Episode 77: Frankie Malacaria’s Socialist Vision for Scranton’s Future
Join us for Episode 77 of What a Week! with Frankie Malacaria, a Scranton City Council candidate with a fiery socialist vision. Recorded April 18, 2025, Frankie shares his roots growing up near Coney Island, navigating a speech impediment, and landing in Scranton after a college mishap. A self-proclaimed socialist, he breaks down his fight for the working class, critiques corporate influence in schools, and spars over private vs. personal property in a lively debate. From surviving a ballot chal...
[00:00:23 - 00:00:24] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:00:24 - 00:00:25] Speaker: Unknown So we're here with Frankie Mollica. [00:00:25 - 00:00:27] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. That's how you say your name, right? [00:00:29 - 00:00:31] Speaker: Unknown No, it's not a carrier. [00:00:38 - 00:00:40] Speaker: Unknown Where'd your family come from? Calabria. [00:00:40 - 00:00:41] Speaker: Unknown No shit. [00:00:58 - 00:01:01] Speaker: Unknown No shit. But with FS instead of. [00:01:02 - 00:01:02] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:01:08 - 00:01:11] Speaker: Unknown Oh, yeah. The teeth are all. Stephen. [00:01:14 - 00:01:17] Speaker: Unknown you was at Saint Lucy's church. [00:01:18 - 00:01:21] Speaker: Unknown And I think the commissioners were there [00:01:28 - 00:01:30] Speaker: Unknown Am I right in thinking that? [00:01:33 - 00:01:34] Speaker: Unknown Many crossed paths earlier than that. [00:01:37 - 00:01:40] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, it was a weird room that night. [00:01:41 - 00:01:44] Speaker: Unknown But tell me about, [00:01:54 - 00:01:56] Speaker: Unknown tell me about, like, give me your story. [00:02:00 - 00:02:03] Speaker: Unknown for you growing up? [00:02:06 - 00:02:09] Speaker: Unknown We just mentioned Coney Island. [00:02:09 - 00:02:10] Speaker: Unknown I'm talking about the hot dogs. [00:02:10 - 00:02:13] Speaker: Unknown I grew up about, you know, [00:02:13 - 00:02:15] Speaker: Unknown 15 minute walk from the boardwalk. [00:02:15 - 00:02:18] Speaker: Unknown Coney Island. [00:02:21 - 00:02:24] Speaker: Unknown I think what year was over? [00:02:24 - 00:02:25] Speaker: Unknown The years we were out there. [00:02:25 - 00:02:28] Speaker: Unknown So I was born in 92. [00:02:28 - 00:02:30] Speaker: Unknown I same year, my my [00:02:30 - 00:02:32] Speaker: Unknown I lived there until the fall. [00:02:32 - 00:02:33] Speaker: Unknown The Soviet Union. [00:02:33 - 00:02:34] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:02:34 - 00:02:37] Speaker: Unknown And then I took it. [00:02:37 - 00:02:40] Speaker: Unknown I was out there until after high school. [00:02:44 - 00:02:47] Speaker: Unknown public school through New York City. [00:02:47 - 00:02:50] Speaker: Unknown Did a semester at NYU, [00:02:50 - 00:02:53] Speaker: Unknown got in there with, 66 average. [00:02:53 - 00:02:54] Speaker: Unknown Oh, my God, junior year. [00:02:57 - 00:03:00] Speaker: Unknown So I was on a probationary, [00:03:00 - 00:03:03] Speaker: Unknown status when I was, enrolled. [00:03:08 - 00:03:09] Speaker: Unknown My hard drive died. [00:03:13 - 00:03:15] Speaker: Unknown 10.4, probably. [00:03:36 - 00:03:38] Speaker: Unknown Because I got thrown out of school. [00:03:38 - 00:03:41] Speaker: Unknown My dad threw me out of the house, and, [00:03:42 - 00:03:44] Speaker: Unknown I had moved up to Scranton, where [00:03:47 - 00:03:50] Speaker: Unknown So were you, like. [00:03:52 - 00:03:55] Speaker: Unknown You just lost your your English. [00:03:55 - 00:03:58] Speaker: Unknown Your computer took a shit. Well, [00:03:58 - 00:03:59] Speaker: Unknown I was, [00:04:02 - 00:04:03] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:04:22 - 00:04:25] Speaker: Unknown in to, [00:04:25 - 00:04:26] Speaker: Unknown so, like, [00:04:30 - 00:04:30] Speaker: Unknown that like, [00:04:35 - 00:04:37] Speaker: Unknown I didn't necessarily respond well to that. [00:04:37 - 00:04:39] Speaker: Unknown So in high school, I was, you know, [00:04:47 - 00:04:49] Speaker: Unknown But it [00:04:53 - 00:04:55] Speaker: Unknown So to relate to that, [00:04:55 - 00:04:58] Speaker: Unknown I got basically the same diagnosis. [00:04:58 - 00:05:00] Speaker: Unknown It's like you're not dumb. [00:05:00 - 00:05:01] Speaker: Unknown What are you doing? [00:05:01 - 00:05:04] Speaker: Unknown And I graduated high school to 64.6. [00:05:04 - 00:05:05] Speaker: Unknown They rounded it up. [00:05:05 - 00:05:06] Speaker: Unknown That's how I got out. [00:05:10 - 00:05:12] Speaker: Unknown I should go right into to college [00:05:18 - 00:05:21] Speaker: Unknown and learned how to drink heavily. [00:05:26 - 00:05:29] Speaker: Unknown to California for a couple of years to LA [00:05:29 - 00:05:32] Speaker: Unknown and then came back here in 2000, [00:05:34 - 00:05:37] Speaker: Unknown 2010, got sober and I haven't had a drink. [00:05:46 - 00:05:49] Speaker: Unknown Almost 16 years. [00:05:49 - 00:05:51] Speaker: Unknown And I think that like, [00:05:59 - 00:06:01] Speaker: Unknown Biggest impacts. [00:06:01 - 00:06:02] Speaker: Unknown Profound. [00:06:04 - 00:06:07] Speaker: Unknown You can't get and count that out. [00:06:10 - 00:06:13] Speaker: Unknown you want to talk about why did your mom, [00:06:13 - 00:06:16] Speaker: Unknown choose Scranton? [00:06:16 - 00:06:18] Speaker: Unknown That's a good question. [00:06:27 - 00:06:27] Speaker: Unknown His sister [00:06:27 - 00:06:30] Speaker: Unknown lives, over here in South Side as well. [00:06:31 - 00:06:34] Speaker: Unknown So he had familial connections here. [00:06:38 - 00:06:40] Speaker: Unknown They were having a kid. [00:06:40 - 00:06:42] Speaker: Unknown My sister, your mom and your stepdad. [00:06:42 - 00:06:43] Speaker: Unknown Yes. Okay. [00:06:43 - 00:06:45] Speaker: Unknown And they didn't want to raise, [00:06:50 - 00:06:52] Speaker: Unknown It's cheaper out here. [00:06:52 - 00:06:55] Speaker: Unknown You know, it's easier to raise a family. [00:06:55 - 00:06:56] Speaker: Unknown Generally with, like, [00:07:00 - 00:07:03] Speaker: Unknown So they decided to move out here. [00:07:04 - 00:07:07] Speaker: Unknown They were renting a place, and, [00:07:08 - 00:07:10] Speaker: Unknown the landlord that was renting it to us. [00:07:10 - 00:07:13] Speaker: Unknown When they eventually passed away, [00:07:13 - 00:07:15] Speaker: Unknown we bought the house from them. [00:07:31 - 00:07:34] Speaker: Unknown the children all had houses. [00:07:34 - 00:07:36] Speaker: Unknown They were all in, like the 60s. [00:07:46 - 00:07:48] Speaker: Unknown You know, since mom moved here. Yep. [00:07:48 - 00:07:51] Speaker: Unknown How old are they? 15 and 16. [00:07:51 - 00:07:52] Speaker: Unknown Oh, no. [00:07:52 - 00:07:53] Speaker: Unknown That's like the. [00:07:53 - 00:07:56] Speaker: Unknown That's like the I hate you years. [00:07:56 - 00:07:56] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:07:56 - 00:07:59] Speaker: Unknown Do they go to the Scranton. [00:07:59 - 00:08:01] Speaker: Unknown They were I think they're still [00:08:04 - 00:08:05] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:08:11 - 00:08:13] Speaker: Unknown Well, [00:08:19 - 00:08:21] Speaker: Unknown When I was in kindergarten, [00:08:27 - 00:08:28] Speaker: Unknown What kind of speech impediment is it? [00:08:34 - 00:08:37] Speaker: Unknown Rabbits? Really? I never noticed, [00:08:42 - 00:08:45] Speaker: Unknown Like accuracy or crap. [00:08:52 - 00:08:54] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:08:58 - 00:08:59] Speaker: Unknown and they had [00:09:06 - 00:09:09] Speaker: Unknown I, you know, did amazing on the test. [00:09:09 - 00:09:11] Speaker: Unknown Allegedly. [00:09:15 - 00:09:17] Speaker: Unknown up to my level. [00:09:26 - 00:09:28] Speaker: Unknown So how how bad was it? Like, you couldn't. [00:09:28 - 00:09:30] Speaker: Unknown Like you couldn't. [00:09:30 - 00:09:31] Speaker: Unknown No one could understand you. [00:09:34 - 00:09:35] Speaker: Unknown And like, it's part of that. [00:09:35 - 00:09:37] Speaker: Unknown Related. [00:09:37 - 00:09:39] Speaker: Unknown So. Yeah, a lot of it. [00:09:42 - 00:09:45] Speaker: Unknown Make sure that I'm clear. [00:09:45 - 00:09:47] Speaker: Unknown But, yeah, that must be frustrating. [00:09:50 - 00:09:50] Speaker: Unknown that. [00:10:02 - 00:10:02] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:10:02 - 00:10:04] Speaker: Unknown I mean, thankfully, you know, [00:10:09 - 00:10:10] Speaker: Unknown What a stutter. No, no, no. [00:10:13 - 00:10:15] Speaker: Unknown Just making sure they could understand. [00:10:15 - 00:10:15] Speaker: Unknown But yeah. [00:10:32 - 00:10:35] Speaker: Unknown So I had, like, world class education. [00:10:35 - 00:10:38] Speaker: Unknown I did like robotics and I. Oh, shit. Yeah. [00:10:40 - 00:10:43] Speaker: Unknown I learned how to do like, CNC. [00:10:50 - 00:10:52] Speaker: Unknown Why is that privileged? [00:10:57 - 00:10:59] Speaker: Unknown Like, [00:10:59 - 00:11:01] Speaker: Unknown we should have, you know, [00:11:10 - 00:11:11] Speaker: Unknown that just whatever be freely. [00:11:11 - 00:11:11] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:11:20 - 00:11:22] Speaker: Unknown put so many restrictions on what [00:11:29 - 00:11:31] Speaker: Unknown And hopefully ever break it. [00:11:31 - 00:11:34] Speaker: Unknown You won't believe later. [00:11:35 - 00:11:36] Speaker: Unknown We don't have arts. [00:11:36 - 00:11:37] Speaker: Unknown We're not music. [00:11:37 - 00:11:38] Speaker: Unknown We don't have libraries. [00:12:06 - 00:12:07] Speaker: Unknown Because [00:12:07 - 00:12:10] Speaker: Unknown I don't think we're that far apart than. [00:12:10 - 00:12:11] Speaker: Unknown I mean, I've been say this for years. [00:12:22 - 00:12:24] Speaker: Unknown I think, [00:12:24 - 00:12:25] Speaker: Unknown critical thinking. [00:12:25 - 00:12:27] Speaker: Unknown Definitely. [00:12:34 - 00:12:36] Speaker: Unknown came to that conclusion. [00:12:50 - 00:12:51] Speaker: Unknown Is he Lebanese? [00:13:07 - 00:13:08] Speaker: Unknown Look, there's good people there. [00:13:08 - 00:13:09] Speaker: Unknown You know what I mean. [00:13:09 - 00:13:12] Speaker: Unknown Like there's it's not like full of, [00:13:17 - 00:13:20] Speaker: Unknown I always looked at it as outside forces [00:13:30 - 00:13:31] Speaker: Unknown What what did you do wrong? [00:13:34 - 00:13:35] Speaker: Unknown you know, diverting. [00:13:35 - 00:13:37] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:13:47 - 00:13:49] Speaker: Unknown NGOs. [00:13:54 - 00:13:56] Speaker: Unknown The Pennsylvania school Board association. [00:13:56 - 00:13:57] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:14:03 - 00:14:06] Speaker: Unknown Now, where I differ on that is, [00:14:07 - 00:14:10] Speaker: Unknown is I don't think that outside [00:14:13 - 00:14:15] Speaker: Unknown However you want to call it. [00:14:15 - 00:14:18] Speaker: Unknown And we're kind of insulated in a way [00:14:26 - 00:14:28] Speaker: Unknown Like, and then around is like farmland. [00:14:30 - 00:14:31] Speaker: Unknown I don't think that I should be able [00:14:42 - 00:14:44] Speaker: Unknown grant money. [00:14:50 - 00:14:52] Speaker: Unknown So here's the strings attached to it. [00:14:55 - 00:14:57] Speaker: Unknown Don't let other people, [00:15:13 - 00:15:15] Speaker: Unknown But I don't want to just describe [00:15:25 - 00:15:27] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. So we shouldn't, general, [00:15:29 - 00:15:30] Speaker: Unknown We can figure it out on our own then. [00:15:39 - 00:15:40] Speaker: Unknown Are you familiar [00:15:40 - 00:15:43] Speaker: Unknown with the concept of manufacturing consent? [00:15:51 - 00:15:52] Speaker: Unknown No. Not necessarily. [00:16:05 - 00:16:06] Speaker: Unknown He does like the research, [00:16:18 - 00:16:21] Speaker: Unknown is that not because they're necessarily [00:16:27 - 00:16:29] Speaker: Unknown You know, news agencies will only hire [00:16:33 - 00:16:33] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:16:49 - 00:16:51] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Right. [00:16:53 - 00:16:54] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:17:05 - 00:17:06] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah. [00:17:09 - 00:17:13] Speaker: Unknown you know, the PBS, a psb, psb, [00:17:16 - 00:17:17] Speaker: Unknown where [00:17:20 - 00:17:22] Speaker: Unknown you know, and, you know, [00:17:33 - 00:17:34] Speaker: Unknown But even in that case. [00:17:42 - 00:17:43] Speaker: Unknown Right. Exactly. [00:17:43 - 00:17:46] Speaker: Unknown And they, you know, got elected running on [00:17:49 - 00:17:50] Speaker: Unknown I think you're misunderstanding me. [00:17:54 - 00:17:55] Speaker: Unknown I'm talking about it as an organization. [00:17:55 - 00:17:58] Speaker: Unknown I, I personally don't [00:18:00 - 00:18:01] Speaker: Unknown Right. [00:18:16 - 00:18:18] Speaker: Unknown I don't have the