The Mafia is Back - FRI 8.1

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stephanik, the congresswoman who went after the January sixth Committee
from New York State. She is vowing to clean up
Kathy Holkel's catastrophe as she is launching a New York
gubernatorial campaign. Is she a Republican or a Democrat? You
know who this is, Billy Yet she's definitely a Republican.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
She's the one, and she's not gonna win.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You know who's the current head of the EPA. Now,
he ran for governor against Kathy Hlkel, and he came
real close to winning.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Ooh, we got close, did he?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
And some people had determined that if it wasn't for
all those Republicans that left the state because of the pandemic,
that number of people that fled the state after COVID
or during COVID would have been enough to get him
over the top. You also kind of wonder how they
would have affected this mayoral action that just happened.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
And since it's going to be a little while before
the governor's election, we'll have to see how yeah, New
York City might affect the entire state. Leez Elden, by
the way, is the name I was trying to remember.
Old Leez Elden.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, doesn't that sound like he'd be like character in
a video game like Legends of Zelda five, The Adventures
of Lee zel Did Yeah, or.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Like he wrote, you know, like a book how to
win friends and influence people or something like that. That
is a book, isn't it? It is? But he didn't.
You know, have you ever read that?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Guy?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Can't you tell?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Someone told me to read The Road Less Traveled? And
so I ordered that book.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
And it's on a shelf and you never opened it.
You know what? I don't get?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Why is it whenever anyone recommends a book to me,
especially a woman, it's always a self help book.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I don't know. I wonder what that's about. I don't
know either. It's whenever we could dig into that a
little bit and come up with some you know, like
a noodle on it a little bit and see if
there's anything constructive there. If they wanted me to read
the book, they should have recommended a World War II
history book, civil war stuff, maybe something like that. Man,
civil war is underrated? Yeah, yeah, well, world War two
is America's favorite war, but the Civil War I gotta

(01:52):
think it's making his move. It's coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, think about it. You know, it's one war you
freed the slaves. The other war you ended the Holocaust.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's good stuff, man, noble cause I would say, you know, yeah,
a lot of war stuff. Yeah. Sure is.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Now someone's gonna write as an email, Yeah, the Civil
War was about tariffs.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
We now it's more complicated than that. We most people
won't say that. If you say it wasn't just about
ending slavery, they'll go.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
It was was, well it it was about that. It
was just about a lot of other things too.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Imagine that with more than one reason to want to
straighten that out. Question from the listeners at the email
earlier we talked about the ostriches in Canada all being
murdered because they had little avian flu. That want to
note does the bird flu go away when you cook it? Oh?

(02:47):
I don't think it does. No, Well, the mightbe not
it's not cooking it right. Also, would the ostrich meat
blend well with bear meat? People want to know, they
have they have questions, and you don't have answers.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I asked Groc the question you asked that I said
no to, and Groc disagrees.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Cooking poultry eggs or other potentially infected products to an
internal temperature of at least one hundred and sixty five
degrees fahrenheit. That'd be seventy four degrees celsius. Kills the
bird flu virus are right, Dan, know why they have
to kill the ostrich? Just just tell everybody to get
their ostrich steak well done. That's exactly what RFK Junior said,
except he said it like this.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Just tell everybody to get the steak well done. Yeah,
he can't help it. He's got a disease. Why do
you pick on poor people that can't help it, they
have diseases.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I agree with everything he says. I just think he
should get a spokesperson to tell us stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Amen. Yeah, I do too. It's not me. No, it's
not you. It sounds like it's coming out of your mouth. Though.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I like RFK Junior. I think he's cool. I'm part
of the whole maha thing. I think it's great. I'm
trying to be healthier. Uh huh, I'm getting into peptides.
Peptides that's the medicine of the future. Man, that's right.
But it's here today, so a good going there.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Can you tell? It's making my Oh? Boy can I ever?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, I haven't started taking it yet, so now you're
a liar. Now I don't trust you, all right. So
the thing to take away from the whole bird flu
when you're cooking, according to this AI generated answer, I
just got to make sure it's not raw or undercooked.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Hey, you didn't want to raw ostrich you know, but
I don't think you're supposed to eat that anyway? Should
they put that on sushi? Now? I don't think though.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I had an idea to start the first ever poultry
sushi restaurant and.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
It did not go well, didn't take off. Now people
really hated it. Well, maybe that should be the name
of your new band, poultry Sushi, pultry Sushi. Damn it,
Billy Hud. That is such a well you got a
band name right there. See, you only have two kinds
of ideas.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
The dumbest thing I ever heard in the brilliant ones
awesome dude, Hey, what did you just say besides eating
ostrich meat, what was the other thing you just mentioned?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Eating bears? Bear? Well, it's National Hug a Bear Day November.
I'm not hug it and kill it and eat it.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
No, it says national hug a Bear Day. Who doesn't
love a good bear?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hug Hey, Jerry, calendar on my phone says it's hug
a Bear Day. Really, yeah, you're telling me that today
I'm supposed to hug a bear. That's what it says
on the calendar. That bear. Sure, that bear right there forehead,
the one with teeth. Dude, look on the calendar, hug
a Bear Day and just put my arms around it.

