The NBA betting scandal and its implications

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From Everywhere, USA. It's Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayla.

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Oh Girl, Here we go, Here we Go. Comedy Alive
from the greatest country in the World, broadcast from the
tippy top of the world famous Fox News headquarters of
New York City. Big Thursday episode of Fox Across America
with Jimmy Fla. It begins with a massive gambling scandal
in the NBA Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups amongst a group
of people busted for fixing poker games. Yeah, it turns

(00:34):
out when Trump sent troops to Portland, he was going
after their basketball team. I had no idea, but a
busy episode of the show. Nonetheless, Kennedy's going to be here, Diamond,
Dave Landau is going to be here. There's still a
hullabaloo going on in Washington over the White House renovations.
Will pick up a shovel and cover that. And of course,
the shutdown itself continues, but not without some fresh sound

(00:54):
from Senator John Fetterman, who's now saying the obvious part
out loud that this shutdown is the end result of
his own party, Democrats are so full of crap. Good
on Fetterman for calling it out. We'll get into him
and we're going to have some sound that we will
play you later in this hour from the View. No God, no, God, please, no, no, no,

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it's kinda happen. Man, it's my job, okay, Fox across America.
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We are, Okay. That's my superpower, the fact that I
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on a white house renovation, now let's be clear, you

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a bang Happy third. So the NBA story, just to

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get you up to speed, Chubb Blazer's head coach Chauncey Billups,
Miami Heat guard Terry A. Rogier, and former NBA Guarden
coach Damon Jones. We're amongst thirty four arrested as part
of a widespread FBI investigation on Thursday. Also have as
many I believe as one hundred and fifty six members

(02:22):
of what they're calling the Italian mafia involved in rigging
these high level games, something I would say was inevitable
and something I would say is going on in far
greater fashion than anybody would like to acknowledge, since they
flooded every single second of every single sports broadcast with

(02:44):
some type of a promotion for a parlay bet, some
profit boost five dollars will win you thirty two type deal.
I mean, I remember talking to you about this when
Pete Rose died last year, and it was the most
insane thing to me, because Pete Rose, of course was
banned for life from baseball for betting on sports and
his own team, something he did, in fact do, but

(03:05):
the sports leagues had a different stance on gambling back then,
so Pete was serving a lifetime band. At the time
he died, every single broadcast covering his death was sponsored
by an online gambling site, What d Headless the world coming,
every single one and something I will tell you. As

(03:25):
a guy who spent a lot of time in and
out of casinos running from bookies in his youth, I've
been very upfront about that. I was a big gambler
in my twenties. I still gamble. I ate a time
Square chicken kebab five minutes ago. You want to talk
about rolling the talk about rolling the dice Time Square Chicken.
This could be a problem. I mean, yeah, for real.

(03:46):
I mean mainly the fact that it's not even chicken
to begin with. But the point is, as we get
on the air here, I've been pretty upfront with you
about my proclivities as it pertains to gambling in my youth,
in my twenties and my thirties, and I understood that
once the cash gets as big as it has, it's

(04:06):
inevitable that even rich, powerful people like NBA coaches and
players are going to get ensnared in some of this
because there are a lot of very simple ways that
you can fix the outcome of a wager like in baseball,
you don't have to fix a game anymore. You know,
that requires a much larger effort that's far more detectable.
They do things now like you can bet on the

(04:27):
first pitch of the game. Is it going to be
a ball or a strike? Okay, the pitcher is in
on it. As a former member of the Cleveland Indians
was Dylan class. Okay, if you're getting money to throw
a first pitch ball, you're not fixing the game. It's
just a one to zero count when the bat, you know,
and here we go, rest of the bat, let it be?
And that because of those prop bets, because of those

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in game parlays, because of those in game bets, every
one of these sports leagues that's played, along with these
proposition situations, has fed and furthered the idea that athletes
are going to get corrupted by gambling. He knows what
he's talking about. Okay, at the college level, where some
of them don't make as much money, but even in

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the NBA level where they do. Okay. Chauncey Billups the
head coach of the Blazers. But the guy won an
NBA title with the Pistons. Okay, he was a great player.
He had a huge career, he made a lot of money. Okay,
yet he's still wound up showing up and playing in
games that he knew were fixed. Okay. So it's a
crazy way for me to start my Thursday. It's a

(05:31):
crazy way for ESPN. Okay, who just kicked off their
NBA coverage this week. We're watching Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neill.
Kenny Smith wrapped things up last night when I went
to bed and it was just all NBA. This morning,
you throw on the TV and it's all Cash Bettel.
He's the FBI director. He'll take you inside what went on.

