The America First Podcast: Episode 46 | November 20, 2025 | Hosts: Joe the Box, Johnny Blanket, Kevin Downey Jr, Lisa Azzarelli & Fred Rubino

Summary

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The America First Podcast: Episode 46

Date: November 21, 2025
Hosts: Joe the Box, Johnny Blanket, Kevin Downey Jr. (KDJ), Lisa Azzarelli, Fred Rubino

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Episode Overview

This episode, set in America First Warehouse, delivers the group's signature blend of spirited debate, commentary on American politics and culture, and in-depth discussion of current events. The team addresses Thanksgiving reflections, U.S. politics post-Trump, issues in education and immigration, the New York City transportation manifesto, and technology's advancing role in society. All is explored with a sharp, irreverent sense of humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Thanksgiving, Gratitude, and Recent News (03:09–05:31)

• Hosts reflect on Thanksgiving: expressing gratitude for America’s revival and for being part of the podcast family.
• Shout-outs to community, partners, and sponsors at the America First Warehouse.
• Lighthearted banter: "Every day is Thanksgiving for Trump and then Christmas is right around the corner." (Joe the Box, 06:54)

2. Trump, Political Divisions, and Party Loyalty (04:32–09:53)

• Continued admiration for Trump’s actions: Praise for stock market gains, foreign policy, and "nation under God" narrative.
• Democrats vs. Republicans: Debate over party unity versus internal GOP conflict.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene and Trump tension, plus criticism of "phony faces" like Mike Lawler.
• Notable Quote:
  “He's either blowing up a boat full of narco-terrorists or, you know, he’s swinging deals with countries who need us more than we need them. The stock market is going through the roof. I feel blessed.”
  (KDJ, 04:32)

3. General Milley and the Concept of Loyalty (07:03–08:31)

• General Milley’s portrait removed from the Pentagon causes gags and disdain.
• Discussion of U.S. government officials’ ties to China and “the New World Order”.
• Notable Quote:
  “He was willing to tell the Chinese we were coming. Fauci was making Covid with the Chinese. Tell me again the Chinese are our enemies?”
  (KDJ, 08:04)

4. Cultural Satire: SNL, Voting, and Demographic Shifts (13:22–14:46)

• SNL mockery of "Mom Donnie" and NY voting patterns—how "white women in Brooklyn" swung elections.
• Hosts appreciate SNL’s satire as revealing social dynamics.
• Sample satire:
  “Hey, girl, I know you got a little white guilt for gentrifying that Spanish neighborhood, don’t you?... Why don’t you vote for me, you know, you feel a little less bad about that chicken and rice shop getting turned into a Sweet Green.”
  (SNL Skit as recited by hosts, 13:36–13:55)

5. NYC’s “Traffic Manifesto” – Transport, Control, and Environment (20:02–31:06)

• Sharply critical review of Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s transit proposals:
  • Lowering speed limits to 20 MPH, tearing down highways, increased cameras, and higher vehicle registration fees for heavier cars.
  • Linking these to environmentalism and claims of "government overreach."
• Humorous skepticism toward feasibility and environmental claims:
  “My cousin’s gonna do [an environmental] study. It’s $50 million. Let’s do a study now.”
  (Fred Rubino, 22:58)
• Hosts connect these ideas to perceived trends of increased governmental "control" in the name of climate and safety.
• Concerns raised about punitive costs, loss of personal transport, and proposed bus and bike networks.
• Notable Quotes:
  “You have to be in a Prius. ...They’re going to penalize you...”—(Lisa, 24:48)
  “They’re cracking down on everything except giving illegal immigrants CDL licenses ...when they can’t speak English or know any of the signs.”
  (Fred, 26:27)

6. Overcrowding in NYC Schools, Education Policy, & Immigration (36:56–47:13)

• Exploration of classroom overcrowding blamed on unchecked immigration, McKinney-Vento law, and city policies.
• Comparison: NYC school crowding vs. North Carolina’s decreased public school enrollment (attributed to outward migration, private school selection, and falling birth rates).
• Critique of curriculum mandates in NJ and fears of further "state control" over private/homeschool education.
• Concerns over immigrants’ financial means, abuse of government aid programs (SNAP, EBT), and impact on public costs.
• Notable Quote:
  “If you come from Central or South America and you have $60,000 to just go to another country, you’re not suffering. ...It was a deliberate act to try to grab the electoral votes.”
  (Fred, 39:11)

7. Technology, Loss, and Ethics: Tom Brady Clones His Dog (53:54–59:48)

• Tom Brady’s choice to clone his late dog sparks debate over cloning, technology, and "playing God".
• Some hosts consider pet cloning "creepy" and spiritually troubling.
• “Sometimes dead is better... Next thing is going to be, well, you know, I gotta clone my grandma.”
  (KDJ, 54:52)
• Further digression into AI, holographic memorials, and whether these technologies help or harm the grieving process.
• Funny moment:
  “He has a supermodel ex-wife. Clone her, not the dog!”
  (Fred, 55:32)

8. Technology Dependence & The Amish Alternative (60:50–63:43)

• Tech outages (Cloudflare, X, Spotify) draw remarks about over-reliance on technology.
• The Amish community held up as a model for food independence and minimal technology use—with a mix of admiration and humor.
• “The Amish ain’t suffering.” (Fred, 62:25)
• Jokes about learning from the Amish and hosts’ skepticism: “I don’t trust the Amish.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with timestamps)

• “Every day is Thanksgiving for Trump and then Christmas is right around the corner.”
  (Joe the Box, 06:54)

• “He was willing...to tell the Chinese we were coming. Fauci was making Covid with the Chinese.”
  (KDJ, 08:04)

• “You have to be in a Prius. ...They’re going to penalize you.”
  (Lisa Azzarelli, 24:48)

• On urban transport changes:
  “That’s the easiest way to steal money from taxpayers. … You get $50 or $100 million to do something, we all know it’s not going to get done.”
  (Fred Rubino, 26:27)

