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

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00:01:06.020 Good evening, everybody.

00:01:08.580 It is the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:01:10.660 Another Sunday evening. Look at that.

00:01:12.980 And thank you.

00:01:14.300 Thank you for tuning in.

00:01:16.060 We appreciate it.

00:01:18.980 So much

00:01:19.900 has gone on over the past week

00:01:21.940 And we come here every Sunday to dish it out.

00:01:27.840 Yes, we do.

00:01:29.540 And first off, kind of a breaking story in New York.

00:01:34.600 Jets cornerback, Chris Boyd, shot in Midtown Manhattan.

00:01:39.960 Oh, well, I don't mean to sound, you know, aloof about it, flippant about it.

00:01:47.880 But it's New York.

00:01:49.760 It is New York.

00:01:51.760 He was, I guess, out with friends, maybe.

00:01:56.540 It was 2 a.m., right around 38th Street and 7th Avenue,

00:02:01.800 which is, to anybody that isn't in New York, is Midtown Manhattan,

00:02:07.380 right in the center of it.

00:02:09.060 You know, a lot going on there.

00:02:11.620 And he was shot in the abdomen, taken to the hospital.

00:02:15.080 He's in serious but stable condition.

00:02:16.820 and um you know this this is this is new york i don't mean to make uh people paranoid or or

00:02:25.300 want people to think that you have to be paranoid you walk around new york city uh wondering where

00:02:32.240 the shot's going to come from or uh where the pipe is going to be laid across your head but

00:02:38.420 But you do have to keep your eyes open, your head on the proverbial swivel, and pay attention.

00:02:48.100 Don't be on your phone.

00:02:51.480 Don't talk to anybody.

00:02:53.700 Anyone who thinks they are going to make a new friend in Midtown Manhattan at 2 a.m. in 2025, you're out of your gourd.

00:03:05.020 There are no friends to be had.

00:03:07.660 You're not finding somebody who goes, I can't believe it, 2 a.m., New York City,

00:03:12.320 and this guy is into the same hobbies I am.

00:03:17.460 No one out at that hour is up to any good.

00:03:23.620 Probably the most innocent people are leaving bars and places hammered,

00:03:30.100 and that's not a good thing either.

00:03:31.860 But, you know, what are you doing?

00:03:35.700 And this guy, he's a football player.

00:03:38.200 He's got a pretty good career, I guess.

00:03:40.300 I don't know much about him.

00:03:43.700 But why are you, he got into an altercation with another gentleman,

00:03:51.260 and that gentleman shot him.

00:03:54.780 You can't afford to have any pride when you're walking around in New York City.

00:04:03.840 Don't think you can stand up for yourself or get into some kind of an altercation with somebody

00:04:10.860 because the odds that they might do something to you, either assault you or shoot you and kill you, whatever,

00:04:20.540 it's not out of the question, that's for sure.

00:04:24.360 So what is he doing?

00:04:25.760 getting into some type of argument with a man at 2 in the morning,

00:04:32.160 midtown Manhattan, and he gets himself shot.

00:04:35.780 The other thing, obviously, is that New York City hates letting people defend themselves.

00:04:43.720 We've seen this before.

00:04:45.580 The Second Amendment is just not viable in New York City especially.

00:04:54.660 New York State's tough enough, but New York City, good luck.

00:04:58.660 They went to court.

00:04:59.580 The Supreme Court actually ruled that the way New York City was,

00:05:05.340 was they didn't have to give you a pistol permit.

00:05:10.120 You could fill out all the paperwork, jump through all their hoops,

00:05:13.760 pass it with flying colors, never had any, not even a traffic ticket,

00:05:18.300 and they could turn around and go, no, nope, you don't need one.

00:05:24.200 Well, I don't think the Constitution is based on what we need.

00:05:31.740 These are God-given rights that we have.

00:05:36.820 How could you tell me I am not allowed to exercise my Second Amendment right in your fair city?

00:05:45.860 So that went on for quite some time, but the Supreme Court finally ruled that they can't do that.

00:05:50.940 so people with new york state pistol permits were now able to go into new york city

00:05:58.120 you used to have to get an attachment it was called i lived out on long island for many years

00:06:04.320 and i wanted uh to be able to carry a gun in new york city where i worked and i had to pay

00:06:11.040 thousands and thousands of dollars and jump through so many hoops and every single traffic

00:06:18.760 ticket i had gotten my entire life had to be documented and and i needed knowledge as to how

00:06:27.560 those traffic violations were disposed of what happened there oh i paid a fine everything and

00:06:35.720 if you get something wrong they deny you and you go back on the bottom of the one year long waiting

00:06:42.300 list so i went through all this i hired a lawyer to do it for me uh the lawyer wound up getting in

00:06:49.840 trouble many years later for bribing the uh officials at one police plaza that actually

00:06:57.660 give out the pistol permits so the whole thing was corrupt anyway that's probably where my

00:07:05.260 thousands of dollars i paid the lawyer went to was bribing the officials to get my permit

00:07:11.160 um whatever the case may be i did get my permit and i was allowed to carry

00:07:17.160 uh in new york city which no one was legally allowed to carry there were plenty of people 0.61

00:07:22.420 carrying they're called criminals uh they're they're thugs they're violent felons they're

00:07:30.940 allowed not really allowed but no one does much about it and that's most likely who shot

00:07:38.480 chris boyd of the new york jets um late last night so you know they don't want you protecting

00:07:48.960 yourself they always say that uh if if you allow people to carry firearms that it's going to be

00:07:57.780 the wild west ah yes you know what the wild west had it was called uh cold 45s the pistols they

00:08:06.780 were known as peacekeepers the peacekeeper the colt 45 people would go what what does that mean

00:08:12.880 why are you calling a deadly weapon a weapon a peacekeeper because it gave you equal power

00:08:21.460 to anyone else that had a peacemaker or reasonable facsimile thereof so there was a certain balance

00:08:31.940 of power a detente in place and um you know the government are the first people that that starts

00:08:39.740 screaming that you don't need weapons and it just makes things uh more violent and more people get

00:08:46.940 shot and that's just not true and the government itself back in during the cold war um there was

00:08:54.740 a balance of power a detente with the soviet union in the united states mutually assured

00:09:01.440 destruction you're pointing nuclear missiles at each other both sides know that if they jump the

00:09:08.660 gun and try something the other side is just gonna do what they do and uh the peacekeeper in the old

00:09:16.320 west uh was based on that and these days an armed population is a polite population and i'm talking

00:09:25.760 about uh people legal law-abiding citizens that are exercising their second amendment right

00:09:32.460 but new york like i said the supreme court said well you you have to allow people that have a new

00:09:39.440 york state permit to carry their gun concealed in new york city and they went oh okay and then

00:09:45.940 they put up gun restriction zones which completely negated your ability to be able to carry a gun

00:09:53.540 in new york city times square one of the worst places in new york city for crime and assaults

00:10:00.780 and even murders and uh you are not allowed to carry a concealed weapon even if you have a permit

00:10:09.100 in any part of times square if somehow you're found out that you have that weapon on you

00:10:16.620 doesn't matter if you're legal you have a new york state license you're in the city the supreme

00:10:21.740 court said you could carry in new york city you will go to jail you will go to jail and they put

00:10:29.040 those restrictions all over new york you can't be within a certain distance of a school of a

00:10:36.680 courthouse of any federal building and you look at a map of new york and realize those are overlapping

00:10:44.380 um places the the circle around the school overlaps with the circle around the federal

00:10:53.040 building and the the uh colleges and churches and everything else so they've effectively told

00:10:59.920 the supreme court to shove it and by doing that have told you the american citizen uh that your

00:11:07.760 rights don't matter that you can shove it um and it's still in court it's still going through court

00:11:15.360 but they will continue their never-ending assault on your rights and they keep getting away with it

00:11:24.740 they make more restrictions and uh it it it does not allow you to be on equal footing with people

00:11:33.060 that want to do you harm you have a petite woman maybe an older gal like our callers here

00:11:41.460 an older gal that wouldn't last a second in a physical altercation with some of these 1.00

00:11:49.760 criminal monsters roaming the street you give her a gun she trains go to the range train do

00:12:01.160 everything you're legally obligated to do and morally obligated to do and socially obligated

00:12:09.100 to do to make sure you are um very um very good if i may use the term very well trained

00:12:19.540 in um firearms and now that woman can never be put in a position not never but it's it sure is

00:12:29.860 a much more rare occurrence that she's going to be put in a position where she cannot defend 0.60

00:12:35.160 herself against any adversary new york state and new york city has said nope go screw we we don't

00:12:44.760 care about your safety we just don't care so um you know that's where you're at new york good

00:12:53.540 luck so we'll see what happens with uh with uh jets cornerback chris boyd shot in midtown

00:13:00.800 manhattan last night just uh it's gonna get worse people i'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but

00:13:05.820 i think you know that okay we are just getting started here please what are you doing where

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00:13:55.960 welcome back uh the phone number here if you want to dive in to any of the topics we talk about

00:14:04.240 800-848-9222 800-848-9222 and um yeah like i said lots going on there there's a story that's

00:14:17.420 just crazy this should be one of the biggest stories uh that the mainstream media should be

00:14:26.140 talking about because it involves Jeffrey Epstein oh we've heard a lot about this

00:14:34.120 Epstein Trump connection um I read some ridiculous tweet by Stephen King author Stephen King

00:14:44.540 another one who was just destroyed his um his legacy he went from uh it's kind of fun uh author 0.96

00:14:52.600 of of horror the macabre and um now he's just a jackass so he was talking about uh the epstein

00:15:03.580 thing going if trump has nothing to hide as far as the jeffrey epstein thing goes why won't he 0.69

00:15:10.780 release all the paperwork and files attached to it.

00:15:17.200 And I was thinking, well, if Trump did have something linking him to Epstein and his island

00:15:26.280 and the girls and all that, why didn't the Biden administration put out that?

00:15:34.500 They had them.

00:15:35.460 They had them just like Trump supposedly has them.

00:15:38.400 And you know damn well they would do anything to prevent Trump from becoming president in the 2024 election.

00:15:49.300 So why didn't they pull it out?

00:15:53.240 Well, there's a couple of things there you could speculate about.

00:15:58.440 Maybe everyone is tainted.

00:16:00.540 maybe every single politician and judge and actor and everyone somehow was mixed up with

00:16:11.540 Jeffrey Epstein it certainly seems that way it really does seem that way uh every new piece of

00:16:19.500 information we get is oh this person had something going on with Jeffrey Epstein and then this one

00:16:26.400 um so you know the mainstream media hating trump is trying to make a link there and look i don't

00:16:33.800 know i have no idea i'm a trump supporter uh but i can't sit here with any certainty and say that

00:16:41.900 trump had no relationship with jeffrey epstein he did nothing wrong in any of his meetings or

00:16:49.980 times that he was on Jeffrey Epstein's plane, or whatever.

00:16:54.800 I don't know.

00:16:56.120 How the hell would I know?

00:16:57.820 And also, how the hell would you know?

00:17:01.000 Because a lot of people like saying, oh, he's this, he's that. 0.62

00:17:04.980 They throw the pedophile word around. 0.96

00:17:07.260 He's a criminal. 0.98

00:17:08.820 You don't know either. 0.84

00:17:10.860 So keep it real, and we can wait and see.

00:17:15.400 but uh this story isn't speculation this happened uh we got this a wonderful

00:17:24.580 u.s house of representatives member uh miss plaskett yes miss uh miss uh plaskett what's her

00:17:34.600 full name newly released documents from jeffrey everstein's estate show the convicted sex offender

00:17:39.720 appeared to be texting with a member of Congress

00:17:42.520 during the 2019 House hearing with Michael Cohen,

00:17:46.940 Donald Trump's former fixer, personal attorney,

00:17:50.620 and those messages may have influenced the lawmakers' questioning.

00:17:56.280 This is insanity.

00:17:59.760 The documents provided to Congress this week include transcripts

00:18:02.880 suggesting Epstein was in direct contact with the lawmaker

00:18:07.400 as the hearing unfolded.

00:18:09.720 Although the transcript does not name the lawmaker that Epstein was texting during the February 2019 hearing, an analysis by the Post suggests it was Stacey Plaskett, the U.S. Virgin Islands non-voting Democratic delegate.

00:18:25.580 What is she doing up there anyway? Why is she at a hearing? She can't vote. It's the Virgin Islands.

00:18:32.060 But they get this. They match the timestamps of the messages with the video of the hearing.

00:18:40.440 And the analysis, the analysts concluded that Plaskett was the member of Congress in contact with Epstein.

00:18:50.620 At the time, Cohen was appearing before the House Oversight Committee to testify against Trump,

00:18:54.960 accusing him of racism, financial fraud, and directing hush money payments

00:19:00.420 to conceal his extramarital affairs.

00:19:03.940 So here's this woman, this representative of the Virgin Islands,

00:19:11.040 and she's texting with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:19:16.420 And Jeffrey is telling her what questions to ask Cohen during another one of these kangaroo court hearing Trump executions that were all the rage back then.

00:19:34.380 So, I mean, she should at the very least be thrown out. 0.55

00:19:42.640 it's a useless seat but uh she should be thrown out where's the where are the people 0.93

00:19:50.000 saying that uh she should have to resign immediately and i don't know what criminal 0.66

00:19:57.380 charges you might be able to uh to uh connect to to her actions there but uh it seems a little

00:20:08.060 odd and why was she doing it again this jeffrey epstein guy his island is within her jurisdiction

00:20:17.920 is what i hear so what favors were these two doing for each other that she could be sitting 0.73

00:20:26.860 there during a very very high profile congressional hearing and taking direction

00:20:35.840 from the likes of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:20:39.760 This Epstein thing is a hell of a lot bigger

00:20:43.100 than they're trying to present it.

00:20:48.220 And they can only do so much trying to downplay

00:20:51.160 how involved this guy was in our government.

00:20:56.480 You know, how many people did this guy have dirt on?

00:21:01.440 And the fact that he commits suicide and jail

00:21:05.420 and no one saw anything, the guards at Rikers were asleep,

00:21:12.060 the camera didn't work.

00:21:14.260 I mean, it is such a movie-level, unbelievable movie-level nonsense

00:21:21.200 that's going on with this Epstein thing. 0.92

00:21:26.060 And, you know, where's it going to end up?

