 it's a story about an airplane i am a pilot now one two three i'm a dock worker whatever it is

00:04:03.560 there's people that just become instant experts and as the story goes on you know like i said

00:04:12.700 you could set your watch to it the conspiracy theories come out we all sit and wait we all

00:04:19.420 sit and wait who did it who did it and what was their motive black guy was it a white guy was it

00:04:29.900 islam was it a transgender person a guy a girl a guy girl non-binary we're all sitting there 0.62

00:04:39.740 going wow what is it please not a member of my team please don't make it my team

00:04:46.680 and you know there's speculation speculation abounds during these things everyone knows and

00:04:56.920 i mean they are adamant about this is what happened what happened it's 100 true guaranteed

00:05:04.740 it's been confirmed and two minutes later oh well that was absolutely wrong had no resemblance to

00:05:14.020 the truth whatsoever. So not that I'm saying mainstream media was any better. They just

00:05:22.920 seem to wait longer to put out their BS version of what was going on. And of course, it had

00:05:30.000 to be peppered with their agenda and their propaganda. So even though social media has

00:05:40.300 given us this amazing outlet to get information true false whatever immediately uh there are still

00:05:50.820 plenty of pitfalls with this instant information that we get from social media and uh i think we

00:06:01.300 really gotta at least understand that what we're seeing especially during that period they call the

00:06:09.080 fog of war when uh when these things first happen uh it's not going to be accurate it's guaranteed

00:06:18.760 to not be accurate it's not even like it might not be accurate if you're reading something within

00:06:25.320 the first few minutes of some a story breaking it is not going to be accurate there may be some

00:06:32.080 flex of truth in there when i uh the first thing i read about charlie kirk was that he had been

00:06:40.840 shot now that's true that was true it's kind of a wide open how did it happen who shot him this that

00:06:50.700 so he had been shot and the report was he has been shot after that i didn't see any truth

00:07:01.980 for quite some time it's it's just the nature of the beast everyone wants to be first to get the

00:07:11.600 info out there and everyone wants to be right and we all want it to align with our political ideology

00:07:21.480 or what we believe it whatever it is we don't want it to go against our beliefs so if you want this

00:07:30.600 to be a right-wing Trump supporter that did this,

00:07:36.720 you're going to post anything that leans that way,

00:07:41.280 even if it's complete disinformation or misinformation.

00:07:45.200 If you want it to be a left-wing radical,

00:07:49.380 you're going to pick up on those and repost that and go,

00:07:53.900 see, I told you.

00:07:54.900 so being in your little bubble really doesn't do you any justice in these situations it's uh

00:08:05.780 you know the like i said that fog of war settles in and um you're you're absolutely going to

00:08:12.780 gravitate toward the news that best suits your belief system and your agenda regardless of side

00:08:20.640 I've done it. I've done it before. Not that like I'm saying I'm the litmus test. I'm so perfect that even I have done it. Yeah, I sounded a little pompous there for a second. But, you know, we do it. Let me I'll say it that way. We all do it. We want to be right. We want to have been right.

00:08:43.700 You know, if something verifies what we've believed for so long, we love the idea of posting it and going, yes, see, I told you it's human nature.

00:08:56.980 It would be fantastic if every person was devoid of emotions that attach you to stories that are aligned with your belief system.

00:09:11.960 It's just human nature.

00:09:13.700 let's all forgive ourselves for being humans

00:09:17.200 but that doesn't necessarily make it right

00:09:20.200 every report I got after the initial he's been shot

00:09:25.960 was some speculative nonsense

00:09:29.200 and it was pretty much a coin toss

00:09:32.620 whether anything in these reports

00:09:36.120 were going to be accurate or not

00:09:37.820 and a lot of it wasn't

00:09:40.200 my first impression was I thought it was

00:09:43.460 going to be the usual kind of somebody walked up with a pistol,

00:09:48.860 took a pot shot from the crowd, hopefully missed or just wounded him

00:09:54.960 with something that could have been treated.

00:10:00.480 No one really thought we would see what we ended up seeing.

00:10:05.220 And that's a whole other thing about the social media

00:10:11.700 and the access to this instant information

00:10:15.200 because it isn't only words and it isn't only pictures.

00:10:19.480 It is HD video of stuff that, relatively speaking,

00:10:27.580 a short time ago was just unavailable to people.

00:10:32.240 You could go to certain websites back in the day,

00:10:38.260 as i like to call it and see horrific things they were usually car wrecks um gore gore.com

00:10:48.240 i think was one whatever it is but uh now you couldn't avoid watching this graphic execution

00:10:59.980 of a man you just couldn't avoid it you were scrolling and just it was everywhere

00:11:10.020 and uh that's another thing man that i don't know how healthy this could be for society

00:11:19.820 and i'm on board with a few of the people that uh did say no we need to show this

00:11:26.620 This needs to be made available to show and to see and let it settle in that this is happening.

00:11:35.900 And these people are doing these horrific things to people that are just trying to exercise their First Amendment right, live their lives, they have their ideology.

00:11:46.540 um but man if you're someone that wants to avoid actually seeing graphic violence i don't even know

00:11:56.260 what you do go off the grid go down to baja california like i do get off your cell phones

00:12:06.120 and talk to the indigenous people of baja california mexico well thank you jesse uh

00:12:15.400 the body Ventura, but some people can't go off the grid.

00:12:21.740 We, I don't know whether we chose to or not,

00:12:26.160 we are stuck in this digital world,

00:12:29.020 and we are having things presented to us that aren't pleasant.

00:12:34.580 And I think in the long run,

00:12:37.980 our access to some of the stuff that is available to see,

00:12:42.260 especially to more impressionable people and young,

00:12:45.400 impressionable people will not bode well for society not like society is doing great as we

00:12:52.400 speak but uh man man oh man all right oh my goodness are we just getting started yes we are

00:13:01.540 and uh plenty more i see the phones alight with people that want to talk we will give you your

00:13:07.500 chance 800-848-9222 and um we continue with the anthony cumia show after this it's the anthony

00:13:19.580 cumia show on the red apple podcast network it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple

00:13:29.460 podcast network the anthony comia show plenty uh going on in the world these days not much good

00:13:40.120 i hate to be so pessimistic and black-pilled but uh wow

00:13:45.000 um when big big chunks of history are made uh it's usually not good it's usually not good

00:13:56.600 And at the top of the hour, I was talking about, you know, my love of the First Amendment and the Second.

00:14:07.220 And freedom of speech, I am really a purist when it comes to the First Amendment.

00:14:13.380 I don't believe that anybody's speech, regardless of their opinion, should be infringed upon.

00:14:22.400 There are laws in place, and I don't think people really understand the difference between protected speech and not protected speech.

00:14:33.820 A lot of people believe hate speech is illegal.

00:14:38.220 There's no such thing as hate speech.

00:14:40.740 No such thing.

00:14:42.280 It's just somebody saying something that offends you profoundly.

00:14:47.440 And you don't like it.

00:14:49.100 You deem it hateful.

00:14:50.440 but unless they're um being slanderous or libelous or or threatening somebody there are

00:14:59.540 you know certain things but there's a very strict criteria to your your take on something

00:15:06.920 your opinion being deemed illegal thank god because we see what's going on in the uk post a

00:15:15.260 meme how many times do we go on social media and post a funny meme political it slams another race

00:15:24.120 religion sexuality whatever how many times go over to the uk and do that you are arrested

00:15:33.140 our system over here has its flaws man oh my god and there are some grave injustices going on over

00:15:42.640 here in america um when the first amendment is concerned where the first amendment is concerned

00:15:49.500 but um nowhere near like what we're seeing in other supposedly democratic nations

00:15:56.840 that crow about their people's freedoms oh my god but uh over here i do i do believe in um

00:16:07.760 the absolute freedom of speech when it comes to opinions ideology expressing yourself

00:16:15.240 uh that's what charlie kirk was doing that's what he was known for doing he was known for going into

00:16:23.700 uh places these these college campuses that were not welcoming to him at all and what did he do

00:16:33.000 Did he lash out? Did he promote violence?

00:16:36.920 He sat in a chair and gave a microphone, just like he had.

00:16:44.760 He had a microphone, they had a microphone,

00:16:48.800 and invited people up to speak freely.

00:16:53.620 And he would converse with them, debate with them.

00:16:57.640 Sometimes agree, many times disagree.

00:17:00.240 but the person was never insulted they were never shut down and told to shut up

00:17:06.760 they got as much freedom of speech as charlie kirk got on those occasions

00:17:15.180 amplified with a microphone at the same volume

00:17:19.660 and how was this met how was this met well we all know he was uh murdered right there in front

00:17:30.220 of in front of a few thousand people and his family just terrible it's one of the worst things

00:17:37.500 i've ever seen in my life and i saw someone get shot in real life and this was worse i gotta be

00:17:45.280 honest watching the video of charlie kirk getting shot was worse than in real life seeing someone

00:17:51.240 to get shot so um i like i said going back i'm an absolutist as far as uh first amendment rights go

00:18:01.080 so talking about uh doxing and what's been going on online with people on the left

00:18:12.280 i don't even know if i could just call them people on the left i think everyone on the left

00:18:17.460 is crazy but but there is a subsection of these leftists that are and the word's been used a lot 0.56

00:18:27.760 lately evil pure evil demonic evil just cheering smiling laughing dancing making videos and putting

00:18:40.600 him on various social media platforms to celebrate the death of a man they disagreed with this guy

00:18:51.820 was not telling people to be violent to take up arms against people he was a god-fearing man

00:19:00.280 very spiritual very religious married beautiful family young family and and people were were

00:19:10.520 gloating and celebrating his death some calling for worse involving his family this is an

00:19:21.760 unbelievable evil that that we're seeing so you know i i had been the um i had been on the other

00:19:30.980 end of of these doxings where i got doxed i i got fired for social media posts uh back uh in 2014

00:19:42.380 so i know the anger of trying to to express yourself trying to put your opinion out there

00:19:50.400 albeit controversial political racial in my case and um getting fired for it it's not fun

00:20:00.200 And I absolutely felt that I was being persecuted for my beliefs.

00:20:09.040 Now, it's one of those tough things when it comes to a business,

00:20:16.960 a commercial enterprise, Sirius XM Satellite Radio.

00:20:20.560 Everyone's like, they're a private company.

00:20:22.540 They can do what they want.

00:20:24.900 And I was like, yeah, I get that whole thing.

00:20:27.180 But you would think a broadcaster, broadcasting company, they know I worked for them for 10 years.

00:20:34.360 It was no secret what my ideology and political affiliations were and what my thoughts were about crime and who was perpetrating it.

00:20:45.820 But, you know, I get it.

00:20:47.560 I get what they were saying.

00:20:49.420 And now we're seeing this happening.

00:20:51.580 And a lot of these people on the left that are gloating about the murder, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, are being doxed and fired from their jobs.

00:21:02.720 And I tell you, I couldn't be happier.

00:21:06.920 Happier.

00:21:08.020 I don't totally agree with it.

00:21:11.680 There's still something in my mind that says this isn't what we should be doing.

00:21:18.960 and and if somebody like i said if somebody was saying something to the effect of well

00:21:23.960 uh i didn't agree with him he was assassinated that's a terrible thing i didn't agree with him 1.00

00:21:32.220 you can even say i thought he was an ass i thought what he had to say was stupid 0.99

00:21:36.820 that's commenting on his his take on things the celebrating his death the threatening of his 1.00

00:21:44.460 family things like that yeah dox them that's how i feel about it and still there's something in me

00:21:54.580 that goes ah maybe that's not right but again we're all humans uh we we have to walk that uh

00:22:01.860 that tightrope of of believing in a system like we have here where we all do have a freedom of

00:22:11.240 speech even if it's horrific things to say horrific and the other side being human beings

00:22:21.300 with emotions anger and going yeah screw that guy get him fired good so it's a you know a difficult

00:22:30.640 thing to try to navigate and uh i've been giving it a lot of thought i don't really have any

00:22:37.460 final solutions on it.

00:22:41.360 Some days I go one way, some days I go the other with this.

00:22:44.520 But it's tricky.

00:22:48.460 It's a tricky thing that you have to settle with yourself

00:22:55.080 in your own mind and body.

00:23:00.920 I promise we are going to go to the phones next.

00:23:05.220 Stick around. A lot more of The Anthony Cumia Show and your calls next.

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00:23:25.820 The Anthony Cumia Show, another Sunday.

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00:23:33.300 We've gotten so much support with this program.

00:23:37.380 I don't know what to tell you.

00:23:39.200 It's great, and I love it.

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00:24:00.900 let's go to steve in manhattan steve what's up man all right and and the more people we have in

00:24:09.920 america the more lunatics we're going to have running around it's just a numbers game man

00:24:15.400 you're right it's all it's all about math exactly and this is what some people should always remember

00:24:21.340 too whenever dealing with criminal cycles the murdering cycle always has the advantage because

00:24:28.480 the psycho criminal will attack unprovoked and i also like to add something to that i in my lifetime

00:24:35.040 i've heard a lot of people on tv radio or in life say oh don't worry about it well i like to tell

00:24:41.220 people the cemetery is full of people who said don't worry about it okay if i've seen plenty of

00:24:48.640 charlie kirk's videos through the years i think he was phenomenal in getting people to register

00:24:54.620 especially the younger folks out there, and his way of dealing with also wanting people to be legit when they voted

00:25:00.700 and not illegals and stuff like that, where people vote 20, 30 times.

00:25:05.380 But his security, I always looked at that.

00:25:07.900 I couldn't believe there was – I would say he had, like, bodyguards.

00:25:11.760 There were guys, like, standing next to him.

00:25:13.520 They might blend in with white shirts.