(05:52):
I'll give you some of that, and more importantly, i'll
give you Joseph Nicella, who waited as well. I believe
he's with the FBI of the district attorneys off as
Clip one.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
My message to the defendants who've been rounded up today
is this, your winning streak has ended.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Your luck has run out.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Violating the law is a losing proposition and you can
bet on that.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay. So that's not so much detail. That's like the
declarative sentence, like we're not going to stand for this.
You're in big trouble. Now, mister, let me give you
a little bit more from Betel anyway of the actual
intricacies of who was involved in how this was going on.
Clip three.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Not only did we crack into the fraud that these
perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but
we also entered and executed a system of justice against
La Casinoshra to include the Bonano, Gambino, Genevesi and Luchas
crime families. The chargers and the arrest that were taken

(06:55):
down across this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery,
illegal gama. This FBI will leave no room for any
perpetrator of crime across this country. You hear a lot
about our work of defending the homeland and crushing violent crime. Well,
this work is also representative of a colossal portion of
the FBI's mandate to keep America safe and to keep

(07:15):
our entertainment industry fair and secure.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, so big move being made, and I doubt it's
the first of many. I'm telling you now because I care.
It's a lot of people involved with sports that are
betting on them, a lot of them. Okay, not necessarily
the sport that they're playing. But in a lot of times, yes,
the sport that they're playing, and that's a pretty known
thing if you hang around ball players. These guys are
two things. One is hyper competitive, so they always like

(07:41):
a game within a game to give them some other stakes.
But the other is money. There's a lot of money
in gambling, Okay, tons of money in gambling. We're paying
in cash, So when something like this happens, it's actually
not a shock to anybody who spent any amount of
time around casinos or highlight level card games. But the

(08:02):
overarching headline is that four NBA teams and four mafia
families teamed up for a seven million dollar online gambling scandal.
Okay that's what we're reading. Okay, that's the takeaway. In
today's New York Post, Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billips,
Miami heat guard Terry Rogier, former NBA player Damon Jones

(08:22):
are among those indicted in the stunning takedown of two
separate illegal gambling related cases. Thirty one people, including members
of the Bonano, Gambino, Genevies and Lukees mafia families, and
coaches and players from the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers, Los
Angeles Lakers, and Toronto Raptors have all been arrested in
the scheme carried out between January of twenty twenty two

(08:43):
and March of twenty twenty four. Wow, wild stuff, Okay.
And the only thing I'll tell you, because we have
a lot to get to in terms of the shutdown
and the politics and the infighting of that and everything
in between, is that this culture, this culture of more gambling,
of encouraging more kids to get involved in gambling at
an early age by throwing these dopey prop bets out there,

(09:06):
is what created this exact situation. Like I say this
to Lincoln every day. My son is sixteen. He'll be
on the show Friday to close it out this week.
He always comes on Friday. You know, we do a
little playground politics, We talk about high school football. I
always say to Lincoln, like I'm always telling him about
gambling because I spent a lot of time gambling. You know,
Like when I was a senior in high school and

(09:26):
they had that like just say No week where people
come in and lecture about drugs and drinking and gambling.
The guy sitting in front of my classroom, crying to
a group of high school kids because he owed a
bookmaker a lot of money. At the time, I was
sitting there in the second chair from the front. This man,
crying to a room full of high school kids about

