Oct. 23, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show
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| Ladies and gentlemen, the mob is back. | ||
| That is right. | ||
| Mama Mia, the mafia is back. | ||
| This is really a wild story. | ||
| This broke pretty much like an hour before we went live here. | ||
| Absolutely insane story. | ||
| You know, there's been a lot of bad news coming out of New York City lately. | ||
| You know, it really does feel like New York is on live support. | ||
| We got Zoron scooping up rice with his hands. | ||
| It's like just totally demoralizing everything coming out of there. | ||
| And then like a gift from the heavens. | ||
| Four of the five crime families of New York City have come together to commit a lot of organized crime and provide us with some entertainment. | ||
| This is great. | ||
| This is so exciting. | ||
| Look, obviously, you know, I'm not endorsing the mob. | ||
| They've caused a lot of problems for a lot of very good people over the years. | ||
| So, you know, this isn't me endorsing. | ||
| I'm just saying, you know what? | ||
| It's just good to have some action again. | ||
| It's good. | ||
| It really feels like New York is back. | ||
| You know, it's really a beautiful thing. | ||
| So if you didn't see the news, the FBI released or they issued a statement this morning. | ||
| They had a press conference letting the public know about this massive indictment. | ||
| They busted up this huge criminal enterprise. | ||
| The NBA is involved. | ||
| Chauncey Billups, you probably haven't heard that name in years. | ||
| He's coaching. | ||
| I didn't even realize. | ||
| You know, my NBA knowledge is frozen from about five to six years ago. | ||
| Chauncey Billups, Scary Terry, Terry Rozier is involved. | ||
| This is really an unbelievable story. | ||
| And look, it's going to make a great documentary. | ||
| It's going to be fantastic. | ||
| So let's get it. | ||
| Well, we'll get into the story. | ||
| We'll also have some updates, also New York related from the debate last night. | ||
| I don't know if you saw the clips. | ||
| Curtis Sleewa is just putting on a clinic of how to entertain the crowd. | ||
| Unfortunately, the less entertaining part is that a third world communist Islamist is taking over the city. | ||
| So that's unfortunate. | ||
| But we will take a deep dive into the New York City mayoral election. | ||
| And if we have time, if we have time, we will take a look at the situation with ICE. | ||
| ICE has been ramping up raids in a lot of different cities. | ||
| We have a story out of Chinatown involving ICE. | ||
| If we have time, we will get to that. | ||
| Hilarious, hilarious story. | ||
| Well, you know, not hilarious if you're here illegally, but hilarious if you're a patriot. | ||
| So with that, I am your host, Tate Brown. | ||
| I am holding it down today on this beautiful Thursday for Timpool. | ||
| It's a beautiful day. | ||
| We're just outside our nation's capital here, our newly liberated capital, thanks to the National Guard. | ||
| And it's a nice, you know, balmy day today. | ||
| It's getting a little nippy. | ||
| You know, sweatshirts are coming out. | ||
| It's hoodie season. | ||
| If you're, you know, if you're like me, you know, God loved you so much, he made a little extra of you. | ||
| Hoodie season is where you come alive. | ||
| Hoodie season is where you start making plays. | ||
| So very exciting times we're entering. | ||
| But I love this story. | ||
| I'm very excited. | ||
| So we're going to get into it. | ||
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| I actually sampled it last night. | ||
| I finally got my mitts on a cup of Mary's Ghost Blend, and it's some good stuff, and it really does get you in the Halloween mood. | ||
| So, with that, let's get into our first story, and let me send a message to my team real quick. | ||
| With that, let's get into the first story from ABC News. | ||
| Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billips charged an illegal poker operation tied to the mafia. | ||
| Oh, finally, finally, a monster story. | ||
| You know, all these stories about like the shutdown, and people are like complaining about like a ballroom. | ||
| Like, honestly, boring snooze fest. | ||
| Hello, here we go. | ||
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Boom. | |
| We love this. | ||
| This is really something. | ||
| And if you know Ball, you know that they were formerly the Portland Jailblazers back in the 2000s. | ||
| It was like guests were getting arrested or players were getting arrested left and right. | ||
| And it's kind of a return to tradition. | ||
| You know, there's a lot of conservatives in the audience who want to return to tradition. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| We have Trailblazers going to jail. | ||
| We have the mobs involved. | ||
| I mean, this is really, it really feels like we've been plunged back into the past. | ||
| So, this is really tremendous stuff. | ||
| So, anyway, I will read from ABC News. | ||
| Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups charged an illegal poker operation tied to the mafia. | ||
| Heat guard Terry Rozier, also known as Scary Terry, was arrested in a separate but relating betting case. | ||
| So, these are two separate cases. | ||
| Billops was caught up in a sting around illegal poker games, and Terry Rozier was booked under a case involving sports betting fraud. | ||
| So, two separate cases, but part of the same overarching indictment. | ||
| This is a case one Rico charge. | ||
| So, really a monster, monster story. | ||
| Let's read. | ||
| Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billips is among those charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the mafia. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| While Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier is among several people charged in a separate but related illegal gambling case, authorities announced on Thursday. | ||
| The poker games, which included basketball players to lend credibility to their authenticity, were allegedly rigged in favor of those running the games using advanced technology such as rigged shuffling machines and even x-ray technology to read cards that were facing down on the table. | ||
| This was according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Joseph Nokela Nacella Jr. | ||
| Games were organized beginning in 2019 and the Hamptons, Manhattan, Las Vegas, and Miami officials said the profits from the alleged poker scheme ran up to $7 million and counting officials said. | ||
| And the investigation took place across two years, according to the NYPD commissioner, Jessica Tish. | ||
| I don't have a video of Jessica Tish, but I was kind of disturbed when she popped up. | ||
| I mean, look, she may be good at her job. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know anything about this lady. | ||
| But there's something, there's something sad that the NYPD, because when you think NYPD, when I want the commissioner to get up, I want like a grizzled, like Irish guy, clearly has an alcohol problem. | ||
| Clearly, his kids won't call him. | ||
| That's what I want. | ||
| I want a guy that has a chip on his shoulder, is Irish. | ||
| And instead, I'm watching the press conference like an hour ago. | ||
| And this lady gets up. | ||
| She looks like she should be terrorizing an HOA, quite frankly. | ||
| That's kind of the phenotype she has. | ||
| And they introduce her as the NYPD commissioner. | ||
| Like, what are we doing here? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Let me just pull up a picture of this lady, Tish. | ||
| So, you know, I'm not riffing. | ||
| Like, what are we doing here? | ||
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Come on. | |
| This is New York City. | ||
| Are we serious right now? | ||
| So, anyway, I don't want to rag on, again, she might be good at her job. | ||
| Judging by the crime situation in New York, I doubt it. | ||
| The NYPD was literally complaining that the feds were cleaning up Canal Street for them. | ||
| So, you know, I'm not big on what I've seen so far from her. | ||
| But anyway, I digress. | ||
| Let's keep reading. | ||
| When victims, some of whom lost millions, refused to pay, the mob defendants resorted to violence, the NYPD said. | ||
| Quote, the fraud is mind-boggling. | ||
| This is from FBI Director Cash Patel. | ||
| We are talking about tens of millions of dollars in theft, in fraud, and in robbery. | ||
| Dude, this is insane. | ||
| So I'm going to pull up. | ||
| I'll keep reading here in a sec, but I want to pull up the video of the FBI confirming this indictment. | ||
