The Patriettes Podcast: Episode 42 | October 21, 2025 | Hosts: Angie, Donna, Krystle and Teresa | Special guests: Greg Hach & Guy Leggio

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Patriettes Podcast, Episode 42

Date: October 21, 2025
Hosts: Angie, Donna, Krystle, Teresa
Special Guests: Greg Hack (Congressional Candidate, NY-3), Guy Leggio (Suffolk County Legislature Candidate, District 9)

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Overview

This episode of The Patriettes Podcast is dedicated to American politics at the local level, focusing on upcoming elections in Long Island and Suffolk County. The hosts are joined by Congressional candidate Greg Hack and Suffolk County legislature candidate Guy Leggio for an in-depth conversation on public service, the challenges facing New Yorkers, and their visions for true representation rooted in integrity, accountability, and service.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introducing the Candidates: Personal Histories and Motivations

• Greg Hack’s Background:

  • Grew up in Hicksville, Long Island; father was a union leader.
  • Emphasized values of community, integrity, and hard work.
  • Early service in the Civil Air Patrol; inspired by Long Island’s aviation history.
  • Served as a Security Policeman in the US Air Force (stationed in Crete, Greece, during the Cold War).
  • Personal loss shaped career—father’s death due to asbestos exposure led to legal advocacy for workers.

• Notable Quote:

  • “My father was a union president... taught me everything you need to be taught to be a good person and to contribute to society.” (01:14, Greg Hack)

• Guy Leggio’s Background:

  • Lifelong resident; 40-year career as a bricklayer, volunteer fireman, and wrestling coach.
  • Strong family roots and values; military veteran.
  • Advocates practical, hands-on representation for working families.

• Notable Quote:

  • “It’s not about winning. It’s what you can teach them in life... Family values mean a lot to me, and bringing that to the legislature to make things work together the right way.” (26:39, Guy Leggio)

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2. Public Service & Political Integrity

• Both candidates express a “boots-on-the-ground” approach, shaped by military and blue-collar experience.
• Greg Hack’s Incorruptibility:
  • Emphasized personal and professional success independent of politics.
  • Commitment to ethical public service: “I’m incorruptible. There’s no one who can get to me, who can pay me off... I consider it a very sacred responsibility to be the best possible candidate I can be.” (24:12)
  • Left his successful law practice to dedicate himself full-time to campaigning and learning the issues.
• Guy Leggio’s Approach:
  • Focus on authentic service: “I don’t come in on this level. I come in on ground level. My boots are on the ground and I’m going to run.” (29:26)
  • Brings firsthand experience of local struggles, from unemployment to long hours supporting a family.

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3. Crime, Safety & Law Enforcement Reform

Timestamps: 12:30–14:40, 50:30–52:40

• Return to “broken windows” policing and robust support for law enforcement.
  • “We need to give greater resources to the district attorneys who actually prosecute the crimes...instead of this revolving door of cashless bail.” (13:08, Hack)
• Criticism of policies that “handcuff” police through civil liability and bail reform.
  • “Taking away that immunity is exactly what handcuffs... We need to back our police, not handcuff them and make their jobs more difficult.” (14:12, Hack)
• Nassau County lauded for safety but candidates see room for improvement.

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4. Economic Challenges: Taxes, Housing, and Cost of Living

Timestamps: 14:40–19:55, 52:34–58:17

• High property taxes pushing families—and young talent—out of Long Island.
• Greg Hack recalls his daughter leaving despite tenure as a schoolteacher.
• Emphasis on fiscal responsibility and reducing government spending:
  • “We’re mortgaging our children’s future for comfort today... That’s not right.” (15:33, Hack)
• Concrete pro-worker and pro-business policy ideas:
  • Lower taxes on wages and tips, extend tax cuts, focus on entrepreneurship.
  • Emphasis on audit and oversight to address “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

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5. Insider Trading & Political Corruption

Timestamps: 20:47–24:17, 58:30–60:12

• Outrage over Congressional stock trading:
  • “Members of Congress trading on non-public information and becoming multimillionaires...That incenses me.” (21:01/58:55, Hack)
• Critique of the STOCK Act’s self-enforcement by Congress; calls for independent oversight.
  • “They’re auditing themselves. The fox guarding the henhouse.” (21:43, B/Hack)
• Commitment to represent constituents, not personal gain.

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6. Preserving Local Control & Community Values

• Local Resilience:
  • Candidates advocate for resisting calls to “flee New York,” encouraging residents to “stay and fight” for their communities.
  • “Someone breaks into your home, you don’t go scurrying out the back door. You stay and fight.” (16:52, Hack)
• Focus on seniors, affordable housing, and practical support:
  • Proposals like tax freezes for long-term residents (37:42, Leggio).
  • Addressing homelessness with compassion and practical services (41:29, Leggio).

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7. Education, Trades, and Youth Opportunity

Timestamps: 41:31–44:13, 80:01–81:53

• Both highlight the shortage of skilled workers and overemphasis on four-year colleges.
• Advocacy for:
  • Tuition-free local community college (Suffolk) for residents.
  • Strengthening trade schools and practical education (STEM, BOCES) partnerships.
  • “Not everybody belongs going to college. There’s way too many people with college degrees, and there’s no jobs for them. People need trades.” (43:10, Host A/Leggio)
• College debt burden and housing challenges for young families.

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8. National Concerns: China, Energy Policy, and Ideological Subversion

Timestamps: 30:10–33:25, 68:04–71:20

• Both guests warn of erosion of American industry and security.
  • Fears over “economic war with China,” loss of manufacturing base, and strategic vulnerabilities.
  • “We’re not just fighting China or Russia... we’re fighting it in our own backyard... Marxist, communist ideologies have invaded every institution.” (31:01, Hack)
• Strong support for American energy independence, “drill, baby, drill,” and robust military readiness.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Greg Hack:
  • “I’m not doing this for me. I’m fine. But I’m very nervous for my kids, your kids, their kids, and that’s why I’m doing this.” (15:55)
  • “The people in this country who work hard every day... they don’t have representation. They have the appearance of it.” (20:47)
• Guy Leggio:
  • “Family values mean a lot to me... If we bring the families to the table, representation will be right.” (26:28)
  • “It’s a grind. Working families really understand that part... I’ve been unemployed, had furloughs, layoffs, and all that. Unemployment doesn’t make it in your family.” (37:23)
• On Public Integrity:
  • Hack: “I’m incorruptible... I want to be an actual public servant.” (24:12, 25:30)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Greg Hack’s Early Life & Motivation: 00:54–09:13
• Military Service & Post-Service Career: 06:10–09:13
• Law Career & 9/11 Pro Bono Work: 09:13–10:58
• Crime, Safety, and Police: 12:30–14:12, 50:30–52:14
• Taxes & Cost of Living: 14:40–19:55, 52:33–58:17
• Political Corruption & Insider Trading: 20:47–24:17, 58:30–60:12
• Education & Trades Focus: 41:31–44:13, 80:01–81:53
• Guy Leggio Introduction: 25:39–27:45
• Calls to 'Stay and Fight' in New York: 16:50–17:19, 54:45–55:13
• National Security & Economic Independence: 30:10–33:36, 68:04–71:20

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Tone & Atmosphere

The conversation is passionate, direct, and community-oriented. Both hosts and guests maintain a patriotic, service-driven tone—frustrated with current politics but optimistic about change through local action and ethical leadership.

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Closing

The show ends with communal encouragement, local event announcements, and a prayer for guidance and integrity in the upcoming elections. The hosts urge listeners to stay engaged, stay grounded in faith, and support leaders who reflect true American values and integrity.

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For more information about the candidates or to get involved, visit their campaign websites or check the America First Warehouse events page.

Transcript

[Host A]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Host B]

Welcome to Tune In Tuesday, it's episode 42 of the Patriots podcast, live streaming from the America first warehouse, the most.

[Host C]

Patriotic venue in all the land.

[Host B]

We broadcast every Tuesday night at 7:30pm so we're happy to have you join us. And today is our. Is our candidate, I guess.

[Host C]

Yes. Tried to focus it on the candidates and elections coming up. It's the topic.

[Host B]

Yeah, it's not far from now, so.

[Host C]

Well, Greg's is, but we'll get to that in a minute.

[Host B]

All right, so we have with us joining for the whole, the whole hour, Greg Hatch. He's a congressional candidate for District 3 in Long Island. Welcome.

[Greg Hack]

Thank you.

[Host C]

Welcome, Greg. Hack for Congress. My district.

[Host B]

Did I pronounce it wrong?

[Greg Hack]

Hack.

[Host C]

It's Hack.

[Host A]

Hack.

[Host B]

Okay, I apologize.

[Greg Hack]

That happens all the time.

[Host B]

That's alrighty. So you were born and raised in Hicksville.

[Greg Hack]

I was.

[Host B]

And you grew up a normal middle class, I assume. Family, hard working, focus on community and integrity. And I know you went to the Civil Air Patrol when you were in junior high. So let's talk about your early life that led you to where you are today.

[Greg Hack]

Okay. Yeah, I grew up in Hicksville. Like I said. My father was a union president. Sadly, I lost him about 10 years ago. But he was a really great man and taught me pretty much everything that you need to be taught to be the. Be a good person, be someone who really can contribute to society and cares about the people around them. And he's just a really great man. I miss him every day. Aw. Yeah. Good man.

[Host C]

Well, you got someone shining down on you while you go through this campaign and watching you be a great father and husband, which I know you are.

[Greg Hack]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Host B]

So in your middle school years you started in service, you know, with the Civil Air Patrol, right?

[Greg Hack]

I did.

[Host B]

And what led you, like, how did you come to pick that as something you wanted to work within?

[Greg Hack]

Long island has such a rich history in aviation, especially, I mean, when you think. I think even in. It's actually in the district where Charles Lindbergh actually took off. That's right, Roosevelt Field, Mitchell Field. And crossed the Atlantic. And that was just a real amazing thing. He was a hero of mine, actually. My dog is named Charles Lindbergh.

[Host B]

That's funny.

[Host A]

I love that.

[Host C]

Oh, that's weird. That's awesome.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Hack]

But I love aviation. I became a pilot later on. Not in the Air Force, I was a security policeman in the Air Force. But I always loved aviation. It's the perfect blend of science and adventure and I just really love it.

[Host B]

That's great.

[Host A]

So were you a pilot just personally for yourself? You didn't work in the field?

[Greg Hack]

No.

[Host C]

Yeah, but he inspired his daughter who's now a pilot.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah. 16 years old. She can fly a plane by herself, but she can car by herself.

[Host A]

Did she do the BOCES program?

[Greg Hack]

She didn't. It's funny because I love aviation so much, I offered my three children flight lessons and she jumped on it. So at 16, that's what she wants to do. She's going to be a pilot? She wants to be a commercial pilot. Wow. Fly for the airlines or Red Bull.

[Host C]

All right. Hey, whatever. I mean she's going to learn a skill that's. She's a beautiful young lady.

[Greg Hack]

She's amazing. Well on her way. So she's doing very well.

[Host A]

So what'd you do after that, after you had a young pilot career after that?

[Greg Hack]

Well, I wasn't a pilot until later in life. I actually. I worked since I was 13. We had a wonderful home. I had a great upbringing, great parents, great family based in faith and service and just really great way to grow up.

[Host B]

Grounded.

[Greg Hack]

Have a lot. Yeah, exactly.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

Just like I'd like my kids to be raised. That's what we're doing. But we didn't have much, so I had to work early. I was 13 years old and I got my first job. I was washing dishes at Alfredo's Swiss Chalet in Hicksville. Yeah. Which was great. You know, the waitresses would take me out in the parking lot and let me drive their cars at the end of the night, which was a big treat. Working until 11, 12 o' clock at night. I joined the Civil Air Patrol, which was great. Which was kind of like a setup for the military later on. A lot of military discipline and that kind of thing. But search and rescue techniques. Civil Air Patrol is really a wonderful organization. It really is incredible. It's the US Air Force Auxiliary and what they do is they supplement search and rescue missions. So you learn a lot of search and rescue techniques and mostly circular. Well, I could get into it but you know, there's.