people in it. [00:18:18 - 00:18:19] Speaker: Unknown I'm not speaking about them. [00:18:21 - 00:18:24] Speaker: Unknown That's I have issues with like [00:18:31 - 00:18:33] Speaker: Unknown You know, I'm with you money. [00:18:33 - 00:18:34] Speaker: Unknown I'm with you. [00:18:40 - 00:18:41] Speaker: Unknown You special interests are. [00:18:46 - 00:18:47] Speaker: Unknown Oh, you can lean back. [00:18:51 - 00:18:52] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:19:02 - 00:19:03] Speaker: Unknown Special [00:19:16 - 00:19:16] Speaker: Unknown The books. [00:19:16 - 00:19:19] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. That, like, has been, you know, [00:19:23 - 00:19:24] Speaker: Unknown that I looked up this, you know, company. [00:19:24 - 00:19:24] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:19:27 - 00:19:29] Speaker: Unknown they do all the publishing. [00:19:35 - 00:19:36] Speaker: Unknown You know, so they're implying, [00:19:49 - 00:19:51] Speaker: Unknown It's supposed to be right. [00:19:55 - 00:19:59] Speaker: Unknown So I think that it. [00:20:39 - 00:20:40] Speaker: Unknown But that's not actually a market. [00:20:40 - 00:20:41] Speaker: Unknown When, you know, [00:20:45 - 00:20:46] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, exactly. [00:20:46 - 00:20:46] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:20:55 - 00:20:59] Speaker: Unknown There's a Greek finance minister, former [00:21:08 - 00:21:10] Speaker: Unknown Yanis Varoufakis. [00:21:10 - 00:21:13] Speaker: Unknown He. Ferreira, Varoufakis, Varoufakis. [00:21:13 - 00:21:13] Speaker: Unknown Varoufakis. [00:21:13 - 00:21:17] Speaker: Unknown I will never forget that name for okay. [00:21:17 - 00:21:19] Speaker: Unknown Is Farkas I spelled differently? [00:21:19 - 00:21:22] Speaker: Unknown But it's funnier that way. [00:21:22 - 00:21:25] Speaker: Unknown But he, [00:21:25 - 00:21:27] Speaker: Unknown he's a less, leftist. [00:21:32 - 00:21:35] Speaker: Unknown So his, you know, his ideas. [00:21:35 - 00:21:35] Speaker: Unknown I have been picking up [00:21:39 - 00:21:42] Speaker: Unknown but what he calls techno feudalism. [00:21:42 - 00:21:45] Speaker: Unknown And that's where we [00:21:54 - 00:21:54] Speaker: Unknown selling [00:22:15 - 00:22:16] Speaker: Unknown rent on everything. [00:22:23 - 00:22:26] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. You know, [00:22:26 - 00:22:27] Speaker: Unknown like even the, [00:22:33 - 00:22:35] Speaker: Unknown So the market's no longer really a market. [00:23:00 - 00:23:01] Speaker: Unknown No shit. [00:23:07 - 00:23:09] Speaker: Unknown I mean, in a way like but [00:23:17 - 00:23:18] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:23:18 - 00:23:20] Speaker: Unknown You know, I am I, am I saying that right. [00:23:20 - 00:23:21] Speaker: Unknown Because it's like [00:23:25 - 00:23:26] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:23:30 - 00:23:31] Speaker: Unknown And I think. [00:23:31 - 00:23:33] Speaker: Unknown But wasn't [00:23:33 - 00:23:35] Speaker: Unknown like, if you go back, was it? [00:23:35 - 00:23:36] Speaker: Unknown Do you think it was always like that? [00:23:51 - 00:23:52] Speaker: Unknown Financialization. Yeah. [00:23:52 - 00:23:54] Speaker: Unknown Financialization of markets. [00:24:12 - 00:24:16] Speaker: Unknown Well, so GM had this like super great idea [00:24:16 - 00:24:20] Speaker: Unknown that they were going to focus. [00:24:20 - 00:24:21] Speaker: Unknown So they were Flint Michigan weren't they. [00:24:32 - 00:24:34] Speaker: Unknown with a side business of cars. [00:24:39 - 00:24:42] Speaker: Unknown And then started to like trade on this. [00:24:46 - 00:24:47] Speaker: Unknown involved with investments. [00:24:48 - 00:24:50] Speaker: Unknown And 2008 came [00:24:58 - 00:24:58] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah. [00:25:05 - 00:25:07] Speaker: Unknown We bailed out General Electric. [00:25:14 - 00:25:15] Speaker: Unknown Where is that? [00:25:15 - 00:25:16] Speaker: Unknown The start of Occupy [00:25:20 - 00:25:23] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:25:23 - 00:25:25] Speaker: Unknown And then and then, if I'm not mistaken, [00:25:35 - 00:25:38] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Roaring kitty. Yeah, yeah. [00:25:41 - 00:25:41] Speaker: Unknown Shit. [00:25:42 - 00:25:45] Speaker: Unknown He's got like, $100 million or more now. [00:25:45 - 00:25:45] Speaker: Unknown It's. [00:25:50 - 00:25:51] Speaker: Unknown All right, so I have all these questions. [00:25:51 - 00:25:53] Speaker: Unknown Maybe they're just like, topics. [00:25:57 - 00:25:59] Speaker: Unknown This is a good one. [00:26:06 - 00:26:09] Speaker: Unknown So, as I mentioned, I moved out here [00:26:09 - 00:26:12] Speaker: Unknown when I, you know, was [00:26:13 - 00:26:14] Speaker: Unknown almost fresh out of high school. [00:26:14 - 00:26:16] Speaker: Unknown You know, [00:26:16 - 00:26:19] Speaker: Unknown I got my brilliant computer fuck up. [00:26:19 - 00:26:21] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yep. [00:26:21 - 00:26:23] Speaker: Unknown Look me down this path that I'm on today. [00:26:23 - 00:26:25] Speaker: Unknown It's weird. Yep. [00:26:30 - 00:26:32] Speaker: Unknown I'm grateful you're here to. Man. [00:26:33 - 00:26:35] Speaker: Unknown But remind me one more time. [00:26:35 - 00:26:37] Speaker: Unknown What was that? [00:26:43 - 00:26:44] Speaker: Unknown So what? [00:26:46 - 00:26:48] Speaker: Unknown One of my first, [00:26:48 - 00:26:51] Speaker: Unknown jobs that I had was, [00:26:52 - 00:26:54] Speaker: Unknown I worked at a car wash. [00:26:56 - 00:26:59] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Over on Putnam Street. [00:26:59 - 00:27:01] Speaker: Unknown Right by the football field there. [00:27:01 - 00:27:04] Speaker: Unknown Okay. And, [00:27:06 - 00:27:07] Speaker: Unknown I needed a job. [00:27:11 - 00:27:12] Speaker: Unknown I had some, but not much. [00:27:12 - 00:27:16] Speaker: Unknown And, I got a job working at a car wash [00:27:16 - 00:27:19] Speaker: Unknown on Keizer Avenue. [00:27:20 - 00:27:22] Speaker: Unknown This place, the owner paid me [00:27:22 - 00:27:26] Speaker: Unknown $5 an hour to hand wash and detail cars. [00:27:26 - 00:27:26] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:27:27 - 00:27:30] Speaker: Unknown And yet this guy was getting paid, [00:27:30 - 00:27:33] Speaker: Unknown you know, upwards of $150 for the detail. [00:27:34 - 00:27:37] Speaker: Unknown So that really radicalized me. [00:27:43 - 00:27:46] Speaker: Unknown You know, blue collar, blue, blue collar [00:27:49 - 00:27:52] Speaker: Unknown the people that own things. [00:27:52 - 00:27:54] Speaker: Unknown Can I push back in this little bit? [00:27:54 - 00:27:54] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Go for it. [00:27:59 - 00:28:00] Speaker: Unknown and then lowball me [00:28:04 - 00:28:06] Speaker: Unknown Oh, you should walk the fuck out then. [00:28:12 - 00:28:12] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:28:16 - 00:28:16] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:28:20 - 00:28:21] Speaker: Unknown No no no no I'm not saying. [00:28:30 - 00:28:31] Speaker: Unknown had working for people, [00:28:44 - 00:28:47] Speaker: Unknown So I'm only going to be paying you $5 now. [00:28:49 - 00:28:50] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, people. [00:28:53 - 00:28:55] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, it's it's it's fucked up. [00:28:55 - 00:28:57] Speaker: Unknown We'd have that at been that too. [00:28:59 - 00:29:02] Speaker: Unknown Remember that one gig that we played [00:29:02 - 00:29:03] Speaker: Unknown the bypass? [00:29:06 - 00:29:08] Speaker: Unknown We took that. We were taking the door. [00:29:08 - 00:29:11] Speaker: Unknown There was like 15 people there. [00:29:11 - 00:29:14] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, five bucks ahead. [00:29:14 - 00:29:16] Speaker: Unknown And he gave us 15 bucks high five guys. [00:29:16 - 00:29:18] Speaker: Unknown And I'm like, this is not. [00:29:21 - 00:29:23] Speaker: Unknown We would just expect like money. [00:29:23 - 00:29:24] Speaker: Unknown And now this guy's just screwing us. [00:29:24 - 00:29:26] Speaker: Unknown Like, what does that all mean? [00:29:26 - 00:29:27] Speaker: Unknown I don't think I don't think all [00:29:31 - 00:29:33] Speaker: Unknown They would never do that to somebody. [00:29:36 - 00:29:37] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Like. [00:29:37 - 00:29:38] Speaker: Unknown And I've worked for, like other folks, [00:29:45 - 00:29:48] Speaker: Unknown you think you just ran into some assholes. [00:29:58 - 00:30:00] Speaker: Unknown It's a way of doing like you like you see. [00:30:00 - 00:30:02] Speaker: Unknown Like you see, [00:30:02 - 00:30:04] Speaker: Unknown a pattern. Yes. [00:30:04 - 00:30:04] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:30:11 - 00:30:12] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah. [00:30:12 - 00:30:14] Speaker: Unknown Bar back. [00:30:14 - 00:30:16] Speaker: Unknown They even screw you in the bar back. Yep. [00:30:17 - 00:30:19] Speaker: Unknown She wouldn't screw me on money. [00:30:19 - 00:30:19] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:30:22 - 00:30:24] Speaker: Unknown So that was that was that was like. [00:30:24 - 00:30:26] Speaker: Unknown So your blue collar. [00:30:28 - 00:30:30] Speaker: Unknown Maybe pissed you off. [00:30:37 - 00:30:38] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:30:38 - 00:30:43] Speaker: Unknown And I worked for a few different things [00:30:43 - 00:30:46] Speaker: Unknown before landing in the pizza business. [00:30:46 - 00:30:48] Speaker: Unknown And I spent [00:30:48 - 00:30:49] Speaker: Unknown there a pizza bomb. [00:30:49 - 00:30:50] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:30:50 - 00:30:52] Speaker: Unknown I spent several years, [00:30:56 - 00:30:58] Speaker: Unknown so 2019, [00:31:07 - 00:31:10] Speaker: Unknown And when [00:31:22 - 00:31:25] Speaker: Unknown which was a great deal. [00:31:25 - 00:31:27] Speaker: Unknown But 1450. So a lot of money. [00:31:27 - 00:31:29] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, a lot of money, but yeah. [00:31:34 - 00:31:35] Speaker: Unknown But it was still too expensive. [00:31:35 - 00:31:37] Speaker: Unknown And then we guys split it. [00:31:37 - 00:31:39] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Okay. [00:31:39 - 00:31:40] Speaker: Unknown Two ways. [00:31:40 - 00:31:43] Speaker: Unknown We were split to two bedrooms, [00:31:54 - 00:31:56] Speaker: Unknown I was paying $400 for a two bedroom. [00:31:56 - 00:31:57] Speaker: Unknown You can't get. [00:32:01 - 00:32:01] Speaker: Unknown back in [00:32:05 - 00:32:07] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. So, [00:32:07 - 00:32:08] Speaker: Unknown was it decent? [00:32:10 - 00:32:12] Speaker: Unknown Decent apartment in 2011. Yeah. [00:32:12 - 00:32:14] Speaker: Unknown No no no no no no. The 450. [00:32:18 - 00:32:19] Speaker: Unknown That that was. [00:32:19 - 00:32:21] Speaker: Unknown No not not that super great. [00:32:21 - 00:32:21] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:32:32 - 00:32:34] Speaker: Unknown They're literally like a broom closet. [00:32:37 - 00:32:37] Speaker: Unknown Why would you? [00:32:43 - 00:32:46] Speaker: Unknown moving to back in Scranton, okay, in 2019. [00:32:52 - 00:32:53] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:32:56 - 00:32:57] Speaker: Unknown They got good pizza. [00:32:57 - 00:32:59] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:32:59 - 00:33:02] Speaker: Unknown So I worked, over there for about a year, [00:33:06 - 00:33:06] Speaker: Unknown Oh, you were there. [00:33:10 - 00:33:11] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:33:14 - 00:33:16] Speaker: Unknown Lockdown starts. Yeah. [00:33:20 - 00:33:21] Speaker: Unknown Okay, that's really close. [00:33:21 - 00:33:23] Speaker: Unknown Two two 2020 I got a better one for you. [00:33:23 - 00:33:26] Speaker: Unknown My giant mushroom dose was 022220. [00:33:27 - 00:33:28] Speaker: Unknown February 22nd. Nice. [00:33:28 - 00:33:29] Speaker: Unknown So we're at today. Zero. [00:33:29 - 00:33:30] Speaker: Unknown What's that? [00:33:30 - 00:33:31] Speaker: Unknown What's that? Back and forth. [00:33:31 - 00:33:34] Speaker: Unknown Palindrome. Palindrome. Yeah. Oh yeah. [00:33:34 - 00:33:36] Speaker: Unknown Yeah I already forgot. [00:33:36 - 00:33:38] Speaker: Unknown I forgot about it. [00:33:38 - 00:33:39] Speaker: Unknown That's it. [00:33:48 - 00:33:50] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, it was January 6th. [00:33:50 - 00:33:52] Speaker: Unknown I was making people. That's 2021. [00:33:52 - 00:33:54] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. 