| This is really just dramatic stuff. | ||
| And the documentary is going to be insane. | ||
| I cannot emphasize that enough. | ||
| So let's listen in here. | ||
| This was about an hour ago. | ||
| This is via Timcast News. | ||
| We clipped this. | ||
| Thank you, Director Patel. | ||
| To be clear, we're announcing today indictments in two major cases, both involving fraud. | ||
| One involves sports betting, and the other involves illegal gambling, very specifically rigged poker games. | ||
| The first indictment involves six defendants who are alleged to have participated in one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States. | ||
| This scheme is an insider sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential information about National Basketball Association athletes and teams. | ||
| The second indictment involves 31 defendants alleged to have participated in a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games. | ||
| These defendants, which include former professional athletes, used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed. | ||
| The games in the New York area were backed by the Bonano, Gambino, and Genovese crime families of La Casa Nostra. | ||
| While the cases are separate, there are three overlapping defendants charged in both cases: Damon Jones, Eric Ernest, and Shane Hennen. | ||
| The indictments in these cases contain only allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until they are proven guilty in a court of law. | ||
| But my message to the defendants who've been rounded up today is this: your winning streak has ended. | ||
| Your luck has run out. | ||
| Violating the law is a losing proposition, and you can bet on that. | ||
| Oh, dude, you know, when he was writing that down on his notes app on his phone before he got up, he's like, Yeah, this will cook. | ||
| This will bang. | ||
| It's actually kind of fire. | ||
| I respect that. | ||
| I tip the hat. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| La Casa Nostra is back in the, I mean, this is really something. | ||
| I mean, I said it at the opening of the show. | ||
| New York aura has been down like tremendously. | ||
| Like, it really hasn't recovered. | ||
| And then, like, Zoron's going to be, I mean, like, what are we doing? | ||
| And then all of a sudden, La Casa Nostra says, guys, look, hang on, relax. | ||
| We're going to bring New York back ourselves. | ||
| We got this. | ||
| Fire up the x-ray machine for the poker table. | ||
| Get Chauncey Billups over here. | ||
| Let's get after it. | ||
| Let's save New York. | ||
| Let's bring it back. | ||
| So, yeah, I'll keep reading here. | ||
| This is still that same ABC News article for the record. | ||
| Billops, so Chauncey Billops coached the Trailblazers and their season opener on Wednesday night, a loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. | ||
| Billops was a Hall of Fame player, mostly for the Detroit Pistons, before retiring in 2014. | ||
| He was a five-time all-star in his 17 years in the NBA and led the Pistons to an NBA title in 2004, being named finals MVP. | ||
| Christopher Rea, I think is how you say his name, assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York Field Office, called it a quote, massive nationwide takedown of 34 defendants in connection with two separate sports betting and illegal poker schemes. | ||
| Oh my goodness. | ||
| Also, in the press conference, this gentleman, he was naming the teams involved, and it was like the Hornets, the, you know, whatever, the Lakers, and then he called them the Toronto Rangers. | ||
| But presumably, he's talking about Toronto Raptors because of their player Jante Porter, former player, was wrapped up in this. | ||
| But that was kind of funny. | ||
| I was like racking my brain. | ||
| Like, Toronto Rangers, when did they, you know, change? | ||
| When did they rebrand? | ||
| But I was like, as Raptors, like, is that an Indian name that I didn't know about that was offensive and they changed it? | ||
| But no, he was referring to the Toronto Raptors. | ||
| But I digress. | ||
| Among the defendants are current and former NBA coaches and players, authorities said, as well as 13 mafia members and associates from the Bonano, Gambino, and Genovese crime families. | ||
| Some of the classics, right? | ||
| This is some of the greatest hits. | ||
| It's almost like a reunion tour in a lot of ways. | ||
| This is really tremendous stuff. | ||
| Authorities described it as a sprawling criminal enterprise to, quote, dupe unsuspecting gamblers. | ||
| Meanwhile, in what officials described as an overlapping case tied to prop betting on NBA games, Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones have been arrested. | ||
| Rozier and Jones allegedly passed inside information to four co-defendants who are accused of passing the information to a network of sports bettors, sources said. | ||
| Those bettors allegedly placed wagers with online sports books or retail betting outlets, which prohibit betting based on non-public information. | ||
| Yeah, that's a good start. | ||
| We don't want that. | ||
| That's kind of kills the point. | ||
| The indictment included an example from March 23rd, 2023, when Rozier, then playing for the Charlotte Hornets, allegedly tipped off a co-defendant that he planned to leave the game early with a purported injury, sources said. | ||
| He left the game nine minutes in. | ||
| Dude, you can't make it so obvious. | ||
| Like, what are we doing? | ||
| A co-defendant and others allegedly placed 200 grand in wagers, betting Rozier would underperform his statistics. | ||
| And yeah, let's see if it says further down the article. | ||
| There was a few other players named here. | ||
| It's not in this article, but they were discussing how Rozier would get paid because obviously if he's throwing the game or whatever to give off a tip, he would need to be compensated for this. | ||
| And in the indictment, they were saying that these mobsters would drive to his house with just a briefcase full of cash and they would just count it in the house and then they'd be on their way. | ||
| Like insane. | ||
| It's since this is so old school. | ||
| But yeah, so crazy, crazy story. | ||
| Obviously, Terry Rozier being investigated here. | ||
| This was Brick Center put together this compilation. | ||
| Great name. | ||
| And this account, old NBA tweets, threw some really poignant commentary on here. | ||
| Knew it wasn't possible to play this bad in a game, LMFAO. | ||
| And this is a low light reel of Terry Rozier. | ||
| Now watch this. | ||
| Think about an NBA player. | ||
| Just think about like your local YMCA. | ||
| What kind of caliber of player is there? | ||
| Now think about how much better an NBA player would be. | ||
| This looks like what you would see from a 45-year-old dad on the verge of a divorce, probably drunk. | ||
| This is really what you would see. | ||
| But no, this is a star point guard. | ||
| He was excellent for the Boston Celtics. | ||
| This is how he's playing in the National Basketball Association. | ||
| Just watch this video. | ||
| This really says it all. | ||
| He's got to do the fake. | ||
| Oh. | ||
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Oh, no. | |
| He is having a tough night, but he's going to make a lot of money. | ||
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So it's all right. | |
| Oh, a little spoiled 360 of turnover. | ||
| Or scoop layup there. | ||
| Step back to a step back, brick. | ||
| Airball. | ||
| Step back airball. | ||
| This is really something. | ||
| Another step back and brick. | ||
| Okay, that was a brick. | ||
| From the corner, spot up brick. | ||
| And here we go. | ||
| Another horrid shot. | ||
| Throwing the ball away. | ||
| Sizing up his opponent. | ||
| Here he goes. | ||
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Brick. | |
| And keep in mind, this was all in the same game. | ||
| This was in the same game. | ||
| So this isn't like, you know, nitpicking here. | ||
| This is all from the same game. | ||
| It's like, bro, you got to be a little more discreet here. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| It's impossible to play that. | ||
| Again, this is the type of antics you would see at a lifetime fitness at 6 p.m. after everyone's off work, followed by a fight. | ||
| Usually that's how this would go down. | ||
| I don't think there was a fight after. | ||
| I think he just got paid. | ||
| You may be asking yourself, why? | ||
| Why would he need to do this? | ||
| And I'm asking the same thing. | ||