• SNAP/EBT fraud and Democratic resistance to transparency:
  “Even the Republican states who handed it in, they found egregious, you know, wrongdoing and scandals… the 24 states that are blue, all blue, won’t agree to do it.”
  (Lisa, 51:57)

• On pet cloning:
  “Sometimes dead is better... Next thing is going to be, well, you know, I gotta clone my grandma because I miss her.”
  (KDJ, 54:52)

• On AI hologram technology:
  “My mother… looked at me and she said, are you out of your mind?...So basically, in this new hologram version, the daughter is pregnant...and she’s talking to her mom all the time.”
  (Lisa, 59:48)

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Segment Timestamps

| Topic | Timestamps | |-------------------------------------- |-------------- | | Thanksgiving & Show Intro | 03:09–05:31 | | Trump’s Performance & Political News | 04:32–09:53 | | General Milley, China, Loyalty | 07:03–08:31 | | SNL & Voter Demographics Satire | 13:22–14:46 | | NYC Transit Manifesto & Environment | 20:02–31:06 | | NYC/NJ Education System & Immigration | 36:56–47:13 | | Tom Brady Cloning Dog Tech/Ethics | 53:54–59:48 | | Tech Outages, Amish, Independence | 60:50–63:43 |

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Final Thoughts & Tone

• Blunt, often irreverent tone: Exchanges are regularly laced with sarcasm, biting critiques of progressivism, and comedic relief.
• Recurring themes: Skepticism of government and technology, nostalgia for traditional values, deep suspicion of “control” under the guise of safety or environmentalism.
• Camaraderie and lively debate: The hosts rib each other often but share a common, “America First” vision.

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For more:

Find the hosts and their comedic/political work through their cited socials and websites, notably KDJ’s Twitter (@KDJradioshow) and Fred Rubino’s stand-up appearances (fredrubino.com). Lisa can be found on X as Lee1as.

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Transcript

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[John the Blanket]

Wow.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Wow.

[Joe the Box]

Unbelievable. We're back here at the America First Warehouse.

[John the Blanket]

This is Joe the Box and I'm John the Blanket. The greatest venue in all of the world and galaxy, like Kevin likes to say. Oh, he's stealing everybody's material over there.

[Joe the Box]

Johnny Blanket, welcome back, Johnny Blanket. We're happy to have you back on the show. Last week, I know you was working hard, and today I'll be doing the same thing. I have a big project out with the biggest sponsor of the warehouse, corporate transfer and storage. And behind us, when you see today's show, you'll notice a lot of new relationships that we've established out of the warehouse and partnerships. I have been on my knees praying, lord, how are we going to continue to make the America First Warehouse a viable place for people to go to? And God never ceases to, you know, let me down. So you'll see great partnerships behind us. You'll see new commercials we're working on. The new one in particular is Freedom Talk magazine. And my friend Kelly Walker is. This is great, Johnny. And kdj, you're gonna like this. His name is Kelly. Johnny Walker.

[John the Blanket]

Wow.

[Joe the Box]

Yeah, see, I knew you'd like that. Kdj, you're right next to me over here. How you doing, buddy? You're so busy working.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

I'm good, my friend. Yeah, a lot of comedy lately. Having lot of fun, traveling all over the joint. And I wake up every day and I check the news and I say, God, what has Trump done for us since I went to sleep? And it's always something magical. He's either blowing up a boat full of narco terrorists or, you know, he's swinging deals with countries who need us more than we need them. The stock market is going through the roof. I feel blessed.

[Joe the Box]

You know, it's a time for Thanksgiving, that's for sure. And I am very thankful to the Lord for bringing our country back one nation under God. But here's I'm also very grateful. And thank for is Lisa Azzarelli, who's here to give us the news and start the show with what's happening out there, because she really pays attention to detail. And after the news, if you can just touch base, a Little bit. Liza on that meeting yesterday that I saw, Angani didn't even blink. He stayed awake during the whole meeting yesterday with the school boards. Lisa Azzarelli News and tell us what's happening at school.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Okay, here we go. America first podcast. So happy to be here with you today on this Tuesday, November 18th. We have a importantly I want to just give a shout out to Anzani because tomorrow is my birthday. Happy birthday buddy.

[John the Blanket]

He'll be crushing Volkswagens.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

So our lineup today we have a lot of great stuff to talk about. First of all, we're going to discuss a little bit of Tom Brady out of the side pocket here. He cloned his dog. We're going to get back to that. Seriously, who. It's more like pet cemetery. Then we went. We're going to take a look at SNL and how they predicted something about Mom Donnie voters. Very interesting. We're also going to possibly discuss Mamdani's transit manifesto released by a very interesting group of non NGOs. And then going past that, we're going to take a look at Eric Adams. Can he hide the illegals? Apparently there is an overflow in the classrooms here in New York City and an opposite which Johnny told me about, there is a decrease in classrooms in North Carolina. Maybe we'll take a look at that comparison. We all know that Cloud Fair seemed to go down today disrupting X and Spotify, OpenAI, Amazon, other web accounts. Very, very interesting. There are tons of things that we're going to cover here on the show today, so stay tuned.

[Fred Rubino]

Wow.

[Joe the Box]

It's pretty exciting I think because I do feel like every day is Thanksgiving for Trump and then Christmas is right around the corner. Johnny, you got something going on?

[John the Blanket]

Well, I don't know but I did see some news this morning too that I saw in that they took down not Miley Cyrus. Who's that general there? Miley. Not Miley Cyrus.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

That's the sing.

[John the Blanket]

Fake news here. He took his portrait down and is no longer hanging in the Pentagon. That's some good news.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

General Millie.

[John the Blanket]

Yeah, yeah, took his portrait down. Pete Hedzig.

[Joe the Box]

Miley Smiley. Miley. Oh yeah. Well he wanted to let the the Chinese know that we were coming. That's important for him to know, you know. And I let the Chinese know too.

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[John the Blanket]

I just glad to see that things are somebody's being accountable for it, you know. I mean why, why should we represent. This guy doesn't represent our country. But he was still a general, a five star general. And what a Disgrace. And I'm glad that just do is a despicable disgrace.