[Host B]

For the young man. It sounds like it would be something really exciting to.

[Greg Hack]

It is. It's like the flying Boy Scouts.

[Host C]

It's awesome.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

Pretty wild. Pretty cool. Pretty cool thing.

[Host C]

I don't even know if they offer that anymore, do they?

[Greg Hack]

They're around. Yeah, I don't know if they're around.

[Host C]

Bethphpage has them.

[Greg Hack]

My troop is still around. But I love that though. Yeah, it's really great, great organization. Really, really good.

[Host A]

So what kinds of experiences did that give you and where did that lead you?

[Greg Hack]

Well, actually, it gave me some really amazing experiences. One of them was I was able to fly in a KC135, which is a refueling aircraft, you know, midair refueling, mid air refueling, which is pretty, pretty amazing.

[Host B]

It is.

[Greg Hack]

So you actually sit in the back of the plane in the boom area and you, you know, I sat next to the guy and you're laying on your stomach like, kind of like this. And while the guy's manipulating the boom and then you have these F16. There were F16s that came up underneath us and they're.

[Host B]

It's incredible.

[Host C]

It's like being in a Mission Impossible. That's what I was really thinking.

[Host A]

Yes.

[Greg Hack]

For a young kid to do that, that was, you know, incredible. So much fun. So much fun. I got to go around Air Force One for the first time, which was great. We did a trip to Andrews Air Force Base, which was pretty amazing.

[Host A]

Nice.

[Host B]

That's nice.

[Greg Hack]

And then on the weekends, you know, there's private pilots that offer their aircraft and everything for search and rescue missions. So they go and do training. So when you go to the airport at Republic Airport, we would sometimes get to fly, which was.

[Host C]

That's awesome.

[Greg Hack]

You know, especially when you couldn't afford it back. I couldn't afford flight lessons back then. I definitely wouldn't ask my parents for that. I can assure you that.

[Host B]

So this will lead you into the Air Force?

[Greg Hack]

It did.

[Host B]

And how many years did you serve?

[Greg Hack]

I served just under four years. I signed up for four years, but I was trained as a security policeman. I was trained down at Lackland Air Force Base and then was actually stationed in Crete, Greece, at Iraklion Air Station. Crete, Greece. Which is pretty good duty if you can get it right.

[Host B]

Yeah, beautiful, beautiful area.

[Host C]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Greg Hack]

But it was an amazing time back then. I was in from 88 until 91, the middle end of 91. And in 89, the Berlin Wall came down. I happened to be in Berlin when that occurred, which was an amazing time. I mean, it really felt like there was never going to be another war the next day after that happened.

[Host A]

If only, right?

[Host C]

If only.

[Greg Hack]

But it was pretty amazing time. Like a year and a half after that, in 91, the Soviet Union fell apart. So, you know, the president at the time said, you know, we're going to. We don't need a big military anymore. So if you're a first termer in Europe, you could get out. I just happened to have met a young lady and fell in love for the first time. And she was a German girl. And I moved to Germany, learned the language and built a business there and went to school as much as I could there. But there wasn't much I could do.

[Host C]

There in that regard.

[Greg Hack]

But came back after that and decided to go to school. But I worked law school, right? Well, I had to go to college first.

[Host A]

Okay.

[Greg Hack]

But I worked. I had to work a full time job. Nobody was paying for my college except me, so been there.

[Host A]

Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

So I had a full time job at CBS Broadcasting in Manhattan.

[Host A]

What were you doing there?

[Greg Hack]

I worked for. My father was the president of Operating Engineers local authority in Queens. And so I worked in the engineering department as a helper, which was pretty good experience. I got to meet a lot of the newscasters and have discussions with them about geopolitics, which is one of my favorite topics.

[Host A]

Favorite topics is that kind of what helped push you toward law school, some of those encounters and like what made you want to continue and go on to law school.

[Greg Hack]

I love the law. I love knowing the law. I love the equal application of the law. I really love certain types of law, which are the types of law I didn't get into. But I really love constitutional law, I love criminal law. I really enjoy them a lot.

[Host A]

So what did you end up focusing on for yourself?

[Greg Hack]

Well, my dad as a union member was exposed to asbestos quite a bit. And in reality, a lot of the union members did were as well, and they were affected by it. My dad wound up dying from not a malignant disease. He had pleuroplaques and loss of elasticity of the lungs and he died from it. But what really struck me about that was that the asbestos companies knew for decades that it causes cancer and kills people, but they didn't say anything for decades. And you think of the countless numbers of people that died from it and.

[Host A]

Suffered all the loss.

[Greg Hack]

So that galvanized my desire to really do something about that.

[Host C]

Sounds like the MO of the powers that be in every aspect.

[Host A]

Yeah.

[Host B]

So that led you, you formed your own law firm?

[Greg Hack]

I formed my own law firm.

[Host B]

And then how did 911 come into play?

[Greg Hack]

Well, 911 occurred just months before we started the firm.

[Host A]

Okay.

[Greg Hack]

So we didn't have a lot of resources at the time. I had generated a lot of business. I came up with a software and developed the software that actually helped generate a lot of business and it was able to fund us for a little while. So we, you know, when 911 happened, you know, it was a very patriotic time, and I wanted to do something. We decided to represent affected people for free, you know, for pro bono. There were no other law firms that were really doing it, but I felt like we really needed to do it, and we did.

[Host C]

It's a hard way to start off, right?

[Greg Hack]

It is. But it was shocking to me because a lot of firms, I mean, very rich firms that were charging not just a third, a third is standard. In New York, they were charging 40%. Wow. Getting the okay to charge 40%. And these cases were significantly easier than anything that you would have to do in the court system because you don't have the normal due process aspects of it that you have to.

[Host A]

That's some audacity.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah, exactly.

[Host A]

It's like preying upon people right. When they're vulnerable, exploiting people in a vulnerable position. You're in position to help them and they just want quick, rapid help.

[Host B]

And now you see the results of 20 something years later now.

[Host A]

Oh, I lost a friend. It's many years ago. Yeah. One of my college friends.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Host C]

Well, then he went on to become a very successful law firm and lawyer, which. So that, that, you know, that heart in the beginning, I think paid off hopefully in the end.

[Greg Hack]

That's kind of how I'd like to live my life. I'm good to the people around me. I like to be engaged in the community and the issues of the day and yeah, that's what really gets me going. All right.

[Host C]

That's the best.

[Host B]

That's great.

[Host C]

It is.

[Host B]

We got a few seconds left before we have to cut to commercial. So when we come back, we're going touch on. On, you know, topics as far as what you're doing now and you're, like I said, you're running for.

[Host C]

For district Congressional Senate, river pushing him.

[Host B]

All right, so we'll be back in just a minute with Greg Hack.

[Host C]

Thanks for tuning in.

[Host B]

Welcome back to the Patriots podcast. And we are back with Greg Hack, who is running for congressional.

[Host C]

Try to say that I'm not the only one on a Tuesday Congressional District.

[Host B]

3 on Long Island. Now, your. Your election is not until Novemb next year. 26.

[Greg Hack]

Correct.

[Host B]

So you just recently announced your candidacy. Correct.

[Greg Hack]

A week ago we did. A week.

[Host C]

I want to tell the world that we're going to you to hear Greg's name a lot. Selfishly. He's in my district. Yeah. And I want to get swazi out and I want to get Greg in for sure. So for that's what we're going to be working on. Yep.

[Host B]

So we'll have you here as time goes on and going to keep pushing the issues and your positions on them.

[Host C]

And there's very few people I get heavy into a campaign for. Greg's one of them. But I. Even seeing Rob on the commercial, I was like, oh, I love you, Porticelli, if you're watching, but that takes years off of your life.

[Host A]

All right, now we're getting you fresh.

[Host C]

Bill's up there nodding with me, Right? I know he is.

[Host B]

So we're going to talk about issues that are important to you. So we'll start with crime and safety. So tell us about what your thoughts are, what your feelings are about it, what your plan would be if you were, you know, when you win. Not if you win, but when you win, let's make sure that you're gonna win. And let's go. Let's just talk about everything.

[Host C]

Nassau County. Great again.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

Crime and safety. I mean, we really need to. We really need to bring back broken windows policing. I think we need to do exactly what Rudy Giuliani said.

[Host B]

You know, love that.

[Greg Hack]

Worry about the little things. When you let the little things go, then the big things start.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Greg Hack]

The prerequisite to back our police, we need to. We need to give them the tools that they need to do their. Instead of defunding them, not supporting them and defunding them. Exactly. We need to give greater resources to the district attorneys who actually prosecute the crimes that our police go out there and risk their lives to bring in instead of just having this revolving door of cashless bail.

[Host A]

Catch and release. Catch and release.

[Greg Hack]

Absolutely ridiculous.

[Host A]

I think between the catch and release and the bail reform, and then also this idea that, you know, police should be able to be held personally, civilly responsible if something goes wrong on the job. I get that there are some egregious police officers out there, but it's not the majority as a whole. And I think it shackles them because they don't feel confident in the job that they need to do. So not only is there no real reward because they do the job, and even when they do it well, those people land right back out on the street. But to do the job well sometimes requires force or difficult things that can come into question. And who wants to risk their livelihood, their home, their life, their reputation, or maybe even their freedom?

[Greg Hack]

Well, I think taking away that immunity is exactly what handcuffs. Like you said, we need to back our police, not handcuff them, and make their jobs more difficult.

[Host A]

Let's go.

[Host C]

I mean, the one very good thing I could say is, you know, thank God Nassau county is one of the safest counties in the country. It really is. And that is a great thing to come into. I mean, of course there's always room to make it better, but that's one thing I'm very happy to. For the amount of money we spend to live there.

[Host A]

We do spend a lot of money. Which brings us to taxes.

[Greg Hack]

Yes.

[Host A]

Let's talk about Long island property taxes. Don't get me started, because that's not hard just on like a homeowner living in their home. It causes rent to go up. It increases the cost of living for everybody, no matter if you're in ownership or not. So what are some strategies there?

[Greg Hack]

Well, in general, that's actually one of the reasons I'm running. I'm running because, you know, I was told when I was a kid by my dad and my mom that you can work hard. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, whatever. If you work hard, if you do the right thing, if you pay your taxes, you go to work every day, you deal with the monotony of day to day, and you try to make your world and your country and your community a better place to live, you will succeed. And thankfully, that was right for me. It actually worked out for me. But I'm very nervous for my kids and your kids, their kids, and that's why I'm doing this. I'm not doing this for me. I'm fine.

[Host A]

My daughter left the state as an. As an. As a four. What was she in four years, she got tenure as a school teacher on Long Island. She left because she didn't see a future that was bright here. And very few people stay. So then you're also searching for community, people doing life your age, having kids, working. It's really rough here.

[Greg Hack]

It's very rough. It's very rough. Property taxes and what do you get for it? I mean, it's just insane looking at.

[Host C]

Houses myself right now in our district, specifically in my town, it's next to impossible to afford something or even find something. It's just hard.

[Greg Hack]

I was able to come back. I lived abroad for a while. I lived in Manhattan for a number of years, and I came back here to raise my family. I don't think that's a possibility for a lot of the children of our friends and my friends and my children and their children. And that's what scares me.

[Host B]

And Long island is such a beautiful place. It's an amazing place.

[Guy Leggio]

So Beautiful.

[Host A]

It's a nice place to raise family. It's beautiful. Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

It's funny, when everything started going haywire under the Biden administration, my wife said, you know what? It's getting crazy. We should move. We should go down to North Carolina. And we had talked about that, and I thought to myself, no, we're not running away. This is our home. You know, that's why we're a beautiful wife.

[Host C]

And she's a great name, too, by the way.

[Greg Hack]

Someone breaks into your home, you don't go scurrying out the back door. You stay and fight.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Greg Hack]

That's what's worth. That's. That's the most important thing is your home.

