True Anon Truth Feed - Episode 409: Mayor: Pig in the City
Aired: 2024-10-04
Duration: 01:28:20


=== Live New Mayors, Old Magic (11:28) ===

[00:00:00]  So you hear the small number of loud people saying, well, he's just stepped down.
[00:00:05]  No, I'm going to step up.
[00:00:07]  I'm going to step up.
[00:00:10]  I'm going to step up.
[00:00:14]  I'm not going to resign.
[00:00:16]  I'm gonna ring.
[00:00:43]  Good morning, Liz.
[00:00:44]  Good morning, Brace.
[00:00:45]  But you know what?
[00:00:46]  Good afternoon and good evening.
[00:00:49]  That's true.
[00:00:49]  So signing off.
[00:00:50]  This is great.
[00:00:53]  Just playing.
[00:00:54]  Hello, everyone.
[00:00:55]  I'm Liz.
[00:00:56]  I'm Brace.
[00:00:56]  I already said my name, but I'll do it again.
[00:00:58]  You can do it.
[00:00:59]  We are joined by producer Young Chomsky, and we all go to sleep in one big bed and wake up and do three separate ones.
[00:01:06]  Because we all sleepwalk away from each other.
[00:01:08]  Because we stay out with the boys and wake up with the men.
[00:01:10]  That is, I'm sorry.
[00:01:12]  I will say this.
[00:01:14]  The man is a walking quotable.
[00:01:17]  He's a walking pause.
[00:01:19]  He's a Bartlett's.
[00:01:21]  A Bartlett's?
[00:01:22]  Bartlett's quotables.
[00:01:23]  Quotations.
[00:01:24]  Oh, I actually realized something that I don't think anyone has really covered.
[00:01:29]  I think people have covered parts of it, but I don't think anyone's ever gotten the totality of the story.
[00:01:34]  There is a significant chance that Mayor Adams is functionally homeless.
[00:01:40]  Interesting.
[00:01:41]  Can you explain what you mean by functionally?
[00:01:44]  So, so, okay, well, Gracie Mansion, notwithstanding Gracie Mansion.
[00:01:48]  Sure.
[00:01:49]  Which is, of course, his public home.
[00:01:52]  His public home.
[00:01:53]  So when Eric Adams is Brooklyn borough president, there was like some, it was a while there was like, it was a report on that he was sleeping in his office.
[00:02:01]  That's right.
[00:02:01]  And indeed, he like showed reports.
[00:02:03]  What do you think about adding a drawer for like a blanket?
[00:02:07]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:02:08]  He had a little tiny bed under the desk that he was building out.
[00:02:11]  But, you know, he had the bed in the office.
[00:02:14]  And then when he was running for mayor, there was all these questions of like, does he live in New Jersey?
[00:02:18]  Or does he live in Brooklyn?
[00:02:21]  I remember that being a big talking point at the beginning, even in the, during the election.
[00:02:26]  Yes.
[00:02:26]  When people are just like, where do you live?
[00:02:29]  Because it was obviously he was lying.
[00:02:31]  Well, actually, let me correct myself.
[00:02:33]  I thought it was obvious that he was lying about living with his son in Brooklyn or living in this apartment because obviously when reporters went in, all of his son's shoes were lined up on the side of the bed.
[00:02:44]  There was meat in the refrigerator, although Adams was at the time a self-proclaimed vegan, although he mostly said plant-based lifestyle, which is— Which I do think—look, I like when people say plant-based because you're covering your bases.
[00:02:56]  I think he actually called it a plant-based centered lifestyle.
[00:02:59]  Because being plant-based means as long as the base is plant, the rest of it, the canopy, if you will, it can be whatever.
[00:03:07]  Well, that's what he's, yeah, exactly.
[00:03:08]  The base of it is plants.
[00:03:10]  And then you've got bacon in the canopy.
[00:03:12]  What's in the rest of the jungle, asshole?
[00:03:13]  Monkeys.
[00:03:14]  Classic food pyramid.
[00:03:15]  Two cans.
[00:03:16]  So, you know, there was like, okay, does he live with, does he live with his son?
[00:03:21]  Does he live with his unmarried romantic partner in New Jersey?
[00:03:25]  Does he live with his other romantic partner in New York?
[00:03:28]  I think that he didn't live in any of those places.
[00:03:31]  I'm not even joking.
[00:03:32]  I think that he sort of did like a couch surfing style thing.
[00:03:36]  Well, first of all, who in New York hasn't done this?
[00:03:39]  Yeah.
[00:03:40]  The rent is too damn high.
[00:03:41]  The rent is too damn high.
[00:03:42]  It's too damn high.
[00:03:42]  And Eric Adams actually wants to hire a lot of people in the Rolodex.
[00:03:47]  Yeah.
[00:03:48]  You're hopping one to the next to the next to the next.
[00:03:50]  In fact, there is a great episode of what the fuck is the show called about the weed delivery guy?
[00:03:58]  High maintenance.
[00:04:00]  Yes.
[00:04:04]  About this very phenomenon.
[00:04:06]  I just, I was during this, I was like reading that he was, I can't remember, I think I have in the notes here.
[00:04:10]  It was like, it was talking about how like just a year or two ago, Eric Adams was like staying at his friend's apartment in Manhattan sometimes if they stayed out too late.
[00:04:18]  I'm just like, I'm sorry, what?
[00:04:21]  If another adult male or female friend of mine was like, hey, can I crash at your house tonight?
[00:04:26]  Like, it's late.
[00:04:27]  I'd say, no.
[00:04:29]  What if they have to take an hour and a half long train to get home?
[00:04:34]  Well, he's the mayor, though.
[00:04:37]  He has a guy who can drive him.
[00:04:38]  Also, he's taking money from.
[00:04:40]  I'm talking about you and your hypothetical friend.
[00:04:42]  Oh, so like if you were like, I, can I, Brace, can I crash on your couch tonight?
[00:04:45]  Because no, because if you asked to crash on my couch, I would be like, fuck, like, Liz, I guess you can sleep on my bed.
[00:04:51]  But then I'd be too concerned about you, like, finding something to complain about in my room.
[00:04:55]  I would absolutely be looking at everything and finding absolutely everything I could complain about.
[00:04:59]  There's nothing to complain about.
[00:05:01]  It's not the complaints.
[00:05:02]  I don't have complaints.
[00:05:03]  I have questions.
[00:05:04]  There's no answers.
[00:05:06]  Sometimes you just do things and just live your life like that.
[00:05:10]  Eric Adams, I think, is a really shining example of that.
[00:05:14]  We're talking about Eric Adams today.
[00:05:16]  For people who do not live in New York City, which I am one of them, so I feel for you.
[00:05:21]  Can you explain who Eric Adams is?
[00:05:24]  Eric Adams is the mayor of New York City.
[00:05:26]  Okay, well, you might think, I mean, I think, let me, let me talk about any complaints that listeners are going to have.
[00:05:33]  I don't live in New York.
[00:05:34]  What?
[00:05:35]  Maybe I live in Sweden.
[00:05:37]  I subscribe internationally.
[00:05:40]  He has a pretty good Swedish accent.
[00:05:41]  Yeah, I've been working on it.
[00:05:43]  I'm becoming racist in ways you can't even imagine.
[00:05:45]  I love it.
[00:05:45]  Can't wait till we get to the Dutch.
[00:05:47]  And I can't do that accent.
[00:05:49]  My throat would crumble.
[00:05:51]  But people are like, oh, we talk about New York because you're a podcast.
[00:05:53]  You're talking about New York Podcast.
[00:05:54]  We would be talking about this no matter where we lived because I love this guy.
[00:05:58]  Well, also, we love mayors.
[00:06:00]  We hate mayors.
[00:06:01]  Well, that's what I mean when I say we love mayors.
[00:06:03]  When I say we love mayors, I mean we hate mayors.
[00:06:06]  I hate mayors so much.
[00:06:08]  But they are perfect and they're infinite sources of podcast talking stuff.
[00:06:15]  I think what we'll find today, I want to lay out our thesis kind of at the beginning here.
[00:06:20]  Okay.
[00:06:20]  I think what we'll find today, and there's too much about Eric Adams to cover in one episode.
[00:06:25]  Well, we did do another episode about this.
[00:06:26]  We did do another episode.
[00:06:27]  Let's plug that episode now.
[00:06:28]  Let's plug that episode now.
[00:06:30]  Okay, well, you can listen to it.
[00:06:31]  We'll put it, we'll link to it in the show notes.
[00:06:33]  Maybe we'll play a clip here.
[00:06:34]  Now, so far, two campaign contributors who are brothers, which already nefarious.
[00:06:41]  Weird when you're too close with family.
[00:06:44]  I'm just going to say it.
[00:06:45]  I think it's weird.
[00:06:46]  I don't know.
[00:06:47]  Two campaign contributors who are brothers.
[00:06:50]  Yeah, you're up to something.
[00:06:53]  You need some distance there.
[00:06:55]  Anyone who's in business with their brother, what are you Mario Luis?
[00:06:59]  You know what I mean?
[00:07:01]  Mr. Mayor Goes to Turkey.
[00:07:02]  There's that episode about it.
[00:07:03]  He came out about a year ago, apparently.
[00:07:06]  We talked about his relations with Turkey.
[00:07:10]  But I think that really what we're learning here is that New York has an incredible system of corruption.
[00:07:18]  This is just one discrete part of the corruption.
[00:07:20]  The entire New York bureaucratic political apparatus is corrupt in ways that would seem cartoonish if explained in plain language.
[00:07:27]  I think it is cartoonish.
[00:07:29]  It is cartoonish.
[00:07:30]  The accent is tough.
[00:07:31]  I really do.
[00:07:34]  I do feel a bit tender towards it.
[00:07:36]  It's just like.
[00:07:37]  You guys don't make it like this anymore.
[00:07:40]  Can you listen to clips of Frank Carone talking?
[00:07:42]  You're like, come here, break, brother.
[00:07:44]  When we get to the Monsignor?
[00:07:48]  What I'm positing, I don't know if you want to back me up on this because this is somewhat confusing.
[00:07:52]  I haven't heard it yet.
[00:07:52]  So, ladies and gentlemen, we're all getting it at the same time.
[00:07:55]  New York City may be the first case of a spectacular new centipede of corruption where the main layer is the executive branch and a group of mostly ex-cop black guys.
[00:08:11]  Okay.
[00:08:13]  Behind them are several Orthodox Jews.
[00:08:18]  I don't know how else to put that, but that's how they are.
[00:08:21]  And behind them is the hooked claw of the Central Asian.
[00:08:27]  So what I'm saying here is possibly for the first time in recorded history, we have Central Asians paying Jews to pay or to influence some of the dumbest ex-cops in America.
[00:08:43]  Who's paying the Central Asians?
[00:08:45]  Well, the Jews.
[00:08:46]  We're doing that too.
[00:08:47]  Yeah, we're just sort of a circular thing here.
[00:08:49]  This is part of that.
[00:08:50]  I donate half of my earnings on this to Turkey to try to get off the gray list there.
[00:08:55]  Anyways, Eric Adams has been indicted.
[00:08:58]  He was indicted on five federal corruption charges, including taking over $120,000 in extravagant per the indictment gifts and illegal donations in exchange for political favor.
[00:09:13]  So he's since pled not guilty, unsurprising.
[00:09:16]  Basically, everyone, including members of Congress and the New York Times editorial board, has come out and demanded that he resign.
[00:09:24]  The governor actually hasn't, interesting enough.
[00:09:27]  Kathy Okul?
[00:09:28]  Yeah.
[00:09:29]  Well, some of that.
[00:09:29]  I don't know.
[00:09:30]  I feel like she's got something caught in her.
[00:09:32]  Whenever I hear Hokul, I'm always like.
[00:09:33]  She's a tough one.
[00:09:34]  You got a frog in your throat?
[00:09:36]  She's a tough one.
[00:09:37]  Hokle.
[00:09:38]  Yeah, I don't like the lady governor.
[00:09:42]  So if he is convicted, a big if, he would face a max 45 years in prison, but he is refusing to step down.
[00:09:50]  He's saying that Joe Biden is targeting him for his criticism of the migrant crisis.
[00:09:55]  And it is noteworthy that when the first raid occurred on Breonna Suggs, which we covered last November, he was in D.C. to have meetings with the Biden regime about the migrant crisis.
[00:10:09]  Those meetings, I believe, which were canceled.
[00:10:11]  Which were canceled.
[00:10:12]  And I believe when the indictment dropped this time, he was at some party with a bunch of Democrats, including, I think, also Joe Biden.
[00:10:20]  So it could be like a very Biden, like maybe Biden is out to get him.
[00:10:24]  I mean, God bless him.
[00:10:27]  I love the idea that Joe Biden has any clue who Eric Adams is.
[00:10:32]  He probably thinks he's fucking corn pop.
[00:10:34]  What day it is, what year it is, who he is.
[00:10:36]  Did you see that video where he thought about it?
[00:10:41]  Okay, it's tough.
[00:10:42]  Yes, it's tough.
[00:10:43]  We have to see that.
[00:10:44]  Someone's got to put that old dog down.
[00:10:46]  We have to grapple with the fact that we have a president right now who makes Ronald Reagan in his second term seem like Shirley Temple in one of her beautiful movies.
[00:10:54]  Ronald Reagan was literally licking the walls, and Nancy was consulting her astrologers on what to do in the Middle East.
[00:11:00]  And this is somehow a worse situation.
[00:11:03]  I don't know what kind of magic that Joe Biden has to do, but you need to start consulting some kind of tarot or get on Instagram or something, talk to one of these witches.
[00:11:12]  Just, you got to do something.
[00:11:14]  You need to make your husband let go.
[00:11:17]  Time to let go.
[00:11:18]  Just go towards the light, Mr. Biden.
[00:11:22]  54-page indictment.
[00:11:24]  Yes, it alleges a decade, decade-long scheme.

