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Hello, anybody, it's me Sammy. Let me put you up today on
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what's going on? Oh about that
kid I asked you about. I strained
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that situation out already. I'd like
you to come down and we'll talk about
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the kid and a couple of other
things. I know you have that wine
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situation, and I got a guy
I think you'd be very interested in.
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Okay, sounds great. Where are
we gonna meet that uptown joint I told
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you about. It's a good joint. You don't need to bring anybody.
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I have security for the both of
us. You don't have to worry about
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anything you don't know. Yay,
Leon, I don't know that hand all
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good. Good morning. Kay,
Hello, mister Samon, I'm gonna star
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mist How are you? How are
you are? Come on? No more
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cooking man, grassy ground ship by
the barqutch everything, Hey brother, Hey
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not to ship, go to SEP. Well good, feel good? Feel
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good? Yeah good, Sammy,
thank you again for coming. Appreciate it
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very much, my pleasure. You
picked a good spot. It's a great
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spot. You got a piece of
the place. No, no, no,
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no story, no no, I
wish I did. It's the same
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woman and she came to the United
States and she was living in New York
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for a while and she came out
here. She's opened up the place.
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She cooks like my grandma would cook, that style of fourth. It was
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a good time. I told you, anytime I come into town, I'm
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gonna check in with you, speak
to you first. I think it's the
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right thing to do, and just
spend some time together, you know.
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And I got this nostalgic feeling,
like a good feeling, like it was
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back in time, back in the
day. And this is exactly what it
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was like. You know, when
you went into someone's territory where they were,
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you announce yourself you're coming, whether
you look for the help or whatever.
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It's a beautiful thing. That's what
we did all the time, you
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know. And you know sometimes,
you know, as long as we're here,
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we'll talk about it. Sometimes people
get the wrong depression of that life
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because of all the nonsense and that's
out there, but they really got to
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understand what this life was really all
about. Well, Cousin Ulster was really
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all about. And again, I
don't think you or I had a glorified
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a life. We know it was
good and bad and everything, but there
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was some good, good points about
that life shammy that you can't learn anywhere
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else. It really benefited us in
many ways. You know, it's a
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good time to talk about it,
because you're right because an Ulstra taught us
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bad things, and it taught us
good things, but it gave us an
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understanding of what's going on. Ra'm
gonna tych them. I brought you two
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gifts. Actually, one gift you
probably heard. I wrote this book and
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the title I know you're going to
relate to because I heard I heard,
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I thank you so much for this
mafia democracy. So and I see the
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Capitol building and the strings, and
I want to apologize. I should have
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brought a book. I'm going to
sign a book, my book to you
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me that one. I definitely owe
you that. And I brought you You
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must have heard about the wine I
did. I did, but we're going
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to open it here. I bought
your case. Actually, but the bottle
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will open up here because I remember
Sam, anytime we had a discussion about
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anything, it was always a bottle
of wine there. We always enjoyed that.
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So little wine, a little black
hole. You don't even hear anazette
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anymore. Now it's sambuca. I
remember when we used to drink it was
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it was black, a little orange
lemon peel, lemon peel right around the
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thing. And yeah, yeah,
still I love it that way. You
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know. It's the one thing I
gotta tell you this. Italians that came
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out to California twenty or thirty years
ago, they're not Italian anymore. They
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don't have the same tradition, even
the ones that come from New York.
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I don't know if you found that
out here, but there's such a I
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don't know why people lose it out
here. I think it's not only where
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you live, whether it's California or
Arizona. I think that we lost our
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heritage. We interomat. We have
different relationships and it changes everything. You're
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in business with so many different people. Like my mother and father had a
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dress factory. It seemed like everybody
knew how to sew and cook. So
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it was different. And as the
kids and we grew up so different then
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now our kids, it changes.
It always does. Life changes. Yeah,
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you know, it's funny you say
that because my grandmother, my mother's
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mother, she had a factory also, and she had I'll never forget and
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the reason I'm saying is she had
about forty women working for her. My
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dad was able to keep the union
out. She didn't have a union there
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at that time, but she had
about forty women working. Blacks, Puerto
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Rican, a lot of Puerto Ricans, Spanish. Everybody got along so different
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today. You know, I never
seen this country so divided. I never
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seen things so tense, and I
just don't understand it. It was better
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we grew up in a better era
than without a doubt, I think I
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know what happened. I think this
is created by the liberal elites where they
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want the blacks to hate the whites
because of slavery that up in one hundredred
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and fifty years ago. Half the
white I don't even know what it is,
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and I'm not a young guy.
They're busy having everybody fighting while they're
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committing so many crimes. It's not
so much that the people really hate each
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other, it's what they're being told
by the media and all kinds of things.
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Everything is a problem. I mean, you talk about two people having
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two different opinions. Now today if
you don't agree with somebody's opinion, there's
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a war. A war, you
know, an out kist and this and
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that. I mean years ago you
were the most craziest things. We would
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disagree and we wouldn't drink wine like
you said, talk, smoke a cigar.
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Laugh. By the time the comeation
and with our friends, your friends,
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you're still friends. You still respect
each other. You might have had
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different opinions, but you still got
along. You're right, and you know
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what, it all starts at the
top. It trickles down to everybody else.
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But you know one thing that Cosenostra
taught us. It taught us to
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get along with people. We had
to get along absolutely, you know.
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And people think that we were a
divided group of people fighting with one another
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all the time doing It's so far
from the truth. And again, I
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don't want to look like you said. There's good in bed and everything.
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We understand that. But so many
good things that we took from that life.
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I know I did. If the
respect that we had with one another
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was being seen in our life today, everybody's life, this would be a
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much better place. Oh absolutely,
Listen, they talk about racism and things
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like that. Now we had number
banks and dealt with blacks with gambling,
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even drug and people like that.
We had relationships with blacks, Hispanic everybody.
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I don't remember hating each other.
I get, you know, on
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YouTube all the time people tell me, oh, none of you Italians,
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none of you mob guys liked blacks. And I said, where did you
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get that from? You know what
they quote? They quote The Godfather.
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I said, that was a movie
that was made up. It was fiction
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because we didn't think that way.
We didn't feel that way. I said,
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we had we had friends of old
nationalities, or we did business with
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everybody. Yeah, look at Fat
Tony and them their clubs and we Harlem
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in all of them. Yeah,
there was Harlem, their restaurants right in
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Harlem. And now they want to
use that as this is the way it
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was. No, a lot of
these movies are bullshit, most of them.
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They need to do these things to
get power. Power brings greed brings
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money. Absolutely, you know what
I say. I say this all the
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time and probably get beat up for
it. But Cousin austramend dis impact on
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this country for over one hundred years, no doubt, it's part of our
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history. We know that and so
many things that we learned through that life.
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If people would understand that and see
that there was at the discipline that
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we had, the respect that we
had right, the structure that we had.
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I mean, it was a real
organization, you know, and it
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was something to look when I got
made, Sammy, I know you feel
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the same way. I had a
very idealistic view of the life. Hey,
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I was going to be something,
part of something my father was part
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of. That meant a lot to
me. You know, we got this
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brotherhood. I got your back,
you got mine, And for the most
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part, we operated like that.
I mean, look, I'm not saying
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we were saying to reway angels or
anything like that, but you know,
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we took care of our neighborhoods.
We took care of people in our community.
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We didn't abuse innocent people on the
street. You know, we see
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that in the movies. That's all
nonsense. That stuff never happened. Never
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happened, Sammy. And you know, to see what's going on today and
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to see some of these people talking
out of the head, they don't know
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what they're talking about. It,
I don't know. I don't know why
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I'm even saying. I guess because
we're together and we both understand and we're
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just you know, shooting a breeze
in that way. But you know,
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I don't I don't know. I
just wish things were different because you know,
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I got kids, I got grandchildren. This country is so much different
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than what we grew up in.
When I said us, Sammy, how
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are you come to ste wonderful?
It's a beautiful pleasure to have you here
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today. May I start you with
maybe a napery TiVo? What would you
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like? No, you know what
they like? He gave me a gift
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to this one like a bottle of
God. Yes, absolutely, would you
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like to try a little bit first? Going the bomb? And I said,
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Michael, look at thank you for
this wine. I'm gonna put her
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over here and the book. Yeah, I'm gonna take that bottle home and
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this bottle that we're going to knock
this one out. Yeah, yeah,
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for sure, that's great wine.
