WEBVTT - Take, but Not so Much… 0:00:00.100 --> 0:00:02.320 All right, just very, very quick. Let me just give 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:07.000 you an example. It's a very small example of why 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:12.080 you don't give blank checks when you're dealing with people, 0:00:12.140 --> 0:00:15.510 especially from that part of the world, okay? Now, I'm 0:00:15.540 --> 0:00:20.970 not talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. 0:00:22.050 --> 0:00:25.230 I'm talking $ 2, 500. Now, Croatia is not Ukraine. It's not 0:00:25.250 --> 0:00:31.930 as corrupt as Ukraine. It's several thousand miles away from Ukraine. 0:00:32.750 --> 0:00:37.250 It borders Austria and Italy, but still former communist country. 0:00:37.270 --> 0:00:39.930 There's still a lot of corruption there as there are 0:00:39.970 --> 0:00:43.130 in many former communist countries. So it's still an issue. 0:00:44.729 --> 0:00:47.890 My parents used to have a house. Okay, that long 0:00:47.930 --> 0:00:51.840 story short, they wanted to retire there eventually. It was 0:00:51.940 --> 0:00:56.280 never quite completed. My mother got cancer. God rest her soul. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.510 She passed away. My dad got struck by Parkinson's. He 0:01:00.550 --> 0:01:04.470 wasn't able to ever go back. And eventually he said, please, 0:01:04.510 --> 0:01:07.250 I want you to take over the house, Jeff. It 0:01:07.290 --> 0:01:09.590 turned into a massive headache. I had to sell the 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:10.399 house eventually. 0:01:10.420 --> 0:01:10.980 Okay. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.760 It was more, it was more trouble than it was worth. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.680 Believe me, trust me. But anyway, long story short, I 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.539 was dealing the way my mother and my father had 0:01:22.420 --> 0:01:26.430 with my first cousins. It was their nephew, my first cousin. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:27.920 George. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.520 That's not his real, his Croatian name is Goran, which 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.770 is George in English. So I'm dealing with George. 0:01:33.780 --> 0:01:34.910 Okay. 0:01:35.630 --> 0:01:38.850 I've met him five, six times. Whenever I traveled back 0:01:38.890 --> 0:01:42.210 to the old country, as they say, he always spoke 0:01:42.250 --> 0:01:45.530 on the phone with my mother and my father. I thought, Hey, 0:01:45.590 --> 0:01:49.960 if there's one guy I can trust, it's George. We're blood. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:55.160 We're first cousins. He's the son of of my mother's 0:01:55.340 --> 0:01:58.750 older sister, who has always been extremely good to me 0:01:58.850 --> 0:02:02.350 and my sister. I had a great relationship with his mom. 0:02:02.410 --> 0:02:05.590 I always had a great relationship with George. My mother 0:02:05.610 --> 0:02:08.120 and my father in particular were very close with George. 0:02:08.790 --> 0:02:13.120 So he says to me that it cost $ 1, 000 to 0:02:13.139 --> 0:02:19.820 mow the lawn. It's a very small lot. I'm telling you, 0:02:19.860 --> 0:02:22.079 there's no way it takes more than 20, 25 minutes. 0:02:22.100 --> 0:02:22.900 Okay. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.000 To cut the grass and that small house that we had. Anyway, 0:02:26.500 --> 0:02:28.600 he said he had to make some repairs, change a 0:02:28.620 --> 0:02:31.920 few lights, blah, blah, blah. And that the whole thing 0:02:31.980 --> 0:02:36.920 came to $ 213. And he says, I have the receipts 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:42.100 if you want them. And he says, you know, so 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.430 hold on. It came to, forgive me. He says it 0:02:44.470 --> 0:02:47.980 costs a thousand dollars. I'm getting ahead of the story. 