2021 was like. [00:33:57 - 00:33:59] Speaker: Unknown Like forget, forget January 6th for now. [00:34:10 - 00:34:11] Speaker: Unknown because that that's what [00:34:21 - 00:34:23] Speaker: Unknown Was it already starting in New York? [00:34:23 - 00:34:24] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Well, you were in Binghamton. [00:34:30 - 00:34:32] Speaker: Unknown wife had passed away in [00:34:32 - 00:34:36] Speaker: Unknown like February of that year in Scranton, [00:34:46 - 00:34:47] Speaker: Unknown I'm convinced quite a few people [00:34:51 - 00:34:53] Speaker: Unknown Have had it then you had it. [00:34:53 - 00:34:55] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I had it before with the thing. [00:34:55 - 00:34:57] Speaker: Unknown Oh, like before NSync was cool. [00:34:57 - 00:35:00] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah, I'm a hipster of Covid. [00:35:02 - 00:35:05] Speaker: Unknown So I being like, [00:35:34 - 00:35:34] Speaker: Unknown For me. [00:35:37 - 00:35:39] Speaker: Unknown So like, I, you know, [00:35:39 - 00:35:42] Speaker: Unknown I understand like the hardships that like, [00:35:52 - 00:35:55] Speaker: Unknown we didn't lockdown our nursing homes, [00:36:01 - 00:36:02] Speaker: Unknown And then I thought he locked them down. [00:36:02 - 00:36:04] Speaker: Unknown No, he didn't lock them down. [00:36:04 - 00:36:06] Speaker: Unknown Was the fucking issue. [00:36:06 - 00:36:07] Speaker: Unknown So you thought he should have locked. [00:36:07 - 00:36:08] Speaker: Unknown He should have locked them down [00:36:14 - 00:36:16] Speaker: Unknown it probably could have been two weeks. [00:36:35 - 00:36:35] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:36:37 - 00:36:37] Speaker: Unknown Isn't that [00:36:41 - 00:36:42] Speaker: Unknown Appeasing it depends. [00:36:47 - 00:36:49] Speaker: Unknown than they are for adults? [00:36:52 - 00:36:55] Speaker: Unknown Covid and flu, right are more [00:36:55 - 00:36:58] Speaker: Unknown for like elderly folks. [00:36:58 - 00:37:00] Speaker: Unknown So so I, I was [00:37:08 - 00:37:13] Speaker: Unknown even till today, six [00:37:14 - 00:37:17] Speaker: Unknown it was like it was like six kids in [00:37:39 - 00:37:40] Speaker: Unknown What do you [00:37:43 - 00:37:44] Speaker: Unknown Because. [00:37:51 - 00:37:54] Speaker: Unknown we've learned a lot since, [00:37:54 - 00:37:57] Speaker: Unknown all of a sudden it seemed like [00:38:02 - 00:38:02] Speaker: Unknown Well, I don't know. [00:38:26 - 00:38:27] Speaker: Unknown So, like, [00:38:28 - 00:38:31] Speaker: Unknown not everybody ignored it. [00:38:55 - 00:38:55] Speaker: Unknown People. [00:38:55 - 00:38:58] Speaker: Unknown What a real like a newsreel. [00:38:58 - 00:39:02] Speaker: Unknown The 00000I keep going. Yeah, yeah. [00:39:02 - 00:39:03] Speaker: Unknown So to the distraction. [00:39:03 - 00:39:06] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I get your point. [00:39:06 - 00:39:10] Speaker: Unknown For manufacturing consent Covid. [00:39:24 - 00:39:26] Speaker: Unknown Like, they cut funding to this. [00:39:26 - 00:39:28] Speaker: Unknown He's coming out and like, [00:39:36 - 00:39:37] Speaker: Unknown Elon is. [00:39:48 - 00:39:49] Speaker: Unknown there but Musk. But [00:39:50 - 00:39:51] Speaker: Unknown for long Covid [00:39:55 - 00:39:57] Speaker: Unknown for example, [00:39:57 - 00:39:59] Speaker: Unknown it takes I don't even know how long [00:40:11 - 00:40:13] Speaker: Unknown that it had later down the line. [00:40:27 - 00:40:29] Speaker: Unknown Do you think, [00:40:31 - 00:40:33] Speaker: Unknown do you think it might have. [00:40:33 - 00:40:35] Speaker: Unknown I think it might have, but I, I do. [00:40:37 - 00:40:39] Speaker: Unknown I like to follow Occam's Razor most often, [00:40:43 - 00:40:43] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:40:56 - 00:40:59] Speaker: Unknown But I'm, [00:40:59 - 00:41:03] Speaker: Unknown I'm, I'm, I firmly believe [00:41:03 - 00:41:06] Speaker: Unknown that it was gain of function research, [00:41:14 - 00:41:17] Speaker: Unknown And Fauci and he knew about it. [00:41:17 - 00:41:20] Speaker: Unknown And then when they found out, it got out, [00:41:26 - 00:41:27] Speaker: Unknown Right. [00:41:34 - 00:41:36] Speaker: Unknown I got about ten years on you. [00:41:37 - 00:41:40] Speaker: Unknown So I grew up in the early 90s. [00:41:40 - 00:41:41] Speaker: Unknown We watched Unsolved Mysteries. [00:41:47 - 00:41:49] Speaker: Unknown somebody killed the president? [00:41:49 - 00:41:50] Speaker: Unknown And no one knows who it is, [00:41:54 - 00:41:56] Speaker: Unknown And I couldn't I couldn't make money. [00:41:56 - 00:41:57] Speaker: Unknown I couldn't run my business. [00:42:11 - 00:42:14] Speaker: Unknown like me, [00:42:19 - 00:42:21] Speaker: Unknown Oh, you know, why is white. [00:42:23 - 00:42:25] Speaker: Unknown I'm really curious about shit like that. [00:42:30 - 00:42:31] Speaker: Unknown and I'm looking at it going like, [00:42:40 - 00:42:41] Speaker: Unknown Should I be concerned? [00:42:41 - 00:42:44] Speaker: Unknown And like my my age groups [00:42:51 - 00:42:52] Speaker: Unknown Why am I losing my shit over this? [00:42:56 - 00:42:58] Speaker: Unknown that I'm not going to die for. [00:42:58 - 00:43:00] Speaker: Unknown Like, why am I being so afraid about this? [00:43:12 - 00:43:15] Speaker: Unknown And they all told me things that [00:43:25 - 00:43:27] Speaker: Unknown And I think, I think I don't know [00:43:33 - 00:43:36] Speaker: Unknown but I think it was a severe overreaction. [00:43:38 - 00:43:40] Speaker: Unknown And I don't know whether it was to get [00:43:46 - 00:43:48] Speaker: Unknown Thought he was the devil incarnate. [00:43:49 - 00:43:52] Speaker: Unknown But then I started to realize [00:43:56 - 00:43:58] Speaker: Unknown And I'm in the media. I should be smarter. [00:43:58 - 00:44:00] Speaker: Unknown I should know whether or not. [00:44:00 - 00:44:03] Speaker: Unknown What's it, what is it? [00:44:16 - 00:44:17] Speaker: Unknown hold water. [00:44:20 - 00:44:21] Speaker: Unknown Why are they saying other things? [00:44:25 - 00:44:26] Speaker: Unknown They're not. They're trying. They're. [00:44:31 - 00:44:34] Speaker: Unknown Now, I don't expect you to believe that. [00:44:34 - 00:44:39] Speaker: Unknown But him, me, like a whole [00:44:49 - 00:44:51] Speaker: Unknown Who was the president during the shutdown? [00:44:51 - 00:44:53] Speaker: Unknown Trump never shut anything down. [00:44:53 - 00:44:55] Speaker: Unknown That's a big misconception. [00:44:55 - 00:44:56] Speaker: Unknown He left it up to the states. Right. [00:44:56 - 00:44:58] Speaker: Unknown The states had because [00:45:01 - 00:45:01] Speaker: Unknown And he didn't. [00:45:17 - 00:45:17] Speaker: Unknown Sure. [00:45:18 - 00:45:19] Speaker: Unknown But, you [00:45:19 - 00:45:23] Speaker: Unknown know, I all I know is that I'm not, [00:45:23 - 00:45:26] Speaker: Unknown molecular biologist, you know, like, [00:45:46 - 00:45:46] Speaker: Unknown Right? [00:45:46 - 00:45:47] Speaker: Unknown You know, like, [00:45:51 - 00:45:52] Speaker: Unknown That's what I listen to. [00:45:59 - 00:46:01] Speaker: Unknown Which one beginning of Covid, [00:46:05 - 00:46:07] Speaker: Unknown No, no, no. Peter Hotez. [00:46:07 - 00:46:10] Speaker: Unknown He ended up like they split after, [00:46:17 - 00:46:18] Speaker: Unknown What it. Yes. [00:46:18 - 00:46:18] Speaker: Unknown Who was it? [00:46:22 - 00:46:25] Speaker: Unknown from the right wing after, you know, [00:46:35 - 00:46:38] Speaker: Unknown guy. But. [00:46:40 - 00:46:43] Speaker: Unknown What a big confusion for me was [00:46:52 - 00:46:52] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:47:00 - 00:47:03] Speaker: Unknown It should have never been. [00:47:07 - 00:47:09] Speaker: Unknown But like. [00:47:09 - 00:47:10] Speaker: Unknown It you know, it was done [00:47:20 - 00:47:21] Speaker: Unknown I will never take a Trump. [00:47:24 - 00:47:25] Speaker: Unknown But then what? But then what happened? [00:47:25 - 00:47:27] Speaker: Unknown They went and flipped. Yeah, exactly. [00:47:27 - 00:47:29] Speaker: Unknown But but what was the flip? [00:47:44 - 00:47:45] Speaker: Unknown All right. [00:47:45 - 00:47:45] Speaker: Unknown We're in. [00:47:48 - 00:47:51] Speaker: Unknown But but, but and Biden assumes office [00:47:51 - 00:47:54] Speaker: Unknown and January 21st, [00:47:57 - 00:47:58] Speaker: Unknown that they had the vaccine. [00:48:07 - 00:48:09] Speaker: Unknown Do you remember that, [00:48:16 - 00:48:21] Speaker: Unknown But so I was like, I, I, I have [00:48:30 - 00:48:32] Speaker: Unknown I'm around Trump people a lot. [00:48:32 - 00:48:35] Speaker: Unknown I'm around Kennedy Democrats a lot. [00:48:35 - 00:48:37] Speaker: Unknown I'm around socialist every now and again. [00:48:39 - 00:48:40] Speaker: Unknown They don't [00:48:40 - 00:48:43] Speaker: Unknown they will hold him to the fire for that. [00:48:50 - 00:48:52] Speaker: Unknown it's very it's a very scary thing. [00:49:01 - 00:49:01] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:49:17 - 00:49:18] Speaker: Unknown the Democratic Party. [00:49:18 - 00:49:20] Speaker: Unknown For me, I was like, [00:49:30 - 00:49:33] Speaker: Unknown I never liked George Bush senior. [00:49:33 - 00:49:35] Speaker: Unknown I loved Bill Clinton, I think killed JFK. [00:49:35 - 00:49:36] Speaker: Unknown He was involved. [00:49:37 - 00:49:39] Speaker: Unknown He's the number two guy in the CIA. [00:49:39 - 00:49:40] Speaker: Unknown How do you not fucking. [00:49:40 - 00:49:42] Speaker: Unknown And he was in Dallas that day. [00:49:42 - 00:49:43] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Weird. And yeah. [00:49:48 - 00:49:50] Speaker: Unknown He's one of the three hobos. [00:49:50 - 00:49:52] Speaker: Unknown It's Woody Harrelson's dad. Well, [00:49:52 - 00:49:55] Speaker: Unknown I liked Clinton. [00:49:55 - 00:49:56] Speaker: Unknown George W Bush got elected. [00:49:56 - 00:49:58] Speaker: Unknown I fucking hated him. [00:50:01 - 00:50:03] Speaker: Unknown he's kind of like a wall. [00:50:03 - 00:50:05] Speaker: Unknown That's the paint is drying on, [00:50:05 - 00:50:06] Speaker: Unknown you know? [00:50:06 - 00:50:09] Speaker: Unknown But who's his wife? [00:50:09 - 00:50:09] Speaker: Unknown I don't even know. [00:50:09 - 00:50:13] Speaker: Unknown Teresa Heinz of the Heinz ketchup empire. [00:50:13 - 00:50:16] Speaker: Unknown Oh, nice. Yeah. And he's a fucking loon. [00:50:16 - 00:50:18] Speaker: Unknown George Bush, although I will say [00:50:18 - 00:50:21] Speaker: Unknown that for one moment on nine over 11. [00:50:21 - 00:50:22] Speaker: Unknown I like George Bush. [00:50:33 - 00:50:34] Speaker: Unknown I have no idea now. [00:50:34 - 00:50:36] Speaker: Unknown But it was like, get us into wars, okay? [00:50:40 - 00:50:42] Speaker: Unknown No, no, no mission was accomplished. [00:50:44 - 00:50:45] Speaker: Unknown He was tight ball bulge. [00:50:45 - 00:50:49] Speaker: Unknown Fucking talk about bad PR moves. [00:50:50 - 00:50:52] Speaker: Unknown I didn't like Bush. [00:50:52 - 00:50:54] Speaker: Unknown Voted for Obama. [00:50:54 - 00:50:57] Speaker: Unknown Voted for Hillary in 2016, I think. [00:50:57 - 00:50:58] Speaker: Unknown Well, my mom didn't either. [00:50:58 - 00:51:00] Speaker: Unknown She's like, she's a monster, [00:51:15 - 00:51:16] Speaker: Unknown I was purged from the rolls. [00:51:24 - 00:51:26] Speaker: Unknown in New York and Brooklyn. [00:51:26 - 00:51:27] Speaker: Unknown And in Brooklyn, [00:51:32 - 00:51:33] Speaker: Unknown Who did that? [00:51:34 - 00:51:36] Speaker: Unknown I forget the exact details of it. [00:51:36 - 00:51:38] Speaker: Unknown You know, it was nearly ten years ago now. [00:51:49 - 00:51:51] Speaker: Unknown You took away my right to vote. [00:51:51 - 00:51:52] Speaker: Unknown Right to vote. Yeah. Disenfranchized. [00:51:52 - 00:51:54] Speaker: Unknown That's that's what that word means. [00:52:06 - 00:52:06] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:52:20 - 00:52:21] Speaker: Unknown And it's not somebody. It's a group. [00:52:24 - 00:52:25] Speaker: Unknown And it was happening like multiple places. [00:52:32 - 00:52:32] Speaker: Unknown from the [00:52:32 - 00:52:35] Speaker: Unknown state down were involved with that. Yep. [00:52:38 - 00:52:39] Speaker: Unknown It's like all these. [00:52:41 - 00:52:43] Speaker: Unknown What a George Carlin I call it. [00:52:45 - 00:52:47] Speaker: Unknown He's like, it was, It was unreal. [00:52:47 - 00:52:49] Speaker: Unknown It was on politically incorrect. [00:52:53 - 00:52:56] Speaker: Unknown when interests align. [00:52:56 - 00:52:58] Speaker: Unknown Like there is no parties. [00:52:58 - 00:53:00] Speaker: Unknown Like you have no control. [00:53:05 - 00:53:06] Speaker: Unknown So you hear my side. [00:53:08 - 00:53:10] Speaker: Unknown Pardon. Right. Yeah. [00:53:10 - 00:53:12] Speaker: Unknown And that's what that means. [00:53:18 - 00:53:21] Speaker: Unknown or, you know, enrich their friends. [00:53:21 - 00:53:22] Speaker: Unknown Where do you think it started? [00:53:27 - 00:53:28] Speaker: Unknown Let's see. [00:53:34 - 00:53:35] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:53:35 - 