=== Free Flight Upgrades Scheme (09:17) ===

[00:11:28]  So this thing's been in the works for a while, where Mr. Mayor, as I like to call him, solicited luxury travel, accommodations, and a bevy of flight upgrades from Turks in exchange for political favors.
[00:11:41]  So we talked about one of the major ones in the previous episode.
[00:11:44]  The mayor expedited this new Turkish consulate in Midtown to line up with a huge UN meeting so Erdogan could unveil the building during the visit.
[00:11:54]  Turkey House.
[00:11:55]  Yeah, Turkey House.
[00:11:56]  We love that.
[00:11:56]  Turkey house.
[00:11:57]  I feel like places always name things like that.
[00:11:59]  The Turks.
[00:12:01]  Like they'll be like, Lithuania House.
[00:12:03]  I will say in case you forget about that.
[00:12:06]  Somebody who might pay closer attention to this than most of our listeners or most probably anybody has a right to.
[00:12:13]  Turkish government naming conventions or like what Turks name stuff.
[00:12:17]  It just, I know that Turkey is a really difficult language, as I expanded upon at great length in a previous episode, but they translate really tough in English.
[00:12:26]  It makes you like, it makes you, they all sound like very childlike in English.
[00:12:30]  Like happy is the man who says he is a Turk.
[00:12:31]  It's like, all right, brother.
[00:12:33]  I like that.
[00:12:33]  It makes you want to do a little dance.
[00:12:35]  Well, maybe like a little whirling nervish.
[00:12:37]  Yes.
[00:12:39]  Okay, so he, he, the, the Turks wanted him to expedite this building.
[00:12:43]  So to do that, Adams, it was right before he was coming into office.
[00:12:48]  They, he put pressure on FDNY to, I mean, overlook a bunch of building code violations, skip the line on a bunch of things.
[00:12:55]  You know, if it's like classic, like cartoon corrupt mayor stuff.
[00:13:00]  Yeah.
[00:13:00]  And he's like, listen, if you don't get this done, you're, you're fired.
[00:13:05]  You're fucking fired.
[00:13:06]  And like that was made very clear to the people that were in charge of this.
[00:13:10]  And once it got done, he's like, he's texting, he's texting the Turks.
[00:13:14]  He's like, it's all good, brother.
[00:13:15]  I love you.
[00:13:16]  You are my brother.
[00:13:17]  Yeah, well, the man loves to text, which we'll talk about.
[00:13:19]  You love saying I love you, which I think is.
[00:13:22]  Which is nice.
[00:13:22]  You say it all the time.
[00:13:23]  I do say I love you all the time.
[00:13:25]  And yet I am banned from certain subway stops because of that.
[00:13:29]  So he was, I think a lot of the media focus around this has been about something that I feel like Liz is too conflict of interest to talk about, which is free upgrades on airplanes.
[00:13:42]  I do love a free upgrade.
[00:13:44]  And you've gotten me a free upgrade before.
[00:13:47]  Look at that.
[00:13:48]  I just don't understand.
[00:13:49]  Not in the same way that he did.
[00:13:50]  Not in the same way.
[00:13:51]  No.
[00:13:52]  I wish.
[00:13:52]  No, it's because of your loyalty to Spirit Air.
[00:13:55]  Yeah, Spirit Air.
[00:13:56]  There we go.
[00:13:58]  So he was essentially using Turkish Airlines as his only carrier.
[00:14:04]  I mean, this went so far as to like, he was inquiring whether they flew to fucking Easter Island.
[00:14:09]  Yeah.
[00:14:09]  Which, by the way, if Adams, I didn't look into this deep enough.
[00:14:13]  If Adams did end up in Easter Island or on Easter Island rather, I would pay like $3 or $4 for a picture of him staring at one of them fucking heads.
[00:14:23]  Well, I guess his partner wanted to go there on vacation.
[00:14:26]  Why?
[00:14:26]  Really?
[00:14:27]  Really?
[00:14:28]  I guess I would go there, but I don't know if I'd go there on vacation.
[00:14:31]  I feel like if you know that you've got a better shot at getting a free flight by going through Turkey, instead of asking if they go to Eastern Island, Easter Island, like go to Greece.
[00:14:42]  Go to one of the character.
[00:14:44]  I'm just telling you.
[00:14:46]  Okay, there's you're over there.
[00:14:48]  You're over there.
[00:14:48]  You're over there.
[00:14:49]  It's a lot easier.
[00:14:50]  You're over there.
[00:14:50]  Yeah.
[00:14:51]  Come on.
[00:14:51]  Well, it's it is funny.
[00:14:53]  I was like, why would they go to Easter Island?
[00:14:54]  And I realized they've actually probably been every other place on earth.
[00:14:59]  Well, that was like the last place they had here.
[00:15:01]  He has been in a lot of places.
[00:15:03]  I can't figure out how much time that Mayor Adams has spent, or at the time, Brooklyn Borough President Adams has spent in New York City proper, as opposed to like Pakistan.
[00:15:13]  Not a lot.
[00:15:15]  So in the last episode, we also talked about the straw donation schemes.
[00:15:18]  And to be honest, this stuff is actually a little bit juicier.
[00:15:22]  And it's not as fun or as sexy as some of the other stuff we'll talk about.
[00:15:26]  But I think that the meat of the indictment is kind of focused on this, which is taking political donations from overseas, laundering them in through American donors.
[00:15:40]  The key is that then he used those donations to apply for matching funds.
[00:15:46]  So New York City has a taxpayer-funded election program.
[00:15:49]  The city supplies $8 for every $1 donated by a city resident up to $250.
[00:15:57]  So you can see how you'd be really incentivized to have a lot, of tiny, small donations from New Yorkers.
[00:16:08]  Yes.
[00:16:09]  So Eric Adams got his campaign in 2021, received 10 million in public funds.
[00:16:14]  The DOJ doesn't allege that all of that was a result of Turkish laundering.
[00:16:20]  In fact, I mean, they only stipulate that like there was a small sum, like 26K coming from foreign contributions.
[00:16:27]  But according to reporting last year from the city, a bunch of the donors that the Adams campaign submitted for matching funds to the city never even donated to the campaign.
[00:16:36]  So this is also something we talked about last year, but I'm just going to read from their reporting.
[00:16:40]  Another woman listed as Adams' contributor said she never made out a $245 Chase bank check with her name and address that was submitted to the campaign finance board by the Adams campaign in 2021.
[00:16:54]  The form the Adams campaign sent listed her as a delivery man at a flushing restaurant that doesn't do delivery.
[00:17:02]  Aside from not being a man, she said she doesn't bank at Chase, didn't recognize the signature on the check, and never worked at the restaurant.
[00:17:09]  So that single $245 check would have netted $1,960 in matching funds, right?
[00:17:16]  And so I think what the city is kind of saying, and what seems like DOJ is saying.
[00:17:20]  So you're saying, by the way, you mean the city is in like the website?
[00:17:25]  Yes, thank you.
[00:17:26]  Yeah.
[00:17:26]  The city, the website, the reporters at the city, but also what DOJ is potentially saying is that they think there's like a lot more of this there.
[00:17:37]  Yeah, I mean, there have been other, there's also like, the thing is, this indictment that came down on Eric Adams is just one of many investigations into him.
[00:17:47]  And so there are other straw donor investigations, including the one that the city is talking about here, including one that involves the girlfriend of a certain disgraced pollster who might have popularized the phrase, abolish ICE.
[00:18:03]  If you are listening or if you know how to get that person to listen, I don't think they want to listen, but we would like to speak to them.
[00:18:10]  Listen, hit the tip line.
[00:18:12]  Hit the tip line.
[00:18:12]  I'm leveling with you.
[00:18:13]  We haven't talked about the tip line in a while.
[00:18:15]  Hit the tip line.
[00:18:16]  We have a tip line.
[00:18:16]  What's the number?
[00:18:18]  The tip line number is 646-801-1129.
[00:18:23]  That's area code 646-801-1129.
[00:18:29]  Hit the tip line.
[00:18:31]  John McSelwee, if you're listening to this, I'm speaking to you in code.
[00:18:36]  If you or your ex-DC hardcore straight-edge vegan girlfriend who works high up in the Adams administration, well, not really, well, high up, if you know anything, let us know.
[00:18:48]  That's my screen name on Grailed.
[00:18:50]  John McSelwey.
[00:18:51]  John McSelwey.
[00:18:52]  That would be a good one.
[00:18:53]  Yeah, so I think that, I mean, kind of what you're saying is there's all these other investigations going on, but I also think that DOJ is on a little bit of a fishing expedition.
[00:19:03]  Yes, we were talking about this before we started the episode.
[00:19:05]  Yeah.
[00:19:06]  But the reality is $26,000 in a mayoral campaign for New York City is really fucking.
[00:19:14]  What are we talking about here?
[00:19:15]  Like, I'm sorry.
[00:19:16]  This, like, we've said this before, but mayors are fucking corrupt.
[00:19:20]  If you think that during Ed Lee's campaign for mayor of San Francisco, that fucking totally corrupt, insane travesty that has led San Francisco to where it is today with the fucking continuance of the Willie Brown regime right down to London Breed, if you think that didn't involve straw donors in fucking Chinatown.
[00:19:42]  Fucking Chinese donut mafia.
[00:19:43]  Exactly.
[00:19:44]  Well, Cambodian donut mafia as well.
[00:19:47]  If you think you're out of your fucking mind.
[00:19:49]  Like mayors are corrupt.
[00:19:51]  Donors are corrupt.
[00:19:52]  Like I'm, it's just, or not donors are corrupt, but you know what I mean?
[00:19:55]  Like bundlers, these people doing this shit.
[00:19:57]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:19:58]  And in New York, it is comically corrupt.
[00:20:01]  So I agree with you.
[00:20:03]  I think that they're coming after him.
[00:20:05]  I think this is a way to hook him.
[00:20:06]  And I think that they're digging their claws down.
[00:20:08]  And to get discovery.
[00:20:09]  You start rooting around in those files and you're going to find a lot more.
[00:20:13]  Well, no, he deleted all the text messages.
[00:20:14]  How good?
[00:20:16]  Now, before we get into the real sexy funny stuff, including breaking down Fraysa's grand thesis from the top of the show, there's some other funny details that we have to mention in this case, which is that Sabrina Carpenter seemed to have been involved in the indictment.
[00:20:37]  She, this past weekend, she played MSG, and this is what she said.
[00:20:41]  Should we talk about how I got the mayor indicted?

=== Sabrina Carpenter's Involvement (02:16) ===

[00:20:46]  Also, her voice is way crazy, not what I thought it was going to sound like.
[00:20:50]  Like her new sound voice.
[00:20:51]  Her voice is so deep and dry, and her singing voice and the music is so not.
[00:20:58]  As a deep voice person, you know, I don't have a problem with that.
[00:21:03]  But it was just a little shocking to me.
[00:21:05]  I mean, I've been a Sabrina Carpenter fan since day one.
[00:21:08]  And so to me, it's just like, I know her voice like I know my own, and I'd like to hear her say anything.
[00:21:17]  So last year, which you know because you're such a fan, Sabrina Carpenter filmed a music video for her song Feather.
[00:21:24]  I've heard of it.
[00:21:33]  At the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Williamsburg.
[00:21:38]  Now, this caused quite a stir because she is, as you well know, because you watch it every morning.
[00:21:45]  Frequently.
[00:21:46]  She's in a sexy nun outfit dancing around a church.
[00:21:50]  Sorry, I pointed at Liz really aggressively and made her stop talking.
[00:21:53]  But I want to say something.
[00:21:55]  I really think that I should find Sabrina Carpenter to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
[00:21:59]  Why?
[00:22:00]  But she has a Todd bod.
[00:22:03]  She does a little.
[00:22:04]  It's tough to see once I unsee.
[00:22:07]  Also, I do think that she's a bit young for you, Bird.
[00:22:10]  How old is she?
[00:22:11]  Not old enough.
[00:22:12]  Four.
[00:22:13]  She's not, she's under.
[00:22:14]  Isn't she like 22 or something?
[00:22:16]  I'm not saying that I'm like, I'm just saying she's a beautiful, like I should, I don't, I, I'm not, what do you mean?
[00:22:21]  What are you saying?
[00:22:22]  Well, if you're like, I can find her attractive, I can't find her.
[00:22:24]  I'm just 25.
[00:22:25]  I can't find a 25-year-old woman attractive.
[00:22:28]  You can, but I think it's-you sound like sign that you don't.
[00:22:32]  What would be the problem if I found a 25-year-old pop star attractive?
[00:22:35]  Height differential.
[00:22:36]  I love that you're like accusing me of something.
[00:22:38]  Like you're, well, I love, because I'm accusing you of subtly accusing me of something.
[00:22:44]  I'm not.
[00:22:44]  I'm just saying I think at school you don't think that you're not attracted to her.
[00:22:47]  I feel like you're like flipping out for no reason.
[00:22:49]  No, you're fucking, this is, ladies and gentlemen, this is gaslighting.
[00:22:52]  Only one person is shaking and pointing their finger.
[00:22:55]  Traditionally, that's the person who's being gaslit is doing that, Liz.
[00:22:58]  I don't think that's actually traditional.
[00:23:01]  Yeah, at all.