00:21:29.820 Maybe, look, I don't know, like I said, I don't know,

00:21:32.320 Maybe Trump was all tied up with this.

00:21:35.420 Maybe he was going to the island and doing terrible things.

00:21:38.960 I don't know.

00:21:40.440 But it certainly wasn't just Donald Trump.

00:21:43.740 And I think that is a great excuse for the Biden administration to never have pulled these records out

00:21:53.660 and tried to crucify Donald Trump with those. 0.79

00:21:57.560 Oh, they tried to kill him. 0.99

00:21:59.840 They tried to put him in prison.

00:22:02.320 uh but why why wouldn't they pull these um pull these uh files out if they

00:22:11.340 uh show that donald trump was doing terrible things uh with with jeffrey epstein on that

00:22:17.300 island because we know the clintons are somehow tied up in it they're a painting of bill clinton

00:22:24.740 in that red dress with high heels on i mean come on all right we're going to return in

00:22:30.200 mere moments our phone lines are full and we will take your calls next it's the anthony cumia show

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00:22:46.540 yes it is the anthony cumia show

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00:23:18.880 bestwestern.com and uh yeah we got some calls here let's talk to uh al al from

00:23:28.940 yonkers what's up al hey anthony nice to speak to you and thanks for taking my call thank you sir

00:23:34.620 you know sure sure i just want to say with you know the president trump uh just a couple things

00:23:39.940 quickly i know you got a lot of calls you got a great show good thanks sure i just wanted to say

00:23:45.440 you know i'm sure like president trump said i mean if they really had anything on him with this

00:23:50.880 they would have brought it out and exploited it already yeah because you know president trump

00:23:56.100 since I was a kid, you know, in the 1980s, you know, everybody knew Donald Trump with the book

00:24:01.620 Art of the Deal. And he's, you know, always been around in New York City and, you know, all the

00:24:09.060 social circles and all. So, but my point is, I just wanted to say that with Jeffrey Epstein,

00:24:15.400 his last cellmate, who was an ex-cop, he was from Yonkers. He's actually,

00:24:23.940 I had met him once

00:24:26.080 as an acquaintance basis in the

00:24:27.940 1980s because he actually

00:24:30.040 was from this neighborhood and I

00:24:32.000 always remember the guy. Yonkers

00:24:34.020 was a different city then.

00:24:35.780 Wasn't Son of Sam also from

00:24:37.740 wasn't Son of Sam also from Yonkers?

00:24:40.460 Yeah, he was right near my house.

00:24:42.360 I mean, yeah, absolutely.

00:24:44.100 I'll never forget that

00:24:45.140 for the rest of my life that when

00:24:48.000 they quote Son of Sam

00:24:49.920 because it was the summer of 77

00:24:52.140 you had the Yankees

00:24:53.940 You had Son of Sam.

00:24:55.680 You had the primary for mayor where Abe Bean was beat out by Koch.

00:25:00.200 Right.

00:25:00.580 And you had a, you know, it was just a crazy summer.

00:25:04.000 But getting back to the guy who was from.

00:25:06.900 Blackout too.

00:25:07.900 The big blackout.

00:25:09.800 Yeah, the big blackout.

00:25:11.240 Of course, all the looting in Harlem.

00:25:12.880 Yeah, yeah.

00:25:13.420 How Bushwick and those, you know, all those neighborhoods burned and never came back.

00:25:18.020 That was mad. 0.93

00:25:19.520 Crazy.

00:25:19.740 Yeah, it really was.

00:25:20.500 But the guy who was his last cellmate was from Yonkers.

00:25:24.160 I had met him years ago in the 80s in an acquaintance basis, and I'll always remember the guy.

00:25:29.580 His name was Nick Tartaglione.

00:25:31.560 He was a big guy.

00:25:32.840 He always had a beautiful car, and at the time, Yonkers was less diversified.

00:25:39.220 It was mostly – my area was mostly Italian, Irish-American. 0.99

00:25:43.540 Now it's more Hispanic, which is a good thing.

00:25:45.780 diversity diversification is always good but i know nick tartaglione the roommate of uh cellmate

00:25:53.660 of jeffrey epstein he got jammed up himself and he had lost his job as a briarcliff cop

00:25:59.760 because he had violated the civil rights the courts had uh had come to the conclusion

00:26:07.080 yeah and i think the municipality had to pay out some money for what he did how does this tie

00:26:14.340 Let's tie it into the Trump thing or Epstein thing, like, you know, get to the point, Al?

00:26:24.440 Oh, no, yeah, no, I just wanted to say that the guy was actually, he was from Yonkers.

00:26:29.080 Oh, well, thank you.

00:26:31.680 I appreciate that, Al.

00:26:33.060 Thank you for the call.

00:26:35.100 Have a good night.

00:26:36.200 Oh, thank you.

00:26:37.060 You too.

00:26:37.780 You need to click that continue.

00:26:39.580 Not you, Al.

00:26:40.700 Back at the studio needs to click the continue thing.

00:26:43.540 so i make high enough yes there you go thank you all right let's try to hang up on al i was wondering

00:26:54.740 where that was going i'm like all right the guy he's in the cell with epstein did he say anything

00:27:01.960 about trump or anything he's like nope he's from yonkers all right he's from yonkers uh amy amy

00:27:12.740 how you doing from Jersey what's up hi how you doing Anthony oh just I really enjoy your show

00:27:20.120 thank you Amy I'm a little bit nervous um oh no need no need um I being in Jersey everybody you

00:27:33.500 know I I have my firearms permit and everybody's like oh when are you gonna get your concealed

00:27:39.160 carry when are you going to get your concealed carry i said i'm never going to get it here

00:27:43.160 in jersey because like i told your call screener as soon as you pull that trigger anthony

00:27:49.140 i'll become i'll become the criminal yeah yeah i mean think about it uh everything you've done

00:27:58.040 or said uh every uh political affiliation you've had every vote you've made every comment now that

00:28:06.020 you make on social media will now be in front of a courtroom trying to uh paint you as a horrible

00:28:15.020 person a racist or something whatever you know they could pull up uh once that yeah once you

00:28:21.900 fire your gun even in the most um the the if it's self-defense and it there's isn't even a question

00:28:32.300 about it being self-defense you have to defend your life now in a courtroom you did it out there

00:28:39.220 you were successful defending your life with your firearm now a whole new chapter of your life

00:28:45.520 your life will never be the same and not only because maybe you're faced with some moral

00:28:51.100 implications of taking a life uh that you have to deal with for the rest of your life but now

00:28:57.520 you're fighting for your freedom because there are people that think if you did that and you

00:29:03.600 defended yourself you should be in jail and they will do everything in their power to to make that

00:29:10.180 happen so uh very good amy i i like the way you think you're you're thinking ahead and and seeing

00:29:16.460 what uh pitfalls there are in being a gun owner and especially carrying that weapon with you out

00:29:22.540 the streets not just in your house uh that's why i always say the second you put a gun on on your

00:29:29.980 hip and you go outside you have to leave your pride home you have to leave any any part of

00:29:38.540 your personality that is confrontational if you do get into some type of road rage incident you

00:29:46.960 just have to wave and go i'm sorry there are so many things that come with being a responsible

00:29:53.720 gun owner and having a um a violent personality being somebody that gets into conflicts is you

00:30:03.380 are the wrong person to be out there you have to walk away from conflicts even if you got to bite 1.00

00:30:09.500 your tongue and damn it i i know i'm right or this piece of crap he's he's you know deserves 0.99

00:30:16.040 whatever he gets uh you can't take that with you when you're uh when you're carrying a gun 1.00

00:30:21.280 yeah not even like even just you know back in the day you'd be able to give somebody the finger

00:30:27.820 they cut you off in the car not even down here in south jersey i don't even do that anymore just

00:30:33.380 all right you just go do what you got to do it because you never know if somebody's got

00:30:38.500 like a criminal somebody like you said in the city who just could carry it

00:30:43.840 and the common person can't they have one in their car and they could pull it on you it's

00:30:50.800 happened down here yeah and they don't care they really don't thank you amy thank you for the call

00:30:55.740 um yeah it's uh it's strange because you better you better know damn well that your life

00:31:05.960 was in imminent danger of being taken for you to pull a gun out that you legally own and use it

00:31:13.820 to defend yourself or your loved ones.

00:31:17.120 There's no brandishing.

00:31:19.180 There's no pulling it out and go,

00:31:21.040 hey, take a walk, fella.

00:31:23.560 You don't do that.

00:31:26.460 It is, if you are in a situation where, you know,

00:31:29.480 you are in imminent danger

00:31:30.880 because anything less than that,

00:31:34.040 and boy, are you going to be on a roller coaster

00:31:38.880 that could end up in prison.

00:31:42.060 more likely these days than any other time in in american history like i said there are people

00:31:48.560 and people in power judges district attorneys citizens that'll be on that jury that have no

00:31:56.920 no want or need for the second amendment or for people to have the ability to use deadly physical

00:32:05.560 force when deadly physical force is um against them at some point so yeah yeah it's a battle

00:32:13.900 yeah i i tell everybody also you gotta get insurance they they want to um a lot of these

00:32:23.620 anti-gun organizations these liberal um uh organizations that want to take away people's

00:32:32.220 freedom and the right to bear arms they talk about

00:32:36.040 mandatory insurance they want people to have

00:32:39.440 insurance because any obstacle

00:32:42.680 to throw into people's way you know i can't afford insurance well then you

00:32:47.060 can't afford a gun

00:32:48.440 anything they could do to put the speed bump in the way

00:32:51.620 uh... in between a citizen and their second amendment right they will do it

00:32:55.760 but i

00:32:57.140 implore people

00:32:59.020 to get insurance

00:33:01.860 Because the second that bullet leaves that barrel, you are in for the fight of your life.

00:33:10.340 And it is going to cost a lot of money.

00:33:14.500 Talk about a catastrophic illness.

00:33:19.760 And you have to go to the hospital and you don't have insurance.

00:33:22.220 And now you're in debt the rest of your life.

00:33:24.740 Yeah, same thing.

00:33:26.720 Same thing once you fire that gun.

00:33:28.460 you will be broke you may go to prison even if you don't go to prison and are acquitted

00:33:35.960 uh you are going to your entire life is thrown up in the air try to get jobs you know as the guy

00:33:48.020 that was uh up on a murder charge even though you were acquitted uh and the money for lawyers

00:33:55.880 and everything else so yeah a good insurance policy and there are companies out there that

00:34:02.020 underwrite people armed citizens just in case something happens it won't fix everything but

00:34:10.500 you sure as hell don't want to end up fighting that battle with what's in your bank account

00:34:15.660 that's for sure and nowadays like I've talked about all the time I would have to

00:34:22.520 maybe double think triple think what i was doing which is very dangerous in a situation where

00:34:34.300 you're faced with a life-threatening uh uh prospect uh because of a conflict

00:34:41.760 you don't want to have to think you want to react training reflex but i have so much dirt

00:34:53.760 out there you know especially in the context of comedy lest you forget lest you forget i was a

00:35:04.260 shock jock back

00:35:06.600 in the late 90s

00:35:08.700 and first

00:35:10.560 half of the 2000s.

00:35:12.500 Shocking. Shock jock.

00:35:14.960 So, of course, a lot of the

00:35:16.520 jokes that were made were

00:35:17.880 sexist and racist and

00:35:20.380 homophobic and Islamophobic. 1.00

00:35:23.240 They'd all be considered that.

00:35:25.140 But it was all under the

00:35:26.640 umbrella of 0.98

00:35:28.320 yeah, you're a wacky 0.82

00:35:30.460 disc jockey 0.96

00:35:32.540 shock jock guy.

00:35:34.260 Well, watch how fast everything you said is taken in the context of absolute seriousness and gospel.

00:35:45.700 Did you, Anthony Cumia, did you not say that Obama going to take Ant's money and give it all up to me in a song?

00:35:59.500 Yes, Your Honor, I did, but it was all funny.

00:36:01.900 just answer the question

00:36:04.660 yeah

00:36:06.160 so you got baggage

00:36:08.860 you have all that baggage

00:36:10.700 that you're carrying around with you

00:36:12.760 that will can and will be used

00:36:15.140 against you in a court of law

00:36:16.580 so be careful

00:36:18.940 I guess that's what I'm trying to say

00:36:20.880 be careful out there

00:36:22.920 because you don't know

00:36:24.540 there is a

00:36:26.520 you know Spiderman

00:36:28.340 with great power comes great responsibility

00:36:31.160 and obviously carrying a firearm is great power

00:36:35.540 and the responsibility

00:36:37.060 is doing everything in your power

00:36:40.760 to never have to use it

00:36:42.680 it's not a toy obviously

00:36:46.380 it's not a showpiece

00:36:48.260 it's not something that you use to threaten people

00:36:52.180 or get your way

00:36:53.480 or show someone that you're bigger than them

00:36:56.840 that is all trouble

00:36:59.280 all complete trouble 0.61

00:37:01.080 you know i used to have insane road rage i mean insane i scared the crap out of opie one day we 0.52

00:37:11.260 used to drive in um for the opie and anthony show uh from long island and he was uh he would drive

00:37:18.960 uh one day i would drive the next or he would drive one week and i'd drive the other one going

00:37:23.440 at wnew uh in new york and um there were times he would just be cowering in the passenger seat

00:37:33.300 because i would lose my mind driving in new york city and um you know once you're an armed citizen

00:37:42.220 you got to put that away you got to put road rage to bed and believe me you can't not be angry

00:37:52.080 and get road rage, especially driving in New York City.

00:37:57.160 There are videos of me on YouTube from many years ago,

00:38:02.540 one of which is, I guess it was the NBC, the Today Show.

00:38:08.340 You know, they did that outside segment,

00:38:11.760 and celebrities would go from their limousine to the building

00:38:20.200 where the show is going to be.

00:38:22.480 And I think it was Michael Buble.

00:38:25.980 And he was getting out of his limo.

00:38:27.980 And all these photographers, these amateur paparazzi,

00:38:31.660 they would park in the middle of the street

00:38:34.800 and try to get a picture of Michael Buble.

00:38:38.540 And I was stuck in that traffic jam.

00:38:43.620 And you see the interview going on with Michael Buble at the door,

00:38:48.000 And you hear my car horn beeping and me yelling obscenities on, you know, an NBC morning show.