00:53:36] Speaker: Unknown Thank you very much. [00:53:42 - 00:53:44] Speaker: Unknown I think [00:53:44 - 00:53:47] Speaker: Unknown honestly, I think probably November [00:53:47 - 00:53:50] Speaker: Unknown 22nd, 1963. [00:53:50 - 00:53:53] Speaker: Unknown The assassination of JFK. [00:54:10 - 00:54:12] Speaker: Unknown And I think, I think [00:54:12 - 00:54:13] Speaker: Unknown I grew up in this area. [00:54:18 - 00:54:21] Speaker: Unknown They love John F Kennedy. Right. [00:54:21 - 00:54:22] Speaker: Unknown He wasn't a saint. [00:54:31 - 00:54:33] Speaker: Unknown They were the bootleggers. Bootleggers. [00:54:33 - 00:54:34] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:54:36 - 00:54:38] Speaker: Unknown You know, I don't really care like this. [00:54:42 - 00:54:42] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:54:47 - 00:54:48] Speaker: Unknown Sure. [00:54:51 - 00:54:54] Speaker: Unknown Mafia likes clean streets. [00:55:03 - 00:55:05] Speaker: Unknown a representative government anymore. [00:55:10 - 00:55:13] Speaker: Unknown bad actors to come in and, you know, [00:55:20 - 00:55:21] Speaker: Unknown I don't know about this. [00:55:21 - 00:55:23] Speaker: Unknown I like Rob very much. [00:55:23 - 00:55:25] Speaker: Unknown It doesn't seem like something he do. [00:55:26 - 00:55:27] Speaker: Unknown That's public record though. [00:55:39 - 00:55:40] Speaker: Unknown Let's skip to Rob for a second. [00:55:40 - 00:55:43] Speaker: Unknown Rob I met Rob maybe like [00:55:44 - 00:55:47] Speaker: Unknown two, two and a half years ago. [00:55:50 - 00:55:51] Speaker: Unknown Right. He would have these events. [00:55:51 - 00:55:54] Speaker: Unknown Nobody would be there. [00:55:54 - 00:55:56] Speaker: Unknown I ended up having like [00:55:56 - 00:55:57] Speaker: Unknown and because no one was there, [00:55:59 - 00:56:00] Speaker: Unknown Right. [00:56:00 - 00:56:03] Speaker: Unknown So I got to know Rob a little bit [00:56:09 - 00:56:11] Speaker: Unknown I think what happens is, is that like [00:56:13 - 00:56:13] Speaker: Unknown when you [00:56:34 - 00:56:35] Speaker: Unknown And I think that's about Rob. [00:56:48 - 00:56:50] Speaker: Unknown Like, I don't want to be the guy. [00:56:50 - 00:56:51] Speaker: Unknown Nothing is worth nothing. [00:56:56 - 00:56:57] Speaker: Unknown like on social. [00:57:03 - 00:57:03] Speaker: Unknown All right. [00:57:03 - 00:57:06] Speaker: Unknown Well or dis or mal, [00:57:08 - 00:57:09] Speaker: Unknown believe it or not, lie. [00:57:16 - 00:57:18] Speaker: Unknown That is true but is inconvenient. [00:57:18 - 00:57:19] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:57:19 - 00:57:21] Speaker: Unknown That's what mal information is. [00:57:38 - 00:57:39] Speaker: Unknown because I told you this truth. [00:57:44 - 00:57:47] Speaker: Unknown No matter how bad it hurts, even for me. [00:57:50 - 00:57:51] Speaker: Unknown I'm terrible. [00:57:53 - 00:57:55] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, and so I just don't do it. [00:57:55 - 00:57:55] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:57:55 - 00:57:56] Speaker: Unknown Same way. But. [00:57:56 - 00:57:59] Speaker: Unknown But to give a little bit of track of them. [00:57:59 - 00:58:00] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. I'm too lazy. [00:58:00 - 00:58:02] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I'm too fucking lazy tonight. [00:58:02 - 00:58:05] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. I'm honest, because I'm lazy. [00:58:14 - 00:58:15] Speaker: Unknown You agree? [00:58:15 - 00:58:17] Speaker: Unknown You, I think that you and I could agree [00:58:21 - 00:58:21] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [00:58:21 - 00:58:23] Speaker: Unknown I mean, I have, like, [00:58:27 - 00:58:30] Speaker: Unknown Like, I think propaganda is just as like [00:58:42 - 00:58:43] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [00:58:52 - 00:58:54] Speaker: Unknown that, like, are you trying to be like, [00:59:03 - 00:59:04] Speaker: Unknown Oh, I think of it as a terrible word. [00:59:11 - 00:59:13] Speaker: Unknown Well, no, not necessarily. [00:59:16 - 00:59:17] Speaker: Unknown It's political messaging. [00:59:20 - 00:59:22] Speaker: Unknown You can't have [00:59:22 - 00:59:24] Speaker: Unknown sports propaganda. [00:59:28 - 00:59:29] Speaker: Unknown some of that could fall into there? [00:59:33 - 00:59:33] Speaker: Unknown Know. [00:59:33 - 00:59:35] Speaker: Unknown So like, everything else is just a lie. [00:59:35 - 00:59:37] Speaker: Unknown Well. [00:59:37 - 00:59:40] Speaker: Unknown Propaganda isn't necessarily a lie either. [00:59:40 - 00:59:42] Speaker: Unknown Not. No. No, not necessarily so like that. [00:59:42 - 00:59:44] Speaker: Unknown That's what you know. [00:59:48 - 00:59:50] Speaker: Unknown So what would it be for like a, [00:59:53 - 00:59:55] Speaker: Unknown to your version of propaganda? [00:59:55 - 00:59:58] Speaker: Unknown We want you to join the US Army. [00:59:58 - 00:59:58] Speaker: Unknown You know, that's. [01:00:03 - 01:00:05] Speaker: Unknown It's just saying I would like you. [01:00:12 - 01:00:13] Speaker: Unknown Exactly. [01:00:13 - 01:00:14] Speaker: Unknown You know, so, so, [01:00:22 - 01:00:24] Speaker: Unknown Where is this lead to? [01:00:26 - 01:00:27] Speaker: Unknown No. No, no. [01:00:32 - 01:00:34] Speaker: Unknown It was so. [01:00:34 - 01:00:37] Speaker: Unknown So Nazi Germany happens. Right. [01:00:38 - 01:00:40] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, right. [01:00:40 - 01:00:42] Speaker: Unknown And it's where they asked, [01:00:48 - 01:00:51] Speaker: Unknown Germany. Yeah. The head of NATO, [01:00:52 - 01:00:55] Speaker: Unknown had a NASA, [01:01:09 - 01:01:11] Speaker: Unknown When they asked gerbils, they said, [01:01:17 - 01:01:20] Speaker: Unknown He goes, it's very easy. It's fear. [01:01:25 - 01:01:27] Speaker: Unknown Right? Like illegal immigrants. [01:01:27 - 01:01:28] Speaker: Unknown Well, we'll get to that. [01:01:40 - 01:01:42] Speaker: Unknown Okay, so now I think I've, Okay. [01:01:47 - 01:01:49] Speaker: Unknown Maybe. Yeah. [01:01:49 - 01:01:50] Speaker: Unknown Was that 1948? [01:01:50 - 01:01:52] Speaker: Unknown Is that the Smith Month Act? [01:01:52 - 01:01:54] Speaker: Unknown Definitely the error, [01:02:01 - 01:02:03] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Not read all that. So? [01:02:03 - 01:02:06] Speaker: Unknown So the Smith Month act. [01:02:06 - 01:02:09] Speaker: Unknown The core of it was you can't propagandize [01:02:12 - 01:02:15] Speaker: Unknown And then in 2012, it got reversed. [01:02:38 - 01:02:40] Speaker: Unknown that's a, that's a, that's a signal. [01:02:42 - 01:02:44] Speaker: Unknown And that's the source of that signal. [01:02:53 - 01:02:56] Speaker: Unknown solely for the fact that, like, [01:03:20 - 01:03:21] Speaker: Unknown Well, I believe that. [01:03:21 - 01:03:22] Speaker: Unknown And that's like, [01:03:25 - 01:03:27] Speaker: Unknown But is that all intelligence? [01:03:27 - 01:03:30] Speaker: Unknown It's America, American intelligence. Yeah. [01:03:30 - 01:03:32] Speaker: Unknown American intelligence. [01:03:35 - 01:03:36] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yep. [01:03:38 - 01:03:39] Speaker: Unknown Dumb phones should be the better. [01:03:39 - 01:03:41] Speaker: Unknown Would you get rid of them? [01:03:41 - 01:03:45] Speaker: Unknown Oh, I like if you had a choice. [01:03:49 - 01:03:51] Speaker: Unknown Oh yeah. Yeah. [01:03:51 - 01:03:51] Speaker: Unknown That was it. [01:03:55 - 01:03:57] Speaker: Unknown And Steve Bannon, was using it [01:04:06 - 01:04:08] Speaker: Unknown Exactly. Yep. [01:04:13 - 01:04:13] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yeah. [01:04:17 - 01:04:18] Speaker: Unknown try to leave a [01:04:41 - 01:04:44] Speaker: Unknown we as Americans have given up, [01:04:45 - 01:04:48] Speaker: Unknown you know, security for convenience. [01:04:51 - 01:04:51] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:04:54 - 01:04:56] Speaker: Unknown that's like that's surveillance, isn't it? [01:04:56 - 01:04:59] Speaker: Unknown And oppression, the Patriot Act, [01:05:05 - 01:05:05] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. And it's. [01:05:08 - 01:05:09] Speaker: Unknown It's every. But you can't escape. [01:05:10 - 01:05:11] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:05:13 - 01:05:15] Speaker: Unknown Alex Jones said it. Prison planet. [01:05:15 - 01:05:17] Speaker: Unknown You want to do it? [01:05:17 - 01:05:18] Speaker: Unknown I've got to do it. [01:05:20 - 01:05:21] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Do you want the. [01:05:24 - 01:05:24] Speaker: Unknown Earth. [01:05:27 - 01:05:29] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Yeah. Joyner. Joyner. [01:05:29 - 01:05:30] Speaker: Unknown That's the Joyner. Die. [01:05:30 - 01:05:33] Speaker: Unknown Give me the bullet. Okay, [01:05:33 - 01:05:34] Speaker: Unknown a little bit. [01:05:34 - 01:05:36] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, just. This is just the taste. [01:05:36 - 01:05:39] Speaker: Unknown Like a quarter. A quarter of an ounce. [01:05:39 - 01:05:40] Speaker: Unknown It sounds good. [01:05:44 - 01:05:46] Speaker: Unknown isn't fun. Yeah. [01:05:46 - 01:05:46] Speaker: Unknown Is that. [01:05:51 - 01:05:52] Speaker: Unknown Beautiful. [01:05:52 - 01:05:53] Speaker: Unknown Good. [01:05:53 - 01:05:54] Speaker: Unknown Okay. We're going to cheers on this. [01:05:54 - 01:05:56] Speaker: Unknown We've still got water in here. [01:05:56 - 01:05:59] Speaker: Unknown Can't do no wrong. Get water. [01:05:59 - 01:05:59] Speaker: Unknown Did you drink all your tea? [01:05:59 - 01:06:00] Speaker: Unknown No, no, I want to. [01:06:03 - 01:06:05] Speaker: Unknown I it's supposed to water down. What? No. [01:06:05 - 01:06:06] Speaker: Unknown They get to the taste. [01:06:09 - 01:06:12] Speaker: Unknown You'll be dump a little bit. Yeah, yeah. [01:06:12 - 01:06:13] Speaker: Unknown Is there water back there? [01:06:13 - 01:06:15] Speaker: Unknown No, no. All right. We'll be fine. [01:06:19 - 01:06:22] Speaker: Unknown to to be in friends, man. [01:06:22 - 01:06:22] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:06:22 - 01:06:25] Speaker: Unknown Ready? [01:06:26 - 01:06:27] Speaker: Unknown All right. [01:06:27 - 01:06:29] Speaker: Unknown Opinion. [01:06:29 - 01:06:30] Speaker: Unknown So surprisingly smooth. [01:06:30 - 01:06:33] Speaker: Unknown Really? [01:06:33 - 01:06:35] Speaker: Unknown You want to read it? [01:06:35 - 01:06:37] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I'll slide it over a little bit. [01:06:43 - 01:06:44] Speaker: Unknown This is Kentucky. [01:06:44 - 01:06:45] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:06:45 - 01:06:46] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:06:46 - 01:06:46] Speaker: Unknown Oh, yeah. [01:06:46 - 01:06:48] Speaker: Unknown Right across the street from Evans. [01:06:48 - 01:06:51] Speaker: Unknown It's the same water over but at the end. [01:06:51 - 01:06:52] Speaker: Unknown But no, no it's really good. [01:06:52 - 01:06:55] Speaker: Unknown It's a little bit. It's not bad. [01:06:55 - 01:06:57] Speaker: Unknown Okay I will buy it, but. [01:06:57 - 01:06:58] Speaker: Unknown All right. [01:07:01 - 01:07:04] Speaker: Unknown if that's okay. [01:07:08 - 01:07:11] Speaker: Unknown I don't want these to be too, like. [01:07:11 - 01:07:12] Speaker: Unknown You know what I mean? [01:07:12 - 01:07:14] Speaker: Unknown Well, you're running for council, correct? [01:07:14 - 01:07:15] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yes. [01:07:15 - 01:07:18] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:07:20 - 01:07:23] Speaker: Unknown Council handles a $70 million budget. [01:07:29 - 01:07:31] Speaker: Unknown What's your number one focus? [01:07:31 - 01:07:34] Speaker: Unknown Roads, taxes, safety or something else? [01:07:36 - 01:07:39] Speaker: Unknown My number one focus is housing. [01:07:45 - 01:07:46] Speaker: Unknown I got priced out of my home in Brooklyn. [01:07:50 - 01:07:52] Speaker: Unknown Our mayor likes to claim that Scranton [01:08:02 - 01:08:03] Speaker: Unknown It's it's claim anything. [01:08:19 - 01:08:22] Speaker: Unknown It doesn't seem like it though, does it? [01:08:22 - 01:08:24] Speaker: Unknown No. Exactly. [01:08:24 - 01:08:25] Speaker: Unknown Exactly. Which is my point. [01:08:28 - 01:08:30] Speaker: Unknown Well, [01:08:30 - 01:08:32] Speaker: Unknown the sad part is that it might be real [01:08:45 - 01:08:46] Speaker: Unknown So what is it? [01:08:46 - 01:08:48] Speaker: Unknown It's like a it's a marketing [01:08:48 - 01:08:49] Speaker: Unknown slip. [01:09:00 - 01:09:01] Speaker: Unknown It's better than everywhere else. [01:09:12 - 01:09:14] Speaker: Unknown that have like, you know, [01:09:17 - 01:09:19] Speaker: Unknown I think unemployment's higher than that. [01:09:43 - 01:09:46] Speaker: Unknown is 29% versus 12% statewide, [01:09:51 - 01:09:54] Speaker: Unknown 