0:02:48.500 --> 0:02:54.300 He says it cost a thousand dollars to repair the 0:02:54.340 --> 0:02:57.880 lawnmower so he can cut the grass to put in the, 0:02:58.310 --> 0:03:01.530 you know, the light bulbs and fix some of the switches. 0:03:01.610 --> 0:03:05.270 And he says, it's a thousand dollars. He goes, Oh, 0:03:05.310 --> 0:03:08.770 I have the receipts, Jeff. I have the receipts. So 0:03:08.830 --> 0:03:11.630 then I said to him, okay, how much do you 0:03:11.669 --> 0:03:15.140 want to get paid for your time for your labor? Now, 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:19.280 he claimed he worked five hours. And he said, well, 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.840 I worked five hours. He goes, you know, Jeff, it's 0:03:21.900 --> 0:03:23.660 up to you. Pay me whatever you want. So I'm 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.989 a generous man. I'm kind to a fault. And I 0:03:27.030 --> 0:03:29.430 paid him 100 bucks an hour, which is, believe me, 0:03:29.450 --> 0:03:31.829 a lot of money for that country. So I sent 0:03:31.889 --> 0:03:33.649 him $ 500 just for his labor and $ 1, 000. I wired 0:03:33.669 --> 0:03:35.050 it to him, Western Union. 0:03:35.070 --> 0:03:35.410 So $ 1, 500. 0:03:35.210 --> 0:03:45.070 The following year, I have to go and see the 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.260 state of the house because it's collapsing. It's not doing well. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.820 Should we sell it? Should we not? Grace wants me 0:03:50.860 --> 0:03:53.800 to sell the house. So we fly to the old country. 0:03:54.900 --> 0:03:58.520 I meet with George. I go, hey, George, do you 0:03:58.540 --> 0:04:01.240 mind showing me those receipts? I mean, now that we're here, 0:04:02.180 --> 0:04:05.640 George is nervous. George doesn't want to show me the receipts. 0:04:06.540 --> 0:04:09.220 In other words, I'm doing basically an audit. Okay, what 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.940 Rand Paul asked for in that Ukraine bill. But finally, 0:04:12.980 --> 0:04:17.260 he's got to cough up the receipts. It wasn't $ 1, 000. 0:04:17.140 --> 0:04:17.700 It was $ 213. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:17.729 $ 213. 0:04:17.670 --> 0:04:20.570 So he ripped me off almost $ 800. 0:04:20.510 --> 0:04:20.870 Okay? 0:04:21.010 --> 0:04:24.830 And by the way, I'm telling you, he didn't do 0:04:24.890 --> 0:04:25.730 more than an hour's. 0:04:27.670 --> 0:04:27.870 Work. 0:04:27.930 --> 0:04:44.489 Let me go ultra conservative, 90 minutes. So he screwed 0:04:44.529 --> 0:04:47.850 me on the labor, 500 bucks, and he screwed me 0:04:48.450 --> 0:04:51.530 on the actual repairs. So in total, out of 1,500, 0:04:51.510 --> 0:04:53.150 he ripped me off at least $ 1, 200. But hold on, 0:04:53.150 --> 0:04:55.140 it gets even worse. Because after that, he told me 0:04:55.160 --> 0:05:09.310 that he had to meet and pay the surveyor to 0:05:09.410 --> 0:05:15.250 demarcate exactly the property lines of our home so i'm 0:05:15.290 --> 0:05:16.990 like and he said jeff jeff we got to do 0:05:17.029 --> 0:05:19.550 it now you got to register the property under your 0:05:19.589 --> 0:05:21.830 name or else we're going to lose the property in 0:05:21.850 --> 0:05:24.330 other words he was scaring me you don't know how 0:05:24.390 --> 0:05:26.920 it is here it's a different system blah blah blah 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.760 i need the money now bang i sent them a 0:05:29.820 --> 0:05:33.180 western union a thousand dollars because he's my first cousin 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:39.800 i believe them i trust them he's blood Where's the 0:05:39.820 --> 0:05:43.969 receipt for the thousand dollars for the surveyor? There was 0:05:44.029 --> 0:05:49.930 no surveyor. He said he took somebody who had connections 0:05:49.990 --> 0:05:53.430 to the surveyor out to lunch. That's what he told 0:05:53.450 --> 0:05:56.590 me at the table in front of my wife. I go, 0:05:56.610 --> 0:06:00.210 that's your thousand dollars? Taking some guy out to lunch? 