00:38:58.180 It was hilarious.

00:38:59.540 But, yeah, that's how angry I would get.

00:39:03.260 And like I said, you know, great power, great responsibility.

00:39:07.460 You can't be a wannabe tough guy and have a gun.

00:39:12.780 You got to be the guy that walks away.

00:39:14.780 You got to be Kane from Kung Fu.

00:39:18.000 Just, you know, well, all right, he fought every week.

00:39:21.160 He was Mr. Peaceful Guy, but he fought every week because people hassled him, man.

00:39:25.860 But, yeah, you just got to walk away from conflict.

00:39:29.480 It's terrible sometimes, but, you know, you don't want to get caught up in something like that if you have a gun.

00:39:34.540 All right, people?

00:39:35.880 Yeah, I know you know what I'm talking about.

00:39:40.860 Let's go to my good friend here, calls every week, Joaquin from PA.

00:39:45.420 What's up, man?

00:39:46.780 Good evening, Mr. Cumia.

00:39:48.440 Hey, you got to know when to hold them and know when to fold them, right?

00:39:51.140 There you go, man.

00:39:52.260 Know when to run.

00:39:53.140 There you go.

00:39:54.000 And I'm sorry.

00:39:55.840 I don't mean to be a stickler for details.

00:39:58.540 I got to correct you a little bit.

00:39:59.460 The Colt Single Action Army 45 was actually called the Peacemaker, something I'm very, very familiar with.

00:40:05.320 Yeah.

00:40:05.980 So it was the Peacemaker, not the Peacekeeper.

00:40:08.720 But, you know.

00:40:09.720 Oh, I thought I said Peacemaker.

00:40:11.140 I didn't say Peacemaker.

00:40:13.300 No, you said Peacekeeper.

00:40:14.700 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:40:15.780 Yeah, it's a peacemaker.

00:40:16.820 Thank you, Joaquin. 0.99

00:40:18.300 I'm sorry to be a smart ass. 0.96

00:40:20.160 Anyway, you know, in New York City, you can't even carry, you know, 0.98

00:40:23.800 your station advertises burner purple ball guns.

00:40:26.620 And guess where?

00:40:27.440 They're not legal.

00:40:28.280 They're not legal in New York City.

00:40:30.440 You know, so people have no options.

00:40:34.740 And, you know, and then, of course, I also want to move on to the, oh,

00:40:37.840 the other thing about Trump, yeah, Prince Albert in the can, right?

00:40:41.740 He was dethroned or whatever.

00:40:44.000 You know, so there's so many people involved in this.

00:40:46.180 And then there's even Bill Barr's father, who had the ties to the OSS, who gave Epstein one of his first jobs.

00:40:52.160 So there's stuff that goes really deep into that murky water.

00:40:55.720 Yeah, I think, you know, just the sheer weight of this whole thing, it's the reason no one wants to put these out, regardless of what side you're on.

00:41:07.260 If you were on the left or the right and you knew you had documentation that can really smear somebody that you want smeared, why wouldn't you put it out unless also, you know, your name's on there, people you know, people that don't want their name out there?

00:41:25.580 It really is the only viable reason why we're not seeing what supposedly exists.

00:41:34.740 you know and i would like to get to islam while i'm on the air i've been going you know i i would 0.81

00:41:41.940 i would love to right now but we might have to save that i got to go to break joaquin i am uh

00:41:46.840 sorry that your call is going to be cut short this week but um we got to do it we'll be back

00:41:53.440 in moments don't go anywhere it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

00:42:00.920 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network the anthony cumia show and um

00:42:11.240 you know uh maybe uh at the studio we could queue up a clown of the week because uh this um

00:42:19.600 i have to appoint this woman uh as indeed clown of the week the anthony cumia show presents

00:42:30.200 Yes, she's made an appearance as Clown of the Week a couple of times

00:42:38.080 over the course of my tenure here so far.

00:42:40.920 I'm certain she will return again as Clown of the Week in the future.

00:42:46.200 You might think this is somebody else, but it is AOC. 0.92

00:42:52.420 AOC, she has the... 0.87

00:42:56.680 I've seen a lot of Democrats, and especially the real wacky ones, 1.00

00:43:00.420 like Jazzy Jasmine Crockett and AOC and Liz Warren.

00:43:09.600 AOC thinks that Trump supporters, Trump supporters,

00:43:15.920 are coming over to their side, to their way of thinking,

00:43:20.900 the socialist, liberal, Democrat.

00:43:24.200 that I don't know where they are getting this from.

00:43:30.500 This is so not happening.

00:43:34.600 I know a lot of people.

00:43:36.360 I speak to a lot of people.

00:43:38.560 And I don't know of a single Trump supporter

00:43:43.820 that has what they're calling buyer's remorse.

00:43:48.040 Dave Smith.

00:43:49.440 Dave Smith.

00:43:50.300 he has said that he regrets

00:43:54.320 pushing Trump and supporting him

00:43:57.300 but other than that

00:44:00.360 everyone I know, my friends, family

00:44:02.600 people I talk to on the phones

00:44:05.740 on this very show and on my podcast

00:44:08.340 I haven't heard one Trump supporter go

00:44:11.140 oh boy, I certainly wish

00:44:14.600 I would have voted for Kamala Harris 1.00

00:44:17.400 not a one

00:44:19.060 But AOC thinks that the Trump supporters are coming.

00:44:24.340 And look, she is willing to embrace them and, you know, says we shouldn't chase away these people that don't like Trump anymore.

00:44:37.300 This is such nonsense.

00:44:39.040 AOC. 0.78

00:44:40.840 I want to say this right now.

00:44:43.460 I fully welcome Trump voters into our coalition.

00:44:50.820 And I know that sounds crazy to some people, but just hear me out.

00:44:56.760 I cannot tell you.

00:44:58.380 It just happened to me like two weeks ago.

00:45:00.100 I can't tell you how many times someone has pulled me aside and said either I was once a big Trump voter and a Trump supporter and I watch Fox News every day.

00:45:12.400 But then I started to kind of expand. My world and where I got information and now I've learned and now I've changed and I'm with you and I learn from you or people who meet me who are who are really big Republicans now and they are shocked when they meet me because they're like, you are nothing like I was told you are.

00:45:37.000 And you start to see the bogs turning, that maybe everything that they had been told from this one channel or this one ecosystem isn't the whole truth.

00:45:54.240 And it is enough to spark a curiosity that makes people want to go down a longer journey of learning. 0.97

00:46:04.920 oh aoc you dimwit first of all if anyone came up to her and said you know i stopped watching 0.98

00:46:15.840 fox news because what is this 2016 no trump supporter worth their assault puts any credence 0.97

00:46:26.480 in fox news you watch fox news for gut felt he's funny the comics are funny as far as

00:46:34.920 News goes?

00:46:36.600 Who's watching that anymore? 0.99

00:46:38.860 These dummies like AOC and the liberals and the Democrats, 0.95

00:46:42.000 they still think that Fox News is this thing that Trump supporters watch 0.98

00:46:48.380 and they're brainwashed by it?

00:46:51.480 No.

00:46:52.580 We stopped that the second they started calling the race for Joe Biden

00:47:01.920 in the 2020 election and something seemed a little off we started looking at fox news like

00:47:12.460 it was just like cnn and msnbc and network all the network stations just another one of these

00:47:19.100 lying news agencies that's all so for her to say this trump supporter came up and said

00:47:24.900 yeah i don't watch fox news anywhere 2016 and then the other stuff you know you don't seem like

00:47:33.960 the person that they talk about and yeah i'm really into your policies and everything here's

00:47:40.880 something i need aoc to know uh as far as you are a congressional 10 you're not shabby in any

00:47:50.640 rating any attractiveness rating scale you're very good you got them big you know what i mean

00:47:58.140 and uh you know she's she's attractive she's getting a little little beefy but she's still

00:48:05.200 very attractive does this woman know what guys will say to try to get in your pants 0.99

00:48:11.820 that they agree with you 1.00

00:48:15.260 that we used to be Trump supporters

00:48:20.020 but now AOC I agree with you

00:48:22.740 and please embrace me in your politics

00:48:27.380 well anyway embrace me in any way you want

00:48:31.420 take those and embrace them

00:48:35.180 she doesn't understand

00:48:38.400 guys will say anything 0.98

00:48:40.460 to try to have sex with you, 0.97

00:48:45.620 even to the point of disavowing the president that they voted for, 0.97

00:48:51.560 supported, and still absolutely support AOC.

00:48:58.000 Oh, you're so naive, AOC. 1.00

00:49:02.140 What a dunce. 1.00

00:49:04.220 All right. 0.99

00:49:05.280 Back in a couple of minutes, your calls,

00:49:07.640 A lot more stories on the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:49:11.020 Where are you going?

00:49:12.480 Nowhere.

00:49:13.700 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:49:19.520 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:49:26.020 Yes, the Anthony Cumia Show. 0.73

00:49:27.640 And, you know, the parade of mayors that are just clown shoes in this country is astounding.

00:49:44.680 A lot of people like talking about red states and how the red states are the ones with the most gun violence.

00:49:54.140 The red states are the ones that have more people on EBT and SNAP benefits.

00:50:01.360 And the red states, what they don't do is let people know that it's the blue cities in those red states

00:50:10.760 that are the catastrophe going on.

00:50:17.240 It's not the states.

00:50:18.560 It's these blue cities with these mayors that are just how they do not get arrested for gross misconduct, negligence of their duties is beyond me.

00:50:34.740 And an Anthony Cumia show would not be complete any week without having to bring up Chicago's Mayor Johnson.

00:50:43.840 This guy has to be the worst mayor.

00:50:51.080 Now, we'll see what happens with Memdani in New York, technically.

00:50:55.200 Well, not technically.

00:50:56.360 Literally, he is not mayor yet until January 1st.

00:51:03.520 But right now, I defy you to find a mayor worse than Chicago Mayor Johnson

00:51:10.240 because this guy would rather stack up the bodies of young people in Chicago

00:51:19.500 than do anything realistically that will curtail the violent crime

00:51:27.780 and murder going on in his city.

00:51:30.420 He will look at real solutions and just go, nope, pile them up, stack them up,

00:51:39.100 Don't care.

00:51:40.780 I'm not going to make law enforcement look like they actually serve a legitimate purpose.

00:51:47.800 I can't allow the Chicago Police Department to do their job, because then if it works,

00:51:55.600 how am I going to tell people that the police department are terrible and racist and should be defunded?

00:52:03.160 And he will do anything but actually take the hard steps that are needed to try to do anything to stop the carnage that goes on in Chicago.

00:52:22.960 So that's, you know, if you're in Chicago, that's your mayor.

00:52:25.580 That's Mayor Johnson. 1.00

00:52:26.440 And we thought Lori Lightfoot was an abomination.

00:52:33.160 Boy, you guys.

00:52:35.380 And then, you know, this happens everywhere in these blue cities and some some of them statewide with their governors and congressmen and senators.

00:52:47.560 But, you know, you you've just vote these people in.

00:52:52.160 You got rid of Lori Lightfoot.

00:52:54.060 Good job. 0.92

00:52:55.640 And then you vote in a guy even worse than Lori Lightfoot.

00:53:00.780 What are you doing?

00:53:03.160 What am I doing?

00:53:05.920 You guys are screwing up so bad in Chicago.

00:53:09.200 So maybe I'm speaking a little prematurely because I have in my hand another one of Chicago Mayor Johnson's solutions to the violence problem going on in Chicago.

00:53:30.340 Now, you might say, Anthony, what problem is there?

00:53:34.020 What seems to be the problem in Chicago?

00:53:37.260 Well, this story is interesting and pretty typical of Chicago. 1.00

00:53:44.340 There's a serial woman puncher.

00:53:47.960 How this is even a thing? 1.00

00:53:50.320 A serial woman puncher has been arrested again.

00:53:54.040 William Livingston, 32, charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery in a public place.

00:54:01.400 Police say Livingston was identified as the man who struck two women, age 40 and 29, on June 12th.

00:54:07.800 He previously spent time in jail for punching several other women.

00:54:13.740 Kathleen Miles, a mother of 11, from Lake Villa, was punched on August 19th.

00:54:20.960 Livingston was named a suspect and taken into custody.

00:54:24.040 CPD records show he had seven arrests in the past 10 years for similar attacks, including two in 2017, an aggravated assault charge in 2015 and 2016.

00:54:38.540 Coming in with seven punches. 0.67

00:54:42.500 It's William Livingston, 32, says, Dear Casey, I love punching women.

00:54:51.440 He faced four felony counts of aggravated battery for the early 2022 attack.

00:54:59.740 So here's Chicago's problem, and it's not unique to Chicago.

00:55:04.780 Any liberal Democrat city can show you similar statistics.

00:55:10.960 They just let these people go.

00:55:14.800 They let them go. 0.95

00:55:16.480 These are violent felons.

00:55:20.440 This isn't the, you know, oh, why would a guy arrested for a couple of roaches in his ashtray have to go to prison?

00:55:29.980 And everyone agreed with that.

00:55:32.180 I think any rational person would go, yeah, if you get arrested for two roaches in your ashtray during a traffic stop

00:55:40.620 and somehow end up in jail, by the way, that never happens, then, yeah, you should be let out.

00:55:47.600 There was some miscarriage of justice there.

00:55:50.440 but that isn't the case.

00:55:53.720 That's what they sold all of this bail reform on

00:55:58.300 and putting people, giving them probation

00:56:02.480 and paroling criminals, violent criminals.

00:56:07.000 It was all under this, hey, this guy had a joint or two on him.

00:56:12.680 He's a good guy.

00:56:14.400 Why are we locking him up?

00:56:15.600 And everyone went, oh, okay.

00:56:17.620 And then they just flung the doors open

00:56:20.160 and are letting violent felons roam the streets.

00:56:27.840 And they get arrested again, they let them out.

00:56:30.000 Arrested again, they let them out.

00:56:31.140 For the same thing, beating women. 1.00

00:56:34.100 You know, I thought we were a chivalrous nation. 1.00

00:56:37.040 I thought we looked at women with respect and honored them

00:56:40.840 and kept them safe.

00:56:43.180 Isn't that a man's job?

00:56:45.680 To keep women safe?