(09:48):
the dangers of gambling, was down twelve thousand dollars less
than I was at the time. I'm not even a
kidding you're honestly, He's like, I've lost so much, I'm
in so much trouble. I'm like, dude, I would like
kill I would kill a neighbor to be down twelve
grand right now, what are you talking about? So guys
like I was a gambler, like a big gambler, and honestly,

(10:11):
I only grew out of it. It's weird because I
met Jenny when I was twenty seven years old and
we bought a couch. We literally went to Levittz before
it became raymore and flatting and and stopped delivering everybody's
furniture for some odd reason. We're still a month behind
on a sectional. It's a hole to do. But let's
not get distracted. But I went to Levitz when I
was twenty seven. I bought a couch. It was like

(10:31):
six hundred bucks whatever it was, and I was like, Wow,
I'm gonna take this couch home. I'm just gonna sit
on it and it's just gonna be there every night.
I'm gonna have this couch's gonna be comfy. And I
know this sounds crazy to you, but there's a psychology
to gamblers that makes the people prone to addiction more
susceptible to the type of marketing we're discussing. Okay, when
they go online and they say to a little kid, hey,
if you bet five, you could make seventy two fifty Well,

(10:54):
like kid a file, yeah, five bucks, it wins seventy two.
That's awesome. And once in a while one of their
friend's hits and they're like, oh, yeah, wow, Like, you know,
Manny made eighty bucks this weekend. He's got a look
at all the beer money. Man, he's got to hit
his parlay. And that competitive thing sucks a lot of
kids in. That desire to turn no money into a
good amount of money takes kids away from like just

(11:15):
saving their five bucks up every Thursday and all of
a sudden they have fifty in the bank, to trying
to turn that five into fifty instantly. Now they're down five.
So what do they do. They bet more money to
try to get it back, and they lose that, And
what do they do. They keep chasing zero and betting
more money to try to get back to where they
were originally. And the point is it's these very cheap bets,

(11:36):
these very cheap bets that wind up costing people so
much money. But in this instance, the fact that NBA
players Major League Baseball players have been banned for life
because of their involvement in fixing these types of parlay bets.
And the point is they created a culture that made
people more susceptible to avenues of corruption. This one didn't

(12:00):
have to do with the game itself, but I'm telling
you because I care, it's only a matter of time
before they're covering one where it does.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
And I'm mad here in the real world, and I
know what's right or wrong or bullish.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
You're listening to the man who can do it all.
He can to russell, he can, he can profile, he
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(12:35):
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I will tell you this. You spend your whole life
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(12:57):
the day I started comedy to actually get a Saturday
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Every thought in your body for twenty two years is like,
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You know?

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How do you tighten that screenplay? You know? How do
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(13:33):
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Like yesterday, Bretteaar was Brett Beare has a great book

(13:55):
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I loved the content in that Teddy Roosevelt book. I'm
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loved it so much, like it was actually exciting to promote.
And that's the thing with the comics you have on.

(14:15):
If you hear somebody on the show like I love
these like these people look great, like Landau is a
phenomenal comic. I don't you know, I don't know how
much comedy you consume. It's a little darker, a little
more out there, but in the best way possible. You know,
he doesn't mean anything by it, and of course he's
only a threat to himself in the end. It's like me,
if you watch me on a Saturday night and think
I'm here to harm anybody besides myself, like you are

(14:38):
missing the whole entire point. He's a lousy dad, but
he's right. So the NBA putting out a statement, by
the way, to build on our earlier conversations, we're talking
about broken people harming stuff. Players are now been put
on leave while this investigation endors. Stephen A. Smith said
that this is actually Trump's revenge. He has a history

(15:02):
of feuding with the NBA. I'man that's the highest paid
guy on a network that just paid a gazillion dollars
for NBA rights, and the season tips off in the
last couple of hours, last couple of days, and now
they have this monstrosity of a gambling segment scandal. What

(15:24):
do you think is happening in the suites ABA at
ESPN right now? Like we got to make this go away,
you know, we don't want to alienate our core base
of fans. What is a significant percentage of our demo,
not like Donald Trump. I've got it, will make it
about Trump, and that's exactly what they did. But I mean,