[Host C]

Well, that's. That's one of the reasons why, when people say, I'm surprised you're still in New York, I don't want to get run out of New York. Like, I'm not ready to go yet. I feel like some of us have to stay back and fight, and until God tells me otherwise, I'm here to do it. But it's not easy. But it's the greatest state in the world. In the world. I think New York is, like, the epicenter of, like, it has so much to offer.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah.

[Host C]

And then Long island and Nassau County. I mean, the whole island. Obviously, we're in Suffolk now, but our county's a great county, you know, and I want to keep it that way. That's why we need you.

[Host A]

So can you talk to us about some of your strategies, more specifically, like, how would you go about helping reduce cost of living, reduce property taxes in New York, and give some. Some sort of relief to the working person?

[Greg Hack]

Well, I think by and large, what we need to do is we need to stop spending money that we don't have. We need to really be more effective, and we need to be more fiscally secure with the money that we're spending. I mean, I think we're mortgaging our children's future and our grandchildren's future for comfort today for us. That's not right. That's not right. Do you know the household. The household debt for our national debt for each household is $257,000.

[Host B]

I believe it.

[Host C]

I do, too.

[Host B]

I live.

[Host A]

Does that include mortgage debt?

[Greg Hack]

No, that's our portion of the debt. Our portion of the national debt, the $37 trillion.

[Host A]

Dear Lord.

[Greg Hack]

Isn't that crazy?

[Host B]

It's insane. It's insanity.

[Greg Hack]

And that's supposed to go. That encompasses. I don't want to give a wrong percentage. So I won't say it, but that number is supposed to go up quite significantly. And then by 2053, that's supposed to go up 79%.

[Host B]

Oh, my God.

[Host A]

And I hate to say this, but the big beautiful bill did not help that. It didn't.

[Greg Hack]

Not that, not that, not that. But you know what? We're changing around. We're changing. Well, actually, you know what? I would back up on that. I would argue with you on that. Yeah, but I'm not gonna argue.

[Host C]

That's the lawyer in him. You can.

[Host A]

Well, I would like. Tell me, tell us. Well, because that's been a big argument out there and a lot of the things that I've looked at, I'm no expert and I haven't dug in and read every little thing, but I think I've definitely felt. It felt fell very short.

[Greg Hack]

Well, the reduction in certain taxes, reduction in certain corporate taxes, reduction, taking care of working people, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. I mean, that really helps. That helps someone who's really trying to make ends meet. I mean, I know some single mothers that I was talking to that are waitresses. They get taxed on their tips. Not anymore. That's going to help quite a lot, especially with the cost of childcare and what it costs to raise a kid in this district especially. It's absolutely insane. But I think we just need to be very cautious about how we spend our money. And I think President Trump is doing a fantastic job. He's reducing. He's reducing regulations, he's reducing taxes. He's going to hopefully extend those tax cuts.

[Host A]

Yeah, the credits.

[Greg Hack]

And what that does is that creates greater economic, an economic environment for entrepreneurs, the people who actually create jobs. You know, I'm from a union family. I believe in the American worker and doing everything that we can because they're the people who bring us to prosperity. However, it also takes the entrepreneurs and the people who are building businesses because we don't have jobs without them.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Greg Hack]

So we need. So I'm a very pro business, but also very pro worker, pro union candidate for sure.

[Host C]

That's awesome.

[Host B]

And we have to continue to root out this waste, fraud and abuse, right?

[Greg Hack]

Absolutely. 100%.

[Host B]

It's criminal. It's so criminal how they've gotten away with what has taken place all these years and it's just been hidden.

[Greg Hack]

And that's another thing, you know, you have, you have, like I said, all these people out there, the people in this country who work their hard, who work hard every day, deal with the Monotony go through and worry about their bills, but pay their taxes.

[Host C]

I know what you're talking about.

[Host A]

Okay, miss 70 hour work week.

[Greg Hack]

But the good people of this country, especially in my district, in our district, they don't have representation. They have the appearance of representation.

[Host C]

That's garbage.

[Greg Hack]

And when you have like one of my issues is members of Congress trading on non public information and increasing their wealth exponentially with $179,000 a year job becoming multimillionaires in just a couple of years. And how do they do that? They do that because they're able to do something in Congress that they're not allowed to do on Wall Street.

[Host C]

They're bought and sold.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

And that incenses me because what they did, you know, there's something called the Stock act which prevents you from doing these kind of things. However, what happens is the enforcement of the Stock act violations is not done. Is not done by an outside entity. It's done by Congress itself.

[Host B]

They're auditing themselves.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah, the fox in front of.

[Host B]

Basics of like accounting. You don't have a person receding that puts, you know, counts the money that goes to the bank. You don't, you don't. You just don't.

[Host A]

So I'm going to assume or guess that these are not wildly popular beliefs within the establishment on either side because we see the corruption throughout in the uni Party.

[Greg Hack]

Right.

[Host A]

So I'm just curious, like, how do you feel like you'll be able to stand that kind of ground? And how are you going to make a difference when you get elected?

[Greg Hack]

That's a good question.

[Host B]

We've just got it. We've got about a minute and 15 left, so.

[Greg Hack]

Okay, I can try and squeeze.

[Host B]

Okay, well, not. We'll come back to it.

[Greg Hack]

Okay, let's come back to it. Yeah, because I'd rather.

[Host B]

All right, so while we're.

[Host C]

Well end with Bob's Kern's video. Yeah.

[Host B]

We have enough time for that?

[Host C]

I think so. Well, if we do. Oh, maybe not. Nope, not yet.

[Host B]

Yeah, we'll do that later on. Okay.

[Host C]

That's all right.

[Host B]

That's fine.

[Host C]

That's fine. You want me to do a. You want me to do a flyer real quick?

[Greg Hack]

Sure.

[Host C]

All right, guys, can you bring up the Saturday's event, please? The concert. I'll talk on it really quick to close us out of this. So I'll let the audience know we have a concert this Saturday. Our good friend Joe Cumia with his. He has three cover bands. This one is the Steely Dan cover band. This Saturday night here at the America First Warehouse. The house was rocking last month when we did the Almost Journey band with them. So it was a lot of fun. So you can go on our website, www.theamericafirstwarehouse.com, go to our events tab. You can sign up there. We ask that everybody registers. Lot of fun. Great night. Hang out with Patriots. Have a great time. We think we'll show you a video at the end that Joe made for it. And then when we come back a little bit later Sunday, we have a very special caravan that we'll be doing that I'll talk to you about about a young man, big patriot with down syndrome who's not doing very well. So we'll be right back and we'll bring you to that later.

[Host B]

Welcome back to the Patriots podcast and we join back with Greg Hack as we're discussing issues that are important to you and to, you know. Yeah, well, we left off Long island.

[Host A]

To all of us, anybody who's awake and aware and been paying attention and aggravated and fed up, we were talking about, you were specifically talking about the insider stock trading that goes on in the, in the Congress and with our elected representatives. And there are clearly other things. I'm sure everybody has a top list of things that they think are the biggest, most egregious problems that we have. The question is, how will you, as a member of Congress, fight against that, to represent the people truly?

[Greg Hack]

Well, that's a good question. The way that I intend to fight for it is, you know, I'm incorruptible. There's no one who can get to me, who can pay me off, who can do anything like that. I've been very successful in my life. I built two of the top law firms in New York. They're nationally recognized. And I did that by treating the people who work for me very, very well and doing right by them. That's what I attribute my success to. But like I said, I'm incorruptible and I have a responsibility and I consider it a very sacred responsibility to be the best possible candidate I can be. So I'm actually going around the clock, starting a week ago, doing everything from learning every issue, learning every issue, getting policy briefings, getting briefings on Congress.

[Host C]

He already went to Congress and took a class.

[Host B]

Oh, wow.

[Host C]

The same week he announced.

[Host A]

That's great.

[Greg Hack]

That's terrific.

[Host C]

To D.C. i meant to D.C. to.

[Greg Hack]

Take a class, but I couldn't possibly ask people for their trust and support unless I was willing to do, do Everything I could possibly do, I stepped away from my firms. I'm not, I don't need to go and grab with both hands for the next 20 years and make as much money as I can. No, my family is fine. We're going to do fine. We're not, we're pretty humble people, you know, we just, you know, everything is fine. And I want to. And this is how I want to. This is how I want to spend my next 20 years.

[Host A]

So you want to be an actual public servant?

[Greg Hack]

An actual public servant.

[Host A]

Thank you for that.

[Greg Hack]

I think that that's what we're missing.

[Host A]

Yeah, we have been missing.

[Host C]

Thank you for your military again.

[Greg Hack]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Host C]

And now we turn to more military service.

[Host B]

Yes. And another guest, Guy Leggio is joining us. And you are running for Suffolk County Legislature, District 9.

[Guy Leggio]

Yes.

[Host B]

And what, what towns does that cover?

[Guy Leggio]

That covers Bayshore, Islip, Islip, Terrace, Sea I, Hoppag, and Brentwood.

[Host B]

All righty.

[Host A]

So from doing a little bit of.

[Host B]

Research, I was reading, I was checking out your website and to see what you stand for and issues that are important. This is a big election. This is a big, I think a big spot that, you know, it's.

[Guy Leggio]

I think it's time like I enjoy what you just said about integrity and all that stuff. You know what, I'm that type of guy, you know, and I'm a 40 year career bricklayer and all that kind of stuff. I paid my dues and I know what the people want and I want to represent the people the right way.

[Host B]

I love this.

[Greg Hack]

Amen.

[Host B]

I love this. This has been what we've been waiting for, if, you know, for Long island, we need this on Long island for sure.

[Host A]

What inspired you to want to run?

[Guy Leggio]

You know, I've again, you know, military, you know, but I was in the military four years when I graduated high school and all that kind of stuff. And I got out and I became a volunteer fireman. You know, I do that and I, you know, I'm bricklayer. And then all of a sudden I became a varsity wrestling coach. I was a Wrestling coach for 27 years at high school. You know, not having a college education. They hired me to be the varsity coach. And you know, when you make a difference in the kids lives and you do things, what the right things are for the right people, for the right reasons and you get good results. It's not about winning. It's what you could teach them in life. Most of my kids now are doing it. They're cops, they're doctors, they're doing all this stuff. My dad was a wrestling coach. My dad is the founder of kid wrestling on the whole east coast, and I kind of lived his legacy a little bit. He's a bricklayer also, you know, and you know what? Family values mean a lot to me and bringing that family value to the legislator to make them work together to get things done the right way. I just left a. You know, we had a little bit of debate what was going on. And if we bring the families to the table, representation will be right, you know, in a lot of stuff that we're doing.

[Host A]

It's been lacking for so long. And it feels like, I mean, this is one of the things that we were in my questions, in our questions, you know, we've been paying attention for a long time, all the ladies on this stage, as many of our watchers and viewers, and we see how corrupted both sides have been, even the conservative side, the Republican side, and it's problematic and we cannot allow it any longer. So, you know, my question to you is, after coming out of a meeting and having hearty debate with constituents, are you seeing a change, a shift for people to actually walk in integrity and serve the public well, or are you think, do you feel like it's so entrenched it's going to be a very, very big uphill battle, even at the local level? Because it happens right here in our own neighborhoods. Dirty.

[Guy Leggio]

Since I got on a campaign trail, I've got involved with, you know, the Republicans and conservatives who back me, of course, you know, and the Democrats that I know. You. We all know each. We all know each other, you know, and they know my ground base is basic. But I've seen our Suffolk county has kind of really starting to come together to fight the right reasons, fight for everything for the right reasons. I think, you know, law enforcement's important. You know, everybody. Law enforcement protection right now, they're going after, you know, the prostitution and all this stuff, the women, you know, all the right stuff that we got to get people going in the right direction. You know, kids programs, you know, mental health issues and stuff like that. There's all kinds of stuff that we're starting to tackle. So I'm kind of impressed and I'm hoping that I can help push the way, you know, I'm just, like I said, I'm a basic guy. I don't come in on this level. I come in on ground level. My boots are on the ground and I'm going to run.