00:56:47.380 and then you got mayor johnson in chicago that just refuses to do some of the more most common

00:56:57.700 sense actions to make chicago safer so here is uh let me read this to you it's the community

00:57:06.620 safety surcharge that he is going to try at least he's proposed it he wants this

00:57:14.200 this my friends will will take care of the crime in chicago not you know taking criminals off the

00:57:23.060 streets putting them in jail and in prison for lengths of time to do their sentences

00:57:28.560 uh not that this is literally a tax it is a safety safety tax the safety tax a safety tax

00:57:41.460 uh mayor brandon johnson's proposed 21 dollar per employee tax on corporations with 21 or more

00:57:51.780 workers aimed at generating revenue for violence prevention programs you have a violence prevention

00:58:01.060 program it's called the chicago police department there's your violence protection program

00:58:08.100 prevention program and if you let them do their job and you put a police commissioner in place

00:58:15.920 that lets them do their job then you've prevented violence by having a strong police presence

00:58:25.900 that is no nonsense they make sure they're arresting people for the crimes they're committing

00:58:32.960 And then you need a judicial system that will follow through.

00:58:38.300 But your first line of defense, this violence prevention program that you're trying to come up with to raise $200 million a year by taxing companies $21 per employee over 21 employees.

00:58:56.380 So you're a big company.

00:58:57.860 You got thousands of employees.

00:59:00.020 you're now going to pay the city of Chicago $21 for every employee

00:59:07.240 over 21 people that you have.

00:59:10.980 Good luck, Google.

00:59:13.420 Good luck, other corporations that have thousands of people working for them.

00:59:20.440 Because he thinks he needs $200 million to put in place

00:59:26.160 some violence prevention program that will do nothing this guy comes up with more programs

00:59:32.660 what would that be used for uh jobs he thinks if you offer gang members and thugs people that have

00:59:46.080 no qualms about murdering people all you got to do is give them a job that's funded

00:59:53.860 by companies that are actually employing people

00:59:57.680 and penalizing those companies

01:00:00.840 to come up with $200 million to give to thugs

01:00:04.500 or that other thing that he came up with

01:00:08.080 where they hire gang members

01:00:12.360 to go to where violence is

01:00:15.440 and tell them, hey, knock it off, home.

01:00:18.600 Knock it off, bro. 1.00

01:00:20.500 Knock it off, coo. 1.00

01:00:21.880 What you doing, coo? 1.00

01:00:22.760 Stop with the killing, cook. 1.00

01:00:27.460 You have a violence prevention program.

01:00:31.700 They're budgeted.

01:00:34.260 You have the manpower.

01:00:36.500 It's the police department.

01:00:38.380 He will not use it.

01:00:40.000 Stack up those bodies.

01:00:41.740 That's all he cares about.

01:00:43.380 Stack them up.

01:00:45.880 We're going to take a break before we play the clip of Brandon Johnson.

01:00:52.760 talking about this,

01:00:55.160 why wouldn't you utilize the resources you already have?

01:01:01.800 Because he can't line his pockets and give cronies money.

01:01:05.740 All right.

01:01:06.260 We'll be right back with his words next.

01:01:09.620 It's the Anthony Cumia show on the red apple podcast network.

01:01:15.820 It's the Anthony Cumia show on the red apple podcast network.

01:01:21.740 The Anthony Cumia Show, and we were talking about Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

01:01:26.460 and his safety tax that he wants to put in place, $21 a head for any company

01:01:34.960 that has 21 employees or more, more than 21 employees.

01:01:40.860 So, you know, you're a company with a few hundred or thousand employees.

01:01:45.220 That adds up, and that tax will be going to programs, certain programs that will curtail the violence problem.

01:01:56.880 And none of his programs over the course of his mayorship in Chicago have done anything to bring crime down.

01:02:06.360 But he's so afraid of utilizing his greatest resource, the Chicago Police Department,

01:02:11.440 because he's afraid that when they start arresting people and putting them in jail

01:02:16.380 that Mayor Brandon Johnson is going to look like he's trading. 0.95

01:02:20.980 He's a traitor to his race. 0.95

01:02:25.040 So that matters to him more than actual dead bodies, 1.00

01:02:30.480 of the vast majority of which are young black men.

01:02:34.880 So I don't know why Mayor Brandon Johnson is in office.

01:02:41.440 This is a gross negligence of duties that has resulted in the deaths of people.

01:02:47.780 Any other person responsible for that would be thrown out of their job at the very least

01:02:56.120 and brought up on charges if you had a rational thinking machine working the whole gimmick there in Chicago.

01:03:05.060 So here is what Mayor Johnson there in Chicago is talking about, his safety tax and his this is going to do it.

01:03:15.500 This finally taxing companies is not going to chase corporations out of Chicago.

01:03:21.360 It's going to make Chicago the safe place it's supposed to be.

01:03:26.260 Brandon.

01:03:27.860 The community safety surcharge.

01:03:30.180 It's a job killer for the city.

01:03:31.620 Why, if I were Google, would I stay here in the city and pay that head tax instead of going out

01:03:36.580 to Naperville? The notion that these taxes kill jobs, there's just no empirical data that

01:03:43.360 corroborates that. It just doesn't exist. We found a way to generate revenue without it being on the

01:03:49.400 backs of working people, without having to raise property taxes, without expanding garbage fees,

01:03:55.540 without collecting a grocery tax. As someone who is a part of the labor movement, who comes out of

01:04:00.760 the working class. My father who worked his butt off the third shift to raise 10 kids. I know what

01:04:06.580 it's like to open up a refrigerator and there's no food in it. I know what it's like to have an

01:04:10.280 orange extension cord from my window to our neighbor's window because we cannot afford

01:04:14.520 electricity. There is no way in the world that I'm going to present a budget that's going to harm

01:04:18.420 the working class. So in terms of the corporate responsibility that we're calling for through the

01:04:23.680 community safety search, that's going to go towards $50 million to hire young people. It's

01:04:29.040 going to go to the wellness and the health of our police officers there's a provision in there that

01:04:33.900 ensures that we're providing support for victims and survivors of domestic and gender-based violence

01:04:39.680 and then of course our cvi workers which has been demonstrated all over the city of chicago

01:04:44.700 where brown and black organizations have community members who are working in some of the toughest

01:04:49.820 precincts in the city where they have driven violence down violence interrupters chicago 0.54

01:04:55.400 violence interrupters or community

01:04:57.540 violence interrupters. That's

01:04:59.660 his CVI program and that's the one where

01:05:01.520 he pays gang members to

01:05:03.480 go into

01:05:05.340 a beef and try to

01:05:07.380 cool things down. By the way

01:05:09.580 two that I have read so

01:05:11.540 far, two of these CVI

01:05:13.740 people in Chicago were

01:05:15.600 directly connected to gangs

01:05:17.520 and utilizing their power

01:05:19.800 and money that they're being paid

01:05:21.760 by the city to involve

01:05:23.740 themselves in gang crime drug dealing and violence so you know i don't know what this guy's doing

01:05:33.060 what is he thinking with this and again you know just give a thug a job give them jobs

01:05:41.020 not everyone is fit for society and getting a job is going to make them better some people

01:05:50.620 really just need to be locked away from everyone forever and he just will not fess up to that

01:05:58.040 um it's it's beyond me how this guy and then he says the corporate responsibility

01:06:07.620 so it's corporations that do business in the city of chicago

01:06:15.040 are responsible for trying to stop the crime in Chicago?

01:06:22.480 Huh?

01:06:24.100 They're doing you a favor by running a business in your city

01:06:29.380 and paying taxes and giving the people of Chicago

01:06:33.280 outlets for things like food and goods and services.

01:06:38.580 But they have a responsibility to make the city safe enough

01:06:43.580 so they can do business?

01:06:46.120 What? 0.59

01:06:47.560 That's called the police force.

01:06:52.260 What business would stick around? 0.94

01:06:56.840 The woman who asked them that question right off the bat is absolutely right.

01:07:02.220 What's keeping these businesses from picking up and moving to a city

01:07:09.840 or a township close to Chicago without having to pay these insane taxes.

01:07:19.360 And he, him, Mamdani's the same thing.

01:07:22.260 You know, raising taxes in New York from 7.4% to 11.5%. 1.00

01:07:30.080 They will leave.

01:07:34.360 Mamdani's even funnier.

01:07:35.560 He says they're going to love it.

01:07:36.820 They're going to pay more taxes and love it.

01:07:41.680 But this guy, he really has no fear that these companies will leave.

01:07:48.840 And the audacity to say that it's the companies, these businesses that are doing business in Chicago,

01:07:56.080 it's their responsibility to pay money, pay a tax to make them safer.

01:08:02.560 That is the mob.

01:08:04.120 the mob

01:08:06.420 Brandon Johnson and his cronies

01:08:09.140 go to a business

01:08:10.680 and they go

01:08:12.460 yeah we need $21

01:08:14.360 for every employee you have

01:08:16.800 over the count of 21 employees

01:08:18.560 yeah I don't want to pay that

01:08:20.700 it's a shame

01:08:21.720 it's a nice window you got there

01:08:23.860 nice big picture window

01:08:25.220 be a shame if anything happened to it

01:08:28.560 try to tell me what's different

01:08:32.840 between the mafia shaking down local businesses

01:08:36.620 under the guise of protection

01:08:39.640 and we're going to help you be safe

01:08:42.660 and Brandon Johnson

01:08:45.360 taking their money

01:08:47.540 and telling them they're going to be safe.

01:08:50.440 It's the mafia.

01:08:53.260 Oh, my God.

01:08:55.120 What are you people in Chicago doing? 1.00

01:08:58.060 You are insane. 1.00

01:09:00.060 You are insane, Chicago. 1.00

01:09:03.700 But, you know, you voted him in. 0.95

01:09:06.240 I can't wait to see the next mayor.

01:09:08.100 If the trend continues, Chicago, I cannot wait to see the next mayor.

01:09:16.200 Greg from Indiana.

01:09:17.500 What's up, Greg?

01:09:18.520 We've got a couple of minutes here, so make it fast.

01:09:22.980 Hey, Anthony, I'm a big fan.

01:09:24.940 Thank you so much.

01:09:25.540 Thanks for taking my call.

01:09:26.600 Thank you.

01:09:28.980 I'm actually glad that you were talking about this topic,

01:09:30.920 I admit criminality is the biggest thing that has resonated with me as a fan for many, many years now.

01:09:37.000 And I do delivery work in Ohio and around the Cincinnati area, which has gotten worse and worse over the years.

01:09:45.680 Oh, yeah.

01:09:46.960 It's just viewing the decline of our society over the years.

01:09:52.340 And I'm only 26, so, you know, I haven't been here very long.

01:09:55.440 But, you know, you have to wonder how the people, especially the people that are, you know, actually having to live in the muck and the mire and the people that are actually having to deal with the threat of assault and robbery and murder and, you know, with the people that are in charge, you know, it's like Mayor Adams is a dope and Johnson is clearly motivated just by a perverse sense of racial solidarity.

01:10:22.240 And yes, regardless of how it affects the black community in Chicago, he doesn't care at all, which is ironic.

01:10:31.320 But you have to wonder how regular people and obviously, especially in Chicago, it's racial solidarity.

01:10:37.420 You got like 10 seconds, Greg.

01:10:39.380 I'm sorry.

01:10:41.200 Oh, that's all right.

01:10:42.180 Yeah.

01:10:42.600 Well, thanks for the call anyway.

01:10:44.460 Thank you.

01:10:45.140 And we'll be back in moments.

01:10:46.600 Stick around.

01:10:47.640 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:10:52.240 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network the anthony cumia show

01:11:01.660 and uh yeah we're kind of we're kind of talking about mayors of some of these uh blue cities

01:11:11.740 and uh it's it's just a mess they'd rather as my mom used to say cut off your nose to

01:11:21.380 spite your face you're cutting off your nose to spite your face i didn't know what that was as a

01:11:27.920 kid but it horrified me because i took things very literally so i i imagined um my nose being cut off

01:11:35.040 and i didn't know what the word spite meant at that time but yeah whatever so uh let's move

01:11:42.760 to the West Coast, Seattle.

01:11:46.460 Seattle, Washington has a new mayor

01:11:49.660 and apparently really likes this Memdani plan,

01:11:56.540 especially when it comes to these grocery stores,

01:11:59.420 these state-run grocery stores where, you know,

01:12:03.460 a place like Gristidi's where you can go in and get everything.

01:12:08.300 Look at me, commercial for the boss's grocery stores.

01:12:12.760 It's called private enterprise and competition, and that is always done very well because it forces companies to be better.

01:12:26.940 You want people to use your business?

01:12:30.620 You've got to be better than the next guy that also is doing the same type of business you're doing, competition.

01:12:39.880 It works.

01:12:41.960 State-run means that there's no competition.

01:12:46.740 You go to a store and they don't have what you want.

01:12:51.880 You're going to go to the next state-run store and they're going to have it?

01:12:55.340 No.

01:12:56.220 There's no motivation either to make money, to make a profit.

01:13:02.460 So there's no motivation to satisfy the customer.

01:13:06.520 This is socialism.

01:13:08.400 This is communism.

01:13:10.260 That's how it works.

01:13:12.140 That's why during many years, you know, we used to get a lot of propaganda and fake news about the Soviet Union.

01:13:22.160 But when the Soviet Union finally fell and we were hearing from the people that would come here and what it was really like, not what America told us the Soviet Union was during the Cold War.

01:13:36.640 We heard horror stories about some of the simplest things,

01:13:40.020 buying food, clothes.

01:13:42.360 You'd get the same green jumpsuit, same khaki green jumpsuit

01:13:49.500 and a bottle of vodka with the tinfoil on the top for a cap

01:13:54.120 and cigarettes, and that's what you got

01:13:57.500 because everyone gets the same thing.

01:14:00.480 See, we all, the people, the workers, we all get treated the same,

01:14:05.040 and the government gives us what we need to live.

01:14:08.480 Well, what you need to live might not necessarily be what you want to live.

01:14:13.760 Socialism, the bar has to be lowered so far down for everyone to enjoy,

01:14:20.820 if I may use the term, having what everyone else has.

01:14:26.400 You don't have rich people.

01:14:29.020 Oh, you do.

01:14:30.140 They're the ones in charge of socialism, whatever.