0:06:01.830 --> 0:06:04.180 He goes, yeah. Oh, that must have been some hell 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.720 of a lunch. Like, well, what did you guys eat 0:06:06.740 --> 0:06:16.000 at the presidential palace? He stole $ 1, 000 outright and another 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:23.120 $ 1, 200 from the $ 1, 500. Now, Grace got very angry at 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.570 me because she said I should have ripped into him 0:06:26.790 --> 0:06:30.870 right there at the table. And I didn't do it 0:06:31.930 --> 0:06:35.190 because his two daughters were in the house and they 0:06:35.230 --> 0:06:38.590 respect him. He's their father and his wife. And I 0:06:38.630 --> 0:06:41.700 didn't want to humiliate him in front of his wife 0:06:41.820 --> 0:06:44.420 and two children. So I bit my tongue and I 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.479 said nothing. I literally said nothing. So the point being, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:54.500 if they'll screw you, basically, you know, plunder you for 0:06:54.500 --> 0:07:00.119 $ 2, 500 and this is family, this is your first cousin, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.040 for God's sake, it's blood. What do you think they're 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:07.170 going to do when, you know, it's government to government 0:07:07.950 --> 0:07:13.250 and you're looking at Three, four, five hundred billion dollars. 0:07:14.570 --> 0:07:17.280 That's pouring into one of the most corrupt countries on 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.140 the face of the earth. That's why they were freaking 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.600 out the entire Congress, because everybody knows how much of 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:30.140 that has been plundered and stolen. When Rand Paul just said, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.490 you know, I'll let Jeff Cooner with my cousin. Can 0:07:33.550 --> 0:07:36.450 I just look at the bills here? Can I just 0:07:36.490 --> 0:07:38.090 you know, I'm sorry, can we just do a quick 0:07:38.270 --> 0:07:41.520 audit here? Can you show me some receipts? So where 0:07:41.540 --> 0:07:46.870 did the money go? Now you know why. They have 0:07:46.910 --> 0:07:51.030 to prop up Zelensky at all costs. And of course, 0:07:51.110 --> 0:07:55.470 the media is doing massive damage control. And they're trying to, 0:07:55.510 --> 0:07:58.570 you know, again, put him up as St. Zelensky, the 0:07:59.340 --> 0:08:03.560 Winston Churchill of our time. Listen now to Zelensky. ABC 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.240 News was more than happy to give him a platform. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.080 And listen now to Zelensky, effectively tell Trump, mind your 0:08:12.140 --> 0:08:15.460 own business. Don't tell us if we need a new 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.780 leader and don't tell us if we should hold elections 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.760 or not. Roll cut 3A, Mike. 0:08:24.500 --> 0:08:29.720 President Trump said that we need, Ukraine needs new president. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.120 So first of all, with all respect to President Trump, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.180 it's up to our society. 0:08:37.940 --> 0:08:39.840 Up to our people to choose. 0:08:40.350 --> 0:08:44.210 One or another leader. Yes, we are in war and 0:08:44.250 --> 0:08:48.270 now to do elections is really difficult. Not only that 0:08:48.330 --> 0:08:50.850 it goes absolutely. 0:08:51.890 --> 0:08:53.880 Not secured and it goes. 0:08:54.020 --> 0:08:57.740 Out of our law, out of our constitution, but the 0:08:57.820 --> 0:09:03.800 main thing is to have security infrastructure for this, to 0:09:03.850 --> 0:09:06.010 give possibility people to vote. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:11.340 To give possibility to people to vote. It's not up 0:09:11.380 --> 0:09:16.189 to President Trump. No, I'm the boss here in Ukraine. 