(05:24):
I think they like it? All right? Here we go.
Oh wait, Jerry, I scrolled down and says, teddy bear. Wait,
stand up to him. Jerry, there, yit?

Speaker 3 (05:34):
That?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Did your hands look like pauls?

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Paul, My god. I got bar news. I have bear news.
When bare news happens, we break in with a bear news.
Is your bear news from Japan? Yes, I have bear
news too.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akida
on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat,
one with fuzzy ears, one with up to two hundred
and twenty pounds of moth Us a mountainous region known
for its lush forests, lakes, and valleys, and for being
a hotspot for this year's deadly bear attacks in Japan.

(06:09):
He's all over the news today.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
We are talking record bear attacks. They had to call
the army in and they had to get reinforcements because
the mayors have attacked over one hundred people just since April.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
And at least thirteen have been killed, billing at least thirty. Yeah,
what he said, I was being your wingman.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
You did. It's a national problem fueled by the climate crisis,
according to you.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Off my trigger, CNN says this is all happening because
Billyad drives a Ford F twoint fifty and sits an
Economy plus for the extra leg room. It's Billyad's fault. Yeah,
and I'm to welcome. In October, alone, shoppers were attacked
in a supermarket, a Spanish tourist was scratched by a
baby bear cub, which was both painful and adorable adorable,

(06:53):
and a trail runner was forced to wrestle a bear
in the woods before sprinting to safety.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Have you noticed one thing about these Japanese bears. They
are not as cute as our bears.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
They look like humans wearing fake bear costumes.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know that. See there's a regular, good looking bear
and then there's this Japanese bear. I don't know what's
up with that. In Akida, local authorities requested formal military
assistance from Japan's self defense forces, saying they're existing measures,
including box traps and bear repellent sprays, weren't enough. Has Sol,
that's as much Asian accent as I'll do just a

(07:28):
little that that's probably best. You would just brush against
it there. But the troops won't be culling the bears. Billy,
I know now, I'm gonna do. Just give them a
good talking to. They're not allowed to under Japanese law. Well,
that's probably why they have such a big bear population now,
is because they're not, you know, like killing them occasionally.
It's a valid point. Instead, they'll provide logistical support.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
They're gonna set up traps, they're gonna transport the carcasses
shot by the hunters. Wait, I thought they just said
they can't call them. The actual calling is reserved for
license hunters Okay and Vocal Hunting Association.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
They do have a few hunters out there.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I wonder if part of the problem. I wonder if
climate change nonsense aside. I wonder if part of this
is our fault. Have you ever heard that after we
dropped those nuclear bombs on Japan, the men there were
just never the same.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I've heard that.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Think about it, they didn't have that obsession with Hello
Kitty and cartoons and all that.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Not until after we nuked them. Yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
If they say in Japan there's more people dying than
being born, they say this new generation doesn't even like sex.
Is that possibly an unintended consequence of something that we
did to the island to Japan in the last century.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
As an American, I think we have a tendency and
probably always will, to just be guilty of stuff, you know,
even if we might not have actually done anything, but
we just feel bad. We apologize for our greatness. That's true.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
But then again, also as a Catholic, I have a
tendency to just feel guilty about things I have nothing
to do with.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Right that happens. So, boy, I don't know what to think.
That's a white American Catholic, You're just triple guilty. As
a white American Catholic, I am privileged yep, arrogant yep,
and I feel guilty about it. There you go. But
there's a lot of contradictions there. You know, I don't
know what to do with all that. Do they bear

(09:19):
hunt with a sword from Japan? You know, because they
look down ancient Japanese looked down on people with guns, firearms,
that sort of thing. When they introduced the rifle to
the Japanese, you know, the molt samurai over there was like, man,
that's a coward's way, you know, shoot somebody from across
you go up, man the man, battle sword, the sword.