01:14:33.660 your socialist government is but the people they all have the same which sounds great if they all

01:14:41.620 have the same good stuff but they lower the bar and go hey what are you complaining about your

01:14:47.000 neighbor also got a bottle of vodka some cigarettes some crappy food and a green jumpsuit to go to

01:14:53.660 work in um that's socialism so you're not going to get anything better it's going to be uh everything 0.96

01:15:04.540 is going to be crap so uh this mayor is uh well let's let's hear from kate wilson katie wilson

01:15:14.240 self-proclaimed socialist is out in front of uh incumbent bruce harrell by just under a hundred 0.99

01:15:21.940 votes as of Tuesday. Oh, this was the

01:15:23.940 election.

01:15:26.880 Yeah. 1.00

01:15:28.140 She wants 0.87

01:15:29.340 the Memdani-style socialism. 0.94

01:15:32.220 Let's hear her. Katie Wilson.

01:15:34.720 Access to affordable, 1.00

01:15:36.440 healthy food is a basic right.

01:15:38.640 We cannot allow giant 0.89

01:15:40.000 grocery chains to stomp all over our communities,

01:15:42.620 close stores at will, and leave behind

01:15:44.000 food deserts. Together we can

01:15:46.040 build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone,

01:15:47.900 not just for those who can afford it.

01:15:49.940 food deserts are not natural

01:15:52.300 corporations create them when they abandon

01:15:54.460 our communities as mayor

01:15:56.180 I'm excited to step up and with

01:15:58.160 USCW explore public

01:16:00.120 option grocery stores to fill those gaps

01:16:02.460 we

01:16:03.620 can you believe

01:16:06.420 what she's saying

01:16:08.240 there

01:16:08.660 food deserts

01:16:11.500 do you know I've never heard the term

01:16:14.300 food desert until

01:16:15.820 relatively

01:16:16.940 relatively

01:16:18.100 relativity recently, maybe eight years, I guess, five to eight years, because that wasn't

01:16:30.340 a thing.

01:16:31.420 That just wasn't a thing, a food desert.

01:16:36.620 Companies, businesses leave when it isn't profitable to be at a location.

01:16:43.680 It's too dangerous to be at a location.

01:16:47.560 They pick up and leave.

01:16:50.800 And that's what they do.

01:16:53.420 So, yeah, you're right.

01:16:54.500 Food deserts aren't natural.

01:16:57.560 It isn't something that should organically occur.

01:17:00.540 Something has to make it happen.

01:17:02.820 And to say that it's corporations that are leaving some of these impoverished, high-crime areas, why?

01:17:13.820 Out of greed?

01:17:14.820 if they were making money there isn't some guy some ceo of a company going like what

01:17:25.200 where's uh store number 65 well it's in a uh inner city area a lot of minorities shop there

01:17:35.960 and ah well let me see the papers let me see uh the ledger let me see the profit loss wow it's

01:17:43.240 making a lot of money yes sir it's one of our our most profitable stores yeah but black and brown 1.00

01:17:52.740 people use it well yes sir it's very nice and they yeah but pack up board it up we're moving 1.00

01:18:01.000 i don't care how much money we lose thank you and scene uh that isn't what's happening

01:18:09.740 the stores are being robbed the employees are being assaulted and or murdered uh the shoplifting

01:18:21.740 which i love that they call robbery shoplifting these days uh is at a rate where they're just

01:18:29.160 not turning a profit there's too much loss because they're not allowed to do anything about

01:18:34.980 the robberies that are going on in their store.

01:18:39.380 So what are they to do?

01:18:41.300 Stay there?

01:18:43.040 Because, what, they're a public service?

01:18:46.780 No, they're a company that needs to turn a profit.

01:18:50.040 So this woman here, this mayor,

01:18:54.060 is blaming the company

01:18:58.140 for making food deserts and retail deserts.

01:19:04.040 There's a reason, and it's not corporate greed doing it.

01:19:08.520 Corporate greed would mean stay there if the stores were making money.

01:19:14.300 I don't care how many of our employees have to be shot or punched. 1.00

01:19:19.440 That store's making bank. 0.84

01:19:22.060 We're staying.

01:19:23.160 That would be corporate greed.

01:19:25.540 But when you look around and go, yeah, we cannot make money here,

01:19:29.680 and they leave, you don't blame the company.

01:19:32.580 You blame the leadership in that community or that city, the leadership that is the mayor, city council, police commissioner, and you go, what is going on?

01:19:48.940 Can you do better so that companies don't pick up and leave because they're experiencing horrors and crime?

01:19:58.500 No, no, no.

01:19:59.040 it's the

01:20:00.760 it's the terrible

01:20:02.920 greedy corporations

01:20:04.620 that are doing it

01:20:05.900 is this the same mayor that 0.97

01:20:08.580 still lives with her parents

01:20:10.460 I heard some stories 1.00

01:20:13.100 that this woman still lives 1.00

01:20:15.180 with her parents

01:20:17.440 which is a great reflection

01:20:19.460 of her constituents

01:20:21.100 in Seattle

01:20:21.960 somebody who has no idea what it's like

01:20:25.480 to have

01:20:26.420 actual responsibilities

01:20:28.680 as a working person, as an adult that needs to go out,

01:20:35.080 understands how you function in a civil society,

01:20:38.460 speaking to people, negotiating, debating.

01:20:44.620 What pizza rolls, Bob?

01:20:47.420 That's what we get.

01:20:50.340 That is what we get.

01:20:53.320 Oh, here we go.

01:20:55.040 The lovely Sondra from Jersey.

01:20:58.080 What's up, Sandra?

01:21:00.460 Hi, Anthony.

01:21:01.520 How are you tonight?

01:21:02.780 Good.

01:21:03.340 How are you doing?

01:21:04.620 I'm doing okay as well.

01:21:06.120 You know, I wanted to say two things.

01:21:08.120 One, when these supermarkets are going to be taken over, I was thinking Amazon and all those people that order online,

01:21:16.620 they're going to start getting all their favorite products that way because if they're not going to get them in the supermarkets, that's how they'll get them, right?

01:21:24.160 Absolutely.

01:21:24.600 Absolutely. It's already a lot of people use Amazon or other delivery services to get food and goods and whatever they need.

01:21:34.400 You know, I don't step into a Home Depot anymore.

01:21:37.260 I go to their site, I buy something and they deliver it that day.

01:21:42.140 So why am I going to trudge around in a Home Depot and deal with, you know, people?

01:21:49.560 So certain people will suffer, not everyone. That's my point.

01:21:54.060 So then the other thing I wanted to ask you is my sister texted me earlier tonight saying the big weekend show, Fox News, said the Dems are going underwater.

01:22:05.840 But then she said to me, then why are they winning all the elections?

01:22:09.200 So that's what I wanted to ask you, Anthony.

01:22:11.180 I know you talk about AOC. 1.00

01:22:13.620 She's a laughingstock. 1.00

01:22:14.960 But, Anthony, she's going to be another Mandami. 1.00

01:22:18.880 That's what I'm afraid of. 1.00

01:22:20.100 You know, I'm.

01:22:21.400 Well, that's a good question, but if you look into it, even on the surface, you'll see there were no amazing Democrat upsets this past election.

01:22:35.560 Did we really think Curtis Sliwa was going to win New York?

01:22:40.200 We knew Mamdani had that wrapped up, and the only other option was Cuomo, who's also a Democrat.

01:22:46.280 Jersey's governor?

01:22:47.220 did we really think you know jersey is far from a red state they've had republican governors but

01:22:53.820 uh not anymore that wasn't an upset we knew that was going to happen the the mayoral race

01:23:01.400 in uh minneapolis minnesota you had the the somali light bulb head guy and then you had

01:23:08.960 And Mayor Frey, who is a bleeding heart, crybaby Democrat mayor.

01:23:16.480 So if if they were winning elections this past election day a couple of weeks back that were supposed to be Republican wins, but they ended up being Democrat wins, then I'd say, wow, I guess their narrative is hitting with with people on the right.

01:23:36.760 but they won every election they were absolutely supposed to win by miles okay all right well that's

01:23:44.420 what i want i wanted your opinion on that so you're okay you think we're doing nicely we're

01:23:48.580 moving along the way we should be i'm sad about jack cattarelli though honestly i really felt that

01:23:55.060 he was gonna win that yeah yeah i i know we all get disappointed sondra but i don't know what to

01:24:02.660 think quite frankly i've seen things change on a dime people are so fickle these days i never

01:24:08.780 understand when you watch a poll and and you go uh well the polls are in and they're polls like

01:24:14.620 every week and then you go oh this one went up or this one went down well the undecideds it's like

01:24:20.180 can you people make a commitment like the poll should be exactly the same every week how do you

01:24:27.180 change your opinion weekly and go i like this guy i hate that guy i like this guy now well i hate

01:24:32.540 him i'm doing this now well well i would assume it's different people that they're getting well

01:24:37.100 i would too same person i would too sandra but it's supposed see it's supposed to be a sampling

01:24:42.720 of people to get a pretty basic look no matter if it's different people the same people

01:24:48.320 there should be a um kind of a steadiness in the numbers right uh you know people that just

01:24:54.980 who are these people sandra thank you so much for your call um yeah that's kind of what it is

01:25:01.160 there weren't any surprises this election day minneapolis oh you got the the i'm the captain 0.95

01:25:08.600 now guy and the the guy that was babbling like an idiot kneeling in front of uh sir george floyd's 0.99

01:25:15.900 golden casket at his funeral holy moly minneapolis wow i really thought a republican was gonna snag 0.99

01:25:24.480 that i don't even think there was one one running there's two democrats facing each other so

01:25:30.820 So, yeah, that's kind of my take on that one.

01:25:36.620 We also have the mayor in Denver, Mike Johnston.

01:25:41.640 Mike Johnston, I don't know what happened to Denver.

01:25:44.300 I thought Denver was a rough-and-tumble kind of western town, cowboy, right-wing people,

01:25:52.860 right-leaning politically.

01:25:55.000 And over the course of the decade or so, the past decade, maybe even more, Denver's just

01:26:00.820 Turned into I don't know what's going on there, but here's Denver Mayor Mike Johnson.

01:26:06.980 He's talking about a brandy new affordable housing building that is in Denver.

01:26:14.140 And he's got great dreams and aspirations.

01:26:19.140 And let's listen to him talk about this.

01:26:22.040 This is what affordability looks like here in Denver.

01:26:24.540 Today, we opened 128 units of affordable housing here.

01:26:27.760 Let me show you what this means.

01:26:28.640 This means both workforce housing.

01:26:31.940 So if you are someone that's a teacher, that's a nurse, that's a firefighter, looking for a place to work and a place to live, you can live here.

01:26:38.940 If you're looking for permanent supportive housing, that means you might be someone who's coming out of corrections or coming out of homelessness and need some supportive services as well.

01:26:48.280 You can see amazingly built public spaces, beautiful outdoor patio and grill.

01:26:54.740 Great.

01:26:55.140 You've got my favorite room here, which is game day room, where you can have folks sit.

01:27:00.460 That will be the crack smoking room in six months.

01:27:03.580 If there are case managers who are helping people provide access to services, they have offices right here.

01:27:10.360 That's where you'll shoot up in eight months.

01:27:11.640 But the idea is this is true for all levels of affordability.

01:27:14.100 So we want Denver to be affordable for those folks struggling the most.

01:27:17.280 But we also want it to be affordable for working families all across the city. 0.97

01:27:20.880 Okay, you could stop them right there.

01:27:23.380 Did you hear this?

01:27:27.260 I'm stunned every time I hear this.

01:27:30.200 It's affordable housing, so it's a project.

01:27:33.680 It looked beautiful.

01:27:35.460 The video, I mean, the architecture, you could smell the new wood,

01:27:41.760 new carpeting and everything from this.

01:27:44.000 This will be destroyed in very short time.

01:27:47.660 And he's saying that the residents are going to be, you know, working people.

01:27:53.380 maybe your nurses in the area, firefighters, police officers, professional people,

01:28:00.020 and, you know, convicts and homeless, affordable housing,

01:28:07.600 because those people mesh very well together.

01:28:11.480 I'm sure someone that works their ass off putting out fires

01:28:15.720 and dragging people out of burning buildings

01:28:18.300 and being faced with a gun in their face during a traffic stop and the like,

01:28:23.380 I'm sure they're going to love the smell of urine in the elevators that, you know, the criminals and homeless that you're cohabitating with will surely be be doing in the elevators and the offices.

01:28:40.220 there was a hallway with these tiny cubicle-like offices that will help you

01:28:45.420 if you need help with your SNAP benefits or you're chilling, my chow,

01:28:52.180 whatever it is, those, I can't imagine that short of a year

01:28:58.360 there will be people sprawled on the floor ODing in those offices.

01:29:04.580 It's a project like the projects.

01:29:08.600 all that money going to this beautiful building that will be garbage within a year because

01:29:16.620 there's no responsibility when you don't have a stake in the game when you give people

01:29:23.340 a place to live they don't have pride in that place and to think to hallucinate that you're

01:29:33.280 going to get professional working people to cohabitate with some of the worst degenerates 0.63

01:29:39.440 in Denver is insane. I had a grave misconception about what Denver was all about. Maybe I'm

01:29:50.420 thinking back a few years, but oof. Good luck with all that, Mike Johnston. Okay, back in

01:29:58.220 moment stick around it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:30:04.100 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:30:10.860 yes it is the anthony cumia show and um i guess we'll finish off our mayor our tribute to

01:30:20.200 the Democrat mayors of America with Mamdani,

01:30:26.740 who will be New York City's mayor on January 1st.

01:30:31.580 Godspeed, New York.

01:30:33.880 All of those campaign promises that were made,

01:30:38.980 especially things like free child care and the free fast buses.

01:30:45.400 He really went with this one.

01:30:47.180 And it seems like this just isn't going to happen.

01:30:51.220 We heard from Governor Hochul that said, I'm not raising taxes.

01:30:57.260 And this is how Mamdani was talking about funding this whole thing.

01:31:03.140 Well, we'll just raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, the filthy rich of New York City.

01:31:11.200 You know, the million-dollar earners.

01:31:14.200 If you make a million dollars a year or more, which in New York City, I'm sorry to say it.

01:31:22.160 I don't want to sound like a snob, but a million bucks is pretty much the bare minimum you can make and live comfortably in New York.

01:31:30.860 But that doesn't mean tax the crap out of me. 0.89

01:31:33.560 So I can't afford to live in New York.