50% of homeownership rate, 50% [01:09:59 - 01:10:01] Speaker: Unknown 51% is the employment rate versus [01:10:01 - 01:10:04] Speaker: Unknown 60% statewide. [01:10:05 - 01:10:08] Speaker: Unknown So is this like a good place to be? [01:10:08 - 01:10:10] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. No. Absolutely not. [01:10:10 - 01:10:13] Speaker: Unknown Jeremy, like it seems like a marketing. [01:10:13 - 01:10:15] Speaker: Unknown So I have a plan. [01:10:15 - 01:10:16] Speaker: Unknown Like like it's not just like, [01:10:19 - 01:10:21] Speaker: Unknown And we're going to. [01:10:21 - 01:10:21] Speaker: Unknown Over there. [01:10:21 - 01:10:22] Speaker: Unknown Over there. [01:10:35 - 01:10:36] Speaker: Unknown Is that playing on the screen, Dan? [01:10:40 - 01:10:41] Speaker: Unknown And I've got [01:10:45 - 01:10:48] Speaker: Unknown You know, I want to present to our city, [01:10:49 - 01:10:52] Speaker: Unknown I think it's you want abortion on demand? [01:10:52 - 01:10:55] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I think abortion on demand. Yep. [01:11:34 - 01:11:35] Speaker: Unknown for some reason [01:11:40 - 01:11:41] Speaker: Unknown Well, it's still tragic and. [01:11:41 - 01:11:43] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, but like we're seeing, [01:11:55 - 01:11:58] Speaker: Unknown So women are not. So women are not. [01:12:00 - 01:12:02] Speaker: Unknown So you're saying that [01:12:03 - 01:12:04] Speaker: Unknown because of the Dobbs [01:12:07 - 01:12:10] Speaker: Unknown in the hospital parking lots? Yes. [01:12:13 - 01:12:15] Speaker: Unknown That would be huge stories. [01:12:32 - 01:12:33] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, exactly. Every day. [01:12:33 - 01:12:35] Speaker: Unknown What about the other ones? [01:12:35 - 01:12:37] Speaker: Unknown You know, that are still happening? [01:12:37 - 01:12:39] Speaker: Unknown But yeah, I remember. [01:12:53 - 01:12:54] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, you should you shouldn't take those. [01:12:59 - 01:13:00] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yeah. [01:13:04 - 01:13:06] Speaker: Unknown You know, you feel sick for a few days. [01:13:07 - 01:13:09] Speaker: Unknown You know, you're not quite yourself. [01:13:11 - 01:13:11] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:13:14 - 01:13:15] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah. [01:13:19 - 01:13:20] Speaker: Unknown So it's like. [01:13:29 - 01:13:29] Speaker: Unknown Is that the way it is? [01:13:29 - 01:13:32] Speaker: Unknown That the way it is? No, I don't think so. [01:14:12 - 01:14:14] Speaker: Unknown That's tragic. [01:14:16 - 01:14:17] Speaker: Unknown I think. [01:14:44 - 01:14:47] Speaker: Unknown But there's there's no viable baby. [01:14:47 - 01:14:47] Speaker: Unknown Right. [01:15:06 - 01:15:08] Speaker: Unknown if you have like a writing. Yeah, exactly. [01:15:08 - 01:15:10] Speaker: Unknown It's a code probably. [01:15:10 - 01:15:12] Speaker: Unknown That's probably insane. Yeah. Okay. [01:15:16 - 01:15:17] Speaker: Unknown So yeah, we're getting back to [01:15:20 - 01:15:22] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:15:25 - 01:15:28] Speaker: Unknown If you if you click that drop down arrow, [01:15:29 - 01:15:31] Speaker: Unknown you know, I believe it's, the first one. [01:15:31 - 01:15:32] Speaker: Unknown Oh, no. It's okay. Okay. [01:15:38 - 01:15:39] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:15:39 - 01:15:42] Speaker: Unknown But for general people, [01:15:53 - 01:15:54] Speaker: Unknown a whole bunch of different people. [01:16:11 - 01:16:13] Speaker: Unknown Exactly. Okay. [01:16:13 - 01:16:14] Speaker: Unknown All blight. [01:16:20 - 01:16:22] Speaker: Unknown Jeez. I sorry about that. My hydraulics. [01:16:27 - 01:16:30] Speaker: Unknown I want us to be able to, [01:16:32 - 01:16:35] Speaker: Unknown take over these properties as the city. [01:16:35 - 01:16:36] Speaker: Unknown So how do you do that? [01:16:38 - 01:16:40] Speaker: Unknown There's a conservative ship model, [01:16:47 - 01:16:49] Speaker: Unknown There's like regulations around this. [01:16:49 - 01:16:51] Speaker: Unknown And we're going to take over the property [01:16:58 - 01:17:01] Speaker: Unknown Are you also flipping houses as the city? [01:17:14 - 01:17:17] Speaker: Unknown is in [01:17:17 - 01:17:20] Speaker: Unknown the state law. [01:17:20 - 01:17:21] Speaker: Unknown Comes with another side. [01:17:30 - 01:17:33] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Not just not like get out. [01:17:33 - 01:17:35] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Okay. [01:17:54 - 01:17:56] Speaker: Unknown person or entity. I mean, if you're [01:18:03 - 01:18:05] Speaker: Unknown And it's been sitting there for years. [01:18:14 - 01:18:15] Speaker: Unknown So I think that's fair. Yeah. [01:18:22 - 01:18:23] Speaker: Unknown Bona. [01:18:26 - 01:18:29] Speaker: Unknown at 1.0 for the revitalization when. [01:18:29 - 01:18:31] Speaker: Unknown Oh maybe maybe. [01:18:31 - 01:18:34] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yeah okay. That makes sense. [01:18:34 - 01:18:36] Speaker: Unknown All right. So keep going. [01:18:36 - 01:18:37] Speaker: Unknown Eminent domain. [01:18:37 - 01:18:37] Speaker: Unknown So, yeah, [01:18:45 - 01:18:46] Speaker: Unknown You know, it's a job program. [01:19:01 - 01:19:02] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, terrible. [01:19:05 - 01:19:06] Speaker: Unknown You know, [01:19:07 - 01:19:09] Speaker: Unknown we think thank you be able to do that. [01:19:09 - 01:19:11] Speaker: Unknown Fees. There's a lot of steps here, Frank. [01:19:11 - 01:19:12] Speaker: Unknown You know [01:19:19 - 01:19:22] Speaker: Unknown You know, I I'm not exactly crazy. [01:19:22 - 01:19:23] Speaker: Unknown Shit has happened. [01:19:29 - 01:19:32] Speaker: Unknown So, you know, it's a jobs program. [01:19:35 - 01:19:38] Speaker: Unknown it's a way of the city [01:19:45 - 01:19:46] Speaker: Unknown There's costs. [01:19:59 - 01:20:00] Speaker: Unknown It's good for homeowners. [01:20:00 - 01:20:03] Speaker: Unknown It's good for, you know, workers, I think. [01:20:07 - 01:20:08] Speaker: Unknown rent money. [01:20:20 - 01:20:20] Speaker: Unknown And that [01:20:28 - 01:20:30] Speaker: Unknown so because they don't ever run it well. [01:20:30 - 01:20:32] Speaker: Unknown So in Vienna. [01:20:32 - 01:20:35] Speaker: Unknown Vienna, Austria. [01:20:40 - 01:20:43] Speaker: Unknown before, you know, World War one. And, [01:20:44 - 01:20:47] Speaker: Unknown they went on a huge building spree. [01:20:48 - 01:20:50] Speaker: Unknown What they called Red Vienna. [01:20:59 - 01:21:02] Speaker: Unknown Well, so did the socialists stay there? [01:21:07 - 01:21:07] Speaker: Unknown Obviously. [01:21:07 - 01:21:08] Speaker: Unknown Oh, wait, wait. [01:21:08 - 01:21:09] Speaker: Unknown But you said it before World War One. [01:21:09 - 01:21:12] Speaker: Unknown Before World War, and to this day. [01:21:12 - 01:21:13] Speaker: Unknown No, no, no, you said Hitler came in. [01:21:13 - 01:21:15] Speaker: Unknown Oh, he got rid of the. [01:21:19 - 01:21:21] Speaker: Unknown up until I think World War one. [01:21:25 - 01:21:27] Speaker: Unknown See, when these things get, like, [01:21:31 - 01:21:33] Speaker: Unknown I mean, no, to this day, [01:21:50 - 01:21:52] Speaker: Unknown They're great. Great. [01:21:52 - 01:21:53] Speaker: Unknown I have no bearing on this. [01:21:53 - 01:21:54] Speaker: Unknown So I don't know. It's cheap. [01:21:54 - 01:21:56] Speaker: Unknown It's much cheaper than private landlords. [01:22:08 - 01:22:10] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:22:10 - 01:22:12] Speaker: Unknown So you want to move on. [01:22:12 - 01:22:12] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:22:20 - 01:22:23] Speaker: Unknown to the beginning like a burrito. [01:22:28 - 01:22:30] Speaker: Unknown That's most vulnerable for [01:22:37 - 01:22:38] Speaker: Unknown the last couple of years. [01:22:41 - 01:22:42] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, exactly. [01:22:42 - 01:22:44] Speaker: Unknown And then the reassessment by the county. [01:22:58 - 01:22:58] Speaker: Unknown Chris. Sure. [01:22:58 - 01:22:59] Speaker: Unknown Max has told me [01:23:06 - 01:23:07] Speaker: Unknown I've done it well. She's elderly. [01:23:07 - 01:23:08] Speaker: Unknown She's like, [01:23:13 - 01:23:14] Speaker: Unknown Exactly. [01:23:19 - 01:23:21] Speaker: Unknown I think the city could still send the tax [01:23:26 - 01:23:29] Speaker: Unknown basically the bill won't become due [01:23:55 - 01:23:55] Speaker: Unknown or two, isn't it. [01:24:00 - 01:24:01] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Yep. Exactly. [01:24:01 - 01:24:03] Speaker: Unknown So is a similar program to that. [01:24:12 - 01:24:15] Speaker: Unknown for them would which would be huge. [01:24:17 - 01:24:18] Speaker: Unknown You know, it [01:24:24 - 01:24:25] Speaker: Unknown You know? [01:24:29 - 01:24:31] Speaker: Unknown Like we're still it's just like an IOU [01:24:31 - 01:24:34] Speaker: Unknown kind of but on the house. [01:24:34 - 01:24:36] Speaker: Unknown Right. So the property on the property. [01:24:36 - 01:24:36] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:24:46 - 01:24:48] Speaker: Unknown then, [01:25:05 - 01:25:06] Speaker: Unknown I often. Yeah. [01:25:23 - 01:25:25] Speaker: Unknown I agree, I agree with [01:25:27 - 01:25:30] Speaker: Unknown the spirit of both of these [01:25:30 - 01:25:32] Speaker: Unknown if that if that makes sense. [01:25:32 - 01:25:33] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:25:33 - 01:25:36] Speaker: Unknown Keep going. [01:25:36 - 01:25:37] Speaker: Unknown Keep going motherfucker. [01:25:37 - 01:25:39] Speaker: Unknown Something else on housing. [01:25:39 - 01:25:41] Speaker: Unknown It's not on here. [01:25:41 - 01:25:43] Speaker: Unknown I'd like to see a rent freeze [01:25:43 - 01:25:46] Speaker: Unknown for public housing or for everybody. [01:25:46 - 01:25:46] Speaker: Unknown For housing. [01:25:46 - 01:25:46] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:25:49 - 01:25:52] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, yeah. And let them come at me. [01:25:52 - 01:25:52] Speaker: Unknown I don't think that. [01:25:52 - 01:25:54] Speaker: Unknown I think that it should be a refuge. [01:25:54 - 01:25:56] Speaker: Unknown For how long? [01:25:56 - 01:25:57] Speaker: Unknown Pegged to a percentage. [01:26:04 - 01:26:07] Speaker: Unknown from exploding too high. [01:26:07 - 01:26:10] Speaker: Unknown Can I ask you something like why? [01:26:17 - 01:26:18] Speaker: Unknown you know what I mean? [01:26:43 - 01:26:44] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, either [01:26:48 - 01:26:50] Speaker: Unknown And I don't think anybody would think [01:26:52 - 01:26:52] Speaker: Unknown I don't think anybody it. [01:26:52 - 01:26:55] Speaker: Unknown So let's circle back a little bit. [01:26:55 - 01:26:57] Speaker: Unknown Where did it all start? [01:26:58 - 01:26:58] Speaker: Unknown Where was the [01:27:21 - 01:27:23] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I think that's corrupting it. [01:27:31 - 01:27:33] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:27:45 - 01:27:47] Speaker: Unknown if you raise $100,000, [01:27:52 - 01:27:53] Speaker: Unknown The fucking government. [01:28:01 - 01:28:02] Speaker: Unknown And that [01:28:05 - 01:28:06] Speaker: Unknown Do you remember hearing the guy? [01:28:06 - 01:28:09] Speaker: Unknown I think it was. I think it was 20, 21. [01:28:09 - 01:28:12] Speaker: Unknown Who? You know, the Senate pro tempore is, [01:28:13 - 01:28:13] Speaker: Unknown in new Jersey. [01:28:17 - 01:28:18] Speaker: Unknown Nice. [01:28:21 - 01:28:22] Speaker: Unknown It depends on the race. [01:28:22 - 01:28:23] Speaker: Unknown I mean, that's a Senate race. [01:28:32 - 01:28:34] Speaker: Unknown in the primary, too. [01:28:34 - 01:28:36] Speaker: Unknown Wow. She was cast? [01:28:36 - 01:28:37] Speaker: Unknown I don't think so. [01:28:37 - 01:28:38] Speaker: Unknown You never saw the documentary with her [01:28:43 - 01:28:44] Speaker: Unknown I never saw that she said that? [01:28:47 - 01:28:49] Speaker: Unknown Like I'm also a member of the DSA. [01:28:49 - 01:28:51] Speaker: Unknown I know, but she said that on camera. [01:28:56 - 01:28:58] Speaker: Unknown No, I swear to God, I watched the Daggett. [01:29:05 - 01:29:08] Speaker: Unknown thousands of people and, [01:29:12 - 01:29:13] Speaker: Unknown He put my name in. [01:29:13 - 01:29:16] Speaker: Unknown And then I was the one no chosen for. [01:29:16 - 01:29:17] Speaker: Unknown I don't think it was a casting call. [01:29:26 - 01:29:27] Speaker: Unknown I think the story was maybe it was. [01:29:44 - 01:29:46] Speaker: Unknown So I want to take the [01:29:47 - 01:29:49] Speaker: Unknown potato baton because like, they're [01:29:52 - 01:29:53] Speaker: Unknown There's a whole bunch of like, [01:29:58 - 01:29:59] Speaker: Unknown So it's