=== Frank Caron's Demise (03:08) ===

[00:23:02]  Anyway, the sexy nun that Brace watches every morning was dancing around in the church.
[00:23:08]  And predictably, of course, the diocese was not very pleased with this.
[00:23:13]  They said that they came out and they were like, listen, we were misled by production.
[00:23:17]  The video, you know, they didn't really like accurately represent what was going on.
[00:23:22]  And the church there didn't follow the policy because I guess they're supposed to like review everything and they have to sign off on it.
[00:23:28]  Whatever, whatever.
[00:23:29]  When the production company approached us, they said it would be a bunch of new bile 11-year-old boys in the church.
[00:23:35]  were woefully misled by these people.
[00:23:37]  She's too old for us.
[00:23:38]  She's too old.
[00:23:40]  So the priest at the church was disciplined.
[00:23:42]  He got demoted to Vica, which I really was excited to say.
[00:23:48]  He apparently took $5,000 for doing the music video.
[00:23:51]  And so he was also subpoenaed a few weeks ago because the feds were looking into his dealings between him and the mayor and the mayor's chief of staff, who I think, I believe, is now his former chief of staff.
[00:24:05]  Now, it's heavily implied that he worked with Adams or Adams' chief of staff to get around church regulations to let Sabrina Carpenter film her Sexy Nine video in the Brooklyn church.
[00:24:15]  And I really wish that this was a video podcast for this one moment only so you could see a photo of this man.
[00:24:23]  Oh, yeah, no, that's he's with Frank Caron in this picture.
[00:24:26]  Yeah, the Monsignor is with, yeah, so that's his former title.
[00:24:29]  So his former title is Monsignor Jamie Gigantello.
[00:24:35]  The Monsignor.
[00:24:36]  And he is here at what I imagine is a Brooklyn red sauce establishment.
[00:24:42]  There's glasses.
[00:24:43]  There's two, it looks like two bottles of wine there, some sparkly water, some raviolos, some, you know, maybe a little chicken and pasta, some bread, and Mayor Eric Adams right in the middle and his former chief of staff, Frank Caron.
[00:24:59]  Because of course his former chief of staff's name is Frank Carone, by the way.
[00:25:02]  Oh, and Frank Caron is, I don't even know if we really talk about Frank Carone in this episode, but Frank Caron is a whole other candidate.
[00:25:08]  What a fucking word.
[00:25:09]  Frank Caron's shirt is unbuttoned a little too many buttons, I'll say.
[00:25:14]  Can you imagine the grimaces when Frank Caron pays for blowjobs?
[00:25:18]  I just, the fact that in this story, there is a corrupt Brooklyn Monsignor is like too fun.
[00:25:26]  I can barely handle it.
[00:25:27]  Okay, so this is from the New York Post.
[00:25:29]  The Monsignor serves as a FDNY chaplain and allegedly likes to party.
[00:25:39]  He has also published a cookbook called Breaking Bread with Monsignor Jamie and has a line of pasta sauce called A Taste of Heaven.
[00:25:48]  The National Catholic Review says that he is a, quote, active social media presence and is a gifted fundraiser.
[00:25:55]  I bet he is.
[00:25:55]  I bet he is.
[00:25:57]  So apparently the Monsignor and Frank Caron have been friends for years and the Monsignor accompanied Adams on a trip to Rome where he set up a meeting with him and Pope Francis.