| Now, I know, first of all, the antics we saw in that clip, that's WNBA activity. | ||
| We know they're a little strapped for cash. | ||
| So if there was like a, you know, a betting ring and it was benefiting WNBA players, I would be like, that makes sense, you know, because they're making like, you know, 40 grand a year or whatever. | ||
| As they, that's probably too much, honestly. | ||
| Like, no one watches it. | ||
| But this is a career earnings. | ||
| He's made over his career so far, and he's only 31. | ||
| So he still has probably four more, four or five more years in the league. | ||
| $160 million of career earnings. | ||
| Now, look, you know, I know, you know, professional athletes aren't, you know, known for their, you know, adherence to sort of Dave Ramsey financial principles, but how do you, how do you spend $160 million to the point where you need to turn to the mob to make money? | ||
| Like, what is going on here? | ||
| Absolutely bizarre. | ||
| Here's another tweet. | ||
| This was pretty funny. | ||
| This was from January 30th. | ||
| So this is over nine months ago. | ||
| This was from an account, FTBL Rocco. | ||
| Don't know much about him, but he was pointing out he was watching the Portland Trailblazers game and he sent this tweet out. | ||
| He fired this tweet off. | ||
| If Terry Rozier is being investigated, Chauncey Billops needs to be as well. | ||
| Denny Avida has played so many minutes in the five of the last six. | ||
| And the others, he played 26, which was also conveniently against the magic. | ||
| Billups clearly deciding to bet the under on him versus Orlando. | ||
| Now, look, I know, I know Billup is only being indicted on illegal poker-related charges, but We've seen a lot of antics from the NBA recently and other sports as well that would seem to indicate that they're very aware of the betting odds throughout the game. | ||
| Like you're just seeing players chunk up half-court shots for no reason. | ||
| The sports betting has blown it wide open. | ||
| Even ESPN is aware of how sort of out of hand the sports, because I've maintained this position. | ||
| When it comes to sports betting sort of legislation, I was never so much worried about like protecting the consumer, as messed up as that sounds. | ||
| Because gambling has always existed. | ||
| It's whatever. | ||
| I'm not going to really pontificate on that, but I was more concerned about the integrity of the sport. | ||
| That's kind of what worried me is because these guys are going to be very well aware of what the money line is. | ||
| Look at ESPN. | ||
| This was from Legion Hoops. | ||
| Here's the clip. | ||
| ESPN just quietly removed their ESPN bet logo during a segment. | ||
| Ontario Razier and Chauncey Billips' gambling arrests this morning. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| This is hilarious. | ||
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What's that bottom right? | |
| The league stayed far away from it. | ||
| Was something that networks like ESPN would stay far away from. | ||
| Those days are obviously long behind us. | ||
| You hear a lot about legal sports gambling on this show. | ||
| The Boston boys, obviously, sports gambling is a huge part of what we do. | ||
| So we put those all out there as a preamble because it might be in the back of people's minds and we acknowledge that this is a different time and place. | ||
| However, there is a fine line. | ||
| Not so fine. | ||
| There is a like again, but same thing, same advice I'm giving Rozier. | ||
| You got to be a little more, you got to have a little more, you know, suave suaveness with like, what are we doing? | ||
| Just like some PA getting screamed at like off camera. | ||
| Get that off. | ||
| Get that off. | ||
| So dude, like that is a little too obvious. | ||
| So here's the sports world giving their reaction to this insane story. | ||
| I'll just skim through this real quick. | ||
| Pat McAfee, holy bleep. | ||
| The gambling arrests in the NBA right now are crazy. | ||
| Jeff Passon pointing out an active coach in the NBA who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024 was arrested today as part of a widespread gambling investigation. | ||
| It's also teen one seen one player taken into custody. | ||
| Again, a Hall of Famer. | ||
| This guy, what's he need the money for? | ||
| Damian Woody saying, excuse me, in response to the drop here. | ||
| Chris Vernon, also a fellow Memphian. | ||
| We love Chris Vernon. | ||
| He says, obviously awful for Billips, but huge sigh of relief for a league. | ||
| A coach involved with sports betting would have been catastrophic. | ||
| Does he know? | ||
| Does he know that they're probably much more involvement? | ||
| So, dude, this is an insane story. | ||
| We are going to bring in later in about eight minutes Joe Perry, a little snuff. | ||
| He is someone that is quite familiar with sort of mob activities. | ||
| He knows how they operate. | ||
| He is the co-host of the show Skinny with Joey Marilino. | ||
| So Merlino, we're going to bring him in and he's going to really break this down further. | ||
| This sort of the ins and outs of what's going on here. | ||
| But yeah, absolutely insane story. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I can't wait to see how this develops. | ||
| And great work by Cash Patel busting up this enterprise. | ||
| I mean, this is really fantastic stuff, Cash Patel and the FBI. | ||
| Trump is coming. | ||
| I see a clip here that was put. | ||
| Trump is coming. | ||
| That was the quote from Stephen A. Smith regarding the FBI investigation. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| Trump is coming. | ||
| Enough is enough. | ||
| So with that, we're going to get to our next story out of New York City from Newsweek. | ||
| Zoron Mamdani's chances of winning the New York election after final Cuomo debate. | ||
| Zoron Mamdani, it feels like I'm always afraid of saying his name too fast because I feel like I'm casting a spell when I say it. | ||
| Also, his name ends in an I. So there is probably a contingent of the Italian population in New York that maybe thinks he's Italian and we'll vote for him. | ||
| Not entirely sure, but yeah, you have to be careful saying his name. | ||
| You know, like this cube over here might start floating or something. | ||
| But with that, we'll read from Newsweek. | ||
| Zoron Mamdani's odds of winning the New York mayoral election received a slight boost from one leading bookmaker, but suffered a knock with another following his heated final debate with independent rival Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday. | ||
| We'll take a look at the betting odds here. | ||
| So the debate was last night. | ||
| This was a mayoral debate. | ||
| It was Zoron, who we all know and love. | ||
| He's great. | ||
| You know, he's, you don't want to shake his hand after he eats, though. | ||
| You're going to get schmutz all over you. | ||
| But he's running. | ||
| He's socialist. | ||
| He's, you know, whatever. | ||
| You know, it's not good news. | ||
| And then we have Andrew Cuomo, you know, killing grannies and slapping fannies. | ||
| We, you know, know and love the love gov. I'm not a rapist. | ||
| I'm just Italian. | ||
| That was the Chiron that was on Fox News while he was speaking. | ||
| So two really interesting characters. | ||
| And then Curtis Sleewa was also on the debate stage, and he was just like riffing. | ||
| Like he's great. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| I mean, Mamdani's kind of a shoe-in at this point, unfortunately. | ||
| But I'm really hoping. | ||
| It seems like him and Curtis have formed a bit of a romance. | ||
| It would be really nice if Curtis could be put in charge of something because he's great. | ||
| We love him. | ||
| And I think Cuomo should probably drop out to give Sleewa a better chance. | ||
| Everyone's like, oh, Sleewa, like Bill Ackman's like pulling his hair out. | ||
| Like, why aren't you dropping out? | ||
| You're going to hurt Cuomo's chances. | ||
| Hey, no, the Granny Killer should be taking the back seat. | ||
| Curtis has been doing his thing for years now with the Guardian Angels. | ||
| Let him cook. | ||
| Let him have a go at Mamdani. | ||
| But either way, it's pretty much over. | ||
| Mamdani, after the debate yesterday, went up to 93% chance of winning the New York mayoral election. | ||
| I'm going to show you some of the highlights from the debate last night. | ||
| ACYN was capturing some clips here. | ||
| This was in response to a question, would you accept Mayor Adams' endorsement? | ||