[Host B]

And that speaks to who the community is, you Know it does.

[Host C]

That's what we're looking for with both of our candidates here tonight. I think maybe you guys can correct me if I'm wrong, coming from a military background, and thank you for your service.

[Guy Leggio]

Yes, thank you.

[Host C]

Always want to thank you guys. I want to believe that you've already fought for the country and you've seen how downhill it's gone. Now it's like this is your time to rise up again and defend us again on a different level, because that's the training that you guys had and probably the heart that brought you in the first place. And I love when the veterans step up to do this. That's why I was part of a veterans campaign, because there's a different grit. You guys have a different love for the country, and I think I put a lot of trust in that, in your fight.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah. You know, it's funny. I served in the Cold War, in the final years of the Cold War, fighting the communists right now. To think we're doing it in our own backyard.

[Host B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Hack]

Literally, that really galvanizes my resolve.

[Host B]

I mean, we're looking at a Communist mayor in New York City, you know, that's demonic right around the corner, you know.

[Host A]

Well, the thing is, it's. Now that's just in your face. The truth is, Communism has invaded every institution. Our politics, our education system, our health care system, our business, our legal system. It's literally invaded everything. Marxist communist ideologies. So that's a massive thing to have to fight against when it's been decades of slowly subversing our democracy or our republic.

[Host C]

That's how they do it.

[Host B]

Yeah. People didn't even know what was happening.

[Greg Hack]

And that's the thing. We're not. We're not just fighting. We're not just fighting the communists. We're not just fighting China. We're not just fighting Russia. We're not fighting all these different agency wars everywhere. I mean, we're fighting it in our own backyard. I mean, in our country right now. I mean, to think about it scared me the last couple of years under the Biden administration. To see what's happened in our. In our education system, to see what's happened in our higher education systems. Even to these ridiculous protests, these George Soros funded protests. I mean, still happening. That's just a threat to national security beyond belief. I mean, that's almost as bad as China. China, China. China steals. We're at war with China. I mean, make no bones about it. We're at economic war with China. China as an Authoritarian government. They wage economic war on us by identifying, let's say, the EVs in the United States, the EV industry. And what they'll do is they'll subsidize a $100,000 car and charge $10,000 for it and flood our market with it. So it completely eviscerates our industrial base. And when it eviscerates our industrial base, we can't fight a war when the time to fight a war becomes, because then we can't. We can't repurpose our manufacturing industrial base to wartime needs. And that's why they do it. And that's what we have to be aware of. I mean, that's why we have to really fight it in our country, and we have to fight it hard.

[Guy Leggio]

I believe our country is ready for anything. I really. I was, you know, I was a gunner's mate, missiles, and, you know, when I worked, I was in Beirut, Lebanon, when they blew the embassy up. And, you know, we're ready. We're ready for anything. It's just that hands can't be tied. You got to do what you have to do. And, you know, we have to make tough decisions.

[Greg Hack]

Right?

[Guy Leggio]

And it's tough.

[Greg Hack]

Well, when you have. When you have. When you have the most powerful military and the most powerful economy in the world wielded by a weak man like under Biden, you don't have the most powerful military. You don't have the most powerful economy either. But when you have it wielded by a Donald Trump, you do. That's what we're seeing. And we're seeing that what he did.

[Guy Leggio]

With Australia today, yesterday, or whatever he did with the minerals and all of that stuff, that's a big move.

[Greg Hack]

That's a big move.

[Guy Leggio]

That's a big move right there.

[Greg Hack]

And that's the thing. We need people to make big moves. We need him to make big moves. And he's making all sorts of.

[Host C]

So much to come. No, just. There's so many things to come.

[Host B]

The best is yet to come.

[Guy Leggio]

It's one year. It's one year.

[Host C]

It's only. Not even.

[Host B]

It's not even. It's nine months.

[Host C]

Yeah, the man's doing miracles.

[Host B]

He's done amazing. Amazing.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah. We need to replenish the petroleum reserve. I mean, the emergency petroleum reserve. We need to open up for drilling. We need to drill, baby. Drill.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Greg Hack]

We were energy independent. And unfortunately, you know what we. What. What Biden has done, and by taking away those licenses to drill, and forgive me if I'm talking too much.

[Host B]

It's good to have it going back.

[Greg Hack]

But if he's taken away the licenses to drill, then we're going to be looking to our enemies to serve our needs for our fuel, for our military, when we're going to be at war in the next couple of years. It just makes no sense whatsoever. That's why I'm. I shudder to think what would have happened if Kamala Harris won the.

[Host A]

Well, it's important. It's important to connect. Yeah, it's important to connect all the dots, too, whether it's at the national, you know, national level and the local level. You know, all of the policies. Like, you know, you look at dei, you look at the green space and sustainability and the environment and global warming, and you see how all these things tee up and the trickle down of what's they package up like a nice little bow. It sounds like this is good. We should want to take care of our earth. We should want to include everybody and everybody be fair. But it's a slow, insidious burn. And like just with the cars and the fuel they start, man, you know, your carbon footprint and your net. What is it? Net zero. You know, these things are a push towards stuff that is weakening our society overall. You can't not connect those dots.

[Guy Leggio]

Mandates, unfunded mandates, and mandates that you have to use the electric buses. Look, I'm on a school board and I'm telling you, right, you know, 18 years on the school board, these unfunded mandates that are being delivered down to the schools and what we have to deal with that, we have to go to the tax pays, ask them to pay for stuff that we don't really need, but we got to do it so we can get federal funding. It's just. It's just a different ball game. I mean, to have electric buses. I got it. We need electric. But have you ever Florida electric fire.

[Host B]

There is no fighting it.

[Host A]

You can speak to that. Well, that's something you can fight out at the local level. Local control.

[Guy Leggio]

Local control.

[Host A]

Not regionalization.

[Guy Leggio]

100.

[Host B]

And that's where it has to start part.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah.

[Host A]

So.

[Host B]

All right, so when we come back, we're going to cut to break in just a couple seconds. When we come back, we're going to continue with this. This is it. I like having this. This is an interesting conversation we have going on.

[Host A]

We'll be right back.

[Host B]

Welcome back to the Patriots podcast. We're on our fourth and final segment and we're talking to Guy Leggio, who's running for legislature for District 9. All right. And we want to. We want to do what we can to help you to get elected.

[Host A]

Coming up soon. Yes, yes, very soon.

[Greg Hack]

Soon.

[Host B]

November 4th.

[Guy Leggio]

It went fast. From April to now. It went fast.

[Host C]

It sure does.

[Guy Leggio]

It really does.

[Host C]

Wait the next two weeks. Gonna be nuts.

[Host B]

Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. But we're glad you're putting yourself out there.

[Guy Leggio]

Yes.

[Host B]

I appreciate to be able to serve the public.

[Guy Leggio]

Thanks for having me.

[Host B]

It is absolutely.

[Host C]

I really want to point in really quick. These things matter to me. Think about it. Bricklayer. You've been working hard your whole life. Board of Ed trustee cares about the children. Would run into a burning building for you as a fireman. Served our country. These were the things that are so important to a constituent. To me. Character does those things. I know they're going to have our back. And I want the audience to know that.

[Host B]

That's 100% correct. 100%.

[Host A]

I think America is largely over the smooth talkers. We were just talking about this. People want us, want authentic human beings to be public servants. That's what our country was founded on. It was founded on the principle of serving. People lost everything. They lost their fortune, they lost their lives, they lost their reputation.

[Host C]

And these guys are walking away from their care. You know, Greg just said that. I just asked Guy if it's okay to say retiring from a bricklayer. He's done his whole life to serve. That's huge.

[Guy Leggio]

It's a full time job. You know these guys, it's called a part time job, but it's a full time job if you do things correctly. You know, I get up at 3:00 in the morning, I go to work. That really doesn't. I don't mind, but I'll be getting up at five o' clock in the morning. Maybe I can go work out a little bit. But I could start my day right.

[Host C]

On the ground with two extra hours of sleep already.

[Guy Leggio]

Right.

[Host C]

Starting at five. You deserve that.

[Host A]

Might take some time to retrain your.

[Host C]

Body clock, but I respect that very much. New York grit.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah, you know, it's a grind. You've been in a grind and you keep going. You know, everybody, you know, working families really understand, you know, they understand that part of it. I've been unemployed. I've had the, you know, been out of work six months. It gets cold. You don't get paid.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Guy Leggio]

Furloughs, layoffs, there's not enough work and all that. You go through all these things and you Know, unemployment doesn't make it in your family.

[Greg Hack]

No.

[Guy Leggio]

How are you going to pay tax?

[Host C]

We're just talking about that.

[Host B]

Yeah, yeah.

[Guy Leggio]

You know, and that's why I want to get on this right now. I want to take care of our seniors, you know, the seniors that have put that. I want to do longevity, you know, maybe tax, tax freezing and all that kind of stuff. You own your, you own your tax house for like 50 years. You freeze your taxes, they can't be increased, but let's hold the line, you know, but you have to own the house. Once you get rid of the house after 50, you know, it doesn't follow to whoever gets the house after you. But stuff like that, you know, we really. Seniors built this place and we got to make sure we take care of them.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Host B]

That's for sure.

[Host C]

Some of them can't even afford groceries. It's very sad.

[Greg Hack]

Bad.

[Host B]

It's bad. Yes, it's bad.

[Host A]

It's the young and the old, right?

[Guy Leggio]

Yes.

[Host A]

We were saying before, like, the young can't afford to stay here and make a life. The middle class our age are struggling and, you know, and the elderly are struggling. So there's a very few, a very small percentage of people that aren't struggling and having to grind really hard just going to college.

[Guy Leggio]

Going to college. These kids are going out of college. They're coming out with a mortgage payment.

[Host A]

Yeah.

[Guy Leggio]

How do we allow that to happen, happen, you know, with this, in this day and age? Okay, let's let the kids go to college. Let's help them. But it should be a 1% payback once you have your full degree. Show the federal government that you have it or whatever. It's a 1% payback. It isn't a. You know, there shouldn't be 7, 8% on these things. It's crazy. They got mortgage payments. How the heck they gonna survive?

[Host B]

They can't afford.

[Host C]

It's not in the field that she, that she went to college for my daughter.

[Host B]

My daughter is 30 years old and, and she and her husband, they cannot, they cannot live by themselves. I'm living, you know, we, we live together.

[Host C]

I can't live by myself either. You left me. They can't afford it.

[Host A]

They can't afford it.

[Host B]

It's, it's, it's sad. You know, they want to leave.

[Guy Leggio]

You're seeing housing now. What's going on with housing? What's going on? Everybody's moving in together. They're having more and more, you know, mother, daughters and all that kind of Basements.

[Host C]

Yeah, we did it.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah, it's terrible.

[Host A]

You know, but corporations are buying up homes.

[Guy Leggio]

Yes.

[Host A]

So it also artificially land grabs, and it artificially drives cost of housing. Supply and demand. And there's not affordable housing on Long Island.

[Guy Leggio]

So, you know, you speak about affordable housing, what they're building around towns, they're building all these things with the IDAs, and all these guys are getting. And you know what? These contractors that are getting these IDAs, what happens is they're building these big houses. They're big. They're all these big apartments. And then all of a sudden, they're all done. They're occupied. They're supposed to hold that for 10 years. You know what they're doing? They're selling it. And that IDA is staying with that thing. It shouldn't stay. If he sold it for a profit. He should pay back what he took. He should be invested in that community 15 years, and then he can sell it.

[Host A]

Why are they getting. Why are they getting away with it? Oh, well, they pay to get away with it.

[Guy Leggio]

You talked about it before.

[Host A]

They pay to get away with it. Yeah, that's. This is the garbage that has to stop. The representation needs to change, and we have the start of that right here on this table.

[Host C]

So Greg happens to be running in my district, so I know a lot more about my district in Nassau County. But I guess from your standpoint of what you're hearing from the constituents, what seems to be the biggest threat of, like, the biggest issue that you need to face right now in your district?