Where was a man? I mean,
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believe it or not, Armenia am
Yeah. I'll tell you the story about
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maybe a year and a half ago. Young guy comes to me, an
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Armenian guy who said he's been following
me since he's ten years old. He's
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twenty two years old, and he
came down to meet me. Lived up
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in Sacramento, and I sat down
with him for about an hour. I
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was so impressed with this young man, and he told me, he says,
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listen, my family has a vineyard
in Armenia for the last twenty five
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years. He said, that's where
my homeland is. He said, when
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Noah's Ark landed at the foot of
Mount our Rat and the flood subsided,
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the first vineyard that was ever grown
in the New civilization came out of Armenia.
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He said. It's a transforming you
know, time and civilization. You
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transformed your life. He said,
I want to brand wine in your name.
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And I thought about it. I
did some research on it. I
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found out what he said was true. But he impressed me so much.
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Sammy, you know, unlike this
generation that I don't know. I think
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a lot of these young men have
lost I said, you know what his
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name is, Sammy? Another good
Sami, Right. I said, let's
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give it a shot. And he
started it less than a year and he's
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doing such a great job with it. People are loving the wine, and
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we'll see where it goes. You'll
be really good about it. It's great
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wine. I mean, that's a
hell of a story. I think I
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would have known him. He would
have told me a story like that.
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I probably would have shot him.
That guy came to me about you.
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Yeah, I was good to do
wine. I'm thinking of Sicily. I
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know some people in Sicily and why
you should do it. But no,
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no, no, you're doing it. I don't want to interfere. All
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right, we all goes in austral
We respect one another. Oh, I
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would do it. I appreciate it. Let me ask you this sea.
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I mean, honestly, it's just
me and you were here. Do you
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miss the life? I gotta be
honest, Yes, I do miss it
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because it's about our heritage. I
don't miss the ugly things, but I
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missed the part of my mother,
my father, or Sicilians, aunts,
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uncles, relatives and so many people
I knew. Like I said, they
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owned a dress factory. There was
so many Italian women that would come in
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seamtresses and work, and as a
kid growing up, I knew them.
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So I got a really good flavor
of our heritage. The mafia was part
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of it. They brought people in
from Italy, the seamstress and brick layers
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and so many good things for this
country. You know, we only talk
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about the mafia and the bad things, but there's so many good things.
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So I missed that part of the
life, not all of it, but
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that part of the life. You
know. Just like now we sit down,
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I feel I didn't know you too
well, but I knew you're well
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enough, and I feel like sitting
down with you now, I feel like
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we're related that life when we took
that blood oath in our hands as a
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brotherhood of a secret society. But
there was a lot of ugly things that
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transpired. I look at that.
I hate that hurt some families. God,
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but that was the law enforcement.
They made this reco law and so
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many things that hurt us and hurt
our families. And we're not that bad.
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They just wanted to wipe us out
because they wanted the power. They
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know we had power with the unions
and this and that, and they try
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to squash us. And not only
that, Sammy, they they made their
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careers on our names because for some
reason, we captured a lot of press
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and publicity, and you know,
getting us was a big deal for them
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and made their careers. Yeah,
yeah, you know what they hated in
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the communities that we lived in,
And I know I think it was the
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same for most of us. We
always felt this is my community, and
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we helped people. We protected women
and children. You know, if you
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were a childlist they came in town
neighborhood, you got killed. Can't You
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couldn't bother us. I didn't even
know a woman. I was protecting them.
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Why is bothering her? So that's
why the people started saying in our
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neighborhood, yeah, we know what
they do, but they killed each other.
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They don't hurt us. We're actually
safer. And they hated that.
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The government hated that. My sisters
used to come home at two or three
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in the morning if they were walking
alone, guys would walk with them to
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make sure they came to the house. Right. Did we ever lock our
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doors at night? No? No, after time in those open never.
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I mean, you know, we
kept our places. We respected the people
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in our neighborhoods and our community.
People get a different impression now, like
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we're just animals out there killing people
and shaking people down and doing all of
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that. The numbers business, the
numbers business was good for the neighborhood.
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Yeah, people actually hit the numbers
and made money. Dude. Yeah,
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you know, all the women wanted
to play with us. They all did.
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They every day they put down a
dollar, two dollars, whatever it
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was. They made it sound like
we were robbing people in the neighborhood.
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It was just the opposite, just
the opposite. You know that we had
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a thing. We was able to
see the void, what people need or
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want or enjoy it, and we
gave it to them, whether it was
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gambling or when there was provision,
we gave them speakings and booze where they
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could live, they could relax.
Today, the government, I don't know
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who the fuck they think they are. They tell you every day how to
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live, how to breathe, how
to do everything. I saw Joe Rogan
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on television. Joe Rogan said,
if I want to be able to smoke
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pot, I don't need you to
fucking tell me. I'll think about it.
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Who the fuck are you if I
want to smoke, I don't smoke
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pot. If I could drink liquor, well, because you get your end
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of the liquor, you make money
on that, so it's allowed. So
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I mean, it's the truth.
They stick themselves in every part of our
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life. It's not only taxes,
it's so many things. You gotta One
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guy was telling me that he drives
a bike now a bicycle, not a
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motorcycle, bicycle, and he's got
to wear a helmet. Keep on or
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a guy I don't want to wear
a helmet, want to fuck you to
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call him he's gotta wear a helmet. So what every part of our life
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they want to control us, and
control is about power and greed always.
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You know that, and I know
it. And your book from what I
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heard, I didn't read it yet. Please that you gave me that book.
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Well you're going to everything in the
book standing. Because I get in
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trouble for saying this, but I
think the government is operating worse than we
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did. Even they talk about the
unions. Look what they look at,
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how much control they have now with
the teachers union. They basically bribed the
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teachers union in every other way,
in every way. It's a tool of
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the government now, the teachers union. That what they donate, what they
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do, what they control. You
know, look under unions, I specialize
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in the union. Yeah, that
was so corrupt, it was pathetic.
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You know the best part. I
used to the guys in the union and
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I would talk to him and I
would you know, they were doing what
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they were told they were. They
were making money. I told the guys
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one day, how much do you
make a year? It was I think
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a vice president two hundred thousand.
Back then, two hundred thousand a year
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you make? I said, that's
so crazy. On people's union dues,
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you'll make them two hundred. Then
we had one guy's a friend of ours
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made guy and he was doing the
labors union. So he was the president,
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his brother was the vice president,
his daughter was the secretary. It
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was, it was. It was
a shakedown. So yeah, but you
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know, you know, and I
know what you mean. But I we
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got a pizza franchise called Slices.
We opened up a store in California,
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in Orange County in a spot that
was a prior restaurant. It was a
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restaurant already. All we did was
put in a counter, nothing else.
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It took a year and a half
to get permits, and it cost us
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between architect work and and fees and
everything that we had to pay, it
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cost one hundred thousand dollars just to
open the place. We'reout doing it without
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construction or anything else. Between the
architect and design and everything else that we
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had to keep submitting to the building
department, and I kept saying, but
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this was a restaurant already. We
didn't change anything. And this was right
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after the pandemic. I said,
don't you want us to open up again,
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get into business? I said,
how could it take us this long?
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We couldn't get anything done. It
was a believer want mom and pop
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stores. They want corporate stores.
When you're a mom and pop store,
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they don't want you. Yeah,
but they talked about us hurting business.
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They're crushing business. No crushing,
the crushing you. And then I don't
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feel sorry for you. Spend one
hundred thousand because you've got a fuck a
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lot of money, bro, So
tell me worded about those hundred thousand.
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But I don't want to give it
to the government, right, But uh
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yeah, so I get it.
You know, Union's in the whole nine
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yards. It's really and like you
said, they're corrupt, the mafia.
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They made us look like boy scouts
when I see what they're doing to people.
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They're bringing pheneral and so many things
coming across the border, and government
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agencies are telling them this is what's
coming across the border, and they don't.
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So what do you let me ask
you a question, what do you
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think the reasoning is? Why do
they Why are they opening up these borders.
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Why are they allowing these drugs to
come across? Why are they people
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are coming into the communities. They
have no idea who they are. I
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think there's over I even forget the
numbers. There's over three million people that
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have come in in the last two
years. Why are they doing this?
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What is your opinion of My opinion
is that everybody it's for votes. Got
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we totally agree. They want those
people to vote for them, and they
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giving them things I don't realven bring
them over the border, They put them
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on buses and planes and give them
that talking about giving them some sort of
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a license where they could vote.