(09:41):
That's how a man fight a man. That's how I'll
use I think that's how they ought to fight a
bear too.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I have a recording here of one of the Japanese
warriors going out and taking on a group of bears
in the How did you keep on?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Wow? You just amazing. You can just come up with
the audio like this to fit a story every time. Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
So apparently what's remarkable about this recording is that this
is uh they have what are those guys in New
Zealand called the Cheewez No no, no, the people in
New Zealand they have that that war chant that they
do right.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Before Maori, Yeah, the Maori warriors.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
And it's called what is it a hakata or something
like that. Okay, Well, guess apparently in Japan they have
a similar thing that they do.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, they got an island called Hokkaido. Is that what
you're talking about? No, No, that's not it. No, that's
the name of a place. All right. Anyway, apparently this
is what it sounds like.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Will the Japanese warriors are unleashing their samurai swords and
getting their ninju prows together so they can go out
and kill some some bears.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Cool, Yeah, a hoodie time.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's me.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
It's having sacred goes.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Who know secret Cosmick the dis just Bugus Walton and
Johnson Radio Network. Mister l maybe you're the right guy
to explain this one.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
You enjoy a little bit of sports betting when it's
a legal of course?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Uh well yeah, I'll have participated in some of those
situations occasionally. All right.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
ESPN had ESPN Beet, that's right, what's called bet? But
ESPN bet not beet like Black Entertainment television.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
That's a different thing.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
ESPN has decided to ditch ESPN Bet and now they've
got a new deal with DraftKings. So ESPN's own betting
app wasn't good enough for ESPN.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
If not, DraftKings is smart, superior obviously, that's why it's claiming. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
ESPN first launch it scambling concerning twenty twenty under a
different name, but by twenty twenty three it was rebranded
as ESPN Bet. After two years, the cables sports network
is moving on. According to a report today at bright
part dot com because that's where I get my news.
The network announced a new deal with DraftKings yesterday, bringing
the popular ambling site into ESPN's house. Well all right, Dan,

(12:03):
the cabler isn't even a word. Reported that the new
deal will take effect December first, and ESPN Bet will
stop operating as its own sports book.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Huh beat it, ESPN Bet, Yeah, get out of here
your bad news.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
They had hoped ESPN Bet would be as good as
DraftKings or the other one fan duel. I mean, for me,
I think of all the sports betting apps that you
can get on your phone, DraftKings seems to be the
best one.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
You've used them all.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
I have friends, oh who are really into this, and
I asked them their opinion. When I don't know what
I'm talking about, I ask people that are more qualified
than me for their opinion. And then I ask another person,
you find people more qualified than you, you wouldn't even
believe that.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's tricky.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
I'm not smart, I'm clever. I'm average intelligence, but I'm clever, right,
So I try to surround myself with really smart people
and then I just see if they'll rub off on me.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Ah, did she rub off on you? She sure did,
but she did. That's how I got into this trouble well,
with this question coming up about that sort of thing
in the sport was betting and all, and what has
happened recently with the NBA and that sports betting situation
which included, turns out, four of the five families of

(13:11):
New York's famed mafia. If that's even a real thing,
nobody knows for sure. Did anybody check with the five
families and see how they feel about this mom Dommy
character running New York City now? Because he got some
ideas that I think might start cutting into their profits.
And that's just the kind of thing you might want
to stay clear of, especially in New York City. Man,

(13:34):
that is a really interesting question. I never thought about
how they might look at this.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, I mean, for a long time in a city
like New York, those old Italian families have existed, and
if I'm not mistaken, Curtis Sleewa tried to warn us
about it, didn't he talk about that?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yep? That's all he ever talked about was now. He
fought the fight against the mafia there and he's still
alive today.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Have you ever wondered if there were connections between the
Italian mobs and the Islamic terror cells.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
I don't know. Is that a thing?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, organized crime groups like the mafia and Islamis terrorists
often intersect in convergence, cooperation, and coexistence the three c's
if you will, Arms trafficking, drug smuggling, human smuggling and migration,
oil and resource smuggling, money laundering, whoa, And there have
been examples of this happening Isis and al Kaina recruits