[Joe the Box]

Unbelievable how Kevin Downey Jr. When you look at the different administrations, what we live with for four years, and you know, where it is right now and how hard we're going to have to work to keep it, you.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Know, it really makes me sick that my, that says General Milley. He was willing, like you said, to tell the Chinese we were coming. All right. Fauci was making Covid with the Chinese. Tell me again, the Chinese are our enemies. Because I see people on the left working with them in a way that looks like we're more like allies. Maybe this is the new world order that they're trying to bring in. That's what I think. Why else would Biden let in 20 million people? But now sanity is back, but we have to keep it back. Joe.

[Joe the Box]

Well, we're going deep, and they are going deep. They've had no problem lying to us from 2016 is when it really started. And that's when all of these truths are coming out. And then on 2020, I mean, just to listen to Bill Maher, first of all, Trump takes him into his house, right? Invites him in. They have a civil conversation. Now he's on his show and he.

[John the Blanket]

Said, I hate Donald Trump. I hate Donald Trump.

[Joe the Box]

Why didn't you tell him you hated him when you were face to face? You know what that's called? It's the same thing that the Muslim population is using.

[John the Blanket]

Honest.

[Joe the Box]

And I think it says some Taqira law or something. With Taqira, do you know anything about this state kdj?

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

I do. It's Taqiyah or Taqiyah. I don't know how to say it.

[Joe the Box]

Taqira is what I call it.

[John the Blanket]

That's what I hear.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

What it means is the first Muslims to go in, they play all night like, hey, we get along with everybody. We're not here to kill you or replace you. And then when you get up to 5% of the population, they go, all right, we want our rights. And you know what? Maybe we are here to rape and kill you. But by then, there are so many, there's very little you can do. It's a war of demographics. They're reproducing like guppies, and we're not. Because they've spent the past 25 years telling women, get abortions, get a job, go out there. If you stay home while that, that's the patriarchy. That's the patriarchy. And they did it all to tear down Western civilization. So There'd be fewer of us to take over. Tell me I'm wrong. I don't think I am.

[Joe the Box]

Nobody's going to debate that. Lisa, you got a debate on this one. What's going on in that schools?

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Well, I will say this first about regarding Trump and the love hate relationship. No doubt MTG was also on that's Marjorie Taylor Greene. She was on Tucker Carlson not too long ago and she, I know that her and Trump too are having it out right now. Maybe she' putting him on the hot plate for bringing those America first policies forth. Today the Epstein files are before the Senate to get voted on to be released. So that's one of the things that may calm the waters between the two of them. But another thing that she said on the Tucker Carlson Network was that Mike Lawler of New York is one of those phony faces and it was disappointing to hear that, that he's been a non Trumper from the get go. And it wasn't until Trump won again that he begrudgingly said fine and I'm gonna put on the make America great again hat. So these types of things where they're coming to the other side at a slow snail's pace and not really in favor are causing a lot of issues in the Republican Party. And that is actually what we probably want to hear because when you see the Democrats working together so tight and they move together in a militant fashion like that, agreeing and voting in one uniparty, then what you have is exactly that, a socialist impact where they're listening to the leaders and not to the people. And then you have the Republican side where you have our representatives coming out and they're saying this person isn't doing this and this person's not agreeing to that. This person's taking money from here. This is what the people need to see, that there's real truth going on within the party. So I'm, I think we're going to see a lot of more good things happen as this, this goes and Trump is going to hopefully live up to the promises he made. Just let's give it some time because he's done a lot of great things already. We saw the shutdown take place at 6. Democrats came over to his side. So let's keep it going.

[John the Blanket]

Look, look at all he's done while he was President of the United States. He's the most amazing president we've ever had. Let's give him a chance. Let it clean up. The only thing I want to address back to Joe Jr. Because he said it was in 2016 when he noticed the corruption happened. Wasn't Obama in there eight years before that? Were we all blind not to see what this guy was doing to our country?

[Joe the Box]

Well, we saw it, Johnny boy. We opened up our business in 05, the moving and storage business. And, you know, that was like the worst time ever. The stock market even crashed that time, fortunately for our business. You know, when people are doing well, they hire and they move up. When people are doing poorly, then they have to downsize, which talks about New York City. And I don't know if you have any cuts about New York City, but there's a location that we used to go in often, and we would always do a very competitive rate, but now we're charging double.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Interesting.

[John the Blanket]

You have to. You can't even pull in there without paying 40 bucks for driving in or something like that.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yeah.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Oh, yeah. Then you got that.

[Joe the Box]

Well, I'm telling you, I think we should go in there with armed guards. How are we going to get our trucks across the city? City over there, Especially with the big American flag that I have on it. I'm gonna have to hire security or maybe the Second Amendment on my own. Where's my close up?

[John the Blanket]

I thought we liked Mike Lawler, because any lawyer or Laura or whatever his name is, but he does have a little resemblance to Mondavi. Because sometimes when I see him.

[Joe the Box]

Johnny, what are you saying? They all look alike.

[John the Blanket]

Somebody should shave.

[Joe the Box]

What do you think? Everybody looks like you and me, John, and we look alike.

[John the Blanket]

The only one that looks, Al and me. I don't know what you're talking about.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

On that account, I'd like to bring up the asset, if we could, of SNL's skit on mom Donnie and who came out to vote for him. Can we pull that one up, please?

[Fred Rubino]

Wow.

[John the Blanket]

A lot of women voted for him, Mom.

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Danny, your message to undecided voters.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

My message is this, hey, girl, I.

[Joe the Box]

Know you got a little white guilt.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

For gentrifying that Spanish neighborhood, don't you?

[Joe the Box]

Why don't you vote for me? You know, you feel a little less.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Bad about that chicken and rice shop.