manufacturing consent, [01:30:16 - 01:30:17] Speaker: Unknown Right. [01:30:17 - 01:30:19] Speaker: Unknown Like your community, your town, whatever. [01:30:19 - 01:30:22] Speaker: Unknown And when outside forces come in, [01:30:23 - 01:30:25] Speaker: Unknown like, it makes it not what it was like. [01:30:25 - 01:30:27] Speaker: Unknown Imagine we're in Africa, right? [01:30:27 - 01:30:28] Speaker: Unknown There's all these tribes in Africa. [01:30:35 - 01:30:36] Speaker: Unknown I mean, not the [01:30:39 - 01:30:41] Speaker: Unknown No, we bombed in years and terrible. [01:30:42 - 01:30:45] Speaker: Unknown But like just a just imagine like [01:30:53 - 01:30:54] Speaker: Unknown We should never be. [01:30:57 - 01:30:58] Speaker: Unknown So why is it okay for people? [01:30:58 - 01:30:59] Speaker: Unknown And I just look at it [01:31:03 - 01:31:04] Speaker: Unknown like a Frankie lives in Scranton? [01:31:04 - 01:31:05] Speaker: Unknown I want to hear from Frankie. [01:31:24 - 01:31:24] Speaker: Unknown Does that make sense? [01:31:29 - 01:31:29] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:31:29 - 01:31:32] Speaker: Unknown Like, I think, you know, those are like, [01:31:33 - 01:31:35] Speaker: Unknown for some part, you know, valid concerns. [01:31:35 - 01:31:36] Speaker: Unknown I definitely hear you. [01:31:40 - 01:31:42] Speaker: Unknown I think that for the most part, you know, [01:31:42 - 01:31:45] Speaker: Unknown we as humans want very similar. [01:31:45 - 01:31:48] Speaker: Unknown Are you so afraid of the microphone? [01:31:48 - 01:31:49] Speaker: Unknown My my knees are pushing up [01:31:53 - 01:31:54] Speaker: Unknown We'll get the chains off for the next one. [01:31:54 - 01:31:56] Speaker: Unknown Under six feet. Only in here now? [01:31:56 - 01:31:59] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, that's it. [01:32:00 - 01:32:02] Speaker: Unknown Just, it's about me [01:32:06 - 01:32:08] Speaker: Unknown So, by and large, not that local control. [01:32:11 - 01:32:13] Speaker: Unknown We were talking before about co-ops. [01:32:13 - 01:32:14] Speaker: Unknown You know, about how we both. [01:32:14 - 01:32:15] Speaker: Unknown You know, [01:32:21 - 01:32:22] Speaker: Unknown You know, [01:32:24 - 01:32:27] Speaker: Unknown for more local control than anything, too. [01:32:27 - 01:32:31] Speaker: Unknown But I think that sometimes [01:32:31 - 01:32:35] Speaker: Unknown you need that higher degree of regulation [01:32:35 - 01:32:37] Speaker: Unknown to be able to prevent, [01:32:38 - 01:32:41] Speaker: Unknown you know. [01:32:41 - 01:32:43] Speaker: Unknown Not good things from happening. [01:32:43 - 01:32:45] Speaker: Unknown But shouldn't we be able to police that? [01:32:45 - 01:32:46] Speaker: Unknown Shouldn't we as our community? [01:32:46 - 01:32:47] Speaker: Unknown But you know what I mean. [01:32:47 - 01:32:48] Speaker: Unknown Like, if somebody's going to [01:32:48 - 01:32:48] Speaker: Unknown if someone's [01:33:01 - 01:33:03] Speaker: Unknown of like all the materials, [01:33:07 - 01:33:09] Speaker: Unknown What's wrong? Two plus two. Yeah. [01:33:13 - 01:33:16] Speaker: Unknown you know, we mean like building like [01:33:16 - 01:33:19] Speaker: Unknown like arms or for General Dynamics. [01:33:19 - 01:33:20] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yeah. [01:33:30 - 01:33:32] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. You know what I mean. [01:33:37 - 01:33:39] Speaker: Unknown Oh yeah. Yeah. Health care. [01:33:41 - 01:33:42] Speaker: Unknown They put it here when people are sick [01:33:43 - 01:33:44] Speaker: Unknown or they [01:33:44 - 01:33:47] Speaker: Unknown see people going to be sick soon enough. [01:33:48 - 01:33:51] Speaker: Unknown And, like Arby's and Arby's do. [01:33:56 - 01:33:58] Speaker: Unknown I really like that. Or no, the turkey one. [01:33:58 - 01:34:00] Speaker: Unknown I just like individually fries. [01:34:00 - 01:34:01] Speaker: Unknown The curly fries are good. [01:34:01 - 01:34:02] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:34:08 - 01:34:09] Speaker: Unknown I haven't had it in probably 20 years. [01:34:09 - 01:34:10] Speaker: Unknown Really? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. [01:34:10 - 01:34:11] Speaker: Unknown Oh, now I'm thinking about it. [01:34:11 - 01:34:12] Speaker: Unknown I'll probably have, like, [01:34:15 - 01:34:16] Speaker: Unknown I'll take a drive down after. [01:34:20 - 01:34:22] Speaker: Unknown But it's, it's it's a good look. [01:34:22 - 01:34:24] Speaker: Unknown I'm under no illusion of what I'm eating. [01:34:24 - 01:34:25] Speaker: Unknown It's not a gourmet sandwich. [01:34:25 - 01:34:27] Speaker: Unknown It's not like as good as cats. Yeah. [01:34:28 - 01:34:30] Speaker: Unknown All right, let me let me get to. [01:34:30 - 01:34:32] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:34:32 - 01:34:34] Speaker: Unknown This is a big concern of mine. [01:34:34 - 01:34:36] Speaker: Unknown The homeless camps. [01:34:36 - 01:34:39] Speaker: Unknown Yes. And, [01:34:39 - 01:34:41] Speaker: Unknown there's a methadone clinic also, right? [01:34:41 - 01:34:42] Speaker: Unknown By a school over there. [01:34:42 - 01:34:45] Speaker: Unknown The icebox. Yeah. [01:34:45 - 01:34:48] Speaker: Unknown How should council tackle this [01:34:49 - 01:34:51] Speaker: Unknown with more shelters, stricter rules [01:34:51 - 01:34:54] Speaker: Unknown or a fresh approach? [01:34:56 - 01:34:58] Speaker: Unknown I think one and three. [01:34:58 - 01:35:00] Speaker: Unknown Not stricter rules. [01:35:03 - 01:35:06] Speaker: Unknown rules is going to be solving the issue. [01:35:08 - 01:35:11] Speaker: Unknown I don't shy away from the term radical. [01:35:12 - 01:35:13] Speaker: Unknown The word itself [01:35:13 - 01:35:16] Speaker: Unknown word comes from Greek for the word root. [01:35:25 - 01:35:27] Speaker: Unknown So I consider myself a radical. [01:35:38 - 01:35:38] Speaker: Unknown I think we [01:35:45 - 01:35:48] Speaker: Unknown I spent a year and a half houseless, [01:35:48 - 01:35:51] Speaker: Unknown not full street homeless. [01:35:51 - 01:35:52] Speaker: Unknown Most of it. [01:36:04 - 01:36:07] Speaker: Unknown friends houses. [01:36:08 - 01:36:11] Speaker: Unknown But I think we need to take, like, [01:36:16 - 01:36:19] Speaker: Unknown We don't have enough shelters in the city. [01:36:22 - 01:36:24] Speaker: Unknown We don't have enough beds. [01:36:24 - 01:36:25] Speaker: Unknown Overall, [01:36:25 - 01:36:28] Speaker: Unknown our city used to house 200,000 people, [01:36:29 - 01:36:31] Speaker: Unknown and now we have less than 77,000 people. [01:36:32 - 01:36:34] Speaker: Unknown You know, by [01:36:42 - 01:36:44] Speaker: Unknown you know, public housing to these folks. [01:37:09 - 01:37:12] Speaker: Unknown you know, something traumatic for them. [01:37:15 - 01:37:18] Speaker: Unknown It's not that they can't cook, it's that. [01:37:20 - 01:37:22] Speaker: Unknown You start losing the habits, you know? [01:37:27 - 01:37:28] Speaker: Unknown cook the meal, you know, [01:37:29 - 01:37:31] Speaker: Unknown or we hope that people cook [01:37:43 - 01:37:44] Speaker: Unknown do you? [01:37:47 - 01:37:50] Speaker: Unknown And I've had people reach out. [01:37:51 - 01:37:54] Speaker: Unknown Take you to the [01:37:55 - 01:37:56] Speaker: Unknown wrong pipe. [01:37:56 - 01:37:57] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I wish I got that on camera. [01:38:00 - 01:38:02] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. It's all over me. Yeah. [01:38:02 - 01:38:04] Speaker: Unknown I'm so sorry, Frank. [01:38:04 - 01:38:06] Speaker: Unknown Kovat. [01:38:06 - 01:38:07] Speaker: Unknown Shut it down. [01:38:07 - 01:38:10] Speaker: Unknown Shut it down! Hey, get out of here! [01:38:10 - 01:38:12] Speaker: Unknown You okay? Yeah. I'm good. [01:38:12 - 01:38:13] Speaker: Unknown That's I it's the air. [01:38:13 - 01:38:15] Speaker: Unknown It's the green tea, man. It'll get to you. [01:38:18 - 01:38:20] Speaker: Unknown It seems like, you know. Right. [01:38:20 - 01:38:22] Speaker: Unknown And so, [01:38:25 - 01:38:28] Speaker: Unknown Let's call them the people like that. [01:38:28 - 01:38:30] Speaker: Unknown At what step in the process? [01:38:38 - 01:38:41] Speaker: Unknown and probably like a job and, you know, [01:38:49 - 01:38:51] Speaker: Unknown of that individual? [01:38:55 - 01:38:58] Speaker: Unknown You spit on your forehead. [01:38:59 - 01:39:02] Speaker: Unknown No. One of the bounce back off of me. [01:39:02 - 01:39:03] Speaker: Unknown I get myself covered. [01:39:07 - 01:39:08] Speaker: Unknown I prescribe, [01:39:08 - 01:39:11] Speaker: Unknown from my understanding, from looking, [01:39:11 - 01:39:13] Speaker: Unknown research. [01:39:13 - 01:39:15] Speaker: Unknown Housing first is the policy [01:39:15 - 01:39:18] Speaker: Unknown that works best when [01:39:18 - 01:39:21] Speaker: Unknown I agree 100% that you know, [01:39:22 - 01:39:25] Speaker: Unknown even from my own experience, you know, [01:39:29 - 01:39:29] Speaker: Unknown Totally. [01:39:34 - 01:39:37] Speaker: Unknown you know, one way or another, trauma. [01:39:38 - 01:39:41] Speaker: Unknown Well, trauma is, you know, the short term, [01:39:44 - 01:39:46] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. But it's it's it's traumatic. [01:39:46 - 01:39:46] Speaker: Unknown Yes. Okay. [01:39:49 - 01:39:51] Speaker: Unknown I know it's like a semantics argument, [01:39:57 - 01:39:58] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, absolutely. [01:40:01 - 01:40:02] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. I'm with you on that. [01:40:02 - 01:40:03] Speaker: Unknown But like, [01:40:07 - 01:40:08] Speaker: Unknown to be short term. [01:40:33 - 01:40:35] Speaker: Unknown I've most of that. [01:40:42 - 01:40:43] Speaker: Unknown who interact with the homeless, [01:40:54 - 01:40:58] Speaker: Unknown And I, I think that that is like the root [01:40:59 - 01:41:01] Speaker: Unknown of, you know, it might not be like. [01:41:15 - 01:41:16] Speaker: Unknown That traumatized me. [01:41:16 - 01:41:17] Speaker: Unknown I don't understand it. [01:41:22 - 01:41:23] Speaker: Unknown Right. [01:41:23 - 01:41:26] Speaker: Unknown So I found that a lot of people have like, [01:41:27 - 01:41:30] Speaker: Unknown what what would it be of it would be un. [01:41:31 - 01:41:33] Speaker: Unknown UN faced trauma. [01:41:33 - 01:41:34] Speaker: Unknown Right. [01:41:43 - 01:41:44] Speaker: Unknown Unless you focus, [01:41:44 - 01:41:47] Speaker: Unknown unless you focus on helping that person [01:41:48 - 01:41:49] Speaker: Unknown move past that trauma. [01:41:49 - 01:41:50] Speaker: Unknown What did I learn from this? [01:41:50 - 01:41:53] Speaker: Unknown Instead of like, this defines me. [01:42:16 - 01:42:17] Speaker: Unknown And it's not going to define me. [01:42:21 - 01:42:22] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:42:26 - 01:42:27] Speaker: Unknown on the getting them [01:42:27 - 01:42:30] Speaker: Unknown into the system to help them. [01:42:30 - 01:42:33] Speaker: Unknown Mental health is like step number four [01:42:47 - 01:42:49] Speaker: Unknown Right. So which creates more trauma. [01:42:49 - 01:42:51] Speaker: Unknown It creates more human suffering. [01:42:56 - 01:42:58] Speaker: Unknown they gave me a house knowing full fucking [01:43:02 - 01:43:02] Speaker: Unknown So, like, [01:43:06 - 01:43:07] Speaker: Unknown for, like, [01:43:09 - 01:43:10] Speaker: Unknown what to do either, though. [01:43:10 - 01:43:11] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yeah. [01:43:33 - 01:43:35] Speaker: Unknown But for my understanding, [01:43:43 - 01:43:44] Speaker: Unknown you know, living. [01:43:50 - 01:43:51] Speaker: Unknown that they went through. [01:43:56 - 01:43:58] Speaker: Unknown The the trauma thing is, [01:43:58 - 01:44:01] Speaker: Unknown is that I was talking to it [01:44:01 - 01:44:04] Speaker: Unknown and they said like the like [01:44:04 - 01:44:05] Speaker: Unknown somebody said to me, somebody [01:44:11 - 01:44:12] Speaker: Unknown Right. [01:44:12 - 01:44:15] Speaker: Unknown And but if my like if, [01:44:23 - 01:44:25] Speaker: Unknown that those hurt less. [01:44:25 - 01:44:25] Speaker: Unknown Do you know what I mean? [01:44:25 - 01:44:28] Speaker: Unknown So like when people try to like, [01:44:43 - 01:44:46] Speaker: Unknown It you can't quantify it. Yeah. [01:44:46 - 01:44:46] Speaker: Unknown And they don't. [01:44:55 - 01:44:57] Speaker: Unknown his trauma is worse than her trauma. [01:45:02 - 01:45:04] Speaker: Unknown It's almost like a triage. Yes, exactly. [01:45:04 - 01:45:06] Speaker: Unknown And they're not and they're not doing it. [01:45:09 - 01:45:12] Speaker: Unknown So if we if we jump back to the website, [01:45:13 - 01:45:16] Speaker: Unknown boom, boom, boom, let me say, well, [01:45:17 - 01:45:18] Speaker: Unknown scroll down one more. [01:45:18 - 01:45:21] Speaker: Unknown I think it's the next policy [01:45:21 - 01:45:23] Speaker: Unknown expanding crisis intervention