So it's definitely about votes. And but
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the sorry part of that is that
they don't care how much disease, how
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many people die, as long as
they get their way and do what they
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want to do. In other words, that a lot I have loved one
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politicians say no, no, we're
gonna open the borders because we're gonna be
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humane to who to who, to
strangers, people bringing in drugs, people
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from the country's people with diseases.
Why don't you be umane and look at
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the people who belong to you in
this country. You know, a friend
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of ours, great, great,
I guess yeah, let's we got it.
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Yeah, you enjoy your please?
That looks good, look so good.
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A little bit more please, yeah, a little bit of it?
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Yeah, sure, thank you,
Jiji. Yeah yeah. I don't know
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about you, but to me,
you still can't beat the tired food.
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No, no, no, I
don't. I don't think we're raised on
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it all our lives. So anyway, let me tell you what with a
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friend of ours who was obviously a
boss of a family, Joe Banano,
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he wrote a book and he said
at the end of the book, he
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said, a country doesn't need a
president. A country needs a father,
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a father of the country, not
a president. Somebody who's a father who
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looks at the country, men and
women, black and white, no matter
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what religion, nationality, you are
as their their family, their kids.
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Now you're not gonna please everybody.
So you're gonna make decisions that help some
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people and maybe hurt other people a
little bit. But that's import We don't
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have that. We have a president
or president or politicians who are greedy.
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It's like, wow, we got
it. We're gonna just rob these people
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blind. We're gonna do things opening
the border and given the people a bullshit
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line. Hey, this is a
beautiful thing we're doing for who they no,
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No, well, a lot of
people do believe it, or they
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wouldn't be wonting these people in Listen
that we gave forty or sixty billion dollars
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to Ukraine when Russian fighting the Russians. Now, I feel sorry for the
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people in Ukraine, but forty to
sixty billion. When Trump was the president,
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they couldn't give them five billion dollars
to close the border. It was
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too much money. And they give
forty to sixty billion dollars to Ukraine.
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How many black people, how many
homeless people, how many people suffering from
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diseases could benefit with that forty sixty
billion in our country? Is that not
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humane? It's more humane that we
disregard those people. They're sending it too
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over there. I don't know how
that makes any sense to anybody. I
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don't know how to the general public. Don't see that and it doesn't bother
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them. You know why they don't
see it because the fight don't hit their
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resk. That's not only that because
if you don't watch Fox News or read
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the New York Post, you don't
know any of this sham true touse.
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They control all the all the media, and people that are watching CNN and
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watching MSNBC, they don't see any
of this. They don't know. But
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forgetting that for a moment, I'm
telling you, I get so angry.
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It's hard for me to even talk
about it because I see corruption at the
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highest level. Let me ask you
this, simmy. In our life,
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you got a friend, you've got
a business partner. He lies to you
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once. All right, you get
a little upset, you talk, you
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straighten it out. The second time, starts to get a little bit more
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intense, third time, full time. That's it. You don't it.
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How are you going to stay with
a guy? These people get on television
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on video and lie every single day. You know what we say? People
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say, oh, that's politics,
it's not politics, it's lying. Well,
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you know, I'll give you an
example. Society becomes people become numb.
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We're numb. We once had the
association with the bread, and with
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the bread. They raise the bread. The people who the dough and make
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the bread, We told them,
raise your price by three cents a loaf.
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The delivery people, we said,
when you deliver it, raised the
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price by three cents. The store
owners, we told them, raised the
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price by three cents. That's an
extra money for you guys. Everybody was
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happy. Of course, they all
made more money. And the bread we
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took three cents, so it went
up by whatever, from eighteen cents to
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twenty eight thirty one cents a loaf. Now, even my mother and father
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I remember complaining, look how expensive
the bread got. I didn't want to
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say I'm part of robbing it.
I know the people are own and so
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I didn't want to say nothing but
my mother fault. They says, okay,
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gave me money, go buy a
loaf of bread. They just went
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on. It didn't matter. They
didn't do nothing more than complain a little
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bit, and they went on life. Then that happens now, it happens
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all the time in every city.
When we had the garment industry, I
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remember where they were making four five
dollars each dress. I would drive buying
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a car and I see a woman. Wow, that's one of the dresses.
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I blow the horn and wave.
She thinks I'm flirting with her.
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I'm not flirting with her. I
why some more in those dresses. I'm
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making five hours in dress, not
me, but the mouth here is.
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So we were like, I'm not
flirting with you. I'm happy you're buying
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those dresses. We make you fight
hours and they're numb. They'll keep doing
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it. So that's exactly what's happening. Now. We'll complain about everything.
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The gas, you know, I
go to the gym and I tell her.
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I say it. A couple of
black guys, I know. I
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said, what's up, bro?
The guy turns around and says, gas
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milk. Everything is home, and
it's crazy. It is right there in
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my office. There's another office.
They sell electrical supplies. And I was
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walking my dog Lily one morning and
I said, Uh, how's your business
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going? They said it's going great. Oh really, Yeah, Well we
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have a couple of problems. What's
the problems. One we put it in
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order because it comes from overseas.
We can't get the shipment, so we
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can't deliver. Yeah. One.
Two we go to hire kids coming out
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of college, young kids, and
uh, nobody wants to work, he
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says, So those are things.
I hired a couple of young kids.
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They buckled right away, and I
mean, you know what it is.
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They are coming out of college.
They're smart, they learned things, but
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I've learned that they have no common
sense and a wisdom at all. They
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like robots, agreed, and you
know, they never took some hard knocks
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in life. They don't know what
it is to be beat up and banged
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around a little bit. They don't
have that drive. You know, when
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I was young, you couldn't get
a job. You dirt at your hands,
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You went to work shoveling horseshit if
you had to do it. I
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mean, you did whatever you have
you had to do. Now the kids
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they feel entitled. They got parents
who are going to pay forty fifty sixty
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thousand dollars semester the year, whatever
it is to send the kids to college.
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And they're not really coming out.
You know, they be to be
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indoctrinated in college by some crazy professions
teaching now yeah, you know, yeah
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that the country is bad and and
they got to accept everything crazy except accept
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everything. Now there's a guy and
he's wearing high heels in an address and
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he says, I'm a woman.
I know what it is, bro I
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see him in the men's room.
But I don't give a fuck. You
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want to be a man, a
woman, God, be a woman.
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That's cool. So I say,
well, listen, how could you just
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it's physically impossible that you're not a
woman. You're a man. I don't
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know. But you have to accept
that. I have to accept that.
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Yeah, all right, I want
to say right now, I'm twenty three.
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Oh no, you can't. Why
why can't I Why are you not
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accepting my age as twenty three?
I mean, I look, I don't
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look like twenty three. That guy
don't look like a woman. I have
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to accept that one. So all
of this bullshit we're getting fed, I
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look at it. I said,
this is insanity. Now, if a
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guy wants to be gay, he
wants to be a woman, whatever he
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wants to I respect that. I'm
not against it. I'm not. I
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could care less. It's not my
thing. But if it's good for you,
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you're happy with it. Cool,
But you can't tell me to accept
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certain things that are just physically impossible. But this is what they're doing.
415
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Now. You become an outcast if
you don't accept it. I don't know
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about you, but I know you
think the same way. As me.
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If thank god, my children are
older. My youngest is twenty four years
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old. But if a guy who
says he's a girl is going into the
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women's bathroom with my young daughter in
there, I got a problem, and
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so does he. I'm not going
to allow that to happen. But that's
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being forced on us. Let them
go to the bathroom and belongs in.
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Nobody's saying that, but don't force
it on us to accept it, and
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don't make us an outcast if we
don't agree with you. That's all I'm
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saying, and we agree on that. I'll tell you one thing, Sammy
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cousing us to at least taught us
how to be men today. You know,
426
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you get guys like Jordan Peterson.
You know who he is, right,
427
00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:15.079
Oh yeah, Andrew Tate. Jordan
Peterson Tate, you're beating up on
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this, Andrew Tate. These are
guys that are talking about men being men,
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teaching young men how to act like
men the way we were brought up.
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And the controversy around them. You
think that too. I mean,
431
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Andrew Tate's a little bit controversial.
I listened to him. He's just a
432
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little too much. But his message
what he's trying to teach young men is
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to be men. Forget about some
of the things he says about women.