(15:45):
no serious person, here's the mafia for crime families for
NBA families are fixing poker games and thinks Donald Trump, Like,
come on, stephen A.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
That is absolutely the most ridiculous excuse I have ever
heard in my entire career as a discipline area.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
But I'm just telling you, Okay, on a day of predictions,
because this story is still unfolding, we don't have all
the information. Okay, we know what the FBI has just
told us that this is pretty significant and severe. I
grew up around gambling. Okay, when we hear everything, everything
you needed. I grew up around the most hardest of
hardcore gambling, big cash games, big card bats, big sports bats,

(16:27):
big casinos in Vegas, Atlantic City, a hard core gambling.
I had lines of credit at casinos, okay, competing casinos,
So if you couldn't pay the money on the first
of the month, you could take a marker out from
the casino down the other end of the boardwalk, pay
with their money, and then you have a month to
get it back for real. Like when people ask how
did you wind up driving a cab? This is a

(16:48):
good part of the intro. This is a very significant
portion of the origin story to how I wound up
driving a cab in my thirties. But the point is
there is a psychology to gainambling that is being used
right now to prey upon new business. It's how they
get young kids involved, but it's the same strategy that
gets Pro Bowl players involved. It's yeah, you have this

(17:10):
much money, but think of how much more it could be. Okay,
I mentioned earlier I actually quit gambling when I had
to start buying stuff to build a life with my wife,
Jenny Fala Like, I started giving money to people and
they started giving me things back traditionally until the day
I met my wife. I know this got on silly
to you. It's gonna sound really silly, but I used
to look at the psychology of money and go, hey,

(17:32):
if I buy a couch for six hundred bucks, it's
all it's ever gonna be is a frickin couch. But
if I give this six hundred bucks to a blackjack dealer,
it could turn into twelve thousand dollars. I mean it
could and some days it did, but you didn't hold
on to it for long because the psychology just kind
of preyed upon your brain to go. But what if

(17:53):
this twelve becomes eighty? What are we doing here? And
it's that same strategy that gets people to begin their
sports gambling habits that ultimately ensnares them in bigger, more
problematic things like this. There it is Fox across America
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(18:14):
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(18:36):
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(18:59):
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(19:19):
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(19:41):
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Back to the radio, Jimmy, take off your frickin' sandwich board.
I don't know what you think we're doing over here
on this show. We have Landau coming up, Diamond, Dave,
Landaul Kennedy's gonna be here as well. But the thing
I wanted to talk you about, just to get back

(20:01):
up to speed, is, uh, some new revelations regarding the
government shutdown. Okay, And these two clips are the only
clips you need to know before we move on with
this discussion for the day. But the White House shutdown
no different than the the government shutdown, no different than
the White House renovation on both sides of the argument.

(20:21):
As far as the Democrats are concerned, you are so
full of shit, Okay, And I'm going to tell you why.
First and foremost, Let's start with the shutdown. So Fetterman
was on with Sean Hannity, okay, and Fetterman is talking about,
you know, the situation of people shutting down the government.
What went on all of that jazz, And you know,

(20:42):
he was pretty upfront about the idea of you know,
the Democrats, him being primaried, him being called out for
telling the truth about the situation. Let me give you
Fetterman here clip twenty four.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
I'm not afraid of telling the truth, as I've said,
I'll be the Democrat that refuses to lie to the
base and pretend that this is right. You know, I'm
proud to stand with Israel. I'm proud to say that
we need to secure our border. You know, I think
it's entirely appropriate, appropriate to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities.