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[Lisa Azzarelli]

The ballot box, girl? So I think that SNL was very clever prior to the election to have that skit on the show because it really did call out. What we learned occurred that a lot of white females came out in the Brooklyn borough especially for Mom Donnie. It's an interesting thing to understand and something that we probably need to look into more deeply. But with a few seconds left, I just want to say that you are watching the greatest podcast in the Universe, in the Galaxy, and the first one every Tuesday. When we come back for a break, we're going to share more about Mamdani's manifest.

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[John the Blanket]

I know we look the same and.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Sometimes I'm making a twin. I'm making it.

[John the Blanket]

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It was a blanket statement.

[John the Blanket]

Well, they never knew there was two of us anyway.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

And then we have our awesome KDJ right here.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Thank you.

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Bringing us the truth.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Kevin. Kevin, the. The tinfoil. I go by Kevin the Tinfoil. Katie Jay, the tinfoil.

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[Fred Rubino]

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When does he go into office?

[Joe the Box]

When is his.

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January? I think it's like January 10th or something.

[Fred Rubino]

Yeah, they sweat him in. Yeah. I wonder if he's doing a swearing on a Bible.

[John the Blanket]

No, he didn't swear in with his hand on the Constitution either. Right?

[Joe the Box]

He had a reason.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

I'm not sure if that was fake news yet. We're still. We're still trying to find that out. There's nothing to verify.

[John the Blanket]

The Bible's going to be a difficult task for him. I bet.

[Fred Rubino]

The Bible he doesn't handle.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Burn a Quran.

[Fred Rubino]

You think so?

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Yeah. They do that in Dearborn, in Hamtramck, Michigan, and whatnot.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

This.

[Fred Rubino]

That should be a law. It should be the Bible.

[John the Blanket]

Sharia.

[Fred Rubino]

Sharia. They cut your hand off and then put that on the Bible.

[John the Blanket]

When you put it on the Bible, your hand will burn.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

But on. On that note, we promised you before we left for break that we were going to talk about Mamdani's manifesto. It's his traffic transportation manifesto, recently released by the Transportation Alternatives Group. And basically it is a packet that is modeled after San Francisco.

[Fred Rubino]

Oh, that works great.

[John the Blanket]

Example.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Does that include the. The. The. The. How can I put it? The liberal street kebabs. I call it human feces that they leave around in these big blue toilet towns.

[Fred Rubino]

Alternate side of the street defecating.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

They have special spots for that. And parts of it are also modeled after London.

[Fred Rubino]

Whoa, good. Another Muslim encampment.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

All right, guys, tear this up. Here we go. He. They want to implement lowering all speed limits to 20 miles per hour. And I could say for myself, number one on that, when I travel to Brooklyn, visit the relatives, we are crawling. We are crawling down Ocean Parkway. It is ridiculous that you can't get anywhere. Okay, so that's. That's number one. Number two, they want to recapture land lost to Robert Moses highway projects, which means they want to tear down highways.

[Fred Rubino]

Yeah, Tear down the highways. Make it five miles an hour. You know, we're really. We're going back to the Amish soon. The Amish are going to be like, I'm not moving to New York. It's too slow.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

They also want to work with the state legislature. Okay, here we go. To require the installation of speed limiting devices on vehicles for anyone who keeps going over the 20 miles per hour.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Ah, there's some beautiful control right there.

[John the Blanket]

Well, don't they have that with the alcohol that get diwis. And you can't start your car without breathing into the.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

That's right.

[John the Blanket]

But get your friend to do it.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Fred Rubino]

Why are you looking at me when you're saying that?

[John the Blanket]

Sorry, I'm not looking at anybody. I thought Joe was sitting over there. I forgot you replaced him.

[Fred Rubino]

So 20. I honestly think that if you go slower, you'll put more cars on the road and there'll be more pollution. So where don't they have to do some kind of a study? An environmental study? Every time something's done in this world, if it's good with 10 years of environmental study, my cousin's gonna do it. It's $50 million. Let's do a study now. I believe going much slower is worse for the environment. There's more cars idling and not getting to where they go.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Okay. So please, if anyone has heard this, we need Fred Rubino's study on slower car environmental impact. I like it.

[John the Blanket]

Yeah, we do a lot of traveling in the city in our trucks and cars and stuff, and I don't see us going over 25 miles an hour. So that really doesn't bother me because it's not going to happen.

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[John the Blanket]

And now the environmentalists are so thorough that they have the cars to turn off when you stop at the light. Right. How annoying is that? A Uber the other day and it turned off. I saw. I think we're in trouble here.

[Announcer]

What?

[Lisa Azzarelli]

And then it starts back on again.

[Fred Rubino]

Your credit card ran out.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Great.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Now let's play tin hat for a moment. I think they're doing this so they can get the say and say, wow, there's so much pollution. We better just take your cars, everybody. That's what I think this goes to.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yeah.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

It's all about control. This whole climate change COD swallowed none of the eco dubsters who have ever been corrupted. Correct. The Statue of Liberty is not going into the New York harbor. West side highways, not underwater. It's all garbage meant to control us. Take stuff away. Everything they don't want you to have will be due to either racism. Like they don't want voter ID because it's racist. Racist. And anything they want to take from you will be in the name of climate change.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Absolutely, absolutely. And it gets worse and worse. It goes on speed cameras 24 hours, seven days a week. Who's going to be paying for the implementation of all these speed cameras? That's curious. Vehicle speed safety ratings. They want to label and assess every car that does come on the roads to make sure to, to assess their level of vehicle risk to the pedestrian. So if you're driving a Maserati or a Corvette, you probably will not be allowed down many streets. So consider that you have to be in probably a Prius. They will have safe passage laws requiring at least three feet of distance. When you pass anybody on a bike, any cyclist, you have to make sure you're at least three feet from them. You'll probably get a ticket for that as well. They're going to penalize you. They're going to cap the percentage of newly registered taxis.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Wow.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

So now, and the vehicles that they can't be SUVs even if they are SUVs and even if they're electric vehicles, the whole taxi industry is going to be capped. That's a lot of unemployment going on right there. They're going to launch a low traffic neighborhood program modeled on the one in London. It just goes on and on and on. They're going to lobby and. And who's also in on this? Brad Hoyleman, the notorious senator who has restricted parental rights and brought about many changes expanding Title 9 into the new York Constitution. That's lovely. Brad Hoyleman. They're going to lobby Albany to reform vehicle registration fees because your vehicle needs to be. You need to have a higher fee if your vehicle weighs more, which I think is discrimination. Freddie.