=== Flying First Class? (15:35) ===

[00:26:11]  Now, there's no word on whether or not their flight was upgraded, which now will get us into the funny, famous, funny stuff from the indictment.
[00:26:20]  Last year, when I took my last, my bi-yearly vacation, I was flying back from Evropa.
[00:26:33]  And because of some problems with airlines there, they have their own problems.
[00:26:40]  I was, I like missed one flight and they rescheduled me on another flight.
[00:26:43]  I was like transferring in Deutschland and they got me on some other flight.
[00:26:47]  But because like every seat on that flight was filled, I got to fly on first class.
[00:26:52]  That's right.
[00:26:53]  And I have- You know what, baby?
[00:26:55]  You're worth it.
[00:26:58]  I got to tell you.
[00:26:59]  It's crazy what they do up there.
[00:27:00]  I've never experienced.
[00:27:02]  Did you live?
[00:27:03]  Did you go flat sea?
[00:27:04]  I didn't go flat sea because I like to be in an upright position.
[00:27:07]  You could have been flat sea.
[00:27:08]  No, but I view flying first class for me, not for everyone else aboard, but for me, I view flying first class as like air marshal security guard.
[00:27:16]  So if I see somebody running towards the cockpit or even towards the bathroom, I will get up and I'll block their path and T-pose.
[00:27:24]  And so I had to be on alert.
[00:27:27]  I will say, I actually have to add this.
[00:27:30]  Now that I'm back, I can say it.
[00:27:32]  TSA, you are fucking fake.
[00:27:34]  I fully flew on a flight plane last week to San Francisco with a knife and not like that.
[00:27:43]  On accident.
[00:27:44]  With a knife.
[00:27:45]  And not like a fucking work knife, like a knife for like not stepping on the plane.
[00:27:50]  I didn't mean it for that, but like a knife that I carry around with me if I have to stab somebody.
[00:27:54]  It is not a dual-use looking knife.
[00:27:57]  That's not a knife.
[00:28:02]  That's a knife.
[00:28:03]  And...
[00:28:03]  And a fucking blackjack in my backpack.
[00:28:07]  TSA searched my bag.
[00:28:08]  Can you please tell people what you said?
[00:28:10]  Because it's so fucking good.
[00:28:11]  TSA searched my bag.
[00:28:12]  They didn't find the knife.
[00:28:13]  I actually didn't discover the knife until I was back, until I was unpacking my bag in San Francisco.
[00:28:17]  They found the blackjack and the security guard is looking at it.
[00:28:20]  And a blackjack is like a paddle with a lead ball in it.
[00:28:24]  It's a crazy slepathy.
[00:28:25]  It's a beater.
[00:28:25]  It's for beating the fuck out of somebody.
[00:28:27]  I carry it with me at all times for this very reason.
[00:28:29]  The guy was looking at it and he was like, what is this?
[00:28:32]  He was like, can you open it?
[00:28:34]  What is this for?
[00:28:34]  And I was like, it's for content.
[00:28:37]  And the implication there is that I was going to use it.
[00:28:42]  And this is a backstory.
[00:28:43]  And it has like so many implications and they're all confusing and you don't want to know about any of it.
[00:28:47]  Yeah.
[00:28:48]  Which is a great, this is such a great lesson to people.
[00:28:51]  Just, it's for content.
[00:28:53]  It's, and it'll stun people into just going, all right.
[00:28:56]  All right.
[00:28:57]  And that's exactly what he did.
[00:28:58]  He put it, he looked at me and he put it back in the bag and he said, okay.
[00:29:02]  And he sent you on your merry way.
[00:29:03]  And I felt crazy because I'm like down those planes.
[00:29:06]  By the way, it's not legal to have one of those outside.
[00:29:10]  Well, never mind.
[00:29:11]  But not that, I'm just joking that I carry it.
[00:29:13]  I don't actually carry it.
[00:29:14]  It's fake.
[00:29:15]  It doesn't even exist.
[00:29:15]  I want to be clear.
[00:29:16]  You didn't mean to have those.
[00:29:18]  I didn't mean to have those on that plane at all.
[00:29:19]  I did not mean to.
[00:29:20]  I was doing blue team, red team against TSA.
[00:29:23]  You know, apparently, they're just making everyone U.S. Marshals now.
[00:29:26]  So you could probably become one.
[00:29:27]  Are they really?
[00:29:29]  Yeah, I said something earlier about this, but there was some investigation looking into like the egregious, like over deputizing of U.S. Marshals over the past like 10 years, where like suddenly like a bunch of people that shouldn't be U.S. Marshals are now U.S. I would like to be an air marshal because I feel, but like only when I fly.
[00:29:47]  No, I don't want to do like, I don't want to take extra flights, but I don't want to do it when I fly.
[00:29:51]  But you could take extra flights for points to get upgraded.
[00:29:53]  I don't want to.
[00:29:53]  I don't mess around with that whole system.
[00:29:55]  When I sit in the exit row, that's how I feel.
[00:29:57]  I'm like ready to help out.
[00:29:59]  I'm ready to open that door unless they give me what I want.
[00:30:01]  Yeah.
[00:30:03]  Okay.
[00:30:04]  Eric Adams is somebody who, like me, has had a lot of experience in airports.
[00:30:10]  And he was getting experienced.
[00:30:13]  Turkish Air, which, by the way, much like many Eastern Airlines has their stewardesses still in, and by the way, they are all stewardesses, still in uniforms.
[00:30:22]  And there's little smart red uniforms that they have, the Dubai ones or whatever that airline is called.
[00:30:28]  I think they have the kind of Emiratis.
[00:30:30]  They have kind of the fanciest ones.
[00:30:32]  Shout out Arsenal.
[00:30:33]  He was getting all kinds of upgrades to first class, business class, and not only that, but like hotels and like suites in Turkey proper.
[00:30:42]  Yes.
[00:30:44]  They're alleging that he accepted at least like over $100,000 in luxury travel benefits.
[00:30:49]  I love that term.
[00:30:50]  So like you're saying, yeah, discounted flights, first class upgrades, free hotel rooms, meals.
[00:30:55]  Like the fun of it is just like the absurdity of all of the gifts and the like lavish lifestyle amenities and all of the emails that go along with them.
[00:31:07]  Now, DOJ alleges that Adams personally directed a lot of these schemes.
[00:31:12]  That does seem to be pretty clear in the emails.
[00:31:15]  There's one instance where Eric Adams is meeting with a Turkish businessman and he literally just lays out how the election matching program works.
[00:31:24]  And then the Turkish businessman is like, okay, I'm going to front the cash for 10 of my employees and they'll donate it at the next like fundraising party.
[00:31:33]  Yes.
[00:31:33]  I mean, this is how a lot of straw donation things work.
[00:31:36]  Like you'll often find times have like somebody who owns a business who wants to give a substantial amount of money to some politician and he'll just order or he or she will just order their employees to like, you donate and I'll reimburse you.
[00:31:47]  Yes.
[00:31:48]  So after he started getting deals on these like Turkish airline flights, he started insisting that everyone, like you say, book through Turkish airwaves, even when they weren't going to Turkey or anywhere near it.
[00:31:59]  And so let's read, can you read this quote from the indictment?
[00:32:02]  Because I think it's really.
[00:32:04]  Adams flew the Turkish airline when doing so was otherwise inconvenient.
[00:32:08]  For example, during the July and August 2017 trip, this was before Eric Adams was mayor, Adams' partner was surprised to learn that Adams was in Turkey when she had understood him to be flying from New York to France.
[00:32:22]  Adams responded in a text message, transferring here.
[00:32:25]  You know, first stop is always Istanbul.
[00:32:28]  He insisted on his staff booking through the airlines like at all times.
[00:32:33]  And like he would like try to find out, like we said, Easter Island, but like anywhere that he was trying to go, he would have to go through fucking Istanbul.
[00:32:41]  Can you read his last text message one more time?
[00:32:45]  Transfer in here.
[00:32:47]  You know first stop is always Istanbul.
[00:32:49]  You know first stop is always Istanbul.
[00:32:52]  I feel like that is like a good mantra.
[00:32:54]  Like maybe that's something that he wrote in his, like on a post-it and he put on his like, you know, his son's bathroom mirror that he could look at in the morning.
[00:33:05]  Absolutely.
[00:33:06]  You know first stop is always Istanbul.
[00:33:08]  There's a metaphor in there too.
[00:33:10]  So he was he was in league with this like Turkish Airlines manager basically in New York.
[00:33:16]  And that manager would communicate with his employees and at some point, certain point, it was just obvious that he was getting the flights for free.
[00:33:23]  Like he would pay for some of them and then he'd be upgraded for like a $15,000 value.
[00:33:28]  Yes.
[00:33:28]  But like, you know, he'd pay $500 or whatever.
[00:33:31]  At one point, he was like, his staffer was trying to book a flight for him.
[00:33:36]  And the GM of Turkish Airlines or the manager of Turkish Airlines or this like branch of it was saying like, oh yeah, I'll give you these for $50.
[00:33:45]  And the staffer is like, dude, no, like you actually have to give me like a real price.
[00:33:52]  And this is what the staffer said.
[00:33:54]  His every step is being watched right now.
[00:33:56]  $1,000 or so.
[00:33:58]  Let it be somewhat real.
[00:33:59]  We don't want them to say he's flying for free.
[00:34:01]  At the moment, the media's attention is on Eric.
[00:34:04]  So his scheme, by the way, because he was saying he was paying for a lot of these flights, like the full price.
[00:34:09]  His scheme was this.
[00:34:10]  He would leave like a paper trail where he would email his staffers and be like, oh, you should give the money to Turkish Airlines.
[00:34:16]  I'm paying in cash.
[00:34:18]  The cash it is in an envelope in my desk at City Hall.
[00:34:21]  You take this cash and then bring it to Turkish fucking airport.
[00:34:26]  Yes.
[00:34:27]  Which, by the way, it seemed like actually there was no cash in envelopes.
[00:34:30]  No, no, the feds are like, these tickets were never paid for under anything.
[00:34:34]  He insisted on like going on these, like, doing these like weird stories about all of it.
[00:34:39]  Well, I think Eric, because there's so much.
[00:34:41]  He's a self-mythologizing man.
[00:34:43]  Absolutely.
[00:34:44]  Which I got to respect, especially in this day and age.
[00:34:46]  Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[00:34:47]  But he, I think, like, I think he, I mean, there's a lot of like laws around what kind of gifts politicians are allowed to accept and like paying for stuff and all this shit.
[00:34:56]  And I think he's like dimly aware of that.
[00:34:58]  And also he's a fucking cop.
[00:35:00]  So he like knows that like you want to leave some kind of trail, be like, look, I did this.
[00:35:03]  Oh, but we don't have a record of the cash.
[00:35:05]  It was cash.
[00:35:06]  First of all, what is the Brooklyn borough president doing with $10,000 cash?
[00:35:12]  Well, he's not doing much because I don't think he had anything.
[00:35:15]  Yeah.
[00:35:15]  Especially a Brooklyn borough president who does not have an apartment.
[00:35:21]  Okay, so various Turkish government officials and businessmen were like vying for his attention also through these like gifts and you know upgrades and shit.
[00:35:29]  And the DOJ presents texts from some of these people.
[00:35:32]  And these are two Turkish people talking to each other.
[00:35:34]  We'll switch off.
[00:35:35]  You want to be promoter?
[00:35:36]  I'll be businessman.
[00:35:37]  Okay.
[00:35:37]  I'm not doing a Turkish.
[00:35:38]  Okay, then I'll be promoter.
[00:35:39]  Okay.
[00:35:41]  Well, they're both Turkish.
[00:35:43]  I know, but I'm just going to do me.
[00:35:45]  Do ami.
[00:35:47]  I don't know if I can do Turkish to English accent.
[00:35:50]  I'll just do like a vaguely just read it.
[00:35:53]  Good morning.
[00:35:56]  The president is our brother from now on.
[00:35:59]  Oh my God.
[00:36:01]  Good morning.
[00:36:02]  May it be auspicious for all of us.
[00:36:05]  We messaged each other.
[00:36:08]  Are the elections over?
[00:36:10]  It was yesterday, sir.
[00:36:13]  Everyone messaged me that he was elected.
[00:36:16]  Congratulations, messages.
[00:36:18]  He is most likely going to assign me as a representative, sir.
[00:36:23]  I'm going to go and talk to our elders in Ankara about how we can turn this into an advantage for our country's lobby.
[00:36:33]  That'd be nice.
[00:36:34]  I will say it's fucking crazy to text our elders in Ankara.
[00:36:40]  And this is like about the fucking mayor of New York.
[00:36:42]  The elders of Ankara, the protocols of the learned elders of Ankara.
[00:36:46]  That's the name of the episode.
[00:36:48]  I think, was the promoter?
[00:36:49]  I can't remember because I don't have any diamond in front of me.
[00:36:52]  We just have this part of it.
[00:36:53]  I can't, I just promote the Turkish airlines.
[00:36:55]  This is a crazy thing to text.
[00:36:57]  Yeah.
[00:36:58]  They also, so you might be like, wait, why are they saying the president?
[00:37:01]  A, I think these guys are stupid.
[00:37:03]  And they might literally think that he was, maybe because, I mean, he's the Brooklyn Borough president, but I don't know if anyone's saying that's the president.
[00:37:10]  Like, I think he would refer to that as the Brooklyn borough president.
[00:37:15]  But it does put into, make one remember, when Eric Adams was running for mayor and when he won his mayoralty or mayorship, all like the big liberal pundits were like, he's the next rising star.
[00:37:28]  I wanted to pull some of those up, but I didn't.
[00:37:30]  It was, it's so fucking crazy.
[00:37:33]  Like everyone from mainstream, like big, like MSNBC people, New York Times people, New Republic Atlantic, they all came out of the woodwork and they're like, you know what?
[00:37:43]  This is going to be like, this is a great, like fresh start for New York.
[00:37:48]  This is, and it's not even in York because this, he's going to be the star of the Democratic Party.
[00:37:52]  I think it's Nate Silver was one of the people.
[00:37:54]  He came out and he was like, you know, say what you will, but I think the future of the Democratic Party looks a lot like Eric Adams.
[00:38:00]  Yes, well, I think he appeals perfectly to like the Nate Silvers and Matt Aglacias kind of guys.
[00:38:05]  It does kind of look like that.
[00:38:06]  It does kind of look like that.
[00:38:07]  But I think like their perfect vision of like bringing everything together is like, he's black.
[00:38:13]  So like we have BLM covered.
[00:38:15]  He's a cop.
[00:38:16]  So we have law and order covered.
[00:38:18]  Like he is the, like, and they're kind of doing it with Kamala now.
[00:38:21]  Right.
[00:38:21]  Like, you know, she's a prosecutor, but she's also like a sister, but she's also Asian.
[00:38:26]  But she, you know what I mean?
[00:38:27]  Like, she's also slow compelling.
[00:38:28]  They're like, they think that they can just like take these.
[00:38:31]  But she's also a woman, so she's sad about Gaza.
[00:38:33]  Exactly.
[00:38:34]  Also sad about Gaza.
[00:38:35]  She's also sad.
[00:38:36]  But also, she's, you know, tough on BB.
[00:38:39]  Tough on BB because she's a mean mommy.
[00:38:41]  Exactly.
[00:38:41]  But you know, she's tough on BB, but he's our friend.
[00:38:45]  And you know who's not our friend?
[00:38:47]  Those woman haters in Iran.
[00:38:50]  And Central Asian woman.
[00:38:51]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:38:52]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:38:55]  Yeah.
[00:38:56]  South Asian, but yes.
[00:38:59]  They uh, they, it's funny because like he seems like he was so perfect for them.
[00:39:04]  Like he's black, but he's law and order.
[00:39:06]  Like you can literally see like the logic that these guys are doing here.
[00:39:09]  And like he's like a centrist reset.
[00:39:11]  If you think Eric Adams is a centrist, I'm sorry, but you are fucking brain damaged.
[00:39:17]  Eric Adams doesn't have politics.
[00:39:19]  Eric Adams is a fucking money.
[00:39:22]  No, he's showing me that.
[00:39:23]  Like he is like that.
[00:39:25]  First of all, none of these fucking New York politicians have politics.
[00:39:28]  They are all showing me the money.
[00:39:30]  This is a fucking corrupt mafia state.
[00:39:33]  And the city is the biggest canker on the fucking herpes-ridden cock that fucking rises up erect out of New Jersey.
[00:39:41]  That is New York.
[00:39:42]  Anyways.
[00:39:43]  That's also why Trump should be mayor.
[00:39:45]  Trump should be fucking mayor.
[00:39:46]  Eric Adams is Trump.
[00:39:48]  Like, there's like, he's not as gay.
[00:39:51]  He's not as no, he is fucking gay, Liz.
[00:39:54]  Not as gay as Trump.
[00:39:55]  I don't know.
[00:39:56]  I'm fucking queen.
[00:39:58]  Trump is a fucking queen.
[00:40:00]  But they also, and Eric Adams does love the ladies.
[00:40:03]  That's true.
[00:40:03]  But Trump does too.
[00:40:05]  But does he?
[00:40:06]  I think he loves Broadway more.
[00:40:08]  Yeah.
[00:40:09]  Like, I think Eric Adams has probably eaten a lot of pussy.
[00:40:14]  You're not going to respond to that.
[00:40:16]  You know, it's true.
[00:40:17]  I don't think Trump has.
[00:40:20]  Now, Eric Adams knew it was bad.
[00:40:23]  He was putting this all in writing.
[00:40:25]  All right.
[00:40:25]  One of his staffers texted him and said, be on the safe side.
[00:40:30]  Please delete all messages you send me.
[00:40:33]  And then Adams replied, always do.
[00:40:38]  I did a little Obama voice.
[00:40:41]  Needless to say, his OPSEC was less than ideal.
[00:40:45]  He tried to get out of having the Fed scoot through his phone by claiming to not remember his password, which is kind of a classic move.
[00:40:52]  Yeah.
[00:40:52]  But Eric put his own little twist on it.
[00:40:55]  So this is from the indictment.
[00:40:56]  Adams claimed that after he learned about the investigation into his conduct, he changed the password and increased the complexity of his password from four digits to six.
[00:41:07]  Adams had done this, he claimed, to prevent members of his staff from inadvertently or intentionally deleting the context of his phone due to investigation.
[00:41:18]  But Adams further claimed he had forgotten the password he had just set and thus was unable to provide the FBI with a password that would unlock the phone.
[00:41:29]  See, that is the kind of 12-dimensional chess that you get out of the great minds of Manhattan.