01:31:37.900 And I've talked about it before.

01:31:39.660 I don't understand why New York has to be affordable for everyone.

01:31:46.200 Where did that come from?

01:31:51.640 Who decided that everywhere in the country has to somehow be affordable to people?

01:31:59.480 Oh, New York City, I can't afford to live there.

01:32:01.440 Well, we'll change that.

01:32:02.620 Why?

01:32:03.380 Why?

01:32:04.660 There are some places you can't live.

01:32:07.780 Oh, my God.

01:32:08.860 I want Beverly Hills to be more affordable.

01:32:12.920 Where's my public housing?

01:32:15.040 Where's my rent freezes?

01:32:16.760 Where's my free busing in Bel Air?

01:32:20.800 It doesn't happen.

01:32:22.860 They don't want it to happen.

01:32:25.340 Some places are just out of the income range of a lot of people.

01:32:32.980 And New York City, one of those places.

01:32:36.320 Certain places in New York, sure.

01:32:38.860 But it's not going to be nice.

01:32:41.220 It's not going to be ritzy, as they say.

01:32:45.360 So Memdani is finally addressing reporters' questions that Hochul says no.

01:32:53.240 She says the MTA needs the money that the buses generate to make their budgets,

01:33:01.540 to pay the employees.

01:33:03.620 And there's no way that she could see, especially without her giving the okay to raise taxes. 0.82

01:33:10.840 And she can't even do that unilaterally. 0.98

01:33:13.160 She's got to present that to people.

01:33:16.180 And she's like, I'm not even going to present raising taxes.

01:33:19.960 And then she says the MTA needs bus money. 0.82

01:33:24.140 So, ma'am, daddy's screwed here. 0.88

01:33:26.520 He lied to the voters, of course. 0.97

01:33:29.600 But he's answering some questions, or is he?

01:33:33.360 Here's Zorin Mamdani when asked about Hochul saying no to free buses.

01:33:39.440 Let's just talk about what Governor Hochul said very recently about buses.

01:33:43.340 I cannot set forth a plan right now that takes money out of a system that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways.

01:33:52.740 But can we find a path to make it more affordable for people who need help?

01:33:56.760 Of course we can.

01:33:57.760 It sounded like it was a bit new, that she was saying it's not a good time to take revenue out of the MTA.

01:34:03.560 Now, my understanding of your plan is that the city would subsidize the revenue,

01:34:07.340 but she has other reasons why she doesn't sound too keen on the bus situation.

01:34:12.440 Should she have said that before people voted based on that issue?

01:34:16.980 Is that a shift, or have you always known that she felt that way?

01:34:20.080 And also, is that a workaround?

01:34:23.060 Well, I think the governor and I share a belief that in making buses free,

01:34:27.080 we have to replace the revenue for the MTA.

01:34:29.220 We cannot simply demand that they do so without covering the amount of money they would raise from fares.

01:34:33.840 And that's a cost of about $700 million a year.

01:34:36.680 And I continue to be excited about the work of making the slowest buses in America fast and free

01:34:41.220 and of sharing the governor's interest in delivering on an affordability agenda.

01:34:44.660 But do you need to get past whatever her objection is to it at this point that she just stated in the last couple of days?

01:34:50.080 I see the concern being that we don't mimic what we saw under the previous administration in Albany where what we would find time and again is the MTA was told, make this happen no matter what the cost is.

01:35:00.940 And what we want to do is what we did when we made five bus routes free in New York City, we found $15 million, gave it to the MTA, covered the revenue they would have made from fares, and ensured that they could still be whole.

01:35:10.620 Is that the solution in your view?

01:35:12.440 We're going to approach this as there's always a way to get to yes, that there's going to

01:35:17.560 be a way and we're going to work with the governor and her staff and we're going to

01:35:20.300 have conversations to get there.

01:35:23.500 The whatever the barriers are, whether it's financial, whether it's operational, there's

01:35:30.960 a way to figure that out.

01:35:32.200 And that's how we're approaching this.

01:35:34.280 We'll figure it out.

01:35:35.560 Now it's we'll figure it out.

01:35:37.440 I will give you fast, free buses.

01:35:40.260 we'll figure it out

01:35:45.440 I'm working on it 0.96

01:35:47.680 you lying sack 0.99

01:35:50.620 oh my god 0.99

01:35:53.160 yeah, Hochul ain't going for free buses

01:35:56.760 you're not getting free buses in New York

01:36:00.460 but we all knew this

01:36:01.760 we had talked about this many times 0.84

01:36:04.060 how ridiculous the idea is

01:36:06.520 of 700 million dollars

01:36:09.740 that it will cost, where's that coming from?

01:36:13.220 Raising taxes.

01:36:14.400 Hochul is not raising taxes.

01:36:16.580 We'll now work it out.

01:36:18.660 We're talking about it.

01:36:20.500 But that was a campaign promise.

01:36:22.660 It wasn't really a promise.

01:36:25.160 I had my fingers crossed.

01:36:27.180 We didn't pinky promise it. 0.99

01:36:29.780 You suckers. 1.00

01:36:31.480 Bunch of suckers. 1.00

01:36:32.780 You're saps voting for this guy. 0.99

01:36:37.000 By the way, it's going to be everything.

01:36:39.340 There's not going to be state-run grocery stores.

01:36:42.620 It would be great.

01:36:43.400 I would love to see it.

01:36:44.860 It just ain't going to happen. 0.99

01:36:47.240 He's a fraud. 0.98

01:36:48.660 Who didn't know this? 1.00

01:36:50.280 All right.

01:36:50.920 Stick around for the next hour of the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:36:54.640 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:37:00.760 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:37:06.220 hey there everybody yes it is the anthony cumia show appreciate that support guys have been awesome

01:37:16.240 there's uh another mandatman dammy thing but uh it's not as much about him as it is about

01:37:25.180 Starbucks, these Starbucks employees and their supporters, like Zora Mamdani, do they understand the structure of a starter job?

01:37:45.360 When you first enter the workforce, you don't go and become the CEO of IBM.

01:37:55.120 You are in a beginner job position.

01:38:01.720 This teaches you things like responsibility.

01:38:05.640 Maybe you learn a trade.

01:38:07.240 You learn how the necessity to get up early, to go to work, get yourself there, get dressed, go out, feed yourself.

01:38:21.020 You're training to be a human being that isn't burdensome to the rest of society.

01:38:28.040 And part of that is getting a job in a beginner job establishment.

01:38:39.280 McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, your local pizza place.

01:38:45.980 I remember those being places that you went.

01:38:51.380 I could fill out a job application.

01:38:54.580 And then, hey, you're hired.

01:38:56.500 Minimum wage.

01:38:57.480 You're washing dishes.

01:38:58.840 All right.

01:39:00.080 I'll make a couple of bucks during the week.

01:39:03.220 On the weekend, I'll spend it on cigarettes, a six of Bud, half pint of Jack Daniels,

01:39:10.800 and we start over on Monday.

01:39:16.420 Now, anyone thinking during those times that you should start a family

01:39:24.060 and maybe buy a house.

01:39:27.700 I could cut down on the Bud.

01:39:32.240 I'd get a Bud Tallboy instead of a six-pack

01:39:35.280 to cut down to pay for my house, my kids, my car, my wife.

01:39:43.240 Just cutting out a few of those beers.

01:39:48.320 Still getting the Jack Daniels and the cigarettes, though.

01:39:52.080 It's called a starter job. 1.00

01:39:56.740 Now, these idiots are under this misconception because they've been told this by people 1.00

01:40:02.460 that these jobs should pay you enough to live as an adult with a family. 1.00

01:40:11.480 A living wage, they call it.

01:40:14.620 Oh, why aren't you paying your employees a living wage? 0.54

01:40:18.620 because they're not supposed to make a family

01:40:25.400 and buy a house and a car on this salary.

01:40:31.240 Why can't I get 40 hours a week? 0.98

01:40:35.480 That's another thing that Starbucks employees are protesting.

01:40:39.020 They're very mad or striking for.

01:40:42.080 Well, because it's a starter job,

01:40:44.580 Now, Starbucks doesn't want to pay for benefits for these people.

01:40:52.960 They're in their, you know, 20s.

01:40:56.480 Obviously, there are cataclysmic accidents and sometimes a rare illness will befall a young person.

01:41:03.500 But for the most part, it's a waste of money to insure your employees at that age.

01:41:12.820 so you put them part-time so they don't get all the benefits that a full-time employee gets

01:41:18.700 what this also does is opens up this starter job to more people if you have uh 10 people

01:41:29.120 working 40 hours a week you could have 20 people working 10 or 20 hours a week if my math works

01:41:36.900 to carry the tube.

01:41:40.000 So it's totally set up

01:41:42.620 to be a training ground for an adult.

01:41:46.840 Let me get through this.

01:41:49.400 Let me show people I'm responsible

01:41:51.520 and I'll work my way up.

01:41:54.220 Maybe I hate this and I go on to something else.

01:41:57.480 All those jobs are beginner jobs

01:41:59.800 and you should never expect

01:42:01.640 to make the amount of money

01:42:03.640 to live off of from those jobs.

01:42:06.900 But again, you know, they've been told that they deserve a living wage.

01:42:14.100 So here's Zoran Mamdani supporting the Starbucks strike.

01:42:21.540 Let's listen to Zoran.

01:42:23.400 We are talking about a CEO of a company who made $96 million just last year.

01:42:31.200 Yeah.

01:42:32.200 $96 million, which is 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker's salary.

01:42:39.520 Could you pause it right there, my friend?

01:42:41.440 That's the kind of disparity that we are seeing here.

01:42:42.820 If you could.

01:42:43.280 And what these workers are asking for is the bare minimum.

01:42:47.440 They are asking for a salary that they can actually live off of.

01:42:51.380 They are asking for hours they can actually build their life around.

01:42:54.900 Life.

01:42:55.160 They are asking for the violations of labor law to finally be resolved.

01:42:59.520 Violations?

01:43:00.080 They deserve a city that has their back.

01:43:03.260 And I am here to say that that is what New York City will be.

01:43:08.220 Free stuff.

01:43:11.680 Is that I stand here today to practice with these workers.

01:43:15.600 And if you force these workers to go on strike, then I will be there with them on that strike as well.

01:43:23.440 The workers, man.

01:43:25.940 The people.

01:43:26.740 first of all uh yeah the ceo makes uh 92 million dollars the ceo of starbucks

01:43:35.140 again skin in the game the pressures of a c a ceo i can't even imagine one screw up your stock

01:43:46.120 price goes down you're you're done you you know the people waiting in the wings to stab you in

01:43:53.640 the back and take your position and is it you know ninety some odd million dollars worth of

01:43:59.820 pressure probably not that is a lot of money but trying to make the comparison that hey he makes

01:44:08.300 all this and your barista only makes this six thousand something less dollars than than the

01:44:18.320 CEO yeah you can't equate the two in any way the dummy makes a mistake pouring out some coffee

01:44:26.420 they throw throw it away and make another cup CEO makes a mistake people lose their jobs

01:44:34.900 the stock price goes down everyone's losing their minds uh and again what what are you

01:44:42.580 What are you trying to get out of working at Starbucks?

01:44:48.100 They're striking fire every single one of them.

01:44:53.280 I was saying this on my podcast.

01:44:57.660 I guarantee you, you can walk outside of a Starbucks, grab anyone in 10 minutes of showing someone what to do.

01:45:08.220 And I'm talking a reasonably average intelligence person.

01:45:14.760 You show them what to do in 10 minutes.

01:45:19.980 They can do it.

01:45:21.180 By the end of the day, the work day, they are proficient at it.

01:45:25.640 And they will come in the next day and do their job and it'll go great.

01:45:30.520 And then maybe you'll learn a little tricks to speed things up or something.

01:45:34.420 But anybody on the street could be put in that position.

01:45:42.440 So the fact that you're demanding more money from Starbucks

01:45:47.420 and some type of, you know, they think it's some big union moment.

01:45:55.600 Like, oh, I'm going to be the hero here.

01:45:58.480 I'm going to be the union guy that shows the owners that it's about the workers.

01:46:05.580 Not at Starbucks.

01:46:08.260 Blow them out. 1.00

01:46:09.680 Just fire them all. 1.00

01:46:11.660 Get a new batch of idiots in there. 1.00

01:46:14.220 And the second they start cackling about what they should be making, 1.00

01:46:19.080 you throw them out.

01:46:22.420 There's plenty of people.

01:46:25.060 Plenty of high school students.

01:46:27.180 plenty of college students that have some spare time between their studies

01:46:32.700 that will be able to do this gig with minutes of training.

01:46:41.140 So the thought that you're going to strong arm management at Starbucks

01:46:47.280 to pay you a living wage for a job that's supposed to be for cigarettes,

01:46:52.980 beer, and whiskey money for the weekend, it's insane. 0.51

01:46:57.180 And, of course, Mamdani's behind it.

01:47:00.580 For the people.

01:47:02.220 I'm for the worker. 0.97

01:47:04.400 The workers need to take control of the means of production.

01:47:08.220 All right, Karl Marx.

01:47:10.140 It's more like Groucho Marx or something. 1.00

01:47:13.520 What an idiot. 1.00

01:47:15.500 But that's what they're doing. 1.00

01:47:16.900 They're striking. 0.99

01:47:17.540 they they they they drive these dumb young people right into unemployment that's what they do 0.99

01:47:28.280 they talk to them they lie to them like my daddy's just using this as a look at me young people 0.99

01:47:35.100 that voted for me i support your your causes i support your strike i'm here for you a city has 0.98

01:47:44.720 your back because i'm the mayor he don't give a crap this is a publicity stunt for him 0.99

01:47:52.740 if this idiot doesn't know what a starter job is and that starbucks is one of those starter jobs 1.00

01:48:01.180 then new york's really in trouble i don't think he does though i don't think he's a dumb guy 1.00

01:48:08.080 I don't think Zoran Mamdani is a dumb guy, but he is completely about Zoran Mamdani.

01:48:15.720 And he'll never pass up a great opportunity to make himself look like he supports the people. 0.89

01:48:23.460 Like his free bus lie that he knew was completely impossible.

01:48:28.040 You don't think they checked out with Governor Hochul if they could even do this before he started using it as a huge...