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You don't have to agree with that, But today men have to learn how
435
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to be be men. I believe
every young man at eighteen nineteen should going
436
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to military. Yeah. I got
drafted and went into the military. Fan,
437
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what did it do for you?
I learned so much. First of
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all, I was physically in shape, so didn't bother me any. But
439
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when I did learn, I met
people from down south, from the north,
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different states, different things that happened
that I had never had any kind
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of access to a living in Brooklyn, New York. So it just taught
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me a whole bunch of stuff.
And he taught me about being the man
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is right. Respect for authority,
No Israel, every person who goes to
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school, every person, men or
women and women have to go in the
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military. I think it's for years, two years, yes, which is
446
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a beautiful thing. They learned to
be patriotic, they learn about the country.
447
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It's a it's a beautiful thing.
And then they go on with their
448
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lives. But what else did they
learn? Respect, discipline, how to
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accept authority? Right? These young
kids can't handle that today when I'm not
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throwing a blanket over everybody, but
the large percentage of them. And you
451
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know, I say this, and
tell me if you agree I should have.
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Root problem of what's going on in
America with our young people is the
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breakup of the family. Yeah.
Absolutely, family. And you know what
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did that colleges. Everybody went to
college. They go away to go to
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college, they learned an education.
Then they go to another state and they
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go even further to get a job. So they're gone. When we were
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growing up, I know me.
I mean, my grandmother owned a house
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when she died, her son took
it over. When they died, her
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son took it over, never even
got rid of it, exactly. It
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was always and you not only had
all kinds of relatives in the neighborhood.
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I don't be your mother, father, uncles, anne's cousins, sisters,
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brothers, whatever, but the neighborhood
itself stayed like that, so you knew
463
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that person all the time. Like
well it snowed. My father would say
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there was two houses, and yes, we went to middle house and there
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was two houses on either side Jewish
people. My father would tell me,
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go shovel this, no to shovel
hours. I said, why, he's
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an older man and he goes to
work. Do it so you learn respect
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Your learned to respect your neighbors.
They became almost family too. Yeah,
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but you see, you had a
mother and father. You know the time
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I spent in prison. So many
of these young and I have to say
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mostly black African American kids, they
looked up to us in prison because we
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had a reputation, right, So
many of them, Sammy, you notice
473
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you could write the same script.
They came out of a broken home.
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They had no father in the house. Their mother normally young, trying to
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do her best. She had her
own situation on problems. They gravitate to
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the street. They start doing petty
anti stuff, dealing in drugs, robbing
477
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the little things. Before you know
what, they end up in prison at
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twenty twenty one years old. They
had no role model whatsoever. And today
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people are saying, well, you
don't need to be you don't need a
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father, a mother in the house. Look, I got seven kids and
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my young son, Michael Junior.
My wife had them in church. We
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had family around them. Even though
I was in prison. They had the
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best of everything. I tried to
teach him, right. I had a
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lot of trouble with my son.
I couldn't communicate with him. Seven kids,
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you had seven? You got a
little rabbit in your ass. Seven
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kids? Hey, listen? Seven
kids? Yeah, God bless you.
487
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I got five daughters. But I'm
saying, my son, Michael Junior,
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you would have thought he grew up
in a different house. I couldn't and
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I couldn't communicate with him. And
I communicate for a living. He didn't
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want to know from nothing. And
I'm saying, and this is a kid
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that grew up even though I did
time in prison, he still had the
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right upbringing. Imagine these kids that
have nobody, they have no father figure
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in the house, They have nobody
telling them what's right and wrong? What
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do we expect from them? I
work on now things on prison reform with
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the couple of friends of mine,
and and and I talk about this exactly.
496
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You know, we have people we
put them in prison, they come
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out and we teach them nothing in
prison, and they come back into society,
498
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And what do we expect that kid
to be? And they they you
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know, so a lot of things
I agree with what you're saying. You
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know, and in our environment,
teaches us what we are a lot of
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times when we grow up. We
love I love my mother and father,
502
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but they were like, it's my
mother and my dad, you know.
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And what taught me was my environment, the people around me. Kids.
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You want to be trending, You
want to hang out with the kids.
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You don't want to listen to mom
and dad, you know, come home,
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go to bed eight o'clock now,
yeah, not me, bro at
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one o'clock in the morning, you're
gonna be looking for me coming off.
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So you're a product of your environment. And if your environment isn't strong,
509
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your family is not strong, you're
gonna be even world messed up. And
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this you are who you hang out
with. If you hang out with a
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certain crowd, you're going to be
like that crowd, right, no doubt.
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But by the way, my son
straightened out now. But I used
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to I used to go crazy,
Sammy. I said, I can't communicate
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with this kid, my son.
He turned me off. My wife used
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to tell me he's a late bloomer, don't worry about it. And I
516
00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.639
used to say, but how late? When is this kid gonna come around?
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She was right, you know,
he's thirty three now and he's doing
518
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:29.559
great and he's straightened himself out.
But my point is, even in the
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best situation with a mother and father
around and good people around him, these
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kids have so many distractions at their
fingertips on their phones, and we never
521
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had right So this is what we
have now, and this is what you
522
00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:47.519
know. Jordan Peters and Andrew taytare
trying to talk about men being men,
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and I believe and they believe that
if you're telling a man to be a
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man, you're not offending women.
You're actually benefiting women because the men act
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like men and treat women the right
way and act the right way, women
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are going to benefit by that.
But somehow there's a section of people today
527
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that women get offended by that,
like you say something wrong about them.
528
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But you know, look, your
wife, your daughter, they want men
529
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to be men around them, you
know, And listen, I don't know.
530
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.639
You know, we're talking, we're
trying to solve the world's problems here,
531
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but it's just when you're your old
school like you and I, we
532
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:31.960
just have different thoughts in our mind. And yes, I don't mind problems
533
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:40.440
with families and structures like that,
but I can't stand is politicians and schools
534
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:46.239
and unions, things like that.
The news media that is destroying our lives,
535
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:49.840
they're helping it. Now. If
a kid has a tough time,
536
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comes out of a tough neighborhood,
has a little tough times, sometimes a
537
00:41:52.400 --> 00:42:00.960
little knock, a little whatever benefits
them. But they have made enemies.
538
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:06.840
These enemies are taking things away from
them, their rights, their liberties.
539
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:14.320
So it's going to make it even
ten times harder on everybody. And and
540
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:19.920
that's what really upsets me more than
anything. You know, I was terrific,
541
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.119
by the way. Yeah, I
told Jiji it was great, Sammy.
542
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:24.599
You want to know what, I
believe we would have done a better
543
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:28.960
job running this country than the government
is doing today. So let me ask
544
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:32.159
you a question. If you were
president of the United States, tell me
545
00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:36.760
what what would be the first thing
that you would do in current times?
546
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.440
You get into office, what's the
first thing you're going to do? How
547
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:43.840
are you going to straighten this mess
out? Wow, that's a hell of
548
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:47.679
a question. If I was the
president of the United States. The only
549
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:54.039
thing I could think of. I
think back when John Kennedy was the President
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of the United States, and I'll
never forget the statement he made, don't
551
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:07.079
ask what your country could do for
you, ask what you could do for
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your country. If people had that
kind of an attitude and that needs like
553
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.199
you would saying that comes from the
top, That needs to be the top
554
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.719
person thinking and saying that, And
if the people would feel that way,
555
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:28.320
this country would be flying. As
far as I'm concerned, I agree with
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you. And by the way,
you remember this, Kennedy's a Democrat.
557
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Do you remember when we were growing
up in our time, there wasn't that
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much of a difference between Democrats and
Republicans. It was minor differences, but
559
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we had the same patriotism. We
cared about our country. We wanted everybody
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to do well. Yeah, today
the division is like where war. I
561
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:55.119
remember we ridding the election during Kennedy. I remember that I was part of
562
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running around with signs and unions and
that was definitely rigged. We had Hollywood,
563
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Sinatra and everybody, everybody and their
mother unions right across the country.
564
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Oh, you push, you didn't
really rig it. Well, when you
565
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.920
push in a certain capacity, that's
rigged. I don't mean going in there
566
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and fixing or forcing. It wasn't
fraudulent, not it was you're brainwashing so
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00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:29.280
many people to do something. After
a while, that person could be so
568
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:34.239
brainwashed. It's really not that they're
they're voting what they what you told them.
569
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It was like doing the same thing
with the unions the bread. You
570
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:43.519
tell them it's course in the point
eight sense instead of eighteen cents, and
571
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they just go along with it.