=== Twins and Department Controversies (15:40) ===

[00:41:46]  Now, I think that we had a lot of questions about his ability to travel.
[00:41:55]  And I unearthed this press conference that he gave a couple years ago when people were looking into this.
[00:42:06]  And I think we had just, it's a little long, but I think we do have to read from it because it's really, I feel like it explains a lot, though much like Adams himself, it does leave you wanting more and having more questions.
[00:42:20]  It's also a really good indication of how he answers basically all questions.
[00:42:24]  Yes.
[00:42:25]  So I'm going to, I'm going to play the part of the journalist.
[00:42:30]  We don't know who they are, so I'm going to use quotations.
[00:42:33]  And Brace, will you play his honor?
[00:42:36]  Absolutely.
[00:42:37]  But then you also have to play, or that make it more confusing.
[00:42:40]  You'll also have to play Deputy Mayor Levy.
[00:42:42]  Yeah, that's fine.
[00:42:44]  Question.
[00:42:45]  You said you traveled there six or seven times.
[00:42:49]  From what I could discern, records show you took two trips there.
[00:42:53]  There's, I think, an additional one to Azerbaijan.
[00:42:55]  We're going to talk about that.
[00:42:57]  And it's been reported you traveled there once with your son, Jordan.
[00:43:00]  So in the interest of transparency, I wanted to ask you if you could share when you traveled to Turkey on those trips, who paid for those trips and the purpose of each visit.
[00:43:12]  And on a related note, but separate, regarding Rana Abasova, who we're going to talk about, what role, if any, did she play in your 2020 campaign?
[00:43:22]  And I think you might not answer this one, but who did she contact in City Hall?
[00:43:26]  This might be for Lisa after she allegedly, after her raid, we've heard from a source that she contacted City Hall officials to ask them to delete text exchanges.
[00:43:35]  So let's peel it back in layers.
[00:43:38]  Okay, so let's peel it back in layers.
[00:43:40]  We will give a complete list of our travel to Turkey.
[00:43:42]  Jordan and I, actually, that was one of our stops.
[00:43:46]  Jordan, my son, after graduating from college, we did a son-dad 21-day tour.
[00:43:52]  A trip together was probably one of the most joyful times of my life to spend 21 days with my son.
[00:43:58]  We went to several different countries.
[00:44:00]  I think we did two or three days in Turkey, but we went to other different countries.
[00:44:04]  The first time he traveled abroad with me at that level.
[00:44:07]  And we'll give you the complete list.
[00:44:09]  Many of those.
[00:44:11]  I actually traveled to Turkey for the first time as a state senator when I went over to Azerbaijan and to Baku with a Senate delegation.
[00:44:18]  And actually, the first time I went was during Thanksgiving.
[00:44:21]  We just picked up one day and said, hey, let's go to Turkey.
[00:44:24]  And I like Istanbul.
[00:44:26]  I like Cappadocia.
[00:44:27]  I like Antalya.
[00:44:28]  And then we traveled several times there.
[00:44:31]  But I think it's lost on people that to be able to reach the point that I was able to see the globe.
[00:44:36]  I'm a kid from South Jamaica, Queens.
[00:44:39]  I've been to Africa seven times.
[00:44:41]  I've been to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, South, Central America, Russia.
[00:44:45]  I love travel.
[00:44:47]  And this is an international city.
[00:44:49]  Nothing brings me greater joy than when I'm able to go to someone from Bolivia and say, I went to your country and I saw the Andes.
[00:44:55]  When I can say, hey, I've been to Israel three times.
[00:44:59]  I travel.
[00:45:00]  I believe in exploring the globe so I can become a better mayor, a better borough president, a better state senator by having a global view because New York's an international city.
[00:45:11]  And so someone wrote an article and said, Eric went to 80 Turkish events.
[00:45:15]  I must have went to 300 African events.
[00:45:18]  I'm an international mayor and I enjoy the excitement of an international city.
[00:45:23]  And so some of those trips were personal.
[00:45:26]  Every time we went personal, we paid.
[00:45:28]  Some of the trips were governmental.
[00:45:30]  We did sister city agreements and we followed all the necessary procedures to do so.
[00:45:35]  So we will give the list on what was the governmental trips we took.
[00:45:39]  But we followed the procedure every time because I believe in following the procedures.
[00:45:43]  Can we get a list of the personal trips to Turkey as well?
[00:45:47]  Maybe.
[00:45:48]  So that is a perfect, perfect, perfect example of how Eric Adams answers literally every question.
[00:45:57]  Not just about ones that like about Turkey or like his dealings with foreign governments or anything like that.
[00:46:02]  Every single fucking answer that this piece of shit in fucking City Hall gives is complete dissembling, distraction.
[00:46:09]  Oh, I'm so great.
[00:46:10]  My personal story is so important.
[00:46:12]  You talked earlier about how he's self-mythologizing.
[00:46:14]  It is absurd to the level he does it because he uses that as a shield to answer literally the most like, what did you have for fucking lunch today, Mr. Mayor?
[00:46:24]  Well, when I was a kid growing up in Queens, I never thought I'd have lunch in my entire life.
[00:46:28]  Shut the fuck up.
[00:46:30]  Like you get paid money to go to fucking Baku.
[00:46:33]  I just realized that this indictment is going to get in the way of my dream project, which is getting him on Adam Friedland's show.
[00:46:40]  Because he's the dream guest.
[00:46:43]  He would be good.
[00:46:44]  Because he got hooked up with Cuomo.
[00:46:47]  He's got a connection to Chris Cuomo, so I feel like there's like a way to make that happen.
[00:46:51]  They're like boys through someone who we're going to talk about was playing basketball with them.
[00:46:57]  Yes.
[00:46:58]  I think, yeah, I think that Adams would be a dream guest.
[00:47:01]  Remember when I had breakfast club?
[00:47:03]  Adams on Adam.
[00:47:04]  What was the show he went on where that lady was like torn to pieces over the cop shit?
[00:47:09]  That was like one of the first times I've seen him.
[00:47:11]  I can't remember her name or what show it was.
[00:47:13]  It was like a year ago, but it was one of the first times where somebody was like, Adams was locked in the room with somebody who didn't just take his insane answers and like just like good, you know, or was it mediated by like a press secretary or anything.
[00:47:27]  And he just couldn't handle it.
[00:47:28]  He fell to pieces.
[00:47:29]  Like, he can't understand how regular people view the world.
[00:47:33]  There's a layer of people in this fucking city that are like basically versions of Eric Adams, where they are somehow like they're oftentimes in real estate, oftentimes in restaurants.
[00:47:42]  These a lot of them are Eric Adams.
[00:47:44]  They're fucking poetry.
[00:47:45]  Or developers.
[00:47:46]  Yes.
[00:47:47]  And they exist on another fucking planet.
[00:47:50]  And someday, someday, this city will need to turn into a fucking charnel house to get rid of these people.
[00:47:56]  A rain will come.
[00:47:57]  A rain will come.
[00:47:58]  And those rats will scurry.
[00:47:59]  Those rats will scurry and just like Eric Adams will kill them.
[00:48:03]  No rats are left to save them.
[00:48:05]  No.
[00:48:06]  So this next section is headlined.
[00:48:08]  Many are concerned about Eric's relationship with multiple sets of male twins.
[00:48:13]  I want to.
[00:48:14]  Who's the many?
[00:48:16]  Many people.
[00:48:18]  I would say many people are concerned about this.
[00:48:20]  Many people.
[00:48:21]  Have you talked to another person who's concerned about this?
[00:48:26]  Sweetheart.
[00:48:27]  Let me fill you in on a little something that me and all my fellow journalists down at the Jays School, or as I call it, Yeshiva, a little trick that we do.
[00:48:38]  Whenever you want to say something that you want to say, never say that I'm concerned about this.
[00:48:43]  Say that many are concerned about this.
[00:48:45]  Because many can be five people, many can be five million people.
[00:48:48]  It doesn't matter.
[00:48:49]  Well, I think five million people are concerned about Eric's relationship with multiple sets of male twins.
[00:48:54]  The thing is, that's actually not really what this section is about.
[00:48:57]  That's what the section started as.
[00:48:58]  But then it does.
[00:49:00]  It is curious.
[00:49:01]  You did unearth many sets of male twins.
[00:49:06]  Well, there's many.
[00:49:07]  He's famously connected.
[00:49:08]  I didn't unearth.
[00:49:09]  There's a lot of connections to male twins that he's.
[00:49:11]  But who knows that many twins?
[00:49:14]  I know, I think, just one set of twins.
[00:49:16]  Me too.
[00:49:17]  I want to say something about twins here that might be controversial.
[00:49:22]  And if this doesn't apply to you, remember the exception proves the rule.
[00:49:27]  Okay.
[00:49:27]  So by disagreeing with me, you're actually even more solidifying my point.
[00:49:32]  All male twins are evil.
[00:49:35]  Interesting.
[00:49:37]  Interesting.
[00:49:38]  Some female twins are good, but many also are evil.
[00:49:45]  I've only known one set of female twins and they're good.
[00:49:49]  I know a set of female twins and they're good too.
[00:49:51]  I don't know.
[00:49:51]  I can't comment on the female.
[00:49:53]  But the exception is.
[00:49:55]  The male is an interesting take.
[00:49:57]  It's just, I, it's just, I, my, most of my interactions with twins, twins have been like through astral projection and just through reading and media and things of that nature.
[00:50:07]  And so this is just something I've discovered.
[00:50:11]  Who are famous evil twins?
[00:50:13]  Guys from the Matrix.
[00:50:14]  Guys from the Matrix.
[00:50:15]  No, but like real life ones.
[00:50:18]  I can't think of famous male twins.
[00:50:22]  So who are these male twins that he's friends with?
[00:50:25]  Okay.
[00:50:26]  So the first ones, and there's been a lot written about all these guys.
[00:50:30]  So it's, you know, if you've encountered this, forgive me.
[00:50:35]  But the subject of like a pretty big New York Times profile was the Petroscience brothers, Petrosians brothers.
[00:50:42]  Petrosians.
[00:50:43]  Petrosians brothers.
[00:50:44]  Okay.
[00:50:44]  So they are, and this is important.
[00:50:46]  They are Christian Armenians from Turkmenistan.
[00:50:53]  Okay.
[00:50:54]  They moved to the U.S. in 1996.
[00:50:57]  Small-time hustlers and definitely also convicted felons.
[00:51:01]  Money stuff, just like complete fucking scam artist, hustler, New York City, greatest city in the world.
[00:51:07]  We're grinding it out kind of guys.
[00:51:09]  Sure.
[00:51:09]  Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
[00:51:11]  I think we might have covered this last year in the episode, but they had a party brunch spot in Brooklyn that they opened in 2014.
[00:51:17]  Adams frequented it, frequented it, frequented it.
[00:51:21]  Adams went there a lot to the point where like, I think he was interviewing members of his staff there, like when he was a Brooklyn Borough City Hall president.
[00:51:31]  They have like a ton of connections to a lot of people in Eric Adams orbit, including according to Hellgate, Ron Tomasian.
[00:51:38]  Okay, well, we'll get to later.
[00:51:40]  And are currently the owners of La Osteria, where Mayor Adams has a table he takes approximately one out of every two days of the month.
[00:51:48]  Meaning that Eric Adams is there basically every other night.
[00:51:51]  He might literally be there every single night.
[00:51:53]  We should go there, see if he's there.
[00:51:54]  I genuinely think we should.
[00:51:56]  Well, sometimes they close it down to the general public and just have Adams.
[00:52:00]  For his honor.
[00:52:01]  It's also where it was discovered that he's not vegan.
[00:52:06]  But he's not vegan.
[00:52:07]  He's plant-based.
[00:52:07]  He's plant-based, but fish, some have called them plants.
[00:52:12]  I call them animals.
[00:52:13]  No, no, but that doesn't need to be the base.
[00:52:15]  That's true.
[00:52:16]  Well, the base could be a greens.
[00:52:17]  The base of the diet could be greens, and then he's just having that brand.
[00:52:22]  Some Branzino on top of it.
[00:52:23]  On top.
[00:52:24]  He gets it almost every night.
[00:52:25]  Okay, well.
[00:52:27]  But it's based.
[00:52:28]  There's plants at the base.
[00:52:30]  Yes.
[00:52:31]  Then there's the Caban twins, former crooked cops, one of whom Eric Adams made basically like essentially put him in charge of the police.
[00:52:40]  Okay.
[00:52:41]  Recently resigned.
[00:52:43]  Under investigation.
[00:52:43]  Two sets of twins.
[00:52:44]  Two sets of twins.
[00:52:45]  Well, we're moving out of twin territory now.
[00:52:47]  Okay.
[00:52:47]  Now we're just moving toward brothers.
[00:52:49]  Sure.
[00:52:49]  Because as has been noted by many, many people, Eric Adams' entire orbit is for some reason made out of family members and lovers.
[00:52:57]  Well, also ex-cops.
[00:53:00]  So there's Eric Adams' own brother, Bernard Adams, a former, and this may come as a shock to you, cop who Eric Adams tried to hire as his head of security before he had to give up the salary because he was like, hire my brother.
[00:53:13]  And it's like a $200,000 a year position for head of security.
[00:53:18]  And people were like, you're just giving your brother free money.
[00:53:21]  And he was like, oh, I'm just kidding.
[00:53:22]  He's only going to take $1 for it.
[00:53:24]  And, you know, it's just complete.
[00:53:25]  And Bernard was like, I'm not taking that job.
[00:53:27]  Well, then there's Bernard's wife, who's Adams' sister-in-law, who is a $150,000 a year make work job at the Department of Education.
[00:53:37]  And isn't the Department of Education Adams has someone in there too, right?
[00:53:42]  Adams, Eric Adams' girlfriend, with whom he owns a place in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which is, by the way, where like half of these people fucking live.
[00:53:51]  He's got a compound.
[00:53:51]  He's got a compound.
[00:53:52]  Well, they don't all live with Eric Adams.
[00:53:54]  They just all have houses.
[00:53:55]  That would be great.
[00:53:56]  That would be good.
[00:53:56]  And Bernard, the twins.
[00:53:59]  They could all get in there.
[00:54:00]  They should make all of these people live at Gracie Mansion.
[00:54:03]  Yeah.
[00:54:03]  They should make me live there and call it Gracie.
[00:54:05]  They're in a big bed in one big bed, just like us.
[00:54:09]  Eric Adams' girlfriend also works at the Department of Education.
[00:54:12]  She allegedly hasn't really ever shown up for work.
[00:54:15]  And she hasn't been in the office since last Thanksgiving.
[00:54:20]  That is 11 months ago.
[00:54:23]  Her calendar at the moment is completely cleared.
[00:54:26]  She's making over $200,000 a year and joined Adams on several of his trips.
[00:54:31]  Now, the Department of Education was until very recently headed by David Banks, no relation to the former guest in the show, whose girlfriend, Eric Adams, employed as one of his deputy mayors.
[00:54:45]  Wait, wait, wait.
[00:54:46]  So Eric Adams' girlfriend was employed by David Banks.
[00:54:53]  Yes.
[00:54:53]  Who just stepped down.
[00:54:54]  So Eric Adams' girlfriend was employed at the Department of Education.
[00:55:00]  Where she did nothing.
[00:55:01]  Yeah.
[00:55:02]  And that was headed by David Banks, who recently is stepping down.
[00:55:08]  Yes.
[00:55:09]  And whose girlfriend is Sheena Wright, who is the first deputy mayor of New York City under Eric Adams, and who married David Banks two days ago.
[00:55:20]  We're recording this on October 1st, two days ago in an emergency ceremony that many are saying many are saying because of spousal privilege because you don't have to testify against your spouse.
[00:55:34]  That is probably not true, but it can be.
[00:55:37]  Oh, come on.
[00:55:37]  I love it.
[00:55:38]  I know.
[00:55:38]  It has to be true.
[00:55:39]  What I think it is.
[00:55:41]  It doesn't even need to be true.
[00:55:42]  You can just believe it anyway.
[00:55:43]  I think it's so that they can fuck when he's in prison because I think you have to get married in order to be able to do the conjugal visit shit.
[00:55:49]  Well, that's definitely, you know, forward-thinking.
[00:55:51]  Because if you did, many of our fans would be losing their virginity at fucking Pelican Bay ASAP.
[00:55:56]  No disrespect.
[00:55:57]  So David Banks' brother Phil, who is, by the way, not David Banks' twin.
[00:56:02]  Phil Banks.
[00:56:03]  Phil Banks, who was born less than a year apart from me.
[00:56:06]  So Irish twin.
[00:56:07]  Irish twin.
[00:56:07]  Was a high-ranking cop that was accused of an insane NYPD corruption scandal involving a gift of one of Muhammad Ali's rings.
[00:56:17]  Wait, what?
[00:56:18]  Yes.
[00:56:19]  Who has got Muhammad Ali's rings?
[00:56:22]  Well, okay.
[00:56:24]  So this is a kind of a complicated story, and it is actually way, way too much to get into here.
[00:56:31]  There was this giant NYPD corruption scandal that was like sort of unearthed in 2014 to 2016.
[00:56:37]  Huge thing, implicated a lot of very important people.
[00:56:39]  Some people went down.
[00:56:40]  Others, like Phil Banks, were unindicted co-conspirators.
[00:56:44]  Did not get taken down, but were definitely involved in this.
[00:56:48]  So these two businessmen, Jeremiah Reichberg and Jonah Reichwitz.
[00:56:54]  And I have to say it because it is does it, I'm sorry, but it is involved in what we're talking about.
[00:57:02]  They were Jewish businessmen.
[00:57:04]  He was a Jewish businessman.
[00:57:07]  He was basically they were like feeding all these American cops, feeding as an F-E-T-E-I-N-G, but also feeding all these like New York police department officers, flying them all around.
[00:57:19]  Banks might have gone to the Dominican Republic and had sex with prostitutes that were provided by these two gentlemen.