00:25:15.520 But there was no real security team there.

00:25:18.000 These people, they're not always all students.

00:25:20.340 Anybody could have walked into these events.

00:25:22.560 And they're like 10, 15 feet from him.

00:25:24.720 And there's a whole crowd of people.

00:25:25.920 Anybody could pull out a gun.

00:25:27.840 The rooftops are not secured.

00:25:30.060 Rooftops are very easy to secure if you want to secure them.

00:25:33.480 Unbelievable.

00:25:34.860 Steve, unbelievably easy to secure.

00:25:38.880 The sniper apparently had the highest point on that campus.

00:25:45.380 If you had someone up on that rooftop, they would have been able to see every other rooftop

00:25:50.440 that anybody with ill intent could have been using at that time.

00:25:56.080 Why in the hell a figure as controversial, maybe not rightly so,

00:26:02.880 but controversial as Charlie Kirk not having a security detail put on top of those roofs

00:26:09.900 to watch overhead and see if there's any snipers or anybody milling about on rooftops?

00:26:18.460 it's you can't imagine that that there could be a bigger security breach than that

00:26:27.160 and there are security breaches every day i've talked to people who are in security

00:26:32.980 i know donald trump's personal security team before he came president you guys are still

00:26:37.700 around well phenomenal those guys they came from all different law enforcement most of them not

00:26:41.720 yeah these guys are phenomenal but i've talked to a lot of people who talk a big game but there

00:26:47.300 are security breaches every day i mean thomas crooks he's he was known to be on the roof for

00:26:52.940 an hour and nobody did anything we saw videos of him up on that rooftop people were taking videos

00:27:00.320 and going who's that there's someone up on the roof and you hear trump speaking in the background

00:27:04.920 so you know the the time difference between when they saw him on the roof and when he took the the

00:27:11.800 shot it makes no sense the the these breaches are are way too common and they happen every day and

00:27:22.020 also that lunatic down in florida he's outside the golf course for 20 hours yeah that's that's

00:27:27.820 unacceptable i mean we've all seen it a million times jack ruby walking right up to oswald

00:27:32.580 so a lot of these security people not all of them i don't want them to get mad there's a lot of guys

00:27:36.760 out there with top dudes out there and they're really good but if you have no security team in

00:27:41.160 place. How do you have a security plan in place to do something about it? And I also would like

00:27:48.180 to say something about the mayor's election in New York City. Now, this guy, moron, damn New York. 1.00

00:27:56.100 People should realize, do you realize, I know you know this, but a billionaire can run an 1.00

00:28:00.960 independent advertisement against this guy saying everything, everywhere in social media, on TV, 1.00

00:28:07.460 radio that this moron wants to legalize heroin. He wants to legalize prostitution. He wants to get 1.00

00:28:14.880 rid of the police force. And this is something that could be just saturated, and it's not done.

00:28:21.220 Leaving me to believe, are these people in on it, or are they just a bunch of useful idiots? 0.98

00:28:25.460 I mean, we saw Musk do it during the presidential campaign, and Curtis Lee has got to do a better 1.00

00:28:30.200 job. To me, it looks like he's auditioning to be Marlon Perkins from Wild Kingdom.

00:28:34.540 So, you know, the guy, remember with kids, the guys like idiots, all these tackling lions and stuff. 1.00

00:28:39.560 Come on. 1.00

00:28:40.220 Curtis has got to do a better job out there, and he's got to go into the neighborhoods.

00:28:44.080 He's got to go hunting where the votes are.

00:28:46.000 There are certain neighborhoods who will vote for him.

00:28:48.060 You've got to get people registered to vote, too. 1.00

00:28:49.960 Well, this moron's going to win. 1.00

00:28:51.600 I got you, Steve. 1.00

00:28:53.280 All right.

00:28:54.280 Hey, thanks for the call, man.

00:28:55.600 I appreciate it.

00:28:57.060 There goes Steve.

00:28:58.660 I don't know.

00:28:59.320 It seems like Curtis is out there, and he is going to these neighborhoods.

00:29:03.860 He's the only one going around and really going to the dregs of society out there.

00:29:10.700 The Marlon Perkins thing is kind of funny.

00:29:14.700 I'm here in front of a homeless man sleeping on the street.

00:29:18.460 I'll stay here behind the blind while Jim goes in and talks to him.

00:29:23.600 Very, yeah, I'll talk about the election a little later in the show.

00:29:29.800 I have a few things, obviously, going on with Memdani and Cuomo and Adams.

00:29:37.640 Unbelievable.

00:29:39.240 But what else did I?

00:29:41.560 Oh, what Steve was saying.

00:29:44.360 Yeah, these breaches in security and this feeling like no one is safe.

00:29:51.980 And, look, I've been what is considered a controversial media figure for a while now.

00:29:58.800 and I've gotten my share of death threats

00:30:01.360 and all the things that come with being controversial.

00:30:04.980 And by controversial, it means you're just speaking your mind.

00:30:09.340 I'm not doing anything crazy.

00:30:11.280 I'm not advocating for violence.

00:30:14.020 But, you know, the left sees that as being controversial.

00:30:20.780 They see it as being a danger to their very existence.

00:30:24.860 You know, you cannot talk about transgenderism unless you're in their little circle without them saying that you are a threat, an existential threat to their lives. 1.00

00:30:41.280 They are convinced that if you go on any media platform and dare say that children should not be mutilated 0.96

00:30:56.340 or pumped up with drugs to change their sexuality, that right there, by the way,

00:31:06.880 truly believe that is a belief of the vast majority of americans that isn't some crazy

00:31:16.500 right-wing extremist belief and thank god it's the belief of the majority of americans

00:31:24.860 you should not mutilate children or or pump drugs into them for some sexual frankenstein

00:31:35.460 transfer of sexuality.

00:31:41.760 But if you say that, they honestly believe

00:31:45.300 that you are now a threat to their life.

00:31:48.720 And people that feel their lives are being threatened

00:31:51.240 think they are justified in self-defense.

00:31:55.380 Now, while there are legitimate cases of self-defense,

00:31:58.980 that ain't it.

00:32:00.380 They just don't like what you're saying.

00:32:03.020 They don't agree with it.

00:32:04.160 So they twist it into this, you're threatening them.

00:32:08.640 This is with everything.

00:32:10.640 You know, we heard during the Biden administration, an existential threat to democracy.

00:32:16.380 That's what they said about Trump and MAGA supporters.

00:32:20.860 They are an existential threat, a threat that could bring us to extinction, bring our democracy

00:32:30.840 to extinction, existential.

00:32:34.160 and they will react with extreme violence to that.

00:32:43.560 And I think Charlie Kirk knew that,

00:32:47.220 and maybe he believed he had enough security.

00:32:52.260 Obviously now we know different.

00:32:56.600 But, yeah, where were the people on the roofs?

00:32:59.800 how about you know i got right back on my shelf back here for the people watching later on video

00:33:08.540 you will see a dji drone i was charging up the batteries on it i like having my drone readily

00:33:16.700 available i have a lot of property and uh sometimes i like flying it around it's fun

00:33:24.860 But it's also a useful tool in protecting yourself, your family, your property, things like that.

00:33:34.960 I have, thank God, now a lot of property.

00:33:37.600 I've got a river way down the wood line, and I have a drone.

00:33:43.900 It wasn't crazy expensive.

00:33:47.500 You could pick one up for a couple of hundred bucks.

00:33:50.500 why didn't Charlie Kirk's team

00:33:53.380 have a few of these things

00:33:55.500 they put him in the air

00:33:57.120 and their job

00:33:59.040 three guys

00:34:00.260 have three guys

00:34:02.080 and their job is

00:34:04.240 during these appearances

00:34:05.900 to put a couple of drones up

00:34:08.280 and monitor the rooftops

00:34:10.740 the tree lines

00:34:11.960 everywhere that's out of reach

00:34:14.340 for the physical bodyguards

00:34:16.960 that are standing next to him

00:34:18.220 and they have

00:34:20.200 communications that they could instantly let someone know if something doesn't look right

00:34:25.440 and they could get to it immediately that guy never would have set foot on the rooftop

00:34:32.800 never mind set up a nest take aim and seemingly wait till appropriate words were spoken

00:34:41.640 about transgenders and violence by Charlie Kirk 0.88

00:34:45.020 to make the fatal shot.

00:34:47.720 Why?

00:34:49.120 Why wasn't a system like that in place?

00:34:53.200 I don't know.

00:34:55.100 And some conspiratorial-minded people might say

00:34:59.440 because his security team was in on it.

00:35:02.340 Or this one was in on it.

00:35:04.180 Or that one. 0.99

00:35:05.900 But damn, put something in place. 0.99

00:35:09.040 That was a large venue. 0.99

00:35:11.640 There were a lot of places where somebody could have gotten up,

00:35:16.180 and they did, get up somewhere to do damage.

00:35:20.560 Why would you do that?

00:35:23.580 This guy has met with the president.

00:35:25.820 He was a huge voice in political forums that are despised 0.99

00:35:35.400 by mentally ill extremists on the left. 0.56

00:35:38.920 How the hell do you not get as much security and use the technology readily available to anyone to make sure that didn't happen? 0.99

00:35:53.940 Someone screwed up, man.

00:35:56.120 Someone dropped the ball there.

00:35:59.060 And, you know, I know Charlie was a nice guy, a very religious guy.

00:36:05.180 Maybe he wanted to see the good in all people.

00:36:07.580 But seeing the good in all people, irregardless, he still put on a bulletproof vest.

00:36:14.420 So there was an inkling, and I bet you, I bet you, there was some chatter somewhere

00:36:22.540 that they got that made him put that vest on that day.

00:36:28.100 Hey, Charlie, we're hearing some things.

00:36:30.920 I read some things in Reddit or wherever it was.

00:36:36.100 and there's some chatter about this and that and the other thing.

00:36:41.920 And you go, all right, I'll put a vest on.

00:36:44.460 I'll put a vest on today.

00:36:46.760 Because you didn't always wear a bulletproof vest.

00:36:50.980 If you're getting that kind of chatter

00:36:53.320 or any inkling that there might be an attempt on your life,

00:37:00.540 where the hell is the digital security, the people?

00:37:06.100 And you don't want to drone over the rooftops?

00:37:08.100 Get a person on there.

00:37:11.180 Binoculars, have them looking at other rooftops, whatever.

00:37:15.240 And this isn't just the hindsight is 2020 thing I'm doing here.

00:37:20.020 This should have been done.

00:37:21.880 There had been enough threats to him, enough attempts on other people's lives

00:37:27.320 that his team and him, I'm not criticizing him, I'm not victim-blaming here,

00:37:35.560 But, man, you've got to understand the world you live in and who your opponents are at this point. 0.99

00:37:44.920 They are psychos that want you dead. 1.00

00:37:49.080 And they did it. 1.00

00:37:52.300 I don't walk around without a gun on my hip now.

00:37:55.720 Not like I didn't anyway.

00:37:58.220 But now it's all the time.

00:37:59.880 As I sit here doing this show, I have a gun in my holster on my hip.

00:38:08.480 I don't answer the door without it.

00:38:11.600 Oh, it's UPS.

00:38:13.940 I don't know that.

00:38:16.240 Oh, Anthony, you're paranoid.

00:38:17.800 Am I?

00:38:19.660 Maybe paranoia would have suited Charlie Kirk a little better.

00:38:24.300 Maybe a little paranoia and he'd be at an appearance.

00:38:29.880 tomorrow doing what he did there's a difference between paranoia and understanding the world you

00:38:39.800 live in understanding that you are up against an opposition that is ready willing and able to kill

00:38:48.800 you and that really has to be understood by people i have friends in this business that i fear for

00:38:59.040 And they fear for me.

00:39:02.200 And I'm doing everything I can to take care of that.

00:39:08.600 I make sure I have my head on a swivel constantly.

00:39:14.960 And I've turned down certain things that I just didn't think were secure enough.

00:39:21.560 And I have myself armed and ready constantly.

00:39:26.360 now there's not you can't do uh something about everything like that sniper that's very difficult

00:39:33.060 that would have had been dealt with beforehand like we were just talking about preemptively

00:39:39.820 securing the area same thing in butler pennsylvania with donald trump when he was campaigning

00:39:46.540 how the hell was that guy allowed to get up on that rooftop

00:39:52.180 and i'm just talking i'm not going into the conspiratorial things of it it wasn't him

00:39:58.980 it was this it was massad it was the cia it was this i whatever i'm just going by the

00:40:06.360 if it quacks like a duck it's a duck occam's razor and uh even with all that

00:40:13.980 How the hell did the number one contender for president at the time before he was elected, Donald Trump, get up on a stage in front of a podium with a sniper on a rooftop well within range?

00:40:33.120 how the hell did a sniper get up in front of charlie kirk and take him out knowing charlie

00:40:43.360 is a controversial speaker he's had thousands of death threats had a security team and no one

00:40:50.660 thought let's make sure those rooftops are secured after the trump thing especially

00:40:56.840 You look at that and go, yeah, they were able to take a pot shot at the president and almost got him.

00:41:06.160 Almost got him.

00:41:08.540 Who are you?

00:41:09.480 You're Charlie Kirk.

00:41:10.800 You don't think some nut might take a pot shot at you from a rooftop?

00:41:15.240 Someone dropped the ball there, whether purposely, accidental, incompetence.

00:41:22.060 You just feel good.

00:41:23.780 You feel like no one wants to do this to you.

00:41:26.840 those days are over, people. 1.00

00:41:31.500 They're crazy, and they want to kill you. 1.00

00:41:37.100 Keep that in mind and act accordingly. 1.00

00:41:41.320 Does it sound extreme?