But you didn't answer my question. President,
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Send me to Bull Gravano. Tell
me the first thing you would do
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to straighten out this country right now. Uh,
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Hello, anybody, it's me Sammy. Let me put you up today on
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what's going on? Oh about that
kid I asked you about. I strained
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that situation out already. I'd like
you to come down and we'll talk about
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the kid and a couple of other
things. I know you have that wine
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situation, and I got a guy
I think you'd be very interested in.
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Okay, sounds great. Where are
we gonna meet that uptown joint I told
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you about. It's a good joint. You don't need to bring anybody.
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I have security for the both of
us. You don't have to worry about
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anything you don't know. Yay,
Leon, I don't know that hand all
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good. Good morning. Kay,
Hello, mister Samon, I'm gonna star
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mist How are you? How are
you are? Come on? No more
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cooking man, grassy ground ship by
the barqutch everything, Hey brother, Hey
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not to ship, go to SEP. Well good, feel good? Feel
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good? Yeah good, Sammy,
thank you again for coming. Appreciate it
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very much, my pleasure. You
picked a good spot. It's a great
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spot. You got a piece of
the place. No, no, no,
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no story, no no, I
wish I did. It's the same
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woman and she came to the United
States and she was living in New York
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for a while and she came out
here. She's opened up the place.
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She cooks like my grandma would cook, that style of fourth. It was
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a good time. I told you, anytime I come into town, I'm
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gonna check in with you, speak
to you first. I think it's the
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right thing to do, and just
spend some time together, you know.
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And I got this nostalgic feeling,
like a good feeling, like it was
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back in time, back in the
day. And this is exactly what it
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was like. You know, when
you went into someone's territory where they were,
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you announce yourself you're coming, whether
you look for the help or whatever.
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It's a beautiful thing. That's what
we did all the time, you
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know. And you know sometimes,
you know, as long as we're here,
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we'll talk about it. Sometimes people
get the wrong depression of that life
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because of all the nonsense and that's
out there, but they really got to
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understand what this life was really all
about. Well, Cousin Ulster was really
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all about. And again, I
don't think you or I had a glorified
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a life. We know it was
good and bad and everything, but there
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was some good, good points about
that life shammy that you can't learn anywhere
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else. It really benefited us in
many ways. You know, it's a
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good time to talk about it,
because you're right because an Ulstra taught us
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bad things, and it taught us
good things, but it gave us an
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understanding of what's going on. Ra'm
gonna tych them. I brought you two
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gifts. Actually, one gift you
probably heard. I wrote this book and
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the title I know you're going to
relate to because I heard I heard,
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I thank you so much for this
mafia democracy. So and I see the
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Capitol building and the strings, and
I want to apologize. I should have
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brought a book. I'm going to
sign a book, my book to you
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me that one. I definitely owe
you that. And I brought you You
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must have heard about the wine I
did. I did, but we're going
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to open it here. I bought
your case. Actually, but the bottle
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will open up here because I remember
Sam, anytime we had a discussion about
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anything, it was always a bottle
of wine there. We always enjoyed that.
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So little wine, a little black
hole. You don't even hear anazette
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anymore. Now it's sambuca. I
remember when we used to drink it was
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it was black, a little orange
lemon peel, lemon peel right around the
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thing. And yeah, yeah,
still I love it that way. You
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know. It's the one thing I
gotta tell you this. Italians that came
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out to California twenty or thirty years
ago, they're not Italian anymore. They
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don't have the same tradition, even
the ones that come from New York.
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I don't know if you found that
out here, but there's such a I
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don't know why people lose it out
here. I think it's not only where
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you live, whether it's California or
Arizona. I think that we lost our
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heritage. We interomat. We have
different relationships and it changes everything. You're
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in business with so many different people. Like my mother and father had a
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dress factory. It seemed like everybody
knew how to sew and cook. So
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it was different. And as the
kids and we grew up so different then
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now our kids, it changes.
It always does. Life changes. Yeah,
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you know, it's funny you say
that because my grandmother, my mother's
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mother, she had a factory also, and she had I'll never forget and
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the reason I'm saying is she had
about forty women working for her. My
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dad was able to keep the union
out. She didn't have a union there
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at that time, but she had
about forty women working. Blacks, Puerto
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Rican, a lot of Puerto Ricans, Spanish. Everybody got along so different
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today. You know, I never
seen this country so divided. I never
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seen things so tense, and I
just don't understand it. It was better
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we grew up in a better era
than without a doubt, I think I
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know what happened. I think this
is created by the liberal elites where they
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want the blacks to hate the whites
because of slavery that up in one hundredred
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and fifty years ago. Half the
white I don't even know what it is,
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and I'm not a young guy.
They're busy having everybody fighting while they're
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committing so many crimes. It's not
so much that the people really hate each
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other, it's what they're being told
by the media and all kinds of things.
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Everything is a problem. I mean, you talk about two people having
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two different opinions. Now today if
you don't agree with somebody's opinion, there's
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a war. A war, you
know, an out kist and this and
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that. I mean years ago you
were the most craziest things. We would
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disagree and we wouldn't drink wine like
you said, talk, smoke a cigar.
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Laugh. By the time the comeation
and with our friends, your friends,
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you're still friends. You still respect
each other. You might have had
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different opinions, but you still got
along. You're right, and you know
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what, it all starts at the
top. It trickles down to everybody else.
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But you know one thing that Cosenostra
taught us. It taught us to
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get along with people. We had
to get along absolutely, you know.
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And people think that we were a
divided group of people fighting with one another
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all the time doing It's so far
from the truth. And again, I
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don't want to look like you said. There's good in bed and everything.
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We understand that. But so many
good things that we took from that life.
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I know I did. If the
respect that we had with one another
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was being seen in our life today, everybody's life, this would be a
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much better place. Oh absolutely,
Listen, they talk about racism and things
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like that. Now we had number
banks and dealt with blacks with gambling,
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even drug and people like that.
We had relationships with blacks, Hispanic everybody.
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I don't remember hating each other.
I get, you know, on
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YouTube all the time people tell me, oh, none of you Italians,
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none of you mob guys liked blacks. And I said, where did you
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get that from? You know what
they quote? They quote The Godfather.
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I said, that was a movie
that was made up. It was fiction
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because we didn't think that way.
We didn't feel that way. I said,
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we had we had friends of old
nationalities, or we did business with
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everybody. Yeah, look at Fat
Tony and them their clubs and we Harlem
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in all of them. Yeah,
there was Harlem, their restaurants right in
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Harlem. And now they want to
use that as this is the way it
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was. No, a lot of
these movies are bullshit, most of them.
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They need to do these things to
get power. Power brings greed brings
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money. Absolutely, you know what
I say. I say this all the
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time and probably get beat up for
it. But Cousin austramend dis impact on
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this country for over one hundred years, no doubt, it's part of our
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history. We know that and so
many things that we learned through that life.
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If people would understand that and see
that there was at the discipline that
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we had, the respect that we
had right, the structure that we had.
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I mean, it was a real
organization, you know, and it
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was something to look when I got
made, Sammy, I know you feel
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the same way. I had a
very idealistic view of the life. Hey,
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I was going to be something,
part of something my father was part
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of. That meant a lot to
me. You know, we got this
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brotherhood. I got your back,
you got mine, And for the most
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part, we operated like that.
I mean, look, I'm not saying
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we were saying to reway angels or
anything like that, but you know,
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we took care of our neighborhoods.
We took care of people in our community.
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We didn't abuse innocent people on the
street. You know, we see
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that in the movies. That's all
nonsense. That stuff never happened. Never
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happened, Sammy. And you know, to see what's going on today and
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to see some of these people talking
out of the head, they don't know
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what they're talking about. It,
I don't know. I don't know why
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I'm even saying. I guess because
we're together and we both understand and we're
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just you know, shooting a breeze
in that way. But you know,
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I don't I don't know. I
just wish things were different because you know,
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I got kids, I got grandchildren. This country is so much different
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than what we grew up in.
When I said us, Sammy, how
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are you come to ste wonderful?
It's a beautiful pleasure to have you here
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today. May I start you with
maybe a napery TiVo? What would you
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like? No, you know what
they like? He gave me a gift
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to this one like a bottle of
God. Yes, absolutely, would you
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like to try a little bit first? Going the bomb? And I said,
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Michael, look at thank you for
this wine. I'm gonna put her
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over here and the book. Yeah, I'm gonna take that bottle home and
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this bottle that we're going to knock
this one out. Yeah, yeah,
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for sure, that's great wine.