=== Ezra Friedlander's Web (14:57) ===

[00:57:27]  Okay.
[00:57:28]  He was also maybe gifted one of Muhammad Ali's rings by these gentlemen.
[00:57:32]  Why do they have those rings?
[00:57:35]  Maybe they got the rings.
[00:57:36]  I don't know they had the rings.
[00:57:37]  Well, they don't have the rings anymore.
[00:57:38]  Now Phil Banks has the rings.
[00:57:40]  Oh my God.
[00:57:41]  So he resigned in disgrace because of this corruption scandal.
[00:57:45]  And like it's so obvious that he was being bribed by these guys.
[00:57:50]  Like so, so, so obvious.
[00:57:54]  However, Eric Adams rescued him from his secure, or excuse me, from obscurity that he was languishing in and made him the deputy mayor of public safety.
[00:58:03]  One of his first acts in office was to fire the head of internal affairs who had investigated him.
[00:58:10]  Oh my God.
[00:58:11]  So back to those two businessmen who bribed Phil Banks.
[00:58:14]  Reichwitz's father, Bobby Reichwitz, is a real estate mogul who is very close to Netanyahu and the chairman of the Golda Maier Commemorative Coin Committee.
[00:58:25]  Now, when I was reading that last night, I thought, hmm, why does that sound so familiar?
[00:58:33]  And I was like, I swear to God, we've talked about this before.
[00:58:36]  And so I went in my little notes here and I searched up Golda Maier Commemorative Coin Committee.
[00:58:41]  And what do you know?
[00:58:42]  Up comes the episode that we did on Azerbaijan, which was inspired by the death of the Iranian president like six months ago, whenever the fuck that was.
[00:58:52]  Which by the way.
[00:58:53]  By the way, consequential episode.
[00:58:54]  Yeah, by the way, Israel definitely killed him.
[00:58:57]  Yeah, no shit.
[00:58:58]  100%.
[00:58:59]  Helicopter failure.
[00:59:00]  Yeah, caused by an Israeli spy.
[00:59:03]  Which we should plug that episode too.
[00:59:05]  So we will.
[00:59:06]  We will.
[00:59:06]  That's in the bio as well.
[00:59:08]  So the Gold of Mair Commemorative Coin Committee is the same committee that paid the Friedlander group to lobby for them.
[00:59:16]  No relation.
[00:59:17]  Now, why does the Friedlander group sound familiar?
[00:59:21]  Because Ezra Friedlander, we talked about him in the Azerbaijan episode because he is an American agent for the government of Azerbaijan and is a former aide to notorious racist New York politician Dov Hikind.
[00:59:39]  So Ezra Friedlander tweets on May 20, in May of 2023.
[00:59:48]  He tweets an image of him walking down the street with several other people.
[00:59:51]  Some of them ugly, some of them short, some of them otherwise bodily deformed.
[00:59:56]  The classic New York street.
[00:59:58]  With Deputy Foreign Minister, this is a tweet from him.
[01:00:02]  With Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elnur Mamadov, walking to a meeting at City Hall hosted by NYC Commissioner of International Affairs Edward Mermelstein and senior advisor to NYC Mayor Joel Eisdorfer.
[01:00:17]  And then he tags global NYC at as embassy US.
[01:00:22]  And then he writes, Reina Abasova.
[01:00:26]  So he was contacted by shtetl.com.
[01:00:29]  Okay.
[01:00:29]  Okay.
[01:00:30]  But they seem pretty, they don't like him too much.
[01:00:32]  He was contacted by shtetl.com about the meeting, which was, by the way, at City Hall, and admits that it wasn't reported.
[01:00:43]  Which is the law.
[01:00:44]  Which is the law.
[01:00:45]  Because Friedlander said it fell through the cracks.
[01:00:48]  So to put it in perspective here, Ezra Friedlander, who is, by the way, and we didn't even get into, we talk a little bit about him in the Azerbaijan episode, but he is like, every single other thing that he works for is on the level of like Gold of Mair Commemorative Coin Committee.
[01:01:03]  It's all like friends of guys who killed Palestinians while, you know, starting a new settlement in the West Bank.
[01:01:08]  Yes, right.
[01:01:09]  And we sell commemorative plates for your grandma to buy and collect at home.
[01:01:13]  Yes, yeah, exactly.
[01:01:14]  Like he is, he is like an American lobbyist for Israeli like psycho-lakudnik groups.
[01:01:21]  By the way, almost every guy we're talking about here, every Jewish guy we're talking about in this episode is a dyed-in-the-wool fucking Lakudnik.
[01:01:29]  Like beyond, some of these guys are fucking freaks here.
[01:01:33]  So he, you know, he had this meeting that was not exactly reported to the government as it legally should be, was not noted in any way.
[01:01:43]  And there was a minor investigation.
[01:01:45]  Some people were asking questions, including shtetl.com.
[01:01:48]  But nobody really knew what the meeting was about until the daily news got the story.
[01:01:54]  According to Friedlander, he, Mamadov, and the city officials discussed the restoration of direct flights between New York and Azerbaijan.
[01:02:05]  He added on Wednesday that Turkish airlines didn't come up in their conversation at the meeting, but that, quote, it could be we spoke about Azerbaijan Airlines, Aizal Airline.
[01:02:18]  Azerbaijan is an interesting country because it's basically like a Turkish statelet or the 51st state of Turkey.
[01:02:26]  Yeah.
[01:02:26]  Baku.
[01:02:27]  But combined a little bit with Israel.
[01:02:30]  Yeah, it gets a little funky with it.
[01:02:31]  Yeah, like they're at the intersection of Israel and Turkey.
[01:02:34]  And so where many people desire to be.
[01:02:36]  Many people desire to be.
[01:02:38]  Eric Adams might be the only other person besides Azerbaijan and Ezra Friedlander who is.
[01:02:44]  And F1.
[01:02:45]  And F1?
[01:02:46]  Oh, Baku.
[01:02:49]  Yeah.
[01:02:50]  So one of the personalities involved in all this and mentioned in both the tweet and as Liz was talking about earlier is Reina Abasova, Adams' longtime, quote, liaison to the Turkish community.
[01:03:02]  So Adams made his first of, quote, six or seven trips to Turkey in 2015, the year after becoming borough president.
[01:03:10]  He went with Timothy Pearson, the former NYPD officer that's close with Adams and was apparently using the migrant crisis as his own personal piggy bank.
[01:03:20]  That's a whole other, listen, literally every single person that we like might mention their name but not get into is also corrupt in sometimes spectacular ways.
[01:03:27]  Timothy Pearson is certainly no exception.
[01:03:30]  He's a real piece of shit.
[01:03:32]  So Reina had volunteered with him and was picked up as the official liaison.
[01:03:37]  She followed him into City Hall.
[01:03:39]  She actually, at one point, I believe, I can't remember, because I don't have the indictment.
[01:03:43]  I mean, I guess I can just look it up, but it would take me too long to find it.
[01:03:46]  At one point, the government alleges that Eric Adams cut off ties with a Turkish community center in Brooklyn because it was gulenist.
[01:03:57]  Oh my God.
[01:03:58]  And I think Reina was the person who facilitated that.
[01:04:05]  So she's actually not Turkish, though.
[01:04:07]  She's from Azerbaijan.
[01:04:09]  And the same month that Ezra Friedlander put out his tweet about his Farah violation meeting with Eric Adams, she and Edward Mermelstein went to Azerbaijan on a trip almost entirely paid for by the Azeri government.
[01:04:23]  Now, who is Edward Mermelstein?
[01:04:26]  What an interesting question.
[01:04:28]  Well, he's an Orthodox Jew from Ukraine that is connected to multiple notorious Russian mafia figures, including Viktor Vexelberg and Pavel Fuchs, probably pronounced Fuchs, who is, according to the FBI, a Russian intelligence asset.
[01:04:44]  Mermelstein has an office in Moscow.
[01:04:47]  He's a, quote, family office guy and Fuchs' lawyer.
[01:04:50]  Fuchs also basically owned Giuliani and was close to Trump, like was boys with Trump as well, because Trump is in with the Russian mob.
[01:04:59]  I mean, we all know that.
[01:05:00]  I mean, I think everyone, again, in New York, it's all just everyone trying to get pieces of the pie.
[01:05:06]  It's all one big development bonanza.
[01:05:08]  Anyone in real estate is close to a handful of different mobsters.
[01:05:13]  Mermelstein is also president of Zaka USA.
[01:05:18]  Zaka, you may remember, is where the 40 headless babies lie and endless rapes on October 7th, Scream Without Words lie came from.
[01:05:28]  It came from fucking Zaka.
[01:05:30]  They paraded their little fuckers around here to drum up all this fucking hate so that Israel could come and fucking destroy and annihilate Gaza, which is precisely what they have done.
[01:05:40]  Mermelstein is naturally the commissioner of the mayor's office of international affairs.
[01:05:46]  So Reina and Mermelstein went to Azerbaijan.
[01:05:50]  She also got Adams to not make a statement for the 2022 Armenian Genocide Day.
[01:05:55]  Commemoration.
[01:05:56]  Very funny.
[01:05:57]  Although it does, I was looking at the 2023 Armenian Genocide commemorations, and Chuck Schumer gave like an impassioned speech about it.
[01:06:05]  And a statement from Eric Adams was read, even though it took place in Times Square, and he has not missed any other kind of fucking like flag.
[01:06:14]  I mean, he will go to the flag raising of like Transnistria.
[01:06:17]  As long as Transnistria pays him for it.
[01:06:19]  Exactly.
[01:06:20]  So Reina actually got raided on November 2nd.
[01:06:24]  That was like the first of the Adams raid alongside Brianna Suggs.
[01:06:28]  We talked about her on the last episode on Adams.
[01:06:31]  And it's mentioned in the indictment that during an interview with the feds in her house, like they came and raided her house and like sitting her down and talking to her.
[01:06:37]  She's like, hey, hold up.
[01:06:39]  Can I go to the bathroom?
[01:06:40]  She goes to the bathroom and then deletes all these texts and signal from her phone.
[01:06:46]  However, she has flipped.
[01:06:49]  Interesting.
[01:06:49]  And she is now cooperating with the feds.
[01:06:53]  But you know who was once hired by her old friend Mermelstein, though?
[01:06:58]  A guy named Ron Torosian.
[01:07:01]  So we mentioned him earlier.
[01:07:04]  This guy has one of the weirdest names I've ever heard.
[01:07:08]  I don't even know.
[01:07:08]  Ron Tarosian.
[01:07:11]  The internet.
[01:07:11]  It's two ends.
[01:07:12]  The Armenian websites we were looking at.
[01:07:14]  Ron.
[01:07:16]  Two N's.
[01:07:16]  Ron.
[01:07:17]  Two N Ron.
[01:07:17]  I've never seen that before.
[01:07:19]  The Armenian websites that you and I were looking at could not figure out if he was an actual Armenian or a guy or his family actually came from Iran.
[01:07:28]  Now, again, I wish this was video podcast for this one second because I pulled up this photo of Ron and his big bald head looking straight at the camera where he's sitting between Jonathan Chapin, Old friend of Kim Kardashian and Eric Adams, who is pointing into the camera and with his classic grin with a big Caesar salad at what looks to be the club.
[01:07:55]  So go back to the club.
[01:07:56]  I'm thinking this is Zero Bond.
[01:08:00]  So Eric Adams loves this private club called Zero Bond.
[01:08:06]  I pretty much only know about this club because of Eric Adams, but I guess it's like a club where like, it's like a private club.
[01:08:12]  I guess like Soho House or something where like celebs hang out.
[01:08:15]  I don't know.
[01:08:16]  Yeah, it's like a big, there's a ton of private, big, private clubs are like really big right now in New York and in LA, especially in Miami.
[01:08:25]  Because, you know, you get to keep the riffraff out.
[01:08:27]  Yeah.
[01:08:28]  And you get to, you know, it's a great way to make money for these kind of clips, these developers.
[01:08:32]  Well, you can hang out with the motherfucking mayor, too.
[01:08:35]  So it is his like favorite club.
[01:08:37]  He's strongly associated with it now, but he, it entered his life via this guy named Ron Terosian.
[01:08:43]  Now, Liz, tell us a little bit about Ron.
[01:08:48]  So Ron reminds me of like classic Drew Onon episode Jeffrey Epstein Days guy.
[01:08:58]  In that there's kind of too much here, and he has an insane online footprint.
[01:09:05]  Yes, incredible online footprint.
[01:09:07]  You know, he's a PR executive, of course, who founded an agency, 5WPR, which is a terrible name.
[01:09:13]  And this is from some of the stuff online about him.
[01:09:18]  Well known for his street brawler tactics.
[01:09:21]  Now, some of those street brawler tactics took place in East Jerusalem, where he led a crew of settler thugs to take over Palestinian homes.
[01:09:28]  We'll talk about that a little bit more.
[01:09:32]  But I'll just quote Politico here.
[01:09:34]  Israel was Terosian's gateway to PR, which is something that I'm always saying about Israel.
[01:09:40]  They've got an incredible PR team.
[01:09:42]  Gateway to Puerto Rico.
[01:09:44]  Well, not at the airport.
[01:09:45]  Now, he grew up in Riverdale in the Bronx under the wing of a rabbi named Avi Weiss.
[01:09:53]  He's a prominent Orthodox rabbi.
[01:09:55]  His last op-ed for the forward is titled, I'm an Octogenarian Rabbi.
[01:09:59]  Here's my advice for Biden.
[01:10:02]  Sounds interesting.
[01:10:03]  Which, you know.
[01:10:05]  The two of them got pretty close.
[01:10:07]  They even like traveled to Oslo together to get arrested, protesting the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat, which is true dedication to the cause, I guess.
[01:10:20]  Ron got super active in college.
[01:10:23]  He got close with Mort Klein.
[01:10:25]  The president of the Zionist Organization of America later became a key ally in getting Trump's former NSA advisor McMaster replaced with John Bolton.
[01:10:36]  And that's because they thought McMaster wasn't friendly enough to Israel.
[01:10:41]  Dude, like the the it's it's like a different fucking i mean, I know it's a different world, but it's like that to be like we need to replace McMaster with Bolton because McMaster is too friendly to the Palestinians is like on such a different level.
[01:11:01]  It's so crazy, right?
[01:11:02]  Dude, this people are fucking crazy.
[01:11:07]  This is what Mort Klein had to say about Terosian.
[01:11:10]  I want someone who is strong and committed and doing everything he can to expose the truth of the Arab war against Israel.
[01:11:15]  Ron Terosian understands the truth of the Arab-Islamic war against Israel and the West better than anyone.
[01:11:21]  So that's kind of what we're dealing with, right?
[01:11:23]  Okay, here.
[01:11:24]  Jeffrey Goldberg, himself an IDF prison guard, of course, described Terosian as the most disreputable flack in New York.
[01:11:34]  This is what he had to say.
[01:11:36]  It's a bit long, but it's a crazy ass fucking story.
[01:11:39]  Jeffrey Goldberg, again, someone who I would never say is a dove.
[01:11:46]  Soft on the Palestinians.
[01:11:47]  Soft on the Palestinians.
[01:11:48]  Jeffrey Goldberg is another one of these fuckers.
[01:11:50]  He literally has been physically hard on the Palestinians.
[01:11:53]  Yes, he is.
[01:11:54]  He is.
[01:11:54]  He is.
[01:11:55]  He volunteered.
[01:11:56]  Think of the, yeah, he volunteered to become a prison guard in Israel.
[01:12:00]  During the Intifada.
[01:12:02]  Yes.
[01:12:03]  The first Intifada.
[01:12:05]  Several years ago, in one of my only encounters with him, he introduced me to Benny Elon, a rabbi settler leader who was then Israel's tourism minister and who, at various points in his career, has more or less advocated the ethnic cleansing of Israel of its Arab citizens.
[01:12:21]  Goldberg seems to be confused about what citizens means.