| This has kind of been a running joke is that Memdani and Cuomo, when they do these questions, will give just like a one-word answer. | ||
| And then Sliwa just kind of starts cooking. | ||
| So here's the clip. | ||
| This was via C-SPAN. | ||
|
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Would any of you accept Mayor Adams' endorsement? | |
| Mr. Mondani. | ||
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No. | |
| Mr. Cuomo. | ||
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Yes, sir, wouldn't. | |
| Mr. Sleewa. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| Put that crook in jail where he belongs. | ||
| Dude, he's so awesome. | ||
| He just gets it. | ||
| He's just like, he's just, I love him. | ||
| I think he's fantastic. | ||
| I think he's really something. | ||
| So here's another question they posed to the panel. | ||
| If there were a ranked choice election, how would you vote? | ||
| And here was the responses these, you know, hopefuls, mayoral hopefuls gave. | ||
| Answer the straight question. | ||
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If there is a ranked choice election, how would you vote, Mr. Mamdani? | |
| If there was a ranked choice election, you'd have to rank these. | ||
| Myself, number one, and Curtis, number two. | ||
| Mr. Sliwa. | ||
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Oh, please don't be glaciing me here, Zoron. | |
| Are you kidding? | ||
| Dude, he's just awesome. | ||
| He's so New York. | ||
| Like this. | ||
| Look, there's been, I'm a big, like, anthropology nerd. | ||
| And there's been a like basically evisceration of the New York accent, like with people under 35. | ||
| It really doesn't exist anymore. | ||
| Zoron's a great example of that. | ||
| Zoron doesn't have a New York accent, even though he spent, you know, I think the majority of his life in New York at this point. | ||
| He just kind of has this generic American accent. | ||
| And that's because the accent is just going away, partially because of mass migration, but also just because of social media. | ||
| Like all across the country, regional accents are sort of disappearing with the youth. | ||
| And Curtis Sleewa is kind of like this, you know, reminder of like New York. | ||
| Like this is how New York is at its core. | ||
| This is what this is what it's all about. | ||
| He's eccentric. | ||
| He's enigmatic. | ||
| And he's got this like, he's just dripping in like lore. | ||
| Like every story, he's like, you know, always talking about he's getting shot all the time. | ||
| Like it's ridiculous. | ||
| And his accent is fantastic. | ||
| It's very New York. | ||
| So this is like, you know, drink it in while you can. | ||
| Because after, you know, Cuomo and Sleewa are gone, I mean, I don't know if we'll ever see this again, but Sleeva's great. | ||
| Unfortunately, this is the bad news is Memdani is kind of a shoo-in. | ||
| Jack Pasobic, friend of the show, he tweeted this this morning. | ||
| And I think this really just kind of ties this all together. | ||
| Memdani will still win because elections are won by demographics, not debates now. | ||
| So look, this is just the truth. | ||
| This is the hard truth. | ||
| This is the tough pill to swallow is demographics are destiny. | ||
| I mean, that's just the truth. | ||
| You can't replace New Yorkers with foreigners and then like scratch your head as why someone like Zoron would win. | ||
| It's pretty obvious because he represents them. | ||
| He doesn't represent New Yorkers or Americans. | ||
| He represents this sort of foreign class that's been brought in. | ||
| There's no question about it. | ||
| Where at this point, and this is really the problem all across the West, is elections aren't even really about the candidates anymore. | ||
| It's just a census. | ||
| That's all that's really happening here. | ||
| All that Memdani is effectively is he's, this is sort of a census. | ||
| This is a census of non-Americans. | ||
| And they love this guy because he's one of them. | ||
| He's not American either. | ||
| Like he couldn't even be bothered to grab citizenship until like a few years ago. | ||
| So yeah, Poso just hit the nail on the head. | ||
| They're won by demographics and not debates now. | ||
| It didn't matter if Cuomo got up there and totally eviscerated Memdani. | ||
| It wouldn't change anything. | ||
| People have their minds made up. | ||
| Memdani is promising to really just destroy America fundamentally, specifically this sort of rage at white Americans, at middle Americans. | ||
| This is sort of the new group of people's middle finger towards middle America, broadly speaking, Heritage America. | ||
| And yeah, so that is the unfortunate undercurrent is Zoron is not a bug. | ||
| He is a feature. | ||
| Even if, let's just say, Sleewa dropped out and everyone rallied behind Cuomo and got him across the finish line. | ||
| That's just buying you four more years because even if it's not Zoron, you're going to have another Zoron type in four years running. | ||
| This is the Democrat Party now. | ||
| The Democrat Party is a third worldist party that's just full stop, full stop. | ||
| That's the situation. | ||
| That's the reality. | ||
| We just have to get our heads around that. | ||
| So with that, I will close down our opening portion of the show here. | ||
| Like I said, we will be joined by Joe Perry. | ||
| Fantastic, fantastic. | ||
| I guess he's going to break down the FBI indictment in detail. | ||
| With that, if you're watching live, obviously you're going to see it. | ||
| And if you're watching on Rumble, you'll see it. | ||
| It's coming right up next. | ||
| If not, you can watch it at 4 p.m. on the Culture War channel on YouTube. | ||
| I've been your host, Tate Brown. | ||
| You can follow me on X and Instagram at RealTate Brown. | ||
| We will be back tonight for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m. | ||
| The Diva is free. | ||
| George Santos is here. | ||
| So we will be hanging out with him tonight. | ||
| Thank you very much for watching. | ||
| With that, I have the story here from the Associated Press. | ||
| Heats Rozier and Trailblazers Billups charged in sports betting and mafia-backed poker schemes. | ||
| This was this morning. | ||
| This is breaking news. | ||
| And this is a wild, wild case. | ||
| Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier were arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people accused of participating in schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the mafia. | ||
| Rozier is accused of participating in a legal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information, while Billup is being charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-ranged scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by mafia families. | ||
| Authorities said both men face money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy charges and were expected to make initial court appearances later Thursday. | ||
| So this is a wild story and I knew I had to bring in an expert here. | ||
| So we're going to grab Joe, Joe Perry. | ||
| He's a legend. | ||
| We love him. | ||
| And we're going to bring him in here and we're going to ask him what he knows, what he thinks. | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| Where did the mob go? | ||
| Why are they back? | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| So let's see if we can get it fired up here. | ||
| Hey, Joe, can you hear me? | ||
| I can hear you. | ||
| How are we doing, brother? | ||
|
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Good. | |
| How are you? | ||
| I'm doing all right. | ||
| Well, look, a lot of people are familiar with you. | ||
| Obviously, there's a there's you know quite a big fan base, but uh, maybe for people that don't, you could give a quick intro who you are, what you do. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So, social media influencer, I host a podcast with Skinny Joey Merlino, and we also own the cheesesteak store, 3020 South Broad Street, Skinny Joey's Cheesesteaks. | ||
| I love it, dude. | ||
| Well, I had to bring you in when I saw this indictment drop. | ||
| This is a wild, wild story. | ||
| I've been saying this is going to make a great documentary someday. | ||
| Yeah, of course, you know, they're always making a documentary. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| I mean, these Netflix ghouls are just swirling, waiting for something like this to happen, but this feels really old school. | ||
| Like, they're driving to Terry Rozier's house to drop money off. | ||
| There's like a lot of poker games. | ||
| Maybe you can give like what your initial thoughts and reaction was to this story. | ||