01:48:38.080 part of his agenda to be mayor that was huge it was every single speech every poster free buses

01:48:45.480 and you don't think he knew that they had spoken to the governor before he just failed to mention

01:48:53.620 it during his campaign as did Hochul she didn't come out with this tax thing before the election 0.95

01:49:00.820 actually she did but it was right before the election but then after she came out with the

01:49:05.760 mta stuff going yeah we can't we can't do that then danny will lie and he'll he knows the young 1.00

01:49:13.440 liberals are morons useful idiots to get him to whatever position of power he wants to attain 1.00

01:49:20.580 and they put him in the mayor's mansion so i guess it's working for him all right people uh got some 1.00

01:49:27.120 calls there we'll be taking them next and uh michelle obama is on her book tour and what's

01:49:33.760 the most important thing yeah her hair i don't know back in a moment it's the anthony cumia show

01:49:40.900 on the red apple podcast network it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:49:49.920 the anthony cumia show continues let's uh let's go to uh dave and comac wonderful comac dave how

01:50:01.600 are you doing my friend anthony you shouldn't complain about them asking for more money because

01:50:06.860 nowadays in order to be on medicare or medicaid according to your buddy trump you have to have a

01:50:11.620 job yeah yeah i know i hear you right and then by the way this thing earlier about this gun control

01:50:17.660 yeah in spite of the fact that there's a second amendment you have a right to carry a gun

01:50:21.780 most people have zero emotional intelligence to carry guns they should there should be a ban on

01:50:26.480 assault rifles oh well i can't agree with that my friend what is it about assault rifles that

01:50:33.280 because every day there's some psychopath that goes into a school or wherever and starts shooting

01:50:38.640 up the place with an assault rifle that's why they should be banned do you know what the criteria is

01:50:43.300 for an assault rifle i really could care less i know but what i see in the news every day i know

01:50:48.960 but there's a reason i ask that uh do you know um if you have like an ar14 ar15 are you a member

01:50:57.000 of the nra yes lifetime okay well that coming from your mouth uh it doesn't surprise me what

01:51:02.860 you're saying because most americans if you ask them they took a ballot a poll on this they don't

01:51:07.800 want uh ak-47s in new york state they want the band well i think those are people that agrees

01:51:13.960 me on this but i think those are people that don't really understand what they're trying to

01:51:19.300 ban it is white anthony it is when there is it isn't black and white let me tell you something

01:51:25.060 dave there are things considered assault weapons by law that are no different than rifles that are

01:51:34.180 available to people that would not hold on hold on hold on dave that are not under the criteria

01:51:41.140 of assault rifle that could do just as much damage as what is considered.

01:51:46.620 Why doesn't it matter?

01:51:47.500 Okay, then ban them, too.

01:51:48.960 Oh, so now you just hear, what about.

01:51:51.540 We're not talking about a .38 caliber gun here.

01:51:54.980 We're talking about an automatic pistol.

01:51:57.660 No, we're not talking about automatic.

01:51:59.180 We're talking a semi-automatic rifle that fires one bullet with one pull of the trigger.

01:52:04.440 It's much different than a machine gun that is not totally illegal here in this country,

01:52:13.220 but the hoops and the investigation you have to go through to get a fully automatic gun,

01:52:17.640 and fully automatic guns are never used.

01:52:20.320 There's plenty of people with no criminal record that wind up being a psychopath that shoots up a bunch of people because of that.

01:52:24.480 Where do you draw the line, Dave, as far as what weapons would be available to you?

01:52:29.900 Unless you have a handgun with only 10 bullets in it, you should not be having an AKC.

01:52:33.920 Just handguns.

01:52:35.100 Do you know, Dave, that handguns are the most used weapon in killings around the country?

01:52:41.220 Handguns kill more people by leaps and bounds.

01:52:48.520 Handguns cause more death in this country.

01:52:52.300 And you're saying you're not getting the point.

01:52:58.360 Why would you want to ban a weapon?

01:53:00.620 And we can agree to disagree.

01:53:02.260 Why would you want to ban a weapon, Dave, why would you want to ban a weapon that is barely used in murders around the country when a handgun, you're saying you are for people having handguns.

01:53:18.100 They are used in more murders around this country than any other weapon.

01:53:25.180 Well, I don't think that should have anything to do with the validity of what I'm saying.

01:53:30.020 You're pro-Trump. You're pro-NRA. The NRA is in Trump's pocket and in your pocket.

01:53:37.540 The NRA is a civil rights group. We have a right to bear arms.

01:53:42.340 They are there to do everything they can. They're not there to compromise.

01:53:47.780 If the NAACP compromised, would anyone complain about it?

01:53:52.240 I don't want the NRA, my civil rights organization.

01:53:57.240 I don't want my civil rights organization to have to compromise.

01:54:02.300 That's why I love they don't bend or break.

01:54:09.140 What about an M14 carbine, which would not fall into the realm of assault rifle,

01:54:15.260 but are just as deadly, semi-automatic?

01:54:20.340 So we just ban everything until what? 0.99

01:54:23.740 Back to muskets, I guess. 1.00

01:54:25.140 Listen, let me ask you this, Anthony.

01:54:26.700 You have kids at home?

01:54:28.760 No.

01:54:29.720 You don't?

01:54:30.400 Let's say you're married and you had a bunch of kids in one of the public schools.

01:54:33.440 You think it's okay for somebody to walk into a school with one of those sons?

01:54:36.280 Of course not. 1.00

01:54:37.820 What idiot would say, yes, that's fine. 1.00

01:54:40.800 You're talking nonsense. 1.00

01:54:42.200 All right.

01:54:42.640 I guess you're for banning cars, too, because they kill people.

01:54:47.040 All right, Dave.

01:54:47.780 There goes Dave.

01:54:49.020 He punched out.

01:54:50.120 Wow.

01:54:50.400 A little heated debate there with Dave from Comac, Long Island.

01:54:56.140 Home of the Comac Arena, where I first saw the Charlie Daniels Band play. 1.00

01:55:02.640 Smoking pot and drinking wine out of one of those stupid bags. 1.00

01:55:07.660 Maybe I went too far with that. 1.00

01:55:10.560 Oh, Comac Motorin. 0.98

01:55:12.160 Home of the Comac Motorin, Dave.

01:55:15.700 I'm embarrassed to say I went to the Comac Motorin, the jungle room with the mirrored ceilings.

01:55:22.880 i am now embarrassed because dave is from comac my god all right thank you for the call though

01:55:32.780 dave i do appreciate um a lively debate uh i guess i could take a quick call i'm in between

01:55:42.420 segments now and i'm kind of creeping up on a break so um let me say

01:55:49.480 we'll go to chris chris beth page come on long island not two in a row

01:55:55.660 that guy was an angry liberal you sound like all angry liberal they all are doesn't want to

01:56:02.840 right doesn't want to discuss what you're talking and go back all he kept saying was

01:56:07.580 i don't care i don't care you can't talk to liberals you just can't no and he had trump

01:56:12.860 derangement syndrome he goes get off my phone you spot shame i know i felt like bob grant there for

01:56:19.740 a second i know by the way i love charlie daniels devil went down to georgia saw him in nassau

01:56:24.440 coliseum love it anyhow anthony anthony very quickly yes my economics professor gave me a

01:56:31.200 great lesson on communism versus capitalism he said when the pilgrims came over they were each

01:56:36.200 given a parcel of land and they were told basically they agreed they're all going to farm their land

01:56:41.380 And at the end of the day, put all their product in the middle. 0.95

01:56:44.120 And then the women were going to cook up the food and everything was going to be fine. 1.00

01:56:47.360 Right. 0.66

01:56:48.040 Until, as time went by, some of the lazier pilgrims decided, it's too cold.

01:56:54.140 I'm not going to get up and do it today.

01:56:55.720 Those other hard workers, let them do it.

01:56:57.360 Put it in the middle. 1.00

01:56:58.080 We'll still eat.

01:56:58.700 OK, fine.

01:56:59.720 After a while, the hard workers noticed that and they said, screw this.

01:57:04.180 Whatever we make, we're keeping.

01:57:05.760 We're done.

01:57:06.260 We're keeping what we make.

01:57:07.260 We're not helping these guys out. 0.96

01:57:08.320 Then the poor people decided, we better get our ass out there and start farming. 0.93

01:57:13.740 And that's how socialism became capitalism. 0.96

01:57:16.280 That's what my economics professor told me.

01:57:18.180 That makes sense.

01:57:19.800 You know, the people that are doing the work, are supplying the goods, they don't want to look around at people that are basking in their hard work and just keep doing it.

01:57:32.540 They're going to say something, and then they're going to do something, not give you the fruits of their labor.

01:57:38.320 Right. And Anthony, I love the term fair wage. You know what I mean? Who decides what a fair wage is? I hate when Bernie Sanders says that or AOC says it. They said, oh, Mandami saying it not too. What a fair wage. Fair wage. And then they also say pay their fair share. Like who dictates that? And they decide what's fair. Yeah. Right. Garbage. And by the way, you know what's going to happen, Anthony, at Starbucks? I work in the city. This is what's going to happen.

01:58:06.400 Let's say, for instance, they give them all $30, let's say, okay?

01:58:09.840 Now, Starbucks coffees are going to go to about $20 now, just to make up for that, right?

01:58:14.220 They're going to go to $20.

01:58:14.880 So who's going to go to Starbucks and buy the product?

01:58:17.360 After a while, they're going to have to start shuttering the stores, 1.00

01:58:20.080 and those idiots that were making $30 still would have had jobs if they were making $20. 1.00

01:58:23.960 But they don't understand that, and that's what's going to happen. 1.00

01:58:26.560 They're demonstrating themselves right into unemployment.

01:58:28.900 Thank you, Chris.

01:58:30.640 Oh, restored my faith in Long Island.

01:58:35.880 Oh, my God. 0.99

01:58:37.300 Bayshore, you kick ass over Comac. 0.99

01:58:40.960 I got to tell you, Long Island. 0.98

01:58:43.200 All right, people, we'll be right back.

01:58:46.140 I will get to the real top story, Michelle Obama and the difficulties that are her hairs.

01:58:54.860 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:58:59.280 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:59:06.240 anthony cumia show some of the uh some of the comments coming through on x anthony cumia is

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01:59:28.800 And if you can't get through on the phones or you're not near a phone, you should have hung up on that Democrat SOB. 0.99

01:59:37.960 Dave is a retard. 1.00

01:59:41.680 The word. 1.00

01:59:42.740 Oh, my goodness.

01:59:44.140 Ask the Comac gun hater how many mass shootings are done by NRA members.

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02:00:00.620 Michelle Obama, Big Mike, as she's called, Mitch, Mitch Obama, as she's also called,

02:00:09.180 she's out on a book tour, and these people that are involved in politics,

02:00:17.800 When they go on their book tours, it's just exhausting watching them do these interviews.

02:00:27.520 And Michelle is no different.

02:00:30.700 She's been around talking about her new book.

02:00:33.640 I think it's called The Looks or something, or The Look.

02:00:36.920 It's like a fashion thing.

02:00:38.800 And she's talking about how how difficult it was during her time as First Lady in the White House having to, you know, get dressed and look presentable.

02:00:55.620 The hair, the makeup, the clothes, you know, all the important stuff that goes on when you're First Lady.

02:01:04.460 Meanwhile, they've called this behemoth of a woman the most beautiful first lady ever. 0.59

02:01:15.600 She adorned the cover of every single magazine in this country during her eight years as first lady. 0.93

02:01:23.100 She was on the cover of many beauty and fashion and fitness magazines in various fancy clothes, work clothes, exercise clothing. 1.00

02:01:38.020 And then you get Melania Trump, who was a model, and they won't put her face on anything. 1.00

02:01:47.760 You know, where is she on the cover of Vogue and all these dopey liberal rags? 0.99

02:01:55.660 But Michelle Obama, oh, they always talk about how beautiful Michelle is. 0.98

02:02:00.800 So she's been going on this book tour and she cannot stop whining about her hair.

02:02:09.000 now she says as a black woman it's very difficult to get your hair to a state where it is in line

02:02:19.440 with the norm the beauty norm of america so i guess she's assuming that straight hair is the

02:02:32.800 the norm of beauty that's what people associate beauty with as far as hair goes but then i've 1.00

02:02:41.500 heard her say that black women with their natural curly hair or afro as they used to say a natural

02:02:49.360 used to i used to have a giant afro as a kid i had this big frizzy italian afro

02:02:57.000 And my dad was, let's just say, not the most open-minded guy.

02:03:09.720 You know, he wasn't really into diversity and the like.

02:03:15.700 And he used to say, I had a certain type of hair.

02:03:19.760 I won't even hazard to try to let you people know what type of hair that was, but you could probably figure it out by yourself.

02:03:31.940 So we went to Disneyland in Anaheim one day.

02:03:35.860 I was probably 13 years old, and I had my big frizzy afro, and we went to get on one of the rides,

02:03:44.840 and the girl that was working the ride 0.93

02:03:49.600 was a black woman with a big afro 1.00

02:03:53.100 and she looks at me and she goes 1.00

02:03:55.380 damn, your natural's bigger than mine 0.99

02:03:58.920 a natural, just call it a natural 1.00

02:04:01.720 my dad, I could see steam coming out of his ears

02:04:07.120 he hated that I had

02:04:10.380 you know, a certain type of hair

02:04:14.460 I digress.

02:04:16.500 Back to Big Mike Obama. 1.00

02:04:19.260 Here she is whining about her hair. 1.00

02:04:22.380 It's such a big topic with every talk show she does. 1.00

02:04:26.480 Here she is.

02:04:27.240 Mike?

02:04:28.140 Don't worry about it. 0.87

02:04:29.180 Let me explain something to white people. 0.85

02:04:31.860 All right. 0.93

02:04:32.500 Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern.

02:04:37.020 So when we're straightening it to follow your beauty standards,

02:04:40.260 we are trapped by the straightness that's why so many of us can't swim and we run away from

02:04:48.600 the water people won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all

02:04:55.140 it is exhausting and it's so expensive and it takes up so much time

02:05:01.080 braids are for y'all so we can work harder and focus on the work so why do we need an act 0.88

02:05:09.920 an act of law to tell white folks to get out of our hair don't don't tell me how to wear my hair

02:05:19.980 don't wonder about it don't touch it just don't it just no one cares about your hair

02:05:33.900 and she seems really a little too overly involved 0.97

02:05:42.080 in what white people are thinking about her hair

02:05:44.540 and hair in general. 1.00

02:05:47.660 I don't think black people should care 0.97

02:05:51.440 what white people think is good hair 0.97

02:05:54.420 and black people have to work this hard, 0.95

02:05:59.580 like she was talking about with the straightening 0.98

02:06:02.060 and this and that.