(21:17):
And now I refuse to call are my fellow citizens
as they're fascists, their Nazis or those things.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I mean.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
I will agree also that we must keep our government open.
And if somebody wants to primary me or the party
wants to vote me out, it's like I'm going to
go down being honest and telling you that this is
wrong to do these kinds of things that I refuse
to do.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
That that is John Fetterman saying his own party is wrong.
We need that kind of courage in politics these days.
You're not going to get a lot of that in
the Republican Party because Trump will squash it like a grape.
But the realit and I get it. But the reality is,

(22:03):
we need more honesty from our politicians because it's gonna
help us as a society. I really mean this the
whole point. There's the whole point of my show. Damn it.
I say this every day. You know, be a Republican,
be a Democrat, just don't be a bleep. And the
revelation is I didn't have a background in politics when
I started here, I was driving a cab. I started

(22:23):
paying paying attention to politics because of Caitlyn Jenner. That's
how I started paying attention to politics. It was a
huge sports fan with a huge gambling problem in my past.
I knew the significance of Bruce Jenner as an athlete. Okay,
so Bruce Jenner transitioning was really really significant. He was
the biggest male athlete in the world. Okay at the

(22:43):
time he did it. This would be like if Serena
Williams were to become a woman. Like I'm being silly straight,
I love you. These are just jokes comedy show, but
stick with me, okay, just so we're all on the
same page. When Bruce Jenner transitioned, I started paying attention
to cable news because I wanted to see the coverage
and would completely blew me away by the fraud of
it all. And the deceptive nature of identity politics is.

(23:05):
They were three or four days in a row that
began with everyone saying, he's the greatest person in the world.
They're so courageous, they're so brave. Here's all the ESPN
courage Awards. Here he is or she is now on
all the talk shows. And then what happened. Okay, at
the end of the very first week of Caitlin Jenner
being the face of the trans movement, she told the

(23:25):
people on the view that she was a Republican and
the immediate Liberal response was get her out, get her
out of here, get her out, And they've never acknowledged
her existence. Again, she was the face of the movement.
But it turns out it's not how you identify, it's
how you vote.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Bingo.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
And when I saw the fraud, and that was just
the first entree into the fraud of modern politics in
both parties, to be clear. But when I saw that
particular fraud, I started paying attention to this and I
quickly came to realize how many of us fight with
siblings or loved ones or relatives or personal friends over
political differences. When the truth is, politics is not supposed

(24:05):
to be an exercise of me versus you. It's supposed
to be an exercise in US versus the government. We
send them into power, we pay their salaries. They are
supposed to do our bidding. But is that actually happening
day in and day out. Not even close. No, Because
when they make this about well, you know, the Democrats

(24:26):
are evil, and the Democrats go, well, you know, the
Republican's arevil, and we retreat to our corners on either
side of the political island. Think every Democrats a jerk
and every Republicans a nazi. Okay. What that allows our
politicians to do is nothing, not be accountable. Just keep
raising money, keep trading stocks. Yeah, I mean, Trump's getting
a lot done, But Trump is a unicorn. You're not

(24:47):
gonna get another Trump. Okay. For a long time, they've
tried to see to it already, kind of Trump proof
our democracy by arresting the pants off of the guy
shooting at the guy mub shotting the guy raiding his
house with a swat team. Make no mistake about it.
As much as that is an attack on Trump, okay,
it's also a message to any billionaire in the private
sector who has a lot of money and a lot

(25:08):
of good ideas. It's a reminder of them that, hey, man,
you've got boats that you can land helicopters on. Okay,
You've got women okay that you know have boobs in
places we've never even heard of. You know, it's like, huh,
just gorgeous, stacked women, the best food, the best clothes,

(25:29):
the best mattress, the best car, the best place to live.
Do you really want to give up all of that
comfort just to be harassed within an inch of your
life by the opposing political party and any modicum of
authority they can weaponize against you. That's the truth. What
they have done to Trump, even though he won, even
though he gets to write his own end of the story.