[Guy Leggio]

I think right now the biggest thing is what's going on around the community and the people that own these businesses, right, they have all homeless people, and they got. We have a lot of homeless, and we have to find a place to put them. You know, we want to help people, but we can't lock them up. They don't stay. So we got to help people. But those people, maybe you got to sit down next to them once in a while and ask them, what's the matter? You know, hey, how'd you get here? It might be a veteran sitting there, and, you know, he has problems, he needs help, but nobody sits down to talk. The fastest thing to do is lock the guy up, and that is not finding the problem. You know, you gotta. You can't be part of the problem, be part of the solution in a lot of things that we're doing, and that's some things that I like to.

[Host A]

Go after, you know, so addressing homelessness.

[Guy Leggio]

Homelessness, mental health, health of Course, I think Suffolk Community colleges, like Suffolk Community College, should be free for our kids. We should find a way for them to get their associate's degree, to get a jump start. We have all these programs in schools. You know, you got the IB programs, you got all these other programs that we have in these schools. They come out with college credits. They go to college for one year. They have an associate's degree. It's helping parents, it's helping them, making sure they get the right education and the right, you know, pushing them in the right directions and a lot of things. Some kids, they're not going to go to school. They need. They need to go to trade school. Like, I'm a tradesman. We. But we need plumbers, we need electricians, we need H Vac guys, we need.

[Greg Hack]

We need.

[Host C]

They're the busiest people.

[Host B]

Especially now with demand.

[Guy Leggio]

It is booming like crazy right now. And in the next couple years, it's going to be even worse. And they can't find the tradespeople.

[Greg Hack]

They can't find the tradespeople to build the nuclear submarines they're building in Groton because they.

[Guy Leggio]

Now you speak about that nuclear submarine thing and West Isop schools, I went and visit them. They're building parts for the subs in Groton, Connecticut, for that submarine company. And they're actually partnering with the schools and it starts a whole thing. Actually, I'm going to a school board convention in Manhattan tomorrow, tomorrow night, and it's Thursday and Friday, and we'll go to that floor and we'll see what these. All kinds of things that they have for these kids.

[Greg Hack]

Well, that's great. That's how education should be practical.

[Host C]

Is that, like, done through the STEM program?

[Guy Leggio]

It STEM and all that? STEM is. STEM is big right now.

[Host A]

Is that Boces. Boces a part of some of these doing very well.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah.

[Host A]

Yeah. Boces instituted a great STEM program a bunch of years back. My son went through.

[Guy Leggio]

Robotics is big, too.

[Host A]

Yeah.

[Guy Leggio]

These kids with the robotics and the electronics and stuff, it's helping out them all.

[Host A]

Well, I think, you know, for so long, the trades were downplayed. And, you know, the schools had this thing that they wanted to put forward that you had to go to college. They wanted their stats of how many kids went to what schools, how many got in Ivy League. And the truth is not everybody belongs going to college. And there's way too many people with college degrees and there's no jobs for them.

[Host B]

Yeah, there's no jobs.

[Host A]

People need trades. Like, you cannot have a home without electric and Plumbing and all of these things. And like, to your point, nobody's there doing them anymore. I mean, how long do you wait to get a good trades person to come in? And they can charge you anything now because supply and demand.

[Guy Leggio]

Supply and demand.

[Host A]

Supply and demand. I told my boys, I'm like, don't waste your time on college. I want to be somebody. I'm like, go do a trip, start a business.

[Host B]

And on top of it, it's just put people into so much debt because we've been pushed into it. That's how the society has been pushed. Go to college. Go to college. And then you amass this incredible debt.

[Host A]

That's so wrong.

[Host B]

I don't know how it's ever going to get paid off. Honestly, I don't know how.

[Guy Leggio]

Again, ours has been passed down. So my father had nine brothers. Nine brothers and one sister. So three of them were bricklayers. Four of them were laborers. Two owned delis. You know, one was an auto mechanic.

[Host C]

Did you hear that, mom? My mom's one girl with six brothers. She thought that was bad. How about one girl with nine bro? Ten brothers and one girl.

[Guy Leggio]

Nine brothers and one girl.

[Host C]

My mom had six brothers and one girl. See, mom, it's worse. She's probably watching from the road. So we don't have much time left. And we have to play Bob's video. I just want to know if you want to give a closing where they could find you on your website.

[Host B]

And you have a debate next week.

[Guy Leggio]

You said friends of Guy Leggy. Oh, that's my website. Everything like that. I'm around all the stuff that I've been doing, knocking on doors and all that stuff. Been doing all the right things. I got a great guy behind me with.

[Host C]

Yes.

[Guy Leggio]

You know, working. Working with me. He's doing a great job, and I can't thank him enough for everything he's done. He brought me here, so.

[Host C]

Well, we fell in love with you. Like, I was so glad he came in his bricklaying thing. Oh, this is the kind of guy we want.

[Greg Hack]

Hard worker.

[Host C]

He was in his, like, regular stuff.

[Guy Leggio]

I thought it's because I armed. I thought because I owned.

[Host C]

Well, I thought he was gonna take Joe down.

[Guy Leggio]

I kind of.

[Host C]

I'm not gonna lie. That was a good way to start it. Joe loves you. We all do here. We have your back either way, whatever happens. We hope you have a home here either way. And I love both of you and I hope.

[Host A]

Yeah, it's been great.

[Host C]

This is the first of many things.

[Host B]

Yes. Yes.

[Host C]

So we are going to Bob Kern. Hold on. I'm really bad because my brain is tired on Tuesdays. We met through our good friend who's his campaign manager. Bob Kern is the incumbent for the Riverhead Town Council. What a gentleman. Came in here, was in awe. He's a total patriot. He couldn't make it tonight because he had to go to a meeting last minute. That was very important. But control him. If you could just bring up Bob's video. We just want to give him a little plug and wish him well on his election in two weeks. So Bob Kearns. Nope, not that one. It's the last video that Bill had earlier. It came to me late today. There, I think that's ready for it. Nope, not a good connection.

[Host B]

No.

[Guy Leggio]

So my guy's name was Andy Whitman. I drew, you know, I was talking about. But Andy, Andy Whitman has been helping me the whole way this whole time. So he's done a great job.

[Host C]

Good, good friend of the warehouse and we love him. And the minute he told us he had candidates, it was a no brainer. But you're even better than he described. Said they're great, they're great. We love you even more than that.

[Host B]

All right, we have a minute left. So do you have any other announcements?

[Host C]

I will get to that. So I wanted to, if we could bring up the Tommy Caravan flyer, please. I was starting to say that before we found out the other day that there's a young man in North Babylon, his name is Tommy, he's 19 years old, he has down syndrome and he's not doing well. He doesn't have much time left and he loves cars and trucks, trucks. So he somehow got to the Belmore Patriots. We're going to bring a caravan to him. Then we found out he loves Donald Trump. I said, can you ask his mom if he likes Trump? Because a lot of our cars are very Trump. Like I don't want to offend them. Well, this young man, he's non verbal now at this point when he could still speak a few months ago, he used to tell his family and friends that Donald Trump is coming is back and he's getting his country back, which makes me want to cry. And that he used to go on his bus and show his bus driver and the students pictures of Donald Trump. So that just made me fall in love with him even more. We are going to do a special. If any of you are car enthusiasts, trucks, motorcycles, cars, please join us. All the information is on the flyer. It'll be on our website. The Belmore Patriots the America first warehouse and make this little boy have a special time coming down his block on this Sunday. I'm very honored to do that and that. Thank you, Jay. Jay brought that to us. Bob's video is working.

[Bob Kern]

For the past four years, I have worked very hard for the citizens of Riverhead, finding practical solutions, cutting through the noise, and getting real results. I believe in community, common sense, and putting the people first. After all, we are all Americans, and that's what matters. We all want the same thing. Safe neighborhoods and a good quality of life here in Riverhead. Let's keep Riverhead moving forward together. I'm Bob Curran and I approve this message.

[Host C]

Bob's a great man. We wish you a lot of luck, Bob. We wish you a lot of luck. In two weeks. Yes, guy, right? You got a year, but it's gonna fly and be a long year, but we're gonna see a lot more of you, too.

[Host A]

Yeah, looking forward to that.

[Host C]

And yeah, we love having America first. Good men stepping up. Thank you, fellas.

[Host B]

All right, all right.

[Host A]

We close in prayer.

[Host C]

We say our closing prayer.

[Host A]

Heavenly Father, thank you for guiding our time and giving us the freedom to have these conversations. As this election and future elections approach, we ask that you turn the hearts of our leaders and those seeking to lead toward you. Give them wisdom, humility, and the courage to stand for what is right in your eyes. Bless all our families, our communities, and this nation. Keep us grounded in faith, united in person, purpose, and bold in defending the freedom that you have entrusted to us. In Jesus name we pray.

[Host B]

Amen.

[Host A]

And as always, keep your faith strong.

[Host C]

Your family close, and your freedom alive. God bless you guys and stay tuned. We're going to play another short video on the way out for Saturday's event. Thank you very much, everybody.

[Guy Leggio]

Good night.

[Greg Hack]

Thank you.

[Host C]

God bless.

[Guy Leggio]

Thank you.

[Host B]

Welcome back to the Patriots podcast. And we are back with Greg Hack, who is running for the Congressional.

[Host C]

Try to say that I'm not the only one on a Tuesday.

[Host B]

Congressional District 3 on Long Island. Now, your. Your election is not until November of next year. 26.

[Greg Hack]

Correct.

[Host B]

So you just recently announced your candidacy. Correct?

[Greg Hack]

A week ago we did. A week ago.

[Host C]

I want to tell the world that we're going to you to hear Greg's name a lot.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Host C]

Selfishly, he's in my district. Yeah. I want to get swazi out and I want to get Greg in for sure. So for. That's what we're going to be working on. Yep.

[Host B]

So we'll have you here as time goes on and gonna keep Pushing the issues and your positions on them.

[Host C]

And there's very few people I'd get heavy into a campaign for. Greg's one of them. But I even seeing Rob on the commercial, I was like, oh, I love you, Porticelli, if you're watching, but that takes gears off of your life.

[Host A]

All right, now we're getting your fresh.

[Host C]

Bill's up there nodding with me.

[Greg Hack]

Right.

[Host C]

I know he is.

[Host B]

So we're gonna talk about it. Issues that are important to you. So we'll start with crime and safety. So tell us about what your thoughts are, what your feelings are about it, what your plan would be if you were, you know, when you win. Not if you win, but when you win, make sure that you're going to win. And let's go.

[Host C]

Let's just talk about Nassau County. Great. Again. Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

Crime and safety. I mean, we really need to. We really need to bring back broken windows, police policing. I think we need to do exactly what Rudy Giuliani said.

[Host B]

Love that.

[Greg Hack]

Worry about the little things. When you let the little things go, then the big things start.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

The prerequisite we need to back our police. We need to give them the tools that they need to do their job instead of defunding them, not supporting them and defunding them. Exactly. We need to give greater resources to the district attorneys who actually prosecute the crimes that our police go out there and risk their lives to bring in. And instead of just having this revolving door of cashless bail.

[Host A]

Yeah, catch and release. Catch and release.

[Greg Hack]

Absolutely ridiculous.

[Host A]

I think between the catch and the catch and release and the bail reform, and then also this idea that, you know, police should be able to be held personally civilly responsible if something goes wrong on the job. I get that there are some egregious police officers out there, but it's not the majority as a whole as well. And I think it shackles them because they feel confident in the job that they need to do. So not only is there no real reward because they do the job, and even when they do it well, those people land right back out on the street. But to do the job well sometimes requires force or difficult things that can come into question. And who wants to risk their livelihood, their home, their life, their reputation, or maybe even their freedom?

[Greg Hack]

Well, I think taking away that immunity is exactly what handcuffs. Like you said, we need to back our police. Not handcuffed, handcuff them, and make their jobs more difficult.

[Host A]

Let's go.