[Fred Rubino]

Yes, I believe so. And you know, they're cracking down on everything except giving illegal immigrants CDL licenses to drive tractor trailers when they can't speak English or know any of the signs. The anytime you see people pushing heavy on the environment, that's the biggest money grab. That's the easiest way to steal money from taxpayers. So what they do is they push this, they push 20 projects, maybe 5 will get in. But you know what? That's a lot of money you could steal because the environment, you can never change the environment. It's a hoax to begin with. So if you get 20 million or 50, 100 million to do something, it's not, we all know it's not going to get done. So there's no accountability. Oh, did you lower the temperature in New York?

[Commercial Narrator]

No.

[Fred Rubino]

No one can, okay, Throw another hundred million.

[John the Blanket]

You're gonna have to wait till it gets the worst it possibly can before somebody learns a lesson. Before we all go into the city and kiss every girl under 30 years old that voted this guy in. We're in trouble. It's gonna get bad and it's gonna get worse, you know, and this is the way they'll learn that, you know. Otherwise, what are we going to do? Take the free bus or the free train? Thank God we'll have that. That's what they want to do.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

That's what they want to do, right?

[John the Blanket]

Mass transit control us, right.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

They're committing to building a citywide bike network with bike parking everywhere, they said. But the thing is this, and my husband, whose birthday again is tomorrow, Happy birthday.

[Fred Rubino]

Are you getting him a bike? Is that where this is going?

[Lisa Azzarelli]

It is just crazy because if you have these bikes parked everywhere. He made this great comment. He said, how are families really supposed to function? Are you throwing your kids on the back of this bike to take them to school? I mean, they try and make this sound as if it's safe and convenient when really what you're saying is stop having kids. Don't buy cars anymore. Get stuck on the island of Manhattan and in the five boroughs and, and don't go out, you know, of your house living your 15 minute city and shut up. We'll give, we'll fund buses as a free essential service. However, we're going to listen to this. Establish a target speed, speeding. Allowing the buses to speed at a 20% higher rate so that they could shuffle people around to their destinations faster. So take the cars away, but make large buses fly through the streets.

[Fred Rubino]

Beautiful.

[John the Blanket]

Well, I gotta say, I gotta say one thing about New York. They had made a lot of changes in the streets to accommodate the bike bicycles riders, you know what I mean? And I'm gonna tell you something. There's been a dozen times I almost got killed by these guys. You come around the edge of the truck, there's the road for the bikes, and they're doing 30 miles an hour or more flying down there. I'm telling you, it's, it's, that's dangerous. I wonder how many accidents or injuries are caused by bikes running people over.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

That's the second study we need done on this show.

[John the Blanket]

Fred's in charge.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Come on, Johnny Blanket, get that study done.

[John the Blanket]

When I was in school, I guess not.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

You know what I like about the speeding buses is the puddles of homeless urine will go up and down. So we all get to smell it because they're going to be living on those buses because they'll be free.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Oh, oh, you're not wrong, kdj. Kevin is right because along with this plan, they're building shelters around the world. Bus stops to house at least 20 to 30 people, possibly up to 100. They said that can fit covered.

[Fred Rubino]

Yes. You have to cover them.

[John the Blanket]

Yeah. Some pods out there. Let them all live in the pods.

[Fred Rubino]

This is China. China. Everyone's on a bike. Yeah. This is a step backwards. The Industrial revolution was the greatest thing that's happened to this planet in the last thousand or two thousand years. And so what do they want to do? They want to bring it backwards. What he's actually trying to do is bankrupt the greatest city in the world, bring it to its knees and then maybe as a model to other cities. How to take down the United States of America. It's not going to work because none of this stuff could work. It's impossible. You can't have a guy from Staten island taking a bicycle to Manhattan or the Bronx, you know, and so it's not gonna work. He's a fraud and it's just a money grab. He's just looking to rob more money.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

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Welcome back. Tune in Tuesdays. This is the America first podcast. You're here with the amazing team. This time I'm gonna get it right because John, the blanket.

[John the Blanket]

I'm so glad. I was getting confused myself. I didn't know if I was the.

[Fred Rubino]

Blanket in the box for a. You've been downgraded. You're the towel.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

We have Kevin Dowdy g. You here as well, Kevin? Where can everyone find you when you're not here?

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

You know what, we're redoing the website now. If you just go to Twitter @KDJradio show. That's the good one. That's the one I check. And anything I'm doing is eventually going to end up there. And you can find your way to my radio show 9 to 11am Monday through Friday, right down the block here. Very close, but it's national li news newsradio.com. you can listen to it anywhere with Wi Fi.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

That's awesome. And Freddie, come on. Where are you gonna be next? Where do we get in touch with you?

[Fred Rubino]

I'm somewhere in Jersey. The booker just called me. Goes, don't forget Thursday you have a show. I was like, oh, all right. Where is that again? So go to fredrobino.com. i'm on Facebook. I'm on YouTube. Don't follow me. Do me a favor. Nobody follow me. Leave me alone, everybody.

[John the Blanket]

Well, you're in New Jersey and New Jersey's a communist state now, too, right? We lost that election.

[Fred Rubino]

You want to buy toilet paper?

[John the Blanket]

Any cheating over there?