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Well, I mean, listen, there's poker games all over the world. | |
| I mean, I don't think that that's like based of a big deal. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, gambling's everywhere. | ||
| Player props are everywhere. | ||
| So who knows what really happened and what did happen? | ||
| I mean, but they said they got video footage of them throwing games and things like that. | ||
| So that's going to be crazy to see everything, you know, come to fruition. | ||
| So, okay, so this has been going on for a while. | ||
| Maybe you could like, I mean, because you're obviously quite familiar with sort of the inner workings of how the mob works and the mafia. | ||
| You know, you're obviously an expert on this sort of thing. | ||
| Can you maybe break down a little more why they use poker and gambling specifically? | ||
| What is the attraction to that? | ||
| Why is this sort of the calling card of sort of mafia operations? | ||
| Well, I really don't know anything about that. | ||
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I mean, mafia operations or whatever. | |
| I have nothing to do with any of that stuff. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
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I just think that they make it for headlines. | |
| They use them words for headlines. | ||
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That's really what it comes down to. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah, I got you. | ||
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I just think gambling is the biggest thing. | |
| Every athlete, every sports player is on every bullboard about gambling. | ||
| So it draws the attention. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, the sports betting thing in particular is wild because I mean, like, when they were looking to legalize sports betting, a lot of people were saying, I'm not even really concerned about the consumers protecting the consumers. | ||
| I'm worried about the integrity of the sport itself. | ||
| And this is what we're seeing here. | ||
| We're seeing players very aware, and in this case, coaches even potentially. | ||
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Listen, I'll be devastated if they take away player parlays or player props. | |
| That's all I gamble on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's the only excitement of the game. | ||
| No, it's true. | ||
| I mean, yeah, so it's like it's unlocked this new sort of pastime for Americans. | ||
| Like you can just sit on your couch and throw a parlay down. | ||
| But girls, guys, old ladies, grandfathers, everybody gambles and everybody gambles on player props. | ||
| $10 to win $10,000. | ||
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What else would you want to do? | |
| Yeah, but you know, a lot of people are saying, well, this, you know, hurts the integrity of the sport. | ||
| I mean, because, you know, a lot of these players are obviously aware of the money line. | ||
| Certainly Terry Rozier was. | ||
| I love Terry Rosier, too. | ||
| I used to bet on him all the time. | ||
| I got to be, you know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They call him scary Terry. | ||
| Well, because he came into the league and he was like really a rock star. | ||
| Like, you know, he's putting 30-point games and then he gets a paycheck, goes down to Charlotte and just like kind of falls apart. | ||
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Yeah, falls apart. | |
| And then he goes to Miami and he falls apart there. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| And you're wondering like, okay, you know, maybe he's just aware of these money lines and he's like, I can make more money on these, you know, side side activities than from actuality. | ||
| I mean, I think it would be crazy to throw away your contract of hundreds of millions of dollars to go gamble on yourself. | ||
| But it's like sports folks don't even see 20, 30,000 on a player prop. | ||
| They would already know. | ||
|
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You know what I mean? | |
| Right, right. | ||
| Yeah, it's so interesting that there's this indictment coming down now. | ||
| It really feels like Trump, obviously, I love Trump. | ||
| He's wanting to make a statement here and busting up an enterprise like this really does say it all. | ||
| And then obviously there's so much drama where there's two sort of wings of it. | ||
| There's the poker games and then there's the, yeah, there's the sports betting. | ||
| Yeah, we got to see what happens because it's going to definitely be a documentary. | ||
| You know, Trump's a smart guy. | ||
| He knows what he's doing. | ||
| Patel knows what he's doing. | ||
| So you're just going to have to see. | ||
| And I'm sure there's informants. | ||
| There's definitely going to be rats and informants that are giving up the taste. | ||
| So you have to see what happens. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you're an expert on sports betting. | ||
| I mean, you know it inside and out. | ||
| I mean, has this kind of stuff been going on? | ||
| I mean, before obviously the legalization and everything, like, you know, are players previously aware? | ||
| I mean, we had Pete Rose, obviously, was like a famous example. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe you can like explain a little more of like I think that they know, you know, especially back in the day before the player props, like you could read the paper, you would see the Eagles are favored by 14 this week. | ||
| The over and under are 49. | ||
| I'm sure every player was aware of it and coaches too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's, it's just really insane, insane stuff. | ||
| I mean, we saw like, we see in the NBA where they're just taking just bogus half-court shots for seemingly no reason. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And there's like guy, there was a video, I can't recall, there was a guy in the crowd like tapping his hat. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's like. | ||
| And I know that one time with the Trailblazers reporter, right? | ||
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They said he was betting the unders every game of his own. | |
| He would go in at halftime and say he was sick, so he won't play no more. | ||
| So there's a lot of stuff they're saying. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So this is really dramatic. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Do you think this is going to maybe sour? | ||
| I mean, because sports betting is so prevalent at this point. | ||
| Like my entire squad is just throwing parlays down left and right. | ||
| I mean, do you think that this is maybe going to sour people's like opinion on sports betting? | ||
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I mean, at the end of the day, people are always going to gamble, no matter if they have an edge or no edge. | |
| I don't think it's going to sour it. | ||
| It's a multi-billion dollar operation. | ||
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FanTool, DraftKings, Bad MGM. | |
| It's not going to affect them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Have you had a chance to read the activity going on at the poker side much? | ||
| Have you seen that? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, listen, like I said, in LA and Vegas, there's always poker games off the strip. | ||
| You know, just like growing up, my grandmother had a poker game. | ||
| Like she would play with her friends in the house. | ||
|
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I mean, but these guys are millions and millions of dollars, but they're all, you're always innocent, though, till you're proven guilty. | |
| No, it's true. | ||
| I mean, with all this, obviously, these guys, this is still just accusations. | ||
| Obviously, you know, we're going to hash this out in court. | ||
| But with the indictment, I mean, they were talking about how they brought in Chauncey Billups to sort of be the star power, right? | ||
| And they were saying that this could have some sort of like it could sort of throw the, I guess, victims off when they're, when they're betting. | ||
| But how could these people not see it coming? | ||
| Because, I mean, if you're thinking people that know the ins and outs of a poker table, I mean, surely they would see a lot of this nonsense going on. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| I really don't know. | ||