[Host C]

I mean, the one very good thing I could say is, you know, thank God Nassau county is one of the safest counties in the country. It really is. And that is a great thing to come into. I mean, of course there's always room to make it better, but that's one thing I'm very happy to. For the amount of money we spend to live there.

[Host A]

We do spend a lot of money. Which brings us to taxes.

[Greg Hack]

Yes.

[Host A]

Let's talk about Long island property taxes. Don't get me started, because that's not hard just on like a homeowner living in their home. It causes rent to go up every. It increases the cost of living for everybody, no matter if you're in ownership or not. So what are some strategies there?

[Greg Hack]

Well, in general, that's actually one of the reasons I'm running. I'm running because, you know, I was told when I was a kid by my dad and my mom that you can work hard. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, whatever. If you work hard, if you do the right thing, if you pay your taxes, you go to work every day, you deal with the monotony of day to day, and you try to make your world and your country and your community a better place to live, you will succeed. And thankfully, that was right for me. It actually worked out for me. But I'm very nervous for my kids and your kids, their kids, and that's why I'm doing this. I'm not doing this for me. I'm fine.

[Host A]

My daughter left the state as. What was she. In four years, she got tenure as a school teacher on Long Island. She left because she didn't see a future that was right here. And very few people stay. So then you're also searching for community, people doing life your age, having kids, working. It's really rough here.

[Greg Hack]

It's very rough. It's very rough. Property taxes and what do you get for it? I mean, it's just insane looking at.

[Host C]

Houses myself right now. In our district, specifically in my town, it's different. Next to impossible to, you know, to a afford something or even find something. It's just hard.

[Greg Hack]

I was able to come back. I mean, I lived abroad for a while. I lived in Manhattan for a number of years and I came back here to raise my family. I don't think that's a possibility for a lot of the children of our friends and my friends and my children and their children. And that's what scares me.

[Host B]

And Long island is such a beautiful place.

[Host A]

So beautiful. It's a nice place to raise a family. It's Beautiful. Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

It's funny, my. You know, when everything started going haywire under the Biden administration, my wife said, you know what? It's getting crazy. We should move. We should go down to North Carolina. And we talked about that, and I thought to myself, no, we're not running away. This is our home. You know, that's why we're a great.

[Host C]

Name, too, by the way.

[Greg Hack]

Someone breaks into your home, you don't go scurrying out the back door. You stay and fight.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Greg Hack]

That's what's worth. That's. That's the most important thing.

[Host C]

Well, that's. That's one of the reasons why when people say, I'm surprised you're still in New York, I don't want to get run out of New York. Like, I'm not ready to go yet. I feel like some of us have to stay back and fight, and until God tells me otherwise, I'm here to do it. But it's not easy. But it's the greatest state in the world. In the world. I think New York is, like, the epicenter of, like, it has so much to offer.

[Host A]

Yeah.

[Host C]

And then Long island and Nassau County. I mean, the whole island. Obviously, we're in Suffolk now, but our county is a great county, you know, and I want to keep it that way. That's why we need you.

[Host A]

So can you talk to us about some of your strategies, more specifically, like, how would you go about helping reduce cost of living, reduce property taxes in New York, and give some sort of relief to the working person?

[Greg Hack]

Well, I think. I think by and large, what we need to do is we need to stop spending money that we don't have. We need to really be more effective, and we need to be more fiscally responsible with the money that we're spending. I mean, I think we're mortgaging our children's future and our grandchildren's future for comfort to health today for us. That's not right. That's not right. Do you know the household. The household debt for our national debt for each household is $257,000.

[Host B]

I believe it.

[Greg Hack]

I do.

[Host B]

I love it.

[Host A]

Does that include mortgage debt?

[Greg Hack]

No, that's our portion of the debt. Our portion of the national debt. The $37 trillion.

[Host A]

Dear Lord.

[Greg Hack]

Isn't that crazy?

[Host B]

It's insane. It's insanity.

[Greg Hack]

And that's supposed to go. That's to supposed. That encompasses. I don't want to give a wrong percentage, so I won't say it, but that number is supposed to go up. Quite significantly. And then by 2053, that's supposed to go up 79%.

[Host B]

Oh, my God.

[Host A]

And I hate to say this, but the big beautiful bill did not help.

[Host C]

That.

[Host A]

It didn't.

[Greg Hack]

Not that, not that, not that. But you know what? We're changing around. We're changing. Well, actually, you know what? I would back up on that. I would argue with you on that. Yeah, but I'm not gonna argue.

[Host C]

That's the lawyer in him. You can.

[Host A]

Well, I would like. Tell me, tell us. Well, because that's been a big argument out there and a lot of the things that I've looked at, I'm no expert and I haven't dug in and read every little thing, but I think I've definitely felt. It felt fell very short.

[Greg Hack]

Well, the reduction in certain taxes, reduction certain corporate taxes, reduction in taking care of working people, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. I mean, that really helps. That helps someone who's really trying to make ends meet. I mean, I know some single mothers that I was talking to that are waitresses. They get taxed on their tips. Not anymore. That's going to help quite a lot, especially with the cost of childcare and what it costs to raise a kid in this district especially. It's absolutely insane. But I think we just need to be very cautious about how we spend our money. And I think President Trump is doing a fantastic job. He's reducing. He's reducing regulations, he's reducing taxes. He's going to hopefully extend those tax cuts.

[Host A]

Yeah, the credits, the tax cuts.

[Greg Hack]

And what that does is that creates greater economic, an economic environment for entrepreneurs, the people who actually create jobs. You know, I'm from a union family. I believe in the American worker and doing everything that we can because they're the people who bring us to prosperity. However, it also takes the entrepreneurs and the people who are building businesses because we don't have jobs without them.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah. So we need a small. So I'm a very pro business, but also very pro worker, pro union candidate for sure.

[Host C]

That's awesome.

[Host B]

And we have to continue to root out this waste, fraud and abuse, right?

[Greg Hack]

Absolutely. 100%.

[Host B]

It's criminal. It's so criminal how they've gotten away with what has taken place all these years and it's just been hidden.

[Greg Hack]

And that's another thing, you know, you have, like I said, all these people out there, the people in this country who work their hard, who work hard every day, deal with the monotony, go through and worry about their bills but pay their taxes.

[Host C]

I know what you're talking about.

[Greg Hack]

About.

[Host A]

Okay, miss, 70 hour work week.

[Greg Hack]

But the good people of this country, especially in my district, in our district, they don't have representation. They have the appearance of representation.

[Host C]

Garbage.

[Greg Hack]

They have. And when you have like one of my issues is members of Congress trading on non public information and increasing their wealth exponentially with $179,000 a year generation job becoming multimillionaires in just a couple of years. And how do they do that? They do that because they're able to do something in Congress that they're not allowed to do on Wall Street.

[Host C]

They're bought and sold.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Greg Hack]

And that incenses me because what they did, you know, there's something called the Stock act which prevents you from doing these kind of things. However, what happens is the enforcement of the Stock act violations is not done. Is not done by an outside entity. It's done by Congress itself.

[Host B]

They're auditing themselves.

[Host A]

Yeah, it's the fox in front of watching.

[Host B]

It's like one of the basics of like accounting. You don't have a person receding that puts, you know, counts the money that goes to the bank. You don't, you don't. You just don't.

[Host A]

So I'm going to assume or guess that these are not wildly popular beliefs within the establishment on either side because we see the corruption throughout in the uni Party.

[Greg Hack]

Right.

[Host A]

So I'm just curious, like, how do you feel like you'll be to. Able, able to stand that kind of ground? And how are you going to make a difference when you get elected?

[Greg Hack]

That's a good question.

[Host B]

We just got. We've got about a minute and 15 left, so.

[Greg Hack]

Okay. I can try and squeeze it.

[Host B]

Okay. But not. We'll come back to it.

[Greg Hack]

Okay, let's come back to it. Yeah. Because I'd rather.

[Host B]

All right, so while we're, while we're.

[Host C]

Coming back, want to end with Bob's Kern's video? Yeah.

[Host B]

We have enough time for that?

[Host C]

I think so. Well, if we do. Oh, maybe not. Nope, not yet.

[Host B]

Yeah, yeah, we'll do that later on. Okay.

[Host C]

That's all right.

[Host B]

That's fine. That's fine.

[Host C]

You want me to do a. You want me to do a fire real quick?

[Guy Leggio]

Sure.

[Host C]

All right, guys, can you bring up the Saturday's event, please? The concert? I'll talk on it really quick to close us out of this. So I'll let the audience know we have a concert this Saturday. Our good friend Joe Cumia with his. He has three cover Bands. This one is the Steely Dan cover band. This Saturday night here at the America first warehouse. The house was rocking last month when we did the Almost Journey band with them. So it was a lot of fun. So you can go on our website, www.theamericafirstwarehouse.com, go to our events tab. You can sign up there. We ask that everybody register. Lot of fun, Great night. Hang out with Patriots. Have a great time. We think we'll show you a video at the end that Joe made for it. And then when we come back a little bit later Sunday, we have a very special caravan that we'll be doing that I'll talk to you about about a young man, big patriot with down syndrome who's not doing very well. So we'll be right back and we'll bring you to that later.

[Host B]

Welcome back to the Patriots podcast and we join back with Greg Hack as we're discussing addressing issues that are important to you and to, you know.

[Host A]

Yeah.

[Host B]

Well, we left off on Long Island.

[Host A]

To all of us, anybody who's awake and aware and been paying attention and aggravated and fed up, we were talking about, you were specifically talking about the insider stock trading that goes on in the Congress and with our elected representatives. And there are clearly other things. I'm sure everybody has a top list of things that they think are the biggest, most egregious problems that we have. The question is, how will you as a member of Congress, fight against that, to represent the people truly?

[Greg Hack]

Well, that's a good question. The way that I intend to fight for it is, you know, I'm incorruptible. There's no one who can get to me, who can pay me off, who can do anything like that. I've been very successful in my life. I built two of the top law firms in New York. They're nationally recognized. And I did that by treating the people who work for me very, very well and doing right by them. That's what I attribute my success to. But like I said, I'm incorruptible and I have a responsibility and I consider it a very sacred responsibility to be the best possible candidate I could be. So I'm actually going around the clock, starting a week ago, doing everything from learning every issue, learning every issue, getting policy briefings, getting briefings on Congress.

[Host C]

He already went to Congress and took a class.

[Host B]

Oh, wow.

[Host C]

The same week he announced.

[Host A]

That's great.

[Greg Hack]

That's terrific.

[Host C]

To D.C. i meant to D.C. to.

[Greg Hack]

Take a class, but I couldn't possibly ask people for their Trust and support. Unless I was willing to do everything I could possibly do, I stepped away from my firms. I'm not. I don't need to go and grab with both hands for the next 20 years and make as much money as I can. No, my family is fine. We're going to do fine. We're not, we're pretty humble people, you know, we just, you know, everything is fine. And I want to. And this is how I want to. This is how I want to spend my next 20 years.

[Host A]

So you want to be an actual public servant?

[Greg Hack]

An actual public servant.

[Host A]

Thank you for that.

[Greg Hack]

I think that that's what we're missing. Yeah.

[Host A]

We have been missing.

[Host C]

Thank you for your military service again.

[Greg Hack]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Host C]

And now we turn to more military service.

[Host B]

Yes. And another guest guy Legio is joining us. And you are running for Suffolk County Legislar Legislature District 9.

[Guy Leggio]

9. Yes.

[Host B]

And what, what towns does that cover?

[Guy Leggio]

That covers Bay street, islip. Islip. Terrorists, C.I. hopog and Brentwood.

[Host B]

All righty. So from doing a little bit of research I was reading, I was checking out your website and to see what you stand for and issues that are important. This is a big election. This is a big spot that, you know, it's.

[Guy Leggio]

I think it's time I enjoy what you just said about integrity and all that stuff. You know what, I'm that type of guy, you know, and, and I'm a 40 year career bricklayer and all that kind of stuff. I paid my dues and I know what the people want and I want to represent the people the right way.

[Host B]

I love this.

[Greg Hack]

Amen.