00:41:43.140 Yup, because it's an extreme situation.

00:41:46.940 That's why it sounds extreme,

00:41:48.500 because we are in an extreme situation.

00:41:51.280 they they react to offense verbal offense you say something they don't agree with they feel

00:42:00.900 offended they react with violence it might just be clocking you in the head like i said before

00:42:08.100 it might just be flipping the billiard hat off your head calling you a nasty names but they

00:42:14.420 always react with violence they're incapable of engaging in uh reasonable civil debate

00:42:23.500 so act accordingly that's all i gotta i gotta say if you're you know out there if you're voicing

00:42:32.260 your opinion if you're on social media voicing your opinion and don't think a fake name uh is

00:42:39.120 going to save you because look what the liberals have been going through now that the right is

00:42:44.580 doxing them like crazy a lot of them are losing their jobs now with the other way they don't just

00:42:51.000 try to get them canceled lose their jobs they look them up they threaten them they post pictures and

00:42:56.660 addresses of their families so don't think you're safe act accordingly we will return your calls

00:43:06.900 800-848-9222

00:43:09.360 and I guess

00:43:11.120 I should do clown of the week

00:43:12.400 oh boy next

00:43:14.420 break stick around Anthony Cumia

00:43:16.840 show continues

00:43:17.680 it's the Anthony Cumia show

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00:43:22.760 it's the Anthony Cumia

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00:43:31.040 Network

00:43:31.440 the Anthony Cumia show

00:43:35.000 yes it is

00:43:37.060 we thank you for tuning in

00:43:39.760 so funny I posted

00:43:41.800 on X a picture

00:43:43.640 right before the show saying that we're

00:43:45.520 starting soon and

00:43:47.040 it's kind of a view from my

00:43:49.240 spot here at my desk

00:43:51.420 behind the microphone

00:43:52.940 and it's funny how everyone

00:43:55.660 zooms in and tries to

00:43:57.440 figure out what I'm writing down

00:43:59.780 on the show prep and

00:44:01.120 little things and someone zoomed in

00:44:03.520 He goes, what the hell is this?

00:44:05.620 Apparently, I was eating an apple, and I left a knife on my desk. 1.00

00:44:10.920 And I'm like, wow, you are crazy. 0.88

00:44:13.500 No, I'm not prepared to get into a knife fight. 0.98

00:44:17.480 I will not try to be like a riff from West Side Story

00:44:22.480 and defend myself or my loved ones with a knife. 0.98

00:44:27.560 That's a much younger man's game.

00:44:30.680 I recommend bringing a firearm to a knife fight. 1.00

00:44:35.880 It increases your odds unbelievably. 0.94

00:44:43.660 Yeah, Clown of the Week.

00:44:45.600 Man, I got three clips for Clown of the Week this week.

00:44:50.720 It wasn't very difficult. 0.83

00:44:52.040 There are plenty of clowns this week. 0.92

00:44:54.280 The Anthony Cumia Show presents The Clown of the Week. 0.60

00:45:00.660 One that we've had other times, Clown of the Week.

00:45:04.400 A lot of recurring clowns in Clowns of the Week. 0.91

00:45:08.720 Of course, our great, great congresswoman from Texas, for the time being, 0.93

00:45:16.520 Jasmine Crockett. 0.65

00:45:19.020 She's our gal, Clown of the Week this week.

00:45:22.660 And she, along with other Democrats, have this idea that whatever they say is not a call to violence, you know, because we were talking about the fact that the liberal Democrats, Democrats, liberal Democrat is redundant.

00:45:44.380 uh they've been saying things that are terrible and villainizing people on the right to the point

00:45:51.300 where their mental patient constituents want to go out and be the hero so they uh perpetrate 0.57

00:45:59.020 violence against people on the right but you talk to people like jasmine crockett and they don't

00:46:05.220 I think anything they say conjures up this violence in their followers.

00:46:13.540 So here's Jasmine of the first clip.

00:46:16.120 She believes that calling someone Hitler isn't really an issue.

00:46:19.320 Let's listen to this.

00:46:20.940 We've got to talk about what it means when you're running for president

00:46:23.960 or you're running for one of these higher offices

00:46:26.120 and you go out there and you talk about beating people up.

00:46:28.400 You go out there and you say things like, 0.95

00:46:29.720 I could shoot somebody in the middle of the street in New York and I could still win. 0.54

00:46:33.740 We've got to talk about like that. That is next level. Me disagreeing with you. Me calling you, you know, I want to be Hitler. All those things are like not necessarily saying go out and hurt somebody. But when you're literally telling people at rallies, yeah, beat them up and that kind of stuff, like you are promoting like a culture of violence. So we need to talk about like what it looks like when you don't promote a culture of violence. 0.99

00:46:57.760 she doesn't even understand she doesn't even understand when trump said i could shoot someone

00:47:04.120 on fifth avenue and i they'd still vote for me uh that was a hyperbole that was him saying i'm so 1.00

00:47:12.320 popular that you politicians in washington the swamp you idiot you're so hated that i could do 1.00

00:47:20.940 something so repugnant like shooting someone on fifth avenue and i'd still get elected they always 1.00

00:47:28.180 want to take trump verbatim and never look into the trump isms that is his lifetime history of 0.91

00:47:36.720 making um god do i even have enough time let's try uh shootings are white supremacy that's uh

00:47:44.940 the next clip let's listen to jasmine so we're not gonna talk about white supremacy like we're

00:47:49.820 not going to talk about the fact that the vast majority of these shootings whether they are

00:47:55.940 seen as political or not if we look at the numbers white supremacy ideology but we don't want to do

00:48:04.060 anything about that there's no legislation that they want to bring every time you say white

00:48:08.020 supremacy they want to yell oh you're race baiting no i am going on facts like these crimes when we

00:48:14.840 look at these mass shootings most of them are linked to neo-nazism or you know proud boys or 0.85

00:48:21.120 whatever it's always some white supremacy kind of thing that's going on it's not black folk that 0.55

00:48:27.360 are going out there it's not immigrants that are going out there but what cities are we going into 0.94

00:48:33.240 black cities because we are supposedly the ones that commit all the crime which people are we

00:48:39.160 going after immigrants because allegedly it's immigrants but we don't want to have a talk about

00:48:43.100 what the numbers say, what the facts say,

00:48:45.220 which is that we have a white supremacy problem

00:48:47.080 in this country. So until

00:48:49.080 we decide to deal with the problem,

00:48:51.340 we're going to continue to have a problem.

00:48:53.740 Can you even...

00:48:55.180 I don't have enough time in this break to cover that

00:48:57.200 and we have one more. We have a clown 0.93

00:48:59.200 of the week that's going to go two segments.

00:49:01.180 First time in Anthony Cumia's show history.

00:49:04.100 That is

00:49:04.980 preposterous, what she's

00:49:07.360 saying. It is an outright

00:49:09.100 lie. She says it's fact.

00:49:12.140 This is

00:49:13.100 Insanity. This is lying at a galactic level.

00:49:18.400 And we'll address it. More of your calls and more of the Anthony Cumia show.

00:49:24.760 I'm disgusted. In moments, don't go anywhere.

00:49:30.080 We'll be right back.

00:49:31.960 It's the Anthony Cumia show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:49:36.460 twizzlers keep the fun going yeah i know i just stopped whatever you were listening to to tell

00:49:46.400 you that twizzlers keep the fun going well irony isn't my forte but twisty chewy yummy twizzlers

00:49:52.520 sure is so think of twizzlers as a little palate cleanser for whatever's queued up

00:49:57.100 which by the way should be coming very soon like any second now okay twizzlers time to keep the fun

00:50:04.800 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:50:10.600 Entertaining and informative.

00:50:12.700 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:50:15.520 The Anthony Cumia Show.

00:50:17.960 And before the break, we're talking about Jasmine Crockett.

00:50:24.420 She is Clown of the Week.

00:50:25.840 And her take on that, she says these shootings are mostly, vastly, 1.00

00:50:34.800 perpetrated by white supremacists the um crazy white supremacists out there that seem to be 0.99

00:50:42.160 doing all the shootings i guess when you look at chicago every weekend and see um five six seven 1.00

00:50:50.920 killed 30 something shot uh those evil white supremacists because that's maga country i

00:50:59.320 believe is what jussie smollett said maga country uh the unbelievable amounts of uh shootings in 0.98

00:51:07.020 in most large democrat cities uh are perpetrated by white supremacists this if you if you listen

00:51:15.920 to jasmine crockett this is what what the facts are she said these are facts i guess statistics

00:51:24.020 can prove this and uh you know proud boys she brings up uh can you please find any instance

00:51:35.080 of uh proud boys shooting something up um because of white supremacy but that's what she says so

00:51:45.540 who are we to doubt her we'd be called racist if we uh doubt jasmine crockett the last thing

00:51:52.320 that put her in the seat this week for Clown of the Week 0.99

00:51:58.220 is about policing in general.

00:52:02.400 I didn't know this.

00:52:03.680 I thought the police departments in the United States,

00:52:08.840 the earliest days of these United States,

00:52:13.220 were to enforce the laws that were legislated

00:52:20.820 by politicians that were elected by these brandy new americans uh but i'm i'm wrong

00:52:30.900 i am apparently wrong but jasmine crockett will tell you uh how policing how the police forces

00:52:41.340 in our country got started jasmine if you would but as somebody who understands history

00:52:48.880 When I see ICE, I see slave patrols.

00:52:51.400 Now, I never lived through the slave patrol period,

00:52:54.800 but if you know the history of policing in this country,

00:52:57.660 then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols.

00:53:01.540 I remember watching that show back in the 60s.

00:53:04.840 I was a little kid, eight years old, slave patrol.

00:53:06.840 It was amazing, fun show.

00:53:10.460 Vic Morrow was in it, I think.

00:53:13.520 Are you out of your mind?

00:53:15.200 policing

00:53:17.320 started. I guess everything was

00:53:20.340 hunky-dory.

00:53:22.740 America, this brand

00:53:24.400 new colony 0.71

00:53:26.540 of England

00:53:27.780 was so

00:53:30.620 without crime

00:53:32.160 that police

00:53:34.600 weren't even needed.

00:53:36.820 There were no police

00:53:38.580 forces. Can you

00:53:40.520 imagine that?

00:53:42.880 Everyone just went to the

00:53:44.460 general store they bought stuff gave their money and walked out with the goods and 1.00

00:53:51.500 not a cop was needed when all these white europeans were walking around 0.97

00:53:59.860 is that what jasmine crockett's saying that cops weren't needed until black people were brought

00:54:07.660 over from africa i don't think she's doing her community any services by saying that police

00:54:14.560 were invented for the sole purpose of rounding up black people that that before that white colonies

00:54:23.120 the colonies here in america didn't even need police they were just so honest and lovely 0.60

00:54:30.700 uh people is that what you're saying jasmine i call her slavey crockett like davy crockett

00:54:42.140 only different because all she talks about is uh slavery everything she talks about 0.66

00:54:47.760 has to dredge up slavery as the reason for all of the black community's ills so um once again 0.97

00:54:56.700 And there she is, our Clown of the Week. 1.00

00:55:00.440 We should have a crown for Clown of the Week just fitted for Jasmine. 1.00

00:55:05.460 Just permanently fitted for her dumb head. 1.00

00:55:09.120 Because she's been Clown of the Week before, and I guarantee you she will be Clown of the Week in the future. 1.00

00:55:17.480 But let's not let the runner-up off the hook so easily.

00:55:23.060 I'm talking, of course, about Nancy Pelosi.

00:55:25.520 There were a bunch of Democrats that came out this week and said that regardless or irregardless, irregardless of the situation, that irregardless or regardless of what they said,

00:55:43.780 Dems cannot possibly have any responsibility in violence perpetrated against people on the right for nothing more than voicing their opinion, no matter what they say.

00:55:58.780 So you got half of them saying, more than half of them saying, well, we got to tone down the rhetoric.

00:56:05.640 We got to make sure that we're not inciting violence and speaking hate.

00:56:12.480 And then Pelosi says, well, that's nice.

00:56:17.160 But even if we do say horrible things about the right, whatever happens ain't us.

00:56:25.400 We didn't do it.

00:56:27.000 We didn't do anything.

00:56:28.940 So here's the great Nancy Pelosi saying that no responsibility taken.

00:56:34.960 Let's listen.

00:56:36.000 people don't have any intention of saying something that's going to lead to something

00:56:42.020 dangerous but we cannot take responsibility for the minds that are out there and how they hear it

00:56:49.120 other democrats are quickly calling for gun control before all right we can so so yeah

00:56:54.940 uh they're not taking responsibility and hey we say things but we can't possibly be responsible

00:57:03.680 if some impressionable, indoctrinated mental patient

00:57:09.120 goes off and does something,

00:57:13.100 you're whispering in their ear, 1.00

00:57:17.100 kill them, kill them. 1.00

00:57:20.360 What was the, oh, Jason. 1.00

00:57:24.360 Kill them, mommy, kill them, mommy. 1.00

00:57:27.380 Remember that? 1.00

00:57:27.900 You're whispering in their ear from every corner, mainstream media, boom, Hollywood, Washington, Madison Avenue, the fake news, all of it, all of it is whispering in their ears. 1.00

00:57:51.980 and you know they're lunatics. 0.99

00:57:56.000 If you take weak-minded, impressionable people 1.00

00:58:00.660 and just pile this garbage, these lies on them 1.00

00:58:07.180 that certain people are trying to do you harm, 0.99

00:58:12.680 how do you think they're going to react?

00:58:15.580 And the more of those you get,

00:58:17.960 the more chance that they'll do the violence that you hope they do.