service. [01:45:41 - 01:45:42] Speaker: Unknown Something's going wrong. [01:45:42 - 01:45:43] Speaker: Unknown You know that. [01:45:46 - 01:45:48] Speaker: Unknown Basically, [01:45:48 - 01:45:50] Speaker: Unknown nonviolent occurrence is happening. [01:45:58 - 01:46:01] Speaker: Unknown A a lot of, you know, mental [01:46:04 - 01:46:05] Speaker: Unknown Why are we asking them to deal with this? [01:46:24 - 01:46:27] Speaker: Unknown A lot of folks, you know, people of color [01:46:45 - 01:46:48] Speaker: Unknown In Eugene and [01:46:48 - 01:46:51] Speaker: Unknown Springfield, Oregon, our mayor's hometown. [01:46:52 - 01:46:53] Speaker: Unknown She's from two towns. [01:46:53 - 01:46:55] Speaker: Unknown Well, they they're bordering, [01:47:06 - 01:47:09] Speaker: Unknown But they basically do this, [01:47:09 - 01:47:12] Speaker: Unknown where they've been doing this since 1972. [01:47:16 - 01:47:19] Speaker: Unknown and only required on backup 150 times [01:47:20 - 01:47:22] Speaker: Unknown in 40 years. [01:47:22 - 01:47:25] Speaker: Unknown In one year, oh, 24,000 responses [01:47:26 - 01:47:29] Speaker: Unknown and 150 times required armed backup. [01:47:31 - 01:47:31] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:47:51 - 01:47:51] Speaker: Unknown it's not [01:47:51 - 01:47:54] Speaker: Unknown 911 or the police officers [01:48:04 - 01:48:05] Speaker: Unknown So it kind of flips the script on that. [01:48:12 - 01:48:15] Speaker: Unknown So that is a bigger [01:48:15 - 01:48:18] Speaker: Unknown fear in our heads than it is in reality. [01:48:18 - 01:48:20] Speaker: Unknown And so like, [01:48:36 - 01:48:36] Speaker: Unknown Sure. [01:48:48 - 01:48:49] Speaker: Unknown So, like, if people [01:49:07 - 01:49:10] Speaker: Unknown Explain to me, like a situation [01:49:18 - 01:49:21] Speaker: Unknown to call something like 911, why they [01:49:27 - 01:49:29] Speaker: Unknown either from themselves or someone else? [01:49:29 - 01:49:32] Speaker: Unknown Let me use an another example of recently, [01:49:33 - 01:49:35] Speaker: Unknown did you see in the news [01:49:39 - 01:49:40] Speaker: Unknown getting through a fight [01:49:47 - 01:49:48] Speaker: Unknown He did. And then, [01:49:49 - 01:49:50] Speaker: Unknown he, like, took his hands off [01:49:54 - 01:49:55] Speaker: Unknown I didn't see that. [01:50:00 - 01:50:01] Speaker: Unknown Oh, that happened in Scranton? Yep. [01:50:01 - 01:50:04] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Happened in Scranton. [01:50:04 - 01:50:06] Speaker: Unknown But while they were. [01:50:06 - 01:50:08] Speaker: Unknown When was this? This was, like, this week. [01:50:08 - 01:50:08] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:50:11 - 01:50:13] Speaker: Unknown So it must have happened way last week. [01:50:13 - 01:50:15] Speaker: Unknown Maybe, [01:50:15 - 01:50:17] Speaker: Unknown one of the the [01:50:30 - 01:50:32] Speaker: Unknown So, like, a lot of times [01:50:48 - 01:50:49] Speaker: Unknown You know, [01:51:07 - 01:51:08] Speaker: Unknown The girlfriend? [01:51:08 - 01:51:11] Speaker: Unknown Or the fucking super strong. How do you. [01:51:11 - 01:51:13] Speaker: Unknown I don't know how you refer door handle up. [01:51:13 - 01:51:15] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, a car. How do you do that? Wild. [01:51:18 - 01:51:19] Speaker: Unknown So, like, [01:51:26 - 01:51:27] Speaker: Unknown I think it's like [01:51:30 - 01:51:30] Speaker: Unknown Right. [01:51:34 - 01:51:37] Speaker: Unknown But that's, that's a week of training. [01:51:46 - 01:51:47] Speaker: Unknown sending social workers to instead. [01:52:04 - 01:52:05] Speaker: Unknown I think they just want to. [01:52:05 - 01:52:06] Speaker: Unknown I think the most important thing for them [01:52:12 - 01:52:15] Speaker: Unknown And that's the police. Yes, yes. [01:52:15 - 01:52:18] Speaker: Unknown So they, you know, will sometimes act, you [01:52:22 - 01:52:25] Speaker: Unknown to, you know, pull out that firearm [01:52:36 - 01:52:37] Speaker: Unknown Police officers. [01:52:51 - 01:52:53] Speaker: Unknown I'm talking about a cop pulling their gun. [01:53:01 - 01:53:04] Speaker: Unknown So part of my organizing work with, [01:53:11 - 01:53:12] Speaker: Unknown We do have a flag. Yeah. [01:53:12 - 01:53:13] Speaker: Unknown Holy shit. Yeah. [01:53:13 - 01:53:14] Speaker: Unknown I didn't have a flag. [01:53:14 - 01:53:17] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I got a DSA flag. [01:53:17 - 01:53:19] Speaker: Unknown It's, hanging above my mirror in my room. [01:53:19 - 01:53:19] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [01:53:25 - 01:53:28] Speaker: Unknown But you don't have Kim Jong un. [01:53:40 - 01:53:43] Speaker: Unknown Virgo. Okay. Of course. Thank God. Yeah. [01:53:43 - 01:53:44] Speaker: Unknown Finally somebody in there. [01:53:45 - 01:53:46] Speaker: Unknown Self-talk friend. [01:53:46 - 01:53:48] Speaker: Unknown He's coming out with a new yo. [01:53:53 - 01:53:54] Speaker: Unknown Those guys are nuts. [01:53:54 - 01:53:56] Speaker: Unknown I love them and together. [01:53:56 - 01:53:57] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. It's unbelievable. [01:54:03 - 01:54:05] Speaker: Unknown Some an officer has to pull his weapon. [01:54:05 - 01:54:08] Speaker: Unknown So around here in DSA, [01:54:08 - 01:54:10] Speaker: Unknown we are [01:54:10 - 01:54:12] Speaker: Unknown and we are appealing a ruling [01:54:12 - 01:54:15] Speaker: Unknown from the Wilkesboro Police Department. [01:54:15 - 01:54:17] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Last, [01:54:35 - 01:54:36] Speaker: Unknown Pennsylvania State [01:54:40 - 01:54:43] Speaker: Unknown committed, you know, was in the safe, [01:54:43 - 01:54:46] Speaker: Unknown you know, wasn't in the clear for using, [01:54:46 - 01:54:48] Speaker: Unknown their firearm at the time. [01:54:52 - 01:54:54] Speaker: Unknown The big reason that they tout for body [01:55:17 - 01:55:19] Speaker: Unknown So what's the reasoning? [01:55:19 - 01:55:23] Speaker: Unknown So, we've had three different judges [01:55:25 - 01:55:28] Speaker: Unknown Recuse? Yeah. Like step away. Yeah, yeah. [01:55:30 - 01:55:31] Speaker: Unknown Judge for the president. [01:55:31 - 01:55:34] Speaker: Unknown Judge to assign a judge, for the case. [01:55:54 - 01:55:55] Speaker: Unknown and it doesn't look good. [01:55:57 - 01:55:57] Speaker: Unknown So, like, this is [01:56:06 - 01:56:09] Speaker: Unknown So, you know, a lot of my organizing is, [01:56:12 - 01:56:15] Speaker: Unknown Like, you know, we said you can have this. [01:56:15 - 01:56:16] Speaker: Unknown Do you believe? [01:56:18 - 01:56:20] Speaker: Unknown So would you be. [01:56:20 - 01:56:22] Speaker: Unknown You'd be for, like, [01:56:22 - 01:56:23] Speaker: Unknown open kimono. [01:56:23 - 01:56:25] Speaker: Unknown Here's as much as possible. [01:56:27 - 01:56:28] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:56:28 - 01:56:31] Speaker: Unknown Like whatever is like, legally, like, [01:56:45 - 01:56:46] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yeah, exactly. [01:56:46 - 01:56:47] Speaker: Unknown It was on my wall. [01:56:47 - 01:56:48] Speaker: Unknown But did you see. [01:56:48 - 01:56:51] Speaker: Unknown So we I think we need to like, actually, [01:57:01 - 01:57:03] Speaker: Unknown What do you think of it? [01:57:03 - 01:57:05] Speaker: Unknown It's interesting for sure. [01:57:05 - 01:57:07] Speaker: Unknown Do you think it streamlines the process? [01:57:10 - 01:57:12] Speaker: Unknown I'm always skeptical [01:57:20 - 01:57:21] Speaker: Unknown Because they can do that. Yeah. [01:57:21 - 01:57:24] Speaker: Unknown What's. Scranton? I, [01:57:27 - 01:57:27] Speaker: Unknown Scranton. [01:57:27 - 01:57:29] Speaker: Unknown I what it does is it is it [01:57:58 - 01:57:59] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:58:03 - 01:58:04] Speaker: Unknown for these chickens. [01:58:04 - 01:58:05] Speaker: Unknown But yeah, [01:58:07 - 01:58:09] Speaker: Unknown you have to have a certain square footage [01:58:09 - 01:58:11] Speaker: Unknown and a certain square footage of your yard. [01:58:11 - 01:58:14] Speaker: Unknown And it was all these arbitrary, like, [01:58:24 - 01:58:25] Speaker: Unknown Exactly. Yeah. [01:58:25 - 01:58:27] Speaker: Unknown They don't have 80,000 chickens. [01:58:46 - 01:58:47] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [01:58:53 - 01:58:55] Speaker: Unknown This is this is the black market out. [01:58:56 - 01:58:58] Speaker: Unknown And but the big issue that [01:59:08 - 01:59:10] Speaker: Unknown It's only for the eggs. Yeah. [01:59:10 - 01:59:13] Speaker: Unknown But that's a that's our JBL Bose system. [01:59:17 - 01:59:19] Speaker: Unknown What do you think? [01:59:19 - 01:59:20] Speaker: Unknown We're at, like, two hours right now. [01:59:20 - 01:59:23] Speaker: Unknown What do you think? [01:59:23 - 01:59:24] Speaker: Unknown Like what? [01:59:24 - 01:59:25] Speaker: Unknown What is your, like, number one? [01:59:25 - 01:59:27] Speaker: Unknown What do you think? [01:59:27 - 01:59:30] Speaker: Unknown Are you optimistic about, moving forward? [01:59:33 - 01:59:36] Speaker: Unknown Was this anything like you expected? [01:59:49 - 01:59:52] Speaker: Unknown how to, collect signatures that I needed. [02:00:01 - 02:00:03] Speaker: Unknown And I jumped in because I didn't like [02:00:13 - 02:00:16] Speaker: Unknown and I was going to campaign manager. [02:00:20 - 02:00:22] Speaker: Unknown I know what I'm doing. [02:00:22 - 02:00:24] Speaker: Unknown I might as well do it myself. [02:00:24 - 02:00:25] Speaker: Unknown So I jumped in, [02:00:27 - 02:00:29] Speaker: Unknown and it's been pretty good. [02:00:33 - 02:00:36] Speaker: Unknown So, I was a lot of catch up. [02:00:37 - 02:00:39] Speaker: Unknown And, I'm doing good at fundraising. [02:00:39 - 02:00:42] Speaker: Unknown I've raised, $2,000, which is. [02:00:44 - 02:00:47] Speaker: Unknown No, no. I'm open. [02:00:47 - 02:00:48] Speaker: Unknown I've raised over $2,000. [02:00:48 - 02:00:51] Speaker: Unknown I haven't been focusing on fundraising. [02:01:04 - 02:01:06] Speaker: Unknown So I think the biggest issue [02:01:17 - 02:01:18] Speaker: Unknown And that's because as [02:01:31 - 02:01:34] Speaker: Unknown So I try to uplift other voices. [02:01:47 - 02:01:49] Speaker: Unknown And here's the catch 22 of now [02:01:53 - 02:01:55] Speaker: Unknown But it's doing well. [02:01:55 - 02:01:57] Speaker: Unknown I started knocking on doors last weekend. [02:02:00 - 02:02:02] Speaker: Unknown until the primary. [02:02:08 - 02:02:10] Speaker: Unknown And it's. [02:02:10 - 02:02:11] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:02:11 - 02:02:13] Speaker: Unknown How was Sean? [02:02:13 - 02:02:14] Speaker: Unknown That's a good question. [02:02:20 - 02:02:21] Speaker: Unknown Good point. [02:02:21 - 02:02:24] Speaker: Unknown But, yeah, you know, people [02:02:29 - 02:02:30] Speaker: Unknown I'm not politically connected. [02:02:30 - 02:02:32] Speaker: Unknown I didn't grow up here. [02:02:39 - 02:02:42] Speaker: Unknown I was invited to a, Good old boy's [02:02:42 - 02:02:45] Speaker: Unknown a good old Democratic rally yesterday. [02:02:49 - 02:02:51] Speaker: Unknown He was invited to Bohemian Grove. [02:02:51 - 02:02:52] Speaker: Unknown Well, it was a police union. [02:02:54 - 02:02:55] Speaker: Unknown Oh. Oh, yeah. [02:03:13 - 02:03:15] Speaker: Unknown accept it from. [02:03:15 - 02:03:16] Speaker: Unknown Is there a reason? Yeah. [02:03:35 - 02:03:36] Speaker: Unknown Class traitors? [02:03:36 - 02:03:36] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:03:48 - 02:03:50] Speaker: Unknown So policy enforces [02:03:50 - 02:03:52] Speaker: Unknown the protection of capital. [02:04:12 - 02:04:13] Speaker: Unknown Like your property. Yeah. [02:04:13 - 02:04:15] Speaker: Unknown So when you say capital, right. [02:04:15 - 02:04:18] Speaker: Unknown So capital is not only. [02:04:22 - 02:04:25] Speaker: Unknown Private personal property as capital. [02:04:49 - 02:04:51] Speaker: Unknown It's private property. [02:04:56 - 02:04:58] Speaker: Unknown But if if [02:05:13 - 02:05:15] Speaker: Unknown and used as a revenue generating. [02:05:24 - 02:05:25] Speaker: Unknown I don't think so. [02:05:25 - 02:05:27] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, like a car isn't private property. [02:05:27 - 02:05:28] Speaker: Unknown Your car is private property. [02:05:28 - 02:05:31] Speaker: Unknown If you're like an Uber or Lyft driver. [02:05:37 - 02:05:39] Speaker: Unknown Is I'm looking at it from a like. [02:05:43 - 02:05:46] Speaker: Unknown It's, [02:05:46 - 02:05:46] Speaker: Unknown I don't agree. [02:05:56 - 02:05:59] Speaker: Unknown So as a private corporation, [02:06:03 - 02:06:04] Speaker: Unknown No, no, no. [02:06:12 - 02:06:13] Speaker: Unknown a capitalist [02:06:16 - 02:06:19] Speaker: Unknown I mean, theoretically, yeah, but, [02:06:26 - 02:06:31] Speaker: Unknown So you so as a, as a, as a socialist, [02:06:32 - 02:06:34] Speaker: Unknown