[Host B]

I love this. This is, this has been what we've been waiting for. If, you know, for Long island, we need this on Long island for sure.

[Host A]

What inspired you to want to run?

[Guy Leggio]

You know, I've again, you know, military, you know, but I was in the military four years when I graduated high school and all that kind of stuff and I got out and I became a volunteer fireman. You know, I do that and you know, I'm bricklayer. And then all of a sudden I became a varsity wrestling coach. I was a Wrestling coach for 27 years at high school. You know, not having a college education. They hired me to be the varsity coach. And you know, when you make a difference in the kids lives and you do things, what the right things are for the right people, for the right reasons and you get good results. It's not about winning. It's what you could teach them in life. Most of my kids now are doing it they're cops, they're doctors, they're doing all this stuff. My dad was a wrestling coach. My dad is the founder of kid wrestling on the whole east coast, and I kind of lived his legacy a little bit. He's a bricklayer also, you know, and you know what, family values mean a lot to me, and bringing that family value to the legislator to make them work together to get things done the right way. I just left a. You know, we had a little bit of debate on what was going on, and if we bring the families to the table, representation will be right, you know, and a lot of stuff that.

[Host A]

We'Re doing, it's been lacking for so long. And it feels like, I mean, this is one of the things that we were. In my questions, in our questions, you know, we've been paying attention for a long time, all the ladies on this stage, as many of our watchers and viewers, and we see how corrupted both sides have been, even the conservative side, the Republican side, and it's problematic, and we cannot allow it any longer. And so, you know, my question to you is, after coming out of a meeting and having hearty debate with constituents, you know, are you seeing a change, a shift for people to actually walk in integrity and serve the public well, or are you think, do you feel like it's so entrenched it's going to be a very, very big uphill battle, even at the local level? Because it happens right here in our own neighborhoods. Dirty.

[Guy Leggio]

Since. Since I got on a campaign trail, I've got involved with, you know, the Republicans and conservatives who back me, of course, you know, and the Democrats, you know, you know, we all know each. We all know each other, you know, and they know my ground base is basically. But I've seen our Suffolk county has kind of really starting to come together to fight the right reasons, fight for everything for the right reasons. I think, you know, law enforcement's important. You know, everybody. Law enforcement protection right now, they're going after, you know, the prostitution and all this stuff, the women, you know, all the right stuff that we got to get people going in the right direction. You know, kids programs, you know, mental health issues and stuff like that. There's all kinds of stuff that we're starting to tackle. So I'm kind of impressed, and I'm hoping that I can help push the way, you know, I'm just, like I said, I'm a basic guy. I don't come in on this level. I come in on ground level. My boots are on the ground that I'M going to run.

[Host B]

And that speaks. That speaks to who the community is. Yeah, you know, it does.

[Host C]

That's what we're looking for with both of our candidates here to tonight. I think maybe you guys can correct me if I'm wrong, coming from a military background, and thank you for your service.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah, thank you.

[Host C]

Always want to thank you guys. I want to believe that you've already fought for the country and you've seen how downhill it's gone. Now it's like this is your time to rise up again and defend us again on a different level. Because that's the training that you guys had and probably the heart that brought you in the first place. And I love when the veterans step up to do this. That's why I was part of a veterans, you know, campaign, because there's a different grit. You guys have a different love for the country, and I think I put a lot of trust in that. In your fight.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah. You know, it's funny. I served in the Cold War, in the final years of the Cold War, fighting the communists right now. To think we're doing it in our own backyard.

[Host B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Hack]

That really galvanizes my resolve.

[Host B]

I mean, we're looking at a Communist. Communist mayor in New York City, you know, it's demonic right around the corner, you know.

[Host A]

Well, the thing is, it's, it's. Now that's just in your face. The truth is Communism has invaded every institution. Our politics, our education system, our healthcare system, our business, our legal system. It's literally invaded everything. Marxist, communist ideologies. So that's a. That's a massive thing to have to fight against against. When it's been decades of slow, slowly subversing our democracy or our republic.

[Host C]

That's how they do it.

[Host B]

Yeah. People didn't even know what was happening.

[Greg Hack]

And that's the thing. We're not. We're not just fighting. We're not just fighting the Communists. We're not just fighting China. We're not just fighting Russia. We're not fighting all these different agency wars everywhere. I mean, we're fighting it in our own backyard. I mean, in our country right now. I mean, to think about it scared me the last couple of years under the Biden administration to see what's happened in our. In our education system, to see what's happened in our higher education systems. Even to these ridiculous protests, these George Soros funded protests, I mean, still happening. That's just a threat to national security beyond belief. I mean, that's almost as bad as China. China China. China steals. We're at war with China. I mean, make no bones about it.

[Host C]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Greg Hack]

We're at economic war with China. China, China, China. As an authoritarian government, they wage economic war on us by identifying, let's say, the EVs in the United States, the EV industry. And what they'll do is they'll subsidize a $100,000 car and charge $10,000 for it and flood our market with it. So it completely eviscerates our industrial base. And when it eviscerates our industrial base, we can't fight a war when the time to fight a war becomes, because then we can't. We can't repurpose our manufacturing and industrial base to wartime needs. And that's why they do it. And that's what we have to be aware of. I mean, that's why we have to really fight it in our country, and we have to fight it hard.

[Guy Leggio]

I believe our country is ready for anything. I do. I really. I was, you know, I was a gunner's mate, missiles. And, you know, when I worked, I was in Beirut, Lebanon, when they blew the embassy up. And, you know, we're ready. We're ready for anything. It's just that hands can't be tied. You got to do what you have to do. And, you know, we have to make tough decisions. And.

[Greg Hack]

Well, when you have the most powerful military and the most powerful economy in the world wielded by a weak man like under Biden, you don't have the most powerful military, you don't have the most powerful economy either. But when you have it wielded by a Donald Trump, you do. And that's what we're seeing. And we're seeing that what he did.

[Guy Leggio]

With Australia today, yesterday, or whatever he did with the minerals and all that stuff, that's a big move.

[Greg Hack]

It's a big move.

[Guy Leggio]

That's a big move right there.

[Greg Hack]

And that's the thing. We need people to make big moves. We need him to make big moves. And he's making so much money to come.

[Host C]

No, I'm just. There's so many things to come.

[Guy Leggio]

Here. It's one year.

[Host C]

It's only. Not even.

[Greg Hack]

It's not even.

[Host B]

It's nine months. Yeah, man.

[Host C]

Doing miracles.

[Host B]

He's done amazing. Amazing.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah. We need to replenish the petroleum reserve. I mean, the emergency petroleum reserve. We need to open up for drilling. We need to drill, baby, drill.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Greg Hack]

We were energy independent. And unfortunately, you know, what we. What Biden has done and by taking away those licenses to drill. And forgive me if I'm talking too.

[Host A]

Much, it's good to have it going down.

[Greg Hack]

But if he's taken away the licenses to drill, then we're going to be looking to our enemies to serve our needs for our fuel, for our military, when we're going to be at war in the next couple of years. It just makes no sense whatsoever. That's why I'm. I shudder to think what would have happened if Kamala Harris won the well.

[Host A]

It's important.

[Host C]

It's important to connect all age boys.

[Host A]

Yeah, it's important to connect all the dots, too. Whether it's at the national, you know, national level, on the local level, all. All of the policies. Like, you know, you look at dei, you look at the green space and sustainability and the environment and global warming, and you see how all these things tee up and the trickle down of what's they package up like a nice little bow. It sounds like this is good. We should want to take care of our earth. We should want to include everybody and everybody be fair. But it's a slow, insidious burn and, and like just with the cars and the fuel they start, you know, your carbon footprint and your net, what is it? Net zero. You know, these things are a push towards stuff that is weakening our society overall. You can't not connect those dots.

[Guy Leggio]

Mandates, unfunded mandates and mandates that you have to use the electric buses. Look, I'm on a school board and I'm telling you right now, you know, 18 years on a school board, these unfunded mandates that are being delivered down to the schools and what we have to deal with that, we have to go to the taxpayers, ask them to pay for stuff that we don't really need. But we got to do it so we can get federal funding. It's just a different ballgame. I mean, to have electric buses. I got it. We need electric. But have you ever fought an electric fire?

[Host B]

There is no fighting it.

[Host A]

You can speak to that. Well, that's something you can fight out at the local level. Local control.

[Guy Leggio]

Local control.

[Host A]

Not regionalization.

[Guy Leggio]

100.

[Host B]

And that's where it has to start.

[Greg Hack]

Yeah. So.

[Host B]

All right, so when we come back, we're going to cut to break in just a couple seconds. When we come back, we're going to continue with this. This is a. I like having this. This is an interesting conversation we have going on.

[Host A]

We'll be right back.

[Host C]

Right back.

[Host B]

Welcome back to the Patriots podcast. We're on our fourth and final segment and we're talking to Guy Leggio, who's running for legislature for District 9. All right. And we want to, we want to do what we can to help you, you to get elected.

[Host A]

Coming up soon.

[Guy Leggio]

Yes, yes, very soon.

[Host B]

November 4th.

[Guy Leggio]

It went fast.

[Host B]

Yeah.

[Guy Leggio]

From April to now. It went fast.

[Host C]

It sure does.

[Guy Leggio]

It really does.

[Host C]

Wait the next two weeks. Gonna be nuts.

[Host B]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's a lot. It's a lot. But we're glad you're, you're putting yourself out there.

[Guy Leggio]

Yes.

[Host B]

To be able to serve the public.

[Guy Leggio]

Thank you for having me.

[Host B]

It is absolutely.

[Host C]

I really want to really quick. These things matter to me. Think about it. Bricklayer. You've been working hard your whole life. Board of Ed trustee cares about the children. Would run into a burning building for you as a fireman. Served our country. These were the things that are so important to a constituent, to me.

[Host A]

Character.

[Host C]

Those things. I know they're going to have our back. And I want the audience to know.

[Host B]

That that's 100% correct. 100%.

[Host A]

I think America is largely over the smooth talkers. We were just talking about this. People want authentic human beings to be public servants. That's what our country was founded on. It was founded on the principle of serving. People lost everything. They lost their fortune, they lost their lives, they lost their reputation. You know, so.

[Host C]

And these guys are walking away from their careers. You know, Greg just said that. I just asked Guy if it's okay to say retiring from a bricklayer. He's done his whole life to serve. That's huge.

[Guy Leggio]

It's a full time job. You know, these guys, it's called a part time job, but it's a full time job if you do things correctly. You know, I get up at 3:00 in the morning, I go to work. That really doesn't, I don't, I don't mind, but I'll be getting up at five o' clock in the morning. Maybe I can go work out a little bit. But I could start my day right.

[Host C]

On the ground with two extra hours of sleep already.

[Host A]

Right.

[Host C]

Starting at five. You deserve that.

[Host A]

Might take some time to retrain your.

[Host C]

Body clock, but I respect that very much. New York grit, you know, it's a grind.

[Guy Leggio]

You've been in a grind and you keep going. You know, everybody, you know, working families really understand, you know, they understand that part of it. I've been unemployed. I've had the, you know, been out of work six months. It gets cold, you don't get paid.

[Host C]

That's right Furloughs, layoffs, there's not enough.

[Guy Leggio]

Work and all that. You go through all these things and, you know, unemployment doesn't make it in your family.

[Greg Hack]

No.

[Guy Leggio]

How are you going to pay tax?

[Host C]

We're just talking about that.

[Host B]

Yeah, yeah.

[Guy Leggio]

You know, and that's why I want to get on this right now. I want to take care of our seniors, you know, the seniors that have put that. I want to do longevity, you know, maybe tax, tax freezing and all that kind of stuff. You own your, you own your tax house for like 50 years. You freeze your taxes, they can't be increased, but let's hold the line, you know, but you have to own the house. Once you, once you get rid of the house, you have to fit, you know, it doesn't follow to whoever gets the house after you. But stuff like that, you know, we really seniors built this place and we got to make sure we take care of them.

[Host C]

That's right.

[Host B]

That's for sure.