=== Weight of Complicity (05:51) ===

[01:12:24]  At one point, where Elon had gone to take a telephone call, Terosian and I started talking about Israel's right to reprisal for terrorist attacks.
[01:12:33]  I was arguing in favor of some sort of proportionality.
[01:12:36]  This was after Jenin, in which the Israeli army chose to root out terrorism block by block rather than bomb the city from the air.
[01:12:44]  It's kind of crazy to read something like that.
[01:12:46]  I think this is from like 2006, maybe 2007, 8.
[01:12:52]  But Tarosian interrupted.
[01:12:54]  And this is a quote from him.
[01:12:56]  I think we should kill 100 Arabs or 1,000 Arabs for every one Jew they kill.
[01:13:01]  I was somewhat taken aback, of course, because this is a Nazi idea rather than a Jewish idea.
[01:13:07]  I asked him to explicate.
[01:13:09]  And then he's quoting him again.
[01:13:10]  If someone from a town blows himself up and kills Jews, we should wipe out the town he's from, kill them all.
[01:13:17]  The Israelis are suckers.
[01:13:18]  They should have destroyed Jenin.
[01:13:21]  He went on like this for some time.
[01:13:24]  Well, it seems like he went out there.
[01:13:26]  Yeah, Tarosian, I'm sure, is doing a little dance out in the streets.
[01:13:30]  Maybe right across from the Twin Tawa.
[01:13:33]  So he actually, you know, I said that he went to Israel for a bit and did form a extreme right-wing group of thugs.
[01:13:46]  I don't know how they are.
[01:13:47]  They're just terrorists that went into East Jerusalem with bulldozers and got the media to cover them and fucking took over people's homes.
[01:13:55]  Yeah, they like would like literally march alongside bulldozers to bulldoze Palestinians' homes.
[01:14:00]  Yeah.
[01:14:01]  So he comes back to the States.
[01:14:03]  He gets into the PR scene.
[01:14:05]  He works at a couple agencies and then he goes out on his own.
[01:14:08]  And look, there's just no way to say this.
[01:14:11]  There isn't.
[01:14:11]  So I'm just going to say it.
[01:14:13]  His early first, his first roster, his early clients included right-wing Israeli politicians and Sean P. Diddy Combs.
[01:14:22]  It's just something you don't like to say, but these are the facts.
[01:14:26]  And that relationship with the Combs network has been maintained for a very long time.
[01:14:31]  I mean, there were people from Bad Boy at his fucking wedding.
[01:14:34]  Like in a recent, like, I think from a couple years ago, article in the Daily Beast about Tarozian, like one of the main people they interview is a former exec at Bad Boy Entertainment.
[01:14:43]  Like he was close with Diddy.
[01:14:46]  Who, by the way, Eric Adams gave the key to the city too.
[01:14:49]  Yes.
[01:14:50]  Now, in general, he has a habit of representing like really, really awful people.
[01:14:55]  And like, I was typing out this list and it just gets progressively crazier and more insane.
[01:15:01]  So you've got Joe Francis from Girls Gone Wild, the former mayor of Kiev, the one who was the like competitive boxer.
[01:15:09]  Oh, Klishko.
[01:15:10]  Yes.
[01:15:11]  This is his client.
[01:15:13]  A bunch of criminally charged televangelists.
[01:15:16]  The Kabbalah guru of LeBron James.
[01:15:19]  LeBron James is into Kabbalah?
[01:15:22]  I think it was like a moment.
[01:15:23]  We should have another shot.
[01:15:24]  But that was that crazy.
[01:15:26]  There's like a crazy fucking story that we couldn't include in this because it's too insane.
[01:15:30]  There's many of those in this episode.
[01:15:32]  About an incredible just corrupt Kabbalah guru.
[01:15:39]  I don't know how to say that.
[01:15:40]  Anyway, he then, he also repped the shake weight.
[01:15:42]  What's the shake weight?
[01:15:43]  Don't make me do it.
[01:15:44]  Classic.
[01:15:44]  What's the shake weight?
[01:15:46]  It's the weight that you can't shake.
[01:15:49]  It's a weight thing.
[01:15:50]  I'm not going to do it.
[01:15:52]  But it shakes.
[01:15:54]  You did it.
[01:15:55]  I know.
[01:15:55]  I couldn't do it.
[01:15:56]  It does what it does.
[01:15:57]  It's like a weight to lift weights.
[01:15:59]  Yeah, but you got to do it like that.
[01:16:00]  It was like a scammy infomercial, but everybody laughed at it because that's what it looks like.
[01:16:03]  Yeah.
[01:16:04]  So he repped the shake weight.
[01:16:05]  Then he, okay, the rapper Pitbull.
[01:16:07]  Okay.
[01:16:08]  The Eric Trump Foundation.
[01:16:10]  God.
[01:16:11]  And then the Iowa-based kosher meat magnate, Shalom Rubenshkin, who was convicted on over a dozen counts of fraud and money laundering and whose sentence was then commuted by Donald Trump.
[01:16:29]  Can you please, can you read that out again?
[01:16:32]  The Iowa-based kosher meat magnate Shalom Rubishkin, who was convicted on over a dozen counts of fraud and money laundering, though his sentence was commuted by, and then here Liz put ellipses, Donald Trump.
[01:16:44]  America is such a beautiful country.
[01:16:52]  So I will say that he had a falling out with Eric Adams after a bunch of articles came out about him.
[01:16:59]  It seems like Eric Adams was like, bro, I got to like chill on hanging out with you at the club.
[01:17:05]  Yeah.
[01:17:05]  And Terozian felt a type of way about that.
[01:17:08]  He got pissed about that.
[01:17:10]  He's like, I brought you into fucking zero bond, dude.
[01:17:13]  Like, I probably gave you money from whatever fucking Israeli right-wing organization.
[01:17:18]  I introduced you to the guy who owns Tao, who's married to the yoga woman.
[01:17:21]  Exactly.
[01:17:22]  And now, now, this is how you betray me, bro.
[01:17:25]  You cancel a fundraiser.
[01:17:27]  And I think, yeah, I agree.
[01:17:28]  Because Adams is all about loyalty and respect.
[01:17:31]  And the club.
[01:17:32]  And the club.
[01:17:32]  So go back to the club.
[01:17:34]  And Terozian is like a guy.
[01:17:36]  He's the exact kind of freak that he would have loyalty to.
[01:17:41]  And so it must have been from Terozian's end that this relationship ended.
[01:17:45]  But that wasn't the only relationship.
[01:17:48]  Well, I actually, that's a strange segue, but I'll continue with it.
[01:17:51]  That wasn't the only relationship that Terozian had with an enigmatic political figure who has been maligned in the Western press.
[01:17:58]  He also represented the president of Turkey, Erdogan.
[01:18:03]  So remember in our episode in the lobby?
[01:18:06]  The Israeli lobby?
[01:18:07]  The Israeli lobby, but the documentary lobby.
[01:18:09]  It was an Israeli lobby.
[01:18:10]  It was an Israeli lobby.
[01:18:12]  There is a there's so there's all these like front groups, right?