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yeah, good point, Good point. Which brings us right into something there with something that Johnny informed us of. Earlier that North Carolina student enrollment has decreased drastically. And there is concern over that. We looked into that because here in New York City, we learned that Eric Adams is trying to, they think, quote, hide the legals. What does it all mean? So, basically, there has not been a sweep yet of all the illegal immigrants here in New York. And they are overflowing the classrooms. And it's a shame because, you know, as a teacher and educator, I love these children. They are beautiful. They've been put in a very difficult situation, and it's very unfair. However, the McKinney Vento law protects them and doesn't allow the proper information to be sent to the databases. So what happens is Eric Adams is trying to finagle, beating out what the law limits are on class size. And so he did what no one was expecting in the schools. And now the teachers are reporting back that some school districts kind of won the lotto. Guess what? You get to have your class size where it should be. But it's just a few of you that want this. The rest of you will have an overflowing classrooms. So it's kind of a crazy situation. And it's become too obvious now that the there's an overcrowding in the five boroughs especially. So the mayor is in charge of schooling. We're going to see how Mamdani handles that when he takes office in North Carolina. We see how they're responding. According to John, the blanket, they are decreased. Why? Supposedly, one is that there's less people having children. Two is that they are selecting private schools.

[John the Blanket]

And three, Johnny, immigrants leaving the country from their get $1,000 and leave on their own. So I guess they're a little shortage, but probably a lot to do with nobody believes in the public schools anymore and putting their children into private schools.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Right, Right. And I think that's a big issue because you said it right, friend. New Jersey, they got Mickey Sherrill now, and she's saying she's going to come into your home. If you live in New Jersey, you pull your kids out to homeschool, or even if you're a private school, you're receiving any type of state funding, they are going to force curriculum upon you. Is that correct?

[Fred Rubino]

That's amazing. Imagine. Imagine telling you what to tell your kids and what to teach the kids. But another thing that will never happen. She's just pandering to the LGBTQ RST lobby and saying, we're going to make sure that people learn about your demented sexuality of the day, and it's not going to happen. These people are just empty promises. And they, it's scare tactics. But like I said, if you start a program like that, you could get $20 million to institute it, and then you could steal half of that. So that, that's where that all leads to. It's all nonsense. But, you know, getting back to the immigrants that, that were here, a lot of, a lot of news now is that the immigrants came here for a better life, that there was strike, that they were poverty. They paid coyote smugglers $20,000 per person to smuggle them in their family. So I don't know about you, but if you come from Central or South America and you have $60,000 to pay to just go to another country, you're not suffering. And in Guatemala, $60,000 dollars is a lot more than 60,000 in New York. So these people were not coming to escape oppression. They came here to flood this country. They all had the Biden shirts on. The United States government under Biden had a. Had a mandate to come in, open the borders, tell everyone to come in. It was a deliberate action act to pollute this country and try and grab the electoral votes of every state.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Absolutely. Folks, look up Cloud Piven. The Cloud Piven strategy is to inundate the United States with so many people that financially, economically, we come crashing down. And the only way to save us, the only way to feed us all is communism. That is the goal. Fred hits the nick nail on the head. They're coming and they're going to. Well, they're not coming. They're here now and Trump's throwing them out. As the john said, they're leaving. Trump has thrown out just under 600,000, but 1.5 have said it's time to vominos. Look, I speak Mexican, Freddie, you didn't know muchachos. And yeah, but that was the plan. And I saw a video. I was so angry. When Biden was president, Texas put up barbed wire and a tractor ran it down. And all these people coming out of the water. Well, not all of them. I saw a kid float away, and no one's doing anything about that. Real nice. And they just followed the tractor into the U.S. boom. They're here. It's an invasion. And the Democrats have long been part of it.

[John the Blanket]

Well, back to the education part. The one question that brings me up, how does a teacher teach a student that doesn't speak English? Yeah, that's got to be difficult.

[Announcer]

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[Fred Rubino]

They came from over 100 countries, so you could be in a room with 60 kids and have only 20 that speak English and the other 40 speak 40 different languages. That's impossible. What you've just done is you just destroyed the education in that classroom because half of the class is just out there. And then she's spending time trying to get a message through to the not non speaking, English speaking kids. So the English speaking kids don't learn anything either. So they've crashed the education system. And that's what they want. They don't want you, they don't want educators to tell people that to be an LGBTQ is mentally ill. They don't want you to say that. They don't want you to say that. The immigrants, immigrants are in charge are responsible for high crime all across the country. The last thing they want you to do is to educate. They want to educate the kids, not the teachers. And the teachers are the ones that are, that are the ones that are supposed to do it. They're the ones that are highly trained to do it. Then now they want bureaucrats to educate your kids. And it can't work.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

And we're seeing that through all across Long island in the state of New York, anywhere but the five big cities. We know that the New York State Education Department passed what's in known as regionalization. Many school districts. The parents were under the impression that this was going to be an opt out. And they went full force to try and get the school districts to not partake in it. However, it was only a portion of it that was an opt out. Betty Rose had deceived a lot of people. And now the New York State Education Department has a larger hand in what is taking place in the classrooms and giving the superintendent more power over the boards of education. When we look at the five boroughs here, we have the largest student population in the country in New York. And when we look at the five boroughs here, what we're finding is that 42% of the student population that the were able to track without McKinney Vento. And just based on statistics of children coming into the school district, it's 42% Hispanic. Now in the five boroughs. That's a huge increase in that one particular South American, Central American, as you said, hundred different countries coming this way. Also 75% of the entire student population, according to recent studies of the National Education Progress, which is very credible, NAEP is a very institution and they are the gold standard. And they said that 75%. And this is also in accordance with the New York State education department data. 75% of the students are economically disadvantaged in the five boroughs. So you're talking needs. Right? So we have Randy Weingarten coming in, opening up what's known as the social community schools. Look it up, people. Future Forward New York social community community schools. And what they're doing is they are providing a longer day for the student, so less time with your family because both of your parents are working. They're providing laundry services, medical services, social emotional health because the children are basically orphaned to the school system. Okay. And then they are of course, feeding them any of the curriculum they want. There are already 39 of these schools within the five boroughs that are teaching 19,000 students. Was their last enrollment as of last year. Okay. Pathetic.