| They could make him the head. | ||
| There's always going to be one guy that's the head. | ||
| So, of course, a big name like Dolphs, I mean, that's probably why they used them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| It's just really bizarre. | ||
| I'm just wondering, like, how could they not realize like how that they're being scammed? | ||
| I mean, perhaps maybe one of them did realize and that's what put this on the FBI. | ||
|
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That's probably what happened. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's just insane. | ||
| But yeah, do you think this is going to have an impact on like, oh, let's just go back to sports. | ||
| I mean, do you think it's going to have an impact on sports betting overall? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I mean, look, tonight, there's a football game. | ||
| Think anybody cares? | ||
| Right. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| That's true. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| The parlay's got to hit no matter what. | ||
| No matter what. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, yeah, I mean, because it kind of seems like it's big. | ||
| I was showing a clip before we brought you on from ESPN where like on their Chiron in the bottom right, they have ESPN bet, obviously, like their in-house betting service. | ||
| And then like midway through the discussion, they just flip it off. | ||
| They just turn it off like the PA got yelled at or something. | ||
| And, but I don't know. | ||
| I kind of agree. | ||
| I think we have short memories as Americans. | ||
| I think we're just going to be like, oh, this would be a fun documentary. | ||
| And yeah, by tomorrow, somebody else will be in the news and the government might be shut down for another day. | ||
| So that will be another story. | ||
| And then they'll forget about this. | ||
| I've been kind of saying the same thing. | ||
| Maybe we should just like encourage the players to like partake in this because like, you know, if you bet on yourself, you'll play better in theory. | ||
| So like they should just say you're only allowed to bet on yourself. | ||
| I've kind of only allowed to bet overs, never understood. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Like, what's the problem there? | ||
| And I kind of thought the same thing with steroid usage. | ||
| It's like, I don't know. | ||
| Maybe just kind of release the freaks. | ||
| You know, maybe we should just let these guys juice up and just see what happens. | ||
| Yeah, you're right. | ||
| Everybody be like Otani. | ||
| That's it. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I wanted to ask you. | ||
| So can you maybe break down the Otani? | ||
| Because that's something that's been in the news a lot, but I think a lot of people, it's just too much to digest. | ||
| They can't quite sink their teeth into that story. | ||
| Obviously, Shoe Otani is the best player in baseball right now. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| I think I'm going to be the best player of all time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But maybe you could break down the sports gambling controversy with him. | ||
| So we interviewed the bookmaker allegedly that was taking Shohei Otani's interpreter's bets. | ||
|
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And he told us, he said, listen, it was definitely not Shohei Otan. | |
| You know, because when the bets were coming in, Shohei Otani was on the picture mount, betting Chinese soccer. | ||
| So he knew it wasn't him. | ||
| The interpreter definitely stole a lot of money and definitely was betting crazy amounts of money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's wild stuff. | ||
| I'm just kind of curious how sort of this enterprise, these guys that wanted to, you know, get access to inside our information, how they even got linked up with professional athletes. | ||
| I mean, that's so strange to me. | ||
|
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Yeah, it happens. | |
| Yeah, yeah, totally. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think, I mean, you know, Trump's obviously firing a shot across the bow here. | ||
| Maybe these guys just get a little more clever with how they're doing things. | ||
| Maybe they, I mean, if you're aware, I mean, I guess if you're betting the over, it just gives you incentive to ball out. | ||
| Listen, I wouldn't bet unders if I knew it was a winner. | ||
| It's not fun. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I want to bet overs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What did you think about on the poker side? | ||
| What did you think about they were using like x-ray machines and uh they were using like like I think they're saying like cameras and they were wearing like certain glasses that would allow them to see markings on the card. | ||
| Is that like I mean, is that I don't know much about poker. | ||
| I mean, I never heard of it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, they got to be really, really, that's like some CI stuff, you know, like James Bond. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, if that's what they were doing, but if you go to a poker game and 12 guys sitting at the table are wearing glasses, I'm sure you're going to feel like something's going on here. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it's, because it's strange because it's like, you know, if you're bringing these guys to a table with a celebrity and they're already like thrown off the game, why even bother with the extra stuff? | ||
| I mean, these guys are going to like panic and lose anyway. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's just really, just really strange stuff. | ||
| Well, I mean, I don't know. | ||
| Where do you think this is going to go? | ||
| Do you think this is like a pretty solid case? | ||
| I mean, well, I think it's going to be a solid case. | ||
| And of course, there's going to be performance and rats. | ||
| I'm sure 50 other people are going to get individual and locked up. | ||
| And then you see the glass trial and see what happens. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I mean, look, I mean, this is really a statement from Trump. | ||
| I mean, look, this is Cash Patel sort of getting down in the weeds here, obviously. | ||
| I mean, you know, Cash Patel, there's been a lot of controversy around him. | ||
| There's a lot of people saying, you know, I don't know about this guy. | ||
| This is a really impressive case here, busting up this criminal interview. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I love it. | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| Do you have any, like, do you have any thoughts on maybe if this sort of stuff is going on with like the NFL? | ||
| Because that's what we were debating before the show. | ||
| It's like, how does an NFL player participate in this sort of operation? | ||
| Because there's so many players in the field. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I don't really think it goes on with 99% athletes. | ||
| I really don't. | ||
| You might have one guy here and there that tells his cousin friend, bet on me today. | ||
| I'm going to have 40 points. | ||
| I mean, yeah, but he's just saying it like in conversation. | ||
| So I really don't think they do it. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, because the NFL, obviously, so many players, NBA, it's like one guy can really change the direction of the game. | ||
| Like I was, I was showing the low light reel of Terry Rozier. | ||
| It was just from a specific thing. | ||
| Yeah, he's just like chucking the ball away. | ||
| Like it looked like YMCA activities. | ||
| That's what was going on. | ||
| He was just giving the ball. | ||
| Yeah, I'm like, that's what you see at a lifetime fitness, not an NBA game. | ||
| But dude, with that, well, I appreciate you coming on, give me your thoughts. | ||
| I mean, thank you. | ||
| I appreciate you having me. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know if you want to give a shout out where people can find you if they want more. | ||
| So Joe underscore little snoss parry and then at Skimmy Joe in Chichen States. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Well, guys, go check it out. | ||
| I really appreciate you, man. | ||
| We'll catch you. | ||
| I'll catch you next time. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, that was Joe Perry, man. | ||
| He's a legend. | ||
| We love it. | ||