Where was a man? I mean,
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believe it or not, Armenia am
Yeah. I'll tell you the story about
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maybe a year and a half ago. Young guy comes to me, an
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Armenian guy who said he's been following
me since he's ten years old. He's
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twenty two years old, and he
came down to meet me. Lived up
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in Sacramento, and I sat down
with him for about an hour. I
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was so impressed with this young man, and he told me, he says,
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listen, my family has a vineyard
in Armenia for the last twenty five
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years. He said, that's where
my homeland is. He said, when
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Noah's Ark landed at the foot of
Mount our Rat and the flood subsided,
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the first vineyard that was ever grown
in the New civilization came out of Armenia.
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He said. It's a transforming you
know, time and civilization. You
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transformed your life. He said,
I want to brand wine in your name.
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And I thought about it. I
did some research on it. I
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found out what he said was true. But he impressed me so much.
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Sammy, you know, unlike this
generation that I don't know. I think
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a lot of these young men have
lost I said, you know what his
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name is, Sammy? Another good
Sami, Right. I said, let's
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give it a shot. And he
started it less than a year and he's
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doing such a great job with it. People are loving the wine, and
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we'll see where it goes. You'll
be really good about it. It's great
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wine. I mean, that's a
hell of a story. I think I
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would have known him. He would
have told me a story like that.
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I probably would have shot him.
That guy came to me about you.
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Yeah, I was good to do
wine. I'm thinking of Sicily. I
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know some people in Sicily and why
you should do it. But no,
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no, no, you're doing it. I don't want to interfere. All
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right, we all goes in austral
We respect one another. Oh, I
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would do it. I appreciate it. Let me ask you this sea.
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I mean, honestly, it's just
me and you were here. Do you
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miss the life? I gotta be
honest, Yes, I do miss it
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because it's about our heritage. I
don't miss the ugly things, but I
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missed the part of my mother,
my father, or Sicilians, aunts,
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uncles, relatives and so many people
I knew. Like I said, they
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owned a dress factory. There was
so many Italian women that would come in
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seamtresses and work, and as a
kid growing up, I knew them.
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So I got a really good flavor
of our heritage. The mafia was part
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of it. They brought people in
from Italy, the seamstress and brick layers
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and so many good things for this
country. You know, we only talk
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about the mafia and the bad things, but there's so many good things.
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So I missed that part of the
life, not all of it, but
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that part of the life. You
know. Just like now we sit down,
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I feel I didn't know you too
well, but I knew you're well
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enough, and I feel like sitting
down with you now, I feel like
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we're related that life when we took
that blood oath in our hands as a
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brotherhood of a secret society. But
there was a lot of ugly things that
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transpired. I look at that.
I hate that hurt some families. God,
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but that was the law enforcement.
They made this reco law and so
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many things that hurt us and hurt
our families. And we're not that bad.
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They just wanted to wipe us out
because they wanted the power. They
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know we had power with the unions
and this and that, and they try
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to squash us. And not only
that, Sammy, they they made their
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careers on our names because for some
reason, we captured a lot of press
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and publicity, and you know,
getting us was a big deal for them
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and made their careers. Yeah,
yeah, you know what they hated in
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the communities that we lived in,
And I know I think it was the
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same for most of us. We
always felt this is my community, and
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we helped people. We protected women
and children. You know, if you
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were a childlist they came in town
neighborhood, you got killed. Can't You
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couldn't bother us. I didn't even
know a woman. I was protecting them.
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Why is bothering her? So that's
why the people started saying in our
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neighborhood, yeah, we know what
they do, but they killed each other.
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They don't hurt us. We're actually
safer. And they hated that.
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The government hated that. My sisters
used to come home at two or three
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in the morning if they were walking
alone, guys would walk with them to
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make sure they came to the house. Right. Did we ever lock our
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doors at night? No? No, after time in those open never.
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I mean, you know, we
kept our places. We respected the people
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in our neighborhoods and our community.
People get a different impression now, like
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we're just animals out there killing people
and shaking people down and doing all of
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that. The numbers business, the
numbers business was good for the neighborhood.
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Yeah, people actually hit the numbers
and made money. Dude. Yeah,
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you know, all the women wanted
to play with us. They all did.
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They every day they put down a
dollar, two dollars, whatever it
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was. They made it sound like
we were robbing people in the neighborhood.
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It was just the opposite, just
the opposite. You know that we had
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a thing. We was able to
see the void, what people need or
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want or enjoy it, and we
gave it to them, whether it was
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gambling or when there was provision,
we gave them speakings and booze where they
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could live, they could relax.
Today, the government, I don't know
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who the fuck they think they are. They tell you every day how to
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live, how to breathe, how
to do everything. I saw Joe Rogan
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on television. Joe Rogan said,
if I want to be able to smoke
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pot, I don't need you to
fucking tell me. I'll think about it.
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Who the fuck are you if I
want to smoke, I don't smoke
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pot. If I could drink liquor, well, because you get your end
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of the liquor, you make money
on that, so it's allowed. So
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I mean, it's the truth.
They stick themselves in every part of our
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life. It's not only taxes,
it's so many things. You gotta One
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guy was telling me that he drives
a bike now a bicycle, not a
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motorcycle, bicycle, and he's got
to wear a helmet. Keep on or
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a guy I don't want to wear
a helmet, want to fuck you to
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call him he's gotta wear a helmet. So what every part of our life
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they want to control us, and
control is about power and greed always.
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You know that, and I know
it. And your book from what I
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heard, I didn't read it yet. Please that you gave me that book.
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Well you're going to everything in the
book standing. Because I get in
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trouble for saying this, but I
think the government is operating worse than we
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did. Even they talk about the
unions. Look what they look at,
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how much control they have now with
the teachers union. They basically bribed the
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teachers union in every other way,
in every way. It's a tool of
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the government now, the teachers union. That what they donate, what they
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do, what they control. You
know, look under unions, I specialize
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in the union. Yeah, that
was so corrupt, it was pathetic.
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You know the best part. I
used to the guys in the union and
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I would talk to him and I
would you know, they were doing what
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they were told they were. They
were making money. I told the guys
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one day, how much do you
make a year? It was I think
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a vice president two hundred thousand.
Back then, two hundred thousand a year
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you make? I said, that's
so crazy. On people's union dues,
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you'll make them two hundred. Then
we had one guy's a friend of ours
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made guy and he was doing the
labors union. So he was the president,
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his brother was the vice president,
his daughter was the secretary. It
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was, it was. It was
a shakedown. So yeah, but you
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know, you know, and I
know what you mean. But I we
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got a pizza franchise called Slices.
We opened up a store in California,
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in Orange County in a spot that
was a prior restaurant. It was a
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restaurant already. All we did was
put in a counter, nothing else.
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It took a year and a half
to get permits, and it cost us
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between architect work and and fees and
everything that we had to pay, it
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cost one hundred thousand dollars just to
open the place. We'reout doing it without
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construction or anything else. Between the
architect and design and everything else that we
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had to keep submitting to the building
department, and I kept saying, but
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this was a restaurant already. We
didn't change anything. And this was right
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after the pandemic. I said,
don't you want us to open up again,
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get into business? I said,
how could it take us this long?
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We couldn't get anything done. It
was a believer want mom and pop
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stores. They want corporate stores.
When you're a mom and pop store,
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they don't want you. Yeah,
but they talked about us hurting business.
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They're crushing business. No crushing,
the crushing you. And then I don't
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feel sorry for you. Spend one
hundred thousand because you've got a fuck a
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lot of money, bro, So
tell me worded about those hundred thousand.
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But I don't want to give it
to the government, right, But uh
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yeah, so I get it.
You know, Union's in the whole nine
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yards. It's really and like you
said, they're corrupt, the mafia.
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They made us look like boy scouts
when I see what they're doing to people.
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They're bringing pheneral and so many things
coming across the border, and government
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agencies are telling them this is what's
coming across the border, and they don't.
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So what do you let me ask
you a question, what do you
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think the reasoning is? Why do
they Why are they opening up these borders.
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Why are they allowing these drugs to
come across? Why are they people
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are coming into the communities. They
have no idea who they are. I
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think there's over I even forget the
numbers. There's over three million people that
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have come in in the last two
years. Why are they doing this?