[Fred Rubino]

Pathetic. You know, before they opened the borders up around the time of COVID and before COVID the inner cities, the black inner cities had at least 40 to 50% truancy in schools. Black kids were not going to schools. There was nothing people would do doing to get them into school to teach them. Now with the open borders and flooded with illegals, where are the new stats of the inner cities? I guarantee you it's up to 60% black kids not going to school again. We turned our back on Americans. We turned that back on Americans. And everybody's afraid to say anything because it's the black community. Educate them.

[John the Blanket]

And who knows if any stats that they're going to give us is truth to itself anyway.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Right? All right. Especially when they just called out one of the leaders again in the. What is it, the black colleges. Their historically. Yes, Historically black colleges. She just got called out for plagiarism and for hiding the true test scores of the students at the universities.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

You know what? Let me run this past you. Guys and I were running down. I think the Democrats have made the economy what it is. So both parents have to to work. Send us your kids to school. We'll take care of them. It's propaganda. That's all it is. They don't want them intelligent. They want them to be obedient wards of the state.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Right.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

There you go.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Right.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

They will decide what your kid's going to do for a living.

[John the Blanket]

Right. Right.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Just like. Just like China. It's so true. We're gonna come back, we're gonna tell you a lot more. Please remember to look up TAFW soundmoney.com stay tuned.

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Welcome to the most patriotic venue on the planet. This is the America first podcast. We're back again with John the Blank kdj. Fredo, I'm call you Joe. Okay. Fred Rubino. And this is me, Lisa1 as you can find me on X Lee1 as. So we, we were talking about all of the issues going on of course in the, in the public school system here in New York. But we are also, we're going to move, we're going to move the topic a little bit today. Before we do, I want to end on one note with what we were talking about previously and I want to say again that the department of. I think it not, not transportation, a department under Doge was asked all 50 states to bring in the receipts for the SNAP and EBT benefits. 20, 29 states did, and 21 states are fighting not to give those details. They said even the Republican states who handed it in, they found egregious, you know, wrongdoing and scandals, embezzlement going on with the SNAP and EBT funds. And the 24 states that are blue, all blue, won't agree to do it. So it just goes to show that there's definitely abuses going on. And when we know about all these immigrants that have been brought into this country, we also have to understand that Fred brought out about coyotes and these families paying money to get here. However, there is also open society has been involved, sad to say, but the Catholic Health foundation has also been involved in moving these people across the border and into the country. And that is also very sad and something to think about about as these people gather up. A lot of them didn't. Didn't want to come. They were forced out of many of their towns by these narco and drug cartels because the drug cartels were getting paid to force them over the border. Interesting. Very interesting. Now talking about sad and interesting. I want to talk about Tom Brady, guys. Okay, can we please bring up.

[Fred Rubino]

He's gorgeous.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

I hate him.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Can we pick up asset?

[Fred Rubino]

He's had work done. Have you noticed he's had work done?

[John the Blanket]

He probably is announcing that. So he's on television.

[Fred Rubino]

I think he has.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Okay, take a look at this. Take a look at this photo, what we have here, where it disappeared. I'm gonna take a look at that photo one more time.

[Fred Rubino]

Is that him with the dog?

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Oh, no, that's Trump. Okay, so, yes, Tom Brady with his dog.

[Fred Rubino]

That dog's had work done.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Well, certainly has on the left. And now Tom Brady with. Okay. The reincarnated Lua Juni is the new name of the dog that was brought back from the dead. Yeah, I know Halloween is over. Thank you for that asset. But Tom Brady paid to have his dog cloned. The dog died in 2023.

[Fred Rubino]

Wow.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

What do we think about this?

[Fred Rubino]

I'm not cloning a dog.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

Well, I watched a show, a movie called Pet Cemetery. And I think think sometimes dead is better when you.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

When.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

When Fido goes, it's a sad day. You can get another one. But to clone them, that we're just. We're going down the wrong path because next thing is going to be, well, you know, I gotta. I gotta Clone my grandma because I miss her. And then she comes back as a little girl and then it gets awkward.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Right.

[John the Blanket]

It's a crazy world, you know? I know it must be nice to have that kind of toast that you could put 150 grand to reincarnate your dog or to have him go again. I know that dogs are also family members and it's not easy. I like Tom Brady. He's got enough money to do what he wants to do. I'm okay with it.

[Fred Rubino]

He has a supermodel ex wife. Clone her, not the dog. What's wrong with Dad?

[John the Blanket]

I also don't think. I think it's messing with God's work. It's God's work for what happens in birth and men and women and how he made us all different and stuff like that. But I think you messing with God's worth, you know, work, you know, I love my dogs too, but I'm not gonna clone them.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yeah, I mean, listen, God bless that we lost that our dear duke of a boxer just a couple of months ago. It has been very painful. I would never ever, ever try to clone my dog now.

[Fred Rubino]

It's creepy.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

It's creepy.

[Fred Rubino]

How about the ones who stuff them?

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yeah.

[Fred Rubino]

Oh, and keep them around the house? House.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

That's just sick.

[John the Blanket]

Well, you keep the ashes around the house.

[Fred Rubino]

Yeah, but you don't stop the dog. Just like what Kevin said. Matt. Imagine stuffing your grandmother and having her around the house.

[John the Blanket]

What happened to the good old days.

[Fred Rubino]

When a picture would do, you know, a bad one?

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

You know, my grandmother died before Christmas and I thought she was gonna make it. Christmas didn't work out. They wanted like 25, 000 for a funeral, but. Taxidermist, four bucks a pound. So grandma was here for Christmas after all.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

So here's the crazy thing, and I think that John is right on something. It's messing with God's work. So when what the process is is that they take this DNA and they electrify it to make it reproduce.

[Fred Rubino]

Like Frankenstein.

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Yes.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

So there is isn't actually a soul.

[Fred Rubino]

They electrify it. Yeah. But what they're doing is they're just taking the DNA and replicating it. And so.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

But to give it life, how do you get life?

[Fred Rubino]

They can't give it life.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Right. I mean, but the dog is. Is walking. The dog is real. He's snuggling with the dog. It. It's. It. But it. It doesn't have a soul.