| So with that, we still have time here. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| We have still time for one more story that we will get into. | ||
| This is from the Mirror U.S. ICE agents storm Manhattan's Chinatown, quote, like a war zone, grabbing vendors and protesters. | ||
| Agents affiliated with ICE flooded downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, arresting multiple people, including several illegal vendors and protesters, authorities, and officials associated with the Operation Targeted Canal Street. | ||
| Now, look, again, I'm sorry if I'm wearing you out with the New York stuff. | ||
| It's a big city. | ||
| There's a lot going on. | ||
| If you visited, you probably know about Canal Street. | ||
| Canal Street is this really bizarre place because it's like right in the middle of the action. | ||
| So this isn't like the tenderloin. | ||
| Me and Serge were discussing yesterday. | ||
| He was like, is this like the Tenderloin? | ||
| You know, is this like Skid Row? | ||
| It's like, no, Canal Street's a weird like import from the third world. | ||
| So Canal Street, it's in Manhattan, like right in the midst of everything. | ||
| And it's just this strip where people lay out these mats and just sell trinkets. | ||
| Like it literally feels like India or something. | ||
| Like fake watches, fake bags. | ||
| They're selling like goofy merch, you know, like they screen print these t-shirts where the print will like fall off after like one wash. | ||
| And it's been going on for a very long time. | ||
| And it causes a lot of problems. | ||
| A lot of people avoid Canal Street. | ||
| They avoid walking down Canal Street because, you know, these guys have a propensity for pickpocketing. | ||
| You know, they got they're quick. | ||
| They're nimble with their hands. | ||
| You know, these things tend to happen. | ||
| And it's just been a huge problem. | ||
| And the NYPD just has refused to act on it. | ||
| I showed you yesterday or showed you earlier on the show, Jessica Tisch, the commissioner of the NYPD. | ||
| And when this raid happened, the NYPD put a statement out saying, we didn't know anything about it. | ||
| That was the feds. | ||
| And the replies really said it all. | ||
| Everyone's like, oh, what? | ||
| The feds cleaned up your mess? | ||
| Like, and you want to distance from that? | ||
| Because that really says it all. | ||
| And this has really been the situation in cities in the United States for a very long time, is it feels like the city governments hate their citizens. | ||
| That's really what it feels like. | ||
| Specifically with inaction on crime. | ||
| I mean, how is that? | ||
| How can that be interpreted as anything else but hostility towards your citizens? | ||
| You're throwing them into a buzzsaw. | ||
| That's effectively what's been going on, especially in cities like Memphis and cities like Detroit, like Chicago, St. Louis. | ||
| And it's easy to fix. | ||
| I mean, Bukele showed you can just, it's optional. | ||
| Crime with all the tools at our law enforcement's disposal. | ||
| In 2025, crime is effectively optional. | ||
| There's really no question about it. | ||
| So the toleration of something like Canal Street is optional. | ||
| You don't have to tolerate that. | ||
| And the NYPD, which I'm not going to blame the officers. | ||
| The officers are great. | ||
| I know NYPD officers. | ||
| There's a lot of patriots. | ||
| There's a lot that aren't, but a lot of patriots. | ||
| But their leadership, their leadership in the city government just hates New Yorkers. | ||
| They want them. | ||
| They like the filth. | ||
| They like the garbage. | ||
| They like the nonsense. | ||
| So ICE came in here, cleaned up the situation. | ||
| Again, Canal Street, you walk down, you're not going to hear a single American accent yelling at you. | ||
| It's all migrants primarily just pestering you about their fake Gucci bags or whatever. | ||
| So ICE came in here and busted up. | ||
| I'll keep reading here. | ||
| It was reported that ICE agents descended on the block located between Lafayette and Center Streets around 4 p.m. | ||
| Sources reported. | ||
| Vendors known for selling counterfeit merchandise attempted to flee and were seen running in a futile attempt to evade the agents. | ||
| WABC reported that police officers were checking IDs and took five vendors into custody, according to the reports. | ||
| The situation turned chaotic when protesters against the agency began shouting obscenities and blocking vehicles. | ||
| It comes after a sorry, it comes after a out-of-control ICE agent yells, do something, B, before shooting a woman five times. | ||
| That story, there's still a lot to uncover with that story. | ||
| Like people are passing around the same clip, but you know, it's whatever. | ||
| Reports show that at least one protester was taken into custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer during what is being described by the Department of Homeland Security as a, quote, targeted intelligence-driven enforcement operation. | ||
| AMNY reported that during the arrest of one vendor, the crowd became enraged and called the ICE officers Nazis and fascists. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| I mean, it's one of those things. | ||
| It's like you would know, right? | ||
| Like. | ||
| For one, they wouldn't let you be protesting if there was some sort of authoritarian crackdown. | ||
| You wouldn't even be allowed to protest. | ||
| So this is just ridiculous, ridiculous rhetoric. | ||
| We go on and on that like framing ICE officers as Nazis and framing conservatives broadly as Nazis. | ||
| When violence happens, it's like, yeah, because you set the table for it. | ||
| Like when you're using this ridiculous rhetoric. | ||
| So I'll keep reading here. | ||
| It was then the agents, then that the agents began slamming people to the ground, prompting several other bystanders to join the growing mob. | ||
| The number of arrests has yet to be made public. | ||
| Yeah, because the crowd was completely out of control. | ||
| It was absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| And yeah, so Nick Shirley was on the ground yesterday covering the protests. | ||
| I guess you would say there are protests that broke out following this raid. | ||
| You know, everyone had signs like ICE go home, da, da, da, da, da. | ||
| You know, this can't fly in New York City. | ||
| But all they're doing is there's a lot of New Yorkers that are just, maybe they don't want to leave. | ||
| They have family there. | ||
| They can't leave. | ||
| They don't have the financial means that are just being exposed to this for no reason, not to mention the businessmen, the dignitaries. | ||
| The UN is obviously headquartered in New York City. | ||
| Like the federal government has the right to come in there and clean up this ridiculous, ridiculous mess. | ||
| And that's exactly what happened. | ||
| And then these protests break out with just these like, there's losers, quite fair. | ||
| They're just losers. | ||
| That's all they are. | ||
| They hate to – fundamentally, it comes down to their hatred for ICE because ICE – I've brought a few guests onto the show, and we've discussed at length what is it specifically about ICE that arises so much animosity among leftist protesters. | ||
| Because Trump's making a lot of moves, but you never – they're mad about it, but it doesn't really drive them out into the streets. | ||
| But immigration enforcement is really what riles these people up. | ||
| I mean we saw it in Los Angeles a few months ago, and now we're seeing it again in New York City and other places across the country. | ||
| Something about ICE specifically animates the leftist. | ||
| There's something about it. | ||
| And if you drill down fundamentally, it's because ICE is the vanguard of the American people. | ||
| ICE has been given the mandate that – the mandate that was given to Trump, which was mass deportations, was then ICE as the enforcement arm of that mandate. | ||
| That's exactly what it is. | ||
| And fundamentally because they want to just overhaul the demographics of the United States. | ||
| That's primarily what's going on here. | ||
| That's a large part of what's driving this immigration. | ||
| There's other factors, obviously, and there's argument over which factor primarily is driving this. | ||
| I mean for one, immigration provides cheap labor. | ||
| Mass migration provides cheap labor for businesses. | ||
| If you don't believe me, just peruse the H-1B database for a little bit and you will see people completely undercutting American workers because it's just easier. | ||
| It's cheaper. | ||