00:58:24.560 This is a very tricky way to hire an assassin.

00:58:33.400 You're not literally going out and finding any one person, MKUltra style. 0.96

00:58:40.560 you're just going out there and and throwing uh the crap against the wall and seeing what sticks 0.99

00:58:49.340 you know that if you get enough of these weak-minded impressionable dolts these useful 1.00

00:58:57.100 idiots that they call them you get enough of them and you preach the same stuff to them 1.00

00:59:05.440 99% of them won't do anything. 1.00

00:59:08.760 They'll get mad. 1.00

00:59:10.280 They'll show up at your dumb rallies and protests. 1.00

00:59:13.880 They'll fly their flags and paint their signs. 1.00

00:59:18.300 And when questioned, not even know what the hell they're there for.

00:59:23.300 But they're just hoping for that one,

00:59:26.620 that one person that hears it, takes it to heart,

00:59:30.500 takes it personally, and goes,

00:59:33.920 yeah, they're asking me to do this.

00:59:39.400 They're begging me to take up arms against this person

00:59:43.880 that they don't agree with.

00:59:47.240 They're saying that this person is so dangerous

00:59:49.880 that our very lives depend on me taking that person out.

00:59:56.580 So there's no real connection.

00:59:59.680 There's no paper trail.

01:00:01.160 there's plenty of plausible deniability there

01:00:05.700 but it is a legitimate tactic

01:00:08.920 and they've used it and they've used it well

01:00:11.840 we've seen this happen over the past couple of years

01:00:15.120 they are getting people shot at

01:00:17.920 and in some cases like Charlie Kirk killed

01:00:20.640 using this very strategy

01:00:23.120 but I'm the nut 0.87

01:00:26.640 I'm the crazy guy I guess

01:00:28.540 uh let's see all right uh dina or deanna yes thank you all right you are covering so much 0.84

01:00:43.160 it's great um but you know listen to jasmine crockett everything's white supremacy white 0.91

01:00:49.360 supremacy she's married to a white minister did you know that oh yeah yeah no we all know that

01:00:56.840 that is so odd she harps on that but it's just a low-hanging fruit and i think charlie kirk was

01:01:05.940 trying to raise the bar to what academia is supposed to be supposed to be on these liberal

01:01:13.720 campuses this was supposed to be what they do a a reasonable peaceful discourse this this speaking

01:01:22.580 and debating each other it's it's what colleges were known for yes and the more you debate the

01:01:31.520 more you fine-tune the thought and it becomes very exciting when you debate and go on and

01:01:38.360 and then they pose another angle because my family's all in academia and it's all about debate

01:01:45.180 but i would like to also say that that's my sister's name academia academia you get over here

01:01:52.580 Thank you. Just making a little joke. Go ahead. Continue.

01:01:57.320 As far as firing someone who is speaking in a slanderous manner, I mean, it's up to the employer.

01:02:06.300 You realize I believe you. I agree about hate speech, but it's it's permitted.

01:02:12.280 And Charlie Kirk permitted it. But if you're hiring someone, it can taint the image of your company.

01:02:20.520 and bring the whole morale down.

01:02:23.660 I get it.

01:02:24.440 I get it.

01:02:24.980 It's what we call a sticky wicket, Deanna.

01:02:29.460 I appreciate your call, dear, and we will take a quick break.

01:02:34.740 We'll be back.

01:02:35.460 More of your calls. 1.00

01:02:36.700 We got stupid Governor Hochul with her nonsense. 1.00

01:02:42.800 What else we got here? 1.00

01:02:44.220 Oh, Mayor Brandon Johnson from Chicago and his ridiculous. 0.97

01:02:49.260 Who thought we could get a worse mayor than Lori Lightfoot in Chicago? 0.98

01:02:55.340 Well, you got him.

01:02:56.760 You got him, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and a lot more.

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01:03:26.340 back to the phones this is andre from tampa florida what's up andre hey what's up anthony

01:03:34.980 so hanging out hanging out hey listen brother congratulations on your comeback man i'm so glad

01:03:41.060 abc picked you up and i am too now you're exposed to this whole new market here and a lot more folks

01:03:46.420 can enjoy your talents like a lot of us have since back in the wow days.

01:03:49.820 Appreciate hearing it, my friend.

01:03:51.740 I really, really do.

01:03:53.300 It's been a great ride here, and I'm hoping for a lot more.

01:03:58.380 Thank you.

01:03:59.120 Absolutely, brother.

01:04:00.100 More power to you, man. 1.00

01:04:01.720 Maybe Reagan can make an appearance sometime.

01:04:04.060 Well, you never know, son.

01:04:06.400 Yes.

01:04:08.600 So to piggyback off what you said, you know, someone dropped the ball here,

01:04:12.460 whether it was purposely or not.

01:04:13.840 it's not for me to say but it somewhat comes across as a ploy to desensitize the public a

01:04:19.940 little bit you know just to further more point a little bit back in the day used to go on these

01:04:24.720 websites and you can see stuff like this you know boys will be boys and you you'll see stuff that

01:04:29.260 used to happen in iraq and stuff like that but yeah now it's just making it to susan and sally's

01:04:34.800 phone in the cul-de-sac who hasn't seen a lick of violence in her life you know and so now it's

01:04:39.700 just exposed mainstream you know yeah i i just think yeah go ahead no you continue that was my

01:04:47.720 point yep that was it yeah it really is um this whole thing is very multifaceted and i really

01:04:55.300 think that this was what they wanted the they wanted in butler pennsylvania with trump i think

01:05:03.800 they wanted us to see the exact thing we saw with charlie kirk happened to donald trump imagine

01:05:12.940 we were very very close to seeing the exact same thing only it being donald trump and there is

01:05:20.880 this um i think this want and need uh of of the opposition whoever that might be to desensitize

01:05:30.940 this country to extreme violence and extreme visual violence where where people look at it and

01:05:42.300 and go it desensitizes you it it makes you sort of oh well who really cares it dehumanizes people

01:05:52.520 absolutely i agree and you know uh just hearing folks call over and over a few of the shows on

01:06:02.640 lionels and a couple other shows i could just hear the sorrow in people's voice and broken

01:06:07.300 hearted and yeah i just want to say to those folks out there calling in you know i empathize

01:06:12.040 you know maybe some of us out here i've seen more than others but you know just remember the lord is

01:06:17.840 always near and dear to those who are broken hearted and saves those crushed in spirit so

01:06:21.880 Just hang in there.

01:06:22.820 Everybody stick together, and we can make it through.

01:06:25.260 We're American.

01:06:26.460 We're strong.

01:06:26.780 Thank you, Andre.

01:06:28.040 Awesome, man.

01:06:29.060 I appreciate it.

01:06:30.560 It goes on, Drake.

01:06:31.200 Yeah.

01:06:31.840 You know, a lot of people, they take to their religion or whatever traditions,

01:06:40.780 whatever ideals, whatever makes them feel good,

01:06:44.240 their families and friends during times like this, and that's a good thing.

01:06:49.480 And then you have other people that take to, God knows what, Satan, evil, their enclave, their little coven of horrible people.

01:07:06.880 We've seen it.

01:07:08.960 I don't think, hmm, let me rewind in my head a little bit before I say this, but I think, yeah, I think I could safely say this.

01:07:18.420 I don't think any situation has truly shown the difference between good and evil in this country than the reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination.

01:07:34.520 I think we have seen unbelievable good and spirit.

01:07:40.720 and and when you watch these people get together in uh these towns across the country

01:07:48.780 and they hold hands and gather in front of their churches uh wherever their meeting place

01:07:56.740 might be in these in these towns across the country and hold hands and and pray and sing

01:08:03.680 candlelight vigils

01:08:05.700 how do you

01:08:08.200 not look at that

01:08:09.380 as opposed to people dancing

01:08:11.780 and singing and cheering on

01:08:14.060 the death of a

01:08:15.900 beloved father and husband

01:08:17.960 and just

01:08:19.960 a decent man

01:08:21.820 how do you not

01:08:23.880 look at those unbelievable

01:08:25.840 extremes

01:08:26.580 and you can't

01:08:29.880 identify the good

01:08:31.340 from the evil

01:08:32.880 This isn't just a difference of opinion.

01:08:36.300 I understand differences of opinion.

01:08:39.820 This transcends that.

01:08:43.180 This is looking at two starkly different groups of people.

01:08:48.780 One appreciates life, loves life, appreciates basic traditions like family and freedoms.

01:09:02.880 And the other cheers on the murder of a good man.

01:09:10.360 This isn't something that can be volleyed about

01:09:15.460 and your opinion can change about it based on this or that.

01:09:19.200 This is a stark red line between good and evil.

01:09:27.060 And I'm not even as spiritual as most people, believe me. 0.99

01:09:30.860 I could probably do with sitting my ass in a church pew 0.99

01:09:35.720 a few more times than I do a year. 1.00

01:09:39.360 But truth be told,

01:09:42.320 and I think that even makes more of a point here,

01:09:46.140 I don't think you have to be religious,

01:09:51.760 practicing religious or very spiritual

01:09:56.380 to see the big difference here. 0.98

01:09:59.340 you just have to be a damn human being we have this built-in innate knowledge or or just our 0.98

01:10:15.220 hard drive i've talked about our our rom and ram of our human brains the rom is just the 0.99

01:10:24.500 operating it's what what is is in our head from birth it's just hardwired into what makes us

01:10:32.880 humans and then the ram is what we put in there over the course of our life

01:10:39.440 and and i think we are innately good i think i think we know most people unless they're damaged

01:10:51.480 most people know right from wrong

01:10:54.580 without having to read

01:10:55.980 the Bible or any religious material

01:10:59.680 without having to speak to somebody

01:11:01.420 when someone dies

01:11:04.420 we get a feeling

01:11:05.780 this pall over us

01:11:08.120 where we know something bad has happened

01:11:10.360 it's hardwired into us

01:11:14.140 and that difference between good and evil

01:11:18.480 are the people that just know what good is and what evil is.

01:11:25.820 It's very complicated, but there is a simplicity to it. 0.76

01:11:31.220 And it's a friggin, boy, I am so close to cursing, 0.95

01:11:36.260 shame that we have to live with these people 0.97

01:11:42.320 that don't appreciate the most basic things

01:11:47.800 that we hold dear in life.

01:11:51.200 Respect, respecting a man

01:11:54.480 that was just speaking his mind,

01:11:58.040 a decent man with a family who loved him.

01:12:03.860 And you got people that just literally dancing,

01:12:09.980 celebrating speaking out how great this was that's evil and look i'm a guy i'm not i'm not

01:12:22.500 a religious guy that talks about good and evil like this all right more calls more me in minutes

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01:13:21.040 Let's go right to Steve from New Jersey.

01:13:24.820 What's up, Steve?

01:13:27.260 Hey, Anthony.

01:13:28.500 Hey, man.

01:13:30.240 Hey.

01:13:31.020 I never caught...

01:13:32.780 I really enjoy your show.

01:13:34.300 I'll start there.

01:13:35.020 I never caught a single episode of O&A.

01:13:37.240 and probably best they did, I bailed on shock jocks election day 1992

01:13:43.500 when the man there, whose name rhymes with Coward Byrne.

01:13:49.140 That's right, Rob.

01:13:51.020 He single-handedly helped elect Bill and Hill,

01:13:54.800 and that was the beginning of the downfall of where we are today.

01:13:57.380 But that's not the purpose of my call.

01:13:58.760 Forget him.

01:13:59.220 He's irrelevant.

01:14:00.480 Yes, he is.

01:14:01.020 All right. I'm listening the last four days. Just in the conservative media, I hear thoughts and prayers. I listen to tears. We need to tamp things down. But what I'm not hearing enough of in the conservative media is outrage and a call to arms.

01:14:19.500 And let me be clear, I don't think we need civil war in the streets.

01:14:23.960 I don't think we're there yet.

01:14:24.940 But if we don't handle this right and realize what we're up against, that's where we're headed now.

01:14:29.900 So let me give you an example, all right?

01:14:33.200 This guy, how we begin to push back.

01:14:36.300 This guy faces possibly the death penalty in Utah.

01:14:39.940 And if he gets federal charges, the same thing.

01:14:42.980 He should get a speedy trial. 0.99

01:14:44.460 And if he's found guilty, all right, he should be given a death penalty in a public execution. 0.98

01:14:52.740 Nobody has to watch. 0.96

01:14:54.120 But that sends a powerful message.

01:14:55.960 Step one. 0.95

01:14:56.840 Step two, go to all these left-wing rioters, all right, that are rioting against Jews and Christians, all right? 0.70

01:15:04.960 And then find out, arrest some of them and threaten them with long-term jail sentences if they don't give up the goods.

01:15:11.460 Using the RICO statue now, all right?

01:15:13.680 Are you familiar with that?

01:15:14.460 That's how they went. And you start at the bottom and you work your way up.

01:15:18.780 And hopefully that leads to the Soros types that I believe are funding this.

01:15:23.420 What is this that I'm referring to? It's the American Communist Party.

01:15:27.460 Look online. The media would have you believe they've they've sort of they've sort of gone away.

01:15:35.000 They haven't. They took over the Democratic Party. Let me be clear.

01:15:37.960 Not every Democrat is a communist. Let me be clear.

01:15:41.540 But every communist is a Democrat.

01:15:43.260 at. There you go, man. There you go. And if we don't get this right, if we don't, then we are

01:15:50.700 headed for civil war and shooting in the streets. But we've got to send them a message, just like I

01:15:55.600 just said. And all the tears, again, it has its place. But if you're not, if to seriously get our

01:16:04.640 people have to man up here, let's be clear on that. All right. And let these people know we're

01:16:10.360 We're ready to take them on.