0:09:16.790 --> 0:09:21.410 I'm the vozhd, as they say, a strong man. We 0:09:21.450 --> 0:09:23.890 take your money, we steal your money, you shut up. 0:09:24.929 --> 0:09:27.510 You don't tell me when to hold elections. 0:09:28.170 --> 0:09:28.469 Okay? 0:09:29.070 --> 0:09:32.200 I have Democrats now coming back to power. We tell 0:09:32.260 --> 0:09:37.760 you how much money to send me. Hey, buddy. We're 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:43.059 paying for your war. We're paying to keep your country 0:09:43.140 --> 0:09:46.480 propped up. Don't lecture me on what we should tell 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:52.070 you or not tell you. Now, you're a dictator. Your 0:09:52.130 --> 0:09:58.530 mandate ended in 2024. You've now imposed martial law for 0:09:58.670 --> 0:10:02.900 over two and a half years. It's time to call 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:07.780 an election, dude. Now, listen to this shyster and con man. 0:10:08.070 --> 0:10:12.570 Listen to this. Oh, but if President Trump won't election, 0:10:12.929 --> 0:10:16.210 by the way, we have to pay for it. Even 0:10:16.270 --> 0:10:19.599 that they're going to shysters that they are. Even that, 0:10:19.620 --> 0:10:23.500 they're going to swindle us. We need more money. It's 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.140 always with these Ukrainians, the same thing. Money, we need 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:30.480 more money, more money. We take and take and take. 0:10:32.620 --> 0:10:36.400 But he needs 60 days. So basically, he's got to 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.590 go to Putin, Trump, and say, okay, Vlad, stop firing, 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:46.360 stop shelling. No fighting for 60 days. Because Zelensky says 0:10:46.390 --> 0:10:49.580 that's what he needs to hold an election. By the way, 0:10:49.620 --> 0:10:52.460 that we taxpayers in America are going to pay for. 0:10:54.100 --> 0:10:58.859 Listen now to little midget man. Roll cut 3B, Mike. 0:11:01.140 --> 0:11:04.900 Of course, it's up to Ukrainians when to vote, how 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.059 to do it, and to choose one or another person. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.640 But if to answer on this question, I know that 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.179 Putin wanted very much to change the president in Ukraine. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:15.040 I understand it. 0:11:15.850 --> 0:11:20.689 And if President Trump really wants to have some changes 0:11:21.170 --> 0:11:23.390 during elections, I. 0:11:23.429 --> 0:11:24.890 Also shared it with his team. 0:11:25.350 --> 0:11:31.329 So please tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days 0:11:31.550 --> 0:11:36.350 of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections. 0:11:36.870 --> 0:11:40.290 Of course, we will be ready for any choice of 0:11:40.510 --> 0:11:43.030 our people, exactly Ukrainian people. 0:11:43.630 --> 0:11:43.870 Okay. 0:11:44.550 --> 0:11:47.819 He's calling for 60 days because he knows Putin would 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.179 never give him 60 days because he'd be crazy to 0:11:50.220 --> 0:11:53.819 give him 60 days because he's now hammering Ukraine on 0:11:53.880 --> 0:12:00.010 all fronts. So we just need 60 days. We need 0:12:00.010 --> 0:12:00.530 60 days. 0:12:00.750 --> 0:12:01.050 Mr. 0:12:01.110 --> 0:12:05.600 President, 60 days, I give you election. He could give 0:12:05.660 --> 0:12:11.020 you 90 days, 120 days, 150 days. He could give 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.040 you a whole freaking year. You're not going to see 0:12:13.059 --> 0:12:15.710 an election in Ukraine because if there is an election, 0:12:16.070 --> 0:12:18.569 this little midget man is going to be out on 0:12:18.610 --> 0:12:23.709 his rear end. He would get destroyed, demolished. He would 0:12:23.770 --> 0:12:28.550 lose in a landslide. So little midget man has to 0:12:28.610 --> 0:12:33.430 pretend that he wants an election. when what he really 0:12:33.490 --> 0:12:44.760 wants is more war, war, and war. 617-266-6868. Agree, disagree. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:50.100 Vince in Long Island. Thanks for holding, Vince, and welcome. 0:12:51.700 --> 0:12:52.380 How are you, Jeff? 0:12:53.220 --> 0:12:53.400 Good. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.699 You got to keep your blood pressure under control because 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.219 I don't know if you heard, but Trump is taking 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.730 your health care away soon. So keep that blood pressure 0:13:00.750 --> 0:13:04.530 under control. 0:13:06.850 --> 0:13:07.210 Anyhow. 0:13:07.770 --> 0:13:10.469 Vince, what do you make of him calling for Zelensky 0:13:10.510 --> 0:13:13.890 to basically step down and for Ukraine to get a 0:13:13.929 --> 0:13:14.490 new president? 0:13:15.809 --> 0:13:17.690 Well, first I want to say you got away easy 0:13:17.730 --> 0:13:19.650 with that guy, George. You could have taken your whole house. 0:13:19.870 --> 0:13:23.250 People have faced worse than that with shysters out there. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.480 So you got away easy. $ 2, 500 is a day in 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:33.080 Atlantic City, so it's not too bad. By the way, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.760 you can deduct it on your tax return, so it's 0:13:34.780 --> 0:13:35.300 not that bad. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.020 Well, that was a long time ago, so, you know. 0:13:40.940 --> 0:13:43.770 Forget it. But no, that's actually pretty funny. I should 0:13:43.809 --> 0:13:49.030 just think of it as a day in Vegas. Vince, 0:13:49.250 --> 0:13:50.670 what do you make of all this, my friend? 0:13:51.850 --> 0:13:56.170 I think the Logan Act here is in effect. These 0:13:56.230 --> 0:13:59.030 people are going around Trump negotiating their own foreign policy 0:13:59.050 --> 0:14:02.390 during cahoots with Zelensky. And they're negotiating on how to 0:14:02.450 --> 0:14:04.880 plot against Trump so they can establish a new and 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.620 upcoming impeachment, which they're planning on. I think they're planning 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.720 on winning the Senate, too, and swaying some idiotic Republicans 0:14:12.140 --> 0:14:14.660 where they can actually get the 66 percent and actually 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.050 remove him. That's probably in the mind of these insane people. 0:14:18.770 --> 0:14:20.630 He has to really go on the attack against the 0:14:20.670 --> 0:14:23.310 deep state, which he hasn't been doing. Like I said before, 0:14:23.330 --> 0:14:26.190 I want to see arrests. I want to see mayors, governors. 0:14:26.550 --> 0:14:28.410 I want to see George Soros, Hillary Clinton. 0:14:28.460 --> 0:14:28.980 Obama arrested. 0:14:29.630 --> 0:14:31.650 All of them, they need to be prosecuted. And he's 0:14:31.690 --> 0:14:33.470 not doing that. As long as he doesn't do that, 0:14:33.850 --> 0:14:35.590 he's going to have this thorn on his side where 0:14:35.730 --> 0:14:38.620 he can't implement most of his policies, or if he does, 0:14:38.630 --> 0:14:41.700 they're going to be half-assed implemented. And, you know, half-assed 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.120 measures don't get you anywhere. And as far as Zelensky's concerned, 0:14:45.700 --> 0:14:47.420 you know, you said he has dirt and stuff on 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.880 these people. He probably does, but that's not what's holding 0:14:49.900 --> 0:14:52.220 them back. I mean, after all, didn't they try to 0:14:52.260 --> 0:14:55.100 take Trump out two or three times? How hard would 0:14:55.140 --> 0:14:57.200 it be to get a third world dictator out there 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.140 with all their corrupt entanglements across the globe. They're obviously 0:15:01.300 --> 0:15:04.560 in