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What is your opinion of My opinion
is that everybody it's for votes. Got
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we totally agree. They want those
people to vote for them, and they
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giving them things I don't realven bring
them over the border, They put them
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on buses and planes and give them
that talking about giving them some sort of
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a license where they could vote.
So it's definitely about votes. And but
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the sorry part of that is that
they don't care how much disease, how
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many people die, as long as
they get their way and do what they
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want to do. In other words, that a lot I have loved one
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politicians say no, no, we're
gonna open the borders because we're gonna be
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humane to who to who, to
strangers, people bringing in drugs, people
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from the country's people with diseases.
Why don't you be umane and look at
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the people who belong to you in
this country. You know, a friend
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of ours, great, great,
I guess yeah, let's we got it.
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Yeah, you enjoy your please?
That looks good, look so good.
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A little bit more please, yeah, a little bit of it?
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Yeah, sure, thank you,
Jiji. Yeah yeah. I don't know
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about you, but to me,
you still can't beat the tired food.
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No, no, no, I
don't. I don't think we're raised on
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it all our lives. So anyway, let me tell you what with a
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friend of ours who was obviously a
boss of a family, Joe Banano,
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he wrote a book and he said
at the end of the book, he
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said, a country doesn't need a
president. A country needs a father,
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a father of the country, not
a president. Somebody who's a father who
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looks at the country, men and
women, black and white, no matter
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what religion, nationality, you are
as their their family, their kids.
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Now you're not gonna please everybody.
So you're gonna make decisions that help some
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people and maybe hurt other people a
little bit. But that's import We don't
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have that. We have a president
or president or politicians who are greedy.
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It's like, wow, we got
it. We're gonna just rob these people
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blind. We're gonna do things opening
the border and given the people a bullshit
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line. Hey, this is a
beautiful thing we're doing for who they no,
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No, well, a lot of
people do believe it, or they
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wouldn't be wonting these people in Listen
that we gave forty or sixty billion dollars
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to Ukraine when Russian fighting the Russians. Now, I feel sorry for the
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people in Ukraine, but forty to
sixty billion. When Trump was the president,
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they couldn't give them five billion dollars
to close the border. It was
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too much money. And they give
forty to sixty billion dollars to Ukraine.
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How many black people, how many
homeless people, how many people suffering from
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diseases could benefit with that forty sixty
billion in our country? Is that not
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humane? It's more humane that we
disregard those people. They're sending it too
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over there. I don't know how
that makes any sense to anybody. I
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don't know how to the general public. Don't see that and it doesn't bother
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them. You know why they don't
see it because the fight don't hit their
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resk. That's not only that because
if you don't watch Fox News or read
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the New York Post, you don't
know any of this sham true touse.
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They control all the all the media, and people that are watching CNN and
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watching MSNBC, they don't see any
of this. They don't know. But
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forgetting that for a moment, I'm
telling you, I get so angry.
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It's hard for me to even talk
about it because I see corruption at the
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highest level. Let me ask you
this, simmy. In our life,
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you got a friend, you've got
a business partner. He lies to you
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once. All right, you get
a little upset, you talk, you
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straighten it out. The second time, starts to get a little bit more
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intense, third time, full time. That's it. You don't it.
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How are you going to stay with
a guy? These people get on television
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on video and lie every single day. You know what we say? People
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say, oh, that's politics,
it's not politics, it's lying. Well,
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you know, I'll give you an
example. Society becomes people become numb.
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We're numb. We once had the
association with the bread, and with
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the bread. They raise the bread. The people who the dough and make
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the bread, We told them,
raise your price by three cents a loaf.
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The delivery people, we said,
when you deliver it, raised the
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price by three cents. The store
owners, we told them, raised the
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price by three cents. That's an
extra money for you guys. Everybody was
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happy. Of course, they all
made more money. And the bread we
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took three cents, so it went
up by whatever, from eighteen cents to
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twenty eight thirty one cents a loaf. Now, even my mother and father
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I remember complaining, look how expensive
the bread got. I didn't want to
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say I'm part of robbing it.
I know the people are own and so
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I didn't want to say nothing but
my mother fault. They says, okay,
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gave me money, go buy a
loaf of bread. They just went
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on. It didn't matter. They
didn't do nothing more than complain a little
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bit, and they went on life. Then that happens now, it happens
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all the time in every city.
When we had the garment industry, I
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remember where they were making four five
dollars each dress. I would drive buying
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a car and I see a woman. Wow, that's one of the dresses.
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I blow the horn and wave.
She thinks I'm flirting with her.
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I'm not flirting with her. I
why some more in those dresses. I'm
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making five hours in dress, not
me, but the mouth here is.
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So we were like, I'm not
flirting with you. I'm happy you're buying
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those dresses. We make you fight
hours and they're numb. They'll keep doing
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it. So that's exactly what's happening. Now. We'll complain about everything.
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The gas, you know, I
go to the gym and I tell her.
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I say it. A couple of
black guys, I know. I
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said, what's up, bro?
The guy turns around and says, gas
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milk. Everything is home, and
it's crazy. It is right there in
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my office. There's another office.
They sell electrical supplies. And I was
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walking my dog Lily one morning and
I said, Uh, how's your business
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going? They said it's going great. Oh really, Yeah, Well we
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have a couple of problems. What's
the problems. One we put it in
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order because it comes from overseas.
We can't get the shipment, so we
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can't deliver. Yeah. One.
Two we go to hire kids coming out
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of college, young kids, and
uh, nobody wants to work, he
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says, So those are things.
I hired a couple of young kids.
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They buckled right away, and I
mean, you know what it is.
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They are coming out of college.
They're smart, they learned things, but
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I've learned that they have no common
sense and a wisdom at all. They
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like robots, agreed, and you
know, they never took some hard knocks
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in life. They don't know what
it is to be beat up and banged
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around a little bit. They don't
have that drive. You know, when
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I was young, you couldn't get
a job. You dirt at your hands,
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You went to work shoveling horseshit if
you had to do it. I
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mean, you did whatever you have
you had to do. Now the kids
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they feel entitled. They got parents
who are going to pay forty fifty sixty
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thousand dollars semester the year, whatever
it is to send the kids to college.
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And they're not really coming out.
You know, they be to be
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indoctrinated in college by some crazy professions
teaching now yeah, you know, yeah
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that the country is bad and and
they got to accept everything crazy except accept
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everything. Now there's a guy and
he's wearing high heels in an address and
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he says, I'm a woman.
I know what it is, bro I
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see him in the men's room.
But I don't give a fuck. You
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want to be a man, a
woman, God, be a woman.
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That's cool. So I say,
well, listen, how could you just
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it's physically impossible that you're not a
woman. You're a man. I don't
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know. But you have to accept
that. I have to accept that.
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Yeah, all right, I want
to say right now, I'm twenty three.
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Oh no, you can't. Why
why can't I Why are you not
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accepting my age as twenty three?
I mean, I look, I don't
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look like twenty three. That guy
don't look like a woman. I have
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to accept that one. So all
of this bullshit we're getting fed, I
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look at it. I said,
this is insanity. Now, if a
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guy wants to be gay, he
wants to be a woman, whatever he
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wants to I respect that. I'm
not against it. I'm not. I
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could care less. It's not my
thing. But if it's good for you,
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you're happy with it. Cool,
But you can't tell me to accept
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certain things that are just physically impossible. But this is what they're doing.
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Now. You become an outcast if
you don't accept it. I don't know
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about you, but I know you
think the same way. As me.
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If thank god, my children are
older. My youngest is twenty four years
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old. But if a guy who
says he's a girl is going into the
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women's bathroom with my young daughter in
there, I got a problem, and
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so does he. I'm not going
to allow that to happen. But that's
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being forced on us. Let them
go to the bathroom and belongs in.
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Nobody's saying that, but don't force
it on us to accept it, and
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don't make us an outcast if we
don't agree with you. That's all I'm
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saying, and we agree on that. I'll tell you one thing, Sammy
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cousing us to at least taught us
how to be men today. You know,
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you get guys like Jordan Peterson.
You know who he is, right,
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Oh yeah, Andrew Tate. Jordan
Peterson Tate, you're beating up on
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this, Andrew Tate. These are
guys that are talking about men being men,
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teaching young men how to act like
men the way we were brought up.
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And the controversy around them. You
think that too. I mean,
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Andrew Tate's a little bit controversial.
I listened to him. He's just a
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little too much. But his message
what he's trying to teach young men is
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to be men. Forget about some
of the things he says about women.