01:16:11.920 And I don't mind telling you, I have some doubts about it.

01:16:14.400 A lot of these investigations, too, have to come out of Congress.

01:16:17.820 You notice these investigations that start in Congress go nowhere?

01:16:20.800 Yep, yep, always.

01:16:22.660 The Justice Department working with the FBI is where a lot of this has to be going on.

01:16:29.440 And that's why I'm starting to have doubts, just starting, about whether Bondi, Patel, and Bongino were up to it.

01:16:36.280 The one thing about Matt Gaetz, and I realize he made a huge boneheaded move, taking out Kevin, but he was ready to go, buddy, balls to the wall.

01:16:45.260 He was ready to go after all this, all right?

01:16:47.300 We need a strong attorney general and people heading the FBI that are willing to go after this.

01:16:53.720 It isn't going to be easy to unravel all this, but it's there.

01:16:56.740 It's there if the investigatory bodies of the U.S. government do it.

01:17:01.520 What do you think?

01:17:02.140 Go ahead.

01:17:02.620 I'll stop.

01:17:03.400 I'll listen.

01:17:03.600 I'll hang up and listen online.

01:17:05.380 I like that, Steve.

01:17:07.160 Thank you, man.

01:17:08.060 Yeah, you know, we all have anger.

01:17:10.980 We're all really pissed off.

01:17:13.680 And as we go through the grieving process, what happens after?

01:17:20.480 Do we just settle back down and do what we've done time and time again?

01:17:26.560 Or are we more proactive and try to really make changes?

01:17:31.520 I think, especially to what Steve was saying about the Justice Department and the FBI and people really doing something about rampant communists trying to overthrow our government and our country.

01:17:49.960 Yeah, something's got to be done about that.

01:17:52.300 And the people in charge and the people that would have to spearhead this can't be afraid.

01:17:58.200 They need to go after it.

01:18:00.040 and who cares about the criticism, the name-calling,

01:18:06.060 what will they be called, xenophobic, racist, whatever it is.

01:18:10.960 This needs to be done.

01:18:13.920 I don't know how many of you have seen,

01:18:16.020 there are plenty of clips of people that literally worked for the KGB

01:18:22.460 during the Soviet Union during some of the most tumultuous times

01:18:28.920 of the cold war and they spell out what it would take for communist infiltration to take down the

01:18:40.800 united states of america and it was not something that was done overnight this was generational this

01:18:47.780 took years but he's talking about this in the 60s and i've seen a few videos like this

01:18:56.920 and man it is a picture perfect version of what has happened in this country over the course

01:19:05.420 of decades they spell out every step of the way now they'd either have to be time travelers

01:19:15.900 fortune tellers or something this was being said decades ago and it's every step of the way

01:19:26.900 exactly what is being done to this country

01:19:29.800 for communist infiltration

01:19:32.960 to destroy what America is.

01:19:39.060 Everything we hold dear,

01:19:41.780 every institution,

01:19:44.740 everything that makes us Americans,

01:19:48.860 everything we respected,

01:19:50.540 the flag, family, education, hard work,

01:19:55.720 all of it destroyed

01:19:59.500 and these guys

01:20:02.820 I mean the videos are readily available online

01:20:05.980 black and white, grainy, they're all smoking butts in the studio

01:20:10.680 it's amazing

01:20:11.360 but it's exactly what is happening

01:20:16.220 and has happened over the course of decades

01:20:19.720 this is a plan that has been in place

01:20:22.900 for quite some time

01:20:24.920 I think once the Soviet Union especially, but even the powers that be in the Soviet Union, once they understood there was no way that they were going to get some kind of a military victory over us or get a leverage or an advantage of all these communist freedom, democracy, communist proxy wars that were going on all over the globe.

01:20:53.700 and they're just looking going this ain't gonna do it we need to get them we need to get inside

01:21:00.100 we need to get into their schools that will take very very long comrade what do we do in the

01:21:08.700 meantime we sit we do nothing we sit and wait for them to rot from the inside and that's exactly

01:21:19.760 what's happening right now and and assassinations like we saw with charlie kirk are part of it

01:21:26.520 they're part of it so you know take it for what it's worth but i don't believe they were fortune

01:21:35.760 tellers i don't believe they were time travelers i believe they were communists that worked in the

01:21:41.540 kgb during the days of the cold war soviet union and they knew damn well that plan that was in

01:21:50.460 effect it would take generations but man is it paying off right now deny that try to try to deny

01:22:00.420 that let's go to scott from the great state of virginia what's up scott hey and banger of a show

01:22:09.000 tonight man thank you i'm full of uh piss and vinegar i think they call it what's up

01:22:13.980 so you know as you know i'm a veteran i took very personally that thank you for your service 0.57

01:22:20.880 thank you for your service sir i was a navy seal a frogman in vietnam now i go to baja california

01:22:30.340 to get off the grid anyway thanks jesse right on no i take it personally you know and as a free

01:22:40.000 speech absolutist i felt that we had a pretty well written you know except the left has a reading

01:22:45.420 problem a pretty well written guideline to free speech and i think right now they need to be

01:22:50.980 squeezed and they need to feel because as you yourself was a very very much on the point of

01:22:56.280 the spear of cancel culture um they wielded that like a you know orangutan with a you know a cam

01:23:03.600 shaft on a stick they just wielded it with extreme violence now the only way that they're going to 0.90

01:23:09.640 understand this if they cannot be made to think they should be made to feel so they have to take

01:23:15.600 their lumps until they they capitulate and cry for a law that says well somewhat verifying our

01:23:22.160 first amendment that you cannot be fired dismissed whatsoever for personal health political beliefs

01:23:26.780 period anybody no matter which way they lean left or right i.e. returning to the prior social

01:23:31.760 contract in which we had where they can be leftist we can be rightist kind of like we grew up in the

01:23:36.200 age of reason of the 70s and 80s you know the wonderful time period well i think uh scott i i

01:23:42.800 do believe that the businesses and the owners of these businesses it's it seems pretty cyclical

01:23:49.440 Because now it seems the business owners doing the firings are on the right.

01:23:56.660 They support free speech.

01:23:58.600 They supported people going out like Charlie Kirk and just talking. 0.98

01:24:04.100 And they're the ones firing these disgusting leftist mental patients that aren't just voicing an opinion.

01:24:12.700 Now, like I said earlier, does it merit them being fired, something that affects your real life? 0.95

01:24:22.400 I don't know.

01:24:24.000 But they're on the other side of it right now, regardless if it's right or wrong or if it's truly an infringement on their free speech or not.

01:24:33.180 They're feeling it.

01:24:34.740 They are seeing what it's like to be on the other side of cancel culture.

01:24:39.180 And as a person, I enjoy seeing it. 0.99

01:24:41.680 But as a free speech absolutist, I'm still a little on the fence wondering if this is a good thing or not, because it'll come back eventually and we'll get bitten in the ass for it. 0.98

01:24:54.300 So I don't know, Scott. 0.94

01:24:56.980 I say let's mutually agree to wrap this up and, you know, re-enshrine that First Amendment.

01:25:02.620 And you cannot be fired from your workplace for expressing an opinion of any political stripe.

01:25:08.040 And we just go back. That's the way it is.

01:25:10.580 You know, we used to just agree on that and think like without any law, have anybody be put in place.

01:25:18.760 We used to just agree on the fact that we're going to have different opinions and let's not massacre each other because we have different opinions.

01:25:27.660 Now we would need to put some type of legislation in place that says a company can't fire you because of your ideology.

01:25:35.640 I don't like the idea that we would have to do that.

01:25:39.180 I would like to be in a place where we understand.

01:25:41.540 I know, I know.

01:25:42.460 I'm living in a fantasy world here, Scott.

01:25:45.760 All right, my friend.

01:25:46.600 Thank you for the call.

01:25:47.900 I do appreciate it.

01:25:50.580 We'll move on.

01:25:51.740 Try to get to some other stuff here tonight.

01:25:55.080 Let me take a look.

01:25:57.440 Oh, fake news.

01:25:58.460 Let's do a little fake news.

01:26:00.700 Where's this?

01:26:03.060 Now.

01:26:03.760 Fake news, folks.

01:26:04.740 Fake news.

01:26:05.320 It's the fake news.

01:26:06.780 Fake stories.

01:26:07.700 News moment.

01:26:08.740 i just love the way john says fake news and he goes fake stories um this uh fake news segment

01:26:16.960 uh is jb pritzer this is your governor your rotund governor of illinois illinois is pretty much

01:26:29.200 all we really hear from illinois is chicago it's like new york new york is a pretty red state

01:26:37.180 But we only hear about New York City and Hochul and Adams. 0.89

01:26:45.780 But Illinois is another one of these states that a lot of people in Illinois don't like Pritzer and their dumb mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago. 0.92

01:26:59.760 But that doesn't stop them. 0.95

01:27:03.220 Here's J.B. Pritzer.

01:27:05.000 This is fake news.

01:27:06.140 He's on a podcast or a news show, and he's another one of these guys that insists.

01:27:15.540 Now, we all know what the truth is.

01:27:19.360 He insists that Donald J. Trump is the one that is defunding the police department. 0.96

01:27:28.760 Now, we we have been through years of watching liberal Democrats crying to defund the police after the the the George Floyd debacle and even the Mike Brown nonsense and all this crap. 0.67

01:27:49.960 All we heard from the Democrats was, oh, we we need to defund the police. 0.96

01:27:56.140 They all said it.

01:27:57.740 They all joined the protesters and said it.

01:28:00.900 And now that defund the police is out of fashion because the Democrats, their take now is to fake that they're about stopping crime.

01:28:12.640 They're all about making the city safer.

01:28:15.800 Because under their defund the police and getting rid of bail and all that Democrat nonsense, the cities have become war zones, murder, rape, robbery, assaults.

01:28:30.480 It is it is a terror to go into a major city in this country.

01:28:37.420 So now they don't want to sound like they wanted to defund the police.

01:28:41.440 That means unsafe cities and they won't take responsibility for that, even though they're 100 percent responsible for the the carnage going on in our major cities.

01:28:52.900 So here's J.B. Pritzer, big fat J.B. Pritzer, talking about defunding the police and saying that Donald Trump is all about defunding police. 0.98

01:29:04.020 Listen to this garbage. 0.91

01:29:06.180 Well, let's debunk the myth that that we have somehow defunded police. 0.99

01:29:11.680 It's Donald Trump that's defunded police.

01:29:13.400 I've hired more police in Illinois.

01:29:16.700 Donald Trump has taken all this money away and not just from police and including, by

01:29:22.260 the way, programs for local law enforcement.

01:29:24.420 But as you said, ATF, FBI, et cetera.

01:29:27.760 Grants that were already appropriated, by the way.

01:29:30.300 Exactly.

01:29:30.680 It's it's illegal what he's done, but he doesn't care.

01:29:34.240 And he wants to create a problem.

01:29:36.040 Remember, this is all about fomenting a problem so that he can bring militarization to our cities. 1.00

01:29:42.640 Can you like any idiot can figure out what he's really saying here? 1.00

01:29:51.600 Donald Trump defunded. 1.00

01:29:53.560 And then he talks about his police and law enforcement budgets

01:29:59.820 and the fact that programs are cut

01:30:03.660 and money comes out of the police department.

01:30:08.240 Look at what was cut. 0.98

01:30:11.540 These are the ridiculous liberal programs 0.96

01:30:15.340 that do nothing to cut crime. 0.99

01:30:18.800 Nothing. 0.72

01:30:19.480 These are the let's send social workers to violent domestic disputes instead of police officers.

01:30:28.580 And here's X amount of money for that.

01:30:31.560 And Doge and Trump looked at it and Republicans in Illinois looked at it and just said, no, this is useless.

01:30:40.160 This is a waste of money. 0.96

01:30:41.920 And they cut it and then hopefully put it back in place as as money to to programs that really cut crime, not these garbage, Democrat, feel good, nonsensical, do nothing programs. 0.89

01:30:59.680 and he says that's what Donald Trump has done defund police no defunding the wasted money

01:31:11.860 the waste that goes into these programs that do nothing to fight crime they actually

01:31:21.360 let criminals off the hook it's like the border patrol thing remember Biden was always talking

01:31:28.540 about we have bipartisan bill they didn't want to sign trump said no don't sign so he could look

01:31:34.440 good at the bipartisan bill on bordered they don't want that was all about a huge amount of money

01:31:42.100 going to judges and lawyers and what have you and even border patrol agents but not to

01:31:50.280 arrest and deport them but to bring them in and fill out the paperwork so they could be deposited

01:31:58.780 in springfield ohio and all the other little cities around the united states it had nothing

01:32:06.440 to do with stopping the invasion of illegals coming into this country and they said oh trump

01:32:14.420 stop the great bipartisan bill this is the same thing oh he defunded the police in illinois yeah

01:32:21.840 defunded the ridiculous programs that would have done nothing to quell crime in in the the

01:32:29.160 unbelievably dangerous city of chicago right now and we'll get to that and and uh the mayor

01:32:38.220 Brandon Johnson and his

01:32:40.040 nonsense 0.91

01:32:41.400 keep using nonsense tonight

01:32:43.820 it's just so fitting

01:32:45.800 when we return in moments

01:32:48.760 with more of the Anthony Cumia show

01:32:50.100 it's the Anthony Cumia show

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01:33:06.840 And just scrolling through X during the break, Black Lives Matter activist Monica Cannon Grant has pleaded guilty to 27 counts of fraud. 0.88

01:33:22.900 if people don't see what a a criminal enterprise what a grift black lives matter was over the 0.90

01:33:37.200 course of the years i mean obviously they uh were born out of mike brown the hands up don't shoot 0.95

01:33:45.580 lie, the George Floyd drug-addled violent criminal that unfortunately perished from

01:33:56.080 a drug overdose while in custody of a police officer, and that officer is now paying with 0.97

01:34:02.180 his life in prison, and we see now that the whole thing, all of the leadership of Black

01:34:11.480 Lives Matter was on the take.