differentiate [02:06:34 - 02:06:37] Speaker: Unknown personal and private properties. Yes. [02:06:37 - 02:06:37] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [02:06:37 - 02:06:38] Speaker: Unknown Because I don't think also, [02:06:46 - 02:06:48] Speaker: Unknown Right. Yeah. Or the courthouse. [02:06:48 - 02:06:49] Speaker: Unknown Sure. [02:06:52 - 02:06:53] Speaker: Unknown you know, personally [02:06:56 - 02:06:58] Speaker: Unknown Right. Yeah. [02:06:58 - 02:07:01] Speaker: Unknown So I, I it's a private property. [02:07:01 - 02:07:02] Speaker: Unknown What the fuck? [02:07:02 - 02:07:04] Speaker: Unknown Dan, are you confused about this? [02:07:06 - 02:07:07] Speaker: Unknown It's good. [02:07:07 - 02:07:08] Speaker: Unknown Well, am I am I wrong? [02:07:08 - 02:07:10] Speaker: Unknown Am I thinking [02:07:10 - 02:07:13] Speaker: Unknown no public is public property? [02:07:18 - 02:07:19] Speaker: Unknown And that's if you focus on that part. [02:07:27 - 02:07:27] Speaker: Unknown private property. [02:07:27 - 02:07:29] Speaker: Unknown Private property. [02:07:36 - 02:07:39] Speaker: Unknown this is personal. [02:07:40 - 02:07:42] Speaker: Unknown See what I was [02:07:42 - 02:07:44] Speaker: Unknown so like? If you own something, right? [02:07:44 - 02:07:45] Speaker: Unknown And with the IRS. [02:07:49 - 02:07:50] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:08:19 - 02:08:20] Speaker: Unknown No, no, no, you're just an idiot. [02:08:21 - 02:08:22] Speaker: Unknown Is this always been this way? [02:08:24 - 02:08:25] Speaker: Unknown I follow what he's saying. [02:08:33 - 02:08:33] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:08:33 - 02:08:36] Speaker: Unknown That's a it's always conflated. [02:08:36 - 02:08:38] Speaker: Unknown Like it's perfect. [02:08:38 - 02:08:39] Speaker: Unknown I think that it's purposely conflated [02:08:45 - 02:08:45] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:08:49 - 02:08:51] Speaker: Unknown I don't like you today. [02:08:51 - 02:08:52] Speaker: Unknown Why are you fucking with me? [02:08:54 - 02:08:55] Speaker: Unknown I understand what he's saying, too. [02:09:01 - 02:09:02] Speaker: Unknown It's all private. [02:09:02 - 02:09:05] Speaker: Unknown So if you. [02:09:11 - 02:09:12] Speaker: Unknown So and that's and that's private. [02:09:15 - 02:09:17] Speaker: Unknown When, if you own a house and you say, [02:09:19 - 02:09:20] Speaker: Unknown But if you own the house [02:09:33 - 02:09:33] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:09:33 - 02:09:33] Speaker: Unknown But that's, that's, [02:09:41 - 02:09:42] Speaker: Unknown It's a private property. [02:09:56 - 02:09:56] Speaker: Unknown like that. [02:09:59 - 02:10:00] Speaker: Unknown I think all that. [02:10:05 - 02:10:06] Speaker: Unknown Fill and dump. [02:10:06 - 02:10:07] Speaker: Unknown Fill. [02:10:10 - 02:10:12] Speaker: Unknown Like that's my private property. [02:10:14 - 02:10:16] Speaker: Unknown Somebody destroyed my property. Right? [02:10:22 - 02:10:24] Speaker: Unknown So this is like a who's on first. [02:10:24 - 02:10:25] Speaker: Unknown Got a little bit. Yeah. [02:10:25 - 02:10:28] Speaker: Unknown I don't know what's on second. [02:10:28 - 02:10:30] Speaker: Unknown I don't know who's on third. [02:10:30 - 02:10:31] Speaker: Unknown All right. [02:10:31 - 02:10:33] Speaker: Unknown So we're. [02:10:36 - 02:10:37] Speaker: Unknown I don't know what that means. [02:10:38 - 02:10:41] Speaker: Unknown Okay, I want to end, [02:10:43 - 02:10:44] Speaker: Unknown in a in a in a [02:10:44 - 02:10:47] Speaker: Unknown in a hopefully in an a hobby place. [02:10:47 - 02:10:49] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [02:10:56 - 02:10:59] Speaker: Unknown even though I have private property. [02:11:02 - 02:11:05] Speaker: Unknown What's your Scranton happy place? [02:11:05 - 02:11:06] Speaker: Unknown It could be. [02:11:06 - 02:11:09] Speaker: Unknown It could be a bar, a park, a diner. [02:11:11 - 02:11:13] Speaker: Unknown maybe rally your crew with some friends. [02:11:17 - 02:11:20] Speaker: Unknown And I'm with good energy. [02:11:20 - 02:11:23] Speaker: Unknown I'm always worrying about something. [02:11:23 - 02:11:25] Speaker: Unknown I gotta give you some of my medicine. [02:11:25 - 02:11:28] Speaker: Unknown I think, [02:11:28 - 02:11:29] Speaker: Unknown I don't [02:11:35 - 02:11:38] Speaker: Unknown But there's a new restaurant in West Side [02:11:41 - 02:11:43] Speaker: Unknown Where's Roberta's? [02:11:43 - 02:11:44] Speaker: Unknown On Luzerne Street. [02:11:46 - 02:11:49] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Yeah, I know exactly where that is. [02:11:53 - 02:11:55] Speaker: Unknown Is it like a buffet or. [02:12:09 - 02:12:11] Speaker: Unknown I read an article. Oh. [02:12:11 - 02:12:12] Speaker: Unknown They like won an award recently. [02:12:12 - 02:12:14] Speaker: Unknown Oh my God. No. [02:12:14 - 02:12:17] Speaker: Unknown He won an award for rice. [02:12:17 - 02:12:18] Speaker: Unknown He's been on here a couple of times. [02:12:19 - 02:12:20] Speaker: Unknown I've been meaning to go there. [02:12:20 - 02:12:21] Speaker: Unknown Dude. [02:12:25 - 02:12:28] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. Yeah, dude. The food. Holy shit. [02:12:28 - 02:12:29] Speaker: Unknown It's the best. [02:12:29 - 02:12:31] Speaker: Unknown It's the best. And I love everybody there. [02:12:31 - 02:12:33] Speaker: Unknown Everybody. That so awesome, Francine. [02:12:37 - 02:12:40] Speaker: Unknown He got so drunk. [02:12:42 - 02:12:43] Speaker: Unknown What's the name of the place? [02:12:43 - 02:12:43] Speaker: Unknown Could jumbos. [02:12:47 - 02:12:48] Speaker: Unknown Okay. [02:12:48 - 02:12:50] Speaker: Unknown May 20th is around the corner. [02:12:54 - 02:12:57] Speaker: Unknown before they vote? [02:12:59 - 02:13:02] Speaker: Unknown I jumped in this race [02:13:02 - 02:13:03] Speaker: Unknown because I'm offering a vision. [02:13:15 - 02:13:16] Speaker: Unknown I want to offer [02:13:16 - 02:13:19] Speaker: Unknown bold, progressive plans for our city. [02:13:20 - 02:13:22] Speaker: Unknown I want to focus on the working class. [02:13:32 - 02:13:35] Speaker: Unknown And I feel like, you know, we need more. [02:13:35 - 02:13:37] Speaker: Unknown Not more of the same. [02:13:37 - 02:13:40] Speaker: Unknown So I don't want a political dynasty. [02:13:59 - 02:14:00] Speaker: Unknown I understand what you're saying. [02:14:08 - 02:14:09] Speaker: Unknown You know what I mean? [02:14:16 - 02:14:19] Speaker: Unknown I don't first of all, Jeff on. [02:14:19 - 02:14:21] Speaker: Unknown Oh, it's great that, [02:14:23 - 02:14:24] Speaker: Unknown Okay. Thank God I told you. You could try. [02:14:24 - 02:14:27] Speaker: Unknown I can tell you I'm not going to try, but. [02:14:27 - 02:14:28] Speaker: Unknown But I think it's important. [02:14:40 - 02:14:42] Speaker: Unknown Oh, he's a socialist. [02:14:49 - 02:14:49] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:14:53 - 02:14:56] Speaker: Unknown By the way, I'm not a fascist. [02:14:58 - 02:15:00] Speaker: Unknown And I think you and I had the conversation [02:15:06 - 02:15:06] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:15:13 - 02:15:14] Speaker: Unknown I try and that's what I'm trying to do. [02:15:14 - 02:15:17] Speaker: Unknown I'm trying to I'm trying to open up, [02:15:28 - 02:15:30] Speaker: Unknown And it's only getting bigger. [02:15:35 - 02:15:37] Speaker: Unknown Scraps. That's what we're fighting. [02:15:37 - 02:15:38] Speaker: Unknown There's a lot of it. [02:15:38 - 02:15:40] Speaker: Unknown There's a lot of it. But like, I like to. [02:15:40 - 02:15:42] Speaker: Unknown I look me and I'm the guy that's all. [02:15:42 - 02:15:43] Speaker: Unknown Ships rise with the tide. [02:15:43 - 02:15:44] Speaker: Unknown That's what I want. [02:15:47 - 02:15:48] Speaker: Unknown I want the truth. [02:15:48 - 02:15:51] Speaker: Unknown I don't want anybody lying to anybody. [02:15:52 - 02:15:53] Speaker: Unknown Especially politicians. [02:15:53 - 02:15:55] Speaker: Unknown I think there's a lot of hope, [02:15:57 - 02:15:57] Speaker: Unknown coming soon. [02:15:57 - 02:15:59] Speaker: Unknown I don't think I know. [02:16:02 - 02:16:04] Speaker: Unknown or a little negatively. [02:16:04 - 02:16:06] Speaker: Unknown They look at it negatively. [02:16:06 - 02:16:09] Speaker: Unknown I, I, I would love to disabuse [02:16:14 - 02:16:16] Speaker: Unknown Like, I've had more [02:16:20 - 02:16:22] Speaker: Unknown And like the 30 before, [02:16:25 - 02:16:27] Speaker: Unknown I know you're going to think, but like, [02:16:32 - 02:16:33] Speaker: Unknown you know, I was the guy [02:16:36 - 02:16:38] Speaker: Unknown And I'm not saying you're wrong. [02:16:38 - 02:16:40] Speaker: Unknown I'm not saying I'm right. [02:16:51 - 02:16:53] Speaker: Unknown You know, I believe in individual liberty. [02:16:59 - 02:17:00] Speaker: Unknown And I also believe that there's [02:17:05 - 02:17:06] Speaker: Unknown And I think that that's terrible. [02:17:06 - 02:17:08] Speaker: Unknown And people like [02:17:15 - 02:17:17] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. I mean, as long as that, like, [02:17:18 - 02:17:19] Speaker: Unknown aligns with, [02:17:22 - 02:17:24] Speaker: Unknown I grew up in a steel factory, man. [02:17:24 - 02:17:25] Speaker: Unknown Like I that's all I knew. [02:17:52 - 02:17:54] Speaker: Unknown What did I learn from this? [02:17:54 - 02:17:55] Speaker: Unknown Because you will be stronger now. [02:18:06 - 02:18:07] Speaker: Unknown I don't like it either, [02:18:10 - 02:18:12] Speaker: Unknown a constant victimization. [02:18:17 - 02:18:18] Speaker: Unknown Like, I can't overcome this. [02:18:21 - 02:18:22] Speaker: Unknown I didn't like that. [02:18:33 - 02:18:35] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. [02:18:35 - 02:18:36] Speaker: Unknown Well, here's the thing. [02:18:38 - 02:18:41] Speaker: Unknown And we should find a way to, [02:18:41 - 02:18:43] Speaker: Unknown bring a little bit more love in the world. [02:18:43 - 02:18:45] Speaker: Unknown Yeah, I agree, I'm for that. [02:18:45 - 02:18:46] Speaker: Unknown All right. Thanks for having me. [02:18:48 - 02:18:49] Speaker: Unknown I did have a good time. Did you? [02:18:59 - 02:19:00] Speaker: Unknown Thanks, Dan. [02:19:00 - 02:19:01] Speaker: Unknown All right. You want to say it? [02:19:07 - 02:19:09] Speaker: Unknown Located at 635. [02:19:09 - 02:19:10] Speaker: Unknown Where you're going in Pennsylvania. [02:19:10 - 02:19:13] Speaker: Unknown I love that place you're going there are. [02:19:15 - 02:19:16] Speaker: Unknown Those wings look pretty good. [02:19:18 - 02:19:19] Speaker: Unknown Yeah. You put up the map, man. [02:19:19 - 02:19:20] Speaker: Unknown You know what Dan gets? [02:19:25 - 02:19:26] Speaker: Unknown It was great. [02:19:26 - 02:19:28] Speaker: Unknown But now I can see the wings. [02:19:28 - 02:19:29] Speaker: Unknown So. 635 Luzerne Street. [02:19:36 - 02:19:39] Speaker: Unknown What do we. [02:19:48 - 02:19:51] Speaker: Unknown I shoot I chewed my pen the whole time. [02:19:57 - 02:19:57] Speaker: Unknown That's beautiful. [02:19:57 - 02:19:58] Speaker: Unknown All right. [02:19:58 - 02:19:58] Speaker: Unknown I'm gonna put
More Episodes

Ep. 108: Across the Aisle in Scranton – Chris Kelly on Data Centers & Common Ground
Chris Kelly and I don’t see the world the same way. We’ve been on opposite sides of more than a few issues over the years. That’s exactly why this conversation needed to happen. In a country (and a region) that keeps hardening into tribes, too many people have stopped talking to anyone who doesn’t already agree with them. This episode is a deliberate refusal of that habit. Chris Kelly, longtime columnist and muckraker at the Scranton Times-Tribune, sits down with me to talk about the data cent...

Ep. 107: Shane Repasky Returns – Water Memory, Biofields, Ancient Control Systems & the Real Reset
Shane Repasky is back on What A Week! Podcast for a deep, unfiltered conversation that goes way beyond the surface. The NEPA carpenter who first woke up during COVID returns to unpack the ancient roots of modern control systems — from Mesopotamian deities and the god “El,” to water memory, structured water, toroidal biofields, frequencies, and how technology (including 5G and algorithms) is being used to isolate and manage humanity. Shane and Mark dive into: • How COVID cracked open the door fo...

Episode 105: Bringing the play “1776” to Life with Paige Balitski & Max Roche of Diva Productions
In this special episode of What A Week!, we sit down with Paige Balitski of Diva Productions and music director/actor Max Roche to discuss their upcoming production of the Tony Award-winning musical 1776. Northeast Pennsylvania’s only America250PA SemiQuin Grants-supported production, this show brings the debates, sacrifices, humor, and humanity surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the stage as part of the nationwide commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary. Paige a...