02:06:02.960 to appease white people? 1.00

02:06:06.020 What has that ever been the mission of a black woman?

02:06:09.940 I don't remember many instances, especially of late, 0.99

02:06:15.020 where black women are trying so hard to appease white people 1.00

02:06:19.940 and what their impression of what someone's hair should be. 1.00

02:06:24.640 And she brought up the Crown Act.

02:06:27.240 I know this is a thing that happened a while ago.

02:06:30.200 the crown act or the crown law whatever it was and this is a law that was passed that says

02:06:36.380 that an employee can wear their hair however the hell they want and uh the the employer can't do

02:06:44.820 anything about it and this has nothing to do with black people hair white people hair it's

02:06:51.760 reasonable hairstyles if you have somebody that you're employing that works as a receptionist

02:07:01.880 for you they're literally the first people that someone will see representing your company when

02:07:09.320 they walk through the door and you have some model of a helicopter carved out of your hair

02:07:18.120 on your head that's a problem why would you need to legislate that why can't an employer say no

02:07:28.560 that's insane i don't want people walking in and that's the first thing they see representing my

02:07:36.820 company well now you're out of luck because you're not allowed to say that because again 0.90

02:07:45.400 give them an inch they'll take a mile this is with any liberal cause lgbtq black lives matter 0.60

02:07:51.160 whatever it is give them an inch they'll take a mile they'll present something in in a way where 0.87

02:07:58.260 it almost sounds reasonable hey uh black women wear braids they wear braided hair and i don't 1.00

02:08:06.360 want an employer saying they can't wear it like that because their hairstyle their natural hair 0.98

02:08:12.620 gets in the way. It's to this, so I braided it, but my employer

02:08:16.800 says he can't have that. Well, that's a little out of hand. I still think

02:08:21.420 an employer has the right to just go, I don't care. I don't want

02:08:25.360 you wearing that hairstyle. But it was never about that.

02:08:30.900 It's just about this outlandish

02:08:33.880 nonsense going on. So

02:08:36.880 So Michelle bringing that up is ridiculous. 0.91

02:08:43.340 Of course it is. 0.76

02:08:44.540 But she's out there on a book tour.

02:08:47.080 And, you know, you'd think being the first lady representing the first family as the mom, the wife.

02:08:58.400 Are you talking to dignitaries, other leaders, wives, families? 0.99

02:09:06.880 no she just oh straightening my hair what a pain in the ass that's and she loves talking about i 0.97

02:09:17.980 think it was oh my god what drew barrymore god i hate drew barrymore she was on uh doing her show 0.95

02:09:27.880 and michelle was on and uh she goes in her inimitable style how do you stay so so grounded

02:09:40.440 i don't understand how you stay so grounded and she's just gushing over her and michelle's like

02:09:50.080 Yeah, I do, don't I?

02:09:52.740 It is so hard.

02:09:55.540 When you're doing a book tour and telling people how much money and time you spend straightening your hair,

02:10:02.640 I don't think that's grounded.

02:10:05.320 I don't think that's very grounded.

02:10:08.260 Oh, my God.

02:10:11.060 What happened to Drew Barrymore? 0.98

02:10:13.960 Standing up on David Letterman's desk, showing those biggins to Dave.

02:10:20.080 Those were the days.

02:10:22.020 Now she just gushes over people.

02:10:24.100 Oh, my God, you're so grounded. 1.00

02:10:28.220 Shut up. 1.00

02:10:33.040 Another thing, I guess this will be my racism segment. 0.99

02:10:40.440 University of Berkeley police chief.

02:10:42.960 Yes, the universities have their own police departments.

02:10:45.780 And this is a police chief.

02:10:46.900 um discriminated against white men and that you'd think that this would be kept secret

02:10:54.940 like i sure don't want people to know that during my uh time as commissioner police chief

02:11:02.040 i was absolutely discriminating against people based on their skin color which is illegal in

02:11:11.720 this country i believe right uh so she has no problem just putting this out there yeah yeah i

02:11:23.800 did this uh let's listen to the uberkeley police chief totally discriminating against

02:11:30.040 white men when it came to getting jobs when i started with u.s capitol police there were zero 1.00

02:11:38.960 as in no persons of color and no women in leadership positions.

02:11:48.120 Was that it?

02:11:49.720 I wanted to be a change agent, not only for my organization, but for the profession. 0.99

02:11:57.100 I didn't want any women to have to have the experiences that I had 0.99

02:12:02.680 when I was oftentimes sitting in a room 0.87

02:12:05.580 that was occupied by only white men

02:12:09.600 and some of them who thought

02:12:11.800 that I didn't deserve a seat at the table.

02:12:15.640 Ain't that a shame?

02:12:17.560 Yeah.

02:12:18.460 So she took her experience

02:12:20.360 and the oppression and rejection

02:12:28.120 and everything that went along

02:12:31.460 with these white men back in, I can only imagine this was the, what, 80s?

02:12:37.680 And she took that experience and just turned it right around

02:12:43.680 and started being discriminatory towards the people

02:12:46.820 that she felt discriminated against her.

02:12:49.860 And look, I understand how you might want to do that,

02:12:53.820 but if you do, maybe you shouldn't be in that position of power. 0.99

02:12:56.640 A lot has changed in this country between the time she was talking about and now, and things have gotten much better for minorities going into positions of power like police chief.

02:13:15.800 so to then in 2025 turn it around when you do have the power and utilize your power to

02:13:25.800 discriminate against other people um boy that that doesn't seem to work and she just you know

02:13:34.260 says it i don't want women have to having to sit there like i did well it's not 30 years ago

02:13:41.180 it's a different environment now 0.99

02:13:44.480 even if they're sitting in a room 0.88

02:13:46.440 with white men in it 0.82

02:13:47.980 it's not going to be all white men 0.72

02:13:49.960 that's for sure

02:13:50.900 they're not having the same experience

02:13:53.440 as you

02:13:54.780 as you did back then

02:13:56.640 so why do you need to bring that

02:13:59.300 discriminatory policy

02:14:02.040 to your leadership role

02:14:04.640 hmm

02:14:06.520 but that's exactly what 0.92

02:14:09.340 she did

02:14:10.640 And this isn't a one off here. This happens a lot with people that are in minority groups that are put in positions of power. They see it as a great opportunity for payback. Oh, yeah. Your dad did this. Your grandfather did that. Well, I'm going to do this to you now.

02:14:33.180 and um like i said it's illegal it's absolutely illegal i don't know why

02:14:40.860 um nothing's done about it well i i kind of know why uh but you know she's right out there saying

02:14:49.140 yep that's what i did that's how i did it so i don't know i don't know how we get past that

02:14:56.960 Jazzy

02:15:00.240 here's Jazzy

02:15:01.700 Jazzy Crockett 1.00

02:15:03.420 that's what I call her 1.00

02:15:04.540 she's a whip isn't she 1.00

02:15:06.080 she 1.00

02:15:08.020 wants you

02:15:10.660 to pay for her security

02:15:12.940 how about that

02:15:13.980 why

02:15:14.960 conservatives aren't murdering liberals

02:15:18.180 that's for sure

02:15:19.740 I think we can look and say

02:15:21.880 it's the other way around 0.95

02:15:23.740 so here's Jazzy Jasmine Crockett 1.00

02:15:26.960 wanting you to pay for her security. 1.00

02:15:29.680 Jazz?

02:15:30.660 I think that it's really a good question as to why a member of Congress needs to pay for security

02:15:38.940 out of money that they go and raise instead of focusing on making sure that they use that money

02:15:44.420 to educate voters about why it is that their candidacy matters.

02:15:48.060 I do think that it does people like me a disservice when you are so outspoken.

02:15:54.260 And then what happens is instead of you being able to put all your dollars into campaigning, instead, you've got to do things like pay for your security.

02:16:03.500 But I kind of value my life.

02:16:05.140 So it is what it is.

02:16:06.480 And it is what it is. 0.98

02:16:09.500 Who's trying to off Jasmine Crockett? 1.00

02:16:13.320 She is one of the greatest commercials for Republicans ever for the right. 1.00

02:16:20.560 I think she's turned more people into Republicans than maybe even AOC at this point. 1.00

02:16:30.980 She's a blithering idiot. 1.00

02:16:33.000 She's a useful idiot. 1.00

02:16:35.280 She is cannon fodder for the Democrat Party. 1.00

02:16:39.820 I've said this before.

02:16:41.260 I believe what's going to happen in 2028 or a year before that, 2027, we will see a Democrat candidate emerge that seems like a godsend. 0.99

02:16:55.760 He will be a guy, probably a white guy, that is so seems so moderate because in contrast to idiots. 0.98

02:17:11.260 like jazzy jasmine crockett people will look at him and go this guy's making sense 0.99

02:17:17.340 he's talking about issues that americans really want dealt with not the insanity we've seen from

02:17:24.140 the left over the past over a decade so right now they need people like jasmine crockett out there 0.88

02:17:32.780 to act crazy and not act she is nuts but the the left the democrats they love it put her out there 1.00

02:17:43.300 because they need that contrast when they bring forward this candidate for president for the 0.96

02:17:51.120 2028 election that will seem in contrast to jazzy jasmine and and all these other nuts that they're

02:17:58.480 putting out there will seem like a normal moderate democrat and people will be compelled to vote for 0.99

02:18:06.080 this amazing guy you watch so in the meantime this idiot doesn't understand that and thinks 0.99

02:18:12.560 people are actually listening to her or they want to offer because of her ideas we don't care jazzy 1.00

02:18:18.720 we're just watching and laughing at you there's no reason for anyone to take a pot shot at you

02:18:24.620 Save your money.

02:18:25.780 You don't need security. 1.00

02:18:27.560 You're an idiot. 1.00

02:18:29.380 Back in a moment. 1.00

02:18:31.140 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:18:37.300 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:18:43.520 The Anthony Cumia Show, just going through my ex-comments here.

02:18:48.380 and Randy, he says

02:18:51.460 Ted Cruz did a really good comparison of what people view

02:18:54.420 as an assault rifle and what people view as a

02:18:57.480 hunting rifle. After it was singled out, he began

02:19:00.460 to describe the hunting rifle. Same caliber, capacity

02:19:03.740 and action. The assault rifle was just

02:19:07.060 singled out due to the color of the rifle. Yeah,

02:19:09.980 color and the plastic

02:19:12.320 parts, of course, the shroud around the

02:19:16.140 barrel the picatinny rails the stock uh but yeah the truth of the matter is it's the same gun as

02:19:26.360 a semi-automatic hunting rifle and uh you know dave from comac what are you gonna do richie

02:19:34.820 richie how you doing my friend a little uh talk on the second amendment uh good evening anthony

02:19:40.800 Good evening. Yes. I think that the Second Amendment envisions arms with military usefulness.

02:19:52.420 The Second Amendment is designed to provide the people with the means to resist foreign invasions or tyrannical domestic government.

02:20:03.300 Both of those events would involve engaging with military forces.

02:20:10.220 Therefore, armed with military usefulness would be envisioned.

02:20:15.180 Secondly, the Second Amendment mentions only one activity, and it involves military.

02:20:28.600 It does not mention specifically or allude to hunting, self-defense, or sports shooting.

02:20:38.580 Those activities are used as red herrings. 0.96

02:20:42.340 Absolutely.

02:20:43.340 And thirdly, requiring people to get a government-issued license in order to own an arm empowers one of the entities the Second Amendment is designed to provide you with protection against the power to decide who should be able to own a firearm.

02:21:10.040 That's not rational.

02:21:11.640 Not at all. I think if you really take to heart what the framers wanted, it would be insane to think that they would want the government itself, the thing that the Second Amendment was supposed to protect the people from, to dictate what type of weapons the people were allowed to have.

02:21:35.900 It's insane.

02:21:36.820 It's such common sense.

02:21:39.040 But I guess that's uncommon these days, Richie.

02:21:43.740 I agree.

02:21:45.640 Thank you for the call, my friend.

02:21:48.000 Yeah.

02:21:48.560 Boy, that guy made sense in a very frightening way.

02:21:54.720 He made total sense.

02:21:59.780 I guess we can finish up here with Liz Warren, my good friend.

02:22:04.900 Do we have enough time for this?

02:22:07.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:22:07.600 Liz Warren says that corporate greed is forcing more people to fly first class. 0.71

02:22:14.280 I swear she said this. 1.00

02:22:16.220 She's another useful idiot. 1.00

02:22:19.200 Liz, let's listen to Liz talk about corporate greed, 1.00

02:22:24.260 and that's why people have to fly first class.

02:22:26.980 Huh?

02:22:27.260 What, Liz?

02:22:28.460 Airline tickets.

02:22:30.120 New corporate earnings data show that more and more people are buying first-class and business tickets.

02:22:36.180 Whoa, that must mean that people are getting richer, right?

02:22:41.140 Uh-uh.

02:22:42.400 Because let's take a look at the numbers for the main cabin.

02:22:46.460 They're actually going down.

02:22:48.200 Yeah.

02:22:48.780 So take Delta Airlines, for example.

02:22:51.720 They reported a 4% drop in main cabin tickets booked.

02:22:56.940 while ticket sales for first- and business-class seats rose by 9% during the same period of time.

02:23:05.820 In other words, high-income people are buying those premium tickets like crazy,

02:23:11.020 taking more vacations or traveling more for business, while a lot of other people can't afford to fly at all.

02:23:17.340 In fact, for the first time ever in their history,

02:23:21.760 Delta expects more of their revenue to come from first-class and business-class tickets

02:23:26.880 than from main cabin sales.

02:23:30.440 Wow.

02:23:31.000 Thank you, Liz. 1.00

02:23:32.180 You can cut her off there.

02:23:34.520 Have you watched any videos?

02:23:37.920 What goes on back there in steerage in the back of the plane?

02:23:44.540 Why do you think people are buying first-class tickets?

02:23:47.040 to get away from the mental patients fighting in the back.

02:23:52.600 Corporate greed, indeed.

02:23:55.120 All right, people.

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