01:34:14.560 they couldn't not steal they saw all this money pouring in from nike and the nfl and and all these

01:34:26.620 huge corporations coca-cola what you name it millions of dollars poured in to black lives

01:34:35.600 matter and when they were asked to do a to take a look at their books when when they people said

01:34:49.060 hey can we see where this money is going they screamed racism racism

01:34:56.940 And they were buying houses, mansions, cars, taking vacations, and any time someone wanted

01:35:12.860 to assess their money and see where everything was going, what racism! 1.00

01:35:21.660 and give it a little time it all sorts itself out and what do we see monica canon grant guilty of 1.00

01:35:33.160 27 counts of fraud all you dummies all you idiots that that sent money to black lives matter 1.00

01:35:45.040 I hope you're happy. 1.00

01:35:48.420 And we called it years ago.

01:35:51.380 We knew this was a grift years ago. 0.95

01:35:56.220 And you dummies and the corporations, virtue signaling, look at this, I'm going to take 0.97

01:36:03.280 a knee. 1.00

01:36:05.000 Frito-Lay is taking a knee for Black Lives Matter.

01:36:09.680 Are you?

01:36:10.600 Yeah? DuPont wants you to know we believe in Black Lives Matter. Yeah? How's that working

01:36:19.860 out for you? 27 counts of fraud. Hi. Joaquin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A lot

01:36:32.020 of people say straight. What's up, man?

01:36:34.800 Yes. Good evening, Anthony. You know something that's really funny? Because though we have

01:36:38.440 a democrat government i mean we have fantastic gun laws here i mean yeah open carry i know and

01:36:43.640 you get it concealed you know so i mean i'm well armed you know and you're getting a dog is probably

01:36:49.260 the best security measure that you could have yeah and let's see here's something while i'm

01:36:53.940 doing my show and starts yapping but i get it no he's awesome anyway you know some i think that

01:37:01.040 people really have to wake up and realize that you know what we have right now this is an actual

01:37:05.720 communist Islamic revolution that's brewing. 0.87

01:37:09.620 And believe me, the coffee pot, I think, is done 0.97

01:37:11.780 because there was a small army.

01:37:14.700 Well, actually, rather large army.

01:37:15.380 You got about a minute, Joaquin, so keep it going.

01:37:18.400 Oh, okay.

01:37:19.340 It's a large army.

01:37:20.520 You know, the colleges and universities,

01:37:21.860 they're the military recruiting center for the left.

01:37:24.280 You know, and this kid who shot Charlie Kirk,

01:37:26.840 he's just an example of that, you know.

01:37:28.800 And they have basically, you know,

01:37:31.720 they've recruited through the college system.

01:37:35.540 I don't know how many of these people, and they're patriotic to their cause.

01:37:39.500 And if we also don't wake up and get people to stand up and vote, you know, in the coming midterms, we are going to be done.

01:37:48.420 I know.

01:37:49.640 Regains power.

01:37:50.640 They're going to come after us, you know, like they went after Trump, like they went after, you know, the January Sixers, you know. 0.93

01:37:58.320 I agree. 0.95

01:37:59.260 I agree.

01:38:00.120 I got to take off, Joaquin.

01:38:01.840 thank you for the call though and uh we will uh return with your calls 800-848-9222 and a lot

01:38:09.320 more uh what do i got joy behar and the girls of the view don't tune out please even though i just

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01:39:00.900 podcast network the anthony kumia show thank you for tuning in i want to uh change gears a little

01:39:12.040 bit here uh not too much though it's like going from second to third so i can get a third gear

01:39:19.100 not a big change uh mayor brandon johnson your mayor in chicago illinois he put the ill in

01:39:30.300 illinois yo because uh i don't know what this guy's thinking if anything if he's thinking

01:39:38.320 anything lori lightfoot was going to go down as the worst mayor in chicago history and then

01:39:48.400 brandon johnson pops in there and trumps her no pun intended but uh this guy he's on the wrong

01:39:58.540 side of everything the wrong side of everything

01:40:03.860 crime he loves it this guy loves crime he has to he's he doesn't want to do anything about it

01:40:17.100 he's the guy that got rid of the um shot spotters these little electronic devices they put them up

01:40:25.380 on light poles in chicago and when there's a gunshot uh the police are notified to a pinpoint

01:40:35.000 location where that gunshot happened some amazing electronic acoustic triangulation

01:40:42.540 so there's a gunshot and shot spotter would let the police know exactly where the shot came from

01:40:50.260 and they could respond exactly where it came from

01:40:54.280 and, you know, do their jobs.

01:40:57.940 Well, Mayor Brandon Johnson got rid of that.

01:41:02.040 His reason?

01:41:04.140 It was racist.

01:41:06.960 See, it seems whenever the cops showed up to the location, 0.98

01:41:13.320 why, there was a black person there firing a gun. 0.91

01:41:17.240 so shot spotter must have been racist to only point out where shooters were if they were 0.94

01:41:25.240 african-americans so he got rid of that he loves crime something recently happened in the franklin

01:41:34.500 park area of chicago uh ice was doing one of its wonderful um jobs getting rid of illegal aliens 0.93

01:41:45.500 and i've said this before if you're mad if you're angry about what the trump administration is doing 0.78

01:41:53.320 getting rid of these illegals you should be mad at joe biden he made the mess trump is cleaning up

01:42:01.500 the mess that joe biden's administration whoever that is uh mate flinging the border doors open 0.99

01:42:10.580 letting anyone and everyone in and then trump gets in and goes what a mess and he's trying to

01:42:18.020 clean it up and people go oh my god look at this guy he's terrible for cleaning up the mess that

01:42:24.380 the biden administration made so so uh mayor brandon johnson they were ice was doing a uh sweep

01:42:32.400 And they got this guy, Silverio, Silverio, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.

01:42:47.640 Yeah.

01:42:49.040 And he was being arrested by ICE.

01:42:55.160 He is an illegal alien in this country.

01:42:57.780 and under the trump administration you gotta go get out and while they were trying to make the

01:43:07.300 arrest he decided he was going to take off in his car they were trying to get him during a traffic

01:43:14.540 stop and uh he took off in his car um with a police officer on the vehicle the cop fell off

01:43:23.720 serious injuries this wasn't just uh oh i i hurt my knee or

01:43:28.820 this was serious injuries the cop ended up in the hospital in serious

01:43:34.060 condition the other officers on scene thought it was appropriate to dispatch

01:43:41.100 mr gonzalez and uh allow him to do the room temperature

01:43:47.960 challenge which mr gonzalez um won and mayor brandon johnson being briefed on this decided

01:44:00.100 to put out this statement get a load of this the chaos that unfolded yesterday in franklin park was

01:44:07.920 an unavoidable tragedy our prayers are with the family and friends of silvario viegas gonzalez

01:44:17.420 as we grieve this loss yeah the bad guy we've said from the beginning that the presence of

01:44:28.740 federal immigration agents on city streets will make life more dangerous for our neighbors

01:44:33.580 and for all the seemingly unconstitutional actions yesterday incited dangerous conditions

01:44:41.020 that put our communities at risk and ended in the loss of life.

01:44:45.940 This guy tried to kill a cop with his car.

01:44:51.500 And this, this is the take that your mayor, Brandon Johnson, Chicago, is taking.

01:45:01.540 This is his assessment of the events.

01:45:08.380 no person should live in fear of unlawful arrest detention harassment or violence

01:45:16.540 he didn't there wasn't unlawful arrest or detention or harassment or violence

01:45:25.940 unless you you consider the violence on his part you know trying to kill a cop with his car

01:45:33.380 we will continue to do everything in our power to protect the people of chicago

01:45:43.180 from federal overreach and unconstitutional actions this guy adores crime

01:45:51.240 we stand in solidarity with our immigrant community illegal immigrant because that's 0.87

01:46:00.440 what this guy was he wasn't an immigrant he was an illegal immigrant a criminal

01:46:08.360 and especially our mexican community in chicago 0.85

01:46:13.880 by the way 0.99

01:46:15.760 the mexican community in chicago is the illegal

01:46:20.340 community in chicago

01:46:22.460 i can't imagine that mexicans came across the border

01:46:27.060 legally, and settled in Chicago.

01:46:31.020 Does that sound racist?

01:46:33.400 Sorry, I just don't see it.

01:46:38.180 Let's see.

01:46:38.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:46:41.420 Especially our Mexican community in Chicago,

01:46:43.960 in calling for a full account and a transparent investigation

01:46:47.660 into what led to the death of Silverio Vallejas Gonzalez.

01:46:55.580 Oh.

01:46:55.820 So he took the side of the criminal, the criminal that was dispatched

01:47:09.700 as he tried to murder a police officer.

01:47:15.060 And this is your mayor, Chicago.

01:47:17.700 I have as much faith in Chicago to elect competent leadership as I do New York.

01:47:29.000 I know New York is going to elect Memdani.

01:47:32.620 I just know it. 0.95

01:47:34.540 I hate the thought of it.

01:47:38.060 Curtis would make a great mayor. 1.00

01:47:41.000 But New Yorkers are way, way too stupid to actually vote for him. 1.00

01:47:47.160 And Republicans, I guess, are too lazy. 1.00

01:47:51.520 Election day, they're going to be sitting on their fat asses 1.00

01:47:55.280 in one of the five boroughs, 0.98

01:47:59.240 and they'll go, ah, what good will it do to go out and vote for Curtis?

01:48:05.260 He can't win.

01:48:06.400 You know why he can't win?

01:48:07.940 Because you're too lazy to get up, go to the booth, and vote for him.

01:48:14.820 So you'll have Madani.

01:48:16.200 enjoy I'll be watching from wonderful South Carolina from wonderful Greenville

01:48:24.000 South Carolina I'll be watching the demise the further demise the further 1.00

01:48:29.820 spiral down the turlet of New York City under a Mamdani mayor mayor ship but 0.95

01:48:39.060 Chicago that that's your guy that's your Brandon Johnson by the way Brandon

01:48:45.980 seems to think that he's doing a great job

01:48:50.280 curtailing violent crime in Chicago.

01:48:53.740 Oh, the murders just, the bodies stack up.

01:48:57.820 They stack up. 0.64

01:48:58.660 And oddly enough, they are minority African-American bodies. 1.00

01:49:04.680 You'd think they would do something about that 1.00

01:49:07.680 since they're very racially inclined 0.88

01:49:10.680 and would think they would want to save the lives of fellow African-Americans. 0.96

01:49:17.800 But they don't seem to care how many bodies pile up.

01:49:22.840 Here's their idea, Trump's idea, which they put a stop to.

01:49:27.920 I guess Trump wanted to do what he did in D.C.

01:49:30.680 National Guard comes in.

01:49:33.140 The police are under some type of federal leadership.

01:49:37.960 and they really

01:49:40.620 stomp down on crime. People get

01:49:42.540 arrested

01:49:42.980 and they get put in jail

01:49:45.780 and they don't want to go out on the streets

01:49:48.320 because they lose their guns

01:49:49.720 they get put in jail. It's not a good thing

01:49:52.560 and

01:49:54.280 Chicago

01:49:56.240 a lot of the lib Democrat politicians

01:49:58.800 including Mayor Johnson

01:50:00.740 they

01:50:02.420 have an idea. They have something

01:50:04.300 called violence

01:50:06.600 interrupters

01:50:07.760 oh yeah this is a thing

01:50:09.320 in Chicago

01:50:11.520 violence interrupters are trained individuals

01:50:13.860 often with credibility

01:50:15.180 from their own past experiences

01:50:17.540 with violence

01:50:18.300 street cred

01:50:19.600 these are gang members

01:50:21.780 and they hire them

01:50:24.360 they pay them money

01:50:26.320 to be

01:50:27.480 violence interrupters

01:50:29.740 or peacekeepers

01:50:30.920 as they call them

01:50:33.440 I am going to get so in depth

01:50:36.060 into this in the next segment wait to hear how much money went to this what these violence

01:50:42.420 interrupters in chicago are doing they get paid money and then they're they're criminals

01:50:48.060 this is unbelievable but completely believable uh back in moments with more of the anthony

01:50:55.560 cumia show don't go anywhere it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:51:02.620 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network the anthony cumia show

01:51:13.240 talking about uh the wonderful mayor brandon johnson in chicago he uh he feels he's had a

01:51:23.140 victory trump at least for the time being will not be going into chicago with the national guard

01:51:28.380 will not be taking control of Chicago PD and the bodies will continue to stack up.

01:51:36.160 We saw what happened in D.C. when Trump decided to get his hands in there and crime dropped dramatically.

01:51:44.780 Murders pretty much went away.

01:51:47.000 People were cheering that they were able to actually go out at night and walk around.

01:51:52.980 Imagine that that's a thing that people cheer about and feel compelled to comment about,

01:52:00.580 like it's a great, miraculous thing.

01:52:03.160 I can walk around.

01:52:06.300 That's how bad things have gotten.

01:52:10.140 And Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and many of these other cities, of course, L.A.,

01:52:18.440 They want no part of a program that really cracks down on crime

01:52:23.680 and allows the citizens to live their lives in peace.

01:52:28.740 They love crime.

01:52:31.200 So I'm talking about one of his programs that he thinks is so much better 0.99

01:52:34.800 than stupid Trump's program of actually cracking down on crime, 0.99

01:52:40.040 arresting people, taking guns out of the hands of convicted felons, 1.00

01:52:45.660 criminals, their stolen guns.