[Fred Rubino]

No. And neither does Tom Brady. Tom Brady doesn't have a soul either. You Got rid of that supermodel.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

What's wrong with you?

[Fred Rubino]

And oh, my goodness, that's pretty scary.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

But on that note, where is this going? And. And can it happen to grandma? Well, this story was also covered. There is something that is like a hologram, so to speak, being offered on your phones. You take a three minute video of your phone loved one while they're still alive and should they pass. It's almost like when Superman went to. Back to his home. Remember, with all the ice crystals?

[Fred Rubino]

Oh, yeah. That's the. His Fortress of Solitude.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yes. Okay. And he, you know, he summons his father and the father appears and begins, you know, Jerell starts speaking with him. I love Friday.

[Fred Rubino]

I know too much about this.

[John the Blanket]

They got that in a lot of movies. It was a Tom Cruise movie. Also, he had his wife who had passed or evidence. She came live and they called her.

[Fred Rubino]

He should have called that movie.

[John the Blanket]

I forgot.

[Fred Rubino]

He should have cloned her when he could.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yeah.

[Fred Rubino]

Ghost was Puerto Rican and the white left.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Yes, yes, John. Oh, my gosh. I forgot about that movie. You're so right.

[John the Blanket]

But it was about the hologram.

[Fred Rubino]

Yes.

[John the Blanket]

Are you guys okay over there?

[Fred Rubino]

We can just talking about ghosts. He says, was that ghosts? I said, no, we're still on a.

[John the Blanket]

Live segment here, so I don't know where we were.

[Fred Rubino]

Ghost of Puerto Rican killed him and he has to get back at him. That's all that is.

[John the Blanket]

Hey, look, keeping your family's memories alive and your dog's memories alive. There's nothing wrong with that. You know, losing a loved one's never an easy thing. And if they have new information or new technology that can put somebody out there, like make that picture come alive on the wall. I like that. That stuff, you know?

[Fred Rubino]

You like that?

[John the Blanket]

Yeah, yeah, I'm okay.

[Fred Rubino]

I'm not. I'm not for it.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

You know, it.

[Fred Rubino]

It AI.

[John the Blanket]

It like AI.

[Fred Rubino]

Well, I'm Italian. It's ao. Hey, yo, what's with that? Still ended in a vowel?

[Lisa Azzarelli]

I don't.

[Fred Rubino]

That picture moving over there.

[John the Blanket]

They make your face come out and start singing. You know, you could put the.

[Fred Rubino]

Could they make it go on the lamb? My uncle's hologram went on the lamb.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

But this is what we're dealing with now. And I think it really is a question of spirituality to a large extent. Yes. You know, losing loved ones. I suffered myself as well. Lost both parents young, but I don't think under any circumstance would I want to have to see them on the. That basis. So basically, in this new hologram version, the daughter is Pregnant. And she knew that she was gonna lose her mom, and so she videotaped her. And then she's talking to her all the time. Oh, the baby's kicking today. Oh, the baby. Well, I'll be honest. You know, I had told. I did. I said to my mom, oh, mom, do you want to leave a video, you know, before you pass? Because my sister was, you know, pregnant at the time, and. Do you want to, you know, leave a video? And my mother, God bless her, she looked at me and she said, are you out of your mind? She was like, that is the most morbid thing I ever heard. Cut it out and tell stories about me like normal people do.

[Fred Rubino]

You know, some gravestones now incorporate that. They have a little screen.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Oh, my God.

[Fred Rubino]

And you go to the grave, and you could see a little video. And that's. That's wild. I just go to the graveyard and I look at other people. People's little. Little videos. It's. It's like my. I don't have cable. That's my. I got.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

I know, because I'm a stalker. Dead people never call the cops.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

So basically, this is what's, you know, happening as we move forward today. We know that the cloud. Something shut down today. Cloud flare servers that were crashing. So X and Spotify and OpenAI and Amazon Web Services, Verizon, YouTube, they DoorDash. God, you know, we know Williamsburg folk can't live without that doordash. So that's. I don't know what there's. I'm sure there's wreaking havoc in the streets right now over this, but all of these things went down today. And again, this is that moment where we look at technology and we say, wow, does it really have this much of a hold on our lives that we can't function? You can't get your Amazon order in, John, because, you know, the cloud service is down. How are people going to function moving forward when they rely so much on technology?

[Fred Rubino]

Tell me you can't.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

Tell me you can't.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

That's why I'm moving to the woods of the Poconos. I'm digging machine gun pits. And I'm going to be. Get off my property. I'm gonna be that guy.

[Fred Rubino]

The Amish ain't suffering.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

And that's a good point, because there was a whole segment recently on the Amish offering reaching out to regular folk about building food independence. And they said, come, we're gonna teach you how to do it. And they have a whole thing going on in Ohio in June. Another Big segment. Thousands of people are now flocking to these food independent summits put on by the Amish who have extended their knowledge now to open society, especially after learning.

[Fred Rubino]

I don't trust the Amish.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

I know that you.

[Fred Rubino]

Yeah, I don't trust what happened. They did vote for Trump.

[John the Blanket]

So I like the Amish.

[Fred Rubino]

There's no electricity, there's no hot water. They're not in manure. Don't eat Amish food. They're in manure and they can't wash with hot water. I'm done with them.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

You know what, though? I think they're going to take over. I don't think it's going to be the Muslims. I think the Amish are sitting back going, yeah, we don't rely on any of that technology. You guys are cooked.

[John the Blanket]

They keep to themselves. They don't riot or anything. I'm okay with the Amish.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

I'm okay with them.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

I mean, and the fact that I am.

[Fred Rubino]

Round them up.

[Kevin Dowdy (KDJ)]

He's a, he's, he's, he's an Amishem.

[John the Blanket]

They love America. They have the freedom to do what they want. We love the Amish. We love America.

[Lisa Azzarelli]

We do. We do. And we'll be right back after these messages. Stay tuned. Oh, we died. Sorry, I forgot it was.

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