on the corruption and the greed and the kickbacks 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.500 and all that stuff. That's what's happening. I keep seeing 0:15:07.540 --> 0:15:12.040 these footages of Ukraine on TV, and it's beyond me 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.300 how they still have a functioning society with all that's 0:15:14.340 --> 0:15:17.000 going on. On the other hand, I don't see how 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.320 the Russians are so pathetic. In World War II, they 0:15:20.340 --> 0:15:24.630 took on the Germans, invaded half of Europe, and they 0:15:24.650 --> 0:15:25.830 did all that in four years. 0:15:25.870 --> 0:15:27.050 They're pretty pathetic as well. 0:15:28.620 --> 0:15:31.160 What are they without nuclear weapons? They're basically a third 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.840 world army. They can't even take over Ukraine. 0:15:33.860 --> 0:15:34.420 That's pathetic. 0:15:36.180 --> 0:15:41.530 Oh, Vince, I agree. Look, they have not covered themselves 0:15:41.590 --> 0:15:45.870 in glory in this war. There's no question. That's what 0:15:45.910 --> 0:15:50.450 I mean. In some ways, Russia's been exposed militarily as 0:15:50.490 --> 0:15:52.990 a bit of a paper tiger. I mean, yes, they 0:15:53.010 --> 0:15:55.990 have a lot of troops. Yes, they're willing to sacrifice 0:15:56.050 --> 0:16:00.010 a lot of men. into that meat grinder. But you're right. 0:16:00.090 --> 0:16:01.890 I mean, come on, this is not the Red Army 0:16:01.930 --> 0:16:07.060 of 1941 that mauled the Germans and kicked the Nazis 0:16:07.100 --> 0:16:09.200 out of Russia and then, you know, conquered a third 0:16:09.220 --> 0:16:13.640 of Europe. There's no question. And they, you know, that's 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.660 what I, and so, you know, this constant fear mongering, 0:16:17.250 --> 0:16:20.670 you know, today it's going to be Kiev, tomorrow it's, 0:16:21.090 --> 0:16:24.290 you know, it's Berlin, it's Paris, hell, they'll be in London. 0:16:24.310 --> 0:16:30.630 Have you seen them? I mean, really, the Russians have 0:16:30.670 --> 0:16:37.930 not impressed anybody. Vince, the Democrats are trying to say 0:16:38.030 --> 0:16:44.370 that by going after Zelensky, Trump is being anti-democratic, that 0:16:44.430 --> 0:16:47.690 he's making an alliance with a despot and a dictator 0:16:47.750 --> 0:16:53.410 like Putin, that he's basically now colluding with Putin to 0:16:53.470 --> 0:16:56.580 defeat Ukraine. What do you say to that argument? 0:16:58.710 --> 0:17:03.250 That they're trying to establish the impeachment basis here. They're 0:17:03.270 --> 0:17:05.790 going to say that Congress has approved weapons to be 0:17:06.310 --> 0:17:09.350 allocated to Ukraine, and he's going to stop that from happening. 0:17:09.550 --> 0:17:12.530 That's another impeachment thing. It's insane what they're trying to do. 0:17:13.109 --> 0:17:15.369 And these idiots are going out to vote or want 0:17:15.390 --> 0:17:18.210 to stay home. They really don't see how we're really 0:17:18.290 --> 0:17:20.830 at a crossroad in the country here. We can either 0:17:20.890 --> 0:17:23.010 go back to the chaos and worse than we have before, 0:17:23.390 --> 0:17:24.850 or we can try and stay the course. But like 0:17:24.890 --> 0:17:28.770 I said before, Why isn't Trump prosecuting anybody? That's what 0:17:28.810 --> 0:17:32.590 I want to know. There's more to it than we've 0:17:32.810 --> 0:17:36.409 been led to believe here because something is up. A 0:17:36.450 --> 0:17:38.530 lot of people should be prosecuted. I don't see any 0:17:38.630 --> 0:17:39.830 one person that's gone to jail. 0:17:40.830 --> 0:17:43.030 Well, I don't know if you heard this, Vince. This 0:17:43.109 --> 0:17:46.860 broke late last week. It looks like, according to what 0:17:46.890 --> 0:17:50.500 the FBI is now telling reporters, that they're getting ready 0:17:50.619 --> 0:17:55.290 to indict and arrest Cassidy Hutchinson. If you remember, she 0:17:55.330 --> 0:17:57.890 was the one that claimed in the January 6th committee, 0:17:58.970 --> 0:18:02.240 she was this low-level aide who said that Trump tried 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.860 to grab the limousine, the steering wheel of the beast, 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:12.780 and drive it to the Capitol to help with January 6th. 0:18:13.740 --> 0:18:18.360 But the driver fought him off, and the Secret Service 0:18:18.460 --> 0:18:21.810 agents fought him off, and then they turned the beast around. 