=== Israeli Lobby Influence (10:04) ===

[01:18:16]  And there's all these like little fucking newspapers they write for.
[01:18:20]  And one of the big ones is, I don't know how to pronounce this, but Algemeiner.
[01:18:23]  Okay.
[01:18:24]  It's like complete, like, this is like Israeli state propaganda, basically funneled through whatever nonprofit.
[01:18:31]  And like, I'm not being whatever about it.
[01:18:33]  Like that is just the facts of the matter.
[01:18:36]  Ron Terosian wrote for them.
[01:18:38]  And he wrote a very interesting article in 2017.
[01:18:43]  The article was entitled, Deport Radical Islamist Preacher to Turkey and Maintain American Interests.
[01:18:52]  And that was an article about deporting Fatullah Gulan, an enemy of the Turkish state.
[01:18:59]  So this is just another example of these fucking Central Asian countries coming into this country, finding our Jews, giving them money to control our poor politicians.
[01:19:16]  It is just astounding to me.
[01:19:18]  All these fucking guys.
[01:19:19]  Eric Adams is, I got to say, I have not found one person in any of these things.
[01:19:26]  Obviously, like, you know, he's in a lot of trouble.
[01:19:28]  His entire administration, the upper levels of it are riddled.
[01:19:31]  It's riddled with corruption.
[01:19:34]  I'm just like, is there somebody at City Hall who is not taking money from somebody else?
[01:19:39]  No.
[01:19:40]  They all are, right?
[01:19:41]  Yeah.
[01:19:41]  Why else would you fucking be in City Hall?
[01:19:43]  And we're supposed to like laugh this off, like, oh, well, like, this is supposed to, this is just how, this is just how you run things here.
[01:19:49]  This is just how you run things here.
[01:19:51]  Like, this is the only way to do it in New York.
[01:19:53]  I mean, some of these fucking people that are corrupt for Adams were corrupt for de Blasio.
[01:19:57]  Yes.
[01:19:58]  In fact, a lot of the same people.
[01:19:59]  A lot of the same people.
[01:20:00]  And it's just, it boggles my fucking mind.
[01:20:03]  New York City is, people like to treat it like it's a special place.
[01:20:07]  And it is a special place.
[01:20:08]  Because where else could you fucking sit in a subway station while the fucking announcer's voice plays at like 0.02 decibels and someone like, you know, is just like screaming or whatever.
[01:20:19]  And you're just stuck there in the fucking G-train for like 30 minutes without knowing what's going on.
[01:20:23]  What other city could you do that in?
[01:20:25]  Greatest city in the world, bro.
[01:20:26]  Greatest city in the fucking world.
[01:20:27]  International city.
[01:20:28]  And I'm just saying, like, they need to fucking, Biden, you need to send in the National Guard.
[01:20:33]  Oh, wait, the National Guard is here.
[01:20:34]  They're in our fucking subway stations too to prevent what?
[01:20:37]  Somebody jumping over a turnstile so they can fucking shoot them?
[01:20:40]  It's the do-nothing.
[01:20:42]  All the fucking cops here are corrupt.
[01:20:43]  They're all fucking corrupt.
[01:20:45]  And let me tell you, there's a fucking, there's a fucking, what, what, what's the Albanian fucking gambling place out in Ridgewood?
[01:20:52]  My buddy said he saw four cops uniform doing blow there.
[01:20:56]  This is what these fucking police are doing.
[01:20:58]  This is Adams administration, but this is every fucking New York fucking mayoral administrator.
[01:21:02]  It's horrible.
[01:21:03]  We need to get you a newspaper column.
[01:21:05]  I need to be a New York Post writer.
[01:21:07]  Yeah.
[01:21:07]  I hate it.
[01:21:08]  But you could change it from the inside.
[01:21:10]  Yes.
[01:21:10]  Yeah.
[01:21:10]  Yeah.
[01:21:11]  Yes.
[01:21:11]  I'll be the only pro-Hezbollah New York Post writer.
[01:21:16]  It's just crazy to me.
[01:21:18]  I just don't understand why they treat, people treat New York like it's some fucking like, like, it's like, it's a land of contrast.
[01:21:23]  And it needs like a Saddam Hussein type character to like manage everything.
[01:21:27]  And yes, I might have had some kind words before we started the episode when you and I were walking from the cell.
[01:21:32]  We were talking about something else.
[01:21:32]  We were talking about something else about certain certain people who might have been in charge of it.
[01:21:36]  We were talking about Saddam Hussein in a different context.
[01:21:38]  In a different context and one where it made sense to offer him frankly, it's none of your business.
[01:21:42]  It's none of your business.
[01:21:43]  What we were talking about.
[01:21:44]  What we're talking about.
[01:21:45]  But we might have come.
[01:21:46]  Yeah.
[01:21:46]  But, but New York is not so special that you just have to have some fucking crook and not only like the head, the mayor, but every fucking deputy mayor, some fucking crook too.
[01:21:55]  And they're all fucking cops.
[01:21:57]  And they all get their little fucking handlers who got their fucking handlers, who got their fucking handlers around them.
[01:22:01]  This, it's just, this city needs to be under fucking federal receivership, not of the federal states of New America, of China.
[01:22:08]  Because you know what they would do?
[01:22:09]  They would, if, if Eric Adams was in China, he would be executed.
[01:22:13]  Yes.
[01:22:14]  And the Chinese might actually fucking tax some of these people that live uptown.
[01:22:18]  Oh my God.
[01:22:19]  Yeah.
[01:22:20]  Some of these assholes in Midtown.
[01:22:22]  And we would make, we would make, and you know what?
[01:22:25]  We would make Fort Lee, New Jersey into a fucking special economic zone, and you would get paid $2 there to make fucking Huawei phones, bitch.
[01:22:32]  That's what your fucking job is going to be, deputy mayor.
[01:22:34]  You can make fucking Huaiwei and fucking fucking Fort Lee.
[01:22:37]  Fuck you.
[01:22:49]  Liz.
[01:22:50]  Who's going to become mayor now?
[01:22:53]  Cuomo.
[01:22:54]  No, what?
[01:22:55]  Can it please?
[01:22:56]  don't want him.
[01:22:57]  His face is too big.
[01:22:59]  Cuomo is going to be mayor.
[01:23:00]  His face is too big.
[01:23:03]  What about all the lady stuff?
[01:23:05]  They don't care.
[01:23:05]  They don't care.
[01:23:06]  You shouldn't get Chris Cuomo.
[01:23:08]  Cuomo shot.
[01:23:08]  He's funnier.
[01:23:09]  Cuomo was, and I'm not going to say he didn't do that stuff because he did that stuff, but he was set up.
[01:23:14]  They wanted him out.
[01:23:15]  Yeah, of course.
[01:23:15]  They wanted him out.
[01:23:16]  That was a political hit.
[01:23:17]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:23:18]  But it might be time to make a crawling comeback.
[01:23:22]  I don't know.
[01:23:23]  I mean, Brad Land.
[01:23:24]  Fuck all these guys.
[01:23:25]  It should be Trump.
[01:23:26]  Fuck, it should be Trump.
[01:23:27]  It should be Trump.
[01:23:28]  It should be Trump.
[01:23:28]  Let Trump have it.
[01:23:29]  Let me be mayor.
[01:23:30]  I'm born and raised BK for 20 years.
[01:23:32]  You should.
[01:23:34]  You got a place here.
[01:23:35]  That's more than Eric Adams.
[01:23:36]  That's true.
[01:23:36]  I live here.
[01:23:37]  That's more than probably like most, except for de Blasio, like shivery mayor.
[01:23:42]  I should run.
[01:23:43]  You think I should?
[01:23:44]  Why not?
[01:23:44]  What could they find in your past that they could use against you?
[01:23:48]  Well, I can't go to Turkey.
[01:23:49]  See?
[01:23:50]  That is, you know, that is conflict of interest.
[01:23:52]  That's number one.
[01:23:53]  I would love to.
[01:23:54]  Look, you're different than, look, you had a president who went to Turkey a lot.
[01:23:58]  Now, you had a mayor that went to Turkey a lot.
[01:24:02]  Now you could have a mayor that can't go to Turkey at all.
[01:24:05]  I don't even think I could even fly to London.
[01:24:07]  It's human rights itself.
[01:24:08]  Yeah, I'm with you on that.
[01:24:09]  I should be.
[01:24:10]  I should at least make me Brooklyn Borough president.
[01:24:13]  Yeah, because then you can become mayor.
[01:24:14]  Well, you got to make the connection there.
[01:24:15]  I got to make the connections there.
[01:24:16]  Take the payout.
[01:24:17]  We didn't even mention the Uzbek.
[01:24:18]  So, I got to give a shout out to documentedny.com.
[01:24:23]  They've had a lot of good stuff on it.
[01:24:24]  I'll say the city.
[01:24:26]  Yeah, their reporting has been great.
[01:24:27]  Documented and Hellgate have been really good on this stuff.
[01:24:29]  Yeah, a lot of people asking the right questions.
[01:24:31]  Not the kind of questions that the nobuddies at the New York Times are asking, by the way, which are none.
[01:24:35]  Although I think they did the investigation into the fake.
[01:24:38]  The twins?
[01:24:38]  No, to the fake, well, the Petrosaint twins or whatever, or Petrosian twins, but the fucking fake photo that Eric Adams claimed he carried around with him of his deceased colleague from his policing days.
[01:24:52]  Do you remember this?
[01:24:53]  That he stained with coffee.
[01:24:54]  He stained with coffee and burned on the edges to make it look like an old treasure mask.
[01:24:58]  I really like wish that we had a video of him going step by step into how he aged the photo.
[01:25:05]  Like I really would love to see him in his son's bedroom, I'm assuming, like sitting there, like, and how he was, did he look up?
[01:25:14]  Like, oh, how do I make it look older?
[01:25:15]  Or he like brewed some coffee and then put it on the thing.
[01:25:18]  Like, all of those little steps, they give me great joy.
[01:25:21]  Yeah.
[01:25:22]  I love a craft night.
[01:25:23]  Liz, I don't.
[01:25:24]  I want us to actually end on a little reading here that's sort of towards the bottom.
[01:25:31]  I put it in here because I think it's one of my favorite exchanges that Eric Adams has ever had.
[01:25:37]  When Adams opened the event to questions, a reporter in the front row called out, since you brought up your eating habits, I just wanted to clarify something.
[01:25:46]  How often do you eat fish?
[01:25:49]  And do you eat any other animal proteins?
[01:25:52]  I lead a plant-based, centered life, Adams replied, the plastic food spread out before him.
[01:25:58]  Some people want to call me vegan.
[01:26:00]  Vegans eat Oreos and they drink Coca-Cola.
[01:26:03]  I don't, the mayor said.
[01:26:05]  I lead a plant-based, centered life.
[01:26:09]  So you eat fish? The reporter asked.
[01:26:12]  The consonant that forms the word no barely escaped the mayor's lips.
[01:26:16]  Then he stopped.
[01:26:17]  I lead a plant-based centered life.
[01:26:21]  The reporter pressed, what's your favorite kind of fish?
[01:26:24]  I lead a plant-based-centered life, he said again, slower this time.
[01:26:33]  That is a fucking mayor of the biggest city in the United States of fucking America.
[01:26:38]  This guy.
[01:26:39]  This fucking man.
[01:26:40]  What a fucking client.
[01:26:42]  You know, it is one of those things where it's like, I, you know, okay, he sucks.
[01:26:45]  He's stupid.
[01:26:45]  He's annoying.
[01:26:46]  He's bad.
[01:26:47]  He's horrible.
[01:26:47]  He cut all of like, he cut so many like essential city services.
[01:26:53]  Yeah.
[01:26:53]  He's been fucking terrible.
[01:26:54]  Libraries close on fucking Sundays.
[01:26:57]  But also, he does seem perfect for New York.
[01:27:00]  Yeah, this is, this is a city.
[01:27:01]  You do sort of feel like you get the mayor you deserve.
[01:27:04]  And it is a city full of morons who think they're big shit.
[01:27:07]  Yes.
[01:27:07]  Yeah.
[01:27:08]  And the way that people gassed him up, like, how fucking stupid did you have to be to gas up this guy?
[01:27:14]  Like, all of these people who are like, oh, this is, this is going to be the future.
[01:27:18]  You're a fucking moron.
[01:27:20]  It should, you know what?
[01:27:20]  Anybody could see he was this, this guy.
[01:27:22]  Who's acting surprised about this?
[01:27:25]  He is like, he's so, what, what strikes me is like so apparent.
[01:27:29]  And I think a lot of people did see this, but none of those people were like prominent journalists or politicians that endorsed him.
[01:27:36]  But like, because everyone endorsed him.
[01:27:38]  Yes.
[01:27:39]  But like any normal person, any normal person could see that he's a malicious idiot and that he's corrupt to the fucking core.
[01:27:46]  And they were fucking lied to you and lied to you and lied to you.
[01:27:49]  And by the way, all these mayor, they're all like this.
[01:27:52]  He's just worse than it.
[01:27:53]  Yeah.
[01:27:55]  I love you guys.
[01:27:57]  Let's all say I love you to each other on three.
[01:27:59]  One, two, three.
[01:28:01]  I love you.
[01:28:03]  Gotcha.
[01:28:04]  Gotcha.
[01:28:05]  You never make it in a big city like this, baby.
[01:28:07]  New York, eat you up and spit you out.
[01:28:11]  Good thing I had pineapple for lunch.
[01:28:13]  I'm Liz.
[01:28:14]  My name is Brace.
[01:28:15]  And we are, of course, joined by producer Young Chomsky.
[01:28:18]  This has been Truinon.
[01:28:19]  We'll see you next time.