01:52:48.440 The Dems would rather just take everyone's guns away.

01:52:51.660 So we have no protection for ourselves.

01:52:54.580 We know.

01:52:56.340 So this violence interrupters, these are former gang members and violent criminals in Chicago

01:53:02.420 that they have put on the payroll to, what do they say they do?

01:53:09.040 Build community trust and connecting high-risk individuals to social services.

01:53:16.020 They are a key component of community violence intervention programs like the Cure Violence Model, formerly Chicago Ceasefire.

01:53:27.000 What happened to Chicago Ceasefire?

01:53:29.560 Why did you have to change it into Cure Violence?

01:53:33.780 I bet Chicago Ceasefire didn't work.

01:53:37.060 I bet it didn't do anything.

01:53:39.040 People were still firing.

01:53:42.240 They weren't cease firing.

01:53:43.780 operating similarly to a public health approach to disease

01:53:50.180 by identifying and interrupting violent situations

01:53:54.360 before they escalate.

01:53:56.900 Conflict mediation.

01:53:58.600 They intervene on ongoing disputes, de-escalate tense situations

01:54:02.400 because that's what I've seen with gang members in Chicago.

01:54:05.540 They love de-escalating tense situations

01:54:09.080 and help individuals find peaceful ways to resolve conflict.

01:54:13.780 the only peaceful way is they have a piece in their hand

01:54:17.400 and they fire indiscriminately into crowds

01:54:21.280 that's the only piece they know

01:54:23.600 relationship building

01:54:26.740 they build trust within communities

01:54:29.460 especially with individuals at high risk of involvement in violence

01:54:34.540 through consistent presence and engagement

01:54:39.300 so you got a former gang member

01:54:42.480 that's now or if he's former that's now getting money and he's working with gang members

01:54:49.300 and there's still an insane amount of gang violence going on all right that sounds effective

01:54:56.560 doesn't it no it doesn't

01:55:03.380 tracking they monitor youth and gang activity respond to violent incidents and are often

01:55:10.040 present at the scenes of shootings probably looking at guys winking throwing up gang signs

01:55:15.880 um yeah this this is who uh the mayor of chicago thinks instead of cops instead of arresting

01:55:27.340 these people for these violent crimes uh let gang members go in there and chit chat with murderers

01:55:38.500 how's it working let's see in the last day alone this is a post from uh yesterday i guess the day

01:55:46.700 before in the last day alone we've had two separate stories of brandon johnson uh anti-violence

01:55:53.200 workers being arrested or and or sentenced for serious crimes who would have thought hiring

01:56:00.300 ex-cons to keep peace with their fellow criminals wouldn't pan out the entire com a concept is a

01:56:07.040 complex hoax and an obscene waste of taxpayer money seven men charged with murder after a crash

01:56:15.520 and grab at the louis vuitton store left a driver dead on the magnificent mile in chicago among the

01:56:22.440 accused a peacekeeper one of these uh violence interrupters with four active warrants a felon

01:56:32.720 on patrol, a man who's been AWOL from another burglary case for a year, and Chicago was

01:56:41.940 paying him money as a peacekeeper, and he murdered somebody, ran them over during a

01:56:52.660 felony smash and grab out of a store, a Louis Vuitton store.

01:57:02.720 let's see this one here's a different one this is different

01:57:07.140 an anti-violence worker has been given

01:57:10.680 22 years federal sentence for shooting a man

01:57:14.980 during a carjacking spree he was also part of a group that

01:57:18.980 helped young people manage anger can i

01:57:22.880 do that again he was also part of a group that helped young

01:57:27.040 people manage anger yeah this

01:57:31.200 This is what they're doing.

01:57:36.500 This is why they said, no, Donald Trump, we do not want you to do what you did in D.C.

01:57:46.420 and actually stop these crimes from happening.

01:57:52.720 We want the bodies to pile up.

01:57:54.880 We're paying criminals, current criminals, with warrants.

01:58:02.420 Those are the guys.

01:58:03.800 We don't want the cops who will put these people where they belong, in prison.

01:58:09.100 Can you even believe this is a thing?

01:58:13.640 I'm stunned.

01:58:15.860 I'm stunned.

01:58:19.320 Well, at least it's not costing a lot.

01:58:21.980 At least it's not costing.

01:58:24.880 Chicago a lot of money.

01:58:31.240 $667 million over the past five years.

01:58:36.920 Over a half a billion dollars of taxpayer money

01:58:42.500 has been spent on community violence interrupters

01:58:45.900 in the past five years by the state of Illinois,

01:58:49.720 Cook County, and the city of Chicago.

01:58:51.660 the money is paid to non-profits who then spend it all on staff ex-cons and overhead

01:59:00.600 it's nothing but a way for democrats to buy votes and give away taxpayer money

01:59:06.500 to favored groups and connected cronies

01:59:10.120 $667 million

01:59:16.760 to give to

01:59:20.260 criminals, violent criminals

01:59:25.000 to engage in criminal 0.61

01:59:29.020 enterprises. But please, please Trump

01:59:32.820 stay out of our city. We don't need the

01:59:36.800 military on the streets we have gang members we're paying i'm flabbergasted when i first read this

01:59:46.720 story i had to read it again even though it was this mayor johnson chicago we're used to hearing 1.00

01:59:55.180 the most inane incompetent uh crap coming out of that city 0.99

02:00:00.440 and and and the they cheer him as as having fought off the evil donald trump as the bodies 1.00

02:00:12.300 pile up they love it they love us them them uh some crime they love them some good old-fashioned

02:00:21.120 crime there you go there's um that's that's chicago and this guy won't stop

02:00:31.980 he will not stop will not allow the police to do their job you heard what i said at the top

02:00:41.360 of this story he he sided with an illegal alien sided with an illegal alien who tried to kill

02:00:50.980 a law enforcement officer

02:00:54.080 was

02:00:56.020 thankfully

02:00:57.000 summarily dispatched by

02:00:59.800 other officers before he could do

02:01:01.760 even more harm

02:01:03.300 and there's Brandon Johnson

02:01:06.160 we

02:01:08.260 are so sorry

02:01:10.420 for Mr. Gonzalez

02:01:12.340 that's your mayor

02:01:15.080 don't laugh

02:01:17.880 don't laugh Chicago

02:01:19.080 or New York

02:01:21.140 Don't you laugh.

02:01:22.240 Back in a second.

02:01:23.780 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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02:01:33.020 Entertaining and informative.

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02:01:37.920 The Anthony Cumia Show.

02:01:40.080 You know, we just talked about the great mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson,

02:01:45.680 and his just commitment to the safety of the people of Chicago.

02:01:53.920 And I'm sure every other city is looking and going, oh, my goodness, I wish.

02:02:00.820 I wish I could care as much about the people in my city as mayor,

02:02:07.100 as much as Mayor Johnson cares about the safety of his people.

02:02:12.860 Well, New York, you are ready and raring to go.

02:02:19.780 You have Mayor Mamdani right there, right there, a hair.

02:02:28.720 I describe the hair in a fashion I usually do.

02:02:32.060 It's part of a body that denotes a very thin, fine hair.

02:02:36.980 But you're that hair away from having just as caring a mayor about your safety in a Mayor Mamdani.

02:02:47.920 Because, again, I completely believe you will elect this guy.

02:02:53.720 And he gave a couple of speeches.

02:02:56.880 He was on a couple of talk shows.

02:03:00.020 And to make you safer, one of the things he wants to do,

02:03:06.980 is eliminate the NYPD gang database.

02:03:14.380 This is, NYPD has been putting this together for decades.

02:03:21.620 They arrest people, they do investigations,

02:03:25.240 they have a gang unit over the course of the years.

02:03:28.240 I think the gang unit's gone.

02:03:30.660 But over the course of the years,

02:03:32.340 they have taken all this information

02:03:34.020 and kept it together in this gang database.

02:03:37.860 So when they arrest a gang member or they find a body or something happens,

02:03:43.480 they have more resources to go to to figure out what happened,

02:03:49.660 who was responsible for this.

02:03:52.520 Someone identifies a tattoo.

02:03:55.220 They have a book of gang tattoos from people that they've arrested.

02:03:58.360 That's part of the database.

02:04:01.100 Well, then Danny wants to get rid of that, you know,

02:04:03.360 to keep you safer let's listen to his insane logic in why this is a good thing mayor memdani

02:04:13.960 if city council legislation to abolish the nypd gang database were to pass would you support and

02:04:20.960 sign that i have supported um that that proposal it's one that i've supported because of um

02:04:28.120 And the vast dragnet has meant the inclusion of New Yorkers on the basis of whether they go out late,

02:04:41.440 photos they put on social media, so much of the facts of life of being a young New Yorker.

02:04:48.360 And yet it then becomes a mark of suspicion.

02:04:50.560 and it is a concern of mine that we do not live up to of all people eric adams's words

02:05:00.560 in 2021 who said that new yorkers need not choose between safety and justice there's no question

02:05:05.400 that we have to take uh gangs extremely seriously and yet i find that a database that includes new

02:05:14.280 Yorkers on such bases is one that that doesn't actually do exactly that.

02:05:18.380 Okay.

02:05:19.380 Oh, there he is.

02:05:20.820 There's your mayor, New York City.

02:05:22.820 There he is.

02:05:25.200 Round of applause for your mayor.

02:05:27.420 Oh, boy, he knows how important it is to go after gang violence.

02:05:32.340 Can I ask a question here, please?

02:05:38.140 Is anyone in the gang database because they went out late?

02:05:44.280 and posted on social media

02:05:46.660 see

02:05:49.400 Mayor Memdani

02:05:51.440 and I'm calling him that now because

02:05:53.060 he's going to be your mayor because you're all 1.00

02:05:55.140 morons 1.00

02:05:56.440 Mayor Memdani seems to think 1.00

02:05:59.520 we got to get rid of the

02:06:00.700 gang database

02:06:01.960 because it throws such a wide net

02:06:05.500 over who's

02:06:07.220 who's in it

02:06:08.300 the criteria to get

02:06:10.300 into the gang database

02:06:12.000 is so vague that if you go out, you're in your apartment, it's 12.30 a.m.,

02:06:20.780 you're going to the deli across the street to get an iced tea or something,

02:06:28.660 and, I don't know, someone sees you, a cop sees you,

02:06:34.860 you're on the gang database, you're a gang member, 0.97

02:06:37.960 you're a blood or a crip or a Latin king or something, MS-13. 0.94

02:06:42.000 because you went out late. 0.94

02:06:45.560 Oh, my God, what did you do on Instagram?

02:06:47.620 Your cat?

02:06:48.440 Oh, you posted a picture of your...

02:06:51.080 You're in the gang database.

02:06:54.840 Does anyone believe

02:06:56.860 that simply going out late at night

02:07:00.700 puts you in the gang database?

02:07:04.240 Does anyone believe 0.94

02:07:05.960 that lying sack 0.96

02:07:08.420 saying that, 0.69

02:07:10.800 that that's actually what happens.

02:07:15.560 Well, that isn't all.

02:07:18.800 That isn't all, kids.

02:07:21.960 Here is Mayor Memdani

02:07:25.540 and the great, iconic Reverend Al Sharpton

02:07:31.540 on a little network called MSNBC.

02:07:36.220 No one is watching it,

02:07:38.020 but I watch it so you don't have to.

02:07:42.220 And they're talking about the wealthy people in New York City.

02:07:47.380 Obviously, Mayor Memdani putting these programs in place

02:07:52.580 really disenfranchises the wealthy people who he says

02:07:56.320 he's just going to tax the living crap out of.

02:08:00.020 He's going to tax them to pay for his socialist, communist programs. 0.96

02:08:06.080 And Reverend Al, in a last gasp of reason, asks him, hey, won't they just leave?

02:08:19.720 What would keep wealthy New Yorkers in New York City if you're just going to tax them to poverty?

02:08:29.580 And the programs you're instating are programs they want no part of.

02:08:35.100 so why wouldn't they just leave i know i was amazed reverend al brought this up uh myself

02:08:41.140 but uh boy mam danny has a great answer what a sly cunning politician he is with this answer

02:08:49.400 listen to this now you've been running on the platform of affordability uh fixes for new york

02:08:55.700 like a rent freeze you mentioned free buses city-owned groceries that made you popular

02:09:02.040 with some working New Yorkers, but not so popular with real estate developers and the

02:09:07.000 financial class.

02:09:09.060 You were the only mayoral candidate to march alongside Martin Luther King III and I on

02:09:14.580 our March on Wall Street about DEI on last week, as we call for economic justice for

02:09:19.800 all New Yorkers and all Americans.

02:09:21.500 But right now, the top 1% earners in the city pay 40% of the city's income taxes, according

02:09:29.980 to the empire center for public policy how do you bring these wealthy residents to the table

02:09:36.020 as mayor stop them from saying they're leaving going to florida because we need that tax revenue

02:09:42.460 to pay for some of the things you're talking about how do you pay for it if they're gone

02:09:46.660 well the first thing i have to say is i was proud to be the only candidate for mayor at that march

02:09:51.080 and i was proud because some of the chance at that march they were asking is the dream alive

02:09:56.760 is is dr king's dream still alive and he asked the question decades ago what good is having the

02:10:02.760 right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger right that's a question

02:10:06.540 that new yorkers are still wrestling with today in 2025 and so what i have put forward is a vision

02:10:12.720 to make the most expensive city in the united states of america affordable at a time when we

02:10:17.200 have the wealthiest city it is also one where one in four are living in poverty and to your point

02:10:22.240 we have a number of new yorkers who are doing quite well the top one percent of new york city

02:10:28.180 earns a million dollars or more a year and my vision is not one where they leave it is one

02:10:33.320 where they stay how in part by showing them that asking them to pay more in taxes would increase

02:10:40.000 even their quality of life because when you ask new yorkers what is it that is making them feel

02:10:45.180 uneasy in this city you often hear from them about the cleanliness of our city the safety of our city

02:10:50.620 the affordability of our city. We are not asking to raise these taxes for the sake of it.