0:18:22.570 --> 0:18:25.129 and took it back to the White House. Well, she lied. 0:18:25.590 --> 0:18:30.010 Final segment Monday. You know what that means. It's time 0:18:30.130 --> 0:18:35.270 for Talk Back Tit for Tat. Your voices, your reactions, 0:18:35.830 --> 0:18:41.040 the true heartbeat of Cooner country. We asked, you answered. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.020 And now we're sharing the best of this week's messages. 0:18:45.540 --> 0:19:00.869 Take it away, Mike. Kuna, man, I'm depressed just listening 0:19:00.910 --> 0:19:01.290 to you. 0:19:02.010 --> 0:19:05.409 Hey, Jeff, I wanted you to know, okay, that the 0:19:05.470 --> 0:19:11.140 people who call in, okay, and say okay after every sentence, okay, 0:19:11.580 --> 0:19:13.140 really bug me, okay? 0:19:13.780 --> 0:19:15.919 I voted for Trump three times because he was tough. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:17.760 I really thought things would change. 0:19:18.020 --> 0:19:19.060 What a disappointment. 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:20.359 I'm so pissed off. 0:19:20.220 --> 0:19:22.690 At him right now. You just put targets on all 0:19:22.730 --> 0:19:25.689 of our heads by not doing anything to them. 0:19:26.290 --> 0:19:26.950 Thanks a lot. 0:19:27.580 --> 0:19:38.439 Once the town, Chelmsford, not Chemsford. Let me break it down. Chelm, Chelms, Chelmsford. Jeez. 0:19:39.330 --> 0:19:42.030 Hey, Jeffrey Thomas, word on the street is that you 0:19:42.090 --> 0:19:43.650 recently had a colonoscopy. 0:19:43.970 --> 0:19:46.150 We coonaholics would like to know if the doctor saw 0:19:46.170 --> 0:19:47.430 a bill from Sudbury in there. 0:19:47.730 --> 0:19:49.970 Hey, after all, whenever he calls in, he always calls me. 0:19:50.140 --> 0:19:54.060 goes right up your ass. Bruce in Woburn. 0:19:54.500 --> 0:19:55.859 Thanks for holding, Bruce. 0:19:56.420 --> 0:20:00.399 And welcome. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:05.350 Not funny. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:11.909 Jeff, start eating some oranges, will ya? You need vitamin C. 0:20:12.270 --> 0:20:13.490 We need you around. 0:20:14.250 --> 0:20:18.250 Come on, and lay off those double cheeseburgers, please. 0:20:19.130 --> 0:20:22.389 Jeff, nobody cares how the Russians would say it. 0:20:22.910 --> 0:20:23.520 Knock it off. 0:20:27.260 --> 0:20:32.340 Boy, I sense a little Russophobia there in the audience. Well, 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:38.030 you don't like it when I say nyet? Okay, my friends. 0:20:38.619 --> 0:20:41.619 The best way to listen to the Kuna Report is 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:46.490 on the iHeartRadio app. So download the app and you 0:20:46.550 --> 0:20:48.969 just go for the, look for the red microphone. It's 0:20:49.010 --> 0:20:51.189 in the upper right corner of the app and you 0:20:51.210 --> 0:20:58.659 can leave a message for me, for Mike, for Sandy, agree, disagree, respond, react, 0:20:58.900 --> 0:21:02.780 anything goes. You can leave your talk backs anytime during 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.399 the week. 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Thanks for holding, Bob, and welcome. 0:21:25.550 --> 0:21:29.219 Your story about what happened on your house in the 0:21:29.300 --> 0:21:34.479 old country reminds me of my father's situation with one 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.140 of his first cousins. 0:21:36.260 --> 0:21:38.580 Same deal, different country, Italy. 