(14:28):
coming from Europe criminal gangs places like Belgium and France
doing business with organized criminal group in Europe.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Be sure that's not all just a bunch of old
wives tale. It's just the myth that somebody started and
it's a good story, made good movies, so they just
went with it a bit. No, that's happening.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, there does seem to be some evidence that it's happened.
But really, but there is one thing that will keep
these two groups divided. Would you lunch meat? Oh, lunch meat? Yeah,
I mean like bloney. We Italians are very very good
at making sandwich meat, all kinds of stuff, you know, mortadella, salami, baloney.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
What about the gobba go oh goba. But here's the problem.
These Muslims don't like him, is that right? And if
we start putting it on your sandwich and we challenge
you to eat, that, be a little bit of ham
in every sandwich you eat. I don't care if it's
peanut butter or grilled cheese or or whatever. Gotta have ham.
I don't trust people that don't like him. You don't

(15:29):
like him, Well, I was like that dude said and
pull fiction, man, I don't dig on those swine, you see. Yeah,
that's right, you don't do what. He doesn't eat pork.
That's what he said on those swine.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, and that was Samuel L. Jackson, So you got
to take that pretty serious. She doesn't like swine and
he doesn't like snakes. On this mother love and playing no.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
No, no, none of that.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Anyway, there's no formal alliance between the Islamic terror groups
and the families. The Five Families experts emphasize a convergence
over how Italian mafias avoid deep ties to evade scrutiny
but profit from terrorists' needs. Rumors of mafia's protecting Italy
from Isis have been circulating for years.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's just business. When you get right down to you
take all the emotional stuff out. It's just business. And
if they get into their business, they're not gonna like it.
I'm gonna tell you that right now.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Now, with all this talk about Islamic terrorism and beautiful
women with all of tone's skin, one has to acknowledge
the existence of Alena Hubba.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Hubba, how did she break into this new story?

Speaker 1 (16:33):
She has signed dozens of indictments charges against accused New
Jersey Johannish show Islamic radicalization could touch any community. According
to Donald Trump's hottest.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Lawyer, even the hot lawyer, haha blah blah blah blah
is protecting us from Muslim terrorists.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
New Jersey's acting US Attorney, Alena Hubba, made a warning
yesterday the arrest of two teens from a wealthy New
Jersey suburban connection with an alleged ISIS terror ring shows
that the Islamic radicalism can creep into even the nicest towns. No, no,
it's awful, said people who were surprised by this. No,
it's a different group. I think you're supposed to say

(17:09):
a lot who act bar Anyway.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
People that were surprised by it would say, oh, they
were the local Jews. I get it. You went over
my head. Yeah, I know. It happens anyway, if you
missed it.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
We announced earlier that yesterday, nineteen year old Montclair residence
Thomas Kahan Yamez gufl and Milo We're both arrested for
allegedly plotting ISIS inspired terror attacks.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's back.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
The Islamic terrorism is back and bigger than ever.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
We thought it went away. We thought it was all over.
We did. When did we think that? You know, just
when we didn't hear about it for a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh yeah, as soon as we got done with the
mess at the border. You notice how this immediately became
a thing again.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh yeah, very much. Oh uh. Separately, because there have
been clips, little little clips from last night's Patriots Awards
keep coming up on the TV. Off to the side,
we don't look at it that often, but occasionally I
will look up and I thought, at first I saw
a picture, an old picture of Tammy Faye Baker, member

(18:08):
of the gym, and Tammy Fay the Baker's and the
whole religious thing and all that. Turns out it was
not a young Tammy Faye Baker. It was Erica Kirk
with a completely different look and hairstyle and everything. And
I did not find it as maybe the comments about her,

(18:30):
you know, sexy leather pants and her hug and all
that kind of stuff has caused her to downplay her
attractiveness for public, you know, viewing, because she didn't look. Now,
Malania Trump twice her age almost she's almost twice as
old as Erica Kirk and just look fantastic last night,

(18:53):
of course she always does.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I think eric is pretty, but you're watching her on
Fox News next to all these women who are professionally ready, and.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
That hairstyle she chose last night was not complimentary. I
will say, I don't like when women wear shoulder pads.
That didn't do it. It's like, okay, so we all
saw something we didn't think she would she should be.
It might be on purpose.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
I always thought that the way chicks dressed back in
the eighties was kind of hot, like the whole aerobics.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Look or whatever you like that. Then the ankle ankle
socks all squished down like that, and now I'm totally
into that.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
But then as soon as ball gown season came out,
they'd all be wearing these shoulder pads, like, I don't
get it. You're trying to look like Walter Payton or something.
What's the point of that.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
There's something very sexy about voting.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
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