02:10:54.840 We're asking so that we can actually make the slowest buses in the country fast and free,

02:10:59.060 so that we can actually create a department of community safety that would deploy dedicated

02:11:04.540 teams of mental health outreach workers to the top 100 stations of the highest levels of mental

02:11:08.880 health crises and homelessness. That relationship proving that that tax dollar leads to that

02:11:14.440 investment, because we know that it's not just a fiscal policy that takes somebody from New York

02:11:18.960 city to somewhere else because a lot of new yorkers if they leave they go to california

02:11:22.900 another high-tech state they go to new jersey another high-tech state many people say they

02:11:27.020 might go to florida but i have seen and heard from many new yorkers concern about this new

02:11:32.260 elimination of vaccine mandates in florida that makes them question where they would ever want

02:11:36.720 to live there sure sure that there was so much going on there but i really what i want you to

02:11:45.360 take away from that is Reverend Al asks Mayor Mamdani, what are you going to do to keep the

02:11:54.140 wealthiest of New Yorkers, the ones that pay 41% of the taxes to New York City? What will you do

02:12:02.600 to keep them, to bring them to the table? You're going out there and you're campaigning to low

02:12:10.140 income people and people that uh need government assistance but what about the people that pay the

02:12:18.820 bills how are you going to keep them his answer was tax them more they will love it if i tax them

02:12:29.160 more he said that they want to be taxed more to make the city better instead of using

02:12:39.880 They're already unbelievably high taxes to somehow get New York City in some semblance of organization and not not spending more than you're taking in.

02:12:53.860 And he just says, I'm going to tax them more, Reverend Al.

02:12:58.760 And that, that, my friend, is my cunning way to bring the wealthy to the table and keep them in New York City, to take away more of their wealth and give it to freeloaders, bums, programs for criminals, free buses so mental patients can assault you on buses as well as subways.

02:13:23.860 This is his dream.

02:13:27.620 This.

02:13:29.420 He just said it.

02:13:34.880 That's a lot to swallow right there.

02:13:38.420 And by the way,

02:13:40.660 why the hell does New York City have to be affordable to everyone?

02:13:48.240 What is that about?

02:13:49.500 is beverly hills affordable to everyone has there been this push to make bel-air and brentwood

02:13:58.360 california affordable to everyone how about the hamptons out of long island i'm pissed

02:14:05.120 the hamptons aren't affordable to everyone

02:14:08.540 why is new york city this place that needs to be affordable to everyone

02:14:16.480 some places are just really expensive to live that's how it is new york city is an industrial

02:14:26.740 area it's a commercial area the residents that are there i understand some of them have to be

02:14:34.500 uh but for the most part live on the outskirts if you're a person that works in new york you're a

02:14:44.940 housekeeping for a hotel or something i'm sure you live in jersey or or you know some parts of

02:14:53.360 long island perhaps they got a great long island railroad could take in there jersey how many uh

02:15:01.460 how much public transportation is available from jersey to uh new york city there's everything

02:15:08.200 Why the hell does New York City have to be affordable to everyone

02:15:14.680 at the cost of the people that are paying the bills?

02:15:21.420 It's hard enough to live in New York as someone making a lot of money

02:15:26.940 and not just the expense, the risk of living in New York City.

02:15:34.980 but for some reason there's been this thing they say it all the time and i just have never heard

02:15:40.560 why why does new york have to be affordable to everyone city manhattan why why affordable housing

02:15:50.640 there i don't know i've never heard an answer to that i've only heard we have to pay so that

02:15:59.280 people that can't afford to live in a city like new york can now live there huh what why

02:16:05.640 yeah i'd like to live in scarsdale is that still a place that's like hoity-toity in new york i don't

02:16:13.080 even know i'm glad i don't know i'm really glad i don't know because uh leaving new york was one

02:16:21.080 of the greatest things i've ever done ever and i come back once a month to do this magnificent

02:16:29.000 show from the wonderful new york studios and uh i've said it before as i as i come in that that

02:16:38.620 approach to la guardia if it's a direct approach i look out to the left and i see manhattan

02:16:45.780 i see that amazing manhattan skyline unlike any other city a lot of other cities are spread out 0.99

02:16:53.100 You fly into L.A., it's just, who gives a crap? 1.00

02:16:57.040 It's all flat, stupid. 1.00

02:16:59.060 You've got that one city center, a couple of buildings. 1.00

02:17:02.480 Manhattan is damn impressive.

02:17:04.540 And the surrounding areas, Long Island City, even Hoboken,

02:17:09.180 and some of the areas in Jersey across the Hudson, the bridges,

02:17:14.980 so many of these magnificent suspension bridges.

02:17:17.520 architecturally and um you know just getting a good look at new york city it gets me it gets

02:17:29.620 me when i fly in once a month and then i get in a cab and that once a month becomes like a period

02:17:39.620 i get cranky i get cramps i start yelling at people for no reason 0.57

02:17:45.520 ah new york what are you gonna do what the hell are you gonna do new york i'm so disappointed 0.77

02:17:56.520 so disappointed in you i'm gonna cry not really don't worry about it um when we come back uh i 0.82

02:18:08.160 god i here here's your choice people and i apologize profusely but i have to get to one

02:18:16.720 of these two it's either joy behar blames trump for iriana uh iriana's uh stabbing that horrible

02:18:28.180 tragedy that i hope no one is is forgetting this beautiful ukrainian refugee was murdered by some

02:18:36.920 savage on a train in um charlotte north carolina and um joy behar wants to blame donald trump for

02:18:47.060 that or now you might say i don't care whatever the or is i'll take the or the latest rosie o'donald 1.00

02:18:55.460 trump rant direct from the emerald isle of ireland where she goes off in psychotic fashion

02:19:03.080 about uh donald trump and what a um she calls him a pedophile all kinds of great stuff i'm waiting

02:19:12.600 for the um slander libel suit slander suit from uh donald trump about um what rosie's been saying

02:19:21.160 about him but i think i think he just wants to ignore her at this point we'll see we'll see

02:19:27.760 but uh that's those are our choices i apologize i hope i hope you stick around

02:19:35.760 for the uh next segment what else do we got to uh talk about let me see uh aoc

02:19:45.680 aoc says that charlie kirk is responsible for his own death that's

02:19:51.200 It's despicable and amazing.

02:19:56.560 And, yeah, well, plenty, plenty more to go in the final stretch here

02:20:02.580 of the Anthony Cumia Show.

02:20:04.840 And you're still on the phone.

02:20:06.100 Hang in there.

02:20:06.780 I'll take a couple of more phone calls from you.

02:20:10.020 Back in a flash with more.

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02:20:27.820 anthony cumia show my god just scrolling through x if you want to check out my x account it's

02:20:37.420 anthony cumia very easy it's my name but i'm scrolling through there and just disgusted

02:20:42.800 All of these people, there's a guy right now,

02:20:47.000 just a guy in a rainbow bikini, a man in a rainbow bikini,

02:20:52.380 a leash around his neck with someone leading him down the beach.

02:20:57.540 This is what we're doing.

02:20:59.200 This is what we're doing, people.

02:21:01.120 Like I said earlier, there's good and there's evil,

02:21:03.720 and there's a definitive line,

02:21:05.660 and I think we can all tell who's on what side.

02:21:10.480 Who did I want to talk to?

02:21:11.760 Oh, Larry, Larry, Staten Island.

02:21:15.000 What do you want, Larry?

02:21:18.120 I'm the boss.

02:21:18.960 I'm the boss.

02:21:19.480 I'm the boss.

02:21:19.960 I'm the boss.

02:21:21.160 You're doing, buddy.

02:21:23.380 Pretty good, Anthony.

02:21:27.960 Difficult week we had with John 11 and Kirk.

02:21:32.080 Terrible. 0.96

02:21:32.480 But now I've got to move on now to this clown show. 0.94

02:21:37.380 This guy, Madami, is like the unknown comic. 0.63

02:21:40.420 Remember the unknown comic?

02:21:41.760 Oh, yeah. Gong show. Yeah. This guy is now pulling back the original proposals he had at the beginning of the campaign.

02:21:52.600 For instance, I'll give you an example. He's got a hammerhead for the police department.

02:21:57.780 Yep. He's pulling back his apology for calling them racist and anti-queer.

02:22:09.320 I haven't heard the word queer since 1962.

02:22:13.980 I haven't. 0.98

02:22:15.640 It was what you called your dumb friend when he wouldn't pick you up in the car to go to the bar. 0.99

02:22:21.120 Yeah. 0.99

02:22:22.000 It's like where that word came from.

02:22:24.220 I don't know.

02:22:24.900 Yeah.

02:22:25.860 But you know what?

02:22:27.060 He wants to do a hammer job on the cops.

02:22:28.920 And you know what?

02:22:29.700 I look at this from a different perspective because I was on the job.

02:22:33.080 I know what it's about.

02:22:34.880 He wants to have social workers responding to emotionally disturbed jobs.

02:22:40.240 For those of you who don't know, it's EDPs.

02:22:43.540 I used to get a knot in my stomach knowing I was going to one of these jobs

02:22:46.280 because you don't know what you're going up against.

02:22:48.220 Yeah, the mystery of that, you know.

02:22:50.680 You don't know.

02:22:51.200 A shotgun, a pot of hot lie.

02:22:55.000 Now, I can just see this happening with these social workers responding.

02:23:00.200 It's going to be like, remember the commercial in 1975 with the gorilla in a cage with the Samsonite suitcase?

02:23:07.000 It was actually, you know something, Larry, you give me a great opportunity here to clear things up.

02:23:12.340 It was not Samsonite.

02:23:13.800 It was American Tourister.

02:23:15.500 And I remember the commercial vividly because I've used it in so many memes over the course of the year.

02:23:22.580 Continue, Larry.

02:23:24.520 Okay.

02:23:24.800 Right. But, you know, listen, people in New York City, they say that the Labor Day is the borderline, is the crossover line to the start of the campaign.

02:23:36.740 There's not much time here now. No, no. Go online.

02:23:40.740 Listen, people, go online. If you like Curtis, Google Curtis, find out where his campaign headquarters are.

02:23:48.380 Go there. Volunteer. Do something. Hand our palm cards. Knock on doors. Do something.

02:23:53.900 anything i just i feel like i feel like we're going down the tubes quickly very quickly and

02:24:01.500 it seems to be a a metastasis like a cancer metastasizing look what in chicago what you

02:24:07.000 were talking about before yep god bless this city uh and god bless my cops uh you know and you

02:24:14.200 good for you larry i i love it you know i love your uh your take on these things and and you

02:24:20.260 know you were in it you know it you see what's going on and i appreciate the call larry larry's

02:24:25.880 a good guy hey i can only get to one of them so we're gonna go with rosie here's the latest rosie 0.97

02:24:32.000 trump rant let's uh let's listen to the bloated uh sores all over her mouth god knows what she's 1.00

02:24:40.120 been doing rosie o'donnell on donald trump yeah listen she sounds child abuse is a serious thing 1.00

02:24:48.960 and we have a predator 0.84

02:24:52.700 in the White House

02:24:54.440 that's the truth

02:24:58.280 and he's trying to do all this

02:25:02.260 all this political theater we're seeing

02:25:06.400 is to distract everyone

02:25:09.700 and have them love him again

02:25:11.280 so he could go down 5th Avenue 0.99

02:25:13.700 and shoot anyone that he wanted 0.98

02:25:15.960 that's what he said 1.00

02:25:18.620 shut up people love me so much i could go down fifth avenue and shoot someone and get away with 1.00

02:25:24.940 it well get away with it she's such an idiot about people loving him that he could kill someone 1.00

02:25:31.560 and get away with it metaphor this is not a stable human being not a stable human being 1.00

02:25:39.460 and she is and she is a stable human being what garbage she is what garbage yeah trump 1.00

02:25:54.120 was saying i'm so popular because the opposition is so repugnant and hated that i could shoot 1.00

02:26:03.360 someone on fifth avenue and they'd still vote for me and it's a metaphor you slob president called 0.99

02:26:14.020 her a slob oh my she moves to ireland she won't shut up go pick a a couple of four-leaf clovers 0.90

02:26:22.920 go have a good time with a shillelagh pick up a shillelagh and make believe it's a man that 1.00

02:26:30.000 would actually be attracted to you can you do that rosie maybe that'll help you out for a couple of

02:26:36.380 minutes oh my god i gotta tell you folks uh i i love doing this show it's uh it's great like i

02:26:46.800 said it's a bit of a vindication for me over the course of the years i've been persona non grata

02:26:51.780 in the broadcasting annals of history.

02:26:57.000 But it's just you people, the people that listen every week,

02:27:01.620 support me, they go to my social media,

02:27:04.740 they watch videos that the station puts up

02:27:09.160 and that we put up on my podcast.

02:27:15.420 And it really shows that things have turned around.

02:27:19.040 There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

02:27:21.780 Things are changing.

02:27:23.540 Don't get too blackpilled.

02:27:25.160 We see it happening.

02:27:27.260 Unfortunately, there has to be martyrs.

02:27:29.380 I hate that.

02:27:30.560 But it really exposes who the real enemies are.

02:27:33.900 We'll be back next week.

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The Anthony Cumia Show - September 15, 2025

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