(25:49):
Right now, what day did to Trump? I promise you
has horrified the surrounding generation of billionaires from getting into politics. Okay,
could somebody left has a big ego that wants to
do it like a Mark Cuban, Maybe do it? Yeah,
Like I could see him getting into it and having
a bit of a big business background, But it's going
to take him a few cycles because he had so

(26:12):
many bad takes, whether they were heat of the moment,
prisoner of the moment, emotionless takes, or not. He said
a lot of things in this last election to disparage
women who supported Trump. The women Trump surrounded him with
stuff that really matters because the Democrats rely on women
and minorities to win elections. Okay, that's a good thing,
it's nothing wrong with that. But the point is the

(26:32):
Democrats have alienated the living out of both of those groups,
women with the way they've endangered them and stood up
for criminals and migrant rapists and fought for the right
to keep them in the country, and yes, fought for
the right for sex offenders to use the women's room,
fought for the rights for biological men to compete against women,

(26:52):
and of course the minority thing. Forget it. The reason
Latino swung by forty points to Trump is the vast
majority of Latinos in this country came here lead and
resent the hell out of the fact that the Democrats
let ten million, fifteen million people just cut the line.
They resent the hell out of the fact that America
is becoming a lot more like the country they fled
than the one they dreamed of. Moving to So the

(27:14):
Democrats blew that one and Trump got the highest share
of the black vote since Gerald Ford. Give that some
thought for a minute, why, because the black people by
and large came to realize a lot of their voters
did anyway, that although it seemed the Democrats were just
entitled to black support for the last thirty or forty years,
black voters weren't entitled to anything from the Democratic Party.

(27:38):
And you're right, you're right, and you're right. How many
times have you heard the Charles Barkley clip.

Speaker 7 (27:43):
The reason I think the Democratic Party missed a Biden
president Biden is losing black voss. They only care about
black people every four years. They come into our neighborhoods
and say, we're going to make stuff better. We're going
to do this, do this, do this, and then filing us.
People are like hell man other than nobility at Dunkle Basketball.

(28:04):
All my neighborshoods are still the same, our schools are
still the same.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Look at that, Charles Barklay. Democrats only care about black
people every four years.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Do you have a problem figuring out whether you're for
me or Trump?

Speaker 1 (28:21):
And you ain't black? And that's just how much they care,
but they take it a step further. Just so I
give you a little bit more about this sort of thing. Okay,
fetterman telling you the truth. These guys shut down the government. Okay,
government has been shut down. They did it. People aren't
getting paid. We're holding you hostage over Obamacare. Okay. The

(28:43):
Democrat whip, the second highest ranking Democrat. I'm sure you've
all seen the viral clip of the last few days
flat out admitted, okay that yeah, people are gonna suffer
if folks are gonna lose money, but this is the
only leverage they have right now. So here we are.
I mean, really think about that. So when you understand

(29:06):
that's the case, you understand that the people are not
the priority the politics are. And a lot of people
see through it. It's one of the rain reasons why
I've given you the CNN clip one hundred times about
how it's not hurting Trump politically because people blame the
Democrats for the shutdown. Okay, let me throw you this
one more time, just so we're all on the same page,
because it's bananas. Okay, here's Kathy Clark. It is clip forty.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be,
you know, families that are going to suffer. We take
that responsibility very seriously, but it is one of the
few leverage times we have.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh wow, garbage like you just makes me sick. We
take it very very The families are going to suffer,
We take that very very seriously, like not seriously enough
to stop the suffering, not seriously enough to vote to
pay you. I mean, do you understand this is one
of the few leverages we have, meaning our political party

(30:08):
has this as political leverage for our party, So we
know you're suffering. We know the money's not coming in,
but understand the way we say it. Okay, his money's
not coming in for us, Yeah, I mean fundraise and
stuff like that. We got to make money too, girlfriend, You.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Know that money, money, money, money, money, money, money.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
But have you ever heard a more detached take from
a politician on the harm they caused. But the point
is she's not alone. A lot of them feel that way.
A lot of them feel that way. You're the casualty
for their decisions. That's why I'm on the air. And
you know, whatever the hell Fetterman just said about Yeay
calling out his own party, I've been doing this on
the air for six years, guys, I promise you anybody

(30:46):
who gets on the air and tells you we just
got to own the Libs, just got to own the Libs. Great.
You know what that does gives every single Republican in
Washington a free pass. And I promise you Republicans play
a role in this too. And I promise you, although
Democrats passed Obamacare and past the Obamacare subsidies with the
expiration date that it has, and it is entirely their fault,

(31:08):
don't lose the plot that Republicans were going to fund
a continuing resolution that would have kept up the Joe
Biden's spending levels of the last four years. That is
financial lunacy. So as much as you want to sit
here and go yeah, the further Democrats because they are
wrong and they are holding us hostage straight up. But
it's not like the Republicans have a completely clean slate
on this thing. So I'm telling you because I care.