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You don't have to agree with that, But today men have to learn how
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to be be men. I believe
every young man at eighteen nineteen should going
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to military. Yeah. I got
drafted and went into the military. Fan,
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what did it do for you?
I learned so much. First of
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all, I was physically in shape, so didn't bother me any. But
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when I did learn, I met
people from down south, from the north,
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different states, different things that happened
that I had never had any kind
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of access to a living in Brooklyn, New York. So it just taught
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me a whole bunch of stuff.
And he taught me about being the man
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is right. Respect for authority,
No Israel, every person who goes to
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school, every person, men or
women and women have to go in the
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military. I think it's for years, two years, yes, which is
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a beautiful thing. They learned to
be patriotic, they learn about the country.
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It's a it's a beautiful thing.
And then they go on with their
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lives. But what else did they
learn? Respect, discipline, how to
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accept authority? Right? These young
kids can't handle that today when I'm not
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throwing a blanket over everybody, but
the large percentage of them. And you
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know, I say this, and
tell me if you agree I should have.
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Root problem of what's going on in
America with our young people is the
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breakup of the family. Yeah.
Absolutely, family. And you know what
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did that colleges. Everybody went to
college. They go away to go to
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college, they learned an education.
Then they go to another state and they
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go even further to get a job. So they're gone. When we were
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growing up, I know me.
I mean, my grandmother owned a house
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when she died, her son took
it over. When they died, her
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son took it over, never even
got rid of it, exactly. It
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was always and you not only had
all kinds of relatives in the neighborhood.
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I don't be your mother, father, uncles, anne's cousins, sisters,
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brothers, whatever, but the neighborhood
itself stayed like that, so you knew
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that person all the time. Like
well it snowed. My father would say
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there was two houses, and yes, we went to middle house and there
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was two houses on either side Jewish
people. My father would tell me,
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go shovel this, no to shovel
hours. I said, why, he's
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an older man and he goes to
work. Do it so you learn respect
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Your learned to respect your neighbors.
They became almost family too. Yeah,
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but you see, you had a
mother and father. You know the time
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I spent in prison. So many
of these young and I have to say
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mostly black African American kids, they
looked up to us in prison because we
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had a reputation, right, So
many of them, Sammy, you notice
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you could write the same script.
They came out of a broken home.
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They had no father in the house. Their mother normally young, trying to
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do her best. She had her
own situation on problems. They gravitate to
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the street. They start doing petty
anti stuff, dealing in drugs, robbing
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the little things. Before you know
what, they end up in prison at
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twenty twenty one years old. They
had no role model whatsoever. And today
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people are saying, well, you
don't need to be you don't need a
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father, a mother in the house. Look, I got seven kids and
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my young son, Michael Junior.
My wife had them in church. We
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had family around them. Even though
I was in prison. They had the
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best of everything. I tried to
teach him, right. I had a
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lot of trouble with my son.
I couldn't communicate with him. Seven kids,
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you had seven? You got a
little rabbit in your ass. Seven
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kids? Hey, listen? Seven
kids? Yeah, God bless you.
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I got five daughters. But I'm
saying, my son, Michael Junior,
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you would have thought he grew up
in a different house. I couldn't and
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I couldn't communicate with him. And
I communicate for a living. He didn't
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want to know from nothing. And
I'm saying, and this is a kid
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that grew up even though I did
time in prison, he still had the
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right upbringing. Imagine these kids that
have nobody, they have no father figure
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in the house, They have nobody
telling them what's right and wrong? What
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do we expect from them? I
work on now things on prison reform with
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the couple of friends of mine,
and and and I talk about this exactly.
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You know, we have people we
put them in prison, they come
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out and we teach them nothing in
prison, and they come back into society,
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And what do we expect that kid
to be? And they they you
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know, so a lot of things
I agree with what you're saying. You
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know, and in our environment,
teaches us what we are a lot of
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times when we grow up. We
love I love my mother and father,
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but they were like, it's my
mother and my dad, you know.
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And what taught me was my environment, the people around me. Kids.
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You want to be trending, You
want to hang out with the kids.
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You don't want to listen to mom
and dad, you know, come home,
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go to bed eight o'clock now,
yeah, not me, bro at
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one o'clock in the morning, you're
gonna be looking for me coming off.
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So you're a product of your environment. And if your environment isn't strong,
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your family is not strong, you're
gonna be even world messed up. And
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this you are who you hang out
with. If you hang out with a
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certain crowd, you're going to be
like that crowd, right, no doubt.
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But by the way, my son
straightened out now. But I used
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to I used to go crazy,
Sammy. I said, I can't communicate
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with this kid, my son.
He turned me off. My wife used
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to tell me he's a late bloomer, don't worry about it. And I
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used to say, but how late? When is this kid gonna come around?
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She was right, you know,
he's thirty three now and he's doing
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great and he's straightened himself out.
But my point is, even in the
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best situation with a mother and father
around and good people around him, these
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kids have so many distractions at their
fingertips on their phones, and we never
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had right So this is what we
have now, and this is what you
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know. Jordan Peters and Andrew taytare
trying to talk about men being men,
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and I believe and they believe that
if you're telling a man to be a
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man, you're not offending women.
You're actually benefiting women because the men act
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like men and treat women the right
way and act the right way, women
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are going to benefit by that.
But somehow there's a section of people today
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that women get offended by that,
like you say something wrong about them.
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But you know, look, your
wife, your daughter, they want men
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to be men around them, you
know, And listen, I don't know.
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00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.639
You know, we're talking, we're
trying to solve the world's problems here,
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but it's just when you're your old
school like you and I, we
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00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:31.960
just have different thoughts in our mind. And yes, I don't mind problems
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with families and structures like that,
but I can't stand is politicians and schools
534
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:46.239
and unions, things like that.
The news media that is destroying our lives,
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00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:49.840
they're helping it. Now. If
a kid has a tough time,
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00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:52.360
comes out of a tough neighborhood,
has a little tough times, sometimes a
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00:41:52.400 --> 00:42:00.960
little knock, a little whatever benefits
them. But they have made enemies.
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These enemies are taking things away from
them, their rights, their liberties.
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00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:14.320
So it's going to make it even
ten times harder on everybody. And and
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00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:19.920
that's what really upsets me more than
anything. You know, I was terrific,
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00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.119
by the way. Yeah, I
told Jiji it was great, Sammy.
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You want to know what, I
believe we would have done a better
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00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:28.960
job running this country than the government
is doing today. So let me ask
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you a question. If you were
president of the United States, tell me
545
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what what would be the first thing
that you would do in current times?
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You get into office, what's the
first thing you're going to do? How
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are you going to straighten this mess
out? Wow, that's a hell of
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00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:47.679
a question. If I was the
president of the United States. The only
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thing I could think of. I
think back when John Kennedy was the President
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of the United States, and I'll
never forget the statement he made, don't
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00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:07.079
ask what your country could do for
you, ask what you could do for
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your country. If people had that
kind of an attitude and that needs like
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00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.199
you would saying that comes from the
top, That needs to be the top
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00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.719
person thinking and saying that, And
if the people would feel that way,
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00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:28.320
this country would be flying. As
far as I'm concerned, I agree with
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you. And by the way,
you remember this, Kennedy's a Democrat.
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Do you remember when we were growing
up in our time, there wasn't that
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00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:39.480
much of a difference between Democrats and
Republicans. It was minor differences, but
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we had the same patriotism. We
cared about our country. We wanted everybody
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to do well. Yeah, today
the division is like where war. I
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00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:55.119
remember we ridding the election during Kennedy. I remember that I was part of
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running around with signs and unions and
that was definitely rigged. We had Hollywood,
563
00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:08.559
Sinatra and everybody, everybody and their
mother unions right across the country.
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00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:10.960
Oh, you push, you didn't
really rig it. Well, when you
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00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.920
push in a certain capacity, that's
rigged. I don't mean going in there
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00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:23.599
and fixing or forcing. It wasn't
fraudulent, not it was you're brainwashing so
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00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:29.280
many people to do something. After
a while, that person could be so
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00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:34.239
brainwashed. It's really not that they're
they're voting what they what you told them.
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It was like doing the same thing
with the unions the bread. You
570
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:43.519
tell them it's course in the point
eight sense instead of eighteen cents, and
571
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they just go along with it.
But you didn't answer my question. President,
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Send me to Bull Gravano. Tell
me the first thing you would do
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to straighten out this country right now. Uh,