0:21:39.100 --> 0:21:43.419 But anyway, my father came to In 1919, he was 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.270 six years old, didn't speak a word of English, went 0:21:46.310 --> 0:21:50.649 through the Somerville school system in the 20s and 30s, 0:21:51.470 --> 0:21:56.410 and he was very smart in science and math, did 0:21:56.450 --> 0:22:00.890 very well, got into MIT. But, of course, the war started, 0:22:01.369 --> 0:22:03.530 so he had to go nights, plus the fact he 0:22:03.570 --> 0:22:09.210 was working for the Navy in HVAC refrigeration because it 0:22:09.250 --> 0:22:10.450 was in its infancy. 0:22:10.930 --> 0:22:11.770 Around that time. 0:22:12.550 --> 0:22:17.649 So what happened was after the war, he started his 0:22:17.750 --> 0:22:24.230 own company and he brought his first cousin over here 0:22:24.310 --> 0:22:31.719 from Italy and put him in his shop doing repairs 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:37.119 on refrigeration equipment. And he worked for several years. And 0:22:37.180 --> 0:22:40.320 then the word got back to my father saying, you. 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:45.740 Know, Andrew is taking parts, he's stealing, he's selling, and 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:46.300 so forth. 0:22:47.100 --> 0:22:52.240 And my father said, called him in and said, Andrew, what, 0:22:52.540 --> 0:22:54.240 you know, are you okay? 0:22:54.260 --> 0:22:59.710 Do you have enough money? Are you in trouble? Blah, blah, blah. And, 0:22:59.890 --> 0:23:02.870 you know, Andrew said, no, not really. And I said, well, 0:23:03.869 --> 0:23:07.480 why are you stealing from the companies? You know, I mean, 0:23:07.590 --> 0:23:10.930 if you need more money, just let me know. But anyway, 0:23:11.609 --> 0:23:12.330 it's the same. 0:23:12.590 --> 0:23:16.929 My father didn't say anything basically other than that because 0:23:16.970 --> 0:23:19.850 he felt sorry for his first cousin, went through World 0:23:19.890 --> 0:23:21.889 War II, very tough. 0:23:21.650 --> 0:23:24.920 In Italy during World War II. And he had. 0:23:24.859 --> 0:23:29.560 Sympathy for what he went through and said, you know, 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.240 kept him on the job until he retired. And he 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:37.090 offered it up, if you will. So, I mean, maybe 0:23:37.130 --> 0:23:40.350 you've got the same situation, but that's what my dad did. 0:23:41.750 --> 0:23:47.429 And he basically, Andrew was family. And he felt sorry 0:23:47.490 --> 0:23:48.640 for what they had. 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:52.040 To go through during World War II. So, because Italy 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:53.280 had nothing back then. 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:53.940 Oh, I know. 0:23:53.980 --> 0:23:56.220 Italy took it very hard during the war. Oh, there's 0:23:56.260 --> 0:23:59.240 no question. Oh, and look, this is the part that, 0:23:59.270 --> 0:24:04.500 you know, bothered me personally, was... This was my first cousin, 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:06.619 and I know he was close to my mother and 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.850 my father. And look, I never thought he would steal 0:24:09.890 --> 0:24:15.170 from me. He violated my trust. And I've spoken about 0:24:15.210 --> 0:24:17.570 this both to my wife and to my sister. I 0:24:17.609 --> 0:24:20.600 cut him off. I mean, I still spoke to him, 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.300 but I never sent him a penny after that. I 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:26.580 used other people to do work on the house until 0:24:26.619 --> 0:24:28.840 I eventually sold the house. This was years ago. I 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:30.960 just got it off my hands because it was more 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:34.359 trouble than it was worth. But I never, never had 0:24:34.420 --> 0:24:37.919 anything to do with him business-wise ever, ever again. But 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:41.280