[Host C]

Some of them can't even afford groceries. It's very sad.

[Guy Leggio]

It's bad.

[Host B]

It's bad. Yes, it's bad.

[Host A]

It's the young and the old, right?

[Guy Leggio]

Yes.

[Host A]

We were saying before, like, the young can't afford to stay here and make a life. The middle class our age are struggling and, you know, and the elderly are struggling. So there's a very few, very small percentage of people that aren't struggling and having to grind really hard just going to college.

[Guy Leggio]

Going to college. These kids are going out of college. They're coming out with a mortgage payment.

[Host A]

Yeah.

[Guy Leggio]

How do we allow that to happen, you know, with this, in this day and age? Okay, let's let the kids go to college. Let's help them. But it should be a 1% payback. Once you have your full disclosure degree, show the federal government that you have it or whatever, it's a 1% payback. It isn't a. You know, there shouldn't be 7, 8% on these things. It's crazy. They got mortgage payments. How the heck they going to survive?

[Host B]

They can't afford it.

[Host C]

$50,000, she's saying, and she's not in the field, that she, that she went to college for my daughter.

[Host B]

My, my daughter is 30 years old and she and her husband, they cannot, they cannot live by themselves. I'm living, you know, we, we live together.

[Host C]

I can't live by myself either. You left me. They can't afford it.

[Host B]

They can't afford it. It's, it's, it's sad. You know, they want to.

[Guy Leggio]

Seeing you're seeing. You're seeing housing now. What's going on with housing? What's going on? Everybody's moving in together. They have more and more, you know, mother, daughters and all that kind of basements.

[Host C]

Yeah, we did it.

[Guy Leggio]

Yeah, it's terrible.

[Host A]

Corporations are buying up homes.

[Guy Leggio]

Yes.

[Host A]

So it also artificially land grabs, and it artificially drives the cost of housing. Supply and demand. And there's not affordable housing. Affordable housing on Long Island.

[Guy Leggio]

So, you know, you speak about affordable housing, what they're building around towns, they're building all these things with the IDAs, and all these guys are getting. And you know what? These contractors that are getting these IDAs, what happens is they're building these big houses. They're big to all these big apartments, and then all of a sudden, they're all done. They're occupied. They're supposed to hold that for 10 years. You know what they're doing? They're selling it. And that IDA is staying with that thing. It shouldn't stay. If he sold it for a profit, he should pay back what he took, but he should be. He should be invested in that community, and then he can sell it.

[Host A]

Why are they getting. Why are they getting away with it? Oh, well, they pay to get away with it.

[Guy Leggio]

You talked about it before.

[Host A]

They pay to get away with it. Yeah, that's. This is the garbage that has to stop. The representation needs to change, and we have the start of that right here.

[Host C]

So Greg happens to be running in my district, so I know a lot more about my district in Nassau County. But I guess from your standpoint of what you're hearing from the constituents, what seems to be the biggest threat of, like, the biggest issue that you need to face right now in your district?

[Guy Leggio]

I think right now the biggest thing is what's going on around the community and the people that own these businesses, right? They have all homeless people, and they got. We have a lot of homeless, and we have to find a place to put them. You know, we want to help people, but we can't lock them. Them up. They don't stay. So we got to help people. But those people, maybe you got to sit down next to them once in a while and ask them, what's the matter? You know, hey, how'd you get here? It might be a veteran sitting there. You know, he has problems, he needs help, but nobody sits down to talk. The fastest thing to do is lock the guy up and that. And that is not finding the problem. You know, you gotta. You can't be part of the Problem be part of the solution in a lot of things that we're doing. And that's some things that I like to go after, you know, so addressing homelessness, homelessness, mental health, of course. I think Suffolk Community Colleges, college, like Suffolk Community College, should be free for our kids. We should find a way for them to get their associate's degree, to get a jump start. We have all these programs in schools. You know, you got the IB programs, you got all these other programs that we have in these schools. They come out with college credits. They go to college for one year, they have an associate's degree. It's helping people, parents, it's helping them, making sure they get the right education and the right, you know, pushing them in the right directions and a lot of things. Some kids, they're not going to go to school. They need. They need to go to trade school.

[Host A]

Trade school is great.

[Guy Leggio]

It's amazing. Like, I'm a tradesman. We. But we need plumbers, we need electricians, we need H Vac guys, we need.

[Greg Hack]

We need.

[Host C]

They're the busiest people.

[Guy Leggio]

Especially now with it is booming like crazy right now. And in the next couple years it's going to be even worse. And they can't find the trades people.

[Greg Hack]

They can't find the tradespeople to build the nuclear submarines they're building in Groton because they.

[Guy Leggio]

Now you speak about that nuclear submarine thing in West Isop schools. I went and visit them. They're building parts for the subs in Groton, Connecticut for that submarine company. And they're actually partnering with the schools and it starts a whole thing. Actually, I'm going to a school board convention in Manhattan tomorrow, tomorrow night, and it's Thursday and Friday, and we'll go to that floor and we'll see what these. All kinds of things that they have for these kids.

[Greg Hack]

Well, that's great. That's how education should be practical, huh?

[Host C]

Is that, like done through the STEM.

[Guy Leggio]

Program, STEM and all that? STEM is. STEM is big right now.

[Host A]

Is that Boces? Boces a part of some of these.

[Guy Leggio]

Bose is doing very well. Yes.

[Host A]

Boces instituted a great STEM program a bunch of years back. My son went through robotics.

[Guy Leggio]

Is big too. These kids with the robotics and the electronics and stuff, it's helping out them all.

[Host A]

Well, I think, you know, for so long the trades were downplayed and, you know, the schools had this thing that they wanted to put forward that you had to go to college. They wanted their stats of how many kids went to what schools, how many got an Ivy League and the truth is, not everybody belongs going to college. And there's way too many people with college degrees. And there's no.

[Host B]

No jobs for them. Yeah, there's no job.

[Host A]

People need trades. Like, you cannot have a home without electric and plumbing and all of these things.

[Greg Hack]

And.

[Host A]

And like, to your point, nobody's there doing them anymore. I mean, how long do you wait to get a good tradesperson to come in? And they can charge you anything now because supply and demand.

[Guy Leggio]

Supply and demand.

[Host A]

Supply and demand. I told my boys, I'm like, don't waste your time on college. I want to make it somebody. I'm like, go do a trade, start a business.

[Host B]

And on top of it, it's just put people into so much debt because we've been pushed into it. That's how the society has been pushed. Go to college. Go to college. And then you amass this incredible debt.

[Host A]

That's so wrong.

[Host B]

I don't know how it's ever going.

[Host C]

To get paid off.

[Guy Leggio]

Honestly, I don't know how again, ours is passed down. So my father had nine brothers. Nine brothers and one sister. So the three of them were bricklayers. Four of them were laborers. Two owned delis. You know, they all. And one was auto mechanic.

[Host C]

Did you hear that, Mom? My mom's one girl with six brothers. She thought that was bad. How about one girl with nine brothers? Ten brothers. Ten brothers in one.

[Guy Leggio]

Nine brothers and one girl.

[Host C]

My wife had six brothers and one girl. See my. There, it's worse. She's probably watching from the road. So we don't have much time left. And we have to play Bob's video. I just want to know if you want to give a closing where they can find you on your website.

[Host B]

And you have a debate next week.

[Guy Leggio]

You said friends of Guy Leggy. Oh, that's my website. Everything like that. I'm around all the stuff that I've been doing, knocking on doors and all that stuff. Been doing all the right things. I got a great guy behind me.

[Host C]

Yes.

[Guy Leggio]

You know, working. Working with me. He's doing a great job, and I. I can't thank him enough for everything he's done. He brought me here, so.

[Host C]

Well, we fell in love with you. Like, I'm so glad he came in his bricklaying thing. Oh, this is the kind of guy we want.

[Greg Hack]

Hard worker.

[Host C]

He was in his, like, regular stuff.

[Guy Leggio]

I thought it's because. I thought.

[Host C]

Because I thought he was gonna take Joe down. I kind of. I'm not gonna lie. That was a good way to start it. Joe loves you. We all do here. We have your back either way, whatever happens. We do hope you have a home here either way. And we. I love both of you and I hope.

[Host A]

Yeah, it's been great.

[Host C]

This is the first of many things.

[Host B]

Yes, yes.

[Host C]

So we are going to Bob Kern. Hold on. I don't. I'm really bad because my brain is tired on Tuesdays. We met through our good friend who's his campaign manager. Bob Kern is the incumbent for the Riverhead Town Council. What a gentleman. Came in here, was in awe. He's a total patriot. He couldn't make it tonight because he had to go to a meeting last minute. That was very important. But control him. If you could just bring up Bob's video. We just want to give him a little plug and wish him well on his election in two weeks. So Bob Kearns. Nope, not that one. It's the last video that Bill had earlier. It came to me late today. There, I think that's ready for it. Nope, not a good connection.

[Host B]

No.

[Guy Leggio]

So my guy's name was Andy Whitman. I drew, you know, I was talking about. But Andy Whitman has been helping me to hold whole way this whole time. So he's done a great job.

[Host C]

Good, good friend of the warehouse and we love him. And the minute he told us he had candidates, it was a no brainer. But you're even better than he described. He said, great, they're great. We love you even more than that.

[Host B]

All right, we have a minute left. So do you have any other announcements?

[Host C]

I will get to that. So I wanted to, if we could bring up the Tommy Caravan flyer, please. I was starting to say that before we found out the other day that there's a young man in North Babylon. His name is Tommy, he's 19 years old, old, he has down syndrome and he's not doing well. He doesn't have much time left and he loves cars and trucks. So he somehow got to the Belmore Patriots. We're going to bring a caravan to him. Then we found out he loves Donald Trump. I said, can you ask his mom if he likes Trump? Because a lot of our cars are very Trump. Like I don't want to offend them. Well, this young man, he's non verbal now at this point when he could still speak. A few months ago, he used to tell his family and friends that Donald Trump is back and he's getting his country back, which makes me want to cry. And that he used to go on his bus and show his bus driver and the students pictures of Donald Trump. So that just made me fall in love with him even more. We are going to do a special. If any of you are car enthusiasts, trucks, motorcycles, cars, please join us. All the information is on the flyer. It will be on our website, the Belmore Patriots, the America first warehouse, and make this little boy have a special time coming down his block on this Sunday. I'm very honored to do that. And thank you, Jay. Jay brought that to us. Bob's video is working.

[Bob Kern]

For the past four years, I have worked very hard for the citizens of Riverhead, finding practical solutions, cutting through the noise, and getting real results. I believe in community, common sense, and putting the people first. After all, we are all Americans, and that's what matters. We all want the same thing. Safe neighborhoods and a good quality of life here in Riverhead. Let's keep Riverhead moving forward together. I'm Bob Kern and I approve this message.

[Host C]

Bob's a great man. We wish you a lot of luck, Bob. We wish you a lot of luck. In two weeks. Yes, Guy. Greg, you got a year, but it's gonna apply and be a long year, but we're gonna see a lot more of you. You too.

[Host A]

Yeah, looking forward to that.

[Host C]

And, yeah, we love having America first. Good men stepping up. Thank you, fellas.

[Host B]

All right, all right.

[Host A]

We close in prayer.

[Host C]

We say our close in prayer.

[Host A]

Heavenly Father, thank you for guiding our time and giving us the freedom to have these conversations. As this election and future elections approach, we ask that you turn the hearts of our leaders and those seeking to lead toward you. Give them wisdom, humility, and the courage to stand for what is right in your rise. Bless all our families, our communities, and this nation. Keep us grounded in faith, united in purpose, and bold in defending the freedom that you have entrusted to us. In Jesus name we pray.

[Guy Leggio]

Amen.

[Host A]

And as always, keep your faith strong.

[Host C]

Your family close, and your freedom alive. God bless you guys and stay tuned. We're going to play another short video on the way out for Saturday's event. Thank you very much, everybody for tuning in. God bless.

[Guy Leggio]

Thank you.

[Host A]

This is an iHeart podcast.