| And that's what's driven a lot of this mass migration, quite frankly, is businesses encouraging it. | ||
| The business sector loves it. | ||
| Bernie Sanders famously, back when he was running for president in 2016, said that open borders were a Koch brothers proposal. | ||
| So even like these pro-union guys have been sounding the alarm on this saying, look, no, this only benefits the exorbitantly wealthy business owners. | ||
| And to a degree, even the small business owners, a lot of farms are getting busted for using specifically illegal labor. | ||
| So that's been a huge driving force behind it. | ||
| But another piece of the puzzle, Elon Musk has pointed out in particular is it overhauls the way that we conduct our elections. | ||
| It sort of undercuts democracy. | ||
| And, you know, leftists really seem to care about democracy. | ||
| They're always yapping about it. | ||
| They're saying, oh, Trump is undermining our democracy. | ||
| They have the phrase democratic backsliding. | ||
| That's like a favorite phrase of journal's specifically that they use to describe Trump. | ||
| But I can't think of a bigger example of undercutting democracy than importing a voter base. | ||
| Because in the vast majority, and not the vast majority, but in a lot of these districts across the United States, a large proportion of the voter base was imported. | ||
| Do you really think 50 years ago, Minneapolis would be electing like a Somali late? | ||
| I mean, like, let's just be honest here. | ||
| Do you think that would be happening 50 years ago? | ||
| No. | ||
| It's because the district has a lot of Somalis in it and they were imported here. | ||
| They were brought here from Somalia and they elected Elon Omar. | ||
| That's exactly, they're importing a voter base. | ||
| And that's the other piece of the puzzle. | ||
| And Elon Musk has been hitting on this. | ||
| But even beyond that, I think there's an extra element here that isn't discussed a lot is among the left, there's a tendency of self-hatred. | ||
| They hate themselves. | ||
| They feel like they're unfit for life. | ||
| They mar themselves up. | ||
| They denigrate themselves. | ||
| They hate themselves. | ||
| And this is what's driving the animosity towards ICE among white liberals because this has been pointed out a lot. | ||
| You know, obviously white liberals especially seem to be vocal on anti-ICE rates. | ||
| You can understand from other groups' perspectives because a lot of them have immigrant family or whatever. | ||
| So it's maybe a bit more personal for them. | ||
| But what is it about a white liberal, someone that's been in the country for hundreds of years? | ||
| What is it about Portland that drives this animosity? | ||
| And well, they hate themselves. | ||
| And what's sort of a core part of your identity is your culture, right? | ||
| It's your culture. | ||
| And they view the whiteness as something intrinsic to them. | ||
| And they hate that. | ||
| They want to destroy whiteness. | ||
| They want to be cool. | ||
| They want to be a participant in sort of the cosmopolitan, international person that's rising up, sort of this, this nationless, really ultimately perfect consumer. | ||
| Because like when you strip away every single identity of someone, you just create the perfect consumer. | ||
| Because someone that doesn't have any deep attachment to identity, the only identity that they will find will be in products and what they consume. | ||
| That's why they're obsessed with like Marvel movies or their favorite NFL team or whatever, or laboo boos. | ||
| I don't know, you name it. | ||
| They latch on to something that a business provides and that provides them identity because they're insecure in their own identity. | ||
| Being white, it's fine. | ||
| Being white, I mean, they've created the United States and Europe. | ||
| I mean, pretty good track record. | ||
| There's nothing to be ashamed of there. | ||
| They hate being the gender they are. | ||
| That's why the transgender sort of thing exists is because they fundamentally hate the gender that they are. | ||
| They hate that. | ||
| They hate their parents. | ||
| They hate Christianity. | ||
| They hate the church because the church tells them no. | ||
| They say, no, you can't do that. | ||
| That's bad for you. | ||
| That's corrosive to the soul. | ||
| They don't like to be told no. | ||
| They want to be this listless, blank slate that can just do whatever they want and consume whatever they want. | ||
| And they hate things that are impediments. | ||
| And your identity oftentimes is an impediment because you have responsibilities. | ||
| If you're a son or a daughter, you have responsibility to your parents. | ||
| If you're a father, responsibility to your children. | ||
| Brother or sister, you have responsibilities as being an American, right? | ||
| Responsibility to your country. | ||
| And they hate, they hate responsibility. | ||
| So it's to tie this all together. | ||
| This is what drives the hatred towards ICE, I think, specifically from white liberals, is because they hate whiteness. | ||
| They hate the fact that they are white. | ||
| And also from non-whites, they just hate whiteness because they view them as oppressors. | ||
| So this in combination results in this anti-ICE hatred, this specific vitriol towards ICE because it's like I said, it's pronounced. | ||
| There's something about ICE specifically that turns people out into the streets. | ||
| And that's what it is because they're deporting people that shouldn't be here. | ||
| And these people didn't come. | ||
| They're not American, right? | ||
| And they hate that. | ||
| They want to make America less American. | ||
| So there's not as much pressure on them. | ||
| There's not as much pressure to be American because they're just surrounded by non-Americans. | ||
| They want to transform America into this, you know, they call it the melting pot, but yeah, they do, this just kind of cosmopolitan, listless society. | ||
| They want a society of people that have no attachment to the country with no, you know, skin in the game, so to speak. | ||
| That's what they want because it takes the pressure off of them. | ||
| And they hate, they hate that. | ||
| They hate that about themselves. | ||
| The hatred towards ICE, and I can't emphasize this enough, is driven by self-hatred, hatred of their skin color, of their culture, of their heritage, of their family. | ||
| That's what it that's that's the driving force. | ||
| I mean, that's what it is. | ||
| So, with that, we will wind down the show here. | ||
| Uh, we have the Culture Live podcast. | ||
| I want to point this out. | ||
| I want to make you guys aware of this. | ||
| We have Alex Stein, Emily, Saves America, Myron Gaines, and Brian Shapiro that are coming into the house. | ||
| They're going to debate it. | ||
| They're going to hash it out. | ||
| Dating in the modern age. | ||
| Like, what's going on? | ||
| It's pretty stressful. | ||
| They're going to break it all down. | ||
| Go grab you a ticket for this event. | ||
| This is in Washington, D.C., at the DC Comedy Loft. | ||
| These events have been great so far. | ||
| It's just, it's a blast. | ||
| You just got to be there. | ||
| I can't if it says enough. | ||
| You've got to be there. | ||
| So, head on over to DC ComedyLoft.com. | ||
| Grab you some tickets while they're still there. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I can't guarantee you a ticket. | ||
| So, just buy them now so you don't have to worry about it. | ||
| It's on November 8th. | ||
| It's going to be a great show. | ||
| You're going to love it. | ||
| So, head on over there, grab you a ticket. | ||
| And with that, we will close. | ||
| I just want to say thank you so much for watching. | ||
| This is a wild story. | ||
| I can't wait to watch it develop more. | ||
| We're just going to see what goes down. | ||
| And yeah, you can follow me on X and Instagram at RealTate Brown. | ||
| Come give me a follow over there. | ||
| Come hang out. | ||
| Maybe send me your thoughts on where you think this is going to go. | ||
| This whole indictment thing. | ||
| And maybe send me your parlays. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe if you're privy to some information. | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| Disavow. | ||
| I disavow. | ||
| No, but yeah, we'll have some fun. | ||
| Come hang out. | ||
| Come hang out. | ||
| And come hang out tonight with George Santos for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m. | ||
| It's going to be a monster show. | ||
| We will see you there. | ||
| Thank you very much. |
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