(31:31):
The point of doing this show is a call out
o the sad because again and again and again, I've
said this so many times, man, Like the Constitution was
not drawn up so Republicans could fight Democrats over who
controls the government. The Constitution was drawn up so the
government doesn't control us. I'll tell you that it was

(31:52):
the tener. It's America's number one radio lunch day. You
get your hands out of my frac.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Funks as with Jimmy Saylor, my own damn fracks is
Fox across America.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Jimmy Faling, Kennedy's coming up, Diamond, Dave Landell's coming up
in the next hour. I have such a phenomenal, such
a phenomenal throwback clip from the fine folks over at CNN.
CNN is the worst, Okay, and I'm promoting this now.
We're going to discuss it with Kennedy, We're going to
discuss it with Dave Landau. But you know, everybody in

(32:26):
Washington has worked up over this Trump renovation. It's costing
two hundred million dollars for a ballroom. It's entirely paid
for by private donations, caused the taxpayers nothing well Obama
and a lot of people aren't reporting this this week
in the media happened to spend three hundred and seventy
six million taxpayer dollars on his own White House renovation.

(32:51):
WHOA And by the way, Trump did release images the
White House did of the wrecking ball hitting the east
wing of the of the House, but half of the
photos circulating on Twitter right now are actually still photos
from Obama's renovation. I don't see you doing any better
in the booty department. And I'm going to play you
with CNN clip. It is so phenomenal and it's from

(33:12):
twenty twelve, and it's from CNN covering the construction and
demolition that took place to build his indoor basketball court.
And they're just glowing like this is amazing. The hammers,
the drills, It's like the White House is a veritable
construction site right now. And was anybody howling in the
media about desecration? And this is the problem when you

(33:36):
have journalists who are just at this point activists, just
activists masquer rating as journalists. Journalism in this country is
dead and buried straight up. That's how we wound up
doing four years of the media telling you Biden was
fine and the minuty left office. What did they all do?
They ran right out and wrote best selling books about

(33:58):
the cover up of biden cognitive decline. That's just how
white folks will do.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
You.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
I bring that up because Hunter Biden really funny. Hunter
Biden waited on Kamala's book this week and got a
little upset with her too. Didn't like some of the quotes.
Let it rip. We might as well listen to some
of this. Wo here it is. This is clip forty five.

(34:28):
I didn't read it. I really didn't. I just really disappointed.
I've just heard some of the things. I've tried to
block it out.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't know the I don't know, man,
I guess I have to get everybody out there.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
I know I heard some of the things I said.
Don't like.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
I know, you to Temmy, just trying to get me
going here, and I think that I think more than
more than anything, I just just like, wow.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Like what I don't.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
You know, it's too easy to like just to fall
back on that, you know, the you know, the true quote.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
But I don't even know whether he said it or not.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
If you want a dog in Washington, you know, in DC,
get a dog. I mean, if you want a friend
in Washington, get a dog.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Hunter's a dirt bag. I love one. Hunter pivots to
the loyalty speech. The guy banged his brother's widow and
then knocked up a stripper behind her back. He got
his brother's widow addicted to smoking crack and then knocked
up a stripper behind her back. Some of the most
Jerry Springer stuff you've ever heard. But a Hunter saying,

(35:45):
you know, I've heard these quotes about Kamala, so disloyal. Okay,
the truth should not be disloyal if you're a decent
person running a clean administration. Okay. The truth should not
be framed as disloyal by a report if the reporter
has been covering the story honestly. Also, But that's what
we learned here is that nobody is That's why I

(36:07):
don't read the newspapers, because it's grry in the editor.
Then let it come out. This has been a podcast
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